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The Prison Music Project feat. Abraham Banks and Aranesa

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oh oh oh it’s not easy when the seed breaks through and takes root
‘cause you you you you’ll be there when the seed breaks through and takes root
when the seed breaks through and takes root

reminiscing on the days when I was younger
born and raised in the gutter
then I became a slave of the gutter
it’s kinda strange, I wonder
how I blamed my mother
for all the days I obtained stomach pangs from hunger
my father died when I was six so I was hangin’ with thugs
my older brother coppin’ bricks so I was slingin’ them drugs
I remember serving fiends crack and selling them crumbs
and as a kid hoppin’ peoples’ fences and stealin’ their plums
by the age of thirteen I was bustin’ them guns
snortin’ coke and smokin’ green
robbin’ suckers for funds
that’s the means of broken dreams growing up in the slums
you never know what the future hold or what you become
you see the truth is the fruit you bare and what you produce
but in this world it’s the mean to bare the burden of proof
my life if the story of the seed breaking through
but my hood be the soil where the seed’s taken root

oh oh oh it’s not easy when the seed breaks through and takes root
‘cause you you you you’ll be there when the seed breaks through and takes root
when the seed breaks through and takes root

it’s like every day, man, I’m searching for a new birth
to put to death the part of me that caused me to do dirt
I guess it's just the heart of me that want to see a new earth
to be the man I oughtta be I gotta come anew first
it’s like I’m stagnated, stuck in a time zone
a product of the ghetto, I grew up in a crime zone
with hustlers getting money, honey, gettin’ their grind on
smokers look bummy, smokin’ dope ‘til their mind’s gone
picture a lifestyle with death at its finest
impoverished environments that’s criminal minded
material requirements that keepin’ us blinded
prison is a slave trade to keep us reminded
crucial consignment, mental confinement
oppression and inequity that’s equally bonded
recession of economy increasing the violence
police committing genocide and keeping it silent

yes it’s revolution time
my brothers and sisters crying and dying
they lock us up with all this time
once we’re free then we’ll be fine
once we’re free then we’ll be fine
once we’re free then we’ll be fine

oh oh oh it’s not easy when the seed breaks through and takes root
‘cause you you you you’ll be there when the seed breaks through and takes root
when the seed breaks through and takes root

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from Long Time Gone, released June 5, 2020

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Grammy winner and feminist icon Ani DiFranco began her career as a proponent of the artist-run label, creating her own Righteous Babe Records in 1990. Since then she has released over twenty studio albums and supported a broad range of social causes including racial justice, reproductive rights, gender equality, environmental issues and prison reform. ... more

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