Lyrical Breakdown of Letter To The Free - Commentary - A Journey through Words and Rhymes

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A letter to the free That's what it's, initially was called Now, I guess it's labeled "Letter To The Free" I, I called it A Letter to the Free This song, it started because I read a book called, "The New Jim Crow" And Ava DuVernay, was doing a film, did the film called "13" And she was doin' it at the time, and I hadn't seen the film but I was like "Ava, I wanna be a part of this movie" Because I'm this subject of mass incarceration, as I have learned to understand This is really, like a issue that we need to talk about And that's what the movie is about, very like, powerful But, I started writing before she said yes I was just like, she was like, "Hey, different people, so many songs" You know, check it out, write songs, I started rapping it to her I was at the White House, we were at the White House celebratin' Our President's birthday party, I would rap it in her ear like This and this, and then she eventually was like, "Okay, it's good, it's good" And then she set, ah, the film for me to see, even though it wasn't done And that's when I continued to write and wrote the second verse But, it was all in my soul, you know, certain things you do Are, is your calling, and I feel like, this is my calling To talk about these issues, to start conversations I don't have all the solutions, but I just, sometimes just wanna give Conversations and-and you have to, you know, to me a letter to the free Is like, we're talking about mass incarceration But you still gotta to make it beautiful You still gotta make it hit people in their spirits so You know, they'd listen to it, and you list Twitter And you start getting whatever information or you start the conversation there Uhm, that rocks, by the way ah So, we got Bilal, because Karim and Rob, we started creating this song And we were Houston, I flew in, we flew together We flew down to work, started working on We said, "We gotta get Bilal on this" We gotta get Helena to play flute and she sang on it too We had the kids, like, like Karim's son, stomping and clapping That's, that's precaution part of it, like we are in the Studio, stomping and clapping Bringin' that spirit to it, like so, it could feel like we breakin' chains and that This comes from the whole spiritual aspect We got Roy Hargrove in there playing a trumpet Each person is like, playing for freedom Each, each verse is about freedom and um, we wrote the song for the movie Just to free, we wanna free our minds And free up the, the people who are dealing, with um, mass incarceration That's what A Letter to The Free is (Alright) alright