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Sep 3, 2021 · Sep. 3, 2021 1 viewer. Freedom over Everything Lyrics. [Verse: Black Thought] Water everywhere, still I can't drink it. I read the room as if I don't understand English. I understand...
Bassist Derrick Hodge provides a foundation of groove for the music and Black Thought’s text of Freedom Over Everything. “In a way, my plan for a long, constructed arc was interrupted by reality. That’s sort of Jazz sensibility.
The album’s first single, “Freedom Over Everything,” (available now) features Mendoza’s collaboration with acclaimed MC Black Thought, where he and Mendoza embodied the collective shift of consciousness that spread across the world following COVID and the murder of George Floyd, all laid out over the groove from Derrick Hodge and Antonio Sanchez.
Freedom over Everything (Ft. Black Thought & Czech National Symphony Orchestra) Lyrics
The words of rapper Black Thought pierce the fabric of Freedom Over Everything, from which the album takes its name, in an improvisation that was a direct response to Floyd’s murder. Black Thought challenges the status quo and the presumption that liberty and justice apply to all in America.
