Free Dumb (Chains Off) - Damani, Damani Nkosi

1st Verse

Loose women mixin' gin sinning

Played my cards wrong, I felt like I was winning'

Inning after inning, game after game, chain after chain

My jeweler was insane

Weighing my neck down trynna hold my head up

Fed up with the set up rumors they won’t let up

Stuntin' stuntin my growth

I saw no bridge but I did see a moat

Floatin' through the city couple pieces overlapping

Stones set perfect but really it was worthless

Never tucked wear my pride on my chest with no vest

Not stress, runnin' around like Khaled

Like I’m the best, Like, not like the rest, Like

Press like if this flow should be under arrest Like

Blinded by the shine

Locked in the prison of my own mind

The Jesus piece now part of my rhyme, like

When I took the Chain Off

2nd Verse

Linked up with the Cubans flew in two that was choosin'

The sound of the chains reacting was so soothin'

Real gold fake love, A sight for blind eyes

Kill yourself esteem with no glove

I had one and sometimes three at one time

I think I lived out every one of my rhymes

Not proud but I learned, if you don’t take the chains off

One way or another brother, You will learn

Like KRS say, locked up mentally

If you seeking betterment I know that you feelin' me

Its love though, I don’t judge I was once you

I’m still in the struggle make a choice what you gon do

Never crush a diamond in a piece, that’s a don’t do

24k overlay that’s what I do

Keep it real, Naw homie keep it right

Security wanna check my chains before the flight like

When I took the Chain Off

3rd Verse

I was the herringbone caught in that cashmere sweater

The Gucci link that’s under that butter soft leather

The diamond link on top of the white tee

The cross that lay on my heart that protects me

Chain on my mind, Chain on my wrist

It’s a chain of events that can change and eclipse

Ya spirit, I hear it in ya talk

You gettin' chase by the evils but you damn near caught

But don’t do it!

You gotta get free

You gotta see how unlocking ya brain is the key

No fee for your soul, you not a G cause you old

Wisdom begins when fear of God is the Mold

Heated in the furnace and bent into shape

When you polished and you shining you admitted in the gates, Enlightened by the

shine

Locked in the prison of my own mind

The Jesus piece is now part of my rhyme like

When I took the Chain Off