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This is like the good guy gone bad scenario. Robert Mugabe came from nothing and took power in Zimbabwe, but then became corrupted by that power. White supremacy on a global level corrupted him. Political situations can make you corrupt, because I was feeling tortured and resentful by being locked up when I wrote this.

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I’m in existential purgatory trapped inside the middle
A black fallen angel from heaven’s of ghetto
Embracin’ freedom tears, cuz she my weepin’ widow
But peep the signs and symbols of corrupt judicial systems
Many years from my family man you know I miss ‘em
They try and come and visit but they turn ‘em from the prison
It seem like every second haters diggin’ my grave deeper
A black robe in the gavel to me looked like the reaper
That in 1999 murdered me Leon Benson AKA Detroit resurrected EL BENTLY
This cancer could have been cured with a second of prevention
And I wouldn’t have been a victim of another legal lynching
The scales of the injustice they weigh heavy on my jury
Snatch my freedom like a thief runnin’ with my jewelry
But speaking truth to power the system wanna kill me
Don’t care about you cowards you could never stop my fury

They want me dead like Gaddafi drag my body through a lobby
Take pictures on they cell phones to show everybody
My trial was a mockery the verdict was hypocrisy
Too many years in their prisons where they locked me
My voice is still alive so they still can’t stop me
I’ma take my freedom back from ‘em Robert Mugabe
I’ma take my freedom back from ‘em
Robert Mugabe
I’ma take my freedom back from ‘em
Robert Mugabe

I woke up today the feeling was odd
Looked in the mirror a tear in my eye
Symbolizing all the wars I done survived
I mean shot by a system with bullets with lies
To been on my deathbed refusing to die
Because I worshiped freedom like it was a god
The most high is within don’t look in the sky
My soul mended like steel from walking through fire
Forever ready for my foes God gave me the nod
To break out of mental prison it’s all a mirage
In between today and destiny what a menage
But i’m most faithful to freedom she weigh on my heart
My ambitions they turning vicious they barking like dogs
Ready to bite my legal issues was never resolved
Through the years if you fought for me I send my regards
But a middle finger to you haters before I depart

They want me dead like Gaddafi drag my body through a lobby
Take pictures on they cell phones to show everybody
My trial was a mockery the verdict was hypocrisy
Too many years in their prisons where they locked me
My voice is still alive so they still can’t stop me
I’ma take my freedom back from ‘em Robert Mugabe
I’ma take my freedom back from ‘em
Robert Mugabe
I’ma take my freedom back from ‘em
Robert Mugabe

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from INNOCENT BORN GUILTY, released June 26, 2023

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EL BENTLY 448 Detroit, Michigan

Leon Benson was locked up in 1998 for a crime he did not commit. After 25 years of wrongful incarceration, he was released in March 2023 and is ready to take on the world. As his rapper alter ego, EL BENTLY 448's uplifting yet gritty sound inspires all of us to seek justice and freedom in our own lives. ... more

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