-Performing "YAH Know," once again, Chance the Rapper!
[ Cheers and applause ]
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-♪ How will I know, know, know? ♪
♪ How will I know, know, know? ♪
-Liberation!
♪ Gun to ya back like Harriet ♪
♪ If you can't shoot, can't carry it ♪
♪ If ya too fake, can't ferry it ♪
♪ Come carry me home, sweet chariot ♪
♪ Everybody wanna come drive the boat ♪
♪ But nobody wanna come paddle boat ♪
♪ If we realized we was all compatible ♪
♪ We could combine the money, maybe come buy the boat ♪
♪ Sometime, gun might bust ♪
♪ Sometime, gun might bust ♪ ♪ Bust ♪
♪ Freedom is a must ♪
♪ In Yah we trust ♪
♪ Hold my hand if you scared ♪
♪ Hold my hand if you cried ♪
♪ Hold my hand and I'll drive ♪
♪ Close your eyes, and I'll steer ♪
♪ I'm not woke, I'm just tired ♪
♪ I'm not floatin', I'm flyin' ♪
♪ I'm not broken, I'm fine ♪
♪ I'm outspoken, I stay on code
when I'm out in the open online ♪
♪ They gon' know what we know in no time ♪
♪ They gon' go in the show with no line ♪
♪ With a pick for a comb, the clothes, the whole nine ♪
♪ Better hold on tight, no time to slow down ♪
♪ Ask, "Are we there?", you slept the whole time ♪
♪ You'll know when we get there ♪
-♪ How will I know? ♪
-♪ You'll know it ♪
-♪ How will I know? ♪ ♪ How will I know? ♪
-♪ You'll see it ♪
-♪ But I know we'll get there ♪
♪ How will I know? ♪
-♪ Hey ♪
♪ Front to the back, get loud ♪
♪ Ones in the back, get loud ♪
♪ Run and the gun click, pow ♪
[ Gunshot ] ♪ One big crowd ♪
♪ One big smile ♪
♪ Money in one big pile ♪
♪ Blueprints in an unzipped file ♪
♪ Akwaaba, medaase, that's the end of my speech ♪
♪ Tell 'em, "Spread the word from Osu to Kumasi" ♪
♪ This for Dr. Kwame, Selassie, and Nnamdi ♪
♪ Tell 'em, "Free the youth or we gon' free the army" ♪
♪ Can't no man can harm me, can't no man can harm me ♪
♪ I can't let you starve me, I can't go out like Gandhi ♪
♪ Say less, bro, we on the way ♪
♪ Star Line Fest, hoe, we on the way ♪
♪ Better open that whole damn street on the way ♪
♪ 'Fore it look like "World War Z" on the gate ♪
♪ You'll know when we get there ♪
-♪ How will I know? ♪
-♪ You'll know when we get there ♪
♪ You'll know when we get there ♪
♪ You'll know ♪
♪ Hey, hey, hey, hey ♪
-♪ How will I know? ♪
-Wake up! ♪ But I know we'll get there ♪
-♪ Look ♪
♪ Let me take y'all back like Marcus ♪
♪ When Europe was still in the darkness ♪
♪ Our boats was big as the ark is ♪
♪ The cargo was gold-tip spears,
and it sold by the load and it opened the market ♪
♪ Before currency, the Canary Current made trade,
and maize was the harvest ♪
♪ Back to the wall like the art is ♪
♪ I lean on the crib like the mortgage ♪
♪ I breathe on the game like a cartridge ♪
♪ I'm sorry, I ain't mean to restart it ♪
♪ Chano got the keys to the starship ♪
♪ With his heart on his sleeve like a card trick ♪
♪ Goin' back to the sea like a warship ♪
♪ Then I'm back to the sand like a starfish ♪
♪ Mama, you don't always have to hit the streets ♪
♪ We must fight, but you must fight to go protect your peace ♪
♪ And I'm gon' ride, but when you ride with me,
you'll get some sleep ♪
♪ And we gon' mob, but when we mob,
it'll be lil' more discreet ♪
-♪ How will I know? ♪
♪ Oh, oh, oh ♪
-♪ You'll know when we get there ♪
-♪ How will I know? ♪
-♪ You'll know ♪
♪ Ha, ha! ♪
♪ You'll know ♪ -♪ How will I know? ♪
-♪ You'll know ♪ -♪ Oh, oh, oh ♪
-Liberation!
-♪ At the break of dawn, we gon' make a break,
we gon' take the farm ♪
♪ Take the safe, we finna break the bank,
replace the tapes and made fake alarms ♪
The home team waitin', know we comin' over,
got a Sauvignon Blanc with the two cigars ♪
♪ Case you was stoppin' to loot the bar,
we got valet waitin' with a souped-up car ♪
♪ Got a nitro boost for the chasin' ♪
♪ Got a few rooms booked at the Days Inn ♪
♪ Got a lil' bit of Mace and a lil' bit of mash
just in case catch a glimpse of the faces ♪
♪ Good God, this the heist for the ages ♪
♪ From the cages, straight to the Majors ♪
♪ Liberation, you gotta take it ♪
♪ Free yourself, learned that from the Haitians ♪
♪ Smile through the tears, learned that from a crocodile ♪
♪ Free your mind like a pocket dial ♪
♪ I got fully auto rocket power ♪
♪ So any damn door, it'll knock it down ♪
♪ Just call my phone when you make it down ♪
♪ Just give me a piece when you break it down ♪
♪ Cullinan Diamond when I take the crown ♪
♪ 'Cause when I take the crown, I'mma break the crown ♪
♪ You'll know ♪ -♪ Don't wanna think too much ♪
♪ Don't wanna think about it ♪
♪ But I know we will get there ♪
-♪ Yah know ♪
-♪ I don't wanna think too much ♪
♪ Don't wanna think about it ♪
-♪ But I know we gonna get there ♪
-♪ How will I know? ♪
-♪ You'll know when we get there ♪
♪ You'll know when we get there ♪
-♪ How will I know? ♪ -Liberation!
-♪ How will I know when we get there? ♪
-♪ You'll know ♪ -♪ How will I know? ♪
[ Cheers and applause ]