Riley Freeman is a third-grade student at J. Edgar Hoover Elementary School
He's a basketball player, an avid reader, and one day hopes to spread his philosophy through rap music
He was in class when he had a verbal exchange with his teacher, Joe Petto
But Mr. Petto said it was Riley who used the N-word first
So I told him to take his seat, and here comes this barrage of insults
I mean, some of the words I've never even heard before
And I was just stunned, and I said, well, sit down, nigga
I used the word. I admit it
I thought there was a difference between nigger and nigga
I thought I understood this whole thing, but I can't say no
I need help
I wanna be free
Free from my enemies
I wanna be free
Free from my enemies
Brother, tell me why
Why do you hate on me
Cause I wanna be
free from my enemies
I wanna be free
Free from my enemies
I wanna be free
And what Is free
Free Is when you be yourself and never fix shit
What Is free
Free Is able to act and do as you wish
What is free
Free Is when you lose the old to get good and new
What Is free
Free is when you lose the thing that's not meant for you
Man, I gotta be free from my enemies
Free from the ones that's pretending me
Free from the things that I really want but cannot get cause it's not meant for me
Free from the love that I always give because getting it back will never be
Free from the ones that I give my hand because they end up taking the half of me
Look, FREE Is doing great
You get the freedom from what you love
Free is when you're living now, living in a moment never in the past
I ain't not free cause I want some love
I ain't not free cause I need a hug
How am I free when I gotta graph fucking 6 to 6 on the 9 to 5
No
Whenever I hear the rappers, they say
Nigga
It's in all the music
Look, look, look
Rap songs that use the word nigga in a positive way
There's tons of them
Look
Real nigga roll call
Niggas bleed
Jigga my nigga
Niggas for life
Real niggas don't die
Shame on a nigga
Suck a nigga
Ain't no nigga
The school is investigating the incident
But in the meantime, Mr. Petto has been put on unpaid leave
I just couldn't believe it because nobody ever called me a nigga before
How did it make you feel
I feel like I'm shit
I feel like they ain't never gonna love me
I feel like I'll kill anybody that's showing some hate on me
I'm thinking like shit
Why would somebody hate me just for my skin
I'm thinking like damn
I don't see all this cause we are the same
Blackcellent, blackcellent, blackcellent
People hating cause I'm excellent
They are all over showing hate
Calling my people black of the continent
There ain't no black of the continent
All of these people Is African
Man you know they hating us cause they know our power Is hurricane
I wanna be free
Free from my enemies
I wanna be free
Free from my enemies
Brother tell me why
Why do you hate on me
Cause I wanna be free from my enemies
Hey, come here. Look at this
This nigga must be crazy