Holy Experiment (Lib City)
What is up!? Throw ya motherfucking hands up!
Philly Philly (Dilly Dilly) It’s our damn anthem
So throw them bottles up, we hold it down
Liberty City, USA hometown
Philly Philly (Lib City)
Philly Philly Liberty
Philly Philly (Lib City)
Yo, we throwing down in the hometown of liberty
Hop off that boat, I see vice in the streets, I’m liking this scene
Market Street teeming with bars, harlots, all types of, er... diversity
Experiment invented by William Penn, our eminent Friend
It was claimed he was the greatest lawgiver that God ever graced to Man
Jefferson said it, I merely came in and vibed with him, I’d ride with him
I tried to find a philosophy of my own life and get mine aligned with his
Born into wealth, wasn’t for him, joined the religious society of friends,
Age of twenty, daddy was pissed, hated hippie dippie pacifists
This activist was cast into prison for screaming his dream to be religiously free
Kicked out of England, king gave him a colony across the sea
Called it “Philadelphia” Brotherly Love in Greek,
Decreed all religions could come and worship independently
Big on equality, believed my faith with god should be between Her and me
But tolerance and equality seemed less realistic and more of a dream
These different religions sharing their innovation and creativity
As well as their prejudices, their fear, bias and their hate it would seem
Welp, that’s the way the cookie crumbles
Everytime we take a step forward, we’re go’n stumble
But growth is all about the bruises and bumps though
Pushback the pendulum swings, we grow some mo’
In Philly Lib City
Philly Philly Liberty
Philly Philly Lib City
Buncha loving brothers shoving in the crib of Liberty