Irizarry [Intro — dusty piano loop, vinyl crackle, 808 sub enters bar 2] [piano loop dusty x4] [vinyl crackle underneath] [808 sub drops bar 2] [snare locks bar 3] [string stab bar 4] [Verse 1 — first person as Ah-bah-deh, cold lyrical flow, confrontation] Call me Ah-bah-deh Liberty Freak on the street May twenty sixth two thousand nineteen Reed and Colfax on my feet camera up filming a stop like the First Amendment said I could Officer Yehia stepped out his vehicle stood one foot from my lens thought he understood the assignment Blocked my view flashlight in the sensor saturated the glass I did not flinch I did not lower I did not pass He got back in the cruiser drove it right at me U-turn came back again horn blasting at my knees They told him stop his own people told him stop He kept coming like the badge was supposed to make me freeze I am Ah-bah-deh Irizarry I do not freeze I file [Hook — string stabs hit hard, 808 punches on the one, snare locked] NO FIXED ADDRESS BUT THE MISSION IS CLEAR CAMERA IN MY HAND AND THE CONSTITUTION RIGHT HERE THEY DROVE AT ME THEY BLINDED ME THEY THOUGHT I WOULD FOLD AH-BAH-DEH IRIZARRY PUT HIS NAME IN THE CASE LAW COLD [Verse 2 — the lawsuit, the appeal, the victory, flow tightens] Filed the suit myself pro se no firm no retainer no degree behind my name just the claim Yehia violated what the First Amendment clearly stated District court gave him immunity said a reasonable officer might not have known that driving a cruiser at a journalist on a public street was wrong I appealed Arnold and Porter came in Electronic Frontier Foundation Cato Institute National Police Accountability Project First Amendment professors lined up in my corner Then the Department of Justice filed a brief said the public has the right to film said they rely on that footage to investigate and prosecute officers in the field Tenth Circuit reversed stripped Yehia of immunity said Ah-bah-deh showed a reasonable officer would have known his conduct chilled protected activity Irizarry v. Yehia Thirty Eight F Fourth Twelve Eighty Two Two thousand twenty two Seventh federal jurisdiction to recognize the right to film the police Six states covered by one man on one sidewalk in Lakewood Colorado [Hook — fuller than first, string stabs wider, 808 deeper] NO FIXED ADDRESS BUT THE MISSION IS CLEAR CAMERA IN MY HAND AND THE CONSTITUTION RIGHT HERE THEY DROVE AT ME THEY BLINDED ME THEY THOUGHT I WOULD FOLD AH-BAH-DEH IRIZARRY PUT HIS NAME IN THE CASE LAW COLD [Verse 3 — the road, the mission, no fixed address, who he is] No fixed address means the road is the address every sidewalk every public building every corner where the watchers need to be watched is home I said I wanted my name in the case law forever for the cause of freedom never thought it would happen here we are Eric Brandt in a cell still boosting spirits from inside I told them he never negs out he is the one who keeps the rest of us going and he is in prison That is the weight we carry on the sidewalk camera up for the ones who cannot hold it right now You have to make them pay publicly or they do not learn Do not be in this if you are not going to the end I went to the end Pro se No address No guarantee Just the sidewalk and the lens and the law that now says my name forever [Bridge — 808 and kick only, stripped, bars cold and precise] [808 pulse only] [kick on the one] Irizarry v. Yehia is not just a case number it is every person who ever picked up a phone and pointed it at a badge and did not put it down Six states protected by one man who filed his own lawsuit from a sidewalk with no fixed address That is the receipts That is the record That is Ah-bah-deh [Hook — grandest version, every element locked, string stabs full] NO FIXED ADDRESS BUT THE MISSION IS CLEAR CAMERA IN MY HAND AND THE CONSTITUTION RIGHT HERE THEY DROVE AT ME THEY BLINDED ME THEY THOUGHT I WOULD FOLD AH-BAH-DEH IRIZARRY PUT HIS NAME IN THE CASE LAW COLD [Outro — piano loop returns dusty, 808 fades slow, vinyl crackle last] [piano loop dusty x4] [808 fades bar 3] [string stab single bar 5] [vinyl crackle holds] [silence] [Irizarry]
