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[00:12.44]Picture yourself being 10 years old
[00:14.54]And having visions stuck in prison cause the stories that were told
[00:17.49]Around you when you was younger now it's all you can see
[00:20.06]Thinking more then likely that could be me
[00:22.16]I seen my unk on tv for a prison escape
[00:24.77]And at the age of 16 I thought I'm seeing my fate
[00:27.52]Always thought that It was inevitable what more can I say
[00:30.71]To this day I get the feeling that they'll lock me away
[00:33.32]I'm a black man living in this country where it's normal to be sent
[00:36.94]To a place where my people make almost 50%
[00:39.56]That's half of the population in our prison today
[00:42.42]We only make up 3% of the country ain't that a shame
[00:45.23]Yeah that's fucked up
[00:46.53]Man they got us cuffed up
[00:47.82]Our people out here dying but we'd rather fill our cups up
[00:50.27]Fathers leaving sons and turn around say it's tough love
[00:53.32]Making up excuses spitting rubbish like a dump truck
[00:57.84]But am I being realistic
[00:59.34]For Tryna get this message to the ones that might of missed it
[01:02.28]You only got one life so why risk it
[01:05.55]Fuck being a statistic
[01:08.19]It's time to change the way we see the world
[01:10.25]But more important it's time to change the way we see ourselves
[01:12.90]How we supposed to spread out wings if all we see is hell
[01:15.77]We are kings and we are queens or before where anything else
[01:19.48]It's got me thinking while I'm making this
[01:20.99]We plan funerals before we plan 80ths
[01:23.51]Cause your expected to die young if your indigenous
[01:26.23]The poisons in the foods and the substances that they've given us
[01:29.87]They put our elders on a ball and chain
[01:31.96]They stopped our kids for learning culture now we think it's shame
[01:34.86]They took our fathers never knew if they'd be seen again
[01:37.41]And wonder why there's deadbeat dads our generations pain
[01:41.35]So tell me what are we to do
[01:42.63]I chased a dream for the kids whoever dreamed it too
[01:45.28]So many youngins with a passion never see it through our kids are poppin pills and smoking rocks the size of uluru
[01:51.52]And suicide is oh too common
[01:53.55]About 10 that I've known myself
[01:56.19]So many teens that I've seen in coffins
[01:58.54]Too many times I thought I'd kill myself
[02:01.50]Where I'm from we try to find our idols
[02:03.75]Out of mind or they was out of sight
[02:06.17]I fell victim to vicious cycle
[02:08.42]Before I ever learned to ride a bike
[02:11.68]I'm well aware what they portray us as
[02:13.68]Alcoholics with our housos full of vacant dads
[02:16.09]Call us criminals for tryna numb the pain we have
[02:18.31]Invest a couple million in more prisons and think less rehabs
[02:21.21]We're so much more then what they say we are
[02:23.63]Yeah we don't fit inside the lines we're a work of art
[02:26.79]The first to walk along our matriarchs
[02:28.36]The first astronomers that's how I knew I'd be a superstar
[02:31.92]So am I being realistic for tryna get this message to the ones that might have missed it
[02:36.64]We only get one life so why risk it
[02:39.45]Man fuck being a statistic
[02:44.91]Said fuck being a statistic
[02:49.61]Man I aint trying to be no statistic
[02:55.15]Fuck being a statistic
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