Trapped in...

Thoughts trapped in a bubble my mind's trapped in a cage

Time passing by quickly, getting no younger in age

I want to advance but stuck on minimum wage

They treat us like animals when we lash out in our rage

Drugs, murders, and rapes it's all one in the same

This doesn't seem normal, that's why we're going insane

Who developed these projects? I call them castles of pain

No clean water to use, so we boil the rain

No heat in the winter, however still we sustain

Police harassing us daily, cuff's substituted with chains

Don't want us to sell drugs, just put it into our veins

All of this plus slavery embedded into our brains

Sabotaging the young giving them no chance for a life

Treating Women likes trash, calling them ho's and not Wives

See it's the downfall of Man, hood swallowed in sin

We need to get out, but where to begin

Scared of making a change cause of what they did to Our people

Killed Malcolm and Martin, it's clear we ain't equal

Even Lincoln and Kennedy wounded up being victims

Fighting for the same cause but overcome by the system

Prisons close in proximity, always an ominous threat

Police brutality helps us to never forget

School system corrupted, no books and no teachers

Sports seems like the way out so we sit on the bleachers

Rooting for our children hoping for better days

Hoping the violence in our streets don't take them away

Working hard everyday, you could tell by the sweat on our brow

Holding firm to religion praying for God's will to allow

Allow us to escape from this place full of darkness

Although we're very religious, the devil's creeping regardless

Only a few seem to make it, the majority fail to get out

Take a look at statistics, you'll see what I'm talking about