Cell Block 6 ft. Nkosi Kamal & Kay Nellz Lyrics

What's going on outside

What's going on outside

What's going on outside

What's going on outside

It's going on outside

What's going on outside

It's going on outside

What's going on outside

It's going on outside

What's going on outside

It's going on outside

What's going on outside

Tell them what's home, tell them what's living

Tell them what's home, tell them what's living

Nothing here, just a void for the children, uh

Just a hole, lost souls turning villains, yo

Tell them what's home, tell them what's living

Tell them what's home, tell them what's living

There's a stain on my brain, I'm indifferent

To the blood, and the rain, I don't feel it

I remember being young

Trying to navigate the ghetto and knowing my day would come

Unmarked officer spotted and we would run

Knowing our greatest danger was ignorance with a gun

Whoever said bullets don't got a name on them, lied

An all too familiar tale of hearing mother that cried

Multiplied by the sound of police sirens that's wailing

In hot pursuit of assailants

Paint lyrics outta Van Halen

You really got me

Learned to be really cocky

In order to survive where I reside was really shocking

A childhood deprived of affection in needing of a connection

Weaponizing our voices

Distorting all of message

Snatch daddy from mommy

Make mommy subjected to trauma of broken homes

Alone feeling neglected

Then taking those same children and then throw them into corrections

A vicious cycle of death and it's what we come to expect when the pressure growing

Pain is a precious omen

Prayers of my ancestors what keep me extra going

That's why I extra go in

Knowing that generations before me sacrificed and paved roads just for me to tell my Story

So listen shorty

And don't fall victim to a system that's wicked shawty

Do something different shorty

Cause once they get a bitch they gotta bitch

That's why they call it the trap

Very few make it out of it

From where the rain fall

Lead rain, the pain, bleeding a faint heart

None wanna be saved, you see the kids lost, wandering the dark

No light, fog is covering everything, a lost cause, we are

And violence for us a head bob, instrumental to our rhythms that orchestrate thoughts

Thinking, that's making us all start sinking

I got a tale from the hood, this shit is not preaching folk

I was kid born dead, does it show?

With a father long gone, momma broke

And strung out cause we ass out, holding onto hope is a joke, streets is all I know

By 13, I'm serving, your kids dope

My good heart, it breaks knowing I killed those

In search of a way to cope, no soul I could show or I'm dead, I let it go so

Moving on to the scorn I faced everyday

Was a babe with no mom's embrace when I laid

In my bed, every night I prayed One day I'd make it out, I do it to this day for the sake

Of my sanity, I'm chasing vanity, but life gotta humble me hard, hide and canopy, the Path

Looking for light, you know it be like that

A tug and a pull, made me a fool, don't laugh

Another night in the cage, and even though it's home

No way to live in this place and momma growing old

The clock turns and takes, it never gives, I hate how this is all a waste, I gotta break the Mold

At 21, I learned how to bare my soul and tell it all through pens, and dodge the pen Know

That this is where it begins, these niggas itching to win, I gotta break through the bends Don't tell me where to go, woah

First steps down the yellow brick road

I'm Dorothy chasing destiny, slow is the climb, but time ain't on my side, but still I'd rather Die, fore' I give up, don't tell me nothing

This my up and coming, never crawled, been running

Left, right, left, right, lets leave the dungeon

This trap that we stuck in, I broke bars busting out