Chains

CHORUS 1: Tone

My nigga tell me where you got your chain from
No I ain't looking for my own, I ain't trying to be owned by another
Either you gon' fight or you gon' run
I'll meet you around the bend when the time come

My nigga tell me where you got your chain from
Did you have to sell your soul? Do you have to play a role?
Is it possible for you to get a refund?
Asking why we dying for no reason

VERSE 1: Tone

And maybe I’ll never know, *gotta find out*
I wanna know, *gonna find out*
If I find truth in all of my doubt
What does it mean, I might shout
To the top of the mountain we climbing up
Find the fountain of youth, get a cup
And drink till you can’t no more
Till there ain’t no more left
Maintain till you can’t no more
Bless all my niggas, I love my niggas
I put that on everything, I know our limits
Are nonexistent, and distant
I do this shit for my kinsmen
Please pray for me and my sins
Damn I don't fuck around with this pen man

You better ask somebody 'bout a nigga named Tone
Why they hate our skin way down to the bone
Nigga I don't know, I don’t care
Please don’t ask me to touch my hair
Always tryna take what ain’t theirs
Looking for things that just ain’t there
Maybe they hidden, they say its forbidden
You know that its written, like rooms in a prison
The latter is all that they seem to be given the time
Ironic the same one that you can not climb
Up out of the hood like a cobra decapitated
Reenacting the moment my people were chosen
But never be broken
Don’t call me a poet, just call me a prophet
Never stopping mopping, the flow is just spotless
Promise I'mma kill em all and its regardless

If you a martyr or you a barter or you an artist
Nigga I love you
And if you heartless and you discard this
Say it ain’t harmless to be another
Only a target dearly departed
Like its a harvest
All of my brothers gotta survive
And never reside on where they comply
They wanna discover just why we so colored and dying
Authority I'mma defy it
While smiling and writing and rhyming to base drums
If you got a dream gotta chase one
Really don’t let it escape son
Hoping that you be the great one
Shoot for the stars with that same gun
That you aiming all at your brain bruh

CHORUS 2: Tone

My nigga tell me where you got your chain from
No I ain't looking for my own, I ain't trying to be owned by another
Either you gon' fight or you gon' run
I'll meet you around the bend when the time come

My nigga tell me where you got your chain from

VERSE 2: DAP The Contract

Did you get in on the low or did you get it just for show?
Ok for sure but who you tryna run away from?
You can tell me what you want, and I can tell you that you don't
Tryna tell you love your neighbors how the saying goes
I been tryna free my soul, but everytime I'm on a roll
My people knock me off the boat, it's back to square one
Swear I think I seen it all, my brother said man you the one
I think you won, I said ok well if you say so
Watch me get 'em when I run yeah I'mma get em
When I'm gone they gon' be singing all my songs
I hope you sing along, they gon' be singing all my songs
I hope you sing along

Tell me how did we survive?
See our people in the skies
We can take you on a ride or we can take it slow
Soul cries no ties on my sole
But so many died with their eyes on the road
Never win, these little boys
'Cause too many men at the end of the road
I swear we never see them grow
Oh no we never see them blow
Was you the one, with the gun below
Who took it out the hold, had the bullet loaded
Said "on the floor!", and so he froze
He did what you told, but you popped a cap in his cap
For sure it sits in his skull, now he down below
But his soul arose to the God's above
Mama on the phone, think you lost your son to a man of code"
It's so cold, yeah
When you tryna stack it up
You take a step or two forward, four back
And fall back to where it started from
Think we lost another soul, I can't listen to the law
I've been praying to the lord, come and say something
Tryna take my brothers home, I'm fighting till the day is done
'Cause I'mma die for my day ones
'Cause ain't nobody made it out, you leave the block
You coming back to the same one

CHORUS 3: Tone, DAP The Contract

My nigga tell me where you got your chain from
No I ain't looking for my own, I ain't trying to be owned by another
Either you gon' fight or you gon' run
I'll meet you around the bend when the time come

My nigga tell me where you got your chain from
Did you have to sell your soul? Do you have to play a role?
Is it possible for you to get a refund?
Asking why we dying for no reason

VERSE 3: Kamaria Woods

See my brothers, they dying
They taking my sisters, my family
They want us to sit down keep quiet
Our brains in they pocket, our pain in they wallet
And we're still chained, ooh
Oh they tell us we ain't still chained, ooh

OUTRO: Tone, DAP The Contract, Kamaria Woods

So tell 'em where you got your chain from, chain from
4x
And tell 'em we gon break the chains off, chains off
4x