1000 Lights (Outro) [feat. Young Gully & Donnie Parker]

Politics take our lives over
We ain't satisfied we can't find closure
They divide soldiers from their family's nests
Send them off to war where they grab your necks
All these consequences we perceive for nothing
Then they plant seeds and this seeds destruction
Life changes daily got to keep adjusting
Cops shoot first and don't need discussion
So much pollution
Abrupt confusion
Problems building ain't enough solutions
Kill us all off only one conclusion
So it's more abusing and the poor been losing
Can't form a fusion that's obsolete
We got racial struggles we are not complete
With the government why not compete
When desensitization got us sleep
Mama's weep
Children cry
Only will we got is the will to die
Lord will I fly
Or crash and fall
Can I uplift can I last at all
So many dreams don't come to fruition
But damn I thought this was the land of them
Same ones that want to see us fall it's ironic how we need a hand from them

I apologize
Been a hundred nights
Chasing a thousand lights
Trying to make it out this life
I sacrifice
So you don't have to ask the price
Cause I know one day I know one day
It's gon' be alright

My classmate Tino was killed in 8th grade
Rest in peace
Rudy was killed in 9th grade
Fast forward a few years
It's August 19th
Me and Siege get caught in an ambush
I'm trying to save my brothers life
And I get shot in the head and almost killed
That night in the hospital the doc told my brother I was going to die
My whole life I never seen my Pops cry
But heard he cried like a baby all the way to the hospital
Had to learn how to walk and talk again
But got a second chance at life
In what was nothing short of a miracle
I told myself it's going to be different now
Fast forward
My boy Bobby gets shot in the mouth in a robbery in San Francisco
Fast forward
My uncle gets shot and killed at his family business
Fast forward
Everything changes and everything stays the same
Started rapping
Siege started making beats
Next thing you know they're playing us on the radio
Sold 40,000 physical CD's independent
And all these record labels start reaching out
Right before the tipping point though
Become a single father
Put my music dream on hold
To chase my dream of being the best father I could be
82 school shootings later and just last year
Not one by a Muslim
We got a Muslim ban
We got walls to keep out Mexicans
And cops keep killing black people
But we will not allow our circumstances to define us
We will not succumb to the evils
We will find strength to be great against all odds
We will put bright lights on every evil
Until we find a better way
Until there is no more pain