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