Intro:

(Kofie Diamonds)

In the future no black kids will be in prison

(Marko Stat$)

In 2010 approximately 70,000 juveniles were incarcerated in youth detention facilities alone. As of 2006, approximately 500,000 youth were brought to detention centers in a given year, this data does not reflect juveniles tried as adults.

(Yung CJ)

So let’s stand together


VERSE 1

(Marko Stat$)

We’re born to be kings! Black kings in the future let me paint that picture for ya! In a world with no youth prisons we take the shackles off. REMIX

(Pressure Baby R)

What’s a world full of bosses for sho, A future with no prisons, I feel our mental will be sane cause we won’t be locked up in no cage, and we won’t be treated like no slaves, see more kids at the park cause they can come outside and play, cause it ain’t no victims being corrupted by the system they get paid to fry our brains



CHORUS

(MARKO STAT$)

In my future, no kids will be in prison, indigenous practice will solve harm it will heal us, it will heal us, real shit, it will heal us

(EVERYONE)

IN THE FUTURE NO BLACK KIDS WILL BE IN PRISON

(MARKO STAT$)

What do you imagine? We can make it happen! You have no soul if you truly believe a child should be locked down.



VERSE 2

(Yung CJ)

Fast forward to a future where no youth prisons is a world of empowerment where justice is restored and hearts are felt again and unity transcends

(SKY)

Yeah I’m the living truth and came to testify, that there’s a better way to raise our youth then lock them up inside so fuck the suicide

(Kofie Diamonds)

In my future no black kids will be in prison. I been on a mission, 2020 what my vision is, 2017 couldn’t picture this, even good kids had to take them risks, only thing changed was the chains on the wrist, FREEDOM!



CHORUS

(MARKO STAT$)

In my future, no kids will be in prison, indigenous practice will solve harm it will heal us, it will heal us, real shit, it will heal us

(EVERYONE)

IN THE FUTURE NO BLACK KIDS WILL BE IN PRISON

(MARKO STAT$)

What do you imagine? We can make it happen! You have no soul if you truly believe a child should be locked do



VERSE 3

(MARKO STAT$)

The money used for youth prisons should go to restorative justice orgs to expand rehabilitation

In areas where its needed more, when you care about a child’s well-being, society benefits more,

It produces generations of leaders all here on one accord, abolition raises our frequency now we’re on hoverboards, agriculture produced in the ghetto with green plants, Bulbasaur, Bullshit is what they sold us for years now I’m a matador, black man will grow bigger than life but we’re no dinosaurs



CHORUS

(MARKO STAT$)

In my future, no kids will be in prison, indigenous practice will solve harm it will heal us, it will heal us, real shit, it will heal us

(EVERYONE)

IN THE FUTURE NO BLACK KIDS WILL BE IN PRISON

(MARKO STAT$)

What do you imagine? We can make it happen! You have no soul if you truly believe a child should be locked do



OUTRO

(Kofie Diamonds)

Don’t this make you think why they won’t let us be? Don’t this make you go some place you don’t wanna go?



(Kofie Diamond Piano Solo)



(Yung CJ)

So let’s together chase this vision, let’s make it real, a future where all hearts can finally heal, it is futuristic world, we’ll finally stand tall, embracing a future where no young soul will ever fall