Lockdown without a cell.

"Man this happens on a regular, the racial profiling, the minority shootings etc, etc." - Joell Ortiz

Police brutality is nothing new in America. I've been harassed by the police more than once, but its all good. 'Fuck the police' puts it quite nice for me, so this blog isn't even really about that nonsense. Its more about those living life behind bars...and sometimes those bars aren't always cold steel.

"You guilty until proven innocent, up in the ghetto brah'" - Mr. Ortiz

I feel that the system is already against a black man, but to get locked down in the system where they can control your every movement without using psychological warfare is crazy. I question the freedom we have while on the outside, but while your on the inside theres no need to question it. Your viewed as an animal, and even if you change your life you can never change your past. And your past is something you have to live with for the rest of your life. These are the steel bars. Cellmates, yard fights, basketball, weights, books, and converting to Islam.

I never been locked up, but I feel like I'm trapped in a cell constantly. I feel like I'm locked down, coming into the world and being degraded because of my skin color. Not only because of my color but because of stereotypes that circle my culture or my race. I think thats fucked up. Don't get the wrong impression, I mean sometimes all of this is done to me by my own people.

Living behind bars isn't what I want, or what I want for my children. Being a prisoner in your own home? In your own body? Being trapped in disbelief, or hiding from your past? Bars seperate us all in society. The only type of bars I enjoy in life is when I'm creating a verse with a pen & pad. I'm not a fan of being a prisoner, so its time to rebel. The revolution will not be televised. Now, nigga wheres the key to this bitch?