The Khalief Tale (feat. David Bars)

They choose not hear me

Even if I speak louder

I'm being mistreated

By those who seek power

These suicidal thoughts

Are not something to be proud of

And now I have a choice

I'm the voice of Khalif, crowd up

They got me on Rikers Island

And I ain't even do it

16 getting jumped by COs

I'm going through it

Fist-fights with all the inmates

I ain't with it

All I really wanna do is go home and get acquitted

My mom taking trips to visit

She looks sad

Three years

For allegedly stealing a book bag

I'm in jail

They even took away my bail

Who's a victim?

I'm bugging cause there really ain't no

Justice in this system

And I don't apologize

Just pray the judge going to dismiss 'em

Lock me in the cage away

From my family

And I missed 'em

I'm losing myself daily

I don't know what's left of me

Getting tortured by officers

Who's supposed to be protecting me

Physically I'm doing better

Than I am mentally

I'm all by myself

And everybody got it in for me

Asking why is it meant for me, Lord?

Give me some sympathy

They trying to take away my soul

And put and end to me

They lock me in the box

And that's when all the demons enter me

It's hard to live inside the dark

I need the light eventually

I don't wanna be here

But I don't got a way out

I rather kill myself

And in my head that's how it play out

The devil in my mind

And I'm just hoping that he stay out

Trying to find a rope

I'm losing hope

And I be dazed out

On top of that they got me

Starving I don't even eat right

I'm talking to myself

Inside myself can't even sleep right

Something gotta give

It's not the way it's supposed to be like

And all for a crime

I didn't do this can't be life

Mama sick and she dying

And me I'm tired of trying

I'm trapped inside hell

When I can't remember who I am

I gotta stay strong

Can't let them see me crying

I'm living in the jungle

And everybody's a lion

They hit me for no reason

And all the officers lying

Throw me to the floor

And say I wasn't compliant

They got me handcuffed

Put my face into the wall

I'm running out of time

I can't take it anymore

It's only so much

That I can take

All this abuse, I'm still human

At the end of the day

To be honest I just wanna put an end to my days

And if the Lord forgive me

I can finally enter them gates

Fuck twelve

They robbed me from my life

All the pain that I encountered

That just harden me at night

Anytime I try to talk

They just ignore me on spite

If you need a visual

They got my story on Spike

Robert was sent to Rikers for allegedly stealing a backpack

In the Bronx

He always maintained his innocence

But was kept in prison

For three years

Without a trial

Two of those years

In solitary confinement

He was ultimately released

The charges dropped

This past Saturday

Khalief Browder committed suicide

Hanging himself out a window of his mother's home

His family is now suing

The New York Department of Corrections