Do you know how many youths in jail, how many black men

This is what an inmate told me....

Let it be the Most High's will to have me where I am

Let them see that they can't kill the inner part of man

Even though the cell is locked and they've thrown away the key

I'm the finest of the father's crop, I deserve to be happy. I'm just saying....



Down, somebody's down in the concrete jail cell

And nobody gives a damn cause most of them are black

Down, somebody's down in the concrete jail cell

NiyoRah gives a damn I'm not forgetting anyone



Love will be deep within always, how can I have faith no more

Judging me on a one-ten scale way over twenty this man soars

Peace and love is the same to him who created all of us

I will show that I am a king, liberation of myself is a must.

I'm just saying...



Down, somebody's down in the concrete jail cell

And nobody gives a damn cause most of them are black

Down, somebody's down in the concrete jail cell

NiyoRah gives a damn I'm not forgetting anyone



Dirty toilet seats, unsanitary hasn't been flushed for weeks

Terrible environment can't even sleep

Police brutality still it a lurk, aye oh Jah

This ain't nothing sweet, A warden have fi tell you what time you must eat

The food look rotten ah can food and meat

And all you thinking 'bout ah how fi splurt, what is going on

And you feel as though the only way to get out is to sell your soul

Nuff become informer and ah play spy role

The system has so many trapped like so

Look how many get life for not doing nothing but putting up a fight

Against a silly game that Babylon call life

That's why the dynamite it have to blow, I’m just saying...

Down, somebody's down in the concrete jungle

And nobody gives a damn 90 percent is black

Down, somebody's down in the concrete jungle

Star Lion gives a damn we aint forgetting anyone

I Grade gives a damn we ain’t forgetting anyone, Jah

African people gives a damn we're not forgetting anyone no

Virgin Islands gives a damn woe ooh Jah, Jah rule and reign