Concrete Gardens - The Future Is Ours Track 5

Notes Sample: “Replicas” by Tubeway Army Written and produced by Kinte Synopsis “Concrete Gardens” is about hope growing from damaged places. Built from a sample of “Replicas,” Kinte uses the image of life breaking through concrete as a symbol of Black resilience, survival, and community rebuilding. The song touches on polluted cities, lost green spaces, and the power of people to create beauty where the world left neglect. Chapter 5: Concrete Gardens After the pressure of the city, “Concrete Gardens” brings the first real sign of hope. In this chapter, life begins to grow through the cracks. The garden becomes a symbol of Black resilience, community strength, and the ability to build beauty in damaged places. Even in polluted cities and broken systems, people still plant, create, and survive. This is where the album begins to shift from warning to possibility. #ConcreteGardens #Kinte #BlackFuture Lyrics [Chorus] We grow dreams in the concrete gardens, Rose in the rubble where the truth stay hardened. If the world too cold, we harvest starlight, Plant tomorrow in the cracks make the dark bright. [Verse 1] Grandma used a coffee can, basil on the balcony, Now I’m growing hope in a city that don’t honor me. Bees missing, birds quiet, air tasting like metal, Still I’m talking to the soil like, “Please don’t settle.” They paved paradise, put a price on shade, Then ask why we angry when our kids can’t play. I seen a seed beat odds like a drum through stone, That’s Afrofuture making home out of “don’t.” [Verse 2] We not “urban decay,” we urban design, We the blueprint, we the pulse, we the future line. If a garden can rise where the bullets once flew, Then the planet can heal if we tell it the truth. [Chorus] We grow dreams in the concrete gardens, Rose in the rubble where the truth stay hardened. If the world too cold, we harvest starlight, Plant tomorrow in the cracks make the dark bright.