[2] In the UK, the song was released as a single and was taken from an EP, entitled Paper Trail: Case Closed.
's jail sentence and how he wants people to remember him as he is not going to be gone forever, including the verse "By the time you hear this, I'd be half way home".
mentions Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X and alludes to how he is possibly the modern day version of them.
With no promotion, the single sold over 80,000 downloads in its first week, and it debuted at number 29 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
The video was directed by Jessy Terrero, and follows on from the themes of the song, showing prisoners being forgotten by their significant others while incarcerated.