Uhh, regulate nigga, live for this Some of don't live at all Get yours, nigga, get yours, Uhh, yo, yo
As the closed down on the earth like gray dark rings Light of cities in the nights, destination for With big dreams, Castro, overthrew Bautista From Cuba, and pointed nukes the U.S.
About to us for revolution, that's how you gotta move A lot of rules, some in solitude Curse the day of birth confused Who's to be praised, the mighty or almighty Allah
I'm like the farmer, plantin' words, people are My truth is the soil, help you grow trees May the children in all colors, change like leaves But before you, one of those, prophetic MC's
With flows, seven hundred souls in me channelin', from past to present time Heaven light on those innocent to how the world grows men become murderers and some girls become hoes
And you accounted for, everything you heard Do not speak to fools, they scorn the of your words My is wise, bloodshot eyes, the saga never dies prisoners rise, rise, rise
Ghetto prisoners rise, rise, Ghetto prisoners rise, rise, Ghetto rise, rise, rise prisoners
Yo, we gotta be God's children, habitats in buildings Rats crawl in hallways, incinerators Sinners who faithless, still hope Pray it's answered, dreams turned
What's a wicked nation? One with men Not takin' of the situation Empty arguments and real conversation's The world'll it, to hear it
Evil tries to weaken my spirit, chronic herb This hurt come the honest word I now try hardest to my maker I learned, find it's way on the paper
So I could dictate it, it Luckily, I was put on one of the that made it Through strong currents and that left the others stranded To sink in the Atlantic, satan the planet
Not to get too But who when and if your life is finished? If Christ is in this, for the sake of your name, O May we break away from the chains
prisoners rise, rise, rise Ghetto prisoners rise, rise, prisoners rise, rise, rise Ghetto prisoners, get up, wake up,
prisoners rise, rise, rise Ghetto rise, rise, rise Ghetto prisoners rise, rise, prisoners
You wanna buy time? I'm the of minutes I give you every low-priced, if I so lies The truth is waits for none of you In fact, he can't wait for the to snatch The right from under you
Small visions of better life, if cheddar was Lurk in the mind of ones ahead of they time in the slums, beggin' for nuttin' but takin' Headed for nuttin' but the state pen, where they be waitin'
Judges is not relatin' to Guns bustin' where the play Ricochet off lamp poles and damp holes In bystanders, get cancelled, D.O.A.
the way, where we from Hope the future reduce the of those buried young Life is every man's kingdom, a dyin' past And a newborn's, first time to be at last
And shouldn't to grow up fast, and suffer our pain Hustlin' harder the generations here before he came Goin' through the same as our fathers Readin' history, but the authors?
For some the is easy For of us, the game is much harder But never lose Through the years get smarter
Ghetto prisoners, ghetto prisoners rise, rise, rise Ghetto prisoners rise, rise, prisoners rise, rise, rise Ghetto prisoners, get up, wake up,
Ghetto prisoners rise, rise, prisoners rise, rise, rise Ghetto prisoners rise, rise, prisoners