Uhh, regulate nigga, live for this Some of don't live at all Get yours, nigga, get yours, Uhh, yo, yo
As the night down on the earth like gray dark rings Light of cities in the nights, destination for With big dreams, like Castro, Bautista From Cuba, and nukes toward the U.S.
About to shoot us for revolution, that's how you move A lot of rules, locked in solitude the day of they birth confused Who's to be praised, the mighty dollar or Allah
I'm the farmer, plantin' words, people are seeds My is the soil, help you grow like trees May the come in all colors, change like leaves But hold before you, one of those, MC's
With blunted flows, hundred souls in me channelin', from past to present time Heaven shines light on those innocent to how the world men become murderers and some girls become hoes
And you accounted for, everything that you Do not speak to fools, they scorn the wisdom of your My heart is wise, bloodshot eyes, the saga dies Ghetto rise, rise, rise
prisoners rise, rise, rise Ghetto prisoners rise, rise, prisoners rise, rise, rise Ghetto
Yo, we be God's children, habitats in tall buildings Rats crawl in hallways, incinerators Sinners who faithless, there's hope Pray answered, dreams turned real
What's a nation? One with blind men Not takin' charge of the Empty and real conversation's needed The need it, to hear it
Evil tries to weaken my spirit, chronic herb This hurt come the honest word I now try hardest to serve my I learned, find it's way on the paper
So I dictate it, articulate it Luckily, I was put on one of the ships that it Through strong currents and winds that the others stranded To sink in the Atlantic, satan jigs the
Not to get too But who when and if your life is finished? If is in this, for the sake of your name, O Lord May we break from the chains abroad
Ghetto prisoners rise, rise, Ghetto rise, rise, rise Ghetto rise, rise, rise Ghetto prisoners, get up, up, rise
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You wanna buy I'm the seller of minutes I give you every second low-priced, if I so The truth is time waits for of you In fact, he wait for the date to snatch The right from under you
Small visions of better life, if cheddar was Lurk in the mind of young ones ahead of they Trapped in the slums, beggin' for nuttin' but Headed for nuttin' but the state pen, where they cousins be
Judges is not relatin' to Guns bustin' where the kids off lamp poles and leave damp holes In bystanders, get cancelled, D.O.A.
Around the way, where we Hope the future reduce the rate of those young Life is every man's kingdom, a man's past And a newborn's, first time to be at last
And shouldn't have to grow up fast, and suffer our Hustlin' than the generations here before he came Goin' the same bullshit as our fathers history, but who's the authors?
For some the game is For most of us, the game is much But never faith Through the years get smarter
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