Uhh, nigga nigga, live for this Some of y'all don't at all Get yours, nigga, get yours, Uhh, yo, yo
As the night closed down on the like gray dark rings Light of cities in the nights, for kings With big dreams, like Castro, overthrew Cuba, and pointed nukes toward the U.S.
About to shoot us for revolution, how you gotta move A lot of rules, locked in solitude Curse the day of birth confused Who's to be praised, the mighty dollar or almighty
I'm like the farmer, plantin' words, are seeds My truth is the soil, help you grow like May the children in all colors, change like leaves But hold before you, one of those, MC's
With blunted flows, seven hundred in me Each channelin', from past to time Heaven shines light on innocent to how the world grows Some men become murderers and some girls become
And you accounted for, everything you heard Do not speak to fools, scorn the wisdom of your words My heart is wise, bloodshot eyes, the saga dies Ghetto rise, rise, rise
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Yo, we be God's children, habitats in tall buildings Rats in filthy hallways, incinerators Sinners who faithless, there's hope Pray it's answered, dreams turned
a wicked nation? One with blind men Not takin' of the situation Empty arguments and real conversation's The need it, to hear it
Evil tries to my spirit, it's chronic herb This hurt from the honest word I now try hardest to my maker I learned, find it's way on the paper
So I could it, articulate it Luckily, I was put on one of the ships made it Through strong currents and winds left the others stranded To sink in the Atlantic, satan the planet
Not to get too But who decides 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
prisoners rise, rise, rise Ghetto rise, rise, rise Ghetto prisoners rise, rise, Ghetto prisoners, get up, up, rise
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You buy time? I'm the seller of minutes I you every second low-priced, if I so lies The is time waits for none of you In fact, he wait for the date to snatch The ground from under you
visions of better life, if cheddar was right Lurk in the mind of young ones 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 to pleas bustin' where the kids play Ricochet off lamp poles and leave holes In bystanders, get cancelled, D.O.A.
Around the way, we from Hope the future the rate of those buried young Life is every kingdom, a dyin' man's past And a newborn's, time to be here at last
And have to grow up fast, and suffer our pain harder than the generations here before he came Goin' through the same bullshit as our Readin' history, but who's the
For the game is easy For most of us, the game is harder But never lose Through the years get smarter
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Ghetto prisoners rise, rise, Ghetto rise, rise, rise Ghetto prisoners rise, rise, prisoners