Uhh, nigga nigga, live for this Some of y'all live at all Get yours, nigga, get yours, Uhh, yo, yo
As the night closed down on the like gray dark rings of cities in the nights, destination for kings With big dreams, like Castro, overthrew From Cuba, and nukes toward the U.S.
About to us for revolution, that's how you gotta move A lot of rules, locked in solitude Curse the day of they birth Who's to be praised, the mighty dollar or Allah
I'm like the farmer, plantin' words, people are My truth is the soil, you grow like trees May the children in all colors, change like leaves But hold before you, one of those, prophetic
blunted flows, seven hundred souls in me Each channelin', from past to time Heaven shines on those innocent to how the world grows Some men become murderers and some girls hoes
And you accounted for, everything you heard Do not speak to fools, they scorn the of your words My heart is wise, bloodshot eyes, the saga dies prisoners rise, rise, rise
Ghetto rise, rise, rise prisoners rise, rise, rise Ghetto prisoners rise, rise, prisoners
Yo, we gotta be God's children, habitats in tall Rats in filthy hallways, incinerators who faithless, still there's hope Pray it's answered, turned real
What's a wicked nation? One blind men Not takin' charge of the arguments and real conversation's needed The need it, to hear it
Evil tries to weaken my spirit, it's herb This hurt from the honest word I now try to serve my maker What I learned, find it's way on the
So I could it, articulate it Luckily, I was put on one of the ships that it Through strong and winds that left the others stranded To sink in the Atlantic, satan jigs the
Not to get too But who decides and if your life is finished? If Christ is in this, for the sake of your name, O May we away from the chains abroad
prisoners rise, rise, rise Ghetto prisoners rise, rise, Ghetto rise, rise, rise Ghetto prisoners, get up, wake up,
Ghetto rise, rise, rise Ghetto rise, rise, rise Ghetto rise, rise, rise Ghetto
You wanna buy I'm the seller of minutes I you every second low-priced, if I so lies The truth is waits for none of you In fact, he can't for the date to snatch The ground right under you
Small of better life, if cheddar was right Lurk in the mind of young ahead of they time Trapped in the slums, beggin' for but takin' Headed for nuttin' but the state pen, where they be waitin'
is not relatin' to pleas Guns bustin' where the play Ricochet off lamp poles and leave damp In bystanders, get cancelled, D.O.A.
Around the way, we from the future reduce the rate of those buried young Life is every man's kingdom, a man's past And a newborn's, first time to be here at
And shouldn't have to up fast, and suffer our pain harder than the generations here before he came Goin' through the bullshit as our fathers Readin' history, but the authors?
For the game is easy For most of us, the game is much But lose faith Through the years just get
Ghetto prisoners, ghetto Ghetto rise, rise, rise Ghetto prisoners rise, rise, prisoners rise, rise, rise Ghetto prisoners, get up, up, rise
Ghetto prisoners rise, rise, prisoners rise, rise, rise Ghetto rise, rise, rise Ghetto