[Nas]
Uhh.. regulate nigga
Bravehearts nigga
Live for this
Some of y all don t live at all
Get yours nigga
Get yours baby
Uhhyo.. yo..
As the night close down on the Earth like gray dark rings
Light of cities in the nightsdestination for Kings
with big dreamslike Castrooverthrew Bautista
from Cubaand pointed nukes toward the U.S.
About to shoot us for revolution; that s how you gotta move
A lot of rulessome locked in solitude
Curse the day of they birth confusedwho s to be praised?
The mighty dollar -- or almighty Allah
I m like the farmerplantin wordspeople are seeds
My truth is the soil; help you grow like trees
May the children come in all colorschange like leaves
but hold before youone of thoseprophetic MC s
with blunted flowsseven hundred souls in me
Each channelinfrom past to present timesheaven shines
light on thoseinnocent to how the world grows
Some men become murderersand some girls become hoes
And you accounted foreverything that you heard
Do not speak to fools; they scorn the wisdom of your words
My heart is wisebloodshot eyesthe saga never dies
Ghetto prisoners rise rise rise
Ghetto prisoners rise rise rise
Ghetto prisoners rise rise rise
Ghetto prisoners rise rise rise
Ghetto prisoners..
Yo we gotta be God s childrenhabitats in tall buildings
Rats crawl in filthy hallwaysincinerators
Sinners who faithlessstill there s hopepray it s answered
Dreams turned real - what s a wicked nation?
One with blind men - not takin charge of the situation
Empty arguments and real conversations needed
The world ll need itto hear it
Evil tries to weaken my spirit - it s chronic herb
This hurt come from the honest word
I now try hardest to serve my makerwhat I learned
find it s way on the paperso I could dictate it
Articulate itluckily - I was put on one of the ships that made it
through strong currents and winds that left the others stranded
to sink in the Atlantic
Satan jigs the planetnot to get too religiousbut
who decides when and if your life is finished?
If Christ is in thisfor the sake of your nameoh Lord
may we break away from the chains abroad
Ghetto prisoners rise rise rise
Ghetto prisoners rise rise rise
Ghetto prisoners rise rise rise
Ghetto prisoners.. get upwake uprise
Ghetto prisoners rise rise rise
Ghetto prisoners rise rise rise
Ghetto prisoners rise rise rise
Ghetto prisoners..
You wanna buy time? I m the seller of minutes
I give you every second low-pricedif I so lies; the truth is
Time waits for none of youin fact
he can t wait for the date to snatch the ground right from under you
Small visions of better life if cheddar was right
lurk in the mindof young ones ahead of they time
Trapped in the slumsbeggin for nuttin but takin
Headed for nuttin but the state penwhere they cousins be waitin
Judges is not relatin to pleasguns bustin where the kids play
Richochet off lamp poles and leave damp holes
in bystandersget cancelledD.O.A.
Around the way where we from
Hope the future reduce the rate of those buried young
Life is every man s kingdoma dyin man s past
and a newborn sfirst time to be here at last
And shouldn t have to grow up fastand suffer our pain
Hustlin harder than the generations here before he came
Goin through the same as our fathers
Readin historybut who s the authors?
For some the game is easyfor most of us the game is much harder
But never lose faith; through the years just get smarter
Ghetto prisoners.. ghetto prisoners..
Ghetto prisoners rise rise rise
Ghetto prisoners rise rise rise
Ghetto prisoners rise rise rise
Ghetto prisoners.. get upwake uprise
Ghetto prisoners rise rise rise
Ghetto prisoners rise rise rise
Ghetto prisoners rise rise rise
Ghetto prisoners..

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