Nas - Ghetto Prisoners lyrics

Uhh regulate, nigga
Bravehearts, nigga live for this
Some of y'all don't live at all
Get yours, nigga get yours, baby
Uhh, yo yo

As the night close down on the
Earth like gray dark rings
Light of cities in the nights
Destination for Kings
With big dreams, like Castro
Overthrew Bautista
From Cuba, and pointed nukes toward the US
About to shoot us for revolution
That's how you gotta move
A lot of rules, some locked in solitude
Curse the day of they birth confused
Who's to be praised?
The mighty dollar - or almighty Allah
I'm like the farmer, plantin' words
People are seeds


My truth is the soil help you grow like trees
May the children come in all colors
Change like leaves but hold before you one
Of those prophetic MCs
With blunted flows, seven hundred souls in me
Each channelin', from past to present times
Heaven shines light on those
Innocent to how the world grows
Some men become murderers
And some girls become hoes
And you accounted for
Everything that you heard
Do not speak to fools they scorn
The wisdom of your words
My heart is wise, bloodshot eyes
The 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 children
Habitats in tall buildings
Rats crawl in filthy hallways, incinerators
Sinners who faithless, still there's hope
Pray 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 it, to 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 maker
What I learned find it's way on the paper
So I could dictate it articulate it
Luckily - 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 planet, not
To get too religious, but
Who decides when and if
Your life is finished?
If Christ is in this, for
The sake of your name, oh 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 up, wake up, rise
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-priced
If I sold lies the truth is
Time wait's for none of you, in 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 mind
Of young ones ahead of they time
Trapped in the slums
Beggin' for nuttin' but takin'
Headed for nuttin' but the state pen
Where they cousins be waitin'
Judges is not relatin' to pleas
Guns bustin' where the kids play
Richochet off lamp poles and leave damp holes
In bystanders, get cancelled, DOA
Around the way where we from
Hope the future reduce the rate
Of those buried young
Life is every man's kingdom
A dyin' man's past and a newborn's
First time to be here at last
And shouldn't have to grow up fast
And suffer our pain
Hustlin' harder than the generations
Here before he came
Goin' through the same bullshit
As our fathers
Readin' history, but who's the authors?
For some the game is easy
For 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 up, wake up, rise
Ghetto prisoners rise rise rise
Ghetto prisoners rise rise rise
Ghetto prisoners rise rise rise
Ghetto prisoners