Ghetto Prisoners Lyrics - I Am... - Nas

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 U.S. 

About to shoot us for revolution, that's how you gotta move 

A lotta 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 MC's 

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 

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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 us, for the sake of your name, oh Lord 

May we break away from the chains abroad 

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You wanna buy time? I'm the seller of minutes 

I give you every second low-priced, if I so lies; the truth is 

Time waits 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, D.O.A. 

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...