"Rise of a Nation"
[Intro:] 2Pac speaks...
[Ka-Flame speaks]
See it was bout 2:30 in the morning - I woke up - I was like - I had to write this sh** down real quick - you know - cause I have these thoughts sometimes that - I feel like the world need to hear..yea
[Hook:]
You can rep the hood that you're from
You can ride around with them sticks/
You can take over them blocks -
But to "THEM" you still ain't sh**/
You can sell all of them bricks -
You can bang all of them hoes/
But to "THEM" you ain't no threat -
You're just playing the game how it go/
But I'm breaking all of their rules -
And I still stick to my code/
Until you fight for your people -
You ain't understanding your role/
Say you k**ing all of your foes?! -
When the smoke gone - is it clearer?/
Who the Victim favors? - if you need a SAVIOR
Take a look in the mirror!/...
[1st verse:]
If you ventured off in my mind -
You'd be getting lost in no time/
Where you pay respect and you paying homage
And it still won't cost you a dime/
They done throw'd us off - we in a bind
In a neighborhood thats full of crime/
And its drug infested - so the thugs protect it
On the block - they popping them nines/
What set u claim? - fo they bust ya brain -
Leave ya mangled all in the streets/
Know you can't contain - what them n***as brang -
When they get to aiming that heat/
Where they shoot them up and they shoot them down -
Not a place to live - better move around/
Every night we feel - its another fight -
And you just might hear them Uzi sounds/
They be moving pounds of that white
f** a drought b**h - you know the price/
That American Pie - looking super sweet
And we're gone scoop a piece or a slice/
Got us in a loop we call life -
We done turned the guns on each other/
Been brainwashed over time - now
You'll point the gun at cha brother/
They be k**ing n***a's on the daily -
If you tuning in to the news/
The government is the biggest gang -
So in the end who gone lose?/
Picked up my pen just to choose -
To write about my pain/
My affiliation - Rise of Nation -
Had to do this one for the gangs/...
[Hook:]
You can rep the hood that you're from
You can ride around with them sticks/
You can take over them blocks -
But to "THEM" you still ain't sh**/
You can sell all of them bricks -
You can bang all of them hoes/
But to "THEM" you ain't no threat -
You're just playing the game how it go/
But I'm breaking all of their rules -
And I still stick to my code/
Until you fight for your people -
You ain't understanding your role/
Say you k**ing all of your foes?! -
When the smoke gone - is it clearer?/
Who the Victim favors? - if you need a SAVIOR
Take a look in the mirror!/...
[2nd verse:]
Ya see they fear a n***a like me
Cause I'm the type that'll be/
With gang members on the daily
Trying to unify them in the streets/
All the GD's and the Crips
The Latin Kings and the Piru's/
And every gang in between
We can do this sh** - if we decide to/
Pull up on them and we ride thru
Painting the white house black/
Take all the money from them rich crac(kkk)a's
And send them b**h n***as back/
To the ghettos that we had stay in
And give them back their religion/
They can have all that f** sh** -
And lets burn down their prisons/
Or free all of the real ones! -
But d**h to all of the rapists!/
The ones who slaughtered innocent Families
I be damn if they can escape this/
See I take this sh** here strongly
Open up ya eyes - if you only/
Can see the vision of a visionary -
Sick and tired of burying my homies/
Come Activate with a Activist
I'm Advocate for my folks/
How you a Gangsta when you can't stand up
For your people who hurting the most!?/
Throwing up the B's! - throwing up the C's!-
So they banging all over letters?/
Just imagine all of the POWER -
If the gangs all came TOGETHER?!/...just a thought n***a!
[Hook:]
You can rep the hood that you're from
You can ride around with them sticks/
You can take over them blocks -
But to "THEM" you still ain't sh**/
You can sell all of them bricks -
You can bang all of them hoes/
But to "THEM" you ain't no threat -
You're just playing the game how it go/
But I'm breaking all of their rules -
And I still stick to my code/
Until you fight for your people -
You ain't understanding your role/
Say you k**ing all of your foes?! -
When the smoke gone - is it clearer?/
Who the Victim favors? - if you need a SAVIOR
Take a look in the mirror!/...
[Outro: Ka-Flame]
Its a War going on -
But the BATTLE - {WE} done lost it/
But {WE'RE} shooting up each other -
While [THEY'RE] sitting in the office/
[They're] laughing drinking coffee -
While {WE} suffer all the losses/
[THEY] would make {us} [THEIR] SLAVES -
Before {WE'RE} ever [THEIR] BOSSES/... #WAKEUP
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