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[00:01.80]Artist: Nas
[00:02.13]Album: I Am...
[00:02.39]Song: Ghetto Prisoners
[00:02.65]Typed by: OHHLA Webmaster DJ Flash
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[00:03.61]Uhh.. regulate nigga
[00:04.96]Bravehearts nigga
[00:07.63]Live for this
[00:09.88]Some of y'all don't live at all
[00:13.39]Get yours nigga
[00:16.18]Get yours baby
[00:17.64]Uhh, yo.. yo..
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[00:21.18]As the night close down on the Earth like gray dark rings
[00:23.90]Light of cities in the nights, destination for Kings
[00:26.47]with big dreams, like Castro, overthrew Bautista
[00:29.20]from Cuba, and pointed nukes toward the U.S.
[00:31.70]About to shoot us for revolution; that's how you gotta move
[00:34.69]A lot of rules, some locked in solitude
[00:36.77]Curse the day of they birth confused, who's to be praised?
[00:39.53]The mighty dollar -- or almighty Allah
[00:41.84]I'm like the farmer, plantin words, people are seeds
[00:44.47]My truth is the soil; help you grow like trees
[00:47.07]May the children come in all colors, change like leaves
[00:49.64]but hold before you, one of those, prophetic MC's
[00:52.42]with blunted flows, seven hundred souls in me
[00:54.73]Each channelin, from past to present times, heaven shines
[00:57.60]light on those, innocent to how the world grows
[01:00.09]Some men become murderers, and some girls become hoes
[01:02.78]And you accounted for, everything that you heard
[01:05.47]Do not speak to fools; they scorn the wisdom of your words
[01:08.43]My heart is wise, bloodshot eyes, the saga never dies
[01:11.20]Ghetto prisoners rise rise rise
[01:13.96]Ghetto prisoners rise rise rise
[01:16.38]Ghetto prisoners rise rise rise
[01:18.92]Ghetto prisoners rise rise rise
[01:21.11]Ghetto prisoners..
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[01:24.35]Yo we gotta be God's children, habitats in tall buildings
[01:26.56]Rats crawl in filthy hallways, incinerators
[01:29.05]Sinners who faithless, still there's hope, pray it's answered
[01:31.65]Dreams turned real - what's a wicked nation?
[01:34.25]One with blind men - not takin charge of the situation
[01:37.67]Empty arguments and real conversations needed
[01:40.10]The world'll need it, to hear it
[01:41.70]Evil tries to weaken my spirit - it's chronic herb
[01:44.49]This hurt come from the honest word
[01:46.53]I now try hardest to serve my maker, what I learned
[01:49.28]find it's way on the paper, so I could dictate it
[01:52.06]Articulate it, luckily - I was put on one of the ships that made it
[01:56.07]through strong currents and winds that left the others stranded
[01:58.96]to sink in the Atlantic
[02:00.28]Satan jigs the planet, not to get too religious, but
[02:02.80]who decides when and if your life is finished?
[02:05.22]If Christ is in this, for the sake of your name, oh Lord
[02:08.46]may we break away from the chains abroad
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[02:11.21]Ghetto prisoners rise rise rise
[02:13.60]Ghetto prisoners rise rise rise
[02:16.01]Ghetto prisoners rise rise rise
[02:18.76]Ghetto prisoners.. get up, wake up, rise
[02:21.68]Ghetto prisoners rise rise rise
[02:24.22]Ghetto prisoners rise rise rise
[02:26.63]Ghetto prisoners rise rise rise
[02:28.95]Ghetto prisoners..
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[02:31.38]You wanna buy time? I'm the seller of minutes
[02:33.95]I give you every second low-priced, if I so lies; the truth is
[02:37.16]Time waits for none of you, in fact
[02:39.18]he can't wait for the date to snatch the ground right from under you
[02:41.97]Small visions of better life if cheddar was right
[02:44.20]lurk in the mind, of young ones ahead of they time
[02:46.43]Trapped in the slums, beggin for nuttin but takin
[02:48.90]Headed for nuttin but the state pen, where they cousins be waitin
[02:52.31]Judges is not relatin to pleas, guns bustin where the kids play
[02:55.71]Richochet off lamp poles and leave damp holes
[02:58.25]in bystanders, get cancelled, D.O.A.
[03:00.77]Around the way where we from
[03:02.37]Hope the future reduce the rate of those buried young
[03:04.59]Life is every man's kingdom, a dyin man's past
[03:07.48]and a newborn's, first time to be here at last
[03:10.72]And shouldn't have to grow up fast, and suffer our pain
[03:12.99]Hustlin harder than the generations here before he came
[03:15.77]Goin through the same bullshit as our fathers
[03:18.27]Readin history, but who's the authors?
[03:20.04]For some the game is easy, for most of us the game is much harder
[03:23.13]But never lose faith; through the years just get smarter
[03:26.26]Ghetto prisoners.. ghetto prisoners..
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[03:29.40]Ghetto prisoners rise rise rise
[03:31.71]Ghetto prisoners rise rise rise
[03:34.29]Ghetto prisoners rise rise rise
[03:37.05]Ghetto prisoners.. get up, wake up, rise
[03:39.70]Ghetto prisoners rise rise rise
[03:42.14]Ghetto prisoners rise rise rise
[03:44.94]Ghetto prisoners rise rise rise
[03:47.96]Ghetto prisoners..