Ka-Flame - 16.Rise of a Nation lyrics

"Rise of a Nation" - Prod. Dussein x Lavi$h Beatz [Intro:] (2'Pac 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 [Tu'pac Speaks:] About Amerikkka's negligence when it comes to people of color and Gang violence...