Ice-T — Escape from the Killing Fields

Here we go, I'm movin' off death row Ya gotta keep up hops, ya can't be slow ‘Cause their towers are high, they got the high gats Check the perimeters good, Read the maps It's night, they might not see us ‘Cause if they catch us out there, they'll bleed us Shoot us, kill us, dump us in a dark ditch Clean it up, call it a gang hit I gotta make my move, ‘cause I'm a renegade I recognize when mind techniques are being played It's a plot they use to keep down another Here comes another brainwashed brother... "Yo man, it sounds like you're selling out to me, ‘cause I'm from the ghetto; I lived in the ghetto all my life! We ain't supposed to leave here! We're black! We're supposed to be poor!" Shut up! Do you know how dumb you sound? That mentality's what keeps my people down! No one wants to live in an urban war You live there cause your parents were poor They live there because theirs were also Get yourself together, hit the gates bro! [Hook] Ya gotta get out! Ya gotta get out! Why? Ya gotta get out! Ya gotta get out! Why? Ya gotta get out! Ya gotta get out! Why? ‘Cause the fields are where you die! I escaped from the killing fields! I escaped from the killing fields! You try to keep us running and running faster But I ain't runnin' from ya; I'm runnin' at ya! And my posse's thick, about a mil strong Too late to make up now, cause it's on I'm the one that's got ya in constant fear I'm the nigga ya shoulda killed last year But you played yourself: you let me gain wealth Now I can change the way the cards are dealt! I've schooled my homeboys, made 'em all understand The tricks and twists inflicted on the Black man How ya make me think to be down I gotta stay around Down in the motherfuckin' battleground "We got the Puerto Ricans where we want 'em, we got the Mexicans and the Blacks where we want 'em... Well, shit, they're all Black! We gotta keep 'em together, the same way we got those fuckin' Indians!" There'll never be any good schools in the hood There'll never be any cops that are any good! The hospital is a great place to go to die Real estate's cheap, let me tell ya why The man's got a sure fire system: A economic prison! [Hook] I escaped from the killing fields!