Sa-Roc — Rise

[Verse 1: Sa-Roc] Black skin will get you caught up like duchess is brought up The street's is hungry and dummies live and die for other people's money Crack is the business, the snitches go missing And Mrs is spreading and moping and hoping for what they been missing Brothers is funny now, sipping on purple huggies And rocking designer labels with hags calling them honey Them wicked cops with itchy trigger fingers on the beat And for P protect their neck or spill blood on concrete You wanted real, well son you got it It's DOA, the Death of Africa, family stinking rotten And plotted from carcass rooms down to the valley Where folks got all excited In front of the cameras flashing them like they name was Kardashian The poor getting poorer while the rich getting richer And street cleaner sweeping dusting up your Obama stickers Listen, this ain't no Apocalypto this just a change of season How much you willing yo ante-up for your freedom? Yup [Chorus: Sa-Roc] The soul of my people keep rising Peace to the kings and the queens, they surviving Watch for the truth and the lives they conniving The cyphers, the stains, all chains look alive The soul of my people keep rising Peace to the kings and the queens, they surviving Watch for the truth and the lives they conniving The cyphers, the stains, all chains look alive [Verse 2: Boog Brown] You can feel the city breathing, chest heavy wheezing Pushed beyond capacity, the streets team with stories full of glory and pain Rain drops never wash the blood completely away Every corner warring sort of is the price that we pay Red lines still define the brown trees of a dream Liquor shops and the blocks occupied by the fiends Everything is as it seems, even tragedy feeds Behind the beauty there's a wretchedness Evidence a life worth living, skyline shine limitless Eyes seeks forgiveness with a soul that's as cold as the winter Most niggas thrive and praying on vengeance I hit the ground, close my eyes and pray to God for deliverance For a city swallowed, guttered, hallow, broken bottles Line the walkway where kids play, everyday brings the prospect of change Every place can show you not to take your blessings in vain Or diss the brain, hold your head and maintain [Chorus: Sa-Roc] The soul of my people keep rising Peace to the kings and the queens, stay surviving Watch for the truth and the lives they conniving The cyphers, the stains, all chains look alive The soul of my people keep rising Peace to the kings and the queens, stay surviving Watch for the truth and the lives they conniving The cyphers, the stains, all chains look alive [Verse 2: Boog Brown & Sa-Roc] I know you was hoping to stay inside your homes Keep your doors and your windows closed Blind eye to calamity, that's rampant in the street Whole families be rancid in the fragrance of defeat Unconscious to the royal blood they bleed Hold promise for the seeds, got no choice but to believe, things changed Release the mental chains, gain freedom in its place The power of your mindstate determines the pace 360 degrees, rotating like a spoke We keep it moving like chronic vibrating through your throat 120 Knowledge and Wisdom beget the Overstanding So do the math and the science, with hope expand your skull Black like radiant and can't stop the shining Check the cloud for stormy [?] the silver lining They can't defeat the god, I laugh 'em out for even trying If they say that things remain the same, I know them devils lying [Break: Maya Angelou poem] You can shoot me with your words You may cut me with your lies You may kill me with your hatefulness But just like life, I’ll rise [Chorus: Sa-Roc] The soul of my people keep rising Peace to the kings and the queens, stay surviving Watch for the truth and the lives they conniving The cyphers, the stains, all chains look alive The soul of my people keep rising Peace to the kings and the queens, stay surviving Watch for the truth and the lives they conniving The cyphers, the stains, all chains look alive