Rise Up Lyrics - Jon Connor

This for their ears yo, Look where we headed, niggas want baby mamas instead of weddings 

They holler "she crazy" - you knew that before you got her pregnant 

Visualize the dream of Malcolm and Martin opposite 

We all God's children, making the devil's adoption list 

Free will keep overriding our common sense 

Born with a conscious, but over time we build up a tolerance 

Immunity to scrutiny, that's just how the world turn 

And Alfred taught me some people just want to watch the world burn 

Ashes to ashes after flashes of decisions made 

The world disintegrates, that's shallow, just take centre stage 

As I pen this page, some would say that I'm a renegade 

Cleanin' out my closet, I'm just man enough to renovate 

Seduction or corruption'll have us all fucked 

Before we all stuck, see the light before we awestruck 

Back to that baby mama, nigga, here your little boy come 

Lifetime to build a future, only seconds to destroy one 

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Rise - they say my message is a weapon 

Say hello to Mr. AK47 

Send me to the jury or the reverend 

Cause I'm 'bout to spray this extra clip I left in 

So rise, motherfucker, rise 

Oh, what's the point? 

You will die or probably commit suicide to this joint 

My nigga, they say my message is a weapon 

Say hello to Mr. AK47 

Before they close my casket, I want my words to reach to the masses 

Before they have me in shackles sayin' I didn't pay my taxes 

We laughing, but what's wack is that this shit could actually happen 

Shit is real life, the lights and the cameras is just distractions 

Spoon fed out the mob from the time we open our eyes 

We don't try to seek the truth, we more comfortable with the lies 

Like if I told you black was blue and you never knew all this time 

Or 1+1 was really 3, you'd go out of your fucking mind 

Kids is suicidal, homicidal, wanna be famous 

Hopin' that the video of the trial gon' go viral 

How we've spiralled as a generation, not enough answers 

Too many questions, I close my eyes and count my blessings 

I'm realistic about this life, shit, that's why I write shit 

That'll make a nigga think twice and focus on the right shit 

When happiness ain't got a price, man, that shit is priceless 

But it takes some folks they whole life to recognize this, so 

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Violence begets violence, but killers respect the silence 

Not religious, but I still pray to God and respect the science 

We're deaf when the kids is crying, and stare when the TEKs is firing 

So we the endangered species, they'd rather protect the lions 

In the Matrix looking for Zion, dying by the gat 

Is as American as the bacon that they're frying with the fat 

They lying, them niggas flat when they clappin' at 'em like blap 

Your opinion on the matter don't matter, matter of fact 

They be aiming it at our back cause we market it as a target 

Went from modern day prophets to martyrs dying for profit 

Went from body rockin' to molly popping 

Niggas will probably wipe your heart 

Probably stop at the sight of this nigga rockin' 

At the supermarket shopping 

Trying to cop a shotgun with a debit card 

Listening to demagogues 

Who's representing Brooklyn like Decepticons 

This is the new Renaissance 

My accountant get 5% cause he respect the gods