The Tower - Ice T

[00:00.0]The Tower - Ice-T
[00:20.29]I'm rolling up in a big gray bus
[00:21.87]And I'm shackled down
[00:23.18]Myself that's who I trust
[00:24.59]The minute I arrived
[00:25.84]Some sucker got hit
[00:26.97]Shanked ten times
[00:28.38]Behind some bullshit
[00:29.73]Word in the pen the fool was a snitch
[00:31.98]So without hesitatin
[00:32.94]I made a weapon quick
[00:34.26]If found a sharp piece of metal
[00:35.54]Taped it to a stick
[00:36.92]Then a bullhorn sounds
[00:37.88]That means it's time for chow
[00:39.48]My first prison meal
[00:40.34]The whole feeling was foul
[00:41.81]It wasn't quite my style
[00:43.07]But my stomach growled
[00:44.32]So I flushed the sh*t down
[00:45.61]And hit the weight pile
[00:46.96]The brothers was swole
[00:48.06]The attitudes was cold
[00:49.21]Felt the tension on the yard
[00:50.56]From the young and the old
[00:51.86]But I'm a warrior
[00:53.01]I got my ground to hold
[00:54.22]So I studied the inmates
[00:55.32]To see who hd the power
[00:56.78]The whites the blacks
[00:57.91]Or just the gun tower
[01:18.82]In a blink of an eye a riot broke out
[01:21.12]Blacks put their backs to the wall
[01:22.56]Cause it was north and south
[01:23.91]A gun man shouts
[01:25.01]And everybody had doubt
[01:25.88]Until the bullets started flyn
[01:27.53]Took two men out
[01:28.59]Thn they rushed everybody
[01:29.83]Back to their cells
[01:31.21]Damn the pen is different than
[01:32.770004]The county jail
[01:33.630005]I'm in a one man cell
[01:34.83]I know my lifes on a scale
[01:36.21]I wonder if that gunman is going to hell
[01:38.57]This is my second day
[01:39.78]I got a ten year stay
[01:41.229996]I learned my first lesson
[01:42.44]In the pen you don't plaay
[01:43.740005]I saw a brother kill another
[01:44.9]Cause he said he was gay
[01:46.16]But thats the way it is
[01:47.42]It been that way for years
[01:48.6]And when his body hit the ground
[01:49.8]I heard a couple of cheers
[01:51.05]It kind of hurt me inside
[01:52.18]That they were glad he died
[01:53.509995]And I ask myself
[01:54.6]Just who had the power
[01:56.19]The whites the blacks
[01:57.41]Or just the gun tower
[02:18.12]You see the whites got a thing
[02:19.29001]The call white pride
[02:20.78]The blacks got the muscle
[02:21.94]Mexicans got the knives
[02:23.27]You better be wise
[02:24.43]You wanna stay alive
[02:25.64]Go toe to toe with a sucka
[02:27.12]No matter wht size
[02:28.05]A fool tried to sweat me
[02:29.22]Actn like he was hard
[02:30.24]I stuck him twice in the neck
[02:31.39]And left him dead in the yard
[02:33.13]It was smooth how I did it
[02:34.51]Cause nobody could see
[02:35.5]With my jacket on my arm
[02:36.94]And my knife on the side of me
[02:38.5]Bam bam it was over
[02:39.52]Another one bites the dust
[02:40.7]I went crazy in the pen
[02:41.89]With nobody to trust
[02:42.98]Benchn ten quarters so I'm hard to sweat
[02:45.55]Used a tat gun and engrved my set
[02:48.14]They call me a lifer
[02:49.29001]Cause I'm good as dead
[02:50.54001]I live in the hole so the floors my bed
[02:52.97]And I ask myself again
[02:54.70999]Who has the power
[02:55.59]The whites the blacks
[02:56.61]Or just the gun tower