For Slaves Lyrics

Slaves to ignorance disguised as entertainment

They made champions out the sell outs that received the highest payment

Slaves to ignorance disguised as artistry

They made champions out the sell outs who profited from they poverty

But, no, no, not I

You can't say the same for me cause I broke free

Is freedom worth ya life, cause that's the fee

Die standing tall, live on ya knees

When we die we multiply that's how we grieve

Make 'em believe

They need slaves

Your father, and your brother, and your uncle all of them up in chains

It's just pain

Your family and your language and your name all of it getting changed

To something strange

Your sister, and your mother, and your aunt all of them getting raped

Trying to tell you it aint no place safe

It be centuries until we make our escape

They doing raids

Once you caged

Then you transformed from a living soul into chattel for a trade

They heard your fame

And they came half-way across the world just to turn it into shame

Once you slain

Then you getting castrated and your body getting thrown in the flames

Type of shit that leave a mental stain

After that the people gone be tamed

But it's something that remained

First it was rage

As it aged

Then it couldn't be exchanged, for a wage

To be obtained

Then you got to go through the type of test that these niggas can't grade

When we stayed true they strayed

When they made fools we sage

No difference from the boos and the raves

Walking in the shoes they crave

Fuck playing by the rules they made

They need slaves

They'll take your mind or your body cause to them it's all the same

You in chains

And you won't fight back when it's time cause your brain

Been trained

To abstain

And to look the other way, on the day, that your people being slain

I increased they decayed

Go and took my people out the grave

You can't say the same for me cause I broke free

Is freedom worth ya life, cause that's the fee

Die standing tall, live on ya knees

When we die we multiply that's how we grieve

Make 'em believe

Make 'em believe

Calling me the Prince, Prince, Prince

They calling me the Prince of the, Prince of the

They calling me the Prince of the Slaves now

Calling me the Prince of the, of the

We in for some hard days now, hey

I taught 'em how to put them chains down