[ti:Black Steel In The Hour Of Chaos (Explicit)]
[ar:Public Enemy]
[al:It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back (Explicit)]
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[00:00.00]Black Steel In The Hour Of Chaos (Explicit) - Public Enemy
[00:00.42]Bass for your face London
[00:02.32]Everybody in the house make some noise
[00:09.55]I want everybody in the house to say "Ho"
[00:14.01]Ho
[00:15.68]Yo Chuck kick it to 'em man
[00:17.68]"A ballad behind bars or you could say real rock from the rock
[00:21.18]An unusual musical happening in a most unusual place
[00:24.68]The state prison"
[00:26.24]"Get in that cell nigga"
[00:28.84]I got a letter from the government the other day
[00:31.63]I opened and read it it said they were suckers
[00:34.53]They wanted me for their army or whatever
[00:37.11]Picture me giving a damn I said never
[00:39.87]Here is a land that never gave a damn
[00:41.99]About a brother like me and myself because they never did
[00:45.17]I wasn't with it but just that very minute it occurred to me
[00:48.97]The suckers had authority
[00:50.70]Cold sweating as I dwell in my cell how long has it been
[00:53.83]They got me sitting in the state pen
[00:55.79]I gotta get out but that thought was thought before
[00:58.28]I contemplated a plan on the cell floor
[01:01.04]I'm not a fugitive on the run
[01:03.13]But a brother like me begun to be another one
[01:06.13]Word
[01:06.51]Public enemy serving time
[01:08.22]They drew the line y'all to criticize me for some crime
[01:11.42]Nevertheless they could not understand that I'm a Black man
[01:14.88]And I could never be a veteran
[01:16.88]On the strength the situation's unreal
[01:19.00]I got a raw deal so I'm looking for the steel
[01:31.70]They got me rotting in the time that I'm serving
[01:34.51]Telling you what happened the same time they're throwing
[01:37.05]Four of us packed in a cell like slaves oh well
[01:40.37]The same ************ got us living in his hell
[01:43.26]You have to realize what is a form of slavery
[01:46.35]Organized under a swarm of devils
[01:48.93]Straight up word 'em up on the level
[01:51.00]The reasons are several most of them federal
[01:53.74]Here is my plan anyway and I say
[01:56.00]I got gusto but only some I can trust yo
[01:59.25]Some do a bid from 1 to 10
[02:01.23]But I never did and plus I never been
[02:03.72]I'm on a tier where no tears should ever fall
[02:06.56]Cell block and locked I never clock it y'all
[02:09.18]'Cause time and time again
[02:11.08]Time they got me serving to those to them I'm not a citizen
[02:14.89]But ever when I catch a C-O
[02:17.70]Sleeping on the job my plan is on go-ahead
[02:20.33]On the strength I'ma tell you the deal
[02:22.38]I got nothing to lose
[02:24.36]'Cause I'm going for the steel
[02:55.94]Don't you know I caught a C-O
[02:57.90]Falling asleep on death row
[02:59.76]I grabbed his gun and he did what I said so
[03:02.49]And every man's demand got served
[03:04.91]Along with the time they served decency was deserved
[03:07.77]To understand my demands
[03:09.14]I gave a warning I wanted the governor y'all
[03:11.80]And plus the warden to know
[03:13.03]That I was innocent because I'm militant
[03:15.45]Posing a threat you bet it's ******* up the government
[03:18.26]My plan said I had to get out and break north
[03:20.96]Just like Oliver's neck I had to get off
[03:23.41]My boys had the feds in check
[03:25.06]They couldn't try nothing
[03:26.72]We had a force to instigate a prison riot
[03:28.96]This what it takes for peace
[03:30.38]So I just took a piece
[03:31.52]Black for Black inside time to cut the leash
[03:34.06]Freedom to get out to the ghetto no sell out
[03:36.64]6 C-Os we got we ought to put their head out
[03:39.42]But I'll give 'em a chance 'cause I'm civilized
[03:42.14]As for rest of the world they can't realize
[03:44.60]A cell is hell I'm a rebel so I rebel
[03:47.43]Between bars got me thinking like an animal
[03:49.93]Got a woman C-O to call me a copter
[03:52.56]She tried to get away and I popped her
[03:55.12]Twice right
[03:56.17]Now who wanna get nice
[03:57.26]I had 6 C-Os and now it's 5 to go
[03:59.98]And I'm serious call me delirious
[04:02.56]But I'm still a captive I gotta wrap this
[04:05.66]Time to break as time grows intense
[04:07.89]I got the steel in my right hand now I'm looking for the fence
[04:21.19]As I ventured into the courtyard
[04:23.53]Followed by 52 brothers bruised battered and scarred but hard
[04:27.10]Going out with a bang ready to bang out
[04:29.26]But power from the sky from the tower shots rang out
[04:32.20]A high number of dose yes and some came close
[04:34.60]I figure I trigger my steel I still stand and hold my post
[04:37.37]This is what I mean an anti-nigga machine
[04:39.75]If I come out alive then they won't come clean
[04:42.28]Then I threw up my steel bullets flew up
[04:44.61]And to my surprise the water tower blew up who shot
[04:47.86]What who what the bazooka was who
[04:50.21]And to my rescue it was the S1Ws
[04:53.55]Secured my getaway so I just got away
[04:55.76]The joint broke from the black smoke
[04:58.31]Then they saw it was rougher than the average bluffer
[05:00.69]'Cause the steel was black the attitude exact
[05:03.43]Now the chase is on telling you to c'mon
[05:06.19]53 brothers on the run and we are gone