Rise Up Chords by Nu Breed & Jesse Howard

[D] _ [Dm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Am] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Bb] _
_ _ _ _ _ This is [D] my [Dm] family, _ _ _ these are my friends, _ _ _ this is [Am] what I'll die _ _ for, this is [Bb] why I live.
_ _ _ And if you [Dm] truly love me, _ _ _ you will not pretend, _ _ _ this is [Am] why we rise _ _ _ up.
[Bb] It's that all-in-one mission, I got people [Dm] in the _ _ _ _ backwoods, I got people in the pen.
_ _ _ _ Mama, [Am] will you pray for me _ _ [Bb] in this life of sin?
If you [Dm] truly love _ me, _ you will not pretend, _ _ _ this is [Am] why we rise _ up.
_ [Bb] It's that all-in-one mission.
_ [D] _ See, I know my [Dm] people relate, how long they should is more than the titles.
Broken souls that need revival, broken homes that found survival.
[A] The little [Am] boy with no daddy around, but somehow found a smile.
[Bb] And his mama's popping pills, now on the edge of suicidal.
[Dm] These are my people that's been through hell, of doing time up in the cell.
All my people that's been disabled and cannot fend for themselves.
[A] All these [Am] drug fiends on codeine, and probably need some help.
[Bb] All this bad luck got us fucked up, but still we live to tell.
[D] It's all my old [Dm] folks that can't afford the medicine they prescribed.
And all them sick folks that go to war with cancer and slowly die.
[Am] It's all my broke folks that hold on and try to survive.
[Bb] In this cold world we live in, just trying to get by, [D] till the day [Dm] that we die.
We gon' ride up in this [D] bitch, and we gon' pray, so close your eyes.
And we gon' rise [Am] up in this bitch, and do or die for me and mine.
And I ain't worried [Bb] about your clique, how long they should, you can't deny, [D] there ain't no other side to pick.
It's a crazy [Dm] world we live in, all these kids out here get molested.
[D] And being black and blue, it's me and you that's their protection.
[A] It ain't no [Am] justice, they just fuck us, in the Department of Corrections.
[Bb] Touch a kid and you get bailed, but sell some weed and they gon' stress it.
[D] _
[Dm] Especially head election, cause these politicians so crooked.
And all this corruption hitting the system, they do it like nobody's even looking.
[E] They don't give a [Am] damn how you feel about it, be real about it.
You know this, [Bb] you just turn the other cheek and be a sheep and [D] let them control us.
I seen my best [Dm] friends, baby mama died from overdosing on meds.
Paramedics got them shock pads and stuck them to her chest.
And the doctors [Am] brought her back for a good second, but really was nothing left.
[Bb] She was long gone by then, and her brain [Fm] was [D] dead.
So that second [Dm] day they pulled the plug and she no longer lives.
And to make it out even worse, she did it all in front of the [A] kids.
Man, something's [Am] gotta give.
Until then, we hold it down.
[Bb] Hot Law Nation represent, [Fm] all our people make us proud.
This is [D] my [Dm] family, _ _ _ these are my _ _ _ friends.
This is [Am] what I die for, _ _ this is [Bb] why I live.
_ _ And if you [Dm] truly love me, _ _ then you will not _ _ _ pretend.
This is [Am] why we rise _ _ up, _ [Bb] it's that Hot Law Nation.
I got people [Dm] in the _ _ _ backwoods, I got people in the back.
_ _ _ _ Mama, [A] will you pray [Am] for me _ _ [Bb] in this life of sin.
And if you [Dm] truly love me, _ then you will not _ _ _ pretend.
This is [Am] why we rise _ _ _ _ up, [Bb] it's that Hot Law Nation.
_ _ [D] It's these kids that's in the gutter [Dm] with no father and no mother.
Now your teenage sister pregnant with a baby inside of her stomach.
[A] But the baby [Am] daddy done dipped down, he say that he don't want it.
[Bb] Now he tell her to get an abortion.
Man, that sounds like bullshit, don't it?
Plus your [Dm] brother done got a case and now he's faced with 20 to life.
And he can't afford an attorney, so he probably gonna lose that fight.
[A] And at the same [Am] time, you pay the price.
You stay awake till daylight.
[Bb] As you grow old, you grow cold and learn how to hate [D] life.
Still you [Dm] can't escape life on the big stage with stage fright.
In a fishbowl, tryna duck and hide.
Watching out for great [Am] whites.
I'm talking about them fake types, knife wounds and snake [Bb] bites.
It's late nights with cold chills.
Hungry as hell with no [D] meals.
I've been [Dm] backstabbed so many times by the ones that I call friends.
And they cross lines you never cross when I was locked up in a [E] pen.
Hit my [Am] lady up and talk about she needs some better men.
[Bb] But I'm the best she ever had and I'm the best that [Dm] she gon' get.
Now they both tryna make amends and apologize for what they did.
But fuck on both, I cut the rope.
I had to learn to not forgive.
[A] I let [Am] God do his job and as for me, I keep prevailing.
[Bb] Keep on rising through these ashes and let these haters just inhale it.
They [D] only hate me [Dm] because they jealous, envious and plus they bitter.
I put in hard work to get here.
I ain't never been no quitter.
[Dbm] You go big, [Am] then I go bigger.
Never scared to pull that trigger.
[Bb] I raise hell and tell myself it ain't no mercy, [Ab] no surrender.
I [D] be an example for [Dm] all of my people to keep it moving and never to break.
To keep on pushing when losing faith.
Just keep your head up and pray.
There's [A] got to be a [Am] better way.
That's the better half inside my [Bb] head.
But the other half wanna cause war, cause pain and hurt [Dm] instead.
So Lord I beg and plead to set my people free from [D] misery.
All these young kids in group homes and [Dm] grown men in [A] penitentiaries.
These [Am] broken homes we come from.
We prayin' for our [Bb] enemies.
When it's said and done, we overcome.
We goin' down in [D] history.
This is my [Dm] family.
_ _ _ These are my friends.
_ _ _ This is [Am] what I'll die _ for.
_ This is [Bb] why I live.
_ _ And if you [Dm] truly love me, _ then you will not pretend.
_ _ _ _ This is [Am] why we rise _ _ _ up.
[Bb] It's that all-in-all mission.
I got people [Dm] in the _ _ _ backwoods.
I got people in the pen.
_ _ _ _ Mama, [Am] will you pray for _ me?
_ [Bb] And this life full of sin.
And if you [Dm] truly love _ me, then you will not _ _ _ pretend.
This is [Am] why we rise _ up.
_ _ [Bb] It's that all-in-all mission.
_ _ [D] Till the day that we die, we gon' ride up in this bitch and we gon' pray.
So close your eyes and we gon' rise up [Am] in this bitch.
Do or die for me and mine.
And I ain't worried about your clique.
[Bb] How long, ni**a, you can't deny.
There ain't no other side to pick.
[D] Till the day that we die, we gon' ride up in this bitch and we gon' pray.
So close your eyes and we gon' rise up in this [Am] bitch.
Do or die for me and mine.
And I ain't [Dbm] worried about your clique.
[Bb] How long, ni**a, you can't deny.
There ain't no other side to pick. _