Rise Up (inspired by the Zapatistas)

Rise up

Rise up inside of the enemy

we just got to get them to see

Its our responsibility.

To fight until we free..


Uh, victory sounds good,

But even when It come, got to watch the hood

From the pigs and the rats up to no good

Fall back tell me why I should

Ha, look, I’m on a trip to Chiapas,

Trying to find out, why they yell YA BASTA.

Mexican Southeast, land of Zapatistas.

My community would love to meet ya.

Heh, got hugs to greet ya.

Learn from each other, each ones a teacher,

Concern for my brother cause they out to beat ya.

(who), the same they, that’s out to beat us.

We got power so they can’t defeat us.

My struggle run back way before the fetus.

My ancestor’s kings and queens so read up.

Why should I settle for the chains they keep us?

Locked in cages, minimum wages, gentrification –

Land grab, look at what they taking.

Rise up, Harlem they shaking, housing tenements soon to be vacant.

From the Blacks, tell them fall back

Give the land the back then give the money back

To my hood, why don’t you go back?

If I can’t live, where you going to live at, ha?


Rise up inside of the enemy

we just got to get them to see

Its our responsibility.

To fight until we free..


Canada, Mexico, USA –

Governments signed NAFTA,

North American Free Trade Agreements.

1994 they signed the agreements.

Yeap, you still pledging allegiance.

One world super market goal they reaching.

Indigenous land they out for the keeping.

No more corn and beans for eating.

Now you raise cattle for eating,

Send it away to another region,

I know to the quire, I’m preaching

But it ain’t for yall my hood I’m reaching.

Shut up, stand up, we all immigrants.

We all exploited, we all in the mix.

We all got to fight, cause we all getting pimped.

We all got to get up, get down for this.


Rise up inside of the enemy

we just got to get them to see

Its our responsibility.

To fight until we free..


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Music by spiritchild

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