Rise Up - Nu Breed & Jesse Howard Chords

[D] _ _ _ _ [Dm] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _ _
This is [D] my [Dm] family. _ _ _
These are my friends. _ _ _
This is [Am] what I've died _ for. _
This [Bb] is why I live. _ _ _
And if you [Dm] truly love me, _ _
you will not pretend. _ _ _
This [Am] is why we rise _ _ _ up.
[Bb] It's that all-in all nation.
I got people [D] in the [Dm] _ _ _
backwoods.
I got people in the pen. _ _ _ _
Mama, [Am] will you pray for _ _ me?
[Bb] Give us life for sin.
If you [Dm] truly love _ me, _
you will not _ _ _ pretend.
This is [Am] why we rise _ up.
_ [Bb] It's that all-in all nation. _
_ [D] See, I know my people relate.
[Dm] Howl, all nation is more than a title.
Broken souls that need revival.
Broken homes that found survival.
[A] That 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,
doing time up in a cell.
All my people that's been disabled
and cannot fend for themselves.
[A] All these drug [Am] fiends on codeine
and probably need some help.
[Bb] All this bad luck got us flunked 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 [D] in this bitch,
so we gon' pray,
so close your eyes.
And we gon' rise up in this [Am] bitch,
just do or die for me and mine.
[E] And I ain't worried about your [Bb] clique.
Howl, all nation, you can't deny.
[Dm] There ain't no other side to pick.
It's a crazy world we live in.
All these kids out here get molested.
And beating black and blue,
it's me and you, that's their protection.
[A] It ain't no [Am] justice, they just fuck us.
And the Department of Corrections,
[Bb] touch a kid and you get bailed.
But sell some weed and they gon' stress it.
[D] Especially [Dm] at election,
cause these politicians so crooked.
And all this corruption hitting the system.
They do it like nobody's even looking.
[Am] They don't give a 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 let them control us.
I [Dm] see my best friends, baby mama died from overdosing on meds.
Paramedics got them shock pads and stuck them to her chest.
And [Am] brought her back for a good second.
But really was nothing left.
[Bb] She was long gone by then.
And her brain was dead.
[D] So that second [Dm] day, they pulled the plug.
And she no longer lives.
And to make it all 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] Howl, all nation, represent.
All our [G] people [D] make us proud.
This is my [Dm] family. _ _ _
These are my friends. _ _ _
This is [Am] what I've died _ for.
And 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 howl, all nation.
I got people [Dm] in the _ _ _ backwoods.
I got people _ _ _ in the pen.
Mama, [Am] will you pray for me? _
_ [Bb] In this life full of sin.
If you [Dm] truly love _ me,
then you will not _ _ _ pretend.
This is [Am] why we rise _ _ _ up.
[Bb] It's that howl, all 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.
[Am] But the baby 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?
[D] Plus, your brother done [Dm] caught 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 [Am] same 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 crossed
when I was locked up in a [Bm] pen.
[E] 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 she gon' [D] get.
Now they both tryna [Dm] make amends
and apologize for what they did.
But fuck on both, I cut the rope.
I had to learn to not forgive.
[Am] I let 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.
[E] You go [Am] big, then I go bigger.
Never scared to pull that trigger.
[Bb] I raise hell and tell myself
it ain't no mercy, [D] no surrender.
I be in the zapper for all of my people.
To [Dm] 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 [Am] be a 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 misery.
All these young kids in group homes
and grown men in [A] penitentiaries.
These [Am] broken homes we come from.
We praying for our enemies.
[Bb] When it's said and done, we overcome.
We going down in [D] history.
This is my [Dm] family. _ _ _
These are my friends. _ _ _
This is [Am] what I've died 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 nation.
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,
then you will not _ _ _ pretend.
This is [Am] why we rise _ _ _ up.
[Bb] It's that all-in-all nation. _
[D] _ Till the day [Dm] that we die,
we gonna ride up [D] in this bitch show.
We gonna pray, so close your eyes.
We [Dm] gonna rise up in this [Am] bitch's do or die
for me and mine.
And I ain't [Bb] worried about your clique.
How long, nation?
You can't deny.
There ain't no [D] other side to pick.
Till the day that we die,
we gonna ride up in this bitch show.
We gonna pray, so close your eyes.
We gonna rise up in this [Am] bitch's do or die
for me and mine.
And [E] I ain't worried about your clique.
[Bb] How long, nation?
You can't deny.
There ain't no other side to pick. _ _ _ _ _ _