[ti:Black Steel In The Hour Of Chaos (Explicit)] [ar:Public Enemy] [al:It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back (Explicit)] [by:] [offset:0] [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