Message To The Soldier
ICE-T

Yo, Ice, you been down with the struggle for a long time, man

Why don't you drop some knowledge for these brothers

Who want to get involved in this war? Take notes

Real gangstas wear trench coats, grey suits, black ties

And they seek votes and you're not to be misled

They'll kill you in your fuckin' bed, they don't sell dope


Yo, excuse me, yes, they do but they don't look that much like me

Or you but if you pull up the sheets and expose them

They'll crawl up like snakes and show fangs of venom

Now I've been soldier for years, representin' the tattooed tears

Other brothas locked up with no choice, left in the bowels of devil

With no voice, my phones are tapped, my crib is bugged


My car is tailed from club to club and this ain't no fuckin' joke

They want to see a nigga broke, you can't slip, if you slip you're out

You gotta know what you're talkin' about, drop science

Every chance you get, hit direct and indirect, speak in code

'Cause you're never alone that's why I use this low tone

Follow this and you might grow older, this is a message to the soldiers


Now they killed King and they shot X, now they want me

You could be next, all you gotta do is speak too loud

All you gotta be is be too proud 'cause once you let 'em know

Who you are and where you're at, you better watch your back

'Cause you might think, you're just dope while you're livin'

In a sniper's scope, I'm not tryin' to scare you but there's a danger


If you get too deep, some nights I don't sleep, all you wanna do is

Tell the truth, all you wanna do is save the youth, Ice Cube knows

Souljah knows, PE knows, they throw death blows and if you got kids

Or a girl, that's true, they'll move on them too, but when I'm gone

I need you to carry on, you gotta be strong and fight for our salvation

But there will be retaliation, soldier, to think that rap could be attacked


Is ignorin' the simple fact that they never meant us to speak

They had planned to keep the black man weak but rap hit the streets

Black rage amplified over dope beats, now they want to shut us down

And they don't fuck around, check the history books, son

Black leaders die young, they tell us that your words are scary

They're revolutionary because we speak the truth about crime and drugs

And expose the real thugs, this info is not beneficial to the groups


That go by three initials, so they try to discredit they'll dog you

With an edit, print the words the way you never said it

But we gotta make 'em regret it, soldiers, word, I know a lot of brothas

Out there want to get in this war, you know what I'm sayin'?

A lot of sistas got a lot of knowledge to drop on our people

But right now they're movin' to shut down all hip-hop


The first amendment had absolutely nothin' to do with black people

At the time constitution was written, we were considered nothin'

But property, the expectation of havin' black people speak

On records Never came to mind, so we gotta move but believe me

All the black leaders have been silenced and most of the time

It's been violent so if you choose to get in this war, realize


Realize, what you're in for but we gotta move on and we gotta stay strong

Message to the soldiers, welcome to the struggle

Message to the soldiers, be careful, soldiers


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