The Tower
ICE-T

I'm rollin' up in a big grey bus

And I'm shackled down myself that's who I trust

The minute I arrived some sucker got hit

Shanked ten times behind some bullshit

Word in the pen the fool was a snitch

So without hesitatin' I made a weapon quick

Found a sharp piece of metal taped it to a stick

Then a bullhorn sound that means it's time for chow

My first prison meal the whole feeling was foul

It wasn't quite my style but my stomach growled

So I washed the shit down and hit the weight pile

The brothers was swole the attitudes was cold

I felt the tension on the yard from the young and the old

But I'm a warrior

I got my ground to hold

So I studied the inmates to see who had the power

The whites, the blacks or just the gun tower


In a blink of an eye, a riot broke out

Blacks put their backs to the wall

'Cause it was north and south

A gunman shouts and everybody had doubts

Until the bullets started flyin' took two men out

Then they rushed everybody back to their cells

Damn the pen is different from than the county jail

I'm in a one man cell I know my life's on a scale

I wonder if that gunman is goin' to hell

This is my second day I got a ten year stay

I learned my first lesson in the pen you don't play

I seen a brother kill another 'cause he said he was gay

But that's the way it is it's been that way for years

When his body hit the ground I heard a couple of cheers

It kind of hurt me inside that they were glad he died

And I ask myself just who had the power?

The whites, the blacks or just the gun tower


You see the whites got a thing the call white pride

The Blacks got the muscle Mexicans got the knives

You better be wise you wanna stay alive

Go toe to toe with the sucka no matter what size

A fool tried to sweat me actin' like he was hard

I stuck him twice in the neck and left him dead on the yard

It was smooth how I did it 'cause nobody could see

With my jacket on my arm and my knife on the side of me

Bam bam, it was over another fool bites the dust

I went crazy in the pen with nobody to trust

I'm benchin' ten quarters, so I'm hard to sweat

Used a tat gun, and engraved my set

They call me a lifer 'cause I'm good as dead

I live in the hole, so the floor's my bed

And I ask myself again who has the power

The whites, the blacks or just the gun tower


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Daddy Nitro   Dick Tracy [Instrumental]   Disorder   Disorder (featuring Slayer)   Don't Hate the Playa   Don't Hate The Playa   Drama   Ed   Escape From the Killing Fields   Everything Is Going To Be Alright   Evil E - What About Sex?   Evil E-What About Sex?   Exodus   Eye Of The Storm   Eye Of The Storm (featuring Buckshot Shorty)   Eye Of The Storm"(feat. Buckshot Shorty   First Impression   Fly By   Forced To Do Dirt   Freedom Of Speech   Fried Chicken   Fuck It   Fuck It (featuring El Sadiq & Powerlord JEL)   Fuck It"(feat. El Sadiq, Powerlord JEL   Funky Gripsta   G Style   G-Style   Gangsta Rap   Get My Cash On [feat. Shyheim]   Get Your Moneyman   Girls L.G.B.N.A.F.   God Forgive Me   God Forgive Me (featuring Laquan & SLEJ)   God Forgive Me"(feat. Laquan and SLEJ   Gotta Lotta Love   Grand Larceny   Hardcore   Hardcore (featuring Radzay, Bazaro & Grip)   Haters   Heartbeat   High Roller   High Rollers   Hit The Deck   Hit the Fan   Home Invasion   Home of the Bodybag   How Does it Feel   How Does It Feel (featuring Big Rich)   How Does it Feel"(feat. Big Rich   I Ain't New ta This   I Ain't New To This   I Ain't New Ta This   I Love Ladies   I Must Stand   I Must Stand [Instrumental]   I'm Your Pusher   I'm Your Pusher   Ice M.F. T   Ice MF. T   Ice T   Ice-O-Tek   Ice-T   Ice's Exodus   Iceapella   Iceberg   Inside of a Gangsta   Inside Of A Gangsta (featuring Jell)   Inside of a Gangsta"(feat. 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Original Gangster   Oh No   Oh No [Remix Dirty][*]   Our Most Requested Record   Out There   Outro   Pain   Peel Their Caps Back   Personal   Pimp Anthem   Pimp Behind The Wheels   Pimp Behind The Wheels (DJ Evil E The Great)   Pimp Behind The Wheels (featuring DJ Evil E The Gr...   Pimp Or Die   Pimpin' Ain't Easy   Pimpin' Ain't Easy (Godfather Theme)   Pimpin' Ain't Easy (Godfather Theme)   Please Believe Me   Power   Pray   Prepared to Die   Pulse of the Rhyme   Question And Answer   Race War   Radio Suckers   Rap Game's Hijacked   Rap Games Hijacked   Rap Is Fake   Real Talk   Real?   Real? [Insert]   Reckless   Reckless   Reckless (12")   Reckless (12")"(feat. The Glove, Dave Storrs   Reckless (12)   Repossession   Retaliation   Return Of the Real   Rhyme Pays   Ricochet   Sex   Sex (Bonus Beat)   Sex [Bonus Beat]   Shit Hit The Fan   Shit Hit The Fan (featuring Shawnie Shawn)   Shut Up Be Happy   Shut Up, Be Happy   Shut Up, Be Happy"(feat. Jello Biafra   So Fly   Sombody Gotta Do It (remix)   Somebody Gotta Do It   Somebody Gotta Do It (Pimpin' Ain't Easy!!!)   Somebody Gotta Do It (Pimpin' Ain't Easy!)   Somebody Gotta Do It (Pimpin' Ain't Easy!) (12\" M...   Somebody Gotta Do It (Pimpin' Ain't Easy...   Sondoobiest (Interlude) (featuring Sondoobiest)   Sondoobiest Interlude   Sondoobiest Interlude"(feat. Sondoobiest   Soul On Ice   Squeeze the Trigger   Step Your Game Up   Straight Up Nigga   Street Killer   Street Sweeper   Swazy   Syndicate 4 Ever   That's How I'm Livin   That's How I'm Livin'   That's How I'm Livin   The 5th   The 7th   The 7th (featuring Marc Live, Ras Kass & Tash (Tha...   The Coldest Rap   The Girl Tried To Kill Me   The House   The Hunted Child   The Iceberg   The Lane   The Lane (E.V.A. Remix)   The Syndicate   They Want Me Back In   They Want Me Back In (featuring Big Rich)   They Want Me Back In"(feat. 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