The Tower - Ice T

I'm rollin' up in a big gray 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 
If found a sharp piece of metal 
Taped it to a stick 
Then a bullhorn sounds 
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 flushed the shit down 
And hit the weight pile 
The brothers was swole 
The attitudes was cold 
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 hd 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 gun man shouts 
And everybody had doubt 
Until the bullets started fly'n 
Took two men out 
Thn they rushed everybody 
Back to their cells 
Damn the pen is different 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 plaay 
I saw a brother kill another 
Cause he said he was gay 
But that's the way it is 
It been that way for years 
and 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 a sucka 
No matter wht