K-Nuff verse:
This time I'll keep it simple,
Figured I'd do you a favor
No blemishes or pimples,
I am proactive with flavor
It doesn't matter if you’re grown or you are a teenager
This here is meant to hit you harder than Ali did
Frazier
The darkest night is hopeful when it seems
I slept and woke up in a dream
I feel like a celebrity in this here moment
Now when I stand they notice every kink, sponges I'll
soak up everything
Leaches won't leave you anything but broke and lonely
The lights and cameras on me flickering
Ultra bright reds
Feel like they’re seeing my darkest secrets and my
white heads
Yeah that's sort of nasty, but if you just focus you
can see
An open book, I'm full of war like them novels from
Clancy
Some might call me panzee, some look to harm me in
alleys
Others got armies and ammunition they’re targeting at
Whether you hate me or fancy, love to debate or attack
I am still standing here gladly, making a statement, no
plan B
Juanlove verse:
My…vision is hazy at best, but conviction makes me
restless
Or…Maybe I’m crazy at best, and wearing my words like
necklace
Carving a space like lumberjacks so brave I mess with
Texas
Or I’m Martin Scorsese at best, with pictures that make
you breathless
Under the flashing lights, but… still just on the verge
of reckless
Truthfully I’ve so much soul, and this much soul leaves
a man headless
See Buddy Holly said that the sky belongs to the stars
I then converted this truth to bars and realized I’ll
never need a Lexus
Life in abundance never the man seeking to hold a death
wish
Maybe, I’m Patrick Swayze at best, but, even my ghost
is deathless
Truth is I’m trying to stretch this, so ease up off my
checklist
I’m fixed upon the surface, and hope floats just like a
dead fish
SO, pardon my rhetoric this poetry is like post modern
Tetris
Maybe I’m just a builder at best, and just Nehemiah
gets this
ALL prophets are hated like diseases and tetanus
Scrutinized under the microscope we bask in his
K-Nuff verse:
The other day I heard a cry from a baby
And the sound was amazing
As I contemplated, “How do we start so simple and get
so complicated?”
So we search and we try to be clever
Can’t stand but we lie together
We spring through the summer, winter we slumber
The fall of man's gone forever
Chorus:
I feel like I’ve lost my way
How can I get it back show me
Alone on my own I let you
But now I need you to save me
I need you to save me
Butta P verse:
I can still hear the cry of our nation; we need you
But we keep on fighting, hoping and trying, yet your
love will keep us alive
This generation is broke and needs healing
Someone how we lost sight of who you are but we bow
down now
Juanlove verse:
I’m like a generation that’s drowning
Beneath the silver moon I’m far from grounded
I speak the language of the streets but my insecurities
they surround me
Like the smoke I blow from nostrils meant to take in
the scent from flowers
Hours turn to days and days give birth to twins of
crumbling towers
Even the grass is winterkilled, creation seems to only
wither
And redemption is but an afterthought see I can
sympathize with killers
On nights like these, on nights like these I find
comfort in shadows
Breaking bread with bitter thieves who stole my rights
to meet the gallows
But it’s like I’m being kept alive, kept alive by
something cosmic
Something large, something invading, it’s something
cosmic
But I left my will to live in a crack house three
blocks away
And I surrendered my self-respect to the pimps and hoes
who rule the day
I’m a generation that’s drowning, sinking deep like
submarines
From old Blind Bartimaeus to the little child wearing
dungarees
I’m speaking from a place of hunger, from a place of
wonder
Where we rape and plunder. I’m a drowning generation
K-Nuff verse:
It’s like my mind is in the Louis
Meaning it’s in a new state
Aboard a jet blue plane
Kind of like I’m on a two day
I must be tripping cus I said all of that to say
I am on the fence so touché
I know what the rules say, but this ain’t a school day
I don’t like recess so I don’t like to play
Speaking of Reese’s, my peace is up in that movie
Passion of Christ; maybe you’ve seen it up on the blue
Captured in lights, but my savior gives me a new day
and in fact a new life
So I can never lay low, nah I have to ignite
And I ain’t got a halo because I live an actual life
The rain is a reminder that one day I’ll be raptured
with Christ
Chorus:
He's forever giving me rest.
It’s like I'm reclining
He ordered all my steps
So I keep them in line with
His word is upon my breath
So I'm breathing in life, yeah
No I will never lay low
Juanlove verse:
It’s a brand new day can’t be discreet, no frills and
no foolery
Been rapping since the lunch tables dreaming of cars
and jewelry
At Silver Lakes, with high stakes, free lunch and
buffoonery
Pursuing and doing the work the movement was moving me
Rap city on the TV screen, I’m standing front the
mirror
No fear as I recited some raps and the passion grew in
It’s no coincidence I spent hours just glued to beats
Smoking on cigarettes and battling my silhouette
Shooting for timeless; James Dean on the movie screen
Ambition made me ugly not to mention God ruined me,
And moved in me so I can never hold back or lay low
See the cards have been dealt, money, and I am who I
choose to be
Chorus:
He's forever giving me rest.
It’s like I'm reclining
He ordered all my steps
So I keep them in line with
His word is upon my breath
So I'm breathing in life, yeah
No I will never lay low
Butta P verse:
They hold me on pedestal
They look to me for answers
I gladly take the challenge cause their lives is all
that matters
And I could never fathom holding back the source who
has them
Labeled as children of God
He just wants for us to ask him
Help us cause we're lacking
Our lives without you are cracking
How can we maneuver without you as the map and
I'm so about his business
My father’s more than some wishes
He's more like answered prayers when knees cant bend
cause they’re missing
I got a reason to fight now
No time for laying low now, I ain't made to fold now
I was made to hold down
My family when they’re broken down
So I'm a let you know now that the God I serve us so
K-Nuff verse:
Always been smaller, born premature, either or, maybe
I’m a just a dream; a figment of the creator
Been abroad, seen him for what he is….Huge
I‘ve seen the lord’s work in Scotland, in Prague he
moves
You ain't saw nothing yet, Nuff ain’t holding nothing
back
Call it as I see it the devil is just a sucker jack
How do relate this? This is my only irk and it
Hurts to see my people living in the basement, aching
Searching the dark and they find Nathan, they’re
waiting for change and they think is coming in the AM
But when you live below the pavement it’s hard to
really take in the beautiful sun even when it’s blatant
That’s what it is
Understand this connotation; this is an illustration of
love so stop hating
Just let me live
I’m trying to serve, while supplying the earth
With an alternative to the pain and hurt, that gets
worse
So yeah I’m a veteran, been rapping for better than a
decade, but I’ve never been lame and I never can
Not if this world is in need of this medicine dying to
the elements, I breathe peace let it in
Might calm your nerves like sedative to know; he makes
a positive out of the negatives, you know
He could make something out of nada, when life gives
you lemon you make it that lemonada
Clap, if you’re feeling the vibe and you got a similar
mind, and want a change to arrive,
And you Lack, Lack
So you know what it is, to not have a stock in a biz,
or not a pot in to piss
And that’s a sad state of events, making a choice
between saving and paying your rent
Your life is a fight, you win some lose some
But you victory is given in Christ so choose him
Chorus 2x:
Why all the hate
Why all the debates
we stay in our lane.
(Just Let Me Live)
Yes we are saved
but yes we are brave
so we'll go to the caves
(Just Let Me Live)
Where people are hurt
we're putting in work
while they're going bizerk
(Just Let Me Live)
We cease the moment
give Christ the glory
and that's when we tell of his story
(Just Let Me Live)
Juanlove verse:
Been working at this for years, combating the fears
Clear as a diamond I peer; only to watch the silver
lining disappear
Wisdom beckons I arise and I cheer, trekking the sphere
And I ain’t saying you owe me nothing but lend me your
I’ll show you something that’s ill, that doesn’t wither
like the grass in a field
Consider what will fill you more than a meal
My knees fail and I grow pale; glad I got a shield
And glad I’ve got a feel for the knowledge of God’s
appeal
I’ve got a will but its week
And a sneak peak is yesterday I sinned and today I
pulled a repeat
In the footsteps of father, surrounded by utter drama
Also by beef seeking carnivores and piranhas
I’m but an emcee. And the burden is to assess the beat
freshly
The convictions and the passions of my Latin ancestry
Working out my faith in fear and trembling
So amid tremors and earthquakes my flesh is
disassembling
And I’m falling apart, but getting put back together in
the same right
It’s like some sort of cage fight. But you can’t box it
in because the pain might
Cause a man to prosper. I struggle, so it’s much bigger
than Rhema Soul in concert
Consider that before you judge
Consider this before you hail me as a hero or one for
which you hold a grudge
I’m but an old soul, on the same token a young fool
Juanlove verse:
He’s more tough like handcuffs and three finger rings
Gets deeper than words and spine tinglings
Still I’m mingling, the questions abound
But I’ll speak on my progression and speak on it loud
What I’ve found I continue to find
See the wisdom of the father is belittling mine
I’m no Siah, not a know it all chump and no pariah
Still I feel his voice so calm like a violin
When I put pen to pad
When I wrestle with the scriptures and unpack the facts
I de-mask, I’m a gown man living
A grown man living in a grown mans prison
But the old man isn’t, about to rise up
That’s about as farfetched as a snow man living
I wised up. And the questions remain
But I found mad peace and I’m blessed just the same
K-Nuff verse:
So often I think, I take a look at my surroundings
I'm so astounded I look at the moon and I howl like a
wolf on the prowl that’s looking up at the heavens,
can’t help think of how he made it in seven
It feels like I'm on an island
Because in the wilderness I feel alive, if he could
feed the birds I'm sure he'll provide me with
Clementine’s
You see my every need is giving through the pain of
Jesus
He painted the sky's ceiling better than Leonardo D did
Creatively he’s a genius, he flows in my veins like
intravenous
So yeah, I be this
Image made in the liking of him I feel like a Viking
I'm in a war and my Titan is sin
Crashed in
Many days past while my waves were smashing
I almost capsized trying to be my own captain
Now I live a life of abandonment
And everything that I imagined is.
Butta P verse:
I got so many questions without answers
It’s like a black hole swallowed me whole it’s like a
cancer
How can I advance ya?
Make you understand the man who made David the Sheppard
turn into a dancer
No I can’t explain it
The way my brain is making me feel like this walk
should be painless
And time after time I forget to recognize
Who I am and who I was are both fighting to stay alive
To flesh I must die, confess, at least I try
I walked in your shoes and no we ain’t the same size
But in him we’re both alive, him meaning Christ
But I’m just keeping it honest when I say I question
life
Meaning or my purpose I’m called to know I’m worth it
Hurting and want to see more beyond the churches
The streets, the final curtain
Bow to his service; in his eyes I’m a prize so I give
K-Nuff verse:
Mama, I remember them times when Daddy was on the grind
Not for the money, but daddy’s infatuated with dimes
And you wanted him out, but wanted him to say
Especially when we seen him out playing like a player
plays
I would call him daddy, his friends called him Dickie,
but Ice Man is what they use to call him in the city
Because his game was so cold he would leave the girls
chilly
And at fiv years old I just thought he was a lily
livered coward
Ah man, Mama here’s a flower
Because I’m gonna be the man
At least I thought that I would
Fast forward on the hour glass I’m dealing with his
shadow
And not being the way my daddy was is a battle
So being as far from the tree is where I’m planning to
travel
They say the apple don’t fall far from the tree but I
had to
Disprove statistics, now I got a Mrs. and a princess
and it’s so fly, I’m living limit less
juanlove verse:
When we met I was pre-teen
Young an impressionable I met you on the East wing
Posted by the locker rooms and you wanted to be seen
So I maneuvered to the spot, attention was locked and
loaded on a real thing
So pretty and pristine, then from front to the back I
studied you, blood rushing like a bee sting
All of my senses were got, infected I caught glimpse of
a beauty more painful than the one the sea brings
A little boy infatuated with a dime
Drawn in like a scavenger and straddling the line
Who is really to blame for the mystery of discovery?
Borne of the flesh, hiding our nakedness with shrubbery
Break loose from tom foolery and lust
Watch it boast a heavy punch and knock you over like a
windless gust
Boyhood dreams are so fleeting and cunning
Just don’t forsake the lord in your days as a youngin
Butta P verse:
It was a sunny day, riding on my bike like kids play
He’s nearly twice my age, took a liking to my frame
And now he took away pieces of my youthful days
And introduced me to a stage I should know about at
that age
How do you explain living life with fits of rage?
He told me I’d be gay and now my heart is full of hate
I wanted to escape like a wing upon a plane
Fly away to a place where I’d feel no more pain
I’m fading away because I know it don’t exist
So I look to exit in his smile he look so brave
He knows what to say; like a potter I’m his clay
He’s molding me away into this image I portray
But it’s all so fake, because inside I’m cold and
pained
His words have left a curse and now I’m living with the
shame
But what can I say? Freedom came my way
And like an eagle now I’m soaring flying high above the
Butta P verse:
Every single fan we made
Every time we've claimed his name
Every single night we go on stage
We change the game we unashamed
Every single mic I’ve held
Every single story I tell
Every email showing love that tells us
We know that we’ve done it well
Every single life we've touched
Even though it's been so tough
going on tour with no dough we did it even to the
cities that don't play us much
what’s the point if they don't know?
Who we serve then they won't grow
We gotta leave a mark fingerprints on lives
wanna see the next generation grow.
K-Nuff
It was November 1st, my baby’s birth
I’m journaling like Katie Couric
Finally touching up the album, hoping for an Aftermath
like Shady’s first
80 verses between us all get bodied like 80 Hurst
Earthquake claiming a 100 thousand, we’re hoping to
shake up; Haiti’s worse
No I ain’t a baller except for them courts on 81st
But I am rich with love from my wifey and daughter…
ladies first
Corny as you think it is, it’s priceless when you
influence
Your daughter seeing her daddy act just the way God is
to his
Juanlove verse:
Mid December and now it’s getting cool, but the
pressures starting to mound
Like I’m the only one who’s worried about how this
music is gonna sound
I’m steady juggling this record, with a little novel
and it’s getting down-right
Exhausting plus my son has gotten so big and he’s
running ‘round
My nature is to sit in silence and torture myself
beneath the clouds
Until I… empty myself of everything and leave behind
some broken ground
But see my city never sleeps and it barely blinks or
settles down
So I’m just left here with my crew as the percussion
Butta P verse:
If I was to ever let go
I’m insured like the gecko
I'm promised a greater saving
By the one who gave his life so
Cue the music maestro
Let the games begin
My fathers the ultimate fighter, it's in my blood to
I’m coming from the bottom but my place is at the top
We’re beyond the stage we rock above the clouds is
where I'll stop
Never working on a delay rather working like a relay
Hand it off to next in line that be us the cheers like
“hooray”
While others be like “who they?”
Hoping that one day we leave a mark as high as Blu Ray
Even though it's true we’ve been blessed too face the
blue days
God has kept on his two way, now we waking up like new
days
Off the top like toupee’s
You cannot deny us, they tried us but we are wired
Prized fighters, we on fire gave our lives so call us
lifers
He is so much higher worth the fight I’d rather die
If I ain't trying then I'm lying and I’d rather just
retire
K-Nuff verse:
People ask me why we, keep doing this proudly
Or how we deal with no deal like Howie
Oh how we’ve been putting the work in, so much so when
I rhyme
Often at times I tuck my shirt in
Yeah, I’m steady waiting
For the day, you come to see your favorite group
perform and we are they; plus we are saved
It’s in the making, ever since creation, purpose lives
in every life an ours is for the taking
Was never into baking, no need to get the cake in,
If we just keep it hot the dough will rise for the
occasion
It’s so delicious,
My daily bread is my nutrition
So I indulge in the word like bulimic‘s into binging
I’m an independent artist with a message
That the world ain’t trying to hear so just as good as
yours my guess is,
As far as if this will ever come to pass,
They say the best is yet to come, I guess we’re blessed
to come in last
Juanlove verse:
So little time, so many mics, and so much is
undetermined
So many souls holding to glass hearts and their brittle
minds
Some day’s perspective is lost, and some nights I’m so
encouraged
Up soaking up sermons determined you can’t belittle
mine
Turning and tossing and burning no flossing it’s a
burden
Crossing river Jordan with no staff my flesh and
stomach churning
Some day’s perspective is buried beneath the piles of
rubbish
Or like a bum soaked in oceans of bubbly and Bourbon
That’s when the morning shows its face like a newborn
Disturbing me like a new dawn and itching to wake me
from my sleep
I turn the other cheek hoping I’ll never have to rise
But then this vision reemerges and I’m on my feat
It’s like this tug of war, no mask inside my dresser
drawer
But I stand up like a matador, gotta understand that
less is more
Less of me, less of the ways that lead men to the grave
I’m reaching passed the sky to grab a hold of what my
K-Nuff verse:
Jam it in your boom box, your boy is like Tupac
But I'm ah live forever through Christ not music
We do rock a few spots but warning
You will get your doo rocked while we are performing
So take caution
You’re absorbing enormous, exhausting
Incredible Hulk, Ed Norton, frequencies
Frequently exalting deep received, Jesus peace, without
the charm and necklace
I'm reckless, and I'm in a certain state of mind
So with a head as big as mine thoughts are like Texas
And it's as if we do it for the "hoo rah"
Even though the crowd "oooh oooooh's" like doo wop
Nah, because at the beginning and the end it remains
We did it, we do it, have done it, to tell of His name
Plain...
Like wings and leers and Jets,
Bringing the noise up in your ear your brain begets…
that’s me
Juanlove verse:
Crank the boom box till the tune rocks like gems
And we moonwalk on a Thriller night because I’m in
And I’m able like Clark Gable to win
Get the mic from out the tool box and the record spins
Don’t ever let the boom stop, let the needle play
It’s like a mother hen watching over two flocks
Frito Lay bakes the chips Juanlove cooks the verbals
The audio dispersals, they chase cheese like a hundred
Urkels
A reversal is where it’s at. See the word of God sent
me so I’m on the map
I’m on the blocks like rats, in the books like stats
Banging beats with raps sharper than spiked bats
In the year of the fog this Rhema Soul thing reigns
Some vintage Nike’s and a new King James
Ingenuity and relevance the common aim
Its due time for the gospel to take precedence so let
it bang
Butta P verse:
Turn up the volume pump it up a little louder
The bass is thumpin and rippin; we ain’t even pluggin
power
Let me devour all the haters and cowards
Who say my faith is lame and I believe in something
sour
I walk in his power, we’re in the final hour
So for me to make believe the seeds I sow won’t flower
Will be like Jack Baur dying in the line of fire
And how I can I retire when Christ hasn’t expired
So let’s blow the whistle, may his name be lifted
higher
Turn me up a little bit, grown folks to little kids
Who are we kidding when this music really needs to hit
Home when we’re bringing it, yeah I see you listening
But don’t stop the music when I know you’re really
felling it
You’re chilling with the coolest kids, showing how we
really live
A boom box banger I’m in the mood for something
ignorant
Don’t front like you ain’t interested
Butta P Verse:
I'm calling all you hatas and fakers and you players
the ones that swear they balling but aint cashing no
paper.
You selling me a lifestyle, or something like a hype
dream
I speak truth to the youth, I'm teachin e'm what life
means
and showing' em who Christ be
beyond the walls don't like me, the streets they wanna
fight me
and my people more than likely are ating cause it's
frightening
feeling more than likely I'm a fall into enticing
instead of praying for my sightseeing.
Don't label me perfect, I'm damaged like the rest
I struggle with insecurities man, this is just my test.
Cause he says he loves you doesn't mean that he's the
best.
Know between love and lust sweetheart, its more than
sex.
So stop selling yourself short, you are wonderfully
made.
Your beauty is perfection, in his image you were made.
How can we escape the dismay society's made.
Blow Your whistle on it if I ever come of fake.
K-Nuff verse:
I don’t want no issues
I ain’t say this to this you
And I know the truth hurts and it cuts deeper than
Ginsu,
But it’s true, so yeah I had to call him out “this
dude”
But it’s so hard to put him on blast when it’s you
Because iron sharpens iron and it’s often very violent
And it’s a process when you think you are as sharp as I
And that’s pride; I’ve got no time to ignore it
I love my sneaker game, but it’s also my vice to be
honest,
Sometimes I think and hate on other so called to be
“artists”
That’s when I pump my brakes and humble myself at my
father’s
He puts me in my place; I’m a servant and just a face
To serve up a helpful plate, I’m the lowest for
heaven’s sake
Get me?
So if you catch me acting all extreme
Blow my whistle in person or text me, but let’s keep it
moving
I am as imperfect as you and as injured as the dude
that’s labeled “the king of the Jews”
Juanlove Verse;
Note to self; Ease back, later hater with the feedback
Sometimes you keep it colder than a meat rack
Money, often I relapse
And this is my confession: I’m a cynical criminal
defective like a machine that’s
Broken. Utter broken scoping the scene that
Really angers me but I’m open to pull the screen back
Exposing the inner nature of a beast that’s masking the
hurt
Which wasn’t there when I was formed in the dirt and I
mean that
I broke the law and with it all I flirt but it seems
that
I’m walking with this blood upon my shirt and I can’t
relax
Quite crucial I deem that. I can’t escape; he even owns
my car note cus he’s a GMAC
The word of God is not a free rap, see it costs dearly
so dearly beloved come and believe that
Blow your whistle and find an alter to kneel at
Peel back the onion of the soul and watch him redeem
Oh, oh ooh, oh oh (2x)
Shorty says she's a dime piece
Shorty says she's a queen
The way she rocks those hips, left to right, in those jeans
Short says she's a dime piece
Shorty says she's a queen
The way she rocks those hips, left to right, in those jeans
Chrous:
But shorty is lost, she's lost, she's so lost, so lost
Cause i wanna see your heart, i wanna see your mind,
Girl tell me your thoughts, you are so divine
But shorty is lost, so lost, she's so lost, so lost
Cause you don't have to show your body,
Cause you're wonderfully made, don't you know that?
Juanlove's verse:
I aint never seen a beauty like that, quite like that
The way she carries herself makes me wanna bounce right back
Cause she got the prada bag, with the designer jeans, but she is so much more, cause shorty is a queen
It's never been about your physical
You were made wonderful
God spent a little more time when he made you
Chorus
Shorty's never been with the g-styles,
You don't gotta dress down (down)
To make my head go round, round
I'm gonna show you how a christian do,
Treat a girl like she's mamadukes, give her roses & a lot of truth
Girl your smile oh so cute, never be lost cause
Christ found you, yeah
So shorty says she's a dime piece, yeah?
Well i aint never seen a dime like that, no no
You must be a nickel or a penny girl
So collect your call coins and add it up, girl
Cause you are worth more than that
Love shouldn't ever be just about that back, no
So you when you done adding up girl,
Just realize you are a true dime in this world girl
K-Nuff
It be about 1 am in the morning
Haven't started performing
The scent of smoke is alarming
But this is how it goes when
You're fulfilling your calling
Rocking a club and bar and
The love they give is enormous
So welcome to our show where
We get it in, keeping it relevant
Told me to go fly a kite and I did it like Edison
Cus I am bringing the light kind of like genesis
Cus the ages are as dark as the culture we're living in
They need change we brung it on the stage
Armed with the same love he presented as he hanged
Now I'm presenting the gospel reframed
Packaged a little different but the picture is the same
Sleep tight while we're grinding
No longer explaining that was the 09' him
They say I'm unsettling; I got 'em thinking about death and life
Like a knight I'm medaling
Juanlove verse:
Whether in the party or the pad...we're like street sweepers on the Ave.
But never peddling trash, on some full metal jacket when we mash
Mash on the opposition with the sounds and the clash
Never brag; won't boast at most I'm just a filthy rag
But I'm also a husband and a dad
See, I'll never lag; won't give in to the pressure
My freedoms been sought and bought like a jag
from the lot. I'm the lesser but he made me so rad
And I roll with the spirit so I never go stag
Uh, dead to flesh I might as well get toe tagged
like a corpse, but like a fanny pack it's no fad
Stand firm upon the word, flaunt it like a flag
I'm far from a coach but these beats get bagged
Lyrical like a young Bob Dylan on smash
Drop a couple gemstones and I'm out in a dash
Butta P verse:
I came at you with that “hey, hey, Mr. Dj
Now I'm coming at you in this banger worth a replay
We are simply pieces making peace within this leaflet
He's my written thesis; please believe it when you see it
Excuse me Mr. Officer in case you ain't heard
We're known for murdering hits so this beat is getting merked
I do apologize for me and my fly guys
We're known for taking over making sure we're changing lives
So sorry for the uproar, the chaos that we're causing
The bass you're feeling pounding in your chest is our eruption
We are more than average, more than just some rap kids
More than just some beats and rhymes that make you feel like clapping
But please respect what happens, we arrive with all our madness
We are not ashamed so we scream it out like we mad men
Ain't no 50, 50 we give 1 double zeroes
K-nuff verse:
If you're living you know that this life can be challenging granted
We're different but similar problems we face on the planet,
We struggle and hustle and rumble to get out the jungle, but all we need is to huddle together remain humble
The meek will inherit; it's promised the world will be ours,
So why do we chase that yellow brick gold on the way to oz
We toil and we work and we stress for that piece of the pie
Cus adam and eve took a bite now we're reaping a lie,
But there's a ribbon in the sky this life is a gift
But even when opening up a present you got to tear got to rip
See, there's pain before change
Just ask your mom about the pain before you came, but she'll do it again
Because the pain was what she paid to give you your name
A means to an end, this concept will get you saved
The nonsense is here to stay,
So i side step through it and embrace the day
Juanlove verse:
Man, i spent so much time just fumbling around
Struggling and striving, falling, tumbling down
We face a similar plight, living in the slums and the towns
But i'll break free and work till i'm one with the sound
It's a universal pain and we're hunkering down
No daydreaming about the future i'm stuck in the now
Trying to provide my family a bucket of chow
And at the same time remain faithful and trust and allow
Your hand to work so there's no use in me wondering how
It's all gonna work; it roars like something that's loud
See we hunger for more, we wanna plummet and soar
And teach your people to not consider gun in the drawer
We're trying to figure it out; we are the humble and proud
But i would urge them to cease with the fronting for now
People are hurting and the blunder is something that's foul
We need to be inside your circle like something that's round
Butta p verse:
Do we really know what struggle is or know what a fights like?
Is life really as hard as we make it on some nights?
How can we ignite light when we dim our own lights?
This life aint always bright
But compared to his plight
He got whipped and laughed at, spit on and slapped at
He healed the sick and poor but he suffered the backlash
He even brought laz back and cleaned up paul's bad act
For every stripe he took he promised healing for bad backs
The cross was his last rap, they thought till they went back
And three days later yeah, he rose up like nasdaq
So how can we act wack, complain and be abstract
And even if i tried, no my life could never match that
When i'm weak my knees will catch that, prayers are what we all lack
He came to set us free, so let the pain do a backtrack
I'll suffer if i'm asked that, his grace will take me past that
Juanlove verse:
He's more tough like handcuffs and three finger rings
Gets deeper than words and spine tinglings
Still i'm mingling, the questions abound
But i'll speak on my progression and speak on it loud
What i've found i continue to find
See the wisdom of the father is belittling mine
I'm no siah, not a know it all chump and no pariah
Still i feel his voice so calm like a violin
When i put pen to pad
When i wrestle with the scriptures and unpack the facts
I de-mask, i'm a gown man living
A grown man living in a grown mans prison
But the old man isn't, about to rise up
That's about as farfetched as a snow man living
I wised up. and the questions remain
But i found mad peace and i'm blessed just the same
K-nuff verse:
So often i think, i take a look at my surroundings
I'm so astounded i look at the moon and i howl like a wolf on the prowl that's looking up at the heavens, can't help think of how he made it in seven
It feels like i'm on an island
Because in the wilderness i feel alive, if he could feed the birds i'm sure he'll provide me with clementine's
You see my every need is giving through the pain of jesus
He painted the sky's ceiling better than leonardo d did
Creatively he's a genius, he flows in my veins like intravenous
So yeah, i be this
Image made in the liking of him i feel like a viking
I'm in a war and my titan is sin
Crashed in
Many days past while my waves were smashing
I almost capsized trying to be my own captain
Now i live a life of abandonment
And everything that i imagined is.
Butta p verse:
I got so many questions without answers
It's like a black hole swallowed me whole it's like a cancer
How can i advance ya?
Make you understand the man who made david the sheppard turn into a dancer
No i can't explain it
The way my brain is making me feel like this walk should be painless
And time after time i forget to recognize
Who i am and who i was are both fighting to stay alive
To flesh i must die, confess, at least i try
I walked in your shoes and no we ain't the same size
But in him we're both alive, him meaning christ
But i'm just keeping it honest when i say i question life
Meaning or my purpose i'm called to know i'm worth it
Hurting and want to see more beyond the churches
The streets, the final curtain
