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Kevin Wayne Durant (born September 29, 1988) is an American professional basketball player for the Oklahoma City Thunder of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He has played the small forward position for the Thunder, formerly the Seattle SuperSonics. Durant has won an NBA Most Valuable Player Award, four NBA scoring titles, the NBA Rookie of the Year Award, and an Olympic gold medal. He has also been selected to five All-NBA teams and seven All-Star teams.
Durant was a heavily recruited high school prospect. He attended the University of Texas for one season of college basketball, where he won numerous year-end awards and became the first ever freshman to be named Naismith College Player of the Year. In the 2007 NBA draft, he was selected second overall by the Seattle SuperSonics. After his rookie season, the team relocated to Oklahoma City and became the Thunder. Durant helped lead Oklahoma City to the 2012 NBA Finals, losing to the Miami Heat in five games. In 2012, he starred in his first feature film, Thunderstruck.
Brandon Christopher McCartney (born August 17, 1989), professionally known as Lil B and often known as The BasedGod, is an American rapper, record producer, author, activist and motivational speaker from Berkeley, California. Lil B has recorded both solo and with The Pack. His solo work spans several genres, including hip hop, new age, and choral. His hip-hop work in particular is often described as "based", a term also used to describe a lifestyle of positivity and tolerance. He is noted for his extensive use of social media websites such as MySpace and Twitter to build an online following.
Brandon McCartney grew up in Berkeley, California, and attended high school at Albany High in Albany. He adopted the name Lil B, and began rapping at age 16 with San Francisco Bay Area based hip hop group The Pack. After two locally successful mixtapes, at the peak of the Bay Area's hyphy movement, the group's song "Vans" became a surprise hit. The song was ranked as the fifth best of 2006 by Rolling Stone magazine. The strength of "Vans" led the group to release Skateboards 2 Scrapers, featuring a "Vans" remix with Bay Area rappers Too $hort and Mistah F.A.B.. In 2007, Lil B and The Pack released its first album, Based Boys.
Oh, still waters
Cool and sweet
Cover me over
Protect me
There's a river
Deep inside
Blood and fever
Amplified
I can drift away
I can slip away from this place
In this head of mine
I can't help what goes on
I am fueled and I am fired
And I'm weak and I'm worn
There's a box of stars
Hidden under my bed
That I only take out when I'm desperate
I don't know why
Why I wait so long
I can't seem to speak
But I can hide inside a song
Oh I have fallen down
I need to be lifted
Give me one word
One single sound
And I will be lifted
Lifted up out of this place
Lifted into your grace
Seems the more that I learn
The less that I know
I give blood up on stage
Don't give a damn at home
And I'm running in circles
And I'm standing in place
Begging for a glimmer
Dying for a taste
I don't know
Why it's gone away
Oh I have fallen down
I need to be lifted
I search for your face
Up over the crowd
I need to be lifted
Into your arms I'll ascend
To where I can start again
Oh I, oh I
Need to be lifted
Oh I, oh I
I need
Oh I have fallen down
I need to be lifted
I pray for one word
One single sound
And I will be lifted
Oh I, oh I
Need to be lifted
Give me one word
One single sound
I need to be lifted
Oh I, oh I