LECRAE feat. Tedashii & Dre Murray – Welcome To H-Town

H-Town, yeah
Welcome to H-Town
They say the boy’s ridin’ clean
But what I became, what does it really mean
Cup full of lean, got a sweet for the green
Wake up, boy this ain’t a dream
Welcome to H-Town

Fell in love with a harsh road at my auntie house
Dipping with my kin folks, then spoke, okay
I candy paint sexy, as we’re tipping under city lights
Got them boys flexing, baby, every time we pimp the ride
Grippin’ wood grain, always sipping good, man
We was down’ for whatever, wished somebody would mayne
Intice me with them vices, yeah man, looking pretty like a bad yellow bone
While I’m dipping through the city. Th-Th-Throw it in the game is going down, I’m yelling mayday!
It’s like the world stood still while we bought them gray tapes.
Ch-chop chop screwed, I just-I just act a fool is got me wondering what’s next, baby, when this life is through

I was born in H-Town, starched down way back
When the slabs in the city beat the Screw up in the back
Poking out, keep them spinners, eating Frenchies chicken dinner
Family came from 3rd Ward Scott Street on up to Ennis
Hanging out on Sunnyside with my cousin Corey
They was on that purple Sprite, I was feeling sipping 40s
Can you still pimpin’ stories as I’m passing by Yates
Stop and wonder if I’ll ever have ‘stakes
I told my cousin D at TSU “I smoke trees,
I think the Lord is calling me, both of us are agree”
And, man, I love the city of my birth, that’s why I plea
That God will change the H, same way He’s changing me!

Cause all I cared about was riding clean
A packet full of green, and find a bad yella
I can put up on my team
My bro is riding dirty, know your soul ain’t clean
Aye gon’ let the Lord intervene!

Welcome to H-Town
I’m praying for H-Town
Yeah, yeah
Welcome to H-Town

I had a dream on the plane that I was sitting in the slabs
Seat back, face up, chunkin deuce and givin dap
Talking to my patnas ’bout this plans that I have
When I told them “Oklahoma” mayne them boys just laughed, like
“Where there at, folk? ” “man, you’ve been joking” “yeah, you, but you ain’t get dope”
It’s like they didn’t understand me I’ve been that hope trying to serve God.
They want me serve the things with that dope, but that’s when we flat broke
Pass the kill. And as I got higher, that’s when I started to feel “dog, we’re smoking kill”
I backed away from the killa, He picked up my life and my vision got clearer
Destiny is screamin it’s fate, but I hear her, things are bad right now
But the man in the mirror is trying to make a change, rearrange some things
H-Town, I still love you, hold up, mayne

Now what ya know about them Texas boys?
N-N-Now what ya know about them Texas boys?
Now what ya know about them Texas boys?
Now what ya know about them Texas boys?

Welcome to H-Town
Yeah, Yeah
Welcome to H-Town
Whoa, Yeah
They said the boys ridin clean,
Fresh up on the scene
But when I began, what does it really mean?
Cup full of lean, got a sweet full of green
Wake up, boy this ain’t a dream
Welcome to H-Town
Yeah, Yeah
Welcome to H-Town
I’m praying for H-Town
Welcome to H-Town

LECRAE feat. Novel – Walk With Me

I get a little weak sometimes
Teach me the way, night and day

[Verse 1:]
Oh, I’m under pressure, man, I’m under pressure
Been tryna walk it out I keep ended up a stretcha’
Problems in life‘ll stretch ya’, ain’t got it all together
They say the change comin’, but it’s feelin’ like forever
Oh, I’m on mission, they probably think missin’
Some screws, but it’s these three nails that keep me drivin’
If God ain’t with me, I know that I’m gon’ fail
And ain’t a wish in the well that can wish ya’ boy well
Cells eaten by cancer got me lookin’ for answers
Doctors say my daughter won’t grow up to be a dancer
Just walked out that funeral, I’m right back in my cubicle
Lord, I’m ready for heaven; I’m just waitin’ on the cue to go
Feel like givin’ up and just blamin’ it on my daddy
He never meant to have me, and problems keep comin’ at me
I wanna walk with Jesus, but my legs too heavy
I’m hopin’ prayer works ‘cause the walls can’t hear me
Come on!

[Hook (Novel):]
So I drop to my knees and I scream with my might
I’m know that these walls can’t hear me
I say, “Lord, please won’t you hear my cry?”
I know that these walls can’t hear me
Maybe if I plead and I sing out loud
I know that these walls can’t hear me
Jesus come walk, come walk with me now
‘Cause I know that these walls can’t hear me

[Verse 2:]
Oh, D Wade died first, now my Uncle Skip gone
Then I lost my grandpa, and that’s when it hit home
That people keep leavin’ me, this world keep deceiving me
They sellin’ me false hope, and I keep believing it
Come on!
I promise I think I’m going insane
Come on!
And gravity pullin’ me down the drain
Come on!
My boys in Afghanistan goin’ crazy
Staring at them pictures of they babies
Bullets flyin’ everywhere, prayin’ they gon’ make it home
Lord, give ‘em Hope. Without it, what else they bankin’ on?
Everything is fallin’ all around me, put yo’ arms around me
Sinkin’ in my sorrows got me drowning
Tempted to empty bottles and throw ‘em off in wind
Devils lurkin’ ‘round the corner, just waitin’ for me to sin
I pray that you sustain me and keep me from givin’ in
Ain’t gotta get me out; just get through to the end!!!
Lord Jesus, come on!

[Hook]
See I need some healing
‘Cause I’m losing feeling
Lord won’t you please hear my cry, yeah
Let your love rain from the sky

LECRAE – Violence

[Hook:]
War, pain, violence should stop!

[Verse 1:]
4-fever, 9 millimeter
‘Dem a’ want a heater ‘cuz the streets is finna heat up
Six million ways to die; choose 10
And if he don’t die then he probably do ‘em again
From passionate catastrophe, to genocidal blasphemy
No respect for humanity, they resort to insanity
Head bang on the glass, call it window pain
Jumping out the window tryna’ get my frame through the frame
Close range; when he point, I just blank-out
Felt my heart sank when that bang thang rang out
Now you got yo thang out, you take life, you give it
You took his life away, but you gave yours up to system
No wanna listen, no reason for livin’
We bought the lie we can’t be forgiven for all our sinnin’
Killin’ is the religion, service is in a prison
Ignorance got a slave and our name in the mentions

[Hook:]
War, pain, violence should stop!

Bad man, bad man, gun man, bad man
Squeeze bullet, pow-pow. Body bag man.
No bother with no war. No bother with no violence.
No bother with the six-feet-rest-in-peace silence

[Verse 2:]
Grew up under Tupac: bible verse and two glocks
Say we ready to die, see a ghetto in the sky
Couldn’t be more wrong than right shoes on the left feet
Highway to hell and we fighting for the best seat
No heart, bullet’s got no name
Little boys wanna bang but ‘dem barely got a brain
‘Dem barely got aim, but they shooting for nothin’
They rob a sister of her brother for a couple a hund’ed
They thinkin’ that life is cheap but it’s expensive as ever
They’ll be sentenced to forever for them heartless endeavors
I try to tell ‘em (simmer down brethren), but they like whateva’
Too scared of being broke to think about being betta’
Plus, we get bombarded by all these images of bravado
You ain’t really a man if you don’t follow these models
But the weakest ones follow, the strong reconsider
You can forgive much if you understand you forgiven

[Hook]

LECRAE feat. Andy Mineo & Co Campbell – The Price Of Life

Yeah, fake hair, fake nails, fake pearls
Call herself a Barbie, wanna be a fake girl
She can’t even see, she Stevie Wonder at night time
Too busy trying to get them red bottoms the right size
Tell her that you love her and she gonna call you a liar
(Whatever, you don’t really love me, you just wanna give me the lie)
On the bet, but the fact is she deals with fools,
That see women as garden tools, never treated them cool
She said that suckers and brothers always makin’ her sick
So she gave up on em now she’s just attracted to chicks
But she never seen a man with a soul as clean
He fightin’ to be whatever God made him be
Don’t want to manipulate the date, the legger, or shake her
Wanna give his life to her followin’ his creator
Maybe she gonna see he ain’t crazy and start wondering
“God, what’s the reason you made me? ”
Maybe it ain’t to be physically attractive just so you can trap and capture
A man, that’d be superficially happy. Nah, you’re worth more than that, yeah.

Beautiful lies, yeah, I know they ain’t right
But I bought it, but that’s the price of life

Yeah, look
I wanted the girl that was super official
I found my standard superficial
‘Cause behind the glamour was some super issues
And I ain’t trying to shoot to diss you, I’m just sayin’
Everybody gotta look fly on the planes
And you don’t wanna step outside, lookin’ plain
They call it running game, everybody playn’
Dang, that’s trinity the word ‘play’
Sephora made you make up your mind
Coach bags made you feel first class this whole time
And them Nikey kicks running your life,
Your ambition been driven by them cars that you like
I know some girls that’s faster than T3ch Nine
Self esteem as low as they neck-line
‘Cause they don’t know whose image they reflect, went to bed to find love, woke up with rats

This is a matter of heart, kid
Gimme a second, let me show you
If you own something you can’t depart with
You probably don’t own it, it own you
Man, tell me what’s the price of life
Too much to find peace, so what’s your release
Yeah, there’s much more, believe me
Than living for the things that your leaving

Beautiful lies, I know they ain’t right, but I bought it
But that’s the price of life.

She camouflage her insecurity in Jimmy Choo’s
High heels but the mountain’s top she’ll never choose
She’ll set up for a dude & precious medals
A slave to his money by his chains you can tell it
Page to embellish the life that you really live
Them nice clothes cover up, how you really feel
When your eye liner off and you’ve been revealed
Trapped in a prison with multiple life sentences
55 life times as infinity, you don’t wanna pray your middle fingers to Divinity
You ever stop and think about what the incentive is
Livin for their approval has got it’s benefits
They special ’cause they don’t live like you
But they die and their blood bleeds red like you
Truth is they depressed, takin’ meds like you
They ain’t livin’ it up, they’re dead like you

But you can live, uh
If you know the price of life

LECRAE – The Drop (Intro)

Turn the music up inside my session
These folks gotta hear my message
You put that beat on, I beat on this track to relieve my stressin’
I see more trials than Cochran, while TV tryna’ box me
Them magazines ain’t on my page, but ain’t none of that gon’ stop me
Keep the fame and acclaim, I won’t be a slave for a chain
And why stay the same for the change, let’s talk ‘bout change for a change
Mundane, killa’ bang, sell cane for the gain, pump vanity in your veins
No, they hopin’ I quit, ‘fact they hopin’ I die, no, they hopin’ I’m plain insane
‘Cause they know I ain’t playing, got my faith on display
And I got some ridas behind me, and they mean what they saying
Knock, knock. Open up. We at yo’ door. Hope you prepared now
And I think it’s clear now, potna’ we here now
And don’t plan on goin’ no where, consider yo’self infested
And these strings all up in yo’ veins, consider yo’self infected
And what we say we live out, ‘fo we give in we give out
And when we die we come back, tell Death he’ll never win out
They ain’t never stop us, pop us, drop us, watch us pop right back up
And we never gone die, that’s why we ride & rise like Pac got back up
Go’n back up, call back up, everybody go home, just pack up
We plugged into the Highest power, that why we ain’t gotta act tough
No poker faces, just smokin’ aces, my house is full
My temple is a dwelling place, my Master’s masterful
You just full of yo’self, you just food on the shelf
Eaten for breakfast, talkin’ reckless ,boy I know the chef
You don’t want he’s cookin’, it’s not easy to stomach
And your words will be eaten, folks’ll be readin’ yo’ vomit
The recipe for disaster asks for blasphemy
And as for me, ask for me, I give you gravity

Lecrae – Tell The World

Now, I’mma tell the world, tell ‘em
I’mma tell it everywhere I go
Tell the world, tell ‘em
Yeah, I’m a billboard
Tell the world, tell ‘em
And I’m broadcastin’ like a radio
Tell the world
You ought to know, I’m brand new

I know one thing’s true: I don’t even really deserve to know you
But, I-I’m a witness that you did this, and I’m brand new
So, I-I’m read’ to go, and I’mma tell the world what they need to know
A slave to myself, but you let me go, I tried getting high but it left me low
You did what they could never do
You cleaned up my soul and
Gave me new life - I’m so brand new
And that’s all that matters
I-I ain’t love you first, but you first loved me
In my heart I cursed you, but you set me free
I gave you no reason to give me new seasons, to give new life, new breathing
But we hung there bleedin’, and ya’ died for my lies and my cheatin’, my lust and my greed, (and Lord!)
What is a man that you mindful of him?
And what do I have to deserve this lovin’?

Tryna make the moments last
Holdin’ on to the past
But, like a hero in a dream
Christ came, and he rescued me

Now, I’mma tell the world,
Tell the world, tell ‘em
I’mma tell it everywhere I go
Tell the world, tell ‘em
Yeah, I’m a billboard
Tell the world, tell ‘em
And I’m broadcastin’ like a radio
Tell the world
You ought to know, I’m brand new

I can’t offer you nothin’, but your care  kindness keeps comin’
And your love is so unconditional, I get butterflies in my stomach
I got the old me in the rearview, now the new me got a clear view
And I was so dead, I couldn’t hear you, too deep in sin to come near you
But you drew me in, you cleaned me up, so take me home, beam me up
Before we do, only let me tell a truth, and let these folks know that we finished seen ya’ love
And it’s everlasting, infinite, it goes on and on, you can’t measure it
Can’t moisten ya’ love, they can’t apart us from a adore of God, there’s no estimate
My face demeanour a same, my support ain’t rearranged, though I’m changed; we guarantee we ain’t a same
Your love’s so low we suffered and took pain, we died on a cranky to give me a new name
Ain’t nothing like I’ve seen before, I got a beaming glow
I was low, down, and dirty, but you cleaned me, Lord
You adopted me, you keep rocking me
I’mma tell the world, and ain’t nobody stopping me!

LECRAE – Spazz

I make ya spazz on em, knowing that they don’t know me
I may call up my homies forty deep is how we rollin
We pull up on your block and we ain’t got no glock forties
No meaner millimeter, hope you never have to meet her
Put a rolla in a meter, this one right here’s a cheater
Tryin’ to get off in my zone, watch me hit these wide receivers
If you ain’t a believer I’m looking for conversion
My 16 is a sermon, get your hands up in this service
I know I’m a bring the realist, you know I’ve got the cutest
They’re telling me, I’m sick, I already know I’ve got that illness
That 8 0 8 up heavy, my adrenaline got me sweaty
I don’t think these people ready, I’m a spazz if they let me
Tell someone come and get me, cause if they get me started
I’m LeoDiCaprio, I’m gone, departed
This ain’t for the faint of heart it may be for the heartless
The way I eat this beat you think I was a starving now I’m spazz

Spazz, Spazz (out)
Spazz, Spazz (out)
Spazz, Spazz (out)
Spazz, Spazz (I might just spazz)
Spazz, Spazz (out)
Spazz, Spazz (out)
Spazz, Spazz (out)
Spazz, Spazz (I might just spazz)
Spazz, Spazz (out)
Spazz, Spazz (out)
Spazz, Spazz (out)
Spazz, Spazz out, (I might just spazz)
Spazz, Spazz (out),
Spazz, Spazz (out)
Spazz, Spazz (out)
Spazz, Spazz (I might just spazz)

Boy, it’s hard to hold this bag, it’s hard to keep this in

This spazz ain’t feel so right, not to do it it’s a sin
Nah, I ain’t got to be wilin and I ain’t got to be jumpin’,
But you feel them walls humming? That’s my people coming, (let go!)
Now they ain’t smoking that good, they [ain't] finna’ do nothin’ bad,
But they on that Jesus juice so they probably gon’ spazz,
Hollerin’ 1-1-6, see it tatted on they wrists,
Cause they ain’t ashamed of nothin’, man, they get it how they live,
The old us is dead, the new us so legit,
Got us spazzin’ in the game, cause we know we ’bout to win,
And I never said I was hot, but a fire’s in my bones,
Got me sweatin’ in the winter, got me hotter than a stove,
They probably think I done lost it, they probably thinkin’ I’m gone,
But truth be told I found it, I’m Gucci, I’m thrown,
I’m better than I ever been and truth that hit me settled in,
I’m spazz on these people they don’t want it, but they gettin’ it,

Spazz, Spazz (out)
Spazz, Spazz (out)
Spazz, Spazz (out)
Spazz, Spazz (I might just spazz)
Spazz, Spazz (out)
Spazz, Spazz (out)
Spazz, Spazz (out)
Spazz, Spazz (I might just spazz)
Spazz, Spazz (out)
Spazz, Spazz (out)
Spazz, Spazz (out)
Spazz, Spazz out, (I might just spazz)
Spazz, Spazz (out),
Spazz, Spazz (out)
Spazz, Spazz (out)
Spazz, Spazz (I might just spazz)

I might just spazz,
I might just spazz.

LECRAE – Sacrifice

My eyes redder than blood shots, nightmares of them gunshots
I took my girl from the lone star to Memphis, Tenn on them cold blocks
And what you think we moved for, to see kids get killed in the school zone
To see crack get sold, bodies turned cold, what do you think, I think that’s cool, bro?
And why do you think I went to school for? To turn around and move back to the hood?
Nah, boy, that’s what it’s called a sacrifice, this is bigger than me, it’s for a greater good.
I was went to cape town, had a breakdown, Mozambique seen a man face down
Took blows to the head, boy it’s cold out here so we’re staying on the grind, no brakes (breaks), nah nah.
If this a gimmick then explain what’s the incentive
Been extorted near deported for this faith I’m representing.
And when I started penin’ lyrics I wasn’t thinkin bout no cypher
I was thinking about them addicts and them juvies and them lifers.
Well this is what the people lose they life for. And why they give up all they rights for.
It ain’t no church in the wild, huh? But tell me, who you think I write for?
And I ain’t tryin’ to be self righteous, but I write this if you think twice
Folks wanna call this gospel rap. Nah, homeboy, this sacrifice.

Some of these rapper’s reputations should be in dispute
Cause real recognize real and you do not compute
Good as layin your life down, sacrifice for a worthy cause
Not for a buncha green paper stacks, overpriced clothes and shiny cars, no.
This is sacrifice, it’s givin’ your all.
Even when they don’t understand you, you still answer your calling
And when the world is falling and they back is turned,
You reach your hand out and pull them out that fiery furnace.
I learned that from the old heads, you know the ones that never turned back
Martin Luther King got shot for it, that’s priceless you can’t earn that.
Then tell me what do you think he died for? A peace prize? A holiday?
So I can rap a whole bunch of weak lines about how I’m a make my choppers spray (Huh!?)
If Jesus really lived, then He really died
Sacrificed Himself and rose before their very eyes
And if I ain’t really changed, then it’s all a lie
Why put my life on the line, mang this ain’t worth my time
Cause it’s been real, when nobody knew us we been here
Before the billboards and the Grammy awards
It was Christ, homeboy we’ve been clear.
I ain’t never been fake bout faith, if I lied to your face
May I die a disgrace
Live for the truth that He died in my place
Thank God for the sacrifice and His grace. (Uh!)

LECRAE – Rise

I know it’s difficult, but
You know, the odds really are in our favour, man

Things just ain’t the same for gangsters
The whole world ‘s changed, everybody’s a stranger
These young dude’s running around, saying they bangers
Quit the law bangers, the click and bang yah
And I done seen too many teens chasing their dreams
End up blood stream contaminated and feening
And now they leanin’ on words that he said
Or She said, we said,
“Look at him, he dead”
See, we ain’t ever know Martin Luther the King
Most of us probably couldn’t tell you much about his dream
We like Malcolm x, ’cause spike made a movie
With his arms stretched up with the AK’s and Uzi’s
So excuse me, You tryna connect to, a whole generation is raised by gangsters
Who probably never knew pops, we had Tupac
An old boom box, chilling in our tube socks
And plus Dre taught us how to roll a 64
And Snoop Dogg taught us how to roll a sticky drow
So if they wanna reach us with Jesus
They gotta do it better than some screaming preachers
‘Cause homie, we don’t believe ya, we’ve seen grandmas,
Raw bodies, cold knees with heaters
So we’re skeptical, it’s easier to believe
That there’s a Heaven for a thug than to mess with you
It’s hard to rise

Listen to the melody
Because we’re together

Hey shout out to 9th wonder, no you ain’t gotta ask
We both know the same page like a paragraph
And all music, ain’t the target of discussion
But it seems the radio has got a problem playin’ substance
Listen, partner, they’re lying to us, they’re selling pies to us
They teach us how to be gang bangers and nine shooters
I’ve been where you’ve been, seen what you’ve seen
Grew up with old dawg, looking mean on the screen
When Nas was street dreaming, and Biggie was still breathin’
And cash ruled everything around me, creamin’
Folks tryna make the hood life a good life
While they in the ‘burbs wishing us a good night
And some rappers teach us how to chin check ‘em
But I still ain’t heard a song about being movie directors
We in your hood, man, we’ve been where you’ve been
Been stabbed, been shot, been pinned in the ‘Pen
Difference is now when we pick up the pen
We articulate how, God has made us all better man
I’m a college graduate, yes some God-fearing role models
With daughters who do not aspire to be pole models
You are not what the media impose on you
God made you and he rose for you
So you rise

LECRAE feat. Christon Gray – Rejects

Listen
I think they think they know me, I think they think they get it
Some holy water, crucifix ‘n mix it with some lyrics
But this ain’t that and that ain’t rap, we’re going in lock the front door if I ain’t back
They feelin you, Crae, it’s cool, I’m respected, but I won’t be a slave to acceptance
I got my co-sign from the master, so maranatha
They like the flow, oh they go’n love the message
(For real?)
Nah, I’m sure that they’ll reject it, but that’s what they supposed to do
Don’t wanna see, they opposing views
Say they married to the game but mayne they souls stay itchin’
She never hit the spot, I guess that’s why they call her misses
My snap back fitted, the choir robe didn’t
And I don’t play church, partna, this is what I’m living
Hey Bun call from Texas, told me Crae, I get it,
You are no impostor, you spit it how you live it
Them inmates tellin me keep spittin ‘n don’t quit it
Cause when that music play they ain’t worried about the sentence
25 to life boy the dead has risen, so tell Sing Sing, the king is coming back to get ‘em.
I’m so reckless with my message I don’t care tho, call me a weirdo, but I’m an heirloom
And if I say it, then I mean what I say, boy I live for the truth and I die for the way.
And when that inspiration hit me I write it, while try to fight it
If I’m thinking too hard, don’t try it, they’ll never buy it.
And if they don’t buy it, they don’t buy it, okay, I get it.
They want inherited wealth, so I’m giving them the business
You are not your momma, your daddy, whatever happened
You are not the product of all of yo life’s misshappnins
That is just a lie that you tell yourself when it’s tragic
But I believe in miracles, I don’t believe in magic.
Made in His image, most of y’all don’t hear me
Looking for identity in the things that you givin
The gift, not the giver mayne it’s cold in the winter
When you face your life existence stop looking like you’s a winner
That S class Mercedes, Bugatti, yeah that Bentley
Won’t fit up in my coffin when I die, can’t take em with me.
But still I let em tempt me, and show me what I’m worth
But none of then can solve my problems or my hurt.
Reject me

This is not the first time I’m far from just gettin my feet wet
And this is won’t be the last time I tell the world about your love and they tell me I’m a reject
Yeah, they look at me like a reject
Go and treat me like a reject
Cause if it’s how they treated the King, then for Christ sake
All I wanna be is a reject

LECRAE (feat. PRo, Sho Baraka and Andy Mineo – Power Trip

Who’s got the power?

[Verse 1 (Pro):]
The key to life: money, power, respect
Louie this, Gucci that, two private jets
Big money, big business, watch that paper stack
Treat life like a game, it ain’t pool but I’m racked
Up, big bucks, no whammys
I swear I prolly lump somebody head for a Grammy
My heart black as the Lambo Kim bought for Kanye
And I ain’t fronting, I’m just telling ya’ll what God say
Blood thirsty
Seek my own will since the day that Adam cursed me
The lust for power go to ya’ brain if you let it
You say, “What up dog?” I hear “god.” I’m so dyslectic
Sit on the throne, it’s really a toilet, heart is septic
I have no power, I get handed death, I must accept it
It’s hard to see the light when you never listen
Our whole life’s blacked out, the power’s tripping

[Hook (Lecrae):]
Who’s got the power?
Do you really want it all, whole world in ya’ palm? Tell me,
Who’s got the power?
It’ll make you a leader or a tyrant, you do the decidin’
Who’s got the power?
Do you really want it all, whold world in ya’ palm? Tell me,
Who’s got the power?
It’ll make you a leader or a tyrant, you do the decidin’

[Verse 2 (Lecrae):]
It was all a dream
I grew up readin’ hip-hop magazines
Double-XL got me wanton to excel
They tellin’ me it ain’t hard to tell, I rock well
And now with every sale I’m feelin’ my head swell
Well, I’m a genius in my dreams
Even if I was, it was stitched inside my genes
I’m self-inflated, self-infatuated
And somehow I convinced myself I finally made it
The truth is I was made like the mob
Geppetto put me together; my strings lead to God
Pride come befo’ the fall, I seen it in the script
So if you see me fallin’, prolly a power trip

[Hook]

[Verse 3 (Sho Baraka):]
Welcome to the culture where humility is not allowed
They do it big, if you don’t see that, you Shallow Hal
Tryna show them how love and power, it goes together
If they call us losers, that just means we last forever
I been connected to the power, I don’t have to chase it
I roll with the Trinity, this is sorta the Matrix
A hard pill to swallow: we’re evil to the core
Wicked power exploits the poor, and it brings war
Power can be a field of dreams loaded with land mines
We know the ruler so you can’t say these are bad lines
(You might lust for that power!), but don’t forget that we’re forgiven
I know the Lord gon’ catch me when I’m power trippin’

[Verse 4 (Andy Mineo):]
Who made the crowd put they hands in the sky? Me.
Who made the sky with they hands? What if y’all can’t see?
This is kinda strange, God makes the weather change
And we braggin’ up on our change like “look how we make it rain!”
We Invictus, this sin sickness is in us
Running a muck and causing that mischief, tell me this then, “Who could really fix us?”
I’m, trippin’ to think that I’m really not limited in this position in sitting in,
Gravity pulling me back to earth gradually, reality’s hittin’

(Who’s got the power?)

LECRAE feat. Suzy Rock – No Regrets

[Verse 1:]
(And they say) You only live once so live it up tonight
I hope we live twice cause I can’t wait to give up this life
Don’t get me wrong I love my fam and my experience
Been around the world and back seven wonders I done seen ‘em
Number eight is just us wonderin what happens when we perish
And I don’t want no regrets I’m a tell the ones I cherish
That I love ‘em thinking of ‘em on this red eye flight to Paris
If I die before I wake at my wake please tell my parents
That your son will positively wake in paradise
Life is like a pair of dice so watch the ones you rollin with
Roll the clip of my life you gon’ see a bunch of empty bottles
Broken hearts and blurry nights, Facebook likes and twitter follows
I’m not livin for today cause tomorrows looking pleasant
And the future is a gift even though this is the present
Yea I do believe in heaven but my actions ain’t the key
Them gates remain locked if everything follow me

[Hook:]
So let em know that when I come to the end of my road
And they ask me was it worth it
The hurting, the pain, and the life I chose
I’ll do it again in a heartbeat, heartbeat, heart heart heartbeat
I’ll tell ‘em I’ll do it again in a heartbeat, heartbeat, heart heart heartbeat
And I die with no regrets

[Verse 2:]
You not a leader cause they follow you on twitter
And you not a man based up on your age and your gender
If you die tonight you’ll probably die a boy
Chasing toys objectifying these women thinkin they gon’ bring you joy
Don’t you want more than last night’s braggin rights
What’s yo life?
I know it’s hard to think about underneath these flashing lights
Scratch the surface money’s worthless when it comes to finding purpose
If you keep the end in focus you can’t keep it when it’s over
And when it’s over there’s something else starts
Only thing that’s really gon’ matter is that hope inside your heart
What you trusting in what you lusting in
For that busty momma that’s strutting in
And you popping bottles you throwing dollars
That’s cool but partner this just in
That you gon’ live forever whether you want to or not
Some of us gon’ end up holy some of us gon’ end up hot
Tell this life to keep my problems kiss my momma when I’m gone
Tell her I have no regrets and I’m home I’m home

[Hook:]
So let em know that when I come to the end of my road
And they ask me was it worth it
The hurting, the pain, and the life I chose
I’ll do it again in a heartbeat, heartbeat, heart heart heartbeat
I’ll tell ‘em I’ll do it again in a heartbeat, heartbeat, heart heart heartbeat
And I die with no regrets

LECRAE feat. Propaganda, Braille, Odd Thomas – Misconception

[Verse 1: Propaganda]
Slang came from a land where they suffer from the effects of depravity like gang bangin’ and earthquakes.
Most famous no namers split a brain and plant a taste for the King of kings. I know it’s a strange concept.
Pedalin’ redemption boy what more can I say make me and Lecrae been trying to make Him famous since ninety three.
Fillin’ these 58′s with phrases that would deem us unfit to succeed among these heathens.
It’s so crucial in the belly of the crucible that you would understand that stage like your morning candle.
It’s handin’ out cancer that’s why fame was never the aim and the back is the front — homie left side up!
That’s a concept

Misconception
Those deadly habits have me losin’ my cool…
It’s what your frame of mind has chosen.
I’ll leave your brain stimulated…

[Verse 2: Braille]
So many mis… conceptions- missin’ the mark- mis-directed- drivin’ reckless and aggressive
Fueled by our false perceptions- our methods need corrections-
Spittin venom in their face and violate the ones we should protect it’s an attempt to motivate
Neglect our obligations place the blame on someone else point out the flaws in other people and take the focus off ourselves
Those who have been abused — view leadership as illegitimate so they don’t think it’s necessary to play by the rules or submit
They see authority as nothin’ more than a power-trip — they don’t want to be plugged into it
They’d rather see that power stripped — get it? Power strip… It’s unfortunate
Disproportionate the door is wide open for false teachers to twist the truth and distort it
No examples left to follow left to our demise actin’ foolish but can’t see it so we’re wise in our own eyes
The life and crucifixion of Christ is a beautiful depiction of service and submission — within a leadership position

[Verse 3: Odd Thomas]
You probably have it all figured out, right? Like your the type that believes that if you act right then that just might make you righteous in God’s sight
You’ve been a really good person, you followed the good book as much as you could, you probably didn’t go to church as much as you should, but it’s all good
I mean you never really killed anybody, never really steal from anybody, you never lusted much, or did much, touching of any bodies.
You never use the Lord’s name in vain, and you respect you neighbor, you try to maintain peace, love your enemies and not hold on to anger
You really believe that you could receive God’s favor by your good deeds and right behavior
But you’re dead in your transgressions and need a savior
Cause you could never win God’s approval with the removal of sinful discretions — your righteous acts of removing God’s wrath is in fact the biggest misconception…

[Verse 4: Lecrae]
Since my conception I’ve been riddled with deception
Televised lies devised to lead a blind insurrection
Against the resurrection – and the greatest misconception the world believes the Christian is foolish without direction.
And they knock it they knock it but what does it profit a prophet to be socially ostracizing no we ain’t stoppin’ the mocking
But if there is anything I can do to raise the stock in the market for a Biblical worldview then there’s no longer an option
Here with the humble beast, ain’t no subtleties, ain’t no tongue in cheek, this is what I mean, they don’t understand anything about the faith I believe, and they want to belittle me
But it’s cool though. They just know the pseudo, the fake faith, the false one, the western God that’s man made, not the Biblical Awesome
Toss em’ — Pick up the Reasons for God by Timothy Keller and read it, there is a God you should believe in and his name is Jesus…

LECRAE feat. Big K.R.I.T. and Ashthon Jones – Mayday

[Verse 1 (Big Crit):]
Awakened from my slumber by the thunder, lightning clappin’
Rainin’ on my window pane and praying I make something happen
A preacher’s prophecies never bothered me when I was younger
Sittin’ on my grandma’s lap, and she cried, I often wondered
“What was her tears for? Could it be for my grandfather?”
Or maybe she felt for me cuz I’d see more of those cold tomorrows
Than she’d see. The world would up and turn on me
Cuz the morals that she often spoke were meant for 1923
I fall asleep off in her arms, a psalm was spoken
“The Lord is surely my shepherd” and “lead me to the water”
A thought that often stuck with me, amongst the wolves that run the streets
Out here payin’ dues then lose, I pray your ways would comfort me
A non-believer I never have and never could be
Lord, give me time to peep the signs I should see
Sippin’ got me feelin’ like a player
Ridin’ clean, bendin’ corners, hopin’ I might find my savior
On the curb, I rarely go to church
False prophets rockin’ Prada so I rarely feel the Word
Jezebel’s lurkin’ in the pews on the first
Preacher’s weaker than the deacon cuz it’s hard to fight the urge
It’s hard to live and serve when you on the Devil’s turf
Sell your soul for the loan with no sense of what it’s worth
Don’t get it twisted, I ain’t no saint, I ain’t no pastor
But prayin’ ain’t just for cloudy days and natural disasters
Aware of what comes after, bet you ain’t fo’ sho’
I was warned that heaven ain’t the only place to go
I’m doin’ what I can cuz there really ain’t much time
I leave ‘dis in the Lord’ hands, I’m tired of cryin’

[Hook:]
Man down!
Hopin’, prayin’, sayin’ I can’t turn
Back now!
He will find you, this world’ll blind you, don’t you be another
Man down!
Hopin’, prayin’, sayin’ you can’t turn
Back now!
Help is just one prayer away
Don’t be afraid to say,
“Mayday!”

[Verse 2 (Lecrae):]
Father forgive us for we know not what we do
In my bias, I’ve been pious with my nose up in the pews
Like Paul, I bear good news; they think I’m pall-bearin’
My message sounds like death to these hearers as they perish
Scary to think we on the brink of death
But no one stops look for answers on what happens next
Got a couple scriptures from our grandma, sayings from a preacher
But can’t live out these standards that we heard it takes to reach ‘em
But when I look at Jesus, He lived the life I couldn’t
Suffered for my crimes so I wouldn’t
I used to have to sneak into the movies ‘cause I couldn’t ‘ford to pay
So ‘splain to me how some one paid my way
When hear Krit confessin’ I respect him
‘Cause most of us be lying like our lives don’t need perfectin’
Nothin’ that we muster, Nothin’ that we can change
Admitting that we’re imperfect, offendin’ God with our games
Look, I’m just being honest so don’t take for me for no lame
I seen it fo’ myself; I’m a product of this thang
Now I found true religion, and it’s not inside of denim
And them overpriced shades has never given us vision

[Hook]

LECRAE feat. Rudy Currence – Lucky Ones

[Hook (Rudy Currence):]
When it’s all said and done
You and I are the lucky ones
We fought many
And we’ll fight the night until we see the sun
We are the lucky ones
We are the lucky ones
We are here

[Verse 1 (Lecrae):]
Under the sun, I found we were left to drown
Evil abounds, weight is pullin’ us down
No sight or sound, impaired to His care
Chasing after the wind, running after the air
Deserving of desertion, servants of destruction
And everyday we taste of a grace that we’re unconcerned with
My sin I should be burned with, I’m guilty, filthy, and stained
But He became a curse, drank my cup and took my pain
And for that he reigns, through faith I’m changed
And I don’t have a reason why he loosened up my chains
I don’t believe in luck; I believe in Grace
But they say we’re lucky cause we seen your face
And we heard Him call us, and He heard our answer
And He gives us second chances when we throw our hands up
So weary and broken, hopin’ His arms will be open
Unconditional love has got us locked into focus
(I guess we the luck ones, huh?)

[Hook]

[Verse 2 (Lecrae):]
You’re greater than my shame, guilt, my doubt, and my past
Fortunate to trust in you cause I’ve doubted your plans
I’ve questioned your ways, every question I raised
Is foolishness compared to mountains, the wind, and the waves
You’re so mindful of us, we rise from the dust
You love these cheating, beating hearts and these eyes full of lust
Gave us power to fight it, though we cower in quiet
We have the faith to start a riot; how can we deny it?
Fire inside us that you kindle when it starts to dwindle
And simply put I’m sinful so your love is essential
I don’t believe in luck, no, I believe in Grace
But they say we lucky cause we seen your face
Lord, we heard you call us, You heard our answer
And you give us second chances when we throw our hands up
I’m weary and broken, but your arms will be open
Unconditional love has got us locked into your focus

[Bridge (Rudy Currence):]
See, I’m not sayin’ I’m always right
And I ain’t sayin’ that I’m perfect
And I know I don’t deserve it
But I’m glad I got this life
I’m glad that I got it
And it makes me a lucky one

[Hook]

LECRAE feat. Tedashii – Lord Have Mercy

[No Malice:]
Lord have mercy and pity on your son
From what I once was to what I have become
Lord have mercy [x2]
Lord have mercy and pity on your son

[Lecrae:]
Dark Past full of evil endeavors
Heart clean never black and ugly as ever
However I seen my family die from them rocks
Them beams on blocks including my own pops
Homie I seen two much to drink them two cups
Can’t lean on the lean already way too screwed up
Was way to gone I was way to cold
Fifty yard hail mary I was way to thrown
I was Tarzan raised by gorillas and the beasts
High on them trees when I gorilla’d the beast
Then that truth came hit me got me outta my grave
All my partners say I’m changed
How am I go’n stay the same huh?!

[No Malice:]
Lord have mercy and pity on your son
From what I once was to what I have become
[x2]
Lord have mercy [x4]
Lord have mercy and pity on your son

[Tedashii:]
Killer tryna murder it chasing ladies down for fun
Saying come with me hail mary but then kill the son
However I seen them boys mane take that bar and wait for God’s sake
Beastie boy he still took three the hard way
Toss me out heart away crucifix no jewelry
Just wooden beams he took from me
Took ‘em up to Calvary while I was a DGK
Wiling out to UGK runnin from the HPD
Huffin puffin mary jane no grip chains mane
I was looking for a super freak
Nasty cameo candy super sweet
But now your boy turnt up free from all them chains
Ya volume on ten you can call it unashamed

[No Malice:]
Lord have mercy and pity on your son
From what I once was to what I have become
[x2]
Lord have mercy [x4]
Lord have mercy and pity on your son

[Lecrae]
Now I’m turnt up daily I’m on my one-eighty
They thought I’d water down I’m like boy y’all crazy
On my J.O. my Oj Mayo I’m on my Grizzly
Jesus turned me around me so fast that you would swear I was dizzy
Now they askin who is he now they wonderin my name
I run in my own lane screaming Jesus is King
Til my heart stop pumpin no more blood in my veins
Watch me turn up everyday homeboy I’m so unashamed

[Tedashii:]
Turnt up boy turnt up boy
Turnt up boy turnt up
[x3]

[No Malice:]
Lord have mercy and pity on your son
From what I once was to what I have become
[x2]
Lord have mercy [x4]
Lord have mercy and pity on your son

LECRAE feat. Swoope – Long Time Coming

I’ve been treating this part of life like a dance floor
Side stepping all the things I’ve made plans for
And I ain’t acting when I’m taking on the man’s roles
Chance to enhance the fam can be a handfull
I rather have my hands full than be empty-handed
Travel all around the planets till I have it planted
Grow roots like great grand pap, married 65 years, 20 kids, same family
Strong as an ox and I’m from the same stock
So I’ll won’t be hanging out ’till I see the sun o’clocks
It’s been a long time coming but I’m coming at a decent hour
Everything I’ve have is ours start the wedding shower
Teeball games in the summer ballet in the winter
And I ain’t scrolling through my twitter while we having dinner
Time to grow up, done drank until I throw up
Neglected little man for my plans, try’n to blow up
Some people are so focused on the road to success
They don’t see their whole family laying dead on the tracks.
I rather seize to have my lyrics spread over tracks
And put some family photos on the walls instead of plaques.

It’s been a long time coming, but we’re here now

Look
I remember watching videos by Hype Will
Thinking I could do that if I had a nice deal
But the precedent is MC’s dead believe
They take the same exit that Mason Betha did
Cause when you’re talking steal then ya sound hard
But they let you out ya deal when you found God
Back to watching Hype Will, think about how I feel
Wishes spitting Christian wasn’t God’s will
It’s been a long time running, long time wondering
Long time humming stupid songs that I hated
From a rapper that I felt was overrated
‘Cause I knew that he was faking but he everybody’s favorite
Coming with that same “ha” had an 808 hit
Bricks that weight lift, chicks that is naked
I’m in my house studyin’ the scripts that is sacred
If this a success recipe I ain’t gonna make it
So many reasons not to. I only graduated high school
I’m from a small little city that they fly through, but never fly to
Just a plain town tryin’ to be fly too
A town rapper, we backed down never
So I’m bout to take my hood up like Trayvon
Fi’n to hold my hood down like your favorite mob
Ventilate some hood, now I’m with the favorite march.
Walk up with the king boy I’m about to Pharoah march.
Red Sea is my favorite part.
The Lord opened up a new avenue
In the street, got the dove award and we passin through.
Church clothes on the mic spitting what your pastor do
Looking at the world through our Master’s view.
Offer you the optic codes, keep this glasses, too.
On vying for the king, but we’re cold rappers, dude.

It’s been a long time coming

LECRAE – Inspiration

Uh, where else I’m gonna turn?
My backs is to the world see these bridges I done burn?
For every truth I learn
I grow a little weary
I see how far away from you, everybody is clearly
And all the folks who near me
The one’s that I love dearly
Don’t know the truth about you
So I hopping that they hear me uh um
Hear Ye, Hear Ye all of the above
What could warm a blacken heart and fill it full of love?
It feels like just the other day when every thing was hopeless
Up hell’s creek without a paddle and a boat
I wasn’t really living, I was living for the moment
And now I only live to see clear, so help me focus
It lies all around me
My partners cars cloudy
He just wanna escape the cesspool that got em drowning
Your spirit surround me
Can’t nobody see it though
Every once in a while somebody tell me they can see a glow
I quit getting high, and not because I’m better then
But your spirit working in me making me a better man
Know you got a better plan and all this ghetto living
This drug dealing, pimping, exploiting all of these women
My family still in prison I thought that I escaped it
For years I was chained to sin following Satan
The only way to make it, for me was take a plea
I gave my life to the king who died on a tree
And he ain’t make me richer
He ain’t make me taller
He ain’t give new legs to my cousins little daughter
He gave me something greater then anything I done seen
He gave himself to me, he live in me boy I’m clean
My guilt all gone, Shame all gone
I still feel pain yet the rain gonna come
But one day he gonna get all these folks he call his own
And takes us on that long ride home, I’m gone

LECRAE – I Know

I know [x6]

[Verse:]
Boy, I lost and I’m foolish
Runnin off with at the two lips
Prolly wooin all the cruelest persecute us to fool us
Catch me hangin with shooters
Rumored to shrew yo’ medulla
My momma told me they would screw us but I already knew it
Who go’n give ‘em peace of mind
They can have piece of mine
No they thinkin I’m blind
But I just pay them no mind
Yeah I know they be lyin
They misquotin my lines
They like “What you think you doin puttin hope in yo’ rhymes?”
You would think I’m shootin folk or puttin coke in my rhymes
I just give ‘em bass for free and push the dopest of lines
Boy you trippin, I know
Cr-Cr-Crae you slippin, I know
I done heard this all before just sit back enjoy the show
Yeah, I know they go’n hate us
Type they blog up, debate us
They be fishin for attention but don’t know how to bait us
Keep that hate on Hiatus
Big ups to my Creator
No big bang just a banger
So tell that DJ to bang it! Yeah!

[Hook:]
I know [x8]
I know what they sayin, but I promise that I’m cool though
I know what they sayin, but I promise that I’m cool though
I know what they sayin
I ain’t trippin on it mayne
I just came to do my thing
Somethin different for a change

[Verse:]
Listen I-K N-O
They tryin to find out my M.O.
I tell ‘em God sent me they prolly ain’t get the memo, I know
I can say that cuz Jesus walks
They don’t play that, I know
Shouldn’t be up here cuz people rollin they trees here, I know
You can’t help ‘em
No strippers and killers welcome, I know
You can’t hear it
No ignorance in my lyrics
Boy they swear I went loco
116 still my logo
Catch us rollin in that Volvo
Go’n snap you a photo
Maybe Andy or PRo though
Might see Trip in De Soto
Maybe KB, maybe T-Dot
Yeah I know you don’t know though
Yeah I know they don’t like me
Cuz I be on my Spike Lee
Even when I do the right thing, they still wanna fight me
IRS want they taxes
Police stop us in traffic
Plus my girl be on my back
She say my life is too hectic
‘Crae they watchin, I know
Aye they talkin, I know
I done seen this all before
Man, it’s just part of the show
Let’s go!

[Hook:]
I know [x8]
I know what they sayin, but I promise that I’m cool though
I know what they sayin, but I promise that I’m cool though
I know what they sayin
I ain’t trippin on it mayne
I just came to do my thing
Somethin different for a change
I know [x8]
I know

Lecrae – Higher

Lead me higher, Lead me higher,
And lift my eyes up, to the Light when,
I can see all the pain coming, to an end
Lead me higher, into Your fire.
Burn away all of the desires.
And let my heart, beat again.

I feel myself rising high above my yesterdays.
Yes it pays just to praise standing in your rays.
Sun shining reminding me that you rose
Reminding me that I’m yours,
And wrapped in righteous robes,
Closer that I get to you the higher that I feel.
It’s like my spirits been lifted outside the stratosphere.
When death is powerless and pain will never lay a claim
And all the world will proclaim, Your name forever reigns.
Put desire inside of the fire in my bones.
Earth groans to see Your return, take us Home.
Solo for so long, I’m sold on. You on the Throne,
My life no longer my own, lead me higher.

Uh, it’s Friday morning, I’m up to early.
I’m up to high, the sky below me.
Like I’m sitting in a plain feeling strange can’t explain,
How I get to experience these things.
Been to plenty cities spent pretty pennies and ate plenty, fo
Do a show, I come home and feel empty? No
It’s never me, I’m glad to say I’ve been changed like presidential campaigns.
Used to wake up in the morning pursuing the wrong things,
Now I wake up in the morning pursuing the Lord’s name.
Take me higher than the highest You’re my hope and my desire.
Lifting me up high despite of this gravity lead me higher.