Keep on praisin', up your name, to live in Christ, to die is gain.
Growin' up in the cold this industry's cloggin' up my brain, got memories of when rap wasn't about money or the fame. Remember when it used to be strictly ministry? Now it's all about at the top of the industry. is jealous, full of hate, greed, and envy, now-a-days, I don't even know who my own be. Be critized, talked about and stabbed behind my back and playa haters still tryin' to bag rap. My heart goes out to the streets, I'm to a thugs and that is why you be warmin' up the church seats. But you don't hear me though, turn and look the way, but that's OK, I God would listen to what I gotta say. I can't lie though, at times I feel givin' up when all this hurt n' pain inside me starts buildin' up. I cryin', but God shows me love, even if I never, ever win the dove, keep on praisin'!
Pick up my cross and Im'a follow you, if my boys stay behind and I'm the only one in my crew. To be man to say, "God here I am." But people always quick to judge, they don't understand. talkin' about I ain't real, but who are you to judge me? God be the one who knows just what I feel. So many now-a-days, caught up in competition, that's why gospel rap be full of so much division. Believe me when I say, it my heart to think that we was in unity, but now we're all but torn apart. It's not about how many records we've sold, it's all about how many souls. Can you feel me? Tears ran down my eyes yesterday as I heard 2-Pac's death, is there left to say, "Lord, Im'a stand in the gap." My peoples, is you with me, where you at, cause keep on praisin'!
And even though they me, talk behind my back, and tell me hurtful words. the day I'm dead, and in my grave, it's God I'm gonna' serve. So go ahead and talk about me and spread lies. You the one accountable for every tear when I cry. I shed so many tears for so years, God can you help me? I'm tryin' to reach all my peers and if you don't hear, try harder, if I die from bulletshots like a martyr. This world be drivin' me hysterical, God I need a miracle, devil keep to hit me when I wanna get 'em spiritual, lyrically, I'm God with every word that I speak. You heard me, but I gotta turn the other cheek. 'Cause ain't mine, belongs to the Lord. We gotta come together, one mind and one accord. So to those who have ears, let 'em to what I'm sayin' but even you Im'a keep on praisin'!
Lyrics by by Nick Woodrum ([email protected] )