Faith, Hope, Love Faith, Hope, Love Faith, Hope, Love Faith I ain’t get it out the mud but do it for the ones who came Feel the breath of my ancestors every time I touch the stage They ain’t call it Holocaust with all the ghettos that they made? Flipped those into neighborhoods to make the dollar circulate Now the reconstruction’s harder when it ain’t no reparations Hood hit the suburbs cause inequity remaining Economic disparity and recidivistic structures leave the people only trying to kill each other You see I used to hate the mirror now I’m loving all His image Not narcissistic, I heard f u nigger out the window Young skinny black male striving with ambition Suburbs in the area but streets were never distant Porn addiction lurking insecure and not athletic Family fell apart when trusting God I don’t regret it Mental illness and depression within my genetics I prayed and prayed but faith ain’t change us feeling the oppression Say Faith, Hope, Love (x8) They ain’t hear the vision Voice crack like coc in the 80s Want in prison Charged my partner on a college tour Knowledge can’t defend When the power been established centuries against your skin Hard to sleep when dreamers reach their goals but DACA get rescinded Living on the edge Trapped within the system Guns, violence, drugs, the coping mechanisms Hashtag is the game on playgrounds for these little children Word to Tamir Rice Last year I felt suicidal Now I’m praying every line’s revival for my people in the struggle Latin, black, white Straight, gay, transgender Trying to point to the Christ Sitting in this room of mine while hurricanes hit the islands Feeling helpless hope my family hear this mama be alright My roommate trying to help this lady just like you Now I’m thinking how I failed to even try Hope you forgive me

Yeah Do for three I was in Detroit with my partners And then We ran up on this homeless man at the intersection This cat Rolled his window down Hands empty my pockets Holy Spirit told me leave my wallet as this cat rolled up on us for robbery at the intersection That's when you walking with God out the garden where jungles turn into concrete and harvest the hard and restless Still black In the burbs But the hood show love when the OGs hip through the subs Burn a stage and they all gone judge But I'm freed in the blood when the case get done Straight face blank when they hate gone come Keep faith Don't complain Race gone Run Rev up the emcee (DMC) Three stripes touched Full off the Son When you add E does (Adidas) It feel you not gonna make it tomorrow? Tried stealing time but my God said it's borrowed Room full of folk Felt unknown in my sorrow Looking for home Hope it don't leave me heartless Circle in the red like I'm shopping at Target Don't get confused We ain't taking no losses Once you go black know you can't go back Or the credit go bad But I still give facts Young bull from the nap Like a Chi-town hat Matador to your cap Rhyme headliners even when I open up Pain at my shows Hope it don't go numb Letting it go through the bass and the drums Ears feel the slap when you put in the buds Growth on the way Play this back for a touch Grace on the beat when I eat and my cup Runneth over Race with me bruh Been a long time on hunt for the prey Hungry for a change so we came to fix a plate And yeah they fed you lies, when we bring the truth today Don't wait You better have faith (x6) Yeah they fed you lies, when we bring the truth today Don't wait No playing with your pray Clean your plate and say Amen (You better have faith) x8 Starving got em goin hard for comin offa lotta dollars Works without faith dead Works without faith dead Ketchup to this mustard seed Mountain leaps Feel the height like balconies Off the wall philosophies On the screens Of PCS in dormitories Collegiate knees bending to ideologies Truth is they're probably gods Burnt sacrifices for money and cars 401ks, marriage house with a yard Selling antiquity disguised as new We been through it Eyes never satisfied See through this music Living a nightmare at best What good is a dream if you never get rest? You better have faith (x6) Yeah they fed you lies, when we bring the truth today Don't wait No playing with your pray Clean your plate and say Amen (You better have faith) x8

Let's slow it down You know We at where they ain't supposed to be at Or where they said we ain't supposed to go Be there, been there Leh go I just hyped my guy we live tonight and praying up Know we rock a mic this time we bouta hit the club Lighting up the dark, right where they be sinning What you callat? True Religion (x6) Lighting up the dark, right where they be sinning What you callat? True Religion (x2) Uh I see sipping and smoking invading my lungs She tipsy, its lit Feel the bass chest is thumping Temptations is lurking, the night air is young Keep old dude around me ain't faking the funk Bar hella dark Every line like heaven Week long, blacking out would be a blessing So I test the limits Hit em with the lyrics Questioning if after death there is a resurrection setting Ain't nobody trying to hear that here Thought church was a building But I walk no fear Where the hearts need God and they don't draw near Chase thrills in the feels from the bottom of the liquor and pills Homie here to deliver News that the snooze on the truth just a 187 murder a noose Suicide hiding from His rule Judge coming soon Guilt clear, come get this forgiveness Straddling the fences Why I'm sent Ain't no sin sipping But it catch you slipping Know you're never too far In this thing for the call Alter all why you living Let em know death lurking any minute like I just hyped my guy we live tonight and praying up Know we rock a mic this time we bouta hit the club Lighting up the dark, right where they be sinning What you callat? True Religion (x6) Lighting up the dark, right where they be sinning What you callat? True Religion (x2) I prayed before the set to reach But why my partner comment had me sleep? He wanna buy me a drink He told me that I'm sipping on this sex on the beach Man am I still Christian? I'm not convinced its a mistake But I often repent Always quick to dip and turn from what the flesh crave I can chill here still saved But if I hit this place coming for fulfillment then I'm enslaved No chains trade that freedom when I live the mission Sin ain't the master Grace make true religion

This is dedicatd to All the above And all the in between Yeah I'll be here for you Here for you Struggle yeah I feel for you Feel for you No one else to live for you Live for you Know that I'll be here for you Here for you (x2) 3 in the morning, pain in my chest Up all night, thinking bout death Pressure when I lie, soul feeling left Reach out to friends, gasping for breath Soak in your word, still feel unrest Could it be my fault? That I came this far, still don't walk? What I talk bout the hope that I ask for? Last call when I talked with my moms had me in tears Then church after service fronting with peers Still hurts but it never seem folk hear You ever felt disattached to your own ears? All the bad news hits but its bills to pay Wanna hide, feel ashamed, but you lead the way Feeling crushed, overlooked, but you meet the weight Praying scales get tipped and its justice made When its lights off staring at the ceiling Thinking every situation only giving limits Questioning the reason of your presence and existence Letting every person down that looks for your assistance Failure after failure Feeling buried Bearing burdens in despair, know there is a whisper Glimmer of the ending Get a little louder when you sitting still and listen I notice in the distance I been hearing I'll be here for you Here for you Struggle yeah I feel for you Feel for you No one else to live for you Live for you Know that I'll be here for you Here for you (x2) Sleeping feeling bitter struggling to forgive Feeling distrust of my own relatives Like I cared too much Then I wake up hearing how some lost their fam to a terrorist From the 32nd floor, Vegas praying for you I just had my own Chasing passion, rapping Thinking how these folk came for fun But lost their lives to a gun And me? I only write songs Conversations lighthearted til we ache from the dark Thats why my bars like a surgeon to open up as a start Creating space for the embedded Words we thought but never said A session that releases stress Invests in checking on your rest Less of trying to impress but lets you know After all, someone calls I'll be here for you Here for you Struggle yeah I feel for you Feel for you No one else to live for you Live for you Know that I'll be here for you Here for you (x2)

This for everyone who ever prayed for me Came before the throne but never just to say you told me Did it all along when I was short with your for worries I'm still growing since alone(a loan) I bank on hope I been ignoring My life I had to learn to love it Yeah (x4) Valentine to all the struggle Listen and silent got the same letters in them So I been trying to mimic when I dive em them epistles Been a minute since I hit em with a solo record This not apologizing, I been striving toward perfection Taking time to care for self and loving God more than my service to Him Easy always moving but its hard when you get moved Last track was Break Bread but in the aftermath Financial status had my stressing over passion Still was crafting content redefining goals and setting limits Good things everywhere but not all mean they're beneficial Started questioning my steps and not the next best option to address Fresh up off the press Extra extra good news Old dude Found the truth One time for the chosen Two for the bogus And the third's for the focus I ain't waiting Praying for a day that I might blow up Cuz I work but know I glo'd up when the son of God rose up Let's go This for everyone who ever prayed for me Came before the throne but never just to say you told me Did it all along when I was short with your for worries I'm still growing since alone(a loan) I bank on hope I been ignoring My life I had to learn to love it Yeah (x4) Valentine to all the struggle Never thought at 21 I'd be a dropout Rocking crocs still walking round like Kanye And lately situations feel like jaws I hear the theme when flowing on Eating up all that I own and whats inside me Many called but even fewer ever really got the service I'm saying that while pushing myself over hours working Money coming but the check go quick whenever that I get it Busy spending so much time I never get to reap and feel it I been dodging lust of eyes the pride of life And flesh depression Loving sisters without making romance an objective Lessening neglect of all my family connections Hit the south, the west, the hood Looking like Daniel In the white van from my pastor for Thanksgiving Y'all been wanting Belteshazzar but no slave is in me Word to Libya I'm praying quickly Times is crazy Soon be ending But I know that only mean a new beginning so This for everyone who ever prayed for me Came before the throne but never just to say you told me Did it all along when I was short with your for worries I'm still growing since alone(a loan) I bank on hope I been ignoring My life I had to learn to love it Yeah (x4) Valentine to all the struggle

One time This is for mine And yours Yours mine and ours Time is winding down This is how I feel This is where I was at Last week I almost died three times Right now I'm in the Word that took three to rise Mind is tearing with Hellish nightmatres terror and Burying family skeletons Wrestling closets echoing pressure I tell it real never been Inconsistent with Christ-centered rhymes While cats hit a mic and turn into two time felons Guess its 808s, snare hits, kicks, and hi-hats That make the mind hard to snapback Recap You in the suburbs Relax But every other track describe house licks Sit down Them straps would make you get down I talk hope, cuz when you on the phone with your folk Talking tales of homelessness Tolerance for BS is too low That rapper beef for social media and youtube type beats Increasing hype and statistics not deconstructing the systemic I don't write for likes and views Kill a beat and move discretely thinking how to make some more disciples Let's Go And when its no joke this the stand up (stand up) Hope to the floor, go head get your hands up (hands up) Play this at the low when you can't manage Yeah know how it go Kin folk This here for your mind Hands high Stand by We fight This here for your mind (x2) The victors wrote American literature But martyrs penned ancient Scriptures So there's distance when my marginalized lens glimpse on patriotic temple Resident of the culture with ever present suspicion Let my lips reflect my life and not be silent or indifferent Last week Three ODs Right within my city limits Josh preached and brought conviction Moved with Chris and Kyle sitting At this table, praying and unpacking all of my intentions Leave the listener impressed or left with an imprint Power from the Spirit or attempt for relevance Pursuit of precious passion or idolatrious ambition Phishing internet attention, or men to the Commission These are parallels Parking the darkness and scarring my scarving of mantras the world had taught me Target is pleading with sheep to flee the Devil's plea bargain Run to God the Father's offer of pardon Its the Son you know And when its no joke this the stand up (stand up) Hope to the floor, go head get your hands up (hands up) Play this at the low when you can't manage Yeah know how it go Kin folk This here for your mind Hands high Stand by We fight This here for your mind (x2)