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Ladies and gentlemen, we know that the desk is tiny, but our God big,
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right?
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Give it up for LRA.
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>> Appreciate y'all.
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Appreciate you all this love.
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Um, obviously some people know who I am, some don't.
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But I bet you know this first song I'mma do.
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Let's check it out.
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>> I don't do the most, but I do a lot.
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I'mma make a toast cuz we still alive.
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No big.
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I feel like Pac.
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I SHOOT THE SHOT.
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I'M coming in hot.
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Yeah.
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Coming in hot.
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Hey.
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Hey.
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Look.
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Wake them up.
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Wake them up.
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See them still sleeping, so I had to shake them up.
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I kept it too real.
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I wasn't fake enough.
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My real life was a headline.
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Your real life got a deadline.
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My timeline was a hashtag hate.
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Your timeline just a hate crime coming in hot.
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Feeling like pot back in when he took shots.
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Too much dry to ride your wave.
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It's my top then I'm off that lot.
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Black on black on black on black on black on black on black.
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You don't have to ball a rap to get them racks on rags.
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Uber pullers trying to catch my vibe and ride my wave.
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Yeah, I know.
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I know I'm ratchet, but I'm really safe.
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Hot sauce drip.
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Everybody won't start dipping.
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First nobody won't listen.
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Now everybody pay attention
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and now everybody pay feet
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and even Trump got take a knee.
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When the horn blow y'all gonna see make the wall fall down like say
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I don't do the most
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but I do a lot.
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>> I'mma make a toast cuz we still alive.
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No big I feel like pot.
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I shoot the shotick.
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I'm coming in hot.
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Hey coming in hot.
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Yeah.
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Shoot that shot.
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Indeed.
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Indeed.
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Yeah.
2:01
Yeah.
2:01
Yeah.
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You know, uh, anybody got any enemies or opposition, you know,
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sometimes you just got things holding you down, spiritual forces.
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I just want to pray for that tonight.
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We're going to pray God deal with the ops.
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You know what I'm saying?
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Just ask him to deal with them.
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Holy Father, >> Holy Father, >> God in heaven, >> God in heaven, >> show your power.
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>> Show your power.
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>> Let it come.
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>> And let it come >> for your kingdom.
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>> For your kingdom lag to your spirit.
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>> Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Say, "Hey, >> spread the go."
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>> Spread the obstacle.
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>> Let's go.
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>> Spread the Let's go.
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Yeah.
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Say, "Spread the spread the spread the Who I think they hate me in
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my b.
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Ain't no part in this garden.
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If you snake me, you can't break me.
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Trying to chase me.
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When it's rocky, I move basic.
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You can't drink me.
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Fine.
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I got my feet up.
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Never scared.
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Going to put my heat up outside in the drive.
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No rear up.
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Where my op going to eat up.
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They live free us.
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Lock my family up.
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My mama told the judge he ain't no killer.
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It's all good cuz on
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that prison yard preaching about the spread the ops out.
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Now the cops out.
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Facing death.
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You want to ple but you can't cop out.
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Now you locked out.
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But I promise my God coming back when he knew was a problem.
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Got his attention, but you don't want tension.
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You're done with the smoke.
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It's too late.
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You didn't got it.
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Yeah.
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So, holy father, God in heaven, show your power,
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let it come >> for your kingom >> and for your kingdom.
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>> Yeah.
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>> Going higher.
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Yeah.
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>> Spread the go.
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>> For sure.
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Spread the house out.
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Yeah.
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>> Spread the house out.
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Spread the house out.
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Spread the house.
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>> Yes, indeed.
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Yes, indeed.
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>> So, if you know my story, you know I started in Texas,
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but also spent some time on the West Coast.
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So, can I get a little West Coast in here tonight on y'all?
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>> Doves.
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Okay.
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That's what I'm talking about.
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Yeah.
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Use your elbows out like that.
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You know what I'm talking about?
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Hey.
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Yeah.
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Like that.
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Hey.
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Hey.
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Hey.
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Look at me.
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I'm all the way turned up.
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I ain't smoking, but my homie in here burnt up.
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Yeah.
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I'm working on them, but he straight though.
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Couple girls trying to twerk it on me.
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Wake up.
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>> No.
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Before you even hold that, I'm in here with my homies.
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Let me know if you don't know that.
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Boy, you know we in here celebrating a birthday.
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Hey, it's a work day.
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No tripping.
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We ain't said tripping.
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You know we in here, man.
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Yeah, we straight dipping.
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No Molly on me and you know I ain't tripping.
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It's tiny desk in the building.
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Imperial.
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I'm here trying to function.
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Holly if you with it though.
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Probably think I'm rolling.
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I'm just high on the spirit, bro.
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Only thing that's popping is the truth.
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Y'all don't hear me though.
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Clap.
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Probably think I'm rolling.
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I ain't on nothing.
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Probably think I'm rolling.
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I ain't on nothing.
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Probably think I'm rolling.
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I ain't on nothing.
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And what I got you need to know about tell them I'm turn I'm
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turn I'm turn I'm turn I'm turn I'm turn I'm turn I'm turn I'm
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I'm turn I'm turn I'm I'm turn Yes indeed >> now we was on
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the west we got to go to the east you know New York City
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the birthplace of hip-hop music anybody hip-hop fans in here
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so I grew up on hip-hop you know hip-hop hip hop raised me.
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I'm actually what happens when the writings of Moses and hip-hop meet.
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You know what I'm saying?
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So, I just want to, you know what I'm saying?
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Just just get my bars off.
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Y'all cool with that?
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Can I just get some lyricism off tonight?
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Look look.
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Hey, you out of touch, but you feel the words I spoken.
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Do my morning meditation by the ocean.
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Spirit flowing through my whole body.
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I got motion.
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Leave a legacy without a statue or a sculpture.
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Two on ever since I was too old.
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Try to buy my soul, but they often look like a groupone.
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All my people eating.
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You know I'mma put my group on.
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You want the smoke, buy a casket and put a suit on.
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I told you you know you killing it
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when you start to see the vultures.
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Ain't no shame in Nana.
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We out in the open.
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They got tarot cards, they got pills, they got potion.
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All I need is prayer and I'm golden.
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Holy water.
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Only talk about your chain so long before they change your song.
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But that ain't holy water.
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Look, they think that rain going to stop after they pop that watch.
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But that ain't holy water.
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H look at the way we drip like we just fell off a ship.
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We got them thinking it's holy water.
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Yeah.
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All them on your wrist but can't spend time with your kids.
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Holy father got in heaven.
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Keep that cabala.
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Presidential roies.
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I name my watches Obama comma laama commas on commas don't give you honor
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and y'all don't rap your nursery rhyming like llama llama.
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Satan they sloppy lurking in lobbies looking for bodies.
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I keep it on me case I get caught up in his tsunami.
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Know they won't stop me so they watch me like it's a hobby.
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Got me in that party talking to thies looking a golly bodies on bodies
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robbies on robbies shies on shies.
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Shot up that party hopped in that Maserati.
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Nobody saw nobody even though they all witnessed the whole thing.
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Treachery in our circles.
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We lord of our own reign.
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Uh maybe it's cinema acting like ain't no sinners.
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Each of us do what's right in our own eyes at minimum.
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No benefits if you walk in your own path.
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Turn away from God and you suffer the Lord's wrath.
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Drink some holy water. only talk about your chain
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so long before they change your song,
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but that ain't holy water.
7:28
They probably think that rain going to stop after they cop that watch,
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but that ain't holy water.
7:34
Now look at the way we drip like we just fell off a ship.
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We got them thinking it's holy water, huh?
7:39
Bought them all on your wrist, but can't spend time with your kids.
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Come on, man.
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Yeah.
7:51
Now, if you're a fan of hip-hop,
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if you're a fan of hip-hop,
7:54
then you you you you know about the rap battles,
7:56
legendary rap battles like Jay-Z verse Nas, you know, J verse 50,
8:02
Kendrick vers Drake.
8:04
And in that Kendrick and Drake battle,
8:06
I got my my my phone start blowing up like, "La,
8:08
you hear what Kendrick said about you?"
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I got a little nervous like what what you mean?
8:13
But that's my guy.
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and he actually was wrestling with his demons
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and he said in the song called Watch the Party Die,
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I wonder what Lra would do.
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So I thought, man, I I got to respond to this, right?
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You know what I mean?
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So I didn't know what to say cuz I didn't want people to think
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I was clout chasing.
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So I'm going to take you to my headsp space about me responding to
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this song,
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right?
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Check this out.
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Look now, I was wrestling like, should I write a verse?
8:39
The culture got enough clout chasing vultures out here trying to prove their worth.
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They need attention.
8:45
They can't imagine me not trying to make myself look bigger off of this
8:48
Kendrick mention.
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I can't imagine his position.
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Before I got on my mission, I was a party victim.
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I bought the party favors.
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I used my trauma, my single mama,
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to justify commas to pay the devil's wages.
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Woo!
9:01
Look, that probably went over your head.
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Basically what I said is I was government fed.
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Bread for doing time and affairs but Jesus bled.
9:09
Instead of putting dents in their head, he turned heads.
9:12
My cup runth over with nonsense.
9:14
They hearts grow colder.
9:15
They let her do evil.
9:16
They burn they conscience.
9:18
I want the dealer's head who gave my cousin fentanol.
9:20
Labels exploiting rapping addicts.
9:22
Man, I'm sick of y'all.
9:23
My daddy ran with Compton Crips.
9:25
Uncle Pyroo.
9:26
Stuck in the middle of this madness.
9:28
What should I choose?
9:29
I should be choosing between Howard and Hampton.
9:31
I love the people that I ran with, but look at the damage.
9:34
You want me put you on, but I know you still with the scamming.
9:37
A crooked doctor took advantage and hooked me on Xanics.
9:40
This killer sitting in their cell for taking somebody innocent.
9:44
They don't even feel no remorse.
9:45
The worst ignorance.
9:47
But when I take a look in the mirror,
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the blood of Uriah is on my hands.
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Cuz I'm that killer who had Basha in his quarters.
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I'm that who had Eve taste the fruit of death.
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I'm dead sinner.
9:58
I deserve death along with all these liers and hypocrites.
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Fake tough rappers who fabricate their predicaments.
10:04
Fake deep guru pushing voodoo on the people telling folk
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that my God ain't real.
10:08
That's real evil.
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Huh?
10:10
I wonder what LRA would do.
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Hopefully seek the hand of God and tell them that he's incapable.
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Cuz truthfully, I'm nobody to judge.
10:18
My good deeds are like some period blood stains on a dirty rug.
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All I can offer them is Jesus love.
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I know it sound foolish to many.
10:25
Like really?
10:26
That's all you got for us?
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Yeah.
10:28
The cross is foolish to the perishing.
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The world will call me weak and the saints will say I embarrass them.
10:33
I walk the valley full of evil.
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I'm aware of it.
10:36
I can't condemn the world and burn all of the heretics.
10:39
Love is patient.
10:40
So I'm trusting in the narrative cuz Christ ain't watched the party die.
10:43
He died instead of it.
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I don't know if you heard me.
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Christ ain't watch the party die.
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He died instead of it.
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One more time for good measure.
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Christ ain't watch the party die.
10:55
He died instead of Indeed.
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>> Yeah.
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Indeed.
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Indeed.
11:08
So, so we in some weird times, you know,
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some crazy times in this world right now.
11:14
And it gets dark and even I find myself wrestling, you know,
11:17
like just navigating the chaos.
11:23
And I've had to learn sometimes you got to pray through the pain.
11:28
You know what I mean?
11:28
Like you got to thank God for the little things.
11:30
Just the fact that you woke up this morning.
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You know what I mean?
11:32
Sometimes you just got to say, "It's hard, but I still bless you."
11:37
>> Yeah.
11:37
>> Keep me in a safe place.
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When I feel far away, Lord.
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Yeah.
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>> When I don't know where I don't know where to turn.
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Bless you.
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I be praying y'all.
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>> I'm praying and I pray faithfully calling your name.
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Bless you, Lord.
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>> Yeah.
12:04
>> Yeah.
12:04
>> Bless you, Lord.
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>> I'm blessed.
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I know it.
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>> Could have went left.
12:07
I know it.
12:08
>> I lost my brother.
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He laying in lifeless.
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Only got know he going.
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Life is a gamble.
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I'm learning to dice it.
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You going to get cut up however you slice it.
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Talk to the Lord and he told me that.
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>> Yeah.
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I still walk in the dark.
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I'm a wrist take.
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I see my brother go down over big faces.
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Lawyers hitting my phone over big cases.
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Life in the dark.
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I was nocturnal.
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Mama said change.
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I was not turning.
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So full of trauma it's not funny.
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It's some things that I done I cannot stomach.
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Yeah.
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It's not accidental.
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Texas the shot.
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I hopped in that rental.
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Old block to Ktown.
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I wrote instrumentals.
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I'm walking through blocks while they clutching they pistols.
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Me and my lady was ducking in Memphis.
12:41
Shootouts and murders.
12:42
We break through the trenches.
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They think I do this to sell my little tickets.
12:45
They wasn't around.
12:45
We went on them missions.
12:46
Walking through prisons.
12:47
I give them life even after the sentence.
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I don't want money, just pay me attention.
12:51
Already love a like or a mission.
12:53
I don't play games, I just play my position.
12:54
Ven Quinton.
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I walk the yard out in Sterling by Denver.
12:57
Deal with the spirit.
12:58
I'm praying with killers.
12:59
I told him I know about a god or forgive them.
13:01
I got the joy.
13:01
Get a lord in my system.
13:02
I lost my cousin but still got his memories.
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They took his life, can't take his spirit.
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I've been through too much to be worried about a critic.
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I know he love me in spite of my sin.
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And I'm not independent.
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And I needed a victim.
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I'm leaning on him.
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Needing to know that he's Jesus is living cuz Jesus still with me.
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Yeah.
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And I'll be praying >> and I pray faithfully calling your name.
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>> Bless you, Lord.
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>> See, I'm blessed.
13:24
I know it.
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>> Left.
13:26
I know it.
13:27
>> I lost my brother.
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He laying in life.
13:29
It's only I know he going.
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And life is a gamble.
13:32
I'm learning to dice it.
13:33
You going to get caught up however you talk to the Lord
13:35
and he told me
13:37
that.
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>> Yeah.
13:38
I still walk in the dark.
13:39
I'm a risk taker.
13:41
I'm a risk taker.
13:42
Yeah.
13:42
I'm a risk taker.
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Mama said change I was not turning.
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So full of trauma it's not funny.
13:47
So full of trauma it's not funny.
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It's some things that I've done.
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I cannot stop.
13:52
>> Yeah.
13:52
But it's all right.
13:56
You know I sometimes when you going through things,
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I don't know if you like me, you be praying like, "God,
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if you get me out of this, I'mma tell everybody about you.
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I'm going to change.
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I'm going to do the right thing."
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>> >> And one day God hit me and was like,
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"Am I still not worthy for you to tell people about me?
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Even though I didn't get you out the jam,
14:16
I was with you in the jam."
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>> And it challenged me, man.
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Be like, "You know what?
14:21
No matter what, I'm going to tell the world about them."
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>> Yeah.
14:24
>> I'mma tell the world.
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Tell them.
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I'mma tell them everywhere I go.
14:28
Tell the world.
14:29
Tell them.
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I'm a bill boy.
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Tell the world.
14:33
Tell them.
14:33
I'm broadcasting like a radio.
14:36
Tell her what you want to know.
14:38
Brand new.
14:44
Yeah.
14:44
Listen, I don't know what you're dealing with, what you going through,
14:45
but I can promise you this.
14:47
If you woke up this morning, that's all the evidence you need to know.
14:50
Your story's not done.
14:52
Still being written.
14:54
So hang on.
14:54
Keep fighting.
14:55
Keep on fighting, man.
14:56
Don't give up.
14:57
Yeah.
14:59
>> Fight a little longer, my friend.
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>> Yeah.
15:03
It's all worth it in the end.
15:06
And when you got nobody to turn to, hold on and I'll find you.
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>> I'll find you.
15:13
I'll find you.
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>> I'll find you.
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>> I'll find you.
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>> Yeah.
15:17
Hold on and I'll find you.
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>> Yeah.
15:20
I'm hanging on by your thread.
15:22
And all I'm clinging to is prayers.
15:24
And every breath is like a battle.
15:25
I feel like I ain't come prepared cuz death's knocking on the front door.
15:29
Pain's creeping through the back.
15:31
Fears crawling through the windows, waiting for him to attack.
15:34
They say, "Don't get bitter, get better."
15:36
I'm working on switching them letters.
15:38
But tell God, I'mma need a whole lot of hope.
15:40
Keeping it together.
15:42
Smiling in everyone's face.
15:43
I'm crying whenever they leave a room.
15:45
They don't know the battle I face.
15:47
They don't understand what I'm going through.
15:49
The world trying to play with my soul.
15:50
I'm just trying to find what I thought.
15:52
I'm trying to remember the way.
15:54
I'm trying to get back to my own,
15:56
but I can't do this on my own.
15:58
That's why I'm just trusting in you cuz I don't know where else to
16:00
go and I don't know what else to do.
16:03
Fight >> a little longer, my friend.
16:08
>> Yeah.
16:08
>> It's all worth it in the end.
16:10
>> When you got >> When you got nobody to turn to and I'll find you.
16:18
>> Come on.
16:18
>> I'll find you.
16:20
>> I'll find you.
16:21
That's right.
16:22
>> Just hold on and I'll find you.
16:25
>> I'll find you.
16:27
I'll find you.
16:28
Yeah.
16:29
Wait a little longer and I'll find you.
16:33
By you.
16:34
I'll find you.
16:37
Hold on.
16:38
I'll find you.
16:40
I will I will I will find you.
16:50
Yeah.
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Oh.
17:02
Yeah.
17:02
>> >> Ladies and gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen, give it up for Madison, Liz, Mayhem, Swoop,
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Nate, Josh, Mike, and Joe.
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My name is Craig.
17:17
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