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[00:01.62]Deliver me from my enemies, O' God.
[00:08.17]Defend me from those that rise up against me.
[00:11.62]Deliver me from the work of iniquity.
[00:15.16]Save me from the brethren.
[00:18.20]Look.
[00:19.97]Mind state of a gangster from the '40s.
[00:21.93]Meet the business mind of Motown's Barry Gordey.
[00:24.96]Sorry my jewellery's so Gordie.
[00:26.86]Slid into the party with my new pair of Mauries.
[00:29.01]America, meet the gangster, Shawn Corey.
[00:33.09]Hey, young world, wanna hear a story?
[00:37.93]Close your eyes and you could pretend you're me.
[00:40.42]I'm cut from the cloth of the Kennedy's.
[00:43.07]Frank Sinatra havin' dinner with the Genovese.
[00:45.82]This is the genesis of a nemesis
[00:48.03]Mother America's not witnessed since,
[00:51.04]The Harlem Renaissance birthed black buisnesses.
[00:53.63]This is the tale of lost innocence.
[00:55.89]As the incense burn and the turntables turn and that Al Green plays,
[01:00.59]I see my mother's afro as mama taps her toes as she rose her Js.
[01:05.69]And my poppa just left the house in search of the killer of my uncle, Ray.
[01:10.36]And she's tryna calm my nerves, as I observe.
[01:14.76]This is just one day.
[01:17.34]And what tomorrow has in store,
[01:19.84]We can never be sure so all we can do is
[01:21.54]...Pray.
[01:22.82]Because of Your strength, while I walked upon Thee.
[01:26.87]For God is my defense.
[01:29.18]Pray for me!
[01:31.60]As I head to my homeroom, I observe the rooms:
[01:34.54]Dope needles on the ground.
[01:36.30]I hear a car go vroom, drug dealer in the BM' with the top down.
[01:40.17]As the girls start to giggle, I ask, "Why you laugh?"
[01:45.06]They say, "You too little.
[01:46.97]One day you'll understand.
[01:49.37]One day you'll become a man, buy things you have to get you."
[01:55.03]Fast-forward, freeze frame: I'm a pistol.
[01:57.10]Fist full of dollars — ignorance is so blissful.
[01:59.33]I didn't choose this life, this life chose me.
[02:00.40]Around here is the shit that you just do.
[02:01.72]I just left school.
[02:03.43]The same BM' is pulled over by the boys dressed blue.
[02:05.64]They have their guns drawn screamin',
[02:08.24]"Just move unless there's something else you suggest we can do."
[02:12.11]He made his way to the trunk, opened it like,
[02:14.86]"Huh?..." A treasure chest was removed.
[02:17.08]Cop said he'll be back next month.
[02:18.76]What we called 'corrupt,' he called 'paying dues.'
[02:22.09]Now when the rules is blurred, as they is you were,
[02:24.98]What am I to do but Pray?
[02:26.85]Pray the Lord forgive me.
[02:29.58]Pray God's been by what I'm about to go through.
[02:31.74]...Pray.
[02:33.32]Deliver me in Thy righteousness and cause me to escape.
[02:35.52]And climb Thyn heir unto me.
[02:39.68]Save me, O' Lord.
[02:41.67]Pray for me!
[02:42.84]Cheea.
[02:43.66]Anywhere there's o-ppression in the drug profession, flourishes like breverages.
[02:46.95]Refreshin'; ahhh, sweet taste of sin.
[02:49.54]Everything I seen made me everything I am.
[02:52.10]Bad drug dealer or victim, my bag?
[02:55.06]What came first — movin' chickens or the egg?
[02:57.61]This is why I be so fresh.
[02:59.37]I'm tryna beat life 'cause I can't cheat death.
[03:02.33]'Preciate the shamelessness and stainlesses that aim this is.
[03:07.28]You know the game this is.
[03:09.11]Move coke like Pepsi, don't matter what the brand name is.
[03:12.04]...I stand behind mine.
[03:15.22]Everything I do I'm a man behind mine.
[03:17.31]I'm not an angel I'm sure, but every night before I lay,
[03:21.46]I drop my knees to the floor and I Pray.
[03:23.66]The name shall endure forever.
[03:28.15]The name shall be continued as long as the Son.
[03:31.41]Pray for me!
[03:33.87]Men shall be blessed in Him.
[03:35.72]All nations shall call Him blessed.
[03:38.89]In Your name I Pray.
[03:41.53]Pray for me!
[03:43.32]Lord bless Him.
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