Pray

Deliver me from my enemies, o God

Defend me from those that rise up against me

Deliver me from the work of inequities

The save me from the blood of me

Look, mind state of a gangster from the '40s

Meet the vicious mind of Mo-Town's Berry Gordy

Turn crack rock into a chain of forty forties

Sorry, my jewelry so gaudy

Slid into the party with my new pair of Maury's

American meet the gangsta Shawn Corey

Hey young world wanna hear a story?

Close your eyes and you could pretend you're me

A cut from the cloth of the Kennedy's

Frank Sinatra having dinner with the Genevieve

This is the genesis of a nemesis

Mother America's not witnessed since

The Harlem renaissance birthed black businesses

This is the tale of lost innocence

As the incense burn and the turn tables turn

And that Al Green plays

I see my mother's afro as momma taps her toes and she rolls her jays

And my poppa just left the house in search of the killer of my uncle Ray

And she's trying to calm my nerves as I observe this is just one day

And what tomorrow has in store we can never be sure

So all we can do is pray

Because of your strength

While I walked upon the Earth

For God is my defense

(Pray for me)

As I head toward my home room I observe the rooms

Dope needles on the ground

I hear a car go vroom drug dealer in the BM

With the top down

As the girls start to giggle I ask why you laugh

They say you too little

One day you'll understand when you become a man

'Bout things you have to get you

Fast forward freeze frame on my pistol

Fist full of dollars, ignorance is so blissful

I didn't choose this life, this life chose me

Around here it's the shit that you just do

I just left school, the same BM is pulled over

By the boys dressed blue

They had the guns drawn screaming just move

Unless there's somethin' else you suggest we can do

He made his way to the trunk, opened it like, huh

A treasure chest was removed

Cops said he'll be back next month what we called corrupt

He called paying dues

Now, when the rules is blurred

As they is and were what am I to do?

But pray, pray the Lord forgive me

Pray God's we ride what I'm 'bout to go through

Pray

Deliver me in thy righteousness

And cause me to escape a

And climb thine air unto me

Save me, Lord

(Pray for me)

Yeah, anyway there's oppression the drug profession

Flourishes like beverages refreshin'

Sweet taste of sin, everything I've seen

Made me everything I am

Bad drug dealer or a victim I beg

What came first moving chickens or the egg?

This is why I be so fresh, I'm tryna beat life

'Cause I can't cheat death

Treat shame with shamelessness aim stainlesses

At Amoses, you know the game this is

Move coke like Pepsi

Don't matter what the brand name is

I stand behind mine, everything I do

I'ma man behind mine

I'm not an angel, I'm sure, but every night before I lay

I drop my knees to the floor and I pray

The name shall endure forever

The name shall be continued as long as the sun will

(Pray for me)

Men shall be blessed in Him

All nations shall call Him blessed

In your name, I pray

(Pray for me)

For a blessing