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Thug Joint

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Hip-Hop/Rap

Thug Joint was released on November 9, 1999 by Amba Music as a part of the album Christology in Laymen's Terms

Song Details

AlbumChristology in Laymen's Terms

Release DateNovember 9, 1999

LabelAmba Music

LanguageEnglish

Melodicness

Acousticness

Valence

Danceability

Energy

BPM94

OVERVIEW

LYRICS

Music Video

Music Video

Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS

The Ambassador

Performer

COMPOSITION & LYRICS

William Branch

Songwriter

Lyrics

Ahh, somebody's gotta help me

Something's wrong

I'm changing, this can't be

I used to be a thug

But now I'm a believer

I used to be a thug (I know God is real)

I used to be a thug

But now I'm a believer

No more thug

And no more deals

I used to be a thug

But now I'm a believer

I used to be a thug (I know God is real)

I used to be a thug

But now I'm a believer

No more thug

And no more deals

Okay doc my occupation was thugging

The whole nine

I mean the robbing, the dealing, the mugging

The clubing, the pre-marital loving

The type to put one in the oven

But I wasn't trying be the husband

Sin was lord, and I always obeyed the master

It told me, sell drugs, just to get the paper faster

Let me go to church

But wouldn't let me imitate the pastor

It only let me imitate my favorite rapper

So the deal was I grew up

Doing the ill stuff

Would fight the cops

Til they threw on the steel cuffs

Go in, do my bid like the mack

When it was done

Say "cool out kids, I'll be back"

But lately

There's been some friction

I've been feeling sort of sick

From this heart condition

It's an unusual affliction

When I do wrong

That's when it kicks in

From your description

You know it sounds like conviction

I knew something was going wrong

When I bumped into a kid so soft

I thought his name should be Pumpkin, recognizing

He was a weaker type of creature

I decided to take his beeper and his sneakers

You could tell for this kid

That a fight was a rare sport

Cause with ease I held him up like flights in an airport

He pleaded

Don't take my beeper, I need it

And

Not my sneaks let me keep my brand new Adidas

That's when signs of the sickness manifested

My mind said

Be nice and do what the man suggested

I broke down like a fraction

Gave him back what I took away, like subtraction

I'm puzzled and I'm struggling

Through this distraction

The reciprocal of my typical reaction

Dag blast him, I made tracks and

Then a flashback happened

That's when the rugged me kicked back in

I used to be a thug

But now I'm a believer

I used to be a thug (I know God is real)

I used to be a thug

But now I'm a believer

No more thug

And no more deals

I used to be a thug

But now I'm a believer

I used to be a thug (I know God is real)

I used to be a thug

But now I'm a believer

No more thug

And no more deals

Now last week I was in my dad's black jeep

Rolling mad deep with mad peeps smashed in the back seat

We took a back street a Pontiac tried to pass me, I sped up

And made him crash by the trash heap

The accident was nasty, if you ask me I would laugh (Ha)

But then it happened again (Ahh, no)

The sickness harassed me

Oh no not again

I had hurt a lot of men

But never felt bad before even when I shot a friend

For ease I thought I should step to the weed spot

Cause I was loosing my cool like melted freeze pops

My knees knocked as my conscience eaves-dropped

Found the weak spot and said

You sin too much, please stop

Peep the situation as it gets deeper

I started getting second thoughts

About getting the reefer but what scared me

Was this internal reasoning it was:

'God sees ya man, and you're not pleasing Him' (Ahh-ahh, ahh-ahh)

This was hard to swallow like food without seasoning

Me believe in Him? I'd rather not breathe again

Before receiving Him

You would see a turtle, beat a rabbit and a cheetah

In the one-hundred-meter sprint

That's all that was the last straw

I was ready to blast off

To a place I didn't have enough cash for

But with the swiftness, the sickness turned up the pitch

And with the quickness, I felt it clutch me like a stick shift (Ugh)

I used to be a thug

But now I'm a believer

I used to be a thug (I know God is real)

I used to be a thug

But now I'm a believer

No more thug

And no more deals

I used to be a thug

But now I'm a believer

I used to be a thug (I know God is real)

I used to be a thug

But now I'm a believer

No more thug

And no more deals

Yeah

You have no idea just how absurd it is

But check the word of this witness

Now, get this, I heard of this crew

That could rip rhymes murderously

But I heard it would be Christian

I thought, absurd as can be and churches to me

Can make the hard rocks feel nervous

But I went cause I heard this would be an outdoor service

I got there

And saw mad youth, nodding to mad truth

Rocking mad hats and boots and not plaid suits

As truth crashed through my heart ached like a bad tooth

This hard rock got softer than brown spots on bad fruit

I came with a heart of stone, like a statue

Then the rap group got under my skin like a tattoo

They rapped about a Man dying and I was crying

They said He died, so I could be saved like Private Ryan

We all could see zoomorphically

He's a Lion coming to rule, from Zion

With a scepter of iron

Trying to hold back

Tears that wanted to flow jack

Couldn't control that

It felt like my soul cracked in half

And Jesus started looking much bigger

Than drugs or liquor, or thugs pulling a trigger

And it was a first that, I ever felt so cursed

Next to One so perfect

My soul thirsted to worship

Scuffling, tustling my feathers, He ruffled them

I tried to duck Him and

Tried to get back to my hustling

I must have been affected more than I could have imagined

Cause that's been, all I could think about

Since it happened

I used to be a thug

But now I'm a believer

I used to be a thug (I know God is real)

I used to be a thug

But now I'm a believer

No more thug

And no more deals

I used to be a thug

But now I'm a believer

I used to be a thug (I know God is real)

I used to be a thug

But now I'm a believer

No more thug

And no more deals

Written by: William Branch

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