Pray - A Cappella

Deliver me from my enemies, oh, God

Defend me from those that rise up against me

Deliver me from the work of iniquity

And save me from the Bloody Men

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

Meets the business mind of Motown's Berry Gordy

Turned crack rock into a chain of 40-40's

Sorry my jewelry's so gaudy

Slid into the party with my new pair of Mauris

America, meet the gangster Shawn Corey

Hey young world, wanna hear a story?

Close your eyes and you can pretend you're me

I'm cut from the cloth of the Kennedys

Frank Sinatra, having dinner with the Genovese

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 turntables turn

And that Al Green plays

I see my mother's afro

As mama taps her toes, as she rolls her J's

And my papa just left the house

In search of the killer of my Uncle Ray

And she's trying to calm her 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 thee

For God is my defense (pray for me!

As I head to my homeroom

I observe the ruins

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 laughing?"

They say, "You're too little

One day you'll understand

When you become a man

About things you have to get you"

Fast forward, freeze frame on my pistol, fistful 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 their guns drawn

Screaming, "Just move!"

"Or is there something 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 calls 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 He guides me by for what I'm 'bout to go through, pray

Deliver me in thy righteousness

And cause me to escape

And climb thine air unto me

Save me thine Lord (pray for me)

Yeah, anywhere there's oppression

The drug profession flourishes like beverages

Refreshing, ahh, sweet taste of sin

Everything I seen, made me everything I am

Bad drug dealer or victim, I beg

What came first?

Moving chickens or the egg?

This I why I be so fresh

I'm trying to beat life 'cause I can't cheat death

Treat shame with shamelessness

Aim stainless at anuses

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'm a 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 (pray for me)

Men shall be blessed in Him

All nations shall call Him blessed

In your name I pray (pray for me)

Lord bless us