Benediction

[00:01.09] Intro

[00:13.05] Started off in the streets

[00:16.80] We would take collection from the fiends

[00:20.30] People dying all around me

[00:23.08] So I gave you my testimony

[00:26.33] We were down from the beginning

[00:30.06] When the world wasn't listening

[00:33.55] Now that I got your attention

[00:36.34] Let us end with the benediction

[00:39.30] We are gathered here today

[00:41.83] Paying our respects to being broke, hope he's in a better place

[00:45.55] 'Cause life out here ain't sweet, oh no

[00:48.82] I would close my eyes to sleep, but didn't dream no more

[00:52.05] So I had to make a way for my home, you know

[00:55.30] Now I'm in a place where I ain't gotta scheme no more

[00:58.55] The good life, I'm done with the hood life

[01:01.30] I did what I could, didn't always do what I should and I was misunderstood

[01:05.80] So many nights I tried

[01:08.80] To hide how I felt, I would cry inside

[01:11.80] And I ran through the streets 'til my feet got tired

[01:15.30] 'Cause I ain't wanna have my shoes on them power lines

[01:18.59] But I made it, and it made me

[01:21.05] I know I did wrong, I pray to God he forgave me

[01:25.80] 'Cause I made it, it didn't kill me

[01:28.05] So it made me stronger, I pray to God that you feel me,that you feel me

[01:32.30] Hook: August Alsina]

[01:33.30] Started off in the streets

[01:36.30] We would take collection from the fiends

[01:39.62] People dying all around me

[01:42.55] So I gave you my testimony

[01:46.55] We were down from the beginning

[01:50.09] When the world wasn't listening

[01:53.06] Now that I got your attention

[01:56.06] Let us end with the benediction

[01:58.30] Our father, who art in heaven

[02:00.80] I pray you free me from my demons and keep me level

[02:03.80] I know you kept me out of prison, where I was heading

[02:07.09] When I heard somebody killed my brother, one-eighty-seven

[02:10.05] I hope he made it to your presence, for me he was a blessing

[02:13.86] At least I know he's rested and he ain't out here:

[02:17.05] Tryna get to the good life and out of this hood life

[02:20.34] I pray that my step-pops lay off that crack pipe

[02:23.80] So mama could sleep nights, I know it's been hard on her

[02:27.80] I was ripping through the streets, it was hard for her

[02:31.30] Now I'm up in hotels on the ocean shore

[02:34.55] When I was sleeping on the floor at the corner store

[02:37.82] But I made it, and it made me

[02:40.55] I know I did wrong, I pray to God he would save me

[02:44.11] 'Cause I made it, it didn't kill me

[02:47.05] So it made me stronger, I pray to God that you feel me, you could feel me

[02:52.60] Started off in the streets

[02:55.30] We would take collection from the fiends

[02:59.05] People dying all around me

[03:01.80] So I gave you my testimony

[03:05.86] We were down from the beginning

[03:09.30] When the world wasn't listening

[03:12.36] Now that I got your attention

[03:14.92] Let us end with the benediction

[03:17.65] Bottle after bottle, snatchin' Belaire out the bucket

[03:21.15] Rightin' all my wrongs for these homies out here thuggin'

[03:24.45] Pray for benediction, pretty women on my premise

[03:27.65] Condo out in Cabo, screamin' "GABOS" to my nemesis

[03:30.90] Gold around my neck, I'm ballin' for these final minutes

[03:34.41] Nothin' lasts forever, for these sins I seek repentance

[03:37.66] Shots fired, another gone, I feel that man's pain

[03:40.94] Daddy sat me down and said, "That came with the game"

[03:44.15] Shake my head, roll up the window, turnin' up the music

[03:47.15] So much anger in these songs for these soldiers that we losin'

[03:50.70] A mastermind is one who's feedin' others off his talent

[03:53.96] I owe it to my city i think it's time I pay my balance

[03:56.98] I'm in Holyfield's estate, I started with a pallet

[04:00.51] I made my first tape, I gave that shit to Khaled

[04:03.76] Thankful for my supporters, everyone that ever bought us

[04:07.24] Grateful for every lesson these Miami streets taught us

[04:11.94] Started off in the streets

[04:14.69] We would take collection from the fiends

[04:17.94] People dying all around me

[04:20.94] So I gave you my testimony

[04:24.94] We were down from the beginning

[04:28.19] When the world wasn't listening

[04:31.69] Now that I got your attention

[04:34.51] Let us end with the benediction