[Hook] They see me shining and I'm popping But I came from the darkness They don’t know what I did to get up out of it Well you should know about it, yo
[Verse 1] So I'm a go to war never should’ve let us in Just a veteran with medicine like Excederin I see your life is all dead in sin So I drop a light just for the world like it’s Edison Let me in you looking cock eyed Ya two-face screw-face head-flopped lop-side I am an emcee with a pop side So all these years you think I did it for ya top five Nah I ain't care who the hot guy Came with a hot line like way before Pac died I’m over here while ya walk by While I'm on point just like the tooth up in a shark bite I push a rhyme like a fast car And ran thru my bars like an alcoholic track star So when you bragging all on who you are Been there done that a t-shirt and a scar
[Hook] They see me shining and I'm popping But I came from the darkness They don’t know what I did to get up out of it Well you should know about it, yo
Know what I’m trying to accomplish But all they ever did was doubt it But God got me through the nonsense You should know about it
[Verse 2] Imagine me letting the comments move me Imagine me letting the pressure from the game consume me When I been on blocks where they all would shoot me Yeah they got more bloods than a scary movie Little so and so from the suburbs Don’t try and rate what I’m doing with these nouns and verbs Just giving you my life story over these words Recollecting all the things that could’ve put me in the dirt Yeah I got plaques on plaques with racks on racks on racks But I would throw it all away for a convo with my Dad And tell him I forgive him for the times that he ran I finally understand what it takes to be a man I just tell it like it is and let God do the rest Don’t compare me to your favorite rapper he is not a threat I'd-a quit a long time ago if this was for a check I’m just trying to give life before I see my death .. it’s minor
[Hook] They see me shining and I'm popping But I came from the darkness They don’t know what I did to get up out of it Well you should know about it
Know what I’m trying to accomplish But all they ever did was doubt it But God got me through the nonsense You should know about it
[Verse 3] You are the passenger see me just when I'm blasting it I’m a hold the mic like a baby in a bassinet I’m a hold the light kind of high I’m never passing it Now because of Christ I'm resurrected like I'm Lazarus I got them passionate rhymes for your mind kind of hazardous See a man came from Nazareth that they labeled average He was born with a star in the sky just like an asterisk He took the chains from you and I boom then he shattered it So sin is a labyrinth no hopes of getting out of it So man can you fathom it it sounds quite elaborate But there's a rope and a ladder to pull you out of it Anyplace I can cope its no matter just how bad it get We all shattered battered broken down and sick Tattered heads ratted walk around like we out it Yet my Lord is coming back just to grab his kids And when He returns to the earth He’ll establish it
[Hook] They see me shining and I'm popping But I came from the darkness They don’t know what I did to get up out of it Well you should know about it
Yo, Know what I’m trying to accomplish? But all they ever did was doubt it But God got me through the nonsense You should know about it, yo