This thing is fatal, long before the cradle 

While prenatal, sin seeped in through your navel

None escape the curse, cause none escape the verse

Cheeze, please put away the purse 

Cause there's a thief coming to pull off a heist

Appraise your life and smash up your ice

How bad can it get, well, you gonna throw a fit

when all your Bling! Bling! turns to psst, psst

All your shine will be snuffed

all your Plat. will turn rust

but what do you do when life's a must

Is what your screaming, but your meaning is leaning

cause that would make your existence no different than a demon

Cause though we too were condemned, each man now has a choice

to choose Christ and rep with more than your voice

Cause just what is it that you're really telling me,

when you say you love God but live the life of  Be-elzee?

Even demons tried to say, "Son of God, what up?"

Jesus would turn ice grill and say, "Shut up!"

How you gonna try and praise the Most High,

when you know your native tongue is a lie

So if you say you see life through the eye of Minolta

Picture what Christ condemns in our culture

Peep the clear picture, It's a muddy mixture

How is a Celtic gonna play 76'er?

We need elixir, when the trickster seems Royal 

Yall, McDonalds don't serve flame broil

If your truly lost, but now found 

If He's truly lifted up, hold it down 

 

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You try to show'em day from night (They're like, "What!")

You try to tell'em wrong from right 

You say yo live the life

That's why we gotta hold it down 

You tell'em righteousness is tight (They're like, "What!")

You tell'em to walk in the Light

Praise God when you get your Mic

That's why we gotta hold it down

In front of rich men and Ceasars  (Hold it down)

When everybody's screaming Jesus 

Even if they ain't believers

 

And this ain't vendetta, love is better

we just saying if it's real you can smell (the) leather

Like Niagara equals Falls

vapor action equals Halls

and true Lemonheads tighten up jaws

We talking Cause and Effect,or called and elect

Which means when Christ chose you

You lose the choice to select

Whether or not 

You think righteous living is hot

When heavenly minded

It's the only choice you got

It's getting late, every soldier got to carry his weight

Yo, we contending for the faith Baby Boy 

And you to Sis, If you chose to enlist 

In His Salvation Army then it goes like this 

Because of the sacrificial bleeder, we follow the leader

feed the soul and starve the Saturday night fever

Either give a committed pound and bring your sword

Or side with this world, name your Lord! 

Cause the True God don't need an upgrade like your Pentium 

Why change His whole steez to meet the needs of this millennium? 

He won't and you can't, So like the deer pants

If you thirst after God, Then raise up those hands 

Our God has got plans, Much different from man's 

So either choose His, Or be down with Satan's 

But you can't love both, believe me you'll choke 

taking deep breaths in Heaven, While inhaling hell smoke 

Both wheat and both tare, grow up together right here 

And we can't separate, and that Christ made clear 

But he also gave Truth, To let us see Duke 

You can hide behind lies, But can't hide fruit 

So if you headed Uptown, And like how this sounds

Then keep them hands up, for a sign that your down

If you were once lost , but now your once found 

Then All God's people, gotta "Hold it down!" 

 

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