RAIN OR REIGN

Everybody wanna reign, nobody wanna feel the pain

Everybody want the crown, nobody holding it down

You can’t serve two gods, can’t walk both lanes

Either soaked in the storm, or dry in the chains

Rain or reign, homie—choose your name

Rain or reign—ain’t a damn thing changed

VERSE 1

They told me early: work hard, pray strong, wait

Someday gon’ come if I carry this weight

But the storm kept fallin’, never missed my street

Same cracked shoes, same hunger to eat

Rain in my lungs, rain in my spine

They said, “That’s character, boy, you’ll be fine”

Call it discipline, call it faith

Call it crops growin’ off my pain

But upstairs dry, balcony view

Sippin’ on necessity, sayin’ “this how we do”

They don’t feel drops, they don’t feel doubt

‘Cause feelin’ slow the hand when the orders go out

HOOK

Everybody wanna reign, nobody wanna feel the pain

Everybody want the crown, nobody holding it down

You can’t serve two gods, can’t walk both lanes

Either soaked in the storm, or dry in the chains

Rain or reign, homie—choose your name

Rain or reign—ain’t a damn thing changed

VERSE 2

You don’t hold a buildin’ up with hope and dreams

You hold it with beams they don’t never see

Belief ain’t jewelry, belief that steel

Load-bearing lies keep the whole thing real

Thin walls, thin floors, hear a baby cry

Hear a man upstairs countin’ dollars, not lives

If he felt this rain, he’d freeze in place

If I thought like him, I’d swing in his face

So they split the mind, not the money stack

Give you morals that never punch back

Tell the bottom “serve,” tell the top “win”

Call it nature, call it realism

HOOK

Everybody wanna reign, nobody wanna feel the pain

Everybody want the crown, nobody holding it down

You can’t serve two gods, can’t walk both lanes

Either soaked in the storm, or dry in the chains

Rain or reign, homie—choose your name

Rain or reign—ain’t a damn thing changed

BRIDGE (spoken / half-sung)

They choose for you before you write your name

Teach you rain… or teach you reign

Never ask what you want

Just tell you who you are

VERSE 3

Top learn early: don’t serve nobody

Care is a weakness, guilt too costly

Blood get filtered through time and space

Committees, distance, clean-handed fate

Bottom learn quick: smile through hurt

Turn pain holy, make dirt church

Serve real quiet, serve real long

Call survival love, call silence strong

Say “later” like it’s promised land

But later always slippin’ through your hands

And that’s the balance—ain’t heaven or hell

Just who stay dry and who catch hell

HOOK (final)

Everybody wanna reign, nobody wanna feel the pain

Everybody want the crown, nobody holding it down

You can’t serve two gods, can’t walk both lanes

Either soaked in the storm, or dry in the chains

Rain or reign, homie—choose your name

Rain or reign—ain’t a damn thing changed

OUTRO

You can reign…

You can serve…

You might switch if you ruthless or lucky enough

But the moment you try to do both

That whole damn roof start creakin’

And once you hear that sound…

You stop asking.

Peace