Preaching

Get it and spend it,

Stack it, then flip it,

No matter how you get it,

You gon’ have to spend it.

Can’t take it with you,

So don’t die greedy,

It wasn’t meant to go with us

So you gonna have to leave it.

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If it ain’t in your account,

I hope you got insurance,

‘Cause death will knock early—

And funerals be enormous

Yeah that shit get real,

And I don’t wish that on nobody,

Keep my head down in prayer,

So death don’t crash no more parties.

I just wanna see another sunrise,

Make it through another fight,

Even though they say we free,

Still feel locked up in life.

Shackles on the soul,

Chains made invisible,

System stay coded

They data us like criminals.

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Trynna install fear in us,

But I ain’t fearin’ none of ya,

You can trap the body, yeah…

But never touch the soul in us.

Mind is power —

Protect it like you’re gold,

Use it like a weapon,

Take control, take control…

We all hit our blessings

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They scarin’ our people,

Boxin’ us up in cages,

Turn freedom into favors,

And trauma into wages.

But I stand tall,

Like I’m built for war,

With peace in my chest,

Like a lion that roars.

Most of what I know,

I ain’t learn in no class,

Streets was my professor,

Pain taught it fast.

Some get rich without a degree,

But knowledge? That’s a legacy.

And I tell my kids

“School don’t make you,

But ignorance’ll break you.”

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Live and learn life,

And guard your truth,

’Cause the loudest lies

Get sold to the youth.

And your worst enemy?

Still might be you.

But your mind?

That’s your weapon too.

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So listen close when I speak this truth,

These ain’t just bars…

I’m preaching, fool.

I’m preaching.

Peace be with you.

And power too.

Move smart.

Stay true.