| Amen! |
| Oops, I meant three men!
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| Here to raise the underground the way it should’ve been
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| But not to rock gospel or to sound hostile
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| But glad I seen the light before I wound up as a fossil
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| But this ain’t church because my song is kind of different
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| And if you feel the music I can tell you feel the spirit
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| So swing the tambourine as I take you to a scene
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| Of the underground — know what I mean?
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| So this here’s my anthem, sort of light my national
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| And people still say it from the streets to the classroom
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| I don’t believe it! |
| Well glory hallelujah!
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| And it’s cause I got to get funky like tuna
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| I’m not a Muslim or Christian or Baptist
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| But yo I give thanks if you listen to me rap this
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| Now who’s the reverend? |
| That’s the next question
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| My moms, my grams and, uh, my mother’s husband
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| Now Funke Man’s my deacon cause he backs me while I’m speaking
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| And Jazz is the pastor cause he mixed the crazy beats and, uh
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| My congregation backs me like a choir
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| Precious Lord! |
| And then we were hired to
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| Freak the underground and bring back the Hip-Hop on a
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| Peaceful journey like «Hey, baby won’t stop»
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| So where you worship? |
| A chapel in a small town?
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| No matter what I plays God in the underground
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| (?) is here! |
| Bow your heads for the prayer!
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| (?) is here! |
| Bow your heads for the prayer!
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| Kumbaya my lord! |
| What?
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| My lord! |
| What? |
| My lord!
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| While I do my thing, while you sing!
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| Kumbaya my Lord! |
| Kumbaya!
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| Now chill, watch me wreck this!
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| Now in my underground there’s no (?) or baptism
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| Punk emcees? |
| I dismiss them with my rhythmic exorcism
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| Lord Jazz! |
| Hit me one time for the deacon!
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| I want to give a sermon but my beeper keeps on beeping!
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| So DoItAll, step into the (?)
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| While I get to a prayer so I can see who’s trying to reach me
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| Why should I front like he’s hard when he’s cotton?
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| Why should I front like he’s fresh when he’s rotten?
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| Why should I front like he’s down when he’s not?
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| Why should I front underground when it’s pop?
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| I write more lyrics on the scroll and more (?)
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| I (?) my 40 runneth over
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| (?) wackness
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| I should deny the brother cause these brothers need practice
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| And I should set a table in the presence of my brothers
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| (?) whether I’m wrong or right, I put no one above us
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| Between us there’s a rhyme that no one could ever summon
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| And I should dwell in the underground for ever
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| To interrupt my sermon is really kind of bold
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| So may the good lords have mercy on your soul
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| (?) is here! |
| Bow your heads for the prayer!
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| (?) is here! |
| Bow your heads for the prayer!
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| (?) is here! |
| Bow your heads for the prayer!
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| (?) is here! |
| Bow your heads for the prayer!
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| Little Jimmy Swaggart was sitting in a tree
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| Jimmy (?) was rich but Jimmy (?) went crazy
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| Now you understand! |
| Now you understand!
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| How people go to church in the underground land
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| Why? |
| Cause your modern day religion is busted!
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| The preacher is a thief and the others can’t be trusted!
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| They walk around the church, collecting all your dough
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| Where will the buck stop? |
| Nobody knows!
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| It’s (?) to gamble — oh ain’t that a pity!
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| What’s up with all the bus rides? |
| You know, Atlantic city?
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| The Trump Taj Mahal or maybe The Castle
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| (?) the jackpot — (?)
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| By the way, by the way, you just hit the jackpot!
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| What are you going to do next?
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| Well, I’m going to the promise land in my brand new Cadillac!
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| So don’t get mad if we don’t (?)
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| We might appear against the church, but that’s not what I’m saying
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| And if you think we’re fighting, you might just need to take a second look
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| You never know, your preacher just might be a crook
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| So if you won a grand, but you don’t want to get caught out there
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| Everybody steal it, clap your hands for the lords' prayer |