Brown Skin Jesus (Outro)
[Verse 1: Kemba]
A king arisen out the depths you least expected
Even brown skin Jesus wasn't easily accepted
Wielding Thor's hammer with the easiest of efforts
Streets rated E for effort put the BB on the dresser
You a man now
Time to lead the people from the wretched
It's getting hard to see through the debris that's in the wreckage
Teach 'em to protect themselves from demons and their pressures false deities and heathens
False freedoms and oppressors nigga
"Lord have mercy" I got it
The type to name the source of foreign fabrics by the texture
The type to never talk but more emphatic by the lecture
The type to make the motives more apparent by the gestures
Nigga, we on opposite ends of different spectra
You enter when intended no incentive to do extra
There's lightning in this bottle my descendant was Electro
You be battling with rappers I'm competitive with Tesla
Thomas Edison of rap
I raised you as my own the Florence Henderson of rap
The type of nigga ain't nobody better than in rap
And if that ain't a fact then has there ever been a fact?
I got you questioning that fact "like what is life?"
My limits like Percy and Silkk the Shocker Master P and Huey P meets N'yami and King T'Chaka, look that up
And to the victims of police brutality, rest in peace
Even brown skin Jesus would say FTP, nigga
[Hook]
My folks say home's the only altar
I overdosed on holy water
Holy, Holy
Holy, Holy
I hope I get to know the Father
I overdosed on holy water
Holy, Holy
Lord behold me
[Verse 2: Kemba]
Look at the cops the crips and bloods and see one difference
How many of us bang and then get waved the consequences?
I know some people claim they tried to change and got defensive, yea but most my niggas aimed to join a gang with good intentions, it's the same thing
The fireflies come alive in the nighttime
Do you realize we might see the end of time in our lifetime?
At this point even I'm surprised I'm alive in my right mind
The Mario Luigi of the school-to-prison pipeline dammit
They love it when I talk but hate it when I talk my shit
The FCC working extra shifts when I talk like this
You really trying to replace the kid after all I did?
I never seen you pass 1, 2, 5th on the 4, 5, 6
I never seen you pass 1, 16th on the 1, 2, 3, strangers got you shaking uncomfortably 'less you come through me
Crosses caught in the cross hairs across the army
Who the hell am I to pray to if I recognize I'm Godly nigga?
[Hook]
My folks say home's the only altar
I overdosed on holy water
Holy, Holy
Holy, Holy
I hope I get to know the Father
I overdosed on holy water
Holy, Holy
Lord behold me
[Outro]
If you teach that boy to run, he'll learn to hide for another day
But if you teach that boy to fly, you saved his life
I said if you teach that boy to run, he'll learn to hide for another day
If you teach that boy to fly, you saved his life
But if you teach that boy to fly, don't be surprised, he doesn't stick around
Keep your head up to the sky, you never know, he could be looking down
And travel all over the world, and tell all the little boys and girls
About that land that taught him everything
It taught him everything