Facts

Peace does not come before salvation and salvation does not come without truth
 I will only tell the truth
 I will only tell the truth
 Incoming
 Truth, truth, truth, truth
 Truth, truth, truth, truth, truth
 People wonderin', is he woke or just a new slave?
 Old religion, he just covered it with new chains
 Choppin' out to church, he ain't really fake
 He divisive, he don't rep the King, he just want the fame
 Aw man, now they actin' like I'm suddenly political
 Told me shut my mouth and get my checks from Evangelicals
 Where my momma raised me, on Angela and Eldris
 Chuck Berry made it, but the credit went to Elvis
 Know you never knew that, know you think I'm too black
 I just think I'm too real, I grew up on 2Pac
 You grew up thinkin' that the Panthers was some terrorists
 I grew up hearin' how they fed my momma eggs and grits
 'Crae, they say you should follow in the steps of King
 I say, you've forgotten how they shot him in the streets
 I ain't really changed, it's the same old rebel
 Still a radical, I'm passionate, it's just another level (leggo)
 AT told me I should fight back
 They don't like that (they don't)
 Just know if you rock the boat you better have a life raft (what?)
 BJ told me I should fight back
 They don't like that
 Just know if you rock the boat you better have a life raft, woo
 I will only tell the truth (facts)
 People can't abide by a truth, they prefer fantasy over reality (facts)
 I will only tell the truth
 I am for truth no matter who tells it
 I will only tell the truth
 I am for justice no matter who it is for or against (facts)
 Rose up out the dungeon
 I was feelin' haunted
 Now I'm bein' hunted
 And I'm on a hunnid
 Hit the gas, gunning
 Skip the past running
 Tell 'em they could bring that
 If they really want it
 I, I'm on the hometeam
 You just running with the wrong team
 Never take 'em with the heavyweights or, boy, you'll die and need a little protein
 Southside on the Yellowstone, had a ham bone and a white tee
 And a 12-pack of that real talk and I'm drunk, tell 'em, come find me
 Draped up, dripped out, covered in the blood
 Man, I hang where they cripped out, sippin' on a mug
 Where they swingin', got the whips out, watch 'em pop trunk
 Yeah, I know it's hella dark, but I'm tryna light it up
 Now these people swear they on me, sendin' out threats
 Told me keep my mouth shut, told me be a Stepin Fetchit
 I will not oblige to your colonized way of faith
 My Messiah died for the world, not just USA
 They say, Jesus was Conservative
 Tell 'em, that's a lie
 No, he not a Liberal either if you think I'll choose a side
 They say, 'Crae, you so divisive, shouldn't be a black church
 I say, Do the math, segregation started that first
 Hey, you want unity? Then read a eulogy
 Kill the power that exists up under you and over me
 I said, you want unity? Then read a eulogy
 Kill the power that exists up under you and over me, woo (facts)
 So reconciliation or conciliation requires defrauded parties to be made whole
 Not just apologizing for the offense
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 I was waitin' for the right time to tell y'all how I feel
 And, yeah, I know that it hurts, but look, it's gon' heal
 I waited 'til I was on prime time before I let y'all know
 And you prolly won't wanna hear my music no more
 But it's all good, man, I love y'all
 Hope you know that I'm black black
 Traded my Smart Car for a Cadillac, can you handle that?
 And I love God
 I love Jesus, the one out of Nazareth
 Not the European with the ultra perm and them soft eyes and them thin lips
 And I'm still hood
 Been in the 'burbs for quite some time
 But I still might hit the gas station for the Lemonheads and the pork rinds
 And I'm on one
 Yeah, 116 been real
 Binghamton, Tennessee, from Third Ward to Ceiling Hill
 And I live in multiple world, call me a hybrid 'cause I'm so black
 Young theologian who educated, but still be at that Chicken Shack, yeah
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 Lemme get two-piece