[00:00.95]Benediction-August Alsina&Rick Ross
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[04:12.28][02:52.73][01:33.68][00:14.20]Started off in the streets
[04:14.84][02:55.67][01:36.59][00:17.34]We would take collection from the fiends
[04:17.78][02:59.01][01:39.95][00:20.78]People dyin' all around me
[04:20.95][03:01.82][01:42.71][00:23.52]So I gave you my testimony
[04:24.02][03:05.59][01:46.39][00:27.02]We were down from the beginnin'
[04:28.08][03:08.92][01:49.84][00:30.50]When the world wasn't listenin'
[04:31.28][03:12.26][01:53.10][00:33.99]Now that I got your attention
[04:34.68][03:15.48][01:56.32][00:37.12]Let us end with the benediction
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[00:39.68]We are gathered here today
[00:42.09]Paying our respects to bein' broke, hope he's in a better place
[00:46.02]Cause life out here ain't sweet, oh no
[00:48.87]I would close my eyes to sleep but didn't dream no more
[00:52.18]So I had to make a way for my home, you know
[00:55.40]Now I'm in a place where I ain't gotta scheme no more
[00:58.79]The good life, I'm done with the hood life
[01:01.66]I did what I could didn't always do what I should and I was misunderstood
[01:06.58]So many nights I tried
[01:09.38]To hide how I felt, I would cry inside
[01:12.20]And I ran through the streets till my feet got tired
[01:15.46]Cause I ain't wanna have my shoes on them power lines
[02:38.07][01:18.69]But I made it, and it made me
[02:40.69][01:21.52]I know I did wrong, I pray to God he forgave me
[02:43.68][01:24.59]Cause I made it, it didn't kill me
[02:47.07][01:28.06]So it made me stronger, I pray to God that you feel me, that you feel me...
[01:58.77]Our father who art in heaven
[02:00.89]I pray you free me from my demons and keep me level
[02:04.25]I know you kept my out of prison where I was headin'
[02:07.15]When I heard someone killed my brother, one-eighty-seven
[02:10.41]I hope he made it to your presence, for me he was a blessin'
[02:14.04]At least I know he's restin' and he ain't out here stressin'
[02:17.48]Tryna get to the good life, and out of this hood life
[02:20.75]I pray that my step-pops lay off that crack pipe
[02:24.14]So mama could sleep at night, I know it's been hard on her
[02:27.63]I was ripping through the streets, it was hard for her
[02:31.03]Now I'm up in hotels on the ocean shore
[02:34.25]When I was sleepin' on the floor at the corner store
[03:18.74]Bottle after bottle, snatching Belaire out the bucket
[03:21.03]Rightin' all my wrongs for these homies out here thuggin'
[03:24.22]Pray for benediction, pretty women on my premise
[03:26.63]Condo out in Cabo, screaming "GABOS" to my nemesis
[03:28.91]Gold around my neck I'm ballin' for these final minutes
[03:34.05]Nothing lasts forever, for these sins I seek repentance
[03:37.40]Shots fired, another gone, I feel that man's pain
[03:40.57]Daddy sat me down and said: "that came with the game"
[03:44.06]Shake my head, roll up the window, turnin' up the music
[03:46.99]So much anger in these songs for these soldiers that we losin'
[03:50.37]A mastermind is one who's feedin' others off his talent
[03:53.83]I owe it to my city but it's time I pay my balance
[04:00.42]I'm in Holyfield's estate, I started with a pallet
[04:00.70]I made my first tape, I gave that shit to Khaled
[04:03.67]Thankful for my supporters, everyone that ever bought us
[04:05.94]Grateful for every lesson these by any streets taught us