[Chorus: Rakim & 38 Spesh]
Wake and bake at the break of dawn
And my favorite song "The Chase is On"
Same shit 'til my paper long (I build)
Days are long, the basic’s pace, it's gone
If it don't kill, it makes us strong (It’s real)
The pace is calm, embrace the storm
Create and perform until greatness born (Ayo, still)
Count your blessings, indicate the form
Can't stop me, even if my brakes was on, I'm still (Ayo, huh)
[Verse 1: 38 Spesh]
Y'all snitched to become free
You gotta beat the crack game to become me
See, you got robbed for one ki'
You was a bitch in the game like Chun-Li
I'll get you slumped free by my young G
Came out to womb a young beast, I was unleashed
Huh, inside of the V where my gun be
Stash open with three buttons like a onesie
I'm from streets, a place you won't dare go
Clip long and my barrel got air holes
I’m way too thorough to compare flows
I make birds disappear like scarecrows, huh
You work for the company, I sharehold, huh
I’m stingy with money, but I share hoes, huh
Me and B.I.G. both had rare goals
To put five carats in my baby girl earlobes (Trust)
[Chorus: Rakim & Fred the Godson]
Wake and bake at the break of dawn
And my favorite song "The Chase is On"
Same shit 'til my paper long (I build)
Days are long, the basic’s pace, it's gone
If it don't kill, it makes us strong (It's real)
The pace is calm, embrace the storm
Create and perform until greatness born (Still)
Count your blessings, indicate the form
Can’t stop me, even if my brakes was on, I'm still (Ayo, huh)
[Verse 2: Fred the Godson]
They say I'm in the popular space (Uh-huh)
I won't stop 'til I'm drivin' a Wraith (Right)
I know the block is in place (I know)
Shoot it via text message, I just copy and paste (Uh)
Clubbing, I come through with an icy watch
To rub it in 'cause ain't that many I see hot (Whoo)
They told me I should fill 'em
Lakers three-peat, Kobe, I should kill 'em
My quotables the dopest
If they spit sick, then I'm walking around with multiple sclerosis
Them bitches be gross shit (Ugh)
Still 'gon lick a orange juice, mimosas
Flows sick like I'm under hypnosis to be Biggie (Uh-huh)
Have to admit, every doctor try to admit me (Uh-huh)
Two clips, two four-fifths under the kidney (Blaow)
Told Trey Yates to come give me, gone dumb
[Chorus: Rakim & Skyzoo]
Wake and bake at the break of dawn
And my favorite song "The Chase is On"
Same shit 'til my paper long (I build)
Days are long, the basic's pace, it's gone
If it don't kill, it makes us strong (It's real)
The pace is calm, embrace the storm
Create and perform until greatness born (Still)
Count your blessings, indicate the form
Can't stop me, even if my brakes was on, I'm still (Yeah, yo)
[Verse 3: Skyzoo]
Slow dough and it wasn't nothing to grow up with
Swear to god that no one up after us get exposed to it
I just took the moments that mattered and put a flow to it
'Cause it was either that or get pointed to where the soda is
The motive is, be what the fuck they told us we couldn't be
But know that there's polices that's dumping off at the look of me
But look at me, made it like nothing that I assumed, right
My legacy was tucked from the jump, kept it cocoon tight
My Air Lights was tap dancing off on that saran
And, yeah, they plan was to be back, handing off in back of Phantoms
The mechanics had 'em wired, like tucking a wrapped hammer
Up in the back of the radio where all of my latest go
I move like Kadir Nelsons is out of production
And I be seeing in couplets, so bet I'm copping in twos, right?
Still running to the pay, Jesse Owens shit
Medals get to swinging, so it's these you gotta go against, for real
[Chorus: Rakim]
Wake and bake at the break of dawn
And my favorite song "The Chase is On"
Same shit 'til my paper long (I build)
Days are long, the basic's pace, it's gone
If it don't kill, it makes us strong (It's real)
The pace is calm, embrace the storm
Create and perform until greatness born (Still)
Count your blessings, indicate the form
Can't stop me, even if my brakes was on, I'm still
[Outro: DMX]
God, we thank You for this gathering of souls
We say that with two more gathered in Your name
But You are present, and we thank You for Your presence
We ask that Your grace and blessings are upon the show this evening
We pray that any obstacle the Devil plans to place in our path be removed
We pray that there are no fightings, no stabbings, no shootings
No arrests, no drunk drivings or altercations, or incidents whatsoever
We pray that we are able to touch one person for Your namesake, for Your glory
That if we do so, then we've done something wonderful with our lives
We thank You, Lord, for the things that we realize are blessings
Things that most people take for granted
When's the last time somebody said
"Thank You God for that last breath of air?"
"Thank You for that last sip of water?"
But without these things, we perish
So right now, as a group, we just thank God for the things that
That we realize are actual blessings
But that we still take for granted
We humble ourselves before You
We ask that You guide our steps, that You have Your will
You have Your way in our lives
Father, we didn't make us, so we don't know what to do with us
We thank You for the power that You give us in the spoken word
We-we pray that we're-we-we're reminded of when and how
To use the weapons that You gave us to defeat the enemy
We pray for everyone in this circle, and everyone that's not in this circle
We humble ourselves before You
We praise Your name and give You the glory
We praise Your name and give You the glory
We praise Your name and give You the glory
Amen (Amen)
