[Intro:]
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I've never really had a religious experience, in a religious place. Closest I've ever come to seeing or feeling God is listening to rap music. Rap music is my religion. Amen
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[Verse 1:]
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What I say might save a life, what I speak might save the street
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I ain't got no instruments, but I got my hands and feet
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Hands gone clap and feet gone tap, El-P beats to make that snap
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And I ride them with my raps, and they all tight as my naps
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And my naps is all I got, and this beautiful ebony skin
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And the music in my heart, and the words put in the wind
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And the words put in the wind, coming back like a boomerang
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When I take this microphone, point it at the crowd, they start to sing
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[Hook: x2]
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This is jazz, this is funk, this is soul, this is gospel
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This is sanctified sex, this is player pentecostal
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This is church; front, pew, amen, pulpit
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What my people need and the opposite of bullshit
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[Verse 2:]
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It's that Robert Johnson, that Muddy Waters, that James Brown, Augusta, GA
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That Ray Charles, that Stevie Wonder, that Mayfield, that Superfly
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That Willie Hutch and that Mack, it's that blues man, that soul man
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That OutKast, that Southernplayalisticadillac
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It's that Jimi Hendrix, that George Clinton, I feel it in my bones
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Aretha Franklin, that Shirley Caesar, that Miss Nina Simone
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That Sade, that Love is King, that Coltrane, that Love Supreme
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That Miles Davis, that Bitches Brew, that "beeeyatch" said by Playboy Too
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[Hook x2]
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[Verse 3:]
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I got things to do, before I meet that glory in the sky
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And my baby girl b-day be six months away, she gonna be five
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So I pray to the lord he spare me, and I make it by and by
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And I help souls stay out of Hell with what I testify
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And maybe when I grab the microphone and never lie
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That'll merit that he spare me, I won't have to feel that fire
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So Killa Kill gonna spit that real on each and every song
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And each and every poem, until the good lord call me home, gone!
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[Hook]
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R.A.P. Music
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Killer Mike |