A lyrical journey from the streets to God!
With a fire hip hop beat and real down to earth strong lyrics reminiscent of Chuck D from Public Enemy, in a spoken word cadence, Soul Survivor is about the triumphs of a man grinding and persevering through all of the traps and obstacles that are set before him in life and succeeding! It’s about keeping God first regardless to whom or what! It honors the spirit of determination and winning!
By Kamal Imani
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Lyrics:
I’m more than a conqueror I’m a soul survivor
You shouldn’t be hearing my voice right now
The enemy has been coming for me since I was a child
I was let loose into a world of abuse and crack vials
Pimps, prostitutes, con men, pranksters
Hostile gangsters, best friends ending up dead with lead in they heads
They were blood brothers
Cause they discovered anothers turf
Alcohol, coca colos and blunts
Shocking cribs, bullying exploiting punks
Running from popo, scaling fences and walls
Like the world would never end but most of us would fall
Our world was spinning so fast in this land of the lost
I remember fat rob saying “Stop the world I wanna get off”.
Later on I got a wifey and my child was born
Then unemployment and the bills came marching on
Causing tension and stress in my rest
Now I’m hard pressed to get out of this mess
Somebody said try Jesus
So I did my best
And pressed my way
Taking it da
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