Hold it Down

VERSE 1: This thing is fatal / Long before the cradle / While prenatal / Sin seeped in through your navel / None escape the curse / cause none escape the verse / Cheese? / Please, put away the purse / There's a thief coming to pull off a heist / Appraise your life and smash up your ice / How bad can it get? / You gon' throw a fit / when all your Bling! Bling! turns to psst, psst! / All your shine will be snuffed / All your Plat. will turn rust / What do you do when life's a must / is what you're screaming / but your meaning is leaning cause that would make your existence no different than a demon / Though we too were condemned / each man now has a choice / to choose Christ and rep with more than your voice / Cause just what is it that you're really telling me / when you say you love God but live the life of Be-elzee? / Even demons tried to say, Son of God, what up? / Jesus would turn ice grill and say, Shut up! / How you gon' try and praise the Most High / when you know your native tongue is a lie / So if you see life through the eye of Minolta / Picture what Christ condemns in the culture / Peep the clear picture / It's a muddy mixture / How's a Celtic gonna play 76'er? / We need elixir / when the trickster seems Royal / Yall, McDonalds don't serve flame broil / So if you're truly lost but now you're found / If He's truly lifted up then hold it down

CHORUS: You try to show'em day from night (They're like, What!) / You try to tell'em wrong from right (They're like, What!) / You say yo live the life (They're like, What!) / That's why we gotta hold it down / You tell'em righteousness is tight (They're like, What!) /
You tell'em walk in the Light (They're like, What!) / Praise God when you get your Mic (They're like, What!) / That's why we gotta hold it down... / In front of rich men and Ceasars (Hold it down) /
When everybody's screaming Jesus (Hold it down) / Even if they ain't believers (Hold it down)...

VERSE 2: This ain't vendetta / Love's better / we just saying if it's real then you can smell leather / Like Niagara = Falls / vapor action = Halls / true Lemonheads tighten jaws / We talking Cause and Effect / Or Called and Elect / When you choose Christ, you lose the choice to select / Whether or not you think righteous living is hot / When heavenly minded is the only choice you got / It's getting late and every soldier got to carry his weight / Yo we contending for the faith Baby Boy / And you too Sis / If you chose to enlist / in His Salvation Army then it goes like this / Because of the Sacrificial Bleeder we follow the Leader / Feed the soul and starve the Saturday night fever / Either give a committed pound or bring your sword / Or side with this world / name your Lord! / Cause the true God don't need an upgrade like your Pentium / Why change His steez to meet the needs of this millennium? / He won't and you can't / So like a deer pants / If you thirst after God / then raise up those hands / Our God has got plans / much different than man's / So either choose His / or be down with Satan's / But you can't love both / believe me you'll choke / Taking deep breaths in heaven / while inhaling hell smoke / both wheat and both tare / grow up together here / And we can't separate / Christ made that clear / But He also gave truth / to let us see Duke / You can hide behind lies but can't hide fruit / If you headed Uptown / and like how this sounds / then keep them hands up / for a sign that you're down / If you were once lost / but now you're once found / Then all God's people gotta hold it down