The 6th track on the PROBLEMATIC album. My hope with this song is that people are challenged to look beyond the surface. It’s easy to judge or accept a preconceived notion about someone just seeing them on the surface, but if we took the time to get to know people and understand where they come from...
Hook:
Cruising’ through the city
Skyline pretty like my passenger
Lil’ bruh in the back he toting plus I smell he rolling up
If we get pulled over i might… have to pull off
If we get pulled over tonight...
Just pray for us
Verse 1:
Paranoid as we ride, actually Im petrified
I knew just how they’d do young dudes who looked like you and I
No care for our futures once we’re legal we’re as good as felons
Felt that was our fate whethеr or not it was predestined
My homiе said I’d make it rapping if I quit the Christian stuff
How ppl gon relate if all I say, is too Christian’d up
Should I water down my message or proceed to lift my people up
To a level where they must come as they aren’t now is that real love?
I tell em come to church and they say wow another courtroom
Cause those within the pews judge off the surface like juries do
You can’t give hope to a stranger, unless you get to know em first
Jesus dined with sinners and saints
My crew is so diverse
It’s people over politics regardless what your party is
We got bigger problems to impeach than the president
Could care less bout dollars, we got fathers wrongly in the pin
My bad, i forgot prison is what most y’all invested in
It’s evident, we all need room to grow some
But I will not accept christians turning folk from the kingdom
Keep it cut n dry y’all want power y’all want profits
So distracted
Watch how I pick your pockets
I get behind this mic n say i know of God another way
God is love and not the god that y’all so often do portray, to make it from my city see you gotta be authentic
Or people won’t rock with you or your message, thats why Im still
Hook:
Cruising’ through the city
Skyline pretty like my passenger
Lil’ bruh in the back he toting plus I smell he rolling up
If we get pulled over i might… have to pull off
If we get pulled over tonight...
Just pray for us
Outro:
Whats a good time for a black man in America
Whats a free life when you gotta hide cause they scared of ya
Tell me
T.H.U.G. was written by Khambrel Rembert.
T.H.U.G. was produced by 1995 (Producer).