[00:00.60] Searching for Black Jesus [00:03.24] Oh yeah, sportin jewels and shit, yaknahmean? [00:05.78] (Black Jesus; you can be Christian [00:08.16] Baptist, Jehovah Witness) [00:09.36] Straight tatted up, no doubt, no doubt [00:10.44] (Islamic, won't matter to me [00:12.96] I'm a thug; thugs, we praise Black Jesus, all day) [00:14.94] Young Kadafi in this bitch, set it off nigga. [00:16.91] What? [00:18.76] (Kadafi) [00:20.27] I do my shootin's on a knob, prayin to God for my squad [00:22.91] Stuck in a nightmare, hopin he might care [00:24.38] Though times is hard, up against all odds, I play my cards [00:25.76] Like I'm jailin, shots hittin up my spot like midnight rains hailin [00:32.72] Got me bailin to stacks more green; Gods ain't tryin to be trapped [00:35.93] On no block slangin no rocks like bean pies [00:38.81] Brainstorm on the beginnin [00:41.07] Wonder how shit like the Qu'ran and the Bible was written [00:42.30] What is religion? [00:44.10] Gods words all cursed like crack [00:45.90] Shai-tan's way of gettin us back [00:47.73] Or just another one of my Black Jesus traps [00:49.83] (Storm) [00:51.18] Who's got the heart to stand beside me? [00:52.05] I feel my enemies creepin up in silence [00:53.24] Dark prayer, scream violence - demons all around me [00:54.50] Can't even bend my knees just a lost cloud; Black Jesus [00:56.29] Give me a reason to survive, in this earthly hell [00:57.53] Cause I swear, they tryin to break my well [00:59.18] I'm on the edge lookin down at this volatile pit [01:02.65] Will it matter if I cease to exist? Black Jesus [01:04.32] (2Pac) [01:11.21] All hail, the pressure no endeavor can fail [01:12.42] Some missin souls turn to hoes when exposed to jail [01:15.79] In times of war we need somebody raw, rally the troops [01:18.47] Like a Saint that we can trust to help to carry us through [01:21.15] Black Jesus, hahahahaha [01:23.64] He's like a Saint that we can trust to help to carry us through [01:27.31] Black Jesus [01:29.85] (Young Noble) [01:30.51] Outlawz we got our own race, culture, religion [01:32.89] Rebellin against the system, commence to lynchin [01:34.16] The President ain't even listenin to the pain of the youth [01:36.69] We make music for eternity, forever the truth [01:37.75] Political prisoner, the two choices that they givin us [01:41.28] Ride or die, for life they sentence us [01:42.23] Oh Black Jesus, please watch over my brother Shawn [01:44.15] Soon as the sky get bright, it's just another storm [01:48.66] Brothers gone, now labeled a statistic [01:51.31] Ain't no love for us ghetto kids, they call us nigglets [01:54.46] History repeats itself, nuttin new [01:56.75] In school I knew, e'rything I read wasn't true [01:57.83] Black Jesus [01:59.78] (2Pac) [02:01.64] To this click I'm dedicated, criminal orientated [02:02.90] An Outlaw initiated, blazed and faded [02:04.52] Made for terror, major league niggaz pray together [02:06.34] Bitches in they grave while my real niggaz play together [02:08.88] We die clutchin glasses, filled with liquor bomblastic [02:12.05] Cremated, last wishes nigga smoke my ashes [02:14.43] High sigh why die wishin, hopin for possibilities [02:16.14] I'll mob on, why they copy me sloppily [02:18.88] Cops patrol projects, hatin the people livin in them [02:23.16] I was born an inmate, waitin to escape the prison [02:26.16] Went to church but don't understand it, they underhanded [02:28.68] God gave me these commandments, the world is scandalous [02:32.33] Blast til they holy high; baptize they evil minds [02:34.02] Wise, no longer blinded, watch me shine trick [02:37.11] Which one of y'all wanna feel the degrees? [02:39.75] Bitches freeze facin Black Jesus [02:43.06] (2Pac) [02:44.02] All hail, the pressure no endeavor can fail [02:45.72] Some missin souls turn to hoes when exposed to jail [02:46.84] In times of war we need somebody raw, rally the troops [02:50.62] Like a Saint that we can trust to help to carry us through [02:53.17] Black Jesus [02:54.13] (Kastro) [02:55.14] Some say, some day, some how, some way, we gon' fail [02:56.23] And it ain't hard to tell, we dwell in hell [02:57.39] Trapped, black, scarred and barred [02:59.15] Searching for truth, where it's hard to find God [03:03.40] I play the Pied Piper, and to this Thug Life, I'm a lifer [03:06.65] Proceed, to turn up the speed, just for stripes [03:09.69] My Black Jesus, walk through this valley with me [03:12.57] Where we, so used to hard times and casualties [03:15.38] Indeed, it hurt me deep to have to sleep on the streets [03:18.09] And haven't eaten in weeks, so save a prayer for me [03:20.51] And all the young thugs, raised on drugs and guns [03:23.53] Blazed out and numb, slaves to this slums [03:25.87] This ain't livin... Jesus [03:28.77] (Singers repeat in background 3X) [03:29.76] We believed in you [03:32.42] Everything you do [03:33.54] Just wanna let you know, how we feel [03:34.52] Black Jesus! [03:36.27] Searchin for Black Jesus [03:37.21] It's hard, it's hard [03:39.06] We need help out here [03:40.18] So we searchins for Black Jesus [03:42.04] It's like a Saint, that we pray to in the ghetto, to get us through [03:42.99] Somebody that understand our pain [03:49.35] You know maybe not too perfect, you know [03:52.87] Somebody that hurt like we hurt [03:55.01] Somebody that smoke like we smoke [03:58.68] Drink like we drink [03:59.57] That understand where we coming from [04:01.39] That's who we pray to [04:03.52] We need help y'all [04:06.30]