I 285 - (Interlude)

[Produced by Swoope] [Intro: Alex Faith] Where I was raised Hip-Hop was the language that everybody around me spoke. So I grew up listening to that. I enjoyed it. I loved it. So that was the language I was taught to believe in. As a believer, the motivation for me is to counter that message and teach people about Jesus and how Jesus is better than those things that we were taught via the vehicle of Hip-Hop [Verse: Alex Faith] We gonna start off at the bottom half of 285 Plenty cemeteries filled with partners and family who've died It's my heartbeat, deep within my bloodline From racial history to the tears I've seen in momma's eyes Die birth city, many different colour faces Let's talk about the music though, even if you hate it So fresh and so clean, know that everybody plays this style Took this map by storm and that goes without saying Everybody wanna sound like us, talk with a drawl Boy they used to clown on us And 3 Stacks told them we have somethin' to say And Pastor Troy said ain't no more playing GA' I'm turning on the radio I tell them I don't feel that Lost when they tell me they gonna bring the real back Poison to the system but the radio raised me And on the south side we weren't rocking with no Jay-Z The only T.I.P in my playlist was repping Bankhead For the city that I love you can bank that Come from where they talk about swagger I know you hate that But I'm cut from the same cloth from the people who made that An era where Young Jeezy was still the snowman And 2 Chainz was still playing circle That's all I know man All I know was chasing money, stacking nice things I didn't hear a De La Soul until I was like 19 And I ain't hating, I'm just stating the facts I weren't trying to hear it if it weren't coming from the trap These days, I've grown to appreciate a lot of different styles But nobody ever touched me like they did in the South So rapping about rims and grills yeah I can do that But it's not what I'm here for Cause some don't have a clue that We were made for more than skating by and chasing paychecks And we were made for more than getting high and feeling faded And we were made for more than taking lives because of hatred And we were made for more than life on Earth and I can say that Because, regardless of what these preachers wanna tell us We were made in God's beautiful image, and he wants us