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Testimony

from Primo Nemesis by Keith Phelps

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Do woke niggas ever get to cash a check
Or do they just end up in a casket right next Malcom X?
I honestly need to know the way I should achieve
Draw the thin line, if would for me
Between true ambition and what’s known as greed
Where do I stand see it’s the fifth that I'ma plead
Cause' there’s a multiplicity of ways to define a need

How much is enough?
How much do they say is too much?
Are niggas without shit really much better than those who rich?
I’m tired of debt
That shit is gross, not net
Thought you should know

Pentacostal theology taught me to hate what I was and what I would probably be
Yes, its Christianity that gave me anxiety
And i’m just here to testify, "Thats what He has done for me"
Ha ha ha
Not to keen on Jesus
I kinda prefer Yeezus

Least he look like me
Y’all changed the book on me
And had me on my knees
I used to beg and plead
When you come back for your slaves
And fly off into the sky
I’d like a window seat
And for all them fucking tithes like I’d to see some receipts
That mainline feel more like a burner phone
While I gotchu on the line tell me is Nat Turner home?

Tryna flame this shit up like we left the burner on
Open up your mind like I clicked the chrome and gave you burner dome
Started reading the fine print, that’s every clause
Y’all sold me a savior bout as real as Santa Clause
Arrested my people’s minds without probable cause
Maybe that’s why we stuck
Maybe that’s why I battle the habit of watching people fuck
On the internet
Google YouTube preachers for alleged deliverance
What if y’all didn’t teach us how to be so fake?
Or torture us with the psycho fear of making mistakes?
Or mislead us with the concept of not so amazing grace?
Come on and get a taste and see
That you can really be free
You the original man
From His original plan
Organized western religion is the original scam

This ain’t bravado this bravery
Wouldn’t know about this shit if it wasn’t for slavery
No ain't shit sweet, he mad, way too savory
Don’t call my momma or my daddy talkin' bout you really gon' pray for me
Stay away from me
He don’t make no ways for me
All he ever did was time and time constantly get in the way of me

So clearly Keith is fed up with the church folk
But this is all that they really know
The result of being sold shackled and shipped on a boat
And once y’all finally realize who y’all are that’s when y’all neck’s in a rope

These days y’all go to church for the hell of it
Pretty difficult to evangelize irrelevance
That and the concept of a white Jesus
When you know he wasn’t the one who said he never gon leave us or forsake us
The way Lebron left the Cavs to be a Laker
You think them colonizers really did us a favor?
I’m offering a chance a freedom any takers
So you won’t be surprised when you finally meet your maker

So you can keep your ten percent, you need your paper
Receive this truth, turn to the side and tell your neighbor
The true Elohim is about to approach the scene
I’m like a fiend, I only want the Most High
This silly church shit ain't even a close high
The Set Apart Spirit not Casper the Ghost, bye
My cup is running over please pass me a coaster
I’m just thankful I’m getting to know the one true Yah

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from Primo Nemesis, released April 22, 2022
(Prod. by Keith Phelps for Real Music Affiliates)

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