[00:00.00]Thank God I Made It (Explicit) - BENNY THE BUTCHER/Queen Naija
[00:02.59]Produced by：Hit-Boy
[00:03.89]Yeah
[00:05.16]Mic check one-two
[00:07.27]Uh-huh
[00:09.74]Hit-Boy
[00:12.01]Only can talk about this real shit 'cause that's what I been through
[00:17.57]Yeah yo
[00:21.96]I was raised by a woman so shoutout to single mothers
[00:24.94]Who had to teach their teenage boys to use rubbers
[00:27.55]Gettin' calls home from school then wonderin' why she buggin'
[00:30.33]'Cause that's just more stress to add on top of strugglin'
[00:33.12]Few things I wanna show you 'cause I feel like I owe you
[00:36.05]You made me the man I am today I never told you
[00:38.66]Dressed me in hand-me-down 'cause you couldn't afford Polo
[00:41.37]How it feel to see your two oldest boys' names on logos?
[00:44.74]Had to protect my family so we played with guns
[00:47.68]I can't respect the man who don't raise his son
[00:50.23]Then you blame the white man on what they become
[00:52.51]A gangster but reality of it is you made him one
[00:55.68]Real niggas look in the mirror and see each other
[00:58.48]I look in my nephew eyes and I see my brother
[01:01.09]Sometimes I gotta look away 'cause it hurt so much
[01:03.97]How that nigga died so young and he was worth so much?
[01:06.64]Damn
[01:07.00]Put your hands together for the work of the Most High
[01:10.90]Ah-ha ah-ha
[01:11.84]I put my hands together and I pray all night
[01:16.28]Ah-ha ah-ha
[01:16.37]'Cause the struggle is real but the hustle is too
[01:18.85]Ah-ha ah-ha
[01:19.34]I'm flippin' my dreams 'til they all come true
[01:22.10]Ah-ha ah-ha
[01:22.25]I thank God I made it thank God I made it
[01:24.78]And you gon' make it too
[01:26.75]Ah-ha
[01:28.11]This what happens when you take a path they force you to take
[01:30.97]Like of course you gon' break and leave no remorse on your face
[01:33.73]'Cause somebody just got life in the courtroom today
[01:36.49]When I walk my chains make the sound my fork used to make
[01:39.21]It remind me daily all that's sayin' is you gotta pay me
[01:42.09]That kinda crazy find a new hustle this not the '80s
[01:45.03]That ain't gangster how y'all rockin' y'all droppin' babies
[01:47.76]And that ain't fly shit y'all be rockin' y'all mockin' ladies
[01:50.41]With no diplomas we was soldiers we got 380s
[01:53.34]Put a hundred mil' in my pocket it's not gon' change me
[01:56.08]I just signed a deal with the Roc and I got more wavy
[01:58.48]Need a spot to hide the paper the profit done got so crazy
[02:01.71]Hol' up just today I swear I felt my brother's spirit
[02:04.67]Writin' all this shit and damn I hope my brother hear it
[02:07.44]Niggas scared of the Butcher I know suckers fear it
[02:09.77]'Cause niggas like me only come around every other era
[02:12.62]Ah
[02:12.89]Put your hands together for the work of the Most High
[02:17.11]Ah-ha ah-ha
[02:18.05]I put my hands together and I pray all night
[02:22.49]Ah-ha ah-ha
[02:22.58]'Cause the struggle is real but the hustle is too
[02:25.46]Ah-ha ah-ha
[02:25.54]I'm flippin' my dreams 'til they all come true
[02:28.32]Ah-ha ah-ha
[02:28.45]I thank God I made it thank God I made it
[02:30.98]And you gon' make it too
[02:32.94]Ah-ha