Lecrae, KJ-52 - They Like Me lyrics

Hey yo KJ people are waiting
For us to do something (true)
Let's talk about the elephant in
The room though man

They like me
Forget about the color I might be
It's likely they just like me
We different but the same
We covered by the blood of the King
They like me, they like me, they like me

I don’t do black music I don’t do white music
I do fight music unified in Christ music
Let's get right to it hear
The music write to it
From the context of a black
Kid fighting through it
Some folks said it was worldly
It was too good
Some folks was scared of it it was too hood
So I took it to the
Places who would embrace it
And sometimes believe it or not
It was white faces
Am I a sellout assimilating what’s in my head
No I am Cyclops homie cause all I see is red
People covered in the blood are my fam
And we don’t just relate we
All related through the Lamb
My family tree is a lower case t
And we are all the same cause
You need him like me
We different but the same and it’s likely
They just like me that’s probably
Why they like me

They like me
Forget about the color I might be
It's likely they just like me
We different but the same
We covered by the blood of the King
They like me, they like me, they like me

I got blue eyes light skin
And some black curls
Grew up the white kid in a black world
When ya live and ya different
Well the facts hurt moved to the burbs and I
Don’t fit in that’s worse
I’m just a nerd getting chased
Home on my bike
After school fight lay in my bed cry at night
Hate the fact that my status
Read poor and white
And all the rappers I idolize tell
Me that I’m never right
Now my skin is light and I ain't fitting in
I’m on the outside of hip
Hop screaming let me in
I’m hooked up with sin hate
The very skin I’m in
Cause every time I rhyme they
Like "look it's Eminem"
Looking back again I’s in the worst place
All I had was beastie boys and third bass
I’m the dude who always come
Down in 3rd place until I heard the story of
Your Life and Your Grace

They like me
Forget about the color I might be
It's likely they just like me
We different but the same
We covered by the blood of the King
They like me, they like me, they like me

So on the weekend started seeking
Looking for the meaning
Heard a pastor preaching couldn’t believe
Just what I’m seeing
Walked into a church of white
Blacks and Puerto Ricans
Without a single reason they loved
On this little heathen
And with never speaking they
Just showed me simply
That Jesus is the only one
To make me sin free
And beauty is the only thing
That’s ever skin deep
I was lonely but a new family
Is what you give me
So really if we claim now to love the Son
Why we got to segregate Sunday 10-1?
So much to overcome now from what’s been done
But if starts with me
(then what?) then I’ll be the one (Okay)
Now ya better run I’m stepping on ya toes
Got ya out ya comfort zone
Now ya out the boat
If we're a family then let’s grow
Now and make a home
Let them know you’re my brother
No matter what the tone

They like me
Forget about the color I might be
It's likely they just like me
We different but the same
We covered by the blood of the King
They like me, they like me, they like me