Lecrae - Facts lyrics

Peace does not come before salvation and
Salvation does not come without truth

I will only tell the truth
I will only tell the truth incoming!
Truth, truth, truth, truth
Truth, truth, truth, truth, truth

People wonder
"Is he woke or just a new slave?"
Old religion
He just covered it with new chains
Choppin' out the church, he ain't real
He fake he divisive, he don't rep the King
He just want the fame aw man
Now they actin' like I'm suddenly political
Told me shut my mouth and
Get my checks from Evangelicals
Boy, my momma raised me
On Angela and Eldridge chuck Berry made it
But the credit went to Elvis


Know you never knew that
Know you think I'm too black
I just think I'm too real, I grew up on 2Pac
You grew up thinkin' that the
Panthers was some terrorists
I grew up hearin' how they fed
My momma eggs and grit's
"'Crae, they say you should follow
In the steps of King" i say
"You've forgotten how they shot
Him in the streets"
I ain't really changed
It's the same old rebel
Still a radical, I'm passionate
It's just another level (leggo)
AT told me I should fight back
They don't like that (they don't)
Just know if you rock the boat
You better have a life raft (what?)
BJ told me I should fight back
They don't like that
Just know if you rock the boat
You better have a life raft, woo!

I will only tell the truth (facts)
People cannot abide by a truth
They prefer fantasy over reality (facts)
I will only tell the truth
I am for truth no matter who tells it
I will only tell the truth
I am for justice no matter who
It is for or against (facts)

Rose up out the dungeon
I was feelin' haunted
Now I'm bein' hunted and I'm on a hunnid
Hit the gas, gunning skip the past running
Tell 'em they could bring that
If they really want it
I, I'm on the hometeam
You just running with the wrong team
Never take 'em with the
Heavyweights or, boy
You'll die and need a little protein
Southside off a Yellowstone
Had a ham bone and a white tee
Got a 12 pack of that real
Talk in the trunk, tell 'em
"Come find me"
Draped up, dripped out, covered in the blood
Man, I hang where they cripped out
Sippin' on the mud
Where they swingin', got the whips out
Watch 'em pop trunk
Yeah, I know it's hella dark
But I'm tryna light it up
Now these people swear they own me
Sendin' out threats
Told me keep my mouth shut
Told me be a Stepin Fetchit
I will not oblige to your
Colonized way of faith
My Messiah died for the world, not just USA
They say, "Jesus was Conservative"
Tell 'em, "That's a lie"
No, He not a Liberal either if
You think I'll choose a side
They say, "'Crae, you so divisive
Shouldn't be a black church"
I say, "Do the math
Segregation started that first!"
Hey, you want unity? Then read a eulogy
Kill the power that exists up
Under you and over me
I said, you want unity? Then read a eulogy
Kill the power that exists up
Under you and over me, woo!
(facts)

So reconciliation or conciliation requires
Defrauded parties to be
Made whole not just apologizing
For the offense

I was waitin' for the right time
To tell y'all how I feel
And, yeah, I know that it hurts, but look
It's gon' heal
I waited 'til I was on prime
Time before I let y'all know
And you prolly won't wanna hear
My music no mo'
But it's all good, man, I love y'all
Hope you know that I'm black black
Trade in my Smart Car for a Cadillac
Can you handle that? And I love God
I love Jesus, the one out of Nazareth
Not the European with the ultra perm and
Them soft eyes and them thin lips
And I'm still hood
Been in the 'burbs for quite some time
But I still might hit the gas station
For the Lemonheads and the pork rinds
And I'm on one yeah, 116 been real
Binghamton, Tennessee
From Third Ward to Ceiling Hill
And I live a multiple world
Call me a hybrid 'cause I'm so black
Young theologian who educated, but still
Be at that Chicken Shack, yeah

Lemme get a two-piece