“How you loving on a n*** that didn't even do a year on a five-to-ten? /so your new man's a rat / you couldn't stand for me, but somehow you stand for that.”
- The Dream (2026)
“Help me stop waiting and start walking in simple obedience today because the opportunities I've been praying for can't find me if I'm standing still.”
- Marcus Stanley (2026)
“Wish I had a step by step book on the roads and the paths you took / when you lost it all, how'd you get it back, worked for it, did it fall up in your lap?”
- Chinx (2015)
"Every night, I pray to Jesus, rescue me from the poverty, hate, racism and diseases / so the Lord said He prepared a place for me, and when He do that l'ma be free."
- Willie D. (1998)
“…he picked the crime, do or die, now he pays the price / the look of struggle on his face with his gat in his hand / my n**** died with the face of a desperate man.”
- Spice-1 (1994)
“Silk and fleeces, lay on my Jesus / Oh my God, I hope y'all don't get seasick / see me in shit you never saw, if it wasn't for these pictures they wouldn't see me at all…”
- Jay-Z (2013)