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Community Service

from Community Service by Imago Dei

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lyrics

Yo let's get it crack a lacking
Imago Black light Bout to make it happen
not just rappin but impacting the hurt/
These niggaz spaced out I bring em back to the earth
they celebrate crack and attach it shirts/
Like that shit won't put brothers in the back of a herse/
and have his family packing the dirt over his grave/
tombstone, and flower over it laid/
this bullshit is overly played/ sit back and listen/
With these rap cat's you can't tell fact from fiction/
confusing like a mosque packed with christians/
They act rich but ain't got a pot to piss in/
Ain't gotta a dolla to your name/
But they still rhyming about diamonds in the chain/
It's a God dame shame peeps going without meals/
and this muther fucker go and put half a mil in his grill/
riding big wheels trying to feel like a king/
Call his women a bitch so she don't feel like a queen/
you can rock ya bling, but material things
can only put a band aid on ya self esteem/
Let's elevate and see our true worth
even though we've been told from birth that we're curse/
programed in school and programed in church/
Spend more than we make so we programed to work/
But I reverse the program/ for poor man/
Who for the doe man might become a snow man/
and decide hold grams and lose his whole fam/
end up dead or in jail studying to koran/
to my peeps in the belly of the beast/
find light in the dark/ get knowledge get free/
see they trap our body but can't hold our soul/
cause we strong on our back we can hold the globe/
I refuse to fold/ like oragami
respect the ideas of Gundi/
i'll discuss it calmly/
but before i turn the cheek and let you harm me/
I'm gonna get my people to stand and form an army/
My neighborhood watch got beef with the cops/
but we still have to run them dope boys of the block/
You can have it on lock but not on my street/
I'll go to war so my kids can play in peace/
protect my family like a real man should/
You sambos don't stand like a real man would/
Everything you do you say you do it for the hood/
but why you do anything if you ain't doing no good/
and I know some of yall won't like the way that I word it/
but when you hear for the first time you feel it like virgins/
merging my skill and my purpose/ to make the game nervous/
this is more than just an album it's community service/

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from Community Service, released July 7, 2007
Written and Produced by Imago Dei

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Imago Dei Atlanta, Georgia

Imago Dei is from Richmond, VA by way of Atlanta Georgia. He is a father, husband, producer, emcee and community activist.

Imago is truly an artist with his music. He paints pictures with rhythm and poetry. Some have called him an emcee's emcee because of his mastery of flow and superb lyricism. He is a man for the people, inspiring his fans to make their world a better place.
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