Eluzai - BACK THEN (ft. Marty)

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This project has been in the works for a hot minute, but I'm glad to finally get it out for y'all! God really spoke to me in creating this, and I hope He speaks to you too homie. From phonk/memphis ragers to introspective underground/boom-bap, I hope you find something to enjoy.

Shout out to the fam that helped make this album possible: aftrthght, Aable, Marty, Derek Minor, Just Shad, Czar Josh, and TRAPDOC. Also a big thank you to you for listening and rocking with me! Seek Christ and stay rad.


ABOUT ME

(eh-loo-zai):
"God is my strength"

Underground rapper/producer. Philly. Independent.

The chronically online weirdo got washed in the blood.
From trying to make Nujabes beats off my cruddy laptop to building fellowship with Christian weebs and Hip-hop lovers across the web, I've seen a heck of a lot. Praise God that I now get to spend my days making lyrically dense tracks that are equal parts weird and jamming. If you enjoy blended elements of Boom-bap, Alt, Memphis, Gospel, or Underground, you might rock with me.

Shout-out to my brothers aftrthght, Just Shad, OFC, and Kid Travis.
Seek Christ, be loving and stay rad my dudes.


SOCIAL MEDIA:

https://linktr.ee/the_eluzai
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https://open.spotify.com/artist/2N0c1...
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LYRICS

Become a witness
To both sides of the coin

Skepticism with the choke-hold
Dial tones when I phone home
Ain't a miracle in my zone

What up, uh
If I'm being honest I gotta learn how to trust in the Lord
Y'all need to a therapist, quit asking for moral support
Man if you see me in a suit, then I'm coming from court
God had to spot for me the fee, I was coming up short
Back then a tour bus for us meant a Honda Accord
Back then I knew God had a plan I just wasn’t so sure
I mean I knew there was a ceiling I wanted some more
If it's 2 or more gathered, I'm praying in fours
That was kinda extra I need to chill out
You gotta get your point across without saying it loud
Man look at you now we in different spaces
I do what I want, you do what you allowed
Respectfully you are NOT the Father
Better learn how to swim before you walk on water
Don't make me put my hand on you like Bane did
Oh you think you in control?
Brother you brain dead

Pull up to the city
You're a refugee without a G
Sirens always singing
Kids, don't go around the back alley
If somebody break in
Pray they would just leave the papers
And the fact we far from home
Don't really do us any favors
Talking 1v1100 c-c-coming for ya dinner
And ya on ya second son, but fewer fam are in the picture
Anybody pull a trigger, turn ya suit into a smock
Not a chance you'd ever make it to the top

Cept God had us back then
Satan on the back end
When they thought they had us
Not a jacket out the MAC10
Neo to the action
Visions every last man
Ain't no other reason
That we breathing, that we healing
Cept God had us back then
And He going back in
Talking Word of Life
And know we heavy with the accent
Even through the struggle wasn't lacking
Holy maxing
Keep it going from the now, until everlasting

Yuh yuh yuh
Lord elect within the legacy
My bloodline been pouring since the Garden of Gethsemane
Youngin heard the come up
Heard the clashing, heard the clarity
Against the greatest odds
It wasn't stories, it was Elohim
Let it breathe
And then you see Him make a memory
Dang I'm racking ammo for them battles that's ahead of me
Bumping down Broad
Boy yelling God gottem
Ma said don't be a menace
I'm like, do we have a problem?
We so present tense
In the trench
Timeline dug in, never going east or west
We lament
Truth become a blur the farther that it gets
Then in stress
Wonder "was it God that ever really blessed?"
I object (OBJECTION)
This key to our ascension
The past echo our future, why do we fear recollection?
If Christ was never mentioned then the branch of mine would rot
Bloodline all in vain and to the clot

Cept God had us back then
Satan on the back end
When they thought they had us
Not a jacket out the MAC10
Neo to the action
Visions every last man
Ain't no other reason
That we breathing, that we healing
Cept God had us back then
And He going back in
Talking Word of Life
And know we heavy with the accent
Even through the struggle wasn't lacking
Holy maxing
Keep it going from the now, until everlasting

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