Now I've been dreaming bout this moment for a very long time If you seen where I'm from you probably never thought I'd shine Cause I done been through the pressure I done seen a lot of storm but it took a long time for this diamond to form I was shaped from His hands grew up in the struggle Mama said read daddy said hustle All I want to do was dream all I had was a dream and I had to Cleave(s) to it like my name was Mateen School of hardknocks where I graduated Some died young I'm thankful that I even made it God was knocking on my soul but I loved sinning Grace weaving through my heart like its fine linen Big Mama used to make me go to church a lot But back then God's Word wasn't worth a lot To my heart and my mind Its funny how they now mean more to me than mine Grind young fella keep your feet to the concrete Go hard for the King and don't be discreet I'm feeling like Martin if they need a speech Then I givem all my dreams over every beat Dream on dream on like my name Stephen (Tyler) If it wasn't for His Grace I wouldn't be breathing. Shaped from the Wood made into the Cross And a hill out on Calvary I know the cost Nails in His hands man He hung and bled My flatline jumped when He was pronounced dead So keep dreaming even when life's hard We don't live by bread alone but the Word of God A pen and a pad That's what I was given I know He gave you gifts too Tell me why you living A pen and a pad That's what I was given I know He gave you gifts too Tell me why you living

We so bout them red letters Every day we go hard Why they out here chasing money We striving to know God He came in the flesh boy roaring Lion and He made me rich too no need to die trying Hear me Zion I said hear me Zion They trying to sell us idols and some of us been buying This that Jesus or die rhyme that Jesus or die time Cause we still out here breathing cause He took heat for our crimes Life His name up That's what we do I'm in my zone dawg 3-2 And it's by faith Hebrews That I got that Living Water sea-doo All this Red Ink stuff They say we out of hand We trying to build an army The bible is our only plan A couple thousand strong We trying to reach a hundred grand All my soldiers salute It's time we take stand (chorus) We about the truth Don't care what they tell us We ain't interested In what they trying to sell us We about His Words Bout them Red Letters It's power in His life Yeah them Red Letters Red Red Red Letter Gang Red Red Red Ink Army Red Red Red Letter Gang Red Red Red Ink Army If Jesus said it best believe I'll die for it Since the laborers are few I applied for it Bring that rugged Cross Yeah I carry mine If the bible was a girl I'd marry mine That John 1 talk They can't comprehend it I'm a made man but we ain't talking minute I got that juice though Like I'm Tupac I spent my time with the King Hublot Who got the same passion Who got the same fire Who gone give away they life For the true Messiah This is God given Ain't got no room to boast Any good I ever done It came from my coach I love His playbook I love His every call It's when I try and do me That's when I lose the ball I got the Rock though Shout out to my shooters I hope you ready for the pass Hallelujah (chorus) We about the truth Don't care what they tell us We ain't interested In what they trying to sell us We about His Words Bout them Red Letters It's power in His life Yeah them Red Letters Red Red Red Letter Gang Red Red Red Ink Army Red Red Red Letter Gang Red Red Red Ink Army Red Ink Army (repeat) (chorus) We about the truth Don't care what they tell us We ain't interested In what they trying to sell us We about His Words Bout them Red Letters It's power in His life Yeah them Red Letters Red Red Red Letter Gang Red Red Red Ink Army Red Red Red Letter Gang Red Red Red Ink Army

I got lust in my heart that I desire to kill So I'm plotting on myself so that I can build A house of faith rather than my own name Cause when I try and build me I end up with a house of pain Renegade music I'm going at my own neck After the stars but I ended on a different trek Now I'm chasing Truth in and out that vocal booth Bible in my duffle just to keep my mind soundproof I'm still a failure on my best day Thankful for the Cross so every time some kid press play I'm talking bout Jesus like I know He died And in His life is the only thing I take pride I ain't nothing without Him meant it till the day I'm dead And that's the realest string of words that I ever said Where my renegades put your hands high And give praise to the King cause today we die (chorus) This that music for the renegades For the martyrs the warriors and roads paved For Jesus the Christ the one who saves Ancient of Days we bow and give you praise (repeat) I'm gased up on that Truth like its petro I give em bars on top of bars Death Row I keep His wisdom in my heart never let go This Red Ink is off the leash Petco I'll die for every word printed on His pages This the type of dedication that could garner praises But my only wage is far from the mouth of man My mama told me never throw the Rock and hide my hand I'm authentic made shaped from the roads paved Of stripes from martyrs warriors and renegades I feast on their words cause my soul need it Paul Peter Mark and Luke yeah my veins bleed it Never let my circumstance kill my dreams And try and never let self supersede the team So I go to war till my flesh dead And the outcome is a sea of red (chorus) I'm from a hood full of trap houses and cocaine Where you skip school to be students of the dope game In and out the same vein I seen fiends hallucinate I seen cooked crack chopped on a dinner plate I don't glorify the pastilles my eyes seen But to them boys in the hood my life is visine Picked up that basketball stay on that hardwood Then I went to college and met dudes from my same hood Same struggle different street Same hustle now We got different feet Now we ride or die for the lamb slain This the type of lifestyle beyond fortune and fame Where my renegades where my soldiers at From the project city streets and cul de sacs We in one army and we all recruiting To our Commander In Chief we all salute Him (Chorus)

(chorus) I got one I got one my whole team we got one Red Ink we got one Van Gogh I got one (Repeat) Now I’m riding around my side of town With my hat back and my frames on Red Ink on my t-shirt and my wristbands No chains on New beat same song we all about the Gospel And how to live it out like some modern day apostles I be repping hard for my crew mayne From Texas to Tulane and we riding Around and we getting it And ain’t talking bout 2 Chainz My faith strong and my team right Faith strong and my team right And we serving God for LIFE (Eddie) None of us can’t get right Dishing out this insight on the Greatest man that ever lived While men die for selfish gain My God he died to give What you know about John 3 What you know about Luke 9 What you know bout discipleship And fellowship it’s going down We building a team of renegades Covered up in that full armor From St Louis to Arizona to New York we like Kurt Warner We speak truth we so bout it Bout it bout it? Master P Trying live how Christ would live WWJD (chorus) Super duper my team we ain’t worried bout paper We trying serve this Truth Something like some waiters We don’t need no whips to stunt in No new shoes to front in Cause all that don’t matter when My Savior come in I’m on that new flow that Get get it that Jesus is King flow That He’s boss Hugo They say Channel all you talk about Is Jesus this Jesus that He is good He God He is this He is that They say we talk bout what we value most I guess I fit in that description Cause while these other cats Is talking racks on racks I’m out here on my mission And I be feasting in His Word mayne That Red Ink gives me vision And all these fairy tale money stories I prefer some non fiction that's why (chorus) We Paint the City (reprise)

From the cross to the grave grave to the sky We worship His name El Shaddei Jesus the King we know that’s He’s risen Keep our foot to the pedal gotta stay on our mission Expanding the vision we making disciples And spreading a passion for our love of the bible We aiming with worship where my shooters at Red Ink Army where my recruiters at We worship the Name get our praise on And stay close to the Son need some shades on All day long we be grinding If I’mma be great gotta put the time in So we work hard and pray harder Outcast by the world we some social martyrs It cost my life but that ain’t enough If we won’t die for our belief then it ain’t work much (chorus) You’re worthy of the praise we worship your name Forever and a day we glorify your name Your worthy your worthy your worthy of praise We worship we worship we worship your name (Elles) Last time I checked God is Jesus so you unbelievers change your mindset While there’s time left He’s worthy of all that I have to offer Author of salvation He’s amazing and He conquered Death hallelujah real life superhero no Buddha We go Ludacris crazy just in case you’re new to this Understand no one else is greater than the Son of Man Who is Lord but you ignore His existence? Ummm Come again So glorious beauty electrified So glorious your love will never die The Most High I breathe to lift you up I know I can’t praise you enough He dipped my heart in fire burned away the dross Purifying my desires everything I count as loss Cause everything I gain I give back to the boss Worship and praise in my veins addicted to that Cross (chorus) Close your eyes and imagine God showing men compassion While He sacrifices His Son to save us from our actions He was beat beyond recognition all for my addictions Now I’m a part of His eternal pension All hail to the King of Glory the King of who? The one who shaped from the dust uhhh me and you Formed from the earth I’ll return again But I give it all I got not to return to sin It’s only His grace its only His mercy It’s only His love without it I’m worthless Go pass the surface of everything I see Cause my life is much bigger than living for me I carry the tree I carry the cross I gave Him my life but it’s worth the cost Now we paint the city ready or not On my SAMO Jean-Michel Basquiat (chorus)

(channel) When I talk bout the bible Homie this how I feel Love the Word wouldn’t Trade it for a half a bill(ion) I know He reached down And He saved me When I was wearing my Own crown screaming praise me Wanted the latest fashion Yeah I wanted fame Bout that cash money Drake and Wayne But something changed When I was in my teens Took my flesh to the altar Guillotine Gimme Jesus or give me death haa Come I’mma starve without food From my chef haa Feast in His Words do it everyday He’s my food network Rachel Raye (tha messenger) The Bread of Life got me seeking what I now implore Divorced from this world I found joy in what I now endorse I spit Truth in this system that I’m passing through Evangelist breakthroughs bars over beats in the booth The God crew gotta get em ‘fore they decay Entrusting this to faithful men Run in it like a relay They screaming blasphemy cause they say its just good literature No Faith to believe it gotta see it like a cinema Excuse me while I spit atcha Nope can’t keep my mouth closed Treasures found deep in the Book You can keep your pot of gold All of that gone stay behind Pray these dudes don’t die hard Hid His Word down in my heart That I might not sin against the Lord yeah (channel) Where I’m from money is what we live for Nice cars and pretty girls Gilmore And they’ll kill for a pair of Jordan shoes Product of our environment Raised from some tainted views Now I see life from the bible I got new dreams I’m not a slave to my fashion I got a new King His Words I treasure want em at all cost Consider my time in the scriptures at no loss But much gain when I value His Name And my whole life is bout giving it proper fame Jesus I’m in at all measure It’s your Word in my heart That is my greatest treasure

I could’ve died in my mothers womb They were screaming abortion I’m glad she blocked out all that Noise to my great fortune I was predestined for the struggle An ace off in my hood all I learned To do was hustle From the crevice of the ghetto The Lord had a plan On that Eminem and Dido He let my dreams Stan(d) Fight through this cold (cole) world But this ain’t like Jermaine But its more like my setbacks Trials and my pain This the sounds of a dreamer Voice for the hopeless Hoping that the blind will stumble And take notice Of a dead man rapping from The bottom of his soul And the Words from a savior that Could never grow cold I was 18 years old with A pad and a dream Now I’m 28 still recruiting for My team I’m a fiend for the scripture Rejoicing in His Words They gas up my feet I rejoice at His verbs (chorus) This the sound of a dreamer Sound of a dreamer Sound of the noise from a Crowded arena screaming aaayyy We just lift His Name high aaayyy We just lift His Name (repeat) I’m hearing voices in my head Told me quit rhyming But I live and breath music It’s in God’s timing Dropped Dare 2 Be Great That album was classic Then I dropped Rocky and They seemed to look past it Brilliant lyrics beautiful pain Immutable struggle its deep In my veins I’m calling His name I’m feeling weak And this music thing is Looking real bleak But they kept hitting me On the text Channel what’s next Then I started seeing all the people That God had blessed Through my tablet my Passion for His Glory A sweet smelling sound bout My savior and His story This that life music lyrical Louie V High end rhymes I display em for the world to see What you jamming That Jesus music And I dream they love His Words more than I do (chorus) Jesus greatest name I ever heard Put it on my life I’m infatuated with His Words March to His drums dance to His sacrifice While we were screaming murder He was giving us life It’s pumping in my veins (do) you know what His blood bought every single sin we ever made was with Him at the Cross the pain and affliction the muscle in His mission when I’m weak and can’t see it then His voice gives me vision haaa who gone stop me haaa that’s what hova said but the true Jehovah will still be here when Me and hova dead In fact I’m feeling like I’m Kanye West Got a few choice words gotta get em Off my chest haaa I watch the throne its lovely ain’t it And Christ is on it that’s how I paint it This world is hostile real hostile When you see us in your hood We came to crash the Gospel (chorus) It's the sounds of my dreams

This the sound of your brain on scripture We gone paint Jesus hope you get the picture Sounds of a dreamer never stop dreaming Cause any given Sunday you can win Willie Beamen This that hope music super dope music The bible ain’t a drug but I condone you use it OD on it OT on it spin some overtime reading That’s how we on it Red Ink a movement of believers Living out the Gospel and every word of Jesus We ain’t perfect though I ain’t claiming that But its by His grace that I’m aiming at The mark of a higher calling calling I ain’t MJ but we baliing balling Music of a movement life in your headphones I’m reborn like Jason – Treadstone (chorus) Praise Him all day worship all night Even when it rain we gone still shine bright Rock on And we don’t need no guitars Rock on Cause we like them guitars (repeat) Red Ink in the building you know how we do We rep a Fabolous God DJ Clue Fresh up out the zoo yeah we untamed Trying to converse this Truth like we in Taylor Gang But we some bad boys they say we sound French (Montana) Cause we talking bout a King who don’t make sense Or make dollars they say we funny They rather follow Lil Wayne and get young money They wanna be the boss of their own life But It’ll cost a Meek Mill Maybach price Heaven or hell tough struggle Do I chase the king or grand hustle Like I’m T.I. hope the world see why Life is more than dollar bills ain’t talking G.I. Red Ink music this the sound of it We going in for the King hate it or love it (chorus) (Young Rebel)

It’s gone get a lil brighter like Tupac said And some say he’s back but Tupac’s dead Jesus died on the Cross and like Tupac bled And gives life through the scriptures that Tupac read So run with me no Hail Mary though And fight through the rounds of life No merry go Concrete jungles hardknock lifer One man band this that hard Rock cypher I do it for the fighters I write for the dreamers I write for the crowds who be hype in arenas Screaming out Jesus do it to the death of me I’m so about His Name like the worlds about celery chasing my green but I be chasing my King the feeling is monumental this a much bigger dream This is Martin Luther King in your speakers Urban theologians we some modern day teachers Red Ink Graveyards full of dreams that we aint gone see So I don’t entertain thoughts but what I ain’t gone be I’mma be great just like He said I’d be And I rumble in the jungle like a young Ali This for the bloods and crips its time we put the guns down We all kings we just fighting over the wrong crowns I want the one that was made out of thorns Cause He laid down His life for the pawns True kings even serve they own enemies And trust the Word of God as they only remedy Aint no other words for us to live by So we read through the scripture instead of getting high Keep your head up if you fed up with cancer and bills Cause neither seem to let up Just keep pressing on everyday grind on Cause even when it storms true believers still shine on This for all the mothers trying to raise kids And teenagers who making it through divorces And those clinging to their very last dime Searching for a hot meal though its been hard to find I’m just a voice of hope from the Most High I know He seem far away but He’s close by Just keep your head up we gotta pray more This world try and knock us down but He came for Everybody in the struggle who been going through pain And you been dealing with the stress of life haaa But just call on His name Jesus the one who came down and died And raised from the grave so that we could have life There ain’t a price more greater a hope now or later Than the Son who would embrace us as a savior Keep ya head up

We like it slowed down know’m talking bout Like it slowed down know’m talking bout Like it slowed down know’m talking bout It’s that Jesus music that Red Ink music Straight up out of Texas you know how we do it We going in for Christ then you know we chop and screw it Yeah we chop and screw it you know we chop and screw it All the way in Texas yeah that’s how we do it (repeat) You know how it’s going down We be all about His Name Way down here in Texas We are so unashamed Of everything we living for Jesus in my deck Ain’t know other way that I can flow All about His Name bout His Name We can cut the show If you ain’t heard of Christ then This life ain’t worth living for And we so focused on our grind That if it ain’t about my savior then You know we ain’t got time And we gone shine and bring that light Cause everything about my life Is all tangled up and twisted In the words of Jesus Christ Don’t give me praise I ain’t worthy that glory All we do is share His Story Recruiting for the army till The day I’m dead Give my heart over these beats I bleed red ink (chorus) I can’t live without Him Everyday I need grace I’m thankful that he came down And took death in my place He was bruised for my sins mayne Beat for my iniquities I wish I could express it better In every single soliloquy Cause He came down with no crown And took mine with thorns in it He’s was perfect with no sin while The rest of us was born in it I’ll die for Him that’s real talk Die for Him that’s real talk Laid down my life for Him Outline it in chalk I got G with got E with me Red Ink that’s my crew Tate riding Slimz rolling They all ride or die too If you could see life from my view You’d know why I’m a renegade Was in debt condemned to death But Christ came and it’s been paid It’s been paid? Yeah potna its been paid My old life and my new life it’s On the scales and its been weighed I live for something bigger Live for something greater His Name is Jesus and I’m All about my savior (chorus) We like it slowed down know’m talking bout Like it slowed down know’m talking bout Like it slowed down know’m talking bout It’s that Jesus music that Red Ink music

Took a while to get here They say we done came up I say we been at war Trying to lift His Name up We be on the frontlines That’s where they shooting at And we ain’t scared to die fam Cause that’s where we recruiting at We done fought through wars Now we on the map What’s that Christian music? But it sound like rap They dying for His Name Overseas So the least that I can do Is put Him over beats I ain’t worried bout sales mayne I’m more concerned about impact Prepping for this war daily So we make it back home intact Pop culture we in that Super dope we been that Won’t compromise our faith Dirty best believe I meant that Trayvon gone now we ain’t gone stop Cause we a voice for the Lost and the have nots All these sharks swarming I see em coming I know they smell blood But we ain’t running (chorus) We paint the city for His Glory mix paint I’m seeing through the struggles fish tanks All these sharks try and stop us but they can’t Cause all we do is keep changing big banks I’m seeing through these struggles fish tanks All these sharks try and stop us but they can’t We paint the city for His Glory mix paint Cause all we do is keep changing big banks I was lost now I’m found Got rid of my old crown Traded in my mellow flow For a more aggressive new sound My vocals needed some thorns in it Every track got blood on it The voice of the martyrs Speak out from the grave on these sonnets Stephen stoned phillip killed Both died for the Lord on the battlefield I said Stephen stoned and Phillip was killed And they died for the Name full of zeal Rose growing in concrete we grew up in a hard place Spat on persecuted but kept pursuing Him with grace Display in His art case Super glad that He saved me Everything that I been through Ain’t know way to persuade me That He didn’t die and raise up Hold up one minute I see through em like glass tanks I can see the fish in it He didn’t die and raise up? Hold up one minute I see through em like glass tanks I can see the sharks in it (chorus)

Started in my early teens it was hustle hard and chasing green Mama told me to never steal had To go get it by any means I had hoop dreams rap dreams On that karaoke all night when I was 15 I wanna show the world the Struggles that I’ve seen And how the Words from my Savior gave me visine I’ve been dreaming for a long time Champion in my own mind All from His grace mayne No major label or co-sign My team we so underrated Always been underdogs Trying to stay low and see The Son we something like Some groundhogs And we love the Gospel Cause He’s so Heaven sent Took me out the slums Now I’m a testament And I’m dreaming dreaming Everyday I’m dreaming Crutched up on that Truth mayne Everyday I’m leaning And I’mma die one day But before I’m gone I wanna train my babies On how to make it home I wanna rock these shows And giveaway my art And giveaway my songs Cause they from my heart Lord knows I was sent to men To inspire dreams from my pad and pen (chorus) Draw nigh to God He wants you to come home He’ll never leave you alone There’s still room at His throne For you for you for you So draw nigh to God God God (repeat) it all started with a dream and a pen but I had my doubts could I ever overcome these trends gotta lose myself if I ever really want to win Acting like its all good But I was a thespian Still caught up in the praise of men But He gave me a dream Martin Luther live for the King No not Koopa We talking bout Christ Yeah He’s ruler Immanuel yeah He’s ruler And He died upon that Cross Upon that tree Once blind but now I see A lot of pain and a lot of hate And a lot of stress that was Stopping me But I fight through it all Even when live gets hard Then I ask myself Do I really trust in God With all my heart with all my mind With all my soul with all I got I sacrificed my old Life for Him now He’s all I got Shaped by His testaments Every word old and new If I could take my heart out and Show the world what we been through I bleed red I see red I work to lead Like He led I’m cut from a different Cloth I’m covered up in the King’s threads (chorus) see I live for the Name everything I do yeah I do for the Name Gotta lose myself cause I be attracted to fame And I be getting caught up In what I can gain At times I’m selfish mayne But I keep that Word off in my deck Truth off in my pocket Forget about that money This ain’t bout my wallet I’m working on my legacy Something bigger something brighter Great servant great leader Great father greater writer Can I inspire your dreams Inspire your dreams Dig in the scriptures and By any means Work hard for the King Press on we hardknocks No time to waste mayne I’m going in till my heart stops Said I’m going in till my heart stops Going in till my heart stops Never let the world Tell you what you are not We are the Red Ink We are what Christ said Renegade to the world Worship God till I’m dead (chorus)