WILDIN” is a flute-heavy trap track based on bridging the gap between the church and the streets. Lecrae speaks on the come-up and journey of 1K Phew and his signing to Reach Records as 1K Phew speaks on “Gospel rap” being back and the falseness of works-based religion.
This track is the first single and opening track to Lecrae and 1K Phew’s collaboration album No Church in a While.
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LYRICS
INTRO
Uzoma, come here
PRE-CHORUS
They say there’s no church in the wild, but we been wildin’ (Mhm)
We’ve been on top for a while to let my crowd in (Mhm)
Fresh like every day Easter, think I got a stylist (Mhm)
Had to shape back, get right, make my mama the proudest (Mhm), uh
CHORUS
Feel it in my body, yeah (Mhm)
Can’t nobody stop me (Mhm, hey)
Drippin’ like fluid
Let my life shine like jewelry (Mhm, hey)
Gotta stay humble, uh, yeah
Give it up, give it up (Mhm, hey)
World is a jungle
Give it up, give it up (Mhm)
VERSE 1
Phew ain’t gotta stunt, I’ll tell the secret (Secret)
Bought the whip and now he got the pink slip (Pink slip)
Played the beat, he ate it up like a deep dish (Dish)
“Hammer Time”, that’s what put him on the Reach list (Hey)
Slidin’ on the beat by Metro (Metro)
Y’all was prolly ridin’ on the metro (Metro)
We in Atlanta where they call the gas petrol (Pow)
Signed a record deal and hit the road, let’s go (Hm)
Twenty-thousand in the crowd on stages (Yep)
Birthday Bash in Atlanta was amazin’ (‘Mazin’)
Went to Diddy house, with me, that’s a day trip (Day trip)
They ain’t know you really livin’ in the Matrix (Hey)
I seen ’em come straight out the east (East)
Zaytoven gave him some beats (Beats)
I told the young lion, go eat (Eat)
Follow the Shepherd, watch out for the beast (Yeah)
PRE-CHORUS
They say there’s no church in the wild, but we been wildin’ (Mhm)
We’ve been on top for a while to let my crowd in (Mhm)
Fresh like every day Easter, think I got a stylist (Mhm)
Had to shape back, get right, make my mama the proudest (Mhm), uh
CHORUS
Feel it in my body, yeah (Mhm)
Can’t nobody stop me (Mhm, hey)
Drippin’ like fluid
Let my life shine like jewelry (Mhm, hey)
Gotta stay humble, uh, yeah
Give it up, give it up (Mhm, hey)
World is a jungle
Give it up, give it up (Mhm)
VERSE 2
I just came in with the billy goat gruff (Billy goat gruff)
When you bridgin’ the gap it got trolls on it (Got trolls)
When they threw the stones at Him, He rose on ’em (Rose on ’em)
He got too many doves, he dove on ’em
From the Tes’ he gon’ lift up the doors (From the Tes’)
Had to keep it goin’ automatically
He brought the kid out the east, now they mad at me
Gospel rap back, I put that on your Majesty
They bump they head (They bump they head)
They must forgot who done opened the door (Opened the door)
When ‘Crae came out, he made y’all switch up the flow (Switch up the flow)
I think it’s ’bout time that I get y’all exposed (Get y’all exposed)
Y’all ain’t really savin’ no souls (Hey)
Say he treat religion like Xs and Os (Playin’)
Y’all playin’ tic-tac-toe
They still worried ’bout gold
Lecrae done went Platinum
PRE-CHORUS
They say there’s no church in the wild, but we been wildin’ (Mhm)
We’ve been on top for a while to let my crowd in (Mhm)
Fresh like every day Easter, think I got a stylist (Mhm)
Had to shape back, get right, make my mama the proudest (Mhm), uh
CHORUS
Feel it in my body, yeah (Mhm)
Can’t nobody stop me (Mhm, hey)
Drippin’ like fluid
Let my life shine like jewelry (Mhm, hey)
Gotta stay humble, uh, yeah
Give it up, give it up (Mhm, hey)
World is a jungle
Give it up, give it up (Mhm)
