DJ Khaled released his albumGod madein August 2022 and immediately became the most listened to song of the moment. The album is full of over the top collaborations like "Use This Gospel," the song with Eminem and Ye (Kanye West) with those meaningful lyrics (our review is here).God made, the title track, is the most popular track on the album and features what Khaled called Jay-Z's "verse of the decade". The other rappers on this song are Rick Ross, Lil Wayne, John Legend and Fridayy. This article will detail the meaning of the song and provide the full lyrics at the end.
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The official stream for the song is below. DJ Khaled - GOD DID (Audio Official) Apresentando Rick Ross, Lil Wayne, Jay-Z, John Legend, sexta-feira
God made: inside the letter and its meaning
God madeis a celebration of the unprecedented success the rappers involved have had in life.🇧🇷 The refrain is clear: no one believed her; only God did. And as believers, artists found strength and motivation in God's love.
The song is 8 minutes long and Jay-Z owns the most important part. In front of him, Rick Ross talks about his money, which allows him to easily pay $3 million in taxes, and that he is a sinner in need of God's forgiveness.
Swoop, they just pray that I fall (Huh)
These guys don't want to see you one last time.
They will raise three million dollars on their taxes
A bathtub full of money, still can't relax
The tires turn Lord forgive me I'm a sinner
Conquer, divide hands
Wrong side of the petition, just divine victory
You better listen when I tell you how I put time into this
Please forgive me, God did this.
Lil Wayne later states that his success was totally against the odds and feels that his talent is a wonderful creation of God. He would like to have fewer haters and in his final lines he presents himself as a good guy through the symbol of praying and practicing safe sex.
Please don't hate me just because you hate me
Before you overestimate me, you'll underestimate me
Bury me and wake me, bury me and dig me up
But I'm so cultivating y'all talking back to me bro face facts
Dreadlocks, face tattoos, I'm the pinnacle
I made the culture, what's up Gemini? never relaxed
I've fucked up the world and when I did, I practiced safe sex.
I pray more and talk less, God did the rest
Jay-Z's verse is four minutes long and obviously got everyone's attention. In his lines, the American rapper tells the story of his life, from being a drug dealer in the early years to becoming the first millionaire rapper in history in 2019. He is still shocked by the direction of his life: Jay-Z managed to break with his criminal activities became an honest businessman, even being featured many times in Forbes for his business Monogram, which sells marijuana legally. He finds it ironic that all of this was once illegal and now he's in a magazine known for selling marijuana.
it was hat
Please Lord forgive me for what the oven has done.
Nobody played the Billi until Hov did
How many billionaires can come from Hov's birthplace? Hey
I count three, me, you and rih
Bron is a rock boy so technically four (woo)
I left the drug game with a clean slate, huh?
I turned coke into champagne, huh
I cleaned the godmother with the same soap, eh
Loro and I were talking about how we use slang, huh?
Now weed in stores, can you believe it, ty?
I was focused on Forbes, do you believe this guy?
As it's one of his nicknames, so starting his lines with "Hov did" means he likens himself to a rap god (he'll come back to that later in his verse). He is proud of the number of billionaires he has helped build: in addition to him, he counts Ye (Kanye West), Rihanna and basketball player LeBron James. Then comes the part about remembering his past as a drug dealer. He comments that he's a businessman now, sitting at the capitalization tables of big companies and still feeling like a street kid who's grown up.
Judge how you judge, say we'll be corporate
No, we just cornered the guys with the corner office.
I'm at the capitalization table, what are the divisions?
His lines are full of puns and double entenders, but the message is that he's in awe of how he got to where he is now. Jay-Z knows that he is a role model for many young black men who want to be rappers and he admits that he sometimes sets the wrong example, but that is because of his past life.
Hov is the true black man's dream
My only goal is to make a real black sensation
Sometimes it makes a fake life of black hate
Never my intention, the consequences of my way of life
The way we used to play with life
The last part of his verse talks about all his money and how nice it is to be able to earn that income legally. And in the final lines, the rapper claims the biggest G.O.A.T. of all time, with an intriguing play on words juxtaposing goats and donkeys. He is also compared to Louis Farrakhan, Minister of the Nation of Islam who,in an interview, said that the US should remain silent and not show superiority, then commented that "their passion is to speak out".
Next time, we'll discuss who the G.O.A.T. yeah, you know dumb.
Forgive me, this is my passion for talking (Haha)
Sometimes I feel like Farrakhan (Haha) talking to Mike Wallace (Haha)
I think everyone should be silent.
It breaks my heart (haha)
God madeIt will remain one of the most influential rap songs of the year and will be under scrutiny for a long time to come. We encourage you to look at any comments added by fans.in geniusto find more fascinating details about the lyrics. But the meaning remains in what we explain here:We are what we are among the most successful rappers of all time because we believe in ourselves. And it was only God and us who made it.
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the complete letter
(DJ Khaled)
It breaks my heart
They don't believe us
we are the best music
they threw themselves
While you hate and you're jealous
Could you be here and accept this love
More love, more blessings, more life
GOD MADE (GOD MADE)
Either you win with us or watch us win
dj khaled
(Friday and Rick Ross)
They wanted us down, ooh-woah
But look at us now, oh
They told us (time to say a prayer, M-M-M-)
They didn't think we'd make it, oh (let's bow our heads)
They didn't believe us, oh (Huh)
But I know that God did it, God did it (Oh yes he did it)
Oh, God made it (Oh-oh, Khaled)
Oh yes, God made it (Oh-oh, Khaled)
Oh God did it (God is great)
But I know that God made it
(Rick Ross)
Swoop, they just pray that I fall (Huh)
These guys don't want to see you one last time.
They will raise three million dollars on their taxes
A bathtub full of money, still can't relax
The tires turn Lord forgive me I'm a sinner
Conquer, divide hands
Wrong side of the petition, just divine victory
You better listen when I tell you how I put time into this
Please forgive me, God did this.
So leave me in the dark and swim with the sharks
Drugged boy, big rest, still the biggest boss
I have a kilo on a plate, send them by freight
Or I can buy a bank, I know my money is safe (Maybach Music)
(Freitag)
they told us
They didn't think we could make it, oh
They didn't believe us, oh
(Friday and Lil Wayne)
But I know that God did it, God did it (Oh yes he did it)
Oh, God made it (Oh-oh)
Oh yes, God made it (Oh-oh)
Month
But I know that God made it (Uh)
(Little Wayne)
The sky is the limit, every day I reach
They were tired of me winning, now they're sleeping dead
You don't want to see me with the ring? It's better to play D'
Nego, God did your thing when He did me
If the odds are against me, I might discover Da Vinci
I know that only God can judge us, I say this for Brittney.
They smell blood like sharks and behave suspiciously
Well, I have to act like an A, and they have to kiss me.
Please don't hate me just because you hate me
Before you overestimate me, you'll underestimate me
Bury me and wake me, bury me and dig me up
But I'm so cultivating y'all talking back to me bro face facts
Dreadlocks, face tattoos, I'm the pinnacle
I made the culture, what's up Gemini? never relaxed
I've fucked up the world and when I did, I practiced safe sex.
I pray more and talk less, God did the rest
(Friday and JAY-Z)
they told us
They didn't think we could make it, oh
They didn't believe us (breaks my heart), oh
(Friday and JAY-Z)
But I know God did (Where are we in Gu?), God did (Oh yes he did, where are we in Gu?)
Oh, God made it (Oh-oh)
Oh yes, God made it (Oh-oh)
God made it
But I know that God made it
(JAY-Z)
it was hat
Please Lord forgive me for what the oven has done.
Nobody played the Billi until Hov did
How many billionaires can come from Hov's birthplace? Hey
I count three, me, you and rih
Bron is a rock boy so technically four (woo)
I left the drug game with a clean slate, huh?
I turned coke into champagne, huh
I cleaned the godmother with the same soap, eh
Loro and I were talking about how we use slang, huh?
Now weed in stores, can you believe it, ty?
I was focused on Forbes, do you believe this guy?
So we said fuck it, we went public with the dope
Get out of the mud, they gotta face you now, you can't make this shit up
Judge how you judge, say we'll be corporate
No, we just cornered the guys with the corner office.
I'm at the capitalization table, what are the divisions?
Not this cap table, boy, we live it
Breezy, what's the matter
We squeeze fenty like fentanyl, shit is real (woo)
And I was ten down for that
We just got his ten back and then we went back and said, "Where's the interest?"
I turn on the O3
We let them do the shit, OG for the OGs
Some new pocket niggas talking about exotics
You've barely been to the Baham— (haha) that's another matter
Monogram on my red carpet bag
Look at the face I made that night, shit is shocking
The odds weren't good, we might even live
Must be crazy for all you brothers we were shocked
Shit is too much how we grow (we grow)
Shit don't even look real to us (damn)
OG sold them, you called Capo
If these are your dealers, who are we?
Hov is the true black man's dream
My only goal is to make a real black sensation
Sometimes it makes a fake life of black hate
Never my intention, the consequences of my way of life
The way we used to play with life
Now I'm careful with the phrases, it's just the bars I like (Woo)
I never wanted to be the state administrator (let's go)
The laws are draconian (C'mon Hov)
For those married to life (come on) it's a sacred marriage and (come on)
Somehow I'll cheat every box they try to throw me (let's go)
with a big ceremony
Folk e' ain't even tell me how much Caddy talked about him
And face and name of London, Harold Road, Weston Inn
I speak to the souls of men
Those of them willing to die for the existence this cold world has chosen for them.
Kicking snow off a frozen timb (woo)
The comings and goings on that highway really got to them
Too many fallen soldiers in these ways of sin
For lawmakers, I always smoke for them
I got lawyers like shooters
Working pro bono for him as a favor because he's Mrs.
In memory of Teelo
I pray none of you die from prison phones again
All that pain on the outside inspired all that growth on the inside
Then the new planes break
supreme elevation of self
They fucked and gave wealth to the right brothers
They are not songs, they are anthems, because I am him
It's Psalm 151, this New Testament
The Book of Hov (The Book of Hov)
Jesus turned water into wine, Hov just needed a furnace
You never know how this shit can go
Me and Biggs are probably getting pretty big if we don't book that load (What's up Hoffa?)
The review is 20/20
Even though he makes a lot of money, that shit is funny in hindsight
I just got a million from a sync
Without risking a million years to get it out of the sink (woo)
it was hat
They said they don't know me internationally, black people on the street do
I see a lot of Hov in Giggs
Me and meekness could never fight, I got this nigga a full offer
Hov hizo (Hov hizo)
Next time, we'll discuss who the G.O.A.T. yeah, you know dumb.
Forgive me, this is my passion for talking (Haha)
Sometimes I feel like Farrakhan (Haha) talking to Mike Wallace (Haha)
I think everyone should be silent.
It breaks my heart (haha)
God made it
(Friday and JAY-Z)
They wanted us down, ooh-woah (come on man)
But look at us now, oh
they told us
They didn't think we could make it, oh
They didn't believe us, oh
(Friday, John Legend, Friday and John Legend)
But I know that God did it, God did it (Oh yes he did it)
Oh, God made it (Oh-oh)
Oh yes, God made it (Oh-oh)
God made it
But I know that God did it, God did it (Oh yes he did it)
Oh God did it (Oh God did it)
Oh yes, God did (he did)
Oh-oh-oh, God made it
(John Legend)
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And you might not believe it but I know that God did it
Oh God did it (God did it)
God made (God made)
oh oh
But I know that God made it
He did that
Oh he did, yes yes
God made it
God made it
God made it
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DJ Khaled Net Worth 2023.
| Net Worth: | $510 Million |
|---|---|
| Name: | DJ Khaled |
| Monthly Income: | $7 Million |
| Date of Birth: | November 26, 1975 |
| Gender: | Male |
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|---|---|
| Occupation | musician |
| Known for | forefather of all musicians |
| Parent(s) | Lamech and Adah |
| Relatives | Jabal (brother) Tubal-cain (half-brother) Naamah (half-sister) |
About The Book
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Relationship with Minaj
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| Jay-Z | |
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| Website | lifeandtimes.com |
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Revelation 5:11-14
13And I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and in the sea, and all that is in them, saying, To him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be blessing and honor and glory and might forever and ever!
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Who sang holy holy holy in the Bible? ›| "Holy, Holy, Holy! Lord God Almighty!" | |
|---|---|
| Hymn | |
| Reginald Heber | |
| Occasion | Trinity |
| Text | by Reginald Heber |
| Jubal | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | musician |
| Known for | forefather of all musicians |
| Parent(s) | Lamech and Adah |
| Relatives | Jabal (brother) Tubal-cain (half-brother) Naamah (half-sister) |
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