Name: Highly Favored
Duration: P00H03M18S
Description: First single from GunDei`s upcoming album.

Highly Favored

by GunDei pronounced gandhi

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First single from GunDei`s upcoming album.

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Highly Favored

1
I been wavy like a boat
Since way back in 84
6th Ave. boyz in ninety deuce
Had `em same etonic shoes
Front page on the local news,
Home invasion
Waving tools
Thought I aint had a thing to lose
As a jitt I paid my dues
My reli big daddy zoe
Linked me up with Mackazoe
I brought the movement up the North
Monkeys wanna claim the sauce now
Boy, you aint got the recipe
It’s best to be you than a lesser me
I can’t help it I was born with this pedigree.

CHORUS
Too street for the church
In the street, they say I’m churchy
Lord, protect me
From my enemies who wanna hurt me
Morning after morning
Gotta say Im grateful
Every day I wake up
I realize I’m favored

2
I kept rocking Tommy Hill when everyone else was claiming he racist
Papa said don’t co-sign nothing if it doesn’t make sense
Lack of education
Got most of our children chasing
A bag
Damn! It’s so sad
By the time they realize
It be the little things in life
That can make it worth their while
They’re already in the ground
Toe tagged
Lord knows I aint perfect
Thank you for your grace and mercies
Aint it bout time we turn these streets around?

CHORUS
Too street for the church
In the street, they say I’m churchy
Lord, protect me
From my enemies who wanna hurt me
Morning after morning
Gotta say Im grateful

BRIDGE
I feel favored
How I dodged those bullets
Lord my life a miracle
Favored, for my wife and children
Good God they’re so beautiful
I may not possess a million.
Yet I aint up in the kitchen
Cooking crack
Watch my back
Trap within four walls in prison.

CHORUS
Too street for the church
In the street, they say I’m churchy
Lord, protect me
From my enemies who wanna hurt me
Morning after morning
Gotta say Im grateful

credits

released May 20, 2021
Written and Produced by GunDei
Co-Produced by Dave Turgeon

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GunDei pronounced gandhi Montreal, Québec

Born in Haiti, GunDei moved to Miami in the 1980s with his mother and siblings due to political instability. He quickly found himself caught in the street life.

In 1992 his father received political asylum in Canada and moved the family to Montreal. He managed to escape the perils of the streets through music to get university degrees in philosophy and theology. ... more