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Confidence: Torchbearer Vol. III

by CONQUEST

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Confidence 04:08
I’M PROBABLY DRIVEN WITH VERSES COPY WRITTEN TO BODY THE VISION… OF SATAN, ‘TIL HE’S CRAVIN’ MORE RELIEF THAN TSUNAMI VICTIMS THIS AIN’T ‘SHOCKEY’ SPITTIN’ BUT I’M A NEW YORK GIANT LIKE ‘JEREMY’, KILLING HERESY THE BLOCK BE PITCHIN’ TO KIDS MIMICKING TRAMPELINES ‘CAUSE THEY SPRING AT CHANCES TO CATCH MORE BODIES THAN ‘KING’ MAGAZINE SPLATTER SPLEENS WITH THEIR GANGSTA TEAMS, BUT THEIR GANGSTA LEANS WILL SOON BE BURNING, THAT’S WHY MY SERMON’S THE NAZARENE JESUS, MY HOPE AND ROCK IS THIS THROUGH THE APOCALYPSE HE LEFT THE TOMB EMPTY LIKE BROKEN PROMISES A STAR YOU AIN’T SEEING WITH ASTROLOGISTS WITH GRACE AND MERCY THAT ATTRACTS YOU MORE THAN OPPOSITES YO I’M ROCKING THIS TO THE POPULIST ON THE SEARCH FOR CHRIST MORE THAN ARCHEOLOGISTS, MINUS THE POLITICS OF CRAFTY CHRISTIANS THAT’S SWEATING HELL ‘CAUSE THEY FAILED TO USE THEIR VOICES LIKE ASHLEE SIMPSON ON ‘SNL’ CHORUS: THE WAYS OF THE WORLD GOT A LOTTA PROMINENCE BUT IN JESUS, I’M A PLACE MY CONFIDENCE YOU COULD BE BLESSED TOO! DEVILS CAN’T STRESS YOU WHEN CHRIST COMES TO YOUR RESCUE (REPEAT) GUESS WHO’S BACK LIKE HE’S SCARFACE, OR EVEN SLICK RICK STILL, HE’S A HARDCASE, DEMONS HE’S FLIP WITH THAT WOULD BE ‘D. SLIMMM’, ‘DREADLOCK’ PREFER TO BE A LIGHT WITH URGENCY TO KIDS LOCKED IN MURDER SPREES KILLERS IN FACT, GUERILLAS IN BLACK, ILLER THAN THAT FOR SCRILLA TO STACK SWITCHED TO THE ‘HEAT’ QUICKER THAN SHAQ TRADED FOR THE ‘MAC’ LIKE THE HOUSTON ROCKETS, TO BOOST THEIR PROFIT EVEN DARE TO SHOOT THE COPS WITH MUCH VIGOR BUT YOUR C.R.E.A.M. SCHEME IS LACKING YOU’RE ‘BOUT TO COME UP SHORT LIKE THE ‘DREAM TEAM’ IN ATHENS I’M ABOUT TO COME UP B-I-G LIKE GUERILLA BLACK’S VOICE WHEN I DRUM THE H-I-T JUST TO KILL THE TRACK CHOICE… I PICKED, LIKE IT’S COTTON BY THE SLAVES PREACHING CHRIST TO THOSE SATAN’S GOTTEN BY THE GRAVE MY ARTISTRY TURN TRACKS OUT LIKE CANVASES SO CHRIST IN LIFE’S MORE MAPPED OUT THAN ATLASES (CHORUS) I GOT CONFIDENCE IN CHRIST, THERE’S POWER IN HIS NAME SAVED ME, SO THE KID’S NOT DEVOWERED IN THE FLAMES TOOK BEATINGS WITH NO JIVE SO YOU REALLY GOTTA SHUT DOWN SATAN LIKE HOCKEY SEASON IN ’05 AND NOT BE TRAPPED IN VERSE 41, JOHN 9 SEEING PHYSICALLY, BUT SPIRITUALLY, YOU’RE BEYOND BLIND THIS IS MY INSTANT MESSAGE LIKE YOU WERE ONLINE CHOOSE CHRIST NOW ‘CAUSE TOMORROW IS THE WRONG TIME IT’S NOT PROMISED, WHEN KIDS WALK THE STREETS WITH MORE BEEF THAN HOT POCKETS WITH RED DOTS SPOTTED… ON YOUR FACE, AND JUST IN CASE THAT’S NOT YOUR REALITY EVEN SUBURBIA CAN BE KNOCKED FOR FATALITIES EASY, SO TRUST IN THE SHEPARD LIKE ‘KIKI’ TRULY, NO ‘STRANGE LOVE’ LIKE ‘BRIDGETTE’ AND ‘FOFI’ YEAH, YOU CAN BE BLESSED TOO, DEMONS CAN’ T STRESS YOU OR HEX YOU LET THE WORD OF GOD MAKE YOUR NEXT MOVE! (CHORUS)
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I SPIT WITH INSANE SPEED, TAKE HEED, DON’T BLAME WEED FOR A FLOW SOO MEDICINAL, THEY CALL IT DUANE READE CONQUEST, THE PERSCRIPTION FOR WHAT THE GAME NEEDS SO LET THIS SAVED REPLY TO BIG DADDY KANE BREATHE LIFE IN YA, NOT MEANT TO FIGHT SINNERS BUT TURN ‘EM CHRIST WINNERS, WITH AID OF TIGHT SCRIPTURES TO LEAVE SATAN SHOOK LIKE TERETS AND REVUJENATE YOUR LIFE IN CHRIST MORE THAN VINCE CARTER DID THE NETS I’M A THREAT, OUT TO BRING BACK A STANDARD LIKE A JAZZ CLASSIC BEFORE THE PUMP’S SHOVED DOWN YOUR THROAT LIKE ASTHMATICS ‘CAUSE THUG LIFE IS A WACK RACKET, WORTHY OF A TRASH BASKET THAT MATCHES TIME IN A BLACK CASKET HATE TO BE THAT GRAPHIC WITH MORE ‘HOP’ THAN JACK RABBITS FOR THE STREETS SO THAT REPENTANCE IS FANTASTIC I’M BRINGING ROMANS 6:8 TO GAT AND CRACK ADDICTS WITHOUT THE DELAYS AND BREAKDOWNS OF MASS TRANSIT CHORUS: YEAH, YOU COULD ROCK GATS, ‘WRAPS OR A CROSS DISRESPECT THE WORD OF GOD, YOU WILL CATCH A LOSS THE MOST DANGEROUS EMCEE IN THIS WORLD IS A GOD FEARING ONE AND YOU’RE HEARING ONE…NOW! (REPEAT) RAP PUPPETS GET CRITICAL, BUT THEY’RE MISERABLE INDIVIDUALS, PITIFUL, WASTE SYLLABLES… ON CRIMINAL LYRICAL THAT’S FICTIONAL EASIER TO CRACK THAN BONES THAT LACK MINERALS MEDIA IMPACTS YOUR ZONE TO WAX MINIMAL INFERIOR! LEAVE RAP ALONE! YOU’RE WACK! VISIBLE… HYSTERIA ENTRAPS YOUR TONE, I SMASH SENEGAL TO SYRIA WITH TRACKS I OWN, I’M THAT PIVITOL WHEN I GRAB MIRACLES, I’M LAME NO MORE WHILE TUNNEL VISION’S GOT YOU LIVING JAMES 4:4 ADDICTED TO THE WORLD, ‘TIL YOU NEED AA MEETINGS I’M DANGEROUS, AS IF I HAD AN AK SQUEEZING LIKE MALCOLM IN HIS HEYDAY SPEAKING TO WHITE SUPREMACISTS, GENESIS FOR THEIR MAYDAY SEASON DEVILS RUN YOUR LIFE, PITY! THAT’S WHY YOU WANNA FIGHT, ‘CAUSE I GOT CHRIST IN ME (CHORUS) YEAH, EVEN CONCIOUS CATS FEAR RAPPERS OF THE SPIRIT, THEY GET WICKED WITH SMEAR CHATTER SO CALLED REVOLUTIONARIES, CLEAR ACTORS MORE BUGGED OUT THAN FOOD STUNTS ON ‘FEAR FACTOR’ BUT FEAR AIN’T AN OPTION FOR ME I GOT CHRIST, I GOT DEVILS COPPIN’ A PLEA YOU CRITICIZE SAINTS WHO EAT PORK YET YOU BANGIN’ CHICKS WHO STREET WALK WITH ALL THAT DEEP TALK AND SELF PRAISE IS A BAD PRACTICE WHEN DEMONS COME AFTER YOU LIKE THE IRS FOR BACKTAXES NOW THAT SELF RIGHTEOUSNESS IS FILTHY RAGS AND THE JOY OF THE LORD IS WHERE THE THRILL BE AT IT’S DOPE YOU REP AFRICAN HISTORY BUT USING THAT TO TEST GOD’S A BAFFLING MYSTERY THIS ALSO GOES OUT TO GOD’S CHOSEN PEOPLE WHO HIDE BEHIND THE IMAGE OF THAT PROMOTING EVIL SEE… (CHORUS)
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E.G.O. 04:31
YEAH THEY CALL US SAINTS BUT WE’RE FAR FROM PERFECT WE OFTEN LEAVE OUR BROTHERMAN SCARRED AND MURDERED WITH OUR WORDS FROM THE BOULEVARD TO SERVICE THAT’S WHY FOR CHRIST, I’M KNOWN TO WRITE THESE BARS TO WORSHIP SEE NONE BELIEVERS TO BELIEVERS, OFTEN DECEIVE US WE’RE ONLY HUMAN SO I’M CHOOSIN’ TRUST IN JESUS BEFORE I TRUST IN STREET LIFE, BEFORE I’M DUST, I’LL BREATHE LIFE TORCHBEARER STYLE, ‘CAUSE THE WORLD STILL NEEDS CHRIST AND NOT ME, NOT DREADLOCK SLIMMM THOUGH I’M A BLESSING, I’M A CHARACTER STUDY OF IMPERFECTION THROUGHOUT MY DAILY LIFE THAT MOVES WITH SWIFT AGGRESSION NO QUESTION, I PRAY YOUR SECTION FINDS THE WAY I SPIT REFRESHIN’ THIS AIN’T THE ‘ONCE LOST, NOW I’M FOUND, STAYING FOUND’…. MESSAGE HOLY EMCEES BLAZE IN SOUNDS, SEE I AIN’T PLAYIN’‘ROUND… WITH REALITY, I RIP MICS CRAZY WITH THE FACT THAT EVERYBODY’S STILL IN NEED OF CHRIST DAILY I’M THAT SAVAGE WRITING FOR CRACK ADDICTS IN BROOKLYN BARS PUMPING ‘AUDIOSLAVE’ AND ‘BLACK SABBATH’ WHILE MY BEST FRIEND’S NASTY WITH A POOLSTICK TO SMASH A GAME OR CRACK A LAME, SHE AIN’T THE ONE TO FOOL WITH YET I PRAY FOR HER ON DAYS SHE MIGHT LOSE IT FAM’S BEEN ABUSIVE OR A GRAND IS ELUSIVE FOR HER AND YOU, I MAKE MANLY MUSIC DEVOID OF DISTURBING IMAGES, LEAVE THAT TO STANLEY KUBRICK I BRING THE IMAGE OF CHRIST TO THOSE DISTURBED WHERE CRUMBLING HERB, AIN’T ENOUGH TO CALM YOUR NERVES AND THERE AIN’T ENOUGH VODKA TO DRINK AWAY THE PAIN THEN YOU SHRINK AWAY IN VAIN, PLEASE THINK, IT AIN’T A GAME KNOW MY ART CELEBRATES THE DEATH OF CHRIST MORE THAN ROSA PARKS’S FOR THOSE DROWNING IN A FLOOD OF SIN, THIS IS NOAH’S ARK YOU CAN GROW APART FROM INIQUITIES THAT GOT YOU ON THE EDGE PUT MAN BEFORE CHRIST, BOY YOU’RE DEAD! I’M ON MY…. CHORUS: E.G.O. EXERCISING GOD’S OMNIPITENCE WE NEED JESUS, THE WORLD IS RIDICULOUS TRUST GOD, NOT MAN, THAT’S RIDICULOUS YOU’LL END UP EITHER DRUGGED OUT, LOCKED DOWN OR SYPHILLISED (REPEAT) I’M ON E.G.O. AND NOT MY EGO, ‘CAUSE CHRIST IS MY HERO NEXT TO HIM, I’M DWARFED LIKE ‘DEVITO.’ A ZERO, COMPARED TO PERFECTION, DESERVED A SPOT WITH FATHER AT THE RESSURECTION, THE WORD OF GOD CALLS GENTS TO MATURITY, BUT A FALSE SENSE OF SECURITY LEAVES ALL DENSE WITH IMPURITIES IT AIN’T A BEAUTIFUL STRUGGLE LIKE KWELI’S WHEN PASTOR’S THE DEVIL BUT YOU SWORE HE WAS ‘GANDHI’ NOW YOU’RE ‘ALL SHOOK UP’ LIKE THE ‘ELVIS’ CLASSIC YOUR HELL IS DRASTIC, LET ME SPELL THE FACTS IT’S… JESUS, JESUS, JESUS AND MORE JESUS THAT CAT IS YOUR MESSIAH, I HAD TO QUOTE SHEKINAH AIN’T ABOUT HUMAN BEINGS, DO BE CLEAR FROM THE STREET CAT TO DEACONS IN THE PIEUS FOR YEARS PUT YOUR FAITH IN‘EM, BURN AT THE STAKE WITH ‘EM FORGET GREAT CHRISTIANS, CHOOSE GOD, THAT’S STRAIGHT WISDOM AND IF YOU PROBABLY HEARD JAY KNOW I’M A SINNER, I’M JUST THAT NICE WITH GODLY WORDPLAY FOR CATS SIMPLE, IN YOUR FACE LIKE THAT PIMPLE WITH THE CHRIST I RAP NIMBLE, OVER SMASHED CYMBALS YET I’M NOT ALWAYS KILLING SIN LIKE THAT ‘BRINDLE’ NAMED ‘TIMOTHY’, SOMETIMES SPIRITUALLY I PACK LITTLE SO I GOTTA SEEK 2ND TIMOTHY 2:19 DEPART FROM SIN LIKE IT’S WACK RHYME SCHEMES (CHORUS) YEAH, THEY CALL US SAINTS…(CONT’D)
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FOR YOUR LISTENING PLEASURE, I BE WITNESSING FRESHER ON TRACKS, CHRISTENING CLEVER RIVETING TREASURES OF LYRICISM THAT’S BEEN PRESSURE, SO THE SICKENING’S SEVERED WITH THIS ST YLE OF EXORCISM, ‘SLIMMM’S’ NEVER BEEN BETTERED CLEVER, AND CALMER THAN RETIREES ON VACATION, JASON…THE STREET’S ARCH DIOCESES ‘CAUSE I’VE BEEN MAKING VERSES FLATTERING THAT I’VE BEEN TRAFFICKING PAST THE VATICAN, COVERED IN SACCARHINE, SMASHING IN… THE STREET LIFE I’M DAILY BATTLING SO THE BODY OF CHRIST I PLAY CLOSER THAN TISSUE IN HIS ABDOMEN TIMES ARE HARD, SO DENYING HIM IS BAFFLING ‘CAUSE HE GOT SOO MUCH LOVE TO GIVE, IT’S NOT LIKE HE’S RATIONING GRACE THAT HE’S GIVING OUT, IT’S WHY WE’RE ALL CHILLING OUT INSTEAD OF BURNIN’ FOR CERTAIN, ‘CAUSE HIS BLOOD WAS SPILLIN’ OUT I KNOW YOU’RE NOT STILL IN DOUBT, GET LOCKED! LIFE WITHOUT CHRIST IS HARD TO PICTURE LIKE MEDUSA TAKING HEADSHOTS CHORUS: IT AIN’T JUST FOR SAINTS, IT’S FOR EVERYBODY IT AIN’T JUST FOR CHURCH, WE SMASH THE PARTY YEAH JASON AIN’T PLAYING, EVEN GOT MY KID SAYING… GO DADDY! GO DADDY! (REPEAT) YO, THIS IS THE PARTY ROCKER, SURE TO SMASH YO (THAT’S SO?) CONQUEST WITH THE NOSTRAND AVE. FLOW, (THAT’S WHOA!) WE ABOUT TO GIVE THIS JESUS CAT BLOW HAVE HIS NAME DICTATE THE GAME LIKE ‘CASTRO’ YEAH, WE MAKE THE FATHER VERY PROUD ROCKING ‘CHRIST TAB’’ BACK TO THE ‘CHERRY LOUNGE’ BRINGING YOU THE CHRIST, ‘CAUSE WE’RE VERY DOWN YO, YOU BEST REPENT OR YOU’LL BE VERY CLOWNED THIS TRACK’S MY PLAYGROUND IN A WILD WAY AND BEST BELIEVE, IT’S CHILD’S PLAY, WHEN MY DAUGHTER SAYS MARY HAD A LITTLE LAMB LITTLE LAMB, LITTLE LAMB ‘CAUSE SHE UNDERSTANDS THAT THE VIRGIN MARY HAD A LAMB WHO TOOK ON OUR BURDENS SCARY SO LET’S TAKE THIS TO THE NEXT PLATEAU AND REP CHRIST LIKE THE 70’S REPPED AFROS (CHORUS- REPEAT TWICE)
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*FOR CONQUEST ONLY* CHORUS: IT’S THE MISSIONFIELD YO! WHAT YOU THOUGHT IT WAS FOUR CATS ALL ABOUT THE FATHER’S BUSINESS ‘CAUSE… ELIJAH, NADHIR, QUASON AND JASON MAKE DISCIPLES OF ALL NATIONS...STOP HATIN’!!! THSE DEVILS I’M TURNING SHOOK ONES, I PUSH SOME … INTO MORE AGONY THAN KERRY SUPPORTERS AFTER BUSH WON! THE REST…MORE PARANOIA, THAN ‘R KELLS’ AT ‘MSG’ WHO SPIT BARS WELL? FOR CENTURIES… MENTION ME, INCESSANTLY, HEAVILY FOR MY SPECIALITY AND RECIPE FOR BRINGING THE GOSPEL WITHOUT ‘VERITY’ CHASING PSALMS 109, 26 TO 31… VERSES FOR ENEMIES, DISPERSING TREACHERY SEE DEVILS HATE MY CLOUT ‘CAUSE MY STAND HURT THEIR PLANS AND THEY CAN’T ‘TAKE ME OUT’ LIKE I’M FRANZ FERDINAND AND SPEAKING FOR THE ROCK TIP, YOU ROCK WITH NO CLASS LIKE ‘AXL’ TRYING TO PUSH ‘GUNS AND ROSES’ WITH NO ‘SLASH’ IT AIN’T HARD FOR ME THAT MY ARTISTRY TARGETS ALIFE IN CHRIST MORE THAN BULLEYES IN ARCHERY CHRIST CLEANSED MY LIFE ‘CAUSE HIS STYLE’S SANITATION WHILE YOUR CURE’S MORE SUSPECT THAN CHILD VACCINATIONS (CHORUS- REPEAT)
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Separation 05:14
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The Edge 04:32
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On November 12th 2005, Brooklyn MC/Songwriter CONQUEST officially released "CONFIDENCE" his 3rd studio album and last installment of the 'TORCHBEARER' album trilogy to the general public. Highly regarded as the best of three albums in the series, 'Confidence" was just that, confident in it's progressive lyricism, daring & challenging songwriting, captivating topic choices, storytelling, social commentary, biblical worldview and faith & reliance in Christ. Most of the production was handled by PRISM of SOULMAFIA twitter.com/Soulmafia with additional production from E-NONYMOUS (Erick Catalan), D. STEELE for DANIEL STEELE MUSIC, MYSTRO, GEO THE ARCHITECT & Chris Belmont twitter.com/chrisbelmont of JAH ROCK'N productions. This album also included E.G.O., the album's biggest single and the no.1 song on christianhiphop.net for 2006 sitting at the top position for a staggering 16 weeks. This album was critically acclaimed by all the major Christian hip hop blogs/websites at the time and goes down as one of CONQUEST'S finest musical achievements.

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released November 12, 2005

All songs written by Jason Andre Roberts aka CONQUEST for SeanMessiahJaylah Music (ASCAP) except "UNIQUE", written by CONQUEST & Latisha Stewart (Latisha Divine), "HOMELAND SECURITY" written by BLOODY INK, E-NONYMOUS & CONQUEST, "FATHER'S BUSINESS" written by CONQUEST, Quason Durant, Nadhir Encarnacion & Elijah Miguel & "P.B.S. FLOW" written by CONQUEST & Jaylah Roberts. All songs produced by PRISM of SOULMAFIA twitter.com/Soulmafia, except "INFINITE POTENTIAL" produced by D. STEELE for DANIEL STEELE MUSIC, "P.B.S. FLOW", "WORD ON THE STREET" & "HOMELAND SECURITY" produced by E-NONYMOUS (Erick Catalan), "APPRECIATION DAY" produced GEO THE ARCHITECT & "E.G.O." produced by Chris Belmont twitter.com/chrisbelmont of JAH ROCK'N productions. All songs recorded, mixed and mastered at THE DOJO courtesy of endoftheweak.com except "E.G.O." which was recorded, mixed and mastered at JAH ROCK'N studios. jahrockn.com

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The 2012 album “Radical Departure” marks a new musical chapter for Brooklyn based, Trinidadian born emcee/songwriter CONQUEST as an artist & missionary musical evangelist. CONQUEST does unadulterated hip hop music that's mainly East Coast in style & influence with an alternative & soul influence that will be recognized as either ‘Christian hip hop' or 'progressive hip hop made by a Christian'. ... more

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