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TND (TRUTH NEVER DIES)

from INNOCENT BORN GUILTY by EL BENTLY 448

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This song is about knowing I had to have an invincible soul in order to survive being in prison for something I didn’t do. A 60 year sentence. Truth has an invincible soul - when truth is in your heart, it’s like having an invisible soul, like the famous poem Invictus by William Ernest Henley.

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See I’ve been gone for a minute
But I’m back like rain to replenish
(The game)
Been on a dry spell
Ever since I've been inside
This dry cell
Police shook me down
(And found my cell)
Not on the block I’m in it
Still makin sells
What’s crazy these lames in here would still go tell
(At twelve)
Motherfuckas better have my mail
Still on a mission and I still got a vision
I’m doing better than you
And I’m in prison
80 chains on my wrist and my ankles but I’m off the chain
But my name ain’t Django
Stop cryin’ about your struggles say thank you
If some of you haters was here now I shank you
Years of gestating in the womb of the beast
So my rebirth is near and my release cuz

Truth never dies
It’s only rediscovered
Through your angel, through your demons, through your haters, through your lovers
Truth never dies
It reach beyond skies like footprints on the moon, it outlive lies
Truth never dies
It resurrect through scars, absolute burns, it reaches through the bars of
Lyric or metal to tap your shoulder, to wake you
Truth never dies
So how can I be forsaken?

Truth never dies (church!)
I spit the gospel
What I say here today
Will outlive fossils
Picasso couldn’t paint pictures so clear
I’m killin’ em
With this swag here
And I’m on the inside affecting y’all out there
The game cold, but a dollar not fair
You need truth to ride with Bently right here
History shows it’s truth man fears
Years of captivity they read it in my letters
My words liberated many, broke they fetters
Rose they conscious like wind does feathers
I’m the modern day George Jackson Che Guevara
I die for my dreams and my visions
It’s difference between eagles and pigeons
Between us that’s thorough and those who snitchin’
Spirituality is greater than religion cuz

Truth never dies
It’s only rediscovered
Through your angel, through your demons, through your haters, through your lovers
Truth never dies
It reach beyond skies like footprints on the moon, it outlive lies
Truth never dies
It resurrect through scars, absolute burns, it reaches through the bars of
Lyric or metal to tap your shoulder, to wake you
Truth never dies
So how can I be forsaken?

Yeah, the world thought it was over
In ‘99 when I was sentenced to murder
From the abyss who would have thought I’d surface?
Back revealin’ truth behind curtains
Fuckin’ wit me it’s like death you flirtin
I got a queen sister Virgo with a hitta’ with a Taurus
For years they’ve been waitin’ on the order
This injustice done made me a monster
I’m OG, but I can never grow old
You can’t kill ideas or kill my soul
I’m like 10,000 hundred bills I just won’t fold
Been round the world standin’ still
Y’all too slow
The ink of my blood write scriptures
Exposin’ you mothafuckas fictitious
Like you convicted me like y’all was sure
Now I’m back from the dead like I’m Yahshua cuz

Truth never dies
It’s only rediscovered
Through your angel, through your demons, through your haters, through your lovers
Truth never dies
It reach beyond skies like footprints on the moon, it outlive lies
Truth never dies
It resurrect through scars, absolute burns, it reaches through the bars of
Lyric or metal to tap your shoulder, to wake you
Truth never dies
So how can I be forsaken?

I’m back…
Ey the Leon Benson the world once knew was murdered in 1999
Now I’m resurrected Lee Bently 448
In 1-9-9-9 they thought they 6-6-6-ed the 1
Signs and symbols for the conscious mind
But we back
To reveal truth to everybody
To you, to me, everybody
Ey today you rediscover me
I heard your prayers, but you heard mine
Ey you call me back to the people and we got to do what we got to do
We got to eliminate this falsehood out there
Resurrect the truth
In all seven continents, everywhere
In your mind, your heart, in your spirit
Let’s get it
Son of man!

Truth never dies.
Only rediscovered.

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from INNOCENT BORN GUILTY, released June 26, 2023

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EL BENTLY 448 Detroit, Michigan

Leon Benson was locked up in 1998 for a crime he did not commit. After 25 years of wrongful incarceration, he was released in March 2023 and is ready to take on the world. As his rapper alter ego, EL BENTLY 448's uplifting yet gritty sound inspires all of us to seek justice and freedom in our own lives. ... more

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