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GOT A REASON
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Sep 22, 2026 updated
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Song Meaning
KB's "Got a Reason" opens with a simple, breath-driven declaration: as long as there's breath, there's a reason to praise. The verses then fill that claim with street-level testimony — bullets that missed, a car flipping yet leaving someone unhurt, a mother's prayer described as bulletproof, and a stretch of addiction and heartbreak that could have ended in a pocket full of pills. Rather than dressing any of it up, the song keeps returning to the same four-beat refrain, as if the repetition itself is the point. There's also a sharp apologetic edge: the resurrection is treated as the dividing line that settles every rival claim, and the closing lines lean on the anointing as something worn, not merely felt — "check the seams" turns a garment metaphor into a boast about whose covering you're under. The production stays lean and percussive, letting the hook carry the weight while the verses do the arguing. What holds it together is gratitude that doesn't pretend the road was smooth; the praise is loud precisely because the survival was narrow.
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As long as I'm breathing
I've got a reason to praise, praise
Praise, praise
Praise, praise
Praise, praise
Ayy, let me move, I'm offendin' you
Hallelu—, I hope you disapprove, you can diss it too
I don't look like what I traveled through
Homie, where were you?
When they pulled .22s and bullets flew, barely missin' you
Mama said that that prayer was bulletproof
I turned twenty-two, we was praisin' God in our tennis shoes
My sisters' twenty dudes, in they twenties too
Yeah, it's a move
Satan had a plan, didn't work out how he intended to
Jesus take the wheel, must've had His hands at ten and two
Wait (Praise)
Cars flippin' roofs, you walked out with no bruise, ooh (Praise)
You confused who to give the credit to
Lover of my soul, always be lookin' for somethin' that's greater
Even when telling you no to your prayer, that mean you'll be thanking Him later
Was desperate for a woman I could get back home
Had three exes in a row like it's tic-tac-toe
Would've had a pocket full of pills, sound like tic-tacs though
And it gripped my soul
Forever homie
I've got a reason to praise, praise
Praise, praise
I've got a reason to praise, praise
Praise, praise
Well, wait
If He got up, it's up (Wait)
He got up, it's up (It's up)
This not Buddha, Allah, Krishna, Joseph such and such
If He got up, it's up (Well)
He got up, it's up (It's stuck)
Corinthians, I move in love, I can't be puffin' up (I move in love)
I ain't got nothin' to say to the devil, I let God rough him up (I do)
Ten thousand legions at His right hand, let's see who runnin' up (Who runnin' up)
Hand me that passage in the Talmud, I feel like cuttin' up
Man, the only time I sip, it's bread and wine if I be pourin' up
He got me out that pit, now I'm on stage, I told 'em "Open up"
She saw it say, "Rob Hell" up on my tee, that's how they know it's us (They do)
KB, they done got the wrong two, they think fear controlling us
Don't make this deep, yeah, we gon' eat
It's obtained, daily bread for me, all my carbs peak, energy
And I know we hymn, hymn, hymn, hymn, that's why we sing
Said I know we hem, hem, hem, hem, check the seams
Drip-drip-drip-drip-drip-drip
The anointing on me
Drip-drip-drip-drip-drip-drip
The anointing on me
Check the seams, yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah
The anointing on me
Yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah
The anointing on me