Prayer and hip-hop. You won't find these two together on the SATs.

"Peanut butter is to jelly as""

A. Prayer is to hip-hop. B. Car is to driver C. Lawn is to grass D. Ham is to cheese

It's not going to happen. But Pimp C did this seamlessly. He could marry the two beautifully.

But the track's content isn't without conflicting forces. After rapping that he keeps a pistol in his back and a gauge on the floor, Pimp C follows it with, "I wanna go to service/ But I ain't been in so long, kinda make me feel nervous/ Cause they be lookin' at me funny/ Watchin' the plate when I tithe, put in my money."

Pimp C's persona was one of, yes, a pimp, but on "Living this Life" he shows incredible depth as a person that people might not have suspected of him before.

"Ay man, I just look like this," Pimp states at the end of the track. "I ain't get this far bein' no square man. You wanna hide somethin' from black folks, they say you can put it in a book. I don't believe that. Cuz I done read four libraries worth of books."

"Got some knowledge ya'll need to get up on, mayne," he continues "Behold a Pale Horse, know what I'm talkin' bout? 48 Laws of Power. I'm sayin' The Art of War. The Secret Societies of America. Know what I'm talkin' about? Everything ain't what it look like and don't judge a book by it's cover."

Indeed.

The struggle that takes place at the intersection of the life one lives and the conflicting beliefs and standards of your maker... that pretty much sums up Pimp C's prayer at the beginning of "How Long Can It Last."

It's a sticky situation but Pimp C's defense is clear. "Didn't chose this dirty game/ This dirty game done chose me."

Have you ever seen the 2007 drama Gone Baby Gone? At the beginning, the voice of actor Casey Affleck says, "I always believed it was the things you don't choose that makes you who you are.

Your city. Your neighborhood. Your family. People here take pride in these things. Like it was something they'd accomplished. The bodies around their souls. The cities wrapped around those.

As much as people take pride in things they didn't chose, they can also be dealt a bad hand not of their choosing. If you're looking for the insight in "How Long Can It Last," it's exactly that - the lack of choice. Arguably one of Bun's most thoughtful and profound verses of his career, his lyrics paint this picture vividly, driving the point home.

See I was born in the ghetto, mayne I was raised in the hood/ And unless you lived it yourself, it just can't be understood/ People think hustlin is cool (cool), all hustlin is live/ They don't understand hustlers only hustlin to survive/ They wished they lived in the 'burbs ('burbs), wished they didn't have to hang (hang)/ Out on corners in low-income house in projects and slang

They wish their daddy was home (home), mama wasn't on drugs (drugs)/ And they didn't have to grow up to be dealers and thugs (thugs)/ Po' children got aspirations and dreams just like the wealthy (wealthy)/ But it's hard when that environment you live in ain't healthy (healthy)