DMX takes a moment to offer a prayer to God. Not only does he thank his creator, but he explains himself and even questions the motives of God. This prayer was the beginning of a tradition that presumably will continue through all of DMX’s studio albums.

When asked, “What started [the prayer tracks]?” during an interview with Young Steff of 101.1 WIZF, DMX explained:

That’s a good question. Before I got signed, it seems like ‘95 or something like that, I got arrested. And everytime I go to jail I have a problem with the police, we get into it or whatever, [because] I don’t “perform” well. […] 23 hour lockdown, and you get nothin’ extra in your cell. So I’m in there, it’s freezing, got one little outfit, one sheet. But I had a pencil and a piece of paper. I remember waking up in the middle of the night, in tears, sweatin', and it’s like I saw these words and I wrote them down. I think it was because, like I said, it was cold in there – tears, sweatin'– it’s like, you don’t want to get out of the covers sweatin'. I’m fucked up, right? I got up anyway, and wrote it, in the middle of the night. They took [the paper] when I went to court the next day […] but I remembered it word for word. And that was my first prayer. And that’s what started it: because I was obedient, and because I realized the blessing that [God] gave me.