This Rapping Grandma Is Making Her Love of Jesus Go Viral

Lyrical Lively, a Jesus-loving grandma, has achieved viral success after passing her tape to a guy at a gas station.

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If you're a human with a heartbeat, you've probably been bumping DJ Khaled's soul-affirmingMajor Key at confidence-boosting levels all damn day. But the nation's leading provider of cloth talk would probably approve of pausing that instaclassic just long enough to peep this heat from a Jesus-loving grandmother, whose cleaner-than-Big-Willie-Style flow has Twitter losing their shit:

When Lyrical Lively said "You better hear what Jesus say, he's your rock & he's your way" pic.twitter.com/hRnuLRH60W

— Charles J. Moore (@charles270) July 29, 2016

Speaking withBuzzFeed News Friday, the lucky recipient of Lyrical Lively's Uh Huh said he was at a gas station in Mississippi when Sister Bobbie Lively, 74, started chatting with him. That chat ultimately resulted in Keith Brown's wildly popular tweet above, which has now spilled over into straight-up viral fame for Lyrical Lively’s entire catalog:

I need @chancetherapper to get on on this Lyrical Lively "Watch Out" Remix

— Stimmy Butler  (@BruhtherNature) July 29, 2016

Top 5 rappers of all time

1. Tupac
2. Eminem
3. Lyrical lively🔥💣
4. Biggie
5. Nas https://t.co/goWMJQKEGL

— Danny.. (@ItsDanny93) July 28, 2016

"lyrical lively" pic.twitter.com/G2D91fFqd4

— JENNA (@houseofbrendon) July 28, 2016

Kendrick who??? Drake who??? Kanye who??? Lyrical Lively got bars...in the name of the Holy Ghost too...don't @ me pic.twitter.com/sdnVfxkTXP

— #1 lil nas x stan (@goingincognegro) July 28, 2016

Lyrical Lively the GOAT spitting the Lord's Word over Young Metro beats...I'm here for this pic.twitter.com/sXR9eGll6t

— Gerardo (@gerardofrank_) July 27, 2016

Good lord in heaven did I need this TODAY! 😂😂😂😂😂😂 I'm laughin but I ain't hate'n, thank you Lyrical Lively!!!😂😂😂😂😂😂 https://t.co/eM9F7QYQdj

— Barry Jenkins (@BarryJenkins) July 27, 2016

This is the remix.

I just had to. https://t.co/0fWBi184Ws

— alex medina (@mrmedina) July 29, 2016

Look what I got. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 pic.twitter.com/tM5kVingYc

— KABE DA DON (@Keith_The_God) July 29, 2016

I had a sit down with Lyrical Lively today. She's not interested in the fame, she just wants y'all to find Jesus.

— KABE DA DON (@Keith_The_God) July 29, 2016

Lyrical Lively is the most humble, sweetest, and kind lady I've ever met and she's all about Jesus. My meeting with her today was amazing.

— KABE DA DON (@Keith_The_God) July 29, 2016

At least one person had, um, a different response:

Looking for a remix? We got you:

Even Questlove and The Roots crew are down with Lively's spirited lyricism:

But Lyrical Lively isn't interested in her newfound fame, as Brown revealed on Twitter Friday:

Even I, a godless deviant, can say with full confidence that this is a Holy Key indeed.

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