Peace Be Upon You

"Peace Be Upon You" is a song by Terrain rapper DJ Crow, released as the fourth single off Crow's fourth studio album Today's Declaration (2013), a week prior to the album release. The song was written completely by Crow, and produced by Terrain da Don, while being released on Crow's independent label Colossal Records. Unlike Crow's other singles, PBUY was not released as a CD single. Lyrically the song describes serious topical issues concerning Antarctica and other controversial subjects. Originally PBUY was titled "The Truth", but Crow went for a more memorable title. PBUY is placed directly in the middle of Disc 1 of Today's Declaration (track 9). The song follows the concept story of the album, with Crow delivering a declaration to the public. Peace Be Upon You entered the UnitedTerra Singles Chart at number 29, which is a considerably high debut for the song as it was only released the day before. The next week the song climbed straight up to peak at number 1. Whilst in Club Penguin the song entered directly at number 1. However in the Antarctican Chart PBUY didn't succeed in entering the chart in it's first week of release.

The song, running for a length of 7 minutes and 10 seconds, didn't receive much radio airplay due to it's extensive length. Upon requesting for a radio edit, Crow denied their request - as a result of this the song gained only one or two plays among the Antarctica stations - however the song received more airplay at night-time. In UnitedTerra the song gained more plays, around nine to ten in the daytime and between ten to twenty in the night shows.

On July 13th, 2016. EA Sports announced that this song wil be featured in the soundtrack of MHL 17.

Writing and inspiration
Crow had been wanting to write a very emotional and heart-felt song that would shock the public. Instead of writing the song when he thought about the idea, he wanted to save it for a special album in the near-future. The month March 2013 came - Crow was 1 year and three months into recording for Today's Declaration. March 23 came and Crow remembered about writing the emotional and heart-felt song he thought about two years ago. Crow sat down and thought about all the problems going around Antarctica - the penguins suffering, the history of Antarctica and how everyone has evolved, knowing how it feels to loose family, criminals, death and other topical issues. Crow sat down and wrote as much lyrics that came into his head from morning to night with no breaks.

Release and critical response
Raymond Vegas of Music Spy praised the song:

The genius raps. The beat. Crow has struck another hit again. . The production is so original I haven't heard it anywhere else. I have no negative comments on this track - the lyrics is amazing; "Either that or I'll be into Harvard, 20 times the luck, 20 times the peace.", and there's more where that came from, The beat comes in to form and DJ Crow actually, once again, raps in this song. Very different than the other songs he made this year.