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1. |
Stubble ft. Zensoul
04:19
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It's just some boom bap
You can sit and wonder "how they do that?"
Cut my shit to stubble but it grew back
Lightning over thunder if you knew Jack, ooh snap
Boom bap
You can sit and wonder "how they do that?"
Cut my shit to stubble but it grew back
Lightning over thunder if you knew Jack, but too bad
I been scraping shit together
Started at a deficit but hanging by a tether
And I've never had it better than the present day
Fangs out for the debtors tryna sever my pay
Who's that playing with the lever that decides where I go?
Hope you brace yourself for Trevor's tires, slide in the snow
Help the snideness to slow, those doubting highest of flows
Not to gloat, but go retire and we'll light up the show
I'll throw Matthias in the Lion's Den, call some firemen
By time they arriving, he's been grinded down to vitamins
Sorry for the violence! But the war that we've been fighting
Won't be won without the slightest bit of dying men
When the current is in history books
Well it sure does look like the work of mystery crooks now
But we learning who took us for easy bishops and rooks
Go fetch a bucket from the brook before we burn the hook down
It's just some boom bap
You can sit and wonder "how they do that?"
Cut my shit to stubble but it grew back
Lightning over thunder if you knew Jack, ooh snap
Boom bap
You can sit and wonder "how they do that?"
Cut my shit to stubble but it grew back
Lightning over thunder if you knew Jack, but too bad
Life's too short to be stuck in survival mode
There has to be another way, I won't stop 'til I find the road
Someone understand, like you speaking some type of code
This is for the child who had to carry the entire load
Where the lies at? You can't deny facts
In a never-ending timelapse, like Samurai Jack
Got cousins didn't come back from the trip to Iraq
And the ones that did come back are wishing for their lives back
How people feel about each other has nothing to do with me
That changed when someone said "how would you feel if you were me?"
Truthfully, I'm a reflection of my community
If we can't rise above ourselves then there will be no unity
Looks like where we're headed, there won't be no you and me
If you stop depositing excuses, see what you could be
BLAQKNOIZ snapping like poets doing a slam set
Mad flex, I'm not even who I am, yet
It's just some boom bap
You can sit and wonder "how they do that?"
Cut my shit to stubble but it grew back
Lightning over thunder if you knew Jack, ooh snap
Boom bap
You can sit and wonder "how they do that?"
Cut my shit to stubble but it grew back
Lightning over thunder if you knew Jack, but too bad
Said "I move", but they judging me, budget, it's no budging me
My budgeting be like buck fifties, I'm 50 Cent shy of G-Units
But still a thousand like some G units
But nobody could dilute it, in due to the theme music
This is what I gotta… or what I gotta do
Like when I gotta do, like a style that's not in due time
For most of us holding what's not in lieu
Retrievers not as golden for topics that's taught in school
I print cess, you princess
They pimp hoes, I flip checks
Chaka Khan with Shaka on, I'm Prince-set
For every bench-mark, I surely will bench-press
With Semtex, it's like a tricky collage
I'd rather bump Bahamadia before Nicki Minaj
In an itty bitty garage out in Sicily, Prague
With this canal from a symphony, the City of God
It's just some boom bap
You can sit and wonder "how they do that?"
Cut my shit to stubble but it grew back
Lightning over thunder if you knew Jack, ooh snap
Boom bap
You can sit and wonder "how they do that?"
Cut my shit to stubble but it grew back
Lightning over thunder if you knew Jack, but too bad
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Be willing to forgive
All that wasn't done to you
If we're lynched for every sin
Never change our attitudes
Be willing to indulge
All that you've never asked
If our truths we can't divulge
Never take ourselves to task
If a body's what you want, here is bone, gristle, flesh
Purify of my hobby, vying freedom from your desk
Who needs who to cash a check? Keyed up, short of breath
Get support from the tech, pleading words to leave my neck
See the dirt? They're growing debt, placings bets on our payments
Would you still be alive if people only said what they meant?
Question when we stained it, question when we stayed in
Slave away to spend more your labor in the Caymans
Worshipping the famous debaters, given figurines
Frame you as a rapist to bait you, as you scream
Learned our ethics from the sadists, journaling our dreams
We can copy it and paste it, we can react and retweet
We got GameShark for Instagram, dating apps for kids
This shit inflate our egos while we desecrate our ids
We only dig you at the surface, judged for what you did
Spill a cup of your potential with a bullet in your lid
Be willing to forgive
All that wasn't done to you
If we're lynched for every sin
Never change our attitudes
Be willing to indulge
All that you've never asked
If our truths we can't divulge
Never take ourselves to task
I'm past the doorsteps, getting my foot in the door
Represents the blind threats, borderline perfectionist
Meaning I'm timeless, your common sense looks next to my idleness
I send no shots, best believe that I don't miss
Not being the GOAT is where these rappers get pissed
But my readiness and willingness comes fully equipped
But my time is my time, so watch me eclipse
Variety trips with dominant grip
Rap like I'm mad at God, like I live with a chip
On the shoulder, I'm the shit, so bashful the older they live
Full exposure, I whoop their ass free of charge
Then strike like a cobra, I live in the stars
Handing out life sentences, that was a bar
Me? I raise it from my phrases, outdated like belated birthdays
On worst days my guns blaze, look both ways before you cross me
Karma coming back soon, and I'm living largely
Be willing to forgive
All that wasn't done to you
If we're lynched for every sin
Never change our attitudes
Be willing to indulge
All that you've never asked
If our truths we can't divulge
Never take ourselves to task
We the slumlord slipping, drug like dead digits
Dug the own difference, a phase from addiction
Dazed without interest, no pay, I'm pissed
'Cause I'm beige, with hours to make
Sense of the glaze, you bend when you're brave enough
To run amok, without a fuck, I'll name the dunce
Delay the fun, y'all hate the love, the crave in the cut
I stay 'cause I trust, no one I'm above
Your days are buzzed, in rain a rust
I'll keep in touch with Mary and Mud
Let's bury the suds, 'cause Larry was much
Like inhaling the rush, we don't care to discuss
The ladder you love
Will scatter and crush, what matters to us?
Imagine it, bruh!
Smith!
Be willing to forgive
All that wasn't done to you
If we're lynched for every sin
Never change our attitudes
Be willing to indulge
All that you've never asked
If our truths we can't divulge
Never take ourselves to task
Be willing to forgive
All that wasn't done to you
If we're lynched for every sin
Never change our attitudes
Be willing to indulge
All that you've never asked
If our truths we can't divulge
Never take ourselves to task
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Straight Up (need some tissues for my issues, like)
Straight Up (need to tell you that I miss you, like)
Straight Up (need to walk right up and kiss you, like)
Straight Up, Straight Up
Straight Up (need some tissues for my issues, like)
Straight Up (need to tell you that I miss you, like)
Straight Up (need to walk right up and kiss you, like)
Straight Up, Straight Up
The enigmatic prophylactic
Drop that shit over a year
The charismatic man o'magic
Take a shit up in your ear
The rhythm elastic, give the system a cracking
Production erratic like a remix of "FEAR."
The victim of traffic, live a signal of tracking
Reductive logic, emotion fixed with a beer
Every peer to peer network stacking the KNOIZ
Every tier is clear after introduction to Thought
Smiling ear to ear, network to sell not a ploy
Singing "here, here!", to the consumption you bought
Going hard on the blotted, that stick ain't a toy
Watch the dotted line, or you pulled over and shot
Snowing hard on the mountain, flow slick as a Roy
Watch accounting crime, rocking loafers and socks
Gopher to Fox, do you read me on the vox homie?
See me as a phony when I'm catching the rye?
Do you see me as a Bernie or see me as a Kony?
Throw a fist at your girl 'cause she gave me the eye?
Gave me a sigh, or rather a reason to react
As a matter of fact, your ass done gave me pink eye
Gave me HiiiPower, then front seats for the crash
As a fatter of Jack, I did this in '09
Aging like no wine, we the nastiest milk
Dreaming homicide of our kin and our ilk
Dreaming suicide, burn our skin and our silk
Crying, out-of-line, over mopping up what we spilt
Aging like no wine, we the nastiest milk
Dreaming homicide of our kin and our ilk
Dreaming suicide, burn our skin and our silk
Crying, out-of-line, over mopping up what we spilt
Straight Up (need some tissues for my issues, like)
Straight Up (need to tell you that I miss you, like)
Straight Up (need to walk right up and kiss you, like)
Straight Up, Straight Up
Straight Up (need some tissues for my issues, like)
Straight Up (need to tell you that I miss you, like)
Straight Up (need to walk right up and kiss you, like)
Straight Up, Straight Up
Just dropped in from hotboxing a spaceship
Drunk off the stars and moonwalk wasted
Stumble upon my alien lady
Don't know her name… tell me how that makes sense
I up-jumped the boogie and two-stepped to you
Heart thumps through my chest just for you
Every step I take straight to you
I hope more, and more, you feel me too
What-what-what-what-what's your name is?
Tripping over words 'cause you're so amazing
I can tell that you speak my language
Even though the hood shit can get real dangerous
I know inside your heart where I'm safest
Let's get lost, I got an escape plan
Let's go now, like, "what's the point in waiting?"
Fly right back to my lonely sanctum
Straight Up (need some tissues for my issues, like)
Straight Up (need to tell you that I miss you, like)
Straight Up (need to walk right up and kiss you, like)
Straight Up, Straight Up
Straight Up (need some tissues for my issues, like)
Straight Up (need to tell you that I miss you, like)
Straight Up (need to walk right up and kiss you, like)
Straight Up, Straight Up
Straight Up (need some tissues for my issues, like)
Straight Up (need to tell you that I miss you, like)
Straight Up (need to walk right up and kiss you, like)
Straight Up, Straight Up
Straight Up (need some tissues for my issues, like)
Straight Up (need to tell you that I miss you, like)
Straight Up (need to walk right up and kiss you, like)
Straight Up, Straight Up
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I don't mean to smother, just applying my two cents
To my brothers and my sisters, aligning lines
Instead of splitting bread
Instead of splitting bread (Where the wine at?)
Toasting up another from this past week, filled with dread
Monday creeping on me, back again, a nine to five
Until that Friday hit
'Til that Friday hit
Cycle might keep repeating 'til I've grown in to my death
Hoping not to displease the people that think highly
When I'm not feeling my best
I'm not feeling my best (No!)
Possibly lies to a couple people in the process
Possibly left my guard up, didn't mean to flaunt it
I swear
I swear, I swear, I swear
Possibly lies to a couple people in the process
Possibly left my guard up, didn't mean to flaunt it
I swear
I swear, I swear, I swear, I swear
Ooooh
Ooh-ooh-ooh I swear
'Til I run it, run it, run it, run it
Run it back again
Run it, run it back again
Don't think you telling the truth, under that laughter, canned
Lose trust if you abused, but don't just ruse a man
Whose lust has got you confused? Huh?
Can't keep track of your excuses! Why don't you install a loser ban?
You sus, you just see through my elusive stance
Ooh, fuck, never wanted you to move the veil
'Cause the truth of us is the dynamic very frail
You got to get it through to me, that I caused the dystrophy
'Cause from where my feet are planted, it's looking differently
So tell me, what's it gonna be? Could you solve the mystery?
Of why you think I'm shifty and disregard monogamy?
'Cause I've been thinking 'bout you like every minute of the week
Since the day that we first met and freestyled on a beat
You're the one I wanna keep, so why you making this so hard?
Why you sitting there and bragging that you always on your guard?
The only muse amused except for you has been the art
From the start, so why you tryna pull apart?
Girl, I swear
That I've been true to you!
Girl, I swear
For me, it's only you!
Girl, I swear…
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Amphetamine drive, I could see it in your eyes
You were saying you were off it, now you're fucking exhausted
And now your body is gone
And your mind you left behind up in that bottle of strong
And it was wrong, you were carried very close to the Sun
You were young and all you needed was somebody to love
All you got was a plug, if you want to make it right
Then be the fighter I know, you can grow!
You told me you were fine
But you were dying of pride
Now you're feeling up the ceiling and you're barely alive
Another line… another waste of your time
I wonder, if you take it, would you die or survive?
And if I cry? Would you tell me you tried?
Would it stick or would you figure that you'd rather be high?
I wonder why?
Amphetamine drive, I could see it in your eyes
I was walking in the park when you were stumbling by
Heard you mumble a "hi", when you fell, I had to say
That you were going to die… take your time…
'Cause it's drifting away
When you take a fake or fentanyl, it buries your pain
But it remains, and it was never a gain
I'll love you even if I never see you again
This one's for the pill-poppers
Tryna get themselves killed proper
Drinking more lean than water
What's it gon' be? What's it gonna be?
This one's for the pill-poppers
There's better ways to spill dollars
Look at all these teen martyrs
What's it gon' be? You fixing to OD?
This one's for the pill-poppers
Tryna get themselves killed proper
Drinking more lean than water
What's it gon' be? What's it gonna be?
This one's for the pill-poppers
There's better ways to spill dollars
Look at all these teen martyrs
What's it gon' be? You fixing to OD?
I'm that pauper popping reds, Dawson's Bog on Portishead
And I can't stop that obfuscation, don't mistake what I have said
Broken beds from greatest nights, got the same out of my nightmares
Broke the stead by taking flight, hunting fame despite my eyewear
And the sight means more than vision, not a fight for manumission
It's a suturing of fissures, tell the truth to all the ignorant
And it's different how we act, got this path from Mozenraff
Mass-dissolving acid in the water coming out your tap
Mac can fix your Disco, Raff still good in San Francisco
RIP to Cisco, he bit that bullet betting bingo
And he knew the lingo, another gringo with the spice
De Lunes a Domingo, he's just too nice up on the mic
What you think you're in for? Your info underestimated
Don't just bring your kinfolk into the sin, you're decimating
This shit should be simple, but there's confusion emanating
From the lightest skin-tone, they just too busy celebrating… yeah
I'mma let Raff just kill it on the sax right here
Just like…
This one's for the pill-poppers
Tryna get themselves killed proper
Drinking more lean than water
What's it gon' be? What's it gonna be?
This one's for the pill-poppers
There's better ways to spill dollars
Look at all these teen martyrs
What's it gon' be? You fixing to OD?
This one's for the pill-poppers
Tryna get themselves killed proper
Drinking more lean than water
What's it gon' be? What's it gonna be?
This one's for the pill-poppers
There's better ways to spill dollars
Look at all these teen martyrs
What's it gon' be? You fixing to OD?
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6. |
Christening
03:25
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Violence snuff the light of the living
Virus, tyrants, islands, forgetting
All those knives you might just wind up Christening
Fascists gotta die, if decline is not a quickening
Sickened by the times, they all liars, aren't you listening?
Christian for the Choir but the reason kids are missing
Fictional desires to "protect the family"
Fix a note to your attire so they know it wasn't randomly
Kill a Nazi, don't feel bad!
Put 'em in a box made of concrete
Even if they're cops, we don't need that
Way too many shot for the Gandhi
Burn a cross in the robes they lead mass
Hit clubs to floss Armani
We really gotta take our streets back
From the Red-Baseball-Cap Army
Hoping my homies get a license to carry
Not just those with a home that they own 'cause they married
Blown through so much ICE since Barry-O
That the border zones been scary
God's voice, in stereo
Said "nary would I lead this way to go"
But "best in show" been "in the know"
Since Indigoes been left to die! Why?
Violence snuff the light of the living
Virus, tyrants, islands, forgetting
All those knives you might just wind up Christening
Fascists gotta die, if decline is not a quickening
Sickened by the times, they all liars, aren't you listening?
Christian for the Choir but the reason kids are missing
Fictional desires to "protect the family"
Fix a note to your attire so they know it wasn't randomly
So "how it goes" ain't gonna fly
If "adios" means "goodbye"
Then sorry, Ghost, no butterflies
In my pot of gold, sweet gun of mine
Better run a post, try to serpentine
It's just "gotta go" for the murder sprees
And it's hurting me, the burglary, the perjury
Evil got it easy
Queasy guts at my luck in my rear view
Eat so much Mickey D's, I'm a dead man
Speech is dust, if they fuck with the beer too
Better give up the keys to the P-van
Ain't no leads? They'll falsify
Ride around looking for the criminalized
Power-hungry, sour lives
Invaded our country, sedated our minds!
Violence snuff the light of the living
Virus, tyrants, islands, forgetting
All those knives you might just wind up Christening
Fascists gotta die, if decline is not a quickening
Sickened by the times, they all liars, aren't you listening?
Christian for the Choir but the reason kids are missing
Fictional desires to "protect the family"
Fix a note to your attire so they know it wasn't randomly
Wildin' out on Kyle Rittenhouse
With a smile so wide it would blind an owl
Vitals down as I light the loud!
"You gotta be joking, now!"
But I'm dead serious
Took batons to the head, I'm delirious
Ain't mysterious when the riot started
Provocateurs with a fire pardon
Guard your door the more gets out of pocket
Like a Civil War might be really popping
Land of "Law and Order", focused on the borders
While the quarter of a quarter of quarter rockets
Swords beat chords when the Lord excuses
Slow the courts for the horde's abuses
Show your quarts or be more conclusive
Stupid don't cut it, you're just abusive
Better pray for forgiveness!
Devil by day, blame it all on business
Do it for the pay, then explain away the witness
Better motivator than the flayed man's grimace?
Think they're saviors of the same they sicken
Tearing out a page if it states their limits
Saddened by a cage if no one's in it
Anger at the labor of escaping women
Focusing on genocide
Opening infected wounds
Truth is, someone's gotta die
For the orphaned kids you couldn't room
And the righteous only multiply
So best go reassess your tomb
Hope crimes you couldn't justify
Were worth accepting mortal doom!
Violence snuff the light of the living
Virus, tyrants, islands, forgetting
All those knives you might just wind up
Christening, christening
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Donatello was a Don and not an honest fellow
In Montebello with Monty off a couple portobellos
Y'all, the bellows only gorgeous if you bow to industry
But the ministry bit off more than they can chew with me
So will it be you or me? Who makes it through the flames?
Measuring utility between the beauty and the brain
Y'all dookie on the pinky, shock jockeys
Every couple links I hear a couple Thought copies
I wanna know who got me, but I guess it's not you
Every trust fall, you drop me, 'cause you missing the cue
Every time I drop tunes, they just too distant to view
'Cause you prefer perfume, cover up the Pepe Le Pew
My love too heavy for you, so you dismiss it as hate
Tell you all what not to do, and then I suffer the wait
Watch you disregard the plate I served, eat your veggies
Y'all should pay me by the word, you heard my thoughts, now where my pennies?
Catch 'em walking where they shouldn't be
Get 'em!
Catch 'em wearing what they shouldn't wear
Get 'em good!
Don't be messing with our energy
Get 'em out the hood!
'Cause it's messy when we going there
Get 'em, got 'em, good!
Catch 'em walking where they shouldn't be
Get 'em!
Catch 'em wearing what they shouldn't wear
Get 'em good!
Don't be messing with our energy
Get 'em out the hood!
'Cause it's messy when we going there
Get 'em, got 'em, good!
So ruthless, thinking "how should I do this?"
Yo, who's this? Created a New Hope like George Lucas
But this ain't Star Wars, I'm grounded like hard floors
Lyrically do parkour, bring smoke like cigar stores
Underground railroad, tryna see where this trail goes
That one sparrow who turned into a young Pharaoh
Who wants to step in the ring? Stop disrespecting the King
It's time to wake up like the end of a dream
They don't want to see you hustle, they want to see you struggle
They only watch 'em play the game so they can see 'em fumble
I know how hard it is to be a part of this life now
The only time you got to count on is like right now
There's no time in the day when you gotta decide now
You change your life when you change your lifestyle
Failure is never in my mind, it couldn't be an option
I be sonning all these rappers like I seek adoption
Catch 'em walking where they shouldn't be
Get 'em!
Catch 'em wearing what they shouldn't wear
Get 'em good!
Don't be messing with our energy
Get 'em out the hood!
'Cause it's messy when we going there
Get 'em, got 'em, good!
Catch 'em walking where they shouldn't be
Get 'em!
Catch 'em wearing what they shouldn't wear
Get 'em good!
Don't be messing with our energy
Get 'em out the hood!
'Cause it's messy when we going there
Get 'em, got 'em, good!
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I'm dancing with the butterflies
Just fly, just fly, just fly (just fly)
I'm dancing with the butterflies
Stay high, goodbye tonight (bye-bye)
I'm dancing with the butterflies
Just fly, just fly, just fly (flap your little wings)
I'm dancing with the butterflies
Stay high, goodbye tonight (say bye tonight)
I'm dancing with the butterflies
Just fly, just fly, just fly (just fly)
I'm dancing with the butterflies
Stay high, goodbye tonight (bye-bye)
I'm dancing with the butterflies
Just fly, just fly, just fly (dancing with the butterflies)
I'm dancing with the butterflies
Stay high, goodbye tonight (say bye tonight)
Monarch on that great migration
Sonar for the denigration
Omar with the designation
Donor of the elevation
Low-ball off the hesitation
Taylor Swift in reputation
Go-Kart with no engine, racing
No waiting for stations
Buckeye through Ohio State
Ann Arbor, the fam gon' hate
Bothered? Then I fly away
No, I don't believe in fate
Flutter with the Mother's grace
Ugly, but I'll run the race
Brother got the world to take
So I got no time to waste
Love the way the rhythm sway
Don't got much to give away
But bet your bottom dollar
I'm a collar from the grave
Love the way the cadence speak
Indifferent if it's paid
But bet your bottom dollar
Butterflies will fly today
Just a skipper on your boat
Keeping you afloat
Then you pissy 'cause I smoked
Indignant to my woes
I'm a tipper, not to gloat
But I can touch my toes
And I'm really just a flow
From saying "gotta go"
I'm dancing with the butterflies
Just fly, just fly, just fly (just fly)
I'm dancing with the butterflies
Stay high, goodbye tonight (bye-bye)
I'm dancing with the butterflies
Just fly, just fly, just fly (flap your little wings)
I'm dancing with the butterflies
Stay high, goodbye tonight (say bye tonight)
I'm dancing with the butterflies
Just fly, just fly, just fly (just fly)
I'm dancing with the butterflies
Stay high, goodbye tonight (bye-bye)
I'm dancing with the butterflies
Just fly, just fly, just fly (dancing with the butterflies)
I'm dancing with the butterflies
Stay high, goodbye tonight (say bye tonight)
Another patch on your jacket
The man that raps on the Sabbath
Haven't abandoned my habits
I'm still a "wascally wabbit"
They haven't landed any shots they've taken
Even those who've Thought-forsaken
Those who never fought for rations
Not gon' tell me 'bout impatience
In the Stu I'm staying
'Til I cocoon
Too many laymen to the cadence
Waiting on a celebration
But as soon as I can make it
On wings of blue
You'll wish you changed and updated
All your fucking attitude
Sulphur, comma, copper
Watch him curve the drama
Keeping calm and proper
With a fucking eye-dropper
Robber on the getaway
Prometheus who stole the flame
To douse it in the water main
Turn all the Gods to farmers
Plopped him in a tortoiseshell
Said "Adios", the fortress fell
Dropped him like a mortar shell
Off to walk this mortal hell
Awkward how the bells they rang
Instead of drawing Thought to hang
Would gnaw, as songs he sang
With bitter poison on the fang
I'm dancing with the butterflies
Just fly, just fly, just fly (just fly)
I'm dancing with the butterflies
Stay high, goodbye tonight (bye-bye)
I'm dancing with the butterflies
Just fly, just fly, just fly (flap your little wings)
I'm dancing with the butterflies
Stay high, goodbye tonight (say bye tonight)
I'm dancing with the butterflies
Just fly, just fly, just fly (just fly)
I'm dancing with the butterflies
Stay high, goodbye tonight (bye-bye)
I'm dancing with the butterflies
Just fly, just fly, just fly (dancing with the butterflies)
I'm dancing with the butterflies
Stay high, goodbye tonight (say bye tonight)
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Marlboro 100's sit on my desk
Feeling heavy in my chest
It's like I got nothing left
To smoke
I guess that's that, or maybe that's this
Another hat trick, crazy as bat shit
Suited up, booted up with the Hazmat
Smooth as fuck, losing touch, who's the lab rat?
Chewing through anxiety, embittered by his empathy
Choosing to be quiet, never losing sight of getting free
What happened to the Man of Steel? Samson in a hamster wheel?
Grew into Aladdin, and adapted with the magic seal
Daffodil sap, simple leather jacket zipper
Have his bitter Master Splinter smack, the gift of chicken-scratch for dinner
When I'm tryna mix and match, and match the mix to switch it back
In Nick at Night, in nicks of time, with knicks and knacks, my gift of gab
I guess that's that, or maybe that's this
Another hat trick, crazy as bat shit
Thought and Zen caught the wind, got 'em falling in
Tell 'em "call a friend", see if they can hear the call within
I guess that's that, or maybe that's this
Another hat trick, crazy as bat shit
Thought and Zen caught the wind, got 'em falling in
Tell 'em "call a friend", see if they can hear the call within
Marlboro 100's sit on my desk
Feeling heavy in my chest
Like I got nothing left
To smoke
I guess that's that, walking through the fusion
With no Hazmat suit, here to propagate confusion
Just a lab rat, tryna gain some confidence producing
Asking "has Jack ever made a beat that he's then written to?"
From skipping school for trash raps to setting higher standards
That his peers could never manage, not just saying that to slander
Take a gander at the ladder, see whose shoes have left a mark?
Peruse the dark without a spark, embark on paths not lacking candor
I guess that's that, or maybe that's this
Another hat trick, crazy as bat shit
Thought and Zen caught the wind, got 'em falling in
Tell 'em "call a friend", see if they can hear the call within
I guess that's that, or maybe that's this
Another hat trick, crazy as bat shit
Thought and Zen caught the wind, got 'em falling in
Tell 'em "call a friend", see if they can hear the call within
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She back in my verse, she back in my verse
She back in my verse, she back, bad manners
She back in my verse, she back in my verse
She back in my verse, she back, bad manners
She back in my verse, she acting the worst
She casting a curse, she back, back-stabber
She back in my verse, she back in my words
She back on my nerves, she back, that's better
She back in my verse, she back in my verse
She back in my verse, she back, bad banners
She back in my verse, she back in my verse
She back in my verse, she back, back, back, back
Lose control, just like Janet
Freak it up and down on the floor, that granite
Hips don't lie and I cannot manage
The way you got me feeling oh-so-famished
Lemme get a piece of your pie
Am I talking my shit? Nope, I'm just high
If you looking for me, catch me on cloud nine
Or maybe even flight 69
Heading straight for the moon
Shooting love juice all across the craters
We shooting stars when we crashing soon
We take a lot but save some for later
Me, Mary, Molly, all in one room
Didn't think this feeling could be no greater
For all of you, I am so damn gracious
When did this room get so damn spacious? I'm anxious
She back in my verse, she acting the worst
She casting a curse, she back, back-stabber
She back in my verse, she back in my words
She back on my nerves, she back, that's better
She back in my verse like I'm smashing it first
Last to the flirt, on the blast and I'm hurt
I'm so fast, it's a first, I'mma bask in my thirst
'Til she finds her way back in my verse
She back in my verse like I'm smashing it first
Last to the flirt, on the blast and I'm hurt
I'm so fast, it's a first, I'mma bask in my thirst
'Til she back, back, back-back-back-back
Get out my head, get out my bed
Don't be hitting me up, you should go out instead
You're the Queen of the Dead, leave on "read", the misled
Mountain from a molehill, didn't bring a sled
First you give in to sense, now I live in suspense
For the next petty argument to fucking commence
So you act like I'm dense, but ignore my defense
Then you wonder why I'm so tense?
You can burn your incense, but you won't heal the vibe
Should've listened to your homies, you ain't meshing with the tribe
If I wish upon a star, all I'm asking for tonight
Is for you to get far away from my life
And I didn't want the strife when I promised you my life
Thought you'd make a good wife, 'til I felt the knife
I can't ride a fucking bike, so I had to run away
You can leave this odd like, but you left me in the fray
Bitch, take your gaslights
And shove them up your ass
No passion, you ghostwrite
You suspect with your mask
Bitch, if you don't mind
This my house, don't trespass
Stop acting like your eyes
Ain't screaming you gon' stab
It was a teenage romance, now I'm grown man
Looking back, I see the abuse, hope you know that
You ceded all the juice from a nomad
But no matter what you do to me, you always more mad
Teenage romance, they always go bad
Looking back, I feel I got used and you so glad
Didn't read the news and I know that
All I got is a flow to throw that…
Back in my verse, she acting the worst
She casting a curse, she back, back-stabber
She back in my verse, she back in my words
She back on my nerves, she back, that's better
She back in my verse like I'm smashing it first
Last to the flirt, on the blast and I'm hurt
I'm so fast, it's a first, I'mma bask in my thirst
'Til she finds her way back in my verse
She back in my verse like I'm smashing it first
Last to the flirt, on the blast and I'm hurt
I'm so fast, it's a first, I'mma bask in my thirst
'Til she back, back, back, back
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11. |
New Gold
03:38
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Alright, so for this track, I need y'all to understand
I'm being sarcastic as fuck, this song is a joke
I don't fuck with Jordan Peterson
I wrote this years before Fresh 'N Fit was a thing
It's a joke
Objectify you bitches like I'm Jordan cucking Peterson
Supply you with the Jordans like we feeding sin
Resupply you with the organs that we didn't have to harvest
Realize you ain't a Titan, you relying on the garbage
That you rapping, yeah, I'll predict your rhymes
With each every whine, I can call it every song
Say you trapping, why you acting? You ain't doing crimes
With every ticket signed, smoke you in my time
Smoke you in my bong, like a mole
Override your woke shit with the stole
Corporatized your spoken word, to sell shit
Feminized your oldest son, to sell bits (and now he celibate!)
Melanin, pheromones, gelatin made from your bones
Selling it to wear a home, tell a kid the belly 'lone
Why we doing that? Why we doing stupid?
This how we feel? This how we respond to clued-in?
Coupons to get your crew in, croutons to get you chewing
New cons to sit and loom in, Newton to get you tuned in
Who that? You ask, in facts that's Jack, him pass intact
Kim sat, Jim rats, in flasks gin's at, tin hat with that chin strap!
These bitches don't want money
They chasing clout
If your name ain't got a co-sign
It ain't in her mouth
The new gold is IG follows
So she digging for that
She don't gotta pay her bills
'Cause that ass is fat
These bitches don't want money
They chasing clout
If your name ain't got a co-sign
It ain't in her mouth
The new gold is IG follows
So she digging for that
She don't gotta pay her bills
'Cause that ass is fat, yeah
If you a thing, I don't gotta do nothing but utilize you
Taught to pull my dick out if I wish to surprise you
Taught to beat your face in before I think to cry
Taught to make you hopeful of my change, taught to lie!
Taught the fried food, lots to die to, not a lot to nurture
If I get friend-zoned by a female, I'mma curse her
I'll take it even further, cringe it up with some threats
The Gerber Baby throwing knives, aiming right for your chest
Like for the breasts! (Titties!) Fifty tokens and she'll bounce 'em
Couple hundred in the hour? She'll pull the hose and douse 'em
Are they real? I'm right to doubt 'em, but she just play offended
Wait for my donation, knowing that I want the issue mended
Drop a dub a month on the access to your SnapChat
Beat my dick to sixty-second clips, she throw that ass back
Message you, infatuated, dreaming that I'll be the guy
You fucking in those videos you sell for $9.99
I'm finding the time, outspending my paycheck
For my chance to make donations that get that pussy wet
Now I'm on probation from my school and from my job
Never once did I buy support for my silent sobs
These bitches don't want money
They chasing clout
If your name ain't got a co-sign
It ain't in her mouth
The new gold is IG follows
So she digging for that
She don't gotta pay her bills
'Cause that ass is fat
These bitches don't want money
They chasing clout
If your name ain't got a co-sign
It ain't in her mouth
The new gold is IG follows
So she digging for that
She don't gotta pay her bills
'Cause that ass is fat, yeah
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This ain't no pep-talk, your shit say it's so
Fucking swivel in the swamp, spitting Spock for these hoes
Snorting shimmer while distraught at the show
Live a little, quite a lot we done known
Why I'm hell-bound to bitch, but I'll cope with the relics down the road
In moans of old, no more simping, I know
I'm complicit, but hold this, you bitch, shit
I'm focused on fiction, my potent depiction
Just smoke in a figment, I wrote while constricted
Truth in the witness, wordy premonitions
Just spoken infliction, and flows for your fixing
Listen dismissive, insist I'm a mystic
Review your convictions, jit, hold your head up
Nothing new at the surface, yeah, I know me better than I think
I need a shrink, some fetty, please?
Some cherry trees? You know what I mean?
I'mma look at it regardless
You can see me as harmless
That would be a mistake you would make
Because you a target
Working 'til I'm exhausted
Searching for where the vault is
Try your best to best me, but baby
You'll come up short, kid
You a target
You a target
You a target
Target, I'm sorry
In the Stu with Smith and Thought, plotting to make a milly
Well, not a milly, that'd be nice, but just enough so I'm not as chilly
At night, put the heater on blast, gotta put this heat on my ass
Mr. Massively-Accurate with my feet in your ass
Pause, for the homophobic, but my flow decodes
The throes of life, so you have to pardon the way I was told to show it
I'm chosen, chosen, I'm chosen, I need to put you on notice
Know that I'm all focus and know that I cannot slow this
I'm five-seven but a giant, rather I am Leviathan
Dealing with my personal issues badly, I'm Kylo Ren
Wavering but even when I'm wavering
Better know they wagering on me when the cards are down, because I'm a threat
I silence them, I'm upset that you thought that you could cross me
Smith, tell these niggas where they can get lost, B
I'm hostile these days, because I wasn't, look what it cost me!
I'm swimming in my losses but my floaties looking saucy
I'mma look at it regardless
You can see me as harmless
That would be a mistake you would make
Because you a target
Working 'til I'm exhausted
Searching for where the vault is
Try your best to best me, but baby
You'll come up short, kid
You a target
You a target
You a target
Target, I'm sorry
I'mma look at it regardless
You can see me as harmless
That would be a mistake you would make
Because you a target
Working 'til I'm exhausted
Searching for where the vault is
Try your best to best me, but baby
You'll come up short, kid
You a target
You a target
You a target
Target, I'm sorry
Mother Mercy's first abortion, brother cursed me for divorcing
Now they miss me after forcing all my wars to be discordant
Soldier in the Final Order played informant to the Rebels
Make some pebbles out of boulder 'cause you tore out all your devils
And I revel in the picture, in my mind, of what I've wanted
Search a temple for your scripture, just to cut it up and blot it
Such a gentle kisser, but I never up and flaunt it
So I haven't met my better half, been left without my goddess
I'm a mess but blessed with honesty (facts)
Always dressing up in modesty (but it's fake)
When the lesson that I've learned, as the wreckage was returned
Was y'all put me to the test and failed to see the quality
Step to you and press, then deny you an apology
You can be my guest and explain how you probably
"Suffer from a certain pathology to minimize"
Those whom in your eyes, pose a risk to usurp
Y'all been stunting on my rise, I got a right to be hurt
I done peeked behind the curtain, took a prodigy to sympathize
I ain't hypnotized, I'm too high for your dirt
And my worth is more than twenty times the diamonds you could synthesize
Read between the lines, you'll find a timeless potential
See beyond the rhymes, to my writing and my sense of urgency
Heard that all you guys were looking for fundamentals?
Why you looking to the sky, for the light, in an emergency?
When we right here?
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13. |
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Searching for the microphone
I got things all written on my phone
Let the voices take the cruise control
We got plans that need to please the soul
I got things I think you need to hear
I didn't think I'd make it through the year
My intentions always made it clear
I wake up at dawn and face my fears
I had to plan it, to get my ass off this planet
Don't worry 'bout the cold of space, I'm cool just with a jacket
Come off as a basket case 'cause I followed the rabbit
It's just a habit, in lieu of bud, I got Costello and Abbott
Practice rapping on the Sabbath, 'cause this shit more important
Got a plan to Kause Mass Damage, putting patterns on an organ
I'm the batting average master, like I'm Jeffrey Dean Morgan
And I'm coming at you faster than The Flash in matching Jordans
I'm an undeserving bastard, but I'm trying anyway
Don't got time for being tired just to dream of getting paid
All those times I went "left", should I really have stayed?
Or did I choose right to step? Blessed to sharpen my blade?
Searching for the microphone
I got things all written on my phone
Let the voices take the cruise control
We got plans that need to please the soul
I got things I think you need to hear
I didn't think I'd make it through the year
My intentions always made it clear
I wake up at dawn and face my fears
Searching for the microphone
Let everybody know
Worthy, but they sleeping on me
Like I'm methadone
Greetings, they already want beef...
Where did I go wrong?
Fine, if that's how you want to be!
A game of telephone
Searching for the microphone
Searching for the microphone
Searching for the microphone
Yeah
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We the roots that stick to ground
Steady as the wind blows
We ain't ones that fear the crowd
Standing by the window
We the artists making sound
Letting all our sins go
When the wind blows…
Our sins go out the window
We the roots that stick to ground
Steady as the wind blows
We ain't ones that fear the crowd
Standing by the window
We the artists making sound
Letting all our sins go
When the wind blows…
Our sins go out the window
We the roots that stick to ground
Steady as the wind blows
We ain't ones that fear the crowd
Standing by the window
We the artists making sound
Letting all our sins go
When the wind blows…
Our sins go out the window
Purge Mistakes and failures, take them as a lesson
If you can't make it greater, what's that make your blessings?
Don't put that off 'til later, take time to address it
If you don't see the signs, how will you decipher the message?
Let your soul have the leverage that it needs!
When the storm touches ground, let go of your greed
The righteous deed in action will lead us all to perish
So our sins go out the window, when redemption we cherish
Not a believer in marriage, not a believer in God
But when thunder comes knocking, I'm praying, it's odd
Staying atop the latest of Thought's, slaying majors in the quad
Maester Aemon, no auto-aim on, when it's game-on at Todd's
Flame on! Rain's been tearing wood from the walls
Hail and sleet and snow ain't the only things that can fall
We the trees been standing tall, call yourself to station
Our sins go out the window, when we demonstrating patience
We the roots that stick to ground
Steady as the wind blows
We ain't ones that fear the crowd
Standing by the window
We the artists making sound
Letting all our sins go
When the wind blows…
Our sins go out the window
We the roots that stick to ground
Steady as the wind blows
We ain't ones that fear the crowd
Standing by the window
We the artists making sound
Letting all our sins go
When the wind blows…
Our sins go out the window
You can find me hidden within the Leaf, I am healing
I'm looking up at the ceiling, while drowning out all my feelings
I guess this here is rebuilding… it's scary, this shit is chilling
I'm chilling, regardless, feel it? I'm focused, I can't be hopeless, I'm going
Way past my limits, but fuck it! Surpassing limits is cake!
Do what it takes to be great… Why won't I let me be great?
I got these lemons, I'm making lemonade with 'em
Like really, I do not like it, but I gotta change, that's the mission!
Listen up, been a man standing in the jam candidly, like "woe is me"
Been a damn shame that I ever considered letting go of me
Like I wasn't roaming in a Rose, turned rose, and I rose to my feet
Like it's not only us? Like, sonically, I don't be going to blows with the beat?
I'm gon' be to' with the heat! Don't even know where I go when I speak!
I kill on instrumentals like a beast! It's not just a flow, I've been told I go deep
'Cause I go in my soul and show me! Remember my bro told me "put your whole heart on your sleeve!"
Don't ask permission, just pardon and lead, and on every track, a part of you leaves
We the roots that stick to ground
Steady as the wind blows
We ain't ones that fear the crowd
Standing by the window
We the artists making sound
Letting all our sins go
When the wind blows…
Our sins go out the window
We the roots that stick to ground
Steady as the wind blows
We ain't ones that fear the crowd
Standing by the window
We the artists making sound
Letting all our sins go
When the wind blows…
Our sins go out the window
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15. |
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What is it 'bout your day-to-day that makes you want to stay awake?
That urge to never fade away is what informs the fabricate
Don't become a minion to the thoughts that they disseminate
They'll leak you of your crimson, assassinate your magistrate
What is it 'bout the engines, made us need to save the world?
When you don't invite your friends in, you the type to fade a girl
A wispy little WASP, you shifty with the costs
Threaten when you're tossed, and unable to walk
Shook when you're sober, organize some fucking donors
Shooting up more than a "nice guy" or a "loner"
Nice whip, is she a loaner? Hate to decimate facades!
That shit that slump a stoner, crates to elevate from sod
Won't be rating nods! Who can test a funk?
Take from chest to dunk? Paid off to bless a monk?
To dispel a belief, fortify to keep the teeth
Look for holes in what they preach, that's all I can teach!
Who do you want to be?
It begs the question
Where you destined to be?
It begs the question
Who's the one that you see?
It begs the question
It begs the question
Elevate your discretion
Third eye, can you see?
It begs the question
What you selling to me?
It begs the question
Are you chained? Are you free?
It begs the question
It begs the question
Elevate your discretion
Who the hell is he telling me where heaven be?
When they know nothing about my people, spiritually
Couldn't even practice these indigenous ceremonies
The salesmen selling this as profit, for my people, for their own benefit
Prescribe a sick pill, then they market it as medicine
Program our minds, then manipulate intelligence
Begs the question, of that fraudulence is evident
Just 'cause you ignorant, don't mean you innocent
'Specially you believing everything you reading off the internet
It's not legitimate, too dissonant, they talk, I hear 'em but they listening
Healing in nature's herbs, Earth's medicine
Natural stimulant, got flow like butter, moving body ligaments
And sending eminence with experiments, ain't with these
Hallucinogenic specialists, that some abuse while others use 'em for their bettering
Respect a person's culture, and this Earth we living in
This should be the minimum, but in this school of simpletons
Some consider this a high curriculum
Got our own opinions, everybody's different
So gotta do that due diligence, 'cause some be getting too specific
Taking all them diddlings written in the Book way to effing serious
Who do you want to be?
It begs the question
Where you destined to be?
It begs the question
Who's the one that you see?
It begs the question
It begs the question
Elevate your discretion
Third eye, can you see?
It begs the question
What you selling to me?
It begs the question
Are you chained? Are you free?
It begs the question
It begs the question
Elevate your discretion
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16. |
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I see you harboring all of your patience
Acting on problems and lost in the dazing
Finding, appointed, disrupt on occasion
So critical
Why you celebrate all you hate? (Hate)
Why you celebrate all you hate? (I see it all in the mind)
Nestled to my understanding
Managed to counteract what you're projecting
Why you celebrate all you hate? (Why you doing the most?)
Why you celebrate all you hate? (Hate)
Alright
Why do you celebrate all that you hate?
Heading for cells if you don't curb your haste
Heading for hell 'cause you yearning a taste
You could do well, but crime doesn't pay
Get out your way (way, way, way)
You got what you need to build your empire
Scared of the speed, so you open your tires
Spare me the greed, lemme go for the wire
Not getting paid (paid, paid, paid)
Hope money trees growing and not catching fire
The loneliest wolf on the boat or the mire
Go for the throat, 'cause you know we inspired
Ain't here to play (play, play, play)
You should know murder is always the top of the plate
Tighten your girders and flop on the day
Walking on nails like you not in no pain
It's not gonna fly (fly, fly, fly)
Didn't see that coming, did you?
Changing the rhyme like they won't catch an issue
Turn on a dime, watch 'em turn to the tissues
Not gonna cry (cry, cry)
At least, not while I'm discussing my earnings
I might be broke but the Amazon burning
Is this a joke? The fuck was you learning?
Watching 'em fry (fry, fry)
Smile on my face as they turning to ash
Nah, I'm not mean, they just took all my cash
Trust what you seen, they get hold and we crash
Passing the time
Stuck in a cycle, a rhythm of garbage
Look how we sitting here, wasting our knowledge!
What else to call it? This shit retarded, yeah?
I see you harboring all of your patience
Acting on problems and lost in the dazing
Finding, appointed, disrupt on occasion
So critical
Why you celebrate all you hate? (Hate)
Why you celebrate all you hate? (I see it all in the mind)
Nestled to my understanding
Managed to counteract what you're projecting
Why you celebrate all you hate? (Why you doing the most?)
Why you celebrate all you hate? (Hate)
Alright
We living now or never
Temporary feelings
Always turn the "now"-s to forevers
Confused by quantum physics
I'm probably not that clever
Gregorian time-scale
I'm on schedule, had to clean up
Get fly, be my own vessel
Missed the signal from the source
A couple times
Thought it was drunk callers
In the late night
Arrogance is written on my face
Might hate the ego
But make prideful mistakes
Still look in the eyes of people
Who's really real as they claim?
It's evil
Found love, it's fighting
The temptations between two
Everyone lack trust
Does everyone really got a reason to?
Never had no-one do you dirty?
You just influenced, dude
Dodging projections
Human emotion could be a weapon
Could be the link to missing connections
How many thoughts are really yours?
How many are projections?
Gave the Hivemind a platform
The fuck was you expecting?
They celebrate, I reject it
I see you harboring all of your patience
Acting on problems and lost in the dazing
Finding, appointed, disrupt on occasion
So critical
Why you celebrate all you hate? (Hate)
Why you celebrate all you hate? (I see it all in the mind)
Nestled to my understanding
Managed to counteract what you're projecting
Why you celebrate all you hate? (Why you doing the most?)
Why you celebrate all you hate? (Hate)
Alright
They love to hate a nigga 'til it's later
And then you greater, then they splitting the plating with you
I don't give a good "goddamn", like a pagan figure
I ain't paying for chicken dinners with no yellow-bellies
Can't be pussy applying pressure
Apparently parents been disappearing
'Cause the kids finna stream all these apoplectics
Then can't wake up inside like it's Evanescence (Wake me up!)
Bully the bad, until it's a fad
And now it's a platform again
Lacking the button to show what you hate is a scam
But bet they could press it, and press it, and press it again, mm-hmm?
Wait, why you celebrate what you're hating
But not like, putting clout up in the wrong hands?
Like exact change for a cash transaction
That don't make no sense (HMM)
None on this side can't do it (HMM)
We elevate ours in the music (HMM)
One plus one, get to it (HMM)
Been two plus… you get it
A little in the rights hands
Finna shorten long days
Rather baby steps than a full stride
In the wrong way
A wise man said "nothing at all or nothing of value"
Turn up the volume, popping a Valium
Worried as hell, but still cucumber cool in the death of the Valley
Rally of death, or heat of any hell that we face because
Ain't no party like a PK party
'Cause a PK party gon' uplift!
Celebrate what you hate?
Respectfully, fuck out of here with that dumb shit!
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17. |
Go Ahead ft. Zensoul
03:03
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Eloquent, elegant
We get you into your element
Elephant, hella fit
We to your stress like a sedative
Elevate sediments
We to your soul like The Weathermen
Tentative talismans
We take the beat and we go ahead!
We take the beat and we go ahead
No regrets, don't give a fuck about overhead
We move your feet and we feed your head
Go to bed, don't test your luck, you should take your meds
We hit the streets and we making tracks
By the batch, don't talk your shit just to take it back
We here for keeps and we stating facts
Fly the stash, don't dap me up just to call me whack
Eloquent, elegant
We get you into your element
Elephant, hella fit
We to your stress like a sedative
Elevate sediments
We to your soul like The Weathermen
Tentative talismans
We take the beat and we go ahead!
I been living in my shadow, yeah
I been living for this battle, you better skedaddle
Ay, I see snakes in the grass and they all rattle
I take the beat and I go ahead
'Bout to kill it, now you know it's dead
Sleeping on me? Better go to bed
I'm in my element, now is my time
I'm launching my mind, the crown is now mine
Eloquent, elegant
We get you into your element
Elephant, hella fit
We to your stress like a sedative
Elevate sediments
We to your soul like The Weathermen
Tentative talismans
We take the beat and we go ahead!
Weathermen, weathermen, nobody better than
I'll be a star, word to David, like Letterman
Nice with the letter, no lesser than "lesser than"
Fattest Snorlax in the lack with the vetements
Spit like impediments, never lack content
Gotta get it in, everybody got a paw print
Now we getting Zen from my Soul and The Thought
Dim lights, take flight, BLAQKNOIZ never boxed-in
Eloquent, elegant
We get you into your element
Elephant, hella fit
We to your stress like a sedative
Elevate sediments
We to your soul like The Weathermen
Tentative talismans
We take the beat and we go ahead!
We take the beat and we go ahead
We take the beat and we go ahead
We take the heat and we never sweat
We take the heat and we never sweat
We take the beat and we make a mess
We take the beat and we make amends
Take the test, fake the press, yeah
And we go ahead
Eloquent, elegant
We get you into your element
Elephant, hella fit
We to your stress like a sedative
Elevate sediments
We to your soul like The Weathermen
Tentative talismans
We take the beat and we go ahead!
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18. |
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I know, I know (I know)
I lose control (Control)
I know, I know (I know)
Can't lose my soul (My soul)
I know, I know (I know, I know)
You told me so (hmmm)
The truth's unfolding (yeah)
I know, I know
My nigga, I know it, I know it (I know!)
I had to bet it and show it (Show it!)
But, boy, when I show it, I show it (Ho!)
I'm out of control, I'm explosive!
I'm hell-bent on slowing my motion
But, baby, I'm sure that they notice (No!)
'Cause niggas be watching, they watching
They do not know he is hopeless, they do not know he is broken
Spoken word is helping take the pressure off
And that is my only focus!
Folding everywhere, I see the set-up, dog
And that is why I am choking!
Choking everyone I seem to be around
It's like I ain't happy 'less I see 'em drowning
Because me, I'm drowning
And I see 'em found in this place
I know, I know (I know)
I lose control (Control)
I know, I know (I know)
Can't lose my soul (My soul)
I know, I know (I know, I know)
You told me so (hmmm)
The truth's unfolding (yeah)
I know, I know
I know that I lose control
I know that I lost my soul
In a way, I've been through every toll
And it pays to play your heavy role
It's dangerous to be the mode
Anger that you can't console
Stakes been raised since butter rolls
On dinner plates, there's no escape
I know, I know, I been this way
Since bruises, scrapes and bloody knuckles
Bring that Atlas-tantric pressure
Just to make you buckle
So phantasmagorical
The way I bring the trouble
Type to pull the tooth out his gums
Just to burst your bubble
You could give me a couple of doses
Of Fentanyl, G, and I'll still stay focused
I'll still kill a beat, if I'm feeling hopeless
The best that I've seen, but still not the dopest
Man, I am the chosen, the Fury of Cain
Glasses get broken and carpets get stained
Can't find the locus, not searching your brain
Just losing control and bringing the pain
I know…
I know, I know (I know)
I lose control (Control)
I know, I know (I know)
Can't lose my soul (My soul)
I know, I know (I know, I know)
You told me so (hmmm)
The truth's unfolding (yeah)
I know, I know
You told me so
You knew that I would lose control
The pills you loaned?
I used more of 'em than I sold
That's why I'm slithering now
And fucking slurring on tracks
And tryna get this shit back
But I'm good for it, black
Don't even trip, homie, I got you
That's the famous last words
Of the nigga who got you, and that's just
Wisdom from a real one
Try to keep it real, but
Niggas out here acting like some
Fucking eels, and uh… (slithery)
They'll electrocute you
Catch you fucking shlipping
And shock you, nigga
They'll catch you tripping
If you let 'em, they got you (they got you)
I know, I know (I know)
I lose control (Control)
I know, I know (I know)
Can't lose my soul (My soul)
I know, I know (I know, I know)
You told me so (hmmm)
The truth's unfolding (yeah)
I know, I know
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Tell U 'Bout My Life
03:12
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Tell you 'bout my life
Tell you 'bout my life
Tell you 'bout my life
Yo
Tell you 'bout my life (I don't really wanna)
Tell you 'bout my life (If you really want, I'll)
Tell you 'bout my life (I don't really wanna)
I don't really wanna, I don't really wanna
Tell you 'bout my life (If you really want, I'll)
Tell you 'bout my life (I don't really wanna)
Tell you 'bout my life, but if you think that you can handle
I'mma tell you 'bout my life
True story, The Thought been through the shit
No lies, man, I was roasted on the spit
Been having fits of anxiety since your boy was a slab
You ain't listened if you think my demons ain't my Dad's
For every moment I was mad, tens of thousands I was able
When the child spoke the truth, he himself took the blame
No shame, satisfaction, for how the progression
Has been proving the lessons were a false manifesting
Of men who try to manipulate the young and naive
Fake prophets bite the tongue and salivate with the greed
But as the reeds wore thin and deeds turn to lore
Be like "I need more men", give the lead or leash to a whore
Don't judge the adored, face-down on the floor
The wind through the door, more morose than Lenore
True story, in the same vein, I took a knife for my freedom
Had to wash out the stains, take my feelings and eat 'em
Dreams to build a seat from which to teach 'em evil ain't eating
Call a council to table, and plant a bomb at the meeting
Going back in time to kill a kid, call me Cable when greeting
Now you know what I did, and I hope you got my reasons
Tell you 'bout my life
Tell you 'bout my life
Tell you 'bout my life
Yo
Tell you 'bout my life (I don't really wanna)
Tell you 'bout my life (If you really want, I'll)
Tell you 'bout my life (I don't really wanna)
I don't really wanna, I don't really wanna
Tell you 'bout my life (If you really want, I'll)
Tell you 'bout my life (I don't really wanna)
Tell you 'bout my life, but if you think that you can handle
I'mma tell you 'bout my life
True story, The Thought been through the ringer
Still remember all the times I went to bed without my dinner
And it lingers, how I never learned to build an appetite
Before I had a bite, eating past the point of satisfied
For every meal I was deprived, my metabolism slowed
Put the fatty on a road where it can't recover
Discovered intermittent fasting, took quickly to the loud
Leaning heavy on the crutches, never learned to walk without
Kids who try to intimidate the awkward and chubby
Either blind, or never bothered by their family's money
To my shame, I'd gotten weak enough to join their jokes
And never hold my own, no speaking up, just getting provoked
Pass no judgment on the choking man, just pass him his smokes
Pat his back and let him go, then scatter ashes in snow
True story, of the same meaning, took the lightning to gel
With every team I end up meeting, so they might be compelled
To believe I'm worth belonging, and not cast me aside
I'll laugh at the snide remarks and blaspheme pride
No matter how exhausting it becomes, I'll abide
Now you know why I fight and never silence the cries
Tell you 'bout my life
Tell you 'bout my life
Tell you 'bout my life
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Oooh, oooh
There's plenty, there's plenty
There's plenty of room
Oooooh
There's plenty of room to kick back, are you hungry or not?
I'm famished, just release what you want
You have it, tying me up, same as the blunt
'Til the sun follows past the horizon
I ain't ever been touched so sweetly
Blocking out the stress, you have me easin' down
Easin' down, down
Down, down
It's feeling so, feeling so
Feeling so good
Easin', easin', easin' down
Easin' down
I don't really wanna fade to history
Try to save my name and my memory
No sense in putting off…
What I really wanna do with my empathy
Keep an eye on the game for my melodies
No need for clipping thoughts…
I'm just fighting 'til I make my masterpiece
That's the mission and I ain't gonna ever ease
I know I'm pushing off…
But we gotta convert all this energy
Into something that resembles trajectory
How we used to be!
There's plenty of room to kick back, are you hungry or not?
I'm famished, just release what you want
You have it, tying me up, same as the blunt
'Til the sun follows past the horizon
Plenty of room to kick back, are you hungry or not?
I'm famished, just release what you want
You have it, tying me up, same as the blunt
'Til the sun follows past the horizon
I ain't ever been touched so sweetly
Blocking out the stress, you have me easin' down
Easin' down, down
Down, down
It's feeling so, feeling so
Feeling so good
Easin', easin', easin' down
Easin' down
I don't really wanna wade through misery
Just to lose all I've gained to some trickery
I'll put it to a stop… (Stop, stop, stop, stop)
'Cause once you've fooled me twice then it's shame on me
I'm so sick of rolling dice, saying "c'est la vie"
Don't leave me in the fog…
I'm just writing all these rhymes for my future me
Once the ravages of time take my faculties
I know I'm getting soft…
But I gotta make the most of these injuries
Before it all becomes ghosts and mysteries
Who are you to me?
There's plenty of room to kick back, are you hungry or not?
I'm famished, just release what you want
You have it, tying me up, same as the blunt
'Til the sun follows past the horizon
Plenty of room to kick back, are you hungry or not?
I'm famished, just release what you want
You have it, tying me up, same as the blunt
'Til the sun follows past the horizon
I ain't ever been touched so sweetly
Blocking out the stress, you have me easin' down
Easin' down, down
Down, down
It's feeling so, feeling so
Feeling so good
Easin', easin', easin' down
Easin' down
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Count the hostiles, G! Confirm your doubt, that Goddess bleed
The blues you make-believe, slaughter, too frequent to read, so I bother
You, in the great perhaps! Plastic wasteland, written wrath
Jack the spaceship, just to crash! Something flammable
A flicker, we might rule away, I brick the fade-away
But hope to contemplate, "How we still here today?"
You spent, toking ether while I vent… Juxtaposition
Say subtle, I'm distant, still implosive, I deflect
No dosage, recollect? Or echo while we endless
Memories ahead of thee, fuck percocet or flame
The privilege I explain, yeah, privy to the blade
A second-hand strange, I exchange my constrain
A party with the pain, a fever-dream of saints
Set a series of the same deluded conception
Astral projection, I zooted, obsessive
With all these dimensions, expressing
Subjective depression, won't fail to read a room
No sail to see you soon, and that's some fucking truth
We'll fail to fiend, a fluke, compelled as we consume
While removed, I presume, you can't persuade with hues
Rather rude, it don't soothe, for a sec, I conclude
This a wreck, just a ruse and some, when
You might end up dead… Love in your dread
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Oh, you thought you done?
Ha, ha, ha!
Sike!
(Count the hostiles)
They been swimming in women with your apostles
Check your parcel for your tonsils
Just an ignorant vision, I'm in a pothole
With some charcoal, and I'm lighting it
'Cause I immolate the listens with the fossils
Written novels on the parchment!
Silly, imitating literary marvels
Broken bottles, to your garments
Or your armpits! I'mma watch the launching missile
'Cause I armed it, where the lawn split
It's a bomb, kid and I'd bet my bottom dollar
Y'all in tar pits, 'cause your carpets
Been abused to cover up all of your failures
From the jailers, y'all so garbage
You reduce, reuse, recycle, all my papers
Strip the layers, then hit the market
How you boosting all my juice like it's a favor?
And you're my savior? You ain't no prophet!
You a fluke, a bloody glitch up in the Matrix
Far too basic, milk chocolate
Milk chocolate, milk chocolate
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Bitch, I'm zooted
Where you gonna go when you know your wheel is booted?
The gas ain't gonna do it
Stupid! (Zoo-zoo-zoo-zoo)
Zooted
How you gonna treat me like a store good for the looting?
Salute, but I'll be shooting
Anything moving! (Zoo-zoo-zoo-zoo)
Zooted
How you gonna blow up all my DMs when you muted?
You already knew it
Choose to lose it 'cause you (Zoo-zoo-zoo-zoo)
Zooted
Boofed a couple grams, blew a grand on the putrid
The reasons still eluded
Or refuted when you
Zooted
How you gonna go when you know your wheel is booted?
The gas ain't gonna do it
Stupid! (Zoo-zoo-zoo-zoo)
Zooted
How you gonna treat me like a store good for the looting?
Salute, but I'll be shooting
Anything moving! (Zoo-zoo-zoo-zoo)
Zooted
How you gonna blow up all my DMs when you muted?
You already knew it
Choose to lose it 'cause you (Zoo-zoo-zoo-zoo)
Zooted
Boofed a couple grams, blew a grand on the putrid
The reasons still eluded
Or refuted when you
Zooted
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Stubble (Instrumental)
04:19
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New Gold (Instrumental)
03:38
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Go Ahead (Instrumental)
03:03
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I Know (Instrumental)
04:09
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The Thought Tulsa, Oklahoma
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