1. |
Intro (Just Breathe)
02:49
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I seen love lost, I seen love found
There’s a lot of shit i feel walk above ground
Ear to the concrete hearin’ only one sound
The heart beat beat beat of the street after the sundown
But the sun gon’ rise
I gotta speak this truth because this son don't lie
One more time I seek to keep this humble pride
But ain't nothing gonna stop my shine
Every single feeling you got in your life will pass
Euphoria depression don’t none of it ever last
You can live for the future or just wallow in the past
So today’s the day that I’ma make a splash
Friends are the ones that I’ma ride for die for lie for
They be the ones giving me my life force
They be the ones that be taking me off my high horse
They how I know I found the right course
America done taught us that money just equals power
I say fuck it buck the system and turn up the speakers louder
There’s a power to the people if you contemplate an hour
I’m tired of all the people acting sour
And if you tired I'm hear to give you a lift, consider it a gift
My attempt to close the rift
Too many forces tryna rip us apart
The only thing to bring us back is big hearts
See at times I like the lime light
But I'm an introvert who also like the dark of the night
That's where I've trained to speak a beat on the track
And now there's no way I'm ever going back
They say it’s a dog eat dog world, so it must be
Nah dawg, we can coexist just trust me
We can plant whole field of flowers from just one seed
If we all could learn to relax and just breathe
Just breathe
Just breathe
Just breathe
Yeah Just breathe
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2. |
TypeRight
04:19
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Probably this oughta be part of my autobiography
This hero’s story need a heroine like I need poppy seeds
Currently I concentrate on fulfilling the prophecy
Hoping Penelope waiting for me post odyssey
I've studied all the texts I still search for philosophy, a
Bit of a novelty the way I flow with oddity
Other rappers sounding so blah blah blahbity
Gotta be me to give the game a lobotomy
It's only right that I'm holding the mic
I ignite the cypher session whether morning or night
From the warmest days to coldest nights you know I'm hitting open mics
I got to speak on beat or I'll be angry like a poltergeist
Ain't nobody drop a soliloquy half as ill as me
I still bring humility to my delivery
I got the will in me to be killin' these metaphors and similes
Anybody standing in my way is now my enemy
Poetic devices and evident niceness
My prophetic advice is this is a definite crisis
Sympathetic indictments of the pathetic and lifeless
Forget that shit and leave the men to their vices
If you sew what you reap, you go and you creep on sheep
Little bow and you peep show you hoin' ya cheap
They gonna expose lonely deceit
That's why I stay focused on flowin' unique
These wack rappers dancing in the candle light
And pantomiming blowing a dandelion
They try to hype the crowd but sadly they just can't excite em
I'm tantalizing leave the sample riding
I damage items, acidic and hard as
Fuck like Anodizing, can't stand the channel fivin
Scare tactics every man alive and their demises
Fantasized and canonized for every pair of eyes
Their careless lies seem to leave the game paralyzed
I'm better medicine than Excedrin leveling
Weathered veterans I jettison dead weight pots and kettles and
Peddling menaces apprentices who ain't measuring up
Impediments block stop they settling and never enough
I bubble I'm leavened I puzzle I question
The trouble with heaven is which God I struggle impressing
The public obsession with insignificant differences
And missives of dissident participants lent causes of omnipotence
Ignorance passed from father to son
Tales improperly spun with objects of prophecies hung
If you ask me morality comes from within
Fallacies tragically lending gravity to men
Who wield it in the name of maintaining the status quo
Mainline straight to your vein then hang low
I might seem insane deranged and may be so
But I came to stake my claim and break your chains you assholes
So can I do it you bet it I did it better
I syncopate the rhythm we need it more than ever
In these days where we lost in a maze we can't see through the haze
And every single human seeking some praise
But I don't mean to leave you in a state of malaise
I'm making a name, clearly seek to be changing the game
Precipitous cynics and mimics think the vision is attained
But they strain with the weight of what I'm saying god damn
I am risen I got the vision the benediction
I stop a schism with proper wisdom it's an addiction
I lock the prison lots of evidence a premonition
Demolition in ten editions sent to sentimentally
Christen and eventually mentally written sentence me emptily
Didn't he bitterly Mimic me digitally
Did it or not, we vividly diminish the sinister plot
We polyglots mollywhop these lollipops that
Seem to wanna body rock block to block hot shots mock
Thoughts of those who woke and spoke hope wrote with a pen and a pad
We bring the energy back
Channel they jealousy to melody rap
Identity tentatively tempted my memories embassies
Sent to me tempering tempestuous tendencies
But when the storm show through I’ll warn you
I make jason bourne’s moves look like the norm dudes
Flip henchmen mixed martial like a ninja turtle fight
I’m ripped shredded sick need medic and yes I murder mics
But I’m just playing my part, state of the art verbal
Arsonist sparking this marvelous straight from the heart
I intend to last like the wisest of sages
This music is ageless, it's proven every time I display it
This Is TypeRight signing off leaving you to disseminate
The separatist messages that I’ve left and set to detonate
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3. |
Broken Clock
03:49
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I’m a broken clock til the end of time
Right twice a day but never worth a dime
I’m a broken clock til the end of time
Right twice a day but never worth a dime
Yo
Fact of the matter is we livin’ in a sinner’s prison
My criticism is how were looked upon with cynicism
Never fit right, not the perfect part to fix the system
Hard from the start but still I turn my heart to lyricism
Spittin out my mouth to try to exercise the demons
Things change but in a circle like the seasons
Knowledge spreading on my path, truthfully I seek a reason
That we go on everyday tryna be a human being
I’ve always felt a hunger within
To be the best in any test of mice and men
So I find it a little bit enlightening when
I fall off and can't find excitement
But that’s just part of living life on god’s green earth
If I could give a little advice it's hardly worth
The time spent slumbering instead of making something in
Whatever fashion your mind is finding unencumbering
Stumblin’ through life is easy not hard
That's why I try to ride between the lines of these bars
That's why I turned my mind to the light of the stars
Bigger than one man we all a part of the cause
I’m a broken clock, the seconds keep ticking
The minute hand laughs and stays in the same position
I’m a broken clock, the seconds keep ticking
The minute hand laughs and stays in the same position
Sometimes I feel my tires spinning in place
Look in the mirror every morning just to see the same face
Except a little older maybe a little wiser?
Fuck that I'm not becoming my own sympathizer
But do you know the feeling? You're staring at the ceiling
Nothing you gotta do seems remotely appealing
Cause no matter how hard you work you're not healing
No matter how hard you pray you're still kneeling
Why should today be different from the last
Think fast or your ass might shatter like glass
Are you a spaz? Progress is at an impasse
They would laugh at bastard tattered and in rags
But is that really you, or me, or a reflection
Of the fact that every day we strive for perfection
A Sisyphean task that is truly perplexing
Self flagellation like you in need of confession
Just let it all go you need to stop stressin’
Its OK to go through moments where you’re mired in depression
That's part of what makes us human you can't stop what you were doing
Cause you gotta keep it moving now you live in a delusion AHHH!
Pause, take a second and remain calm
To a different tune you and everyone sing the same song
No matter what you do it's the future you stake your claim on
Tomorrow gon’ bring a better one once today's gone
I'll be a broken clock cause now I'm moving too fast
Spending every single minute tryna escape the past
I'll be a broken clock cause now I'm moving too fast
Spending every single minute tryna escape the past
Why do we run from these sudden abundances
Thoughts bubbling up, and buzzing like bumble bees
Late nights, the removal of dungarees
Things you prefer to keep locked up in a dungeon see
We've all awoken to the feeling of dread
The second you're conscious thoughts run through your head
What did I do last night, and is the crew alright?
Realization dawns and then you feel fright
Maybe it's something that happened years ago
Every time you think about it the tears will flow
Ignoring what's inside allows the fear to grow
So conquer that shit and get imperial
We all have regrets we have shame
But ignorance is not the name of the game
Push on through the struggle and the night full of pain
And know that all the others feeling the same
At the end of the day we're all broke but not broken
So let the hope sink in and keep jokin’
Compassion and laughter could be your token
To move at the pace that time is I motion
In sync you'll blink feel the cracks start to mend
From your toes to your dome feel whole once again
For a moment your soul shimmer like gold in the wind
Then your time has run out it's frozen, you end
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Dark streets are where I’ve always felt most at home
Alone drum beats pumpin through a mobile phone
Footsteps echoin and making you wonder
If there’s someone rround the corner ready to put you under
So I sleep but never slumber, retreat into the speakers and they thunder
To me the streets are healing, refreshing like a breeze in the summer
Space for the mind to breathe and clear clutter
Steps keep echoing street lights flickering
Sounds abound while the air keeps thickening
Lit like sin City so my heart rate quickening
Something in the corner just skittering
Stop lights are mirrored but Bent up in the puddles
Reflecting the fact that in feeling mentally muddled
I just need some clarity fuck a bit of prosperity
Concentrate like molarity flexing verbal dexterity
These dark streets they are my therapy
I turn to them when I fear ill collapse like singularities
It's not fair to be comparing me to these embarrassing derelicts
So fuck sparing my feet i walking
One night I went for a walk in the park, followed later by a spark in the dark
The events of the day weighing heavy on heart
It's my 28th year but I'm feeling seventy ought
I'm not just passing time resting and relaxing
Nah it's in my nature to be stressing and attacking
The walls they built between me and my success
Whats next? I tend to obsess, wouldn't pass a drug test
This is my mindstate as I amble cross the yard
Beat kicking bring the sample in hard
My feet just seem to bleed like I was trampling shards
But i'll find the peace to press my stamp on these bars
Later on I came across a stray roaming alone
Broke him off a piece of sandwich thought I'd throw him a bone
More than once I've come to feel I'm broke and alone
Giving some of yours to others helps to open the dome
The pup matched me step for step like my companion
2 souls at once both together and abandoned
I didn't know if I was followin or leading
But I felt we had some commonality in what were seekin
We sneakin down the street in the dark of the night
Til the moon rose high and dark turned light
He shot me a knowing glance then turned right
Disappeared but made his mark on my night and I kept walking
There's something bout the emptiness that makes me feel alive
When the alleys are deserted and the people off my mind
I can finally unravel all the threads that been entwined
I got time, this is how I sit back and unwind
Monuments built for thousands and I'm one
Threads spun like the smoke off the tip of my blunt
Once upon a time I was a dunce with the rhyme
Then I took to dark streets they say you seek and you'll find
You can find me wandering, ponderin, scribing
Lines of both common sense, others inspiring
Why does power turn a quiet mouse to a tyrant
And can I make enough to have a house to retire in?
But I digress, I got one real question
That gnaws at the walls of my cage echo reflecting
As I blend with these streets what am I expecting?
Have I become the very premise I been rejecting?
So I wonder, is this my destiny?
That these dark streets are gonna get the best of me?
Or are they just testing me
Checking if I might become they next accessory
When I got dope emcees who blessed my beats
And a fly woman lying right next to me
I can relax and attest I'm free, but till then I can't rest in peace I keep walking
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5. |
Mama Said
04:07
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Mama said she didn't raise no fool
From a young age i didn’t always obey the rules
Made moves with my homies but I always stayed true
To the mission of the day, just listen and stay tuned
Take two we was filming a little bit of rollerblading
As we got older really the passion was never fading
Taking walks in the arboretum JP
Take me back to those days I’m feeling lately
A little reminiscent, a little inefficient
A little bit deficient compared to the days where all you had to do was wish it
And you had your composition this the throwback edition
And there ain't no competition to the
Old days when there was no hurries
There was snow days, when there was snow flurries
Grilling burgers propane smelling sweet as potpourri
Everything was okay mama saying don't worry
Mama said she didn’t raise no burnout
She wasn’t quite sure about the way I’d turn out
She said I had an authority problem
She and pop raised two kids and this wasn’t how they taught em
Just a kid experimenting, and lots of things are temptin
I’m not bad kid just because i get detention
I got a bigger vision, execute it to precision
Gotta win you over so you ‘re not my strongest opposition
Let me make my own decisions, my GPA has risen
I smoke a bit of weed but no I won't end up in prison
Just give a bit of trust, between us that’s a must
And I will summit the hill, while chillin up at tufts
Cause I got a dream, I’m not ready to give it up
Driven to succeed what I need is just to stay tough
Work hard and slay bars sure i’ll need a little luck
For these golden years, you’re damn right I’m gon’ live it up
Mama said that she my biggest fan, I had the biggest plans
And I done followed through so now I am the biggest man
Looking back I owe them a lot
Couldn’t stand in this spot without what I was taught
By now I know I've found a passion in rapping
Hit it on a rhythm nothing is written on accident
Imagining what I’ll be doing 10 years from now?
Fuck if I know but I know I'll figure it out
For now I stay traveling letting the tape unraveling
Day to day battling the status quo and managing
To make those who love me proud through these lovely sounds
Even those who passed looking from above me down
But no my work isn't done
Really it's just begun
Won't rest long as the next day has a rising sun
I'm in it to win it I’m spending every single minute
Pursuing the dream to look back and say damn son we did it!
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6. |
Dopest Poets
03:51
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I’m payin’ homage to the dopest of poets
To the oldest and brokest
To those who wrote and spoke of the oceans
From the Greeks to the Romans
To the Yanks and the red coats and
All of those who time has kept frozen
Homer took me on an Odyssey Plato brought me philosophy
Aesop taught me how to behave properly
Geography was invented by Eratosthenes
My wariness of hubris derived from Sophocles
One mid summer night I dreamt of a time
In a quiet Hamlet where they only spoke in a rhyme
Playing Othello against Macbeth he kept bluffing
And when he won he made much ado about nothing
Like Sam Taylor Coleridge smoking opium
I rhyme like an ancient Mariner stepping up to the podium
Drop lyrical ballads, and what are my words worth?
First verse the prelude to the Earth's thirst
For the dark, sick twisted and cravin
So dark it's got edgar Allen Poe ravin
For a tiger burning bright in the night, I might take
The fruit from the poison tree of Bill Blake
I met William’s butler yeats, and he met his fate
Guarding those he didn't love and fighting those he didn't hate
So I will arise and go now, for the day is done
Take the Longfellow bridge back to where it all begun
Boston - I Thoreau and skip rocks on the pond
Cold frozen frost force you to abscond
Via the road less traveled, lined with Hawthorns
And the thread gets raveled so maybe just hop on
I’m payin’ homage to the dopest of poets
To the oldest and brokest
To those who wrote and spoke of the oceans
From the Greeks to the Romans
To the Yanks and the red coats and
All of those who time has kept frozen
Took a trip around the states checkin all of greats
Started at home where Guru and a crew Kreates
Learned Terminology from Big Shug and Gangstarr
Akrobatiks got me Mr Lifted cause I Slaine bars
Can't forget the illest of Canadian hip hop
Got Swollen Members from all of the work in the Sweatshop
The k-os of Moka Only telling me it's raw baloney
Classified walking in the Shad-ows I’m the one and only
Took a stop in Minnesota, gave me an Eyedea
Blueprint to an Illmind and Atmosphere
My Brother Ali told me of these Unknown Prophets
Were POS’s and they were liable to start shit
On to Seattle browsing the Common Market
Went to Blue School, Chicharones in the apartment
Sol good though it's Dark Time Sunshine
Sadistik Dymes Def dropping with one line
South to the bay interpret Hieroglyphics
Lyrics born on Planet Asia from Souls of Mischief
Mackin with Dre as we ride on by
My oh my it seems I've opened Zion’s eye
Skip over AZ back to NYC
Seat Awon I like Talib Kwelity
Roll big Ls and tell Big Puns
Pop Chaundon most def i think I'm done
I’m payin’ homage to the dopest of poets
To the oldest and brokest
To those who wrote and spoke of the oceans
From the Greeks to the Romans
To the Yanks and the red coats and
All of those who time has kept frozen
I take time to put together clever reverence
For poetic presidents who came before
Who took the glass ceiling and made it the floor
The first in a long line making rich from poor
They worked so hard to pave this road
The streets now paved with gold
As we grow old, and time takes its toll
We can learn from them and one day maybe play they role
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7. |
On the Record
03:30
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If there's one thing you know about TypeRight… know this
Check it when I get up on the record I'ma wreck it
Every single second every single second second second
When I get up on the microphone, this shit just isn’t fair
Cause the way I like to flex on beats, is really beyond compare
When I get up on the record man, i’ma wreck it man, never second hand
Better check your plan to test this man, cause when I get up on it I’ma wreck it man
The way that I done murdered the beat
Is called disturbing the peace
The way I drink my bourbon is neat, I smoke the purplest weed
You just another birdie who peep
While you searchin vermin to eat
Are you worthy of the words that I speak? Are you earning your keep?
You just another who be turning a cheek, you be making such an urgent retreat
While I murmur discreet sweet nothings to your girl to the beat
Kid I be shining like a pearl in the sea I keep it true never verbal deceit
Your word seem like a burden to keep
But to me it's even worse that its cheap
Late night you seem to lurk and you creep
Keep praying you in church with the priests
I keep saying I search weeks
For the perfectest of verses for the beat
I work to plant a permanent seed watch it turn to a tree
I'll learn to be the man I'm working to be
Come on!
When I get up on the microphone, this shit just isn’t fair
Cause the way I like to flex on beats, is really beyond compare
When I get up on the record man, i’ma wreck it man, never second hand
Better check your plan to test this man, cause when I get up on it I’ma wreck it man
Excuse me for a minute while I break it down to get it right
Hip hopocrites are acting like they seen the heaven’s light
But all I see in they eyes is insecurity
They know the slipping verbally making they money dirtily
So here I am, a man who be playing foil
Ain’t nobody pay me for shit I still toil
If you ever help me you know I'll stay loyal
Cause these bonds runnin deeper than the roots in the soil
I’ve arisen from the crucible of beantown
Through the fire and the pressure and I see now
Cali is a dope ass place to lay a beat down
But the industry seeming to be asleep now
We gotta keep it real the cash, it seem to corrupt
This is how I feel I seek to keep it cheap as fuck
Keep the hunger in my eye keep the monkey on my back
Keep it TypeRight so I can keep the people coming back!
When I get up on the microphone, this shit just isn’t fair
Cause the way I like to flex on beats, is really beyond compare
When I get up on the record man, i’ma wreck it man, never second hand
Better check your plan to test this man, cause when I get up on it I’ma wreck it man
Late nights got me sleeping in late
Seems these days im barely even keeping the date
Easy to say Im keeping company with the greats
I beat the beat up and I'm keeping an ace
Hiding up in the sleeve, adding up no repreive
Relentless with the sentences with evident ease
Truth be told I'm innocent as Adam and Eve
Do you really wanna battle with me nah
I can kick it I got rhythm
Ain't got job from nepotism
My name is my own name and no I won't ever go to prison
I hit every single beat while rappers cower in defeat
My power lies discretely hide in houses on these rowdy streets
I don't even need to breathe
My lung conditioned I don't wheeze
I conquered all the asthma that once sadly took me to my knees
Now you should just give up it's over
I could beat you drunk or sober
Why don't you just fetch play Rover
Shine like I'm a supernova!
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Why did we evolve only to expand
Stopping only when we got all of another's lands
Why do we consume everything we see
Stopping only when we feel so sick we can't eat
Why do we keep populating the earth
When we know we can't grow enough food in this dirt
Why do we waste so much of what we make
When the landfill full we’ll just dump it in the lake
Why did we all fall into the trap
Of the unarbited targeted marketing crap
Start with the facts: corporations are people, or so the courts say
Privacy a thing of the past, or you could move to Norway
The AG reviving archaic mandatory minimals
Daily the truth erodes in a process that's subliminal
We treat children like they criminals ripping them apart
From their families, honestly I don't know where to start
Why do those who privileged have to prey on the week
The sadists indeed are painted as the saviors
But they slavers and cheats who bear the blame for the chains on our feet
The bankers tainted money made from games of deceit
So the middle class shrinks and shrivels
Little by little the rich leaving the rest to try to solve the riddle
As the days fade time erodes and years go by
But I still see a glimmer of hope I don't know why
Why do I find myself gazing at the sky
Tryna find the moment time passed me by
Why does it hurt so much to look upon our regrets and
Reject the effects built upon false precepts
Why does power absolutely corrupt
Why is too much of anything never enough
Why do we leave veterans neglect and ever leave him begging with cups
Why should I have pride? I know it's cause I'll never give up
Why do we protect cold blooded murderers
Of unarmed men then pretend we never heard of em
DOJ reports find this pervasive and prevalent
Killing a man cause of his melanin
Why did men lose the right to cry
Why do women have to fight for every right not to be denied
Why is it every time I feel we turning the tide
I catch a glimmer of a cross just burning in eyes
Why is it ok if it's a white lie
Why is it such a pain being a nice guy
I look to the night sky and see a shooting star
But I don't make a wish I just wonder who we are
Why was I looking at the moment of the flash
Ash pass as the death of a meteor enter the past
Turned to dust that one day gon’ fall to the earth
And I'm left to wonder what's it all worth I don't see why
Why does the 28th year seem to capture souls
Deaths pile up and now we mourn with the caskets closed
Why are the greatest artists haunted by these demons
Driven to a substance that could make stop breathin
It’s Amy winehouse it’s Curt Cobain
It’s Jimi Hendrix lost and now it's all in vain
We feel they pain but we only doubling down
Why did it take so long to see why in trouble in town
Why did we allow doctors to start hustling pills
OCs take these cause your sufferings real
Oh gee, it may seem they've enough of the bills
But this is America, they don't give a fuck if your healed
But they hope that you're hooked so now we open the book and
Ask why so many die so broken and shook
Overdosing and choking on this dope from the crooks
Potent potions sold to numb both the cold and the cooked
Leaving us teetering on the precipice above the abyss
Teaching us each of us know death has the loveliest kiss
Why did it come to this for us to wake from the dream
Why can't a politician say what he mean
I make it my mission to understand and never deny
Experience of another man I stare in the eye
I'm hoping that one day I'll get a reply
And I can respond when someone wanna ask me why
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9. |
Lonely Road
04:52
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Cause I’m out here drivin on that lonely road
And I roll quick no I’m never rolling slow
What am I running from I don't know
But every morning when the sun hits my eye
I rev the engine kick the car into drive
Just got just go just go just go-ho
Sometimes I feel that I awake up in a haze
Where am I at, and where will I be by the end of the day?
And does the answer to the question even matter
The pitter patter of rain on roof seems to be my master
Counting out the meter every single moment
I take the beat and hold it, it's a beautiful thing to be beholding
When it's just me and my thoughts a pen and a pad
A couple zig zags and a bag of the bad grass
Grab the back pack and I'm off in the hills climbing
Head phones on the dome so I keep vibin
So dope with the poem on the beat ridin’
Words spoke to myself road keep windin’
I'm breathing easy in the clean air
Damage from smoke and the brew is getting repaired
It's a renewal of energy, the truest amenity
The truest of remedies, it’s soothing my memories
As the waterfall plunge with power
I approach and the sound grow louder and louder
Mist disperse and bend light to a rainbow
And I jump right in just can't say no
I see the cyclical nature, I'm up down around
My mood move from minor to major
Ashes to dust and then return to the earth
After every death there comes a rebirth
But As the rain beats down on the cold hard roof
I feel a bit cooped in the booth, in the spirit of truth
I'll say I thought about chucking the deuce
But I never been a quitter since the days of my youth
So I stay on the grind in the spirit of love
Got nothing but a mirror to judge
Got nothing but a beer in my mug
I Got nothing but I'm needing a hug
I Keep going I'm getting nearer because
Cause I’m out here drivin on that lonely road
And I roll quick no I’m never rolling slow
What am I running from I don't know
But every morning when the sun hits my eye
I rev the engine kick the car into drive
Just got just go just go just go-ho
I sit nestled deep in a valley between mountains
Only noise the call of a loon and echo sounding
The beauty of this country and Earth truly astounding
Getting back in touch with these roots provides grounding
Low dull hiss of the wind through bare branches
Crickets and cicadas chirp in unison, dancing
To an ancient rhythm that needs no enhancement
Flowing to the beat of the nature's entrancing
So why did I decide, to live this isolated life?
To leave it all behind and ride the dotted yellow line?
To focus on my rhyme, to heal my broken mind
To make my eyes open to the potency of time
There’s a freedom to this life that I’m leading
I’m sittin making beats and eating teaching myself what I’m needing
Every day progression but to where I don't know
It don't matter, forwards the only way time go
Don’t get me wrong, I still set goals, I still got drive
I Still seek roles that fill my time
I will reach those that still reach blind
Into the deep dark depths inside trying to still they mind
And I'll look back proudly from this new vantage
But I know my ghosts and demons they won't vanish
I ain't running from nothing I'm just tryna find peace
Until then I bare my soul on these beats
But sometimes the lonely road earns its name
When my legs tired and my muscles burn with pain
I tell myself that I don't do this search in vain
I'm stubborn but I gotta learn to change
So while the birds sang the sweetest song
I move my feet along, and pull the beat along
I find the peace to find positive vibes I'm feeding on
It seems that the clouds are clearing, and there's a crowd appearing,
These my people, they belt it loud I'm hearing
Cause I’m out here drivin on that lonely road
And I roll quick no I’m never rolling slow
What am I running from I don't know
But every morning when the sun hits my eye
I rev the engine kick the car into drive
Just got just go just go just go-ho
Cause I’m out here drivin on that lonely road
And I roll quick no I’m never rolling slow
What am I running from I don't know
But every morning when the sun hits my eye
I rev the engine kick the car into drive
Just got just go just go just go-ho
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Do you remember your first love?
The person who you found then knew you were in search of
I sure remember mine etched forever in my mind
Two lovers intertwined we would stand the test of time
But that was just a pipe dream when I was young
Tryna figure what life means at 21
When it fell apart I had nothing to catch me
Pieces of my shattered ego staring back at me
Years and days erased you move backward
Echoes of her laughter reflecting from the rafters
You feel like a disaster
Stressed built so brittle you might crack like plaster
Can't erase the pain even if you move past it
Feel it as you close eyes and mind fade to blackness
But it's these moments when I feel the most alive
I can focus on me push the noise to the side
I can't sink any lower, damn straight I’m gon’ rise
You can see the burning fire in the whites of my eyes
So all that time it takes
Feels like a bit of waste
San Francisco probably always gonna leave a bitter taste
But bitters bittersweet
Without it life is incomplete
I spark a light at night to quell the darkness make it obsolete
So now I learned to take the bad with the good
Relationships test patience like a labyrinth would
Now I'ma spend my days traveling and canoe paddling and
Fondly looking back where we stood girl I miss you
Have you ever moved away from friends and your community?
Cross country or state, everything feeling new to me
Void of comfort but flush with opportunity
Leaving things behind can feel like pure lunacy
You think to yourself how do I say bye tonight
To this phase of my life, yo it don’t feel right
Apprehension, tension, not to mention
The weight of feeling like the center of attention
At a going away party, show me the way hardly
Half of these people will ever remember my face probably
Nah that ain't true, y'all a dope ass crew
It’ll always be the same when I open a brew with you
Remember the scent of the summer breeze muddled with mint
The glint in your eyes knowing your words are never minced
Amongst your true friends accomplices and associates
Inside jokes revealing you as the dopiest
Leaving that behind you risk a bit of loneliness
But don't look back, no regrets of hopelessness
We a tapestry, complex like a bit of lace
Seeing y’all in photos gonna always leave a bitter taste
But bitters bittersweet
Without it life is incomplete
I pour one out without an ounce doubt that y’all still with me
What I won't forget is that we share a bond
Be it spoken or the name of a song
So ima keep blunt smokin’ with my arms wide open
Telling stories so the memories strong fam I miss you
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11. |
Kids Forever Feat. Keeka
04:11
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This track got me thinking on the days of old
Before the real world could take its toll
Not a care in the air we were living so free
A child with a smile and a positivity
Reminding me of summer days, when the sun never set
The shadows grow long and I ain't tired yet
My mind in the moment ain't concerned with the next
For real man those days were the best
All the kids in the neighborhood, we causing mischief
Cause school's out and fuck no we don't miss it!
I love pancakes made with the bisquick
I hope I don't get stuck with the dishes
When the party would start, we’re playing Mario Kart
Racing with the homies way past dark
When we make believing we was playing our part
Every word uttered straight from the heart
I can see now those were the truest of times
Me and my friends used to recite the stupidest lines
Part of the formation of my musical mind
I could never leave that part of me behind
Every once in a while I seem to capture the vibe
Return to the days of old and show why
Those golden years when we showed no fear
Were the seed for these moments that I hold so dear
And I just wanna be a kid, forever
And I don’t wanna grow old, no never
And I just wanna be a kid, forever
And I don’t wanna feel like I’ve surrendered
I do think it's true that ignorance is bliss
Except in the matter of my first kiss haha
Yeah it coulda been better
But it doesn't really matter ‘cause I'll never forget her
I remember the first time I asked a girl on a date
It was the seventh grade and it was getting late
My friends seemed to disappear and we were alone
When she said yes I felt a king on his throne
I was so damn busy playing soccer and hockey
I was way too competitive I dare you to stop me
Camaraderie taught me how to trust in another
Me and my teams, we getting close like we brothers
In the Summers my family went north to vermont
Chilling on the lake fire burning til dawn
Take a swim but the water so cold
I'll dip a foot you jump if you're so bold!
This is how we used to grow and stretch limits
How we got out of our comfort zone with no gimmicks
Sure we didn't study the prose or know physics
But if we wanted something you know we’d go get it
I like looking back for a second to think
You blink and a year pass and the memories shrink
There aren’t good vibes every day of the year
So when the sun shines I seek to keep these images clear
And I just wanna be a kid, forever
And I don’t wanna grow old, no never
And I just wanna be a kid, forever
And I don’t wanna feel like I’ve surrendered
I don’t wanna grow old, no never surrender
And I feel the world’s pressure
All these eyes on me thinking I have to be somebody
I don’t wanna grow old, no never, ooh ooh
You know man, every year we get older, we wanna look back to the past
And remember how good it felt to be young
And yeah I get that
But I figure we could flip that on it’s head
And realize that today is gonna be one of the best days
You’ll have for the rest of your life
And if we take that, and live in the moment, we could stay young forever
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12. |
What's the Difference
03:07
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You a wack party pooper, a scrooge like Ebenezer a geezer
Who too old to even know how to use a beeper
A shitty sleeper you snorin and borin’ with sleep apnea
I'm coming after ya like this the Boston massacre
I shatter and splatter your crew
Cut you in two like a samurai
You’re the too hammered guy at the party
Your candy ass like a roll of smarties
Hardly half as hard and large as McFly Marty
My chick is a fox like Vivica A
Your chick straight shook Like Michael J
I got a mean left hook like Dallas keuchel play
You might say I’m the GOAT it’s like mike I play
Tight Js I be rolling
For you the bell is tollin’
I keep it over 100 like Nolan Ryan throwin’
You’re growth is heavily stunted like Gary Coleman growin’
While I’m blowin up shows you got stage fright frozen
In the limelight you fade I glow
I’m not paid I know, but I still done slain the show
I make the most of every bit of shade they throw
So wait a minute watch me lace this flow i just go and go and go
I’m flyer than Will Smith in MIB
People wanna put my lines on an MP3
Your actions formulaic like an NPC
Culturally irrelevant like MTV
Your persona as vibrant as Williams Montel
I rip panties off on runways call me Hansel
You attend conventions for my little pony
My chick exercise demons riding me to pony
You can’t keep up it’s like Steven Hawking
Talking to Kid Rock about his brain’s concoctions
It’s shocking the way I strike quick light lightning
My wit’s quite frightening yup I might bring
Rap to another level or frenzy I’m friendly
You nervous pop benzos green with envy
You bitch and moan for the old days, smoke old haze
Burger kings the only place you have it your way
I’m slick and known better than OJ I role play
My life is better with a chick who go both ways
OK, I am legend big willy or Soze
Your ass is crying gettin’ high listening to Coldplay
You nothing but a cock block
No jokes but knock knocks
Short like odd job cannot talk your jaws locked
I'm top shelf in a lock box
Bye bye tata
I'm about to blow like Coke and pop rocks
More wicked than the wickedest of witches
Your life a series of unfortunate events lemony snicket
Your nose Pinocchio lying coward biting Toto
No brain like a scarecrow, as extinct as a dodo
I’m the one and only, you a lonely phoney
Perjurious testimony telling us more baloney
I spit the written diction quick and I never mumble
You enunciate like you’re drunker than barney Gumble
You tumble like a weed, stumble on your feet
My footwork hakeem the dream, maybe kareem
In the paint im a saint you a sinner, huffin paint thinner
I stick to my principles like I’m skinner
I’m surrounded I ride with the crew and the fam
You overpriced like Portland marionberry jam
You’re softer than squeezing some marshmallow fluff in my hand
I leave you a discarded desiccated husk of a man
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13. |
Ominous Metropolis
04:32
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For many years I’ve lead a persistent resistance
Built from those who remember or wanna listen
They forced us deep under the streets and now we preach
Over thunderous beats while I try to teach
I can't even explain the loss of innocence
Any man would prefer to bask in his previous ignorance
Of what we've lost and we can't find again
The ability to write or even sign with a pen
So I’ve turned to the oral tradition
Arisen from the lack of ability to remember the vision
Of past days the last days before society fell
And turned to an ashtray on the hot side of hell
But I don’t dwell on the past I look ahead instead
Wont hesitate for the task to put some lead in heads
We need a revolutionary riot
And I’m not the type of guy to lie or try to deny it
So we use the rhyme to try to incite the masses to move
But we always being watched bastards coming after us with a noose
The truth is this is probably useless but
The way they try to suppress us is proof
Of the key we hold we must be bold
And trust these old texts and trusty tomes
And dope projects
Hope for progress although stress
Threatens to make the land seem roadless
I stay focused
And make shit happen we
Now rap happily rap on beats and masterfully do deeds seen as dastardly
Tattered Tapestries are hung amongst the burnt out factories
The fact of the matter is life is just a travesty
You're ominous, probably gonna topple this metropolis
Apocalypse upon us any way that you polish it
Abolish it, you gotta swallow it and just acknowledge it
We living in the end of days, there ain't no stoppin it
You're ominous, probably gonna topple this metropolis
Apocalypse upon us any way that you polish it
Abolish it, you gotta swallow it and just acknowledge it
We living in the end of days, there ain't no stoppin it
They say that history repeats itself, although I can't confirm
I can unite the present with the past while this candle burns
I feel I’m every man in every age, I wish that man could learn
Not to crave more and give less until the land has turned
From what is to what once was
Shrivel into ash and then fall like a blunt does
Power always corrupts but gods the one judge
In our heart of hearts we all just want for one love
But reality can be seen by the masses
They brainwashed off they asses to madness
No access to the classics they livin in a labyrinth
Trapped no exit except crossing the chasm
And landing in a foreign land that they can’t understand
Join me in this place and fight the battle under manned
Cry when you see that this used to be a wonderland
Train hone your skill to hit the beat like the thunder can
It’s this that you’re afraid of, seeing what you're made of
Its this that gives us power over those who enslave us
I won't lie to you and say its not dangerous
Atrocities committed for name of the most heinous
But don’t be scared we just need to prepare
For the fight in the night spread the light like a flair
Scatter those lurking and hiding in the shadows
That's the only way we avoid hanging at the gallows
And one day they gonna come for me
We must be prepared not to lose it all, this abundancy
Of knowledge, that one day could lead to freedom
Cause that’s all we seeking if we ever aim to beat ‘em
You're ominous, probably gonna topple this metropolis
Apocalypse upon us any way that you polish it
Abolish it, you gotta swallow it and just acknowledge it
We living in the end of days, there ain't no stoppin it
You're ominous, probably gonna topple this metropolis
Apocalypse upon us any way that you polish it
Abolish it, you gotta swallow it and just acknowledge it
We living in the end of days, there ain't no stoppin it
I heard a knock knock knock at the door once more
They are coming after us tryna settle the score
I gotta chop chop chop my tracks and just record
This is the very reason that I’ve been so diligent for
So we walked into the back heard the door go crack
Before shutting ourselves in I saw them brandishing straps
Pap pap but my tact too swift for them cats
Picked up the mic no time to unwind I just rap
The record started spinning i started from the beginning
Made a martyr when they locked me in a prison
But no prison can hold me though they boldly try to mold me
I escaped with my mind intact running from police
Now I try to spend the message that the people got the power
If we speak a little louder from the steeple to the tower
To bring all the tyrants to they knees on the 7 seas
With the mic conjure images of these obscenities
This not for religion not for politickin
I just wanna cop a spot in proper opposition
Of those who took our innocence and our history
In a sense regaining inner sense was our remedy
I ask you to hear this tape and get woke
Open eyes to the real push the lies to the flo’
If I survive this ordeal we can ride against foes
But if not carry on knowing I died for this prose
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14. |
Dreamscape
03:53
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Night visions - my mind unhinging
Let loose from prison to ride
Door’s open, my mind unfolding
Set forth these demons to ride
I’m in an old west ghost town tumble weeds roll round
Not a soul in the watering hole how
I got here I never really knew
But the details are immaterial
Cause I’m here and I feel the heat, the burnt dust
The smell of the rotten wood and straight rust
As the wind pick up walk out to the gate
Stride right through and out onto the plains
There’s a storm approaching got the damndest notion
I abandon motion I’ma stand in the spot with a rare devotion
Storm gather power it could span the ocean
Feeling daring frozen
First drop soak these plains that sucked dry
Tough times but I find myself starting in the eye
Of the storm there's a light I've been warned not to fight
But I'm sure I got it right when the lightning strike
Night visions - my mind unhinging
Let loose from prison to ride
Door’s open, my mind unfolding
Set forth these demons to ride
A citadel stands tall in the clouds
Ramparts rise while the bodies rain down
I thought I had an army but where are they now?
I’m riding on a Pegasus nemesis en route
We playing king of the hill, a castle in the sky
I know this shit is real, I know I might have to die
I'm dug in conviction exude from each orifice
Never realized I would go for the glory, shit
But here I am just a man on a mission
I land and dismount to take up my position
Next minute it seem that I'm in front of a man
No he's a demon, but he seem to have the sun in his hand
His laugh starts rumbling consuming the air
Fingers squeezed real tight round the orb while I stare
All light extinguished now I'm back to the start
Im awakened in a world that seems pure dark
Night visions - my mind unhinging
Let loose from prison to ride
Door’s open, my mind unfolding
Set forth these demons to ride
I come to in a dank dark wood
Each plant growing bigger than I ever thought it could
Looking around it clear that there's a way
Trodden by the others who came but didn't stay
Now I'm running I'm running I’m running from something
Hear thumping I'm stumbling thoughts jumbling
Gotta keep it moving ‘cause I can't slow down
Stopping the equivalent of throwing in the towl
With each step my legs get heavier yet
I haven't paid my debt or made amends
The day will end with a blank page stained in red
I maintain this pace instead
I shake and hope I'll wake and know it's all in my head
It’s all in my bed, it’s all in my mind
My fate this day’s to break bones take home the the notion
Each time I die I’ll rise
Night visions - my mind unhinging
Let loose from prison to ride
Door’s open, my mind unfolding
Set forth these demons to ride
Night visions - my mind unhinging
Let loose from prison to ride
Door’s open, my mind unfolding
Set forth these demons to ride
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