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Had a lot of love......
and a lot of paaaaassssion,
if you wondering that's how I made it here,
fifth element in actioooooonnnnn....
(x2)
With a lack of muscle, and a little under weight I
was something like 10 rocking a Chad Muscalade
with the panther bearings, thinking someday
this stuff'll pay the bills or stuff a duffle bag
with a different kind of bills for the time that it kills
falling on my ass in the backyard wondering
why everyone's been staring..
every manual a balancing act falling
on my grinds unaware of how to properly react
wiping... blood from my cuts thinking I should
probably go back... inside and find
a new hobby to have kick with the cartoons..
like I haven't got a whole lot of friends
but if I did I bet that's the shit, they'd do
so I spit out my fear of falling on the concrete,
on the concrete with a lugi, cause
a busted elbow and a little gravel in the knees
ain't enough to move me, from a dream of kick
flipping a stair case i'm aware of your gaze
ignore your concern, focus on the angst
eyes forward straight face, power in my back foot
..this next ollie's gonna prollly push me off to space
you want me to wait, sit think and hesitate
but I ain't made space on my plate for those days
Had a lot of love......
and a lot of paaaaassssion,
if you wondering that's how I made it here,
fifth element in actioooooonnnnn....
(x2)
check the chisel tip I equip and scribble on
anything but the brick in order to live...
check the bit of paint, drip more than a little
Montana on my kicks from the border of it
black background with a confused outline encasing
a white inside, it looked like life and
felt a little like mine, finding anxiety
when questioning how the hell i'm spending all my time
left it in parenthesis, like this is how I said it
encased it in a cloud like how ever you can get it
stealing fat caps from my brothers fat stack
beanie on my head never rocked a snap back
shaking the RustOleum dreaming of the train tracks
waking up in class...where my brain lacks
mark up my desk head hooome to relax...
hunker down and sketch alone with the splats
hissed on the wall, from a can in my fist when
i'm pissed at it all and my friends won't call
40 miles west, with a pain my chest
skin muscle and bone from the nothing I ingest
escaping in the curvature of letters connecting
and transforming into arrows, there goes, a-
nother page in my sketch book another day of tense looks
waiting to pull a marker and leave my mark here
Had a lot of love......
and a lot of paaaaassssion,
if you wondering that's how I made it here,
fifth element in actioooooonnnnn....
(x2)
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With a candlewick lit, I’ma have little trouble
Just lettin’ sit, come on in bubble baby
We can share a lick, and I hope that’s not
Over in-appropriate, I’m just hoping by
The end of the, show we click, I’ve got a lot of merch
I need to sell quick, it’ll take a pair of tits
To direct those eyes, belonging drunk
Pricks as they walk by, so what do you say?
Will you be my princes for the rest of the niiight
I could be your prince, meet back stage
With a little something more, of what I’m not sure
It could your name, or it could be a hug
All I really want, is some of your love
It’s not an altercation, of premeditation
In the moment, it’s spontaneous, and
A bit of appreciation, goes a long way
I’ve been the basement, all damn day
I’ve got to turn the heat off, in order to record
Get your feet lost, below the floorboard
Get lost in mine, if you’re bored of your wars
Genesis is mine, now what’s yours
Na, na baby, ya gotta give me more
Alright fine, only if you’re sure
Go on tell cabbie, what’s your address
Yes I’ll be happy, once you’re undressed
You got a nice place with a beautiful décor
Looking cute hanging my coat on the door
But why do I remember that living room floor
Wait a minute girl, have I been here before
She giggled like “silly you came last week
Pun intended…you said I was a freak.
Oh and did I mention my friend you’re gonna meet
She loves your music even more than me”
I’m like nope, but I’m cool with that
Hope this ain’t joke, I’m a fool like that
Hand in my pocket, check my rocket
Hard as a rock and ready for any option
Just then looked up to see her dress droppin’
Heard the screen door then some light knockin’
Door opened up, I’m like GOD DAMN
What did I do to deserve these fans?
Repeat playlist, grown up crush
I ain’t even famous, this must be love
“You got a home studio?” yeah that’s right
“Tell us what it’s like, while we work your mic”
I’ve got to turn the heat off, in order to record
Get your feet lost, below the floorboard
Get lost in mine, if you’re bored of your wars
Genesis is mine, now what’s yours
About an hour ago, I said I needed more
Then I was like fine, only if you’re sure
Go on tell cabbie, what’s your address
Yes I’ll be happy, once you’re undressed
And that you were, next was her
I ain’t one to get worked up by nerves
But you two are sexy comic book nerds
..Showing love to my Green Goblin shirt
Getting me sloppy rocking out
To my recent work, and it’s god damn loud
(wait a minute, hold up yo what the fuck)
Then I realized, I ain’t released that yet
How’d you get a hold this, go on get dressed!
“Genesis relax, you seem a little stressed
we’ve been playing with the tip now we’ll take it to the neck
I promise in a minute you’ll forget your upset”
Just then rushed in a feeling so great
Eyes roll back like I’m looking at my brain
Ladies save me, I’m going insane
“Shhhh baby, let us do our thing”
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I should tell you right now, i'm no good
i'm no good, so I guess I should
I should tell you right now, i'm no good
i'm no good at this rapping shit
So I like to gloat a little, ain't I earned write
i'ma go and get a pistol, turn this to a fight
right hook induced coma, hello, good night
might look confused sober... but a mellow mood
might brighten up your day, mic check and we say
1 to the 2, 1 to the 1, 2
i'm a moon light diamond..shine right it
ease through your shades, dangling on your window
and the same goes for those, cliff hanging on your nose
hanging which ya bros, we know how it goes
a lot of close encounters of the closeted kind
i'd head to bank to deposit what I find
to my surprise, they only take pay stubs
utterly confused they don't know what the fuck
to do with your failed dreams and dysfunctional love
but I ain't much better off buying food with friendships
whats the consensus, i'm fucked at the fences
swinging for penmanship, and anything less is
definite-ly, not enough for me
Yo, who the fuck thought this would be cool to do, feels
like i'm getting sucked off, by a cork screw
and that sucks more than 8 dudes in lakeview
and for prospective, that's at least 8 gay dudes
but don't get it twisted, don't get it confused
it's just a more like likely metaphor than saying something
like 8 dudes in Englewood and I ain't got a problem
with either hood (white boy good!)
black kids love me cause i'm not afraid of them
and their skin for a false fucking reason...
white kids love me cause I don't give a fuck
I guess they figure i've got shit to teach them...
I don't know about anyone else, but I doubt they like my music
though all the ladies love cause i'm weird and confusing
I should tell you right now, i'm no good
i'm no good, so I guess I should
(x2)
I should tell you right now, i'm no good
i'm no good at this rappin shit (slurred)
i'm not good at this rapping shit (nerdy)
i'm not good at rapping? SHIT! (nerdy and confused)
what the fuck am I doing, misconstruing processes
missed what sign said, misusing objects
and prospects on projects, speaking into a mic
ha ha ha HA, na that's nonsense
beat em over the head instead they get the point faster
here's my 58, it doubles as a hammer
(beating over the head, someone yelling)
I get it, your Genesis, you rock a mic right
if you hold it too tight, you might crush it in spite
of your love for it. You're god damn right
now solo that track, save it and export it
yo, YO what the fuck are you doing, that's the mute button...you stu- I don't give a shit
do you want them to know? That i'm a good rapper
yeah, it seems like you're fuckin up,
acting like you've never worked pro tools before
yeah, oh yeah, sure, you trying to make me look stupid Gunny
no no genesis that's not it at all
it's just that you should probably tell them now
tel-tell them what,
what should I tell them?
Th-th-th-th oh, oh mother fucker, you think they don't know that?
That you're no good
mother fucker they know that
you think they'd be listening if they didn't know that I was NO good
get the fuck outta the studio
grab me a sandwich while your crying
and there better not be any tears on my god damn sandwich!
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Wings spread wide like I know where to go
you pushed this to be how far from home
wings spread wide like please take me home
to work not to sleep is for the weak with no passion
of their own...sick of being sewn shut
sick of feeling so defeated like I haven't grown up
this passion gets depleted when it's not shown love
but I guess that shows a little you know hat
my childish instincts trying to keep the pen straight
cause yeah it's good to vent but try not menstruate
trying not to pass out, how like I been awake
trying to maintain relationships how long I been away
don't take it personally it's been a long day
and i'm sorry to say i've got more on the way
cause I made 100 songs that sounded like shit
here's to 100 more instead of calling it quits
time to live a life you are not afraid of
cash in the fear in you, make the pain pay
up, passion'll make the late nights wake up
(if it) didn't hurt at first what you made ain't love
(x2)
it's a hell of life wondering where the right went
when the wrong path is the only one the light hit
okay with coping with the comfort that a lighter gives
...try to make it right, surprised by what a fight it is
spilling scapegoats, if your mouth ain't shut
vices not the problem, you need to wake up
you don't really want to succeed, that's the punch
self pity really means, you don't give a fuck
enough to just work, cause any skater knows
you've gotta kick and push before you can coast
and you can have pride, but only ignorant boast
support and respect, cheers with your crew,
but tap it on the table, for the bar tender too,
i'm working this hard unafraid to pursue
cause I made 100 songs that sounded like shit
here's to 100 more, each better than before
(once all through 8 bars, slow and paced)
time to live a life you are not afraid of
cash in the fear in you, make the pain pay
up, passion'll make the late nights wake up
if it didn't hurt at first what you made ain't love
time to live a life you are not afraid of
cash in the fear in you, make the pain pay
up, passion'll make the late nights wake up
(if it) didn't hurt at first what you made ain't love
(x2)
see I had a problem, out of focus snag
I wanted it, yeah, but I didn't it bad
now I want it more than a smile or a laugh
cause if I get this, i'll get both those back
presents in a bag, “open whenever” tag
my life right now, I dreamed of in the past
but my future life, I am not dreaming up
i'm building that life by speaking up
I can see it now, soon able to touch
so dear friends, i'll be gone for a while
but this is a letter of recognition
see how close we are, no matter how far apart
been through a few winters, trying to get this car to start
gas tank dry and the engine was fried
but you'll still try, if your stubborn as I
took 100 to run, the next sets to fly
time to live a life we are not afraid of
cash in the fear in us, make the pain pay
up, passion'll make the late nights wake up
(if it) didn't hurt at first what we made ain't love
(x2)
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Now, here is where the dysfunction lays
there's a battle ground breathing in your brain
war drums, beating on the plane
dropping bombs just for the sake of saying
we sent you a letter home, did you get it
the aftermath of the explosion let us know
lord knows we entered the coordinates ourselves
there is no ordinance to protect against that which
was purposefully dealt, I hope you felt it
I hope the radiation burns, I hope the scars last
a life time, I hope when you finally die there's no
ashes for urns...i hope the quarantine subjects
you to a life a solitary ailments and no treatment
I hope the TV's in your 20 mile wide radius
play this so you see IT...i hope when your electricity
runs out and your infected run rampant, your dreams
try to forget this but your nightmares preach IT.
I hope all the things you cherish are reduced to
smoldering smog, I hope you lose everyone you
love in the fall out and fog, I hope the toxic oxygen
tears up your lungs, I hope you never see the sun
I hope you find a mirror, or a puddle clear enough
to see what you've become. I hope monster on the
outside turns on the victim on your inside
I hope you cry for salvation and only find
sanctity in your hatred, I hope you become so
emotionally vacant, that you eat your daughter alive
when I force your paths to cross for the show that it provides
I hope you realize that just because you cry for my brother in
the sky and pray to our father, doesn't mean that any of us
fucking like you we don't have to smite you to spite you
we can just watch you...die
cause you do that well your damn selves
with the capacity for love, you're quick to pick a fist instead
never learning from blood already bled
you lie, you cheat, you rob, you steal, you murder, you maim,
you rape, you never change,
given some are just inclined to watch the world burn
the rest of you think you're better
but you're just too fucking weak to try and put out the fire
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With a pebble in his shoe
and a limp in his step
he walked like it was swagger
and made the best of struggle
he ain't ask for
move forward regardless
cause what's a plan for
now, he al-ways thought that,
we had arms and feet
so we can scrap on top
of what we stand for
cause what's a stance worth
with no power to hold it down
like a king with a crown
on some unstable ground
it's bound to crack to beneath you
and leave you unfound
swallowed an empire over night
and left without a sound
downtown now
i'm lake shore bound
state your devoutness
I am all about this
words of the spoken
hurts of the broken
bonds of the hopeless
problems we cope with
somehow we lose focus
but I see you down there
soon I'll find where the rope is
then we grown in
the comfort of our own bliss
whispers in the wind rumors
in the hurricane
when what you said then
hurt her again the same
(count 8)
(x2)
With an off brand wardrobe
and a shape that was her own
she walked like it was beauty
and made light of names people
threw around loosely
i'm drawing pencil stabs
across the loose leaf
I wrote it so hard, that
the desk spoke it to me
when I surpassed time allotted
by like 6 songs the floor
boards broke it to me
all I aimed to do
was inform her
that no matter what the world
think, I adore her
I had seen her in class
where I slept in the back
I could plainy see
no tailor tore her jeans
road weathered cloths
I wanted to hold her close
and go where they won't
frightened by their fear
but I heightened and saw clear
I can fix a lot things
no hearts beyond repair
careful or you'll miss
what's beyond a blank stare
i'll only whisper love
cause it could be a hurricane
if spoken loud enough
whispers in the wind rumors
in the hurricane
when what you said then
hurt her again the same
(count 8)
(x2)
i've pained a lot people
with the words that I use
if I hurt you i'm sorry
that's the honest truth just
i've been flipping words since
I was like 10 so
i've been walking circles
since I was like 10 though
growth is debatable cause
I can't see back
down the road that I chose
and up different path
but i'm holding up my hand for
all that I believe in
and you don't know my name yet
so I am not leavin!
I love you, for that
I don't even need a reason
but if I did it's all the lovely
things that you do
even when no one sees them
kindness is rare since
respect ain't in style
but you invest thought
in each one of your decisions
and that's a trait I have
not seen, in a, while
i'm down to work hard
...and do whatever's asked
but I won't stepped on
while kissing someones ass
it's the viking blood
and things family taught
it's his Marine tags
not a damn chain you bought
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Skin pulls back, and holds so tight
surface imperfections, a bumpy sight
discolored knuckles like, you've been in a fight
body starts to rumble, you are not alright
the first thing to go, is dexterity
every movement is manic, and yes that's scary
a clenched fist helps, but only just barely
if you don't warm up soon, you'll sacrifice clarity and
you gon' cold sweat through everything you're wearing see
..the plan to be the man is not uncommon but apparently
..this calamity is damaging the average em-
-cee, you are on stage, there is no plan B
at this very moment, every negative second of
your life, is flashing, leaving a trail of wreckage
and if you don't drop your sails, you have missed the message
if you don't pull your shoot, then you have missed the message
(x2)
hesitation is key to use sparingly
you chose this road, so daringly (you've got to)
stand and give until your last ration or just leave
giving into the panic's not the answer, trust me
i'm full of cold shakes, and coated in second thoughts
but if my throat breaks, then the, message is lost
we're the, dimension of fourth, love without the force
followed by the forfeit, buried in more shit
just know that how you feel, is not how you'll appear
but how you appear, isn't always how you felt
it'll always start out, painful and foreign
I guess what i'm saying, is you can't train for it
…..... moment …...... second
…..... flashing ......... wreckage
...this........moment, every ....... second
..life ..........flashing, leasving …... wreckage
at this very moment, every negative second of
your life, is flashing, leaving a trail of wreckage
and if you don't drop your sails, you have missed the message
if you don't pull your shoot, then you have missed the message
..been running for a while, and out breath but I
went from Radioshack mics to Audio Technica
grabbed my style like “it's time to develop ya!”
smile turning down shit they're selling up
up sells an up charge selling bars claiming
they can make you a star but a, star implodes
and swallows itself whole, a self fulfilling prophecy
nick named the ego, passing it we go
passionately so, laughing in the cheap row
cash is in the pea coat, ash and set fire
to the paper with a weak note, rapping through a key hole (like)
come and cop a secret, it's true so...
you don't need to believe it....
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Now you could choose to see
What you wanna see in me
But I’m beautiful
Yeah, I’m beautiful
(x3)
now the rain drops stop the pitter patter on the rock
..got they heads cocked I hit the batter with the block
they want you to fight a lot I want you to climb the ladder
with the lock and find what they hiding at the top
I’m an uncensored victim of the government control
Fluoride and GMO’s in your breakfast bowl
…Say hello to a future you ain’t think you’d know
Illuminati trying to pull you in the undertow
Assume you caught me trying to fool you simply for the dough
But soon you’ll probably find me fool-ishly forced to go
Tyrannical force choke, the planet is for show
On demand in your home, the plan is to so slow
Engulf your focus so you love living like roaches
Hypnosis….but I think a lot
Tyrannosaurus flow sick, big fucking head
Little ass closed fist how am I supposed to slow this
Pro-cess….
Man I’m so upset
Now you could choose to see
What you wanna see in me
But I’m beautiful
Yeah, I’m beautiful
(x3)
Yeah the rain drops stopped, but washed away all the chalk
Of course we got cops but we’re still afraid to talk
I think they tapped my phone I think you should go home
Shit maybe you’re right? I don’t even know or
Understand what I’m mad at, where my fans at
I’m just following a new fad that,
Said I should rap, So here I am at
A vocal booth with a bone to pick, hopeless
Motionless, where the focus gets…
Way more attention than it notices…first
World problems I’m probably phoney as it gets
You shouldn’t listen to this, get some, gangsta shit
I’m a, anxious prick, who, thinks his spit
Is the dankest shit, to hit your ear drums
So here it comes, cause no matter what, you
Say, or you think, I am beautiful
Now you could choose to see
What you wanna see in me
But I’m beautiful
Yeah, I’m beautiful
(x3)
Now the raindrops stopped the pitter-patter on the block
But we ain’t collect enough, shit we ain’t collect a lot
So somebody ain’t getting water in they pot
Grip it tight right? Feels like you’ve been shot
And you can’t numb it, unless you’re in shock
Empty stomach…what a twist in the plot
When you’ve given all you gotten, still feel rotten
..pain ain’t stoppin’ turn a new rock and
Burn that old leaf, cut and old tree just
To build a new project cut another one cause
Eviction notices need restockin….
Melt every desk from every closed down school
Just build some bigger rockets….
Get yo money go and line your pockets…
..I’ll be on the side lines laughing
When you’re ugly dream of America’s collapsing
Now you could choose to see
What you wanna see in me
But I’m beautiful
Yeah, I’m beautiful
(x3)
Now the raindrops stopped, the pitter patter in my mind
I’m at a, loss for words at a, crucial time
A lot a, people I know think it’s, stupid to rhyme
You can, take it or leave it’s, how I use my time
But half of my songs aren’t, outlines properly
Seven different subjects are, hard to follow obvious-
-ly, but my brain runs a muck, and unless you
Give one serious fuck there’s no stopping me
Don’t believe all you read, and don’t trust me…
I’m another beast playing sheep when I’m fussing…
…Yeah…but don’t be afraid
I am just a sheep playing beast when I’m cussing, I
Could kick up a dust storm about nothing
…And you’ve just seen that
So believe that…I can be a mean cat
And so can you, but when we’re not
We’re beautiful
We’re beautiful
We’re beautiful
We’re beautiful
You could choose to see
What you wanna see in you
but from right here I’ve got a
view full of beautiful
I’ve got to thank you for
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you could meet me down where
the sun'll set i'll
be singing a song
everyone'll forget
so off tune
you'll awkwardly move in
my general direction
to make it look like an
accidental intersection
of our contradicting paths
…
yeah..
but stack up your emotions
like exponents in math
so I know your night ain't
going half bad
you ain't off kilter
or rolling of the plan-
ned path..
now hold my hand
a little something to grasp
ain't to much to ask for
we can get gone
or is that too forward?
We don't have to stay long
this ain't the type of song
to get encored or
get the artist asked to stay
and play on...
they want him off the stage
so the mainstream can place
a blade in the face
of everyone that came
cover charge is death
that's like paying to
LISTEN to cigarettes burn!
come and cop cancer
but, no puff for you
no one has the answer
so what's up to you
is consciously avoiding
those who pretend to
numb without materials
grown up with silver
spoons in they cereals thinking
they're fucking miracles
….......
that's when Magicarp
evolves into Gyrodos
and eats the whole load
of dumb fucks that slow
the boat that we row
by the weight of the ego
they've been building mountains
while we've been moving bridges
we don't want to get trapped
in their avalanches and
buried in their ditches
i've been staining paper since
reaching double digits
when'd you find passion, what
is it you did with it
tell me all about it
I really want to listen
tell me all about it
I really want to listen
(pause)
meet me in the yard where
the bonfire's on
...every bird that rises from
the ash is a bond
every glance is thought
is under breath but spoken
is a whisper of a word
is a chant that gets heard
is a poem that gets learned
is a song...
and we all sing along
every glance is a thought
every thought is under breath
but spoken
what is spoken is a whisper
of a word
that word is a chant
that gets heard
what is heard is a poem
that gets learned
what is learned is a song
….
and we all sing along...like
Storm clouds
part to show
beauti-ful
days...(x4)
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Sick nasty, get you caught up in a spinoplasty
Running around in a ruffled collar screaming
Oh that’s RANDY, wait that’s Gordon
Must be the Rambsy, I’m driving in a pick up
You think I don’t enjoy it some-body RAMS ME
...I have always got a short mid and long range
Rifle….HANDY, I do little dandy
And stab the beat in It’s six back feet
So it limps leaning AT ME, if you were a sponge bob
I would gut your Patrick and fuck your SANDY
Atilla the killa built a castle of BONES
And sat at the top in his femur throne!
Suzy is sick here at home, Where the fuck is FEMA goin’?
Oh, Now you got me rowing a boat down the wrong river
It’s a bit brisk, cold enough to make you shiver
Numb it all with alcohol, stick it to your liver
Cause you’ll always buy poison if we label liquor
You’re an asshole too, but I could shit one bigger
I understand a tattoos permanent, listener
I never once hinted that I thought it was a sticker
Passion bought me time, but for what do you figure
Talking shit in a rhyme but, will I pull a trigger
But will I say the rhyme, you’re thinking I’ll deliver
There’s black man around the corner, he’s a, grave digger
That’s his occupation, wait…what
Did you think I’d say he’s a slave or a……na
I run ya like the Riddler, when I cut you down a sliver
Cause a mouse in the maze can’t see the bigger picture
And a rat in a trap, is feeling pretty hindered
When he hears the cat, and confirms it’s her
Game over!
Thanks for playing
It was fun for me
I’m just saying
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This music grabbed my heart when I was just a little kid
so i'ma grab the cartridge out the rap 64 and smash it excuse me ( smash SFX)
i've had a slight change of passion but can you blame me?
I'm sick of rapping about rapping for the sake of rapping, see
no one can stand in that much shit and not puke or pass out from the smell of it
..sick of everybody fronting in they songs like they don't do it for the hell of it
..there's no telling kid.....so it's irrelevant
shit talk is cheap, so it shouldn't sell records
when it's all you breathe, you ain't reckless...
you're scared to reck your bubble, so you copy and you
paste 17 of the same songs on your set list
the very last thing in the world that that is is impressive
..trying to find a message, that's the benefit, of the doubt
that i've generous-ly allowed, to..
live in your favor...but alas...there's no fruit from your labor
just loops on your paper...save the oxygen
others could use the vapor..you could use a hater
with a mean right hook, maybe living crooked
good give you a better look, if you're not too shook
you might find a book, and like what's in the binding
feel so enlightened that at first it was blinding
at worst this verse is a poor example of writing
at best it's igniting a trail blazing through brain
it's amazing and painful at the same time when
you realize you're only alive when your falling
so keep falling...and standing, taller when you're back up, but
back up never, stand down only to learn what you missed
by thinking you were too fly be
down on the ground like the rest of us
I could've guessed it was, a bit too much
but i'm sick of side steps, and half truths I
just want to be honest with you, that's what gets it done
I don't smoke weed, but it's time to be blunt
a lot of us are just plain fucking dumb buying
into the system and what it wants us to become
so when I get stabbed on the train for my pen
I ain't gonna blame you, i'm gonna blame them
for luring weak minds, to the wrong end
of the spectrum, let dumb be dumb in a
way that doesn't hurt anyone, but that ain't
what they want...
so I get, the potential to be robbed by a crack addicted white kid
who made more money this morning than I did ( last week)
and all I did, was speak for knowledge
and live for love, but god fucking damnit
I guess that's not enough, now I've got to answer
to the bluff of a dumb fuck stuck behind the barrel
of a pumped up gun, shell in the chamber
he ain't a warm body with a mind and a soul
he's a shell of anger, I could yell in danger
but who is gonna help, this scared society
won't provide for me, anything more than a
peripheral view of the scene, a look away
and a shuffle along, i'm not their problem
my life not worth how far their fear has got them
so fuck em, cause i'm not them
all I need is what i've got, and what i've got is ten
seconds, to empty all my pockets, but by look
of him it could be four, he's skipping all odds and
even a few evens, believe you me i'm heavy
breathin.....having trouble seeing
beyond this moment, this is alive
and the realest i've felt in the longest time
…..
the only providing, me with anything
is the one robbing, me for everything
(x4 repeating under continuation of verse)
the feelings i've felt with the hearts i've melted
dealt a little sideways taking back roads
instead of highways, habits i've broken
led to hide aways, anxieties open minds
in unkind ways, a phase i'm hoping
will quickly dissipate and give way to greater good
this ain't the way, I meant to live, I could
do better I should forever,
if this ignorant mind with a gun aimed mine
would be so kind as to leave me alive
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If this is the first time, anyone on Funk Volume
Is hearing me on a track, I want this to be a positive
Introduction, most of these entries, are gonna
Be I’m the shit, and these other rappers aren’t
There’s a time and a place for bragging and boasting
But I don’t want to focus on the other rappers
I want to tell you a story, about my shoes
(start beat)
My shoes, my shoes
My shoes, my shooooooes
My shoes, my shooooooes
I’ve got a fan base, to match my shit shoes
Fresh out the shower, stinking up the booth
Rugged and worn, scuffed beaten and torn
Forced on the first step like a weak pawn
About week away, from that duct tape and glue, had
Em five years, so that means they know me
better than some of my friends do
They’ve weathered every mother fucking
Storm that I’ve been through, tasted the venues
While I peeped the menu, I’m sorry
You’re my soul and my tongue, march like an army
Step by step, from dirt to cement
Rubber and cloth, made to protect
Now it only looks good? Well if all gets scrapped
Labeled useless rap, remember one thing
I’ve got a lot weight, just laying on my shoulders
But that’ll never match, what you’re holding for both of us
My shoes, my shoes
My shoes, my shooooooes
My shoes, my shooooooes
I got em for free, and they were jet black
Now their looking beat down resembling ash
But i don’t want to scrap em and land em in the trash
I want em in a case on a stand with a plaque
If you’re ready to laugh, then you don’t understand
All the times we’ve had, getting good at being bad
Running through the alleys hopping fences dodging sentences
Carrying me home so I can punctuate my sentences
Tried to keep em clean, brushing like a dentist is
Then it was all ME! I don’t care how my dependent lives
So, I remained oblivious to simple blemishes
Until they blossomed into severed stitches on the edges
Trimming em like hedges, hiding when I can
Cause now they’re not impressive, four years later and
I finally learned my lesson, I got for free but
They we’re inexpensive, name brand stuff
Not always the best shit, I’ve got a lot of friends
With a fresh pair of kicks, soon to meet the closet
Where all the dead live. Unscuffed untouched un-
Torn….never given the chance
To love being worn, and show they're support
They’re cold like bones, and they warm, carrying you home
cold like bones, and they warm, carrying you home
My shoes, my shoes
My shoes, my shooooooes
My shoes, my shooooooes
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Insert adlib…this is interfaced
Usb to the computer, I’m living in technology
If you could see inside of me, you would see a tired beast
A product of societies, and, failed lobotomies
I’m trippin’ on the state side hopin’ someone proud of me
..i fell into the game time, and collapsed the faction
Shaking the foundation with every gram of passion
Changing what you thinkin’ in just a simple passin’
I’m just a simple man, receiving the call for action
Matter a fact, a man inside a fire breathing dragon
Grabbing puppet strings draggin’ claws along the path when
When style, and substance, were surpassed by fashion
Everyone in the aisle grabbed an, oxygen mask and
Everybody else at windows scratching and gasping
This is not a drill, this plane is crashing
You could see in the reaction of more than half the staff since
This is not a drill, this plane is crashing
The engine has detached, the wings are in fragments
This is not a drill, this plane is crashing
The moment feels massive, my body is thrashin’
This is not a drill, this plane is crashing
The pilot passed out, soon as he could see the ground
This is not drill, this plane is going down
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the women in the front aisle, holdin’ her son
been calling for a while but, God ain’t gonna come
I’m reaching cross the seat tryin’ to keep my girl calm
But what a fucking dream for me to be stirred from
I’m a little bit distracted it had to mean to something
The last moments of madness and manic are an eruption
I’m feelin’ hot enough to implode into combustion
Man what I would give to be on a couch doing nothing
…..doing nothing…..
I’ve got a letter for my nephew I ain’t had time to write
At least I’m flying next to, the love of my life
But this the longest fall feel like a serrated knife
The beauty in it all, I’m reminded I’m reminded I’m a-
Live… I’m reminded I’m reminded I’m a-
Live… I’m reminded I’m reminded I’m a-
Live… I’m reminded I’m reminded I’m a-
Bout to die…you see….
This is not a drill, this plane is crashing
You could see in the reaction of more than half the staff since
This is not a drill, this plane is crashing
The engine has detached, the wings are in fragments
This is not a drill, this plane is crashing
The moment feels massive, my body is thrashin’
This is not a drill, this plane is crashing
The pilot passed out, soon as he could see the ground
This is not drill, this plane is going down
…..
Feels like my father letting down the see saw
…There’s no turbulence in free fall
(x3)
I kiss my girl on head with her face in my chest
I said it’s okay baby, it’s just time to rest
Put my hand on the glass, gave God another chance
And he said…….nothing….
Crash…
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Split spine twisted and dripping Lysergic
Can’t find the attention to see if I’m nervous
Too high to see behind the smile on my surface
Too fly to see my dirt styles on purpose
Lift the draw bridge if ya scratching my curtains
Give it all your caution, traction not certain
Patches of black ice and cross roads of serpents
Trapped in the fast life like THAT grows the person
But I guess that’s life I might well write about it
I got the rappin-itis so I might be right about it
But I’m rabid, and I might just, come off as right around it
Call it passion, of the mic cause, I like the way it sounded
I was, gonna get high but some body dropped the acid
I was, supposed to die but the, venom was passin’
I was, just gonna go lie but found honesty in rapping
I was sittin’ down to write but blacked out what happened
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'2013 Didn't Make The Cut' is exactly as it sounds, the tracks that weren't good enough to be professionally mixed. They got put on the back burner until I decided, "Why not mix them to be listenable, and release them as bonus material?" So that's exactly what I've done. Some of them were already released at some point, but most of them are brand fuckin' new to you. So enjoy, because not everything that Didn't Make The Cut is bad.
released December 31, 2013
Mixing and Mastering by Genesis The 8th
(Exempting "Afraid of What ft. Hayley Kassel" and "What Happened" Mixed and Mastered by Brandon Miller)
Featuring production and instrumentals from:
Eddie, Genesis The 8th, J Dilla, Jazz Liberatorz, Funk Volume, Atmosphere, Eskupe Beats, Mr. Green, Thomas Prime, KlaaneGemaane, Cerebral Assassins, FoxaZBeats