1. |
hello (again)
02:21
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speaking to myself
tho at times can't recognize the voice
i was read between the lines
before I learned to filter out the noise..
met w choices I make
in turn
light matches off of the path I burn
and I lost my way
looking for trust
i'll never have another chance to earn
and I'm so spent daily
anticipating maybes..
frontin like it cost too much
savor the hush
as if the flavors a rush
they all goin up burned w a dutch
ends and friends are never enough
just
breathe..
still gone off the fragrance
it's been a couple days
since we last spoke got a pressure on my heart
impatient
can't really cope
and it's that basic
i
ache because I'm sick
places that I've been flashback
yesterday couldn't face it
today it's congratulations
no time wasted
well
i done gave up counting sheep
sounds of silence keep me from sleep
and it's the same song
kept on repeat
so I throw it all in the backseat
hit the gas on a search
for words I can't speak
when I lost my peace
i found you..
now I'm on the other side
when before I couldn't see through
yeah..
and I don't look at the skies no more
nor the front door
i know the score
and know exactly I'm here for
so till next
raise a glass for the rest
cuz I ain't done yet
til the king is undressed
can't suppress the crown
i've been down
only up now
cuz when I heard the sound
this time I said
yes..
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2. |
the reason ft. dj codo
02:25
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apathy personified
and entropy is imminent
specified victim
but always spitting indiscriminate
reckless, you pretentious
tuck your necklace
fuck a guestlist
we in the building like asbestos
feckless
restin on the rafters
chapter next
and put your best out to pasture
i have to
spread is similar to magma
hot stepper
off the bench to championship
jeff hosteler..
outdated
no reference for relevance
cuz even after melle mel
they stil failing to get the message
hailing from a section of pitt
where willie pen rhymes bent
thick as the sickness to be collected from spit
collectively ripped
as a nation direction headed to the skids
and burn it all down
on some, 'fuck it
lets do it for the kids..'
and they on
some fuck a wall cuz we building a bridge..
no limits and none given
so get it how you live
bad medicine
equal parts mescaline pestilence and adrenaline
gentleman of leisure with melanated features
a mess behind the demeanor
here to embellish on your speakers
and they eager to tell it!
got the fear and I can smell it
want it all not a percentage
people dying from thirst, we da refreshment
eating rappers for breakfast
str8 out the mess kit
behind enemy lines we fortified live
unbreakable from the wreckage
cuz when it all goes down
we fall in like tetris, ready
aim from staying connected
guard your headpiece
steady hand elegy
thought he got ahead
but pulled him bak like a felony..
and the pedigrees evident from my chemistry
respectfully, they'd rather have dependency
i leave you breathless
and then teach you to breath in empathy
you mite b what it is
but I represent what its meant to be
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3. |
roll up
03:56
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its time to roll up..
chorus:
good got-damn I can't wait x4
felonious drunk
known for a melodious thump
funk fresh, nothing less
puts it blunt like
roll up
and got the flavor of the month like
you can either kiss it or kick dust
sho nuff
whether sending suckers to the canvas
or letting ladies kno
my spliff is thicker than the average
im foggin up yer glasses
callin up the masses
and they can tell by the smell
and they askin me to pass it
we hazmat for asthmatics
but refuse the package
like no need to be wrapped in plastic
you kno the status
so turnin heads is automatic
but i understand
and cant even b mad at it
so please pass the apparatus
and grab the hash from the stash
for the sacrament
i smoke extravagant
as an advocate adamant bout my cannabis
and been a graduate
way before i stepped on campus
advanced no matter the circumstances
analyst who breaks it down like an abacus
we the catalysts
the spark plus the fire
taking you higher
than your average supplier
more than adequate provider
of the vibe just to keep em reachin for the skies
i
coincide
others strive w/out knowing
its in their clutch
feelin stuck like
fuck
its time to roll up
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4. |
michael douglas
03:12
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another day another dollar
another cigarette and now i'm feeling like a shot caller
popped collar with the slick back
business fly
and i'm fresher than a tic tac
five on the sly
cuz i'm cool like dat
rules don't apply
act fool to facts..
no reason to ask why
just get it while you can
nobody makes it out alive..
exercise my right
destiny manifest whether fight or flight
reasons why mr officer shoots on sight
and i kno they got my bak
cuz white, iz rite
polite, despite the spice
have a slice.. its nice!
and the price iz your life
no games so, don't ask twice
i can't hear you
places to see and people to do
then drive away until you're smaller in my rearview..
feel it welling in my guts
a swelling of the nuts
from the pressure, disgust!
bust pipes like
falling down with michael douglas
i touch ground
but can't trust it..
more than dust up on my shoulder
this boulder finna drop
smolder getting colder
and i'm staring at my watch,
composure
suffering exposure
and its getting hot!
it don't, stop..
break my phone over the brick
stomping down the block
and looking to start some shit
spot a bottom feeder on my 6
but as I'm getting closer
the stench of the city's making me sick
almost hit by a passing taxi
distracted by the ads in my face
that nobody asked me
for
a pass on my planet?
got me feeling vigilante
palms sweaty eyes deadly calm
and getting glassy..
classy?
pick up a lead pipe
window pane to the right getting smashed
for being a gaslight
napoleon in a past life
its complex..
been waiting a millennium to get this off my chest
yes!
lest we forget
making every step count
keeping my feet pressed to your neck
my privilege is blessed
and its feelin like my right,
or is it reich?
no matter
cuz i do just what I like
flashing lights, all in my head
all i kno is if you press
they'll be another one dead
more sound killing
but i've already gone deaf
if you the first ones here
i'll be the last one
left
grab the gas, pass the spark
the rest can catch the backdraft
for moving past their mark
at last
as if that was the plan from the start
the irony of a world burned
to match the black of my heart..
play your part.
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5. |
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billy:
a ballad before the bomb drop
the long shot loaded and cocked
if they the walking dead
then we the alarm clock
rock steady, serengeti hot
black as the berry
strange fruit
who got the juice?
up from the roots
buried under
but only momentarily covered cuz my rise
you can't smother
stil
gutterfly
thru your city in every color
live conductor
rain, hail storms, and thunder
only here to build
and that's winter, spring, thru summer..
fall
while they look to the skies
wonderin why (why?)
never seeing the cause
until it looks em in the eyes
find you starin at the mirror
some live it
while others signify
so keep it dignified
no need to mystify
stigmatize my pride
til we living a lie
and cuz I got no alibi
iz why they keep it classified
reasons we speak to power
while others seek to pacify..
chorus:
from the stars to the sands
the composition of man
in a land before time
expand to withstand
hand over fist
we climb
up til we out
but leaving something behind
so they kno
without a doubt!
ras:
Man a Rebel with a cause .
Me burn out Santa Clause .
When the Binghi a Chant seat up round the harps.
Watusi a Dance and the fire Man a walk.
When the Chalwa deh passing me noh skylark YOW
The Natty Congo the Blakker Blacker dark.
Empress and my Children kanaka kanaka
Man a Zulu unu fi seh Shaakka .
Masai jump soo High me goh see thi Trespassers
Colonizer / dont come pass here .
Poison dart Ak come into my crosshair
Unite me People you noh see we lost here
Many Mc's them gone for the past year.
From disease bad foods and the false hair.
Bleached Cloth Black skin a fime software.
Deep thoughts metu netar a Ma_at (myheart)
I meds on the past ancestrally fall tears.
Many pills ano Benadryl
(Ben a Drill)
Instead of Lean Juvenile unu fi
(Y'all should)
Get many skills
Higher than me say many Hills
Back to the Start Herbs a natural medicine .
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6. |
ikarus
03:43
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on a seldom trodden path thirsting
feet hurting asking if i had the truth
why would i continue searching?
steady turning while the page is burning in my hands
tryna separate the grain to find the secret of the sands
i began to retrace my step
every breath appreciated like fine wine i still wasnt able to taste it yet
but felt refreshed
so now when they ask who's next?
i always raise the ante and place my bet
ikarus
heaven bent cloud kicker
but sent here to replenish similar to the nile river
got spirits like inspiration in a bottle
passing gods flask around down to the last swallow
as for tomoro?
i really cant call it..
i gamble w/ the chances cuz i cant afford a forfeit..
im all in so its time to take flight
and slap on my wings to seek beyond sight
too much to give too late to turn away
or not enough words and too much to say
finally a place i may never reach again
and we could never be at a better place to begin..
piece together my purpose
to break the surface of the skin
an attempt to hug the sun to stop the burning from within
it started w/ a dream
plus a feather and some wax
but i dont think im ever coming back
relax..
keep em reaching for the skies
for heading toward the clouds and never telling them why
he gives no reply
its just time to go..
as most are scared of heights sometime you gotta fly solo..
so now im waving goodbye, and feeling high
the wind is underneath as the season is on my side
and i got a mind to try
and why was the reason
the lesson is the question and the test is in the seeking
nobody would believe him
and now they sing his song
on constant play whenever the day is long
so was he wrong?
ikarus died by the flames
but if he never tried
would you ever know his name?
too much to give too late to turn away
or not enough words and too much to say
finally a place i may never reach again
and we could never be at a better place to begin..
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7. |
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billy:
bak of the eyes burned from
starin at the sun
when too many never learn
like the stories just begun
a life is hard to earn
make sure its worth your sum
and i'm livin every second tryna
spend it til its done
every line is a clip
like my uzi weighs a muthaphuckin ton
so they keep me on the run til i'm numb
like what have I become?
we started with the started with the drum
and now we outta tune and the rest
are speaking in tongues
breathing up the fumes consumed
til we succumb
they lead us to the feed
and treat us like chum
spun from slum to #1 with a bullet
progress becomes new religion for the foolish
conquest
subdivisions with no need for pulpits
onset conditioning
stepping thru the bullshit
constant
now i guess i got a god complex
spread like napalm
catch it like a comet
palms to the sky!
keep it honest. nonsense
make you an accomplice
wash your thought process
white noise scatter the content
conflicts the object
here to clear it out
like a bomb threat
ring the alarm and keep it calm
in the same breath
displacement in stasis
doin the most and we've lost the basics
baseless
faceless
listed on walls as the nameless
stay wasted fade to the next scene
only if you're sleep
do you get to see the amerikkkan dream, peep..
keep em peeled bak
distort to static cuz this is the feedback
shake systems like knee caps or relapse
over peoples head
like satellite for street maps..
belee dat!
chorus (jazmine):
the wheel is turnin baby
only one place to go..
the world is burning steady
ever since since we started the show..
so pass the fire cuz its getting dark
and the night is long
we keep our pyres high to scorch the skies
til the light of dawn
billy:
submission
with the stakes being your sovereignty
i'm here to ask the question
not to offer an apology
the answer isn't politics
and povertys a symptom
like holding fetish for property
and systematic contradiction
and we in over our heads
all the knowledge and not a drop of wisdom
so we on the ledge
with hands needed to pledge and fall bak
heavy as lead
bout as deadly as first contact
fine print and contracts for the kill
justified by the eyes
on the bak of a dollar bill
smothered in technicolor
til the covers more than real
then let it spill like tumblers
just another summer..
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8. |
bye d-lite of day
05:06
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chorus:
long walker, sky talker
fly tongue
divine sum
equal with every part of the sun
split the shine and still catch it
nowhere to run
the last days
but i feel like we've only begun
verse:
for most cats rap is put on
like fitted hats
like red dawn, like vietnam
i throw em bak like..
heineken bottle caps relax or
get collapsed like a puppet w the strings cut
i'm not only bak for more but i'm rollin my sleeves up
pissed once i found there's no just-ice,
there's just-us (trust)
as this living were given can have you feeling plush
i tip my hat to the wind and proceed to shake the dust..
feeling like its my time to go
for every way they say today is impossible
and break it down cuz i gots to kno
bought my ticket for the ride now lets start the show
gather round like a circle for the hurt
no perch
anonymous as the bottle in the bag
we choose to quench our thirst
keep a fire inside,
but not for next time..
i can't abide so i put it inside of every line
lay it out so without a doubt i can say its mine
the path i've made with paid dues and by my own design
a steady chase for the horizon
its just another case of demand for what we supplyin
and i'm just another peasant facing down the tyrants
cuz whatever they selling, i can't buy it
no denying the lies yet we keep trying..
off balance
in perfect step with the timing..
flashing lights under the spell of the siren
sublime as the trope
broken by indigo rising..
they can't cope
i'm fine spun
tighten my belt, as i expel the smoke
raise a toast as we proceed to float..
seek asylum between the notes
where you can find me residing,
no goodbyes needed
when you're always arriving..
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billy pilgrim Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Lead lyricist of JunkFoods, Hwite Menace, Killer of Sheep, Mega Def, and his own damn self.
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