1. |
Huxley
02:42
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Living like there's no tomorrow, no longer basking in sorrow
Emotions high and low when invoking a convo
Solitude is bliss, Impalas will follow
Cover a trail in case evildoers feel the need to swallow
Vibrations of the moment, (a-) inside of embracing
(-ma-) No one here is racing, (-zing) the moments we're facing
(Gift) are steadily making a pathway to the inner crevices
So vacant if the mindset ain't patient
I baste it with a form of intellect and innovation
Inner scope the bits of hope, this ship will float instead of waiting
Stiff as coping in a lonesome vision soaked administration
This is low, beholding showmanship of what I spit in
Breaking barriers about the moment furious, then take a breath
And sit it out
A withered old rusted spout
Whispering tales of ancient wisdom
Flowing loudly down the river out of this lyricist's house
So I knock
Knock on the door
It's a war
Listeners are fighting for
I knock on the door
It's a war
Listeners are fighting for
Yo I knocked and I'm grateful, faith in mankind
A case of a race who'd face and stand time
Evasive, with haste we place the land mines
And erase any taste of hate with mad rhymes
Trace with planned lines or create out of nothing
The end result is often something that we're proud to be bumping
I pump a shot into the body, applauding the wherewithal it takes
To deal with snakes and liars writing the law
Empires have got to fall, corporations will crumble
These mumbling politicians and leaders become the humble
I stumble upon a land of beauty and inner peace
And channel my negativity into what I release
The least of any worry of mine is on the mind
I was living in a hurry but I slowed it all to find
You can find what you're looking for and whether it's divine
You define while deciding where it is you draw the line
So I knock
Knock on the door
It's a war
Listeners are fighting for
I knock on the door
It's a war
Listeners are fighting for
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2. |
Get up
03:21
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Osu, (Oh Sue)
Oh you make me brace for impact
Get back with a troll like profile in tact
Detach and never relapse, I tend to react
Accordingly, you're boring me with your syntax
In fact, I need to reevaluate my efforts
Lesser known vibrations can deter endeavors
Letter openers, new sharper images for the local posters
Live art selections, can you hear, it's closer
Listening too heightened sounds like a phoenix
My dream is to represent this music, keep it scenic
Who are we? Who am I? How can I solidify
Soul and prescribe help with more words to energize
Some will lie in the water waiting for it all to drain
Formal pain to the ones that see it all and reign
Because they recognize this life can bare seasons
If the mind's walls get knocked down, declare freedom
You gotta get up, and live outside and see the world
But don't give up, they brainwash minds they can't unfurl
It's a set up, they gentrify lives without empathy
Trying to pimp styles while we awaken our entities
Get up, live outside and see the world
But don't give up, they brainwash minds they can't unfurl
It's a set up, they gentrify lives without empathy
Trying to pimp styles while we awaken our entities
Surrounded my negativity, distracted with life
The bustling sound of traffic will trample these lights
A ready roar of steady feedback will manage these likes
And mannequin type mentalities will have to be right
Gradually fight the source, no remorse for the place
I've taken shelter in, look a gift horse in the face
And ask the question, am I the only one who's curious
About the situation that we're living in
Got us chasing dividends, giving into momentary pleasure
Over pain for no gain, this is trash, not a treasure
We could measure every angle of the madness
Articulate the ins and outs for everyone who had this
Feeling but never really explored to where it led
Remain floored while they ignored what's in their head
We could shatter that reality and matter to each other
Face to face, a people never trying to run for cover, you're my brother
Get up, live outside and see the world
But don't give up, they brainwash minds they can't unfurl
It's a set up, they gentrify lives without empathy
Trying to pimp styles while we awaken our entities
Get up, live outside and see the world
But don't give up, they brainwash minds they can't unfurl
It's a set up, they gentrify lives without empathy
Trying to pimp styles while we awaken our entities
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3. |
Explain
01:45
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My wheels go flat against the concrete
Handrail giants at the school is where the squads meet
The hype sessions always complete with bomb eats
I will seek to learn, then extend my arms reach
When it comes to the flick of the materials on street
Balanced on the wave of life, I ain't trying to compete
I'll vanish, but reappear from the side view
This traffic is known to blow a few I.Q.s
I'll smash through it like cashews, pi-stash
Vast quantities then deal it out, towards any form of doubt
When you're sitting, and trying to piece together thoughts you're thinking
It's just another form of conscious efforts lost and sinking
Within the confines of structural designs
That's built right over land and it's like a jungle sometimes
And it makes me wonder, how do I keep from going under
My wooden ship setting sail, living off the hunger
Trying to feed off the skeleton in my mind
Trying to wind back the clock and intelligently design
But time never stops and it's relevant to the rhyme
Accumulated experience elegantly refined
And relayed, conveyed, communicated effectively
Hectic, intersecting with weapons and so selectively
I speak with a caution and proceed to walk as follows
God among these men despite the dark and what it swallows
I'ma wobble over bodies while I stagger through the woods
After this apocalypse, I will have gathered what I could
Play a game of this Polybius because they say I should
I'm the one to test the theory even if it's understood
And opposed, to a close, till my mental's satisfied
Then I'll breathe it out until the instrumental is alive
We can dive into the madness of the brain
And exchange dialogue until we're both one in the same
I'll explain
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4. |
Seduction
01:28
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Adrenaline rush, you get whenever you touch
At first it wasn't enough, but then you've had a bit much
You tried to take a step back, reevaluate
Your entire position, and what you got on your plate
Now was it random or fate, that led you to this circumstance
Is the feeling really mutual when you exchange a glance
Even if I had the chance, I wouldn't want to know
It's the mystery that's keeping me from ever letting go
It's a game that we play, that forever I will lose
I'm addicted to the fact that you could keep me so amused
Immune to the condescending look I get from others
Prepared to deal with anything, don't care if I would suffer
It's my pain just to - do with whatever I please
So I endure it and enjoy manipulation with ease
Aware she's holding' the keys, it's ecstasy or destruction
Another master in the art of seduction
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5. |
Amethyst
03:09
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We are water, we are air, and we are carbon
Fibonacci hearts of frequent pathway we are starting
I embark on the far cry for those that live in darkness
This dome that surrounds us is a breeding ground for artists
Of a different kind, this generation's mind capacity
Is halted by a different science, I enlist alternative
Uses but not foreign to selective lives, live it if you dare
I'ma handle it with bares of a grizzly kind
See there is hate and there is envy
And all other examples present, our compassion meters on empty
I'm stuck in this world of cynical like legions
My breathing is leaving, I'm withered down and weeping
I wish I could have done more in order to protect lives
That's innocent against the animals that never gave a shit
Well what's the deal with it? wait
Tell me there was still a chance I might take a breath and fall out of my trance
But until then, I'll take a nice glance
With anybody out there that is trying to advance
Passed where they are, we can all make it far
Just stay grounded down and reach the map of the stars with
All the amethyst I could ever wish
All the amethyst I could ever wish
All this amethyst I could ever wish
In the palm of my hands as I meditate on this
All the amethyst I could ever wish
All the amethyst I could ever wish
All the amethyst I could ever wish
In the palm of my hands as I meditate on this
Source material enacted from the past life
Describes us in a single session through the pineal, cast light
On the wolf disguised within the modified versions of health
Deletion on our passing glance of our natural wealth
Television brainwash inactive
From the smashing attribute of fashion from a main passage
In our DNA, I see and say like a four year old
Peace of mind to try and be today and feel the joys of home
And it's a joy to roam, but I enjoy the moments alone
So I can study thoughts and let balance be known
Peace to the art and all the fruit it bears
I choose to stare at abstracts and find the meanings in the suit it wears
Proof in the scripts and the soup of the modern day Magi
Living in a country of enslavement and mad lies
Can we live and breathe in this mad time
To try and find a section of our lives to be proud of
And can it be about love instead of the intolerance
Take a lesson from the main passage of acknowledgement
Minor in suggestion and massive an accomplishment
Doppelgang the masterful influence, I am honoring
The roots, they are buried deep within the presence
I loosen up the chains of an addictive mind essence
And corner off the clashing of the physical and spirit
Just to recognize levels of endearment when I'm near it with
All the amethyst I could ever wish
All the amethyst I could ever wish
All the amethyst I could ever wish
In the palm of my hands as I meditate on this
All the amethyst I could ever wish
All the amethyst I could ever wish
All the amethyst I could ever wish
In the palms
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6. |
Go on
02:59
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In the deepest regions of the universe we exist
On a beautiful planet, understanding what we had missed
Yo the chrysalis of man has got me living in the past
Chasing after witches promises and hollow in your mask
It'll get you killed, you lose yourself and your identity
Your health is now determined by your wealth and it's amenities
A remedy, a potion, a bottle of elixir
Medicine or poison, yo it's all about the mixture
And the ratio, I don't have no place to go, I'm patient though
And pacing back and forth between determined and complacent,
Yo I get it, I won't appreciate it if it's there
You need to build a frame of reference so you can compare
Developing another mechanism of the mind
And a defense, hence the skepticism in my rhyme
Hopefully yo I'll be better equipped
'Cause every low is just a lesson till the day that we quit
Go on, we ain't got no time to relax
Go on, ain't got time to reexamine the facts
Go on, be careful what the mind will attract
'Cause you might get where you were going but might not make it back
So go on, we ain't got no time to relax
Go on, ain't got time to reexamine the facts
Go on, be careful what the mind will attract
'Cause you might get where you were going but might not make it back
When he entered the session competitors were like it can't be
I marvel at every single creation like Stan Lee
Never throwing shots at the innocents like Bambi
I praise the mother like there's no other until I can't breathe
I'm antsy, but lost it at the sight of the sun
The plight of the one is inscribed within the eyes of the young
Months go by without a ring, I'll sing and rise till I'm done
The product of the environment my third eye sees and runs
Like a mayor, no flavor enters until it goes through the ritual
Of full body deletion and seeing life one-dimensional
External improving removing of the illusion
Now the internal is oozing with movements and grooves intentional
I meant to do, accidental collision coincidence
It's written, Flint, Michigan with the disease-ridden gift to live
We're on a mish (mission) to lift issues from underneath the plateau
Bringing us together, rise like voices on a scaffold
Go on, we ain't got no time to relax
Go on, ain't got time to reexamine the facts
Go on, be careful what the mind will attract
'Cause you might get where you were going but might not make it back
So go on, we ain't got no time to relax
Go on, ain't got time to reexamine the facts
Go on, be careful what the mind will attract
'Cause you might get where you were going but might not make it back
So go on, go on,
Go on, go on, go on
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7. |
S.A.N.
01:11
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Selections are natural
Light through the tunnel I'm passing through
Reveals hope when a rope chokes every act I do
Half is to please others because failure is shunned upon in this place
And there's always more to take no matter who's in the race
The top of the food chain is where they need to see your face
I guess that's why feel so misplaced
So this music is the form, my escape to adorn our race
And play chords of grace, I swore to pace between the space
Within the steps, and every precious breath that I take
The message to date has elevated since I decided to break
Past ways and stop basking in mistakes
A passion to create a new passage to the bass
Abundant energy to see passed the war we face
Tools manipulate a time and space continuum
Responses with humility while embracing the kid in him
I sit and grin after meditation 'cause living begins
However a lot of clever beings are trying to get within
If you don't stand for something then you're bound to fall for anything
Useful pride uses get lost in this adrenaline rush
Of fruitful lines these notebooks are tethering
Let it go to let it in, the art of spoken lettering
In a rhythmic sequence that we keep on crediting
As the source of our togetherness in nearly everything
A full circle that doesn't mind adding an extra link
If peace is what your set to bring, love is what you're letting ring
From your crown of creation like a plane out of Jefferson
Or Jersey where my mellow friend keeps his spirit evident and elegant
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8. |
Icarus
04:02
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So awake but I'm sleeping with Icarus
Mindset hella weak, not too rigorous
In my thought processes lately
I resent and hate me but I'm here so I figure it's
Relevant that I readily convey
Exactly what will happen in the middle of the day
If you get too high when your wings made of wax
With your head up in the clouds, and your feathers don't attach
You will see your inevitable fall
A living tragedy inside a man who had it all
You could say it was the heat and try to blame it on the sun
I personally feel it was the product of a son
Of a man who had given him everything that he needed
Who took the shit for granted and more than could have exceeded
But got caught up in a dream of his own
Dove right into a place of oblivion alone
Falling into the waves in our tides
And it will last until we reach that final sight
I'm giving up all of my past in order to move on
'Cause it is sure to last until we reach that final song
They told me not to reach too far
The sky is your limit, you don't need to reach stars
I told them their perception is just a little too minuscule
To breach my inspiration, don't preach too hard
I built this contraption, fueled by the vocals
That's rapping, guided by intuitive action
Any flaw will be accordingly handled
Built for momentum so I will not dismantle
Onlookers had never seen such a prop
When cops arrived, creating a scene on the block
There was no left or right or getting myself down
Even though they made a maze which made it hard to get around
That's cool, the only way to go is up
To use every ounce of my power just ain't enough
I may fly towards the sun or allow myself to pass it
It is all worth the try, can't be stagnant
Falling into the waves in our tides
And it will last until we reach that final sight
I'm giving up all of my past in order to move on
'Cause it is sure to last until we reach that final song
Falling into the waves in our tides
And it will last until we reach that final sight
Falling into the waves in our tides
And it will last until we reach that final sight
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9. |
Life moves fast
03:39
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Life moves fast when you're so crass
It's the equivalent to when you feel your soul crash
Into the oncoming traffic of energy
'Cause going with the flow is usually the remedy
See, I remember when I thought that I'd be so cool
If I just sacrificed thoughts in my old school
You're either taught how to grow or be so rude
To those around the parking lot, help the brother out with no shoes
Coldness ensues when the heat dies
Because the unopened mind knows not the feeling sunshine
Dumb downing the rhymes will make your brain hot
Soaked in the metaphorical dark train spots
Bass shots on the physical plane could lead into pinnacle fame
And put some into self cynical shame
It gets deeper in the tunnel of thought and I'm sick of staying there
So I meditate pressure to make my mind a vacant lair
Enter the passion, exit out creativity
In between, I decipher what could help my abilities
And what can destroy, because these words are an entity
That get absorbed and allow us to become what we're meant to be
You cannot shut down your destiny but in order to reach
We need to get our lives right mentally
And that can start with knowledge of self and determination
'Cause nothing's worse than wrongful assumption and accusation
Which is why foundation is important
Know thy roots and rise like the movements of the mornings 'cause
Life moves fast when you're so crass
Life moves fast when you're so crass
Life moves fast when you're so crass
'Cause life moves fast, life moves fast
Life moves fast when you're so crass
Ay yo life moves, life moves
Came from the gutter, we buttery when we rhyme
You uttering nonsense and cluttering our design
See you take this shit for granted while smothering the divine
In love with your understanding of suffering of the mind
Are you deep, or introspective, does it matter
Are you making hits and are you climbing up the ladder
Is it all about the punchlines and the wordplay
Clever with a letter, you can kill them on your worst day
Or is it really about the message
Navigating aimlessly at life and through the wreckage
Seconds of a clock slowed down by the content
Real inspiration with a gradual onset
Or do you really want hear the pattern oriented
Whether actually invented, or we channel the ascended
Yo we chick-chicka-one chicka-two chicka-three
Let go of the ego if you want to emcee
Life moves fast when you're so crass
I said life moves fast when you're so crass
Life moves fast when you're so crass
I said life moves fast, life moves fast
Life moves fast when you're so crass
I said life moves fast when you're so crass
I said life moves fast when you're so crass
I said life moves fast, life moves fast
Ay yo life moves fast, life moves fast
Life moves fast, say it, life moves fast
Say it, life moves fast, life moves fast
Life moves fast, life moves fast
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10. |
Circles
02:31
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But if you think about this shit too much
You'll never touch what it means to be as human as such
I roll a dutch, stolen signature I got from a ninja and she be coastal
Thoughts black, no great pretender, and going postal
Most of these muthafuckas living under false pretense
Refuse to witness what's in front of them, they hardly sense
And they impart defense upon what they don't understand
And so these bars commerce, until they intertwine and I'm locking you in
I'm clocking you in, I love the race, you walk and you win
I'm like the turtle and hare upon the snare
Who decided it was fair yo for both to play an instrument
A better form of the competition
Relying purely on sensation, innovation with the proper vision
Where you can say what you want, no teleprompter prison
And anybody in the audience will really listen
And everybody in the audience has got a smile
And everybody in the building 'bout to breathe it in
And not a body in the audience is in denial
The question that they want to ask is where do we begin
And everybody in the audience has got a smile
And everybody in the building 'bout to breathe it in
And not a body in the audience is in denial
The question that they want to ask is where do we begin
They'll pay attention and get it, and finally understand
What you were saying all along while following your plan
Throughout your life span, feeling like you've seen it all
And you don't yearn for the sleep, 'cause you don't dream at all
You made a fantasy reality quick
And spent your waking moments making abnormalities stick
Philosophical psychopathy, prophecy of a mad man
Unstoppable velocity, paucity of a bad hand
A land of immortals and portals that lead to now
Distorted and well reported, recorded in any style
There's more to me than a smile, it's bigger than any song
Residual imagery and visually never gone
The calm before the storm, life before a death
These nights are turning warm, the type to never rest
We might run out of breath, but continue to live
'Cause every day's an opportunity to create and give
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11. |
Ink blots
02:53
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I start to think, and then I sink into the paper, like I was ink
Ay yo, I start to think and then I sink into the paper, like I was ink
A yes, yes ya'll and you don't stop, a one, two, ya'll and you don't stop
A yes, yes ya'll and you don't stop, a mic check, a one, two, and we don't stop
Toss around thoughts like handball
Court's in session, this is brought to you by the essence
Suppression only makes things worse, on this paper
Words disperse like spurts of energetic connection
In a cypher, I see no tension, vibrational invention
I think it's time for us to notice and hone in
Power in the mind attributed to the align
Manifest the physical, lead to slow down time
Ruptured enough of the design
Gotta learn the lesson and then retract before we go down blind
'Cause I don't want to use this platform to boast about or glorify
It's all about the vibe we give that leaves the evil mortified
Then they all rise like wildflowers underground
Through the concrete, it breaks with every single sound
Every bomb meeting where music gets passed around
And a writers hand stays hot, check what we putting down
I start to think, and then I sink into the paper, like I was ink
Ay yo, I start to think and then I sink into the paper, like I was ink
A yes, yes ya'll and you don't stop, a one, two, ya'll and you don't stop
A yes, yes ya'll and you don't stop, a mic check, a one, two, and we don't stop
I let my brain activate an alternative sense
Yearning to learn a little bit more at certain expense
I'm good enough to get away with a murder defense
Heard it depends on what you see when inverting the lens
And what I see is what I make of it
Standing in the lake of what I've taken in, I'm thanking it
Thwarted by the wake of what my mind has become vacant with
Only to remind myself I'm rhyming for the sake of it
Blanketed statements uncover specificity
Complex processes focus on simplicity
Light when it's burning will determine the consistency
Pessimism is a lesson I view optimistically
Put it to the pad let the pen do the rest
This is what we have to alleviate the stress
Whether good or bad, gotta get it off the chest
And we try to decompress cause you never know what's next, and so
I start to think, and then I sink into the paper, like I was ink
Ay yo, I start to think and then I sink into the paper, like I was ink
A yes, yes ya'll and you don't stop, a one, two, ya'll and you don't stop
A yes, yes ya'll and you don't stop, a mic check, a one, two, and we don't stop
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12. |
Like they used to say
02:39
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Let's bask in the greatness leveling up
Take task for the ages sever your cups
Lean back and observe, chances you will erupt
And break bread with those who need it, there's always enough
Yet cows are killed through manipulation, chickens live in suffocation
Fish don't reach exoneration yo, it's too much
So my vocals are my demonstration, hope this gives some inspiration
Physical is next to show I do give a fuck
America is nothing but a business, old news
So we elected the damn apprentice, not you
Well the votes get fucked anyway, court is adjourned
You boys oughta learn, your place is in a field or the urn
My feelings get burned if I do not do what my soul yearns
Hold onto your Kerns, the spill of lyric soundings are stern
A bounty of verbs and adjectives and charged and overt
Now some may get hurt, but that's just what is bound to occur so let's
Get up, get out and get something
And press play, pass the peas like they used to say
Get up, get out and get something
Press play, press play
Get up, get out and get something
And press play, pass the peas like they used to say
Get up, get out and get something
Press play, press play
Press play, continue to move forward
Toward this opportunity, try to open a door
The source of any theory we've previously developed
Enveloped in all love, that's something we love the smell of
Telling us shut the hell up, that this is your reality
And we can't operate unless we do in actuality
Saber tooth mentality, a crowd will be a mob
And anybody with a problem is probably getting robbed
What is it you need, will I benefit from the favor
The flavor of a moment to fleeting to try to savor
Behaving in a way to mistreat and mislead your neighbor
While we plated what we made and relayed it as something greater
Shared it with all our people, reciprocated the power
We made it to the peak and we signal them every hour
Devoured every positive vibe, let it collide
With a message of intention I mentioned to coincide
Get up, get out and get something
And press play, pass the peas like they used to say
Get up, get out and get something
Press play, press play
Get up, get out and get something
And press play, pass the peas like they used to say
Get up, get out and get something
Press play, press play
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San Diego hip-hop emcee duo comprised of Kaustradmus & Emphasize.
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