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1. |
This Time
02:56
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This time I'm doin it big,
tired of sittin around with this cigarette hittin it,
knowin ill never forget sin,
homies may ask how I've been?
Coma walkin through my last 6 years
only to really begin,
who knows how much work I'm bout to put in?
Clock my day job hours,
at night produce and rappin,
Musician first tho
I could make like 8 different albums
No mistake create great lengths
like great lakes and mountains,
Bedtime philosopher
I toss and turn from pure havoc,
Noticer of how the world bled it habits,
Tragedy struck home so much, the feds have it,
and I'm just one guys man no shit the worlds maddened
I'm up at 4am trying to string together lines,
tryna bring hope to lost folks evoking better times,
I know most the money making methods nowadays are a crime
there barring out potential bested now by fines.
I'm consistantly reminded,
Stringently refining
While the stingey binge on wine and dining,
fine lines they be signing
with the devil thats disguising
the demise of whats hiding
around the sides of what we're spiting
phenomenal that we're fighting
caged up with shit thats biting,
Our heels are turning wheels
to the river residing.
By our homes it's dividing,
Do you know where were siding?
It's time for deciding,
biding my time, better at timing
I'm off the rhyming, effects are subsiding,
No books I'm citing,
Just, try and uniting people out of their hiding
With the, Music provided by yours truly excited
No need for reminders it's the new wave that I'm riding yuh,
This time I'm doin it big,
tired of sittin around with this cigarette hittin it,
knowin ill never forget sin,
homies may ask how I've been?
Coma walkin through my last 6 years
only to really begin,
who knows how much work I'm bout to put in?
Clock my day job hours,
at night produce and rappin,
Musician first tho
I could make like 8 different albums
No mistake create great lengths
like great lakes and mountains,
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2. |
Heaven
03:25
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Some people say that this world is like heaven
But all its done is sell me shit
Degrade the poor and felons
All to make a sum quick not to learn or teach a lesson
What they're talking now is quite dumb it's just regressin
Market doubts and why we run from conflicts
Like Smith & Wessons
Deep down as something we need but, still repressin
Like the air in our lungs
In reality, thats-fueling-how-insecurities come
Whats really hurtin me
They got us walkin a tight rope over 6 feet deep
Holes in the ground waiting patiently
That eventually slip ups will happen hastily
Then you're bound to your past life
That shit looks like a grave to me
This ain't no round table more like a circus profound
Fables unwound through societies town stables
This shit ain't for the meek what I speak
No merlin helped me try and stay healthy
They dispelled me so tell me
How I'm spose to get around
No carpet ride to be
Only magic I have is sound Enchanting my beats
Gaining Xp I'm gaining ground
It's raining loud in the streets
Thunder clouds at their peak
Electricity struck me and got me off my feet
Now I'm looking at the world in a front row seat
Movin on still feeling incomplete
But that don't mean I'm feeling weak
Still growin I got many weeks
Not showin all my secrets keep
To my self till they're on fleek
Not tryna break this rhyme streak
Four-zero the pace of words that's leaving me to meet and greet the heat
One more win man the bucks shot is fleeting degrees
Shaded from palm trees
Deck of spades in hand I'm diggin tunnels for free
For the next draftees potential possibilities
You'll see through hard work consistency
There's almost nothing you can't achieve
Don't let the canopy block your view of vis-ion-ar-ies
Tryna jumpstart progression with words from dic-tion-ar-ies
Quit staring and take action on whats necessary
To reach the end goal you must focus on preliminaries
Or give it up and get lost in a cemetery
That or live in jack frost limbo with the lover fairies
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3. |
Celestial
03:12
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My mind still celestial,
Stargazing out for ways
On guard like a sentinel,
Been livin in a haze,
Addicted to the game like fentanyl
These may be amateur raps,
But I move like a professional,
Tryna lay out new laws,
But this shit is not congressional,
I'm just tryna Jaw
Help my people just progress is all,
Got me blue playin ball
And hurtin like some testicles,
Got a lab coat n gogs,
I've been messin with the chemicals
Now its hard to tell
If their money is spendable
I've been sitting in this cell,
Knowing that the bars are bendable
Tryna phase through the pain and waves of feeling expendable
At least the work of brothers and sisters
Are sometimes commendable,
I'm just tryna spit some shit that's food grade,
Digestible and nowhere near as forceful as the crusades,
I guess Im buildin on problems that are man-made, remain
Unpaid and fucked up like the slave trade,
I am the
Keeper of time,
Seeker of rhymes
Believer that they're stealers of an essential designs
Revealer of mine
Repealer of fines
Writing this at 4:35 without a meal inside.
Inviting the truth
Inciting the booth
Reminding me of every reason to move
And loosen the noose
I'm battling,
Treasonous plots
Venomous thoughts
Aimed at humanities clarity leaving me in a knot
Double agent tryna pave ways for decades ahead of us,
Bundle up, cause this winter's headin for a cold front,
Hypothermia for rappers cause exposures a bold must,
Never heard of ya says laughter from the closer at old pubs
Passer of rolled blunts, master of told puns,
It's aight man this shit here isn't for everyone,
But I do this shit to breathe so no way that I'm givin up.
From drug houses pounds pullin up,
To studios now spittin stuff,
To Raps that I've now written up,
And tracks that I'm now whippin up,
Keep in touch with fam
To make sure that I'm showin love,
Resurfaced with the bends
Can't pretend it don't mess me up
I've been missin ya
My day job still pays my lunch
I battle in the clutch
Time had me missin much
Coiling revisions Touch
Loyalty's the mission must
Don't mention it to us
Cost is your time,
And admission discussed.
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4. |
Honor
03:46
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I must admit this ain't my first rap
Been at it a while and they just aint that
Been waitin years for this storm to disappear
Now I just learned to work through it and stay fluid despite my fears
Of Failure tears toasts cheers to friends no longer here
Sometimes I just wish we could sit and have another beer
But life aint fair and the damage can't be repaired
Don't knock me it won't stop me work my ass off cause you cared
About the future we shared It showed you wanna see me grow
Just so you know be it from heaven or below
Can find me grinding rhymes and timing with the hope that you bestowed
Steady buildin boats for moats to keep our people afloat
Maybe I should find a different approach
But to me it seems this world is a hoax
And even though the money flows better slidin the slope
I'd rather climb uphill to pay bills show that life is no joke
Don't wanna have to take back any words that I spoke
Promise Ima be as honest as my bank accounts broke
Won't lie theres some times now and then that I'll choke
Music addict stayin at it til the whole worlds woke
Each day All night Damn near My whole life
Givin it my all to bring yall light like a dark Knight
Best believe my plan is beyond a spark of might
Like givin chances to a woman who has gone and lost her will to fight
Buildin schools in a land where kids ran can't stand to roam at night
Giving food to a land white man infused with genocide
Poof goes 10 grand in the pockets of corporate insides
How can we let this shit slide
I'm really startin to piss pride
I saw the truth at my lowest of lows
Nothing to lose I was givin up hope
Almost a noose I was so on the ropes
But as the story goes for me thats when glory sowed its seeds
Realized all around there was so much to savior
And how theres honor in the fruits of our labor
Can't assure theres a cure for every flavor we endure by the acre
But the trees seem so serene if you look at the layers
Currently workin at sailors
Naysayers never seen a pay day of paper
I need stacks to help taper the flaws of Creators
Of the system sounding off leaving us in the craters
To climb our way out just so we can all meet our maker
Call me a waiter cause I've been hopin for my prayers
To be answered now than later
Miss history from Mr. shaver
Taught me culture is a shaper
Of our lives also of nature
Told me always to love your neighbor
If their honor is unwavered
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Man you're taking me back, to before I ever rapped,
Played drums, keys, hopped on the mic or made tracks,
A listener at that, sittin in the back
Of my dads ford exploring sounds that always last,
Thinkin of witty shit thats richer in spirit,
Now I'm just tryna steer this ship
Through this Lunar Eclipse,
That keeps appearin'
Cheers Nick
Lately livin off poor wage, no tips,
And still grindin on music
Reminds me back when I was kid maybe six
I'd give you coins as a guitar pick,
Always wanted my own kit
Since I heard your bass kick
Muffled through walls of your kitchen, omittin,
Sick sounds all around was astounded when I got my own,
My rents bought it off a friend man I thought it was a joke,
Thought they were Kidding,
Pullin my leg, bullshittin
But alas,
The snare kick toms splash and crash,
Were mine to keep time with and build my craft,
I was thirteen, seventh grade forever lasts,
As start of the future, and reflections of the past
May it be engraved in my memory as the tone setter,
For mistakes to be treated as growth in harmony endeavors.
Started off Floyd and Rush,
Then Light As a Feather, Came into the picture,
I heard Bill Evans way more than scriptures
Built my morals off humanity, culture and a mixture,
Of quilted mortal sanity, flowers, and elixirs,
Thanks to my second family on baker street the fishers,
Every single one of them a real good listener,
Been through some rough shit little bit of a sinner,
But in the end just leaves me bittersweet at dinner,
Thinkin of the Mrs. And The Mr.
As addiction came to get her,
Artistic out the ass man but no one could get her,
take this as message for the loved ones man its not getting better.
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Original never cover x2
I mean it I didn't stutter
Never had a sadder summer x3
Never had sadder summer mind unraveled in the gutter
Sometimes see you guys in the skies,
No surprise I'm looking grimmer dude,
Bet you met my grandad too,
Guess now my grandma cool,
Covid got her, like spotter scoped in and zoomed,
I still remember when the hurricane left my grandads room,
Untouched while the rest blew up like cartoons,
Like a sign from above sayin "saved for you"
Pourin through your sheet music to learn a few tunes,
Always said wouldve loved to see what I do,
Heard music in my head that flew like you and your jazz crew
So imagine the grin that grew when I heard your first record dude
Don't mean to lecture you, but this the shit that I went through,
I'm just tryna say some shit I know is true
This is how my life ensued
Not guuna try to impress you say whose less than who
Lately it seems like I've got nothing to prove,
Used to bleed hate and berate
Now I breathe creations greatest yield to date.
Like how many trips around the sun does it take
To mistake blessings in disguise while I lie at the gates,
It was at this point that I make or break the stakes
Are these the bars of heaven or hell, is this my fate,
I made it out to tell the truth if it isn't to late,
We're playin out to spell the mood be it worse or great,
I'm layin out the welded tools to build more than a cage
We're stayin out and helpin dudes,
Before they're wanted by the state.
Before they're wanted by the state.
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6. |
Stakes Remain
03:12
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Elevatin off the inspiration
From who daily raisin kids on shaky wages splints,
Recreation of who never made it,
Cause they hit the pavement was no one to save em, shit,
Lives inflated off the drugs their taking
Watch the money rake in from the corporations spit
Sensor nation so da street is spacious
Never had the patience they don't take mistakes in wit,
Fake Elatedness
Rate Relatedness
Check ya grades incase they changed the way you live
Stakes Remain, Abyss
Weighs my brain n shit,
Space I live Contains the fate to stay or split
Lames complain I may just have another hit,
Lazy fame will never last unless you're hit,
Everyday be passin on belated gifts,
Takin what you give,
Makes them wanna quit,
Stakes Remain, Abyss,
Weighs My brain n shit,
Famed cause music never was a game legit,
Pained cause homies still be prayin for a wish,
Saneness never comin easy for addicts
Bane of my existence came when Adam Fish,
Passed away despite cancer treat-a ment
Seemin like times kinda came and went
Still I'm on my shit,
Only one regret,
Steppin outside for a summary,
Stressin the dream for another day
Guessin everbody wanna play,
I'm gonna study a hunna ways,
Fuckin up fronts cause ya wanna pay,
Bangin the drums since the funna days,
Makin the stunts I done musiclay,
It don't mean shit in this industray,
Leavin kids hopeless in disarray,
While Making bank off their meager pay,
Reguritating the cliches,
Burden and hurt that it brings me,
Makin me feel like i'm sinking,
Shots in the dark while I'm thinking,
Planning to breakthrough the ceiling,
Nothing else sounds more appealing,
Pumping out scores that I'm feeling,
Do it like work that'll feed me,
Even if nobody sees me,
Even if nobody sees me,
you can go call it greedy,
like yall appalling and needy,
like yall appalling and needy
Fuck the top charts,
Ima lost lost art,
Homie don't start,
Doin my part,
Never clock in,
Never don't start,
Never stoppin,
Know I got heart,
Steady choppin,
New Improved parts,
Like a stock car,
Always locked in,
Like a crowbar.
Know i'll go far,
If I break bars,
Keep inflections
Kinda bazarr,
Keep your beam up,
Like a quasar,
Give or take our
Might to paper
For the whole clique,
Time we savour,
Cause we may not,
Ever make it
Under maintenence,
Steady patient,
Unwavered and degraded,
But the pain is,
Sorta drainin
But the pain is,
Hit with the Dark Night, once again,
Robbin Kids on sight, For a gram,
Stopped by the cop lights, better scram,
Caught in the crossfire, Pressures in,
Spotted your grave site, still repent,
Locked up in plain sight, addiction,
Rockin the lead pipe, for a friend,
Give ya your whole life, reminisce
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Sedated
03:04
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Don't want you addicted to what's written
In a world full of impulsive decisions,
I'm just asking that you listen,
Let it soak in, evoking, thought and spreading wisdom
Had my lows in remission, headin for an ass kicking
Letting past wishes, lead the way to vast misses,
No more betting on this world to unfold with cash kisses,
Forgetting fantasies that branded me,
I'm making stew with the old,
Mourning dudes who played their role, taking tolls for the goal.
Cooking up some better habits for the crew in the cold,
Lookin up come summer have it, storing food minus mold,
Shooken up cause something tragics pouring moods out my soul,
Broken cuffs cost money crafted luring truth to be sold,
From ones spoken of loved ones lost called savage,
To power sporadic dogmatic prison addicts,
Amassed from vast accidents that lasted years past it,
Matter of fact, most were black, and they say it's "No Relation"
I answer back check the stats
And restructure, your incarceration's
I could lecture with persuasion,
Shift aim to cooperate tax evasion
Efforts aren't nearly grazing
Potential of common situations.
Keep praising the morally shady, Just to keep us lazy,
No lie that I hate it,
but it drives me daily, while it keeps most sedated,
Got my own money pits, No need for probation,
I spot where the cunning sits, so I see greed's creation,
I've been seeking out the leak in salvation,
I'm pro-relation, if you're growing from seeds that your raking
I went a long time seeing people as my equals,
But some ya'll live life,
Like when we leave it starts the sequel,
Don't mean to leave the scene it seems I'm headin out the steeple,
I'm done with praying for better times better rhymes,
Just need to get up out the evils,
Get on a better grind, not end up in the fetal,
Looking so frail and feeble, asking save me with your regal
Craftsmanship on the easel,
Some homies dodging the needle but I'm,
Just trying to stay out the penal cause,
I know there is no retrieval of,
Lost time behind bars like man that shit is lethal,
Like man that shit is lethal,
Like man that shit is lethal,
Like man that shit is lethal,
Like man that shit is lethal,
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Good Mourning
03:12
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No days off never stop working diligently
Dead end during the day, at nigt I make beats,
Stayin up till 3, wakin up at 7:30
whole bod-ies hurting and my bedrooms dirty,
Never shy about learnin about things about stuff thats concernin
Gain your footing, head my warning
Rain is lookin like, Street floods are formin
Man they know its in a state of mourning
Plagued by the wait of, Heavens' locusts' swarmin'
Everyday its more conforming
Everyday its just good morning
Everyday its more conforming
Everyday its just good mourning
Phasing through the planes and waves of the same shit
Say Prove it, Check the beat thats movin
I've hung thru battling nooses
Boosted getting loose and stupid
Where november to october I was lucid,
In a slumber that wouldn't end with no shot from cupid
In fact it was the dream left in tact
That was bombarded out of the sky like flak
Everyday its more conforming
Everyday its just good morning
Everyday its just conforming
Everyday its more good mourning
Refrain myself from retracting
On what I'm gaining and what Im lacking
But ya'll are rapping
About the same shit,
I'll be blatant
Don't mean to say it
But you're just worried bout putting pricks in the pavement
But hey Ms sometimes I bump the same shit
Cause these gravediggin, space livin
Aint bringin lames with em,
Main mission spain fit em,
Plain wisdom won't cut it,
Gotta rise above it and love it,
Gotta rise above
Gotta rise above it and love it,
Gotta rise above it
Everyday its more conforming
Everyday its just good morning
Everyday its more conforming
Everyday its just good mourning
Everyday its more conforming
Everyday its just good morning
Everyday its more conforming
Everyday its just good mourning
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9. |
Same Streets
03:38
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Yeah
This is for all the day one homies out there, you know?
You know who you are
You a real homie and I know we gunna make it,
Only one who really knows me, so I don't gotta fake it,
Thank you for your patience, full of nice statements,
Gunna work hard till we all get bank payments,
Not gunna get famous, that shits overrated,
Feeding you this skit all dinner plated,
My music lab graded, grabbin me a test tube,
I'm provin graduating ain't always the best move,
But I'm tryna go to tech school maybe cop a tech too,
No respect for whoever tryna test you.
Always unsung, with the CARE cap faded,
Busy/Sirens make me lie awake waitin
Wonderin who got too fucked up sedated,
What world is cavin,
Stuck in a 10 year game of charades
With no one playin,
Ch-Check where they aimin,
Spare your sayings we need savin cause our people are prayin.
Headin down the old block,
Seein all the same streets,
Knowin homies hold glocks,
Just to keep some sane peace,
Knowin those who ghost me,
Gunna want a game piece,
So youknowhat? I stay me.
Grindin like I'm minced meat,
Steady pullin full clocks,
Hours on the wristpiece,
Knowin phonies don't watch,
Time is what the kid bleeds,
Finding all the crypt keys
To pyramids of shit greed.
Tr-tryna guide a repreive
To everyone who's in need.
Never been to new york,
But my moma's from there,
No money for a new sports car,
Maybe one year,
Kickin it into stunt gear,
Don't got the blunts here,
Gettin so drunk comin over and I can't steer,
Nah,
Im just joking,
Been outspoken how over the life I'd chosen,
Comes and goes and tower overs my woes and,
Takin action I'm never frozen just lackin on exposure.
Headin down the old block,
Seein all the same streets,
Knowin homies hold glocks,
Just to keep some sane peace,
Knowin those who ghost me,
Gunna want a game piece,
So youknowhat? I stay me.
Grindin like I'm minced meat,
Steady pullin full clocks,
Hours on the wrist piece,
Knowin phonies don't watch,
Time is what the kid bleeds,
Finding all the crypt keys
To pyramids of shit greed.
Tr-tryna guide a reprieve
To everyone who's in need.
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Michael Justice Florida
Recovering from a stroke from when he was 23, now 26 year old Mic Justice is a personable character and tells his and other people's stories through music. "It's everything, Math, Science, Literature, History, Acting: You can do everything with music, He's just trying to show everyone that we all can achieve our dreams.It just takes help." ... more
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