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Stay a While
01:12
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Oh Baby (feat. Jace XL)
03:58
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It’s the heart at the center part,
Sent a dart through the dark nights making art,
Parked up by Marino like coast guards
Sent a postcard to you through a fuselage
Heard a few remarks other dudes want to ooh & ahh
When we arm in arm I disregard the hooplah
She like Zsa Zsa gabor
You Zaza Pachulia, type peculiar
Who you think you are? Moved to Newer York
I’m still Adelaide to the core move the car
Bigger rep than the premier The emperor with a new groove
See im smooth with the catalogue
Rappers acting soft, my girl be so in awe,
Skip the love songs & rap along to cappadon
She a capricorn, my star got the shell & claws
My jaws fell to the floor when she flaunt it off
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I caught the pass to the chest in the park playing chess
A cigar filled with cess healing stress
Feel as if my best made plans being played on the bench
Talking to my shorty tryna get the tech
Blocking all attempts like Dikembe
Felt my heart beating like djembe, when she met mey
Harder way like im penny, roll to my apartment
Im making penne, roll up the garnish exquisite pen game
Doing this for many years like Lebron James
Been over a decade Hakeem with a dream shake
See I caught the spin move when I been with you
Spent a few winters lacing up my shoes for a substitute
Run the jewels on your emerald eyes
She like Jordan 3’s, 4’s, 7’s & 5’s
Incredible style, full court press beside me for a while
You & I the dynasty finally
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4. |
Know Doubt
03:22
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I remember that day when my man passed away
I was gonna board a plane on to L.A
But I had to go at my pace, innovative in a race
I’m a student of the game, need to wait
Really who am I to complain?
Humble as a grass blade or a grain of sand by a new wave,
Rap like i’m new order in the new waters
You ignore it as a author you pay for it
Pay it forward, play the organ like Greg Allman
Or Lonnie Jordan, go to WAR on award tours
Soul talking it’s all yours, been recording
Since I was fourteen, that’s important
Felt nauseous when i’m on stage performing
Portrait of an artist as a young man,
Fail to plan you planning to fail
But when you busy doing that look what happens cant turn it back
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5. |
Burning Slow
04:26
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I call my brother Sun cos he shine like a diamond
In the rough waters at the end of hydrogen, 2 O’s & we lighting one
Opposite of daughters but Yemaya is the holy Goddess
Author of our fortune full moon in a portraiture
Paint the silhouette, still wet on the canvas
Where the rivers & the sea connect, the essence that we infinite
Krishna said I am the taste of water,
The light in the sun & the moon & the syllable in the mantra
Holy Avataras in the moonlight, a rising star
In a supporting cast like Mahershala Ali,
The earth is not beneath me, its all around me
The ocean like my Mother’s womb I’m reconnecting alchemy
Astounding I’m standing looking out the balcony with family
Celebrating life & our reality
Happy to be receiving poetry like a leaf on a family tree
Rivers of my ancestors
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6. |
Bright On
01:31
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When was the last I watched the sun set?
11:11
7:15
1:08
These numbers are only a few
Abstract extracts of the day we knew
How many exact digits can you recollect?
I know one thing
The Sun comes up
And the Sun goes down
This is how…
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7. |
Jay Elec
02:45
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Pride pull the Pulitzer, stood beyond the pulpit
Full clip of footage in the images of Ludwig
Look kid, could’ve been, promise him the tutelage
Shorty like a stewardess, fly with all her movements
Writing luminescent epithets
Surrounded by luminaries, An era of Big L in a Pelle Pelle
Never Nelly, the eloheem in a cemetery
A secretary of integrity at the precipice
Dressed to kill, sweat dripping down the quill
When I dip it in the ink & build pyramids at will
Yo you Grant Hill, career riddled with injury,
Limiting ability, I’m Magic within a dynasty
Immaculate, Brand Nubian dancing to my ministry
Triple 7 lyrically, you stuck on one theme of me
Evenly distribute knowledge throughout the scenery,
A bag of cess, book of text, listening to Jay Elec
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Black Tapes
03:27
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A couple characters to animate,
Colour of coal dark matter in acetate
Black tapes of Rage rap clips that my bro made
When I was 8, watch em at sleepovers on replay
My older cousin had Thriller & Purple Rain
For a kid in Adelaide in the 90’s it was an ill escape
Had a couple dubbed games of the NBA
Used to watch them so much I could name every play
Michael Jordan Playground,
Remember when I found out about Spike Lee & Do The Right Thing
Malcolm X, double cassette
Movie length so long it wouldn’t fit on one VHS
At the best it gave my parents a few hours to rest
And do whatever they wanted - But I don’t want to guess,
At that age a couple of Black Tapes
Would get us through a summer and a winter break
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Hemisphere
03:27
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My brain is in the clear, thoughts focussed on her figure yeah
It could’ve been my year, very near
Pardon me dear, artistry is a part of me
But my inner ear be asking me to listen to you sincere
That dudes a geek & you a freak of the week
Parliament LP’s, Passin Me By like The Pharcyde
I’m parlaying while you laying in the cut surprised,
Butterflies in the gut I had to euthanize
So I could socialise, I took the right
Cos the left was uncivilized 85
Stand behind, Stan Getz records on the recliner,
Let the ends divide, stepping lightly through your enterprise
It ain’t no Star Trek I see the Hermes scarf on the neck
Word is you need to get the crib refurbished
But first things first, twist up this earth
& take a hit to resurface, two tropics immersive
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10. |
Somebody Believes In You
03:21
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The corner store owner, your next door neighbour
Your best friend and partner before she went in labor,
Their newborn baby, two nurses in the waiting room
Patiently awaiting on a birth paper
God, Satan, your dog, the boss,
A turntablist who played the first song that you rapped on
Radio announcer, club bouncer,
Your coach in a timeout talking about all your fouls
The chess player who put you in checkmate
Over and over again until you got greater
The bread maker, the beggar, the dough taker
The dice shaker who divided all of your life flavour
The one who told you maybe, the one that never changes
Or the percent of the population you not relating
If i forget them then remind me later,
All I’m saying is somebody believe in you
You gonna make it
Somebody believes in you kid I’m sure of it
You got your head down low keep ignoring it
Formula for success, must not expect any of it
Just do your best, God Bless
& let bygones be bygones
Don’t be obsessed with always being the right one
Where does time come from? Why is the sky blue?
Why the water wet son? Ghostface questions
The 4th chamber is tough, can you harness your love
Enough to trust your friends when they coming up?
That’s belief and when someone did it for you
You better do it two times for them dude
Student of your breath, observe at every length
I’m not one to advise, we all rely on it
Try to mind your wit,
smart aleck’s don’t always get a grip on reality
Keep mashing.
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6 - 2 - 6
03:32
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Six in the morning but it weren’t Ice-T
Knocking at the front door my loved one beside me
Last night was a real dream
The kind you don’t wake up from or see the sun come
Been low on income but come in
The one thing that we could be becoming is becoming
It’s nothing, trust in it, keep living
Ccrease in the linen John Lennon got hit in
Fiends in the city it’s sad when they family
But my Dad told me the will of a man is decision
Maybe I’m just like you know the Prince lyric
My mother cared to bare witness and give forgiveness
Spirit tinted, dim vision
Skip pebbles on the water let them make a ripple
Stay a little while if you feel it
The sun feels nice when it shine on your feelings
Sun rise, sun fall
Some lights & some won't
The sun shines on us all
When was the last I watched the sun set?
11:11
7:15
1:08
Well I am my Mother’s fourth son,
I am where her sons set
I guess I kept the best part of my day til it ends
To begin again with darkness
Infinite
It doesn’t mean I am the centre
I call my brother Sun cos he shine like one
And see my father would say
Sun comes
Sun goes down
As simple as it sounds
Kinda profound
When was the last time you watched the sun set?
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