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Give It A Go
03:12
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Verse 1:
Ayo I’m in a whole different decade of my life now
Upgrade the mindset and the lifestyle
Discipline is on 10 but enjoyment on 10 too
I’m a true Virgo overthinking cuz I tend to
Now it’s try exotic dishes on the menu
Budget for a trip across the world before the rent due,
Let the whole globe hear it the way I see it
It’s never F my life I just love the way I conceive it
How you doing Dacel?
A couple years by 33 more than a few apostles
And even when that line’s old I’ll still look it
Land of free and still took it
Cuz the system got an uneven leg it feel crooked
That’s a story for a different day
Never at the house party faded like kid n play
Caesar on top like the Romans wasn’t built today
Cut it off early like my dad you could skip the greys
But don’t forget to say
Chorus:
The mind gets strong as the body gets old
Only when you do it like this it never show
Can’t touch this but you wanna get close
Give it a go, Give it a go
Verse 2:
Peep the lineage the, musical notes is like a bloodline
Acting out a story they ain’t have to tell me one time
Dope over drums it’s like a pocketful of sunshine
The genius of MCing demonstrated in that one line
I’ll break it down later or play it back in reverse
I pray I get what I earn before I ride in a hearse
If not I said I’m rich on a record for what it’s worth
And if you wanna Google don’t put no spaces up in the search,
Stay Dedicated keep your eyes on your purpose
Love deep so hate don’t penetrate through the surface
As for those doing the opposite, you gotta watch for them
Never the positive taking a loss and taking up oxygen
I got a lot to lose, better than that I still got a lot to win
Back when I found the stu I was in love that was in college then
Now a masterclass in my own right, same time I’m still student
Co-teach with my OGs, still hard to get used to it
(Chorus)
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Do It Now
03:36
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Verse 1:
Just another best day of my life cuz I’m me,
Feelin like I made the Sportscenter top 3
Steady work is like vacation I don’t need a hobby,
Flowing like I’m backstroking in the high seas
Four hours earlier in the sky now with the fish
Tonight’s it’s the dish, been taught flick of the wrist
The struggle’s the gift, let it simmer and season
I got something to believe in this the position to be in
I got nothing but time a couple rhymes one is low one is always in abundance you could hear it overflow,
No capsizing the boat no cap lines in the quotes
Get baptized when I flow feel so light I could float
110 hurdles on the beat
Like the hare with the focus of the turtle when I speak
What’s not to love ‘96 Bulls I ain’t got no subs
Cuz what you say come around like Collie Buddz
Chorus:
Kill all the waiting let’s do it now,
Oh we making a banger let’s do it now,
From New York to Chile we in the house
Let’s do it now,
Let’s do it now
Verse 2:
My whole future written in my notebook,
I acknowledge your presence now that’s a dope look
I passed these rappers long time ago kill em with all kinda quotes
Then write RIP next to their name in the liner notes,
How bad do you want it I want it all
Two days away from the music I’m back feelin withdrawal
Might drop something in summer since fall had in the vault
You love it then you buy it I ain’t asking for support
I ain’t got it out the mud, I got it out my soul
In other words I got it out of solid pure gold
I’m where they hear but can’t find ya, pickaxe grinder
Never caved, but I been pulling gems since a minor
Wait, Awthentic like my life I’m the designer
Hate, and the end of ya (India) is close like China
Wait, I’m major from LA to Japan
Go so hard I’m breaking a rib but that’s the making of man
(Chorus)
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Good Job
03:12
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Verse 1:
Look at you, that almost took you down but you got over it,
It made you wanna smoke and drink but it was sobering
For a second you was weak but now you stronger than you were before
You know you deserve an applause for that
If you ain’t get it already take it from me,
And don’t downplay all the things you achieved
I know it took it a lot to have that conversation
To take the first step walk away from that situation,
To bring to life that idea that’s in your head
To apply to that job just to get up out of bed
Just to keep your soul steady when the trauma got real
To let your guard down, to tell em how you feel
For being there for others when you going through it all
And that first paycheck that you got
So gas yourself up or let me give you some props
You know you more than enough so never say that you not
Chorus:
I see you doing a good job
(Repeat)
Let me take a guess, you don’t give yourself enough credit
But when you do something wrong you never forget it
But think back years ago to who you wanted to be
You that person right now sound like something to me
Young dreams of a doctor now you the MD
Yea them student loans tough but you got the degree
Grew up in a small town but you see the world now
Every time you touch down truly something to see
And you holding down your own crib
It don’t matter if you single or you married got a family or no kid
However you manage to do it you get it done
You find the time you find the energy and the funds,
And when you don’t have it figured out you live it out
And the stay the course unless your passion pave a different route
And when depression threatens to hand you defeat
I see you take time and find peace
You doing a good job
(Chorus)
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Everybody Nobody
04:13
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Verse 1:
Everybody got they own story, and they own struggles
No matter how you feel, somebody love you
Nobody find success only by themselves
But everybody wanna get it out the mud with no help
Nobody wants privilege, or to admit it
But if nobody got it why ain’t everybody winning,
My privilege is my family my rock
It’s obvious I got something that not everybody got,
Somebody had to raise me like they did,
Somebody had to put a roof over my head,
Without that I wouldn’t even be here probably
I’m like my mom sometimes wanna help everybody
But nobody responsible for it all
While everybody can see it somebodies answer the call
Could be somebody while nobody knows the real you
You’re nobody until somebody kills you
That’s word to Big did a couple of a gigs
Where nobody showed up but everybody who did
Got everything that I had, nobody could say that it ain’t true
And remember everybody ain’t you
Verse 2:
Anybody could copy and paste
But then you nobody when everybody spotted the fake
Everybody been done wrong and had a chance to forgive
Everybody get one death and many chances to live
Nobody wanna see their history as apartheid
Home of the free cuz the slaves lived outside
Somebody is tough guy online but they mouth wide
When anybody bring it to they face saying bout time,
Somebody right now got the urge to kill
Cuz nobody ever gave em the tools to heal
And nobody ever gave em the license to feel
So passing on pain the only thing that feels real,
And that’s a tragedy that touches everybody,
Cuz when a bullet fly it could hit anybody,
Everybody could use a little empathy
Everybody love music nobody love the industry
Somebody do me dirty try not let it get to me
I stay above they level then I could claim the victory,
Somebody still in mourning want they friend back,
Not ok but to everybody pretend that,
Somebody said that I could make an impact,
I told em homie where you been know it’s been that
I could spit it straightforward or clever
By now you should already know who do it better
Nobody
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Lyrical Exercise
03:58
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Verse 1:
Looking in my bookcase for inspiration
I’m an Outlier way that I be pulling information
Invisible Man you only hear but can’t see
When Their Eyes Were Watching God know they really watching me
Crack the code of Da Vinci I battle Angels and Demons
Between The World And Me don’t even have to read Four Agreements
I live it, they want us Forty Million Dollar Slaves
We Were Eight Years in Power tried to take it all away
Notes of a Native Son but I Am Not Your Negro
Unbothered as Assata bringing power to the people
I be All About Love for Salvation,
Wretched of the Earth Decoded how they stole nations
How you want it Guns, Germs or Steel?
The Miseducation of the Negro have you living out the Art of War for real
Waves like The Water Dancer but my Soul On Ice
Curious Mind I could crack a book and go all night
Why we learn Hitler but not Leopold in the Congo
Both had millions of victims but what do I know
I’m Talking to Strangers for a living, Bucking the system
Searching for The Alchemist in the mirror I couldn’t miss him,
None Blood but got Brothers regardless,
Nobody Knows My Name all they know is the artist
One book for each day of the month
That’s 28 in one verse this Black History as plain as it come
Verse 2:
1 way to pay the bills many ways to get paid
2 hands touching everything I ever made
3 my favorite number Iverson Dwayne Wade
When my forehead sweating take 5 in the shade
6 million faces mean 6 million stories in the city where I lay my head
Lucky as 7 every day that I avoid the lead
Cuz there’s 8 million ways I could end up dead
Still I don’t keep the 9 on me, lethal mind since 91
Been loading ammunition since the second life begun,
Among the talented 10 across the globe
De boys can’t touch me a crisis like 11th of September
For the competition they always remember
Better avoid 12 like the cold of December
Or 13 that’s a bad omen but don’t freak
Verse put you on notice it don’t take two weeks
14 days I’m in it more than 15 minutes
If you counting spit 16 but not finished
Insane as 17 lighting up the Garden
Went to the college 18 then I changed targets
Made the major journalism I was thinking sportscasting
By 19 two projects deep with the rapping,
Done a lot but could forever do more
I stop at 20 just to settle the score
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The Way That We Play
04:39
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Verse 1:
It’s all for the best ups downs left rights
But ain’t no cheat codes in this game called life
It’s never direct always the scenic seeing the sites
It’s always something to pay without ever seeing the price,
Until your pockets empty overdrawn
Mind tricks tripping over things you never saw
It’s crazy, the way that some people have been lately
They really did 360 but think that they 180’d,
Me I’m tryna do about a 15
Minimal adjustments same course only I refine with reductions
Can do or Kondo attitude if it don’t spark joy I don’t want it
Clear it out let me reign
Sometimes in love it’s either let em loose or let em change
I love my brothers like they blood but it was never gang
I look at family and friends and treat em all the same
That means I take both serious like the God I ain’t no joke
Don’t sell dreams just confidence hope
So no streams could embody the quotes
You gotta see it in the physical appreciate the miracle
In all that I spoke
Verse 2:
Mannnn, I don’t know if i need to read or need to dance
If I waited will then I even get the chance
Oh no I was clocking the Kronos now I’m time and a half til they paying for me the promo
Basic merch tees for 100 cuz of the logo
If you want it then don’t wait for the hype what do I know though
I’m just a young man who’s coming into his own
And seeing the way community’s better than all alone
A couple years ago I just wanted a nice place
Then I got intentional about creative space
Now I’m thinking where I wanna put roots down so anytime I leave the crib I might see a friendly face
Grown man thoughts with a child’s intuition
So if it’s a desire I believe I’ll really get it
Getting different, I just, know one thing it isn’t and that’s scripted
And the, way that life is working know I’m privileged
My ceiling 20 feet from where I’m standing
And the kitchen looking gorgeous thinking how’d I’d even manage
Sometimes the best stuff you can’t plan it
You never really know, it can pan out or pandemic
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