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    “Every conversation every single story is power, you need to pay more attention cuz EVERY WORD IS A DOLLAR”. That’s the mantra you’ll hear declared on this limited edition 45 from emcee JSWISS. The 7-inch includes the Vicky Casis-produced “Withdrawal” on one side with a red label, and the Paul Bloom-produced “Rich” featuring soul singer/songwriter Amma Whatt on the other, with a green label. Both appear on JSWISS' latest album “Every Word Is A Dollar”, with titles that each speak directly to the album's theme that words, used properly, can be worth more than anything on earth.

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Produced by U'Nique Music.
Piano: Noah MacNeil.
Bass: Lez Lemon

lyrics

Lyrics:

Verse 1:
Swizzy how you do it?
A couple times getting it wrong a couple times getting rejected
A couple more times going worse than I expected
Couple of times getting less result than the effort,
That's how it goes, why you think I rip the stage now
Got tired of having 3 people at my shows had to let em know
Let the word go round that this kid underground
Took so much manure now watch him grow
For every ball out, there was a fall short
I been let down, I felt off course
Felt like the man and like a bitch on the same beat
Top of the world scum of the earth in the same week
Maybe the same night, come off doing encores
Get home lost money the same fight
Look at my bank account, not much stands out
Look at my email Sallie Mae got her hand out
Know that you want it, i ain't got it so sue me
I got 80 dollars imma take my mom to the movies
That's so real I even think that she didn't know
If she did she'd try to tell me we ain't needed to go
I wouldn't hear it, if I go broke withdraw from my spirit
When you don't got it then you learn more how to get it,
You be dodgin Ls meanwhile
You can never lose if you never try me well I failed

Chorus:
Best believe that I failed (that's why I succeed)
Best believe that I failed (but still I believe)
Best believe that I failed
But I try again and again and again and again until I get a win

Had to work a day job longer than I wanted
Living at my parents house longer than I wanted
Almost made a move deep down was embarrassed yo
Almost rushed into an apartment that was terrible
Lost a few grand on that but I bounced back
Back to Dobbs where I rep, gotta put it on the map
Had a woman that I loved on the real lost that
Had my mind on it all the career and the cash
I was overthinking budget broke I didn't wanna be it
Went abroad 6 months and I didn't go to see her
Big mistake, she came back and it was different
When I got up on that bus I could tell the vibe was missing
Ain't ran into another like her since that's life
Learn a lesson next time think I'll probably get it right,
It's nothing I roll with the punches every day
Cuz honestly I really think there's bigger forces at play
Think my Grandpa Bernard is up there forcing his hand
And helping out on the low as he orchestrate a plan
My relationship with music to the one with my dad
To give me something better than anything they ever had
Barely too young to remember back when he was still alive
No fluke he died back around when I first heard Tribe
So if I eff up again and then I eff up some more
It's for the best cuz I got bigger in store
And best believe that I failed

(Chorus)

You be dodging Ls meanwhile
You can never lose if you never try meanwhile I Fail
(repeat)

You never try, you never lose
(repeat)

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from Every Word Is A Dollar, released April 5, 2019

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