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Murder Mystery
03:04
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Demons of our Memory
04:05
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Sometimes I feel the world is testing me
Ivory, Ebony, we all feel it eventually
Endlessly, fighting the Demons of Our Memory
I'm trying stop you from stealing my energy
Self medicating, but don't really have a remedy
And they don't always see through all the things that I pretend to be
In need of therapy, can be my own worst enemy
So if you haven't heard from me... check on my mentally
The Fugees once said, everybody wears a mask
I didn't understand it, at the time I was too young to know
I was in for surprises, I got to see ironically
To deal with reality, people wear disguises
For some it's drugs, others alcoholism
I can't diss em', we all got a coping mechanism
Sex, food, television, whats the best decision?
But we never living, when we hide the pessimism
I love it when you smile and laugh, but I know you are surpressing hurt from your past
Suffering in silence
Some about to break or crack
I tell my brothers I love em and they don’t need to say it back
I state a fact I think is necessary
My care is better than any fix that is temporary
That’s elementary from the cradle to the cemetery
Somebodies mental health should never be secondary
Sometimes I feel the world is testing me
Ivory, Ebony, we all feel it eventually
Endlessly, fighting the Demons of Our Memory
I'm trying stop you from stealing my energy
Self medicating, but don't really have a remedy
And they don't always see through all the things that I pretend to be
In need of therapy, can be my own worst enemy
So if you haven't heard from me... check on my mentally
Shonuff, dudes think they so tough
But brothers got it twisted thinking it’s feminine to show love
Now we have a void and I am annoyed
Cause I can’t tell if you hating or if I’m paranoid
Blurred vision, listen it can be stressful
You living in a prison if you driven to be successful
But really you staying busy just to hide the pain
I’m certain the burden comes if you always working
Pass the surface, what I’m writing is deep
Today I read about a Dad whose Son died in his sleep
We all leave alone like we begun
But now this Dad wishes he had more time with his Son
I look at myself, my mind I had to air it out
Sometimes we have to reasses the things we care about
With that said I’m not asking to be forgiven
But I am saying sorry to you if I was ever trippin’ listen
Sometimes I feel the world is testing me
Ivory, Ebony, we all feel it eventually
Endlessly, fighting the Demons of Our Memory
I'm trying stop you from stealing my energy
Self medicating, but don't really have a remedy
And they don't always see through all the things that I pretend to be
In need of therapy, can be my own worst enemy
So if you haven't heard from me... check on my mentally
To calm anxiety I roll a spliff
While my imagination creating enemies that don’t exist
Bringing problems home from work to me is insanity
I try not to take it out on my family
Everybody got a lot on the brain
When we argue in front of the kids, I feel shame
A lot of people don’t deal with they pain
And they hurt looking for someone to blame
Simple and plain, Me, I’m not a specialist
But its clear to me, that some of us need a therapist
Throat Chakra blocked, so we lack expressiveness
Crying for help, without crying at all
Ya’ll caught up in your own lives and don’t see the signs
We not psychics and so we not reading minds
I’m just saying if there’s one love, theres one war
We fighting together check on the people you got love for
Sometimes I feel the world is testing me
Ivory, Ebony, we all feel it eventually
Endlessly, fighting the Demons of Our Memory
I'm trying stop you from stealing my energy
Self medicating, but don't really have a remedy
And they don't always see through all the things that I pretend to be
In need of therapy, can be my own worst enemy
So if you haven't heard from me... check on my mentally
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It’s a new world, It’s a new world
It’s a new world, It’s a new world
It’s a new world, change now
In 95 it was a time when Hip Hop was thriving
Now N95 is something I gotta wear for my surviving
They want us social distancing and dividing
But people coming together like asteroids colliding
Cause they want the world of old, I’m here to say now that’s gone
In the future we might have to play sports with a mask on
No more shaking hands when we meeting
Now we cross hands and bow like Black Panther when he greeting
Cold world, somewhere a King is losing his throne
That’s why my ice grill could even turn Medusa to stone
Back against the wall I’m on point when I’m fencing
Fenced in I use the Devil’s pitchfork against him
For my family strategy hold it down like gravity
Actually I pick my friends like the fruit from the apple tree
For what I love I’ll fight you, I am my own idol
Wrote this recital on the missing pages from the bible
Cause what I say is final till my last dance like Michael
Hold the title with a rifle rap disciple I will snipe you
Me I like new, but I find true y’all just recycle
I guess what flow goes and comes around like a vinyl
It seems the world changing every time that I birth a poem
Physical jobs soon gone and everybody gotta work from home
But I’m Hip-Hop forever still or I would never promise
You got my word I’m in this for life like Arron Wallace
No one knows the ways of this new world
Only thing we can count on is…
Change
Nothing is the way it was before
The only constant in life is the…
Change
I try to stay in the present but the future draws near
I think where do we go from here it not so clear
My people won’t be living in fear
Controlled by puppeteer or ending up in the rear
It might be a zombie apocalypse like a bad dream
But I am legend Will Smith with a vaccine
We being watched locked cuz face recognition
They’ll make every prison a death race exhibition
Before it gets better it’s bound to get worse
Let’s make it work cuz greed will destroy the earth
Every work team will be replaced by machines
Or get exo frames connected to they spleens
To upgrade your performance while you after the dream
Book of Eli dystopian future man can’t read
Billionaires tycoon’s will prophet
Mixing human body parts with robotics
Type of shit you see in a marvel comics
On some Neo came out the liquid and started to vomit
Digital pay slips filters and facelifts
Download whatever you wanna learn it's the matrix
Stay plugged in or go off the grid
They’ll start to put tracking chips inside of ya kids
Barcodes on the ones that survive covid
Create a diversion so you don’t notice
But stay focus
Soulless coldness approaches
The Internet exposes new and old shit
What’s really gonna happen, I don’t kid
The trick is, to live right now and smell the roses
No one knows the ways of this new world
Only thing we can count on is
Change
Nothing is the way it was before
The only constant in life is the
Change
No one knows the ways of this new world
Only thing we can count on is
Change
Nothing is the way it was before
The only constant in life is the
Change
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Duality
04:20
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Everything has an opposite the worlds about duality
Whats your mentality, pauper or the majesty
Got ya head on straight or are you bordering insanity
Struggle to keep ya feet on the ground or you gravity
Listen, Are you the triumph or the tragedy
Rich or the raggedy, selfless or your vanity
Will your story end angrily or happily
The choice is yours, the world is built on duality
Are you positive or negative, the hero or the villain
Are you the type to do the most talking or do you listen
Fact or opinion every day or night we make a decision
Freedom or prison science or some believe in religion
You greedy or giving hold grudges or are you forgiving
Breaking or fixing just beginning or are you quitting
Losing or winning clear or confused with your vision
Legends never die but some people alive and not living
You climbing or digging losing gripping or are you sticking
Growing or shrinking playing it safe or risking
Swimming or sinking being unthoughtful or are you thinking
Fresh or you stinking break the chain or you linking
Against or willing giving props or are you dissing
Bringing people together or the one that causes division
Need motivation or the self starting ignition
Whats your depiction cause we all have a description
Everything has an opposite the worlds about duality
Whats your mentality, pauper or the majesty
Got ya head on straight or are you bordering insanity
Struggle to keep ya feet on the ground or you gravity
Listen, Are you the triumph or the tragedy
Rich or the raggedy, selfless or your vanity
Will your story end angrily or happily
The choice is yours, the world is built on duality
You full of love or full of hate, terrible or something great
Impatient or gonna wait, crooked or brothers straight
A person of the morning or are you night
Flee or do you fight the darkness or the light
The blindness or the sight what is wrong or what is right
The bravery or the fright
The nightmare or the dream
Do you operate as a solo act or a team
Exude confidence or have trouble with self esteem
Man or machine, suffer in silence or do your scream
Do you hold a corner or do the most cause your extreme
Spiraling down or crown this year your ascension
Disappear into crowds or the center of attention
Go with the flow or objection, raw or contraception
Never read the manual or do you study the lesson
Gotta clue or you guessing the answer or the question
I reckon inside of us all theres hell or heaven
Everything has an opposite the worlds about duality
Whats your mentality, pauper or the majesty
Got ya head on straight or are you bordering insanity
Struggle to keep ya feet on the ground or you gravity
Listen, Are you the triumph or the tragedy
Rich or the raggedy, selfless or your vanity
Will your story end angrily or happily
The choice is yours, the world is built on duality
Whats right without wrong up without down
A smile without frown the mainstream without the underground
Are you the heater or the freezer follower or leader
Silent partner or speaker the shallow one or the deeper
Woke or sleeper, expensive taste or cheaper
Will you get thrown back in the ocean or you a keeper
Student or teacher, faith strong or non-believer
Giver or receiver underwhelm or over achiever
The type to say fuck the rules or following procedure
Either got it made or gotta rob Paul to pay Peter
Hesitant or eager the star or the feature
Don't want the smoke or gotta medical card for reefer
You getting ethered or you the ether
Thats every creature from a child to a Senior
From the king n queen to the street sweeper
Life will always be the duality dealer
Everything has an opposite the worlds about duality
Whats your mentality, pauper or the majesty
Got ya head on straight or are you bordering insanity
Struggle to keep ya feet on the ground or you gravity
Listen, Are you the triumph or the tragedy
Rich or the raggedy, selfless or your vanity
Will your story end angrily or happily
The choice is yours, the world is built on duality
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Premier League
02:43
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Lullaby (feat. Francis)
03:13
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The Reckoning
03:37
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I'm reckoning your fucked up ways gone catch up to you
I'm reckoning that the fads won't last, but the love will
And if you an artist you should at least have some skill
If you an artist you should at least have some skill
I reckon in my former life i was accused of spitting flows
That were so dope they jumped up and kicked off the Sphinx's nose
To get to the highs i reckon you been in the lows
But kick me while I'm down your foot gon come up with missing toes
I reckon you hear real shit, its gon hit you
Don’t matter if you pray to Jesus, buddha or vishnu
Practice non-violence or if you study ninjitsu
It's true could live in a dessert or even igloo
I still reckon that the real is gonna recognize
But if not i develop my skill and weaponize
Love is the battlefield, my mind is the gun
A warrior of light, samurai of the sun
Came a long way reckon i been a few miles
Everything comes and goes now we back to original styles
Complacency a tool of the devil you getting comfy
Keep watching people eat keep being hungry
I'm reckoning your fucked up ways gone catch up to you
I'm reckoning that the fads won't last, but the love will
And if you an artist you should at least have some skill
I'm reckoning people lying like its the truth
And you just believe don't research or ask for proof
Hmmmm I reckon I reckon I reckon
That I'm the illest motherfucker ever
Hip-Hop since day one tougher than Leather
My vocals hopeful new age with a twist of old school
Consider this I'm the lyricist Icarus flew to close to
The Sun God don't fuck it up you got one job
Not cappin just a captain with a rappin disease
I reckon a man is as he believes after he leaves
Not caring about what others think is truly what mastery means
My Daddy was a Rasta so ill never put my lips to pork
I just mediate and move mountains with a single thought
You doubting this i'm the alchemist came for my victory/
These motherfuckers couldn’t repeat me if they was history
It's not a mystery i'm liquidy and so they missing me
Not trickery my super abilities authenticity/
Was holding strong when everything was broke and wrong
I reckon cause you bring to life the things you focus on/
You’ll get results from whatever you put your heart in/
So i grab the mic and be spittin like george carlin/
I'm reckoning your fucked up ways gone catch up to you
I'm reckoning that the fads won't last, but the love will
And if you an artist you should at least have some skill
I'm reckoning people lying like its the truth
And you just believe don't research or ask for proof
Hmmmm I reckon I reckon I reckon
That I'm the illest motherfucker ever
Hip-Hop since day one tougher than Leather
Nowadays nobody thinks for themselves i reckon its obvious
Acknowledge this, we already in the zombie apocalypse
I represent good reckon the world is built on opposites
You got Metropolis well then you gotta know what Gotham is
I reckon we ignorant of the things we don't know
I'm an old soul my spirit leaves an imprint like Soul-Glo
I'm hitting every mark cause theres focus in my speech
But these punk rappers couldn’t hit the ocean from the beach
It's ironic my skepticism is clear
I fear I reckon i believe half of what I hear
Every year goes faster see the nights and the days are gone
Though i came to win , i still get lost in my creative zone
I'm an emcee that means i'm anti-rapper
I'm nice my every verse is worth the price of anti-matter
To help em find it i reckon i could prepare a book
Hip-Hop alive and well you just gotta where to look
I'm reckoning your fucked up ways gone catch up to you
I'm reckoning that the fads won't last, but the love will
And if you an artist you should at least have some skill
I'm reckoning people lying like its the truth
And you just believe don't research or ask for proof
Hmmmm I reckon I reckon I reckon
That I'm the illest motherfucker ever
Hip-Hop since day one tougher than Leather
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10. |
Say Their Names
04:13
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Cymarshall Law New Jersey
A New Jersey-based MC of Jamaican descent, born on England's shores, Cymarshall Law makes rhymes that are as worldly and diverse as his background. He moved overseas from the U.K. to the States when he was nine years old, and a few years later -- influenced by his older brother's infatuation with rap music -- he started penning rhymes. ... more
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