1. |
WELCOME.
03:16
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Welcome, please.
lay down your things
rest your wings, come,
sit with me here.
beneath this tree
and tell me of your travels.
let the world unravel this is your place to be.
I said Welcome, please
lay down your things,
rest your wings, come,
sit with me here.
beneath this tree
and tell me of your travels.
let the world unravel this is your place to be.
Dreams can be expensive
no matter how extensive
the universe never head of me
before this now I'm all in
This is not a task, this is not a hobby
steady slayin with the brass and I’m hardly 20
I’m not sorry for my past that's what got me ready
for the here. Got a couple things that I’m tryna make clear
Got a couple reasons I ain't ever coming near
the demons that weaken the youth, I speak for the truth
comfort is cute but have you grown from dispute?
you ever know a life of exclusion?
losing the rights you were never used to using
losing your people to addiction and using
that friction's confusing
the systems abusing
this is hardly amusing. but.
music comin through,
now I’m hummin the blues
life too short
for you to not getta choose
I might go to court
for displaying my
my only way to spread the news
is to say the truths that
come to me
come for me
color me triumphantly
I’m functionally inclined
to do what I was designed
conjunctionally in line
with my ancestry behind
lost in modern time
that's the way to sublime
opportunity cost
compare the dime to the time.
this is a life, not a line.
I got some strife with the grind
that quicker leads to decline.
Dreams can be expensive
no matter how extensive
the universe never head of me
before this now I'm all in
Interlude:
Show me your scars
I'll show you mine too
a comparison of worlds
you thought only you knew
sit with me and listen as they speak
what does your gut feel?
are you pouring out to others
one after the other?
what do you keep for yourself,
are you creating your own hell?
how will you heal the world
before healing your own traumas?
don't listen to me speak.
do listen to the way you react.
Listen to the water, to the trees,
to the skin on your back.
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2. |
LATENITE HEARTBEAT.
01:25
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The ground is wet.
I can feel my sweat.
Stretch neck to chest, pounding and pressed
Each heart beat louder than the next
And I’m stressed. It’s a test, so I press
One bare foot into the ground
In search of soot I haven’t found
Hoping to meet grass and soil,
Something naturally royal,
Only to find ice & oil.
But that’s the price of the spoil
Eating rice before it boiled
Bet it seemed nice ‘fore it soiled
What ya kids dreamed , right ?
You was busy with fright
We get it it’s aight
Wanna respect who gave us life
But now it’s us who gotta fight
For what you had in right plain sight.
Think I won’t start shit, bitch I might.
Think I’m an artist who ain’t your type but bet,
I still bleed stars and stripe, I’m a
A mix breed walk of life
Couldn’t miss me if you tried
Time to listen, drop the pride
Something ’s missing, something’s died
Hunting, fishing, sucking dry
Can’t seem to resist it, I still try
Tryna exist without these lies
Some reason I was made with these wide eyes
And I go by they, gender aside
I say what I say, tender inside
Some days go to waste, never outside
Render it fried better luck next time
Part of the climb
It’s in the chart, it’s in the sign
If it ain’t in my heart, it aint on my mind
Wanna make the art that I’m inclined
So I try three times, till I’m declined
And then I swipe it and it’s mine.
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3. |
CHA CHA.
03:35
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Lay down your (down ya)
Lay down your (down ya)
Lay down your (down ya)
Hey, hey
Lay down your walls, right here, in front of me
Notice some fall quiet, some thundering
I'm gonna ask you to get involved
And share the things, share the things
I've been wondering
I've been wondering
I am a wet rock and its ecosystem
Come, flip me over, I think
I think I wanna share with you
I think I wanna show you my colors
My critters
My brothers
Transmitters
Of numbers of other wonders
But in the summers
My under is flipped over quite often
Hi. please let me stay rock bottom
Why
My orientation changes, not by my own
And my belly dies on my back
My back becomes my belly and I start again from scratch
Give me a moment...
Everything I thought I was
Everything I thought had made me
Exposed. ego. self.
I notice. okay
I notice I am growing in new ways
Sunbathing. sheltering. simultaneously
Spontaneously
And I grow back stronger
I won’t crack for longer
I am an old growth and it’s own battle
Threatened by that bone cattle
Coulda left 'em with a home, rather
That theft gotta take control
Second to patrol
Questioned for my role
Pregnant with your coal
Segment of your goal
See me in my whole
Beckoned by my soul
Oye!
Reckoned I would fold
Oye!
Legend to be told
Oye!
Intended for the gold
Defended by the bold
It ended in the cold
Shoulda amended what you sold, now you
Overextended
Where’s that garden that you tended?
Cemented?
Where’s that pardon you was begging?
Contended?
Where's that money you been spending?
Suspended?
Where’s that carbon you depended?
Projected to infect the lungs of many
Not just any
But the folks who count their pennies
We entering the 20s
You festering an enemy
My empathy is gone
Go head right your wrongs
Cause uh
I am a mother. I am an earth
Imma be sure you know your worth
Find a cure or this gon' hurt
Death is a part of birth
Get your heart to work
Gotta restart your earnings
Hear me, I’m overt
Imma be curt
Fear me time to skirt
Betta act smart I’m learning
Cheer me like ya flirting
Get your hands to dirt
Oye!
Vendetta’s a lasting burden
I’ve yet to purge
I’ve got the urge
I’m on the verge
My plates converge
My surge emerge
Your state submerge
...Don’t wait just merge
(Cha Cha)
Lay down your (down ya)
Lay down your (down ya)
Lay down your (down ya)
Hey, hey
Lay down your walls, right here, in front of me
Notice some fall quiet, some thundering
I'm gonna
Ask you to get involved
And share the things, share the things
I've been wondering
Lay down your walls, right here, in front of me
Notice some fall quiet, some thundering
I'm gonna
Ask you to get involved
Ask you to get involved
Imma ask you to get involved
Imma ask you to get involved
Imma ask you to get involved
Imma ask you to get involved
Imma ask you to get involved
Imma ask you to get involved
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4. |
HUMOR ME HUMBLE.
03:57
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(Cause I'm a fungal one from none to sun)
Free time
Senses off
Just me & my
Train of thought
Don’t need to be running
Don’t need to be stunting
Don’t need to be fronting
What’s right and what wasn’t
I’m bound to be something
Right now is a moment of proud
Of the clothes I’m in
Feeling my golden skin
Ceiling to sky
To the depths of the ocean, swim
Laps with devotion, been
Texting and flexing my raps not to hold it in
And that’s just the mode I’m in
I really didn’t know it when
I nearly lost my flow to gin
My resources spreading thin
The bad forces always winnin, always winnin
But that was something different
Tryna make a living learning
What it means to earn it
Humor me humble
Bloomer from the crumble
If I’m left to grow I’ll this struggle to a jungle
Fungal one, from none to sun
Eternal young among
Us all
Unsung
If you fall
I’ll come
Learning things the hard way
Cause I’m going somewhere new
I said 'ahem I beg your pardon? what the fuck I’m 'posed to do?'
Stay inside all day n night
Pretend my grind can’t be my light
Cause it don’t pay the same to fight and
It don’t pay the same to write YAH
Gotta figure yourself out younger now
That’s just the time
Makes you wonder about, say,
Exposure at age 9 the kind you can find online
At the same time tryna align
The type that will stay behind
So no need to pay no mind remembering
The hype will take the mind from anything
Like a fruit before it’s ripe
You don't know what they’ll bring
Till the timing is priming
They gon' keep trying and climbing
But when the limelight stay shining
Ain’t no shade by design
I said when the limelight stay shining
Ain’t no shade by design
(it just don’t pay the same to write)
Humor me humble
Bloomer from the crumble
If I’m left to grow I’ll this struggle to a jungle
Fungal one, from none to sun
Eternal young among
Us all
Unsung
If you fall
I’ll come
I wanna be humble
One more time
Humor me humble
Bloomer from the crumble
(I'm bound to be something)
If I’m left to grow I’ll this struggle to a jungle
(I'll turn this struggle to a jungle)
Fungal one, from none to sun
Eternal young among
Us all, unsung
If you fall
I’ll come
Humor me humble
Bloomer from the crumble
If I’m left to grow I’ll this struggle to a jungle
Fungal one, from none to sun
(You don’t know what you’re doing there)
Eternal young among
Us all, unsung
If you fall
I’ll come
I’m goin all in now
I said I’m goin all in now
Call me a fungal one
Cause I am none to sun
None to sun, none to
Call me a fungal one, fungal
Cause I am none to sun
Cause I am none to sun, yeah
I grow none to some
None to sun
One to bunch
This affects us all, c’mon
This affects us all, c’mon
This affects us, all
Affects us, all
Affects us, all
Said it affects us all
It affects us all
It affects us
All
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5. |
SO SWEET!
02:02
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So sweet! (mm, I said)
So sweet, so sweet
So sweet! (mm! I said)
So sweet, so sweet yeah
So sweet (mm I said)
So sweet, so sweet
So sweet (yeah, I said)
So sweet, so sweet
Mount me in the morning
I can feel a ground beneath us forming
This ain’t fruitless, this important
Can’t ignore it, I’m all for it
I want more, I'm ready to explore
The one I adore, worship galore, a perfect score
Si, mi amór. Tus rodillas to floor
Make it pour please, core squeezed
Restore the shore with that wind & breeze
Go ‘head baby, birds & bees
We run things like they burglaries
My baby yeah she’s—*— she’s!
So sweet! (mm, I said)
So sweet, so sweet
So sweet! (mm! I said)
So sweet, so sweet yeah
So sweet (mm I said)
So sweet, so sweet
So sweet (yeah, I said)
So sweet, so sweet
I see
Gentle weather, I see
Us together like a feather, no contender
(I see)
Just enough pleasure to treasure
Just enough pressure to better
Center temper
Wet like September
Breath like an ember
Igniting my center
Thanking the sender of you
Like paint that’s surrendered to hue
A gender anew
Intersectional goddess or two
A reflection you can see through
A best friend who can treat you
Like a guest at a retreat, turn on up the heat
Make it sweet, I’m tryna eat
Take a peek and let it leak
It’s a quiqui kinda week
Take a peek and let it leak
It’s a quiqui kinda week
(we got that)
Take a peek and let it leak
It’s a quiqui kinda--
HORNS
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6. |
PERSEVERE (ALONE).
03:27
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This world is a tough one
Stop and think about why we hustling
Cause for the climate yeah it’s urgent
But for designer merch I’m certain it can wait
I got a date with the choir, gonna inquire about fate
Silverplate hit the tile
Now we hate to see it straight
Wildfire in our state
Every summer at this rate
Every action make or break
I’m just a fraction of the cake
An abstraction of my ache
Taking action for my sake
And for my people gone & great
Set it straight
C'mon
Somebody please let their fear known
Cause I don’t wanna persevere alone, no
Somebody please let their fear known
Cause I don’t wanna persevere alone
Carried into this life, I don’t getta do that too often
My mama yeah she tough
But she still find the time to soften
For me. Lost in the sea
Accompanied
By my roots that run deep
Like the ancestors I meet in my sleep
We steep tea together
See whatever he or she I’m meant to be
Establish my identity
Find clarity.
Primarily mentally
Familiarity in past lives
Surpass fast highs, so I
Revive my drive
So I can thrive by 25
So I write (write)
So I rhyme (rhyme)
With all my might
I take what’s mine
Knowing my rights (rights)
Owning my time (time)
Most nights I’m
Close to heights that
Entwine with the sky
Insights as to why I try
Flowing veins, fine wine
Somebody please let their fear known
Cause I don’t wanna persevere alone, no
Somebody please let their fear known
Cause I don’t wanna persevere alone
It doesn’t take much transparency to see the ugly
But it takes a whole lotta blood to make it opaque
My mistake was staying up late
Doing some command for a demand that’s grounded in hate
I can relate
To those who know the path that was chosen for them
Isn’t for them
Brown kids lost in a dominant culture that isn’t their friends
No representation
Feels like elimination
Erasure from this nation
When they the ones
Calling the shots that make or break 'em, take 'em
Somebody please let their fear known
Cause I don’t wanna persevere alone, no
Somebody please let their fear known
Cause I don’t wanna persevere alone
(X2)
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7. |
THERAPY.
04:48
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Move yo body
Move yo body like it's therapy
Just move yo body
Move yo body like it's therapy
Follow the pain to the end of the train
There's no one to blame at the end of the game
So shout out ya name
Know we ain’t ashamed
Know that we gon' claim
What’s ours to protect
It’s all the same
No disrespect
What did you expect
When your guard went unchecked
Now it’s time to collect
Drop a rhyme to reflect
On the lives you affect
So you don’t ever go suspect
Before you move on to the next
Get some motion in your neck
All emotion on deck
Time to open up ya chest
You can do it beat the rest
Nothing to it cut the stress
Cut the tries that ain’t your best
Do what no one ever guessed
You are you and nothing less
You keep growing, that’s a test
Your dreams should have you pressed
Your dreams should have you pressed
Your dreams should have you
Pressed
Go on get goin, up & dressed, I’m
Finding my own way back (way back)
I’m learning things about myself
That I never un-packed
I'm finding my own way back (way back)
I’m learning things about myself
That I never un-packed
Move yo body
Move yo body like it's therapy
Just move yo body
Move yo body like it's therapy
Move yo body like it's therapy
Just move yo body
Move yo body like it's therapy
I’m doing well for a king
I’m doing well for a sunrise
I blossom in the spring
I ain’t gon tell my self otherwise
I fell enough times to see the signs
But like bowling imma reset
I’m rolling with the butterflies
Having that effect
I’m a prefect
I’m an elect reject
But I don’t need you to see that
Ego ’s a weed , I don’t need that
Don’t go for greed ‘less you mean wrath
I’m on that clean path
I got a mean act
Imma be seen stat
I like my green black
By that I mean that
I want my people from the south side
Getting outside
Feelin pride for the enviro
I'm finding my own way back (way back)
I’m learning things about myself
that I never un-packed
I'm finding my own way back (way back)
I’m learning things about myself
that I never un-packed
Move yo body
Move yo body like it's therapy
Just move yo body
Move yo body like it's therapy
Move yo body
Move yo body like it's therapy
Just move yo body
Move yo body like it's therapy
Move yo body
Move yo body like it's therapy
Just move yo body
Move yo body like it's therapy
Dance up a storm, and get your shoes worn
Get your socks on, and get out the door
(Dance up a storm, dance up)
Dance up a storm, and get your shoes worn
Just get your shoes worn
(Dance up a storm, dance up)
Just get your shoes worn
Just get your shoes worn, ooh
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8. |
DEKAY.
03:13
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Body decaying every truth I don’t speak
Gotta stay playin to every tune I meet
Wanna keep us swaying with the beat
With the beat
With the beat
(listen)
Relativity is empathy
Scale can’t hide identity
Take it one step back or closer see a different density
Of ways to be, no same praise to speak
No same pays to meet, no same ground to keep
No same laying beneath
New paved streets
Body decaying every truth I don’t speak
Gotta stay playin to every tune I meet
Wanna keep us swaying with the beat beat
Displaying my unique
This my favorite time to be
Body decaying every truth I don’t speak
Gotta stay playin to every tune I meet
Wanna keep us swaying with the beat
With the beat
With the beat
(Again)
Displaying my unique
This my favorite time to be
This gon’ be my kind of week
Taking time to outshine me
Bury me a Cedar tree I come back when I’m needed
I come from where I’m meant to be
A seedling to be greeted.
You ain’t ever gonna hear me say
I wish I was born in a different age
Cause I am not that torn about the better days.
I think we going places
I think we owe it patience
I say we run the plays
That help us raise
Our own creations
Body decaying every truth I don’t speak
Gotta stay playin to every tune I meet
Wanna keep us swaying with the beat
With the beat
With the beat
HORNS
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