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[NARRATOR]
It's way deeper this time.
[EUGENIUS NEUTRON]
It's way deeper. It's way deeper. Way deeper
[VERSE 1 - EUGENIUS NEUTRON]
How can I love something so much, to the point where it drive me crazy
How can I that hate that which I love, when it's everything that done made me
Does my environment hold the blame, or is it the seed from which I came
This euonymus and me, it seems that we are one and the same
Maybe the way I'm thanking, is the forbidden fruit that I see hanging
I dig deep too find the truth, only to find that our roots are entangled
Red clay and dry plasma, decomposed branches of family
Was I planted by knowing hands, or was I forced to grow where I landed
Under my feet are dead leaves, they cover the strange fruit beneath
The earth shall inherit the meek, and the cycle continues within their seeds
The rivers no longer running, the plants no longer save you hunger
The birds no longer singing & humming, it seems that they have now become hunters
Only predators fill the night, and the days are no longer sunny
Am I in a forest or jungle, is the Garden of Eden now filled with horrors
Ancient spirits live in the wind, fighting with trees that are not budging
It's left me no way to flourish, my only option is to destroy it
[BRIDGE]
Did you hear about that, old Alabama riddle
Did you hear about that, old Alabama riddle
Did you, hear about that, old Alabama journey
Did you, hear about that, old Alabama journey
[VERSE 2 - INDYAH RASHAUD]
Are you, are you, coming to the tree?
Where they strung up a man, they say who murdered three
Strange things did happen here, no stranger would it be
If we met, at midnight in the hanging tree
Are you, are you ,coming to the tree?
Where a dead man called out, for his love to flee
Strange things did happen here, no stranger would it be
If we met, at midnight, in the hanging tree
Are you, are you, coming to the tree?
Where I told you to run, so we’d both be free
Strange things did happen here, no stranger would it be
If we met, at midnight, in the hanging tree
Are you, are you coming to the tree?
Wear a necklace of hope, side by side with me
Strange things did happen here, no stranger would it be
If we met, at midnight, in the hanging tree
[NARRATOR]
Breaking down the psyche of the young black male in America is as complicated as solving the Rubik’s cube itself. For they are born into an environment which seems to hate them, yet thrive upon them, as if they were the world’s greatest natural resource. This is just one of the many untold tails of those young men trying to figure it out I suppose. As we begin, we must first step into their world and acknowledge the ever looming presence ….. of death.
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Eulogies
04:31
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[SAMPLE]
Say they happy for you, say they happy for
Say they, say they happy for you cause of who you are
[VERSE 1]
I heard it through a vine of grapes that they was coming for me
My psyche might be psyched out but I'm still in sync like Justin
I chop down your cherry tree and watch it timber in your lake
Beaver damn your cherry picking, damn I might be honest Abe
Free my niggas if they slave to pussy, power, & money
But I'm just like my niggas, so I'm the keeper of brothers
And just because you like it my nigga, I can't love it
We all gotta die my nigga, just don't die for nothing
[HOOK]
I'd rather die enormous than live dormant that's how we on it
And I am, And I am
I'd rather die enormous than live dormant that's how we on it
And I am, And I am
[VERSE 2]
Niggas! - I might have to kill these niggas
Niggas bring these rappers, when rappers acting like singers,
And singers acting like gangstas who gang banging on twitter
Lames using names & usernames to get a mention
Rap genius, no dot com, rap lord before
On my job 'fo Steve jobs and the App Store
They download a sermon when I upload them verses
Sending rappers to the raptures rap lords have no mercy
[HOOK]
I'd rather die enormous than live dormant that's how we on it
And I am, And I am
I'd rather die enormous than live dormant that's how we on it
(Irv Gotti)
But that line! Living the American dream with a vengeance. I’m gon’ get. I don’t give a fuck! I’m gonna get it!
(Jay-Z)
And you gotta understand the reason, right? ‘Why does that guy think like that?’ right? ‘How did he arrive at that point?’ You gotta also look at that.
[VERSE 3]
Niggas! - I might have to kill these niggas
That's what bull Connor said when his German said bite
Share the same first name so I share the vengeance
Ain't no sense in playing victim I'm a villain to system
Im everything that they been tryna kill since the sixties
Malcom Eu the king JR that description and a mixture
Of the way that I been living, pray all my father’s forgive me
But I'm gon' do it right and live die by my decisions
[HOOK]
I'd rather die enormous than live dormant that's how we on it
And I am, And I am
I'd rather die enormous than live dormant that's how we on it
And I am, And I am
[VERSE 4]
Niggas! - I might have kill these niggas
Grim reapers sewing ways in everything to try and get us
It's death inside my liquor, black and mild, and my swisher
On My TV pictures, agents in the matrix when it glitches
It's death around the corner in police uniforming
In the slavery and employment and of a new college diploma
In the navy and the army, dollar menu when I'm hungry
Live enormous and die dormant, not how I want it
[HOOK]
I'd rather die enormous than live dormant that's how we on it
And I am, And I am
I'd rather die enormous than live dormant that's how we on it
And I am, And I am
I'd rather die enormous than live dormant that's how we on it
And I am, And I am
I'd rather die enormous than live dormant that's how we on it
And I am, And I am
[VERSE 5]
When I yell I out 'And I am', that's confirmation omen
If I'm part of the whole then the least I am holy
Supernatural being with some supernatural demons
Every time I see 'em (I might have to kill these Niggas!)
I don't fear your evil it can't prosper as a weapon
Not in even in this God forsaken place where they left me
Been through fire and brimstone I ain't even sweating
So I might raise hell just to make it up to heaven
[HOOK]
I'd rather die enormous than live dormant that's how we on it
And I am, And I am
I'd rather die enormous than live dormant that's how we on it
And I am, And I am
I'd rather die enormous than live dormant that's how we on it
And I am, And I am
I'd rather die enormous than live dormant that's how we on it
And I am, And I am
(Jay-Z)
“You gotta look at the environments and the places we live in. And how things are set up, and how things are structured, and how we’re always last on the totem pole. Even from our schooling, our roads, to everything (inaudible) all the obstacles placed in front of us. Even our living conditions. You live in the projects, you have to deal with all these different type of personalities. You’re in a box. Someone’s above you, below you, to the right of you, and to the left of you. And every day to you have to manage that circle and everything is messed up there. So, that’s like living dormant. If this is what I have to live for, then I’m going to take a chance to get more. It doesn’t matter what happens to me.”
(Narrator)
This fear of death manifest itself, for it is what they are taught, what they know, and worst case scenario, what they become. A vessel used to carry out a will not of their own, and not of their God.
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[NARRATOR]
We pray not that God be with them, but them, themselves see that God is there. Amongst them, even throughout these troubling times.
[VERSE 1 - EUGENIUS NEUTRON]
Blind leading the blind, searching for gold in the land mines
eyes closed shut wide, third eyes blood shot
From point blank heads shots
Of mental ammunition light emission a from a prism
Gleaming beaming for a cyclops
Professor X meets Mr X prophecy of peace
Which is needed if the war is necessary for means
When Ned shooting Rockets at Lil' Ze to solve the problem
In the bigger motion picture, you just pray the Lord's with him in the
City of God
Where God doesn't visit at all
From silver screen to Shel Silverstein
Walk until the side walk ends & end up at the giving tree
That gave it all until it no longer produced the seeds
From lack of water and malnourished from blood on the leaves
Blood fills the streets, from bloods, crips, & G's
Little soldiers recruited before they reach puberty
They time comes become they get time to become a teen
Shirt's with R-I-P's for those in memory
Suited and capsuled in caskets and planted seeds
To grow the strange fruit for the mentality it feeds
In the City of God
Where God doesn't visit at all
[VERSE 2 - D. HORTON]
Heavens from which the arrow's came, harvest the pharaoh's pain
Eye on the sparrow sang, heavy on scarecrow brain
Think, before the snare go bang
Back in the trap playing the predators game, praying for change
If it's war then grab your piece and ask peace
But don't be tricked off of these streets thinking that righteous equals meek
If it gets cold then grab your boots and plant some roots for trees to grow and make the heat
And know the power that you seek ain't hard to reach, more like how you speak
More like how you talk, more life in your walk
Blessings you should count, past life ain't at fault
You look back turn to salt
Helpful tips can turn assault based on your purpose
You knew that before you heard this, this shit barely scratch the surface
Do you know how deep the earth is? Do you if heaven's real, man have you been there?
Got some homies that doubt if they'll get there, and that shit sucks
One homie based his life off chance, the other based his life off luck
The third one gave up on redemption, guess he just don't give a duck
The opportunity, to prove that it can fly
They say a rich man never dies and I think that's the biggest lie
See it may look like he's alive, inside he's died a billion times (Dear God)
In the city of God the only crime's not believing in self
You needing some help? Provide it
Following maps the only way that you ever misguided
Doors get slammed shut but you can't knock if you ain't tried it
Nah you can't knock if you ain't tried it
Supplies arise inside, man to be honest, all you need is what you born with
Ask Muhammad's only promise, after Yahweh fixed the woman
For secluded Buddha-Mormon to be born in
Everybody under sun can get this warming
Holla at me in the morning, whilst the master creep
Pass you like a thief in the night, sleep, while keeping one eye alarmed
The people that I have warned, the bell and the tower rung, power on
Seek inward in-formation, keep marching on, keep marching on, to the
City of God
Where God doesn't visit at all
City of God
Where God doesn't visit at all
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Eubuntu
04:00
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[NARRATOR]
Death it’s not merely a fear for the boys, it is a reality. When fear is planted deep inside of them it creates an inexplicable energy often perceived as anger, rage, of violence. In actuality, it’s survival. A warrior’s spirit that’s manipulated by the world itself. Without guidance, it transforms them into the worst fear of mainstream America.
[HOOK]
Children of the cornbread & government cheese
Running through the ghetto tryna find our way peace, ayyy
You see me, I see you, you see me, I see you
You see me, I see you, say Ubuntu
[VERSE 1]
It's cool if you rapping for a message (okay, okay)
My R-A-P be ratchet and progressive (okay, okay)
Shout to nigga my Prezzley (okay, okay)
His generation young, wild, & reckless (okay, okay)
My question is who you telling (okay, okay)
Same age, shit I could've been a felon (okay, okay)
We don't give no fucks 'bout who elected (okay, okay)
It's whatever and we ready for whatever, ohh (okay, okay)
We don't give no fucks 'bout what you do (okay, okay)
Or what the fuck is real hip hop to you (okay, okay)
Tell me how do you relate to youth (okay, okay)
In Birmingham I'm like Uncle Snoop (okay, okay)
I give them the game like uncles do (okay, okay)
Get these fucking Uncle Ruckus out the room (okay, okay)
I might end up with a life like Uncle Luke (okay, okay)
Balling on they ass like Uncle Drew (okay, okay)
[HOOK]
Children of the cornbread & government cheese
Running through the ghetto tryna find our way peace, ayyy
You see me, I see you, you see me, I see you
You see me, I see you, say Ubuntu
Children of the cornbread & government cheese
Running through the ghetto tryna find our way peace, ayyy
You see me, I see you, you see me, I see you
You see me, I see you, say Ubuntu
[VERSE 2]
Seventh letter or seven chakras (okay, okay)
Keep it G, that's either gangster or Godly (okay, okay)
But never go false prophet for profit (okay, okay)
Your honor worth more than a fucking dollar (okay, okay)
I tell 'em use they mind as a weapon (okay, okay)
Use all of this knowledge for ammunition (okay, okay)
Guard you heart and use you brain for its protection (okay, okay)
And bang on anything that go against it (okay, okay)
But don't have no hesitation to kill 'em (okay, okay)
They wanna wage wars upon your spirit (okay, okay)
Destroy all they lies and keep 'em living (okay, okay)
That's far more dangerous than a pistol (okay, okay)
Warrior spirit of my ancestors (okay, okay)
I seen them, you, & I in my reflection (okay, okay)
The next generation gon' have some questions (okay, okay)
I trust in you to give 'em the lesson (okay, okay)
[HOOK]
Children of the cornbread & government cheese
Running through the ghetto tryna find our way peace, ayyy
You see me, I see you, you see me, I see you
You see me, I see you, say Ubuntu
Children of the cornbread & government cheese
Running through the ghetto tryna find our way peace, ayyy
You see me, I see you, you see me, I see you
You see me, I see you, say Ubuntu
[NARRATOR]
Energy is never created nor destroyed. It is only transformed from one form to another. This truth holds for even the most troubled of youth. Those that can learn to manage energies of anger, rage & violence have the unique ability to transform them into more positive energies of discipline, determination, & desire. It is here we find a young Eugene doing very much so within a craft that will lead him to his own self-discoveries about himself.
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Eupe Fiasco
03:32
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[INTRO]
Bass heavy medley with a sample from the 70's
And a screwed up hook that went stack that cheese
[HOOK]
Something something something
Stack Dat Cheese
For my mother, sister, cousin
Stack Dat Cheese
Man I started out with nothing
Stack Dat Cheese
So you know I put the hustle on the nothing and I turned it into
Something something something
Stack Dat Cheese
For my mother, sister, cousin
Stack Dat Cheese
Man I started out with nothing
Stack Dat Cheese
So you know I put the hustle on the nothing and I turned it into
[VERSE 1]
A long grind and slow climb, who that said this ain't divine?
Spit them when I was age nine, told my daddy that I wanted to rhyme
He say 'son you got time to wait', I told him that I'ma start today
Don't know how but I'm find a way, I just need blank cassette tapes
Couldn't buy that so I found a old one, stuffing paper inside the holes and
Beat-box until the tape pop, flip it over then hit recording
Play the beat and move the speaker closer, microphone made for karaoke
Had to use both hands to hold it, poppa told me 'boy don't you know a lil'
[HOOK]
Something something something
Stack Dat Cheese
For my mother, sister, cousin
Stack Dat Cheese
Man I started out with nothing
Stack Dat Cheese
So you know I put the hustle on the nothing and I turned it into
Something something something
Stack Dat Cheese
For my mother, sister, cousin
Stack Dat Cheese
Man I started out with nothing
Stack Dat Cheese
So you know I put the hustle on the nothing and I turned it into
[VERSE 2]
Turned that to a gateway, not a entrance to the rap game
Just a desktop with cow spots 'til I find out how to do my thang
Damn I need some internet now, AOL for the free trial
Wrecking every beat I can find on the Bear-share and the Lime-wire
Sold clean piss to the OG's who smoke weed just to make some scratch
Momma whip me to radio shack, need that mic with the lil' tip jack
Drop a whole mix tape in the mixtape in the Mix-Craft, Bimbo help me sell those in between class
Still had my nigga Dee Skillz on the track
He the real reason that a nigga know to rap 'bout
[HOOK]
Something something something
Stack Dat Cheese
For my mother, sister, cousin
Stack Dat Cheese
Man I started out with nothing
Stack Dat Cheese
So you know I put the hustle on the nothing and I turned it into
Something something something
Stack Dat Cheese
For my mother, sister, cousin
Stack Dat Cheese
Man I started out with nothing
Stack Dat Cheese
So you know I put the hustle on the nothing and I turned it into
[VERSE 3]
H-F-S HoodFellas, booming music outta Bessemer
Label hit us with the pressure, skip that deal start flexing
T-S Inc Trendsetters, keep it indie and respected
College hit another level, Loner Dreamer Lover Rebel
Now I'm feeling like mogul, half my artist out here touring
I been doing interviews, magazines, photos, videos, and forums
Not a millionaire but I'm fortune, want the Forbes cover when I hit forty
Sit down as I tell 'em my story,
Of blood sweat tears guts and glory, and made a lil something, something, something
(Stack dat cheese)
[NARRATOR]
Watching to the youth develop a passion within their lives is wonderful. Ever better if they can make a few dollars. But as young adults, we learn that all the money and success in the world can’t protect you from the world’s perception of you.
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[INTRO]
Make money-money, Make money-money- money
Take money-money, Take money-money- money
Make money-money, Make money-money- money
Take money-money, Take money-money- money
[VERSE 1 - EUGENIUS NEUTRON]
Miley out wilding, somewhere in America
Meanwhile, government made me to a terrorist
I'm tryna see the terror that I possess
Young, black, & gifted, I guess it's a triple threat
I'm used to that, because I live in the south
But it feels like the wild-wild west don' spread out
Excuse me officer quick draw McGraw
You pulling your pistol on me & I ain't strapped at all
My grandpa survived the fire-hose
Doubt I got the same chance if you go and fire those
I'm jet black, so I probably fit the description
One step back, they yelling stop resisting
Gotta make decision, run or retaliate
Probably won't make it to the court date either way
Wish I was Luke Cage so bullets can ricochet
(POP, POP!) Too bad that I ain't, thats why I got my
[HOOK - JOY JOY]
Hands up, they flashing they guns
And the bullets might fly my way
Am I suppose die today?
Oh my lord, I pray
I got my hands up, they flashing they piece
And I just can't move my feet
Another nigga dead in the streets of the
U.S.A. I-N-C
[VERSE 2 EUGENIUS NEUTRON]
I'm still in the run through city where all my woes be
Same city where all my foes be
Tryna be low key like a low C
But they know me, high key, like Mariah notes be
Cause them C notes carry a tune
Have 'em tuned in and watching your every move
I'm two steps ahead, my Unc' wasn't the DJ
Learned to walk it out & talk less what we make
Could be your diamonds that's glistening or the place that you stay
Could be the girls that you getting, or your new pair or J's
Could be the car that you whipping, or the money you make
That he feel he should be getting & it's something to take
See, that jealousy and hate leave a soul so color blinded
From brown skin, just colored flags and dead bodies
Felonies over melanin, trapped in the hood survival
Where black lives don't matter to a green dollar (POP!)
[HOOK - JOY JOY]
Hands up, they flashing they guns
And the bullets might fly my way
Am I suppose die today?
Oh my lord, I pray
I got my hands up, they flashing they piece
And I just can't move my feet
Another nigga dead in the streets of the
U.S.A. I-N-C
[VERSE 3 - EUGENIUS NEUTRON]
Police kill me, they try to keep it in silence
My brother kill me, they paint a picture of violence
Black vs All leaves everyone divided
Either way, we don't see it's a bigger problem
His death ain't even make it to a newspaper
(But the newspaper made it to his body)
Lay the flesh in the dirt, but take the organs out it
Hit up the black market and make a profit
If my kidney worth the fifty G's that you making
Can you help my momma with the funeral arrangements?
That killer cop probably got a paid vacation
The blacks cheap labor for a prison plantation
I'm probably just better opting for a cremation
Make it back God with everything I came with
Face it, if Rockefeller need a heart and I fit the part
That make me a mark, that's why I got my
[HOOK - JOY JOY]
Hands up, they flashing they guns
And the bullets might fly my way
Am I suppose die today?
Oh my lord, I pray
I got my hands up, they flashing they piece
And I just can't move my feet
Another nigga dead in the streets of the
U.S.A. I-N-C
[NARRATOR]
Now this may be harsh, but from the evidence provided on daily basis by news media, mass incarceration, and even neighborhood gang violence, black-death in America is a business. A booming business, with hundreds of ways to fall victim, and only a handful of ways to avoid. The most common of which, is the following.
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European Mask
04:33
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[INTRO - FUTURE]
Mask off, fuck it mask off
Mask off, fuck it mask off
Mask off, fuck it mask off
Mask off, fuck it mask off
[VERSE 1]
Her real name was Colandrea
But everybody called her CoCo
Straight up our da hood on the low low
78th south side of Chicago
Chiraq, she made it out of that
It should be a fact she could survive anything
But she just one person of the two percent minority
Feel like she doing time in Ivy League
Grew up in the middle class family
But she still feel like she never had shit
But the brains and beauty in the package
With the boobies and the booty that could match it
She the baddest thang on campus
But her attitude ten times badder
Cause the skin the she in was the blackest
Some reason she just see it as some bad shit
Sad shit, but a king like me step to her like a G
'Like queen what's hadd'nin?'
But she wouldn't even give the time of day
During daylight saving when the clock moving backwards
Looking at me like I'm the last nigga
Probably tell me 'Go step nigga,
Ol' righteousness of self ass nigga
You ain't nothing but a hotep nigga'
You know, tryna snap and all
But it's really cause I'm black and all
Generational hatred from white supremacy
But between you me, that's how she pass it off
Good perm change curls to a straight line
Take brunette if she can't go blonde
But her lips too thick and her nose to wide
Man she find herself tryna fix it all the time
[HOOK 1]
She got some inches
She got some inches
Straight long and flat
Her creamy crack is so addictive
Her skin too dark for a tan
She just wanna fit in so bad
So she doing everything that she can
To fix up her European Mask
She got some stitches
She got some stitches
Her plastic surgery make her perfect
It's addictive
Her skin too dark for a tan
She just wanna fit in so bad
So she doing everything that she can
To fix up her European Mask
[VERSE 2]
Troy was the son of the Dean on the yard
His daddy tried to keep him head strong
Always let him know since he black it's a fact
That he always gotta work twice as hard
I can't hate that nonetheless,
Look like he taking the right steps
Always do something to please somebody else
Sometime I just wonder do he really know himself
He do whats asked even if ain't his own wish
Still gon' his best
Got a white girlfriend and he ain't even on yet
Guess he learned that from KanYe West
Pops want law school then a politician
But he got a lil' bit of weed in his system
In the bathroom blowing smoke in the tissue
Making notes of a couples quotes he could misuse
Bojangles with clever angles
Operating with the Oofta mind
Making black jokes on his own kind
But he need a drum roll with one lines
He wanna make 'em laugh all the time
Do the shuck and jive at the drop of a dime
Just so he can go Greek, wanna pledge Pastiche
Figure that's gon' bring 'em prestige of some kind
Just a everyday Uncle Tom
Let his white friends drop the N-Bomb
He the token black friend to the rich white kids
Who say thats he they nig-gar
Look what his daddy don' did now
Made another OJ Simp-son
Guess it really don't mean none
If the out come means income
[HOOK 2]
He got some digits
He got some digits
He pray to God his stock don't flop
It's so addictive
His skin color brown paper bag
He just wanna fit in so bad
So he doing everything that he can
To fix up his European Mask
He got a pension
He got a pension
401K and a IRA
It's so addictive
His skin color brown paper bag
He just wanna fit in so bad
So he doing everything that he can
To fix up his European Mask
[VERSE 3]
Dear White People was the inspiration
Fact of fictional observation
Before we spark up the conversation
Of everyone calling me a racist
It's not a call for some segregation
Just the problem with our integration
Black people have to face this daily
From college majors to occupations
Systematic oppression gave us
A psychological black behavior
Rooted in the effects the slavery
Years later enslaves our thinking
To appease what's not meant to saves us
In exchange for some compensation
To avoid the poor population
And ultimately incarceration
[HOOK 3]
They outchea living
They outchea living
Inside a system where yo' pigment get you prisoned
Slave at first Gahdamn
But they wanna be free at last
Guess you gotta get it however you can
If you gotta wear your European Mask
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[NARRATOR]
Is this truly the means of survival? To hide in plain sight? To disguise yourself amongst those who care not to encourage you to be yourself? These are questions that many do not have the answer to.
[HOOK - NO SUH FOSTER]
Ain't no way to know just when this here life will turn
Erra-erra, turn
They say the road is narrow, sometimes we mess up, yea sometimes you might swerve
Erra-erra, swerve
Sometimes I may be gone out my mind, sometimes my words slur
Erra-erra, slur
But if I said it then I meant it, and if I'm wrong I ask forgiveness
[VERSE 1 - EUGENIUS NEUTRON]
Straight and the narrow, on the road, less traveled
Grooves in my polished up shoes filled with gravel
Came from the hood but I'm nothing like the Klu Klux
And street money don't pay enough I need new bucks
But corporate America got some thin lines
Stay professional on my side, but never cross to the shuck and jive
Some thing's really can't be compromised
No disrespect to Hov and Justin, but I ain't feeling this suit and tie
A noose and tie divided by the neck and mind
One hangs high while the other just hold you down
And scrutinize the truth that lies in you and I
With profit lines and compromise to work a job
It's suicide for the dreams I had since a child
Dying of boredom in the boardrooms I'm locked inside
But I decline they desire to see my demise
Pay me for my time and I pay 'em no mind
[HOOK - NO SUH FOSTER]
Ain't no way to know just when this here life will turn
Erra-erra, turn
They say the road is narrow, sometimes we mess up, yea sometimes you might swerve
Erra-erra, swerve
Sometimes I may be gone out my mind, sometimes my words slur
Erra-erra, slur
But if I said it then I meant it, and if I'm wrong I ask forgiveness
[VERSE 2 - EUGENIUS NEUTRON]
From off the clock to back on the block, with my peeps
What goes around comes around and my square one is the streets
Might be the square in the circle that you never need
But its fits perfect when the circle bigger than me
You just see 'em as gangsters, but really them my kinfolk
W.S.T.A.O, that all that we know
And if you do know or you don't know
We stand together as one, and that's rule numero uno
My partners full of Mac burners and cap-turners
Fuck a flat earther, we more concerned with stacking earnings
But as the world turning, my niggas can't get no jobs
But they got love with the plug to get 'em back working
Pushing the pack until the pack gone
I'm pushing pencils with MC Books flow
But fuck the get down, they know I been down
But I can't stay in sunken places, man to gotsta get out
[HOOK - NO SUH FOSTER]
Ain't no way to know just when this here life will turn
Erra-erra, turn
They say the road is narrow, sometimes we mess up, yea sometimes you might swerve
Erra-erra, swerve
Sometimes I may be gone out my mind, sometimes my words slur
Erra-erra, slur
But if I said it then I meant it, and if I'm wrong I ask forgiveness
[NARRATOR]
The tiresome battle of unlearning what has been given and learning more for themselves, is a never ending journey that can feel like a long road to nowhere. The only thing known for sure, is that experience is the best teacher.
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[POEM - BARON AHMON]
I been running shit.
I wonder if they notice.
That shit don't mater.
Blowing smoke, old folk, and foes in the dust, coughing.
A trail of cough drops formed, no man left behind.
Legs keeping up with time, nothing under mine but the soil of the earth.
Right leg, hour hand, left leg minute, I've lost track, I run terrains.
Claim no home but the road less traveled.
Bare foot, breaking gravel, there's a trail of my blood on the road of broken dreams.
'My feet are strong Joe Rogan'
No wrong turns good in every hood, where no past is needed.
They see my feet and know I walked here.
I run for them and from nothing.
[HOOK - LEON JORDEN]
I been running for so long I can't feel my legs
And they been running on they own, it's all in my head
Climb inside my bed at night
But that don't stop my mind
From running away, running away
[VERSE 1 - EUGENIUS NEUTRON]
Mark, ready, set, go, plus the sound of the gun
The sun runs from the moon, the moon runs from the sun
And as it runs from the day, I proceed to give chase
Body still in place, mind running through time and space
Einstein with a rhyme-mind of relativity
Bill Nye, down to a science of soliloquies
Syfy, but I'm only tryna channel energizes
Wifi, couldn't connect me better with the inner me
I feel my inner light, moving at the speed of light
Living fast but taking breaks, tryna slow down my speed of life
Cause if it ain't no after life I might not get to see it twice
But if it is & I don't do it right, I pay double the price
Feeling' like, I been here before, if second what I'm on
Hope I do it all again cause the third time is a charm
From now on, take on my obstacles head on
And pray to God I can stay head strong
[HOOK - LEON JORDEN]
I been running for so long I can't feel my legs
And they been running on they own, it's all in my head
Climb inside my bed at night
But that don't stop my mind
From running away, running away
[VERSE 2 - EUGENIUS NEUTRON]
What goes around comes around and I'm just passing by my past
Let whatever run it's course, especially if it ain't on track to be great
They got mercury poisoning inside they hate
Plagued by they ways, falling victim to a retrograde
Spinning out of control 'til they burnt out
Cause even the Maze Runners have a scorch trial
If your feet above the ground, no since in running your mouth
As I run Deez MC's to Run's House
And we run, like Re-Run, get it popping' and lock it down
No Ri Ri, no Yeezy, no Jay-Z, I run this town
Birmingham Alabama and them ties mean everything
It's too much pain to run a race without a ham-string
We started hard but look how far that we don' come
Running with Gods guidance, that's word to Forest Gump
Went from running a muck, to running it up
Just running to, not running from, and this run ain't done
[HOOK - LEON JORDEN]
I been running for so long I can't feel my legs
And they been running on they own, it's all in my head
Climb inside my bed at night
But that don't stop my mind
From running away, running away
[NARRATOR]
The attempts of balancing everyday life with such tasks such as avoiding death, survival, thriving in an unaccepting world, and even finding the courage to be yourself can surely send ones mentality into a place where dreams can no longer be separated from reality. And in this place, he finds hallucinations composed by himself, as well as outside forces that seek to hinder the true potential of the mind.
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[SAMPLE]
Love is like two dreamers dreaming, the exact same dream
Just another Technicolor, romance on the screen
[VERSE 1 - EUGENIUS NEUTRON]
Pretty lies and the ugly truth
That difference 'twen me and you
I would live and die for your honor
You would live and die for your persona
Smiling for the picture, holding up a image
of good Christian, hiding behind scriptures,
Status never mention, how you really feeling
But you know I love you unconditional
I just cracked on the code on religion
Whole picture of the Holy spirit
Tag teaming as we battle demons
But you'd rather paint me as the villain
Funny thing 'bout a lie
You'll believe the shit more and more that you say it
Repetition ain't the truth
But the truth lies in the reputation
[HOOK - LOVE MOOR & EUGENIUS NEUTRON]
Unicorns and rainbows
Devil horns and halos
Sunshine and thunderstorms
Goodbyes and hellos
Hello, Hello
Hello, Hello
[VERSE 2 - LOVE MOOR]
Was the hello worth the goodbye?
Seems like you just want it for the mean time
I saw stars in your eyes
Your skin glimmered gold
...
Was it my imagination?
Did my eyes color over the fake and
It wasn't real
Where's the authenticity
But still I dream, still I dream
[HOOK - LOVE MOOR & EUGENIUS NEUTRON]
Unicorns and rainbows
Devil horns and halos
Sunshine and thunderstorms
Goodbyes and hellos
Hello, Hello
Hello, Hello
[VERSE 3 - EUGENIUS NEUTRON]
I paint in the color life
She paints in the color of lies
I make due with the due time
Her timeline books a face of disguise
I search for real love like Mary J. Blidge
She don't see nothing cause her love is blind
I took the red pill and open my eyes
She took the blue pill and closed off her mind
I inspire for reality more
She aspires for reality shows
I build and I build, then she build and destroy
Then we both go create worlds of our own
I keep it moving like I do not know her
She flood my friends like the ark built for Noah
Cause she want two by two unicorns
And rainbows after brainstorms
[HOOK - LOVE MOOR & EUGENIUS NEUTRON]
Unicorns and rainbows
Devil horns and halos
Sunshine and thunderstorms
Goodbyes and hellos
Hello, Hello
Hello, Hello
[VERSE 4 - LOVE MOOR]
Just my imagination, running away with me
Just my imagination, running away with me yeah
Just my imagination-nation, running away with me
Just my imagination-nation, running away with me yeah, running away with me yeah
[HOOK - LOVE MOOR & EUGENIUS NEUTRON]
Unicorns and rainbows
Devil horns and halos
Sunshine and thunderstorms
Goodbyes and hellos
Hello, Hello
Hello, Hello
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[NARRATOR]
Attempting to decide paths between the mind and heart can make you crazy, but those who follow blindly find a normality that is closer to insanity.
[VERSE 1 - EUGENIUS NEUTRON]
I can't let these people play me
Name one genius that ain't crazy
Of course you can see the pain in side the painting
But the bigger pictures never fit the framing
How can I say this, I see the devil in a corporate mind
Assembly line of some zombies in a suit and tie
Angels in the eyes of my nephews and my nieces
And even a couple demons in a dashikis
I watched hoteps transform to hopeless
From rushing to know everything that they don't need to know yet
The rabbit hole of knowledge won't get you back to the past
It just have you running late like you Alice in Wonderland
Wondering if they'll ever find the strength that they claim
We want the thrones without the games and all the stress that it bring
Heavy is the head of those called kings and queens
But can you risk losing your mind to find your inner peace cause
[HOOK - NATE SUMMERS]
I know you think I must be crazy (crazy)
Crazy (crazy cause)
If it's unfamiliar to you
Gets you all uncomfortable
I know you think I must be crazy (crazy)
Crazy (crazy but)
Normal seems closer to insane
[VERSE 2 - DEE SKILLZ]
Insanity, what's that? Living in rings like marriage
Where dreams are miscarried
Cause routines lack new things
I'm not always Polaris, I have sparred with the dark
I've had wars in my mind, I've had scars in my heart you know
How much the world could weigh,
Fruitless things that human beings might say
Who believe in their own fear, what's their eyes see and what they hear
Until a month feels like a minute, and a year feels like a day
And when there isn't more time left, a lifetime feels like a grave
What they telling? What they selling? Anybody here really know truth?
If you only know what they told you, what you think you gon' tell youth?
There isn't a route that's fail proof, no possession gon' die with you
Everybody ain't gon' fly with you, they'll lie to God, they'll lie to you
Insanity, what's that? An enemy to myself
And trying to heal it with a cure, that's a injury my health
But, how would you know what you had, if you never have no test?
You can find the most strength, when you feel close to death
When you feel close.... to crazy
[HOOK - NATE SUMMERS]
I know you think I must be crazy (crazy)
Crazy (crazy cause)
If it's unfamiliar to you
Gets you all uncomfortable
I know you think I must be crazy (crazy)
Crazy (crazy but)
Normal seems closer to insane
[VERSE 3 - EUGENIUS NEUTRON]
I decompress my depression, Lord knows I be stressing
Tryna save the world through my messiah complexion
Still checking for positives in a negative moment
Either I'm super focused or I'm super bipolar
They say proper preparation prevent a poor performance
Probably part of the prime reason I got paranoia
Trap myself in the studio 'til I go claustrophobic
Doing all the this recording, but still I'm antisocial
Am I autistic or artistically to advance?
Do this over and over 'til I develop Tourette's
No prescription they can give you when you addicted rap
Workaholics anonymous, relapsing 'til I collapse
I energize off a nap, I know I'm insomniac
But still I take my chances like a kleptomaniac
Whenever I take a snoozing, my dreams be way too lucid
Thaink my mental's be zooming in my rapid eye movements
Tryna cure my anxiety, killing off my sobriety
Pouring poison inside of me, I don't even get high with weed
Really go schizophrenic, developing sixth senses
Really see dead people, & Casper just ain't as friendly
Won't even give him a minute, my time is ticking, don't hold me up
Word to Andre Benji living chronometrophobia
I'm O.D.B. with O.C.D. & PTSD maybe
And A.D.D. for my haters, I know they label me crazy, damn
[NARRATOR]
This is the feeling of our youth. They are relentlessly trying to find themselves in an atmosphere without encouragement, leadership, and motivation. All though they grow up fast, the path to manhood is a slow and dark place for most of them. By the time they truly understand what it means to be a man, it may be too late. If only someone had taken to time to speak life into their young souls, we may have seen a different trajectory for this generation.
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[NO SUH FOSTER]
Hey one time for your spine
Two times for your mother ----in' mind!
If I only had a song's worth of time to tell you how beautiful you are, well
Well I probably wouldn't say anything at all
I mean, what's 170 seconds of encouragement compared to the 86,230 this world spends trying to convince you that you're worthless?
That's just in one day.
How could I have possibly hoped to alleviate a hate that's taken a millennium to create, and cultivate?
What if told you at the base of it all you'd find live staring you directly in the face, tears in it's eyes, apologizing that it lack the strength to truly express itself, so it suppressed itself, and then oppressed you to the point where couldn't respect yourself, or even accept yourself.
That way you both stand eye to eye in the same valleys of jealousy and contempt.
Take the emptiness inside of you and then project yourself on everything and everybody around you leaving this world worse off than when it found you.
How can I defeat this scoundrel?
Put you back on your throne and crown you with words.
Words is my only weapon.
I mean shit, David had a rock, at least that gave him a shot.
Only thing I'm capable of doing is making your head nod.
So how can I tell you that the originator, the creator, of the fresh, the cool, the dope.
So much so that, that last word's definition is flipped solely based upon your intention.
If I took it that deep could you dig it?
I mean, every gem is worth it's work.
And all that grit, grime, and dirt are simply treasures of the earth, from which you came, and when you return your remains will be the very same thing upon which all life is sustained.
How can I explain that the truth is stranger than fiction?
That you existence is a strange case of survival, unrivaled by any of its predecessors
That - that greatness that you steady rejecting is the very envy of your oppressors, and the wouldn't have it...
Any. Other. Way.
If I had a song's worth of time I really don't know what I'd say.
I just know I'd spend every second carefully crafting lines, more potent that any nickel, dime, quarter, or ounce hoping to grasp a ounce of your attention.
Like, like, like maybe if you heard enough, you'd listen.
Like, like, like maybe if I threw it ahead of the curve enough while you sprinting through life, the trajectories would eventually cross paths and you'd get
You see, that's quarterback vision.
Seven on the scoreboard if you catch the extra point that I'm kicking.
No need to thank me, just pay it forward in the perfect world in which songs change conditions, and lyrics can be the prescription that heals any and all sickness.
But this world isn't perfect, now is it?
So I guess this reality is all made up in my mind, which essentially makes this rhyme a waste of time, but no matter.
Please excuse this utterly useless interlude as we get to your regularly scheduled programming.
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[NARRATOR]
With proper encouragement & guidance, one will start to believe in their abilities to fulfill their lives with a divine passion (yeah). A passion that can only be explained as a true gift from God.
[VERSE 1 - EUGENIUS NEUTRON]
Yeah, yeah
So the pen is mightier than the sword my Lord
Use these passionate prayers as garments to armor your boy
I search for heaven within as God guiding my course
Align my track with stars and I awaken the force
Force of nature, most basic law was the self preservation
That's a physical statement that can't compute in the matrix
I'm Neo peeping the code, binary one's and O's
One and 'O' if my revolution reload in your soul
I pray my people replay this and load up it to they playlist
I know you saving your data but download it and save it
Mark my words and save the date like its formal arrangement
Form and function for the soul now to save more later
Influence for all my people going through it
I'm just trying to heal them with a lil' bit of music
Is hip hop just a euphemism for a new religion
Can I get a amen and a witness (And I Am)
[HOOK - EUGENIUS NEUTRON & KENYA LATRICE]
Is hip hop just a euphemism for new religion
Soul music of the slaves that the youth is missing
On a mission for the children listening all over the world
Teaching every boy and girl you got power in your word
If we each one teach one,
We can save the world if we all reach one
And I am kneeled, pray for grace
Saving grace
Is hip hop just a euphemism for new religion
Soul music of the slaves that the youth is missing
On a mission for the children listening all over the world
Teaching every boy and girl you got power in your word
If we each one teach one,
We can save the world if we all reach one
And I am kneeled, pray for grace
Saving grace
[VERSE 2 - MADAM BUTTERFLY]
Been through so much, got so much to say now
Where I'm from, it's come up or stay down
So I'm flipping and chopping these vowels
Off cord, words cut like sword, good Lord
(Huh) Grass wasn't greener, on the other side
So I had to get it out the mud this time
When you start from the bottom, you must climb
To your highest height, even in the dark
Stars still shine, to conquer they divided
I stand by word, bond, you can't change my mind,
Song -birds singing these rhymes, flow so divine
Im so whole, just call me 'Prime'
Rippling, when it's tough I know it's hard to grips things
Looking for an out, pulling ripped strings
Fiend with the pen and pad, so addicting
[HOOK - EUGENIUS NEUTRON & KENYA LATRICE]
Is hip hop just a euphemism for new religion
Soul music of the slaves that the youth is missing
On a mission for the children listening all over the world
Teaching every boy and girl you got power in your word
If we each one teach one,
We can save the world if we all reach one
And I am kneeled, pray for grace
Saving grace
Is hip hop just a euphemism for new religion
Soul music of the slaves that the youth is missing
On a mission for the children listening all over the world
Teaching every boy and girl you got power in your word
If we each one teach one,
We can save the world if we all reach one
And I am kneeled, pray for grace
Saving grace
[POEM - KENYA LATRICE]
If you were told that life and death were in the power of the tongue, would you believe it?
Or that your hands possessed the power of healing, could you feel it?
The power of the mind is a manifestation of its thoughts.
Would you continue outwardly thinking?
If I told you all food ain't good food, will you filter what you eating?
See past the hoes and the gold.
Dissect your heart, your mind, and your soul cause there's so much to life.
You serve a deeper purpose.
So can you tell me who you are?
Can you reach beyond the surface?
What you live for?
What will you die for?
Tell me what you're here for.
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[NARRATOR]
Having passion will create a gateway to a meaningful life beyond material possessions. It provides a place of peace in a world of chaos. Something to be truly thankful for. By continuously crafting at a passion, eventually a purpose will be found.
[VERSE 1 - EUGENIUS NEUTRON]
Oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord
If I call let the third time be a charm
Came home to a murder in my front yard
Got a couple dead bodies on laying on my lawn
Death ain't made it to my door yet
Buts it's caution tape around my door steps
Just one of my many real life visions
Probably why I'm always praying for city, uhh
God knows it's so much I wanna see
Lord's in the water while I'm just cruising on the seas
Made it to the shore put my locs in the breeze
Baptize myself in Raton City Beach
Pray I be like the waters of Honduras
Set my heart free and keep my spirit at its purest
Rolling on a river, ain't no proud Mary burning
Just some Ahmnoulringeykuer'n
[HOOK - EUGENIUS NEUTRON & LAUREN MICHEL]
I just wanna pray, meditate, pray, meditate,
Pray, meditate, pray, meditate, pray, ahh uhh
Ahh uhh
I just wanna pray, meditate, pray, meditate,
Pray, meditate, pray, meditate, pray, ahh uhh
Ahh uhh uh uhh
[VERSE 2 - EUGENIUS NEUTRON]
Last two years showed the city how to do it
Next two years whole set gon' do it
Name another nigga with that influence
What I do to beats got B-Metro booming
But if it wasn't for rap, I might be muted
Thats why we praying for purpose we go do this
My method to it is similar to a Buddhist
Creating concepts confusing as Confucius
Like if God quote unquote said let there be light
That means sound was the first thang created right?
Technically that and vibration
So I got a higher calling with the music that I'm making
Or maybe this is just my meditation
Self medicating spiritual rejuvenation
Cause praying don't fix nothing but yourself
Still the single most important step, so
[HOOK - EUGENIUS NEUTRON & LAUREN MICHEL]
I just wanna pray, meditate, pray, meditate,
Pray, meditate, pray, meditate, pray, ahh uhh
Ahh uhh
I just wanna pray, meditate, pray, meditate,
Pray, meditate, pray, meditate, pray, ahh uhh
Ahh uhh uh uhh
[SAMPLE]
And I, pray
[LAUREN MICHEL]
Woo
Yeah I like that
Ohhhhh
I
Yeah
I need you, Lord
More than I need, anything else
I am a fighter for the Lord (fighter for love)
Fighting for the only truly kingdom
Don't want no award (don't want no award)
Know what's only coming when the king come
I been running this long, writing my wrongs
Know they'll hate me for it
Know a few will still adore it
I don't care care either which way-way
Ain't no shucok'n'jiving or the play-play
I just want more souls up on my plate-plate
Got you thinking different everyday-day
I ain't got no reason to be safe-safe
If you got a problem, we can talk about it
Hear you out in every way-way-way
I'm just trying to be a Paul, not a Judas
So I'm riding for my shooters pray-pray
[SAMPLE]
Couldn't hear nobody pray, Lord
Couldn't hear nobody pray
Way down under, by myself
Couldn't hear nobody pray, Lord
Pray
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[NARRATOR]
The power and confidence that you've been looking for was right inside of you all along. The feeling you get once you’ve figured it out. It’s like you’ve learned how to fly.
[VERSE 1 - EUGENIUS NEUTRON]
Return to the heavens, blessed when
They thought you never will, is, was
Be the same nigga that you have become
Cut from a cloth that just ain't clean enough,
When really you got that shit straight mud
They claim that your grave already been dug
But resurrection, GET UP!
Return to the heavens, blessed when
You learn to channel you inner sense over your enemies
Giving them sentiments, like it's the end of it
We just beginning this, Genius of genesis
Skies is limitless, fuck what the limit is
Back to that Itty shit, mother fuck Icarus, we really living this
[HOOK - B. "Squeeze" Hill]
Oh my, oh my
I see you finally figured out how to fly
I point my head to the sky
And there you are in stars passing by
I say there you go
Another U.F.O.
No sense in looking down, the people here on the ground
They may never know, how you figured it out
[VERSE 2 - CHIKN JORGE]
Return to the heavens, blessed when
Momma was usher
When momma was working
You was with Muffin, juvie was great
Mistakes started mischievous, being mannish
I didn't have a figure, trying to figured it out with a younger brother
Older sister from a different scene
Fuck you, I'm a product, this environment taught me values
Statues set in stone, my name ain't change but legacy's in text
She received seeds that wombed my offsprings
We don't die we just multiply
[HOOK - B. "Squeeze" Hill]
Oh my, oh my
I see you finally figured out how to fly
I point my head to the sky
And there you are in stars passing by
I say there you go
Another U.F.O.
No sense in looking down, the people here on the ground
They may never know, how you figured it out
[VERSE 3 - EUGENIUS NEUTRON]
Return to the heavens, blessed when
The pagans done done deception of all of your scriptures
Placing they penalties into your penmanship
Made all your blessings to all your blemishes
Made all your images into themselves
But the blacker shell, the more immaculate the concept
GET UP!
Return to the heavens, blessed when
You finally start to realize, all the real lies
And find that you can make it there alive
And ain't gotta pass the time just waiting to die
When heaven is something residing inside
And skies is just a place to place your mind
[HOOK - B. "Squeeze" Hill]
Oh my, oh my
I see you finally figured out how to fly
I point my head to the sky
And there you are in stars passing by
I say there you go
Another U.F.O.
No sense in looking down, the people here on the ground
They may never know, how you figured it out
(Guitar solo)
They you go, never know
They you go, never know
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Eutopia [Floating Up]
05:26
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[INTRO]
It's like I'm floating up
I would pick the last track of the album to really start talking. But you know, I hope that y'all get the gist that I been searching. I been searching for heaven. I been searching for peace. I been searching for my zen. I been searching for Utopia. Utopia.
[VERSE]
God knows I been searching for while
Praying for some peace ever since I was a child
Beast of no nation, I was out here running wild
Birmingham City zoo on the westside
Granny always used to tell me 'beat the man down
Any time you laugh, hit ya chest with a pound' (Growing up)
We just thought that laughing wouldn't allowed (Growing up)
Funny thing that I get it now, (Break it down)
Make sure that you feel it in your heart (Glow up)
And if it feel good keep it in your heart (Glow up)
Put your heart in anything that ya our start (Glow up)
And I been doing that for so long (Glow up)
Arrington Middle School Bulldog (Glow up)
Drill team stepping in the name of the Lord (Glow up)
Stomping like I'm trying to send the devil through the ground
And if I'm gon' rejoice I'mma yell it out loud! (B.D.T.)
Taught me discipline in militant style (Word up)
Taught me practice make it perfect with some time (Word up)
Thank God Mr. Foster taught me 'fo he died (Word Up)
He might've been an angel in disguise (Word Up)
Lost him then I start losing my mind (Fucked up)
That's when I was thinking suicide (Fucked up)
I'm thirteen & don't wanna be alive (Fucked up)
It's just the blues of a indigo child (Fucked up)
But thank God Mrs. Vee came along (Bless up)
A wise woman with some locs so long (Bless up)
She lost her son on the blocks that I roamed (Bless up)
And yet she still loved me like her own (Bless up)
She gave me everything to make me stronger (That's what's up)
Had me teaching lil' kids in the summer (That's what's up)
She put me in the church and off the corner (That's what's up)
Even when the churches ain't want him (That's what's up)
Cause they aint like the company I kept (Squad up)
Bunch of bloods, couple G's and some crips (Squad up)
You don't understand how that pastor made me feel
When he looked me in my face and told me I'm burning in hell, shit!
(I just lost control!) Like my soul wouldn't there
Punching holes in the church walls, slanging all the chairs (Help me up)
She the only thing that stopped my tears (Help me up)
And she held me in her arms 'til I was healed (Help me up)
So many years that she kept me by her side (Help me up)
She taught me lessons that teachers don't provide (Help me up)
She taught me love was another form of God
And I can give love anywhere at anytime
Opened up my mind to so much I never known
Told me I was royalty fo' I was ever born
'Understand you a king out here searching for a throne
But how to be a man, gotta find out on your own'
I put myself in college when I didn't need the help (Straight up)
I ain't really have no problem with the test (Straight up)
But me and my professor couldn't connect (Straight up)
I said I'd rather learn about my self
Took the red pill with No Suh & Dee Skillz (Waddup)
Chris Jay, Do Fresh, and J Millz (Waddup)
Them my brothers like my real brothers is
And I tell 'em that I love 'em, ain't no shame over here (Waddup)
Back then I was searching my for zen
Learning what it meant to have some inner peace within (Waddup)
Found it with some paper and a pen (Waddup)
Now it's feeling like I'm back at again (Waddup)
The preacher told me go get baptized (Hold up)
The Muslim told me lay off all the swine (Hold up)
The President, he told me to wait in line (Hold up)
The five percenter told me I'm a God (Hold up)
My OG told me go and stack it up (Hold up)
My homies told me keep it real bruh (Hold up)
My granny told me find a nice girl (Hold up)
My niece told me come give me a hug
Shit, I base it out love we ain't gotta complicate it (Go up)
It ain't really hard as we make it (Go up)
Tell me what's the truth in what you saying (Go up)
If it's something I don't need then I don't take it (Go up)
I can't hold to whatever ain't mine (Go up)
I just let go & let God (Go up)
Peace the only thing I ask that he provide
Finding heaven inside as I elevate my mind, shit the only way go!
[HOOK]
Only way we go is up
Only way we go is up
Only way we go is up
That's the only way we go
I been searching for Utopia (I got it)
I been searching for Utopia (I got it)
I been searching for Utopia (I got it)
Eutopia
[NARRATOR]
Now, go confidently in the direction of you dreams. Live the life you've always imagined. Your wings already exists, all you have to do is fly.
[OUTRO]
It's like I'm floating up (And I Am)
It's like I'm floating up
It's like I'm floating up
It's like I'm floating up
It's like I'm floating up
It's like I'm floating up
It's like I'm floating up
It's like I'm floating up
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17. |
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[NINA SIMONE AUDIO]
So what's freedom mean?
What's free to me? Same thing it is you, you tell me.
No you tell me.
(Laughter)
[HOOK - AMINA DESSELLE]
Birds flying high, you know how I feel
Sun in the sky, you know how I feel
It's a new dawn, it's a new day
It's a new life for me
[VERSE 1 - EUGENIUS NEUTRON]
I did this for Eunice Waymon, I been like free as fuck lately
L's up, you can raise 'em, love-life-liberation
That a cause for celebration, I just might need a vacation
King of Eumonda, might hit up Africa & come to America later
Sa-pa-se to the Haitians, wha gwan to Jamaicans
Shout out assalamualaikum, O-si-yo to the natives,
Every hood cross the globe, what up doe to my Detroit players
We don't need no translation, this a universal language
Salute 'em with the salutations, play this for my player haters
Got a squadron like the army, better yet it's like the navy
Everything all gravy, still cooking with some cajun
Play button making plays, like I'm juggin with the yay, that's why they say
[HOOK - AMINA DESSELLE]
Birds flying high, you know how I feel
Sun in the sky, you know how I feel
It's a new dawn, it's a new day
It's a new life for me
[VERSE 2 - EUGENIUS NEUTRON]
I did this for Eunice Waymon, I been like free as fuck lately
We been singing since slavery, now we need them reparations
Love my team they amazing, we Summer Jam Secret Stages
Waddup to the Nu Nation, deep like we Wu Tang'n
We just moving with a method man, we gon' come up together fam
Like the birds of a feather, know we flock together, never make feathered fan
And we never get jet lag, we been zooming with a jet pack
Really ain't no telling where we at, we might have to send a telegraph
Morse code on the telephone, ain't no telling if they telling dog
Ain't the truth then tell 'em nah, they tell a vision they never saw
Tell 'em ain't no tall tales involved, run the sonics like a hedgehog
Niggas run tell dat 'til it get back funny like Martin Lawrence
Fortune tellers tell us low balls, now bank tellers tell us off
But it's still freedom of the speech, we don't never need a tele-prompt
Used to major in the telecom, nowadays can't tell me nothing
Like I'm telepathic and telekinesis, telescopes telling 'em that they can't see me, uhh,
State of mind that I be in, like fuck what you thank ain't no chains on my freedom
'Cept all these chains on my neck when they gleaming
Franco my pharaohs and my Nefertiti
Son gon' shine whenever you see but my glow up don't come from none of my pieces
Bird is the word but we never tweeting
Shout out to Maya we flying, the reason we singing like
[HOOK - AMINA DESSELLE]
Birds flying high, you know how I feel
Sun in the sky, you know how I feel
It's a new dawn, it's a new day
It's a new life for me
[VERSE 3 - AMINA DESSELLE]
Breeze drifting on by
Don't tell me why
Ain't got trouble in my mind
Sinners sipping lilac wine
Let me be free, let me be me
I stay wild as the wind
Smoking bud and sip your gin
And I'm feeling good
[HOOK - AMINA DESSELLE]
Birds flying high, you know how I feel
Sun in the sky, you know how I feel
It's a new dawn, it's a new day
It's a new life for me, yeah
[NINA SIMONE]
I'll tell you what freedom is to me, no fear!
[AMINA DESSELLE]
And I'm feeling good
[NINA SIMONE]
It's like a new way of seeing something.
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18. |
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[SAMPLE]
Everything is everything, (Everything is everything)
Ain't a damn thing changed mane, (Ain't a damn thing changed mane)
Everything is everything, (Everything is everything)
Ain't a damn thing changed mane, damn thing changed mane
[VERSE 1 - THOVEN BEY]
They put this in our ear nigga, high and low
This out started out like, some years ago
When I stealing cassette tapes before Pop shows
Then my brother got on stage and froze
Now fast forward to the present
Y'all showed us how to be on our tippy toes
Real passionate so we put the energy towards the studio
Making masterpieces, yeah you can lease it, I'm kinda decent
So nothing for free, yeah you better have some cheese
Beat for beat, yeah I need me
We carry the torch, how it's suppose to be
'Nothing is new up under the sun', is what grandma told me
Know I heard this song and it was a message
Cause from ninety-nine to seventeen ain't a damn thing changed
[HOOK - SAMPLE]
Everything is everything, (Everything is everything)
Ain't a damn thing changed mane, (Ain't a damn thing changed mane)
Everything is everything, (Everything is everything)
Ain't a damn thing changed mane, damn thing changed mane
Everything is everything, (Everything is everything)
Ain't a damn thing changed mane, (Ain't a damn thing changed mane)
Everything is everything, (Everything is everything)
Ain't a damn thing changed mane, damn thing changed mane
[VERSE 2 - DMAN]
I'm just trying to stack my cheese and see my little boys grow tall
But we still get hassled by the damn laws for no cause
And all these rappers turning flaw
Watch the loners kill 'me all
My Pops said, 'everything wouldn't change'
He said 'you'll still get framed in the game'
Cause everything is everything, police acting lame
Trying to take the rights of another human, mane
But it's a shame, cause it's all about game
Why they playing into they hand, while they trying to put us on locks and chains
On everything (on everything), that metal gang (that metal gang)
A heavy thang (a heavy thang), on everything (on everything)
[HOOK - SAMPLE]
Everything is everything, (Everything is everything)
Ain't a damn thing changed mane, (Ain't a damn thing changed mane)
Everything is everything, (Everything is everything)
Ain't a damn thing changed mane, damn thing changed mane
Everything is everything, (Everything is everything)
Ain't a damn thing changed mane, (Ain't a damn thing changed mane)
Everything is everything, (Everything is everything)
Ain't a damn thing changed mane, damn thing changed mane
[VERSE 3 - EUGENIUS NEUTRON]
Nothing before family and my father told me that
Twenty-five years I seen him hold it on his back
Got my brothers with me, so you know that we gon' shoulder that
But I carry that like Genius of Naza'rap
Pops was out here spitting rhymes back in ninety-nine
Told me be better so I keep it a hundred all the time
I swear the town treat me like my name OG
I tell 'em that I got the game from the old Gene
I be stunting like my daddy ain't no Birdman & Weezy
And I am my brothers keeper but I sho'll look out for Reesha
Shouts out to mama cause they say you birthed a genius
I might have to call my poppa tell him come jump a remix oh
[HOOK - SAMPLE]
Everything is everything, (Everything is everything)
Ain't a damn thing changed mane, (Ain't a damn thing changed mane)
Everything is everything, (Everything is everything)
Ain't a damn thing changed mane, damn thing changed mane
Everything is everything, (Everything is everything)
Ain't a damn thing changed mane, (Ain't a damn thing changed mane)
Everything is everything, (Everything is everything)
Ain't a damn thing changed mane, damn thing changed mane
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19. |
Eupac Shakur [Bonus]
04:46
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[SAMPLE]
I feel like I can make it
The storm is over now
[VERSE 1]
Man, if it wasn't for you
Ain't no telling what the fuck a nigga would do
I was tryna decide between my dreams and school,
Barely up in my classes from 8 to noon
From 1 to 3 I had the intern at 103
And working 3:30 to midnight at Directv
Home work, make a beat, try to fall sleep
Next day, no brakes, just a repeat
My ol' lady at the time couldn't see the dream
Even though I would've gave her ass anything
Except the time out my day that she say need,
Cause shit, I ain't even have enough for me
I was in the world searching for some new things
Sick of loosing all my homies to the shootings
I was young and ambitious, just made a decision
I ain't coming back home 'til I prove things
Told me homie you look like another me
Grinding like you tryna get the whole thing
I can tell you from the hood but ya heart still good
Since then I looked at you like my OG
Told me do what I can so I can want I need
Then do what need so I can do what I want
I swear truer words ain't never spoke
I preach it to the crew like it's law
Can't thank you enough for everything you taught us
Me, Dee Skillz, Chris Jay, Fresh, & Foster
Shit, all these years and we still partners
Glad to see you still rocking with the Chief Rocka
Loner Dreamer Lover Rebel be the squadron
Everybody know the crew for dropping knowledge
But if we being real, I'm just saying how feel
Ghon Bomb you the one that sparked it, yeah
[HOOK]
In this game, the lesson's in your eyes to see
Though things change, the future's still inside of me
We must remember that tomorrow comes after the dark
So you will always be in my heart, with unconditional love
With unconditional love,
With unconditional love
With unconditional love, with unconditional love,
With unconditional love
[VERSE 2]
I dedicate this album to the young niggas
Tryna find a way to be a young man
Living life feeling like don't nobody understand
Sick everybody saying 'God got a plan'
Well, my nigga it's true
I came off that block bro, just like you
I walk, talk, dress, & stress, just like you
The game been the same man, it's just the players is new
I just hope you understand that-that player is you
And your pride won't nobody play you for a fool
We all gotta play the game whether win or loose
But it's fucked up when nobody teach us the rules
Gotta know them rules before you bend them shits
It's some problems where street knowledge just don't make since
Taught to show no love cause love can get you killed
But if you scared to die then what's your reason to live, Huh?
Think about it
Tell me what yours life and are you bout it
When you in your last days and you headed to the grave
Do you really care about a bank deposit?
It's really no right or wrong answers
I'm just tryna spark your awareness
Have you noticed that this world can make you careless
And at the same time they tell you be careful
And if I give you anything it's just a handful
And if you need me man, I got a helping hand too
I probably already know what you going through
That shit ain't easy but believe me man, we got through
Cause it's no equivalent for experience, that's the best teacher
You gon' learn that on your own G
If need be, I can be your OG
I'ma tell you off top how 'Pac told me, yeah
[HOOK]
In this game, the lesson's in your eyes to see
Though things change, the future's still inside of me
We must remember that tomorrow comes after the dark
So you will always be in my heart, with unconditional love
With unconditional love,
With unconditional love
With unconditional love, with unconditional love,
With unconditional love
[NARRATOR]
This is not about solving a Rubik’s cube. No. This is about solving life. Have you utilized these principles of solving the Rubik’s cube to solving your life? Do you believe in yourself? Have you solved your cross by developing an intense reason to keep you going and keep you pushing? Have you filled in your corners by surrounding yourselves with positive people and listening to motivational messages on a daily basis? Do you take it to the next level by continuing to grow and to get better? Do you see the bigger picture or have you become side tracked by frivolous things? If you have not answered yes to these questions, I highly encourage you to apply these principles of solving the Rubik’s to solving your life, then you….can solve the Rubik’s cube… inside of you.
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