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Intro
01:00
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2. |
The Pain Ft E turn
03:42
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The Pain
This that post evolution
pain and progression
tried and the failed
so many questions
so many lessons
trials and the tribulations
this is the pain
In my Darkest hour I found the definition
Maybe I’m not the only one
who believes in my vision
I learn what life is
a combination of moves and sacrifices
You have no idea/not even the slightest
there’s nothing like it
Composition behind all these devices
my addictions
all of these vices keep fighting
anytime I wanted to quit
I kept writing
live show testimonial so exciting
How many times in my life have I crossed over
playing lacrosse
or these raps that I talk over
be in the trap
or these tracks
I spill my heart and thoughts over
or the way I feel when I’m not sober
I did it once/did it twice/ third time do it right
way he do it do it
Say he do it nice
we so high we out of sight
my shit hybrid resident on there play list
from the burbs of fredvegas
to the block where there is no escaping
this is history in the making
Taking music, make it your full time occupation
ask your family and friends to be patient
do anything to hear your track playing
Screaming put your hands where my eyes can see just like I planned it
then move them left to right just like I panned it
Astronaut stuck off on my own planet
Said I’m marshall Leonard
marshall mathers
all fucking mixed
got the sounds from virginia
125th all in my influence
I never said I was the best
but i be Always making progress
They just trying find a million ways to stop it
I’m just trying to find a million ways to make a profit
Got a constant dope supply
swear I’ll be underworld forever
At my all time low
I drive back road’s
preach to congregations across the globe
Like this is all that I know
Means so much when they appreciate my flow
all the passion and energy I put in my show
Son of mayhem honorary samcro
audio arsenal
swole hand me some more ammo
Can not break away something’s always pulling me close
Create my own time signature
Just so they remember us
This is the illmatic
The escatic
Combined with the love below
The chariot the chronic
Something that they never seen before
in search of refuge/recluse/nowhere to go
this project I feel like I got so much to prove
so much to gain/so much to lose
high powered in my endeavor’s always stay true
I be speaking on these records like its just me and you
all of these recordings hope one breaks thru
Said I dropped the mixtape and it sounded like the album
for the people I owe so much I couldn’t do this without them
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3. |
Dope Dreams
03:16
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DOPE DREAMS
I stay float as long as can
I’m gon run as fast I can
give a fuck what they say that i cant
only a man mixed with these mixed grams/mixed with these jams/after storm and struggle there i am
i aint living lavish/im just living lawless young bosses/that’s what’s makes us targets
where we come from we cant forget it/whole generation behind me/carry on tradition/
real vs rap if i had to be specific/this a real fact/give a fuck about a critic/just as long as you rap how you live it/ i made alliance with other lions in irons/and brothers on grind like i am/
never compromising our views/we always stay defiant
we ain’t had enough of nonthing really
do not make me call up willie sheely
and have you all caught up in our vortex
bring the bigger picture
adjust your sets to the wortex
fuck all the non-believers
fuck all the great deceivers
say one day they gon see us
no matter how they perceive us
they say all we do is smoking herb
my whole crew doing
revolutions round the earth
speaking in the spoken word/
tribal seeds provide to me/the eyes to the see
the strength to continue on
im blowing on some loud
and i mixed it with some strong/
screaming no one really dies/ your legacy living on
this is a broadcast from the live show
i put on till im gone/
im more hippie then a hipster/
take postivity then put it in a swisher
pass it around/built this up from the ground
screaming this is just a phase/
looking for a great escape/
this is just a product of the dedication
work that i put in/
anybody try to kill your dreams/this is death to all of them/i’m at the black chapel/me and my black thought synched up/the rush you get/when you achieve everything you dreamed of
stepping to that ledge can be very scary
take a leap of faith and become legendary
there ain’t nonthing they can do stop you really
leaders of the future
they still gon try and shoot you down
Welcome to our world
there’s trees over everything
don’t let them tell you nonthing
you can do anything
its dope dreams over everything
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4. |
No Sleep
04:24
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No sleep
I got this looping On repeat/
my feet up of the concrete
Same place people eat and sleep
From the grind
to the gutter/to the beach
Crime/corruption and deceit
That make you rise up out your seat
I’m screaming love/then I’m screaming peace
I got a inbox full of beats
Take these statements across state
lines
Screaming fuck it all don’t know how to feel
Insomnia my only friend I really don’t know how to chill
How we all be lounging/ they starving in towns I’m pronouncing
Ozone to Oakland
Dc to the boggie down man
They killin niggas
Half my generation
All thugged out
Rollin
other half my generation all drugged out
Eyes wide open
Facing consequences
I’m bugged out
Son of the morning
Kept rising
Kept shining
Kept living beyond limits
They like where the fuck ya been
Red dragon on these niggas/bout to go jeremey lin
This song was dedicated to those given no chance
Fallin to chemical romance
Across the sky as we slow dance
I watch the citzen’s coping
while I’m listening Copeland
Beneath the medicine tree I’m smoking
True story
No downtown fiction
It’s a different world
That We livin
I’m trying to unlock
These codes and keys
Got parameters
That keep you placed
Where you suppose to be
Proper politics
That keep you locked in position
It’s every man for them selves
They wage war on the oppostion
Campaigns that cost them billions
Cant the feed woman or children
What is this
Its almost as if it no more heroes
Even existed
Then we comeback
Combat with this shit
Walking thru the district
Unique assassin
Word chemist
They say the city sleeps
All alone
City streets be there homes
More concerned with substances
Then music
With a subject
And some substance
I’m carefully
Constructing
Lines for a generation/got the kids cranking
Got the kinds thinking/I feel asleep dreaming
Woke up on the pavement/ I can hear the drums banging
Hard for me to resist that/dying to live like big cat
I’m sitting back I’m screaming/there’s no way out/I am feinding/ beaming rolling and dreaming/dope things I am seeing/once nonthing become something/only one believing/audio architect look what
I’ve been quietly building/
I remember vividly what these lights and sound did to me
transformed me mentally/
Got me thinking moments and melodies
All these haer brain schemes
Underground to mainstream
Shake my head at tv screen
Leading my own regime
My nana told me have no parts of this world
That’s why I stay so far from this world
Speaking thru these hs 50
Screaming out whose coming with me
Day of reckoning coming swiftly
Backpack on I came to spit these
Standing on solid ground
And watch it all shift
Say my rhymes just sit right along with the riffs
I said miss my family/miss my friends I’m so high and so tired
Starin out my project window feel so uninspired
I wrote this song
I wrote this song for my people that be laying on the streets
I compose all this dark thought
I lay my soul down on the beat
I be laying in my casket
Still get no sleep
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5. |
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Words to say
I got everything you need for a proper celebration/
Blowing on some trees call it parks and recreation/
Im Ron Swanson
still speaking electric on acoustic
I’m off the wall
between the line show where the truth is
cool kids riding round chuckin up the deuces
how We do it
rock rap fuse it
They looking confused With
we make that living
loving/learning music
look how we move its dumb/ feeling Head Chef turn it up a bit
going home and roll it
Burn it up a bit
Still writing rhymes while a young nigga cooking up
staying on my grind
now everything is looking up
Trynna Find
Watch me adapt to any town man
I get daps and the pound
From the bouncers bartenders
Fans
soundman
I float on like Im modest mouse
D 2 artist bring the humble and the modest out
Dope dreams and maps what
We just brought the hottest out
Palmer on the track what
ain’t No way they can stop us now
Wrote this thesis
for those torn into pieces
Cant quit now I know somebody needs this
Breathe this
something about the way that the beat kicks
I mediate to it
I get sick I swear that I medicate with it
Gravitate to it
bad news for good people
the music to bring them through it
The vans and the toms they say that my sneaks different
My parents raised me right so why you think I speak different
I only know the truth so why you think I preach different
blowing on some northern lights why you think I geek different
Whether top of the world
or I float in the sea
trynna find the words to say
Riding alone
where I wanted to be
In search
Finding my purpose
I know somebody needs these
Trying to find the words to say
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6. |
Rescue Ft Marcus Jae
03:29
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it was a lazy afternoon
smoke on a bowl of trees
so in love with you got me feeling
like palmer reed
fall asleep on a cloud
do they things they wont believe
screaming us against the world radiohead all that I need
if I fall into the sea would you come diving after me
you belong to me
help me avoid catastrophe
so that’s for you
I got it all covered girl
you be you don’t have to be no cover girl
ain’t worried bout my past
come and save me in a crash
even keep a little haze in her vera Bradley bag
all the loyalty and honesty the things that we ask
on a world tour
first face I see when I get back
dedicate this rhyme
dedicate this time to let you know
I could never ever let you go
I just wanna show you off all around the town girl
im amazed by the way you hold me down girl
all my passages
passionate
im passin out on studio couches
you was in the perfect position
to come and pick and me up
now you backstage
big theather
get the opportunity
to watch me make
the crowd stick em up
and all them other girls for you
I had to give em up
And all the love you give to me
All the girls don’t mean shit to me
So much going on
You like my shit don’t let it
get to me
Got me viewing love all differently
Driving thru the city all the lights become a blur
When I break down
No hesitation there you were
Baby you a star
Just the way you are
Never change that
Let me explain that
I spend most of my time in studios
Creatin the abstract
Then im racing home
You know I’m ready to smash that
I think I just found the two loves of my life
Making them love what I write
Making love to you tonight
Its all because of you
( Your special special
day that I met you I promise I never ever let you)
All the things you do
Came to my rescue
All the things you do
Save me
You came to my rescue
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7. |
So High
03:54
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i aint sold no dope today
i just pushed the double d
became the new favorite that everybody came to see
speaking thru this fast-track
has put me on this fast-track
invested in myself its no dow jones or nasdaq
in my hard drive i’ve been keeping mad tracks
i dropped evolution
made the whole city Grab that
the feeling indulging as the worlds revolving
i see in surround that
the sky is my domain
the ground is where we will all drown at
i looking at the audience
like where’s my town at
im hititng backstage
pretty girls and the pounds out
purple clouds where we lounge at
i found its not easy to keep yourself grounded but we sayy
they gon judge me on my flows
stage shows
and my time in space
they don’t have any clue
how much time this takes
lookin at my niggas like ahhh we so damm geeked
from soundcheck to showtime my soul leaks
my heart flows to a soul beat
i take a red eye to my destination
rise to every occasion
starve for the admiration
so high like what we blazin
this aint for radio playin
or any club promoters
i wrote this stricty for my smokers or my high rollers im on a warpath
feeling like afro deez im so high never ever forget night like these
smoking on that pink floyd
finally took some time to breathe
say goodbye to yesterday
we so high x 2
we bout to blow all our cares away
so high x 2
put your hands up
turn out all these lights
this is the life
never forget these nights
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All that remains
Hands high
if you feel like me
in a place no evil shall reach
standing on my own two
no I won’t perish
say the end gon come
but I don’t fear it
to the max I aint even near it
All alone
Its just me and my lyrics
all alone
Said I got em all bouncing
in the middle of it all taking over
no permission
stayin in the game on one condition
gotta stay true
no regrets no admissons
simon phoenix doing all demolition
criticize me use it as ammunition
I can see the future headed off in the distance
new world era making transition
rage against the system
what’s good the whole world
when I’m promised no tommrow
I be down to nothing yall
be the downfall of us
I’ll be drowning all my sorrows
feeling like I was better off dead
what a nigga do instead
kept movin ahead
kept following steps
till I walk to the ledge
all the broken pieces be the only thing left
Look into my eyes
tell me what you see
all of the pieces of me
the only one who believes in me
Nothing has changed I’m
All that remains
Should I give away give it away now
be judged by the things that I say now
they be waiting for the day that I breakdown
Screaming how much more can I take now
they give me money and I swear wont change up
in my own lane screaming fuck all you lames what
im throwing fastballs curveballs changeups unsung where we come from don’t ask why we so numb
cant wait till I reap the benefits
of these real rap references
im screaming out black excellence
author of the devastation destruction and divide in and out of my demise
I provide what they deprived
see you down see you fall
see you at your best
troubles of the world got a solider all stressed making conscious minded records
feeling like souljah bless
walking down this lonely road to the day there’s nothing left
Look into my eyes
tell me what you see
all of the pieces of me
the only one who believes in me
Nothing has changed I’m
All that remains
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9. |
Loud Ft Phraydoe Peans
03:13
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Hold on imma bout to roll one
twisted getting lifted
turn the lights off before I go on
so go and any track they throw on
destroyin blowing like
hurricane the way I’m flowin
I brought my brother phraydoe peans
to speak the truth in it
your front doorstep had to bring the troops to it
waving a black flag know what im screaming out
seventh/clergy/death to the industry
no church in the wild
im on my own minisntry
look out in the crowd they starve for my energy
they on stage like it’s a damm rave
I be leaving out the venue can’t hear for damm days and uhhh
I geuss I like it better that way
cant hear the bullshit
dumping for full clips
deceit destruction they pumping you fools with
and all of this love I’m fueled with
I like my weed
Like my music
F** loud
spend most of my time
Head in the clouds
screaming us against the world
Im leading the crowd
They building us up
They breaking us down
They build you up
Just to break you down
I cant hear shit
Im smoking on that loud
Who you give your profits to
the preachers or the prostitutes
American terrorist
new revolution
we got’s lots to do
world is just a stage
I’m bout to rock it to
rocket thru
sticking to my guns and my grassroots
astronaut suit by the dweebs music is my medicine the only thing I need this is therapy
when I aint have much
plans all smashed up racin to catch up
I be down to my last buck
youngin got that mad ambition
stuck in the kitchen
I ain’t trynna sell you nothing
just show you the difference
my altitude/amplitude high forever
dope dreams/family gang we in the sky forever
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10. |
Watch Me Go
02:53
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I’m simon fucking phoenix
I’m the demolition man
Rappers these days
Doing nonthing that a nigga cant
I holla at swamm somewhere off robinson
Now I’m getting stoned somewhere of Rosalind
Posted up on Washington
7-4am
catch me off orange ave
big stage perform for them
I’m ready to fly
ready to float
down to nothing ready to smoke
ready to die
ready to blow
watch me go
just watch me go
so far gone
I am everyday coastin
Sippin on this potion
Got me everyday floatin
The world is so beautiful
Turns in slow motion
Gotta stay focused
Gotta keep rollin
Dear summer
I miss you already/grams is home cooking up dope already the city is mine im off the leash already/pressure so heavy/ I still aint learn to let it go
There’s a cloud around the microphone
Lights go off
Then I go on
I go off
I so damm strong
I’ve been on the go for so damm long
No direction which way home
they say that’s where my heart is
I’ve become so heartless
how did this get started
became the man departed
my head is where the art is
never said I was flawless
word to Mprfct
on lock wont stop
walk thru a more or less world
in my more or less tank top
acid rock
still be on my hippie shit
dark matter trippy shit
Took a month off so I can write some piffy shit
when a niggas gone I just hope that you miss me bitch
you don’t come to my shows well fuck you all for missin it
pain and progression
thats the next edition its
time for us to level up but nah we not cheatin
how we keep eatin,
how we still breathin
how we keep surviving
because we keep grinding
This that new nigga
In America
They still gon try and hang you rap
Fly boy shit
Departuares from a hangar rap
Caution curves up ahead
This the new danger rap
Screaming with my mountain folks
Fuck republican democrat
Say goodbye to yesterday
Ain’t promised no tomorrow
Fuck a payroll
Drop a payload
Nigga my arsenal
We create the city arts
So come and walk some city blocks
Show what it really is
Show where it really lives
Guranteed go black gallery
Till im overseas
Still got it
Humble poet
A lost prophet
I be two stepping
Gorilla walking thru the mosh pit
Im not a gangbanger
Just a game-changer
Speed past you lames
Cuz we lane-changers
I came from hand to hands
Now we all in demand
Not following trends
Im stayin in my stance
Cant show you where im going
Just show you where I’ve been
Watch Me Go
If you love me
let me know
thank you all for coming to the show
watch a nigga go x 2
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11. |
In Search Of
03:37
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In search of
I did this all in a year
So why you think they place me at a whole other tier
I finally took a second to take it all in
I was a freshman in the game
I came straight ballin
I found my voice
And callin
a crowd of people I can see I’m going all in
means im going for a swim
I’m in the ocean
I be floatin blowing channel orange
rap rookie niggas where your god damm warrant
eastbound and down
bout to go Kenny powers
from the dirty burg screamin out the world is ours
wrote this tape just to push myself harder
building my brand up making them stand up
soon as hit that ramp what
got them all amped up
Cranked to the maximum who runs this shit we askin them
We’ve arrived and survived thru these line
I lose my breathe and my mind at the same time
Look where we started
They ain’t want to parts of that
All my eclectic flows
all of these eclectic shows
And now all I do is some M*** electric shit
Tell me now
tell me how what you think really bout this
Throughout this whole project
you can watch my whole process switch/murk off see me do some other other shit
get Geraldine the glk 470 mothership
We don’t give a damm what you say about my era
young niggas just trynna cop a panamera
buy the 7 series for my sister tamara
what I am displaying is a whole nother skillset
broke it down to simple subject matter call realness
I got think jah for the records
get love from family gang
and rah rah records
work hard like a Mexican
salutes from the veterans
its what I do best
I ain’t worried about who im better then
im on the frontline with the vets of kin
going varsity dope dreams letterman
chip on my shoulder kick the door
you don’t let him in
sunshine state of mind what im embedded in
I make them smile like eddie griffin
Dunk on them like blake griffin
Develop audio accuracy holla at Robert grffin
I lose sometimes I feel defeated or rejected
I’m just keeping my head up like I was directed
sometimes I wanna be like f it
then I put in way more effort
make the crowd love it
and when we die they cant say
we ain’t live it I speak vivid
you m**** don’t get it
We the kids screaming
no one really dies
please do not bury
us we are still alive
we stay up all night
watch the sunrise
this is the life
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D II Orlando, Florida
D II is an eclectic Hip Hop artist from Fredericksburg Virginia. Recording for the last 5 years, he is finally coming into his own and making a name for himself on the local music scene. D II has been labeled an underground/indie rapper that seeks to capture audiences of different backgrounds and different social standings in a way to unify people through music. ... more
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