This is a throwback jam off of one of my first mixtapes "The Book Of Adam" from 2011.  Was listening to it today and was blown away at how much me and Mikos have improved  since this shit came out 3 years ago.  My newest mixtape will be coming out very soon, stay tuned.  

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My Name is Adam - Prod. Mikos Da Gawd (THROWBACK CIRCA 2011)

O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms,
Alone and palely loitering?
The sedge has withered from the lake,
And no birds sing.

O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms,
So haggard and so woe-begone?
The squirrel’s granary is full,
And the harvest’s done.

I see a lily on thy brow,
With anguish moist and fever-dew,
And on thy cheeks a fading rose
Fast withereth too.

I met a lady in the meads,
Full beautiful—a faery’s child,
Her hair was long, her foot was light,
And her eyes were wild.

I made a garland for her head,
And bracelets too, and fragrant zone;
She looked at me as she did love,
And made sweet moan

I set her on my pacing steed,
And nothing else saw all day long,
For sidelong would she bend, and sing
A faery’s song.

She found me roots of relish sweet,
And honey wild, and manna-dew,
And sure in language strange she said—
‘I love thee true’.

She took me to her Elfin grot,
And there she wept and sighed full sore,
And there I shut her wild wild eyes
With kisses four.

And there she lullèd me asleep,
And there I dreamed—Ah! woe betide!—
The latest dream I ever dreamt
On the cold hill side.

I saw pale kings and princes too,
Pale warriors, death-pale were they all;
They cried—‘La Belle Dame sans Merci
Thee hath in thrall!’

I saw their starved lips in the gloam,
With horrid warning gapèd wide,
And I awoke and found me here,
On the cold hill’s side.

And this is why I sojourn here,
Alone and palely loitering,
Though the sedge is withered from the lake,
And no birds sing.

Hailing from San Francisco California, A-1 lives and makes music by the same code: THURL. Think, Hustle, Understand, Really Live/Love. A swiss-army-blade of a rapper, A-1 can break your heart with meaningful storytelling, or bust your gut with legendary double entendres and witty punchlines, but he always finds a way to connect to his audience through his relatability and vivid descriptions of life and love in his rapidly changing Bay Area environment.