Name: Why Should I Care by AK CEEZ & Yung Kenz
Duration: 2 min 27 s
Description: Debut mixtape from Scottish uncle-nephew Hip-Hop duo: AK CEEZ & Yung Kenz!

Written, performed, mixed, and mastered by Jed Lapp.
Beat by DJ Polo.
"Teacher" vocals:  Lydia Matamoros-Lapp
Cover art of me and my 4th grade class at Franklin Intermediate School in LIttle Rock, Ar.

Growing Up Different (beat. DJ Polo)

Picture taken by my daughter Lydia Matamoros-Lapp, of Jed Lapp (Cozmo Jethro) August 31, 2024 at my home, Skate Haven Farm, during the ceremony of my 10th wedding anniversary. 

Written and performed by Jed Lapp.
Chorus vocals by my daughter Lydia Matamoros-Lapp.
Produced by Auditory Ecstacy.
Mastered by Phable Omsri https://soundcloud.com/phable-omsri

Lyrics:
Mannnnn, this was the summer that was.
In the Pacific NW, we do what it does.
Summer 24 we spreadin the love.
Family Adventures as we rise above.

A crazy RV trip, wrote a song about this.
A 10 year anniversary of me and Crissy’s mar ridge.
A 30 year reunion of my highschool.
The Dodomyte Posse reliving the old school.

As we all get together cause the old school rules.
Writin this song as an old school jewel.

Now sit back, relax, take a trip with me.
About the summer that was to this old school beat.
Haha me and Lydia flippin the rhymes.
Let’s relive this summer one  more time.

Me and my dad cruisin down the street.
Groovin to the sound with the summer beat.
Windows rolled down, feel the summer breeze.
Life in the rhythm takin it with ease.

Me and my dad got that beat on repeat.
Ridin round the town with that summer heat.
Feel the vibe, feel the flow, bass so deep.
Life in the rhythm takin it with ease.

My highschool class had a 30 year reunion.
Half my Dodomtye Posse showed for the fun.
Me, Rachel and Jim, like an old rerun.
Seein old friends, what have they done?

Every 10 years me and Ethan Hoyt.
Relive an old prank he pulled.
Put porn pictures up in my locker,
As my highschool crush saw them, punk mother fucker.

Seein Quinn Irvine, still livin the player life
At 48 years old, dude was hittin on my wife.
But it’s all good, all the barbies at the party
Puttin on airs, tryin to act like smarties.

Some classmates said hi, didn’t know who they were.
Guess I’ve aged less than many of them, word!

Me and my dad cruisin down the street.
Groovin to the sound with the summer beat.
Windows rolled down, feel the summer breeze.
Life in the rhythm takin it with ease.

Me and my dad got that beat on repeat.
Ridin round the town with that summer heat.
Feel the vibe, feel the flow, bass so deep.
Life in the rhythm takin it with ease.

20 years my wife has been with me.
In August our 10 year wedding anniversary.
Had a bash at Skate Haven Farm.
That’s our home out in the country.

Once again, half the Dodomyte Posse,
Came out to support my wife and me.
Same best man Jim along with Sonny,
Same maid of honor, Jennifer, and Amy.

Reliving our wedding anniversary 10 years ago to the day.
With our family and friends on that hot summer day.
Had the same pastor and the DJ.
Mike Matousek, Nate Heath, Korey the MC.

Did a little dance to a song I created.
Crissy made a speech and we all related.

Me and my dad cruisin down the street.
Groovin to the sound with the summer beat.
Windows rolled down, feel the summer breeze.
Life in the rhythm takin it with ease.

Me and my dad got that beat on repeat.
Ridin round the town with that summer heat.
Feel the vibe, feel the flow, bass so deep.
Life in the rhythm takin it with ease.

So 2024 was the summer that was.
Meetin old friends, celebratin milestones.
Celebratin life as we all get older.
Live up every summer until it’s all over.

Me and my dad cruisin down the street.
Groovin to the sound with the summer beat.
Windows rolled down, feel the summer breeze.
Life in the rhythm takin it with ease.

Me and my dad got that beat on repeat.
Ridin round the town with that summer heat.
Feel the vibe, feel the flow, bass so deep.
Life in the rhythm takin it with ease.

The Summer That Was (feat. Lydia) (Prod. Auditory Ecstacy)

Written and performed by Jed Lapp.
Chorus written by Jed Lapp and Elle Roach.
Featuring Elle Roach on chorus and background vocals. https://soundcloud.com/elleroach4
Cuts, mix and master by DJ Real. https://soundcloud.com/the-dj-real
Produced by Villatic (remastered by DJ Real). https://soundcloud.com/villatic

Album art picture taken by Jed Lapp the day after the Karaoke Contest referred to in the track. 

Lyrics:

Haha Yea, it was a dark and dreary night.
My wife was not feelin right.
Karaoke contest night.
Goin alone by the moonlight.

My first karaoke contest ever.
The crowd gathers together.
In Newberg at Eden Gate.
Rockin' Oregon state.

I arrived at the contest.
Feelin' weird at best.
It's a big old country bar.
Cowboy hats and flannel, bizzare!

Sittin' there by myself 
feelin' out of place.
As the singers warm up.
half of em all cowboyed up.

Then my wife shows up.
Now I'm ready to rip shit up.
Put my song up with the KJ
Skee lo skee lo skee lo.

Hmmmm maybe this isn't the place.
Just in case, I'll go with white boy rap,
Vanilla Ice
Cue that track!

Karaoke Contest Night.
Singin dancin Saturday night.
Makin friends in the spotlight.
Everybody's feelin the vibe.

14 singers in the contest.
I'm the last to do my best.
All the others decided to sing.
I was the only riggdiy rapper.

My wife said so far
the cowboy hats at the bar
dropped their mouths ajar
like Vanilla Ice had descended on their bar.

At the instrumental break.
Whew! Busted the Vanilla Ice moves.
On the stage, dude!
As the bar went crazy.

As I finished up that white boy rap
I felt like a I had a chance
because I did the song and dance
for those cowfolk, bam!

Karaoke Contest Night.
Singin dancin Saturday night.
Makin friends in the spotlight.
Everybody's feelin the vibe.

Now, this one girl on the main.
Started singin, I was like ghat damn!
That girls got pipes.
I was like, there's your winner tonight.

While the judges were doin their thing
to decide who would win,
my wife chatted her up,
we exchanged info, yup.

Here name is Elle,
we invited her over. Welllll.
Now she's singin on my tracks,
voice like a soul angel on wax.

For me and Elle and Crissy,
a meet and greet at the show,
to see who would win the 300 bucks,
and roll.

And now the winner of the Eden Gate karaoke contest this month.
Grand prize total of 300 bucks.
Is Jed jed jed jed...

Yo man, let's get outta here, word to your mother.

Karaoke Contest Night (feat. Elle) (cuts. DJ Real) (beat. Villatic)

Written, performed, mixed, and mastered by Jed Lapp.
Beats by DredStudio

December 2024 in two psychiatric wards.
After the first, I came out worse than I was before.
Been in and out of these places since I was 16.
Bipolar Disorder, tryin to keep my life from becoming mean.

Inevitably, I have a breakthrough episode.
It’s time again to include this shit in my flows.
Disruptive to my family, my life, and my wife.  And we all know.
When the chemicals become imbalanced in my brain, I have to go

Get locked up in a psychiatric ward and hope for the best.
Hopefully my meds can get changed and be better for the rest.
And maybe for many years, I can stay stable.
And continue on the right path while I’m able.

Don't cry for me, I'm doin the best I can.
Always come out the other side, ready to jam again.
I'm a fighter, writer, flyer, survivor.
And I'll keep doin it until the end.

Cedar Hills Psychiatric Hospital, beginning of December.
My wife drove me there, Having a bipolar episode as ever.
First night there, we all watched a fist fight in the hall.
Short staffed with no security gurards, could barely stop anything at all.

The place was unsafe, girls crying in the hall.
They were scared, the screaming and banging on the walls.
No striings or belts allowed.
We could only have our phones each day for an hour.

One guy walked around with his pants down to the ground.
2 people tried to kill themselves by banging their heads on the wall. 

I spent my time trying to block it all out.
Walking the hall with hospital provided headphones.
That only connected to the local radio stations.

Don't cry for me, I'm doin the best I can.
Always come out the other side, ready to jam again.
I'm a fighter, writer, flyer, survivor.
And I'll keep doin it until the end.

Got out of that shithole.
2 days later I found myself in a different ward.
Downstairs like in a holding cell.
After a day and a night I made it upstairs.

I was able to have my phone and earbuds.
I walked the circle 737 times.
33 miles.

Met this guy who could not sleep at all.
And the Mexican gangster running up and down the hall.
In the middle of the night.
Yelling, "They're gonna kill us allllllll!!"

A week later Friday, they fixed my meds and I felt better.
Dr Rose said if I left that weekend they’d put me on a hold. 
3 days later they let me go and I was ready to roll.

Returned to my car and called my wife.
Now I’m stable and it’s back to my life.

Psychiatric Wards (beats. DredStudio)

Written, Performed, Mixed, and Mastered by Jed Lapp.
Beat by Villatic. https://soundcloud.com/villatic

Album Art Pic of Jed Lapp and Christina Matamoros-Lapp in Montreux, Switzerland in 2022. 

Lyrics:

My girl has put up with me for 21 years. So I thought I’d write a song and tell you all about it.

My girl Crissy, put’s up with me.
And all the crazy that we see.
All the craziness that comes with me.
When I’m bipolar manic, weeeeeeee!

And when I’m depressed she does what needs to be done.
There’s no one better in a crisis than my loved one.
Ya see, she grew up in a constant crisis.
So she knows what to do when everything’s unrighteous.

She knows when to cuddle to make me feel better.
She knows when it’s time to write me a love letter.
When I’m bipolar beyond help and more.
She loads me into the car and off to the psychiatric ward.

When I’m having a hemophilia bleed and can’t move.
She’s there to pick up the slack, she can do it all dude.
Yea, that’s my girl, she can do it all.
My smart beautiful wife, haha my cure all.

Whoa,
She makes everything go.
Yea, she makes everything flow.

Ya see, Crissy, she can do anything.
She has pulled off, yea some amazing things.
She grew up in a miserable home life.
Somehow she grew up to be a wonderful wife.

She makes more money than I could ever imagine.
As a pharmaceutical rep she makes a financial win.
At my job I make a fraction of what she makes.
She never holds that over my head, uh uh, no way.

My wife makes dreams come true.
We live on 2 acres with a ton of bamboo.
And when I get agitated and start acting blue.
She keeps everything together and gets us through.

She dances, she sings, she fixes things.
She’s a great mother of 4, yea that’s my queen.
In her life, she could have done anything.
But ya know what, she decided to put up with me.

That's my girl Crissy.
She doesn't get enough credit for everything she does.
Crissy, I love you and appreciate you way more than you could ever know.
Awww Yeaaaaa.

She Puts Up With Me (beat. Villatic)

Written, performed, mixed and mastered by Cozmo Jethro.
Beat by Villatic.
Bart and Homer Simpson vox courtesy of AIParrot.

Lyrics:

Cozmo, I heard you and et al. https://soundcloud.com/etalaf haven't talked in a while.

Yea Homer, I haven't been able to reach him in almost 2 months and I haven't heard any new music from him either.  I don't know what's goin on here. 

Hey Cozmo, don't have a cow man.

That's enough Bart.

It's all good yall, I just miss my friend.

Three years ago I met this guy.
Name's et al. dude is fly.
He took the time to help me rhyme.
Yea, et al. is prime time.

He taught me things I didn't know.
Where's he at now Cozmo?
I don't know Bart. What's the deal?
Is he hurt, is he injured, is this for real?

O my goodness I hope he's ok, here in Springfield we love et al.

In Portland, we love his as well.
We both love The Simpsons as you can tell.
But back to the matter at hand.
I consider myself an et al. fan.

He opened my eyes to international collaboration.
Hip hop gem from the Australian nation.
He taught me about rhymescheme.
And how to project, yea, when I sing.

He worked with me on all my tracks.
For about a year, and then he laid back.
His ideas were cunning.
Yo, et al. I think I smell something.

Gonna turn on the "Real Broom Broom." https://soundcloud.com/etalaf/the-real-broom-broom
Roll down the street to et al's bumpin.

Me and Milhouse were listening to et al's "Robot Flows" https://soundcloud.com/etalaf/700-robot-flows-music-daprofessor song yesterday.
That song is cool, man.  

Did you know that he wrote that song for me?

Cool your jets, man. Everybody knows that.

Alright Bart. Settle down. 

Cozmo, tell me more about him.

Ya see Bart, in the soul, he's a leader of free thought on a music patrol.

Hey man, that's a quote from et al.

You know his music well.

I listen to him at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant.

I hear ya man. I listen to him whenever I can.
Mostly in my car when I'm bumpin his jams.
Man, he's got the juicy lyrics.
Tried to rhyme like him but I couldn't do it.

He rhymes fast, he rhymes slow,
When he's in the groove, he glows.

We need to hear more of that et al. flow.

I know, I don't know where he would go.

Cozmo, don't you know?

Homer, I know et al. communicates through song.
So I'm flippin this rhyme to see if he responds.
et al. where you at my friend?
This is Cozmo, I hope this isn't the end.

I Miss My Friend (beat. Villatic)

Written and Performed by Cozmo Jethro and Crissy.
Beat by Villatic. https://soundcloud.com/villatic Remixed by Cozmo Jethro.
Additional outro vox performed by our kids, Lydia Matamoros-Lapp, Adam Putnam, Tristan Paris, Merey Reed and Korey Reed.
Mixed and mastered by Cozmo Jethro.
Album art pic of Crissy at her graduation ceremony, May 2025. 

Lyrics:
(Cozmo Jethro)
I wrote this song about a girl I know.
She overcame so much, yo here we go.

Growing up  in the 70s and 80s.
Had a tough time growin up in Spokane.
An absent father and an alcoholic mother.
Yea, she knew what it was to persevere.

She was married at age 17.
Two kids later, divorced at 19.
Had her third kid at age 21.
In another relationship with a struggling one.

This went on for 8 years.
Till she saw some fears,
He just couldn’t lay off the beers.

Now a single mom with 3 kids.
What an amazing job she did.

With street smarts and little education.
She started college, 30 years of dedication.
She still had to work and provide for the kids.
College start and stop, had to take care of her biz. 

(Crissy)
Wanting to provide a better life.
Better life, better life.

Inspired by my kids.
Growing for my family.
Earning and learning.
To provide for their needs.

Wanting to be a transitional fam.
Changing past legacy, oh man.
Thanking God for the wisdom.
To set us free!

(Cozmo Jethro)
As time went by she climbed the corporate ladder.
While raisin those kids, that girls a scrapper.
Then came kid number four with her life partner.
Another great kid for her to mentor.

All this time starting and stopping college.
Trying to get it done but it wasn’t happening.

She landed a job she had no business getting.
Only pharma rep in the country, no degree.
With positive attitude, gutsy, and scrappy.
She pulls off those amazing things.

All while working her tail off. Yea.
To provide for her family.

(Crissy)
Wanting to provide a better life.
Better life, better life.

Inspired by my kids.
Growing for my family.
Earning and learning.
To provide for their needs.

Wanting to be a transitional fam.
Changing past legacy, oh man.
Thanking God for the wisdom.
To set us free!

(Cozmo Jethro)
Now she’s makin it big.
In the pharma gig.
Time to try for that degree again.
Finally.

George Fox University.
Full time pharma rep 
full time accelerated degree.

Somehow for two years she pulled it off.
Just graduated Magna Cum Laude.
2025, with a double degree.
That’s my girl, that’s my Crissy.
My scrappy, gutsy, smart beautiful wife.
Makin everything better for all our lives.
Took her 30 years to get that degree.
So proud of my wife, let’s celebrate, yipppeeee.
Whooooo Crissy, you did it girl! You got that degree, 30 years of perseverence. yaaa haaaa!
(Crissy)
Yea, by the grace of god, tenacity and manifestation, we made it happen.
(Lydia) Go Mom!
(Adam) Good job Mom!
(Tristan) Great work Mom!
(Merey and Korey) You did it Mom!

The Graduate (beat. Villatic)

Debut mixtape from Scottish uncle-nephew Hip-Hop duo: AK CEEZ & Yung Kenz!

Why Should I Care

OMO.7777 - 2 AM in Warszaw

Freestyled, written, performed, mixed and mastered by Nasty Tha Mc https://soundcloud.com/nasty_tha_mc and Cozmo Jethro
Beat by ChuckieTheProducer

(Nasty Tha Mc and Cozmo Jethro)
Yo Cozmo.
Whut up Nasty?
Yi yi, ha ha.
We some superstars you know?
Well maybe.
Well at least in our Momma’s eyes.
Yea, I don’t know bout that.  
Damn.
My Mom’s pretty old. 
And you know. She’s not really gettin what we’re doin.
She’s just not feelin it.
Sorry to hear that.
But that’s ok, I don’t really mind.
Sorry to hear that.
Let’s go! (Let’s go)

Rockin with our tongue out.
Like Jordan, cause we some superstars.
(Rock out rock out)
Rockin with our tongue out.
Like Jordan, cause we some superstars.
(Rock out rock out).

(Cozmo Jethro)
Yea, it’d be nice to be a superstar.
Happy on SoundCloud goin bar for bar.
With my homey, Nasty, ghetto all start.
We got no bosses, yea, we do what we want.

We haunt and flaunt, record with heart.
Release tracks, yes, whenever we want.
Life is good, creative debutante.
Answer to nobody, cept me and Nasty.

Nasty’s like Jordan, the talent is there.
I’m like Larry Bird diving through the air.
Getting that loose ball, dishin to Nasty
So he can jam it through the hoop ha ha ha, boom!

Now we rappin bout rockin AC DC.
Everyone jumped to Bon Jovi. Yea.
Guns and Roses, Def Leppard, Metallica
Friends just passed, the great Ozzy.

That’s a little rock shout out from the 80s.
I preferred rap, personally.
It’s good to try new styles and try new stuff.
Take It back to the chorus with me and Nasty.

(Nasty Tha Mc and Cozmo Jethro)
Rockin with our tongue out.
Like Jordan, cause we some superstars.
(Rock out rock out)
Rockin with our tongue out.
Like Jordan, cause we some superstars.
(Rock out rock out.)

(Nasty Tha Mc)
Yo Jethro, let me just barrow your car.
The one that flies, give you uh huh.
I need to take a trip into the moon.
And meet up with this chic whut I been datin.

For o my for a couple a years.
Yea, you get what I’m sayin, shh o yea.
I can’t lie, I’m just gonna rock out.
With somethin damn out. But not my outfit.

Get it? Just be tongue like that.
Feel like Gene, oh yea ya see.
What I be, all up in them scenes.
Girl be lovin it, I’m all up in her dreams.

Whoa, slow what your roll.
Into something like that, you hear me whoa.
Like the same mount a ish. 
Take you yea, for a voyage

That may be fantastic or not.
You hear what I’m sayin, straight up.
I’m just rockin a little bit.
I might be Twisted like a Sister up in this bitch.

(Nasty Tha Mc and Cozmo Jethro)
Rockin with our tongue out.
Like Jordan, cause we some superstars.
(Rock out rock out)
Rockin with our tongue out.
Like Jordan, cause we some superstars.
(Rock out rock out.)

Ha ha ha, yea we rockin out. Listen to our crowd. Ha Ha Ha.
O man, I wish I wish I wish, man, yea.

Are We Superstars? (feat. Nasty Tha Mc)

AK&YK is a Scottish hip-hop duo made up of AK CEEZ and Yung Kenz. As uncle and nephew, they bring two generations of real-life experience, honest lyricism, and emotional depth - telling stories from the North East with purpose and heart.

Why Should I Care

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