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Who is the real king of NY?  Wall St?  Bloomberg?  Ray Kelly?  Capitalism?  

I've taken up Statik Selektah's challenge to respond to Kendrick Lamar's "King Of NY" statement with a freestyle over the beat he provided.   This song was written and recorded in under an hour.  By my standards, thats not a freestyle, but by modern rap standards it is, so... KING OF NY

THE STOCK EXCHANGE IS THE ONLY REAL KING OF NEW YORK 
BLOOMBERG GOT THE 3RD BIGGEST ARMY ON EARTH
WHERE THE HELL IS COMPTON
JUST ANOTHER PLACE WHERE THE COPS WILL KILL BLACKS
SO FUCK THE PAC AND BIG TALK IF YOU AIN'T BATTLING THE COPS
ALL OF YOUR BASES ARE BELONGING TO US
IN DOLLARS WE TRUST
WHETHER IN THE NAME OF JESUS, BUDDAH ALLAH WE BUST
DOWN THROUGH THE WALLS WHERE OLD EMPIRES HAD FAILED
THE GIFT SHOP AT THE END OF HISTORY, YOU ALL ARE FOR SALE
I AINT THE KING OF NEW YORK, IM THE KING OF THE EARTH
MY KINGDOM IS SPACE 
WHEREVER THERES ATMS OR COLOMBUS'S FACE
DON'T GIVE A FUCK ABOUT KENDRICK LAMAR 
IM DIGGING THE GRAVES
SUBJOGATED THE WHOLE PLANET TO ALL OF MY WHIMS
PATRIARCHICAL SOCIETY YOU ALL ARE MY SONS
THIS CITY’S JUST A BORDER THAT YOU AIN’T EVEN DRAW
FIRST I'LL SELL YOU A NOOSE THEN CHARGE FOR YOUR GRAVE
YOU MIGHT BE THINKING YOU’RE FREE BUT I OWN YOUR DNA


SO TALK SHIT, WE OWN THE LABEL YOU RELEASE IT ON
WE EVEN OWN THE SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM YOU TALK SHIT ON  
WE OWN THE INSTAGRAM PHOTO OF YOU POSING NEXT TO KANYE
WE OWN KANYE
WE OWN THE NRA 
WE'LL SELL YOU GUNS THEN OVERCHARGE FOR SURGERY
WE OWN THE SPORTS TEAM REPRESENTS YOUR CITY
WE COPYRIGHT LIFE FORMS &  THEN EVICT YOUR NEIGHBOR
WE SELL YOUR UNIVERSITY DESKS MADE BY PRISON LABOR
KING OF NY IM PUTTING TWINKIES IN YOUR LUNCH BOX
IM LAYING OFF TEACHERS & AND HIRING COPS
EVERYTHING IN THIS CITY WAS CONSTRUCTED ON DEBT
ITS HARD TO TELL IF YOU'RE WORTH MORE ALIVE OR IN DEATH 
WE DON'T GOTTA RHYME, CUZ IF WE SAYS ITS COOL, ITS COOL
WE SELLING COOL, WE SELLING YOU YOU SO YOU CAN BE YOU
IM THE KING OF NY, THE MOTHERFUCKING SPECTACLE
THE MERCHANT OF DEATH, YOU ALL ARE MY PRISONERS


King Of NY (Freestyle) Beat By Statik Selektah

From the Walter Gross / k-the-i??? split tape on I had An Accident Records Sept 17th 2013
http://ihadanaccident.bandcamp.com

k-the-i??? - Sleeping Tilted

Ceschi Ramos - The Beast (Grizzzzy Bear Cover)

Y'all fuck with Cake?
My man Audio Architeks sampled the song "Never There" and we made this bangin A$$ lil jawn out of it. 

CAKE CAKE CAKE prod by Audio Architeks

Recorded live at Le Point Ephemere in Paris, France, October 2011

Ceschi & Factor - Shame (Live in Paris October 2011)

https://kavvpwh69.bandcamp.com/track/rainy-nights

art by M1saka

overused af sample: Erik Satie - Gymnopédie No.1

rainy nights

here's a song from the 
FREE SHABAZZ compilation part 2 
available here:
http://rickyshabazz.bandcamp.com/album/free-shabazz-2

this song was written by Virtue & myself over a beat by J57 of the Brown Bag Allstars

Uphill Battle by Virtue & Ceschi (Prod. by J57)

lyrics by Ceschi / Baracuda / NGAFSH (of CVE)
produced by Child Actor / chorus ad-libs by Natalie Plaza & Max Heath of Child Actor
Baracuda & Ceschi vocals recorded by Richard Catesh in London, Ontario, Canada
mastered by Deeskee 
from the album "Forgotten Forever"

While on tour in Ontario, Canada in January 2013 I was lucky enough to have time to record a song with Baracuda originally of Guelph Ontario's "Plague Language" family of artists.  Cuda & I originally recorded our verses in London Ontario at Richard Catesh's apartment over a beat that was grabbed online which featured a (pretty heartfelt) Reggae singer doing the chorus.  I had been trying hard to get one of my rap idols NGAFSH of CVE (Goodlife/Project Blowed) on this album and after recording this song and reading some of FSH's online rants about hard work - I KNEW he would feel this one.  The only problem we had was that the beat had already been used by countless others online who had already made youtube music videos etc. Like a champion, my long time friend & bandmate Max Heath of Child Actor completely re-made the beat, I recorded a new chorus, Natalie sang some ad-libs and the Work Song was created!


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Alex Hanner