Shoutout to everyone I met along the way and everyone who contributed to this project.

No Place Like Home

Shoutout to anyone recklessly chasing after something.

BrokeBoyBlues

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Chill Baby, Chill

w.i.t.t.y.

Production, Mixing, Backup Vocals: Derek Buckwalter
Mastering: Liam Shy
Vocals: Austan Stein 
Backup Vocals: Kaeli Earle 
Main Keyboard: Sean Gresens
Guitar: Garrett DeMartinis
Vocal Sample: Pacific Boychoir Academy. “Soon Ah Will Be Done.” Show Me The Way. Choral Records, 2012. CD. 
Vocal Drop: Myles Oliver
Hum: Liv Vargas
Photo: Kristina Bakrevski
Graphic Design: Victor Valle

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Beyond Me (feat. Austan Found & Kaeli Earle)

Shoutout to @atosamusic for her heavenly voice.

Lyrics:

This is how I pray
Using any microphone to light the way
I could ignite the day, just to stay warm
Just to stay warm, living on the street you either die or you are reborn
I die and then I'm reborn
Catch me in your dreams storming heavy through the scenes
That means I'm stuck to your thoughts
I can feel my heart stop but I can make your heart stop too
Yeah I can make your heart stop too

Even if my racks don't come
I'll stay steady till the day I'm done
Till the day I'm done, y'all keep track of the way I, way I
(x2)

They wish me well, but I can tell
Don't do dishonest, baby I'm just being myself
Just raising hell, still showing love
And after you bury me beneath the concrete, I stay six feet above
Don't need advice or conversation, raising the bar
I go further than far without a paycheck
Don't need your conversation
I'll trade your heart for compensation
I fall in and out of bars
Highjack your car, I'm on the 101 
Hella funny the way I run

Even if my racks don't come
I'll stay steady till the day I'm done
Till the day I'm done, y'all keep track of the way I, way I
(x2)

And even when my eyes stay closed
I'll stay steady as the world goes down
As the world goes down
Y'all keep track of the way I won

MUSIC VIDEO

The Way (Racks) ft. Atosa

Additional Vocals: Lauren Patriarca
Cajon: Myles Klein
Lyrics:

Right before my eyes stay closed
I'll sing to you as the whole world goes down, goes down
I got so much soul that you can take some
Face those demons try to make them run
But don't you run

Old money and the honey's still sweet
New sweat on the street
I heard they got a noose dangling feet
And all because a brother had nothing to eat
But if there's nothing to eat, there's no one to bleed with
Too many policeman, not enough teachers
Me, I'm just a creature
Guess I'd rather rest with the roaches
Say what you want, but at least I stay focused

I'll hold you if you need me to
The suns about to set forever
Bet your bottom dollar that I'll stay
Will you hold me if I need you to?
Don't let go when darkness comes
Just stay until my time is done

Right before my eyes stay closed
I'll sing to you as the whole world goes down, goes down
I got so much soul that you can take some
Face those demons, try to make em run
But don't you run

Run (Don't Run)

Shoutout to @BLAQLight for the beat sample.
Vocalists: @Peter-Feliciano, @OphyliaWispling, @atosamusic, @goldamusic, Indigo Mateo, Lily Rockholt and @michelleazure.
Trumpet: Joel Schnaper

Lyrics: 

Walk downtown like you own the street
Middle finger to the sun like you own the heat
Keeps everybody moving like you own their feet
You should probably stay down
Spend your whole life 
Walking circles in the same town
Then you wonder why you're still stuck to the same sounds
Both hands on the ground, everybody pray
What you gotta say though?

I ain't gotta place to go
I got nineteen dollars in my pocket
Slow down, slow down (x2)

Selling fried chicken in Oakland
Shit, this is what you do when you're broke and homeless
Singing songs for the broken homes
Is anybody gonna give a token, toast to the holy ghost?
You can't feel it in your spirit
Probably focused on the wrong things
Ima play guitar cause my heart sings
You should try and make your heart sing

I ain't gotta place to go
I got nineteen dollars in my pocket
Slow down, slow down (x2)

Slow Down

Production by me. Verse by @Duckwrth.  Shoutout to @decapmusic and his killer drum samples that I used for the beat.

Lyrics:

If I make a million, ima mail a million to my mother
After that fifty-seven dollars to my brother
Whoa brother, keep your head covered
Don't let the navy smother you
Cause never will there be another you
True is true
It's not the kinda thing I like to wrap around my tooth
I like the kinda nights where I try to deny my truth
And if there's any money left, Faith'll get a funny check
Baby sister growing up, we gotta make another trek
Before the planet dies and there is nothing left
Try to open eyes, I gotta broken set
Before I even broke a sweat, I wrote this for a whore I met
Not really, just trying to keep it loose do you feel me?
Just trying to keep it loose like the noose around my neck
Everybody wants the best, everybody wants a check

Do you feel me, like I feel this
Everybody get addicted to the realness
Feel me
Like I feel this, feel me

Do you feel me, like I feel this
Everybody get addicted to the realness
Kill me
Like I kill this, kill me

You write your best rhymes when you're high
I write my best rhymes when I wanna die
Laughing but I wanna cry
Bars harder than the floors that I sleep on

And everybody wants a paper check
Feelin like Scrooge McDuck, gold dollars to the neck
But my n!gga just be careful where you flex
Or you could get a ruger to the neck
You got the boys upset, while you're flossin, dual exhaustin
Rudimentary with your nonsense and the boss bitch
Switching lanes down on Slauson
What it's costing, your love or your soul make the paper fold
Shittin on these n!ggas you gon need a couple paper rolls
I can see you faded, I ain't talking bout a taper though
You came in the game with layers now you're prancing like a naked ho

Keep up your integrity boy
That's what an OG said to me boy (x2)

Feel Me (Kill Me) ft. Duckwrth

Shoutout to everyone I met along the way and everyone who contributed to this project.  Dedicated to my Grandma Elizabeth that passed away last September.

Memos

Outro

Produced by Cole Smithers (@ColeSmithers)
Vocals: Ariella Golda (@goldamusic), Bella Sosis, Michael Cravotta
Additional production and guitar by me
Mastered by @BennySalz

Grandaddy on my right fist, feels a little safer when the night hits
Ain't gotta place to lay I stay up
I'm looking for a couch to crash you can say you knew me on the way up
Or on the way down
Hands to the ground but I never pray
What could I say, what could I ever have to say
To a father I can't see, still waiting for the day
But my cash gone so I steal to eat a meal 
But I'm afraid that I'll get caught so I feel nauseous
Pretty reckless but I move cautious
Pretty broke but you can't tell me who the boss is
Life is never perfect but the flow flawless
I swear, try to find a way to talk to make a woman stare
Or a good man if the moods right don't fight it
Set fire to yourself let somebody feel the light

Even though the night is so cold
I don't wanna see a soul, I don't wanna see a soul
Even though the night is so cold

Friends inspire me therefore I play to win
Break the skin, fire when I shake the pen
The paper burns I start again
Passion's where the heart begins but no one knows just where it ends
Maybe with the holy ghost riding on my thoughts
And then the power doubles back and bounces off the dome
Circles round the sun and splits a comet then it's headed home
But where is home
What is home I left the snow but all I see is snow so
I'm breathing blow until the pain speaks 
Eventually the pain peaks and I can't move
Something undefinable wraps around my mind and slows time until it stops too
Just build a soul that you can't crush most are in a rush never knowing why
I keep calling but nobody follows me

chorus

Cold

Supporting vocals from Ariella Golda (@goldamusic)
Cajon by Myles Klein
Mastered by @BennySalz

One day I'm gonna have too much money
You can never have too much money one day
You can never have too much

Confidence and then some
I win it from the women that are calling me handsome
If I blow, ima throw momma a ransom
And make Art and Liz real proud of their grandson
Bought every cousin a mansion
Damn son, didn't really know you would play like that
But I love it when you play like that 
And I love when you sing like this
Run when the moonlight hits
I'm one with the mood 
I kiss every note I swear
I do give a fuck damn right I care

Money

Produced by Cole Smithers (@ColeSmithers)
Verse by @SiriusD
Mastered by @BennySalz

All I need is a beat and the street
Maybe a little bit to eat
Just enough to move fingers through the night
If it's too cold I'm not gonna grab my pen to write this
Rather be talking to a tight fist
Use it like a mic
I'm just trying to get the likeness right
I rarely run with the righteous type
They only act right when the light's on 
My entire life is your new favorite fight song

Bones, arrows, bogies lit
I'm burying the bison
Peaceful, not pacifist
My fist in the air, music at your ear now I'm Tyson
Damn, cool calm and collected 
Jesus in my genes why you feeling so distressed
Really made adams from the apple we perfect it
And I own no iphone get the message

(freestyle)

The Message ft. $irius D

Shoutout to Sean Gresens for the piano work.
Mastered by Benny Salz (@bennysalz)

At the end of the month I'll be broke in Oakland
Real tough town puts boys in the ground
No one's worried about the sound of the ground stained red
The ground stained red is my new spread, no bread, still fed
Stay hungry, I could give a shit about the money
If you're only acting right when it's sunny you were never right at all
No one's ever right at all

But if I gotta dollar then you gotta dollar trust that
Supporting family's a must 
That's the motto till dawn till dusk
So if you gotta problem you can just roll up

Rollup

Supporting vocals from Alison Quinn.

Lyrics:

I've withered away to a whole new perspective
I know, now I know

I can feel it in fits and it hits me
I wish I could go, where it goes

Oh to know what it knows no one knows any closure
You know that you're poison but still wanna hold her

I'll bring you down (X4)

Bring You Down

Chill Intro

Featuring Amanda Leilani (@amandaleilani)

I'll admit that I ain't heard it all
Feel more confident at nightfall
Dont mean you won't see me out in the daylight
Working everyday just to make it right
Funding all my actions
I take care of how I do
I just want to see us
All in motion
Not too comfortable, too comfortable
More than just enough
Then a little something more
Getting me excited
Every time I feel it on me
Then a little something more
Something I can really count on won't just go away


And I thought that I had seen it all
Then I saw the news and watched the bodies fall
Made a phonecall home
Before I take a lone wolf bullet to the dome
No, we are not alone
Our home is with each other and 
Despite the fact we're shown sheer terror
And the error of our ways
Everybody wants to be a god, no one wants to pray

Heard It All ft. Amanda Leilani

Featuring Atosa (@atosamusic)

Laid back my ceiling looks so white tonight
I thought I caught I a firefly
I thought I caught your light

Combat
The way you move is
Tactical
The way you move
Like you’ve always got something to prove

I caught a glimpse inside
But stuck on the out
Weakened my will, I 
But something about 
Your silence looms
Fills the room
Dreams of you
Yeah you’ve always got something to prove

Prove to me
That we can really change our ways and become what we need
Prove to me
We can really change our ways and become what we need

Oh won't you save my soul lead me where I need to go (x4)

Prove (Wine Groov) ft. Atosa

Supporting vocals from Amanda Leilani (@amandaleilani)

Lyrics:
I ain't got no blunt wrap, so a paper's gon do
And I ain't got no woman, so a song's gon do
And I ain't got no mama, that's why I'm talking to you
And I aint got no doctor, so these drugs gon do

What these drugs gonna do for me 
Make me act foolishly
Will they turn me into super me
Leave my demons in the breeze
Or Give me a reason to stay unclean
These girls really love it
But do they really care at all
I ain't scared to bare my heart
I ain't scared to tell it all
I ain't scared to tell it all

I don't usually need a pick me up but baby wont you pick me up
These buses don't move quick enough
In the meantime in between time I just need some me time 
I just need some oh fuck I can finally breathe time 

Chorus

I ain't got no problems
All my exes are gone
They're blowing o's to their exes and I'm all alone
But I ain't go no worries, put the pain in the song
Won't stop till their exes know all of the words to my songs

Do you just talk or do you actually walk
Catch me always singing to myself on any block
I don't rap I croon lean my head back bark at the moon
Trying to let the wolf out
I'm just trying to lick around the roof of your mouth and make you shout
But please don't pout when you see me
I always gotta paper and a smile when you need me

Chorus (x2)

Papers ft. Xander Beltran

ft. @BxRod

Tell me you know where this would go
Where we would be
How we would understand
I think that you've got what I need
A magic thing
I'm so caught up in you
Know what it do
Caught up in you, caught up in you

Caught Up ft. BxRod

You could be the one
Pressure like a loaded gun
I feel it in my soul
Way down deep that's how you know
I can tell by the way that you walk
I can tell by the way that you stare

It's a simple truth
You like me and I like you
I see it in your face
Plus you know I like the chase
I can tell by the way that you talk
I can tell by the way that you care

But all that waiting by the phone don't help a bit

It's been bothering me
That you're not here and I'm still here
Those lips keep bothering me
Cause they're not here
And I'm still here

Babe I'll see it through
Wait for me and I'll be true
I know it's getting hard
But life's about surviving scars
I can see that you still got some fight
I can still see your light

But all that waiting by the phone don't help a bit
I know our love can conquer it

Chorus

You're the only one I see, never gonna be another you and me

Still Here ft. Zoey

I'm building a bridge to the hope I have left in my heart
Almost used it all up on the dream that I had
When I started talking to you
It killed me to put you together to tear you apart
Watch as I go and burn everything until I stop talking to you
I need to stop talking to you

I waited for you
But I couldn't stand
Pray till it's true but I'm only a man
You look at heaven as a way to wipe away the way that you are

And if that's where you're going I don't know
Somehow I think it'd be too close
Are there angels in heaven that don't get along
Could I find closure with all of my wrongs
Guess I'll know when I see you

Stop Talking

ft. @atosamusic and @mingusassin

I forgot my thought could you leave me here
If I sit real still it might get near enough to touch
Never knowing when it shows up is the rush
I'm always going towards the nowhere 
Knowing nothing is the rush

I counted hours, counted seconds
Couldn't find a trace or remnant
Of the way it felt when God had heaven close enough to touch
It's not enough

I'm chasing a moment just leave me alone
You know where to find me I'm already home (x2)

Could you leave me here

Leave ft. Atosa and Mingu

Why'd I Talk To You

hmu.  austanfound@gmail.com
snap me.  awestan

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