TOAST UP

LUV2LUV

POP OUT

GIG MODE

SELLING AIR

CROWS

A re-release of my first ever project. I can't find the original album art, but someone asked for it and thought, since a new album is coming, I might as well make this old one available. the growth is cool to see.

I don't think this is the original tracklisting either, but I can't remember what it was. All the same, please enjoy. I think the original release date was some time in 2012 or 2013. I used bandcamp. I remember taking it down. Wish I hadn't though. anyone else out there who's thinking of purging, don't. Just put it on private. This art is our memory, among other things. 

Yee. bless

The Reign VS. The S(u)n

Just listen, love, and share.

Ya'll are royalty. 

The Art of Making Love

This is for everyone and anyone who understand that love, not money, makes the world go 'round. Listen, love, and please do share. Thank you family. 

Wanna Be Loved

HEADSPACE

**LYRICS BELOW** The result of some lovely dame who cared not for my chest piece. Thanks for sharing and listening. I hope this strokes all of your petty bones. #woot 

If I'm petty as hell for writing this song
You Petty LaBelle fa singing along
If loving you, loving you really is wrong 
I'm gon be roooiighhtttt l
cause the Problem with a love bug is they still likely to bite 
You dealing with that itch, betta slap it with Calamine 
and in the mean time
I'm moving on 
I'm blown up
Dy No Mite
having Good Times
got me a new paradigm (pair a dime)
like 20 cents in my pocket
like 20 sins on yo conscious 
i sent You on a guilt trip 
while I'm trippin off of my progress
Au revoir
Voo loo voo coo shay avec mua 
On citas said that to success
Fasholy success acquiesced 
When I was broke you wasn't tryna have ménage a tois
Ta da 
Today I got a new attitude 
new starting 5, how you like The View
Yo opinion 
Is semantics
Like toothpicks in sandwich
Don't fall apart
Cause I'm liable
To be laughing while you dismantling
I'm not a Rude Boy
I'm changed Man 
Now fess up
You messed up 
And said you loved me
You lied and said you love me 
  But I got me a new lover ha ha ha ha how you feel now? 

The difference between driving ms. Daisy and driving ms. Rose is one thinks that's its always sunny, one knows its thorns in the road. (2x)

I thought you loved me
I swear I thought you loved me 
But I got me a new lover ha ha ha ha how you feel now? (2x)

If I'm petty as hell for writing this song
You Petty LaBelle fa singing along
If loving you, loving you really is wrong 
I'm gon be roight
Cause the problem with a love bug is they still likely to bite
You dealing with that itch, bettah slap wit calamine 
And in the mean time you know I left
This whole song on yo voicemail 
Don't hold yo breath I ain't coming back
Naw girl I ain't  bitter I'm sweet
Yo diabetic ass couldn't handle that
I gave TLC and you Creeped
You a r1 r2 L1 l2 X down right up left down right up left
Down right just left 
You Pierced My Soul, you PMS
Ha ha I can't believe it 
Ha I escaped them demon 
Ha ha I'm quite content 
I'm not Catholic But gave you up for Lent 
I can't stand treason, like the government 
So you  been ostracized
That's punishment
I got cuffs even 
For a new girl
Wit a old soul 
And a big brain 
And a sense a humor
And her butt swoll
Like a brain tumor
And her IQ 
Is a haiku 
By Sun Zu, Jesus and Oprah
With A line a peace (a piece)
murder she wrote
With a dissertation on pop culture 
And her own class
With the master status 
Of woman 



I thought you loved me
I swear I thought you loved me 
But I got me a new lover ha ha ha ha how you feel now? (2x)

The difference between driving ms. Daisy and driving ms. Rose is one thinks that's its always sunny, one knows its thorns in the road. (2x)

I thought you loved me
I swear I thought you loved me 
But I got me a new lover ha ha ha ha how you feel now? (2x)

The Petty Anthem

thorough like henry david 
tryna ball like larry david 
transcendental and syndicated
i’m executing without hesitation demagogue mode 
2012 i was the bay bridge to chicago 
yelling pivot at the shows like i’m gang banging 
i’m from the clinton generation but it’s still fuck ronald reagan 
i’m eating chicken from the gas station watching 3 strikes,
the comedy ain’t age well and neither did that crime bill
the type of rhetoric they used is what had got trayvon killed 
but we already knowing
the irony knowing the iron ain’t for us 
knock the wrinkles off a forehead, then do time behind iron
i’m trine stay focused
SNAP card at the Grocers, 
i’m on a fast 
i got some needs need met 
you bet i’m on the internet searching which god to ask 
you yahoo’s really be on that woo woo 
its like a mini skirt how i’m making that coupe move 
i’m only talking cars cause i’m talking roads and mine goes to glory that’s a promise on my daddy momma 
my bitch 2 spirit kids call em daddy momma 
These rap niggas really acting out they daddy trauma 
Eating pussy is therapy so it ain’t a wonder how you lacking healing and clarity 
Pulling up with Mary Mag like verily verily 
Validating that my presence mean I’m bringing the drama
And I made this for posterity 


I’m alone in my room
I been smoking all day
I got sin on my mind 
And these demons won’t wait
  
You could always change ya mind 
But you can’t change time 
And what happened is what happened 
But you ain’t chained down 


A Weighted Blanket

i remembered to forget, and have been blessed ever since. 

every season scary when you a bitch_

dogs are the black people of the animal kingdom 

you got bored enough to read one of them books they wrote

backlogs but build a raft

a sample can be filling

HR is watching.

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I'm like a dead billionaire; a relief on the world. 

they cloned benny

I REALIZED THEY WAS AFRAID OF ME

ONCE I STOPPED FEARING MYSELF

I’M MR. BEAT EVERYONE ELSE

I’M MYSTERY MAKING MY MARK 

I USED TO PICK AT MY SCABS 

TO FIND THE HURT IN MY ART

USED TO STARE AT THE SKY AND TELL IT TO SPLIT A PART 

I’M A YOUNG MIYAGI EXPOSING MY BRUTAL START 

NO MATTER IT’S MARTIAL NO MATHERS

I WAXED POETIC ON WAX OFF AND ON CLOCK 

TIL MY BARS GOT TIMELESS AS A ROLEX WRIST WATCH 

AMERICA, THE ROAD TO HELLS PIT STOP

EVERY GHETTO LOOKING LIKE A FAILED FIELD OF CASH CROP

THAT’S WHY I AIN’T LOYAL TO THE SOIL 

I’M LOYAL TO THE SEED 

THAT’S WHAT I CARRY IN ME

THAT’S WHAT YOU CARRY IN YOU 

PLANT MY FLAG IN THE PLANET AND TURN INTO A WOMB

I’M PROUD OF MY SKIN TONE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON

ME INSIDE THE COUPE TO THEM IS A WHOLE COUP

ROLLING WITH SOME HEN PLOTTING MY NEXT MOVE

CAUSE IF YOU MAKE THEM  CHICKENS FLY THE PIGS MIGHT FLY TOO

IN DOUBT_155_DEMO

BENT

BENT (feat. SABA)

IMMUNE

Yell Pretty

6 Flags

6 Flags ft. MFnMelo (Prod. by Squeak)

TL;DR - I might never release music again, let alone make it. 

I’m tired, in a desperate way, a pale way. This project is what it is, not what it could have been. It’s the shadow of a vision I grew too impatient and enflamed to manifest in flesh. The word became shadow. 

Yell Pretty means I can’t sing, but then singing is just yelling pretty, and I can do that.  It was also me drawing strength from my favorite yellers: Nina Simone, James Brown, Van Morrison, Tracy Chapman, etc. You know, just having raw soul and emotion. Yell Pretty means use what you have. Yell Pretty also presents the juxtaposition brought on by extreme paranoia and anxiety. I think we’ve all dealt with that. We live in a beautiful world, but often times my voice wouldn’t reflect it. Conversely, we live in a chilling world, and on the right day, listening to the right person Yell Pretty, you’d think it was utopia. 

If you helped me at all on this, in whatever the way, thank you. 

If you came to the listening party, thank you. Forgive me for putting out a project that isn’t what I promised. There was more, but I couldn’t bring it all together.  

Some of my closest friends know me to have a strange dilemma. I’ll share it with you now. I’ve never been able to discern if the roadblocks I’ve encountered while pursing my dream of being an artist are a test, or a sign. A test to see how bad you want it, or a sign to abandon the road you’re on, because it’s not for you. 

From the beginning I perceived everything as a test. I’m not studious, but intellect doesn’t depend solely on study habits. I’ve been passing tests since the beginning, since I lived a 3 hour public transit trip away from the poetry slam but hustled my way there anyway. Since senior year recording with Kritta in the garage. Since releasing song after song. Since paying for studio time with money from rap competitions I’d win. Since working for McDonalds. Since sneaking on trains to get to shows. Since having no dedicated producers or musicians to work with. Since moving to Chicago with $700 and a bag of self published books in 2012. Since community college class after class, all the way to graduating with my Bachelors Degree on a full ride. Since recording songs on garage band in my bath tub using apple headphones and a high thread count comforter to sound treat the space. I been seeing everything as tests. Thinking I’m passing. 

But I think, now, that creating this project has been a sign. This fall I’ll go to graduate school, I’ll write, I’ll travel. I won’t make music. 

If I’m given a sign that I should be, it will be a welcomed one. 

#peace. #YellPretty

Antioch

Antioch ft. Archduke (Prod. by UrbanNerdBeats)

Humble Pi

Humble Pi (Prod. by Who Is This Guy)

Production: daedaePIVOT, Saba, Benjamin Earl Turner
Guitar: Sasha Kashperko
Mix: Jezreel, Studio A

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Lake Erie

A four song EP, FUCK is an inspired meta-narrative modeled after the novel Erasure by Percival Everett. Each song is meant to emit irreverence, apathy, and animalistic impulse. Still, in all the ways his music sounds amoral, Turner’s FUCK is more accurately characterized by its deft performance of balance, its exciting musical pursuit of striking harmony between self-awareness and self-sabotage, between hedonism and asceticism.

*** TRACKLIST***
1. TRUTH SERUM
2. JA RULE
3. M'BAKU SHIT Ft. DAVEED DIGGS
4. APATHY HAPPY Ft. RAFAEL STATIN

Executive Producer: @BenjaminEarlTurner
Production: @mindofasante, @lpldpstr, @beforeizaiah, @sabapivot, @daedaepivot, 
Engineer: @Jezreel at @traxsiders

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JA RULE

An ode to the Bay.


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YADADA

Yadada

"We do, because we must. If we must not, we do not."

Producer: @beforeizaiah
Engineer: @beforeizaiah
Cover Art: @wehadnoidea

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Had To

TRACK 5 OF 9 ON: 

"Bad Nature"

Produced by: @daedaePivot & @letm0de
Written by: Benjamin Earl Turner
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Bad Nature

IGNORANTS

TRACK 9 OF 9 ON: 

"Bad Nature"

Produced by: @beforeizaiah & Daoud Anthony
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PSALMS 23

TRACK 4 OF 9 ON: 

"Bad Nature"

Produced by: @daedaePivot, @letm0de, & Daoud Anthony
Written by: Benjamin Earl Turner
Mixed & Mastered by: @Jezreels at @Traxsiders
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