Lyrics

I wanna 
Take more pictures 
Sip more liquor 
Fuck more bitches
Stay up
out the Mixture

Don’t workout but gotta get more bigger



What can I accomplish in this life span 
I can’t be fighting with the white man
And niggas like me
Over crumbs he just trynna get his bread like me
Young scholar He just trynna get some head like me

Keep my blood sugar low can’t be wearing Iced Tea
Boy be too hot headed to be hearing Ice T
And be too weirded out to be hearing that Jonze don’t pay to Do Right Thing don’t ’t be hearing Spike Lee 

Citizens app telling danger round the corna 
Thank you Sherlock pass aroma 
I’m not an architect couldn’t pass in Roma
Couldn’t get over the Hill pastor Jonah

Alright now Smile like we don’t know who gone make it to the summit 
Living in the red at 13 ya stock plummet
Gambling on pieces one day it might hit
Locked in my decisions too far gone to quit

I wanna 
Take more pictures 
Sip less liquor 
Fuck one woman
Stay up
out the Mixture

Don’t workout but gotta get more bigger

DELUSIONS OF GRANDEUR (Prod. Cook&Jango)

GET INNAT

I know I know I know I know I know 

Produced by Tunji Ige , Addition Vocal Production by RATO 

001 

lyrical exercise , 

tunji ige is breathing.wav

I KNOW EVERYTHING

Blue Collar Freestyle

Ain't So Bad

Quick remix of one of many classic 50cent and shandy ANTHEM's

THE WAITing 50cent shady remix

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

Yell Pretty

Antioch

Antioch ft. Archduke (Prod. by UrbanNerdBeats)

"This is Not My Final Form" Coming Soon
@ChelseaReject

Video out now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbOmE3KS_Fc

Art by Sen Floyd 
Instrumental by Canis Major
Recorded and Mastered at Feet 1st Studios

Out Alive (Prod. Canis Major)

When All Is Said And Done.
An album by Angelo Mota.

Executive produced by Angelo Mota + Immaculate Taste.
Assistant production by Vacay, Frank Dukes, Cardiak, De'jour Thomas, and Cocique.

Engineered by Vacay @ The Home Studio.
Mixed by Angelo Mota.
Mastered by Andrew Krivonos @ The Brewery Studios NYC.

Cover art by Kay Milborrow.

When All Is Said And Done

Sweet Tooth

BLACK LIVES MATTER AND FOREVER WILL. Arrest the cops that killed Breonna Taylor.

WoeMan

a dude making things. multi hyphenate, hyphy hippy shit.

Antioch ft. Archduke (Prod. by UrbanNerdBeats)

Benjamin Earl Turner