Ab-Soul - Gang'Nem (Feat. Fre$h)

HEALING FROM OUR WOUNDS

PERM (feat. T'nah)

Round Trip

Life & Times (feat. Joey Bada$$)

NEW BOUNDARIES

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IMAGINE IF EYE (feat. Topaz Jones)

i cracked just to find what the silence kept
ain’t no enemy left, just the war i wept
woke up mid fight with my grip on void
heart swung first and the hope got destroyed
drums in my chest start clickin like teeth
shadow threw hands while i sharpened the beat
you call it madness i call it breath
i only feel alive when i'm close to death

rip the stage with a jaw dislocated on purpose
snapped my spine just to bend in your verses
i spit with the taste of a funeral grin
gnaw through your flex like it’s marinated sin
liver on the plate with a lullaby glaze
knife in my mouth got that gourmet craze
you rap like a throat clear bland unfinished
i carve symphonies in wounds i replenish
breathe in soot then i blister the room
speak in a dialect shaped by doom
wrote your eulogy in a blackout trance
penned your fate on a blade i danced
every breath i take makes the shadows seize
you bark online i feast on the leash

don’t flinch
don’t crack
don’t blink
don’t back
if i lose it’s on cue
if i die it’s to prove

i destroy myself to win
break everything i am crush the enemy within
bite down on pain fire burning through 
i feed on the hurt and it drives me insane
spit out the blood stand up again
no one can stop me not even myself
beat the weakness out til only strength remains
i destroy myself to win

i don’t twitch i calibrate in hell’s backseat
left hook lands and my jaw repeats
fist to the skull with a choir behind it
my own thoughts chant till i try to rewind it
carved my name in the smoke on the ceiling
every blink’s a round with a new kind of bleeding
tried to flinch but my nerve said no
duck when my voice hits full deathblow
headlock dreams just to test my pressure
black out twice come back fresher
i circle the ring like a prayer offbeat
throwing hands at a version i can’t delete
you ain’t seen war till your grin pulls knives
and your shadow cheers while your body survives

swing wild
sink low
brain split
don’t show
if i fall it’s a climb
if i choke it’s by design

i destroy myself to win
tear muscle from will just to cage what’s been
cracked through bone just to drown that voice
gave myself no path just a brutal choice
spit out the blood grin split to chin
no one can stop me not even myself
i’ll gut the guilt out if it lets me begin
i destroy myself to win

i saw me blink i flinched first
that’s the moment that i rehearsed
knocked me out just to kiss the dirt
climbed back up like rebirth hurts
bit my tongue till my teeth cracked glass
burned my name just to outlast
stared my past in the crooked grin
told him loud you don't get to win

you ain’t real like me that’s what i said in the dark
but the voice came back with a grin and a mark
i flinch then swing but the echo swings first
and it bleeds through my grin like a hand rehearsed curse
i spit in spite but it chews through doubt
with a tongue like mine it just turns me out
wants flame wants shame wants guilt uncut
wants the ruin i hide when i clench and shut
i choke on peace so i speak in war
and the shadow inside says give me more
i break through glass just to taste that name
then feel my pulse glitch through shame
i punch so hard i forgot who wins
and it laughed like me from a voice within

i destroy myself to win
scorched my name just to shed that skin
cut through the myth that i used to defend
left my shadow twitchin at the bitter end
spit out the blood wore war like skin
no one can stop me not even myself
there’s nothing left now just what’s been
i destroy myself to win

no one else could’ve done it

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CJ Fly