After The Rain feat Iowa Rockwell and CRĀVE produced by Smoke Bonito

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A song to start the year off from Video Dave, Iowa Rockwell, and CRĀVE

Recorded on in Chicago on Dec 24th 2023

I have been working on plenty of music longer than this track but I always get in my head about how few projects I actually release every year, so my version of the holiday blues usually includes trying to finish something and put it out for the new year. This song could have been ready by Jan 1 if we would have just been more stuck on a date, but I have to let go of both trying to perfect something and also of rushing something out just to fit some self set deadline. I have both problems. 

Last time I did one of these it turned into me and Controller 7 making ArticulatedTexTiles, we'll see what comes of this.

Words by:
Video Dave
Iowa Rockwell
CRĀVE

Produced by: 
Iowa Rockwell
Video Dave

Mixed & Mastered by:
Iowa Rockwell

Video Dave-
You heard of elf on a shelf? 
Well here’s some raps for that ass

You heard of doin for self?
You heard of doin it fast?

I seen a peanut stand 
I seen a rubber band 
I seen a needle that winked It’s eye 

I seen a dream get canned 
I seen a book get banned
I seen an evil try to be an empire 

I seen an elephant fly 
I seen an elephant fly 
Oh what a shit of a guy
Oh what a shit of a guy

And I’m bout as much of an expert 
As the next jerk
I gotta go to work
My neck and shoulder hurt 
I’m getting over it

But I’d rather not mention it
I thought my publicist let you know
I am my publicist so you know

I am my doctor, 
I'm not my lawyer 
But guess what? 

I am the manger 


Iowa Rockwell-
Rat-race runnin fast tryna catch the cheese
Catch and squeeze, catch and release
Lady Eloise 
Baby please, baby please be my everything
Don't say no
If you do?
...Ok... you know

Life goes on, I mean it's like those songs
We used to sing growin up when the night was young
We used to be so young, 
We used to be so fun 
It's the same old song, 
I guess life goes on

We should play punch-buggy just for old times sake
We should plan a pic-nic for a cute lunch date 

We should fly around the world
We could fly around the world 
I could promise you the world
I might break your heart

Still life goes on, but still life goes on
Pro-tip sip slow, watch the night turn dawn
While the lights still on
While the mics still on
I'ma sing my song
All while life goes on

CRĀVE-
The suns too hot
Look what they got
The vibes and beats like De La
The flows water
Like Fela
May the 
Force Be With You

Live your best life 
Put your past in the back
Look forward
Strategize, 
Plan ahead, and work towards- a goal to maximize all resources in your life fore you can end up
A Menace II Society
Practice sobriety for the most part
Like Blackstar 

Run down justice like a track-star in a hundred meter race
Find your pace, it's a marathon

But I'm that far, 
Ahead of my time
I rap like cars don't need asphalt

Hats off to the real ones
Everybody plays a part
But cats are not as good as dogs

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No leisure 
10 times the pressure 

I like Fresh juice 
But heard frozen fruit is fresher 

Michael and Joann broke up it was a mess bruh
Pearl talkin shit to Sandra, Mary, Lester
Calvin, Rose, mmmm Brenda
Girl with all them friends, how they all be the best one 

No flex but, I gotta jet bruh
I gotta get ta, my next destination 

No flex but, I gotta jet bruh
I gotta get ta, my next destination 


From the 312 to the 305 
Got to 212 driving up 95

What you call that is a call back homie fall back 
That’s it- I’m goin home, gimme my ball back

What you call that is a call back homie fall back 
That’s it- I’m goin home, gimme my ball back

I be Writing to a beat but can’t tell you what the song about
Forget about it Sarah Marshall tells me what I’m wrong about 

Donnie Darko
Donnie Brasco
Shut the fuck up Donnie you’re talkin like an asshole
You’re out your element 
Yes the ex president 
Might be the next
Cause half the voting residents 
In this country 
Rock with that dummy 
People say that its a joke
Tho I do not find it funny
All of its a cloak
Throwin shade never sunny 
Shit ain’t sweet
No milk and no hunny 
Ima rock the boat
They sayin sit it down you dummy 


Nicely passing out the whiskey 



Be lieve me
It ain’t pickin a side
To say what are you serious all them kids died 
I don’t want that
Not with my tax
Should I ex pat
If I left would they let me get back
If I said that

Everybody should be free
That don't sound controversial to me
So by that logic
Palestine should be free 
Like Everybody
Palestine should be free

Everybody should be free
That don't sound controversial to me
So by that logic
Palestine should be free 
Like Everybody
Palestine should be free

Everybody should be free
That don't sound controversial to me
So by that logic
Palestine should be free 
Like Everybody
Palestine should be free

All the captives should be free
Every hostage should be free
The DRC should be free
Sudan should be free
Haiti should be free
Hawaii should be free
Native peoples should be free
Everybody should be free

E.T.A.

Video Dave is a Chicago-bred rapper, TV producer, beat maker and writer. A true multi-hyphenate artist, he has had a creative hand in an astounding hodge-podge of seemingly disparate corners of modern-day culture.

He has lived in Miami, New York, and LA, being an artist in all those places.
He now travels and works with a few other artists and friends who he met at SIUC

Video Dave

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