Sims

This is a verse I made while eating. The beat is an excerpt from "The Blob" by Aesop Rock, you can get that here: http://bit.ly/1iuVRAV Hope you enjoy.

My Best Tom Hardy

Field Notes, the brand new seven song project from Sims, finds the Minneapolis rapper in fine form, spitting poignant razor sharp lyrics over larger than life productions from Cecil Otter, Paper Tiger, Icetep and Plain Ole Arson.

produced by @icetep

Sims "They Don't Work For Us"

Field Notes, the brand new seven song project from Sims, finds the Minneapolis rapper in fine form, spitting poignant razor sharp lyrics over larger than life productions from Doomtree’s own Cecil Otter and Paper Tiger, as well as newcomers ICETEP and Plain Ole Arson.

Lyrics:
The place I’m standing in, planted with mannequins
painted in their calendars, it’s dinner with the Blandersons
talk about their business and the stale ideas they champion
Christian Coalition save the sinners on the campuses
they pulled their weapons out, they had a banner year
I know no prison I just yell it in their ear
I know no average men, I’m stone cold analyst
behind those pearly eyes evil I recognize what’s happening

uh huh, uh huh, they think they’re pulling one over
uh huh, uh huh, and they keep telling me that it’s over

Now I ain’t no atheist aching or making blanketed statements
I’ll just say it, they way they play it is dangerous
which last day is it? who do I save again? who am I pagan then?
I’m lost, I’m gone
the rest gonna pay the cost for you to bear that cross
ending of the clear-cut path, follow but you end up lost
won’t come back, y’all know that, I suggest you throttle back
but instead you’re on the gas, the match, the scratch
you make the world go boom
gonna end it too soon, so I left the room
the things they say, they things they do
I’m anti red and anti blue
I could’ve shut my mouth after Bad Time Zoo
but then there’s you

uh huh, uh huh, they think they’re pulling one over
uh huh, uh huh, and they keep telling me that it’s over

now you knew it
it’s fruitless like a rhyme with oranges
the results are manufactured like a war on christmas
a distraction from the war between the muslims and christians
and you get like, “eww, shit, well that’s none of my business”
and I ain’t no judge or jury but you’re spending my taxes
and the tactics in practice are indefensibly backwards
the problem with dominance is the outcome is ominous
honest to god
none of them are honest to god
they insist that it’s this, or that’s it
take a buck but they wont give an inch
who’s convinced?
the things they say, they things they do
I’m anti red and anti blue
I could’ve shut my mouth after Bad Time Zoo
but then there’s you 


uh huh, uh huh, they think they’re pulling one over
uh huh, uh huh, and they keep telling me that it’s over

Okay, there’s Pat, and Jack, and Roxanne
with a new spin and a new plan on an old planet
with no room for me to stand
so I’ll drink this Kool Aid and I’ll catch this comet
a common climate
there’s no air up there, down here
but I got long hair, don’t care, caveman
furthermore my ancestors never rode on dinosaurs
I’ve been having this argument for 6,000 years
and it only brought me here
but I only state facts, they disregard math
they say he’s on the way back 
and they legislate that
so I talk shit and hold my dick like, “you don’t know nothing”
sell me another last day and see if I give you something
uh huh

Sims "Uh Huh"

http://youtu.be/8_mWtBCyKUI

Sims announces the release of Field Notes, a collection of 7 new tracks set for release on September 2nd through Doomtree Records. Following 2011’s critically acclaimed Bad Time Zoo LP, Field Notes finds the Minneapolis rapper in fine form, spitting poignant, razor-sharp lyrics over larger than life productions from Doomtree’s own Cecil Otter and Paper Tiger, as well as newcomers ICETEP and Plain Ole Arson (Ryan Olson x Plain Ole Bill). 

Field Notes is available for pre-order today on the Doomtree webstore and digitally via iTunes and Bandcamp. All pre-orders include the first single “Uh Huh” as an instant grat track.

Pre-order Sims' Field Notes today!
CD/Deluxe: http://store.doomtree.net
iTunes: http://smarturl.it/fieldnotes
Bandcamp: http://sims.bandcamp.com

Sims plays a hometown show at First Avenue on August 23rd with Astronautalis (who pops up for a guest appearance on the Field Notes track “This Is The Place”). Tickets to #AstroSims2 can be purchased here: http://bit.ly/AstroSims2

Sims hits the road for a month-long run with Australian hip-hop group Hilltop Hoods. The North American tour starts in San Francisco on August 28th and wraps up September 28th in Cambridge, MA. Full tour dates are listed below and tickets are on sale now. 
Sims 2014 Tour Dates / http://doomtree.net/events
8.16.14 – Omaha, NE – MAHA Music Festival^
8.30.14 – St. Paul, MN – Minnesota State Fair Grandstand^
8.23.14 - Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue*
8.28.14 - San Francisco, CA - The Independent
8.29.14 - Madison, WI - Majestic Theatre
9.03.14 - Kansas City, MO - Riot Room
9.04.14 - Boulder, CO - Fox Theatre
9.05.14 - Denver, CO - Bluebird Theater
9.06.14 - Fort Collins, CO - Aggie Theater
9.07.14 - Park City, UT - Park City Live
9.09.14 - West Hollywood, CA - The Roxy Theatre
9.11.14 - Seattle, WA - The Crocodile
9.12.14 - Vancouver, BC - Commodore Ballroom
9.13.14 - Victoria, BC - Rifflandia Festival
9.15.14 - Whistler, BC - Garfinkel's
9.17.14 - Banff, AB - Wild Bill's Legendary Saloon
9.18.14 - Edmonton, AB - Dinwoodie
9.19.14 - Calgary, AB - The Gateway - SAIT Campus
9.20.14 - Saskatoon, SK - O'Brians Event Centre
9.24.14 - Montreal, QC - Cabaret Underworld
9.25.14 - Toronto, ON - The Hoxton
9.27.14 - Brooklyn, NY - Brooklyn Bowl
9.28.14 - Cambridge, MA - Middle East Upstairs

Lyrics:
Well I stepped up my cleats on 
and that chin music is my theme song
that brush off, that write off, I just use that as a deduction
that mean mugging don’t mean nothing
hold the line, I play the whole 9 
I steal second, I scrape for mine
you can take the signs or you can pay no mind
I’m on the verge, hold the sermon
like I told the purists, if I played it safe I would’ve sold insurance
so I kill it ’til it’s dead, till it ’til it grows
get it on the road then tour it ’til it’s old
like any good crow I never tip toe around a motherfucking straw man
make me like amen, or god damn, or something 
like money for nothing 
in common
I came up on ramen
nine of us and we’re lining up 
and you must be high on that diamond dust
now I’m grinding out until my time is up

I didn’t come to play games, I came to win
I get it in then I’m in the wind and I ain’t no average citizen
I ain’t living in that bitter end 
I come to stack my dividends and then bounce

I am the chem trail in your easy mac
Sims Jong Il to all you Tumbl’ing amnesiacs
faking funk and celiacs 
got me out here feeling old on my Holden Caulfield calling phony
I’m from the land of Uncle Ole’s yelling fuck the police
Axel Foley your magic kingdom, leave a mess on your linoleum
In the kitchen with a downgraded Pluto enriching Plutonium
these molly poppers went too based, looking Rob Ford
that ain’t flavor that’s Kool Aid, you’re skating on a long board 
I’m taking shots singing C-Murder until I wind up on the floor
then I’m Hasselhoffing this cheeseburger, call you up around four
I’m Nick Caging this Vegas, I’m lighting up these stages
they say baseless shit to get famous, they're Jim Rome, they’re Skip Bayless
sunglasses and bail money, my cunning and my homies
we’re running, we’re hungry, you stay praying on some pony
stay blue Lonely Boy, southsider, outlier, the gasoline to your house fire
and I ride this shit ’til there are no tires

I didn’t come to play games, I came to win
I get it in then I’m in the wind and I ain’t no average citizen
I ain’t living in that bitter end
I come to stack my dividends and then bounce

iTunes

Sims "SIMS JONG IL"

Produced by @paper_tiger_doomtree
from Field Notes, available now http://doomtree.net/fieldnotes http://smarturl.it/fieldnotes 
A.Sims (Sims is a Business ASCAP), J. Samels (Skip Steps 1&3 ASCAP)

Lyrics:

I was plucked from the sky 
pulled down into the the black goo 
an evil surrounded me 
now I’m trying to pull my way back through 
maybe I was running too fast 
too locked in, too cocky, too close to the sun 
needed to be burned on down 
well that’s how it turned out 
I’m not sure if I believe in god 
but there’s a force that’ll even odds 
leave your logic flawed 
leave you saying (insert black block_ PAPES) 
maybe that was code 
pull me off the road because I went too far from home 
maybe that was wrong but I’ll never know 
it goes exactly how it goes 
and supposing doesn't get me closer to what would’ve been 
tally the wins, rally the loss, put wind in the sails 
me and my chick, she’s bad as fuck, we on that no matter what shit 
we ain’t noting to fuck with 
same as the crew I grew up with 
from the downswing to the uptick 
the mud don’t get as thick as the blood 
and a motherfucker don’t quit ever he just learns how to trudge 
so where you are it’s a call out, roof gone, walls out 
no sir, no sale, I will see you in hell 
from the bell to the tomb I’m all out 

even lost on the rockiest road I wouldn't take another way 
even on the darkest night, even on the coldest day 
and I’ll never know if that was right until it’s too late 
so I guess I’ll do this my way 

I vibrate like five strings doing solos around the whole globe 
and I expand like rubber bands show you how low can a soul go 
and I snap in half and I put it back, no illusions 
I go into with no delusions 
I don’t know it I just fucking do it, ain’t nothing too it 
fear has got no business here 
but it don’t disappear it just lives near 
and I let that settle, prove my mettle 
and I never peddle that sentimental 
call my manager, tell him I don’t give a fuck 
should’ve quit years ago 
a buck? god damn it I do what I love 
and all my heroes are broke 

even lost on the rockiest road I wouldn't take another way 
even on the darkest night, even on the coldest day 
and I’ll never know if that was right until it’s too late 
so I guess I’ll do this my way 

I push until I break then I find me some tape 
been that way since I was a boy 
and I found that it snaps when it’s wound too tight 
now I do it lightly with time to enjoy 
when I get picked off by scope or claw 
I land with style like I planned it out 
make it work like hand-me-downs 
with a fresh new cut to sing about 

even lost on the rockiest road I wouldn't take another way 
even on the darkest night, even on the coldest day 
and I’ll never know if that was right until it’s too late 
so I guess I’ll do this my way

Sims "Scope or Claw"

Sims "15 Blocks" (Lazerbeak Remix)

Sims "15 Blocks" (Original Album Version)

Check out the new remix of Sims "Tape Deck" by Paper Tiger (@paper_tiger_doomtree) and stream the original version of the song, remastered for the 2015 deluxe edition of Lights Out Paris! We're celebrating the album's 10 year anniversary by releasing it on vinyl for the first time ever!

Deluxe LP: http://store.doomtree.net
Get it on iTunes (http://smarturl.it/simslopdlx)
Get it on Bandcamp (http://sims.bandcamp.com)

Sims "Tape Deck" (Paper Tiger Remix)

Doomtree announce the release of their single “Spill Me Up,” the first taste of new crew music since 2015’s critically-acclaimed All Hands album.  The track, which just premiered on The AV Club, features raps by Sims, Cecil Otter, and P.O.S, with a banger beat courtesy of Lazerbeak.

The entire Doomtree collective (P.O.S, Dessa, Sims, Cecil Otter, Mike Mictlan, Paper Tiger, and Lazerbeak) are hard at work on solo projects this year and will be hitting the festival circuit this summer. Tour dates are listed below. Be on the look-out for a load of new tracks all summer long.

Doomtree Tour Dates
6/18/16 - Los Angeles, CA - Belasco Theater - http://rrfest.com
6/25/16 - Grand Rapids, MI - Electric Forest Festival 2016 - SOLD OUT
9/17/16 - Fort Wayne, IN - Middle Waves 2016 - http://middlewaves.com

Doomtree.net // Doomtree.net/newsletter


Doomtree "Spill Me Up"

Written and performed by SIMS
Produced by MAKR
Purchase on Bandcamp: http://bit.ly/29HEtZ2

Triple 6's - Single

Sims "TRIPLE 6's"

PRODUCED BY LAZERBEAK

Pre-order the new album 'More Than Ever'
Doomtree: http://bit.ly/DTpreorder
iTunes: http://smarturl.it/simsmte

www.doomtree.net/sims

More Than Ever

Sims "OneHundred"

Produced by Paper Tiger

Pre-order More Than Ever from Doomtree.net (http://bit.ly/DTpreorder)
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LYRICS
I heard they prey on weak / I heard they play for keeps / I feel em grabbing at my feet / I heard them say don't speak / I just hit another level / watch em try to pull me down / with the petty, with the heavy / put the devil in the crown / what can I say to you? / I’m too right brain for you / Twain my communique / you are what's in supreme / fuck boy starter pack / I’m Huck Finn, huck shit, Hassoi / living art in fact / I see deceit, I see em back stab / I’ve got no need for that / I’m sliding off like the god damn pizza rat / I’m out, I’m out, with that free that I just found / my sound and it bumps / look at what amounts from the jump / and I’m never coming down

I am living lawless thinking I won’t come down, come down / I am flying high now thinking I won’t come down, come down

all the doubters, they can shout from the towers  / I just laugh, I just stay up / what a way to waste your hours / I’m not wastin, I'm not wastin / boy I'm racing,  got no patience / I ain't stressing count my blessings / I go right into it / burn the brightest til It’s done  / right into the sun
more cognitive than dissonance / they call me Icarus /I am stretching my whole frame out / they’re readying their takedowns from safe ground / pulling all their blades out / cut me up, cut me up, what they really gonna take? / cuff me to the truth of failure ay that's okay / why you’re living like a stowaway, I go my own / far from perfect but let no person put a verdict on that, no way / cannot touch me, cannot touch me / I am beauty I am ugly / I am living art / play your part

"Icarus"

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I love this beat. I think ICETEP captured some amazing feeling in this one, big rises and falls, sweeping synths, I don’t know, there is just something unique and special about that beat to me. This was the first beat I got for this album, and it was the last song I finished; I wound up turning it in the day before we went to mastering. The song is about immediacy, and that sense of desperation in immediacy.  I wrote this in memoriam of some lost friends. Something woke in me when they died. Something fierce and urgent. And I wanted to share that sense of urgency on this song, to share that expression of being relentlessly present and driven to do whatever it is that you want to do.
-Sims

Brutal Dance

Time Don't Fear Me Back

Written by Sims (Sims Is A Business, ASCAP)
featuring Travla (Travla, BMI)
produced by Guru Doug (Guru Doug, ASCAP)

No Getaway - Single

No Getaway

No Getaway (feat. Travla)

Rap music from the near and bleak future; or more aptly, from next week’s dystopia. Artería Verité is a concept album that ended up being more future-realist than conceptual.

While on tour two years ago, the newly formed AIR CREDITS— Chicago rapper ShowYouSuck and producer Steve Reidell of The Hood Internet— came by the Minneapolis studio of SIMS (Doomtree, Shredders) to collaborate for the first Air Credits album Broadcasted. Sims then took Air Credits on tour in support of his 2016 album More Than Ever, largely produced by Minneapolis artist ICETEP. Immediately following that tour, these four met up in the studio (first in Chicago, then later in Minneapolis) to create Artería Verité. 

Sims and ShowYouSuck handle the raps, pulp-driven snapshots from the wasteland and its inhabitants, their means for survival, their need to commune, their arterial link to one another through underground channels of communique. ICETEP and Reidell handle the production, sweeping synths over a vascular pulsing of low frequencies creating a tension, like a machine seeing its own blood. The songs speak to our baser needs to find each other, especially when in the shit. 

On Soundcloud :
@SIMSdoomtree | @aircredits (@thehoodinternet x @showyousuck) | @gabriel-aaron-bethke |

Artería Verité

SIMS x AIR CREDITS x ICETEP "Hologramme"

Rap music from the near and bleak future; or more aptly, from next week’s dystopia. Artería Verité is a concept album that ended up being more future-realist than conceptual.

While on tour two years ago, the newly formed AIR CREDITS— Chicago rapper ShowYouSuck and producer Steve Reidell of The Hood Internet— came by the Minneapolis studio of SIMS (Doomtree, Shredders) to collaborate for the first Air Credits album Broadcasted. Sims then took Air Credits on tour in support of his 2016 album More Than Ever, largely produced by Minneapolis artist ICETEP. Immediately following that tour, these four met up in the studio (first in Chicago, then later in Minneapolis) to create Artería Verité.

Sims and ShowYouSuck handle the raps, pulp-driven snapshots from the wasteland and its inhabitants, their means for survival, their need to commune, their arterial link to one another through underground channels of communique. ICETEP and Reidell handle the production, sweeping synths over a vascular pulsing of low frequencies creating a tension, like a machine seeing its own blood. The songs speak to our baser needs to find each other, especially when in the shit.

On Soundcloud :
@SIMSdoomtree | @aircredits (@thehoodinternet x @showyousuck) | @gabriel-aaron-bethke |

SIMS x AIR CREDITS x ICETEP - "Octadant"

"Bad Time Zoo," the new album from Sims, produced by Lazerbeak is available February 15th on Doomtree Records. 12" vinyl single available at store.doomtree.net, as well as a pre-order for the full-length album.