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Actual Life 3 (January 1 - September 9 2022)

Berwyn (all that i got is you)

Produced by Dave Olson: https://soundcloud.com/daveolson

This is a piece of writing that has meant a lot to me over the years, the closest thing I have to a personal manifesto. It was originally part of a side project, so I’ve pretty much always performed just my own parts solo, and had wanted to build an actual song out of that for a long time. I guess good things take time, because Dave Olson is a musician I’ve liked and respected for 20 years (!) now; someone who was part of the very first community of artists that ever nurtured me, and it really feels special to collaborate with him on this song. Hope you like it.

Music, Mixing, and Artwork by Dave Olson | www.tracksmithaudio.com
Words by Kyle "Guante" Tran Myhre | www.guante.info
Vocals Recorded by SEE MORE PERSPECTIVE at Luv 'n' Dedication Studio, St. Paul, MN

Download: https://guante.bandcamp.com/track/matches-olson-remix

Matches (Olson Remix)

Buy on iTunes: http://bit.ly/AWGitunes
Buy at Fifth Element: http://bit.ly/AWG_FE
Watch the video: http://bit.ly/DemAWG

Written & Produced by: deM atlaS
co-produced by Soundsmith the Programmer | http://www.soundsmithbeats.com/

Check out the music video here: http://bit.ly/DemAWG

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#AllWeGot

deM atlaS - All We Got

This is one of those songs that took ages to finish. Anyhow I could manage and created this masterpiece with my friend from Chile Jose "KineSoul" AKA "Zlow" Aguilar. He is a freestyler henceforth recording his lyrics and writing them was a challenge, but mine. I hope you like this track.

- ArKa

Ousside ft. KineSoul

HOOK:
Oh baby
The street is kinda hot
The street is kinda hard
For us right now

So baby
If you go ousside
Alone by night 
I’ll be waiting in the car 

CORO:
Oh baby
La calle está que quema
La calle está que truena
Pa nosotros hoydia

Tonce baby
Si tu vay pa afuera
Sola en la vereda
En el auto estaré

ArKa:
Taking it from the verb phrase to the third base
Writing it like a thumb bass or a lord’s praise 
Thick as the planet gets with more human waste
Kick ass rhyming sketches Mentor Ark’s my name

Late nights coffee and dictionaries all over the place
Perfecting my skills like silk white fields till the complete end
I’m the old rapper from the hood who started in 2008
I truly claim for truly trap not to vanish for what’s so trend 

I don’t forget about the motivation I exude in the night
I am the first video on your Insta you go on to hit a like
So keep in mind you’ll make it better than fine
Because real good trap happens ousside but

KineSoul:
Yow grabando con el micrófono que estaba apagado
Aun así yo estoy muy prendido estoy iluminado 
Iluminati me quieren reclutar lo he negado
Por que estoy aquí parado estoy escoltado

Con los míos que saben que esto nunca fue un desafío
Yo me creo mi movie desde que soy crío
Esos wachos me dicen que no simpatizan nada
Y yo estoy puesto aquí pa soltarle too mi rap

Con la cara cortada como Scarface
Ustedes me buscan desde los tiempos del Face
Si yo estoy tranquilo porque soy un rey
Toy en el trono wacho me llevo todo wacho me llevo todo
El estilo me robo tu sabe hermano que no jodo
Yo soy el mejor y vos no oh

Ousside ft. KineSoul

My cousin said -Sample this song from Harry Styles- and I delivered.  This is also one of the first songs I record in a professional studio. I also sample Dua Lipa's Break My Heart Hook. I hope you love this song as much as I did producing it!!!

Peace Out!

LYRICS:
As it is 💯 

HOOK:
As it is as it is
This is our lore
As it is as it is
Let’s be a metaphor
As it is as it is
So let’s lock the door
As it is as it is
As it is as it is

PREHOOK:
Oh yeah I love myself
Pretty girl just said hello
About to score problem solved 
Lizard King hatching goal
If you know go lay low 
The mission is about to storm
Make the most about the zone
Creative flows as you go on

1:
I see you just wanna be
Besides me
You hold on to the emcee
You keep it real 
When you say those things
About us by the sea or eating each other’s skin

I feel we need more of us
Maybe more dates 
To keep strengthening the trust
Don’t slow down and let us be plus
I’m no clown I know it is los dos

Hippie princess you’re my femme 
You make me wanna jam
You make me wanna go like a ram
Crazy around the house
When you message me like a spouse
Wanna come with me for rounds

If you wanna escape the trap
I’ll tag you with a spray that claps
Just like a relapse
And that’ll be enough
For you to go and love my back
Case closed and word love

2:
Cause I won’t break your heart
I will never do us part
You are the muse to my art
You make me think so sharp
Every single second that you go and you be in my stars

Cause you be looking so fly
You the why I repeat my rhymes
I want us to apply as high as the sky
Take the gap between your hips and mine

Every single second I demand
To be your Superman 
You Wendy and me Peter Pan
To let you go play with my wand
To enjoy it so hard as it comes to your dirty mind

I don’t know where I would go 
If you and me is a combo that blows 
But I have hope that someday though
Will be at ease with our crazy show

As it is

Recorded by Kyle Tran Myhre for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on August 6, 2024. www.poets.org

Kyle Tran Myhre: "When it Really is Just the Wind, and Not a Furious Vexation"

SIKE
Produced by: Adam Pickrell
Sequenced & Arranged by: John Congleton
Additional Drum Programming: Bird Peterson 
Horns: Reggie Pace

 I've been on some burn it down, leave this town, never look back shit 
Passing out on your couch, sneaking out the back tip
 Ripping credit cards out your mailbox snatch it
 Charge it to the game playboy, it's practice
  They been on some got this, squat this, reroute the power grid
 Cops can't stop this, over our dead body bitch
 Eat this, drop this, turn it up louder kid 
Put it down in our path? Million ways around that shit  
We backstage sterilizing tattoos with beer 
You cats stay paralyzed by bad news and fear 
You underage and they ain't fucking let you in here 
Fake ID G, and buy us all beer  
I’m sick of kids who sit and bitch about how they can't get into shit 
Ya "woe is me" steez, just getting bit ridiculous
 Fucking A, you're underage, that means they just slap your wrist
 If not, you're young and fit, “Yeah Bitch! Out run the pigs!”  
Ha! And give em all trophies
And some orange slices 
Yeah, y'all already know me 
One of the only that's really grindin’
  Lazy motherfuckers wanna call it luck 
Be real motherfuckers know there ain't no such
 Thing cause i mean there ain't no free lunch
 You better fix your own plate or serve one to us
  Go on pray to your God, or complain on facebook 
Stay waiting for your Dad, to come save the day dork
 Voted for Obama, and expecting changes It’s just one big party all giving the same gifts  "SIKE!"  Like a P.O.S T-shirt! 
YIKES!  It’s only gonna get worse! 
RIGHT?  This beat Is kinda bzerk 
Turn it up louder till my fucking teeth hurt!
  Yeah girl, I own some gold teeth
I’m southern, I was taught to hold heat
Ain’t no gangster, I’ll tell that true
Rick Ross just a cop with some bad tattoos

Florida baby, yeah my neck stay real red
While you make believe pushing that white shit
You dress up gangsters can play pretend
I stay slangin that white girl round my bed

Young Steve McQueen spit that dick game
You tweet real bossy for a bitch with a tin chain
I don’t need no Maybach just to sharpen my pimp girl
Pull girls on my bike they ride my handlebars home, man!

Ooh!  Put my word on that chief
Rihanna gonna haller, the way I murdered that beat
A condom like an umbrella, King Kong in the bed sheets
Just haller at a fella when you’re done with that dead beat!

CHORUS

 See, I can write your dumb raps 
Pay me, and go buy some hubcaps
 Fake G’s talkin bout gun claps
 Ain't gonna happen, like A-Rod's come back
  Talent is cheap, money's all made up
 Gallons of beam, and the speakers based up
Fuck it!  I got nothing left to say son 
Y'all get Cryphy!  Thank you Based God! 

CHORUS 

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."
-Albert Camus


Side One Dummy Records: Worldwide
Cargo Records: Europe

Sike!

Get the full album here: https://guante.bandcamp.com/album/post-post-race

"One Bad Cop" is the second single from “Post-Post-Race,” the debut collaboration from Twin Cities MC/poet Guante and producer Katrah-Quey. Featuring quotable guest verses from G.P. Jacob and Tish Jones, the song tackles not just police brutality in general, but one very specific element of it: how so much of the conversation in media focuses on the specific details of each individual case, while failing to make connections to the broader trends of police violence, institutional racism, and mass incarceration. Like the duo's first single, "White People on Twitter," this song is about digging deeper and striving to think critically-- especially important considering the current #justice4jamar protests growing in the artists' backyard, Minneapolis.

Music: Katrah-Quey: @katrah-quey
Words: G.P. Jacob, Guante, Tish Jones
Mixing: Katrah-Quey and Graham O'Brien

This is the radio edit; the unedited version will be on the album. More thoughts and commentary here: http://www.guante.info/2015/12/new-song-one-bad-cop-by-guante-katrah.html

Buy on Bandcamp

One Bad Cop (prod. Katrah-Quey) featuring G.P. Jacob, Tish Jones

"sleepdrone/superposition" by P.O.S off of Chill, dummy out now on Doomtree Records.


Doomtree Webstore: http://store.doomtree.net/artist/p-o-s
iTunes: bit.ly/POSChilldummyiTunes
Bandcamp: bit.ly/POSChilldummyBandcamp

featuring Allan Kingdom, Astronautalis, Eric Mayson, Kathleen Hanna, Hard_R, Lydia Liza, Lizzo, Nicholas L. Perez

Chill, dummy

sleepdrone/superposition

P.O.S "sleepdrone/superposition"

No April Fools joke here. After dropping the out-of-nowhere “Cross Countries” single earlier this week, Cecil Otter announces the immediate release of his new EP Dear Echo, available digitally through Doomtree Records.  Longtime Doomtree crew member and behind-the-scenes production wizard, Cecil has spent years developing his unique and signature sound, and Dear Echo pushes the genre boundaries even further for his most modern, lush, and experimental offering yet.  Recorded in Fall Creek, WI at Justin Vernon’s renowned April Base Studios, the six-track EP includes three brand new songs alongside their accompanying instrumentals, with production, songwriting, and vocals masterfully handled by Cecil himself.  Available now for download, Dear Echo will also see a vinyl release later this year.  Standard and deluxe LP packages are now available for pre-order from the Doomtree webstore, and include limited-edition white vinyl and an extremely rare signed-and-numbered screen-print series featuring the artwork Cecil created during the Dear Echo recording sessions.

After self-producing several of his own solo albums throughout the 2000’s, Cecil Otter rose to fame as one half of the mashup duo Wugazi, a remix project that overlapped the gritty raps of Wu-Tang Clan with the sounds of post-rock vets Fugazi.  The project went instantly viral and garnered high praise from the likes of NBC, Rolling Stone, MTV, and even Jay-Z’s own site, Life + Times.  Dear Echo marks Cecil’s first new collection of solo material since 2008’s Rebel Yellow.

Dear Echo

Cross Countries

Cecil Otter "Cross Countries"

This is the audio version of our report-- download it for free under the "more" menu, and feel free to donate to the project via the "buy" link. Find the text, as well as a downloadable PDF, at www.mpd150.com. Thank you to all of our voice talent!

"Enough is Enough!" is both the conclusion and the title of this report, a 150-year performance review of the Minneapolis Police Department (MPD). The report is the product of an investigation into the conduct of the department over the fifteen decades since its founding in 1867. It includes a survey of its current role and impact, especially on marginalized communities, and an exploration of viable alternatives to the policing model. With this report, we hope to take the idea of police-free communities out of the realm of fantasy and place it firmly in the public agenda as a practical necessity.

Enough is Enough: A 150-Year Performance Review of the Minneapolis Police Department

All raps written by Defcee (A. Levin), except for “Forty, Jr.,” written and performed by Rivals (L. Miller, R. Thomas)
Cuts by RTST
Recorded by SolarFive at 406 (R.I.P.)
Mixed and mastered by Alex Jasso
Cover art by Sean Doe
0:00 The Basic Caveman Foundation (Produced by goldenbeets) (includes an excerpt from Sean Price, Buckshot, and 9th Wonder’s Sway in the Morning interview with Sway and Heather B, released on November 27th, 2012) 
1:35 Twenty-Four AM in Chicago (uses the instrumental for Drake’s “4PM in Calabasas,” produced by Allen Ritter, Frank Dukes and Vinylz)
3:00 Three Sixteens (uses the instrumentals for Rick Ross’ “Santorini Greece,” produced by Bink!; Nipsey Hussle’s “Clarity,” produced by Lamar “Mars” Edwards and Mike N Keys; and 6LACK’s “PRBLMS,” produced by NOVA)
6:01 Forty, Jr. – Performed by Rivals (uses the instrumental for “Hold You Down,” produced and performed by The Alchemist)
9:06 Sixteen in the Dungeon (uses the instrumental for Goodie Mob’s “Goodie Bag,” produced by Organized Noize)
10:02 Thirty-Six Months (uses the instrumentals for Group Home’s “Interlude,” “Outro,” and “Up Against Tha Wall (Getaway Car Mix),” produced by DJ Premier)
12:12 Vigil (Produced by WHOLESQUAD)
13:32 Sixteen for Our World (uses the instrumental for Nas’ “The World is Yours (Remix),” produced by Q-Tip)
14:46 Five Courses (produced by knowsthetime)

A Mixtape As God Intended, Vol. 1

Another song from Guante & Big Cats' 2019 release, "War Balloons." Get the whole album: https://guanteandbigcats.bandcamp.com/album/war-balloons

War Balloons MP3s

Bumbling Shithead Fascists (prod. Big Cats)

Crow On A Branch (feat. Justin Courtney PIerre)

Kyle was this guy who I found at an open mic poetry night and he did this unbelievably beautiful thing about meeting this girl for the first time. Describing the bar as tho it was like a war zone of like absolute chaos. The line ‘in this smoking chaos our shoulder blades kissed’ is as close to perfection as 8 words can get.
Kyle was also then super sweet about it when I told him I’d re pitched him into a whole damn song lol 😬🙏🤗🙏
I think let’s all be more like Kyle

Kyle (i found you)

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Poet, MC, activist, etc. Profile photo by Adam Bubolz.

One Bad Cop (prod. Katrah-Quey) featuring G.P. Jacob, Tish Jones

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