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20: Hip Hop R&B Mix

01 BTD SESSIONS MOTHERS DAY 2021 PT 1

AK Skills | One Life Ta Live (1995) Remix

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Climbing with rhyming

Yeah, yeah
Ayo, listen up, it’s time (Time, word)
Yeah, it’s time now (Alright, begin)
Straight from the places that raised us
Where bad lessons travel faster than hope
I don’t know how to open this, so I’ll tell it straight

I learned my cadence from the cracks in the pavement
Old men talk tough, masking fear as patience
House full of echoes, anger in rotation
Every rule I was given came with contamination
I write from the spine, not a pose for attention
Pain handed down like a family pension
No saints in the frame, just survival traditions
Where silence was praised and rage was permission
I watched pride ruin brothers before money did
Watched fists speak louder than apologies ever lived
I’m built from warnings I was told to ignore
From “never show weakness” scratched into the floor
I carried weight I didn’t earn by choice
Inherited tone, inherited voice
Every night felt sharp, every day felt tense
Trust was a rumor, love was expense
So I sharpened my words where I couldn’t defend
Turned damage into discipline, scars into pens
If I sound cold, that’s climate not ego
I came up breathing storms, not windowed condos
This is testimony, not a threat or a flex
Just proof of what survives when it’s raised in neglect

State of the bloodline
State of the mind
What gets passed down
Doesn’t stay behind
State of the bloodline
State of the mind
Break what you’re given
Or repeat the design

I had dreams where I’m calm, no armor, no guard
Then I wake up defensive, gripping the dark
I was taught that respect comes wrapped in control
That love keeps score and forgiveness is sold
So I question my reflex, my temper, my stance
Every impulse trained by somebody else’s past
I seen men win loud and lose everything quiet
Seen pride turn homes into personal riots
I don’t preach clean paths, I walk with the doubt
Unlearning the language that violence taught
Confidence forged in a furnace of blame
Toxic heritage branded deep in the name
But I’m breaking the chain link by link, not fast
With accountability heavier than the past
I choose presence over posture, truth over threat
If I fail, I own it, I don’t deflect
This is strength redefined, no fists, no fear
Just standing with what’s hard and staying right here
I don’t sleep easy, my thoughts still grind
But I’m rewriting fate with a clearer mind
Nothing clean grows where it started in smoke
But roots can be cut, even when they’re old

State of the bloodline
State of the mind
What gets passed down
Doesn’t stay behind
State of the bloodline
State of the mind
Break what you’re given
Or repeat the design

Toxic heritage

AK Skills - One Life Ta Live (1995)

(Verse 1: Andre The Giant)
All I see is blinkin' lights, track boards and phat mics
950's, SP12's, MP60's
Shit is thumpin', eardrums pumpin'
The shit is type hype 'cause the sample is tight, right?
Bite this one and leave teethless
Never sweat that, 'cause I'm a cool cat just like Heathcliff
Peep this — give up the loot
It's '94 and bitch-ass niggas, yeah, they still get the boot
The Northlakes 'cause I be flowin' in all states
Show kept diggin' and diggin', now he got more crates
That's right, nigga, roll that dime
And I'm the only livin' matter that controls my mind
Peace to every single rapper on this whole Earth
Sellouts got no worth, I think they better go soul search

[Hook x2]
(Brothers can’t believe how the skills have gotten)

(A.G.)
Now, here I go again, ready to flow again
And if the coast ain't clear, oh, yeah, I'm still goin' in
Get it together or you'll be layin' on a stretcher
I betcha I'mma getcha, the number one heart stresser
Sorry, black! That's right, it's a cardiac arrest
Try to triple team the best? Then where's Party at?
Lost to no one, a warrior like Shogun
And when the show's done
Stacks and stacks is how the hoes come
I bruise your feelings, confidence is to the ceiling
If I'm sick, I pick a chick for sexual healings
I'm unique, a freak like Malik
In the twilights with more highlights than Dominique
Around my boys is where the jel' stops
Ups to the streets, the Jeeps, my peeps in the cell blocks
I'm not the best, but I give you stress
To flatter me, your strategy gotta be more complex than chess
Stop bluffin' 'cause you ain't sayin' nothin', G!
And start duckin', I'm the A-to-the-fuckin'-G!
Last LP, we got down right
Showed all these corny motherfuckers
What hip-hop supposed to sound like
See A.G. and the brother Show
Quiet as kept, it's best that you step on the low!

( A.G.)
Well, it's me, meanin' the A-to-the-dash
I'm fast to get the cash, now I'm gone like a pass
What's the remedy? Suckers better get they own identity
And to the enemy, you better roll like it's ten of me
Fake lords — they get strangled with mic cords
Takin' beats from my LP for sure ain't healthy!
Patterson Projects is where I rest
But I claim the whole planet 'cause it's mine, goddamn it
I'm god! Quick to pull a fake brother card
Wrecked Boston, runnin' shit in Portland like Rod
It's hard to face defeat when you're raised in the street
No surrender and no retreat
Now, dance with the devil? No, not hardly
Even though I mamba like La Bamba
And smoke ganja like Bob Marley
A bag of sess puts me at my rest
You say it's silly? That's my theory
Hit the Philly and let it rest

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