This song was my official submission to Poe7ic's rap competition!

Martyr

Lyrics: I see their names on the posters, hello envy
“Someday, I'll be just like them", then I proceed pretending
23 years old only 7 left ‘til it's too late
Stretch myself till I tear apart just to snap back into old ways
The jack of all trades is a master of none,
Transmuting spades into mastery, the cards I was dealt
Smearing the ink just to burnt out my battery, failure is all that I’ve felt

I was so broad and vague that I wouldn't fit on a page but now I'm narrowed down and branded so much I hear my music and can't relate
Catering to the masses I used to martyr for unity
now I left my art to just die inside of a hook as a eulogy
Closing your eyes, with no surprise you’re drifting off another time,
Left euthanized, pushed to the side, remember when it was just you and me?

Deserted a therapy, perhaps I never knew
How much it assembles jaded scattered brain tissue
Seeking fulfillment
but then I leave myself hollow
Loathing every choice I make then repeat it tomorrow
I can’t survive without walls
I stumble, falter, fade, and fail
So I created my own braille
Upon six panels structured stuck
Claustrophobic self inducing compromising suffocating when will I be good enough

Co-produced by Goth Caillou

Hello Envy

9.) Together We Can (Explicit)

2.) But We're Chill Now, Right?

1.) Thanks (feat. b.infinit)

Lyrics:

Chorus:
Dripping in consciousness we walk around so thirsty
It's taking way too long this Mother Earth hurting
My soul's abyss is blowing kisses of compassion
I hope that others blow them back ‘fore we start crashing

Discover verse:
It was quantity over quality, outcome over process, mind over matter like my body was just atoms fit together by mechanical linkages classical thinking it fixed my eyes on the corporeal sphere, hidden was the sediments surpassing mental sentiments a beauty that’s acutely beyond descriptive etiquette
Sprinting towards the noise was anesthetic to my stumbling
I stopped to smell the roses now I find the quiet humbling

There is no object without space and no space without objects
No sounds exist without a silence which sequentially follows it
It's deeper than a yin and yang but for the moment we will borrow it
These symbols help but do not go too far with it
Inside of you’s consciousness that most are not in sync with
The passageway to presence is the power to relinquish-
All that lies externally, time and space dependencies
The past and future only reflect what continues endlessly

Way Too Long (feat. Solomon)

This song was created through an off of the dome, improvised freestyle.

It was then rerecorded with the same lyrics (with one line change), cadence, and then I added in some backups and harmonies.

Mixed by me and mastered by Kill Solace. Photography by Dahm Photography.

Beat by Nolan Morrison.

EXPLORATION

Hakuna Matatta

lyrics:

Nobody safe (8x)

Wasn't to taught to cherish my childhood wonder
Stood and watched it perish to ash asunder
Fires stomped out by jaded adults
That got jaded by jaded grips that mold
The conflation between hope and naivety
They want me to dumb down the way that I believe in me
Maybe you'll get there, you won't get there easily 
Yes you can dream but dream feasibly
I'm thinking that we all got depression
Doctors say it's only chemical in essence but
The story of
Icarus
isn't just
Shooting for the sky
Flying up so high, you melt those wings
Caught in the midst and lost in the scene
We often forget that his father also said if you
Fly too low then you’ll never catch speed
Stay too safe and you'll fall in the sea

Nobody safe (8x)

They say do what I say not what I do but who's gonna raise their hand and ask what about you?
Children are the future what's the future they see?
When they see their teachers taking compromises over dreams
Artfully the death of success is ingrained
When the question addresses the chances of fame
Or canvas and paint or your hands with some clay they'll kill your kiln with ideas half baked
Imposing a frame from a distant past
A frame that's a square that's a box that's a trap
There's advice then there's paternally heavy handed guidance
That delegitimizes the light in an iris
So let's aim for the sun even we get burned
If we fall then we fall then apply what we've learned
Next time on the journey returning to the sky
About to break or break through that's how we come alive

Nobody safe (8x)

Nobody Safe (Prod. Aaron Avis

I found myself putting together a string of melancholy patterns during the mornings, alongside a cup of coffee, that represented the mix of emotions I was feeling while in a completely foreign country. It was a wild and humbling experience which transformed the way that I look at the world. Coexistence was how I found balance.

Beginning in an African Instruments class I was taking overseas at Cape Town University (South Africa), Coexistence was the manifestation of my love for this instrument. The rhythmic style reflects the first few songs I learned on it, which we adapted from repetitions of five note measures to four.  

This is my first ever, original composition, played on the Hugh Tracey African Karimba. Note that in the title I have chosen "Kalimba" as the African Karimba dwells beneath the popular, umbrella term "Kalimba" as it is a sub-category of the same instrument.

Coexistence (Kalimba)

Together We Stand (With Zöe, Murph Myres, Kevin Soulin, $t3r30typ3, and Crooked Ernie)

Emotionally Conscious Hip Hop (i guess) | Minneapolis, MN | Sad boy for life

Kai Lok

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