"For My Homies" was originally recorded in March of 2010 inside a landmark mansion as part of the Closed Sessions project, CS: ATX.  Over the course of 4 days we hosted over 30 artists who came to record and vibe out.  The resulting LP was released in March 2011 via Decon.  One record that didn't see the final tracklist was "For My Homies" from Cali emcee Dom Kennedy and Atlanta production team SMKA.  This was actually going to be track 1, but for one reason or another, did not appear on the project.  Today we present it as a Closed Sessions B-side.  Enjoy!

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Dom Kennedy: For My Homies

Lavender Life (Lyrics)

The sky match the beverage I was sippin
Pink liquid, suds drippin off my knuckles now I'm driftin
Out of 1oak, its a gun rose collision
Where beautiful buds and thugs all get to mixing
Ball players and vixens , cross wearers who ain't Christian
Only sport it to distort ya vision
And my aura's more than sorta different
Every time I stand next to mere mortals all u saw the difference
Nothing short of brilliant even more resilient
Went from slippin on piss in the stares  to fall into Brazilians
Appealing Portuguese accent as she reach back in her purse
And popped a perc when all the action occurred

Chorus:
The Lavender Life... The Lavender Life
I see the sun coming up mean I had good night... That mean I had a good night

I wonder how it was to party wit Basquiat n Madonna
Or Studio 54 spilling alcohol on my garments
Me and Mick Jagger, having a conference
Bout wit broads to pic, mad lit no off switch
Sippin dark liqs chocolate leather on
Paper thin paper in my denim sweater terry cloth
Flyer than Mickey Munday
Higher than where the sun stay
Kid stay jiggy spiffy on a runway
Drippin like soul glow yellow bone hoe
Spanish niggas in my hood yellin mira coño
I like my dome slow, feel like in living fast
Ahead of my time and never looking back

Chorus

Back of the yellow cab meter runnin,
As we begun to
To converse exchange words that was bout nothin
U know the drunk talk, slurred analogies
And fallacies, feeling like its no gravity
Said she can't come down from the high tho she grabbing me
Tellin me it's no place she'll rather be
As I repeat her like a parakeet
Got a thing for black and Asians
She was mixed Parisian and Japanese
Catching breeze off the water from the Hudson
She making assumptions I might do this once or
Twice a week, u gotta right to think
Just like I'm over here yea wondering the same thing

Chorus:

Drizzle wets the black top
Its Raining down Gods blessings so I'm baptized
Chastise me not I'm just living my life
Never limit myself it's no end if the night  m
Generous type pay for early breakfast
Long as her sex is something special and her hair curly that's a preference
her -shit -'she just pressed it
Fresh from the Dominicans, still smelling like some Nexxus
Birds chirping but the streets still busy
From the city that never sleeps, you know me still tipsy
Hangover waiting for me, on the wake up
Hugging on her curves loving how it shaped up

Chorus

Daytona - "Lavender Life" (prod by Gizzle Beats)

(I. Houpe, J. Smith, J. Tribune)

Published by The Greater Than Club (BMI)
Produced by Ivan “Iye” Houpe of MNKEYWRENCH for Fly Union Records
Engineered by Ivan “Iye” Houpe Assistant Engineered by Alverne Emmanuel
Recorded at Patchwerk Recording Studio, Atlanta, GA and The Chop Shop, Columbus, OH
Mixed by Ivan “Iye” Houpe Assisted by James Hunt
Mixed at No Excuses Studio, Santa Monica, CA

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