Like last week, I used the title of the original beat as my inspiration/theme. This weeks beat is "AngelezNegros" by YON-P.Beats. So, my theme is LA, the land of dreamers.

LosAnFoun
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City of angels, many are famous, many are not, many are waiters
Many are sitting and waiting to make it,
in need of a break, that may never come.
LA has a way of freakin you out.
Fate has a way of wakin you up.
They tear you in opposite ways
cause maybe they're fake and they front, they say that you got
the what that it takes to make you a star!
Baby I'm gonna take you far!
NOW GIMME YOUR MONEY I'M STICKIN YOU UP!
But gimme a ring, I'll take you to lunch.

You figure it out yet? You sick of it now yet?
Big fish, are you? Pond is crowded.
Now you're in too deep and you drown.
Sushi Pacific, a typical trout
Back in Nebraska, you was impressive,
never a reason to doubt it.
But look at you now kid! 
Who surrounds you?: Rich, Important, Powerful

Everyone raps, and acts, and sings, and dances jigs
Are you still 'bout it?
Everyone's beautiful here.
You're not unique or novel no more, are you?

"You can bounce now man, goodbye, we're fine without you"
Takin a taxi bound for LAX your agent calls you
"You're gonna be Vinny Chase. 
I signed you today, let's hug it out bitch"
Hollywood loves you, LA is awesome.
My, how it all switch.

Cypher 31 - LosAnFoun

I'm so big on Big-Appleis, got a map on my desk of it
Los Angeles'll dazzle you, I've traveled just a bit

Lived as expat and domestic, seen tenements and palaces
I've been incredibly blessed
Yes, I'm always coming back home to...

Minneapolis
Passionate Twin Cities advocate
Sickest rappers, sexiest chicks, per capita at least
See Atmosphere and Brother Ali at First Avenue
With a 612 cutie who made a massive Dessa fan of you
Drinkin down in Dinkytown, this buds AT the U
Virgin beauty Uptown gal? Take her cherry and spoon

We got that Calhoun attitude sooner than June weather
We Effron every winter, "We're all in this together"
My people never leave you fucked, freezing in your truck
because it's Minnesota decent to push free a vehicle that's stuck

TL;DL - Why the fuck we need a song? We ball by default...
We got that Purple Jesus Peterson

Minneapolis (33)

Yes yes y’all                   
Can I kick it as if I was in Tribe Called Quest y’all?
Can I bless a microphone like I was KRS-One?
If you said “yes” then you were correct 

I also would have accepted: 
“Not yet, but you got the potential!”

The Bard’s life ambition: 
To be the nicest musician to ever spray a bar with a rhythm

What a fucking hard mission! 
But not a quarter as tough as if I had to give up hip-hop forever...
never again to spit or listen to Pac or Big swap disses. 
I’m living in Brooklyn in Bushwick as soon as I get a job in the city.

Papa forgive me...
For every Hanukah your son wanted a Snoop Dogg or a Diddy
Ingrate when I didn’t get it
If I could take it back I would have asked for “Illmatic”
Dad you hate rap, but admit that album’s a classic!
Maybe Slim Shady did make your baby kid a pill addict,
But I only kill people sporadically
And they’re only rappers!

Don't Stop (Cypher 36)

Beat: benjie by Glassic

My state is elevated: Colirado-ish
It’s high time we celebrated: Call the models in
Get a lot of ‘em! We’re chillin out like Klonopin
Cross my heart, like entering my veins from my arteries
My aorta started pumping more than oxygen
I call it awesomeness, My spit’s a condiment
I’m but a conduit for God to rock the spot
And drop a prophecy bomb on top a hip-hop audience

I’m giving hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobics
strokes and heart attacks…
The Bard is back, like I departed down a cul-de-sac
and returned in a different Ferrari than what I started with!
Rev Rev my engine, swim in my frission
Look it up in the diction- with your retarded ass
Wait for it…
-ary
I’m just barney when robbin’ a track
TED talks cannot compare to me

Feel Good Ink (Cypher 39)

"This is Soul Element"

Well then dope shit SoulElement
No topic? Oh well I guess Joel's just gonna have to drop a flow
for the hell of it
New, like the logo for the Orleans Pelicans
I've gone 4 Loko, woke up in Mehico again...
Hey, no problemo. Here we go again!
And I'll be back in Minnesota before the short hand hits the 4 again.

Hey man... Can a globetrotter get an Amen?
Have you agoraphobes made it past the front door to the gate yet?
Gonna be globally famous, while posers get spray tans.
No joking, only making bold observations.

But how brave is a prognostication really...
to predict and prophecize what I can picture this clearly?
If I don't grip a milli by the year 2030...
cast my dead body in a gritty reboot of "Weekend at Bernie's"

I keep it dirty
Only use soap for burning
My name is Tyler Durden
His name was Cypher 40!

Untitled

GET SOME
Big ups to Hopkins
Shout out to Uptown
holdin it down while I’m in Austin

PRINCE WASN'T WRONG
 something in the waters of Lake Minnetonka
that purified us and made us stronger

HIP HOP HOPKINS...
Who woulda fuckin’ thought this?
Kevin’s older brother would become Cecil Otter
Sims and POS and a Doomtree sprouted...

...As if that wasn’t enough in a town a 20,000

Now comes the dope part…

Who tore up the charts?
Who was voted as hip-hop’s best new artist?
THE BARD WAS
 
Yeah I got a gram on me
Since I can never go back underground
I guess I’ll go platinum

Did I just hold the game ransom? Nope 
Imagined that whole thing and I’m still broke

But I’m so dope… give it a couple albums…

And when it happens, I won’t say that 
I TOLD YOU SO


Gram E

Passed & Gone - (Marion Williams sample)

I dress in black bandanas and tee shirts thats lacking sleeves
I strip the collars offa my crewnecks and make em V’s

My neck it’s gotta breathe
My neck it’s gotta hematite pendant on a string
Fuck the bling 
I rock a necklace that reflects me in the bead

I reject the need to look as if I don’t stick out
I seem more like I am a freaking rockstar than an MC
I ain’t stacking like Master P and yo fam 
I may never be

but that don’t hardly matter to me

it goes  FUCK bitches, FUCK paper, FUCK fashion, FUCK greed

Get passion, get expression
get dope and do ya thing

I only chase what matters

I only bank on me
I bleed and sweat passion

…only weep for wannabes

V cut T

suddenly forever - 2:23:17, 4.32 PM

Alive

If you never learn to take a joke, the joke will learn to take you. Just one example of the type of thing I'm likely to I say.  #JB

Gram E

Joel Bard

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