John Forte and Talib Kweli "Homecoming"

Gucci Time  - John Forte

Don't let the title fool you...

Celebrating THIS day. 12.22.14

BE GREAT.

Life's About The Low feat. KYO

Light Work

an ode to sigma alpha epsilon 

“There will never be a nigger at SAE
There will never be a nigger at SAE
You can hang him from a tree
But he’ll never sign with me
There will never be a nigger…” 

This is not designed for you to dance to 
Despite my disdain for semantics
I warn you in advance this might veer somewhat on the pedantic
I don’t write poems I write ransoms 
Kidnap thoughts and demand answers
I believe neither in luck nor handouts for personal advances
Man is a funny creature – 
Damn it’s so funny that money’s the one thing that make ‘em go blind 
When they wanna meet ya
You don’t think I know what I crept upon? 
Haters ain’t dead – they pledge instead 
I heard a house down south let it all hang out 
Come one come come all from a large to a small amount
Sigma Alpha Epsilon
Drop a bomb from the cheap seats
I don’t deep sleep and I don’t speak Greek
Not on my watch Not on my time and Not on this beat
If I don’t get air – watch me not mind
There’s a plan afoot
Get yours you know I got mine
You understand the chance I took
Do I look like I’m not ready?
Or do I look like I’m not ready
You’re too slow to move so 
You’re ego’s so tall it’s top heavy 

Keep my mouth shut and my notice up
My mind still and my lotus up
Who chose us?
We chose us
Who chose us?
I


DAWN

BEAM

I SEE YOU (all you are)

Anatomy 101 Freestyle

your 
whole
body

(featuring an excerpt from a guided meditation presented by Ally B)

Breath Control

Bad advice is perverse to take
Those who know love
Show love great

Those Who Know

Fell out of love with the pop life
Rappers don't write
Rock-n-roll don't rock right
I'd rather me and mine for the deep digging
I'd rather peace of mind than cheap living
The only reason why I do it is
I know no other reason to keep living
You might say the song is religion 
You find yours
There's a hundred-million ways to Source
Plus more

(FEATURING Ben Taylor and Sophie Hiller)

SHIVA (Here and Now)

Eastern Electric Light Show

FESTIVUS

Tag someone who'd complement this...

JOY.

I, Come On (instrumental)

SEE GONG GURU VIDEO HERE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQGtUaVuUbs

Let's begin again...
Gong Guru gong again
Walk good or move not with none of them
You watch the news - watch men
You see what's in front
We see behind him
So turnt up we tuned in
The center of ourselves when that light moved in
Every cell's clued in 
Anandamide wanna ride 
Scoot in!
Receiving's what the vibe has been
Big believing I'm alive again
I'm alive again...

Love, serve, remember 
May you long last and
Be here now
Baba Ram Dass
(Fly higher)
Reach that disc
Eyes open - go deep 
Be that fish 
Transform, don't sleep
Unless you need that dip
Live without apologizing
Be that rich
Get aligned, get well, get rhythm
Get used to good living

It's like a lime to a lemon
We been here before
You just need to remember 
It's like a lemon to a lime
It's revealed over time
The signs and the symbols







Gong Guru (download)

Evening meditation...

For the lovers and the listeners 
Brothers and sisters

For the lovers and the listeners 
Brothers and sisters

For the lovers and the listeners 
Brothers and sisters
You don’t wanna miss it 
If you need to make adjustments 
To your antennae
Pay ‘em a visit 
Stay with attention
We are sitting broadcasting 
Listening 
Getting it in and 
Transmitting

It feels good to 
Keep your mirror clean 

Oh, I wish you love 
And any dream you can dream of 
Keep it B.I.G. 
See it thru
‘Til it do what does 
I took one for the team 
Y’all can eat on me
Learn life to turn life and earn life
Act like the star you are 
Burn bright
Come again
Come again 
that’s your birth right 
Remember you chose this
You chose life
Remember you know this 
Suppose you 
are hearing this right now because you chose to
It’s all you 
Yeah… In that regard it’s all me, too 

For the lovers and the listeners 
Brothers and sisters
You don’t wanna miss it 
If you need to make adjustments 
To your antennae
Pay ‘em a visit 
Stay with attention
We are sitting broadcasting 
Listening 
Getting it in and 
Transmitting

It feels good to keep your mirror clean 

Intelligent Life - evening meditation (download)

m e r c y

This is the live/acoustic version of "Breaking of a Man" I recently recorded in Israel.I think it's one of the BEST versions of this song.I'd love to hear your thoughts.- John Forté (shout out to DJ Ori Shochat and DJ Alarm) - hear the full interview here: http://tiny.cc/g9h2b


Breaking of a Man (Radio Tel Aviv) http://tiny.cc/g9h2b

You know the laws of cause and effect
Like either bars or your death
There’s a joker in the mix... too many cards in the deck
The truth is vicious
Enough to turn a continent superstitious
To make a wife deny existence of a mistress
Arm-chair generals who never knew the field
Talk rhetoric appeal to the mass on the kneel
You get a pass for your silly talk ask where I really walked
Confined to a no-man’s land, but yet I still evolved
They’d rather have me talking entertainment
Than asking little shorty in the ‘hood where his brain is
I’m not a preacher I’m a painter
Mediocre thinking is a feature I don’t claim to
Teach the babies so they learn with adoration
Instead of Tweeting for external validation
This is speaking from a block circler
Be forewarned this is not my first time on the Ave
You write rhymes; I write songs that last
You in the club Friday night; I fast
Shabbat shalom – Salaam I’m home
High grade thinking I, John got grown
My, my, my how John got grown


I Believe (feat Radmila Lolly)

85 is the Summer (snippet)

They may walk like I do...
They may look like me, too
But they are not me
When push comes to shove, I'm above the mockery
With you by my side they could never stop me
With you by my side they could never stop me
Don’t be deceived by appearances while they run interferences
We don’t even rock on the same team
Your market is mainstream – my target is mainly
For the thinkers and the hustlers questioning where the muscle is
Though nothing is beyond reach
We exercise because the mind is only good as the palms’ reach
I got a mind that like to cook like pommes fritte
But my diet is green - sans meat
Do the knowledge when John speaks
It’s valid and as solid as concrete
It’s a luxury to not have to hear those songs
They get a lot of airplay but I don’t cheer those on
I’m hanging just beneath surface where the earth is warm
It’s a different way of thinking when you’re fourth and long
Or when the path gets muddy and the course is gone
Or when you fall into a hole from a life so charmed
You might talk like I do, but c’mon
They may walk like I do...



They Could Never Stop Me feat Angela Savvas (smple)

"Gone" featuring HD Fre, Talib Kweli, AZ and Sass Jordan

Sew Eye (So I)

The intermission's concluded - I've been reprogrammed and uprooted
Waited 'til the ship took orbit and parachuted
My volleys compensate for what the serves are not
So I think more than ever - 'cause my nerves are shot 
And though it's trite delving in to what my purse contains
My shorty might not smile, but she purrs a lot
We adhere to tradition like Olympian torches
What we forge is thought of as categorically gorgeous
Oh sure, it's worth discussing, but it's generally thought
The way we relate to women's fundamentally flawed
As if they're just here to be photographed and airbrushed 
Poked and picked up 
Clutched and nip tucked

I love you more
I love you more
It creeps and it crawls
It weeps and it bawls 
It ain't easy at all...

I LOVE YOU MORE

I never dreamt of what we’d find
If life should run away some time
Would you remind me?
Would you remind me?

So, I’m a little late at it y’all
I guess I’m happy that I made it all
You see, in retrospect, I was fated to fall
Living fast like my face was on the way to the wall
“Here lies…” you know the rest
But not in peace
Who am I to suggest that we’re having it now
The babies go away - are mostly black and brown
Like we’re allergic to some higher wisdom
Dr. West called it nihilism
Like, “I don’t read, but I’m fly right? Get money! Get high! That’s what I like!”
The greatest trick that the devil ever showed me
Was a trick that the devil NEVER showed me
Like he’d reveal those tricks
What isn’t broken ought not be fixed
Look y’all! There’s a rabbit in his fitted cap
Magician in your midst – what type of trick is that?!
So defiant that they took every secret of the science and they put it in a book
Every secret of the science and they put it in a book
Right in front of you
And so it goes…

I never dreamt of what we’d find
If life should run away some time
Would you remind me?
Would you remind me?

I never dreamt of what we’d find
If life should run away some time
Would you remind me?
Would you remind me?


John Forte

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