Beat by @rep-re.  

An open letter to the RAP CLUB: Rich Priority, Ikabod Bum, Ramon the Overgrown, Shane "the Natural" Tucker, Hype Ski, Drew James, Dan Wizard, Mental Mike, Terry Fox, David Dancer, Jive Turkey, Litigator J, Kelly F, Gibby V and everyone else who has ever dropped a verse at the 817.

Lyrics:

This joint goes out to my Rap Club peers 
Who I came in the game with but haven't seen for years  
Haven't lit a blunt in a minute or drank too many beers 
Nor adhering to the ethos that poets hold so dear 
Man Ive been trying to stay sober and keep my head clear 
To keep me from falling over and act like King Lear 
I guess we got our own shit to deal with, face our own fears 
But i recently joined soundcloud and found some of you here
How y'all doing mayne I mean it sincerely 
Me, I've been feeling a little worn down and weary
Been making some silly decisions, really
Cause I haven't always kept the microphone near me
40 years yo, it's sounds so eerie to say it
But when the beat comes i still feel I can slay it
Maybe I'm deluded, I ain't afraid to say it
Or maybe I finally found a way to convey it.

Dear Rap Club (prod. Lanoir)

Beat by @simonayem. Words by KHAN SOLO.


LYRICS:

If I like you I'll tell you I'll never yell girl
I'll call you every day there's no way I will fail you
And if I don't call I'm probably out with the fellas
But when I get home I will make it all better
If I'm ever away I will write you a letter
Straight from my heart like all my endeavors
My life has been a dream since the day that I met you
I'm doing my best staying true to my efforts
Put your worries away I won't hurry or stress you
Rest your head on my chest I'll caress you forever
I'll carry the letter like Hester let it fester
After all we're involved and that's a small gesture
Whatever's your request baby girl I'll sequester
I'm addicted to your love you're the best it's a pleasure
Whatever's your request baby girl I'll sequester
I'm addicted to your love you're the best.

Objectively speaking that first verse was fine
But it don't take a genius to know you can't be defined
When your moms met your pops the planets were aligned
Cause the love they made made a baby so fine
I finally found you girl, you're a true find
For a chance to be with you I can walk the line
Let me finish this song so we can spend some time
Better yet stop now before you change your mind.




Boy Meets Girl (prod. SimonAyEm)

Beat by @coco-on-the-beats. Words by Kae Tea.


LYRICS:

If there's ore thing you can rely on i'll always keep the light on.
I can be your haven on days when the nights long.
Humans often falter but writers need to write on.
Whether it be a deep poem or tight song
Don't you forget homie your will is quite strong.
Let the words extend you even if no one understand.
They haven't seen what we've seen, never been where we've been.
It's part of the art form, it's our job to show them.
We may never be in demand - are we too hard to undertsand?
We need to try harder don't get defensive again.
It's a process my friend not a means to an end.
The process is endless, the who why and when.
Don't worry bout how i trust you know it by now.
After ten thousand tries it's bound to come tight.
That's not just a saying it's also the way that I write,
Hounding my imagination passed the hour of midnight.
In this life, I have to get right.
This ain't a recital it's my path to the light.
And after surviving the wrath of not trying 
Giving up is something that i can't abide by.
And my sight is world wide, it's do or die G
And if i die tonight my words will survive me.
It's taken awhile but I believe what I'm saying
Un-afraid to display it, I believe i'm amazing.
And maybe I'll never blaze a trail to the Canon
But music is my sail and i'll never abandon her.
They can hold my reputation in the courtroom for ransom
Or snicker and laugh say I'm gray like Ted Danson.
No longer handsome, at least i'm not on the bandwagon.
I got skills for real yo like Return of the Dragon.
But enough with the bragging it's a new adventure today
And like Bilbo Baggins I'll venture til my heart fades.
Cause I'm getting old yo, not just feeling that way. 
Have a job on the go and it's tough every day.
Got rules I need to follow / a life placed on hold
And don't have time to make music let alone rock shows.
You don't have to say it I know this verse is cold, 
I got this love thing for language and stories well told
No i can't explain it, it's like i'm speaking in codes
But if u need to talk homes, i'll be back tomorrow.

Writers Anonymous (ft. Rich Priority) (prod. Coco Kanuckles)

Beat by @Alphanote. Words by KHAN SOLO. Thank you for your support!!!

LYRICS:

i.

I walk the road alone composing poems in the dome
Pass thru the danger zone as i head for home
4 decades grown with all of these skills that i've honed
I feel the weight of the future, i don't fear the unknown
Outside they can't see the words inside me
And the weight i carry is heavy so don't take me lightly
In a different life I might be a geek on the run
In this life i found my rhythm i was saved by the drums
I started writing about my chaos, and man there was a bunch
Now i'm looking for the payoff after all that i've accomplished
I once took a day off, my balance man was way off
I was fucking with my numbers you could call me Bernie Madoff
Now I'm in the playoffs, right at the point of take off
Was once high on barf now watch me as I fly off
This lyrical life ain't easy, MCs have it tough
But Hip Hop is my lady, Music is my love


ii.

Yea there's been times in my life when I lied to myself
Running after fame / chasing after wealth
I had no one else to blame, there was nothing to gain
My health was fading quickly I was slow to explain
Wouldn't air my dirty laundry nor reveal the monstrosity
Brewing inside of my belly like the beast that accosted me
And the cost was my well being -   good things I couldn't see
And the things that I saw man you wouldn't believe
Explored the dark side of life so hard to see the light
That's why I don't write "horror-core" cause I know what it's like
When you're chasing after shadows but you're too afraid to fight
So you move among the cattle never battle for insight
Then what have you? So what if they all wanna laugh at you
I discovered my muse opened myself to the blues
Found the fighter within, learned that winning means truth
So hold up your lighter and grin cause I'm coming anew.

How I Made It (prod. Alphanote)

Beat by @only1dob. Words by KHAN SOLO and Henry David Thoreau.

LYRICS:

HDT: "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived."

verse 1.

Looks like winter's arrived early, I can almost taste the frost 
Piercing into my abdomen like memories forgotten
And sentiments are lost in the haze of the fog 
When autumn springs suddenly and the temperature's dropping
I retreat into the spectrum of quiet introspection 
Carrying the questions like a shaman on his walk
I move without talking, I'm steadily stalking 
Checking my sub conscience thru the eye of a hawk
From a view high above I zero in on the cub 
And there ain't no stopping he's like a child thats in love
Made it through a rough patch this past season was tough 
But now I see a clear path no obstruction or fluff
I can read the road map all the cross outs and scrubs 
Wear it like an old hat, rumors become known facts
Bring it to the rap club, tell it in the third act
It's a process of love all the things I brought back. 

HDT: " I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms."

verse 2.

Check the essential vitamins and minerals
Running with the blood, coursing through the central 
nervous system to the mental, let the beat seep thru
Deep into my spectrum affecting the color and hue
And the prism from which I see thru reveal patches of fruits
Patterns are inhabited by momentary clues
Ambiguous in description, neither circles nor cubes
And I offer no resistance to the angels in my purview 
And what happens next I can't be sure of my dude
But I could feel its effect and the impact was huge
Like an invisible hand that guided me in my youth
So i strapped on my rain boots and bear witness to miracles
Unequivocal, I can see time space indivisible
And if you weren't there it might sound hysterical 
A mystery of the mind, sublime like mankind
I came looking for the answers found questions undefined.

HDT: "We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomable."

verse 3.

After the clouds fade away and the sun rose at noon
I can see faces of warrior looking back thru the ruins
Figures connect like orgy before the coming of doom
Showing me the history of past glory and gloom
I climbed up on those rocks and walked the path before me
And if the faces could talk would they share their stories
I thought, "Could this be the working of God,
that sculpted these images from centuries forgotten?"
Washed away thru time, sunk into the sediments
Softened by the wind, sculpted by the elements
Battle worn and torn but there's no need for alarm
I can feel my psyche transform thru the storm
Abstract in form before the process' informed
Wrap around my body like metaphysical arms 
Once my gift is received it takes corporeal form 
When I utter these sentences the world is reborn.

HDT: "I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."

Joshua Tree (prod. only1dob)

Liquid English 2 : Electric Waterloo ft. Rich Priority (prod. Ogi Feel the Beat)

U Broke My Heart (ft. Rich Priority & THEWIZ)(prod. FoxaZ Beats)(mixed by DrewJames808)

Words by KHAN SOLO. Beat by Brookz MC.


LYRICS:

I remember when we used to be one
Remember you told me, "We already won."
Once made a promise that we'd stay together as one.
But we under-estimated what's already been done.
My one love one lust you were second to none.
Wasted our one chance for one life under the sun.
Broke our one promise lost the promise of one.
Guess we over-estimated destiny hon.

Was it just yesterday we took a walk by the lake
But then we came home and you were breaking our plates.
I should have known then we were doomed for a break
But we hesitated and kept running in place.
So I debated, concluded we couldn't relate
Cause you were too young, maybe I was too late.
I never imagined we'd ever end up this way
But when it was done we turned love into hate.
Little arguments soon escalated like spores
And the battles we fought elevated to war.
You finally succeeded in opening the door
To a place from my past before I was yours.
You took a look at the landscape then turned back in horror.
You found my Gomorrah then explored it like Dora.
And soon after that you started losing your aura
Cause I did all I could couldn't do it no more.

Still I remember when we used to be one.
Remember you told me, "We already won."
Once made a promise that we'd stay together as one.
But we under-estimated what's already been done.
My one love one lust you were second to none.
Wasted our one chance for one life under the sun.
Broke our one promise lost the promise of one.
Guess we over-estimated destiny hon.

Two hearts two minds two souls intertwined
Too many problems lets call it off tonight.
I used to think this love would take us two to new heights
But we're stuck in the abyss, we can't even see light.
Must we play this silly game over who's wrong and who's right
Cause I don't want to fight, I just want to chill tonight.
Swallow the poison pill submit to your will so ill
Feelings spill overkill tell me what's the deal.
I don't want to hear you crying or telling me you're dying.
I'm sick of getting stressed out man I'm barely surviving.
I'm sorry babe, I know that I lied but there ain't no denying
You were in compliance, let's just put this behind us.
I hope in time you find what you're looking for 
And learn to be kind, cause this love is over babe 
No need to rewind. My life's been streamlined.
Made that bee-line out the door.

Still I remember when we used to be one.
Remember you told me, "We already won."
Once made a promise that we'd stay together as one.
But we under-estimated what's already been done.
My one love one lust you were second to none.
Wasted our one chance for one life under the sun.
Broke our one promise lost the promise of one.
Guess we over-estimated destiny hon.

Where are you now love? Have you been bored?
Have you reached that magical number you've been meaning to score?
Are you enamored? Have you been adored?
Have you traveled to places you ain't been to before?
Yeah I've been alright. I've stayed ashore.
I haven't been thinking about you that much anymore
But recently I've thought about writing this song
And I was looking back on the path where we both went wrong.
I think we didn't have an understanding I think we thought 
That it didn't really matter what we said when we fought.
We took our love for granted that's when we forgot
That words do matter, yes they do mean a lot.
Guess we didn't know what we got til it's lost now it's gone.
Girl you've been gone for a while and I thought I moved on.
Remember when you asked me why I never wrote you a song?
Well this song is for you and you can pass it along.

Kae Tea

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