Manus Bell’s entry for The Definition of a Rap Flow contest hosted by R.A. the Rugged Man.
Manus is a 22 year old Danish rapper from Copenhagen, currently signed with his own independent record label Home Studio Productions.

Lyrics: Manus Bell 
Mix: Mr. Easterhouse and Manus Bell
Master: Mr. Easterhouse 

LYRICS:
It’s the beginning of living in realism I ain’t ready so I stay steady, puffing and sipping, I’m tripping 
trying to make a decision, fight to create a collision, I’m attempting to enbreak and replace the division
All the -ism messing with your perception of living, given your vision I'm thinking lack of ambition inflicting 
the criticism I'm giving as I be hitting the rhythm, decisions of capitalism will diminish tradition

I hope your sitting down now you better listen, floating on a cloud as you're reminiscing
Just chilling remembering competition with your sibling but the interesting thing is that reason is given 
By the the system of imperialism I keep on going it’s the Don flowing going to get em’
I hit them with the deadly venom I pretend to be spitting, killing in plenum rich men are leaving nothing forgiven 

The politicians are with em´ the algorithm no different, they say whatever is written every day on the television
and it sickens me - everybody´s listening from the states to the 3. world citizens 
Hindu, jew, muslim, christian - I don’t give a damn as long as you’re a civilian 
It’s not about religion, it’s about the overall condition of the women and children in the society we live in
The ignition is sticking, the competition position is diminishing any possibility for the living 
but anti - liberalism is a ticket to prison bringing any innocence into custody for commission   
I’m on a mission, in addition i gotta keep wishing that the ambition has risen up above the driven definition
of a rap flow, getting ready to attack pro, a legend never dies - they only grow 

going to town rocking the show making us proud bringing the flow 
people are singing along, drinking ’til dawn, yet they’re digging a hole,
thinking of being the negative being and never to be in the middle of hope 
trying to be in the better but never to care to remember the generous folk


I’m going to war, I’m trying to teach you 
that going to war for more is greed and counts as evil 
I’m ready to brawl, I’m making the call, it’s now I need you 
Stand tall, I’m ready to fight and fall to make us equal

I’m trying to reach the people but freedom of speech is lethal 
I’m seeking the remedy curing insanity, yo where the fucks my needle? 
Diesel powered pilgrimage, nothing like the Camino 
Illegal business wins unforgivably like casinos

One to the two, skip to the five, six seven eight great mc´s ride
judging the competition in which I´m - bringing the best flow - I be the best buy                     
ready for next show, Dk to Bed-Stuy, anywhere else to go? East to westside? 
Smoking the Indo, trying to get high, I got a kilo, willing to try?

I don’t rap’cause I don’t got dow - But because it’s meant for me
Speak to repeat what history´s told - it’s common sense to see
look into both the new way and the old - the way it’s meant to be
Try to defeat enemies on the road - it*s my mental stress relief  

I'll never agree with the mentality that a man can earn more than a family needs
A single tree of a thousand seeds can impossibly be a society
trying to be in the realist mode, but often redeeming the mean of the code 
I seem to be into the lyrical flow but I dream to speak of the serious goal

Tripping your mind, your soul, making you follow their way to get old
but go and discover the story untold, unfolding the meaning of life as you go
There’s different options, Theres various Roads 
They can't stop you, Explore the unknown

and don't keep on doing whatever your told, critical thinking is never to bold
Be cold and abolish the way of the throne to declare the freedom you rightfully own 
They’re attacking you’re zone killing civilians to get to your home
supplying the wealthiest men with the gold while poverty hits over half of the globe

Self medicated I’d say that life´s underrated, I got this far without getting paid yet - 
‘cause I don’t give a fuck whats written on a pay check 
and that’s because I’m gonna make it, talk about fate? No fuck it ‘imma take it 
Alienated, replaced with - heavily sedated clones  


I be puffing weed chilling in the breeze, I hear the cold wind hit the trees and I’m at ease  
Looking out over the sea I’m finally at peace, I try to find my feet and see within the industry 
Yo its Locksmith, Rittz to the Vin-E-P, Heavenly divine to design this creed  
Mr. Green chilling on the MPC and half an hour later we be spiting on a beat 

I’ve really been digging the stuff live from the streets and to meet the crew would be fulfilling one of my dreams 
this fantasy scenario would mean the world to me - I mean I’ve listened to this team since i was fifteen 
sixteen, ’06, Uncommon Valour hit the street scene, mean teenager in them Sean John street jeans 
wrong bong, weak knees, long gone sweet dreams now I fall asleep to V’s OPG Theme 

Kweli, you’re speaking to people like me, making us see and believe we’re currently - living in immoral means        
Governmental schemes, seem to be highly into the color green, evidential evidence the dead presidents´ team
has successfully turned humanity into machines and regrettably if you decide to not abide its treason
They got the working class thinking that we need them, call it liberal but its nothing to do with freedom 

How can we believe them? The nation’s barely breathing, economists have proven that capitalism’s beaten 
for one reason - the distribution of stealing, private agencies are making billions leaving us bleeding 
but we can make it better though, if even us alone, all we need is a Mr. Green beat and 9 microphones
Like the definition of a rap flow video, trying to riddle ‘em, killing the middle men, making it on our own

I’m in meadow long gone under sea-level, following the shadow of myself trying to settle
Yet I’m blowing up, spitting dawn to dusk, spit so much that my microphone’s going to rust
but your soul bust, no moral dignity and no trust, in state of state crime, state of mind doesn't grow much
Smoke Dutch, puff - to provoke us to think of: “another one bites the dust”﻿

Manus Bell - The Definition of a Rap Flow (Contest Entry)

Manus Bell – Been awhile

Yo it's been a while I’m back now,
on another level 
Teach an old dog new tricks
And move him up into another ghetto  
I know what I got 
I believe that you feel it too
People tell me I can get a spot
Instead of pushing just to feed the crew 
But I’m the type of motherfucker to believe 
that unity is in the tunnel view
Fuck with anyone of me and mine
A team of 25, on a ton of juice 
Affiliated we be coming through 
Tell me what the fuck you gon’ do 
And when that fucking beat drop, 
we could kill anyone of you

Been awhile

Manus Bell – Monopoly

I feel society breaking,
I see the mighty have taking 
over control of what’s being told on the daily
but they are mistaken
taking their time degrading your mind
and shaping the line of humanity’s pavement
They see it they take it,
making the people live like an animal is basically
  
the result of greed,
intentionally disturbing the peace, no escaping
Can’t you see the elite chasing supremacy
with the recipe of hatred
They got the whole world shaking,
meaning the people living in poverty are wasting
their life, not knowing what’s wrong,
or knowing what’s right,
theres no way to thrive while you're craving
 
food, water, peace,
homie you oughta see, 
what its like in the street,
when you stuck in the middle and can’t breath, Can’t sleep
can’t eat, can’t be who you wanna be
looking for the people at the top of the economy
Commonly thinking the third world’s comedy,
probably laughing about their monopoly policy
 
making them win at the lottery –
its legal but really a robbery 
living without any honesty’s gotta be
tiring yet I don’t hear any form of apology
But it’s you it’s me
instead of us thinking it’s unity 
it’s us it’s we, but they’ll never believe
that we must be united as one to be free
 

Monopoly

Manus Bell – Discover

Fuck your freedom of speech,
you're using it wrong, instead of to teach
The next generation ‘til they get along
and hold on to the people no longer in reach 
I used to be happy you see,
but now I can’t even remember whenever I smiled to my peeps
I hate to retreat,
But I simply can’t figure out how to get back on my feet 
 
I’m surrounded by thugs
pretty sure that I’m better
I do a lot of shit for the Buzz 
But Its, Be-cause I don’t know any better
They say that I’m after the world 
I’ve already got more than enough
as long as I still got my crew and a girl 
I will never be willing to give it all up
 
Why is it that all of the new motherfuckers
Are making the their money by dissing each other 
I tell them to tell me a story and 
all of a sudden , they all had a stutter 
I just want to be killing the beat, brother
Pulling the pick-up to hit repeat, sucker
LP to CD and Napster to free-bees 
I got at least fifty more years to discover

Discover

Manus Bell – Fanatic

Every fanatic is an addict 
attracted to all the magic it be tragic its a bad mathematical habit 
say rapid radicalisation is the way to attack it 
you had no clue they riddle you digging into a mental straight jacket 
laid back cause the fact is I’m all dramatic 
telepathic motherfucker in the gutter of the attic 
yo i can’t hack the upper class are living fantastic. 
innocent civilian children in a mans casket 

Blasted by the western ideology 
democracy ain’t synonymous with equality 
its gotta be the greed of eve in every wannabe 
honestly hypocrisy seems to be in the prophecy 		
its profitable in the sense of the economy 
is commonly what compensates the use of the authority 
we need more to beat and to defeat inferiority 
historically and demolish the western superiority

Fanatic

Manus Bell – Stand for the mission

esé , it’s been about a decade
Don’t allow the deadweight known to devour the hefe
So, - I gotta get paid, to stay above the pedestal
*  Ha! my legacy unforgettable 
though, that means that I caught a rap flow 
Tic tac toe, triple-o green on the bank roll.             
* Never met greed fuck a Franco
Mango sweet, cut a tree when the man broke

your dignity’s on that damn floor
I got bigger dreams than a bando 
Never tell a feign that you mad dope
Trap mode queen sipping lean but her man choke 
* I’m a man with a vision
Planned independence With a gram in my system
* Don’t got an ad but i’m sticking 
Stand for the mission, now the man’s in position 


Stand for the mission

Manus Bell – Eat

- mmm - 
Better not choke go chew that t-bone steak, ey 
- mmm - 
Never got hope up blew that green on payday
- mmm - 
Gotta be honest to all who among us 
our people are modest, shout out to the big boss 
Who at the back of the pack to provide for the artist 

- mmm -   
Guiding lost kids seeking the truth
Feeding the crew, just yuwanit, me and you
Now they all believe it too, ey

Affiliated, fuck a co-sign 
- They’ll know us in no time
And I ain’t really one to boast
But in 2030 we’ll be wearing bowties  

Got a clan, got a home
I’m a man and I’m grown so I know 
what it takes to be taking control of the plan, 
Give a rope to the folk I came up with

aint nobody ever knew what love is so 
been broke  bu, bu, but I grew tall  
always ready for a heavy fall 
Instead of saving the brave they tell them off

Manus Bell – Eagle

Im gonna tell you a story but about a bloke that i met 
you may know him but just wait and let me tell you the rest
He’s rich motherfucker but a puppet at best
Called to take over the whole control of the west
it wasn’t enough, so the eagle flew from its nest
over seas to the middle east to take what was left
and start a war solemnly based on perception of theft
the concept left a whole generation oppressed

Eagle

Manus Bell – Beautiful, Isn't She?

Beautiful isn’t she?
Or so it would seem 
Making you feel the divinity
Or at least she could be

So many attempting to take the control of her 
when she just wants to be set free 
So many men becoming enemies 
Over what could have been giving them empathy

But they all got plenty, 
probably more than you and I will ever know 
But their thoughts are empty, 
looking for the things in people that come and go

An open mind, 
can be a remedy whenever it comes to an overload 
But they keep on thinking that 
we can solve any problem just                    by sending another boat 

From the get-go, hek don’t get broke, let those tectonic plates echo 
In the middle of a meadow, earthquake, oh oh, fuck it just, make another ghetto 
But I can hear the kettle screaming the water be boiling, there’s damp on my ceiling 
Its getting worse, its like a curse, don’t have anything to believe in  

Lately Ive been thinking whether I should have let go a long time ago, back when I was broke 
People keep telling me you looking better B, giving me respect like never before 
I’m sick of this tendency, superficial friends will fuck off as soon as they enter the door
Looking for these women digging for the gold hanging with your homie, dealing all the blow

But I’m, beginning to be in a bit of a particular type of situation thinking as I go 
overanalyze, everything I’m told, see me in disguise, tell me what you know
Hold up, I just wanna be able to know ya, I just wanna be able to bring an opinion
Pull it back a millennium, never think of a million in a coma.

We ended up paying for whatever they used
They said we could become whatever we wanted to 
No truth in a broke suit
So keep having your fun but just know that I’m onto you 

On your tip-toes had to reach for the sky
End up falling deeper than you ever tried
-        When the 5-0 passin’ me by I get paranoia like when I be too high
I can’t help imagine what could happen, what if it was me they were coming for this time

Beautiful, Isn't She?

Manus Bell – Make a living

Thinking any minute I be in it for the money But I never gave a 
fuck about the money, I been running Up a bigger mountain 
every monday morning looking for the people in the building 
who been on it, bringing all the honey to the other women (wow)
 
Ever since the beginning of business
I’ve been trying to get more people embedded to being independent 
And now we beginning to see the difference?
So we gotta keep on working with the people who living to get it 
 
* Bringing the hype, bigger than life 
Taking it back, look at the beat, Nobody left to deminish 
Look-at-him being better than Guiness, survival of the fittest 
Thinking to be in a bit of a situation making a living, go get it

Make a living

Manus Bell – Fell a hundred times

I fell a hundred times, but got up again 
Just like the government 
Now I can smell the money coming in
Revolutionize any ties men my younger men 
 
Wondering what if I didn’t get up the ninety-ninth 
time I fell down, I’d better bow to the numbers then
Wow, I’ve been slow, I believe though
That good things come to those who got a team who trust in them 
 
So, I’mma stick to business, 
the brothers forgive us for being so attracted to figures, 
No! See I'm in it for the bigger picture 
never trick the wicked to be thinking you ain't bringing hope

- Break it down, let the anger go 
Don’t make a sound, they can never know
‘Cause they don’t got what it takes to unfold 
the intellectual prowess not to  devour the power control 

Fell a hundred times

Manus Bell – Crimes Against Humanity

It’s popular to hide behind the mask
To acknowledge our understanding of hope
There’s so many questions that we’re unable to ask 
‘cause they dictate the discourse to maintain control
By doing so they’ve divided us in classes 
Everyone wants to be somebody else 
But individuality has drowned in the masses 
a paradox, since it’s every man for himself

So many souls moaning for help
So many stories untold at the bottom of wells
history repeating itself so many who fell
   blindly believe in what the media tells
It’s time to think about it, it’s time for you to dwell
Whether you’re the boss or the lowest rank of personnel 
Remove the ego, do it for yourself
- If not for you then everbody else 

Crimes against humanity
Yet humanity’s our biggest threat
They call it rational insanity 
And now so many millions of innocent civilians are dead 
We forgot the lesson, so many massacres
America to Asia, Australia to Africa
Now the rich hide their money down in Panama 
And pay no tax regardless if it will damage ya

- We gotta wake up and see
capitalism beginning to bring the world to defeat
Crimea to syria, all over the middle east  
refugees flee, with nothing but the soul of their feet 
Follow the hope to be free, they just try to survive
so who am I to say that I don’t feel lucky to be alive
Thats why I wake up every morning with a smile on my face 
as I’m embracing the day with a whole new measure of time

Smoke another one 

Crimes Against Humanity

Manus Bell – Going to war

I’m going to war, I’m trying teach you 
that going to war for more is greed and counts as evil 
I’m ready to brawl I’m making the call it's now I need you 
Stand tall, I’m ready to fight and fall to make us equal
I’m trying to reach the people but freedom of speech is lethal 
Im seeking the remedy curing insanity yo where the fucks my needle 
diesel powered pilgrimage, nothing like the camino 
illegal business wins unforgivably like casinos
one to the two, skip to the five, six seven eight great mc´s ride
judging the competition in which I'm bringing the best flow, I be the best buy                     
ready for next show, Dk to Bed-Stuy	, anywhere else to go, east to westside? 
smoking the Indo I wanna get high I got a kilo, willing to try?
Don’t rap ‘cause i don’t got dough, but because it's meant for me
speak to repeat what history’s told, it’s common sense to see
look into both the new way and the old - the way it’s meant to be
try to defeat enemies on the road - it’s my mental stress relief  
I'll never agree with the mentality that a man can earn more than a family needs
A single tree of a thousand seeds can impossibly be a society
trying to be in the realist mode, often redeeming the mean of the code 
I seem to be into the lyrical flow but I dream to speak of the serious goal
Trippin’ your mind, your soul, making you follow the way to get old
but go and discover the story untold, unfolding the meaning of life as you go
There’s different options, there’s various roads 
They can't stop you, explore the unknown
and don't keep on doing whatever you’re told critical thinking is never to bold
Be cold and abolish the way of the thrown to declare the freedom you rightfully own 
They attacking you’re zone killing civilians to get to your home
supplying the wealthiest men with the gold while poverty hits over half of the globe
Self-medicated I’d say that life´s underrated I got this far without getting paid yet - 
‘cause I don’t give a fuck what’s written on a paycheck 
and that’s because I’m gonna make it, talk about fate? No fuck it I’mma take it 
Alienated, replaced with heavily sedated clones 	

Going to war

Manus Bell – Hype

 I dont give a fuck bout anybody else
Me time me time thinking of myself
E-G-O like a C-E-O 
better see me grow on the cd shelf
We eat well, well for the first twenty-one
Days if the month we get by by the beats we sell
Neat retail, but I wanna lot of things
I be thinking bout at least three mil

Thats right, homie I dont even need to knife
All i need a pen and i can write Looking for the hype
I been in da pen a couple nights,
Other people looking for the fight on the way to
Big parties sip Bacardi hit the road
Bitch Zoning getting stoned and sniffing coke
Shit snowing through your nose into your throat
Hit go to blow but know that you alone, so 

* Put em up put em up 
Back in the ring, gringo is it good enough?
* Put em up put em up 
Took a prenub but the rest of it’s up to us 
* We be following A dream (ey)
Affiliated be the team (ey)
Now we looking for the cream (ey)
Gimmie gimmie cheddar cheese (ey)

Lebanese kitchen, into fine dining 
I been looking for the recipe 
Since seventeen, I been trying to find it
But it found me and it will never leave 
* I dont feel your fucking energy 
Kennedy couldn’t even do what I do
* But John Lennon never let it be 
Let it be known the legacy apply to 

Anybody in the crew who knew
we be looking for the better view
Kept it together for better days 
Hesitate? Never on the revenue 
, we, been, out, cooking up a
doubt, looking for the clout, never thought to give a fuck 
, we, in, now, bringing
a new level of of being the better men and never giving up

Why? homie I dont even need to knife
All i need a pen and i can write Looking for the hype
I been in da pen a couple nights,
Other people looking for the fight when they living up in
Copenhagen, motivation, cope with change 
and go to places, no one’s taken 
But the road to fame is known to break 
ya bones and make a man enough to know, that his goddamn 

Hype don’t mean nothing to a mother
Who aint ever had trust
So many in the game look for the buzz
But we can’t put food on the table with love
Now I know Hype don’t mean nothing to a brother
Who aint ever had enough
Looking for the money we be living off drugs
Nobody in the kitchen who be thinking ‘bout us us us


Hype

Manus Bell – Sarajevo

I got this one clear memory
And it keeps coming back
I’m shivering and my mom keeps telling me
Calm down, come on, don’t worry you’re on the right track
 
What a remedy 
If only my ego had known that
It’s kinda like I’m my own worst enemy 
But I suppose for most, its like that 
 
I used to have a dream, 
that everybody else was like me 
no unusual youth, my family might be
the greatest security I could want in my life, need
 
Seven years old living in the red zone
Sarajevo in my sweater vest and tight jeans
I sightsee, deep in my soul trying to find the
meaning of it all, but a fall is likely

Smoke another one 

Sarajevo

Manus Bell – Role Model

Look at me a role model, new level       
Gotta give it to the kids rap is the new metal
Make ‘em wanna live, instead of making you settle to devil 
Looking for the method to better the day
Cooking up a record to deal with the pain
Got me booking in a venue to pick up the pay
Pick a date, tick away, A be on top of the game , wow
My people are ready to gamle       
I gotta get a demand so 
Damn bro, motherfucker be bigger than Rambo 
Ran slow, so they too fast with ammo, oh
Affiliated ‘til we make it
winning with the homies
Got a whole team dedicated 
Hele holdet gør det ordentlig 
 
Kick in the door, dig for the gold, in a minute    
whistle to blow, bringing in a flow, break a limit
Foot to the floor, shook by the po, Get a ticket 
Good but I’m broke, looking for the dough, Got me thinking 
Now why would I need all that shit?
Got more than I could imagine
Cards I’ve been dealt are fantastic
But… I gotta ask this
Where the fuck is my happiness?
Ever since i been out doing trappy shit
I’ve been thinking of the bag again 
Got me actin’ like a mannequin 

They asking where the fuck has Manus been?

Role Model

Manus Bell – Gold Digger

Got me looking like a gold digger 
Gold digger digging for the dope
Never-Nevermind a go getter
Go getter better let me smoke
Look, i need a little peacetime
cop a home by the seaside
be at ease lemmie breathe 
I need you to leave me the fuck alone 
 
None of its easy
I thought my life would be like on the TV 
And it was for a minute 
Up until I met the real me 
And it taught me how to navigate through the fake fish in the sea
obstacles, when the plot thickens to be something bigger than a dream
And I became the man my mama wanted me to be 
But its never too late to get a new face believe
 
Me, when I tell you that I got the memo and hope you get it 
But I know you won’t 
I’ve been to neverland and back again pretending 
That I’ll never have to grow old, but 
it ain't so
I got time
To lay low
Read a book and write a rhyme 
 
going to the studio to get mine 
Chilling with my blood brothers on the line
I took all the drugs, did it for the high
 
looking like a gold digger 
Gold digger digging for the dope
Never-Nevermind a go getter
Go getter better let me smoke
Look, i need a little peacetime
cop a home by the seaside
be at ease let me breathe 
I just need you to leave me the fuck alone 

Gold Digger

With a strong sense of indignation and a phenomenal flow, Manus Bell uses Hip Hop to convey his view of the world. His deep and recognizable voice holds a sincerity that draws the listener into his serious lyrics. 
The label is closely attached to the revolutionary rapper Manus Bell, the band 'Banned', and has affiliations with Rapolitics, Dinar Music, Bandit Entertainment and Revolution Records.

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