I've decided i'm a do it
But I need some tools 
If I'm really gonna go through with it
Copped like three AKs on Craigslist
That shits amazing
Spent the rest on some blow
And a night at the Days Inn

Yea I have some friends
And a bitch
And a car that my parents helped me buy
And a room that is mine
Where I sleep all the time
And a part-time job
Where I hardly ever cry

This ain’t nobodies fault
This ain’t nobodies fault
This ain’t nobodies fault
Life just took too long

Anthony didn’t make it to class
He's coming late and bringing Jinx
So you better be fast
You better beware
Cause he's right out there
He's creeping peeping into hell
And he's waiting for that noon bell

One, Two, Three
Left lying in the grass
Four, Five, Six
Shoulda seen me through the glass
Seven, Eight, Nine, Ten, Eleven, Twelve
Shoulda kept running 
Yea I popped em when they stopped to help 

(Pop, Pop)
From my background
(Pop, Pop)
Goes the
(Pop, Pop)
Pig
(Pop, Pop)
Sounds
(Pop, Pop)
They keep shooting
But I'm bleeding on the ground
Gotta laugh no cops dropped
My breath stops

Jinx - Nobodies Fault (Prod. TapDaddy Beats)

You say youd shoot this
You say youd fight back
War is art and art is war
Fed by the dunce with the caps
Tzun Tzu with a with a wig
Pigs with unionized amnesty
Homie, art is tragedy
It ain't no hero fantasy

Act: I
Your scared of all the sounds
Drones are in the air and
The cells are working underground
Troops are hiding in the streets
Popping civvies to the beat
Undoubtedly
Every single one of us is enemy
From the black blocs
To the yee haws
The real g's
And the mom and pops punching clocks
You can't say it
Gotcha knees shaking
Calling god
But Your pleads are vacant 
Pray your momma grandma auntie children really make it

Act: II
The poor always fight the wars
While the rich hide behind their private uniformed boars

Jinx - Boog Boy (Prod. TapDaddyBeats)

(TapDaddyBeats Cypher submission for 011622)

Mark: I need to go back to sleep...
When it's time to go to sleep I'm a phenomenal dreamer/
I sync in the scene blurs with real life an the reverse/
collide and then return than the visuals emerge/
when in my dreams, "word", can't predict what I'll see first/
Sometimes I be at work putting stock on the line/
other times I be at work with... Optimus Prime!/
an I'm just like lets bounce out at the drop of a dime/
then we roll through the streets like this world is mine/
In the city getting dinner Megan Fox on my side/
then out the corner of my eye in walks Optimus Prime!/
 an I'm just like lets bounce out at the drop of a dyme/
not even sorry a lil' bit, later Fox I'ma ride!/

Optimus Prime: My name is Optimus Prime
I Know! We gon' roll out and keep it poppin tonight/
An if we see Decepticons we gon be popping'em right?/
OP: Later.
riding on, you give me confidence Prime,/
that I can do anything...Maybe go to Cybertron?...
OP: Much later.

Chorus:
There I go, there I go, there I go.
I'm lost in my mind with Optimus Prime
Cherish those marry moments where spoke
Transform and roll out!

V2: Before I got baptized made my promise to God,/
before that night when I found hip hop to survive/
I was at the fight with the Autobots on the line/
in my dreams with my main man Optimus prime/
It was difficult living through a hostile environment/
The Kids in school would ridicule the attire I arrived in/
 I was sitting cool but didn't pull the price off my items when/
Bully: Marks got Thrift store stickers on his pants/
Skip you guys, I'm out of here, I've not got the time/
B: Yeah Your out of here, Mark come on it's obvious why/
 your pants already put you out, a dollar 25/
Man whatever, I'm gone, I'm not with the vibe/
I went home and hit the bed, sad, sobbing, and cried/
Fell asleep, then in my head Optimus Prime/
Said "Mark, Cybertron", its finally time/
Yes Telaatron 1 launch to the skies/

V3:My pops was never around he was a slave to his job,/
He spent all of his time out getting paid to provide,/
I never really knew him now until late in his life/
So in truth my moral campus bound with Optimus Prime/
I grew up with a cousin Mark, around him and I/
Would Be at my house getting down with robots in disguise/
For hours building town's setting up most of the time/
Where The original finger gun was made homed and designed/ pew pew
We Hung tough as ninjas bow staff and some sai's/
supporting each other through our families tumultuous times/
In so many shenanigans I don't know how we're alive/
He taught me how to dream, you just don't open your eyes/
If you wake up, keep'em closed and most of the time/
You'll re-enter the same dream controlling your mind/
Then he told me about his very own Optimus  Prime/
Sparking the catalyst that would then adopt into mine/

Hoop Dreams:
I'm dreaming of living, living the dream/
Dreams invent visions more vivid than it can particularly Seam/
some horrific with it's scene others blissfully serene/
the mind is a wonder, discover what image really means/

out like a light  flaring, eyes in rem the world turns/
paralyzed from the chemicals while the neural learns/
 your inner most dimensional memory internal/
convert redistributes, add chaos, an the worlds merge/

game 7 NBA finals I know the motto/
it's all on the line now instinct's triumphs survival/
cross through the pick, slide out, then pass to the big guy down/
low he hits the backboard swish, we're tied now/

midway through the night now, moon high in the sky out/
with temperatures low death is lurking like night owl/
Elec circuits fried out, simmering, in the  meanwhile,/
Ambien's in our system... there's an ignite sound/

times down running no more time outs on our side now/
Its hot, sweat in my eyebrows, I wipe the wetness than I browse/
I Look to my left I strive down, with only seconds of time now/
I put the ball in the sky the audience is alive now/

They Had A Blast Part 7/8: Optimus Prime-Hoop Dreams (Produced By TapDaddyBeats)

this spawned from a ghetto joke about 'Tequila' by The Champs - the song with one word - and expanded to fill the earth.
.
.
.
JEPO
this song goes out to anybody who's ever had purple drank - or not. that's all of you! 

it's b-rish
jepotastic
grab yo purple drank we make you feel fantastic

it’s not tequila
it’s not bourbon
it’s not gin
it’s not satisfaction
it’s purple drank, purple purple drank
made from grapes and somethang
could be fizzy, juice, or koolaid
electrolyte replacement gatorade


SPACE HOOK
cause i’m throwing down bars
sittin on mars
from my spaceship ooooo

i think i can be here all day
that’s what i was about to say heyyy
mr alien man spaceship man
on your old tin can
it’s not as big as the touring van
do or die
i’ve never been high
…
at least not by choice
purple drank

b-rish
jepotastic
grab yo purple drank we make you feel fantastic

...

B-RISH
Purple drank
Purp purp purp drank
Purple drink it ain't no stank
Type of drank that make you think 
The type of drank that make you great 
The drank that rhyme everythank 

Whether you stunting in the hood
While you sipping as you should
Just take another drank
Dang this stuff sure be good

Mixing sprite with codeine 
Gonna make me some that lean
When you look me in the eyes
Gonna see that purple gleam

Now it ain't as it seem
Purple ain't only lean
There's plenty of other dank
Red cup purple drank


Gatorade and kool-aid
Heck you got to hecking say
Childhood drank
Back to save the purple day

Serve me up some cherry coke
Purple Fanta ain't no joke
What about that grape juice
Sip a little gets me loose

it's b-rish
jepotastic
grab yo purple drank we make you feel fantastic


mix cryptic-x
prod tapdaddybeats

Purple Drank feat. B-Rish

(Submission for TapDaddyBeats Cypher 052222)

Chorus:
Looking at the stars from a far in the sky today/
wondering why good understood tries to shy away
No matter how hard on my part Ima Find a way/
To Continue pushing hard to Embark on Brighter day/

InitiativeMark:
Searching for the precipice of what heaven is/
While in this vessel for which my thoughts and breath emits/
Is hope a premise with sorrow imminent/
Or a condition my mental lobe tends to benefits/
Searching for joy, or its mental equivalent/ 
Meanwhile I Toil in this abyss of Ambivalence/
The rosebud of growing up a citizen/ (Citizen Kane bars, I'm old) 
Can (Kane) I Foster the jigsaw comfigure its ligaments/
To form the image of bliss, contour picture it/
But coordinates remissed in the GPS for the trip/
"Gps signal lost" All aboard content no more with it/
As a 41 year old orphan reforming his/
Life that's been horribly uprooted and Torn to bits/
When fire sets forth through your entire orphanage/
 you're mired by corpses, yet for their bequest/
There's nothing more important then continuing forward, live./

Jepotastic:
Standing at the precipice pursed my lips again/
landing with a miss is worst a slip and then/
recoil into joy i'll find from grippin when/
the toil of preserving self wakes up adrenaline/
serving up autonomous gut responsiveness/ 
i'm climbing back hand over hand on strength this vine gives/
this item's lack of slack a stranded sink for fine fists/
aligning what's inside the mind to how this life lives/
_or rather _what could be if i connected/
_another _viewpoint not readily accepted/ 
_uncovered _by other ideas rejected/
now selected and directed unprotectedly projected/
staring at the dreamy screen full of my mind themes/
sparing not a seeming gleam pull up a blind beam/
courage to the mindless consciousness of rhyme scheme/
assurance like i've never seen here and i come clean/

Precipice Feat. Jepotastic (Prod. TapDaddyBeats)

Dope collab from The Beez and Nebraska's  Killing Field Records Artists Jinx & TheyareGhost !!! production by Wilbert Grape

THE ELIXR Feat TheyAreGhost & Jinx (Prod by Willis.)

Anime Girl  Prod by .Enemigo

Tap Daddy Cypher 030523

"Honey, you don't need a condom, Im on my pills honest"/
3 weeks later your pregnant, for real you con'd him/
that stooge was me I felt my heart stopped when/
you broke the news, I almost passed out like John Stockton/
fooled once shame on you, twice a problem/
3 kids later feels like my life is an abomin-/
nation, if I had dreams I forgot'em/
While emily resembles off spring of adoption/
using kids as a weapon is kind of rotton/
while I sleep you hold'em over my head high and drop'em
"you chose her" is the line my mom says/
truthfully me making mistakes is not uncommon/
I thought having braids one day was awesome/
I used to sag, how'd I escape if cops come/
what I'm saying is that there's a happenstance/
that I make mistakes, and you're like baggy pants/

Hook:
I'm leaving here, I'm gone, I said I'm leaving here for good.


it's been awhile Sarah, since we parted friends 
I see you're in the water swimming as a shark again
I'm still waiting for bruses to wayne (Bruce Wayne), scares to mend
The jokes on me you duplicitous Harley Quenn 
I was burned by you, while your out hurting hearts again
Who knew my first flame would turn into an arsonist/

  follow your presence how you wander with peasants, 
and The scoundrels you slept with, I'm not clowning your exes/
 but  you really Lowered the bar now that's espec. Since
When you went down to the bar to get barred down, Tetris/

F1pole position  for moolah-you know
formula uno, the cards that you show
They All in your Draws 4, why you getting blue though/

Oh and Thomas I Follow his timeline
I seen you planned a trip, you'd land before tom
Meanwhile his boy saying you should Try Sarah top,/
It's hella good, I'll tell you what 
Sarah gives long neck like Littlefoot.

You're not a dead beat cus your vocals are high dude,
You're a deadbeat because you wont to provide food
For Brish an Emily it'll be some time you've 
Been away. Weapon! I was trying to set'em besides you/

I should pick up the phone send the police to go Find you
Pull you into the precinct  will Get that cheese like a fondue 
I hope you like living with your mom whose/
 a stankin ass bitch, just like you/

Punk ass, I should send both my brothers to touch you
To punch you and double Dutch your body when you come to/
They'll have stomped so many mud holes in your lungs know
Your new nick name in my phone'll be Puddles/

Yeah I'm stalking your sound cloud and the songs you allow out
Pretending you Indy in the game, digital pow wow 
Just trying to be liked miced literally about now
You couldn't fill the shoes of Lil' bow wow/
So roll bounce out and crash your whip/
I heard your batman flip, Mark you ain't rappen slick/
You got the dog piss beat out you after an argument/
By Tom When you two faced like Harvey Dent/
And There were only two hits involved with it
Him hitting you and me making a song of it/

How dare you slut shame, when the whores you play with
To give business, no matter how coordinated 
LoL see (LLC) what I'm trying to sort of say is
The cum panties (companies) you keep aren't incorporated

You Make love like a Unic on Viagra
 u knick when you stab brah
A Lost mail with no package
Unlike you, To get my point across
you could never be accused of sexual assault... in a court of law

And since you like to cut the beat off in your songs...
What would Jesus do if he where you
He'd nail his hands and promptly return a Hebrew
Translation, what does that mean for the God

 he would beat off with the holes in his hands and cum quick like an obedient dog.
If he were you... You scum bag.

The One That Got Away Demo

Dre the Icon - Creation is my salvation (Demo)

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