HE/ and \RT, in one playlist instead of two. Excuse the rough cover art

HE/\RT Double-EP

\RT (Other half of Monarchs album is out!)

You know that one song about that dude who sees that girl on the subway that he doesn't talk to and makes a song for her? I'm out of things to talk about so I made this fictionalized account of myself seeing a girl like that and making a song similarly but instead of fawning over her, our fictional butterfly instead sees that there's more to life than the lady that caught his eye.

Lyrics:
Lookin' back at me is when I saw her in the street
Bookin' back to see a friend that gone on trip to Greece
Took a path to meet her but now Blondie's in my dreams
Coulda gone n seen her when she calmly looked at me

Sight so light wit her eyes so bright /
So the rhymes I write are for her tonight
Y'all have caught my plight while she fill me up with hype
Totin' all these lines that I shoulda said with pride

I was on the bus just to go for a ride,
I would feel the bumps when I try to clear my mind
Took a look outside, is Blondie on a bike?
5'10" frame in the pale moonlight

Bus drives by but she lookin in my eyes
Caught me by surprise, heart looks like a fire
Taught me just to size all the things that I admire
Never play the victim out to all the world's Desires

That's the takeaway, takeaway, takeaway
Please don't fade away, fade away, fade away
Baby girl ain't nothing wrong
You could be with me is all

Baby girl ain't nothing wrong
You could be with my is all
That's the takeaway, takeaway, takeaway
Please don't fade away, fade away, fade away

That's the takeaway, takeaway, takeaway
Please don't fade away, fade away, fade away
Baby girl ain't nothing wrong
You could be with me is all
Baby Girl ain't nothin' wrong
You could be with me is all

I was in my home while my mind was out to zone
I was going gold while my time was going broke 
Then it, had o, -curred to me
I need me some nourishment, spiritual encouragement

I don't need a girl or a 24k chain
I just love this world pumping virtues to the mainframe
Big body Benz that these rappers try to maintain
Moral dodgy lens is the way they choose to gain fame

This is not the end but the state of the gateway
You wanna be in then you better feel the same way
Tired of these tame plays that'll taint the waves grey
That is why this mane sings, try to change your wavelengths

Go to all the great lengths just to sing the same thangs
Switch it up, switch it up, switch it up, switch it up
Give my love, give my love, give my love, give my love
Give it all, give it all, give it all, give it all
When the water rises up, know that you gon' rise above

The Takeaway (Prod. Marow)

I really miss my childhood friends. I let too much time pass without seeing them and to be truthful its one of my few regrets in life, but I'm really setting out to reconnect with those people that were there during my craziest days, because they're all deserving of love and even if not all of them are friends with each other anymore, they're all still friends to me and I'll love them till the end of my days. If any of my friends are personally reading this that were mentioned, I'm sorry I let things get out of hand, and know that all these years my heart has been with you.

LYRICS:
Ranchlands Calgary, the crescent boys are proud'a me 
Callin' on my Block Boyz they the ones I'm boutta see
Say dat I'm a prodigy and thats because I gotta be
Ain't nobody stoppin' me, distance won't be blocking me

Erin hope you proud to see, 16 years you down with me
Y'all have been around to see my life change like resounding leaves
Leland you empowered me to put in all these hours B
'member skating down the street summers feeling flowery

Alex got the power see? Telling jokes all while we eat / 
Godzilla on the TV screen, know just what you mean to me
Simoun ain't just here to please, from my mind he cleared unease
Got the creativity to take it from the C to screen 	

Riley and Jarret, differences apparent,
Friendship in impairment but either way I'm carin'. 
Noah and Charlie there when, everyone was starin'
Cooky Block Boyz we a truly perfect pairin' 


They my Block Boyz and I'm standing wit em all
They my Block Boyz that get me through the fall
They my Block Boyz and I'm standing wit em all
They my Block Boyz that get me through the fall


Those the golden years of my whole damn life
Got a new career outta holding on this mic
Roaming with my Block Boyz is what I dream tonight / 
Used to go and hit the gym like erry Friday right?

Roll up to the Wendy's to grab ourselves a bite / 
While we Load the games up and the tunes are set tight
Wish this ain't my dream but my new reality
Barely in my teens when I moved to Airdrie

There up on my screen were the best of friends I need
Mean the world to me but I drifted off the scene
One of my regrets that I've never broken free
It's why I wrote this set cause I'm coping on a beat


They my Block Boyz and I'm standing wit em all
They my Block Boyz that get me through the fall
They my Block Boyz and I'm standing wit em all
They my Block Boyz that get me through the fall

They my Block Boyz and I'm standing wit em all
They my Block Boyz that get me through the fall
They my Block Boyz and I'm standing wit em all
They my Block Boyz that get me through the fall


Used to take the 37 down to the Mall
We would have an early session down at McDon's (McDonalds)
Talking dirty Dungeons as we drag in (Dragon) to the morn / 
Then we Hop in nerdy classes till we gunning out the door

Those the mad days that I pray to see again
I dun stayed away but this mane's about to change
Life is on display just to color grade the grays
Take me to the days when we careless what we say

damn my heart has ached throughout all these lonely days / 
Cause the Distance separates but the love it mends again
Please don't dissipate into memories that fade
See your face again yeah before I hit the grave 

Distance separates but the love it mends again
Please don't dissipate into memories that fade
Memories to make, Remedy the hate
Memories to make we could Remedy the hate

Block Boyz (Prod. Sample Cat)

A remix of one of my personal favourite songs of mine, but to a beat with an entirely different tone - From Jazz to Lofi.

Distraught Destiny (Remix) (Prod. Beats By Con)

Simmer simmer down as I slickly pick the crown
Crowd is all around while we bodying the town
Y'all like fallen trees going timber timber now
Fall like rapping thieves that just quiver quiver loud /

Y'alls equivalence is frowned I equate you to the ground
Bending on the sound check ya speakers it's surround /
Recommending if you down that you repping on the crowd
Send you to the clouds wit the way I'm steppin now

Maybe all one day you'll see I'm playing all around
Okay call me crazy because you don't need to pay me,
Words is what I'm painting while there's emsee's that I'm slaying
Grateful that I made it while the flow sounds like some gravy

I don't hate who hating, I ain't second placing
Racin' for the graces of the paper that they chasing
I ain't change my phrasin' cause I made it how I say it
Y'all just have to face it, Monarch the new Favourite

Unexplainable Interlude (Prod. Bailey Daniel)

I'm not going to be pressured into being friends with anyone anymore. Y'all either with me or against me. This is a freeverse.

Okay okay-
Got my coffee cup and the rain is out today
Got me feeling stuck pulling thoughts all out my brain
Illuminati luck got the world I need to maintain
Shawdy wants one thing curled up in a basement

Wants to keep me on strings heard that she could make it
If she ever wants things she the type to play rich
Pearlin' up her main wrist expecting you to pay this
She ain't playin' favourites, wandering just aimless

Wandering just aimless

Wish that she could see, wish that she could see
what she do to me, what she do to me
She done played the victim just to get some sympathy
Wish that she could see, what she do to me
Wish that she could see? wish that she could see
What she do to me? what she do to me


I'm tired of the games and I'm tired of the lies
Tried like every way just to show her my desires
Trying different thangs n just scoping out my life
Don't care what I say she just thinkin' bout her plight

Spending all her days on her lonesome in the night
She trying to say that I took her paradise
I get down to pray so that she don't live in spite
"Need to talk to me more" is what she said tonight

"Be here I won't be bored or you gon' start a fight"
She just wanna scream more, what you pressure me for?
Self esteem the sea floor, she blow like a C4
She ruined her dreams core, what she blaming me for?

Talking bout how before, she threw out her dreams for /
A boy that never seen war n a shed she needs to clean more /
What she need my cream for? take her to the green store
This is what I leave for, Tired of this grief war


Wish that she could see, wish that she could see
what she do to me, what she do to me
She done played the victim just to get some sympathy
Wish that she could see, what she do to me
Wish that she could see? wish that she could see
What she do to me? what she do to me


Friendship is Fiendish wouldn't you believe it?
Endless is the sequence wishin' we could free this
Senseless she don't see this wishin' she could be this
Friendless with her regrets no attempt to re-pent

Friendship is Fiendish wouldn't you believe it?
Far away from she is, far away where we is
Hard to say her weakness ain't my cause of speakin'
Bars to state my freeness, all my shots'll reap this

Friendship is Fiendish wouldn't you believe it?
Always disagreements, passin' on the pretense
Sometimes we just need friends that's comin' to our defence
Not alla these demons that spite all on my weekends

Friendship is Fiendish wouldn't you believe it?
Friendship is fiendish, now I just believe it
Friendship is Fiendish, wouldn't you believe it?
Friendship is Fiendish, now I just believe it

HE/\RT DOUBLE EP COMING THIS SUMMER

Fiendish Friends (Prod. Be Franky)

(((WHISPERED)))
You know cause it's just another day
Yeah it's just another day
Just another day

See the world is spinning now, Words from out my grinnin' mouth
Lately got me thinkin' how, All my patience thinnin' out
Thats why I be chillin now lazy on the couch
Maybe if I'm patient I will get some inspiration

Crazy my vocation maybe made me feel amazin'
Hazy at the station yeah I'm barely operatin'
Coffee in my hand I call it some recuperation
Thoughts are gon' advance as we pass the population


You know cause it's just another day
Yeah it's just another day
Just another day
Just another, just another

You know cause it's just another day
Yeah it's just another day
Just another day
Just another, just another


Look inside my mind you know I ain't gon' be shy
I don't mess with pride but inside you'll find a prize
We could take a flight to escape all out of sight
Chillin' all the time never lonely you and I

You know cause it's just another day
Yeah it's just another day
Just another day

I don't play pretend if you need yourself a friend
I remember when I had nobody to depend
Hand that I extend lemme take you through my head
All the nights I spent that I grind away instead /

Then I'll wake up after 10 just to do it all again
Grind for my percent like it's all I ever meant
I won't be content till they hear what I express /
and they'll get it through their heads so they never gon' forget

You know cause it's just another day
Yeah it's just another day
Just another day
Just another, just another

Just another just another
Just another just another
Just another just another
(((MUMBLED)))
Just another Just another

Just Another Day (Prod. Marow)

A remix combining the two songs both by Calgary rappers! 
Go check out Yung Jay's original track "See You Soon" here:
https://soundcloud.com/chance-hunter-907201411/yung-jay-see-you-soon
And go check out my original track "Calgary_BARS_Pt_2.m4a" here:
https://soundcloud.com/mcmonarch/calgary-bars-pt-2-prod-balance-cooper

Monarch X Yung Jay - See You In Calgary (Remix)

Hate cause I'm straight out the gate I be carryin' weight and it ain't no debate 
Splittin' n rippin' this page / inflictin' invincible limitless rage cause I'm here to stay this drip is insane
listen you're trippin' I'm different persistent you know dat I hop out this cage
got All the systems engaged when I kill the stage you know what I say 

Maybe I'm stuck in my ways, prayin' and hopin' for change but now I'm thinkin it's prolly too late yo / 
My vision is out of this frame. Alla the distance is tame you come to my city I show you the game
Know I be rhyming insane, Rap myself straight to the grave while alla ya ballers can wait, lame 
comin' from minimum wage, still say no thank you yeah please keep the change, know that we keep it this way

Heard dat you call yourself fire but I looked and there's barely a flame, damn. 
K now dat I'm spittin' the gas like I got it all up in these tanks, man 
I be out makin' them gains and grinding my way just uppin' my name so / 
stay in your lane cause I don't got time to stop on a dime if y'all are just tame

You know I be pavin' the way as I'm painting a maze on this page, ayy
You know I be pavin' the way as I'm painting a maze on this page

Painted Maze (Interlude) (Prod. Fantom)

[ENTRANCE]
Yo
[INTRO]
I'm just a city rat who could maybe really rap / 
Put his city on the map n make the whole world clap
Makin' songs that slap with the realest words to match / 
Yeah the people got my back but it's still no city slack 

Grinded like an axe yeah I'm sharpening my act / 
so that when I when I write these raps you know we all kickin' back
Chillin' having laughs while the time ain't keepin' track
Spittin' all the facts y'all are glad this rookie's back

[VERSE 1]
Be-fore when decem-ber en-ded I was full of sentiments n/
sentences I never meant now betterment's my sediment.
Wonder what I ever meant n why these rhymes are heaven sent / 
The Lord put rap up in my head so what I craft is intricate

Lyrically brilliant, embraced all my differences
Spin it so they really dance, spit it cause I really can
Written this so trippy damn, lyrics from my drippy hands
This is how I turned from a rookie to a man

Made myself a plan bout how I was gon' advance
Heart had burned to ash from two demons in my past
Lost up in the land till my foot had found the gas oh
I got into rap yo, set me on my path woah

Wasn't tryin'a flash, just to spit them facts
ain't do it for cash nah I do it for the class
Love up in my tracks I was learnin' just to rap
Ceiling made of glass but we broke it do the math

Forgetting my past I was focussed on my raps
I just had a blast oh man oh God
I cannot believe that we made it this far
Grateful going hard cause I earned this Rookie Card

[HOOK]
This my rookie card, This my rookie card / 
Said he won't make it far, shootin' for the stars
This my rookie card, this my rookie card


Verse 2:
February gains are what erased my lament
Fought through all the pain and then eased up on regret
I won't stay content with a vision in my head / 
Till this Butterfly is dead? I'll be rhyming to the end
	
The rhymes were like a friend and helped me learn to love again / 
You know the way our love transcends it's like the stars can't comprehend  
The distance is pretend with all the love that we extend yo
Out goes all my love and I'll send it to the end woah

[DOUBLE HOOK]
This my rookie card, This my rookie card / 
Said he won't make it far, shootin' for the stars
This my rookie card, this my rookie card

This my rookie card, This my rookie card / 
Said he won't make it far, shootin' for the stars
This my rookie card, this my rookie card

Verse 3:
Rookie feelin' shy till he got used to them eyes
Rookie take your time it is gonna be alright
Rookie writin' lines till they place him in the sky
Rookie spittin' fine lemme give you my advice

Block out all the lies and just keep on livin' life / 
yeah n' do just what you like cause they always criticize
Always speak your mind, leave a message 'fore you die
You can show the grind but don't, let it be your life / 

Cause that Chain all drippin' ice don't mean that you gon' kill the mic
That is all my message and I hope you hold this tight
Stressin' thoughts all pressin's why I'm grateful for my life
This is now my testament a semblance of my life

Still on with the sentiments in sentences I write
Free from all the detriment n senseless lonely nights
Still on with the sentiments in sentences I write
Free from all the detriment n senseless lonely nights

[OUTRO]
This my rookie card, This my rookie card / 
Said he won't make it far, shootin' for the stars
This my rookie card, this my rookie card / 
Said he won't make it far, now look where we are!
Now look where we are

Rookie Card (Prod. Pieper Beats)

Talkin' like a gremlin I'm a monster after midnight / 
but my insight make you think twice wit the written wisdom in lines
a fittin' system design I'm throwin' on my peace signs n talkin' on what's divine
Grabbin' hold of each mind, everything gon be fine 

Everything gon' be fine but don't deny the decline / 
cause that's just when the weak rise, high above the hard times
Vanity's a hogtie yer sanity gets cockeyed
Not mine on high chillin' on Mount Sinai

Rhyme tight the limelight don't wait for when the time's right
You gotta get by right? Thinkin on the sky's height 
its courage and divine might to see the top n shine bright 
yearning for a sign right but but write until it's earned tight /

and I'm gettin' signed twice, fetchin' diamond ice
Writin' through the night until the sun is shinin' bright
Fiending for dat white light to seige the lonely nights
Reaching for the heights,  raise up to the light / 

while yer features sound alike, tell em take a hike / 
before I teach 'em wit a strike just try to test me ain't the type
Reaper on the mic you try to step I'll take your life
Reaper on the mic you try to step I'll take your life


Cold day in Hell, cold day in Hell / 
but when you feelin' like the reaper you don't take no L's
Take no L's, Take no L's, Take no L's

Cold day in Hell, cold day in Hell / 
but when you feelin' like the reaper you don't take no L's
Cold day in Hell, cold day in Hell / 
but when you feelin' like the reaper you don't take no L's

Back for round 2 yo this rookie bring the mood
words to make the ground move, earthquake, found you
bound to settle in this beat like a lounge room
Now you say the industry gon' ball with me? please

Valued payments never seen ain't why I don't believe
They care bout the beat while their lyrics incomplete
Don't listen to me cause I might be what you need
Take these words to heart and tell me what do you believe?

Feelin' great relief when detached from what you see / 
cause the spirit is in need yeah it's trapped in hate and greed
Messin' with these fiends yeah they bleed your soul dry 
Stressin' all your deeds  hopin' it'll set you free /

Yo this message on repeat get it trendin' on the scene
Reppin' YYC, Come run through the streets / 
of the 4-0-3, Come run through the streets /
of the 4-0-3

The Reaper Likes Jazz (Prod. MANUEL)

My childhood friend, Dylan Ingham, sadly passed away this year from a drug overdose. I wish we didn't drift as far apart as we did, although I'm lucky I have so many good memories of him to keep me going. Let him be remembered.

Ingham's Lot (Freeverse Pt. 9)(Prod. Be Franky)

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