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Remember your past so that you can continue your future.

If I Had Someone

© Calenappollo 

If U Don’t Know Now U Know

*This is an anthem to get the streets live
a fricking banger to make the head nod
Calen Appollo I’m always on my job
So tell the world that I have arrived

Cause they know, you know
If you don’t know now you know*

A the muted voice that’s still trying to scream and yell  
The pains multiplied, into a feelings that’s never felt
How do you expect to succeed if you aint never fail?
So im all in, cashed out with the hand that im dealt

Trying to dull my shine but my light comes from my inner self
Living in a dark city where time stay is at a stand still
Stackin bail money cause most of my friends are in jail
And the ones I loved the most, were the 1st 1’s up and bail

Lurking around the corner, looking for a new, heart to steal
Setting you up mentally, peaking to see if the caskets sealed 
Nothings real, the scribe described it in great detail
The rich get richer, so the poor provide for the common wealth

While Shorty’s reaching for stars trying to touch on Orion’s belt
There’s no oxygen, all we inhale, ( are) the chem. Trails

And the minds locked in a cell, my soul’s trapped in a shell
I fear no man but myself as I walk through this living hell 
Screaming 

*This is an anthem to keep the streets live
a fricking banger to make the head nod
Calen Appollo I’m always on my job
So tell the world that I have arrived

Cause they know, you know
If you don’t know now you know*

That misery loves company so I mastered me
And I measure my soul’s dexterity, between the words I speak
A rhapsody, masterpiece written with telepathy 
Dig it anthropology, never mind that it’s too deep

I’m more than mainstream, the illest you never see
I fly where you can’t touch me, until I die abruptly
Or my brain stop functioning, my eyes on the trophy
Experience shape and mold me, a visionary

Evolutionary human being in the state of ataraxia
Careful what you chase after, addicted to the pleasure;
Exterior spirits captured in uncut jasper
And Sold to the highest bidder, psychic vampires

That, walk in the daylight and never ignite
@ night my shine blind your eyesight
Drop jewels like hematite
16 million colors but life is painted in black and white
 What’s right is wrong and what’s wrong is never right
so

*This is the anthem to get the streets live
a fricking banger to make the head nod
Calen Appollo I’m always on my job
So tell the world that I have arrived

Cause they know, you know
If you don’t know now you know*


God could bare witness it's grafik I paint pictures
U actin too superstitious keep prayin to baby jesus 
I'm mighty the flow vicious, driven and ambitious
burnin my composition for the lack of competition

u lackin strength and vision keep swingin but missin
struck out in every innin I’m pitchin with ill precision 
I’m here to take ur position and crushin what u believe in
I’ve been rhyming since mike Tyson was fuckin wit robin givens 

u out of ur jurisdiction ur life is based on fiction 
my life is based on big business, peace children and livin 
and u can stay bitchin my songs are copy written, 
I’m on another mission freestylin was (just the) my beginning 

burnin in hell’s kitchen without a pot to piss in
shiftin gears after I changed up my transmission
pigens like no he didn’t grow up to be the man
Yes I am, executin the perfect game plan

*This is an anthem to get the streets live
a fricking banger to make the head nod
Calen Appollo I’m always on my job
So tell the world that I have arrived

Cause they know, you know
If you don’t know now you know*






If U Don't Know Now U Know

Spittin' Straight Barz

Come Correct
©calenappollo

Check 12 make sure that the signals clear
The truth is spoken through silence heard by deaf ears
News flash, nobody cares so we respond in fear 
and violence instead of vibrating in vibrance we desensitizing our mind state 

You’re blind if you think you're safe no matter your race
 Between the drugs in the streets too many die as they try to escape fate
We living in the last days and yet it's still hard to explain
Its like living in a masquerade that’s covering up a plastic face

I'm never phased with people who just love to hate
 Stuck in the cheddar Chase you know so I feel your pain
That’s why I'm not amazed when sheepeople walk around confusing and dazed
 Like f*** the slice of steak I'm trying to take the plate

 eating to live nah I'm living to eat without saying grace, just for a little taste
 I've seen archangels Fall From Grace flipping the bird back at the Pearly Gates 
 feet covered with ashes yeah I'm trying to stay awake 
with one foot in the grave feeling like I'm out of place
god vs religion is a plague to enslave but Jesus Saves while little boys in the back of the church stay getting raped 

Satan idols on display at the capital on Christmas day and u can looks at me sideways but I'm still straight
 I'll cut ur ace of spades and put two in ur heart in other words lil bitch ass yo i'll fold ur cards 

I came a long way since rhyming on the Blvd. and the trailer park in twin lakes
fake handshakes, got me looking both ways to spot a two-faced acting crooked look it Slippery slimy snakes coil around you if you're not looking
while the all seeing eye in the sky is rewinding the raw footage

 I should have token a left at Albuquerque 
but I'm so Tipsy that I'm swerving you know what erks me
 when people act thirsty still drinking even when the water's murky
 I'm self worthy so they try and herb me while I'm flirting with death steadily trying to jerk me off 

I think I need to lay off the sauce because
I'm starting to phase in and out of reality
my pov no peace black holes where my soul should be
so I blaze the tree to put my mind at ease then I release my type of sorcery

On a fat ass in a dope beat yo check out my remedy
 I let the voices in my head, speak for me, it's like a moment of clarity as the white noise frequency frequently, responds back when I'm channeling my energy like jiren then I tapping into my ultra instinct so I hear them the others like Nicole Kidman
 
while I'm staring at a vanilla sky with a slut by my side
my eyes wide shut with a Blunt and some get high.
Yeah I figure it's the best way to pass the time
 But the clock stopped so I’m feeling like a waste of time and I feel like I'm a ways behind

but when I’m watching this simulation unwind  I'm still ahead of my time.
 A variable dimension the 5th imagination to build our powers incredible that sparks illumination
 I'm just stuck in a deja vu loop my shit bang while y’all using fruity loops to create a fruity loop for ur goof troop my rhymes are absolute Molotov no emoji my shit flame

wu tang training in the 36 chamber to take ur life
While u worrying about the 36 ways to change ur wife
 I shine bright white light and my rhymes are just too precise
 there’s no reason to question whether or not the bull’s nice
 
my rhymes are vagina tight fuckin with vanna white
and sometimes in life u know its either fight or flight
 Yo I ate my ego, a long time ago, so now I just let my soul glow just a half breed afro

Yo Even when I had dreads chicken still thinking its extensions
Silly bitch stop sniffing Adderall then mixing it with a bump of Excedrin
I’m bob Marley so why u flexing don’t test him
I'm just searching my eternal reflection for my  imperfections

Come Correct (Live and Direct)

Demons In Pretty Skin
©calenappollo

You know we living in a world full of pain and torture
So with this special TV offer Welcome to the lamb of the slaughter,
God is the author, silence of the lambs, the take out order
And zombies don’t eat brains they beg for change and quarters

At the tips of the fingers the puppet masters
Start dangling threads made by charlotte’s web
A harlot character that lured flies to bed
Dark lit bars where starlets like betty bop give snoopy head

He was a fed, and fed up his best friend Charlie brown came in with the bloodshed
He sprayed at the crowd then put two in his own head
Cause snoopy was fuckin his wife in his bed while his children slept 
It’s time to surfer the consequence

As he crept up the steps outside the door that’s where he took his last breath 
He walked in the room and casually said hi and bye 
They screamed (jumped) in fright “oh my god its not what it looks like”


*You got the gnats rats – cats dogs -hogs frogs- guppies sharks - birds hawks -– lions sloths and snakes wearing the face of a human.
Demons in pretty skin They look just like you man 
snakes wearing the face of a human they look just like you*


Now, this Tales form the hood starts at the little shop of horrors
Where the cross dresser freddy kurger ran a con on genghis 
Who had a fetch for big tits and a fat penis, he ran for congress…
Even ripley couldn’t believe it a ventriloquist who made his millions

Hypnotizing health minds into believing that they needed an exorcist
Like Emily rose who was dating Jason voorhees, til he found out something he couldn’t believe on Friday the 13th he caught a disease called hiv
Cause Emily was fuckin jim beam and bruce wayne on peter parkers balcony 

They called him spidy cause he always kept his fingers sticky
For clark kent who was known to push that green cypty 
Brainiac running trains on Louis lane given the president lex brains chasing the candy cane just to numb the pain

And the streets they call her bubble yum
Cause all she wants in this world is a hard stick and bubble gum


*You got the gnats rats – cats dogs -hogs frogs- guppies sharks - birds hawks -– lions sloths and snakes wearing the face of a human.
Demons in pretty skin They look just like you man 
snakes wearing the face of a human they look just like you*


Who famed roger rabbit, the nobody with a bad habit
 bugs bunny,  cause he came up was short with the pac man 
so he hired the hit man Yosemite Sam for a couple grand to body him when he arrived with the next shipment

But little did he know it was a set up, by Donald duck, who didn’t give a fuck
he wanted all the cream by any means from the peppermint patty to the smurf berries

So the junkies mickey and Minnie commented the robbery 
 their get away driver was daisy who did adult movies with goofy 
until they went on to jack sparrow for his booty and posted it as a live stream
Shit was treacherous and poor curious George got caught in the whole mess,

porky pig tried to get him to confess the beast froze his assets as a threat but he didn’t break sweat 
when mr. incredible asked how they first met  
they brought in popeye with the cock and got him to testify

*You got the gnats rats – cats dogs -hogs frogs- guppies sharks - birds hawks -– lions sloths and snakes wearing the face of a human.
Demons in pretty skin They look just like you man 
snakes wearing the face of a human they look just like you*

Demons In Pretty Skin

Today Could Be Ur last
©calenappollo


I touch to make the fake and C's go run and hide 
Wanna B's talk s*** your what just let it slide
 it ain't worth my time got my eye on the prize 
feeling my power rise why don't wear no shine 
cuz already shine young star on the rise
 building to my Enterprise high enough to rip the sky 

opening up your mind without a baby nine 
my shit fire blunt lit just let it ride you want to rap for the back just let me rhyme get a grip don't slip just feel the vibe wise and inclined and  keeping it live cuz most rapper that spit are dead inside  yeah of a game being played in the brain it's all the charade love hate peace and age rage from day to day every days the same you and I are the same you'll complain and explain things needed for change changes to be made I need to get to get paid the minimum wage high stakes with mistakes scratch-off sweepstakes so stay in your place in the place where you stay cake dough make bread break watch a rise and accumulate 
 
*smoking on the marijuana cause any day could be your last tomorrow you could be a goner
puffing on the ganja cause any day could be your last so today I’ma pray with buddha

I'm oxymoronic talkin s*** when they don't even know it grab the microphone turned it on and then I threw it and hit the hater in the audience who was rap and whack Look at the judges for that they f****** contract 
Want me vto be soft but I come hard on every track 

I tried to woosa and hakuna matata but my thoughts are darker a hybrid
 and I walk with the mystics with closed eyelids with no money in my pocket 
New Millennium profit I am the keys so I lock it smoking embalming 
feel like I'm going in any moment knife in a socket my flow water my Styles Electric 

what you expected self-destruct in my older presents 
reconstructed to form another likeness be still and be silent
 agnostic sipping the Holy Grail with an atheist until one day I saw God flying in a golden chariot 
I'm talking to Poltergeist who are willing to teach my spirit 

*smoking on the marijuana cause any day could be your last tomorrow you could be a goner
puffing on the ganja cause any day could be your last so today I’ma pray with buddha

Doing 70 on the highway with my eyes closed 
split the Dutch throw the guts out the window 
having a battle between the spirit and getting doe
 trying to make peace within this old soul

 I seen too many triple stumble down the rabbit hole 
gettin grown pack my clothes yo got to go
 walking down the path I chose I'm 
feeling it in my tippy toes straight through my bones

 Yeah time for me to blow make it on my own 
I'm at my front door Peace adios amigo this house ain't my home
 Man I from the cosmos what what you pursuing 
I don't know bro just flow with the movement 

and I am evolution my control humans trying to stop what I'm doing

Today Could Be Ur Last

I’d Buy That 4 a $
©calenappollo

I drink too much so I forget that I'm a rapper 
I look around and stare at these cowards who want Power 
I'm from the Netherworld where never never Land never occurs 
Superb my thoughts were so fast to burn the optic nerve
 To the point every time you see me I'm a gradient blur 

I'm not a human I'm a 3D bitmap texture 
Evaporate come back to year before after 
Sipping blood with white lizards mixed up in an elixir
 Hip Hop jigawatts drinking Aftershock until puke comes out my nose like Snot 

Screaming what the bumbaclot 
Walking through the mud with classic Reeboks do when the robot
 Slip on a piece of ice and bust my ass up on the sidewalk

Faking the funk and not giving a f*** late in the blunt get hen swan dive off of a back of a pickup 
Cruising down the streets of Philly hollering at biddies as more flat chested than me to find out the b****** where tranny's 

Supreme Supremacy cocking a semi put it to my head and pulled the trigger 
But the f*** clip is empty 
Fill it with hollow heads cock it back now I got plenty
And um fuck you to those who don’t remember me

 And to you Hokey Pokey who talk shit and Envy me
 A buck a player hater I put a gun to the head of my neighbor 
For thinking that it was sweet like now and later

*Chorus

And come to the light Carolanne don't be afraid 
it's a black plague I travel through soundwave Stargates 
an alien busting through your rib cage spark of blue flame 
I'm critically acclaimed you get play the games in the arcade 

but it ain't a game when I finish them and pull out their vertebrae 
you’ll feel pain don't need an AK to prove what I got to say
 I'll take my muramasa blade and crave my name in your face 
we may look alike but um you and I we are not the same 

I change to a chameleon and amphibian reptilian 
use your skin is a matrix to blend in well I'm fitting in 
eating your blood removing the limbs and tendons 
not even the four horsemen can put you back together again 

I'm normal capacity hey yo I failed my IQ test cuz the All-Seeing eyes watching me
 and my every activity I'm Constantine heart pumps laser beams
 I see Ghost holding release a phantom like sandman tormenting your dreams 
some cats and over behind bars and 16 so when I was 16 or focused on balls and 16s 

it reminds me of life for fellow mankind is telling me we got three eyes and shine breaking in mind identity

*chorus

And the gods ferocious I’m the creature that no one approaches 
and those who oppose this I greet them with Guns and Roses 
Styles atrocious so my motive for opponents is explosives that go at any moment
Odin chosen telling me to stay focused these are golden causing Omens of flying Locust 

so pay homage take heed and take notice I handle my business explicit 
God is my witness I flip it the wicked the sickest the slickest 
the magnifying glass is half it I smash it to whooping asses
Taking acid lyrical Master Blaster lyrical haphazard Mage wizard I'm causing disaster 

Spatter your antimatter and shatter your dreams
Is waking and Quake in and breaking open the seams
 forsaken mistaken I’m dice shaking Clambake in debating 
overriding the digits Linguistics my styles written throughout existence

 with a spirits of my ancestors in it flying in space ships looking like Halley's Comet sound bombing spit vomit wrapped in a garment moving the topic moving your Optics Vision Precision spitting with deadly venom getting up in the wisdom and mysticism and let in The Rhythm Hit him like

4 A $

The Biography of Calen Appollo aka Mental Grafik

The potential for truly phenomenal hip-hop does still exist. There are still young emcees out there that respect the golden age of hip-hop, pay homage and exhibit true lyrical mastery while maintaining the integrity to care about how the art form evolves. Emcees who are dedicated to carrying on the torch of artists’ innovation in hip-hop and taking the tradition of the music we love forward.

Enter Calen Appollo. Aka Mental Grafik, In describing Mental Grafik’s music he gives this description: “Picturing words into pictures and pictures into words.” a prolific wordsmith reminiscent of when skill and lyricism was the blood, bones and one true constant, of the forever changing art form.

Listen to one of Calen Appollo’s songs and discover a charismatic stry teller –skillful at captivating the attention of an audience and guiding them on an outer celestial journey through abstract narratives an he constructs brilliant and vividly crafted vignettes through his lyrics. 
Listen to two or more of his songs and become completely enchanted by every aspect of Calen Appollo’s artistic universe, colorfully illustrated by Mental Grafik’s cigar box and cabernet-sauvignon smooth and smoky vocal delivery. 

Calen Appollo is a fresh and youthful East Coast based hip hop artist with an old soul and the keen understanding that timeless, well delivered music is our window to the eternal. 

Calen Appollo is currently seeking guidance and representation from like minded individuals who are looking to be on the cusp of the movement ot reclaim authenticity in the art of hip hop, and who can successful mentor him on breaking through the proverbial glass ceiling; and achieving the next level of success. 

Unafraid to speak his mind, the one and only Calen Appollo brings to the table his own signature style inspired by his love for music.



Mental Grafik takes you into a twisted tale of a dream world that he creates in his mind with his tracks lined in harmonious rhythm on a beat of entrapment. Yeah, it’s that deep.

You ‘re heading somewhere not really paying attention and happen to overhear…
“…We need to get it together 4 all humanity
And turn the negativity to positively, strive for, what u believe
Watching mindless zombies drown in their own inequity
& Burn for their atrocities… And what’s perceive to be reality is just fallacy Projected into our ESP since infancy…”

You instantly pause. What the hell was that? You have to hear more. That is what Mental Grafik does to you.

Mental Grafik began rapping at the age 14, and though originally from New York; when he was 18; he migrated to Philadelphia where he set up shop, and engineered his own albums, among other various underground Philly artists.

That’s when Mental Grafik started a group known as The Hue-man Ethnic Movement or T.H.E.M.
I.	The Hue-man Ethnic Movement’s music could be categorized as hip-hop. Although, many fans and critics say that they haven't heard hip-hop quite like this. It’s new, innovative, intelligent, and honest. Their music deals with awareness and the emotions of just being human.

The Hue-man Ethnic Movements’ goal is to bring the planet closer together, regardless of our differences, through the inspiration of music.

In his personal life, He is the honored father of three; a 8 yr old intellectual open-minded boy named Camani, an independent energetic 6 yr old girl named Zoen, and a 1 yr old Nehemiah Akhenaten.

Mental Grafik’s lyrics enter your cerebral and plant a seed that sprouts into a tree of enlightenment. Basically, it catches on. His music will make you think, it will make you laugh, and even reminisce. With a deadly arsenal of skills Mental Grafik is the reason they say the pen is mightier then the sword.

Demons In Pretty Skin

Mental Grafik

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