MN Live - New tracks by MN artists for Sat, Oct 03, 2015

Here's a previously unreleased track from Toki Wright produced by Doomtree's Lazerbeak. "I'm Not Lying" is part of the Unreleased Exclusive series as part of the Rome Sessions (tracks written while Toki Wright was touring Europe in 2012 between album releases). 

Available for purchase at https://soultools.bandcamp.com/

Photo taken at The Colosseum in Rome

I'm Not Lying 
Lyrics by Toki Wright 
Rome Sessions - Unreleased Exclusive 

you put yourself inside my shoes 
whenever listening to tunes 
it's my positioning it proves 
how much our distance moves 

so fish into this pool 
to see what you can catch 
I'm underpaid and overstressed 
and stepping out the waters wet 
couldn't overstep 

some preparing for the second coming 
some are daring yet their running 
funny some will say they getting money 
but the money doesn't run me (it don't) 
Toki 

I wrote this poem in Rome on Via Giuseppe 
with a liter of the fountain water 
and a bag of Nestle 
out a dream about a nest egg 

to lay away 'cause Labor Day 
be playing with my paper chase 
so I just grip a Paper Mate 

and sketch a way up our of debt 
through what I could do best 
I could have fly a jet to Budapest, you bet 
but what do you expect? 
(I'm gonna sit around waiting on somebody to tell me where I can go and what I can do? Not this dude!) 

No I'm not the biggest artist on my label 
but I got a space to place 
my paper plate up at the table 
got my videos on cable 
and I play in San Diego 
just me and my microphone 
to keep my life at home stable 

so I bust it like I got a budget 
gotta love it 
ain't afraid to show my heart in public 
and I'm not a pundit 
not a puppet 

people tell me I should talk about more politics 
but life is politics 
so yahll should follow this 
acknowledge its 

punishment to spit positive 
but hey I gotta live 
I've got a kid 
I've got to say exactly how it is 
not these fibs 
('cause rappers be straight lying. Straight up!) 

I got a beat from Lazerbeak 
the other week 
I told him that I need to speak 
I couldn't sleep 
I wrote a speech 

I seen a rapper on TV 
he beat a woman to the ground 
while his homies looked around 
as he rose into the air to stomp the ground 

It made me think about the generation 
that's about to take over the nation 
and what we could do to save them 

'cause if we just waiting patient 
then my daughter'd be a patient 
and I couldn't try to justify complaining 

I know the world is yours 
the world is mine 
so it's about that time 
that we drew the line 
and grew a spine 

cause there's no moment better 
than the present for the timing 

I'm not lying!!!
credits
released 13 February 2015 
Written by Toki Wright - Nanjotokimitsu Music (ASCAP). Produced by Lazerbeak - Legend Recognize Legend (ASCAP)



Toki Wright - I'm Not Lying (Produced By Lazerbeak)- Rome Sessions​/​Unreleased Exclusive

Liberated from the archives heres a new free verse for "Salute."  Upcoming shows:

Thursday, March 19th - Chicago http://bit.ly/1CB5RRr
Saturday, March 28th - Minneapolis http://ticketf.ly/1MyEAlP
Saturday, April 4th - Ashland, WI - Northland College
Sunday, April 12th - Denver, CO - The Roxy http://bit.ly/1BH5RhJ


  

Toki Wright - Salute (Free Verse)

I Don't Want Another Girlfriend

Rise high or go low.  "Music is High Culture."  

8/28/15 - TONIGHT Sioux Falls, SD (Hip-Hop Performance)  That Sounds Decent Block Party ft. Soulcrate & Later Babes, Sean Anonymous and more.  -  5-11:30PM

8/29/15 - Saturday Tune into Soul Tools Radio 9-11PM CST hosted by Toki Wright, Ms. Brit, and Reggie Reg with special guests DJ Todda and Finding Novyon on #TheBarExam.  90.3FM Minneapolis / 106.7FM St. Paul.  Online at www.kfai.org/soultoolsradio.

8/30/15 - Sunday (House/Afrobeat/Dancehall Set)       BassMent Alchemy - 10PM (RSVP Invite Only)
Minneapolis 

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MN Live - New tracks by MN artists for Sat, Oct 03, 2015

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