L O O S E A R O U N D T H E E D G E S is my first self-produced tape.

For the first time in a while I was home...a lot. The time had come to make my next tape, so I decided to do the whole thing myself. Between October 2020 and February 2021, I made these beats, wrote these raps, and recorded these songs in my apartment. I hope you like them.

Rhymes/Beats: NAHreally
Mixed: Chris Payne
Mastered: Duglo
Artwork Michael Stone

0:00 - Head Grew
1:53 - By Hook or By Crook
3:10 - Wishful Thoughts on Beliefs Held
4:32 - Civic (Interlude)
5:09 - Civic
6:34 - Don't Send Me Clips of People Rapping on Ellen
8:14 - Curmudgeon Emerge in Me
9:42 - Loose Around The Edges
10:31 - Bowl Cut
13:23 - Cucumbers

Loose Around The Edges

cold [loop]

Styrofoam Stereo ft. guest host NAHreally

Calibre - Lo Borges
Accadde a Bali - Arawak
He Never Gives Up - Yu Tien
Incidental Backcloth No. 3 - Keith Mansfield
Velho parente - Arthur Verocai
Sky Restaurant - The Hi-Fi Set
Nightwood - Charles Kynard
This Girl's In Love With You - Dorothy Ashby
Rock & Roll Woman - The Mad's
Prohibido - Benny Carter
Messagio - Lesiman
Psychologicznie-fitsjologicznie - Novi Singers
Trade Winds - Calvin Keys
This Time - Family Connection
Road of the Lonely Ones - Madlib
Coffee Cold - Galt Macdermot
Stenella Dubia - Sandro Brugnolini
Daylight - Yesterday's New Quintet

Styrofoam Stereo Mix (WZBC Newton 90.3 FM)

Prod. by NAHreally x Cisco Kiddd

http://nahreallydude.tumblr.com/ 

Using Machines

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBluHCfp8Y0 

Instrumental: Onra - My Comet

http://nahreallydude.tumblr.com/ 

LIKEWHAT

Instrumental: Jake One - Soil Raps

http://nahreallydude.tumblr.com/ 

Ed O'Bannon '95

Crazy

Kevin Garnett [or a pregnant dude]

prod. by Joe Lavin (https://soundcloud.com/joelavin)

TAPE

DreamZ

TAPE (mp3)

'94 Buick Century

prod. Danny Breaks
https://genius.com/Nahreally-your-55th-favorite-rapper-lyrics

Tape 2

Your 55th Favorite Rapper

feat. F.I.T.N.E.S.S. | prod. MF DOOM
https://genius.com/Nahreally-agua-lyrics

Agua (feat. F.I.T.N.E.S.S.)

prod. Samiyam
https://genius.com/Nahreally-funk-and-wagnalls-lyrics

Funk & Wagnall's

prod. NAHreally
https://genius.com/Nahreally-sloan-kettering-lyrics

Sloan Kettering

Day Off Life prod. by @tedthe1st
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I like to stop and watch dog parks
I skip the five star foie gras for pop tarts
I top of the vodka soda now her tops off
Blah blah I know she knows I know I talk a lot
I'm pop locking and dropping it on some roller skates
I set a side a bit of time in life with lower stakes
Overly serious myriad of delirious people hear loud and clear
That we're merely here to impress peers
I'd rather settle on this bench and rhyme
Over a mellow instrumental peeling clementines
Share my rapping skills with a patch of daffodils
Sip a chilly Miller Lite, this time I'll skip the rapper pills
We're all escapist at our core
Fore every fifth distraction we can find four more
So bored with everything at our fingertips, let's try less
Low stress thats the best yes

Let's take a day off life
Wake up late grab a couple dollar slices
Lay in some grass and get high outside
Let's take a day off life

Let's take a day off life
Wake up late grab a couple dollar slices
Lay in some grass and get high outside
Let's take a day off life

Ok, day off life, I just might
Chill up on the couch and watch price is right
For four hours and never shower
And wear the same clothes I wore last night
I just might

Day off life, I just might
Buy a whole tub of ice cream I like
And smoke sour and the devour it
It's empowering
I just might

I swear I need it in the worst way
A day away and I'm not waiting for my birthday
A day away from living blind and in a hurry
A little water for your soul when it's thirsty
I'm not a genius, but recognize that the seemingly meaningless
In between shit is really what people need, not this
Never stop, never settle attitude
That never lets you settle in a grassy meadow without shoes
Lifes a bike, coast or peddle if you choose
Just a dude with a mic might be spitting platitudes
But you know cliche advice is cliche cause it's true
If you won't be yourself who the hell else will be you?
I let the vinyl spin and time float
No rush just moments as the go
Oh no, please know no wrong, no right
And take a day off life

Let's take a day off life
Wake up late grab a couple dollar slices
Lay in some grass and get high outside
Let's take a day off life

Let's take a day off life
Wake up late grab a couple dollar slices
Lay in some grass and get high outside
Let's take a day off life

Day Off Life (prod. by Tedthefirst)

Friends (prod. by @AiRLOCKE)
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Theres many types of friends. Yeah, I know this
The type you share a smoke with or a joke with
The type you share your fears and hopes with
The type you wanna fight, but only cause they call you on your bullshit
That one drug dealer that you got close with
Old friends who reminisce about old shit
The internet affiliates you never meet
And the kids you grew up with on your street that go super deep
Some are weekend only
And others are obligatory workplace homies
And on occasion if you need a little space
It's good enough to get acquainted with a book and its pages
All sizes, all ages, all races
Young fat black friends, skinny ass old asians
That one friend who met your other friend and now they're buds
Those we used to have sex ones... and still
You haven't even met your next friend
They could be your boyfriend or girlfriend or best friend
A special shoutout to the ex-friends
Who might come back into your life right when you least expect it

But the friends that we need
Are the friends that will cut when a friend says bleed
Who don't have to stay in touch just to stay up to speed
Feel like no time passed when you finally reconvene
Cause pieces of them are a part of me
What's a heart in the absence of its arteries?
It's hard to see, but you'll know it when you have it
May grow apart, but never break completely it's elastic
The type of friend that wouldn't even need a warning
When you tell them that you need them on a Tuesday morning

Friends

Friends (prod. by AiRLOCKE)

Who Really Cares (prod. by @AiRLOCKE)

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[Verse 1]
How now brown cow, wow
My boy hit me with the dap
I hit him with the pound
Awkward white boy handshake
The illest rhymer at the clam bake
Rapping over scallops and crab cakes
Well actually I'm more cold cuts and Dunkin' Donuts
And showing up to you party late in an old tux
And sure enough I'm pouring up and orange soda
Law & Order on your sofa in the corner posted like a loner
But what I really want is stimulating conversation
Opposite of anti-social, lately running out of patience though
Been a minute since I wondered what the trend is
Those thoughts were my appendix
Cut 'em out and now I feel tremendous
Endless stream of word vomit in my sonnets
Is an honest effort set to catch a single ounce of timelessness
And if there's prominence attached I won't reject
Don't expect a bit of credit, but accept it if I get it

[Verse 2]
I write post haste, rap ad hoc
Mad hot, meta poetic, full stop
Blow popsicle stands sans pomp and circumstance
Irish exit, let 'em question my attendance to begin with
Feign interest regularly just to save face
And placate the daily malaise that makes us all say
"I can't complain... I've been better"
We acknowledge that our life is only decent
Or just talk about the weather
Whether silence is the answer is still TBD
I go from "hows the kids?" to "motherfucker leave me be"
Is it just me or is it everyone I meet
Cause it seems that people only half listen
And always overspeak
Myself included, only recognized it recently
No reciprocity in conversation we just say our piece
Then contemplate our next statement
Then we act amazed and say it's crazy
That nobody's on the same page lately

Who Really Cares

Who Really Cares (prod. by AiRLOCKE)

Well Known ft. @FlukeHuman (prod. by @Lespa-official)
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[Verse 1]
I'm just a bump on a log
With a pocket of obvious options, but honestly
I'd rather rap at these bars and get awkward applause
From an anonymous audience
Of 11 people, 7 staring at their phone
All things equal that's a pretty decent ratio
I don't need that much attention I'm a pet rock
Hope I can tell you what meant a lot when the pencil stops
Top 9 rapper in relative obscurity
The bright side is I don't have to pay security
And if your glances are cursory you may think
That it's hurting my self worth that I'm perfectly unheard of, see
I kind of like my low position on the totem pole
From what I'm told the upper half is prone to getting old
Let all my fifth cousins stay inside the woodwork
And try to make some good work instead of could and should work

[Hook - 2x]
I don't mind if I'm not well known
Well known people stuck to their cell phone like it was velcro
I'd probably end up like Chappelle, yo
Tell the whole world that I'm out, I need some room for my elbows

[Verse 2]
On the rap radar I'm just a chart blip
I'm not the shit more like a satisfying fart, it's
A fact of life you might assume the grass is greener
Through the window that looks clearer with the store brand cleaner
I eagerly await my meager stake of royalties
I know the 50 cents from spotify will never spoil me
I'm loyal to the people that I've known since I was little
Takes minimal effort to be humble within the lower middle
Class of the rap game, is it a bad thing
To be ok with getting average grades and barely passing?
Never the valedictorian, don't need validation
Banal interpretations of success will breed impatience
Famous or nameless it's all the same shit
The name of the game is be creative so I don't go insane
That's not to say that getting buzz is evil
I'm just saying that I love the crowd of 11 people

[Hook - 2x]
I don't mind if I'm not well known
Well known people stuck to their cell phone like it was velcro
I'd probably end up like Chappelle, yo
Tell the whole world that I'm out, I need some room for my elbows

[Verse 3 - Fluke Human]
I'll be hot as fuck the day that hell froze
Asked the crowd for a hell yeah and got a hell no
Usually gluten free bread cause my pay's weaker
But I don't wanna give head to no gatekeeper
Famous people problems I don't want em
Groupies popping condoms, I'm abusing all these options
Do I buy my ocean home in Tokyo or Kokomo
Coke or dope, tryna resist the urge to overdose
Cult following, I don't follow the trends
Cult following, by cult I mean your mom and her friends
Target demo, I don't want more I don't need a lot
Just to get a strong 4 from The Needle Drop
Critics nitpick every characteristic
Fart the wrong way and trip about a dip in statistics
My shit might not get a single click this week
At least I never gotta worry about a dick pic leak

Well Known

Well Known ft. Fluke Human (prod. by Lespa)

Life, Right? (prod. by @flayvors)

Mixed: Ricky Berotti
Mastered: Evan Cooney
Artwork: Michael Stone

Life, Right? (prod. by Flavors)

Never Happened (prod. by @g_mills)

Mixed: Ricky Berotti
Mastered: Evan Cooney
Artwork: Michael Stone

Never Happened (prod. by G Mills)

TAPE 4

Recorded: Chris Payne
Mixed/Mastered: Jesse O'Connor
Artwork: Michael Stone

Track 1 produced by @floridomi
Tracks 2, 3 produced by @keemthecipher
Tracks 4, 5, 6 produced by @beet_farmer

Upper Bound (prod. by Dweeb)

Bearshitpope (prod. by Dweeb)

Wack Mirror (prod. by KEEM.THE.CIPHER)

Shoutout To Me (prod. by KEEM.THE.CIPHER)

Cheez-Its (prod. by floridomi)

NAHreally sent DUGLO acapellas. This is what he did with them.

1. Froyo Cold, Locally Known (Bearshitpope Remix)
2. Last Dollar's Got Tape On It (Not A Whole Lot Remix)
3. Cracks In The Ceiling (Upper Bound Remix)

Instrumentals/Mixing/Mastering: @dugloduglo
Raps: NAHreally
Artwork: Michael Stone
Extra sauce on Cracks In The Ceiling: @dorissaturday

TAPE 4 DUGLO Remixes

T A P E F I V E

https://fanlink.to/TAPE5

[0:00] (Optional) Intro to TAPE 5 (prod. by @beet_farmer)
[0:27] Trap-A-Holics (prod. by @beet_farmer)
[1:32] Don't Make Beats (prod. by @roper_williams)
[4:27] Mud (prod. by @akoyung)
[6:24] Silence (prod. by @akoyung)
[7:56] Sitting All Day (prod. by @akoyung)
[10:36] Rap Like I Act Like (In Real Life) (prod. by @beet_farmer) 
[12:39] Die Of Old Age (prod. by @pepperadams)

Raps: NAHreally
Mixed/Mastered: Ricky Berotti at Red Convertible Recording
Artwork: Michael Stone

TAPE 5

$3 (total) on bandcamp to play individual tracks.

When I finished TAPE 5, it felt like the end of something. Not the end of NAHreally, but the end of a particular approach. As part of figuring out what that next phase is, I've been organizing old hard drives. While going through those hard drives, I found quite a few demos. Some were songs that were never released, others were early versions of songs that came out in another form…all of them felt like part of a process that had run its course.

Since there’s no year zero, each new decade begins in a year ending with one. I don’t think it would be wise to carry these tunes into the twenties sitting on some hard drive. That's why I'm putting them out. Some are barely mixed, others are ill-conceived, some aren't too good, and many aren't too bad. Nonetheless, here they are: the cutting room floor of the NAHreally tape era.

You can stream the whole thing for free on track 15, but you gotta give me $3 to play them individually. If you don't have $3 and want to stream these tracks individually, hit me up and I'll send you a private link.

Here's to whatever is next.

TRACK LIST
0:00 - tape four intro demo (2018) (prod. by KEEM.THE.CIPHER)
1:32 - lifesize stuffed animal demo (2017) (prod. by floridomi)
3:39 - not a whole lot demo (2018) (prod. by DFNS)
5:56 - SPF 50 demo (2016) (prod. by Dweeb)
6:31 - i don't know demo (2018) (prod. by KEEM.THE.CIPHER)
8:34 - fly low demo (2014) (prod. by NAHreally)
11:03 - platypus demo (2017) (prod. by G. Mills)
11:58 - alternate reality #1 (middle class fancy) demo (2018) (prod. by KEEM.THE.CIPHER)
13:08 - alternate reality #2 (yuppie) demo (2018) (prod. by KEEM.THE.CIPHER)
14:17 - eat (4x) demo (prod. by ntvrme)
16:20 - way too nice demo (2018) (prod. by KEEM.THE.CIPHER)
18:14 - silence demo (2019) (prod. by Yung Akó)
19:55 - upper bound demo (2018) (prod. by Dweeb)
21:19 - scatterplot 2 demo (2018) (prod. by Yung Akó)

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