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From the opening line, "mark my words", Rob Bailey & The Hustle Standard are making a statement with their second album, appropriately titled, Beast.  If you're not familiar with the RBHS sound it's a mixture of hardcore, dubstep, hiphop, and punk elements meant to get you off your ass and headed down a path of domination.  Fans of their previous EP, Battle Tested, will be happy to know that Beast picks up  right where the duo left off.  The Hustle Standard's production is still huge; Rob Bailey's voice is still larger-than-life; and the songs still make you want to run through walls.

Beast starts with the song "I Am Not Done" which features the Brooklyn-born artist Moxiie proclaiming "This is not last year and I am not done here".  The second song is also the title-track, "Beast", and quite simply, this one is a BEAST.  On "Run This" Charley Hustle (a.k.a The Hustle Standard) sings "I'm too busy chasing mine to let the world leave me behind/I'm going for mine", and on "What I Live For" Rob's hell-fire voice demands that you "Wake up!".  "Ambulances", a fun play on Rob's verse from "Run Shit", features the Bronx rapper, Drew Boogie.  The remix to "I Am Not Done" is an uptempo, electro remix that helps the album breathe before getting into the final remix.  "The Beast Remix" is not just a remix of the song "Beast", but of the whole album with elements of every song over heavy trap style production.  The final song, "Jealous", is undoubtedly the most unique of the 8 songs, and on first listen could be seen as a departure for the pair, but all of the intensity and honor, that make Rob Bailey & The Hustle Standard what they are, is front and center over this methodical, evolving track.  Overall, Beast, is a declaration that, despite any odds, people can not only overcome, but can become Beasts.


What I Live For

Beast

Run This

Dirty Wormz – God of War

Straight Out The Gate (feat. Serj Tankian &amp; Krizz Kaliko)-Tech N9ne

The song 'A Cut Above' by Avery Watts, off of the album 'The Takeover'.

LYRICS:

[CHORUS]
Here's what it looks like (Looks like)
Being the best
What it looks like, to be a cut above the rest
What it looks like (Looks like)
Being the best
What it looks like, to be a cut above the rest

[VERSE 1]
Nobody understands what it takes to be the man
Having every single person say you can't, when you can
To give up everything you've ever known for a dream
And never stop the fight no matter how hard it seems
You sacrifice, you bleed, you sweat, and you cry
Doing everything you can not to lay down and die
When you fall and you call out, there's no one to help
So you've got no other option but to pick up yourself
At the end of the battle you're the only one standing
Everyone watching, the stage you're commanding
The pages of history will speak of today
And when they talk about the champion
This is what they'll say:

[CHORUS]

[VERSE 2]
People will break you right down to nothing if you let 'em
They say, "There's a million others like you, what makes you better?"
But remember that these folks are afraid of the unknown
They're the ones who wet the bed if they go ten miles from home
“Stay Down”, is what they scream in your ear
The only weapon that they have to use is fear
So you take all the beatings and you take all the hits
But your back on your feet for more, you don't quit
You'll never back down, never stop, never pause
Never give up, never sacrifice the cause
This is your life, you gonna let somebody take it?
Look in the mirror: That's all you need to make it

[CHORUS]

[BRIDGE]
The smoke has all cleared, and you own the throne
You're king of the castle, and everybody knows
They bow in your presence, and fear your might
‘Cause they know for damn sure what it, what it…

[FINAL CHORUS]
What it looks like (Looks like)
Being the best
What it looks like, to be a cut above the rest
What it looks like (Looks like)
Being the best
What it looks like, to be a cut above the rest
What it looks like (Looks like)
Being the best
What it looks like, to be a cut above the rest
What it looks like (Looks like)
Being the best
What it looks like, to be a cut above the rest

The Takeover

A Cut Above

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[Lyrics]

Give me a second
I'm trying to select the appropriate weapon
Watch where you stepping
Them snakes all around you know they connected
When I was a kid
My grandmama told me I can't go to heaven
So I stopped praying and asking for blessings
And started preparing for my armageddon
Got nothing to lose I'm all in
Walking the edge don't fall in
Enough of the lies
Don't apologize
I don't understand are you foreign?
This is the place, this is the site
Grab all your people and log in
I'm waiting don't care how long it's gonna take
Watching and waiting for your first mistake

Don't come up missing
Don't get it twisted
I'm not Rihanna but boy you a goner you right on my hit list
I'm keeping my distance
Just checking the listings
I'm always aware of your current position
I just hold out till the perfect conditions

Coming alive
Heat of the night
Now is the time
Don't try to hide
Cause I'm gonna
Hunt you like an animal

I know you thought it was over
I know you thought it was finished
I know you think I'm a cynic
But You know this shit only business
People act different as soon as you winnin
Man I know this shit ain't no different
You pull up in cars, you act like it's yours
But we know that shit is just rented
Benefit of the doubt
We the ones that your mommy warned you about
Should have stayed in the house
Don't open your mouth
We lurk in the swamps like we in the south
Count your days
Hold up let me count the ways you gon pay
When I spot you I'm coming straight through
To your face no foreplay

So don't come up missing
Don't get it twisted
I'm not Rihanna but boy you a goner you right on my hit list
I'm keeping my distance
Just checking the listings
I'm always aware of your current position
I just hold out till the perfect conditions

Coming alive
Heat of the night
Now is the time
Don't try to hide
Cause I'm gonna
Hunt you like an animal
Coming alive
Heat of the night
Now is the time
Don't try to hide
Cause I'm gonna
Hunt you like an animal

BONESHAKER

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Animal

All my life I've barely spoken
Your words have been so broken
I've been under your hypnosis
Why did I sip that potion
I'm so done with holy ghosting
My birth it is an omen
Lay me down up in the ocean
Until you see no motion
Right now I can barely focus
I'm showing no emotion
On your knees show your devotion
My skin is black but golden
I'm not here for bragging boasting
Ain't lying I been chosen
Mind is burning hearts exploding
This is my magnum opus

Are you with me now
Said are you with me now
Ain't felt this good in a while
They want us to simmer down
Can you hear me now?
Am I going in and out?
I stop and just look around
To see if you're with me now
Tell me are you with me now
Ready to put it down
Start at the bottom
Already forgot them but they won't forget me now
You really ain't ready now
You haters just in the crowd
But still I just look around
Are you with me now
Are you with me

Step in the fire get ready to take it higher
Real nigga coming out your amplifier
Ya'll want every black man to be Richard Pryor
While these white boys fuck up and turn into Shia huh?
Cell phone became your brother
Internet replaced your mother
You leaving homies on read
It's no wonder all your friends dead
Jealousy was the center piece
So my best friends turned to enemies
Sabatoge my identity
Why they wanna treat me like a kennedy
They won't effect the legacy
Protect the heart, I cut off the extremeties
I'll never be another piece in your recipe for social supremacy

Are you with me now
Said are you with me now
Ain't felt this good in a while
They want us to simmer down
Can you hear me now?
Am I going in and out?
I stop and just look around
To see if you're with me now
Tell me are you with me now
Ready to put it down
Start at the bottom
Already forgot them but they won't forget me now
You really ain't ready now
You haters just in the crowd
But still I just look around
Are you with me now
Are you with me no woah
Are you with me now
Said are you with me now
Ain't felt this good in a while
They want us to simmer down
Can you hear me now?
Am I going in and out?
I stop and just look around
To see if you're with me now
Tell me are you with me now
Ready to put it down
Start at the bottom
Already forgot them but they won't forget me now
You really ain't ready now
You haters just in the crowd
But still I just look around
Are you with me now
Are you with me

I feel it coming now and
It's too late to shut it down and
Over the mountain now and
Burning the valley down and
I don't know where my mind is
Don't even know what time is
Somebody stop the virus
I don't think I'll survive this
I feel it coming now
It's too late to shut it down
Over the mountain now
Burning the valley down
I don't know where my mind is
Don't even know what time is
Somebody stop the virus

Room full of bodies but nothing but silence
Yeah I'm quiet but fuck all that shyness
Go crazy turn this bitch into an asylum
You fly but we ain't looking for pilots
I'll never bow down to a tyrant his highness
Even Jack said fuck all them giants
What goes up comes down man that's basic science
Look in my iris and you'll see defiance
I'd rather not get involved with you niggas
What's the problem man I'll solve all you niggas, huh?
How you fine when your time up?
How you climb when your line stuck?
Barbershop getting lined up
Yeah your head good but your mind fucked
Super damn clear
Uber everywhere
This sound like super man is here

Are you with me now
Said are you with me now
Ain't felt this good in a while
They want us to simmer down
Can you hear me now?
Am I going in and out?
I stop and just look around
To see if you're with me now
Tell me are you with me now
Ready to put it down
Start at the bottom
Already forgot them but they won't forget me now
You really ain't ready now
You haters just in the crowd
But still I just look around

I Am Defiant

The fourth album by Rob Bailey & The Hustle Standard.

Credits:

Written by Charles Caripides and Rob Bailey
("I Am the Fire" also written by Jake Hill)

Produced (and recorded and mixed and mastered) by Hustle Standard (aka Charley Hustle)

Vocals performed by Rob Bailey & The Hustle Standard

Pedal Steel on "Not the End" performed by Todd Beene

Engineered by Billy Lefler at Deathstar Studios, Los Angeles, CA (www.billylefler.com)

Additional Recording at...
Hustle Shoals, Catskills, NY
Rob's Basement Mini-Bar, Whitefish, MT
Bodd Teene's House on the Tennessee River, Muscle Shoals, AL
Rob's Sunroom, Temple, PA
Hustle's Apartment, The Hollywood Dell, CA

Album Cover Photo by Gran

www.hustlestandard.com
Instagram: @hustlestandard
Twitter: @hustlestandard
Facebook: /thehustlestandard

iTunes

Sacrifice :: Rob Bailey & The Hustle Standard

From the Rob Bailey & The Hustle Standard EP, Battle Tested

Try 'n Hold Me Back

Dedication: The Start + The Finish [FULL ALBUM]

Gloves Are Comin' Off [feat. The Phantoms]

Author: Rob Bailey
https://killrobbailey.com
https://www.instagram.com/killrobbailey
https://www.youtube.com/user/killrobbailey

All the songs and images used here belong to their respective owners and I do not claim any right over them.

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