prod by: CY
https://www.youtube.com/@bychenieryu

too many people wanna come through
too many people on my timeline
life shining through the sunroof 
windows down this is my time 
ruby haunt flood the inside
night falls switch on my lights 
i’m just tryna paint a picture 
dead stars in the twilight 

i got a dream, got a curse, got a gift
there’s a place in my chest where i drift 
im just tryna get back where i live
im just tryna go back to when you lived
im just tryna go back to the park
im just tryna go back to the light no dark
steady looking for the spark 
feel like the ocean how im blue 
and im swimming with the sharks like

too many people wanna come through
too many people on my timeline
life shining through the sunroof 
windows down this is my time 
ethel cain flood the inside
night falls switch on my lights 
i’m just tryna paint a picture 
dead stars in the twilight 

the earth beneath my feet supporting every step i take 
feels good not to be motivated by the wrong things 
feels like i’m dominated by the grief
no sleep grinding teeth always looking for the peace
searching for the peaks feeling low so we aim high 
a canvas for us all but we gotta let the paint dry
flowers on the wall in the hall in the daytime

g a r d e n

prod by: noizy
https://www.youtube.com/@noisesoul

still praying for you and i’m worn down 
tryna build myself up but i keep getting torn down
cut deep to the core now, tears pour down, while i mourn now im down hearted

usually pragmatic not one for the panic but i been feelin im manic need xanax can i vanish back to the past like the last time we spoke the last time that we smoked last time that we wrote the last time we was broke before the last time my heart broke from another nightmare i woke and i wake and it’s late i’m in a cold sweat like a lake and all of ya’ll just seem fake i can’t take it need a break my mental health it ain’t safe but

still praying for you and i’m worn down 
tryna build myself up but i keep getting torn down
cut deep to the core now, tears pour down, while i mourn now im down hearted 

survivors guilt dominates my thoughts can’t escape i told you i need a break so afraid i might break
got a chapel built in my chest got the door open im stressed got the windows open say less in the mirror im feeling pressed ima climb outta my flesh im just not at my best i just lost my best friend im crestfallen im desperate the anxiety that i slept in it’s crept in it’s etched into my essence and im falling falling

still praying for you and i’m worn down 
tryna build myself up but i keep getting torn down
cut deep to the core now, tears pour down, while i mourn now im down hearted

o f r e n d a

prod: by misery
https://www.youtube.com/@MISERYBEATS

new day, same wounds
same ghost, same tomb
you wanna know what i came through?
dark clouds with the rain too
yeah the pain that i’m chained to
keep it buried i was trained to
never let it try to play you
never let it try to claim you
something light for the heavy days
trying to make it to a better day
i been riding heavy waves 
depression crashing i’m in a daze
people passing many ways
taking blows from a heavyweight uh
caught a fade tryna annotate uh
too many strays can’t mediate nah

new day, same wounds
i’m the same ghost, same tomb
you wanna know what we came through?
dark clouds with the rain too
yeah the pain that we chained to
kept it buried we was trained to
never let it try to play you
always wishing i could save you
it aint the same without you
I’m wrecked just thinking bout you 
owe debts can’t pay without you 
pray i’m half of what you amount to
i been locked up in my routine 
ain’t even talked to my true team
it’s been about two weeks
i been feeling too weak
still know the love run deep

u n m o o r e d

prod by: CY & Dexter Yu
https://www.youtube.com/@bychenieryu

i’ve been hiding from the sun running to the moon thinking back to what i’ve done
nostalgia like a drug nostalgia like a hug it’s everyone i ever loved 
and i can feel the buzz granny’s words echo take care of your cuz 
and i did then i didn’t
we ain’t spoke in a minute 
we got kids got commitments
plus we got a little distance
we just taking care of business 
but i should call more often
one day we gon all be in a coffin 
when we were kids we ain’t worry bout nothing 
my biggest fear is the regret is heart stopping 

yeah i need to call my mom back 
i should spend more time on the tarmac 
going back and forth just to see her
there was a time that she was my only
believer 
and when she speaks i believe her 
alhamdullilah that my wife got to meet her 
and my kids did too 
you never know how many chances that you’ll get to 
and i should send an i miss you 
text to everyone i ever knew  
look at us, how we struggled, how we grew 
never forget everything we been through
i pledge this to my sis to my bro
yall got a heart made of diamonds and gold
it doesn’t matter where you at on the globe
you ever need me you already know

j u n i p e r o

prod by: IVN
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how i’m supposed to do for someone else 
when i can’t even do this for myself
i done built a wall around myself 
i done been to hell and back myself
and i done put my dreams on the shelf right
i learned with grief ain’t no shelf life 
they say adapt or you’ll perish 
it was your depth that i cherished 
overthink myself into oblivion
i got love for each and every palestinian 
catalog of pain got me feeling distant
same people from my past looking at me different
same people put me last in they future visions
empty stomach heavy heart god know i’m grieving 
a couple seasons passed the pain has only deepened
i try to give it time let it work itself out 
meditate on good things never dwell in self doubt but 
sometimes i need to shut down
crippled in this bed, head in the clouds
if i could pay the pain away i’d pay an ungodly amount but
i can’t keep counting
the pain keep mounting

plagued by thoughts, your body in a box 
wish i could turn back the hands on the clocks
watered our crops until we made it off the block
looking back laughing as if we broke the locks 
still healing from the things that i don’t talk about
i wonder what’s the last thing that you thought about
was it the loneliest place in the universe? 
were you ready for the next phase in your traverse?
since then i think of you in every single verse 
since then i day dream about when we’d converse 
you were evergreen i will forever grieve
ill try to relish in the moments that i find relief
crying in the car trying to calm my nerves 
bargaining with god tryna come to terms
i know it’s all above me i’ll just let it burn 
gotta meditate on learning less on my concerns 
yearning for the memories we never made 
got some secrets and i’m gonna take them to my grave 
it was an honor and a privilege that’ll never fade 
i know you send me glimmers i see them every day 
staring at the ceiling, stars overhead 
in my feelings you appearing anchored in my head
straight from the heart it’s what we always said 
i will find you again we share a common thread

d o w n h e a r t e d

visionary wordsmith my signature kirkland
commissary need a facelift it's urgent
insurgent ya girl could never curve it
even back when i was going shopping at mervyns
merlin i slay dragons round my way
i breath fire in ya face MIA
that's heat but never kept heat on me
big ups mama, granny, grandpa, and my aunties
they taught me told me i was special
i appreciate they realized my potential
and if i ever did you wrong i never meant to
young denzel potent with the pencil
got so much intel locked up in my mental
father figure to these niggas so parental
got me in my feelings feeling existential
this the cook up please pick a book up
ain't no limit wit the words i got the hook up
bobby digital i'm way beyond the physical
visual vigilante i’m rather visceral
sonically everything you hear intentional
ironically some deaf to it fuckin’ imbeciles
pre historic dna like a mastodon
stomp out so called dons it's like a massacre
i'm on the lookout for all these human traffickers
and tell laura silsby i'm coming after her
highly functioning empath took a minute to get to this path
always been smooth as silk with the syntax
time to wash out the riff raff
yours truly drop knowledge like paul mooney
the streets so unruly eat a rapper like dulys it's nothing to me

and it ain't over yet
i haven't mentioned a range rover yet
or my chain, or this girl that i'm bending over this desk
the drugs i'm sellin’g the bottles i'm popping or gang violence
smoking on violets and ignoring contracepts
low tolerance for niggas so catch up like condiments
conflict! is global warming nobody's stopping this or topping this
i'm ravenous, climactic, mind over matter addict
never erratic but unpredictable 
these are just bursts in small increments
that are chemical should be illegal still labeled a criminal 
cause of my skin tone
but my soul is pure my auras a bright gold 
whether i die young or die old 
homie could sing but still wound up in sing sing that's what i was told
see life will shake you up take you and leave you strung up exposed
bust slugs at you like you a foe 
and then take blood it's nuts i'm tryna let you know

Gems!

happy phantom (lyrics in description)

how you gonna let me in ya mind like that?
how you gonna let me just vibe like that?
got another track lemme call you right back
meet me at the trap my shit dope like that

grew up broke but i was still woke
no heat in the winter in the crib with a coat
my niggas still hanging like a motherfucking rope
rocking them t's with the motherfucking boat
that was back then still best friends
came up in a place that was full of dead ends
life was like a movie but you scared to see the end
breaking all the rules went way beyond bend

got evicted out my crib though
spliff got twisted with the kinfolk
ever since i had nintendo
nothing but blight outside my window

my brothers keeper since trapper keepers
trap or die coming out them speakers
never had faith in any of our leaders
never had patience for any elitists
i live my life searching for meaning
having meetings with like minds and reading
making music for ourselves no others
lace up tracks break bread with my brothers
antisocial emcee keep to myself i'm a mystery
don't hold it against me only family getting on a track with me
something similar to run the jewels 
but my el don't rap he just run the tools i just kill a mic

how you gonna let me in ya mind like that?
how you gonna let me just vibe like that?
got another track lemme call you right back
meet me at the trap my shit dope like that

the worlds always rotating nothing is still
and i'm way too conscious for mass appeal
and that's real the realist shit i ever wrote

got myself a brand new crib though
watch my family out the window
about to cop that new nintendo
this the product of a positive mental

heart like el dorado 
i feel like i'm pablo
love everyones my motto 
y'all shallow y'all just love models
floating like the dead sea 
talisman as a neck piece
i gotta rhyming thesis that could rival jesus
conflict! my stage name 
david cross my slave name
neo soul my nickname 
free me from the matrix mainframe
triple double in the ball game 
i’m like an information superhighway
call me usher 'cause i only do it my way
and my alter egos ego something like kanyes
run a 3k like andre 
triple deke gordon bombay
eat a rapper like an entree 
son you niggas i'm padre 
all day, all day, all day, all day

GEMS!

positive mental attitude (lyrics in description)

alhamdullilah for everything 
put that on my wedding ring 
no more foes or enemies 
that meditation centering 
every cop i seem to pass just dreaming of arresting me 
but it ain’t stressing me 
a higher being directing me
garden of words 
she got them curves i take her indoors 
endorphins rushing like we taking flight with the birds
i paint a very pretty picture with my color palette 
only thing i stack is pallets nigga cause i’m putting in that work
and i ain’t scared of nothing cause my karma straight
it’s been that way since 8th grade hit up the roller rink to roller skate
suburban life felt like a dream to us 
man them girls would fiend for us
and it was simply cuz they parents don’t agree with us
dj hurricane would play 
this before the reefer buzz
we were only kids
no idea how drugs was reaching us 
such heavy lust in each of us
deaf ears when you preach to us 

7 days in a week im on my 8th night 
i know you like my pace right 
i know you know i’m based right 
remember smoking them laced whites 
on late nights watching late night 
staying up till it’s daylight 
my head pounding, my vision blurry
summer nights to them snow flurries 
eating adderal became natural 
we were just so compatible 
i’m just a man so i’m fallible 
everyday i was working out the mandibles
i’m a wildfire in ya area 
causing mass hysteria 
said if i ever found a queen ima marry her 
make sure she fittin all the criteria
keep that bling i got this mood ring 
insomniac king with the mood swing 
don’t know who you think you fooling 
y’all old news we that new thing 
we ahead of our time 
that’s futuristic divine 
this ain’t by mistake this designed
guess all of the planets aligned 
now we doing fine yeah we doin fine

i'm on 1 like angela 
lyrically ill massacre 
gary payton to the reign man
future so bright need raybans 
basketball shorts with some gray vans
body y'all niggas grab the ace bands
grab my lady by her waistband 

we get pulled apart by death 
and it pulls us together again
contemplating whether we 
could've been much better friends
maybe make amends 
and forgive each other's sins 
we went from boys to men 
we went from water to gin

catch me in the past with the griffey on my back 
if you catch me in future then it's off with the mask 
flipping through the radios like digging through the trash 
all you niggas ass all you niggas gassed
like ya girl period you waiting on me 
but when i show up you hating on me 
4th quarter flow, over time? no

i’m from the hood where them strays be 
but quite frankly it would amaze me 
if anything negative you had to say could even fucking phase me 
the music saved me 
how could i️ ever repay the many variations of inspirations you gave me?

turned over a new leaf i’m complete 
since then every single thing that i️ have done 
i️ hope i can create good karma for my son 
new days under the sun 
so many heroes are unsung 
guru on my mind so i began to grind made it very clear to myself to move away from crime 
there’s such a lack of compassion when you rapping
you gotta know there’s more to this shit than beats slapping 
this a movement but only if the shoe fits 
burgundy bomber on my frame as i️ grab a tooth pick 
these drug dealers will betray you dawg they ruthless  
and popping all them xans won’t bring you any closer to where the truth is 
fentynl on my mental lookout the windowsill 
how many dying today? the numbers so unreal 
when people are gone it’s so hard to move on stay strong and soldier on 
gotta stay patient cause there ain’t no magic wand 
yo long live peep bumping hell boy in the streets 
i give 'em hell boy in these streets, peace

mood ring x insomniac king (lyrics in description)

you wasn’t with me on all of them nights
i took them bars and i started them fights
now i’m just glad that i’m outta that hole
felt like it’d never be under control
man all of them pills they was taking a toll
packing a bowl in the morning i’m froze
cigarette smell can’t wash outta my clothes
i’m tryna get her up outta her clothes - get her exposed
trading shots till the both of us throwed
got blurry vision, head on collision 
woke up in the kitchen can’t believe i drove
i write these words yeah they coming in droves 
that kinda pain only some of us know
hoping that you never feel that alone
can’t find my bic so light up on the stove 
and i’m numbing myself with these drugs that i chose 

on my darkest days i had nothing to say
felt like i had one foot in my grave
using my room just like it was a tomb 
seeking refuge from all of my wounds
my friends were calling but i ain’t pick up
couldn’t get up outta bed i was stuck 
couldn’t do anything only get drunk 
till i was slumped 
and ended the day in a place where i sunk 
fight off your demons is what they would preach 
but there was a new demon every week
they grew an army and i am just one man
spent my days feeling like i couldn’t breathe 
but now i see i was crying for help 
and no one could do it had to be myself 
and i fought my way straight up outta that hell 
now im doing well found the holy grail

sovrgrvpes x toro y moi - fight off your demons (lyrics in description)

i’m a real one never tote a steel gun
never one to steal from anyone young malcom
coming up in the streets ain’t no good outcomes
hit me when that ounce come i’m talking about the album
not to be outdone i do this for my day ones
day two is too late ain’t nothing on my plate
first come first served stand in line to hear my fate
all my niggas stay high just like the murder rate
but we just tryna motivate not become property of the state
as i annihilate these niggas, as i violate these niggas
a lot of these niggas pull triggas for minor figures and try to act like jigga
i got reasonable doubt so i’m a call ‘em out y’all repetitive just like a roundabout
i’d never sell out no not for any amount give ‘em some henny they out
plenty of doubt quick slant on these niggas just like i’m running a route
y’all looking as stupid as trump throwing paper towels in the crowd
bumping illmatic like it’s ’94 as i merge onto 94
pedal to the floor y’all really want some more? i don’t know
i don’t know what y’all be talkin bout all i know is i ain’t walking out
all eyes finna be on me like janet’s nipple popping out
i be rocking out reverberate throughout the city
grew up on pitt pitted against pitfalls ain’t that a pity?
it’s all good though ‘cause any come up is shitty
y’all either with me or against me
sit in front of the fireplace and contemplate
methodical and logical is how i operate
the staying power of escapism can exonerate
got so much love in my heart i don't got room for hate
no amount of negativity could ever penetrate
innovate excavate really with the pen i'm great
readily available to renovate ya mental state
clean slate as i wake now time to motivate

the staying power of escapism (lyrics in description)

working for the weekend so i can let these beats blend
with the vocals black shirt no logo
damn that boy loco can't believe he still local
posted in the city like a teamster at cobo
competition yoko when they see me they like oh no
rocking that supreme cap brim to the left like where the cream at?
so lucid as i dap up the fam yo where the dream at?
in the palm of my hands came to redeem that
you play the lotto i feed my son avocados
rich in mind, body, spirit in the city full of pot holes
well rounded but i ain't had a necklace since elementary
man i was reckless couldn't sit ya girl next to me
be on the house phone for like nine hours
run and take a shower ‘cause i would do ‘em so sour
devour every detail before i crown her

seeds popping as we smoking on a stogey
sipping on a sobe, hit LJ's for karaoke
bruce was living down the street from the liquor locker
niggas hitting licks next door they tryna get that copper
asking me what did i see? yo i ain't snitching copper
cause these niggas round my way will be a pistol popper
at the first sign of a problem niggas wanna shoot
at the first sign of a coffin niggas gonna salute
pour out some henny for the friendlies then i hit the booth
agonizing memories at times inside our twisted youths
need a bullet proof vest the moment i leave my steps
not ‘cause of gang violence but the ones sworn to protect
smoking sess skipping standardized tests
tryna get some play from shorty in the sun dress
i can see the light but the blackness so attractive
on a track to move people that's mass transit

tints (lyrics in description)

porch light flicker in the night that mean the cook up done 
modelo on the front porch they on they fifth one 
headed to the sixth one talking bout them pistons 
but i’m too busy screaming fuck the fucking system 
to even listen to anything they mention 
verbal technician write you into submission 
im finna twist one 

i dump my guts like backwoods 
find me deep in them backwoods
with a black hood and a dad hat 
used to not know where dad at 
money we never had that 
full court we ran that 
used to pop that xanax
out in public just ransacked god damn
now i’m on a wave and you can’t change the station
i been practicing patience 
my manifestations in tune with my cadence 
and we been in basements creating 
and pacing and lacing up tracks 
this world is ours for the taking 
amazing im craving growth 
giving up these ghosts that i’m chasing 
giving up not in the equation 

but i’m in lock step with my demons now 
gotta take my power back for good but i just don’t know how 
gotta help my seed succeed and navigate the seas ahead
but i can’t do none of that if i’m fucking dead 

used to be on foot patrol 
all of these winters finally took they toll
im too cold took a pencil to your sugar skull
carved out my purpose till the blade was dull
avoid these curses in the process hope i save my soul

hungry ghosts (lyrics in description)

thinking back on all those hard times they shaped us
no heat, no hot water still couldn’t shake us
cold as life though, one man show call me iso
i was just so insightful never chased hoes they spiteful
but i been known to devote myself to these poems
call her up on her phone yall don’t wanna see me in my zone
southwest that’s my home that mentality burns in my dome
in the alleys is where we would roam
some of us totin’ some chrome
 
used to hit the stash spot in the matchbox grabbin’ mad pot
took a lot of risks on some wild shit could’ve had me in them padlocks
the hood have you feeling some type of way like you’d die to escape
but at the same time the outside world can get too hard to face
you can get stuck in yo ways, stuck in that maze workin’ jobs that you hate
you can get on yo knees and then pray, pray that you saved till you down in yo grave
gotta make the most of this life while you here failure is nothing to fear
on god i been so insecure but I’m thinking clear now and i am so sincere

laid down on my back now 
eluvium plays in the background
till i pass out and i’m lucid dreaming 
i’m on a journey i can’t stop believing 
thankful for this life that i’m leading 
gotta stay positive i am succeeding 

i took a stroll
down a gold plated road
watched my granny grow old 
my ancestors never got sold

on the beach drew a line in the sand 
never take another xan
never takin’ life for granted 
there’s too much of that laced shit
could’ve gotten wasted down in that basement
ain’t no replacement for a mother or father let’s face it
they losing they children 
i’m really losing my patience 

now my eyes wide open i’m woke
that kind of rest brings me growth 
i inhale and i exhale i know life is a slippery slope

my feet touch the ground 
and im feelin profound 
all that’s lost is not found 
but the beauty around me astounding

seed of light (lyrics in description)

urges (alternate)

Urges

Lyrics:

out here you gotta watch how you move
out here you know they plottin on you
out here nobody following a rule
out here everybody wanna act cool

out here
i learned snakes move at double time
head on a swivel from the start to the finish line
food on my plate niggas working hard to finish mine
if i sleep on em prolly put me in some linened pine
i want peace
none of us dying in the streets 
less beef wish that we’d speak stop picking up the heat

everyday above ground is profound to us
stop pointing it at my crown with intent to bust
i was looking out the window on that detroit bus
just wishing that i had the bread to uplift us
trust me when i say this i was gettin faded 
every single day on the block tryna escape it
people lookin down on me like i wasn’t the greatest 
please i’m too solid for these niggas that be aimless 
i got a fucking brain and i use it so i’m dangerous 
police be on the look out they just trying to detain us 
judge wanna arraign us
ICE asking for papers 
we all chasing a paycheck doin some kinda labor out here

out here you gotta watch how you move
out here you know they plottin on you
out here nobody following a rule
out here everybody wanna act cool

out here
every scar is a victory
outliving the misery inherited from history 
darkness crowding the daylight 
but you know that i stay bright 
writing for my life like a playwright 
waiting on y´all time to come, that’s a construct 
my standards higher got a different code of conduct
black ice on the mirror think the law coming
first instincts telling me to start running
i hope the lord coming to this run in i ain’t fronting
need a savior from the 1-2
trying to catch me with them counts like 1-2

and everybody's always talkin that shit 
leaving rude comments when i post up my shit 
and everybody's always on some bullshit 
but i'm hot like top ramen when i part my lips and i spit 
out here...

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