The latest project from Stems of Wisdom takes listeners on a mystic and psychedelic journey through the seasoned Bay Area hip hop culture. San Francisco poets and storytellers, The Wise Guys infuse their unique flavor into every track, delivering a powerful and moving message that is both timely and timeless.

Dedicated to the last few years and the challenges brought on by the pandemic era, this album is a testament to the resilience and strength it takes to bounce back. Their lyrics reflect the struggles we all face, but offer a glimmer of hope and inspiration that is sorely needed in today’s world.

With a dreamy yet raw sound, this album is a must-listen for anyone who loves independent hip hop that speaks to the heart and soul.
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Lost & Found

Stems of Wisdom-The Depth

In solitude I found silence 
There was no need to distribute it 
I found you I found silence 

Silent world
Doesn't talk about its problems
Silent world
Doesn't need to share its story
Silent world
Doesn't care to be remembered
Forever 
Everything incorporated
Inside what is yours
The world is yous

Let me leave you with this one
Before the tree turn into dust
Like George Carlin said
The people who are fucked
Earth is fine
Like this abalonia shelled sea queen
She's been using up these chapters 
Since rappers had a street team

Hypnotized minds
By the semiotics
Hypnotized trying
To go against the grain
Hypnotized 
Thinking life is forward progress 
All the while
Chasing weight 
With aspirations to be famous
Load the soul to the exchange 

Silent world
Can't humiliate its process
Silent world
Come deposit all your shame
Silent world
Doesn't keep up 
With the pace of information 
Everything incorporated
Embracing what we afraid to see displayed 

The poster child turned to mulch
The Golden child drawn into hoax
The reason acquiesces 
To what the primative reveres 
The rouges they go Chernobyl
Very limited series
Wouldn't be able to show you
Where the wilderness is
While the sun still has a budget 
The earth quake is Macguffin
In front the father
Sun will tell
That the Silent world was bluffing
OGs told me 
Home he rolls with plosives silenced
Same OGs go on podcasts
Tell they business
Like the chat is private

Hypnotized minds
By the semiotics
Hypnotized like the locusts 
Put the logos in the frame
Hypnotize minds
Life is really progress
All the while
Losing senses 
With exemptions on display 

No more exemptions
From Frisco to Memphis
I'm cut from a vestment
No lust for attention
The mic is tempest
I wipe out the entrance
Of psychic defenses 
I silenced my weapons 

Thoughts lost elementals 
Thoughts are superfluous
Brought my quiet weapon
Out for silent wars

Quiet is kept
When the liars on benches 
No henchmen or sensei
To fire my engine 
The style of my essence
Is silent compression 
To aquire my blessings 
Requires my presence 

Cross the crowded vessel
Into your silent world
I love my solitude 
And I love my Laurels 

In solitude I found silence 
There was no need to distribute it 
Found me you found silence

Silent World

Momentary aberrations 

Being the virtue 
Instead of having them to give 
Like a Mid wife through the labyrinth 
The dead end was a door way 
When you Crystalize your self with the idea of not being a sell out 
You become a zealot 
🔭Lemurian Noise Reshaping 
⚖ 
There will come a point 
When equality does not need to be enFORCED

Momentary Abberations

Lossless Heart

Caprican = Capricorn + Puerto Rican

Produced by Lord Lorenz
Written by Taste Nate

CAPRICAN ep

Snow Bunny Holes

Our Journey Beyond (feat. Lil MC)

The Watchers - Eskovida

How Insensitive (remix)

What I feel is that in everyone there exists the ability to be a prophet or a false prophet. With regards to anything spiritual, esoteric, selfhood or self development there is no roadmap. Anyone that places themselves as your guru or leader is a big red flag. Very few are even willing to step onto that path to begin with. It is always simpler to be guided or directed onto that road opposed to walking the path and discovering your own true guides. For whatever reason you decide to not follow the call of your true self or your wild call or the call of nature, you identify with your false self or a social persona. This identification dims the true self. The self of connectedness. By doing this we end up in a loop. Living our lives mechanically and expecting to advance in evolution by something external. You may be following all the right directives of society but still inside you don't feel authentic. You might feel like no matter what information you follow it seems to not be generating any results on your journey. By appropriating someone else’s idea of an authentic self you continue to avoid your own calling. The prophet in you becomes false because you are allowing some voice narrator to dictate a meaning that is exclusive to your life as an individual. The prophet in you that I speak of deals in existence. It does not deal in future visions like a fortune teller, because for it to be the future it doesn't exist at all. The prophet in you deals in existence. The merging of these existences is why you witness or feel synchronicities. The people that actually exist in your lives can be your guides. They didn't arrive from the future because they existed already.

~T.N.

Lion's Gate (prod. by DJ Behold)

Bringing back that Nostalgic Nastero Beasnatcher Free Flow. 
Beat snatched from Alchemist,
Salute Hip Hop

ROTY Freestyle

Eye of the Heart by Taste Nate & Tai The 13th
Produced by Tai The 13th
Chante Ishta coming soon

Eye of the Heart

This project is a compiling of sessions from 2011-2013, which consists of material from
"The Delivery" 2013
(tastenate.bandcamp.com/album/the-delivery)
and
"Kurrent Flow Sessions"2011
(tastenate.bandcamp.com/album/kurrent-flow-sessions).
This project contains some definitive slaps from that era as well some unreleased Kaef Black tracks. Plus some rare Taste Nate Joints.
Every Drop Counts.

Everyday by Kaef Black

Wrong (feat. Kaef Black)

Lyricism (feat. Kaef Black)

4 My Hip Hop Heads (feat. Kaef Black)

Last Night (feat. Kaef Black)

Cakes Is High (feat. Tone Gladys)

The Script (1984) -feat. Kaef Black-

Shift Into 4th

Spirit Guide (feat. Kaef Black)

Drown (feat. Kaef Black)

Lost by Kaef Black

Equal (feat. Kaef Black)

Good Mormons (feat. Kaef Black)

Nameless (feat. Kaef Black)

Simple Mind by Kaef Black

We Diggin' (feat. Kaef Black & Tone Gladys)

All We Ever

45 Miles (feat. Kaef Black)

Deuces Up One Time by Kaef Black

Keys (Prod. by CVLTMXND)

City Life

Stems of Wisdom - City Life

Wise or Otherwise

Stems of Wisdom - Wise Or Otherwise

Lost Occidentals by Stems of Wisdom (prod. by Tai the 13th)

rhythmnchaos - Everything is Loud

Taste Nate is a multi-talented artist from San Francisco. His unique sound melds abstract lyrics with a soulful flow. He runs his own label, Yellow Cake Radio and production company, Khapri Star.

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