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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

Buy on iTunes

Plan My Attack

Haymaker

Go Forever

Rob Bailey & The Hustle Standard_SQUARE UP (2015)

I'm wide awake and can hear thoughts become  

                      The voices in my head,

 I'm lobotomized can't hide I lost to the fix  

           Running through my blood, I'm done 

                        Traveling in my veins 

                The madness that stains my eyes    

            I'm soaked from it, Eating my addiction,

 stop to wreck my life a little 

                                           more,           

              Finding a place to defend,

 I try not to hide I want to believe in what others see,

       But I see the black and white of everything, 

Wrapped around the fingers of death I breathe,  

                       So Broken, So Dangerous,
Wrap my a flesh, Pale White tied off scars, 

A silk knot to the top of my warm arm ,

Pressing down on the flow restricting the cycle, 

Veins pulse as I rub the skin I inherently grin,

Licking my lips, this is perfection 

I fall to gravity , heart racing with intent

Having thoughts of good bye, 

Flooding my heart with the divine,

Rest in peace this could be my last day,

Shooting the liquid goddess with heaven I play,

A poppy pod one day will take me to the grave,

I'll have peace when I die even if it's today,

Flame to a bent spoon the sands liquefy,

The golden nectar tastes bitter as vinegar and sins that lie,

As the fumes rise and fill my nose soon I ritualized,

The syringe that now consumes my life,

Steady I hold my breath , 

As I Soak up the blood of a angels wings my muscles  twitch,

I push against my skin with the dragons mouth open, Pressure birthed with the numbing sting of silver steel,

Needle teeth with practice became mastery the ultimate function I feel so ill, 

Crimson threads mix with the divine breath of indulgence,  

The godhead of sedatives, a taboo blasphemy in society,

The underground seduction of debauchery, 

With one little prick, 

A sudden flood of nauseated excitement reflects,

Pressing down, the merge complete, 

Injecting the blood of angels within me,

Releasing the blinding, the unraveling knot my bloods starts to speak to me,

Lifting my arm to the land of the dead,

My eyes roll back as I feel the euphoria spread to my head, my arm bled,

       Like feeling the warmth of a mother cradling their child in bed,

       Like slipping into a warm bath again,

With Itching so pleasurable it seems sublime,

The rush of heaven unbound within my hollow soul undivided, a hidden unholy guide,

If I died tonight I'd be fine,

The world turned numb as I opened my eyes,

I felt my body ascend,

My soul shifting within ,

The world went black the void of nothingness,

I commented the most vile of sins, 

Suicide was the plan in the end, 

Heroin was the gun I used to end it,

Goodbye,





Suicide Was The Plan In The End

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