Produced and masterminded by ill Clinton, "Just Like Love" brings together Grammy-nominated singer and producer Muhsinah and Jacksonville based hip hop emcee The IGive in this ode to new love
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released 09 January 2015 
"Just Like Love" 
(J. Murphy, M. Abdul-Karim, & G. Essick) 
Music & Post Production by ill Clinton 
Lyrics/Vocals by Muhsinah & The IGive 
(c) 2014, 2015

Just Like Love (ill Clinton feat Muhsinah & The IGive)

Hip hop emcee The IGive and soul producer ill Clinton team up once again to bring you "Get Up" (All My People) the first OFFICIAL single leading into The IGive's upcoming summer release RAPDNA part 1. "Get Up" a phrase akin to waking up or the first action from rousing from slumber is a call to action in troubled urban communities to get involved by redirecting their interests from frivolous and destructive activities to those that correspond with uplifting community, especially the family. The IGive delivers gripping energetic lyrics, and ill bring us that upbeat go-go influenced soul in this tune. You'll want to "Get Up" and move listening to this one.
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released 24 March 2014 
"Get Up" (All My People) 
Written by Gregory A. Essick, Jr.("The IGive") for GiveLove Records, LLC (BMI) 
Music by J. Clinton Murphy, Jr. ("ill Clinton") for ill Clinton Music (BMI) 
Additional vocals by Samantha Corbitt-Watson 
Recorded, Mixed, & Mastered by J. Clinton Murphy, Jr at ill Clinton Studios (2010 & 2014) 
(c) 2010, 2014

Get Up (All My People)

Originally recorded in 2010, emcee The IGive gives his perspective about the family structure in the African American community, the effects of negligent and absentee fathers, woman and sexuality, and the messages found in popular black music. ill Clinton composes soulful hip hop rhythms, guitar riffs, and horns that both sooth the soul and add solemn reflection to layer this poetic masterpiece. 

Check out ill Clinton at illclinton.com or illclinton.bandcamp.com
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released 14 January 2014 
Written by Gregory A. Essick, Jr. 
Produced by ill Clinton for ill Clinton Music 
Recorded, Mixed, & Mastered by ill Clinton (Jacksonville, FL) 
Additional vocals by Nikki Harper

Bastard Black

This song was written in the wake of the NAACP holding a faux funeral for the usage of the notorious "n word" in July of 2007. The context of the song does not take a stand on whether the word should or should not be used or who should be allowed to use it or no. What it does do is ask the Black American community to rise above the stigma of the word by realizing that Black Americans are first human and internally/spiritually above what negative connotations may be inferred by said usage or by racism in general which to this day is institutionalized socially and politically at the core of American society.

"n word" (inward) 
(G. Essick, R. Prather) 
Lyrics by Gregory A. Essick, Jr. (GiveLove Records, LLC/BMI) 
Music by P The Average Jo for Average Jo Productions 
Engineered by P The Average Jo (Jacksonville, FL/St. Louis, MO) 
(c) 2008, 2015

n-word

Taking it back to the essence...beats and lyrics (with a little soul)

The IGive
"Stop"
RAPDNA
ill Clinton Music, Inc. / GiveLove Records, LLC
(c) 2015

"Stop"
(G. Essick, S. Allen)
Performance by The IGive as appearing on his LP "RAPDNA"
Written by Gregory A. Essick, Jr (GiveLove Records, LLC/BMI)
Music Composed by Silver Surfer (Flamingo Park Music)
Additional vocals by Felicia Nicole
Engineered by ill Clinton at ill Clinton Music Studios (Jacksonville, FL)
(c) 2015

Stop

The IGive featuring David Emanuel Comedian
“My Skin Is My Sin”
3rdIEntertainment
Released: 2016

Lyrics by The IGive
Poem/Speech by David Emanuel Comedian
Music Composed by Brian France
Engineered by Jaimz Mallet (at The W 121 Studios, Jacksonville, FL)

Lyrics:

Free flowing hemoglobin red colored stream of flowing
Blood like a river, Hands on ID to show him
Because he asked, tight gripped trigger finger blowing
Licensed to carry, but it’s scary ‘cause a negus’ holding gats
He’s a Black, bad raps is all he be knowing
Past! We can’t get passed that, Profit prison quota
It is noted paramilitary; I mean policy ordinary (to)
Kill a brother, Pain I’m bearing and it’s visceral
I must demand justice now, what you waiting for?!
Black and Black out loud, what you hating for?!
I’m a “stand my ground”, what you praying for
If you ain’t gonna act?! I can’t take no more
Fake as conversations when you act so confrontational
Privileged and you ignore the advantages you’re taking of
You slander me on TV, ‘cause really you want to be me
I will believe our lives matter to you when you stand up with me
But you mock me to my face, Race is not split fifty-fifty
(We) ain’t on even ground and I mean it now, you gon’ hear me
I’m a Black man, Asiatic crown end your tyranny
Organize the crowd, that’s a movement!
No longer sit and wait for approval
You told me “comply or die” for refusal
Only one side that is right I am choosing
Black and aboriginal, Nappy headed lyrical
Scrappy Abernathy, Martin Luther, Malcolm Little flow
X’ing out your hashtags, true and living water flow
Sweeter than the berry ‘cause I’m rocking with a darker flow
My patience is ending here quickly
May justice rush rivers as swiftly
Before hot heads respond with vengeances
I’m pissed off, now my rocket engine is lifting
You think my skin is my sin so you kill me
I’m (a) hell bound biting hell hound with the fury
And wrath of a war angel, f**k a halo
I’ve laid low but now I say no more of you killing us
Really ‘cause, we face real injustice and still conduct
Business with you, peaceful as a dove, but I feel my cup
Running over while you hunt my soldiers and you kill your own
Throw the blame back on me to feel hopeless, but I’m not alone
Time is running out so I got to go
You may kill my body, but I still got soul
I still got soul
Black Power
Black Love Matters
Black Lives Matter
Love Wins After


My Skin Is My Sin (feat. David Emanuel Comedian)

The IGive featuring David Emanuel Comedian
“My Skin Is My Sin”
3rdIEntertainment
Released: 2016

Lyrics by The IGive
Poem/Speech by David Emanuel Comedian
Music Composed by Brian France
Engineered by Jaimz Mallet (at The W 121 Studios, Jacksonville, FL)

Lyrics:

Free flowing hemoglobin red colored stream of flowing
Blood like a river, Hands on ID to show him
Because he asked, tight gripped trigger finger blowing
Licensed to carry, but it’s scary ‘cause a negus’ holding gats
He’s a Black, bad raps is all he be knowing
Past! We can’t get passed that, Profit prison quota
It is noted paramilitary; I mean policy ordinary (to)
Kill a brother, Pain I’m bearing and it’s visceral
I must demand justice now, what you waiting for?!
Black and Black out loud, what you hating for?!
I’m a “stand my ground”, what you praying for
If you ain’t gonna act?! I can’t take no more
Fake as conversations when you act so confrontational
Privileged and you ignore the advantages you’re taking of
You slander me on TV, ‘cause really you want to be me
I will believe our lives matter to you when you stand up with me
But you mock me to my face, Race is not split fifty-fifty
(We) ain’t on even ground and I mean it now, you gon’ hear me
I’m a Black man, Asiatic crown end your tyranny
Organize the crowd, that’s a movement!
No longer sit and wait for approval
You told me “comply or die” for refusal
Only one side that is right I am choosing
Black and aboriginal, Nappy headed lyrical
Scrappy Abernathy, Martin Luther, Malcolm Little flow
X’ing out your hashtags, true and living water flow
Sweeter than the berry ‘cause I’m rocking with a darker flow
My patience is ending here quickly
May justice rush rivers as swiftly
Before hot heads respond with vengeances
I’m pissed off, now my rocket engine is lifting
You think my skin is my sin so you kill me
I’m (a) hell bound biting hell hound with the fury
And wrath of a war angel, [*bleep*] a halo
I’ve laid low but now I say no more of you killing us
Really ‘cause, we face real injustice and still conduct
Business with you, peaceful as a dove, but I feel my cup
Running over while you hunt my soldiers and you kill your own
Throw the blame back on me to feel hopeless, but I’m not alone
Time is running out so I got to go
You may kill my body, but I still got soul
I still got soul
Black Power
Black Love Matters
Black Lives Matter
Love Wins After


My Skin Is My Sin [Clean] (feat. David Emanuel Comedian)

Duval emcee The IGive spits a free verse over the "Deep Cover" record by Dr. Dre & Snoop Doggy Dogg. I do not own the rights to this music. Just kickin' rhymes.

Recorded by Ian Patterson
08/13/2017
Place Cover Photo shot by Larry Key (Acute Visuals) @JustLarry4Now

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