unfinished track from a lost hard drive that I wanted to share before it was lost

cover art photo by me and edit by jack powell design

playground (2019 demo)

First single from my upcoming EP, treatment. Written and recorded during the first round of treatment between 10/16 - 10/29.

liminal R01

Second single from the upcoming treatment EP.

used to be R02

an EP of six songs written and recorded during six different rounds of chemotherapy between 10/16/23 and 2/18/24. an honest conversation with myself.

the blue R06

before i go R05

see through R04

high hopes R03

written, mixed and mastered by salt
produced by felly (https://soundcloud.com/robfel)
cover art by milo leaman (www.mleaman.com)

Lyrics:

on pacific see me rolling in a civic
all the liquid got my vision looking twisted
see a picture while I’m spinning
see the world going round’ me
like diamonds and pearls, man
my girls so astounding

think its funny honey
that we from the sunny money county
know the boy rep that shit proudly
smoking on some loud pack
tryna get my sound back
think better when I’m on one
whipping in the cadillac
eating on some cracker jacks
tape bout hit a home run
through the ups and the downs
and the leaps and the bounds
i been tryna make it all fun

and i do, i do, i do know that you want me to leave
when you look inside my soul   
can you please tell me what you see  
  
the window to my soul
it be dead and gone when I’m all alone
out of my zone
the window to my soul
it be dead and gone when I’m all but stoned
gone up in smoke

It be dead and gone x3
When i’m all alone out of my zone

where ya looking
i be tryna get a booking
in the studio I’m cooking
why they always over look me 
never waited so I’m taking
I’m just tryna set the pace and
why it all about the face  
why you never look inside me

coming through the window
see the light beams x4

i be gliding like some blades on whip
See me hit the stage
front page on you bitch
and you know we had to dip
when they aim by the hip
and i aint about that shit
but you know I’m bout my business
and you know that want that
lil shawty see you flaunt that
making plays like a quarterback
in LA we recording tracks     
see my city through a window
of my new plot
loose thoughts piling up
i need new knot
i been seeing split, lit, 
lost a little lately
what be feeling like a life
i be living daily   

(Outro)

windows (prod. felly)

produced by salt
written, mixed and mastered by salt
cover art my milo leaman (www.mleaman.com)

lyrics:

i been all about the wave  
like you know I’m in that tube
kick it with my homies
and you know we getting loose
sipping on that booze
see me sipping on that lean
when you don’t got shit to lose
you go chasing on your dreams
I be split down the middle
I be torn at the seams
mourning in the morning
tryna find out why you leave   

and i don’t know why you do me like that
see the future but we only move back 

hook x2:
so goodnight 
i been tryna do right
why it hurt so much inside me
losing sleep on the nightly 

i been tryna do right
every time i do it end up in a new fight
playing in the moonlight
when we wake up in the morning there be new life

all the homies selling gas like citgo
blowing indo
i got you on my mental
been swimming in my problems 
like a minnow
every time you leave
i recede to my kinfolk

i be so, so down
but I’m tryna get up right now
when you gunna come around my town?
said why you always ask me that
I never settle down no habitat
i be flying all over come around and back
when all i wanna do is get back on track with you
and i don’t know what to do when i see you go
i been tryna get you back and i mean it though
i been all up in my zone where i feel i at home
and i just don’t know what to do

why you had to do me like that?
see the future but we only move back.

hook x2

goodnight (prod. salt)

written, with vocal mixing and mastering by salt
produced by felly (https://soundcloud.com/robfel)
cover art by milo leaman (www.mleaman.com)

lyrics:

all the demons
they be telling me not to do things
i think I’m even
you be telling me
i got mood swings
by the coast
but when I’m posted on the east side
its hard to balance what you want
with my dreams I
know i ain’t around
i’m tryna find what i lost
if the key was so easy 
i’d be drowning in locks
See homies drowned up in sauce
when I’m rounding the block
I’m astounded that I’m grounded
while they floating aloft

whats the time
why you going
take a look outside
you don’t wanna go home
you should stay right here
where you’ll never be alone
at least thats the promise i was told
all that xanny and the molly
got you drifting through the party
got you looking like a zombie
while i’m looking for your mami
steady swooping like tsunami
getting drunk of the bacardi
while we move it to the lobby

hook:
i be tryna be like all they want
see me everywhere all at once
i be everything all in one
Going all in all or none
 
i be taking off in school you know they want that
tryna make a move know she want that
ain’t nothing lose so imma bounce back
homie this my life and heres the soundtrack

all i wanna do is go 
let me feelings lose
but i be caught up in the noose
of tryna find something to prove
when all i wants my crew
a little tree
a little booze
I’m doing me
not doing you
it be the sweetest of the fruits   

on the track when i rap they all laugh at me
in the past i could only catch a grasp homie
now i exceed what it seems they believed from me
i believe that my dream is all i need to be
all they want
riding with my day ones
hoping that the day come
when i get to make up to them yea
they brought me up ill never forget them        

hook x2

(outro)

all they want (prod. felly)

vocals written, mixed and mastered by salt
produced by keem.the.cipher (https://soundcloud.com/keemthecipher)
cover art by milo leaman (www.mleaman.com)

lyrics:

it be 4 in the morn
i be pouring a 4
gotta open that door that you never
see 
wanna be me
rap genie
so dreamy
black beanie
trap mussolini
cat in the hat
with the magic attack
every day be a stack
so i'm making it back 
i’m at the mother fucking top of this shit
i am not what they thought
its a methodical twist
when I’m copping the whips 
and cropping they lids
i know you feeling down
so let me give you a lift
adrift
into another fucking day man
got me feeling like the pavement
when you walking all over me
man, i thought that was the older me
see i'm just tryna be with nobody
see i'm only getting older and 
i know that it is holding me down
say they fuck with my sound
and thats not just my town
see me getting around
watch me breaking this ground
see im up than im down through the lost and found
drill bit 
on some trill shit
searching for the thrills
might find em in the millions

i'm always in my head homie
thats just me
thats just me

and fuck what they said homie
thats just me
thats just me

4am (prod. keem.the.cipher)

first single off the upcoming himalayan pink ep . . . out soon

produced by jhfly (https://soundcloud.com/jhfly) and squid ethics (https://soundcloud.com/squidb3a)
mastered by ryder hartman (https://soundcloud.com/ryderhartmanmusic)
cover art by jack powell (https://www.instagram.com/jackpowelldesign/?hl=en)

-lyrics-

hook:
i lost you at the start
now i can't finish off
i don't know if i can get right back to it
see you all up in my head
and i feel you in my heart
that's a beat but i don’t know if i can rap to it
you left me in the dark
now I’m tryna find the light inside
but i can't do the math to it

i lost you at the start 
now i can’t finish off
i don’t know if i can do this anymore

said you felt you had to leave
so i had to let you go
now i’m watching you go walk up out the front door
 
i don’t know where the fuck you going
i just know it's better not knowing
pull up off your block, yea i ride it like its stolen
whipping through the stop signs i just had to roll em

said its too soon
try to see the good but its coming every blue moon
watch my every move like you posted out on youtube
start to see the light think it feels like a good mood
know I’m bout to conclude
i can’t do it anymore
fell way below that floor
now i go and pour a four 
every time i open up that door
think we had it had the start 
apart i thought i lost my heart 
now I’m bringing up my guard
man it’s hard dog

hook x1

math (prod. jhfly and squid ethics)

why not put some birthday music out ... shouts out to OPD
produced by yondo
mastered by ryder hartman (@ryderhartmanmusic)
cover art by jack powell (www.instagram.com/jackpowelldesign/?hl=en)

- lyrics - 

i been fishing out in space tryna catch the stars
searching for the light in a field darkness
spark it, light the carpet on fire
ain't mean much when you're hanging by the wire
the thread what they said so they put it down in lead
imma pencil down the deals when I’m breaking all the bread
stencil of a thought going mental on block
how you telling em to stop when the money be your crop
cop on the corner 
thinking of the day when i end up the coroner's
man up on the corner
here's quarter for a poem and can you write about my homie and pretend like you know him
know i miss him
every day I lose a homie to the system
they never listened
just a victim of the difference
on a meaningless mission

hook x2:
got the cops at the front door
don’t let em in 
know that we gunna go until there is nothing more
so that we can do it again

got the cops at my front door
and i don’t know why they knocking i was tryna get it popping
is it bad if i want more 
i know i had it once but it just aint enough
in the sky where i once soared
felt my wings burning up and i fell straight to the ground
on the ground where my feet are floored 
i be burning on the loud got my head in the clouds

know you playing like a winger way you switch it up
yea i know i aint a singer but I’m different
shawty at the party see her try and flip a cup
know i get nervous than you see me start tripping up

yea i know i hear the sirens 
and i know see you the lights
man I’m feeling like the timing
echo every fucking night

we see ourselves and we see twelve to
tryna wild out but i guess it fell through

hook (x2)

got the cops at the front door yea (x4)

wrapped (prod. yondo)

a mixtape i made in my room with my friends

veggies (prod. ignorvnce)

produced by salt

lyrics:

hook x2:
i don't know why
you're on my mind

i think i lost myself 
i lost myself now
in my mind every night i lose myself now
tryna bring it back down to the ground floor 
i don't know i think I could of done more
but you told me that you on this new wave
reaching out now i'm just tryna refrain
yea I'm rolling over in my own grave
man I can't stop thinking bout all this pain
jump up out my dome i kick it with my gang
sipping on this drink i'm blowing on this dank
catch myself when i be slipping out my lane
times of changed sad to know we ain't the same 

oh you been missing
solo got me tripping
not victim but my mind has become my prison
all this drinking and this smoking got me overthinkin'

overthinkin' (prod. salt)

produced by bob le head
mastered by ryder hartman (@ryderhartmanmusic)
cover art by jack powell (www.instagram.com/jackpowelldesign/?hl=en)

lyrics:

Pushing back feel my break pads running thin
Early morning running off the Ritalin 
Been a minute since I went and I checked in with you
And I been dripping in sadness like I’m painted in blue 
Where the truth at
I've been floating through the roof off the boof pack
Really too bad
That I’m struggling with highs
Running away from lows
Love sipping on the lean
The way reality slows and I know

I've had enough
Sipping on the lean man I’m out of touch 
I don’t know what to do, man I’m giving up

Sad no one knows me like you
Crazy what a broken heart gon’ do

…

I had a rainy day fund but I spent it on a sunny one last week. 
And now all the fucking paper that I made, man it running away like a track meet

Yea I shoulda reach out but I didn’t 
I had a couple doubts set myself a couple limits

And the only time I’m honest on the instrumental
Yea I’m feeling like this beat a little sentimental
The crash a part of pressure like a incidental
I've been lashing out lately little temperamental

Yea they fragments on the ground
And I’m hoping that these pieces of me never gon’ be found

rainy day fund (prod. bob le head)

treatment EP out now

marin county, ca 

inquiries: solomon.leaman@gmail.com

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