Inspired by a place called Crystal Spring in the St. Croix Riverway of Minnesota.

All writing and production was done by yours truly, and this is my first fully produced song.
Hope you like it :)

Crystal Spring

If you believe everything you read on the internet, Mankato has one of the biggest hot spring complexes in the world. Only one problem: they aren't actually there. Tony Williams investigates an early internet hoax with some local flavor.

The Not-Springs of Mankato, MN

produced by icetep and tony the scribe
mixed by andre mariette and tony the scribe for timbral studios.
mastered by andre mariette for timbral studios.

lyrics:

so i was standing outside at the back of this show
tryna catch a little breath, with timb tracks in the snow
passin ghosts in the air from the back of my throat
there’s a couple boys out back, stoners passin a roach
red shades on they souls, half packing a bowl
i’m like, half worth notice til it’s ready to smoke
then they on some
you wanna hit this?
we got a couple minutes til the next act plays
throw some clouds in your vision
i’m all
i’m tryna make a living off this voice
every hit i take of smoke
gets it closer to destroyed
besides, i rarely smoke marijuana anyways
couple hits of ganj and my brain goes renegade
they laughed, looking like a hyena pack
eyes glazed, minds half detached
a man i hadn’t seen stood up in the back
rockin all black everything with pentagram tats, like
son i know what your bidness is
dropped a lil disc now you tryna go infinite
i can see your future, dead insignificant
your voice ain’t deep enough to grab rap dividends
i got a pack of camel lights
that’ll never run dry
you could smoke em all night
and them a get your voice tones right
the only price that they take a couple years off your life
slippin on that black ice, shiver in my bones
knowing that my next words giving up the ghost, like
fuck it, i would die for a pulse
looked him in the eye spoke
gimme gimme smokes

coughin never seemed so intimate
gimme gimme smokes
get me closer to the infinite
from the ash to the dust to the track marks
whats a couple years to a mahfuckin rap star

whats a couple years to a mahfuckin rap star
whats a couple years to a mahfuckin rap
whats a couple years to a mahfuckin rap
whats a couple years to a mahfuckin rap star

This is rap divination
chantz and i talkin bout the future in his basement
tryna get the fanbase spread like we satan
the beats and the candles
the black innovations
he schooled me on his body of work
said it’s human sacrifice to embody the words
when you sip out the goddamn bottle it burns
til you vomit words
you know you putting pain in the verse
there’s no restraint if it works
it only bangs when it hurts
no containing the curse or escape to faith in the works
you doin alchemy 
equivalent exchange in the worst way
sacrificing everything you had in the first place
i’m sitting there, asking if it’s worth it
to bring all that pain to the surface
i reached in my pocket for the pack of the cigs
lit one up like 
it is what it is

coughin never seemed so intimate
gimme gimme smokes
get me closer to the infinite
from the ash to the dust to the track marks
whats a couple years to a mahfuckin rap star

whats a couple years to a mahfuckin rap star
whats a couple years to a mahfuckin rap
whats a couple years to a mahfuckin rap
whats a couple years to a mahfuckin rap star

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coughin never seemed so intimate
gimme gimme smokes
get me closer to the infinite
from the ash to the dust to the track marks
whats a couple years to a mahfuckin rap star

coughin never seemed so intimate
gimme gimme smokes
get me closer to the infinite
from the ash to the dust to the track marks
whats a couple years to a rap star

sing it

coughin never seemed so intimate
gimme gimme smokes
get me closer to the infinite
from the ash to the dust to the track marks
whats a couple years to a mahfuckin rap star

transmutation

A.M - Come In The Room

"Soul now" by Izell Pyramid, remixed by Andrew Broder

SOUL NOW - ANDREW BRODER REMIX

Ōp-Nope written and performed by Eric Mayson
Additional lyrics by Ross Orenstein, Theo Langason, & Aeysha Kinnunen.
Produced By Eric Mayson
Additional production by Big Cats & Eric Blomquist
Vocals, Keys, Bass, synths, guitar, a drum or two - Eric Mayson
Additional vocals by Aeysha Kinnunen, Ross Orenstein & Theo Langason
Drums - Toby Ramaswamy 
Bass and drums on "Time In One Place" - Jesse Schuster & Arlen Peiffer.
Engineered, mixed and mastered by Eric Blomquist.
Recorded at RiverRock Studios in Minneapolis, MN

Ōp-Nope Side A

Its All Real Its All Fake written and performed by Eric Mayson
"5 Year Plan" was written collaboratively with DaNCEBUMS (Kara Motta Margaret Johnson, Maggie Zepp, & Eben Kowler)
All other lyrics by Eric Mayson
Recorded at RiverRock Studios in Minneapolis
Engineered, Mixed & Mastered by Eric Blomquist
Additional Engineering by Kevin Isreal
Piano, Bass, Guitar, Production, Keys/Synths and Cello - Eric Mayson
Drums - Toby Ramaswamy 
Horns on "5 Year Plan" & "Aww" - Noah Ophoven-Baldwin (trumpet) Andrew Thoreen (trombone) & Gus Murphy (trombone)

Its All Real Its All Fake was made possible by a grant from the American Composers Forum with funds provided by the Jerome Foundation

Its All Real Its All Fake Side A

Control - Ozzy the Painter

artist. organizer. warrior monk. 1/2 of @killstreakmpls with @ICETEP. tonythescribemgmt@gmail.com.

transmutation

tony the scribe

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