cover art by https://twitter.com/remon_squash_
written by Yasuhiro Imagawa
mixed/mastered by @jacimp3
dialogue by Griffith and Charlotte from Berserk
produced / composed by @jacimp3

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yume (feat. berserk)

cover art by https://twitter.com/remon_squash_
lyrics written by @jacimp3 & @chinchillaaaaa
mixed/mastered by @jacimp3
vocals performed by @jacimp3 & @chinchillaaaaa
produced / composed by @jacimp3

~ lyrics ~
jaci: you’re so beautiful, you should know that
but society turned and said “fuck that”
now you’re crying deep into your pillow 
i promise you baby, those feelings will go

they don’t know shit
you can handle it
you don’t give a fuck
you gonna strut your stuff

you’re the baddest
you’re the hottest
no one can fuck it up like you do

they’re just jealous
they’re so malicious
because they don’t look like you do

chinchilla: i don’t like it when you cry
you need love and lullabies
you’re so pretty, can i wipe your eyes?
i wonder why, angels cry

he likes girls with perfect lives
perfect thighs, trophy wife
pretty things that have loose strings
perfect thighs, trophy wife

jaci: they don’t know shit
you can handle it
you don’t give a fuck
you gonna strut your stuff

you’re the baddest
you’re the hottest
no one can fuck it up like you do

they’re just jealous
they’re so malicious
because they don’t look like you do

wish there were girls out there that looked like me
but all i see on the timeline are girls with hot bodies
makes me feel not good enough and so ugly
social media should celebrate natural beauty 

you’re the baddest
you’re the hottest
no one can fuck it up like you do

they’re just jealous
they’re so malicious
because they don’t look like you do

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fxck society's beauty standards (feat. chinchilla)

cover art by https://twitter.com/remon_squash_
lyrics written by @jacimp3
mixed/mastered by @jacimp3 & cjsalinasmusic 
vocals performed by @jacimp3
produced / composed by @jacimp3 , cjsalinasmusic & aendru calogero

~ lyrics ~
sometimes I don’t know myself
and i pretend to be anyone else
it’s just easier to do so than
dealing with the hurt on my own

before you tell me that’s wrong
i know but hiding is all i’ve ever known
need to remind myself that everybody’s different 
would be nice if others weren’t so ignorant

i feel spirited away
i am so spirited away
i am ~ 

gotta toughen up, gotta cut ‘em off
give them no love, they’re undeserving
put the mask away, don’t pick it up again
ignore what they say, you know you’ll be okay

nothing is worse than not feeling like you
no one else can do the things that you do
know there’s others out there feeling like this too
i really hope knowing this comforts you

i feel spirited away
i am so spirited away
i am ~ 

i feel spirited away
i am so spirited away

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spirited away

GANG

"[1]
Muthafuckas—say that I’m foolish ‘cause I’m rapping for school. 
Do you fools read my reviews or do you just skim through ‘em? 
I’m influenced by the ghettos I grew in, 
the same dude who paid dues decided to change rules. 
Never been stupid, and won’t assume it of you, but if you
don’t see my picture I ain’t painting for you. 
It’s just music I meant for you to listen to. Don’t confuse it 
with what it’s not. If you can use it, you should use it. If not, 
then do what you do. It ain’t for you to…condemn or condone it.
 I make it, then I say it and I own it. 
Never promoted hate speech. 
I’m more for break beats, but if it takes me
using that to get from there to over here, then I’m a make these work.
You see, I see the folks I teach like a mirror. 
And when I teach me, it’s this type of approach that is clearer. 
So I’m a be me, and stand behind my ‘fuck you’ to critics. 
So if you get it, then you got it and you get it. It’s as simple as that. 

[Hook]
All I do is pass time studying for class rhyme writing. 
Last night it was a different one. Today I’m back like tomorrow’s coming. 
Reading what I’m needing for next time. Teaching, trying to earn my keep. 
Time keep running, so I’m on it. 
And I can only say it how I see it, give it how I get it, speak it how I live it, 
therefore, this thinking of mine you only get sixteen at a time. 

[2]
Since I’m in a position to talk to these kids and they listen
I ain’t an academic, but I’ll kick it with ‘em a minute. 
You see I teach and I rap, and some people call it a gimmick, 
but I never thought it was different. Just got in where I fit, it’s
not rocket science. If I am the most inspired by poems, 
and then I write ‘em. How can I be expected to go on
and live without it. Let alone, never do what I say. 
So take your Sophocles, and I’ll do what you’re doing with Jay. 
But just wait—this ain’t to say that what you’re doing is wrong, 
and I’m right. I’m sure there’s no two people who are alike. 
There’s pedagogical problems, and if I claim I can solve ‘em [and I might], 
who’s to say what I do might do for the night, but then tomorrow, 
the same thing that we saw being done is being done, 
I guess that kind of brings us back to square one. Where to start
is where you are. I say you do what you can. 
If you can’t, then I don’t think you should be teaching. I’m saying, just think about it. 

[Hook]
All I do is pass time studying for class rhyme writing. 
Last night it was a different one. Today I’m back like tomorrow’s coming. 
Reading what I’m needing for next time. Teaching, trying to earn my keep. 
Time keep running, so I’m on it. 
And I can only say it how I see it, give it how I get it, speak it how I live it, 
therefore, this thinking of mine you only get sixteen at a time. 

[3]
See, I’m a poet to some—sometimes I have to teach Shakespeare. 
A teacher debating if what he’s saying relates here
to the moment we’re living in, in America now
is wasting time. I say you put him up against rhymes
of some of the best of the present. Prepare your lectures accordingly, 
then you’re good. It’s not so boring being historically open-minded. 
Hope you find it a better approach. Research. He ain’t the only one who said what he wrote. 
And ain’t no story original. Every one is another. 
So every song that you hear is another lesson discovered. 
Another story uncovered to couple up with the canon, 
and the planning might be a pain. But give it time, understanding 
that’s a process. And there’s a lot less 
that you could do and do worse. And what’s a little bit of change gonna hurt?
Not much. Besides, they say that what we do is the future. 
So, that’s time that’s well invested if it’s reaching your students, right? 

[Hook]
All I do is pass time studying for class rhyme writing. 
Last night it was a different one. Today I’m back like tomorrow’s coming. 
Reading what I’m needing for next time. Teaching, trying to earn my keep. 
Time keep running, so I’m on it. 
And I can only say it how I see it, give it how I get it, speak it how I live it, 
therefore, this thinking of mine you only get sixteen at a time." 



S.A.T. [Part II] [Produced by Preme]

"[1]
If I could put it in an open letter
and tattoo that on my skin so I won’t forget it, 
I’d probably say something cliché, like “Hope is better.”
Knowing’s never an excuse for not trying to go and get some more. 

And they say we got a lot of nerve
to ask for justice, as if it’s something not deserved. 
When he went to prison it was ‘cause he had a lot to serve. 
Living’s like a game of chicken, and the mission’s not to swerve. 

So you get it how you gotta. Living for today and not tomorrow 
ain’t as hard when you starving. 
I thank my lucky stars to be able to say, 
it’s kind of like a fixed ball game, and you gotta play.

So you won’t catch me judging how he tried to find a way.
To make it from the first to the third ain’t ever safe. 
But winning’s like an inning. The rules of running the base 
is three outs, AKA, KKK [and you’re struck].

[Hook]
Still looking forward to a greater day, 
but I can’t say enough phrases to take the pain away. 
And we still straining through changes and living with dangers. 
As plain as I can say it, I wonder if we will make it. 
I ain’t looking to shake what I’m facing. I’m trying to break it. 
And if there was an easier road, I wouldn’t take it. 

If I was you, I wouldn’t take it. 
But I’m just me, and I won’t take it. 

[2]
If I could tell you how I really feel, 
I’d tell you it’s a real cold world with an infinite chill. 

No need to say what you already know. 
And if you sleeping then the po-po is like NoDōz. 

No indictments, no rights when they violate you; 
repeated disrespect when you asking them why they hate you. 
Land of Brotherhood—if my Brother’s under a hood
and terrorizing me, then my family ain’t all that good. 

And if the hood’s a badge, and my brother’s shooting me down, 
and other family members see others looting the town, 
and blame it on the victim, then we gotta change the system 
for our daughters and our fathers and our mothers and our sisters. 

If I could tell you how I really feel: 
America, here and right now, feels like the Killing Fields,
because we’re fighting for rights, and nobody’s civil still. 
Sometimes it’s hard…believing this is really real. 

[Hook]
Still looking forward to a greater day, 
but I can’t say enough phrases to take the pain away. 
And we still straining through changes and living with dangers. 
As plain as I can say it, I wonder if we will make it. 
I ain’t looking to shake what I’m facing. I’m trying to break it. 
And if there was an easier road, I wouldn’t take it. 

If I was you, I wouldn’t take it. 
But I’m just me, and I won’t take it. 

Still looking forward to a greater day, 
but I can’t say enough phrases to take the pain away. 
And we still straining through changes and living with dangers. 
As plain as I can say it, I wonder if we will make it. 
I ain’t looking to shake what I’m facing. I’m trying to break it. 
And if there was an easier road, I wouldn’t take it. 

If I was you, I wouldn’t take it. 
But I’m just me, and I won’t take it." 


If I Could [Tell You] [Produced by Truth]

“I’m from where the 
murder rate is disturbing but no curbing the crime.
Time and time again you’ll find the swine has a purpose but trying 
to protect and serve—ain’t the one you see ‘em doing. 
Hear the pistol fire and it’s likely them that’s shooting. 

Ain’t no policing the police, but at least we all know it. 
And ain’t no dreaming in the streets about being a poet. 
We owe it all to public schools where the rules is to show it
that you know the answers to the test but unless it’s an oval 

that we filling in, then the feeling is like swimming and drowning.
And Black is Black. We don’t distinguish from cinnamon, brown and
mahogany, onyx and all of it’s chronic so we swallowing tonic 
and wallowing all in it…see I find it ironic
that this is iconic. It’s marketed, so you want it, and I sell with promise. 
And I can guarantee—
he’s got a bullet and a badge and took an oath to protect and to serve, but just a look
and he’s scared of me. 

And I’m aware that he is, but I wonder are you. 
And they ain’t asking you to freeze ‘fore they open and shoot. 
I know you think “He got degrees,” but I’m hopeless as you. 
A nigga with a PhD’s still a nigga when blue lights flash and I match the description
ain’t no explaining that. 
Ain’t no amount of philosophy spit negating that. 
Can’t quote a book and then hope you out, 
if he’s got a badge and he believes that he can choke you out.
Hands up; stand up, and they shooting you down. 
So keep your eyes on your mirror when you cruise through your town.
I’m from where the boys in blue don’t play. 
Cough up a lung where I’m from—USA…

[Additional Audio: Interview of DeRay McKesson by Wolf Blitzer for CNN]”


Broken Windows [Produced By Truth]

"[Verse 1: A.D. Carson]

From shorties to early 40s
We all wanna be Barry Gordys with different stories. 
Nature naughty, never relate it to being taught we
can never make it unless we take it into the courts see

While you thinking it’s getting better, 
I’m sitting sketching letters and thinking of Medger Evers, 
knowing I could never let us forget that it’s just alleged—
the freedom and the peace that you speak of is just a brief moment in history we
cannot see, 
but we seek——
but if the meek shall inherit then you’ll be
one of the first in line, 
but I can’t wait, cause I got work to find, 
family to feed and lots of hurt inside. 

And if the worst that I
could do is make coins from curses I
was handed down to write these verses I
Hope they collect ‘em in a book and then teach ‘em in every ghetto 
‘bout the nigga after crumbs to get back like Hansel and Gretel.

[Verse 2: Truth]
Lord let us... 
Momma used to pray 
that Jesus would come and get us. 
I really just prayed that the cops would never sweat us. 
Midwest wind is rough without sweaters, 
the salads without lettuce, 
our kids without better, 
education and leaders 
to elevate us and teach us 
how we was sold on the beaches, 
they separated and beat us. 

Reparations, 
they never say that we needed. 
The cotton picking, 
ain't got a pot to piss in, 
build up a lot of prisons, 
fill 'em up.
Pull us over like "get em up."
Move, and and they'll hit you up. 
Louima to Michael Brown, 
laying the bible down.
The president promises, 
brightens, admonishes. 
The curse and the punishments, 
I'm done with it. 
I'm a get mine and let the drummer get 
what's rightfully ours. 

Sticking to the truth 
as we writing these bars."

Sick [Produced by Truth]

Initial

Initial (Ian Sickles, Beau K, Dominic Roney)

produced by @jacimp3
written by @jacimp3
performed by @rae-526126019
mixed/mastered by @jacimp3
cover art by nixynax (instagram)
c/o odistry

my links: https://linktr.ee/jacimp3

healing (feat. kyra)

produced by @jacimp3
written by @jacimp3
performed by @vnvnik
mixed/mastered by @jacimp3
cover art by nixynax (instagram)
c/o odistry

my links: https://linktr.ee/jacimp3

Initial (Ian Sickles, Beau K, Dominic Roney)

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