LYRICS:
This poisonous doctrine
Developed to pillage and profit
'Done fucked up our wallets

Motherfuckers relocated us
To this forsaken nation
Lemme ask you

What about all of our souls' destination
Even better do you even give a damn 'bout damnation

Please welcome this new kind of foreigner
No bitch this ain't California
And I ain't no farmer
But I will say - I keep a few llamas

ATLiens they known for the drama
So I keep the piece cause I'm a believer Karma
Here's to hoping we all reach Nirvana my nigga

But in the mean time and in-between time
I'm here to change minds

To better states
Enlightenment just comes with better faith
Not sacrificing mice and men or falling victim to a life a sin

I know it hurts but baby please sit down the Vicodin
and have a seat I need preach
If you would just

Release the grief that's in your heart
Then perhaps you'd encounter a more receptive vector
Towards the truth that's been unloosed

And loose the noose supporting you
Its long overdue

We need to rebuke the treacherous few who sully the pew
The lonely phonies bound in unholy matrimony
The pastors only talk about bullshit these days
They goin make a nigga catch a case

Now I don't mean to make this awkward
But fuck you your honor
You tell me this system's efficient

It's only efficient at killing my niggas
So how do you figure I'm supposed to thrive
If me and mines is fighting just to survive

And all the while these overseers streaming our murders - live

It's some thangs going on that many of us should be wary of
Dam near everything in this game been designed just to bury us
The torture is spiritual physical boy the means is so various
Now there's hysteria and propaganda streaming in your area

Streaming live in your area (X7)
Streaming live

Distorting our image
Condemn us to prison
While saying "good riddens"
I refuse to be another good nigga
So I may have to be another hood nigga - at least for tonight

If I see my opposers I swear to God its on sight
Motherfuckers better pray I see the light
Fore' I fuck around & have to take his damn life
Cut his throat with some Cutco-type knife

You see I'm less like Tobe
Way more like Kobe
See I take my shots!

Ain't no limp in my hop!
Just staying hip to plot

That's why I walk kinda funny
See my stick stay cocked

I keep an eye out for OPs
Better keep ya eye on the pot

They Gerry rig the system to skim it right off the top

They don't even try to hide it at all yall
Its online ain't no privacy dawg

And you may even catch a public killing
Committed without a sentence
While the whole world bears witness

Keep scrolling down ya timeline
That's a real dead body Its not in ya mind

Nor is it just a figment
Think its safe to say
"Hide the women and the children!" suffering from my pigment
Will our fathers ever be forgiven

Streaming live in your area (X7)
Streaming live

So why do they hate us man I think I know what it is
They hate to see a nigga try to fuck up some Ms

They would much rather see my niggas hanging from limbs
But I'm finna get so high that I'll be kicking the rim
Don't be surprised if you see me jump out the gym

Boy them motherfuckers they really do wanna cuff us

Contain our greatness to jungles
Sterilize all our mothers
Have us killing our brothers

You see
The real trouble could really double
If we'd just double down

Its not complicated why don't we just dumb it down

We gotta get this uprising climbing higher out the underground
Say it loud with me
I shall not back down

We all human but I'm black and I'm proud
I run this ship bitch I'm the captain now

Keep talking shit I'mma have to watch you drown
Stay braced for the drop cause its about to go down!

The Way that these niggas is watching me you should just call me Otis
All you niggas should appoint me really I should POTUS
I've got quite a lot of experience reaching and exceeding quotas
And recently this past week I just copped my diploma

L.I.Y.A (Live In Your Area)

LIYA (Live In Your Area)

Intro: 
Dam dawg!

What the fuck, dawg?

What the fuck?

V1:
Think about the ink that seeps the parchment in ya mind 
From thoughts that intertwined 
May ya Intutuition make interdiction with Indecision

Scrutinize your beliefs
Seek the SEEDS from the vines 
That CAME from divine
So SWEET like the wine
Let it AGE with the Time 
and those OTHER spices 

Keep a clip for the SWINE
And a grip on ya VICES

HOOK 1::
Dam. 
Dawg.
What.
The.Fuck.Is.You.Saying?

Dam.
Dawg.
What. 
The fuck you complaining about?

I Know I got big mouth
Blessings that it still working
Motor running Jaw jack
Watch me goin' and steal first

Watch me while I do work
My mentalism sorta different
A Hawk gifted with the vision
While YALL correspond with Pigeons

OUR planes pretty different 
Yours looking mighty rigid
Panes on a different picture
Dimensions holding your EXISTENCE!

Verse 2::
Hol up lemme paint a clearer picture 
When you leave, bet the pixels look a lil different 

Provide the utmost clarity of sonic definition
Frequency steady splitting

I've been off the deep end, who am I kidding? 

Only I can outdo me
Swear to god this life ain't 2D

See it's 3 of those 
Started out naked now we wearing clothes 

Started with a map, now we got globes
Who really knows?

HOOK:
Dam. 
Dawg.
What.
The.Fuck.Is.You.Saying?

Dam.
Dawg.
What. 
The fuck you complaining about?

I Know I got big mouth
Blessings that it still working
Motor running Jaw jack
Watch me goin' and steal first

Watch me while I do work
My mentalism sorta different
A Hawk gifted with the vision
While YALL correspond with Pigeons

OUR planes pretty different 
Yours looking mighty rigid
Panes on a different picture
Dimensions holding your EXISTENCE!

BRIDGE: 
I done FLIPPED PHASE nigga
I done Switched blades killa'
I PROMISE you 
ALL you 
GOIN' BE AMAZED

I hate to say "Told You So" 

Hol' up bitch 
No I dont

Well actually I DID. 
Say.dat SHIT back then!

HOOK:
Dam. 
Dawg.
What.
The.Fuck.Is.You.Saying?

Dam.
Dawg.
What. 
The fuck you complaining about?

I Know I got big mouth
Blessings that it still working
Motor running Jaw jack
Watch me goin' and steal first

Watch me while I do work
My mentalism sorta different
A Hawk gifted with the vision
While YALL correspond with Pigeons

OUR planes pretty different 
Yours looking mighty rigid
Panes on a different picture
Dimensions holding your EXISTENCE!

Intro:
Good evening out there to everybody
You receiving a transmission from Vegan Heathen live and direct in your mother fucking area and this shit is, official, my nigga...

VERSE 1::
Tell TJ like relay  to run it back 
Vegan Heathen hoggin up the season 
You could tell I'm springing better yet I'm leaving ALL DOUBTS I'm the past

You can bet I'm putting foot to the gas
You can bet I'm finna FIX my size 13 kicks OFF in my enemy's ass (Heard you got da Nice Kicks)
So when you see the prints ain't no need to ASK (3 Stripe Shit)

I
Touched down from the ceiling ioneed a mask (Hea-then! in Future "Freebandz" voice)
YOU
Pulled up to my city pray you packed da cash (Need all hunnids)

I. Swear these niggas rely lacking a path
Oh!  You say searching for guidance?

(Pre drop) Shidddd 
LEMME ELABORATE DEN!!

HOOK::
Could give a fuck about a sovereign Nation
See my and my niggas some sovereign Natives

If I know that I need it I gotta take it
Fuck all that TRYIN' we finna make it

Universal laws get mistaken 
I SUGGEST, you ASSESS whatyouplacing FAITH in...

If ya brain been in bondage you better brake it!

Talk about DRAMA
We been through TRAUMA, 

MASS GENOCIDE yet we still ALIVE

Thuggin with HONOR
Motherly KARMA 
Steady.guide.the TRIBE
Knowledge.in.Her LIES

Feel like an ARTIST wooing a MUSE
Feel.Like.A LOBO looking at the MOON
Feel.Like.A Native sitting in the sun
Feel.Like a native speaking native tongue 

V2
Speaking of lingo I communicate wit da migos
Yo digo "rapido rapido VAMOS VAMOS on dem pre rolleds!"
They be like "Ay guey say cuanto cuesta por un kilo?"
I be like "same rate as ery'day, don't be actin' like a gringo"

See this philosophy sobre mi sovereignty aint got much to do Socarates 
Aint no fucking off, just say fuck the law, aint no fucking Devils stopping me

Just keeping some shots stocked for my M&P 
Mount a Red Dot on da 15
Spitting Fire shit via 16
So.with.all.the.bullshit you can MISS ME!

HOOK::
Could give a fuck about a sovereign Nation
See my and my niggas some sovereign Natives

If I know that I need it I gotta take it
Fuck all that TRYIN' we finna make it

Universal laws get mistaken 
I SUGGEST, you ASSESS whatyouplacing FAITH in...

If ya brain been in bondage you better brake it!

Talk about DRAMA
We been through TRAUMA, 

MASS GENOCIDE yet we still ALIVE
11
Thuggin with HONOR
Motherly KARMA 

Steady.guide.the TRIBE
Knowledge.in.Her LIES

Feel like an ARTIST wooing a MUSE
Feel.Like.A LOBO looking at the MOON

Feel.Like.A Native sitting in the sun
Feel.Like a native speaking native tongue 


Verse 3:
Sovereignty of the MIND really ain't no other KIND 
If a man tell you ANY different you say "FUCK YOU NIGGA"  cause that nigga just lying...
He Prolly COHORTS with courts and the SWINE 
So Look em DEAD.in his.EYES
And exclaim  "I'm divine!!!""

Is too many Minnie me's 
Too many lil Gs
Not enough dieties
Not enough real kings

What happened to royalty?
What happened to loyalty?
I Supposed they been casualtied
Guillotined on the mezzanine 

Better not balk at the chalk of Messied Thoughts 
Being free man it ain't no cakewalk 
Bitch!

HOOK::
Could give a fuck about a sovereign Nation
See my and my niggas some sovereign Natives

If I know that I need it I gotta take it
Fuck all that TRYIN' we finna make it

Universal laws get mistaken 
I SUGGEST, you ASSESS whatyouplacing FAITH in...

If ya brain been in bondage you better brake it!

Talk about DRAMA
We been through TRAUMA, 

MASS GENOCIDE yet we still ALIVE

Thuggin with HONOR
Motherly KARMA 
Steady.guide.the TRIBE
Knowledge.in.Her LIES

Feel like an ARTIST wooing a MUSE
Feel.Like.A LOBO looking at the MOON
Feel.Like.A Native sitting in the sun
Feel.Like a native speaking native tongue

Soveriegn

Sovereign

Over in Smyrna csrch me lurking with my MEXICANS 
Ask anybody that know they be my next of KIN

My other brother, almost had to shoot a muthafucka the other day, and it was in self DEFENSE 

I ain't fucking with all this  VIOLENCE 
Young brothers better find cover cause hustlers be outchea WILDING!

Hunting down all they PREY 
Leading them all ASTRAY
Better do you best to avoid Dem sirens 
Tenpt and convince pilots to crash upon them islands 

Don't mistake reality for your eyelids 
Dreaming about the demons you used confide in 

Is that really how you was vibing back den?
Sound like some fucked up energy you was attracting 

Matterfacting 
You was just ACTING
(Speed up flow) ReGURgitating falLAcious statements 

Mentality froze between dualities 
Of realities that may just need some simple pleas 

Jesus Please (Transposed Double)(drop beat out, flutter echo delay)
Show me the way go
To best ensure(ensho') concrete results
And banish all these daunting ghosts and forever know better then to fall for these fucking hoaxes
It's all a dam joke

Shift...//
Then all of a sudden he sees the fucking dam broke 
And Im like "dam" 
Guess I shoulda planned for this type of shit 
But all of a sudden I'm in a jam 
And I may have to dip 
Ill see you in a bit bitch!

DJ:
And just like that
We're back 
So relax....
As Sae'Von shares his tales of the road
Light one, and let it burn slow!

Hook:
Please tell me where my fucking drivers at?!
I'd ask for riders but honestly I'm so tired of these passive passengers 
Strapped in for the action bruh 

Now please tell me whats best route to take   
I been going day by day 
Tryna Forge my own lane,
No H.O.V just S.A.E. 
K.I.N.G. AKA Maalik 
Yea nigga thats me

And yea nigga I see
All these BLESSINGD, all these niggas steady FINESSING
I'M just staying PERCEPTIVE to the ROADS LESSONS 
Pray I remain RECEPTIVE to the Lord's reverence

Verse 2:
Now I,
Remember that summer I was running shit down in Sumter, 
Now thats South Cacky Lacky 'fore you turncoats een ask me 

Wouldn't much of shit out there sides a base for the air 
No Jordans weren't common they were actually quite rare

Now thats not to say there weren't plenty Js around
In particular the perimeter was most sinister

But I was PARKED off BROAD so I was safe and sound
The epicenter was where I delivered wisdom

On how to cut the shit so ya pockets could get stiff 
Basic tips, rocket science it was not
I was tryna scrape the POT
EFFECTIVELY and COLLECTIVELY; raising up stock

Diminish the  distance 'tween have lots and have nots
Breaching through padlocks and glass ceilings 
I always been willing to grind for mine cause Lord knows in due time that Sun always gone shine
But to my dismay...

Too many niggas addicted to playing victim crack it up to symptoms of being government chillen(children)

Bum niggas is on they ass chilling
Thinking they goin make a million
Betting on Madden or 2K
Rushing to the club with a few dubs hoping to make it flood every Tuesday 

Now What would you say?
If you had to choose, Batman or Robin?
At the end of the race 
Tell me Will you be running or walking?
Tell me you goin live life to the fullest 'fore you LAID UP in ya coffin?  

DJ::
It goes without saying
That TIME, waits for NO man

And the road will be rife with Twists and turns
Stay vigilant, and youd amazed what you may learn

Hook:
Please tell me where my fucking drivers at?!
I'd ask for riders but honestly I'm so tired of these passive passengers 
Strapped in for the action bruh 

Now please tell me whats best route to take   
I been going day by day 
Tryna Forge my own lane,
No H.O.V just S.A.E. 
K.I.N.G. AKA Maalik 
Yea nigga thats me

And yea nigga I see
All these BLESSINGD, all these niggas steady FINESSING
I'M just staying PERCEPTIVE to the ROADS LESSONS 
Pray I remain RECEPTIVE to the Lord's reverence

The Road

Hook::
Baby girl hit the lights...
Now I!
Don't wanna ask you , TWICE
But It 'shol would be
NICE
If ya pretty little figure Could just, 
Pose for a nigga
But this lighting just a lil harsh, 
Imma make it lil dimner

Now...


Vogue, Vogue, Vogue
SLOW
HOLD, *camera flash and recharge*
That's that shit right there


Now Vogue , Vogue, Vogue 
Slow,
Hold, 
Strobe for a nigga  
________
Lights
Camera 
Action

Passion be the fruit 
Perfect yes that's you
Bout as perfect as how I'm perched here puffin on this dank purp, with this view (hoo!)

Finder , finer dimer than you, 
if I'm being honest, ion think it's true

I see ya Jimmy Choos
And ya got religion
All this game I'm kicking 
Hope ya not offended when a nigga say 
I'm tryna chop ya DOWN
talking beating the box for ROUNDS
NO ka-Ra-TE but I ñromise to take care of you
ButISwearToGawd iWont Drake witchu
Fuck talking WhatAbout a drink or two????

Hook::
Baby girl hit the lights...
Now I!
Don't wanna ask you , TWICE
But It 'shol would be
NICE
If ya pretty little figure Could just, 
Pose for a nigga
But this lighting just a lil harsh, 
Imma make it lil dimner

Now...


Vogue, Vogue, Vogue
SLOW
HOLD, *camera flash and recharge*
That's that shit right there


Now Vogue , Vogue, Vogue 
Slow,
Hold, 
Strobe for a nigga  

Bridge::
Hope Notice how I let built build...
Similar to how I let the images develop
Dark red room get it all wet up

You goin LOVE when it come together
Tell me, WHO you know that do it better
Name another nigga THIS clever
Yea I'll wait but I bet you'll never

Shiddd

I been knew I was the bomb
That's why you all enveloped in my charm
I'd be proud to rock you on my arm
And I'd be down to rock you all night long!

Little mistress
Quite the temptress 
Quiet storm, 
Better yet a temptress, 
Baby, Baby(like big poppa)
We could really go the distance

Tell Me Really what's the difference
Between me, and you?

Sorta like 3 less 2
Leaving 1 thing for us to do
Ain't no thang for us to lose
Ain't no thang for you to choose
Ain't no thang to make a move
Been in wide angle let's make it zoom

Oooh
Colour corrected hues
Oooh
Colour injected grooves
Oooh
I'm feeling electric blue


Shawty...
You know what we about to do...

Breakdown:::
----------------------
One thing 
Cameras can never capture 
Is Your elegant essence 
And your laughter 

And though Ive got plenty strobes set for you to pose 
Your radiance can't be properly exposed...

Strobe

Welcome to Atlanta...

Refining operations that's my occupation
Plug all the leaks till I fill the basin
Water these seeds to their maturation
Keeping it steady no palpitation

Laying each brick like a master mason
This line of work come with stipulations
If shit get hot pop the ventilation 
Keep ya grip don't you trip through them tribulations (Check ya footwork nigga!)

List of accomplishments theres a bevy
You can bet I got bass bleeding out the Chevy
Fuck around blow out an ordinance, fuck it I'll shoot you the coordinates
But be weary

The route doused with homogeny 
I swear these niggas my progeny 
Can't 'nere nigga here knock my prosody 
Please pay attention to prophecy told by a prodigy

You niggas aint G, me
You reenact the TV
I'm a real life shot caller
You niggas just shoot at the breeze

I could shoot out ya knees, 
One cap, two cap, my gat go "BLAP!"
Producing !ll artifacts scat ya skeletal around the map

See I terrorize like it's Gitmo
Cause I theorize at higher tempos
Bitch you been known that my modos-operandi
Been to get woke, get dough, then ghost 'fore I die
Rather I meant to the other side

Nigga I'm talking 'bout hella high
Na'am saying like the most of? 

Anyways bruh

That's for a Later day
What you got going on Saturday?
I may just might got a play
See its some niggas that stay round the way

Now I 
Heard through the vine that they getting paid
I, heard through the vine that they riding waves
I, heard through the vine where their stash stacked
Shol' should be easy to crash that...

Like auto-pilot on a Tesla
But I promise you partner no pressure bruh
But if we is goin' do it may as well get to it
'Less its something else you wanna ask?

I done made all of my moves with no mask
I used to post up at work with the strap
Almost killed a nigga but I reconsidered
Just left him seizing on his back

That fiery shit be my element
But I argue my progress is evident
Even got multiple metrics of measurements I could submit just as evidence
If I needed

May a native speak without impedance
I got some qualms and I brought a grievance
Imma need reparations
Or I aint leaving

So cut the check but check you got the apostrophe
On the side a couple commas G
Some could call me the apostasy
Some should call me the anomaly

To a jury I'm a jigaboo
Another nigga who flew the coop

Call the crew 
Tell em where to rendezvous
Then on to the coup'd'etat
See this here is a coup de grace!

This that over with that old shit!
This that get it how you 'sposed shit!
This be that Northwest Atlanta country grammar Smyrnaville type flow bitch!

Get on the low
Flip it out for more
All my real hustlers know
This be that so good, whole hood wanna cop a full brick

Nipsey spoke of ghetto elegance
I just call this Urban Eloquence
Boy don't you test my intelligence 
Fuck an embellishment

This to cultivate the culture's embetterment
Water the real kill the rhetoric
Spice the game up like a peppermint
I'm just cutting up cuz, I aint talking no severance

Eloquence

This instrumental was produced by the Vegan Heathen himself and is provided courtesy of Vegan Heathen Records.

Strobe - Instrumental

Vegan Heathen's sounds could best be described as the brainchild of Metro Boomin and 808 Mafia meets Hans Zimmer and Junkie XL, taking the most beloved sonic athetics of the trap genre bred into the Atlanta native and fusing them with the timbres and percussive elements of the larger than life chamber and symphonic orchestras Hollywood has relied upon for epic scores to films such as "Inception" and "The Dark Knight" trilogy. The result being a sound thats familiar yet avant garde. No one track is the same so the Vegan Heathen eschews the "type beat" nomenclature that has infected the game. If you are lucky enough to lay claim to one of these highly coveted sonic worlds (most of these sonic environments are used by the Heathen himself), you will have to roll the proverbial die and take a listen free of suggestive, click-bait titles. Enjoy.

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