(Mani)
Try to figure me out, between heaven and now
as the secondhand's ticking moments trickling down 
i said my flow is the elixir mix is perfect like a picture
i'm your favorite cup of tea so try a sip of it, ah~
i guess i am what they all would call "awesome"
i just wanted action and to leave my mark, wahlberg
frequently i'm flyer, i should do this more often
i'm the opposite of boxed in,
they hear me and describe my sound as "aw man!"
you shouldn't go. by my side you find your safe haven
i'm the one that stayed the same after they praised him
but i ain't perfect, like a lot of dudes that ain't make it
do my best, second place is fine, look at clay aiken
he ain't aching', prolly makin vacations
on my A game, Hey J the rest just sound like 8th graders
we way greater than the radius of eight craters
they want the fame but for that we'd never trade places

*There's something inside you... It's hard to explain.
They're talking about you, boy. But you're still the same

(JL)
they tell me that i'm different but she told me that i haven't changed
theres still alotta different choices that i haven't made
theres still alotta little moments that just haven't came
still alotta life to be lived/of course that just means having pain/
mix it wid love and you got a recipe that could get messy
being so head over heels that its deadly/ got u trippin
in a world where u couldnt hear a thing
some-how this one girl got u to listen this is different
this is fiction but its real life. thats what it feels like/
this is what right feels like, right? might feel a slight life surge
u might burst/ hand in ya mouth and you bite first/ crazy.
/i write words that'll excite nerves and slice right thru it
i used to sit in a lecture and just write right thru it
me and mani BEEN doin what we did since the beginning
til the fat girls singin and ive written my last lyrics 

(Lyricks)
you got supporters all around the world... frustrated.
you ain't big enough!! 
what you doing in VA? 
homie pick it up!! 
see these cats aren't thinking half of what you thinking of...
i heard you rappin inside my basement, you're the sickest one... 
have you heard these little rappers that are making it?? 
i'm not saying ALL of them are bad, not on the hating tip... 
but some ain't really saying ANYTHING, they just got an ill designer friend
with a clever cameraman that's taping it! 
if it's getting too heavy brother, remove a plate! 
i'm not saying they losing interest, they're losing faith! 
and on the intermet: slowly remove your face!
yes... if you wanna play this game, there are rules to play...
there's the underground route / they choose the fame. 
there's the album route but you just choose the tapes. 
this is YOUR house but you act like your the guest, 
lemme tell you something... 
look at me.
YOU'RE THE BEST. 


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Nightcall Remix (ft. JL & Lyricks)

(Mani)
place me in that line of fire, see if i retire no
straight kamikaze trying to be godly, some of you hardly know
and the shine is volatile, when you're done with your talkin - dial-tone
there's something burning inside my soul, when i'm in that zone i wonder "am i at home?"
let's chop it up like i'm swinging an axe, i'm ill but i'm sicker than that
and i figure that i finna be the king of the pen and the pad, but i'm thinking that i'm bigger than that
let's go, turn the sentimental beats down
let the beast out once and never peace out
got it locked and i threw the keys out, trying to spread this light everywhere's what i be about
been a while you say? but the cycle is why we came in the first place
my flow too clean, never dirt chase
the kingdom of God requires new birthdays
lend me your open ears, so that we connect like nokias
i know the fear, of goin down the path that is narrow 
too much claustrophobia

And it was written 
Up in the book of life 
Cause the man shall 
Endure forever more"

(Jin)
one thing 'bout God's love when it hits 
you feel no pain
they say "the devil don't exist" I know better than that that's game
and that's just a portion no distortion caution the scorchin' flame
cause walkin' thru hell is the ultimate fail no point in tossin' blame
everyday on the battlefield yeah a man is tested
victory it was written like how this track Manifested
time flies to blind eye one blink and the season is gone
every second I'm here I'm serving my King I don't mind bein' a pawn
follow You for eternity findin' life in your death
never stray cause the overseer is watchin' my every step
I'm a changed man in a strange land and survival is the key
so the gameplan in my brain man is revival inside of me

(JL)
Written in stone and written in blood
That's been Given to us wid enough love To give up his son
But this isn't enough for us
We livin in sin cuz it comforts us
Since when did becomin a Christian and Havin some faith In a god become so numb to us
It's troublesome the way that our moneys become the number one
Its strange that Watching the worlds destruction is sumthing that's fun to us
We must be dumb for fallen for all of this dark deception
The devil is gettin his way wid the world
And the people have started accepting

(Lyricks)
I'm gonna zone out for a second
and think out loud for my listeners, 
what if God was really intentional, 
and there was no such thing as a coincidence, 
what if mani and i was supposed to meet, 
first: enermies to compete, 
to feed our brains, let it remains that our skills are the same:
so we could focused on what our mission is.
this may sound ridiculous,
but i wonder again: was God walking wit Jin, 
when he wanted to win, on 106 
and he told the brother check under the timbs
and I MARKED THAT EVENT, 
as an inspirational moment...
For real: man I have to acheiev this
who woulda thought i'd be dropping a song with a legend?
better yet... for jesus.

It Was Written (ft. Jin, JL, Lyricks)

(Manifest)
A super saiyan cruising through an oompa loompa land
now who complaining? lose my cool and you the dudes i'm slayin'
before i use my hands, you freezin up - medusa trance
you only seein red like 3D glasses with no blue saran
what i do for fans.. man i'm too advanced but i'm real while you pretend
i told you before when we kill it we do it with ease, every track is proof we can
upgraded computer ram, and i'm strong like the hoover damn, give who a damn?
and i'm newer than a newborn out the womb first time consuming air

(JL)
I'm maneuvering 
Zoomin right past em laughing
Castin a shadow over their wack rappin tactics 
after I splash massive vats of acid
I've mastered torture methods 
Past a force to reckon wid
Craftin sorcerer hexes 
Corpses infected order an Exorcist
Leaving they heads spinning beginnin wid killen em off, slowly 
Spittin it venomous gettin inventive 
Til all the listeners all, know me
Spun from a different cloth 
Come wid a imminent force bringing it sickin than Vick when he's sickin a dog, to get at a different dog 

(Manifest)
steadily bringing the raw..
i'm taking a look at the little competitors, think for a second then cripple em all
leaving em limpin and all, finished it over ridiculous symphony scores

(JL) 
Wid infinite bars to rip it pick em apart 
Spit it wid limitless heart 

(Manifest)
we did it for y'all, typing or write with a pen that you dipping the ink in a jar

(JL)
Nobody thinking as hard as the Beautiful Cycle and doin it truthful as us
Givin u food for ya guts
We been given a future that musically few could adjust
 
(Manifest)
if you were like us, spotting a rapper would spark you to see em as who you could crush

(JL)
But U would get stuck and u wouldn't be able to move and u woulda been given it up


what we doin now 
it's back and forth
its time to light it up 
then we pass the torch
now the fires growing
u feel it at ur door 
so where you think you goin
you comin back for more

(JL)
And we here to supply it raw
Providin a high u could die from
try it and buy it all
hittin u harder than Ken and then Ryu's fireballs
dissolving u quicker than alcohol in styrofoam
ur fires gone, while mine is steadily rising gettin up high my bars maniacal
im spaced out. leavin these rappers in baggies like it was some take out
i breaks down, their bodies to bone and then all of its thrown in a lake now
it may sound, a little bit vicious, but thats how it is 
this lyrically gettin to business
and then ur a victim and ur swimmin wid fishes

(Manifest)
who i see? is not you. my posse, colossal. 
we great whites to macos, we way cold, but fuego
the titans, we got your back like tight ends, 
had the game inside our palms but now our grip has tightened
snapping you out of your mindstate, thanking me later but not drake
you'll never be eating from my plate, you got 8's but got ate
now watch J…L sharing the entree, (it's all day)
what i play is high stakes, might as well bet it on us so people why wait?

Clash Of The Titans (ft. JL)

(JL)
Kickin rhymes when the nightfalls
wid numerous hooligans
tickin time like a time bomb
different mind different lines drawn
arteest.watch me paint you like picture that you might call
flawless tossed in wid the bosses
feelin ballsy, called put your cards all in but you lost it
now all i really need is sum weed and sum MPZs and ill feed til i've crossed it
4,4's for the flossin, buck shots for the ballin
spit for the fallen kicks for the balls in the midst of just all this
just forget what they all spit/cuz its shit when you hold it
anywhere close to mine i define what you supposed to sound like
cuz when you rhyme you supposed to rhyme tight right?
now my sight is aligned and i'm fightin to find light
[pop pop] two shots make ya mind right
bright light no thoughts of the hindsight
cuz ya gone and you lost in the midst of the gift of divine light
or its straight to the hell for you
cuz its J to the muthafuckin L for you
and i spell for you ya defeat so retreat to the trees as i blaze this L for you
theres no help for you theres really isn't nothing else left for you
you really need to try to get a set of tools
and get a doctor to get you some medical
or get caught wid ya head in a bed of the stool
i just stop cuz im gonna be the better dude on a pedestle
gettin rid of you cuz you pitiful
and i'm not so just let us through

(Mani)
2 double 0 9 is so mine.
here we got a goldmine, getting every listener to get up on the co-sign
oh my.
why they tryin to step in wit a bad foot, 
that's a bad look when they fold like a macbook
back wit a paul pak beat, and a raw rapsheet that'll get the game back on its feet
and it's happenin so fast we be the one vaccine for the weak, and we eager to please
murf you all.
my words gonna burn all your perfume off
and in turn ima let em see the hidden you
let em get a better view but then again i know that everybody been offendin you already foo
no one in the corner got a swagger like moi
if you been a listener then you would recognize why
mani, mani, fest, fest, better than the rest yes
even when i'm spitting quick i'm takin my time
i've mastered the art
i be comin off hard like crashin a car 
and you all fall when i'm smackin you all, and u crackin your jaw
paul pak in a song is crack, wanna snort that? sort that 
i can tell ur fake like ur borat
back in the day used to slang with the mallrats, my cd's
wakin up the neighborhood kinda like a grande latte see
i'm caffeine, you're nyquil
you be putting me to sleep, thats how i feel
yo when i rock shows gotta make sure everyone participates just like fire drills
it's so automatic and i'm dope when i'm at it
and no it aint a joke and ur hopes getting shattered
what you really want from a pro dawg 
cuz you never gonna make this roll call
it's plain to see i can do what you do BUT WISER like a bullfrog

(Lyricks)
but it's okay! i'm at the studio or pho sate.
and i don't care what these robots say.
i don't know that game. they are *all the same*
i don't play that game... yo you could never SEE me! no never....
my endeavor is way over your mini episode
of getting better and rockin shows, i been did it...
you could leave a mark in the game, i dented it.
i offended em, like em did it. no end to it, like a pendulum
i swing to it, i been through it. when did you / ever visu / alize/
that we can do, what we do in our lives... never! grown bitter,
no neighborhood spitter, cypher... life was lil different..
no culture.. but i got you.. cuz i'm building...
i'm a pioneer, the new pilgrim.
you just spit right?! i'm filming!
another perspective touch of realness.
my crew is blessed with true gifting.
i just make movies to prove whos different?
youth listens. you trippin.
i ripped it. you addicted.
i flipped it. you wish that you did it.
but if you did it, i will take you to the moon with it.
losin' it, with the constipated CUBERUNNERS.
i would die for Lyricks, how much do you want it!?
waddle around the game with a FULL stomach...
you don't even rhyme sick! (shoes got the cool colors)
man i raped this beat... with like my two brothers this is
why lyrically i believe that i rule others...
man we MURFED this beat...with my two brothers which is
why lyrically i believe that we rule others...

Cube Runners (ft. JL & Lyricks)

(Mani)
Life is movin in full speed, i'm losing touch with the truth 
and my heart is suffering too, what i foresee is
verses getting more cheap, compromised poetry
but numb to it like morphine, as long as there are more fiends i'm good 
it's what i tell myself, satisfied with clientele 
and of course dream of one day when i'm driving in a porsche seat
i was never the type to rush, but what's this urgent feeling?
that i aint worth that much, if i ain't worth a million
handgliding over my thoughts is my damn pride 
motioning toward the trophies of course it makes a man blind
our hearts and minds are fickle, there's nothing that we stick to 
and if the Lord exists the word of God should be my missiles
i'm brittle, i'm breaking away, i'm slipping and makin that spiritual minimum wage
basically i'm plateauing.
but money's a mirage, fame is ever fleeting
and even though i know this i chase em like it's my job, why?


*I want to make it, but i wanna go beyond that
i want success that doesn't come wit written contracts
i wanted the world and everything that came wit it, its way different
cuz what i'm after now is way beyond rap


(C-Note)
You have a heart of a champion but haven't felt the victory  in a long while, 
sick of these cards all scramblin
 luck of the draw but call it gamblin 
hourglass is sayin the time is now, excuses stay ramblin
a party tonight, church in the morning say you droppin in 
you aint gon make it  disappoint ya mom and them 
 stay prayin for you after she pops that ambient
 say the Lords ya doctor, she would be ya ambulance
I pray to God like its a final exam my prayers ain't genuine, I just cram in advance 
before you walk into a church right before that meal right? if I do it genuinely, i'm good right?
i tell myself i gotta do wut i do now to ensure 
tomorrow's blessings. not you but me that needs a message
i pray for the presence...pray for the essence
i pray you find a canvas for this blank expression

*

(Mani)
the pressure's stacking, the sense of direction lackin 
but i put my best in action before it all blows into ashes
before the game's over, here's a makeover
after that the take over, guaranteed to make you say "nova"
i got a team that i consider the illest 
but is the beautiful cycle fulfilling its definition?
i realize i need to stand for this wit knuckles up
otherwise beneath the shine it just gets covered up
imperfect, but this verse is first person
there's a lot of things i've done i wish i could reverse
started off strong with the light i was immersed in
but somewhere down the road came the darkness that i've merged with
i don't admit defeat but crippled just a little 
eating from the bad fruit's the same as taking nibbles
so brave is His friendship, entrusting us with talents and gifts
but he believes in us even when we're calloused a bit

hourglass...

time is ticking by, life is on a different vibe
say you like it and love it and you would die for it
until it's over never try to push the time forward

Hourglass (ft. C-Note)

(Mani)
crash like a bandit, hit the ground running like I dash when I landed
and I’ll make your click say “Mani, gotta hand it to ya…”
well I ride this path that you can't maneuver
trying to shine like you're Stanley Kubrick
u know I gotta close the gaps, take a moment
and I’m bout to get it poppin like a soda cap
it's how I renegade em, come in through the back 
and I spit it like an automatic
cuz I never wanted peace though right this minute go to war and 
I’ll show you who the keystone is
thinking I was gone tho? ask anybody they be like "oh no, bro he's still here"
anything I formulate, got that focused fire like a yoga flame
and I normally go where you normally won't 
so I ain't getting so many votes, you ain't know?
take a dose and you'll feel it when you give it a go
imminent flow, can't pass, gotta enter the code
but I can leave a little warning saying, hey don't try
when I knew you couldn't touch me the whole time
yo I got it all covered like the whole nine  
007 headshots with the bowtie
dope and follow God, holler at ya boy cuz until this moment
no one ever fit the profile
steady making highlights, choose sides don't be trippin over Zeitgeist
nice guys never seem to win it first, wait a minute
but it's better than to wander like some white mice
and u all about the entertainment, but i get the better payment
can't see me when I rise like an elevator
too advanced, I aint even in my prime yet
get applause, I aint even do my soundcheck

(JL)
let me get up in they head, let u get a breath
lemme get a second to get everything In check
never giving less than a elevated level of the best 
and I elevate the level of the threat and eliminate the devil in the flesh
quick wid a witty flip, sick wid it when I let em get it
when I get up in it then I'm comin at a hundred miles a minute 
and I gotta try to find a way to win it, gotta find a rhythm in it 
then I'm movin in and livin it, the things i can do within a minute
cool when i’m maneuverin it
act a fool yellin out "Who really wanna come and get it?”
not a nayahnutta rapper, look here come the rapture
u better get a prayer from a pastor
u better get available to bail if u have to
cuz u never know whats there til it's after, I fear this chapter
hopin that when I croak it'll be a fast death not slow 
and don't wanna be the alone in the cab home
and I don't really wanna know when i pass on 
when it's on then I'm mad calm
baffling when I rap then I get a bit of an attack 
then I get to get up on a track and I get to snap...and black out
then ill get a little snack and pass out
I got the plan mapped out wid the man Manifest 
I was guaranteed raw now I'm guaranteed fresh
and I’m guaranteed to be the one to beat up on his chest 
and I'll be the one to beat up on a beat until its death
I'm def.. not deaf but im death fools
on tracks I'm a death tool 
sets is official and definitely special 
success we'll eventually get to…

(Mani)
guess who? gonna be the one to bless you
I could be the one that you confess to
coming with the chops like a chef do, unless you were
kinda sure, it's breaking bad and I'm hip hop's Heisenberg 
this'll prolly hurt but I tried to be polite at first, let me spit it out
lately, I haven't heard nothin hot in this line of work
doesn't work like you're miley trying to twerk

(JL)
somebody silence her
cuz after mah turn it's like I'm the wack rappa silencer 
wid a snapback and diamond shirt 
mah raps shatterin thermometers 
look i’ll have em in a line while i’m spitting rhymes 
lines splittin minds, get a hit of mine
have ‘em losin limbs like they hit a mine
Mani pulled the pin now they gettin bombed 
massacre, consider it a crime

(Mani)
consider it a sign that we running it
everybody getting turnt up 
but we bout to shut it down like the government
put you on furlough, chillin with a bottle of merlot
and I should feel bad but I sure don't 
must be the bully inside of me
I mean us, it's the perfect comradery
don't try, it's a level that's hard to reach
we the ones, who the hell is keanu reeves?

(JL)
stop kidding u can not spit it the way that we get up in the spot 
they like “not them again”
u bring it sloppy when then ur not gonna win
ima leave ya body wiggling wid chopped ligaments
look, ur a kid standing next to us
we wish y'all the best of luck 
but it's best that y'all step it up 
let it rest and accept that the best is us, kiss Manifest’s nuts

Yoga Flame (ft. JL & DJ Zo)

First self-produced album by Manifest featuring Lyricks, JL, C-Note, Decipher & more

Mad Men (ft. Lyricks, C - Note, JL, MC Presto, Decipher)

Rubix Cube (ft. Phil Good)

Bury The Ratchet

Kerosene

Either Or (ft. C - Note & Lyricks)

20/20

From A Dream

Like That

Phoenix (ft. Amanda Lee)

(Manifest)
some only see a godly influence, let's get into it 
often times we hear about this girl or guy we influenced
came wit a cause, just didn't know how we would do it
i never blend in, i got a different sound I'm pursuing 
my faith? in the eyes of the world, a light fading 
but i write fuego with the likes of a light saber
it took a little while to understand this high wager
see, you and i have different definitions of "I made it"
pardon me, but let me ask you something
cuz a lot of cats they've been acting funny
so do you do it for the love or the guap or the love of the guap?
that's not it man, i'm like IP Man and you my practice dummy
no i don't got pity
if you not winning, man you didn't do it 확시리
no you're not ready, you just
adopted an image up at urban outfitter
allow me to make it right and clip you like it's lob city


I've seen it all, we've come a long way
It ain't hard to tell you in the wrong lane

	it's kinda obvious they're feeding you lies
	I see the blind they be leading the blind, that's never good

i need to know, when will it all change?
i'm not feeling y'all, it's sound all the same

	it's everywhere, ain't no point in denying
	you know i'd rather stop eating and just call it a diet

(CNote)
I decorate the time with a simple stroke of my pen
All the people I met to the places I been
Perforated sneakers to feel 'em sneak in the wind
You gotta keep it breezy when feeling a need to vent 
Opposite composite, my composition is opposite the popular concoctions you copy off of a box, jocker. 
Bargain shoppin', never been about the Pop hoppin'
Mom taught me to rise UP and divide profit 
God founded and hand crafted, that much is fact
What goods a gift if the gift received isn't given back?
Spit the facts while I hit a jack sittin back I picture that scribbling raps without the thinkin cap 
I came further than I ever could imagine though
stayed humble but knuckled up when I had to bro 
Let loose on loose leaf and let the the truth speak 
tightened up the bars and never took it loosely

(Manifest)
you find it mad symbolic
i like chaos but i'm organized like jackson pollock
i'm hella polished but at times i'm like "i should re-do that"
really, i should re-do that   
a thousand ways to shut these haters up but how should we do that
i need a challenge bro i haven't been impressed in years
while y'all impressed by some lesser tiers, oh no
God bless your souls and nothin less
i'da made it even worse if i ain't let you know

(CNote)
Bro. Go ahead and let Em know (imma let Em know)
A lost soul to founded by the one and only 
No Need say for cliches but please stay 
For the moments holy and holy after you replay  
In the Word of life I remain, I needed 
A reminder every time I lost drive like keychains
And just like it I dangled by single threads 
So it seemed that the dough I thought needed was a different bread 

MANIFEST

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