Full version of the bonus track from Filling in the Blanks of...Vol.2: Joint Custody, available for free download here: http://writtenbydaniel.bandcamp.com/album/filling-in-the-blanks-of-vol-2-joint-custody

Produced by @PJ-Eckerd

check the syntax
it's simple
you're a Simpson
you're a cartoon
you're bar food
get chewed up and spit on my bar stool
I reverse my digestive system
make no mistake
I'm not tryin to barf you
I speak this and leave you with shit stains
end up in a flaming bag on my neighbor's lawn
I'll leave you with Leaves of Grass with an inked name
Walt Whitman with a wit sharp as a six inch blade
Walter White with a hat and thick shades
when in the hell did I flip from a box cutter to this chainsaw?
like the Evil Dead
when I speak it and rev it
this ain't my peak I just peaked in to tell ya
I gotta lot in my word banks like Azealia
word search every song I release
every third verse I keep on ascending
every new line is a drunk dick pic
it's getting harder and harder to keep me from sending it out
pen to the pad
pad to the mouth 
I'm the best shit now
best kept secret best left out
if hip hop's dead the obituary was written by Daniel 
I dig this out
can't nobody fuck with my fiction now
I wrote uprooted with so much conviction 
you'd think I was pulling myself from the ground
Independence Day
blow the white house down
levitating 
I might land but the mic magic like Channing Tatum 
BLAOW!

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and we're back to this
like lactic acid
that's a knot

humor dry
like a bad massage
or the back of a throat after a pack of cigs
sarcastic shit
like the actress
on Parks and Rec
--asterik
not Amy Poeller
time to flip over like an old record

oh my god 
my ankle swollen like a body builder 
got me hopped up on prednisone for this

I guess my own self's my best opponent
unless you're talkin' that D&D
don't let me into my zone for this
'bout to blow this shit like TNT
Dan I might skip the warning shot
spit it right across the damn DMZ
you don't even know what it means to speak
with a fuse for the uvula 
and you've just been scared 
to spark the eternal flame

commit arson with arpeggios
arson with flows
arsenic brain
carcinogenic genetics
bet the whole farm 
on the pharmacist straight from the farmer's state

fucked on prescription drugs--
that was the former state
pour another cow for the great Dane
who came outta the lion's den with a great mane
and called it filling in the blanks
popped a pill to drop the swelling 
so I could drop this tape
with an impact similar to dropping a melon 
from the top of the goddamn Empire State---
building!

blanks!-----
you know we fill them

the competition is Wayne---
lil then

I make this shit gold
Rumpilstiltskin

and the record is still spinning....

Joint Custody (prod. PJE)

The first single from the new album Fruitless...

🍑 Watch the music video: youtube.com/watch?v=CAA8_a2zdMk
🍋 Listen to the second single Utilities: soundcloud.com/writtenbydaniel/utilities-prod-ogi-feel-the-beat

🍐 To get the full 1+ hour album, buy the print or digital book of poetry for instant access to the music: writtenbydaniel.com/fruitless

Purchase includes:
- A 276-page book of lyrics and an illustrated poetic story that expands on the themes of the album
- Over an hour of music produced entirely by Ogi Feel the Beat

🍍 Buy the print book and digital album: writtenbydaniel.com/product/fruitless-physical
🥭 Buy the digital book and album: writtenbydaniel.com/product/fruitless-digital

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The story
A mask maker accepts that he will never earn an invite to the famed garden of immortals and begins creating for himself. But when the garden takes notice, he finds himself with one more opportunity to fulfill his fantasies...

The book
Includes a 90-page poetic story, illustrated by Tanate Asami, that weaves together the lyrics of the album into a sweeping narrative. It's a big collection (276 pages!) but breaks up nicely into 3 parts.

The music
Lush, complex, and ambitious in its scope, the 1+ hour of music is produced by trip hop musician Ogi Feel the Beat and performed by the poet to capture the rich rhythms of the text. (Some people have said how much reading along with the music has given them a deeper appreciation of both.)

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Written by Daniel
Produced by @ogiftb

Fruitless...

Buy the book and album

Failed fantasies (prod. Ogi Feel the Beat)

🫐 The fourth single from the new album Fruitless...

🍋 Listen to the first single: https://soundcloud.com/writtenbydaniel/failed-fantasies
🍑 Watch the Failed fantasies music video: youtube.com/watch?v=CAA8_a2zdMk
🍍 Listen to the second single: https://soundcloud.com/writtenbydaniel/utilities-prod-ogi-feel-the-beat
🥝 Listen to the third single: https://soundcloud.com/writtenbydaniel/bad-faiths-prod-ogi-feel-the-beat

🍐 To get the full 1+ hour album, buy the print or digital book of poetry for instant access to the music: writtenbydaniel.com/fruitless

Purchase includes:
- A 276-page book of lyrics and an illustrated poetic story that expands on the themes of the album
- Over an hour of music produced entirely by Ogi Feel the Beat

🍍 Buy the print book and digital album: writtenbydaniel.com/product/fruitless-physical
🥭 Buy the digital book and album: writtenbydaniel.com/product/fruitless-digital

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The story
A mask maker accepts that he will never earn an invite to the famed garden of immortals and begins creating for himself. But when the garden takes notice, he finds himself with one more opportunity to fulfill his fantasies...

The book
Includes a 90-page poetic story, illustrated by Tanate Asami, that weaves together the lyrics of the album into a sweeping narrative. It's a big collection (276 pages!) but breaks up nicely into 3 parts.

The music
Lush, complex, and ambitious in its scope, the 1+ hour of music is produced by trip hop musician Ogi Feel the Beat and performed by the poet to capture the rich rhythms of the text. (Some people have said how much reading along with the music has given them a deeper appreciation of both.)

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Written by Daniel
Produced by @ogiftb

Externalities (prod. Ogi Fee the Beat)

Fruitless... tells a tale of failure, growth, and the limits of dreams...

🍐 To get the full 1+ hour album, buy the print or digital book of poetry for instant access to the music: writtenbydaniel.com/fruitless

Purchase includes:
- A 276-page book of lyrics and an illustrated poetic story that expands on the themes of the album
- Over an hour of music produced entirely by Ogi Feel the Beat

🍍 Buy the print book and digital album: writtenbydaniel.com/product/fruitless-physical
🥭 Buy the digital book and album: writtenbydaniel.com/product/fruitless-digital

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The story
A mask maker accepts that he will never earn an invite to the famed garden of immortals and begins creating for himself. But when the garden takes notice, he finds himself with one more opportunity to fulfill his fantasies...

The book
Includes a 90-page poetic story, illustrated by Tanate Asami, that weaves together the lyrics of the album into a sweeping narrative. It's a big collection (276 pages!) but breaks up nicely into 3 parts.

The music
Lush, complex, and ambitious in its scope, the 1+ hour of music is produced by trip hop musician Ogi Feel the Beat and performed by the poet to capture the rich rhythms of the text. (Some people have said how much reading along with the music has given them a deeper appreciation of both.)

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Written by Daniel
Produced by @ogiftb

Buy the book

15 Fruitless

14 The sunk cost

13 Great resignation

12 Lamentation of the ends

11 Externalities

10 Into the core

09 Bad faiths

Fruitless… 🍑 is a new album of hip hop/poetry and book of illustrated poetry, written by Daniel to music by @ogiftb with illustrations by Tanate Asami 

🍊 Out now • buy the book on writtenbydaniel.com

Music, poetry, and comics • written by Daniel in collaboration with illustrators, producers, vocalists, and other artists from around the world.

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