1. |
Chess Game
02:26
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20 steps ahead of your best play
27 years with out a rest date
Press play. Check mate.
16 pieces keep the set straight
16 bars to the pieces of this essay
..and they all work in pairs
shifting board patterns over 64 squares
Quickly form layers of snares paired with rare
Vinyl. nothing can compare to finally to getting where
Trial and error carried my effort that made me letter better
Passages of clever endeavors that got my passion tethered
..in every move I’m making ever
Grooves on a break record hold my fate together
A better metaphor of how it's better form of five letter game played on black and white checker board
Pressure formed perfection like the diamond string on her neck hangs
Check mate. Next game.
It's a chess game. How many moves to the finish?
King and his Queen
Each song is a pawn
It's the rhythm of my dreams and I want y'all to sing a long
My bishop’s less religious think Pac in Juice to catch the vision
My diction's so meticulous in the pocket the skill is vicious
Bobby Fischer how I plot a move and see the picture
Strategize the battle lines and come to find the scene is bigger
..I'm seeing it through it like an x-ray
Check mate. Next game.
It's a chess game. How many moves to the finish?
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2. |
Wild
03:19
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Go hard
Flow art
Mozart on a note chart
Most emcees no heart
I compose bars
So sharp so far
Pass you like slow cars on the highway
Get wild. Hey!
Razor blade under my tongue
Dynamite lit we all on the run
My pen is a gun
Picking off a target on pendulum hung
Split a bullseye blind folded serious stun
Hear this and hum in mysterious tongues
Delirious from the series of drums
That got your ears numb
Sum of all fears
Crushing all tiers of opposition I shift gears
Make sound appear from
NOTHING
Now that's wild but so am I
Controlling mics my aim go like golden eye
Original flow holder with soul to get vibe live
How we gone act when it hit that time tonight?!
Wild
Put ya style on trial
Venom in a vial
In a minute run a mile
Infinite imagery in every single file
Get Wild!
Going wild like the west was
I spit it just cuz
Whats inside my head sorta like a best of
Familiar sound that you ain't even heard yet
My words get wild compile em into perfect
Habitats for habitual magic match my incredible level of malevolence when I rap
And see the evidence on a track when I attack yo
Welcome to the wild son there ain't no turning back
Wild
Got it hittin like fittin like 3 15's in a box and they sittin right
Over top of 6 12's
Fresh of the shelves
Turn it up
Make it bump
You can feel for yourselves
You can hear it in the lyrics
Fear it like evil spirits appearing in the mirror image
Then disappearing from sight
How we gone act when it hit that time tonight?!
Wild
Put ya style on trial
Venom in a vial
In a minute run a mile
Infinite imagery in every single file
Get Wild!
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3. |
Magic
03:25
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Work magic like tricks up the sleeve
Flow mad elaborate check the thick web I weave
Never be too quick to believe
Some people stay scheming too quick to deceive
But me? Slick with a beat
Even skipping a beat
Spit a stutter more fluid than liquid could be
Gutter to the bluish sky picture I see
Picture me in 3D when they play my mp3's
Don't play on MPC's but it still plays proper
Everyday I slay emcees with ROTA cross the rockers
Style that offer talks from prince to pauper
Permanent residence here y'all just renting lockers
Work magic that's evident. Hear me spitting heart stoppers
Skill is irrelevant here in a world of chart toppers
That kill intelligence fear the work the monster conjures
Kick verses in Kanji
Ganja got me fly like bombers
Fat man and little boy style gap band you little toys
I back hand these raps and I track styles you will enjoy
Crack smiles but still avoid the wack styles some will employ
Rack minds with phat lines cuz mama said kill it boy…
Magic I work it
Add in a perfect
Pattern
The wordsmith reporting back in for service
Serving y'all off the surface
My words are my worship
Personal messages left in the press that I'm turning
Stress that I'm turning with less of a burden
Never a second guess to stress me now concerning
Directions that It's curving
Learning lessons I'll insert into this next section of verses
But before I can unearth them
I'll decompress what's been unnerving me
Urgently and verbally worded to get these urges free
Marry words to virgin beats whether or not you heard of me
Flash of light then I'm gone
Move like an emergency
Disturbingly burn to third degree thoughts that I can't earn my keep
When my words emerge to see the light of day my works complete
Make you cut it out like surgery
MAGIC when I'm swerving murky circles in these purple greens.
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4. |
Sky Was The Limit
02:47
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I always heard that the sky was the limit. That the sky was the limit (The sky was the limit)
Sky was the limit
But I was living limitless
Check out my second release called it unlimited
It caught a little press about how I can fit some intricate
Ripples of sound into a package that’s fit for listening
Skip a bit in time like a scratch cd spin to the present where I'm currently revisiting
A mind scape that shaped the place that I'm living in
I'm the only one defining what my limit is
Abilities with similes leave em silly see
I be really be aiming high with the agility I spill in these
Clips of verbal virility. To tracks I bring fertility
Back of my mind knowing that nothing can really limit me
Graphic: For imagery
Melee: For endlessly fighting that rebel's struggle til the end of me
My enemy is weakness competing
To try and keep me from reaching
What I've been aiming for seeking
Sky ain't nowhere close to even
I always heard that the sky was the limit. That the sky was the limit (The sky was the limit)
Sky was the limit
But I was aiming higher
The same desire fires me still. I made entire
Albums that make the synapses in your brain fire
Some of y'all make music I verbally paint choirs
Create an empire sound round the globe
From downloads to shows that's just how it goes
Get it off the ground and watch how it grows
Stay fly never callin in ground control
Got cloudy vision because of the heights I'm living in
They say the sky's the limit but the universe unlimited
By confines of minds that never seem to comprehend
The concept that I'm here on the mic offering
Don't stop until you get there if you get where
I'm coming from upon some kick snare that sits square
In the middle of pivotal rhythms I mix to get at you
Aiming over the sky with every syllable…
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5. |
End Game
03:06
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We're living in the long con gone wrong
From Mike Brown to Trayvon they want us all gone
So I keep a cold heart when the heat is on
Keep it honest with you people Keep keepin on
Don't bend don't break
They came in with plan how many years before it takes
You thinking next move they play the end game
My pen frames the page to get you engaged
Enraged with how the states keeping women and men caged
For a variety of reasons
Submit to illegal search and seizures or they're charging you with treason
Torture chamber saws knives and tweezers
Whatever it takes please her
Justice was blind but she peeked
Now she sees in color anytime the gavel speaks
Getting sweated by the beast
They're the danger in the streets
Hands up yelling don't shoot and they still squeeze
Please
Get more facts for free
Til they turn the farms to factories
Well I guess that one keeps on passing me by
Anytime I drive through a landscape of signs thats telling me to buy
Buy. Buy. Buy what they're selling!
It's backed by former felons
That ran for office turned a profit
Yo! Now they're telling you what to do and who to do it with
Picture this. As seen through government tv screens
Corruption for some green blurs the line between military and police
Believe
That none of this will cease
How many times you seen a scene of violence inflicted on those that's seeking peace?
This country makes monsters til it can't control em
Then it drop bombs exploding when the bullets can't hold em
Back. And I Can't relax when the prison populations how they making they're stacks
Follow the money you gone trace it back
To some trouble in the bushes. Straight facts
Plus an entertainment industry controlled by 6 conglomerates
And they all got a hand in this prison complex kids
So you can ignore it while they profit
Or take the second option against a toxic political office
Never believe a word them men say
If you ain't considering their end game
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Sky vibes on a airplane 30,000 feet high
Never chasing airplay I’m just trying to see my
Vision in reality
This battle rap dead eye y'all targets in my gallery
Laser sight energized I'm charged like a battery
This razor type enterprise shark bite mentality
Sharpens my blades like a shogun gathering
My tools of the trade with one swipe scattering
The blood pool made when I'm slaying a fatter beat
Shattering matter in between where all your atoms sleep
I fathom deep patterns of majestic tragedy
Craftily crack my coded language and glimpse the clarity
But till they bury me I’ll keep it hot like the Caribbean
Till it's no more need hold keys like a carabiner
Carry a pair of meaner rhymes with scary demeanor
Marry my lines to fine vinyl minus the prenup
Roll in and clean up on any producer or emcee claiming they hold the scene up
Cuz my team crush any weak one trying to freak one
Frequently hit the peak in
Clubs we known to frequent
Climax when the beat hit
Melee you need this
Grade A uniqueness in the sounds I sequence
Future, present, and pretense
Timeless when I'm speaking
Rhyming with a reason
Chime in with deepest
Soul
Kinda dynamite soul with it
Got you like oh is it
Graphic Melee vocalist. So vivid. Prodigious
Prolifically whole imagery painted
No limits seen on the ride my soul is taking
Me on. Beyond. The sights that we see on
A regular basis this space glows like neon
Mind was going through changes made me cold like freon
Now I'm older less anxious bout the road we speed on
So its open road. Lust to wonder
Whole globe is home rush over yonder
No stopping known. I'm just get stronger
Stop just to ponder. I can't wait no longer
No directions a wrong turn
Just check in long term
Every mistakes just another lesson you gone learn
On your journey to earning
Your destiny, but for me I turn my time with turbulent rhymes. Unnerving
Like a sudden drop in altitude
How you gonna doubt the dude who's mouth is glued to the microphone with a bouncing loop
Bout to pounce on large amounts boom bap and douse the room crucial splash of Graphic (Wooooo!)
Ruthless when I'm tracking in the booth and seeing action
Can't relax I got habit like a passion
Passionately passing passages of time traveling
But the soul is always everlasting.
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7. |
High
04:32
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Creatin greatness
Dwell on level 8 while y'all trapped in the basement
I'm advanced placement. You grade 6 waiting
To get held back another year this ones mine for the takin
Heat higher than the degree you need to fire pottery
Gotta be to possibly rock a beat or get the drop on me
Chances of winning just like the lottery
I slaughter beats
Oughta be illegal the way I rip audibly
Pause a beat. A capella high quality
Every verse all of me just like a jazz standard
My crass grammar ground breaking like a jack hammer
My mission is demolition
My demo go missing and I'll be pissing on your writtens
Freestyle killin’. Sound stay thrillin’.
What more can I say I'm ill when
I got that mic in hand
More like a knife in hand cuz I slice you man
Must not understand how nice I am
Word play in the DNA. Watch me write a strand
Accuracy pin point when I point my pen
My drums are phat your joints are thin
I point and blast a poignant spin
On the high grade poison in the noise I spin
I get it in
Its Graphic Melee on the mic
I came to get live tonight. When I arrive I might
Set the bar height where some can't fly
Type of high risk that you just can't try
So get your hands high 1 time, 2 times
If you're thinking big get yours and keep your aim HIGH
HIGH. Its that elevated essence. Miles over your styles if you got any questions
The echelon is upper
Test me on a track get eaten up like supper
Or crushed under thunder from the number of high grade plays I made from record plunder
Better than your best
Born competitor that keep it steady rocking fresh
Ready to stress ya
Stylin under pressure
Kickin text that's got a texture
I aim high and you leave in a stretcher
Pulling out styles like revolvers in a western
Get burned when I spit lectures like I blew bourbon through a flame and spit letters
High. It's the elevated presence
I'm delegating style while you steady hittin resin
I can really escalate a session ready with a line while you writer's blocked and stressin
Pressing a pen or typing it in
Tight is the delivery I blend when I'm tying a thin
String of syllables til I got rope under your chin and over your throat
In other words leave you breathless
Like a higher elevation puts struggle in ya chest it's
Arresting when I'm getting high caliber
Crossing off emcees like dates on the calendar
Crooked cross hairs so I aim high. If it's over your head sorry I tried
But a great mind once put me on
To some knowledge that I use:
Anything I put my mind to I can surely do
So get your hands high 1 time, 2 times
If you're thinking big get yours and keep your aim HIGH
HIGH. Its that elevated essence. Miles over your styles if you got any questions
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8. |
Never Lookin' Back
04:49
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You emcees need a bath let me wash you in sound
You ain't seen this type of wrath since Kane been around
Thought you peeped me out in Roxbury?
I was out creeping making sure emcees got buried
I drop scary pairs of rhymes varied by tempo, cadence, and rhythm. Rookies remain weary
To be legendary? That's the goal that I carry. Can Melee flip a track? Is it cold in January?
Used battle rap cats from Philly over the phone
Showin em sticks and stones ain't the only things breaking bones
When a break is on I get in the zone
Like the lone ranger strolling with his hand on the chrome.
Mind blown
How the exit wound treat 'em. When I grab the microphone. Line em up defeat em
Endo out the window let the diesel smoke greet em
What's next? … Let me see. Um..
While I crack some homophones. Split it into stereo never a mono tone
Never stopping like the comma gone from my vocabulary the very essence of rhythm dropping on
Every beat per minute when I'm in it
I'm permanent getting critics hype and cynics grittin' witnessing my written vision
Never lookin back cuz I'm committed to keep it movin, bass grooving underneath my swirl of diction
Word addiction
That's what they say I got but this addition for ya listening pleasure's verbally a drop
In the bucket of what I got planned to rock out the speaker box
Deeper knocks of bass got receivers hot
See it? Looking and don't believe it
That's why I keep my eyes forwards walking down the cement
Too many miles to go to watch every nook and crack
No time for what ifs that's why I'm never lookin’ back/
Never looking back just rising to challenge
Moving forward fast tryna get more green than chloroplasts
Yo Graphic has the mathematics stacked to get static out ya tracks and liven up ya boring raps
Throw a punch and watch the board collapse
So much more that
Average tactic all aboard ban wagon swaggin carbon copy yo I spit them custom made to order raps
Type of skill your sound just sorta lacks. I'm a mortar blast
Loud explosion but it's calm until that moment
Overload my focus show you what these missiles homing at
Drone attack. Foaming at the mouth and hatch a track to crack ya back from how hard your neck was rolling at
The craft I drafted off a bowl I packed
Hear this creeping out the speaker next, feel ya whole soul react
Like catching feelings in church you'll be like holy crap
Worked too hard going forward so now there's no more going back
Progress. Progression. Progressively I step in
Vision in my possession’s only forward perception
Got it like I was born with it
Try and grip my microphone and walk away a with torn digits
Or thorns digging into your remaining finger tips
Can't explain my methods like crimes with out the finger prints
Dead ringer in a look a like competition
For what you wanna be but never quite accomplishing
Mind of a monster
Heaven sent hell bent lemme spell how I conquer
With a mind from beyond earth, but that's on some other type conversation you ain't ready to converse
Ask questions later drop a bomb first
In a long verse written to wake those with their thoughts hersed
Probably catch me with a book I cracked
Tryna build knowledge never looking back
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9. |
No Kings
01:52
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Scheming on some beats while you're scheming on some seats
Watch the throne or the demons I unleash
Beat fiending beast eating
Team seeing no defeats
Pulling fully loaded lines go cop the new release
Clever thief on a beat tweak
Fleet full of heat seekers
Speaking like a preacher that's sipping liters of beef eater
Twist 26 and never seen a repeater
Flip any vinyl rip to sever like meat cleavers
I'm even raw with the sound off
Round house kicking clowns off til my down fall
Stepping to a king and rip his crown off
Tidal wall of sound drown y'all
From the right channel to the south paw
Clip a pound of nouns off at the count off
Without flaw. Type sound that a town wanna outlaw
Typically trippy from my mouth
Jaw ripping when I'm zipping through terrific on a loud raw
Beat
Hounds off the leash creeping
Each seeking fresh meat eating. How it sounds when I lean squeezing
Phat cuisine with a real meaning
Its real genius and your trash flow don't amount even to half of what I'm keeping
Back stroking in the cement
Come easier than tryna beat me. Son believe it
Til I cease it my sound waves leave sea sick
Any human being that’s saying that I ain't mad decent
Spit vibrato with bravado leaking
I’m a broken bottle piece deep into ya cheek and bleeding. Grim and reaping
In the scene I'm peeping underneath this dream I'm seeing
Speeding, weaving through we clean sweeping
Competition weeping
Needing no agreement this is high degree
Strike like a title fight violently, quietly, or silently
Wiring the sound now to melt ya melt gold rings
Shots fired from the crowd. Bow down to no kings
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10. |
Overcast
03:30
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Wrote this song
Overcast
Fell asleep the solar's back
Rain? I'm over that
No more cloudy days to hold me back
Feeling colder than the polar caps
While I'm strolling past a city covered by a grey skies over my shoulders passed
A flash of light that cast a shadow past a man that's passing by and asked the time
9 past 5 I told him
At that moment I… had paused to pass the time
Til something had to catch my eye
That patch of light through clouded skies shines and this is what I spied
Seated in a sea of concrete
Creatures moving calmly
Routine maneuvers of daily jobs they each repeat and copy
Repetition with no sign of stopping
Grey skies and office coffee
Same lines they all stay flocking to while I'm here watching
A sunless scene here underneath a ceiling made of cloudy beams
I'm drowning deep in seas that seem rise til I'm about to scream
These grey days stretching endless
Through the rows of buildings wind whips
The signs of summer ending fall beginning as I pen this
Overcast
And up above its
Full cloud coverage for a cold world loveless
How it seems at least to be sometimes when I'm in public
When it was over cast over head, time slowed and hope began to dwindle
Like the rays of sun that once came through my window
Depressions like a cloud that hangs low til it tangles
Every element of life in a tight grip like a strangle
Hold. So hopelessly we hope to see a change
But the forecast just called 5 more overcast days
And I can barely rap my head around it anymore
Got plenty more clouds invading my space and I'm a penny short
Of any sort of way to bring an ending toward
Grey days that stop the sun rays
But still I carry on because I'm living for
The moment that these clouds depart my head and space around my heart
And clear my view til I'm not peering through another crowd of dark
Visions surrounding my horizons
Its Overcast
Like the sun was hiding
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11. |
Rain
04:41
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Rain. Rain. Drops of rain
On the window pane where my eyes stay aimed
On the other side same scene remains
Plays everyday til weather change
Rain...
Rain
Gallons, liters, drops
Pounding on my head no peace til stops
Breath
Release of the oxygen while I stand watching in silence as falling drips
Trickle down slowly rippling the puddle in front of my eyes showing
A scene unfolding
No way of knowing what my future holding
Rain falls with no chance slowing
Soaked to the bone in ice cold frozen position as I listen to what I'm now hearing going
On in an alley way on my way home
Try and shut it out but my mind just roams
Can't get it out my head. In need rest
Gotta get it off my chest. It’s causing stress
Anytime I hear the rain coming scene plays fresh
Flash back that I can't forget
Rain. Rain. Drops of rain
On the window pane where my eyes stay aimed
On the other side same scene remains
Plays everyday til weather change
Rain...
Chance of clear skies?
None
Memory of that day?
I have a clear one
I couldn't bring my ears from
The sound that I heard like a squeal from steel or
Heavy machinery grinding repeatedly
Then it hits me
Know the sound but not the location. So I'm out here tryna locate it
Keeps getting louder with every step that I'm taking, and the rain still ain't breaking making
This situation crazy
Can't really tell which way I should be aiming til I here crash coming from the block adjacent
Pick my pace up and now I'm racing
Turn left catch my breath
Lookin up from bottom of the steps
Red brick house with an alley on the west
What I heard next you're never gonna expect
Rain. Rain. Drops of rain
On the window pane where my eyes stay aimed
On the other side same scene remains
Plays everyday til weather change
Rain...
In the alley
A loud crash
Pushed through a hedge. Felt my heart beat fast
Pulse quickens as I'm stepping off the grass. Hit the alley, and reflecting off the glass?
Bright flash from a second story window followed by a metal scrape at a slow tempo
What's going on here really had me mental. So I pressed on and kept my steps gentle
Felt my stomach plummet.
Look up at the window and there's someone looking from it
Look on their face says they know I'm up to something
So its fight or flight and I'm not the type that’s known for running
All of sudden blinded by a bright light stunning
Had my pulse jumping from this unreal run in with an adversary cunning
Took all the strength that I could summon to fight it but I still couldn’t
Heard a coded message but I understood it
Vision blurred. Tried to stand but I couldn't
Last time heard the message fade out for good then
Fade to black. Darkness push in.
The words circled my brain
Like water circles the drain
Last thing I remember a head splitting pain
Then I opened my eyes and woke up in the rain
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12. |
Fire
03:37
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My sound burns slow. Think sticks of incense
I turn inferno to all N-O-N sense
451 degrees with a sentence
Paper ignites under my pen relentless
So witness the swiftness with which I switch flip a mix and turn the heat a bit
My business?
Burn it down like a forest fire to your town
Meaning this is not a drill. Its real. This is the last chance out
Glance out and see the wreckage
Recognize how I write a message outta fire when I hear the drum compression
From all directions like Molotov to ya chest then check inside the rag reads: “I will never be bested”
Like flame thrower in a fist fight
I just might adjust my levels of heat developed by just 5
Degrees per second increasing the heat to let it ignite
Yo what it sound like?
Fire!
Fire cousin
Like we inside an oven
Sly and cunning how I devise to keep higher number
Fahrenheit
Staring right at the flames flaring bright
Kerosene your scene and put a lighter to it erry night
Artistic arsonist Basquiat with napalm
Flames erupting from the frame when I put a break on
Sand in my mandala how I treat the tracks I take on
Work it intricate, create, destroy, and then I say Om
The moment friction turns to fire kickin diction over every song that my life inspired
Igniter wired to spark it that's how my thoughts conspired
Thought you brought through heat but was mine reaching higher
Like flame thrower in a fist fight
I just might adjust my levels of heat developed by just 5
Degrees per second increasing the heat to let it ignite
Yo what it sound like?
Fire!
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13. |
Party Killer
02:20
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Yo I spit that party killer
Y’all are hardly iller
We some hard gorillas rolling through and smashing all contenders
King Kong
Never do the thing wrong. I sling songs
Ink on a napkin got em clapping bounce like ping-pong
Table tennis
Turn table menace
Only limits the mic cable's distance when I'm taking care of business
T.C.O.B homie light a track up like a rollie, stogie, o-z
Yo whatever man! Even my prose be poetry
Oceanic I flow deep. Titanic but don't sink
Eyes open and won't blink. Mind rolling on no sleep
Nose deep in that ol' creek
No paddle and no problem
Broke free of what holds me
Kill the parties I choke beats
Who you think you dealing with?
Real intense. Every word I speak you will be feeling it
Appalling how I shut it down from biggest to the smallest
Yo lemme tell y'all what I call this
Party killer
My whole army's thrillers
No filler. No chaser. Word spiller. Note placer
No place is safe yo
I came to shut the party down
Party Killer
Pour me up another round
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14. |
Sharp
04:13
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Sharp
I'm a woven suit of razor blades
Blazer made from shards of glass
From my neck a saber sways
Its select serrated syllables to slice you through your middle move your organs like hospitals do
Scalpel to the scapula
Riddle you with puncture wounds like 50 bites from Dracula
Hypodermic precision. Precise incisions
Devices for the indecisive that’s saying I ain't killin'
Listen
(Cut like a)
Meat clever, sword, saber
Greek leader. Gordian knot
You're corny I'm hot. Sound I'm exploring it rocks
I'm sporting some chops
Cold steel outta the knife block I slice off an orderly swatch
Of perfectly placed penmanship
Distort what you thought
I'm rippin' a hole in opposition words are swords when I talk
I'm cripplin' whole compositions verses bordered by chalk
Ordered to slaughter you off
But I offered up modern art
Just starting to tear it apart
Because I'm...
Sharp
As the razor's edge. When I raise my edge weapon it's the blades of death
In every breath
Sharper than Hattori Hanzo steel
Ninjato in the hands of an assassin allegory for skill I wield
Switch blade back pocket. Pop it and unlock it
Life my mic lives non stop no options
Every word does damage
Cuts deep with no relief delivered from a bandage
My stance is samurai. In my hand a mic
I handle my B-I-Z everytime I strike
Cuz you can cut and paste but never spit perfect take with out the aid studio magic. (Give me break)
Or sharpen up your skill cuz with this mic I'm deadly sharp
I'm ready armed with that steady swinging machete art
My heavy armored battalion roll into the battle valiant
Riding on backs of beats instead of on some stallions
Writing deep enough to pierce the heart
Because I'm...
Sharp
As the razor's edge. When I raise my edge weapon it's the blades of death
In every breath
Sharp
Like the guillotine
The skill is clean. Polished finishing on the menacing mic machine when it swings
JPS the death squad sound stay killin' lean ya body. Sharpen your abilities
Pull a pencil out the sharpener. Cut a phrase straight function like a saw to carpenter
Stutter your brain waves in all the spaces where there margins were
Cauterize on contact cuts could leave your carbon burned
But let me cut it out
My wit stay sharp enough to grip a microphone and shut it down
Scissor kick the rhythm while I'm spinning touch the crowd
For an ending stop the beat before my feet can touch ground
Sounds of a massacre
Riding with the devil playing chicken sitting passenger
Bout as gentle as the dentals on a shark
Because I'm...
Sharp
As the razor's edge. When I raise my edge weapon it's the blades of death
In every breath
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15. |
Stuck
03:15
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Stuck
I couldn't move
Like I hooked the hottest loop up and still didn't groove
Balance was the challenge and I swore I wouldn't lose
Different situation. Same blues.
Ice skating up hill
How it feel chasing the thrill
That's life. Navigating takes skill
I'm in the driver seat driving me crazy
It still amazes me that I maintain these
Efforts with adversity working me to my last nerve
Am I making progress or going nowhere faster?
Won't know until it's finished
If I ran in place on figure 8's if this road has an ending
Feel like I'm suspended
Tryna gain traction but the wheels just spinning inches of the dirt and the treads won't dig it
Stepping to sprint and my hips won't pivot
You get it
Motion's froze like I'm comatose
Can't stop fighting like it's something in my chromosomes
Set a goal. Hold it close and never fold
But I'm feeling stuck no matter how far I go
Stuck
I couldn't move
Like I hooked the hottest loop up and still didn't groove
Balance was the challenge and I swore I wouldn't lose
Different situation. Same blues.
From my analysis life's like sleep paralysis (I can't move)
How it gets the upper hand dependent on the challenges
Held back by checks and balances like having no Capital but being crazy talented
No need for Pro Era prerequisite to get just how that message sits
How many hard working and intelligent but stuck in a rut like a truck in the mud?
Want to run but your legs are on some sedative drugs
Repetitive slumps can bring momentum to halt
Had intentions planned but landed on path filled with faults
Pit falls and bad fortune. We've all seen our portion
It's like down pour we carry torch in
Plagued by set backs
Probably never get back to the level I developed if I ever let that slip-up become my undoing
Just pick up and rise from the ruins
But I'm...
Stuck
I couldn't move
Like I hooked the hottest loop up and still didn't groove
Balance was the challenge and I swore I wouldn't lose
Different situation. Same blues.
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16. |
Architecht
03:42
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Bring obliteration to illiterate nations
Reiterate alliterations over vibrations
A little ways from patient I get riddled by anxious fits but discipline has got me patient with waiting
Sitting listening to what I'm shaping and making
Taking a break a rearranging the placement
Of the snare and the bass and that there is the basics
Rare example where the architecture is spaceless
My word play shape shift
Space ship speed I gain lift
Got a strange gift to rise like high tide I came in
My aim split the arrow fired in the bullseye nine times I can't miss
Pages remain ageless like paint in a painting
Time frame range ancient to what you awaiting
Rhymes I arrange reign like King James
You know the language ain't the same when it's Melee building the frame
Painstakingly staking my claim while some claim they making flows like breaking a water main
But they outta order man sorta like the scene at the boarder plays
The extra ordinary ace of complex word play done built a stage
Stealing a field of dreams page
Think 3rd Bass minus the cactus
Leaving you backtracking cuz you slept on Melee like a mattress
Dig this like an artifact while I end this passage
Creater and an artist best description to fill in for me and all the art I sketch
Plans set
No matter how hard life gets
I keep building like an Architect
From cornerstone, foundation, to roof I built it as proof
What I produce paint a picture of truth
Shelter from all the lies you been listening to
When I'm not building It's mission to move
Complex geometry when I twist a homily
My harmony connects the structure next to me bombing beats
I carve a deep notch into a pillar and drop a beam
Predecessors left blue prints and just said copy these
Build a better technique new from the ground up
Sound of forever on repeat bound up
In a neat package of 80 minutes or less
You just hit pause when it finishes and say bless
That's the timelessness I'm building to
Feeling through a sea of sound got me feeling too unable to not speak out loud when dealing through
Some the worst this earth can spit at you
It's really miserable
But build I must. I've built up trust
In the capabilities I've built up thus far into the plan that stands like a truss
To hold the frame rigid, so my dreams ain't crushed
Gravity of failure weighs heavy I tell ya
But building off mistakes a sure way to propel the
Possibilities held up by designs that fell from
Architecture of letters that I'm casting this spell from
Architect
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17. |
The Message
05:33
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It's the microphone menace here to kill a couple minutes
My flow's intense business. Stacking records like Guinness
I keep it solid on the microphone dominant
No stopping this. I remain prominent
My promise is select sessions every track is impressive
And I try to put a message in that's sorta like lesson
Sit back and check it yo this track's called The Message...
(Check it)
If you found that impressive, I'm progressively intrepid on the mic kickin some lessons
Bass: Kicking ya chest in
Sound wave sickness put a knot in your intestines
Leaving your mind restless
Just like a scene I saw the other day down where some of us play
Ball
Maybe close to where ya mother stay
Call
It the block
Either it had my mind rocked
This shorty must trippin
Saw him hit his girl in the lip then dip in his homeboy's whip in an instance
Tryna put in distance before her mom dials the emergency extension
Nine double uno
You know how they do though
Hour pass still ain't nobody coming through so
Just another day and it shouldn't be like this
It's the type of situation we should all be fighting...
Boy from the first verse just a weak man on a power trip
Cuz week to week some man’s got him feeling powerless
Make a profit or I'm takin you outta this life
If the count ain't right
That's being shouted in his ear daily
Living in fear
Rarely a positive word heard. So tell me how this wouldn't impair the
Thoughts of somebody with limited paths to choose from
Everyday passed it feels like we lose one
And the man from the last situation?
Tryna feed his seeds and stay out the local station
But crime pays fast when checks they ain't coming and empty promises of jobs don't fill stomachs
To break the cycle, we gotta learn from it
Turn nothing into something
Find ways earn from it and pave the turns coming
For waves others struggling
Why are we fighting ourselves and not our government?
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Graphic Melee Portland, Maine
"It's Hip-Hop. It's more than just music. Heal the soul if you know how to use it."
-Graphic Melee
"iLoveIt"
Heavy beats, dusty vinyl, and dirty synthesizers are my specialties. I'm an emcee, producer, and DJ dedicated to my craft and I make raw Hip-Hop
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