1. |
RX
02:14
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Medicine. One more dose and I'm off the trash.
Just one more trip 'cause I miss this path.
It always felt good, but how long does it last?
Enough for me to believe I can get a pass.
Reverse, detox, try again.
Bottles on top of the fridge.
Running through the old lines, scratching the itch.
Love is blind and hate is blinding.
I don't wanna get old so I keep rewinding.
While I take years off my life, and I need reminding.
Medicine. Great 'til you need it.
I'm on this canvas bleeding, paint dries with no one to see it.
The end comes quick.
You were made to love with everything.
Sunshine, no medicine.
The end comes quick.
And then it did. React and regress.
"It's not hard", I'd say. We act in a pinch.
I don't wana be up last.
Climb back up the hill, take a breath.
I don't have to prove myself, just make it up.
And stay up. Don't settle back.
Back and forth spanned, I know the path.
I live on a hair, an impasse.
Too afraid to love with everything.
I meant no despair, things pass.
You were made to love with everything.
Sunshine, no medicine.
You were made to love with everything.
Sunshine, no medicine.
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2. |
Without This
02:45
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You and I watch the world burn and we don't care.
You can find no other love like this anywhere.
You and I watch the world burn and we don't care.
You can find no other love like this anywhere.
Came in with the red dress, yeah she looked like trouble.
Baby, I shouldn't. But that's my color and I will dance with the devil.
Yeah, give me a chance to make it better than ever.
I can take you to space under the covers, I go deeper than Hubble
I'ma need you on my level, my queen is from the nether
Monotony? Not ever
and she ain't even fuck with astrology, my brother
but she down to Mars as fuck, we up
astronomy, above us
in the cosmos. Man, what am I saying?
I must be faded enough
Peel it back and keep it subtle
let's get us a drink and make 'em doubles
smoke us a joint, I rolled a couple
can't help but chuckle
well maybe it's selfish or something,
but while the world goes mad
let's get to loving
Is that preachy?
Am I right?
You and I watch the world burn and we don't care.
You can find no other love like this anywhere.
You and I watch the world burn and we don't care.
You can find no other love like this anywhere.
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3. |
I Could Become
02:24
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What's love without blood? I want to feel that.
Remember fun without drugs? I want the real back.
What happens, let it come. I want to heal back.
I could become better through it all, let me feel that.
The same new day, one foot in front of the other
another lost brother and my mind gone
another lost sister and broken mother trying to fight on
my room dark, but for you I'll leave a light on
I am the shoulder to cry on
the one you think you can rely on
take a piece of me if it helps, 'til I'm gone
not too long, take everything but never break the pylon
seen some shit but still on the level that I'm on
What's love without blood? I want to feel that.
Remember fun without drugs? I want the real back.
What happens, let it come. I want to heal back.
I could become better through it all, let me feel that.
I could become better through it all, let me feel that.
I didn't fall off. I didn't become an asshole just because I was walled off.
Admit you didn't know me, I was always enough.
It's no one's fault but I should have always been above
I'm closed up 'cause we close but you don't know of half this shit.
I'm sick of being nice to these brick ass buds
I'ma keep it frosty, cold shit, second chances all done
What's love without blood? I want to feel that.
Remember fun without drugs? I want the real back.
What happens, let it come. I want to heal back.
I could become better through it all, let me feel that.
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4. |
Resonant
02:24
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I want to be what you saw when you met me
I don't want to be who I been lately
I was thinking maybe we could start over
You could be my baby, this is how it should be
Top shelf, cars with drivers, living pretty
blunts dipped in keef, sun sets at 8:30
we riding to the studio dirty as fuck
thinking this is how it could be when
this is where I am, not enough
Obsessed with being better than what I was,
this pretentious shit gonna get me stuck
but I mean what I say, I see this today.
My past means nothing if you're hurting now.
Do what you want, tell the truth, take me down.
I can handle it, I want to help, tell me how.
Let me catch that tear without thinking about
what I'm gonna say, or whoever hurt you gonna
motherfucking pay, I'ma just let you talk,
and this is how it should be.
No more "tomorrow", this is how it is.
I'm sorry they left you, I'm sorry they used you and
tried to prove you something you're not.
If for the first time you're going through the motions,
tell me you feel nothing, you're empty.
Love is the potion, the poison is envy.
Even for someone who's never pretending.
The best ones will still use you up
and put a hole in your cup, it sucks.
I know it's time to shut the fuck up and let you talk.
I don't have to relate it to the basic, it's you.
I can't take that away.
Let me catch that tear, let yourself feel that fear
and when the love comes back, let me just say
that this is how it should be.
I want to be what you saw when you met me
I don't want to be who I been lately
I was thinking maybe we could start over
You could be my baby, this is how it should be
This is how it should be.
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6. |
I Need A Hit
03:34
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I know I can be a bastard but I sort of wish this shit would happen faster
I mean, admit it. I'm sick, whole clique on that shit that'll give you cancer
Carcinogenic romances. Spit nonfiction through different lenses
Pay attention. Neuromancer. It'll come back again, this is the Inception.
Going bigger like Zimmer I'm gonna blow up
I'm the score to these four horsemen like it's they final cut
adorned the end it's more important but before this I'd like to
storm over this endless sea of art,
throw these pirates off port
off sorts chasing clout and nothing more, shit
I mean admit it I'm sick, not algorithmic so these kids missed the passion and the realness.
I've seen definitive bullshit, all systemic so these mids bitches rose from the cess, losing feeling.
I need a minute to get lit so this shit is pleasant and I don't write something so depressing.
I mean admit it, tradition is to ride a wave and follow the path, not forge it. Foraging, guess I was built for this forestry.
I mean admit it I'm sick, not algorithmic so these kids missed the passion and the realness.
I've seen definitive bullshit, all systemic so these mids bitches rose from the cess, losing feeling.
I need a minute to get lit so this shit is pleasant and I don't write something so depressing.
I mean admit it, tradition is to ride a wave and follow the path, not forge it. Foraging, guess I was built for this forestry.
I need a hit, yeah I need a hit.
But I'ma keep it real, this probably ain't it.
I'ma keep it real, this probably ain't shit.
I need a hit, yeah I need a hit.
But I'ma keep it real, this probably ain't it.
I'ma keep it real, this probably ain't shit.
Lyrical and tonal recognition when my face decomposing
growing mold on my tombstone while these kids hang posters
of it on their wall 'cause they noticed I was closest to the source
raw and not forced, open with my thoughts
if you listen, every breath is from the heart
I know most of you like the music my band makes and mistake this part for a sidequest
but nah, this ain't a king to a jarl
but I don't wanna say god
never go Ye with my ego (oh my lord)
but I gotta somehow cut through the peephole
to the right crowd before I'm down
spread my shit around before my ashes fall to the ground
I mean admit it I'm sick, flow intrinsic, nontraditional, time is a circle, my mind centripetal
Run around slowpokes mental and physical, I'm up, pen down, smoke that medicinal
I mean I'll admit I need a hit, fuck you, pay me. Well, shit. That didn't work, what the fuck was I saying?
I need a hit, yeah I need a hit.
But I'ma keep it real, this probably ain't it.
I'ma keep it real, this probably ain't shit.
I need a hit, yeah I need a hit.
But I'ma keep it real, this probably ain't it.
I'ma keep it real, this probably ain't shit.
I mean admit it I'm sick, not algorithmic so these kids missed the passion and the realness.
I've seen definitive bullshit, all systemic so these mids bitches rose from the cess, losing feeling.
I need a minute to get lit so this shit is pleasant and I don't write something so depressing.
I mean admit it, tradition is to ride a wave and follow the path, not forge it. Foraging, guess I was built for this forestry.
I need a hit, yeah I need a hit.
But I'ma keep it real, this probably ain't it.
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7. |
Hold Me
01:22
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Like the first time we touched like that
wanna feel my first high, take me back
Like a child console me. Lost soul drugs
stole me, y'all folded homie, I'm on me so
why I'm holding on to the old me?
Why I'm holding on to the old me.
I'm moving more coldly
That's me hardly, not hard to see, got good, I'm not farming
hold me like it's the last time and you know it
Hold me like you worried I'm outgrowing
Like I'm afraid of where I'm going
Hold me like my success not important
Let me put another project into storage
Hold me like you see my blood pouring
Just like it's storming, keep me 'til the morning
Hold me like you know I'ma be alone when the sun's up
Hold me like you holding down your one true love
Like real love, hold me to it
Hold like you fear I won't prove it
Like real love, hold me to it
Don't fear blood, just hold me to it
Like it's the first time we touched like that
Like it's the last time, might not come back
Like real love, I will attack
like you will
attack
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Yeah.
Civil blood makes civil hands unclean, shit if I don't give a fuck does that make me evil?
Fairweather bottom feeding bootlicking schemers
left when I stayed to get my people out the evils.
Passionate, heart of gold as a weakness
You down but I meant when I said they didn't mean it.
Can't fix what I've seen, past dreams. It's my words where you fly, fuck appeasing these demons.
You a beautiful phoenix.
I know I wasn't strong when you needed
I got my moments of bleeding
Why you not here to see this?
Let me show you we can beat this
It's not clean when it's family that's beefing
It's not easy
Stuck in the past, keep picking up the pieces
Can't seem to leave it, just
no one saw you for you. I can't fucking leave it
You're on the beat breathing
I'm on this stage needing thoughts of your teething
Hungry for the buzz, not the meaning
Miss me with that innocence
Miss me with that civil shit
blood tied, cut flows on the innocent
I am better than, yeah.
I am better than.
Miss me with that innocence
Miss me with that civil shit
blood tied, cut flows on the innocent
I am better than, yeah.
I am better than.
It's like fuck ya life, just try anything
Give me something more, I like real energy
You ain't a friend to me without this poison going into me
Take a trip and don't pretend, no more enemy
I used to make bank off this shit
Pulled rank hard with this shit
Blocked out thought with this shit
Was behind walls in a sense
And now the real sitting next to me
Lotta seats empty, I'm stronger mentally
I like the space better than an enemy
[Guilty Simpson verse]:
She loves me, then she loves me not.
Complains too much because I puff a lot
I'm giving this all I got, damn.
Kitchen just got too hot, so stop
Knowing where you stand is priceless
even though it damn near left you lifeless
even though you still feel right fighting back
still know that your silence probably would've done the trick
and I resent who you're running with
acting like they want you to pick
nose in the air like a stewardess, damn who is this?
I want to chill but you want to go on still
trying to find what I no longer feel
I know myself and I
I am better than. I am better than what I am now.
Miss me with that innocence
Miss me with that civil shit
blood tied, cut flows on the innocent
I am better than, yeah.
I am better than.
Miss me with that innocence
Miss me with that civil shit
blood tied, cut flows on the innocent
I am better than, yeah.
I am better than.
I know myself and I
I am better than. I am better than what I am now.
I know myself and I
I am better than. I am better than what I am now.
I know myself and I
I am better than. I am better than what I am now.
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9. |
Old Blood
01:56
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Please come home.
I miss the you long gone.
I want to see eye to eye, by now we would have passed it.
Another dream I feel your plan with mine, let it happen.
Just for a moment you were by my side, imagine.
It always changes, that's just how you're designed, you vanish.
Beyond the eyes event horizon, it's madness
No grip on shit, husk of a king walking, we lost him
sometimes he see me through the coffin
clarity through the damage, but not often
You never find time when the time's here
You don't want to listen, why share?
Pretend to be close, like it's a joke to be near
Got me numb myself, like it's unhealthy to fear itself
Even with you there, had to be there for myself
Black hole stare, I left you at the brink but I tried, fruitless
Through this, lose the worship, learn the worth of wealth
now I'm closed when you run your mouth
it's funny how the peace come with none around
Please come home.
I miss the you long gone.
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Up all night, shit it's been another week
Walls close in, pop another treat, yeah I'm on a peak
No fate to escape, I'm here until it's beat
On my own, no more heroes for me
Look up to no weirdos, I stay unique
I'm doin' it, fake rappers clipped like a Eunich
Don't say it, do it, fuck a dream, fooling kids
While you daybleeding 'cause I cut you like this beam
Navigating drama otaku katana
I got people but I don't need a team
I'm in my own lane. People are there for you less than it seems.
I'm running paces tripping face, I am the hallucination. Keep up.
I'm a new type, you copy pasted
That new buzz, you're steady wasted
GTA shit
You just shit so save it
See what I did?
Deep cuts, amazing. No boring flavors.
Maybe once I'm dead they'll see I was the greatest.
A year and a couple albums, work with the legends, got haters.
What are they worth? The salt that I savor.
I put it in the booth and keep it balanced like faders.
No more heroes bitch, I never waver.
No more silence. Been a whole lot of violence.
No more silence. Been a whole lot of violence.
No more silence. Been a whole lot of violence.
Been a whole lotta violence.
[Biggz verse]:
21 guns and a bottle of rum
Biggz the degenerate but it's all for fun
Strike one, I'm the son of a loaded gun
The passion I shoulder, I make poses run
Puffed out chest, I collapse the lung
Twice as tense now that Evie's come
Laser focused means death to some
and they don't even fit in my spectrum
I split 'em like a prism 'cause I'm next to bomb
Jitter with the written 'cause I"m rarely calm
I could burn it all with the hero's resolve
Fist on my hips and the cape is long
Back twice as strong, check the vice I'm on
Microphone fiend when the vibe is on
Yeah I heard your little song, I don't like it dog
Now kids, play the chorus and sing along
No more silence. Been a whole lot of violence.
Been a whole lotta violence.
No more silence. Been a whole lot of violence.
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11. |
Water
02:19
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This shit is dry
the world is dry
so why bother
I'll keep it moving
it's getting harder
status quo, like water
try to flow like water
can't let it go but I gotta
Man, looking back I was too young for all that
To put it to rap as a man, I'm trying to find the kid again
where I lost him.
It was a school night, awesome.
'Til he raised his voice, and it cost him.
I deal with it every way. My best friend didn't come to school the next day.
The man that gave him life took it away.
He never got old enough to say "this is who I am."
Good kid, would've been a good man. Never had the chance.
Most of my friends died from drugs, not their old man.
I bottled too much inside, this is a whole can.
Now people are listening, I don't give a whole damn.
I'll share my love and pain and scream "fuck Remi's deadbeat dad."
I'm just trying to keep it moving, intact.
Try not to interact with any more listless souls on their way to be damned.
It's Evil Key, and I finally got a plan.
I'ma live with love for the kid who could never be a man.
This shit is dry
the world is dry
so why bother
I'll keep it moving
it's getting harder
status quo, like water
try to flow like water
can't let it go but I gotta
This shit is dry
the world is dry
so why bother
I'll keep it moving
it's getting harder
status quo, like water
try to flow like water
can't let it go but I gotta
Moments of silence for the kids on and off the streets, it repeats.
Love undivided to all who have a missing piece, don't retreat.
Put your lighters up for the people who every day feel weak.
Blow it in the air and let it go like smoke, you gotta
face yourself and let it flow like water.
Flow like water.
This shit is dry
the world is dry
so why bother
I'll keep it moving
it's getting harder
status quo, like water
try to flow like water
can't let it go but I gotta
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12. |
Say Something
03:36
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I can't let myself change
I learn from the same mistakes
the same flux, I stay the same
it's like I'm addicted to the pain
something to write about
maybe now it's dull like my fantasies
my brain is toast from the kush, silence the savagery
flying close to the sun, feel the warmth and the loving heat
I can't let myself change
I learn from the same mistakes
Maybe it's a blessing I'm still hungry
I want to take my breath and just say something
I don't know what the problem is, don't want to rap about happiness?
I guess fuck my accomplishments, don't follow through in every sense.
Have I said what I have to say? Feel like I've said nothing
Did I give what I have to give? Feel like I gave nothing
All this passion, all this talent, and all these songs
nothing tracked, and it's like, what did I do wrong?
Trying not to be an old head so these kids don't start with me
Trying to tap in with this viral marketing
All I got was sick of the business, now I'ma do it for myself.
I'm saying fuck the traditions, I'ma do it how I want.
I can't let myself change
I learn from the same mistakes
Maybe it's a blessing I'm still hungry
I want to take my breath and just say something
I been looking in the mirror not feeling myself
Things are so different, disconnected from youth
My trilogy complete, said what I said now what do I do?
Just speak the truth and let it all come to you.
Maybe it's a blessing. These grey hairs on my face, is it age or just stressing?
Either way, I'm not a kid anymore, but I want to be.
When you can do it all and nothing's set
I love what I've done, can't say I regret
the passion for music, every note in every set
Every word is me. How I've earned awards yet no success.
I find it kind of odd, maybe it's subconscious anti-marketing self sabotage
Any plan was offset, can't say I lost any bet
'cause I never had the faith in myself anyway, bet
My most passionate shit, I left with no hits so y'all will just skip me 'til I'm gone, then get sad and collect this body of work and wonder "what could have been next?"
If it is self sabotage, I guess I refuse to correct.
I just hoped to blow up overnight with less energy spent
I'm adaptable, I'll get swept up in the mess, but
it never happened.
I can't let myself change
I learn from the same mistakes
Maybe it's a blessing I'm still hungry
I want to take my breath and just say something
Maybe it's a blessing I'm still hungry
I want to take my breath and just say something
Why am I depressed? I'm clean, hard working, with the girl of my dreams resting her head on my chest.
Maybe that is my success. If it wasn't for my music we never would have met, imagine that.
Maybe slowing down is best.
12 years in a band and now we finally connect.
On the road broke and you there with me, you better than the rest.
You deserve me at my best but I put it into this.
One day I'll be someone.
One day I'll say something, but I confess
things are changing and I feel like a mess. It's different.
I've done so much to reflect on my whole past, what's next?
I'm blank. Sorry to be that with you.
I'm stuck in the middle thinking it's the end.
Never thought I'd get this old considering all my friends.
Maybe it's a blessing I'm still hungry
I want to take my breath and just say something
'cause the end comes quick
it's like
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13. |
How It Could Be
01:43
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My dreams are giving up on me and I'm over it.
I said what I said. It's hard to own this shit.
Late 20's, haven't seen the world since I was a kid.
Maybe it's time to try something else and get a win.
Before it's too late, and I'm nothing but lost in thought.
What's another tour of sleeping on the floor and seeing another parking lot, my heart is shot.
Whether it's hard or not, I log on to an app and feel old.
I thought this would never happen to me, it's the kid's turn while I rot.
If only I partied less and took all the advice I got, or nah. Why stop?
Regret ain't a good look, and I love what I've lived.
But this isn't the end of the road, I just wanna win.
Is it unhealthy if my goals have been switched?
From arena sellouts to expression more honest
so I can connect with whoever I hit, if ever I get
more than a couple streams on this shit.
"Is that Evil Key over there at the bar?"
"Who the fuck is that?"
"He's a cool producer, composer, and lyrical cat."
"Go say whatup!"
"Nah, he wouldn't like that. I'll give him a nod and let him enjoy his nightcap. His head is a battleground, he never left the fight."
Scenarios, not plans. I'll die thinking I had not one fan.
I'm not saying this is how it should be. But this is how it could be.
I'm not saying this is how it should be. But this is how it could be.
I never let myself win.
I never let myself go all in.
Fuck it, I'ma have y'all yawning.
I'ma take 2 and call no one in the morning.
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14. |
Civic
02:36
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I'm saying this a face worth saving, but I can't save it.
It's home, even if we ought to make it
Every friend, as why art leaves the page with hatred
It requires patience, but
we built for it. Some are not that
Why fight for better space, not fact?
What can we do for the people who love it?
Now remember this place small, we know all the public.
Pretenders, gang members, pigs, and the druggies.
Artists and friends and family and lovers.
Pretend that it's lavish and the wrong people still lead.
We said "speak up, call out these monsters on our scene" but
they say nothing really changes.
You say nothing really changes,
yet you say my love is rearranging
before you're ready
before you're ready
Why fight for nothing, I could be better than
I was a better man when I was fucked up
I wasn't clear but clever, and I loved stuff
Now I sit home and smoke and write depressing shit and hope something comes out of it
Fall back on old ways, a day of powder shit
When I die, make sure I'm mummified
So you late to the party motherfuckers can try
to hop on my dick and ride
I tried to give you all of me
Honesty the whole discography
If you expect an apology for anything I've said follow me to the end
Trap in my rear view, rap is a clearer view, how to be nearer to love and fear to bloom
Quiet tomb to prevent our youth
Vision of the other side, this a beautiful redemption to see it for the truth and I'm happy to be alive through it, too.
You say nothing really changes,
yet you say my love is rearranging.
I'd rather be underrated than on the top for faking
I'm saying this a place worth saving, but I can't save it
I'm too crazy, I'm way too different
y'all like rats with wings, like a pigeon
I'm too crazy, I'm way too different
Y'all loved, heart don't sting with indifference
might get the same medicine, but I'm different
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15. |
I'm Lost In It
03:39
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If I find my mind
I'll give it all
to you
If we find the time
Let's find something
to do
I wanna be someone to you
I wanna be the one to do
all the small things with you
If I get stale please don't love someone new
If I find my spine
I'll walk right up
to you
I don't mind the time
it takes to get
to you
I wanna be someone to you
I wanna be the one to do
all the small things with you
If I get stale please don't love someone new
If I find my mind
I'll give it all
to you
If I find the time
I'll give it all
to you
Or I'll say my lines
and go back to how
I knew
Can you blame me?
Can you blame me?
When everything's easy, finally.
Can you blame me?
Can you blame me?
Can you blame me?
When everything's easy, finally.
Can you blame me?
I don't wanna talk about it I just wanna feel like I'm the greatest
fuck the haters, my motivation come and go. Fuck myself up,
flagellation, once a month mental masturbation, thinking
"fuck, this'll be the one to make me make it" while my soul straight
naked and nobody takes it, fuck it. Going back to thinking that
I'm faking. But that's not the case when I'm bleeding on this canvas
selfish, like "Look at my heartbreak!" Grow up.
If you're gonna rap keep it real and know it's a whole lotta hustle 'til the glow up.
My love, my pain, my blood, my gains
motherfucker I don't mind the wait.
My love, my pain, my blood, my gains
I don't mind the wait
My love, my pain, my blood, my gains
I don't mind the wait
My love, my pain, my blood, my gains
I don't mind the hate
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Evil Key Syracuse, New York
Evil Key, beat producer and rapper.
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