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WYLMBY?

by IIIA

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Death Notes 03:10
Imma be real with you Uh, I think I'm way worse than I was In the last project Think I'm worse, mentally, spiritually I got lot more shit to get off my chest Fuck! But look Here's my death notes Success has many friends Failure is an orphan My mother told me that Before I started popping Before cheques cleared Conversations bout brand endorsements Back when nobody cared about the lost kid No tears, no emotions We off em So have this, as the second offering She asks how much the bag costs It's no biggie Look girl, I can afford it Crossroads of success I'd raise a toast to my achievements But I've been once, an alcoholic Took two years and a stash of blunts to get off it I think I switched the liquor for sex I think I met the woman of my dreams I'm just not the man she deserves yet I'm charming but numb to my core Ain't a person I couldn't give paradise But I hunger for more Don't know what more is Maybe I just want a nice house And maybe some kids Or maybe I don't Maybe I'm ego tripping Enjoy how you moan While I'm grabbing your throat Laughing in therapy sessions Getting better a joke Don't lecture me bout lung cancer boo Just let me smoke Don't lecture me bout finance baby Spending time with these notes Some of you think I'm talking blues and greens But it's really just always been black and white And life ain't safe but sounds sweet When you got the right key Music the ultimate time thief Back in this game like I never left They tell you walk a righteous path But never tell you how it all goes left I've lost faith, I've lost love I've lost my respect for this dark game Of back stabs and closed gloves Remarkable grief I see angels below I got a few more death notes just so you know Hold the pain cause when it burns Creative flames protect us from the cold This ain't ink I'm spilling It's pure gold Every names got notes Every name in the death note I got a couple more death notes I got a couple more death notes I got a couple more death notes Where I come from it's summer all year round The sun is shining all year round There was no...there was nothing I saw sun all year round Do you understand
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It's a Summertime Snapshot Everybody Fine We just taking shots Summertime we gone whine We gon pop off Only time we gon ever ever Get shot Only time Black boys gon get shot Forever framed We gon be famous Just watch Summertime Snapshots The summer scored my youth Blue skies reflected my heart The shapes of the clouds Well, that was My first relationship with art Warm rain on my skin Long days just to think C'est la vie, french broken So you thought I said lovely Well spoken So I move candidly Hold my chest Don't hold my heart You smile I know you, you know What this about Three weeks later fucking On your momma's couch Fuck you to the point You start to hope again Used to be a pessimist Now you talking faith And destiny The weaponry was apathy Shielded by love But cruelty, poisoned me The prices we pay for peace That lens does feast Upon your memories Writing this From the belly of the beasts Where I fear no evil Just me Bought flowers For your grave b Ain't I romantic Ain't this just bliss Three shots no witnesses It's a summertime It's a Summertime Snapshot Everybody Fine We just taking shots Summertime we gone whine We gon pop off Only time we gon ever ever Get shot Only time Black boys gon get shot Forever framed We gon be famous Just watch Summertime Snapshots Saturday barbecues Kept me good Kept my belly full Sunday morning cartoons Kept me up Drawings plentiful Momma in the kitchen Looking tired Cooking soul food Every grown up look sad when They watch the news Especially when they black Twelve year old headass Was mad confused But less than a year I would suffer too Common theme of black life Pain is a primary tool My soul framed In the pictures with you Babies lost in the blue Paper chasing, nevermind us We fell into the pool Their charity is Chaplin Before hand me downs Became sustainable fashion Passion was rhythm The grooves Sailed on wavelength In the music Shipwrecked on your nation Will you let me be yours I'm yours I'm yours I'm yours I'm yours Will you let me be yours? Summertime She said I'd love you Regardless of what it takes Separate the real from the fake Wound up in hospital Last time I took a leap of faith So here I am Ready to do it all again The spoilt apple Beside her, the cider Left me drunk on hate This cyanide journey will end At pearly gates Maturity doesn't increase With age Reality is not Confined to a stage I've seen blood I've seen water I've seen wine I've seen no separation In all three at anytime What am I, with you Who was I, before you What will I be, after you're gone Point that camera to my skull Point that camera too my skull It go like
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He said pull up, felt a switch hiss through the air Bleeding out he pray to god She tell him life ain't fair I tell all my demons we can do it We can do it right here He said pull up felt a switch hiss through the air Bleeding out he pray to god She tell him life ain't fair I tell all my demons we can do it We can do it right here Too used to cycles of hurting A downward spiral o' bourbon That velvet red is the verdict When there's a trifle o' learning I treasure friends in my bubble Cause trust I fucked up a couple I stumble out of a club With beer n' blood on my knuckles Visions blurry n puzzled Mind is clear from mistakes You'd think a mansion is saviour Once you've slept by the gates Depression lacks any preference Rich or poor its the same So light a tree like its Christmas Cold turkey can wait N' though it hurt me to say Cold turkey can wait N' though it hurt me to say Cold turkey can wait He said pull up, felt a switch hiss through the air Bleeding out he pray to god She tell him life ain't fair I tell all my demons we can do it We can do it right here He said pull up felt a switch hiss through the air Bleeding out he pray to god She tell him life ain't fair I tell all my demons we can do it We can do it right here N' though it hurt me to say You made your mind right in hindsight I'd hide my lies behind any time we'd have a fight And I riled up every inch o' just before I took a mile Trading words like bullets, vicious and vile You living 9-5 while I was dreaming of some limelight Searching for my ego, it was hidden in pride N' I would jump to all affection tryna mirror role models With a cold bottle I was lost in my reflection, severed tied and broken friendships Tunnel vision, no direction If I was tryna live forever I could never die a legend Dead men up in my closet cause I Told em it was heaven I been counting 7 minutes when I struggle for a second I been countin up the clock like i was paid to tell the time I been dreamin o' the radio like every stations mine If I could buy back broken trust I would forfeit every dime I can never buy it back no I can only pay the fine Think I'll stick to method acting if I'm ever villainized Drive's disguised as desperation when inside a villains eyes Fuck a prize, my demise is when ill know I'm satisfied Until then its baked beans with day dreams till my deep sleep is worldwide We can do it right here We can do it right here Look boy You claimed you bout it But now you bleeding and you shook boy Midnight drives If he scream, tape his mouth Knife under the finger nail to let him know what it's about Crying for yo momma knowing you about to be taken out Pull up by the riverbed Then cut the lights Disposable gloves And a bike kit right Deep breaths This gon hurt boy You ain't gonna be able walk to church boy If you believe in something Pray now Cause you gon say much after this round If it was up to me I'd pop a round boy Be done with it No tough love, you a broken toy Little boy Look I'm the Black Playboy of your Western world I know how to things unfurl I don't like shit, don't go outside Word to Earl Fuck a clique Switchblades left me traumatized And if you play with my family Then you gotta die Look You the observe the sharks So you know how to hunt All my idols served a stint in a pen Explains why they could never imprison my pen I can turn a piece of plastic into razorblades Look I can have your body your recycled and the lose case Look Some of you here are only here due to my mother's grace Look If it wasn't for her Your momma would be looking at you through a picture frame J taught me how to squeeze a trigger a 17 Louisiana family, you know what that fuckins means No weaponry too cruel for me Catch his head when you knock him down Any room you in stick to close the walls Money is addicting Mind your withdrawals Here's some final financial advice That transaction between life and death happens every night
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All my killers ready to roll You know X told you hell is hot I'm here to tell you It's cold Ice on your neck a cheque If you know you know Ninth circle no respect That's the place we go Let's talk about it So many cheques cleared Need a money counter You can't count on her since last encounter Still end up fucking on the counter Young, wild and free, no Americana They said you can free pain by hitting ganja Adding comas, scrounging bars up Pac said fuck the world no condom I can't condone No protection Weaponry make me feel at home I make a dirty Harry look stylish Just from aiming at one direction One wrong turn Imma chip his dome Boy drop bands when he see a Smith and Wesson Money useless when your life's a loan I'm okay long as AK's at home Bullet graze his flesh Change his skin tone Thought he was a soldier Now he kiss his girl through a cellphone Fuck with me famo The wordplay ammo The punchline clipped I say it, don't spray it That's marksmanship Put your ashes in my rollie Spark Wait, wait, wait wait Then hit All my killers ready to roll You know X told you hell is hot I'm here to tell you It's cold Ice on your neck a cheque If you know you know Ninth circle no respect That's the place we go I get took back By these fuckin gun raps You couldn't stomach a slug You're not a hood rat Now let me push facts You never pushed packs Ain't got the run of the jungle Ah would ya shush lad Ain't dealing with much muck with mud flaps Wishing you were from the gutter gives me such laughs Every stutter that you utter about your rough past A father and a mother that helped you touch grass A good dad, with a loving mum In a big warm house in the sullen slums You get a sudden rush from the dullest sun Calls himself the plug 'cause he's the dumbest son The big, bad crook, he's the rugged one Until he gets that book and he's undergunned Never seemed so shook and now he suffers none Because he hung himself according to the mother's tongue
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When I started this journey, I didn't think we'd end up this far I didn't think things would go like this But I just got one thing I want to tell you real quick We are the shape of jazz to come They told me drink to your success, became an alcoholic, nineteen The good die young, I lived the blueprint of cracked dreams Took about ten years to find pleasure in the simple things X marks the spot, but I never knew Y, I was off axis Pretty people and cocaine was praxis Hotel charged me two hundred, we fucked, broke the mattress Six months later, I broke your heart too You tell me I'm yours, but this spliff ain't enough Let's keep it blunt, boo Let's keep it crack Nah, let's keep it MDMA You get fed up with my distance, but with cops I don't play Love is the law, you judge, I bear witness to its sentence Escape the heart's asylum, enjoy my last sentence I think we're better apart, not trying to be cuffed, not trying to be jailed Behind these bars but the instrument my bail And if you don't like it, you can suck the Moby dick of a young Ishmael Free form flows for you flailing fucks that's frail I turn a crime scene into poetic detail I am the flickering sanity of a young black male You can't blackmail Cause I seen switchblades cut faces while niggas kayfabe Seen them spin, hit the block like a game of Beyblades The mainstream media hound our pain like a great dame These fucks are Cromwell to the Irish wolf Antipathy to common good And sometimes I feel like a courtesan to morning wood This a free meals program giving soul food I seen fake thugs waving arms like the lines of a polygraph test Just to get chipped by liars that they couldn't detect The speech impediment of a duct tape tech If the gun jam, the switch flicks So say less or say more Shamik from two-one-two still laying on the floor No disrespect, I confess the intellect been addressed Not disavowed, never yours to allow Peep the style, could go a hundred rounds Fuck with me, catch a round Oh shit Oh you like how I'm rhyming now This is the shape of jazz to come The foolish think it's ornately done We take the plastic sacks and run Like Coleman finding gold in New York The shape of jazz to come The shape of jazz to come The shape of jazz to come I am forever an affirmation of my mother's prayers They said speak with conviction, so let me say this I married joy, but cheated on it with sadness I fathered love, but abandoned it result of madness Child of the internet, looking for happiness I heard blue birds the reason you catching flies in your mouth Get it You the web now Let the pen bleed, let the thoughts feed Maslow's pyramid co-opted by schemes for human greed I'm writing sermons to the congregation of your inner child You look back at me and said that was nothing profound Child rebel soldiers at war with poverty Dead em like Fenian raids of eighteen sixty six Closed fists hit the wall, then snapped the wrist Cheeks turned, but now there's blood in the spit Between cut fingers and squat thumbs Halo effect inscribed on the trigger of your snug gun We are the shape We are the shape of jazz to come We are the shape of jazz to come I am the shape of jazz to come Ornette Coleman, if you can hear me, you gon' fuck with this Ladies and gentlemen, and those who are neither I'd like to take a moment of your time to allow a good friend of mine To just serenade you out of this experience Please give it up for Luke Corrigan
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Here we meet the Samurai continuing his quest Refusing to give up the fight Still, little one, there is more to learn Watch closely I come from a generation exploited and gentrified The sensation of music anointed Clouded eyes, the veneration When I spit on a mic, you see acid, not alkaline I call my fans excavators, they dig for gold when I rhyme Ironic how they count the odd one out in your prime Blind to the skill they see as luck My L's were sevens, you just had to adjust Jacked the pot black royal flush Take chips as they come Either on your shoulder or awards that you won I am a jack of all trades, I kill my masters for fun The light that remains from a half-dipped yellow sun I am a bullet, you just a fucking smoke from a gun Reloading like hard drives Wheels spin slow on the road to success That's hard drive, but lately I'm losing drive to fatigue Don't get it twisted, still kill these beats With ease, young pessimist, forever hard to please Insomniac, but my morale's been swinging miles around me I think therapy's the synonym for sleep Dream's the definition of free Trust is blind, lady justice, co-opted honesty I'm on my knees, begging to be healed You ain't married to this game You trying to cop a feel We ain't not the same, you fuck around I'm young, black, David Copperfield Nigga, how's it feel I'm yours We ain't in that same game, we're the new generation There's a lot to come, but if you come to Christ You'll be made anew There's no way you can argue with me There's no way you can debate with me You need to be born again Made anew, made anew So that you know the living God in your heart So that you can worship him, worship him, worship him Give him praise World of vice and sin ain't it appealing? But you need healing We praise the music We praise the funk Dance with us Look, God is a black woman, she listens to funk I don't make music unless it rattles your trunk I'm speeding on backstreet roads, and yes, I am drunk They tell me they love me, and it don't mean much This for Lindy Boppers and Zoot Suits This for Uncle Fermi with the silver tooth This is Kaftans and well cooked soul food Ink spilt over Pro Tools Distinct blinks like you ain't supposed to rhyme this good I am sooth and prayer's new school grit But I kept it playa, she said Take me and make me yours Bed turns to swimming pools when she's on all fours It ain't blasphemy, If we both scream too God It's just rhapsody When you shake mi amour But this melancholy got me obviously numb to myself I've been like drowning in vice Maybe I should just ask for help, no lies felt But till then, we praise the funk But this melancholy got me obviously numb to myself I've been like drowning in vice Maybe I should just ask for help, no lies felt But till then, we praise the funk I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm yours I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm yours
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FOR BALDWIN 03:13
Look Every time I write It's another note from your native sun Delayed the pun, the jokes on you I'm Lorraine's raisins hun Ain't no sun in me I grew up without a complete family Got stabbed and realised opening up more than anatomy Kush, and sage in the air She thinks I'm practicing alchemy She on her knees Little brat Gon act up for me But got an Oscar body Only right you perform b Camera in your hand Oh you want to shoot a movie scene So I like my men elegant Like my Women decadent I've been through hell But make sure every word is heaven sent You ain't felt grief till you buried the kids that loved you Till you looked at mothers knowing you failed em Till the money comes and you realise This life is aimless Till you realise, that to some Blackness is entertainment My life's a movie with the sound off I'll pop you corny fucks Before I let you tell me what a stage is Pure scripture. The spectacle is just foreplay Ain't that something Baldwin say I never sleep, cause sleep is the cousin of death I stopped being indebted to dreams Cashed reality cheques Emeritus of the game Stained window of Fame Caution the brave Elysium's play for the grave Let's talk myth Kissed cheeks Meets silver That's brotherhood Exploited currency I am your keeper Stay out the hood You said I'll love you regardless of what it takes You patched up my bruises after every leap of faith You got a piece of my heart But I'll always have your vertebrate And if you ain't felt love infinite Then you can't relate You make me believe in faith You'd run through fire just pull me back from heaven's gate I think you might be the remedy for my apathy The ink of my perseverance My beloved, eternal love So if you listening Let the these words be a constant hug I love you
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If loving you is right Then I just wanna be wrong And lose myself in the, in the, in the twilight The twilight Just my life That's my life Look, I'm at the point where the point is just played out Skip to the point where you laid out Know you like to play now Fuck like we love each other, scream and shout Ain't that foul, you couldn't duck my sauce Five star meal, had you on your tip toes Begging for more, kinda crazy how I juggle flows Looking for purpose, instead I found hoes Make a garden out of broken hearts My life a circus and it's just a start Every clown gotta play they part Fuck a Birkin, can you baggage my thoughts And dump them into the sea, no opening up Intimacy is futile with me And I wish I wasn't But I'm cold inside, so cold When I touch your glass, I chill the wine But I try my best to keep you away from that So this little world of mine It's yours, So enjoy my plastic smiles Enjoy my styrofoam tears Enjoy my fugazi Enjoy the best of my years Enjoy that champagne Enjoy the Louis bag Enjoy the times we had Enjoy each time you O Cause when I break your heart I want you to feel it When I go I might be toxic If loving you is right Then I just wanna be wrong And lost myself in the, in the, in the twilight The twilight Just my life My life This girl Eve from the Garden of Eden Met her out last week I know what she be needing She don't need no man to be tweaking But some grown love she be seeking So I tell her girl Move back, move hips, ay Who's that, who's this She wanna ride all night Make me wanna ride all night Till she see morning light This girl make me wanna get frisky, risky When I'm out of the ends Now she tryna kiss me, undress me Take me down to her bed T-O-X-I-C Now it could be me, but unlikely I just ain't got the time today But that's okay This loving on her mind, it won't go away Yeah, I know she like me Tryna be my wifey Step into the scene And the drip is so nicely icy I can even do it in a white T Or roll up in a night with my tech fleece Nike I got a girl up north in Finsbury She wake next day Said she wanna go Tiffany, uh Baby girl, are you kidding me It's funny how the money make gyal move differently Yo It's funny how the money make gyal move differently Yeah Ha ha Ay yo, wrap it up, wrap it up Cause I'm done out here
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Now let's go, it's been like two years and I haven't drank before but fuck it I'm drunk now so Eight months from the time of this verse I'm on stage I came to vibe out and you know how I play The crowd fixate, some of you thought I wouldn't be great But I shut down the night and I'm smiling through the haze As I'm walking off I see a kid, he looks like me Know he relates, his pupils dilate as I'm going by I tell him have faith, have faith Cause six months ago I was writing through the pain Ignoring any requests to medicate I'd rather self-destruct than do it as an act of faith I'm a blood diamond, I belong in the pearly gates But right now I'm fucking you in your hotel room I'm living off snow, liquor and good sex I'm wrestling with faith, I'm wrestling with success I'm wrestling with addiction, the work of myself to death And emotional taxes I can't afford to pay yet Another one of my dreams came true Man fuck this champagne, I want my dead friends back I want to fail, I want to fall, I want what's left of my heart to crack But they want my soul for the capital like South Korea But that's my black gold, I learnt that shit from Nina Let me ask you B, would you trust a flower doesn't want to bloom Would you trust an actor doesn't want to act Would you trust fiction if I said it was facts I don't believe in heaven I want heaven right here I said I don't believe in heaven I want heaven right here I want heaven right here I want heaven right here The world is on fire, so am I Light bleeding out this broken heart of mine I fucked around and stole the shine Then light dimmed, the gin sip memories Gone fade with time, I'm sick of wack niggas trying to tell me How to rhyme, if you were half of me, you'd be arrogant too But you ain't, so thank god you were born you Question mediocrity, my answer on cue And if I could choose, I would've never fallen in love with the blues My favourite colour, my world outside Shade I see, cover my mother's eyes I slipped my knot, felt freedom You said you loved me, I was traumatized I spilled benediction, swallowed music's prescription That's an antidote for wasting time But I hide my salvation between your hips And I hide my soul between your lips And I hide myself in all of this Between grey and white matter where the thoughts eclipse And as you lay on my bed, just remember I don't believe in heaven I want heaven right here I don't believe in heaven I want it right here I don't believe in heaven I want you right here I don't believe I want you right here I want it right here.
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He dead, she dead, they dead, we dead All em dead Said he loved to write Instead his face Kissed the lead All dogs go to heaven But the humans Stay in hell The good die young No more stories left to tell Back in the kitchen cook a new batch for the streets Produced till someone drops PTSD No glass half full, anger the relief So traumatized we had to bury grief This ain't coughing, we laughing Bring the cask out, fuck a casket Night time comes, we gon' get ours Every hour you think you safe is another scar Your sister finds on your face Wolves gotta eat, ain't no saving grace Ain't no saving grace Look, look, silence the lambs when they Hopkins World went west, so we dealt sin Needles of the compass, novice to compassion Promises not threats One thing I know about bloodshed It's a river that never ends Baptized fear in coca leaves Come sundown We gon' do it all again No shots but they shooting up No shots but they shooting up No shots but they shooting up Another life lost to the cold sweats He dead, she dead, they dead, we dead All em dead Said he loved to write Instead his face Kissed the lead All dogs go to heaven But the humans Stay in hell The good die young No more stories left to tell I'ma murder than muses Fist fights and switchblades made me fucking ruthless Wish things were different But I bear the scars of a child missed by Cupid If you think you know me, pause right there You fucking stupid Fuck you know about 2k on your head Fuck you know about probation from the feds Withdrawals on the bedside Last time I lost my cool, three people nearly fucking died Made love with a Cuban witch, Santeria Watched my enemies get crucified Couldn't rebuke my soul The blood of these pigs is mine Fell in love with an heiress at the steps of Versailles Said she loved the cruelty in my eyes Placed the knife to my heart, boo Not afraid to die, I'm not afraid to die Two eyes on you, one looking to the sky Let my sins be sanctified Let my sins be sanctified I'm yours
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A lot of people ask me how I cope The truth is I don't The truth is I don't The truth is I don't How I cope The truth is I don't I was never one to cope Sunken place back here again I guess I need a rope Irony cause I'm on the ropes Losing battles left and right Flat footed cross legged can't keep up the fight Bloody teeth I smile with them Cashmere tears I laugh with them Fuck my name It was never meant to be written Existence played out I place myself in the rhythm In every man I lost, child is hidden Middle man of existence is sadness The middling man kept his millions in time capsules So if time is money I'm spending credit cards faster She puts coke on her tongue to numb my face My nose runs but my feet Are stuck in place My mind's stuck in place I don't make love I give you pleasure while I disassociate Look Fuck with me famo The punchline ammo The wordplay clipped I've prayed for relief Now I watch God laugh every time I take a hit Eyes numb and out of focus When I do it I know you'll hold us No hocus pocus But watch me disappear Look, this life's a window I might jump This life's a window I might jump This life's a window I might jump This life's a window I might jump I should've, I might jump I might jump In the event of my demise Mom, I just wanna say I'm sorry This is for the daughter I know I'll never have Or maybe for the inner child I'm about to adopt I love you dearly, that's the core plot The core stem, petal truth I never thought tears would bloom when the booth in sooth I'm sorry I never let you come near I'm sorry for all the stumbling I've done in this world I'm sorry for what I am, I hope you understand Pain can't reach a dead man, cut me, see if I bleed I hope the Lord grants me peace Let my spirit unfurl, I hope Maclaine won't miss me When I'm gone, I know the world moves on I hope you forget my name when I'm gone I hope things are better when I'm gone And if you miss my presence, know it's tears of joy at the end of this song Mom, I'm sorry, I just couldn't hold on I don't wanna be no more I never did I hope you don't enjoy these writings of your troubled kid Cashmere tears, nothing life and real We cry when we want, we laugh when we die Cold veins spill warm blood, I ask vanity why Vanity tells ego we have much to realize But I'm drowning now Why did they make my reflection so divine But I'm drowning now I can feel water falling down my spine Slice a window, I should jump Slice a window, I should jump Slice a window, I should jump Slice a window, I should jump Slice a window, I should jump I should, I should, I should jump I don't, I don't think I want to be yours anymore I don't think I wanna be yours anymore Just let me be In the event of my demise I just wanna say I'm sorry I love you and I'm sorry I love you and I'm sorry Aight, bye mum
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I make you scream something holy Every damn time that I come through Can tease all you want baby but you bite your lip When I'm in your view Smoke palm trees in the rainy views So we sunny minds When the light peak through Two tongues when I speak to you I gotta feel ya mind with ya body too Sometimes have to break from you That fire made me act a fool If I'm born a sinner Might as well do, what I do the way that I do It ain't that intricate When we intimate We in tune Keep it stupid simple When we vibe boo That's a XO for experts, who been Vexed out That's a shout-out to my exes And side pieces that hold ya down But the truth is when you find love And that love screams Oh yes it's a holy sound It's a holy sound Truth is I ain't above vice In fact at times I feel a slave to it Break that feeling every single time I make music Pill popping made my feelings useless Can't feel, can't love Nose numb. heart numb Had to cope But are you coping when you unsure Whether its slipknot or a rope Made a pact to get to clean And I been clean, met you I'm trying to let go of the tears And be comfortable And love me To love you the, way I know I do This is me, making a holy sound I'm yours b Look last album I asked you, if you had faith In the cracks and the lost kids without a face I'm smoking cigarettes staring at your grave I wish it was me that jumped that day But I might just bring out my wallet and stunt I might just fucking jump cause I'm drunk I might just, do whatever I want I MIGHT JUST, I MIGHT JUST, I MIGHT JUST WHO AM I KIDDING I'M YOURS As much I hate it I'm flawed I'm jaded, I'm yours, I'm spiteful I'm yours, I'm tainted, I'm yours I don't what care it costs I'll pay it And hope my spirit make amends I'm yours kisses on my neck I'm yours My best friend I'm yours I love you enough to stop hating myself I love you enough to save myself WYLMBY WYLMBY WYLMBY I'M YOURS
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4 My Peoplez 05:19
I told you I'm back like I never left Crossed my path and you're playing with death No regrets in the heart of young black intellect You ain't fucking with me, man, remain celibate You think you're criminally minded You just incels, life is a test Without revolution you fail So stay the fuck away from young Ishmael Lights, camera, action 2am in the backseat behind sunglasses Pour some Rembrandt on your ma, she a Rembrandt now Frame her all the way up in the Moma You think I'm talking hip-hop, need an art diploma Asleep on modern movement, arthritis to the arithmetic Here's a formula, see if you can stay with it Blood suckers get hit with nine before they carried by six Plus that's ten and thirty adding repercussions to it But zero fucks given, equals switch blades hidden Equals people going missing, you can open casket visions The project may happen, the fallout just happened No games played, bottle your captain Conrad's story is the heart of rapping Don't confuse darkness with blackness Fuck you, my reason is the fucking passion I'm not an artist, I'm an art test That can't be degraded, S tier skill that's Why I'm your favourite, I'm yours I raw dog, this game so well, it started to pay me I think my preschool teacher was Marina Tsvetaeva My parent-teacher meetings were simply filled with ether Hell is where we're bound, on my poetry book in math class Substantial words, not yet profound The silence creaks in emptiness, emotions found Still here, all part of my hope For committing crimes to my joy This punishment was Dostoevsky's second ploy I see the coy toy as it laps up annoyed noise The fish scale inhale, have my nose fucking destroyed Is it pieces or Pisces, the way I show the tale Or tell a story but the allegories, the scars on my ribs The you mistook for braille, drop the sibilance and competition Is a game of who got the better kill Explains why the first cartoon I saw Was an exploration of skill Oh dear, little Bambi, don't go there Oh dear, little Bambi, don't go there There's monsters in this forest, beware Let me tell you a story, about pain, bloodshed and black glory Born into a war, not made for me For thee, I'll show love's allegory Is ink, we left out history Poorly we spin tales, Even though we don't know where the fuck it's going Emotions leak, lies kept us snowed in Potus, don't think we important Taoiseach don't see us, they wanna deport us Claiming back our resources I live without caution, my voice never be distorted Not cruisin' cause how minorities reported Got me feeling horrid, worst part is cops play Executioner, in this corrupt court kid Look I do this for my people The good ones and the ones that are fuckin' deceitful I do this for teachers, nurses But also lies and crooks that feel they worthless If you listenin' that means I do this for you too Coup who? The thoughts free Ain't you heard the good news We turn bloodshed and bruises into paint for our works of art We turn tears to rain to nature, the world's drought Give me bitterness, I'm listening to lemonade Sippin' in imported Sake All the nightmares and dreams are reality now Lucid don't exist anymore Long nights, Henny-poured I should call my little sister more Instead I pick up an MPC Hit record, I do this for you cause I love you, whether you got it or don't I love you, whether you feel like you in a room or caught in the smoke I love you, whether you got the punchline or you just a joke I love you, I'm yours Cause you my people, my people You're my You're my You're my
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Look I'm at the stage in life Where the stage is life Could hit the left road but I was raised on Spikes joint I did it right Bright like the tip of candle wax On a lonely path Tell these corporate ghoul To kiss my nyash Pinning tales on themselves Every quarter I triple the wealth I have dreams of red suns setting on red sand I must be growing maturer In this game of thieves and liars I read ya cap Like the head of Thomas Sankara Bought my main a Chanel bag to Baggage the trauma Young, broke and tasteless Morning Sanskrit prayers Coke left me faceless I've come a long way from Being a manic roulette player Designer suit sent gift wrapped from a Belgian tailor hmmm I think I'll wear my Dashiki instead Graduation in three days We ain't minor, we majored Could have been the college dropout Late registrated Momma, healthy Lil sis hair long like river Nile If I could feel happiness, this the part I'd crack a smile I think I'm growing colder More disconnected More or less, I think business And pleasure made me apathetic I don't open carry my emotions I conceal em permanent Never regulated, ain't no checking me So if you catch a stray Fuck it. You deserved it I thought 48 karats Would hide the lack of purpose I'm on a roof top listening to Xenia's Magic Trix 65 emails, 34 missed calls and 102 Unopened messages I take the sunrise in and write another death note You say I'm too emotionally one note Why you never call Why you disappear for months Why you asking questions Lemme disappear and roll my blunts We grew up in a lonely castle My roses all had thorns My friends all had coffins My mentors, dead and gone I think life is a prison I think my body a prison Irony is I'm only free behind these bars Look man I do this for my people The prodigal son The the artistic sequel The shape of jazz to come The war where no gun is drawn The outline comes alive The crime scene was not meant to survive I am not a product of my environment I'm the product in the environment You fiend for conscious thought I just supply it man The lust sustained The fortune framed The picture unclear What a time to be young black And queer So cavalier he got one hand round a gun But his words ammunition so He don't speak with fear Apathy means I am a poltergeist to parlay Same old, same gold Tell the divine it can rob me of my life As long as my spirit enjoys the getaway Ghetto lullabies Eternal melancholy of the spot filled mind The nightmares, eclipsed fury that Malice held in rhyme The concierge asks me where home is I tell him home is a coffin Unfortunately, I live We held bravado Before apathy stole the hope Bloody fist The pavement punches your feet with Every step My phone rings, incessant I am spoiled beyond belief Beyond reason Grapes fall into my mouth Blood dribbles down the cheek Life is killing me 3 years from the time of this verse I'll Probably be dead More successful and Wealthy than I'd I've ever expect I knew where I was headed when I Chose this path at fifteen This is a tragedy You just don't know it yet See I'm in an industry where emotion is commodity In utero you serve servants, no apologies She says Fuck me right here, right now I need you I tell her look I can put you on my schedule Come on, don't pout boo You and I both know I'm worth the wait Spent a months rent on Taxi's just to get away Told my main spin the globe No photos. We'll get away Self-expression is a game of Consequence And I got nothing to lose See I got nothing but my mama's smile And all these blues So I Hop in the homie whip no license or registration Nearly crashed it, split old blood on my New kicks Order a quartet just to Seranade me for a lil bit Double back to the jeweller Drop a stack for wrist But Here's the plot twist I'm more broken than I've ever been I'm more broken than I've ever been I'm more broken than I've ever been I'm more broken than I've ever been I'm more broken than I've ever been I'm more broken than I've ever been I'm more broken than I've ever I'm more broken than I've ever I'm more broken than I've ever been Some people think I'm talking about a particular lover, or person in my life But the truth is You are every fistfight I ever got into Your are the concrete that split my skull And bled my thoughts onto these cruel Streets for the first time You were my first kiss as we held hands In the cinema The first ever rounding applause I got The first of many The first time on stage I think I've been addicted to you ever since I think I've loved you Before I even knew what you were You're mine But I'll never forget I am eternally yours I'm yours This voodoo music For your entertainment Blood moon Christ's body I'm the most disloyal changeling A thousand words I sacrificed, to make this painting Heaven's work For all the hell I've taken No debating who's ill I'd rather be the cure Fentanyl flows Scratch the needle Inject what's pure Baby I just need you to know I just need you to know I just need you to know Where you're going You'll never be alone I just need you to know Where you're going Where he's going Where she's going Where they're going Baby I just need you to know Where you're going You'll never be alone

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(W)ill (Y)ou (L)et (M)e (B)e (Y)ours?

The first part of a hip-hop odyssey about love, death, psychosis, god and redemption.

The first album I ever got as a child was Nina Simone's gold collection when I was twelve. I think I wanted to create something that leaned into my vulnerability the way that album did. This is an ode to love, loss and the violence of human existence

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released May 28, 2023

All tracks were produced, written and mixed by: Ikenna Anyabuike

Special thanks to:
@naynay_brooks (model)
@dylanshootz (photographer and photo editor)

And the multiple musicians who told this story with me: @emmanlovinlife @darrenkilbane @djgreen_oifigiuil @the_real_diem @luke.a.corrigan

This work was written, recorded and produced by Ikenna Ugochi Anyabuike during the period of 2021-2022 across Galway, Dublin and Italy.

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IIIA Galway, Ireland

I started making music when I was probably around 12, I used to record songs and I had an overlay feature on my phone. It'd let me express myself. Songs were terrible but I had fun, it was therapeutic. 10 years later it still is. I think the songs are better now though ... more

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