1. |
present not pressed
01:56
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....bitch, i’m present not pressed
hard-headed how i take my lessons, i guessed
....i guess i'm ready to decompose
never see me losing a lead to heed
weaker foes
better be improving your speed
to seed deeper goals
credit me for moving the league
to breed eager moles
can't talk about my upbringing without the tears
unless i tell the lies i told over the years
niggas seen me cry never asked why
the voids that can never be filled by what the cash buy
boys that can never be killed by what the rats try
soar intelligently with skill, it's mister magpie
can your force of will not be plied by the wine and the promise of endorsement deal?
whom i kiddin? of course it will
who'd you like to see die for a quarter mil
separate the 5s from the snortin' bills
crackheads was flipping off roofs, pre-pandemic
and landing in a 3-point stance, like damn, kill
heed the planned penance
i'd rather self-devein
man
than help regain land
for bland lyrics
if it ain't in the cards it wasn't meant to be
waking up to screams need to get old eventually
the poor sentries ignored the 4 bentlys
oh lord
the sword-entry wound-gore was lore friendly
a hopeless gollum
witta focus problem
i'mma crossed word with an open column
throw in the towel cuz nobody you know can stop 'em
your only option is succumbing to the potent toxins
i'm known locally and globally but don't nobody know me tho
your homies probably hoping i get polio
we all teeter between leaving the scene
and believing in dreams
these things
are rarely as bleak as they seem
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2. |
brain fog
02:08
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i been in the rain,dog
i been tryna chainsaw
through the brain fog
ayo
i'm Tony Jaa
plus Yo Yo ma
Coco-bra
you a footnote on a celeb’s wiki
getting paid net60
i'mma sweep the leg swiftly
faith was broken
had a couple cases open
slave to no one
rappers getting flayed n frozen
say the slogan
everything we make is golden
the waves are molten
we contaminate the oceans
i hate promotion
i would rather wait with bowmen
take the openin'
liberate the sacred totems
my fate was woven
across civilizations n ages
n ancient potions
as i orchestrate the omen
say a prayer
write it on a piece of paper
lay it there
more worth in that
than thinking we gon play it fair
the esoteric
exothermic
let's go, hermits
petro, burn it
check those permits
where's yo thermos?
well known in manifesto circuits
might make a rapper vanish
presto, perfect
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3. |
late night fantasy raps
01:18
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niggas never from the city they say they from
playing dumb
maybe they ain't playin son
waiting for my day to come
gimme the word
and i'mma make it, cunt
gimme the herb and i'mma
say it blunt
keep yo eyes on yo own paper
bitch
face the font
deface a runt
you a staged stunt
i'm spontaneous
even if i trip on the move
from lack grip on my shoes
i pivot n slip n a groove
n get u enthused
i make the best of bad hands
burn up the grasslands
turn up witcha man
that stash grams
like you dad's mom in witsec
i squish insects
you wish for incest
i swish on chimp's set
dunkin
no round circular pastries
just mo hounds goin round
murdering bass thieves
.... you was the kid eating lunch alone
fast forward to adult full of holes like pumice stone
now you runnin home
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4. |
she said, she does
01:59
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even when the going get
tough as an overdone steak
i be knowing shit
address me as your holiness
check the net gains like a goalie gets
stare into the cold abyss
when it stares back
you feel the loneliness
feeling like a cobra bit
your toe and the necrosis hits
promotional posters ripped
right before eyes
before you die
you notice it
you gave up all your ownership
holy shit
holy shit
niggas know i drink juice
n think loose
life in so many fragments it's harder for me to regroup
i ain't got no choices but to eat soup
this is tragic beginnings not a meet cute
i'm stepping out the meat suit
n strapping on the demon wings
you gon think u seein things
you forgot to call ahead
and ask me what you'd need to bring
head like a dingaling
i sentence you to mingling
small talk
tv screens
all us niggas wit dark scars
slipping thru the cracks
likeNelly witta Charge card
belly laughin har har
silly til i turn sidious sith
darth jar jar
meet me at the cigar bar
i'll turn you in tar tar
i'm perusing the armoire with nardwuar
put him in an armbar
cuz i thought i heard him droppin an N bomb
with hard R
little illingsworth wanted to grow and be a bar czar
or travel to a distant star far far away from here
this place is painful, i'd like to leave
it's not a rare sighting
to find me in the lair writhing
under prepared lighting
or studying shared findings
you specialize in scared writings
and hair binding
i've bested guys in chair fighting
my glare blinding
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5. |
safety net
02:06
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i'm kinda surprised you don't hate me yet
how long will it take
place your bets
.....we living life without the safety net
these types of speeds might break your neck
it's your favorite space cadet
i would take your head but frankly
i'd hate to break a sweat
the apron's wet
paint a breast
it's the pastry chef
scrunching your face up
and you ain't even taste it yet
rest in peace Jim Lahey
my scheme's cockamamie
my team blocked the main streets
what'a come is cool but yet
the best may be
lawnmower man got grass
dat Jeff Fahey
while i betrayed myself
you betrayed me
you wouldn't like me when i'm angry
who should take the blame when life strains out
strangely?
....now i gotta face me
next decisions cain't be too hasty
but now i'm
at the club with the girls with the pasties
looking at the money like the money don't change me
huh?
at least that's how i felt lately
tryna keep the reputation clean seen stately
might meditate when many things aggravate me
but i be reactin
it don't matter what happens
the temper is short
with long attention to abstractions
out of body experience
but it wasn't drug related
i wish i could explain wit that
the streets undulated
dissociative states
i'm crossin lines i didn't make
now i gotta finish what's on my plate
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6. |
scramble
01:44
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this kid want his wrist Rocky like the Appalachians
but still tryna learn the system and the applications
the glamour glitter and the gold claim fascination
over the youth, daily proof of miscalculation
you got dreams, got fears
you have to face em
waiting is masturbation
I know, cliched but we stayed in classic training
remaining well composed
don't find yourself exposed
if you're afraid to help your foes
then your self is closed
reality in unhealthy doses
that shelfs your goals
weeping as your wealth erodes
life finds a way, even light dwells in cold
we looking for the shelter that can shed our souls
but life got you all scrambled
got you feeling dismantled
but it's nothing that you can't handle
take it all in small samples
don't take more than your handful
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7. |
poorly refrigerated beef
02:05
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i sit in the dark under the screen light
unhealthy hunger for love
and i'm the fiend type
the wealthy suckin up blood
n gotta mean bite
you think you finna get left
if you don't lean right
you need props
or your esteem drops
it's the magician there's nothing up the sleeve
watch
whoops
you see the nickel plated heat
get hit witta whiff a poorly refrigerated beef
since six, sent to incinerate a beat
killers enter your crib and ventilate your sheets
same ones publicly regarded me as great
you should treat me like garbage to my face
this is the history you started to erase
orgy of evidence, it's hard to beat the case
peer into the cauldron, it's hard to beat your fate
get on a satellite, target me from space
trojan goat, carted through the gate
now your balloon ego has started to deflate
but i'm sorry for judging
i'm sufferin
from own desensitized dysfunction
from living in dungeon
checking my own pulse
lookin stoic as a vulcan
the inner world is crumblin
niggas be tryna to feel while rollin up dollar bills
for the ills of consumption
just to feel the pumpin
tryna ride out the wheels 'fore it turn into a pumpkin
categories we lumped in
got us givin it up before we givin it da gumption
yeah,
we all fizzlin in the function
drifting from intuition
and distanced from deduction
manipulated machines
then we breed amongst them
punked them
til revenge is in the instructions
chess-bots pushing hairlines back like Lester Holt's
break a kid's arm and shock em with electric volts
farms filled with brittle yields and speckled goats
Elon Musk appears in the Tesla smoke
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8. |
nikon
01:21
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shakin off a hater or 5
this is for all my peoples who be payment-deprived
it's like ah ah ah ah stayin alive
i gotta watch watch watch what i say to my tribe
i gotta bob
gotta weave
gotta take it in stride
gotta job
got needs
i'mma make it in time
find escape in design
when i'm creatin a rhyme
the entertainment from the phase of transformation sublime
maybe i'll take it to a stage
and if i still love it then
i might just put on a album
hope you give it a spin
......y'know
maybe when you stress peakin....
when your brain wants to exit stage left even
when the mess deepens
depressed
now you pushin back ya projects like
"i'mma do it next weekend"
hmm
or maybe do it never tho
if you don’t tell nobody
then nobody will never know
....maybe take an edible instead getting swept away
in stress's constant ebb n flow
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9. |
all i need
01:33
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i'own need all da fear talk
i'own need all loss accounts
all i need is the boss amounts
all i need is the awesome house
you get Gz n u floss about
i send thieves just to cross em out
all i see is the
raw life lead
i get all i need
then i toss em out
all i see is the charts
cigar bars
n golf
dem charge cards
resorts n pounds
all i see is the porsche's
out
all i see is exhaust around
all i see is my counterparts'
counted parts
when i swing dem swords around
all i see is the thorns around
if you'd seen you'd ignore the crown
i do things with the world renowned
you act mean when the girls around
what
you act mean when the girls around
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10. |
HMD
00:57
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....all lucky strikes
no gutterballs
all it take is the right price
n the love dissolves
they wanna slice of life
i'mma cut above em all
....anyway here's wonderwall
today is gon be the day we see changes
at least thas what i tell myself re-reading these pages
but the same patterns emerge
we got data but haven't we learned
somewhat savage
i crash n i burn
but no this isn't bitter demise
from the wreckage i materialize
so skip the goodbyes
wise
is what wish i waaaaas
yo highs ain't my highs
yo thassa different buuuuuz
a mixed bag of trauma n trash
some drama
a splash of vodka
nirvana n cash
they wanna know if the saga will last
ask ya mama
no comma i'd probably smash
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11. |
people's chimp
02:01
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i'm on a corner and i don't wanna be there
senses screaming beware
stomach screaming
"all i ate was eclairs"
muscles screaming due to all the deep tears
head pounding due to all the screaming
eyes aching due to being forced to see
dudes using torture as a sport
their wills forced on me
they ain't what they purport to be
never had a slew of yung wolves that could report to me
no monkeys on my porch with me
i am not a monkey
this is obviously sorcery
some say
blame gunplay and what it scorched in me,
fool, walk to the store wit me
tools
they come accordingly
and it don't matter who's recording
they snatching jewels assorted
wish i had a warp whistle so
i could play a tune loop it n
boom take a shroom
ignore it
dangling over the edge
entire views distorted
the trajectory is plotted out
your lord loaded a man-shaped bullet n shot it out
cups runneth over but we spill not a drop
you can make mistakes in your house
but when you on this
alpaca you gotta blot it out
until i reach the top? nah
i'm at the top bottom n sides too
u ain't gotta slide thru
stay where you at
i'm there beside you sweeping up all the crime clues
serving crucial platform pointers
and design cues
check the brush strokes up close
it don't matter who clutch toast
who wasn't or was a ghost
i'm crushing folks
unprovoked, matter of fact
unbeknownst
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12. |
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i stay in the crib and like
2 people know me well
one of them is not me
things ain't really going swell
fell down so many times
i been sharing broken tales (tails)
bones in the closets
i would never open
bail
out
when you call it
all my niggas 'posed to fail
cryin til we soakin
up the the dough
from weighing coke on scales
covet like a holy grail
stamped as a hopeless male
wanna see me thrown in jail
or hanging like a pony tail
we gotta move an inch
that's the only way to hitta mile
i do everything i can
just to make yall niggas smile
even if i gotta overshare
n put some pain on display
i feel mask crack n crumble
trouble flakin
away
hey
but was it worth it?
he should get a tat that read "relax" instead of that
shoulda focused on gettin better stats on my Equifax
shed tears for the harmed
beers in the barn
years on alarm
whoops
that's survival mode
kinda funny
it's the same reason i'm dying slow
checking my watch, surprise
it's always time to go
....tried to avoid the pale horse
which came in the form of social norms n Salesforce
flat emotions on a round earth
auto-tune singing while your lifeless body crowdsurfs
i'm making jokes to stay afloat
you taking notes?
take a dose
skin a hater's blokes
just to make a cloak
i'm trying to get my focus back
sleeping on a Yoga mat
Moody Blues, rainy days brewin'
he can soak in that
why you think you qualified to tell me how i'm 'posed to act?
connecting the wrong dots when you don't even know the facts
invested in long plots
but never did approach the black
dispose of those prone to lack
how many digits can you fit into the cock-rang?
picture it, mention it, and mint it on the block chain
they behind the spikes when the prices on the stock change
look at the goals and the roles
the boy got range
i'm Jonathan Majors with the paper and personal trainers
or the lawyers on retainers
(that's just a regular guy)
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Illingsworth Detroit
EMCEE + PRODUCER
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born & bred resident of Detroit.
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