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Yo the path of least resistance eat your green leaves and your spinach
Keeps the colon clean take the 6 to bowling green for business
Bump some soldier slim run from the cops avoid the holding pen
Everyday I'm older with grey stubble and double chins
Al's a little jowly the rap allister Crowley
Darling of the critics plus prolific like I'm Noah Hawley
You could take the over under old school game like rolling thunder
--Son these rappers acting bad like they're on small wonder
I own an x3 --- i own two cribs
You out here leasing so you see I don't give two shits
It might read as aloofness when you sponging off like loofas or
Crabs in a barrel trying to wrestle down like luchadors
Death of a salesman a maelstrom of nonsense
Tall like Karl Malone mailman frame on Larry Johnson
You can rap about the things you need but that's nothing new
Or you could play the victim and thats why nobody fucks with you
the path of least resistance eat your green leaves and your spinach
Keeps the colon clean take the 6 to bowling green for business
Set adrift on memories a youth spent playing centipede
Adulthood cooking feasts while my wiz is freaking centerpieces
Table runners gussied up with Lemons in a vase and shit
The way you love our music you could hum us like it's sabra bitch
Me I'm drinking savagion blanc straight up outta jelly jars
Watching stranger things and hanging upside down like poppa large
Layer all my references you get them as you listen more
a complicated metric don't set trip cause the datas raw
Heads around my age have bad takes like chuck klosterman
-opinions match on rap like sweaters worn by boys to men
Dag I'm in my 40s but no slips like Freudian
Slow it down a bit and spit madvillian accordian
You can rap about the things you need but that's nothing new
Or you could play the victim and thats why nobody fucks with you
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Lifestyle Branded
04:05
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Verse 1
Yo - I'm probably part of the problem
Preoccupied with the precious I guess I've become a golum
-- Im just an old grumpy bastard
I'm tired of these new fangled fucks that's old fashion
I'm entirely too tangled up erupts in a fire
Inspired by yeshua and siah I wish I retired
But there's nothing else I wanna do and if I'm being honest dude
I'd just wanna rap hang with my daughter and drink honest juice
Honest duke I understand this fundamentally
I understand the function of entropy to the Nth degree
Don't need to be in Mensa g to see the cliff in driving towards
Thelma and Louising towards the deep end see the diving boards
All I see is eye sores I'm cynical and I'm jaded
Yet I'm somewhat optimistic Like jaden Smith with some age and shit
Cradle to the grave I'm behaving like I'm an atheist
And everytime I rap its a fact I'm the John blaziest
Hook:
We're not people now we're brands and we suffer from bland design
We're like goop but in a loop it's all puppets and pantamime
We refuse to see our truth it's the blind leading the blind
We're uniquely un-unique its group think and hive mind
Are we a lifestyle brands or is our life style branded
Are we slaves to an image of limited understanding
And share all our information chasing strangers if we're candid
Are we a lifestyle brands or is our life style branded
Verse 2
I drink coffee more than beer and I drink seltzer more coffee
Excelsior let's sell off some kitsch the shit is off beat
Ask John waters nostalgia slaughters me I'm a softy
Throw in the kitchen sink at Cost of course because I'm lofty
I'm sleeping like triptaphan except when it hits the fan
Then I'm Flippant when set tripping on twitter and Instagram
Who am I kidding it's just pictures of my kid and stuff
Accounts are set to private cause I'm hiding from you bitter fucks
Acting like your alphas but really your just alfalfas
No point dressing you down you couldn't pull off the outfit
Damn--that went and escalated quickly
Guess I'm pissed off by the discourse just take it as self pity
Modern man is spiraling we're tribal and we're anonymous
I went and checked the vitals dog we're blinded to the consequence
Our hands are tied I can't decide if all outrage is ginned up
Or are these online arguments just artistry for dim fucks?
Hook:
We're not people now we're brands and we suffer from bland design
We're like goop but in a loop it's all puppets and pantamime
We refuse to see our truth it's the blind leading the blind
We're uniquely un-unique its group think and hive mind
Are we a lifestyle brands or is our life style branded
Are we slaves to an image of limited understanding
And share all our information chasing strangers if we're candid
Are we a lifestyle brands or is our life style branded
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Planet Me
03:39
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Oh great.
Everyone loves rap again
Until their curators tell them that it's wack again
It's the must have of th bespoke and woke set
Can we stop pretending solanfe is dope yet?
Nope bet
I'll be back in a week or two
as it is now I can't even speak to you
Without enduring all your thoughts on this tribe album
It's so painful that I might just have to try Valium
I mean it's cool but it's not even top ten
If you pay attention rap is better than its ever been
--I'm not being sanctimonious
Shit I bump blank space by Taylor and her bony butt
can't stand a phony fuck regurgitating narratives
corporate shills acting as critics shits is embarrassing
Sooo -- Ill just throw the flygod in your iPod
When they reminisce over you my god
Hook:
Get cozy with yourself if you wanna be free
You don't need to fit in don't need to be twee
Love what you love homes hate what you hate
Cut off fake friends that you need to validate
-- it just gets so exhausting
-You gotta keep em separated like the offspring
And keep your distance from the awful things their offering
Maintain your solar system just keep your planets orbiting
Verse 2
Everybody sucks and you'll never convince me otherwise
Myopic little fucks with their horrible taste like heffenweise
Life ain't easy for a rapper and a misanthrope
Listen bro you could kiss my ass like it was Misseltoe
With beef I pack brisket it's risk vs stratego
Webster's dictionary vs Webster the tv show
It's simply not a fair fight i could tear right through these simpletons
But me I'm mostly low key like the Homey tom Hiddlestom
You see I like laylow - play the straight and narrow
At the house with the spouse getting soused bumping blazing arrow
And that's why I stay home there's nowhere else I'd rather be
I have the perfect woman it's amazing that she'd marry me
Shes my manic pixie Winona meets Mia farrow
My bestie cause she gets me the kumar to my Harold
Or the bill to my Ted the Thelma to my Louise
We on that ride or die shit I'm talking Dmx and Eve
Hook:
We on that ride or die shit I'm talking Dmx and Eve
I'm talking Dmx and Eve
I'm talking Dmx and Eve
We on that ride or die shit I'm talking Dmx and Eve
Yo. I could be pedantic if I wanted
But I'd rather lock myself inside a panic room and flaunt it
really I'm pedestrian this horse shit is equestrian
I tend to question everything cause everything needs questioning
Yo I'm Socratic with this rap shit
Ring around the posey put a toe tag on these half wits
My name is Alaska and I endorse this message
When I'm riding on the iron horse I'm often introspective
And Bumping locked in spohford Or spotted reading siddhartha
In my chateau out in Brooklyn the look is welcome back kotter
sweat hoggin chasing down my ramen with some Haagen das
get cozy with the wifey a rosay or a nice Shiraz
a family guy in patchoge The padawan of patois
It's why I'm never seen so Incognito like I'm Sasquatch
My ad hoch ideology is Ali g meets black watch
A middle age dad looking asshole like I'm ad rock
Hook:
A middle age dad looking asshole like I'm ad rock
asshole like I'm ad rock
asshole like I'm ad rock
A middle age dad looking asshole like I'm ad rock
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Hook:
Self inflicted wounds we consume life at gun point
Delve into a diatribe we all die at some point
Cells regenerate the center never holds
Its the 7 year theory model 6.0
1st verse
Often times I feel genuinely flummoxed
So I put it in a tongue twist I look like ed blumquiist
I cook I mean brunch I punch up and speak unctious
If your whole styles chump and I can't fuck with you one bit
I know who I am. It took a long time to get here
I wore a lot of shoes and tried on a lot of head gear
Every 7 years all of your old cells regenerate
The remnants of your old self are tenants in your head space
Nothing more than revenants to haunt you with irrelevance
Obstacles to change they're like your old estranged relatives
They're crabs and they're barrels and they're balls and they're chain shit
Everybody talks shit and calls it entertainment
Hook:
Self inflicted wounds we consume life at gun point
Delve into a diatribe we all die at some point
Cells regenerate the center never holds
It's the 7 year theory model 6.0
2nd verse
Yo. I got this whole new persona where I claim that I'm old school to do what I wanna
Without a second thought or a pause or a comma
Furthermore it's flawless and won't cause any drama
-the problem is i don't know how to act
and this talk of evolutions me just chewing the fat
Well.....at least that's how I used to be
That was 5.0 but 6.0 is now the newest me
Halt and catch fire find me mired in my mutiny
That lines for Zilla rocca got me hopped up on that lunacy
We live by our hunches we'd know love if we saw it
That's my muthafucking doom and a bunch of other more shit
Hook:
Self inflicted wounds we consume life at gun point
Delve into a diatribe we all die at some point
Cells regenerate the center never holds
the 7 year theory Model 6.0
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High Water Mark
03:03
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1st Verse
Feel the pandemonium Homey we love the paranoia
Treat it like a paramour rather sure you should grab a lawyer
shit is getting ugly son It's Democrats and republicans
A disappointed frustrated hateful and angry public one
Step away from snapping and I can't say that I blame them
Got a media that treats it like games and entertainment
As they cozy up to politicians got me out here solipsistic
While these dickheads went and took our voice away like Polyps cysts it's
-----why we speak in terms apocalyptic
Subverted their proper English connect ditto and politiced it
Try to make us swallow shit and call it a sundae
And every fucking Sunday got these talk shows and the punditry
I might watch it as punishment white washing of Washington
So who watches the watchmen cause it's certain not them
It's a Fourth estate foreclosure It's Click bait and vacant lots
Lets start to raise the high water mark cause it just takes a drop
Hook
With the right set of eyes you could see the high water mark (sample)
2nd Verse
Yo --it's like standards don't exist
We refuse to act like grown ups and then blame it on the kids
Yo It's Millenials this yo it's Millenials that
while our greatest minds write think pieces on seminal rap
It's a sentimental trap nostalgia has now been weaponized
As Jesus wept I guess there's demons yet to exorcise
brands are now politicized the shit is run amok
-And They don't give a fuck your revolution sells their trucks
It's the outrage economy constantly keep em pissed off
safe spaces and snowflakes this discourse is pitchforks
This dischords a minor threat even for the mindless yes
The pseudoscience chiropractic assholes with your spine reset
people we're not serious we're merely sanctimonious
Conspiracy theorists who thing the Bankers are controlling us
Its intellectually lazy and that's the disappointing part
These drought like conditions got me missing the high water mark
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Bodhisattva
02:34
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Don't be Bout it bout it be a Bodhisattva
-You could be part of the problem or cannon fodder
Repeat and prosper like petey Pablo with helicopters
We could share the profits like marxists cause I'm hella proper
I'm not a doctor--so I don't know
what ails us
-I could posit theories apocatharies that sale drugs
Kolonopin fear mongering mongrels with their Tail tucked
Trapped inside the maelstrom of white males that failed us
They say the futures female and honestly I'm all for that
The devils in the detail prevail or falling flat
buy the ticket take the ride presale take all my cash
Money where my mouth is if we fail it's over jack
--on some go back to the island steez
Become better people with no fetish for irony
I'm tested by these humans assuming they get their IRB
The flow is Cisco Ramon you know you wanna vibe with me
-So fuck the He say she say cliche
Rehashed reboot recap replay
Cause Missed opportunity consumes me and eats away
I stay spitting the dope shit while Homey langs beats'll play
4break
Bout it bout it trying to be a Bodhisattva
Bout it bout it trying to be a Bodhisattva
Cause Missed opportunity consumes me and eats away
I snatched up the dope shit from the Homey crypts beat a day
8rap
I don't to be the best mc
I just wanna be the best me and see where that gets me
Is it blasphemy to wanna be like gatsby or Gretzky
And use great as an adjective and rap on the best beats
I thought not. I wanna be your boddesvhta
Not a father to your style a teacher like I was mr kotter
A modern mystic but maybe with a pot to piss in
Post modern pope not a by product of populism
3rd Verse
Yo you could be the change you wannabe
Your could be forever if you bomb atomically
It's the one thing like amerie broken eggs and omelets g
takes juevos to make small potatoes into pomme frites
So fuck Homage to Omar go and see your omas
eat a little fromage or take her to the pho spot
And be your own God Mutual of Omaha (Fade Out)
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World's Worst Life Coach
04:03
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1st Verse
crush kill destroy stress
Burn yourself alive die and hit refresh
Get your Phoenix on. You could be a don
Some comida a breather and get your breeding on
Maybe read a book on your kindle or your nook
Take week and antique up in Kinderhook
You could be hella bland bro
Especially if you plan to go commando
bump Darius Rucker
Hootie and the blowfish you know this muthafucker
and drink a little Lowenbrau
hang out with an older crowd
watch cbs a drama or a comedy
Eat biscotti and have a spot of tea
One up the governments hypocrisy
And Make bad calls like your man ed houcoli
Hook:
Life ain't easy we're all professionals
bull by the horn -- life by the testicles
Just some words of wisdom live them I guess
And you could be the man with my plan for success
And you could be the man with my plan for success
you could be the man with my plan for success
You could be the man you could be the man
you could be the man with my plan for success
2nd Verse
crush kill destroy stress
Rock Dockers with an oxford and a fleece vest
Vineyard Vines unwind and regress
want a timely demise no more and no less
Don't let me get decrepit or make a wack record
Pull the plug if you must you'll find no objections
Sign the DNR while playing GNR
Upload my essence to an unlabeled CDR
Grow old have a bratty kid
play madlib while playing madlibs
I still play madness
Our house - our address
art is so arduous
let's have online arguments
Twitter flame wars till your brain pours
Out our eyes and die from incompetence
Hook:
Life ain't easy we're all professionals
bull by the horn -- life by the testicles
Just some words of wisdom live them I guess
And you could be the man with my plan for success
And you could be the man with my plan for success
you could be the man with my plan for success
You could be the man you could be the man
you could be the man with my plan for success
3rd Verse
Crush kill destroy stress
Get the Sunday times watch meet the press
No nuance - clip coupons
have a salad - no croutons
Try that new fad diet b
Join a cult but not Scientology
And if your living bored start a vision board
That will solve your problems when your balled up on the kitchen floor
Yo you should watch John waters
Collect Kitsch build a wall at the border
Download apps place online orders
Spotify playlist you made for your daughter
And you could Be a modern man
Go and get your shirts monogrammed
These are all simple life hacks
And No lie they'll fix what your life lacks
Hook:
Life ain't easy we're all professionals
bull by the horn -- life by the testicles
Just some words of wisdom live them I guess
And you could be the man with my plan for success
And you could be the man with my plan for success
you could be the man with my plan for success
You could be the man you could be the man
you could be the man with my plan for success
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8. |
Godhead
02:58
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1st Verse
Yo It's safe to say that i love's my privacy
I wont be joining proxy wars so don't even invite me
Im Sweden bitch no ideas original I sweded it
Be kind rewind and if you don't mind go and eat a dick
I'm Sorry I let me ego get the best of me
Some times I feel domesticated hope you don't think less of me.
Standing at this vantage point I wrestle with my vanity
And if I'm being candid there's advantages to vanishing
Create a little mystery vs Annie Wilkes in misery
Sometimes it feels like Anvil when dismantled to the nth degree
Dayum. I guess I'll never be on MTV
I'll never be in wu or beef with talib like I'm remedy.
Hmmm. So it's probably a net win
Find me on the shitter reading twitter and deadspin
Yeah --- I sound bitter and angry
A walking contradiction optimistic and sanguine .
Yo - it's safe to say I love my dignity
Won't catch me selling out because my principles imprison me
I'm John bender breakfast club trouble and captivity
Adapt my own creation myth it's mixed with the nativity
My parents are Mary and joseph
That's close enough I guess I'm ready for my close up
Cecil de Mille mixed with madvillian and had children
Broke out of Brooklyn to start looking in the Catskills
Hook:
Ahhh I'm just to old for this bullshit
Ahhh I'm just to old for this bullshit
a little me time a bit a wine a warm bed
I'm the god head the arm leg leg arm head
2nd Verse:
--I'm a walking cliche (cliche)
-I'm Old and corny like walk this way (this way)
But Yo -- I still love rapping
-like the folks in Pawnee love little Sebastian
Yo--it's safe to say I love seclusion
brutalist architecture marches by Phillip Souza
also enjoy Elucid the oouvre of Mila kunis
22s of brew And episodes of too much tuna
I used to dream of sushi grade and one day being super paid
My posses on Broadway rocking PNB and stoussy flavs
Yo (yo) now I just laugh at it
my roots & my past I Distortion to static it
I wrestle with my fate an existential ladder match
There's no gods or karma you can't see that check your cataracts
It's strictly for the non-believers me I'm an atheist
Amazing grace and chuck but fuck I try Im Macy gray with this
despite yoda's protests do or do not
When I feel nostalgic I bump clue and doowop
And flip through old photographs to laugh with the old vets
When I miss my homey vu I go back to our old texts
And study our ancient history to me it's the olmecs
On Every frigging Sunday talking bout the same old jets
Here there's no fluff pieces falsehoods or fuckery
Not Freudian or fraudulent It's sort of why you Fuck with me
Hook
I'm the god head the arm leg leg arm head
I'm the god head the arm leg leg arm head
I'm the god head the arm leg leg arm head
I'm the god head the arm leg leg arm head
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9. |
The Future is Female
03:48
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Hook (x2)
Hey young girl (the world is yours)
Hey young girl (the world is yours)
Young girl young girl (the world is yours)
Young g-g-g-g-girl (the world is yours)
Verse one
One is for my baby two is for that little girl
Three is for the woman you'll become upon this tilt a whirl
Learn this while your young (it's my most important lesson)
Your capable of greatness (never make any exceptions)
Keep that as a compass (your true north let it guide you)
Tend to what's inside you be tender be insightful
Be hard when you need where your heart upon your sleeve
be cautious of the love you give and love that you receive
growing ups confusing (I'd be wrong to sugar coat it)
But just know its universal (it will hurt so don't lose focus)
Don't use closeness as a crutch to do so leaves you compromised
Be confident and fly (and try to live your most accomplished life)
Trust your instincts learn to think critically
And if You get the blues peruse some bo diddly
Most people tend to settle for the middle
And even more are like Nero with a fiddle
Avoid both groups (and folks who shop at Whole Foods)
And if your friends are true (then they'll embrace the whole you)
And when Your grown you'll have these words in case you need me
That's why I made this song for you my little eloise-y
Hook (x2)
Hey young girl (the world is yours)
Hey young girl (the world is yours)
Young girl young girl (the world is yours)
Young g-g-g-g-girl (the world is yours)
I pray you find happiness (I hope you get to live your dreams)
I want for you to feel complete at peace to shine and maybe beam don't be defined by someone else (take the time and find yourself)
Shape your mind mind your health You'll find there's different kinds of wealth
Be the kind to help (keep reminders of who you want to be)
Then work to be that person (refine it in time and harmony)
There is no final self. There is no second act
There is simply just a journey goes from where we've been to where were at
And if your so inclined you can change it on a dime
And Rearrange your life but the results might take some time
And trust that you'll have regrets (the moments that you'll want back)
That's just a part of life (The science is not exact.)
So don't settle for stasis the slow death is complacence
Have a firm handshake always look them in the face
Embrace the good places in your life (find the strength to stay And fight)
that becomes your driving force (your source of all your light)
Now it's time to say good night (it's time to go to bed)
The songs are sung the books are read (it's time to rest your head)
know that daddy loves you and I'm here for you completely
That's why I made this song for you my little Eloise-y
Hook (x2)
Hey young girl (the world is yours)
Hey young girl (the world is yours)
Young girl young girl (the world is yours)
Young g-g-g-g-girl (the world is yours)
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10. |
Fortified Live
03:34
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Verse:
The reflections internal fortified live
The way i cling to pride Leaves me more than mortified
Ive had the foresight to spend most of my life journeying inward
A journeyman all up in my own shit like pinworms
Introspective circumspect and trying to make those circus catches
It seems I'm just a retread out here trying to get my sea legs
Blocking egress flock of seagulls homes I ran so far away
Not sure if its productive fuck it Homey I can hardly say
I have to ask what's going on it's sorta like I'm Marvin Gaye
Connected but detached that's the tragedy of modern ways
--And that's how we live our lives now
The medicated edification maybe just pipe down
The tree falls in the forest I'm sure nobody heard it
Cause I've gone against the heard and gone and turned into a hermit
That's life's little stupidity I'll never get rid of me
I've entered in the ether through speakers and e-lec-treh-city
Hook
The reflections internal fortified live
The reflections internal fortified live
The reflections internal fortified live
The way i cling to pride Leaves me more than mortified
The Reflections eternal fortified live
The Reflections eternal fortified live
The Reflections eternal fortified live
I can never die because I've been immortalized
Verse 2
The Reflections eternal fortified live
I can never die because I've been immortalized
I've passed along my DNA through my CDs and my seed ok
And that makes me immortal its an easy way to see decay
the day that I'm deceased it won't be my names sharina
There no sob story for me when I rest in peace bruh
I'm infinite I did it I went and I left my mark
It starts with my lineage and ends with my art
With building blocks and cookie crumbs just like my granny did
And apples falling close to trees you see just like a Granny Smith
Its bedrock and it's granite shit it's sort of like grand canyons
It's planning and it's patients and it's generations standing
On our ancestors shoulders cause erosion takes time
I stopped trying to seek closure at the end of my prime
Now I speak of decomposer as a form of decompression
And I use these compositions as I usher my confessions
4 bars of scratching
Gravediggaz nowhere to run to.
Hook
The Reflections eternal fortified live
I can never die because I've been immortalized
The reflections internal fortified live
The way i cling to pride Leaves me more than mortified
The reflections internal fortified live
The reflections internal fortified live
The reflections internal fortified live
The way i cling to pride Leaves me more than mortified
The Reflections eternal fortified live
The Reflections eternal fortified live
The Reflections eternal fortified live
I can never die because I've been immortalized
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WORDS HURT New York, New York
Words Hurt is the merger between rapper Alaska & producer Lang Vo. Together they're the embodiment of using spite & self
deprecation to block out the rest of the assholes clamoring for your attention.
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