Feel my finger paint Color to stimulate ya
Rise relate ya Pass in love and nature
Rhymes to break ya, take ya Up to the maker
Away from the pain We feelin safer
The liberate to rectify the soul
Written in red, green, black Trim it with gold
We been in war Hey man we seen it all before
Got you feeling the fundamentals of flow toe-to-toe
How we battle You can light the shadow
Walking with a bring a barrage of marshmallow Yellow
Words and word curse Lip style mellow
Zion the lion-hearted fellow Bellow
Finger paint you can hold the weight
When the mind is great, then the soul create
I reperate like I'm water when I change my state
Mindscape to the next levitate
Breakin all the shit that I don't want to hold
Makin all the slumbers inside me flow
So in all the seasons can make me grow
And I'm breathing
I'm breathing slow
Breathe In...Out
Feel my finger paint as the world spins
Let my finger paint cleanse your sins
My finger's paintin' all colors on your skin
See my reflection in my brother, my twin
I'm sparkin' a light to your soul deep within
You can hear the echo when I drop my pen
The children hold hands under the rainbow
Everywhere we go we bring the same flow
Feel my finger-paint on my parabola
Supernovas, nebulas, satellites
My finger's paintin' all over the mic
My finger's paintin' lightning when it strikes
Bring down the rain, release the pain
Master the craft, die ya rocks ya game
My fingers paint across all terrain
My finger paint penetrates your brain
Breakin all the shit that I don't want to hold
Makin all the slumbers inside me flow
So in all the seasons can make me grow
And I'm breathin
When life brings trouble
You can fight or run away
I have no struggle
Relax watch me float away
I'm coastin'
I'm coastin' on a dream
I'm coastin'
This one's for you and me
Not to set trip but my car jets west
As I drift over cliff
The sunset yes
It’s me and myself
I needed a rest
The windows down breathin' deep in my chest
I used to feel hopeless
Now I feel so rare
Seats lean back
Can't see my chair
See my eyes reflect in the sky
I feel so divine givin'; thanks I'm alive
Cuz we came a long way since our days in the Ay
Sleepless nights was tryna get right
Now I just glide
Wind in my sails
I toast to the ocean
She balance my scales
West coastin'
Got the breeze at my left
believe in me black boy
When life do you well
Stay focused
True indeed it´s a fact
When those hard times come love will bring you right back
When life brings trouble
You can fight or run away
I have no struggle
Relax watch me float away
I'm coastin'
I'm coastin' on a dream
I'm coastin'
This one's for you and me
Now some pop bottles some chase models
As if it´s all live primetime the Apollo
Mighty big pill too many can´t swallow
The pain got 'em trippin´ off things feelin´ hollow
Weight in my brain
Spittin´ my slang
Cuz I don´t wanna I don’t wanna go insane
I´m forward on my mission now I´m deep in the game
Got my speakers on blast while I´m switching the lanes
Stay low-pro kinfolk
Started out at Kinko´s
Ten years later out to Vegas on a G4
The seats bucket when we puff puff pass
Passports in my luggage got my beats on smash
Attitude of a winner that’s some VMA
So we feel like its summer anywhere that I lay
Ay You see ay till the day that we out
Stay strong through the struggle that´s what life is about
When life brings trouble
You can fight or run away
I have no struggle
Relax watch me float away
I´m coastin´
I´m coastin´ on a dream
I´m coastin´
This one´s for you and me
La la la la la
La la la la la
La la la la la
La dee da
La la la la la
La la la la la
La la la la la
[Zion]
Original master, architect
Intel-lect, respect
My heart full of splinters
Agitating, so frustrating
Letting dreams stay as dreams
What are you waiting, for?
Feel the score, deep in your center
Immaculate is the conception enter
My dragon ways, for so many days
I rode on a ship with a hull full of slaves
A foreign land, foreign mind, foreign time
A foreign design to keep my people blind
I'm, a rebel in a system that don't give a {fuck}
Where CEO's feed your death
To earn a buck
And people get stuck
Followin the trends
Of a TV generation
But where does it end?
You can say amen
But you really got to feel it
Then every time you see a snake
You'll reveal it
[hook]
Seem like everybody trippin'
Or is it me, bein normal nowadays
It'll drive you crazy
Go to work 9 to 5 everyday, no retreat
You got to have a dollar
Just to get somethin' to eat
It seem like everybody trippin'
Or is it I? Crazy lady walkin around
Shoutin curses at the sky
Instrumentals be the lullaby
Rhyme stimulai, now come along
And vibe as we praise most eyes
You be trippin'
Why is you trippin, why is you trippin'?
[Zion]
Now in this rap consortium
There's a whole colosium
Of fake rap cats
Who tax human beings
Just a micro-cosm
Of a larger macro-problem
I sit with my pen and pad
Imagine ways to solve 'em
You can call me a dreamer
But I do not need a Beamer
To validate existence
I'm blessed in every instance
False pretense
Is what angers me the most
I'm good at counter attacks
Don't try to play me close
Don't toke toast, just roast
With my rhythm and give 'em
A hundred percent of what i'm livin
If it seemed like super ???
God must've lied
When he told me he will die
On the road that i fly
Keepin' me high
Rockin till the day that i die
If i told y'all people once
???????????????????????
why is you trippin? why is you tripppin?
[hook]
[Zion]
Most of us settle for less
Which really ain't fresh
I travel east to west
To chart progress
I found the common denominator
To always be stressed
And make me loose my breath
To think about the death
That happened when we rappin
But we just keep clappin
I pause for a second
Respect to the dead...
And let it enter in your head
Too many things on my brain
In this wicked game
TV, fear, pain,
Will leave you stained
Welcome to the other side
They said it never rained
You'll never win a game
Where the rules always change
First a college degree
Now a PHD
But if you got black skin
You need at least about three
Combat, in the illest ???
Verbally, with the solar energy
To let the people be free
Because we, are ?????
[hook]
(Intro)
Now how many degrees
Before you freeze, with a nomadic please
As we roam, Zion I trying to find a home
In the four-one-five-one o fo' sure
It's Martin Luther now you know it
(Verse One)
Don't ask me no questions partner, be the fire starter
Used to take Mata, nomadic places with the earths daughter
Emerged from the waters straight raging, anger on the street be amazing
Shit lingers, like the old soul senders
On the corner catching high stares like a sauna
You's in Ghana, Whitehouse in Ghana
Dark city with the face so pretty
Tried to stick me in the 60's but you missed me, missed me
Escape break through the space of a break-beat
Like an athlete style be organic
Causing damage it's hard for folks to manage
Sometimes, players passing red wine, red thoughts on Babylon's bedtime
Let me tuck you in, blankets full of sin
Chasing dollars down the street that you live in, so grim
Here's some ground never learn to swim
Sun rising on the backstreets of Oakland
This is streetlife
(Chorus) x2
What?! You get stuck! Buck buck!! Shot to ring out
Turned down, life, a cheap Christ, streetlife
Mic's, my device in this street life
(Verse Two)
I see Darryl on the other side of the grill
Where there's paper-chasing in this land to make a meal
Also born fossils and bread that is stale
While people loote'n'kick it bodies drop, oh well..
It's a place where babies that having babies
Well who called the shots??!! (*wait a second) Hey man it's crazy
Breaking all these barriers that claim so amazing
Making tunnels of sound, freeing the foundation
It's like Momega walking on probation
And fearing all the people that feel equal in this nation
Making wheat grass to everlast a stimulation
But I can't slow down this demonstration
And I gotta keep this sacred
Solid as a whole, 360 degrees, cipher as I role
Down to the avenue, it gets sold
I maintain for the revenue, forget gold
Chorus x2
This is streetlife (x2)
What you going to to with you life, when they turn out the light
Streetlife...Streetlife...Streetlife...The Streetlife
(Verse Three)
Yo, and what the fuck goin' on?
Im'a gonna metamorph in the early morn
A walkin' timebomb, but I stay calm
Life like an animation flick from Hong Kong
Daily chores reaping what I sow, digito?
Cable ready got my Lakers ready so I let her flow
Guaranteed to survive so I proceed to cats under the sea
In the land of milk and greed
With the heat in the street, bumpin' to the beat
Motivate the brains speak gains to the concrete
Eveready for the last day's battlin'
Rocking rhymes like this, suckers scattering
Tallying victories over seven sea's, rap degrees vaporise over PhD's
Interlinked, breathe in sink
God's the foundation, boy you better think
Chorus x2
(fading)
What'ch you and your crew goin' to do about the streetlife
f/ The Grouch
Zion I intro:
Lord gimme what I need gimme what I need.
Gimme what I need gimme what I
need. Lord gimme what I need gimme what I need.
[Zion I]
Dear Lord you show me the best of times
You show me the worst of time
Confusion all over my mind but still I be bustin' rhymes
And I fight for what I want, but I die for what I need
And I watch my people bleed while vultures steady feed
We proceed with the mic bless
Crashin' in your likeness
More deadlier than vipers
Lyric spirit snipers
Ignite us
We'll be candles in the dark
Solid like Noah's Ark
I was destined for this part
In the scheme of thangs
We kings and queens eatin' chicken wings
But greasy finger tips can't hold the cepters so it slips
Now who's equip to come up on a grip
Abraver with Fraiser Lee I wait for the response
And I'm locked and loaded missiles ready set to launch
Eliminated comp-atition they gettin' bombed in the trunk
Cause we keep 'em chunk in the trunk
They gettin' bumped in the trunk
[The Grouch]
What can I learn from living life?
What can you learn from what I write?
I study till my lungs are bloody to him I'm just some Silly Puddy
Who created me to play with, she to lay with, us to bust
So I spend my day programming what...sounds?
Cosmo bound to rap into the break of dawn
so they can hear and know it's on
If the flow is strong it's smart
If it's stupid it's not art
Marks are made so many ways
You can spin the tires, blaze a sack for everybody dazed
A chapter is what you're after
[Hook]
Zion I: Gimmie what I need gimmie what I need
Grouch: To help them trace my tracks
Zion I: Lord Gimmie what I need gimmie what I need
Grouch: To stand and face the facts
Zion I: Lord Gimmie what I need gimmie what I need
Grouch:To lead them not astray
Zion I: Gimmie what I need gimmie what I need
Grouch: To say what I got to say
[Grouch]
Now you can faze me with your laughter your smiles or your pain
I feel your trials when I'm down and out or winning at the game
No one to claim Creator yet the masses are perplexed
Cause by life we're so impressed, we all wish we had a next
And that's no matter how much I complain
Really couldn't place no blame
I'll just refrain try stayin' sane and hope you watch your aim
I scope and got the flame
To make and knock and sock the same
Got to use the brain
So I can lose the chain
[Zion I]
See Grouch you my guru leader
So I don't need to pack no heater
Like syrup you make this sweeter
This ballad is beemer teeter
I'm tryin' to find myself
Look at reflections of everyone else
Some of y'all might find that funny but do not know your wealth
You make the world turn
You make the fire burn
You make the wind breeze
The sinner fall to his knees
Now that's some powerful
And I speak my words truthfully
As far as I know
Yo we all got some of God's duty
Hook
[Zion I]
Let me crack my seventh seal don't rush
Microphone's gotta get crush
I thrush with the force of a rocket buster
This ain't what you're use to
Now we gonna fly high singin this song la la la
If you don't believe in yourself you best to try
Ain't nobody said this life is easy
Everything a test
Is you gonna do your best?
Hide in the cone of flesh?
You got to stay fresh
Cause if you stop you stagnated
Stale thoughts of lack will put you in a jail
Believe I can and I will
Set these rhymes to sail
But will what I really feel pay the bill shit is ill
I stare off in the distance
Rhymin' with persistence
Cause rhymin' is a mission
Will anybody listen?
[The Grouch]
Now if you put me through any time of need
I'm sure I'll call for help indeed
Daily I stay silent, thinking thoughts at lightening speed
Heightened by the feedback and forth reciprocation
Situation rather unexplained I remain relations
In laymens it's a vibe I felt
De ja' vu inside myself
I speak it verbally
Made sure all them fools have heard of me
Believe I'm well connected
Not a prophet who's been resurrected
Trust and I expect it
When I bust it's higher effects to match your spects
Of my blue prints and the true sense of these words
God he lives within, all of this he's heard
Every word (every word)
Hook
f/ D.U.S.T
* send corrections to the typist
[Verse 1]
(y'know what?!)
Everything comes back in due time
I throw D.U.S.T. on your shoe-shine (y'know what?!)
Soldiers in the camp getting out their line
They done lost their mind (y'know what?!)
My fam stands solid
I give my all to the cost you take it away from me? (y'know what?!)
You see this mic? Stay away from it!
You see these streets? Dont play on it! (y'know what?!)
Spit my flows - I know they hatin on it, debatin on it (y'know what?!)
School is in - You tricked me once, but I wont be fooled again (y'know what?!)
I love the rap game, it's hard to maintain with a bullet in your brain (y'know what?!)
I'll be here when the world ends
In due time you'll see your real friends
[Chorus: repeat 2X]
It's the same cycle
Day in and day out
You could take another route
But what's it all about?
Places we go
What the next day brings
You just never know
[Verse 2]
(y'know what?!)
I'm just a man like you
I used to be a fan like you (y'know what?!)
I stand with my crew, stay true
Tell me what you wanna do? (y'know what?!)
There's a feeling in the air
People act strange (y'know what?!)
Who to trust? He talked to Heat D.U.S.T
I'm outta ya range (y'know what?!)
Too much bloodshed
It's like a blow to the head (y'know what?!)
Don't go to the feds, and both of us dead
Don't you be scared, you're breaking the bread (y'know what?!)
Keep takin that red light, you heard what I said, right?
It's time to end (y'know what?!)
In the worst way, get your birthday
Sometimes Allah got no mercy
[Chorus]
How many times have you watched the sun rise
How many times have you looked deep into your lovers eyes
how many times have we spit phat rhymes
how many times
how many times
how many rhymes would it take
just for you to relate
and understand that we're livin in a police state
how many a pretty penny I would guess
non the less
??? he's got us all desensitized under stress
how many tales of whore shore to shore
before the last days is here that for shore
how many days before we get more mature
and brothers with babies take care of there ladies
how many mics get crushed blown to dust
before we discover the true power within us
how many times can we rhyme about the same thing
before we realize stand up we got to change things
how many times have you seen the sun set
how many times has your ass been in debt
how many times have you bumped our cassete?
how many times
how many times
how many times do the seasons turn for babaloyn
burn this is my own concern to carry on
traditional listen yo
how many brothers tears have shed
by my people for over four hundred years
how many times have you lied cheated acted conceited
didn't needed you want it
how many times runnin
how many scars and cuts
bruises from the battle from those who got beef
how many ever seen cattle
killed in cold blood
so you can eat it up0
how much more till somebody says that's enough
how many times have you watched a full moon?
how many times have you cried alone in your room
how many times have you felt the bass boom?
how many times
how many times
how many more of the hardcore rappers and gun clappers
gotta die before we realize ??zion i??
how many change in shadows
how much came in tobacco
how many bottles of 40 oz
death can we tackle
how many at the chapple
how many will be saved with fires rage
surface of earth is getting blazed
how many cause everyones got ??an opinion??
this is shit to zion crew expresses um
how many times has a baby been born
how many times has lightening stuck in a storm
how many times has your work been bought
how many times
how many times
yo how many times
*scratching*
how many live in the projects
how many have sex
before they fell in love
how many people forget
where they came from
i seen some people that lost
how many brothers get accused and hung on the cross
how many children get neglected
how many get raised
in the land of the empty
the home of the slaves
how many times can we rhyme about the same thing
before we realize stand up we got to change things
how many times has the sky dropped rain
how many times has your heart felt pain
how many times mastered again and again
how many times
how many times
how many times have you seen the sun rise
how many times you looked into your lovers eyes
how many times have we spit phat rhymes
how many times
how many times
how many times have you seen the sun set
how many times has your ass been in debt
how many times have you bumped our cassete?
how many times *fades out*
how many times
how many times have you watched a full moon?
how many times have you cried alone in your room
Intro:
Zion I crew. Amp Live, DJ KG, Zion. We're love and peace
[Verse 1]
The metaphorical, mathematical word science
Lyrical compounds react plus minus
Earth's finest, I represented on Venus
Girl gotta be pregnant so now she got my fears
Good God Jesus
Let me lace up my Adidas
My crew spread like AIDS you just can't see us
Subterranean, memories keep on fadin' in
Of when I was a king in Medittereanian
Landscapes greet time for ?
And chill while rain drops splatter on glass lakes
Reactions powerful poetic fraction
Let's grip and leave trails like acid trips
I diagnose
If you need a larger dose
Flows that pharaoh knows will leave you comatose
Like Nesa, the pyramid rhyme pleaser
I verbalize with the wild type demeanor
And speak wit
Archaic souls of the O
Times when our minds use to shine beautiful
[Hook]
It's like begin, world spin, then
You fly we fly in
Time is comin'
Ill I still will chill feels
Like blessin'
Rockin' not top charts hip hop plots
Tick tock clock domes stop
I still will chill feel
I just need some elevation (echo)
[Verse 2]
Yo, yo bust it
The spirit warrior I creep up in your mind corridor
And tell my name leave your stain in euphoria
Type color brothers cloaked in camouflages
I'm rugged and tough like them old school Dodgers
With the meaning like mesonic lodges
And even though we divine remain monstrous
So who your God is
Yo I'm just an artist
Walk with a torch navigate though the forests
Lookin' for sanctuary the legendary
The tree of life I'm my only adversary
And who we friend is a pen I begin
Creatin' conversation no time to play pretend
? most high we all gotta die
I'll take the higher path cause it's only I-N-I
Though money's like tryin' to fly without a sky
It makes me ask the question what's the reason why?
Hook
Need some more elevation. I need some elevation. Give me elevation.
[Verse 3]
I always plan to win, when I enter into something
The Zion I crew keep your spirit jumpin'
The mic is plugged in turn table set
Commence to bombin' like a Vietnam vet
My dialect is set to erect
Palace
When I can sip upon a chalice
And reminisce upon the sweetness of this
Experience my inner world total bliss
I will image a realm without the dragon (say what?)
I be designed to keep your dream laggin'
And deferred
My word is heard
To consume the room like clouds of herb
We bless your chest with the ill introspection
And manifest use your spirit as a weapon
Hook
f/ Planet Asia
*behind vocal samples from foreign movie*
"Zion I"
"Planet As"
"Madlib"
[Zion I]
Yo check out the superb tech
Casinh checks through dialect
Dope as the gold around your next
This is my manuscript to spit lyrics like I'm fat spliff
I show the whole damn world my gift
From pirates to speakin the pawn
Powerful just like a pawn
Positioned in the proper placement
Focused like militants
Deep in concentrational cabins
Devise the secret plan to split atoms
I verbalize, lust to bust, just as dangerous
As watchin Mt. Vesuvias erupt
Corrupt your data disk
From the super soul powered slums
Zion I, Planet Asia make it bump, bump
I'm deep off in the trunk
SWATS call it crunk
The fifteen inch woofers make the beat go thump
I dump clips to pros
Orrator of goals
The chilling is killin us with the illest type flows
[Interlude]
"Ah yeah, right about now
See what we don't wanna do (uhh)
We don't wanna do...just do shit, get up here
That's seen and did, and you know
Just wearin shit we wore before, things like that, ya know?
We come out to give ya a little something different
Alright, we gonna get into a little something like this
Whenever y'all ready...."
[Planet Asia]
Yo yo
Vocally blessed to beat you into submission
I paddle units with pro-??? from the underside, the train
Do not touch, I'm high voltage like the third electric
Emergency phones needed in every tunnel for this murder method
You're dealin with the armed forces
We wave warmed torches
Through the trenches of the onslaughtness
G up, we up next, I'm an-ticipated
Post my plan is to stand behind my ever line stated
Delux, Aeon Fluxuate/fluctuate what I pronunciate
Cold verses be lookin out, but ya'll people got months to wait
*Life As It Is* baby, Zion I got me flyin high
My mind inside music symbolic to INI
This ain't the Sci-Fi channel
We livin legends of the speak freak committee
Clash The Titans through the vinyl
When we splash the atlas with the rules of the game
We out the old school and came to drop a jewel on your brain yo
[Interlude 2]
"Since we are folks who has this mad passion for observance of music"
"I am the art"
"Beats" "Or just rap"
"We're going to do something
that's a little bit different right now already"
"And as we put it together, you probably be able to dig what we mean"
[Zion I]
My brother hit me on the game
Said that we original, man
And we manifested here to spit slang
I thought a minute
And let it sink deep like the Titanic
We wider than the Ocean of Atlantic
This typical mythical style in the West is gettin Wild
I'm chillin like a space upon the Nile
Reverberatin, why is you hatin, hip hop we creatin
Across the desert sands, we be bakin
My melanin, the key to lock, rock spots in flocks
Off the rugged avenue with my b-boy bop
It's evolution, toss a pebble at the devil and smile
I'm rebelling while propelling freestyles
[Planet Asia]
From the bottom to the top, I made alot of em drop
Hip hop's the lifestyle of urban civilians and even cops
No it don't stop, once again another classic
Fantastic rap shit that make y'all MC's wanna practice
How to lock shit down like Daddy As
I blaze mics for days
Hit the page like stage then burn sage
Then engage, this ain't a phase or some played out gimmick
That's word to Kemet for the fact that most of y'all cats is timid
Vivid fuels, of the do's and don'ts don't apply
To the non-compromising Planet As and Zion I
Worldwide we're known, zones as the chosen few
Verbal shots, I cypher rhymes to leave holes in you
*Cut and scratched*
"Verbal assault--it's on till the death till we settle the score" [Inspectah Deck]
(feat. Mistah F.A.B.)
[Verse 1: The Grouch]
Street blocks to tree tops, sweet spots found
The diction to detox, three Pac's now
He walks with, he talks like me, I'm sound
Conviction to beat knocks, from my head to my cheap socks
Underneath Living Legends Reebok's
I'm bound to free speech thoughts, seep around rocks
Volcanic or crack, hard to hold back
Go with the flow, know what you know and show that
Too relevant, but I go back like keggers on a hill, five on a dope sack
Smoke stack, think Ac', shrink wrap
Rap with a shrink before you and ink the tat
That's permanent, life learnin' it, pat
Never wanna see the world turn into a track
I ain't runnin' no game, small time, no names
If we one in the same, you gunnin' for change
[Hook: Zion (The Grouch)]
Amp, Hit 'Em with a 'one'
(Zion, Hit 'Em with a 'one, two')
Go on and count me in, now 'one, two, three'
(Universal how we pen the styles)
(Amp, Hit 'Em with a 'one')
Grouch, Hit 'Em with a 'one, two'
(Go on and count me in, now 'one, two, three, four')
They feelin' the styles
[Verse 2: Zion]
Hey, I got this Blues train runnin' all through to my veins
Slave ships, Middle Passage, crack cocaine
Ten slap in the 'Lac, corner boys ground packs
In the belly of the beast where the life go flat
But the music is the remedy, inhale my rhythm steadily
Perched on the curb, watch church converge
It's the meeting of the minds, at time, light occurs
How we cultivated words like they sacred herbs
Put it in your pipe and puff it, squares can't touch it
Rough and rugged, how you love it, with no budget
Independent game, man, with my slang tang
You can do the same thang, utilize your damn brain
Metaphors are mountains, countless bouncin'
A multitude in viewed, clubs and houses
We rain like fountains to wash it clean
I'm in the back with my mug on mean, my whole team
[Hook: The Grouch (Zion) {Mistah F.A.B.}]
{Amp, Hit 'Em with a 'one'}
(Grouch, Hit 'Em with a 'one, two')
Go on and count me in, now 'one, two, three, four'
(Universal how we pen the styles)
(F.A.B., Hit 'Em with a 'one')
{And Zion, Hit 'Em with a 'one, two'}
(Go on and count me in, now 'one, two, three, four')
They feelin' the styles
[Verse 3: Mistah F.A.B.]
Let the beat give life to dead souls
The rhymes turn wienies to red bulls
The feelin' is a whole nother level
The drums, the bass, the snares and the treble
So let it go, count me in, I'm on all corners
Winter, summer, spring, then I fall on ya
My mindstate define great, the crime rate
Got me irate, it's high stake, so why wait?
Move now, roll out
Hate it when Hip Hop's finest sold out
My gold out, but I'm pourin' my soul out
I never change, only my shows get sold out
So, what's the science? Don't be defiant
My music turn midgets to giants, just try it
Go crazy, riot, Grouch and Zion
Mistah F.A.B. is who I am
[Hook: The Grouch (Zion) {Mistah F.A.B.}]
Amp, Hit 'Em with a 'one'
(Grouch, Hit 'Em with a 'one, two')
Go on and count me in, now 'one, two, three, four'
(Universal how we pen the styles)
(Amp, Hit 'Em with a 'one')
{And Zion, Hit 'Em with a 'one, two'}
(Go on and count me in, now 'one, two, three, four')
They feelin' the styles
(feat. Martin Luther)
[Verse 1: Zion]
Hey, I made a promise to myself, I said I'd trust me
Know that God done chose my wealth, I adjust, he
I was so stuck up in a funk, it was hard to just get up
But then I ate away the bump, then I was set free
Lawdy! I'm set free, nothin' can touch me
Even when the road of life, it get bumpy
I be chillin' with my trues, sneakers for my shoes
Never slip sideways, all I do is sing blues
Used to mash the gas, now controls set on cruise
Used to need a breezy, now it sound like old news
Years passin' by, but the faces in the crew
Man, they always stay the same, keep it tight, I thought you knew?
And I'm feelin' so thankful, my cup runneth...
Over, gettin' closer to the summit
In this lifetime, givin' y'all all that I can
Feel the memories and words in the heart of a man, yeah
[Hook:]
It's so unusual
'Cause I feel so fly today
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's somethin' beautiful
Lifts Me Up, I fly away, yeah, yeah, yeah
[Verse 2: The Grouch]
Lucky labeled me the Duke of Earl
But now that seems like a past life, shoot, you could twirl
When eighty, but baby, me I'm not a ballerina
Maybe I was crazy, I learned a lot and seen a
Large portion of the globe, though
Old habits, rabbit like, now I enjoy it more and probe slow
Keep goin' up, I feel the synergy
Created with my woman since '98 'til Infinity
And Zion I, by and by, see eye to eye
A Legend's work is never done, we try and try
I heard it said, that things go in cycles
The way that I'ma work it, pay attention to the light bulbs
Be rightful, owners upon us
The next moments, check your vitals, the bone isn't so much
Don't go nuts before you turn to accumulate
Your greatest gifts, learn to appreciate
[Hook:]
It's so unusual
'Cause I feel so fly today
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's somethin' beautiful
Lifts Me Up, I fly away, yeah, yeah, yeah
It's so unusual
'Cause I feel so fly today
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's somethin' beautiful
Lifts Me Up, I fly away, yeah, yeah, yeah
[Intro]
(Woman)
Poems for post modern decay
[Zion]
Yeah, Everyday's a new change, model life strain
microwave the brain, the babies get trained
to be good worker bees, you can work for me
$2.50 a week and you can sleep on the street
economoic malfuction, consume corruption
somethin's wrong with this picture, ecstacy with liquor
get a stand quicker, wither in the half moon light of my life we lose vigor
by 28 we half gone already, cause the liver and the kidney corroding steady
get a doctor with some dope then he snatched confetti
got too many damn bills when my bank is empty
[Chorus - Zion]
(I keep fallin) trippin' I can't get up
I keep fallin, trippin' I gotta get up
(I keep fallin) trippin' I can't get up
I keep fallin, trippin' I gotta get up
[Aesop Rock]
Yeah, OK, Who are the consumers
what are you consuming
why are you not filtering the poison they are spooning
where you gunna be when the murder rate starts balooning
comin' to your senses on some who the fuck made you king
fame is a ghostly hope, when every hero is a number to the rotary folk
that's why the low brow plow through a government name
you can trace the moniker if you can chase the train
I place blame with a grotesque, enemy, bloody idol
leavin' it to the innocent to remedy the cycle
my centipedes agree that every pedigree's entitled to that food, clothes, medicine recipe of the vital
[Zion]
I keep fallin' like I'm trippin
I keep callin' be my prescription
I keep fallin', and I listen
I keep callin' for some assistance
[Chorus 2X]
[Zion]
Yeah, now let the beat guide dreams, I've seen my eyes wide
lookin' for a touch of the eternal, scribble in my journal
watch 'em while the world to burn, tryin' to find some serenity with every turn
[Aesop Rock]
Walk with a maggot brain affiliately over the main gate
quicker than he flickerin' at a pancake(?)
shitkicker, mini, and busy, in dark-city, wick lit, tryin to make a shark frenzy bark pennies
[Chorus 2X]
[Poem]
Diabolical times of mass murder, time full of it
speak ease even conversations is nuclear
they fear when its a group of us so we roll in packs
space age patriot act, they got your phone tapped cousin
what you gon do? Don't let fightin' this beast make a beast outta' you
sometimes I feel like a monster cleanin my 12 gauge
contemplating if I can murder or not, escape routes, and getaways
but the rude awakenin' is man, they lockin' us in cages
tellin' us to abort our babies while they collect sperm donations
attempted depletion of a righteous nation
we got a 100 cable stations, but something is what none of 'em are sayin'
my eyelids achin' from bein' open so wide, space age genocide
they can try but they can't hide, the fact that there's hope
my history ain't start on no boat, chained and bound
and the beauty is found that we fall, trip, but never hit the ground
Walk light, for these are the bad lands
Bad lands, these are the bad lands
Bad seed, castor bare of soil
Weeds run free through the golden oil
Milk outside, it's bound to spoil
Know a couple bad girls 'n they all adore you
Somethin' to assure you, we'll secure you
The television say they can do that for you
Wanna go to sleep, gotta seek a drug
Shorty on the street thinks her man's a thug
Went and got shot cuz he need the pub
Record blew on up, tell you life is rough
Mama ain't home, daddy doin' dirt
Lil' Jimmy got the fo' fifth from the shirt
'Bout to go bizerk, just needs some guidance
But in the bad lands, the results are violent
Rhymin' on the corner using gun shots for snares
Bad enough lands to make punk rockers care
They don't give a fuck just like we don't give a fuck
Righteous man get bucked and some stopped to stare
Blood on they backs cuz they ran, just a grub on scraps
No daps, mean loves n' a slug in the air
How many beefs wore to the point where everybody eats when it's over, that's rare
And in a prayer, I begged the All Mighty to spare
My daughter from fake thugs, real drugs, and players
I've been around that shit and I'm embarrassed
You been a town jester, that's careless
Perilless pits I've dodged like it's my job
They worship twisted gods and spit facades
To get that wad, what will you do?
Lie, cheat, steal, kill, till it kills you
[chorus:]
Tumble weeds and twisted tales
These the bad lands where the angels fail (Bad lands)
Make money, try to stop the fear
If you think it ain't real, then you ain't been here (Bad lands)
[x4]
This is a place where babies are hooked on drugs
Before they see the light of day
A land where doctors'll necessarily cut them out their mothers' stomachs
Just to make more pay
Their fathers run away
Consumed with the most ignorant shit you can think of
Cuz it's been dangled in front their faces like a carrot to an ass
But still they know better, they're just too scared to be outcasts
It ain't about past; let's talk present and future
Fuck presidents, what do you do with your power, your control?
Control yourself
Going dumb's not really a movement, you're really going dumb
Look at the shit they play on the radio
And got the nerve to wonder why rappers keep dying in the streets
Stop putting 2pac and Biggie on magazines until you understand the significance of why they died
Don't ya'll get it? Humans are bigger than they're supposed to be
Check yourself before you come out the house holdin' a piece,
Runnin' off at the mouth, sayin' trendy shit like “yes sir' and “ye ye'
Like it's the only thing you know
Yea, that shit is fun but don't let it be the only thing you know
Ultimately, it won't get you anywhere and trying to get out of here
Leave these bad lands behind, get in touch with my spirit, my body, and mind
Cuz I'm divine
And if no one ever told you you were, well you are
And that's it.
f/ Planet Asia
[Zion I]
Yo checkout the superb tech
Cashin' checks through dialect
Doper than the gold around your neck
This is my manuscript to spit lyrics like fat spliffs
I show the whole damn world my gift
For Paris I'm speakin' upon
Powerful just like a pod
Positioned in the proper placement
Focus like militant deep as concentrational caverns
Devising secret plans on spitting atoms
I verbalize
Lust to bust
Just as dangerous
As watching Mt. Vesuvius erupt
Corrupt a data disk
From the super soul powered slums
I-N-I, Planet Asia make it bump, bump
I'm deep off in the trunk
SWATS call it crunk
The 15 inch whoofers make the beat go thump
I dump clips of pros ? goes
The chillin' is killin' with the illest type flows
[Hook]
"Rap legends presidents felt" -> Nas 'Nas is Like'
"Put us together" -> Mobb Deep 'Survival of the Fittest'
"The outcome is Critical" -> GZA/Genius
"Set it off" -> Jeru The Damaja 'Mental Stamina'
[Zion I]
Yo, vocally blessed to beat you into submission
I paddle units which protrude from the underside of trains
Do not touch I'm high voltage
Like the third electric
Emergency phones needed in every tunnel for the murder method
You're dealing with the armed forces
We wave warm torches
Through the trenches of the onslaughtness
? up next
I'm anticipated post my plan is to stay behind my every line stated
Deluxe, eon flux-uate what I pronunciate
Cold verses be lookin' out but y'all people got months to wait
Life as it is baby, Zion I got me flyin' high
My mind's inside music symbolic to I-N-I
This ain't the Sci-Fi Channel
We true and living legends of this beat freak committee
Clash Of the Titans through the vinyl
When we splash the Atlas with the rules of the game
We out the old school and came to drop a jewel on your brain
[Hook]
[Planet Asia]
My brother hit me on the game
Said that we original man
And we manifested here to spit slang
I thought a minute, and let it sink
Deep like the Titanic
We wider than the ocean of Atlantic
Pacifical mythical styles
In the west it's gettin' wild
I'm chillin' like the Sphinx upon the Nile
Reverberating
Why is you hatin' hip hop we creatin?
Across the desert sands we be bakin'
My melanin
The key to lock rock spots and flocks
Walk the rugged avenue with my B-Boy bop
It's evolution toss a pebble at the devil and smile
I'm rebellion while propelling freestyles
[Zion I]
From the bottom to the top I made a lot of em drop
Hip hop's the lifestyle of urban civilians and even cops
No it don't stop
Once again another classic fantastic rap shit
That'll make y'all MCs wanna practice
How to lock shit down like Daddy ?
I blaze mics for days
Hit the page light stage and burn Sage
Then engage
This ain't a faze or some played out gimmick
That's worth to ? for the fact
that most of y'all cat's is timid, vivid
Views of the do and don't don't apply,
to the uncompromising Planet Asia, Zion I
Worldwide renown
Zones of the chosen few
Verbal rhymes I cipher shots to leave holes in you
[Hook]
All shut up! Don't break the silence!
The sleep of angels prevents violence
Blades of angels will protect
Golden billion will dominate
Sleep sleep sleep
My fading world
Handmade angels keep us all
Dissipate
Your mad mad life
Angels still are on our side
Pray for peace - prepare for war
The base of human life is these words
Will to live
Will to survive
Will to rule and to divide
Stop right now
Reflect about
What you ll lose when last war start?
Work and house
Your credit noose
Think sometimes: what do they lose?
Angels of silence
Freedom and calm
Angels of justice
Fly one by one
Keep the silence, cold steel Angels
From second sunrise of innocence
Save from pain and torture, Angels
Keep the peace for human race
5 4 3 2 1 Start the Angels
Angels of silence
Bringers of peace
Angels of justice
Don't go
I know you can do
It s the last chance for me and for you
It's easier - destroy than built
One step and feelings are killed
I'm sorry
It was my crime
One step over this line
Love tricks have turned to betrayal
No winners at the end of this game
No, baby boy
Tears are not salvation
Know, baby boy
My soul devastation
Just some advice
And try to believe
To forget is better than to forgive
Temptation
Was stronger than me
I'm loser - as you can see
One hour and no years of love
New world
New age
New conception
It's time to shake this world
We start the styles mutation
Destroying all their laws
Enraged
We rise
We feel the shine of Stars
Inspired
By hate
New style we shall create
Follow the light of stars
Unorthodoxy
Open-minded
Dance metal
Meat machine
Release all your perception
Wake up and try to feel
Enraged
We rise
We feel the shine of Stars
Inspired
By hate
New style we shall create
Follow the light of stars
By the will of kings
By the trance of gods
We follow the stars of disappearing world
Follow the stars
Burn the bridges out
Follow the stars
New age of metal rise
New world
New age
New reflection
We start t to shake this world
We start the styles mutation
No more reasons, no sense
You lose the feelings - lose yourself
Come and get - switch off your mind
Now you are fixed by drugs on-line
Make one move - and you're connected
Brains are digital infected
Something hides and slowly disappears in the dark
You sink in digital embrace
The child of coming future race
All you get is nothing. Slave on line
SLAVE ON LINE
No more sense No more feel
SLAVE ON LINE
Is no dream and is no real
SLAVE ON LINE
You're caught, you're trapped
SLAVE ON LINE
Cyber life - real death
All emotions should be killed
You become a half-machine
And you get this magic feel
And any wish become the real
No face, no name
Just nick and mail
You don't know -
Who's on the other end
No face, no name
Is it your best friend?
A dusted image
On thumbnail
Slave
Slave online
Life is lost deep inside
Slave
Slave online
Start the game
I've made my choice
Fast and hard
No brakes, no blocks
I'm using my mind
I'm using my force
I'm getting the weapon
Collecting my skill points
Freedom to play
Freedom to be
To be the one who is always free
But I wanna be the same
As the hero in my game!
Think like PS to get a new gain!
I wanna think like PlayStation
I wanna you to think like me
One life
One direction
One way to victory
I wanna think like PlayStation
I wanna you to think like me
Your life
Your force
Your way to victory
Life is like a mission
Day is like a stage
A new state of mind
In cyber age
RPG or FPS
I choose my model to progress
Life is like a game
The same laws, the same rules
Something i have, something i lose
But if in my life
I want to have more
My sons, your life is short.
End of days is near.
Hear my voice, novitiates
And execute my will
A Sacred place for sacrifice
We find the way to God
Take the cure, forget the fear
And save your soul
Pray, my children
Your Father is the only way to the sky
Kneel before the gates of heaven
For the last time
Time will come
Heaven awaits you
This world was created
Not by us and not for us
Leave behind all that you have
I show you the Golden Path
Flesh to ashes, world to dust
In the name of God
I show the holy way for all
Who want to save their souls.
Hey, man!
I see the times
No faith, no gods, no lies
No sinners, no saints
Strike!
Burn down horizons
Destroy this doomed world
Force
The only way to power
Your life is a battle front
One step
To glory
Your blood is full of hate
One step
Next level
Do not obey the fate
Burn down - Demolish all
Nothing - Nothing will not change
The right way to self frustration
Start to play and rape your brain
Hate
Inside you is rising
Disorder in your head
Fight!
No brain - no fear!
Let's bring the total death!
One step
Aggression
You want some fucking blood
One step
Cross fire
Let's start another war
War! War! A real War!
All you need is a real war
War! War! A real War!
You can't stop this anymore
The War external! Inside!
Instead your raped mind
Remorse - For weak
Regrets are useless shit!
Save your mind
Don't fuck yourself up
World is not for us
All is divided,
All is sold out.
You can't hide
You can't resist
Step by step
You are in this list
All alone
No defense
You can't stop
This decay dance
Let's dance, my friend
This Decay Dance
No will
No force
To stop this process
Let's dance, my friend
This Decay Dance
No fear
No fate
And no regrets
Shut up! Your voice is
Useless and weak
One man is zero
I close the door in the morning
Close as it was the cover of a coffin
Look at me for the last time
Last kiss good-bye
I meet the dead
When evening comes
Up from your high school
Down to the grave
Triple work
Like sheep in the cattle
Life for the money
Or money for life
It's your freedom of choice
Until 65
Corporate life
Corporate style
Every week-day you must die to survive
Pray for your pay
What is the price for your time?
You become dead and your life passes by
Day by day
You become the dead
Nothing changes
Nothing is to wait
Day by day
From eight to five
You stay dead
To stay alive
The evening fell down
And you came home
With empty cold eyes
And empty cold soul
You swallowed your supper,
You crashed into bed
My life with you
"Life is shit - I hate myself"
Weakness of sick mind
And now you stand beneath the clouds
In ocean of moonlight
Damn this life!
It's obsolete
Eternity will be my grave
I make my step behind the line
This day will decide my fate
Only one step for limits of life
Darkness blinds your forever faded eyes
And someone cries from outside
Love you
I just want to say
I love you
Wake up and go back home
For me and for you
I watch you defenseless
And blinded by light
I want you wake up and
Come back
Feel the snow upon your face
The last flight is very short
Feel the wind of winter night
As mourning heart it is cold
Feel the last pain of your life
You are headless in your grave
Dreams and hopes
Forever fade
In the pieces of your brain
Floor by floor
Straight to the ground
Eleven, ten, nine
Was It the only way out?
Eight, seven, six
Do you want to return?
Five, four, three
Is it for what you were born?
You saw no difference
Between problems and tasks
Sorry, man
Your choice was so fast
Two, one, crush
Did you want to stay?
In the world that you left
[Verse 1]
Start the dance of mass destruction!
All the world is one dancehall
End of human evolution
DJs deaf - all exits are closed
Track by track, you have no choice
Blood rave chaos over the world
Last days, last race, twilight ages
Welcome all on blood rave show
Blood Rave, Blood Rave, Blood Rave dancers
Cyber blood - electric senses
Blood Rave, Blood Rave, burn your dancefloor
Dancing devils - Always hardcore
[Verse 2]
Start "Religion" shakes the floor
Divide the nations more and more
"Money", "Lies" and "Policy"
Two face - one democracy
The final track is called the "War"
One more country dead and gone
Are you afraid? Don't care about!
Nuclear winter - big chill-out
Blood Rave, Blood Rave, Blood Rave dancers
Cyber blood - electric senses
Blood Rave, Blood Rave, burn your dancefloor
Dancing devils - Always hardcore
We are start in 2004
In 2005 we are still in da case
All for one! One for all!!
Make some noise!!!
The world has changed!!!
The age of blood
Let's start the dance
We want some more
This soundtrack
For Judgment Day
We make it now
{Refrain:}
Tu veux ou tu veux pas
Tu veux c'est bien
Si tu veux pas tant pis
Si tu veux pas
J'en f'rai pas une maladie
Oui mais voilà réponds-moi
Non ou bien oui
C'est comme ci ou comme ça
Ou tu veux ou tu veux pas
Tu veux ou tu veux pas
Toi tu dis noir et après tu dis blanc
C'est noir c'est noir
Oui mais si c'est blanc c'est blanc
C'est noir ou blanc
Mais ce n'est pas noir et blanc
C'est comme ci ou comme ça
Ou tu veux ou tu veux pas
La vie, oui c'est une gymnastique
Et c'est comme la musique
Y a du mauvais et du bon
La vie, pour moi elle est magnifique
Faut pas que tu la compliques
Par tes hésitations
{au Refrain}
La vie, elle peut être très douce
A condition que tu la pousses
Dans la bonne direction
La vie, elle est là elle nous appelle
Avec toi elle sera belle
Si tu viens à la maison
Tu veux ou tu veux pas ? hein !
Quoi ? Ah ! tu dis oui
Ah ! a a a a a a a
Et ben moi j'veux plus !
Ouh ! la la