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The Basement
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"Where's The Love?"
See I'll attack your most hard contact the Coast Guard
They get a body in the river and your fam a postcard
No one better contest the best dope words
Stomp through the chest nothing less than stopping your breath
'Cause every day I live I combat with stress
My shadow's always creeping he's my biggest rivalry
Ain't got no time for a rest no choice but to live my life and lead
It into directions I choose why lose when
I could come out on top as I look around the spot
I feel I'm being pushed off mountain tops
A feeling of free falling I'm speaking in deep talking
To all these freakishly tedious emcees yawning
When they spit their shit their larynx gets ripped from out
Their throat I'm pleading no more lyrics their flow is gearless
It can't shift or switch up I land a fist they get punched
With lines punchlines that I invented
And every single sentence that I'm sending lands
A vital blow to the side of the dome
I'm bringing the fliest of flows when I get the phones
"Micro" or "head" a cappella or give me a beat
To listen and speak written or free it don't matter
It's all about spitting to me fast or slow rappers
All I ask is you keep it hype but switch up the flow patterns
I got so many questions but their ain't no answers like
How many emcees must get dissed
How long before more punks get rich
Where's the love what happened to Hip-Hop
How come it's only fake rappers that spit now
How many emcees must get dissed
How long before more punks get rich
Where's the love what happened to Hip-Hop
And how come it's only fake rappers that spit now
"Reborn"
I feel like I just been reborn shredded my skin
Let out the devil within and battled him
Handling my own business I start to get a tingling
Sensation in my fingertips and holy shit my skin is ripped
Open and broken and no blood's dripping or pouring
This is enormous subject matter and I must get past the
Feeling of bleeding because I'm not
But I am reaching a meaning and seeing I'm breeding myself
Awkward thoughts as old thoughts get tossed
New ones enter my mind-frame and are locked and lost
Inside the back of my mind this demon's reaching inside
Trying to get in my back and grab out my spine
Trying to get rid of me for good so then he'll be me
But I'm forced to fight back see I will get free
Because I am me that's all I can be this damn demon's
Existence is finished after he answers these questions
What is the meaning of being reborn
Do you see horns growing is it literal
Realistic when they say your devil comes out
Pitiful self conflicts that never resolve
Rebirth is a process a project not yet
Defined or described by modern science
I ponder wildly when I leave my body entirely
And breath while wandering higher
And higher and I just float and float
Out of nowhere a light just glows and goes
In front of my eyes and I change shift shape
Getting ready to leave earth this is my rebirth
And three birds crows to be exact
Are perched on a ledge and open up the gap
Between their beaks as they toke and have a laugh
Toasting to your death as you rose up from the grass
Choking so you gasp holding with a grasp
The life you just received again you know that it's a fact
You were just reborn process of repetition
Like the origin of rhyme we're all born to live and die
What is the meaning of being reborn
Is it your soul escaping
Is it the crows waking you up so you can see your
Fate at least wait and see
"Dum Dum (ft. Pure & Affex)"
[Quid]
The words that I write make heads get dizzy
So I Let The Rhythm Hit 'Em like Rakim did really
I rock mics on sight doper than most 'cause
I drop rhymes to let you know that it's over
The beat beats your dome 'til your noses are broken
Mentally open up folders to lyrically fold up your souls 'cause
These songs I write are just extended poems that I wrote just
Sit back and listen as I flow to this opus
Approaching these notes in a musical matter; think you can
Just battle? You're better off trying to climb Lucifer's ladder
A gateway out of Hell ain't practical
I mix up proof in my patterns and the truth is a hazard
I come through just to snap off the verses dispersed
Are the truest of answers as I let loose with my anger it's
Three emcees rocking this raw make you drop to the floor
Dropping your jaw at real Hip-Hop at its core
[Pure]
Cats are washed up like houses in tropical storms dropping the
Evidence of intelligence through philosophical rhyme form
Be beyond the limitations where most people are bound
I'm tired of spitting kittens when they're sounding so profound
Embellishing with irrelevance comedy and some gimmicks
Take away their punchlines their LP is like three minutes
Couldn't drop facts if they was to toss encyclopedias
Couldn't be bright if they was lit up by the lights of the media
Shattering the aspirations of wack rapper creations
With no hesitation to ignore each and every speculation
Elevation's my destination and there ain't no stopping me
Like women in titty-bars there ain't no topping me
Rendering competition exiled their rebuttal is futile swear they're
Throwing down but what they're throwing up is a puke pile
I pity petty pedophiles sit and spit a cynical style
Like mosquitoes remain incognito and leave you in denial
[Affex]
In the meanwhile Affex the darkest of arch-nemesis
Cracking censorship you ain't feeling me 'cause you senseless kid
You try to snake my style but your spit is venomless
My delivery ain't subtle you hear me when I'm sending it
Like gaseous flatulence exploding from my intestines
Shit feces crap dropping deuce on bitches never call a truce
Just like Bill you think your style is “excellent”
I'll devour you cowards turn your shitty script to excrement
You feel the pressure when I'm heating up my temperament
Look at your manhood and feel like lesser men
The question remains can you maintain underneath the stage flame
You bust lame charades but claim that you connect game
You pitiful you ain't original never criminal
I seen ten emcees with the same name so why you fronting chief
When it comes to bars you only busting three
Smoking microphones ain't stunting my beef
I'll never up and leave bitch don't fucking push it
I'm standing my ground too bad the Indians fucking couldn't
"The Four Elements"
I seen graff of the past cave painting by a caveman
Move to the future advance to Krylon spray cans
Emcees get wild at shows and climb the stage amps to make hands
Wave back and forth and on the dance floor they break-dance
While DJ's hands reach in the crates and
Pull up more scratchable records and break-beats to get laid back
Hip-Hop all your problems of the day away take the stage
Grab and open mic and flow all night don't break away
Just stay in place I don't want to hear I want to see noise
And witness B-Boys move like jelly until their legs break
I want to see Graff-Heads with fat caps let the colors flow
And spray their names in paint for street fame and ain't
Afraid or shamed to do it again in different spots
I want to see all the bricks on the blocks drip with the blotched colors
'Til the whole spot's covered in block letters
We need to liven up these buildings I think it'd look a lot better
And the sounds kids play now-a-days are not tender
It's not real no more let's let Hip-Hop enter
The scene again we need to mend the open hole and lead again
Even when it seems the end 'cause I can't stand to see these dense
Emcees rushing the stage with nothing to say
Seems they're in it just to get paid they don't even like Hip-Hop
Street soul leaking like drip drop off the top
We don't need fame you could rock it in the smaller spots
Anywhere you're at on the corner off your block
It started in the streets moved to your loft garage
Or basement any place meant to get away from
The troubles of the day and it's called Hip-Hop
"It Could Be Worse! (ft. KR15T)"
[KR15T]
I'm in The Basement chilling killing time there ain't no crew
Iller than mine and that's the bottom line at the drop of a dime
My foot soldiers be rolling like boulders
Putting plastic bags on your head all the way down to your shoulders
My clique's the fucking shit why can't you just admit
Your shit's weak and fake you can call it counterfeit
While we sit and count our profit you can't stop it
We spit hot shit get some water and try to douse it
Quid's pro quotes float like boats this ain't no hoax
While you blow goats I take tokes folks this ain't no joke
Civill Artists are the smartest Mute's beats hit the hardest
When it comes to the nugs I know when to spark this
We're big bad wolves coming to your town
With a huff and a puff we'll blow your fucking house down
Now it's time for Quid to throw down a verse
Attacking your mind but it could be worse
[Quid]
Yeah it could be worse and I could be lurking
From all the angles as I descend down like fallen angels
Or a phantom I'm too fast for your reality my personality
Is that of a person battling pure insanity
I burst in practicing a brand new verse I had to bring
To the table to spit to and rip you limb from limb
'Til your ligaments aren't able to work again and
A voodoo curse is sent in your head fuck an urban legend
I'm a legend in the flesh lending you this hex
Your mind is bending in a twist and twisting in a bend
As I'm gripping this here pen making history invent
Itself all over again as I'm spitting this with vengeance
Ladies and gents lend me your ears
As I spin you like a web 'cause I'm a verbal spider
The words are hyper y'all get burned like lighters in the circle cypher
Quid and KR15T are more vicious than a fucking herd of bikers
This is a rap invasion so hip hop to the last few pages
Of lyrics written by Quid and KR15T spitting nice these apparitions
Appearing in your nights equipped with ghastly faces
I wish I had the patience to let you live right past the stages
Of torture we put you through when you wake your hands are shaking
Cold sweat dripping swift your dreams seem to last for ages
You thought it was a dream until you wake and see the ax you're facing
It could have been a lot worse than a slick swift decapitation
"Restless"
I can't seem to sleep or reach the peak of seeing dreams every time
I shut my eyelids the pressure creeps I haven't slept in weeks
And I get nauseous when crossing the borderline
Of floor and my ceiling I'm seeing a legion of demons creeping
As the four of my walls are closing around me
Surrounding as I hope to get out free
And free my mind get free from my inner demons I see when I
Sleep and night and feel fright deep inside
I got to reach my light and peek the rest
Of my room make sure nothing's underneath my bed
Or in my closet sitting watching this absurd search in progress
Tossing and turning lost in this burden as time is passing
The hands of the clock are passing around forward side back
And then down lightening crashes I hate to sleep I swear
Fright scares me awake through nightmares
So lately I've left it up to my days to dream
And if by some chance I fall asleep waken me
The demons are even worse inside my crazy dreams
And if for some reason you aren't there to waken me
Keep me in your memory and pray for me
I'm nothing but prey to these predators prancing around
My perimeter first thing is first I have to get out
'Cause there's monsters chasing me inside my head
As I lie in bed hearing my floorboards making these
Noises keeping me awake at night
And the voices keep getting greater I
Cannot take this fright trying to escape the night
Sniffling nasals I try to restrain from crying by pulling the blankets high
Over my head hiding underneath the covers
But I still know that I'm dead
At any minute now so I'm holding my breath
Trying to be quiet as possible only when
I peek out and notice that they're growing immense the
Numbers of hunters and monsters hiding under and coming out from
The boards of my bed underneath the Devil's come to greet me
Meet me read me my fortune and then
My horrible horoscope's read from the Doors of the Dead
The Gates of Hell where Satan dwells
So I brace myself eight to twelve times before
He tries to lure me in and make me sell my soul
I'm told and every night haunted
By the same demons same time when I'm yawning
In that secretive place between sleep and awake
I spend each of my days and nights talking to the demons I face
And if by some chance I fall asleep waken me
The demons are even worse inside my crazy dreams
And if for some reason you aren't there to waken me
Keep me in your memory and pray for me
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