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The Basement

by Civill Artists

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The Basement 14:00
"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

about

6 individual songs mixed together on one (fourteen-minute) track!

00:00 - 01:59 Where's The Love?
02:00 - 04:13 Reborn
04:03 - 06:43 Dum Dum (ft. Pure & Affex)
06:41 - 08:34 The Four Elements
08:35 - 10:45 It Could Be Worse! (ft. KR15T)
10:46 - 14:00 Restless

credits

released November 14, 2002

*all beats produced by Mute (Jeff Jaras)
*bass guitar on "It Could Be Worse!" played by Andrew Skibicki; acoustic guitar on "Restless" played by Timmins
*all raps written & performed by Quid (except "Dum Dum"; co-written & performed by Pure & Affex, and "It Could Be Worse!"; co-written & performed by KR15T)
*all songs recorded & mixed by Jeff Jaras in "The Basement" (2002)

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