Langston HUghes, by Defi Reason & GoodFella Nella

Langston HUghes

by Defi Reason & GoodFella Nella

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1.	Initial Approach 01:53	lyrics	buy track
1 - Presence Felt, Before The Record Fell - Experience For Self, Dont Base It Off A Statement That You Read On Yelp/(2) - - I Could Milk, Gun Metaphors Like Cinnamon Toast - But Not The Type To Bust Blanks, Rather Fill-In The Soul/(4) - - Filament Growth - - Benign Shine, All Thru The Spine - - - KundAligned Wit A Truth Divine /(6) - Thru The Vine - - - Feel The Rhyme Manifesting - - Delayed - -Not Exactly How I Had Expected /(8) My - - Lack Of Effort, Had Me Swept To The Floor, But Like The Fugees Getting Vengeance, Now Im Settling Scores/(10) On Point, Always Beveling Swords - Let My Talent Speak For It Self, Never Need A Sale To Endorse /(12) Thoughts - - Go The Distance, Wit The Most Persistence - - Bars Are CPR, Breathing Life, Scenes I Write, Spoke To Existence /(14) - Total Resistance To What Isnt Dope - A Lasting Impression From The Inital Approach /(16)
2.	That's My Word 02:40	lyrics	buy track
1 I Been Guilty Of Not Always Keeping Mine - - - - PreOccupied Wit Papes, Got My Keep In Mind /(2) - Down To A - - Powdered Enamel From The Constant Teeth Grinds - Cuz Peace - I Aint Holding One - Missed My Tee Times /(4) Keep Lying To MySelf Like, Things Is All Good - They Say Fake It Till You Make It Like Bitches On Sugar Daddy Wood /(6) - - Till They Impregnated - - Birth A Style, Then I Template It - Secretly Placing Heat Like Temp Agents/(8) - - Still Spitting, Like Im Kissing On My 10th Asian Been Butting Wit Old Heads - - Dont Gotta Attempt Aging/(10) - - Give A Fuck If The Attention Fading, More Adventures Waiting, Scorching Underground Before The Advent Of Satan /(12) - - Ex hit me like - You Have Anything To Say In, Your Defense - Yeah Bitch, Let Yo Guard Down Get A Shorter Fence /(14) A Nigga Done Chasing, Done Wasting Time Ya Heard - - On My Life, That's My Word /(16) HOOK: Not The Type Thats Easily Deterred - - Can't CoSign A Lie I Keep My Word/(2) - - Say Word - Yeah That's My Word -Say Word - Yeah That's My Word /(4) 2 - Keep It Solid Ahki - Only Thing I Got In This World, My Word & My Nuts & Won't Break Em For Nobody /(2) - Even When Im Getting High & I Get Confused - - Feel Like Even When I Lie, That I Tell The Truth/(4) - - Accusations Niggaz Fail To Prove - - Just Dont Speak, If You Cant Keep It A Buck, Like Taxidermic Mutes /(6) - Classics Churning Thru My Inner Jukebox , You Gon Feel Em Like Baby Kicks, Nothing Hidden In A ShoeBox /(8) Baring My Sol, Apparent I Dont , Talk That Typical - No Tall Tales, But Its Nothing Short Of Mythical /(10) - - Shorter Distance To The Target, When You Straight Talk - - Niggaz Claim The Crazy Nice - Shit Be Straight Talk /(12) Get Them Restraints Off, Yall Buggin Wit That Hyperbole, Taking It To Extremes, Like ReVisiting Old Her & Me Videos /(14) - - Really Tho, If You Aint Heard - Im Glued To This, Sticking Wit The Gift , Thats My Word /(16) HOOK: Not The Type Thats Easily Deterred - - Can't CoSign A Lie I Keep My Word/(2) - - Say Word - Yeah That's My Word -Say Word - Yeah That's My Word /(4)
3.	Stretches Of Freedom 02:20	lyrics	buy track
1 Not On My Watch, To Punch Time Clocks Make Spines Bop, Till They End Up In A Small Pine Box /(2) Supplying Blocks Wit A Regular Doseage Of Dopeness Everyday - Fuck Seeing My Vision You Feel The Focus In Every Way /(4) - - Ford Finesser-Upper, Melissa, I Still Miss Her - Back In The Day , I Used To Masturbate, To Her Picture /(6) - Smoothest Mixture Of Beat & Rhymes - Now Keep In Mind , The Synergy Is Simply Magnetizing Over StreamLines /(8) - - Of InterConnected Networks - Like How Nerves In Yo Head Work - - Seldom Seen, Hardly Get Heard /(10) - - Like Attention For Erections In A Broke Marriage - All The Life Sucked Out It Like Post - Miscarriage /(12) - So I Dont Disparage - No Man's Standards - Just Drop It Heavy On The Track Like - Mass Transit /(14) - And Give Thanks For This Gift That Could Span The Atlas - Stretches Of Freedom, Come Even When Being Cramped In /(16) - HOOK: Sometimes Its Feeling Like You Cant Win, Acted On First Instinct, Down To Ya Last Whim /(2) But - -That Last Glim - Of Hope - Is So Vivid - - Exercise Ya Rights, 'Fore You Left, Decomposing Wit It/(4) - 2 Go Big If - You Gon Go at all, Strictly Deposit Dope For Life, Like Its No Withdrawals /(2) - Just Know WindFalls - Come Along - Wit Wishes Blowing In The Wind - - Flow Open Doors When Our BirthShores Wont Let Us In /(4) - - Fuck a "they wont let us win" Type Of MindSet - Time To Shine Bright, Undermine Seth /(6) - Over My - Dead Body, Will I Souly Take This As A Hobby, This Is Fuel For If I Choose, To Take A Sprint In The Mojave /(8) Just To Stay Warm - You Aint Listening Dude, Im Using Great Form - - Taking Back The Gold Like I Was Repoing The Great Forum /(10) Got A Blunt Of Purp For Neosporin Just To Numb The Tongue When Needed , - Foaming From The Root But Still Forever Getting Weeded /( 12)
4.	At Your Request 02:54	lyrics	buy track
1 - - Wit A Call - You Could Get It All, What You Need - Laundry List Of Wishes, Aint None Of Them Bitches Clean /(2) - Kitchen Sink Looking Dry As A Bone - - Got No Time To Eat, I Be Up Writing These Poems/(4) Enlightening Domes - Like Stadium Filaments In A Buddhist Temple - - Sparking Ohms Thru The Use Of Mental /(6) - - Circuitry, Suckers Suffer 3rd Degree Burns, - Like A Masters, That Dont, Last Once The Heat's Turned/(8) - - All The Way Get Hauled Away Till My Jaw Decay, Spit Wondrous, Lines Like - I Just Called To Say/(10) - Whats Good, I - - Hardly Ever Check Up - Brotha Trying Ta Do Better, Too AntiSocial To Post You, I Rather Write You A Letter/(12) InSightful Endeavors - - Try Not To Be Spiteful As Ever, Im Hella Humble, But Wont Hesitate To Come Thru & End Ya(14) Wit The Quickness - - - Throwing Rhymes In All Brawls - & LAN Lines, Like Im Still, Making House Calls/(16) - HOOK: If You Want Mi Fe Bring Di Sound - -Sumtin Chill , Really Not Too Politikal - - Still Kill Every Ras Instrumental - Unuh Wan Mi , Get On Beats & Rip It Down - - Sing It Loud/(4) If You Want Mi Fe Bring Di Sound - -Uplift Wit De Gift , Sumtin Spiritual - - But Still Kill Every Ras Instrumental - Unuh Wan Mi , Get On Beats & Rip It Down - - Sing It Loud/(8) Say Whooooyyyyyyyyyyyyy ---- -------At Your Request, Making Noise 2 - - - Saving Up To Put Something Down - Fielding Streams, From Seeds, I Put Into The Ground /(2) - - Growing Life From What I Flow In Mics - - Got The Talent, Ima Just Trying Ta Max It Out Like - Swollen Nikes/(4) - - Till The Bubble Bust - - PlayMaking, Aint Waiting For No Huddle-Ups - - Run It Up/(6) No Mercy - - Rule, Breakin Fools, Till The Play's Blown Dead - Gambles On Catching Combos Is A Safe Bet/(8) Set - - To Play My Position, No Court Vision - - Scoring Without The Gossip, Dont Need To Sample The Dishing /(10) - - Rocking Sandals & Kicking It Rugged Still - Soul In The Love You Feel - If This Dont Garner Ya Trust, Then Nothing Will /(12) - Nothing Frill, Keep It Rough Around The Edges - - Only Taking Hits, When Im Cutting Down The Hedges/(14) - Weed Wacking, No ReEnactment That You Hear - Reeboks, Thru The SpeechBox, Putting Classics In The Air/(16) HOOK: If You Want Mi Fe Bring Di Sound - -Sumtin Chill , Really Not Too Politikal - - Still Kill Every Ras Instrumental - Unuh Wan Mi , Get On Beats & Rip It Down - - Sing It Loud/(4) If You Want Mi Fe Bring Di Sound - -Uplift Wit De Gift , Sumtin Spiritual - - But Still Kill Every Ras Instrumental - Unuh Wan Mi , Get On Beats & Rip It Down - - Sing It Loud/(8)
5.	Still Got It 02:19	lyrics	buy track
1 Put The Blade To Ya Speaker - - Not One To Waste A Procedure , It Should Come As No Surprise, How I Elevate Facial Features /(2) Shocked Reactions - - Like Ed You Still Rappin, Thought Yo Ass Was Dead - - Son Even If That Was The Case, Id Still Resurrect /(4) Pop The Treasure Chest, Bring Something The Game Missing, Just Simply Being Myself - - Yo Muthafuck A Tradition /(6) Of Blending Trying To Conform To Whats Classified As The Norm Wouldnt See Me Making It Rain Even In The Eye Of The Storm /(8) - Im A Brilliant Muthafucka, Not To Toot My Own Horn, Just That Every Now & Then, Gotta Remind Myself Im Born /(10) To Deliver These Messages, Of Excellence Thats Within Ya, Whether Expert - Intermediate, Or Beginner /(12) Yous A Winner Long As You Still Going Hard For Ya Gift - - & Still Marching Towards The Light, Although The Darkness Is Thick /(14) Dont Get Caught Up In Comparisons, As Long As Its True - It Dont Matter If You A Hundred & Two - Do What You Do/(16) - HOOK: - I Still Got It Till The Death Of Me - - - - Still Got It Aint Gon Never Leave /(2) - I Still Got It, Its My Specialty - - - - Still Got It, It Was Meant To Be /(4) 2 - - Just Gotta Come Wit The Real, For Anytime A MuthaFucka Say You Over The Hill /(2) - "You Too Old To Still Be Rappin" Bitch Im Over The Drill - Never Realized You Could Put An Expiration On Skill /(4) - - Dedication & Will - Still Elevating Wit Substance, & Not Just Cuz I Stay, Elevated Off Of A Substance /(6) Small Adjustments - Real Enough To Recognize My Flaws - - & Work Thru Em Like Some Kinda Exercising Clause /(8) - Maybe Its, The Kinda Cloth That Im Cut From - - But Only Wanna Lick My Wounds To Taste The Blood Run /(10) - - Ageing Radiantly, Im Glowing Old - - Ancients Awaiting Me, They Got A Place For Me, Immortalized In Gold/(12) - - Immortalized In Sol - - Kill The Body, But I Promise This Light Will Live On - - Word Is Bond/(14) - Dont Get Caught Up In Comparisons, As Long As Its True - It Dont Matter If You A Hundred & Two - Do What You Do/(16) - HOOK: - I Still Got It Till The Death Of Me - - - - Still Got It Aint Gon Never Leave /(2) - I Still Got It, Its My Specialty - - - - Still Got It, It Was Meant To Be /(4)
6.	Good Luck 02:31	lyrics	buy track
1 - - How You Walk Away From Hitting The JackPot - - Have It All, Then Devolve , To A Have Not /(2) - Key Use To Work, Now She Got It PadLocked - - Cant Take Memory Lane, She Got That Traffic Blocked/(4) - - Had It Up - To The Neck - Wit My Nonsense - - - - Nigga Non-Committal On The Constant /(6) - - Broke The Contents - Of The Contract I Vowed, Spoke It, Rarely Woke It - Thats Why Im Sleeping On Sofas Now /(8) - - -At A Different Residence - Wit Some Distant Remnants- Of A Bliss That Never Lift - (ed) Off Like It Coulda/(10) - - Act Like It Dont Haunt, But Thats A Hard Front, To Put Up /(12)- - - Only One I Wanted, Finally Won It, But I Slipped Up - - - The Shit Sucks - -/(14) -- HOOK: I Used To - Have This Bliss That Never Lifted Off Like It Coulda - - - Act Like It Dont Haunt, But Thats A Hard -Front To Put Up /(2) - - Wondering Where She Could Be & If She Ever Would Love - [Me Agaian] ----Yeahhhh Good Luck ,Good Luck - - Good Luck/(4)------- 2 Good Luck - - Charge It To The Game, Go Thru The Pain, Then ReBoot Up/(2) - Wont Take Me Out The Game, Nah Im Playing, Bout To Suit Up/(4) Fuck Sitting On The Benches, Getting Defensive Bout My Screw-Ups/(6) - - Its Really Too Much - - - HOOK: I Used To - Have This Bliss That Never Lifted Off Like It Coulda - - - Act Like It Dont Haunt, But Thats A Hard -Front To Put Up /(2) - - Wondering Where She Could Be & If She Ever Would Love - [Me Agaian] ----Yeahhhh Good Luck ,Good Luck - - Good Luck/(4)------
7.	In Btwn Rounds 02:18	lyrics	buy track
1 U-Hauls In Advance, For A Nervous Dance Step Crew - Staying Several Steps Ahead of My Next Move/(2) - Bobby Fischer Mixed Wit Nostradamus - A Master at Piecing Prophecies, Go Check The Promise /(4) - Out For Yo Own Self - - Like You Scouting LeBron's School - & Bare Witness Like Snitches With Open Palms Nude /(6) - Getting Sworn-In To Take The Stand - Types That Like To Lower Arms, Just To Raise A Hand/(8)- Them Aint Ya Mans, Best To Reconsider - - Read Some Litter - Them Shitty Cats Aint Worth The Cat Piss Thats Lit Up/(10) So Hit Up - Another Avenue, More Compatible - - - With Who You Truly Be & What Youd Rather Do/(12) - - - Stay True At All Costs - Even Against The Ropes, Short On Hope, Long Lost/(14) - Let That Second Wind, Shut Those Second Thoughts Down, Then Gather Ya Composure, To Go Another Round /(16) - HOOK: Take A Breather God - Free Them Demons God - See That Everything In Life, Dont Gotta Be As Hard/(2) - But Nothing Easy God - Please Believe Me God - You Dont Get Tested, How You Gon Exit That JV Squad/(4) - Let It Breathe God - Let It Be God - - - Life Dont Gotta Be As Hard/(6) - But Nothing Easy God - Please Believe God - - You Dont Get Tested, How You Gon Exit That JV Squad/(8) 2 God - - - - - - Got Me Sitting In This Corner - Contemplating Quiting - Visiting Wit The Coroner/(2) - Or I Could Come Up Off This Stool Swinging, Turn Fools To Stool Pigeons - For Fronting On My Shit n/(4) Getting Outta Pocket - Like Thieves Do For Stolen Wallets, Bringing The Noise, In Moments Of Silence /(6) Focused On Solace - - Best Way To Deafen Doubters - Let Yo Game Talk, Deaden The Noise Around Us/(8) HOOK: Take A Breather God - - Free Them Demons God - See That Everything In Life, Dont Gotta Be As Hard/(2)- But Nothing Easy God - - Please Believe Me God - You Dont Get Tested, How You Gon Exit That JV Squad/(4) - Let It BreatheGod - - - Life Dont Gotta Be This Hard/(6) - But It Aint Easy God - - - Still Time To Exit That JV Squad(8)
8.	React 03:53	lyrics	buy track
HOOK: Give No Man Or Thing, Power Over Me Black - - Cant Let It Take Control Of Me, Totally Relaxed/ (2) - - Composure Keeps Me Back From Doing What Would Keep Me Back - - Cuz Somehow They Only Notice It When We React/(4) 1 - - Under Constant Attacks - Swear I Skipped Shoulder Day, The Way Im Dodging The Traps /(2) - - Margins Collapse- Writin Beyond, My Confines - - Blowing Shotguns To The Sun, No Carbines /(4) - Got Full Extension - Give It Half A Listen, But Full Attention - Im Letting Heat Out Now - - The Opposite Of Vent-In /(6) Ya Optimistic Thinking,That You Had A Shot At This - - - Target Practice, But You Always Miss /(8) If You'd Calmly Give, This, A Rest, This Arrest Of Ya Cardiac - Could Feel More, Acid Reflux Than Mild Heart Attack/(10) - God Guard Ya Back, Frauds Be Acting Off Instincts - - Ready To Instigate, But Hesitate In An Instance /(12) - & Then They Play Victims, Act Like They Got Shot - - Claim They Standing Up As Kings, But Flop Like Vlade Divac/(14)- Possibly Shock - That Got Em Fainting, Just An Observation- - Can The Tough Act, Skip The Oscar Nomination/(16) HOOK: Give No Man Or Thing, Power Over Me Black - - Cant Let It Take Control Of Me, Totally Relaxed/ (2) - - Composure Keeps Me Back From Doing What Would Keep Me Back - - Cuz Somehow They Only Notice It When We React/(4) [X2] 2 - - Only Pretending To Smile - Change The - Chaos Of Then, To Serenity Now/(2) - Find A Way To Rebound- - Without Blowing A Trough - Retire Expired Firecrackers - No More Going Off/(4) - Growing Strong , Trigger Discipline - - For When Facebook Blocks, Dont Provide Enough Social Distancing/(6) - - Total Dissident, Black Larry David, - Show Love, But Tell Ya Just What He Hated /(8) - Trust The Creative - Voice Resonating In Ya - - Capture The Tone Like A Voice Recognition Feature /(10) - - Feed Ya The Realness, As iLL As I Ever Spoke To Ya, If There's Only Two, Listening To That Goes For Both Of Ya /(12) Choose To Open Up, Difft Spots In Yo Hard Top Drilling, Thru The Roof , Didn't Know How To Open The Hard Top /(14) - - Hard Not To Take It Pesonally - But Still Give No Man Or Thing Power Over Me/(16) HOOK: Give No Man Or Thing, Power Over Me Black - - Cant Let It Take Control Of Me, Totally Relaxed/ (2) - - Composure Keeps Me Back From Doing What Would Keep Me Back - - Cuz Somehow They Only Notice It When We React/(4) [X2]
9.	Don't Count My Days 03:22	lyrics	buy track
1 Shouldn't Have To Try To Keep It Real - - Or Balance Consciousness Wit Street Appeal- - Keep The Piece Where I Keep The Will /(2) - Keep Concealed, Out Of Sight, Never Out Of Mind - Shape A Geometric Future - - Wit High Points Down The Line /(4) - - Crown The Rhyme, A Poetic King - Etching Lettering, In My Gold ScrollBook Of Medicine/(6) Branded Skin, But Never Tatted For Product Placement - Fresh Bodies Of Work Wit The Anatomics Of Ancients /(8) - Write Wise As Dhjeuty Penning Telegrams To Wifey - Under Spells Likely, Cant Contain These Spills Over Rhyme Beats/(10) - - Lookin WarTorn Trying To Find Peace - Found Five Thousand Ways To Die From The 5G/(12) - Five Grams Later, Found A Way To Elevate Up - - Evicted From The Surface, Got Handed My Rolling Papers/(14) - - Blowing Holy Vapors - That Good God Flow, On This Ride - My Days Are Numbered Like Car Quotes/(16) HOOK: Yo Dont Count My Days - - Dont Cloud My Grays - Whole Life Flash Past Ya In One Light Graze/(2) - Just One-Night Stays, To An Infinite Soul - - A Short Walk-Thru To A Limitless Stroll /(4) [X2] 2 - So Discover Something WorthWhile - Whether Its As Precious As A First Child - - - - Or The Freshness Of A Birthed Style /(2) Craft Classics, & Get Paid Like Top Draft Picks - Negotiate The Spread Of How Sickness Is Contracted/(4) BroadCasted - Like A Chick In A Splint- - Had A President The Same Color As Water In Flint/(6) & Didnt Shit Change - - Still Sitting, But Expecting, To Get Change - Entitlement Will Only Make Yo Title In The Script Change/(8) Gotta Grip The Reigns - - Elevate In Status - Change Forms, Like Comitting Fraud Wit Alchemists /(10) Take Pain & Make It Tantric , A Penny & Make It Magic - You Broke - Everyday, Create A Fix, Make It Habit/(12) Make It Happen - - Either That Or Just Concede - Playing Catch Up Till My Faith Expands Past A Mustard Seed/(14) Must Agree - - We Living In Some Wild Times - But Thru The Trials, Choose To Smile, Dont Count The Frown Lines /(16) HOOK: Yo Dont Count My Days - - Dont Cloud My Grays - Whole Life Flash Past Ya In One Light Graze/(2) - Just One-Night Stays, To An Infinite Soul - - A Short Walk-Thru To A Limitless Stroll /(4) [X2]
10.	Life Is Awe-Full 02:52	lyrics	buy track
1 - Arriving For My Own Wrath Hours Late - - Crying Over Spilled Wine Counting Sour Grapes/(2) - - Counting Down The Days To Better Times - - Collecting Field Explosives, Only Way Im Getting Mine/(4) - - At The Moment - - - Lacking Hope & If You Ask Me, Where Im Headed In Life - - Wouldnt Know What Exactly/(6) To Say To Ya - -Suffer Failures In Succession - - - - Stuck Wit This Ailing Depression/(8) - Wanna Get Up & Grind - - But Feel Like Im Stuck In Time, They Say Better Days Are Coming , Dont See Nothing Of The Kind /(10) It Feel Like Im Dying - - Cant Even See The Sense In Trying - Got Dry Eyes, But Trying Times, Always Keep Em Crying/(12) Plus My Feet Frying - - From Walking These Hot Coals - Panic Like Im Asthmatic, Its Only A Stopped Nose /(14) Im Stopped Cold - Soul Feeling Distant As Fuck - - All This Life Shit, Really Thinking Bout Give It Up/(16) HOOK: Life Is Awe-Full- - - All Depends On How You See It My Nigga, Check What Ya Thoughts Do /(2) Break It Down, Find Its Chock-Ful- Of Champagne Showers Where Corks Pull/(4) [X2] 2 - Yeah - Up Early Aware - Getting Ready Mentally, Thoroughly Prepared/(2) Chasing Elite Air - A Whole Different Status - Brighter Glow Than One Ever Beholds In The Stratus/(4) - Too Blessed To Show Sadness - Only See Expressed What You Imagine - Wit Passion - & Not Just For A Quick Interaction /(6) Prolonged Over Long Spans Of Time, Crams Ya Mind - Wit The Photpgraphic Doubles Of Hustles That You Designed /(8) Use The Time - To Go, Get Up, & Get It - No Soccer-Shot Prophet But, See Where Goals Are Headed /(10) Interest In Learning, Aint Gotta Be Earning No Credit, Indebted To Ancestors Could Record Em Alphabetic/(12) - They Calling Out, Lets Get It - Over-Time & A Half Bread, Down To Work Foot & Mouth,Aint Nothing Hand-Fed /(14) It Gets - Tired As Fuck, But Im Grateful As Fuck - No Complaining, Simply Raising Vibrations Up /(16) HOOK: Life Is Awe-Full- Full Of Awe, Let Ya Thoughts Fuel - Champagne Showers Where Corks Pull /(2) [X2]
11.	To A Dream Deferred 02:27	lyrics	buy track
1 - Yo What Happens To A Dream Deferred - Does It Dry Up Waitin On Yo Ass To Come & Replenish Its Earth /(2) - - Or Get Infected Like A Open Sore - - Sickened Wit Thoughts, You Wont Be Able To Accomish This At All /(4) - - Or Does It Stink Like Rotten Beef - - Killing What Could Be Over What's Been Sour For Weeks/(6) - - - Or Crust Over Like Flippin Old Pies - Diggin Like You Trying To Find A Friggin Gold Prize/(8) For A Spot To Bury It - - More Underground Than Harriet - - Till There's No Recollection Of Ever Having It/(10) - - - Or Maybe It Just Drags Like A Heavy Soul - Wit Too Much Weight On Its Back - Strapped To A Heavy Tow /(12) - - - - Or Does It Just Explode, Combust From - Having Too Much To Hold - - Inside /(14) - Just Waiting To Make Somebody Life - More Splendid Than They Ever Intended In The Design /(16) - HOOK: - Got Ambition To Scheme , Got The Talent Now The Challenge Is To Execute The Dream /(2) - - - - Take My Shot But Not To Execute The Dream - - - Better Late, Than To Never Test The Scene /(4) 2 - Reverberations Of The Renaissance, Slave To The Vision Channel Masters Of Poetic Arts /(2) - & True Musicianship - - Never Poppin Off But Talkin All That Jazz, Never Choosing Censorship /(4) - - Cant Tame What You Cant Contain - The Brilliance Of Blackness, Too Massive, For JackAsses, To Ascertain /(6) - - - Creating In The Shadows Of True Legends - Who Didnt Let The Dream Die Before Getting To Heaven/(8) - - Pray That This Record Is Destined For The Intended Ears - - & It Stirs Something Deep Within Whoever Hears /(10) Dedicated To Whoever Cares - This For That Shorty Dreaming Big, Thinking Fuck The Fears /(12) -- Im Going For It,Whether Win, Lose, Or Draw - - Not Much To Lose When You Done Been Thru The War/(14) - So Go For It, Whether Win, Lose, Or Draw - - Aint Much That We Aint Been Thru Before/(16) HOOK: - Got Ambition To Scheme , Got The Talent, Now The Challenge Is To Execute The Dream /(2) - - - - Take My Shot But Not To Execute The Dream - - - Better Late, Than To Never Test The Scene /(4)
12.	Madiba 01:32	lyrics	buy track
1 No Weaknesses Glare, Being Powerful’s My Deepest Fear - Conquering Tyranny, Artillery Leave You Impaired/(2) No Need To Prepare - Far Beyond An Amateur, More Than Your Ambassador, Lord Of South Africa /(4) Immortal Style Massacre, Improbable To Some - But Glory Always Seems Impossible Until It’s Won /(6) An Education Far More Powerful Than Any Gun - I Stand As A Man, You Can Count How Many Run/(8) - When It’s Time To Proceed To, Truly Defeating Evil - Cuz Real Leaders Sacrifice For The Freedom Of Their People/(10) The Strong Rise - I Stall Apartheids, A Star In God’s Eyes - Severing False Ties, I’m Smarter & More Wise /(12) - After Being Imprisoned, Seeing The Prizm - The Light Shining Like When Malcolm Seen Elijah’s Vision/(14) Find Ya Mission - & Glisten Wit The Wisdom Of Mandela - Ed Rowe Da Arkatek Respect To Nella - Got Madiba Up In Heaven Blessing Aint Much They Could Tell Ya/(16)
13.	Tighten It Up 02:38	lyrics	buy track
1 Prayer, MayThe Force Be Wit You Dont Delay The Source Within You, Stay The Course, Continue, This The Hole In The Wall Taking Us To A Larger Venue/(2) - Its All Essential- - Take No Experience For Granted Never Let A Shattered Man Make You Think His Chin Is Granite/(4) - I'll Shut It Down , The Question Is Can You WithStand It - Or Stay Hurt - Like Gio Stanton/(6) - -HemoStatins - Wont Slow The BloodFlow No , Ima Still Spill Life Like Post-Sex CuntHoles /(8) Dont Let Control - Be Yo Top Priority- Forgetting Youre Expression Of A Much A Higher Authority/(10) Red-Eye Off The Forest Green - Breaking Quarantine Life's A Contract Wit God Where You Break Warranty/(12) Every So Often, Every Flow Awesome God Trust That - - Doubt HearSay Only Trust Fact /(14) MuthaFuck A TouchBack - We Gon Return Any Time We Get Knocked Down - - No Obstacle That We Cant Surmount /(16) HOOK: - - Tighten It Up - If You See Him Wit a L Its Cuz He Lightin It Up /(2) - Can't Find GoodFella, Probably High In The Cut - Cant See Defi's Eyes, He Probably High As Fuck/(4) So Just - 2 - - Being More Precise, Weigh Up The Benefits Before I CounterOffer The Price/(2) An Author That Writes - Exquisite Supreme - - Put My Foot In Rhymes Every Line A Pivotal Scene/(4) - - Spinning On A Sol Axis - Step Into The Sun, Got Sol Access - Liable To Bust Whenever Like A Swole Abcess /(6) Address Of Them Resources That You Been Hiding - Aint No Giving Up Like When Injuries Force Ya To Retirement/(8) - So Inspiring , When You Fight Against The Greatest Odds - - Never Going Soft Knowing Every Day Is Hard /(10) - Like Selective Dope Peddlers - Fucking Wit The Crown Hanging Wit The Gold Medllers /(12) - Defi On The Rhyme, Blessed By The GoodFella - Co- Creators Of This Astral , Interstellar/(14) - Audio Artifact On The Art Of Rap Tunes , As Poetic As Phonetics Spoke By Langston Hughes /(16) - - HOOK: - - Tighten It Up - If You See Him Wit a L Its Cuz He Lightin It Up /(2) - Can't Find GoodFella, Probably High In The Cut - Cant See Defi's Eyes, He Probably High As Fuck/(4) So Just -
14.	Off The Horizon 02:32	lyrics	buy track
1 The Blackest Sun - - Get More Burn Than An Iraqi's Gun - - Music Movin On The Web Like How Arachnids Run /(2) - - Acid Dung, Hallucinogenic Shit - Music Kept Me Lit, Back When I Was At A Lucid Deficit/(4) - - Rule Is To Never Quit Even When There's All Darkness - Real Kings Walk By Faith Like The Selma Marches /(6) - - - - You Could Tell Ya HardShips If Need Be - But Ima Spew Luxury-Liners Providing Jewels To Feed /(8) Choose To Lead If Ya So Called , Not Always Bout Who Present The Most Cash Makin Roll Call/(10) - But Leaving Behind A Legacy - Impact So LongLasting I Probably Wont Get To See /(12) - - How Far It Reaches - On Par Wit Teachers Of Hermetic Doctrines- Voice Amongst The Gods I Could Hit Khemetic Octaves /(14) - Spitting Wit The Ankh Gripped , Infinite Rhyme - So Even When It Does Set We Continue To Shine/(16) - 2 Con - Tinue Supplying You Wit The Fire Youve Come To Love - Cant Take Off The HeadPhones After This Without An Oven Glove /(2) - - - Got The Hot Hand - Pullin Up For Heat Checks Like D-Wade, When The Deposit Does Not Land /(4) - God's Plan - Man's Execution - You Gotta Want It Like It's Retribution & Debt Solutions/(6) - Taking Ya From The Red To The Green - Like Orange & Yellow Somewhere Wedged In Between /(8) - Peace To Roy G - - Full Spectrum - Colorful Flows To Get Ya Motor Senses Pumping Like Its Fuel Injection /(10) - Full Inspection Ima Pass Without A Second Thought - First Pendant Is Fine I Dont Need A Third Time Charm/(12) - FireBomb Like A Hired Arm - Run My Own Stead Of Saying I Got Hired On /(14) - - I Dont Think This Is The End There's Something Higher On - - Glowing Bright & Strong , Just A Horizon Beyond /(16) -
15.	Final Wish 01:36	lyrics	buy track
1 Please Excuse Me While Im Crashin Thru Rampin Ya Magnitude Detectors Up A Notch - - Shake You So Traumatically That Afterwards You Suffer Shocks /(2) Dont Care What It Got - It Aint Got Nothing On This Here - - Timeless - You Aint Gon Catch Me Rocking No WristWear/(4) Fists To The Air - Black Pride To The Sky - Either You Wit It Or Against It Take Ya Time To Decide /(6) - Vibe Aint Been The Same Since Prodigy Died - - & I Still Wish Kobe Never Took That Flight /(8) - Iron Mike Never Took That Fight Wit Buster Lightly - Wish Jehovahs Witnesses Would Knock More Politely /(10) - Or Not At All - "You Such & Such" Nah Im Not Involved - Stop Sending Collections Letters I Wont Start Paying Off /(10) - Cuz Once I Got It I Gotta Make Sure To Keep It Flowing - - Somewhere Near The Tropics That Way It Could Keep Growing/(12) - - Every Verse, Hook, & Beat Potent - Just Credit The Authors Whenever Youre ReQuoting / (14) - - GoodFella Nella - & Defi Reason - Reporting Live From Some Unidentified Region /(16) HOOK: - Distance Is Part Of The Game - - Travel A Little Farther To Gain /(2)- - - & Chips Come Along Wit A Name - - But Respect Is Harder To Gain/(4)

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Power of The Radiantly, Poetic, Spoken Word

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released May 22, 2020

Written & Recorded: Defi Reason
Produced: GoodFella Nella
Engineered: Ed Rowe
Design: Ed Rowe
Published: Arkatek Music, ASCAP, 2020