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Sometimes I'm feeling way up Sometimes I'm falling drown
Sometimes I'm swimming circles Sometimes I'm bout to drown
Sometimes I got the flavors Sometimes I'm in a drought
Sometimes I wanna break free Sometimes I love this town
Sometimes I gotta roll up jus so I don't fall apart
Sometimes I'm staying sober jus so I don't fall apart
Sometimes I be so hopeful bout my quality of art
Sometimes I wish I never made a song and could restart
Sometimes I don't do anything at all waste a whole ass day
Sometimes I think too hard and then my noggin starts to ache
Sometimes the music hitting and I'm nodding to the base
Sometimes I jus be sick of it cause it all sounds the same
Sometimes me and my time be moving at the quickest pace
Sometimes we hit the mud and the whole wagon starts to break
Sometimes I can't write nothing prolly cause I'm in all day
Sometimes we got the one and they start bragging bout my tape
Sometimes I'm feeling way up Sometimes I'm falling drown
Sometimes I'm swimming circles Sometimes I'm bout to drown
Sometimes I got the flavors Sometimes I'm in a drought
Sometimes I wanna break free Sometimes I love this town
Sometimes I wanna wait Sometimes I want it now
Sometimes I want it straight Sometimes don't say a sound
Sometimes I'm in my space Sometimes I'm on the ground
Sometimes I'm feeling great Sometimes I'm jus a mouse
Sometimes I sit and pray Sometimes I look at God and frown
Sometimes I gotta say you need to step it up or change your lane
Sometimes I turn a beast and I start digging in my fangs
Sometimes I love your songs and then I turn into a fan
Sometimes I want the most for you Sometimes you don't deserve it
Sometimes I see you showing love Sometimes I see you lurking
Sometimes I wanna open up Sometimes I'm closed by burdens
Sometimes I wanna die but then again Sometimes is perfect
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Selling potions out my parents upstairs
It's your local alchemist tryna make gold out thin air
Questioning my practices I really don't care
As long as it never interferes with my work
And if it do I got a verse for you big head
Swear I came prepared jus let me get my notes in set
Told the team to get a crowd but they ain't notice yet
Clear my thought and then make sure the microphone is checked
You thought I wouldn't gather myself become an artist and learn?
Bring power to the pen my mind is scarred with chemical burns
Handle this with caution boy you better read the terms
You ain't never heard a flow so perfect straight from world of forms
Always cooking up new recipes you better stay informed
Everyday I feel the fire I be banging at the forge
I dare you test my mettle know my tongues the sharpest blade
Excalibur in fact I wouldn't even pull my sword
I could put you down with less bitch stop acting like a stray
It ain't your time to die wipe that feral look off your face
I got the remedy for that go give my album some plays
I ain't charging a thing except that you make change
No one will do it for you they don't care
This ain't a trick I'm playing we all gotta be prepared
For the miasma in the air that's penetrating every surface
Every person every business every faction all components
Those inflicted you can see they mouth be foaming for attention
Edging closer to the edges look at me I'm boutta fall
I don't give a fuck jump to the progress you a wall
To the outer world a monk I jus wanna see it all
But still I gotta stay involved if I hear it Ima heed the battle call
You gotta feel it to install it
Let go and trust the process
Forget about the wallet
And make those dreams reality
Me I'm seeking solace and a sense of normality
A simple life like hobbits still a pinch of insanity
Won't ever shake some habits it's tied into my anatomy
I didn't learn it at all it comes naturally to me
I could put you down with less bitch stop acting like a stray
It ain't your time to die wipe that feral look off your face
I got the remedy for that go give my album some plays
I ain't charging a thing except that you make change
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Ima dopefiend
Smell that gas know I'm approaching
Fuck a slice I want the whole thing looking like I know things
Want a verse I'll let my soul sing
Ima dopefiend
Behind the smoke and mirrors I'm jus coping
Down the River Styx we all floating
Going with the flow my minds an ocean
Ima dopefiend
Got a problem you don't know a thing
Boutta wake up anyway you stuck in potent dreams
Jus follow light streams out the cave there's plenty openings
Ima dopefiend
I might smoke your whole pack and never get you back
I'm jus joking
The sour what you lack he got an eighth full of reggie mixed with crack!
Ima dopefiend
I want the whole thing
I'm jus coping
There's plenty openings
I let my soul sing
My minds an ocean
I'm jus joking
I'm jus joking
Dope, dope, dope, Ima dopefiend
Dope, dope, Ima dope
Ima dopefiend
We all jus chemicals and proteins
Catch me hiding in a smoke screen
Caught inside the in between
That's M.I.A gone with the breeze
High as planes that's everyday since I was like 14
With the vapors Ima sage been a Shahmin since the early days
Had a Little Vision then preceded to break out my cage
They say I'm able so a thousand canes
Smoking in the cradle like a mountain chain
Make another crater I'm about to change
But Ima need the paper and some pocket change
This pack don't buy itself and I need the loudest strains
Stuck inside myself watch me dull the pain
Someone rolled another L I jus puff puff puff
Homie going crazy like enoughs enough!
Someone rolled another L I jus puff puff puff
I jus puff puff
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My Canvas Prod. Homage
02:52
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In a world full of false idols
Most the time what you call yourself it ain't the right title
Making mosaics I'm still picking out the tiles
Sacred intuition this a masterpiece of style
I want some answers so I'm digging through the files
If I think I find it then I'm running down the aisle
Get behind me if it resonates inside you
Treat my art like it's a science had to study all my idols
You feel the pulse? This shit is vital like the ratio of spirals
At my center looking out the chi radiates from my spinal
Got a vessel why you idle? Came here for a reason now you living in denial
Sowing plenty seeds like I been living off the nile
Made my own oases once a desert now fertile
And I won't ever settle but I need my own isle
A place I can return where my streams of thought all compile
This world it been my canvas
From the palette to each stroke I'm jus working through this madness
This world it been my canvas
If I'm ever feeling down then I'll jus write another stanza
This world it been my canvas
I don't ever got an optic every picture taken candid
The world it been my canvas
Sculpting meaning out the earth maybe I can help change this planet
Come join the team and watch the colors flow
Finding beauty in a stream looking at reflections
I'm seeing you in me I really wanna know
What's your passion, what's your goal, how do you plan to address it?
Me I'm working these aesthetics every session tryna make a rainbow
I'm still searching for my meaning like a pot of gold
But I don't know man I could change tomorrow
One day I got a soul the next I say I'm hollow
Hopeful in the summer but it fades away with cold
Motivated in the spring cause the change it be contagious
You gotta wait for it to bloom jus have some patience
Something in the air has got me walking in amazement
Think I caught the bug like I was dancing through meadows
All this life in different stages proves that growth comes slow
Open up don't close what would be the point in stopping when we're so damn close
Sometimes you jus gotta go...
This world it been my canvas
From the palette to each stroke I'm jus working through this madness
This world it been my canvas
If I'm ever feeling down then I'll jus write another stanza
This world it been my canvas
I don't ever got an optic every picture taken candid
The world it been my canvas
Sculpting meaning out the earth maybe I can help change this planet
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Another star shining bright in the night
Looking at it from the ground oh how the sky it invites
Took advice from the moon I usually hide when it's light
And at night I'm in bloom watch me fly out of sight
Don't pay me mind I'm alright I jus need to be alone
These thoughts they keep me captive and I ended up stoned
Like the asteroids around us hear they never been this close
Fishing off the crescent while I'm puffing on this bone
Ima make my dreams work I hope you don't leave yours alone
They might shrivel up and die cause you hung them up to dry
Rather fill out all their forms and secure your piece of pie
Oh my, they got you thinking you ain't up to size
Separate from the giants past you don't classify
That's what they'd have you think to keep the status quo alive
When comets come it's hard to bare the change and they might die
I say let em roll, heads will fly, earth will be jus fine
Staring at the rising sun
Some say that's the one
Born from God herself all the stars shining bright until they're overwhelmed by darkness
And I can feel it creeping in
Pulling me back down to the abyss
I be tryna make a starship so I can escape from gravities grip
It's kind of sad to admit that I'm alone in this space
Nothing but a pad and pen to keep my ass in it's place
Make sure my noggin's still straight
While I pursue the fates clairvoyance
I know where I stay no matter what my body poised in
This vessels kind of damaged but have faith we'll make this voyage
Jezeb he steer the ship and Jacob Shaw jus be toying with buttons and switches
Tryna find a pattern that lights up the whole damn system
While my other half is driven, more perceptive, smoother ridges
Cabin fever standards I been in my head for days on end it's feeling like a prison
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Jus some sight seers
Feel a type of way when the light clears
Jus some sight seers
Feel a type of way when the night clears
Falling up into the sky
I use the clouds as a disguise
And a cushion smoking every day till I die
Peaking past the silver lining wondering when I'll come to ground
But I would rather have my space jus never come around
Set my own pace, have my own thoughts, do my own thing
Fuck your little wave I got the higher ground like escalades
Up till now I jus been setting stage I'm ready now let's celebrate
Won't you join me on this escapade I can feel the great escape drawing near
Don't need no signs cause it's blatantly clear
Might have shared the wheel before but now I'm ready to steer
If you still unsure I promise you got nothing to fear
This train of thought will take us places you might never get near
So lend an ear, station at the end of the pier
I know you'll love it here
Embracing everything that's been gathered in this sphere
We jus some sight seers
Jus some sight seers
Feel a type of way when the light clears
Jus some sight seers
Feel a type of way when the night clears
I can see things speeding up so I'm lacing up the runners
Practicing my flows so they rain down on you like thunder
Patter, patter, patter oh the rains how they uncover
Hmm... help me sow this seed like Ima mother
I would sacrifice my steed to bring life to the land
Still got pagan tendencies like that bible in hand
There's a revival at hand and it's best you be aware
Cause if you silent then we can guess that your ass is too scared
I can smell fear in the air everywhere what a bunch of pussies
Jus cause you don't respect yourself I'll hit you if you push me
In real life and a verse I be at constant war like wookies
With myself and the world a child soldier not a rookie
I been at the door but bookies they don't think I'm looking quite right
The music sounds off why he writing like he's clever
If they played this in the club all the girls would flee together
And they ain't even wrong but this substance I wont censor
Not never
Jus some sight seers
Feel a type of way when the light clears
Jus some sight seers
Feel a type of way when the night clears
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I need to do it yes I do
I need to put on for my city and my crew yes I do
I need to get the whole set in something new yes I do
Jus to prove I was never clueless calculated every single move
I'm not new to this I'm almost 22
Me and Freddy we been plotting since way back in middle school
Now the pressure building up I think we actually got some movement
Caught inside like gruel in barbecues we building revolutions no illusions
Jus the real I'm still the student down to hear if you can prove it
I consider every word that breach your lips a type of music
So I'm grooving to it never losing focus I'm immune to getting boredom
Cause I'd like to be amused and not controlling or reducing
What another person truth is rather cut it up and snort that shit get under your influence
Always been the type that's pulling out the flowers that seem easily uprooted
You ain't certain on your stance then you at risk to convolution
And no matter what your passion never let fake friends dilute
Cause it's usually the tyrant in the room that's full of sewage
He got the most to say but I ain't ever see him do it
I been through it with em when my season come around they truent
Still I'm steady dropping bombs on all these folk like Harry Trumen
No distinction we jus blew it my real thinkers see the fission in the movement
Started as a split decision then it formed into a movement
Went from jus a movement to a mindset of constant improvement
I need to do it yes I do
Yes I do
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Rust belt kid swear I mutated
Since a cub I been one with creation
I'm in love with your touch gotta be sated
716 where I'm at I'm pinned
Still in my home town striving
Wanna raise the city up and watch they eyes liven
Neo Tokyo we all got reasons for surviving
Swear we fallen angels feel the resonance inside him
Sneaking street to street like ninja gaiden
If I catch your ass outside I got some secret flows I'm hiding
Chain together blows and leave your ass prescribing to my shows
Then I head back home couple homies loudest dro
Nothing major going on brod we jus started
But compare us to those other cats you'll see the widest margin
Digging through the trash to bite off someone elses garbage
We running through the grass coordinated like some spartans
Eyes are on the prize I know my pride can outsmart them
Sizing up my meal you take the head I'll get the carcass
We gorging on our dreams that we brought up they disheartened
Why you try and leave my imagination discarded
Rust belt kid swear I mutated
Since a cub I been one with creation
I'm in love with your touch gotta be sated
716 where I'm at I'm pinned
Take it all in
At some swamp doing nothing we jus boggin'
This whole city used to be full of marshes
Stagnant ponds full of dead organic matter bring catharsis
Steel barred obelisk, rusted shells of former selves now fill the river side how ominous
In the last days we harmonous a homonym of homonids I swear I ain't the same as you we got a different cognizance
I be snaking through it while you can come barely fit your head in
Put on a mean demeanor in reality I'm Severin
The came they plugged our head in you can see it you can shed it
If you can't find the board we'll point it out we some veterens
The education system is the first case of evidence
Second up is organized religion nothings more irrelevant
From elections to the president the down fall seems evident
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What you will ain't what you want
What I wanna do right now is smoke a spliff and lean my seat back
But that ain't gonna get me to the place I will to be at
Gotta make a change and real fast
Feeling vices gripping deep down know I'm bout to be trapped
Ima relapse... Another hit of acid I might detach
From everything around me cutting off close friends and family
I don't need that
At least for now I gotta make it through another valley
And then I'll be back
Let's hope I don't run out of battery put myself through hell to get a deeper understanding
On the low like sleeper cells they can't defeat what I'm financing
The slightest chance to tweak the canon I'll be laughing to the bank
And cashing in
I can sense it coming like bad accidents
Lets get it cracking
Jezeb he never been a pacifist
I'm bout that action
Some might say I be a catalyst the world it been my canvas and I'm painting cause I'm mad at it
What you want ain't what you will sometimes you gotta swallow pride
Keep your eyes on the prize we gotta climb steep hills
If you ain't up to task then why you even come along
If you ever hold my will I'll put your ass where you belong
I been waiting all day for the climb
Better yet some years how I long to be heard
Put it in a song I'll be fine
Early morning will is strongest I be chirping like a bird
Been getting better with my bars because I practice everyday
Used to focus on wordplay but now that's jus a second thought
If you can't get the plot then I need to rearrange
I don't jus talk to talk if it's one way I'll disengage
But this is music guess I'm supposed to keep you entertained
I ain't complaining this the game I came in fucked around and made a baby
And Jezeb it be his name.
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Jezeb Buffalo, New York
Artist from Buffalo, New York. Part of the Operation Infinity collective. I like to describe my art as therapeutic rap as I started my craft as a coping mechanism. Would best describe my art as a conglomeration of various elements of Boom Bap, Spoken Word, and Lofi. Thank you for checking me out. ... more
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