1. |
O
01:09
|
|||
Is it wise to assume
Reality only revolves
Around me
Well it’s a revolution ain’t it?
We’re introducing
By infecting the youth
With the use
Of our words
Traveling underneath
The starlight
Hallelujah throw yo hands
Up to the sky awww
All aboard the midnight train
It goes full circle
It goes around and round
(Verse)
The only thing that I do with ease
Here is open my eyelids
Ain’t no time for dozin off
Even as one
We could never be too
Close to call
The lights go out
And they start to scream
Haunted by insecurities
And bad dreams
I wanna let the world
They gotta friend in me
I finally feel like
It’s my time to speak
|
||||
2. |
Sleepy Head
02:35
|
|||
I never sleep
Cause sleep be
The cousin of death
(3x)
But we only dying
Cause we never
Get any rest
Need no alarm clock
We don’t do curfews
Last to close their eyes
I’ll be the first to
Everyone is asleep
Except yon
And you crew
Inspire em to
Wake up
Wake up
Wake up
Wake up
(Verse 1)
As my side of the globe
Prepares for bed
I’m just hopping
Outta mine before
The active night ahead
I love this life
Not a rooster
Or a early bird in sight
Ok the Sun keeps
Me alive
But I prefer the moon
For light
I guess the darkness
just be loud enough to
Cancel out the noise
From obsessions with
Acceptance the internet
Freakazoids
Just be flexin
They fake perfection
Beware
The second your connected
It’s like your in a hex
Trapped with no escape left
But if u need a way out
My nigga say less
Survival of the fittest
Bitch i be the apex
Solidified off of shit
I ain’t even made yet
So what’s it gonna be
Do or die
Fight or flight
Niggas like me thrive at night
While erryone else seems to hide
Turnin on their brightest lights
But even that can’t help the blind
See what’s right in front of u
and that’s how u get left behind
For this
You gone need more than your eyes.
You need a mind
Need no alarm clock
We don’t do curfews
Last to close their eyes
I’ll be the first to
Everyone is asleep
Except yon
And you crew
Inspire em to
Wake up
Wake up
Wake up
Wake up
|
||||
3. |
Doctor's Note
02:54
|
|||
Shit get spooky
Please make way
Cause even if the
sun is out
We can rain on
Your parade
I whip out the doobie
And put it to the fire
Wanna smoke more
But this is all I got
(Verse 1)
Fuck allat talkin
Bitch let’s get it started
I’m out that boot
so they encourage me
To shout retawdid
And everyone’s a target
Erryday I was walking down
Hersey D. where u can
attain ya first degree
And uon need a university
Besides for most of us
That shit gone be a scam
So we would rather scam
And say stick it to the man
Look over to ya man’s
And see the stick up
In his hand
Guess he doin stick ups
To get rich quick again
It’s sickening
[Hook]
Shit get spooky
Please make way
Cause even if the
sun is out
We can rain on
Your parade
I whip out the doobie
And put it to the fire
Gotta nigga geekin
And idk why
(Verse 2)
I hope you on yo
P’s & Q’s
While you talkin like
you bout it bout it
Who is we kiddin dawg
Look at you
I highly doubt it
Don’t take the shit
To heart my nigga
We be high regardless
And all I see towers falling
So I ain’t fucking w/ no one
But me myself and I
Can we learn lessons
Without all the pain that’s
Left behind
Look in the mirror and
You wonder if u next to die
We petrified by these rights
That’s gettin exercised
done lost count of the victims
And it’s more than repetitious
At this point the shit tradition
We digesting in the
Belly of the beast
And he feelin indigestion
From the heaters that
We keep
Shit get spooky
Please make way
Cause even if the
sun is out
We can rain on
Your parade
I whip out the doobie
And put it to the fire
Gotta nigga geekin
And idk why
|
||||
4. |
||||
Oh the fact is we’re all battling
Life like we’re soldiers
When will we learn to
Go with the flow
I won’t envy my sisters or brothers
Under sunshine the whole
World can glow
I can show you better than I tell ya
All the proof you need is inside
This sensation it seems so familiar
Just cycle need I remind ya
That’s my brudda and nem
That’s my roots, my cut, and my stem
I can’t leave out none of my twins
build on top my family tree
make the world my kinfolk
then I make sure that my family eat
You don’t want peace
You just be running the streets
You just looking for smoke
Bet when it’s time to speak
You just be bout to choke
Hold on folk, we need growth
where is yo soul? where is yo code?
Open yo arms And let us...
Oh the fact is we’re all battling
Life like we’re soldiers
When will we learn to
Go with the flow
I won’t envy my sisters or brothers
Under sunshine the whole
World can glow
I can show you better than I tell ya
All the proof you need is inside
This sensation it seems so familiar
Just cycle need I remind ya
Let me remind ya
I’m that bitch
Who will pull up and find yah
Can’t keep up cause
I’m lit like a lighter
Turn me down a notch before
I set this bitch on fire
Come in to me ,(love is free)
We da winning team , please no Frenemies
I can tell she do not satisfy yahhh
Baby This sensation will take ya higher
Oh the fact is
I guess I tend to overthink
At the wrong time
Do I even determine what pops in my head?
The world seems addicted to livin a lie
I, I wish I could sit back
And relax for once
But my gut says we aint seen
The half of it
And there's people with me
Lending helping hands
Manifest done taught a nigga
What a family is
I been searching for this feeling
For many of a millennium
It’s something bout this bitch
That almost got a nigga tearing up
Any who as of late
I been feeling like it’s way
Too many rules I had to break
Probably shouldn’t have gotten
This deep in with you
If that’s the case
But i retrace my steps
Can’t just blame yourself
Pain just led the way for
All the ways I made myself
Bitch I was born from greatness
The ones who lived before me
Said not to resort to hatred
And life ain’t gone hand you a purpose
Bitch you gotta take it
Say this that information
That’s gonna break you out
The matrix
Some energy to fill the void
When its growing vacant
And ain’t no good experiences
When you so impatient
Baby wait ya turn
Fuck around and drop some shit
That make em wanna learn the words
Even with my prior knowledge
Knowing language is a curse
Everything is just a tool
It’s how you choose to make it work
Mane they prolly hate this verse
|
||||
5. |
Proxima
03:04
|
|||
Kayy & Mack
3:40 in the morning
u can worry bout how to
bring more in
I’mma focus on what
I feel is important
Gotta lettem live can’t
Think for em
Mack (Verse 1)
Why tf y’all so proud
To miss out on what matters
U could split a atom
Quicker than Adam & Eve split
But u rather
Smother yaself in these taxes
And fees
for crackers? please
Couldn’t let that be me
I got way too much passion
to panic bout a mf
Economic status.
Matter fact I’m laughing
at the fact u thought actually care
Like ion spend half my time
Outside the atmosphere.
Kayy & Mack (Hook)
3:40 in the morning
u can worry bout how to
bring more in
I’mma focus on what
I feel is important
Gotta lettem live can’t
Think for em
How u stuff enough bud in a blunt
For the world to smoke
I ain’t stutter know u heard me ho
Sometimes shit gotta get much
Worse first for it ever gets better.
Mack (Verse 2)
She like to look up to the sky
And ask God why sometimes
It’s why we all gotta get
High sometimes
Body fulla dat uncertainty
Never been a spoon feeder
My rhyming ain’t nursery
The universe ain’t got no
Back up plans for emergency
Guess the most high ain’t
Got that typa common courtesy
Either that or errything
That is was made perfectly.
But idk I’m just writing songs
On bourbon street.
Kayy & Mack (Switch up)
Stuck in the middle
Yeah I said keep it centered
But you’re running in circles
Boxed in, in other words
You’re outta shape
Mack (Verse 3)
At this time of night
The stars look like
Light bulbs over here
My existence is equivalent
To proxima that might
Go over heads
Best not leave em stifled
That’d be a trifling
Thing to do
Kids put down rifles
I’d rather be an item with u
than become an idol
If u feel free enough
And trust me my nigga
I know that shit don’t
come with ease but
That’s what we got
The weed for
That tree of life
Be top shelf
keep up
Yo 16th century advice
Do not help
Kayy & Mack
Stagnant as hell
Can’t tell ya what happened
It’s 5 hours past twelve.
|
||||
6. |
||||
We followed procedure but
that only put us in harm’s way
If u taking the highway to hell
Just travel down memory lane
No I can’t guarantee
That one day we’ll all be free
What we need
Is the truth
And not promises fulla deceit
(Verse 1)
Say pump ya breaks lil mama
Find ya love in someone else
I’m outchea on my bottom dollar
Yeen know it pays to rap
But makin music finna cost ya
So believe me when I say
Ion just keep my flow in pocket
And ion trap so nah
I can’t rely on that
But shoutout to
my dawgs who do
won’t say no names
I ain’t no rat
Aint complaining I’m just saying
Can’t take care of no one else
I’m still learning errything it takes
To take care of myself
Like who am I?
Genny & Mack [Bridge]
Who am I
And what is it I want
While there’s air
In my chest
We live & let live
But what good is that
To folks livin in stress
Oh how I wish I only had
Solutions for u all
Let’s keep it a thou
The odds ain’t in
All our favor
(Verse 2)
Wtf u mean the grass
Is greener on the other side
Ain’t got too many fucks
To give won’t lie
I’m running out
Issa time and place
U wait for the bullshit
That u tryna pull
Don’t do too much
U know how karma
Can be kinda cruel
Sheesh
U should be counting blessings
But u counting favors
Our clocks is counting down
But we too busy counting paper
Assuming we’ll be here to spend it later
Well playa
A common mistake
Made by rookies
While I’m laid out
Off this acid
The music is where it took me
From Baton Rouge
To Brooklyn
Catholics & Muslims
Just making sure the
Whole world map
Understood me
I even practice etymology
To get my point a cross
But niggas love to be offended now
So ion wanna talk
They used to call u preachy
When niggas was just warning y’all
But now errbody is a know it all
(Chorus)
We followed procedure but
that only put us in harm’s way
If u taking the highway to hell
Just travel down memory lane
No I can’t guarantee
That one day we’ll all be free
What we need
Is the truth
And not promises fulla deceit
|
||||
7. |
Fractals
02:15
|
|||
Shinin on these niggas
Like waaaaannn
I paid the cost to be the boss
You fell behind
Then that’s on you
Enough about me
Let’s talk about you
When the sun isn’t out
At the midnight hour
Humans tend to show
Their true nature
It get evil in that ratchet
Niggas do a lot
Too much in fact
I write more than I sleep
I think I lost my pop
Because of that
Was blazing thru the day
For DDG aint talkin Pontiac
So what the sun setting
Fuck is that to an insomniac
I grew up in a cul de sac
My neighbor was the
Biggest church up in the hood
We had one for every corner
You would think that did some good
Still livin’ the dumb way
This that go kidnap the queen
And runaway from Pompeii
Then walk the land unphased
We form a unity circle
And yell harambe
The back to jocin on Mattie
With Nate & Shuntae
You had a similar status
Give me an Aśe
But fuck what I say
[Hook]
Enough about me
Let’s talk about you
Enough about me
Let’s talk about you
(Bridge)
See I told you twice
I ain’t gone get involved
And got damn right
I’mma man of my word
But would you put your
Life on the line
If the good ole tables turned
Tell no lie
(Verse 2)
Oh Ms. Mary ya scaring em
Keep me outta the business
Cause I don’t care for comparisons
Y’all gotta habit of causing
Second handed embarrassments
Overly patriotic quit sounding
Like an American
And stop with the politicin
C’mon nigga we all know
You not a villain
Yea you prolly was poverty stricken
Brought up in the trenches
But you had a pot to piss in
Now you say I’m outta pocket
I ain’t sorry cause the problem
More than likely ain’t me it’s you
Prolly why they call issues
Whole time yo worst enemy
Is you, bless ya.
Yea and I’m just talking to
The enemy
Jumping off the leash
This a message for the Inner Me
Cause anytime I rap about
My brother I see a glimpse of me
Memories of empathy
And envyness caught
In between
|
||||
8. |
||||
Fuck what it once was
This is how it is now
Taking you to higher heights
With no plans on coming down
You’ll see me flying on by
Don’t be too scared to fall
I say ooh got damn
It’s so up we gone have
To take that mothafuckin
Roof off
This might just be the hardest shit
You done heard in ya life
Praise to Allah for givin me
All these verses to write
Even when errything go right
And life swerve to the left
My way words can be a gift
And a curse at best
Describes the violence in my
environment down to a T
Murder for murder they do
You dirty or worser then that
All of the sirens done even
Lowered in volume for me
Niggas who die for respect
Don’t even deserve the respect
So why they killin for it then
Ignorance be makin plenty enemies
From many men
Trigger finger itching
Inching from civility again.
Leave a nigga leakin
He don’t needa reason
and aint no fightin demons
bitch we ridin demons
hell we prolly on yo block n shit
please don’t try my podnah
he the type to aim it out the whip
Solid to the projects
They don’t fuck around w/ opposites
body for a body how it is
(Body for body)
Fuck what it once was
This is how it is now
Taking you to higher heights
With no plans on coming down
You’ll see me flying on by
Don’t be too scared to fall
I say ooh got damn
It’s so up we gone have
To take that mothafuckin
Roof off
Whole congregation sippin molly water
Pimps and pushers run the churches
We done strayed from holy father
Fucked your baby momma
Took my grandmas last two dollars
Flew the whole congregation out to Vegas
thats a holy dollar Sick of all the hootin hollerin
Bitch you got a Problem
Well I got some young disciples
leave you slumped down in the fuckin Bottoms
False prophets promise that
they really bout that point and shoot
Self medicated youth
Tie theyselves into a noose
Then they go flip off the roof
Ohh baby Its way way too hot up in my city
The streets they be burnin up
12 spin the block tryna murder us
Oh we came a long long way
From battlin demons
I’ll sell you a dream if you need it
Bitch this that ratchet shit
Hold up watch me Said its too live in this
Say where the roof go
Steady drippin on your bitch
Came with a new flow
I said its 2 live i this bitch
Say Where the roof go
*Switch Up*
Awwww he’s gifted enough
To build a world of his own
Out of brand new colors
Sounds and songs
These elements you’ve
Never seen!
The media only controls
What u think
Turn off your tv screen
Turn off your tv screen
So tighten up
You shouldn’t be scared
Of yourself anymore
But be sure to take all
necessary precautions
|
||||
9. |
Power Outage
02:24
|
|||
You maybe seeing things
First let your eyes adjust
Cause they’ll play mind tricks
U toss n turn
While u got both your
Eyes wide shut
Because the nightmares
Keep u up
(Verse)
Fuse is blown from
last night’s storm
The party got cut short
So no I can’t talk for long
Already barely
charged my phone
The raindrops hit the
rooftop steadily
With all this background
Noise I swear I can’t
Hear anything
Just how I like it
But just on nights like this
The silence lies within
The loudness
Never knew what to
with the peace
We put 105
On da dash
Highway hotbox
Speaker on blast
Try not to crash
While my life is in ya hands
And just like the morning i am
Tryna break fast
Hell I even put my eggs
In one pan
Floating thru the nebula
Hoping I neverland
And being nocturnal
wasn’t even in the plan
[Hook]
You maybe seeing things
First let your eyes adjust
Cause they’ll play mind tricks
U toss n turn
While u got both your
Eyes wide shut
Because the nightmares
Keep u up
|
||||
10. |
Lapse (feat. Okayjoey!)
03:40
|
|||
Running my race
And doin my job
Just in case it
Came wit a cause
Can’t fw these niggas
These niggas be fraud
and so I’m staying
ducked off
Run ya race, do ya job
Run ya race, do ya
Do u even realize
We’re becoming drones
Been distracted for
Way too long
(Verse)
Baby girl is it true
You were tryna
Find me
It isn’t hard just
Look for Orion
Up in the sky
He owns a belt
That can help
Guide you
That’s if you got
The time to travel
6trillion miles
I’m not gone lie
U ain’t gone make
This trip with 9 lives
U can’t be pussyfootin
Round w/ all them
goofy lines/felines
Can’t just turn back
U halfway here
And it’s long way home
Just to arrive
And realize that
I’m already gone
Zoom Zoom Zoom
Running my race
And doin my job
Just in case it
Came wit a cause
Can’t fw these niggas
These niggas be fraud
and so I’m staying
ducked off
Run ya race, do ya job
Run ya race, do ya
Do u even realize
We’re becoming drones
Been distracted for
Way too long
My mama told me that life is a race
and my only opponent is right in the mirror
I might just run the whole bitch in amiri
If you saw my life you would call it a thriller
I used to stand in the rain and whisper to god
but I never thought he was listening
Now these hoes whisper my name
when they hear that 5.0 engine
like girl do you hear em
Baby it’s him I run with the dogs
First thing on they mind Is food and a bone
And I’m with swans You know what we on
These niggas get lapped
We sending em home
My crib not the gym But she wanna work
She locking my door She put up my phone
This shit not a race It’s more like a chase
Cuz soon as you blink I’m Already gone
Running my race
And doin my job
Just in case it
Came wit a cause
Can’t fw these niggas
These niggas be fraud
and so I’m staying
ducked off
Run ya race, do ya job
Run ya race, do ya
Do u even realize
We’re becoming drones
Been distracted for
Way too long
|
||||
11. |
||||
Is u following
Or is u leading
Is u swimming
Or sinkin
U livin or dreamin
Do u just retreat
When u you’re
Feeling defeated
(Take this a little more than personal)
I’ve spent my nights
Searching for villains
But little did I know
The entire time it
Was viewed as me
So am I a fool
For really thinking that I
Could ever make a difference
Could be 10,000 years
Before they see the reality
That I see
[hook]
Despite all you’ve done
And all of the trauma considered
I still have a thing for u
But Is u following
Or is u leading
Is u swimming
Or sinkin
U livin or dreamin
Do u just retreat
When u you’re
Feeling defeated
(Take this a little more than personal)
(Verse 2)
Oh u got some nerve
Showing your face
Around here
Like u ain’t did yo dirt
Like I ain’t make it clear
I hope this shit just
Break ya down
The second that it
Reach ya ears
I’d like to tell ya
It ain’t personal
My nigga but it is
So I let it out
When it’s all said n done
I’ll be done said it all
Cause in this world
Everything is endangered
A realization that’s
Oh so painful
Despite all you’ve done
And all of the trauma considered
I still have a thing for u
But Is u following
Or is u leading
Is u swimming
Or sinkin
U livin or dreamin
Do u just retreat
When u you’re
Feeling defeated
(Take this a little more than personal)
I retreat, cause I feel defeated more often than not
Running from problems and out of concern,
that's why you hear me say "Fuck it." a lot
Having some guap ain't as good as I thought
Probably I'm just not having enough
Put on a act and got put on a spot
Speeding, but happiness passing me up
But hey, what's new? Same 'ole walk in the same 'ole shoes
Same 'ole talk on the same 'ole mic
Same 'ole dock with the same 'ole view
Coo', and this is the part where I get on
my hands and my knees to ask God what to do
Exhibit A of what poverty do
Most of the reason I dropped out of school
Yeah (But life goes on) I guess, but where does it go?
Personally, I been waiting to blow
For as long as my city been waiting for snow
Warrant out on me, see twelve and get low
If I get pulled over, you already know
All of my L's like to line up in rows,
and all of my X's then turned into O's
So, i'm dolo Do what I want, yolo
Drove to the scene in a four do'
Still ain't got room for a hoe
And the cycle continues,
i turn down the venue
Cause I just been taking it slow
|
||||
12. |
Heat Death
01:03
|
|||
How many more
Reasons can I give em
Don’t take my word
If it don’t seem pure
Kayy & Mack
And we found ourselves
Walking hand in hand
Even tho we both agreed
To just a one night stand
Are u willing
Are u willing & able
To stick around a lifetime
(Verse)
You know how having a
Mind of your own be
Scaring em
I’m only observant
Yo insecurities making it
Seem like it’s arrogance
You wanna hear me being
Full of myself
I’m fucking this slut
With my lab coat on
I’m double the man
you’ll be in a couple of years
But still only half as grown
Well, of course I’ll be there
When the world
Needs a friend
A promise is a promise
And I’ll keep it till the end
So long niggas
Never try to sleep on me again
I gotta feeling they
Will never sleep on me again
|
Streaming and Download help
If you like Mack Swans, you may also like:
Bandcamp Daily your guide to the world of Bandcamp