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I've been known to cross a few lines
So you know I've cut some losses, got caught up a few times
Forced to grow, storms weathered bold, did it full stride
Still the coldest wars seem waged within my own mind
My own mind, my own mind, my own mind
My own mind, my own mind, my own mind
What they do or say to me can't hold, bind
I stay unconfined within my own mind
My own mind
My own mind
My own mind
My own mind
My own mind
My own mind
My own mind
My own mind
I've been known to cross a few lines
So you know I've cut some losses, got caught up a few times
Forced to grow, storms weathered bold, did it full stride
Still the coldest wars seem waged within my own mind
I've been known to cross a few lines (I've been known to cross a few lines)
So you know I've cut some losses, got caught up a few times (Cut some losses quite a few times)
Forced to grow, storms weathered bold, did it full stride (Weathered all the storms in full stride)
Still the coldest wars seem waged within my own mind (Coldest wars are still just inside)
My own mind, my own mind, my own mind
My own mind, my own mind, my own mind
What they do or say to me can't hold, bind
I stay unconfined within my own mind
My own mind (what they do or say to me can't hold, bind)
My own mind (what they do or say to me can't hold, bind)
My own mind (what they do or say to me can't hold, bind)
My own mind (I stay unconfined within my own mind)
My own mind
I've been known to cross a few lines
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2. |
The Hatshepsut Interlude
02:10
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I like my blunts stuffed thick
hybrid like these thighs is
eyelids cut, buff spit.
Isis with that Midas touch
luck tough, shit, want
beats like a horror flick
spots kinda sci fi set
now we really dialed in.
My blokes got grit-
gutter not some Adonis with alright dick
I need depth bet, make me wanna change time spent
I don’t relent get ghost if they septic,
skeptic, deading, deflecting the message
I am on my shit
If you’re lesser, than you better get up off my clit
think you’re clever, whatever I still am not thy bitch
I’ma shrewd vetter, choose whether
you really confused or are find yourself moved to do better.
Alright it’s getting late, great, maybe I can call night, split
fade to grey, break dip, get gone right quick (get gone right quick)
get gone right quick
My effect domino, topple all the columns, polish off the rows
like acetone -digits- dig it? Watch your yard of bones
trowel edge hitting heads, sledge slamming nail beds like those house swings -casino scenes
shatter bone and protein, aminos acids splattered, no saccharine, all glutamine, cue the meme
flatter World star screens, smile hammerhead, shark-tooth sharp, booth dart, bull’s eye, proof, full stop (uh)
vibe like Superstring Theory, super live, unified M-hyphen line- I’m so symmetric
reflective surface mahogany mirror metrics
cemented tensions and get to lessen- bet it, processing lessons
counting blessings - no stressing, no heavy lifting
no drums or rim shots
just bourbon brim topped, cinnamon-tinted lighting and hip hop
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3. |
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Scene freeze on the season's first snow stream steady to the back glow
of the street light beam's cast burnt gold
through your window this whole city seems a glass globe
through your window this whole city seems a glass globe
maybe we can shake it up and change the path flow
maybe we can shake it up and change the path flow
where the particles settle, well that's the macro
know that all that im giving im getting back so
fuck all that though, pass that packed bowl
let's puff, relax, smoke, and buffer that cold
I Iet stress go when our bodies pressed close
I Iet stress go when our bodies pressed close
Like ahhhh
Like ahhhh
As though the planet forced to fold into our tempo
butterflies, blossoms, and starry nights, be my Van Gogh
Frieda, Diego, either way though
You can paint stroke on my page book, if you aim, so
so glad I came through, and you're okay too
foray a ways, a bit astray up from the same route
could be a break through
could be the main proof
or could all just fade away in vain one day, poof
Still wanna see you tonight because I crave you
And you're a habit I'm not sure I wanna break, whew
Guess it's all what we make it by what we say, choose
so let's stay silent and present to evade fate's rules
let's stay silent and present to evade fate's rules
let's stay silent and present to evade fate's rules
let's stay silent and present to evade fate's rules
let's stay silent and present to evade fate's rules
let's stay silent and present to evade fate's rules
let's stay silent and present to evade fate's rules
evade fate's rules
Scene freeze on the season's first snow stream steady to the back glow
of the street light beams cast burnt gold
through your window this whole city seems a glass globe
through your window this whole city seems a glass globe
maybe we can shake it up and change the path flow
maybe we can shake it up and change the path flow
and where the particles settle, well that's the macro
know that all that im giving im getting back so
fuck all that though
fuck all that though
fuck all that though, fuck all that though, fuck all that though
I let stress go, I let stress go, I let stress go
When our bodies pressed close
Like ahhhhh
Like ahhhhh
Like ahhhhh
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4. |
Erzulie's Musicbox
03:46
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All I ever wanted was you
All I ever wanted was you
All I ever wanted was you
All I ever wanted was you
All I ever wanted
All I ever wanted
All I wanted
All I ever wanted ( what a fucking mess)
All I ever wanted
All I wanted
We rendezvous’d again as fate knew
how all as these tables may do
I’d had a few with my crew and em it was getting late too
Maybe the drinks had me feeling some kinda way to made moves
but I knew when I knew again, cuz I can’t mistake you (Oo)
Every time is anew, reflecting back to the past rides and lives we been through
even dabbled a few times together here true, but it’s never been wrong, right? Forever’s got room
Forever's got room (forever's got room)
But to try to promise it, it's always brought doom (always brought doom)
But still, it's all cool
All I ever wanted was you
All I ever wanted was you
All I ever wanted was you
All I ever wanted was you
So baby don't leave, don't leave
So baby don't leave
Yup, rendezvous'd again as fate knew, though who knows what this fate do?
I go through so much just living this life, I rarely make room
But it’s just so magnetic, I think the space here ain’t new
So can’t we just let it, because I ain’t afraid to
I ain't afraid to
If you ain't afraid too
I could never hate you
Don't leave, don't leave
Don't leave
All I ever wanted was you
All I ever wanted was you
All I ever wanted was you
All I ever wanted was you
All I ever wanted
All I ever wanted
All I wanted
All I ever wanted
All I ever wanted
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Love, warmth, and romance
Cold drafts and war paths
Lately
Damn, it be like you’re switching up the format
See this performance (see this performance)
I can’t condone that (I can't condone that)
Baby
Can I help, help to remind you where you’re at?
With me
Ima need you over it, or sobering, or something, we don’t got any time
With me
Ima need you lucid, exclusive, or moving, daddy, cause your habits are mine
With me
Ima need you hold me to better than what I’m showing or the cost will be prime
With me
Cause I see you're already knowing, and so you’re running, but the chase isn’t mine.
With me
Love, warmth, and romance (Fresh too like mist, dew, on flesh rouge)
Cold drafts and war paths (Green backs and red pools, just let loose)
Lately
Damn it be like you’re switching up the format (Just let loose)
(but if you’re really listening, god bless you)
See this performance (see this performance)
I can't condone that (I can't condone that)
Baby
Can I help, help to remind you where you're at (if you're, if you're listening, God bless you)
With me (if you're really listening, God bless you)
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6. |
The Mulan Interlude
01:54
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aye
I’m mulan rouguing in mahogany bloom
A blur of burgundy swerving south 23rd on high velocity cruise
Shotty perched, tinted optics rose hued
perfumed in chronic concoctions and clouds of nag champa fogging the view
If you had known me then, you outta see too
Been Wudan schooling from the Uni of People’s Movement, plus student and crew
no udon noodling in what I got brewed
I’m thick stewing to thin fools- dissolve em like a bullion cube
gorgeous aura from crown chakra to root
an orator of Asiastic diaspora, I am properly tooled
descendant of the Lost, but mythic anew
war pen sorcery ancestral jewel incrested, I was born to be true, truth
Look I don’t swarm like these gnats, and I don’t warn of these moves
I’m more like Terra cotta Army, on stone forming these dudes
terraforming the terrain, non territorial dues
no terror reign, sovereign slay Mulou warrior rules
orbit enormous you're absorbed in the pull
and what my gravity can draw, see that is all in the proof, full
I stand tall and aloof
long having knotted up my boots, and carved a notch or a slew, truth
and we can talk for a few
but the clock is tick and tocking my count to not in the mood, move
watch the fraudulent bruise, the softer bellied are subsumed in my cacophony’s tune, caboom
And you outta see too, but ask yourself what you been filtering your opticals through? (your opticals through)
Yup, you outta see too, but ask yourself what you been filtering your opticals through
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7. |
Who is Mulou Mei?
01:52
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yo yo yo yo yo yo
yo.yo yo yo yo yo
yo yo yo yo yo yo
Aye
Mulou mei, dolo slay
motivate in my solo way
virtuoso, tracking all this loco game
snag a portal, get you on aboard the train
form and frame, strengthen, formulate
work my mojo, let it collate
first and foremost flagrant while these bozos play
till it’s dro smoke under cocobolo shade
till it's dro smoke under cocobolo shade
and I'm old and gray, toking morsels under cocobolo shade
aye
aye
under cocobolo
摩罗妹 诗人, 谁?
我对, Julie-C, 火大, 哎
心灵 气功 比你 更贵
一次请说如果拖甘贝
我 been great 从我婆婆背
我的家人, 我的朋友, 对
和我一切都是最厉害, 对
力量准备 if 你还在睡
if 你还在睡, let it percolate, medicate the dream mind state
REM, R&R, vibrate
I’ll be here wide wake if 你还在睡
if 你还在睡
if 你还在睡
REM, R&R, vibrate
I’ll be here wide wake if 你还在睡
I am 摩罗 妹, 诗人, 对
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Yo, yo yo, yo
Round and round the world spinning, stone sticking, bone contorting
yo
Round and round the world spinning, stone stick and bone contorting
Cracking, fracturing statures, but some say words are haunted
Crammed in back of your grey matter, just staggered, daunting
Stabbing jabs like a dagger dragging across your wanting,
I can tell by your manner how deeply you been carved in
I can tell by the banter how bad old wounds are scarring
I've been held by my cancers, canckers and own discordance
But I can't tell by your answers whether your self-exploring
Everybody got their demons that feed off ignoring
There's no way to confront or defeat 'em force to force when
you're attached to pink tinted glass, endorsing choices
Rose-lensing a spotted past, condoning thorning
I get stuck myself sometimes in garden beds I'm growing
Still I'd rather work the soil on some heaving toiling
While some cultivate their world, calibrating the scoping
I'm not scared to chip a nail in the grit of the molding
I'm not scared to chip a nail in the grit of the molding
I'm not scared to chip a nail
Life’s a marathon, I carry on
Life’s a marathon, I carry on
Sometimes I barely can bare the baton
But life’s a marathon, I carry on
Life’s a marathon, I carry on
Life’s a marathon, I carry on
Sometimes I barely can bare the baton
But life’s a marathon, I carry on
I'm not scared to chip a nail in the grit of the molding
Round and round the world spinning, stone sticking, bone contorting
Round and round the world spinning, heart stricken, soul absorbing
Round and round the world spinning, stone sticking, bone contorting
Round and round the world spinning, heart stricken, soul absorbing
Round and round the world spinning, stone sticking, bone contorting
Round and round the world spinning, heart stricken, soul absorbing
Round and round the world spinning, stone sticking, bone contorting
Round and round the world spinning, heart stricken, soul absorbing
I'm not scared to chip a nail in the grit of the molding
I'm not scared
Life’s a marathon, I carry on
Life’s a marathon, I carry on
Sometimes I barely can bare the baton
But life’s a marathon, I carry on
Life’s a marathon, I carry on
Life’s a marathon, I carry on
Sometimes I barely can bare the baton
But life’s a marathon, I carry on
Life's a marathon
Life's a marathon
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9. |
Kurukshetra 3120BCE
02:51
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I am through with scrambling in they matrix
I’m moving beyond the lame shit
Might let you know where I take it but I'm
Cool - with shimmering through their stages
Y’all worry about the playing, I'll be over here stomping pavement, how I
Do. Ain’t really all that outrageous
I’m just carving out my own spaces
If I changed it it’s a face lift, so if you
Relate to the words I’m saying
Let's maybe get on some things then
plot to maximize the slaying
Im clapping full metal jacket spit
Kubrick and Ammo, banana clip
Out here directing antagonists
I fuck with gangsters and anarchists.
Never have I been a passivist
.
Murder she wrote be the manuscript
Even through smoke of my cannibus
I see these joker’s inadequate.
You Baron, Trumped up ejaculate
Barely could pump up that flaccidness
Raggitty Andy ass mannequin, gatdammit gimme the mic for I grab the shit
I’m baroness of the savages,
burning the germs, see the pathogens blackening.
Damaging, but they still amorous
I make the rampage look glamorous
I am through with scrambling in they matrix
I’m moving beyond the lame shit
Might let you know where I take it but I'm
Cool - with shimmering on their stages
Y’all worry about the playing, I'll be over here stomping pavement, how I
Do- Ain’t really all that outrageous
I’m just carving out my own spaces
If I touched ya, you were hating, so if you
related to the words I’m saying
Let's maybe get on some things then
plot to maximize the slaying
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I ain’t the only one
These thoughts ain’t gone hold me none
They lookin for hope or some'
But I will prevail - balance the scale
I get to cookin up more n some'
Y’all over cookin - it’s more than done
Ridin like I’m on a tour or some'
If I get the hook in, it’s more than done
I ain’t the only one
These thoughts ain’t gone hold me none
They lookin for hope or some
But I will prevail - balance the scale
I get to cookin up more than some'
Y’all over cookin - it’s more than done
Ridin' like I’m on a tour or some'
If I get the hook in, it’s more than done
I ain’t the only nigga wit some problems
I - hustle cause I gotta solve em
My - niggas got me like I got em
Plants - roll em up and I repot em
Ain’t tryna slip when they try and catch me
Run for performance ain’t bout the flexin
I been stretching to run it thru every section
Cross the city, the state, the map and the globe
Y’all be speaking that shit that y’all always been told
I spot that knowledge like a mole
Shit what’s the highest on the soul
Cop yo shit just to flip it - domino
Ain’t no more bones in these hands of mine
Yellin Yahtzee, the highest of highest times
I’m the uno gone grab you like 4 of mine
Cause I’m runnin' the deck - Balance respect
Cookin up cool shit
Like not no big L but the shit we whippin in the danger zone
Coolin' like food when you take it home
But I’m already hot - it won’t take that long
Julie-C and D. Mikey don’t stand alone
way be balance the balance ain’t new
Soul to soul - I ain’t talkin' bout shoes
Roll wit the clique - ain’t riding wit you
True like Mikey said riding with few
Im cool with it, kinda aloof
Abide by alignment and constant refinement- why BOC widening views
No joules before swine, no misuse
and so diamonds I mine in the booth
I'm sharpening, knifing, trimming fat slicing, like surgical, fine with my tool
And I ain’t the only one but it feel lonely though, seeming like most are just winking and (okee doke)
Yes manning, blinking deer head-lit all (rope a dope)
got stomachs sinking and spirits on (comatose)
Hell I shine bright from inside with heart open though, soul overtime as the clock ticking (forward slow)
Ever ahead of the grind 'cause I chose it so
footstepping pedicured like I wore open toe
You know I told you so (massive, my multitude)
Stay moving on the go (stacking a hustle, few)
No matter who hold control (no asking, nah busting through)
I will prevail, balance the scales
cauldron on overflow (brewing a batch anew)
speak in a lower tone (stewing irrational)
Cause you don’t want broken bones (mashing unmatchable)
Just know I don’t roll alone ( It's a wrap, let's run it back and go)
I ain’t the only one
These thoughts ain’t gone hold me none
They lookin for hope or some'
But I will prevail - balance the scale
I get to cookin up more than some'
Y’all over cookin - it’s more than done
Ridin like I’m on a tour or some'
If I get the hook in, it’s more than done
I ain’t the only one
These thoughts ain’t gone hold me none
They lookin for hope or some
But I will prevail - balance the scale
I get to cookin up more n some'
Y’all over cookin - it’s more than done
Ridin' like I’m on a tour or some'
If I get the hook in, it’s more than done
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How do you wanna be held by time, how do ya?
Tell me now, how do you wanna survive and shine? Now do ya?
How do you wanna be loved this time, how do ya?
Tell me now, how do you wanna untie the lines? Now do ya?
Smoother than sea glass, pacific crafted, polished on these beats, slammed
blasted in the deep sand, gassed up on these reefs, man
But I be tide-surfing, wide-turfing on this beach, grand
and from the shatter, I’m a piece that always reach land
And they reach for me like buoyancy in deep end
I might could float you, but don’t quote me, it all depends
Not for you or me, or for any ‘ole means, ends
this my norm, any morning, noon, or evening
I fly these peaks and
tread through the bleak dredge
did ya really think I do it to compete? heck
I’m in this shit for my soul and call to being
not at all to sell tales tall under your ceiling
I’m wild card, how you dealing?
Fuck the house, fire-wielder, burn the building
Kindling, it’s your stand, hot your feeling?
Play your hand, fire wielder, burn the building
How do you wanna be held by time, how do ya? (burn the building)
Tell me now, how do you wanna survive and shine? Now do ya? (play your hand fire wielder, burn the building)
How do you wanna be loved this time, how do ya?
Tell me now, how do you wanna untie the lines? How do ya?
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Julie-C Seattle, Washington
an autonomous anomalie surfing intersections of hip hop, cultural catalyzing, and community weaving
rooted in the coast salish autonomous zones/technocratic city-state of seattle, wa
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