1. |
You and Me (prod. Yondo)
04:43
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i got a vision inside of me
i want you listening properly
everybody is the same
we need some change
i'm fearing monotony
the media's twisting the plot to me
look at Syria and at Iraq and see
what America is callin' democracy
fuckin' belligerent policies
Donald Trump is shifting economy
to his favor how surprisingly
yall are acting like
this something new
when we're just living my prophecy
novus ordo seclorum
the rich stay rich and the poor get poorer
ain't nothin' different i just got older
the weight of the world is still on my shoulders, so,
to anybody hearing this track
understand that it's more than a lyric in a rap
i'm tryna uplift your spirits in fact
together we'll make a bigger impact
so whether you're riding to this
or head boppin' and just vibin' to this
i just want you to live prosperous if
you rock with it then sing along to this shit like
you and me
and you
and me
and you
and me
if we shake our hands
if we make some plans
we could take a stand
we could face the man
think i'm in love with this shit
*love love love love*
i got a vision inside of me
i want you listening properly
this isn't gobbledygook
if you properly look at the brother, this kid's an anomaly,
this kid is too radical,
it isnt rational
rappin' to
capitalize
on the actual matters that lie
in the planet
to factually scribe all the damages rising
damn it
the kid is Sudani so how could he manage to find
the passion in life
pop up propeller this fella will rise
changing the planet one breath at time
i'mma make sure if i'm dead or alive
that somebody better remember my lines
cause i never wrote 'em to leave 'em unquoted
i'm hoping that maybe i'll mellow your mind
ever since a brotha was a kid
i been dreamin' to be the remedy
that the people have needed
so please let a brotha sing for your peace
and join me on the journey to your freedom
so proceed to just gimme a hand
as i deliver this - message with a pen and a pad
and if you feelin' this jam
in the middle of your soul and your spirit
in a minute you can sing it again
you and me
and you
and me
and you
and me
if we shake our hands
if we make some plans
we could take a stand
we could face the man
think i'm in love with this shit
*love love love love*
now that you're listening properly
i want you to try envision what i can see,
follow this plot to the finish
and witness the mythical product of odyssey
all i'm asking is comradary
from anybody that's hearing this song
cause you and me
can possibly carry the pressure to weather the storm
together for once for all
the battle is won
imagine the tragedies gone
from Africa to Babylon
the balance is brought back
matter fact it's restored
i'm asking the lord
every night for the purpose this person Elfatih was born
i got my response
he told me to warn the people
to ward off evil of course
survival of the fittest is the rival of the Gods
from the Torah, to the Bible and Quran
all the prophets ever really wanted was a bond
and me i want the same old thing for y'all
survival of the fittest is the rival of the Gods
from the Torah, to the Bible and Quran
all the prophets ever really wanted was a bond
and me i want the same old thing so sing along like
you and me
and you
and me
and you
and me
if we shake our hands
if we make some plans
we could take a stand
we could face the man
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i'm a starvin' artist with my heart up on my sleeve
tryna start a legacy to stretch as far as you can see
never in it for the money but the marketing is easy
when you're broke with bad equipment but this quality competes
damn right
don't it feel lovely when you're supported?
people sharing your vision and taking actions toward it
people sharing your music and then singing your choruses
but no one really knows how much it means to this foreign kid
(no) nobody knows
nobody knows
how many flows
i got up under my nose
some of them outta control
when i'm alone
thinking about all my goals
thinking about the approach
pick up the phone
w/ feezy 6 in the mor'nin'
zoning
figuring out how to blow up
like damn
nigga the industry full of ridiculous politics
i'm sick of the shit anybody who's killing ' it
isn't acknowledged quick
i'm an inch away
from pistol banging hip hop and shit
but i just refrain
and just complain to my squad and sing
isn't this all a part of the dream?
nothing is ever all as it seems
i didn't expect the road to be clean
but what the fuck it take to become a king?
x2
isn't what you wanted(ISNT THIS WHAT U WANTED)
isn't what you dreamed of?
(LOVE, LOVE, LOVE)
isnt what you wanted boy?
isn't what you dreamed of?
isn't this what you been chasing
ever since you was 13 huh?
didn't you ask Allah for this
aren't you blessed with your team bruh?
didn't you want the hardest flow of 2017 huh?
didn't you want the conscious
to take over the mainstream?
in a way that you can pave
and make a lane where u reign king?
the people have told you Kendrick & Cole
is where you're ranking
everybody understands that the music industry's
really changing
so what are you gonna do when it's time?
are you reppin' the city you in or you reppin' sudan?
are you forever developing music and perfectin' your rhymes?
are you forever spreading the messages of peace like Islam?
isn't this all a part of the dream?
nothing is ever all as it seems
i didn't expect the road to be clean
but what the fuck it take to become a king?
x2
isn't what you wanted(ISNT THIS WHAT U WANTED)
isn't what you dreamed of?
(LOVE, LOVE, LOVE)
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3. |
Drown (prod. AKA Blobby)
03:42
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money money money make the world go 'round
but it's funny nobody willing to share crumbs with a bummy
brother in the gutter yet mothafuckaz still want surplus amounts
cause the money make the girls get aroused
fuck an ozone layer, y'all bozos hatin' on a player
fuck earth let it burn to the ground
don't it hurt when it sound like that?
how you gon' allow that trash?
literally, whether you were littering
or picking out the pocket of the planet
for a dollar people damaging the momma
of our fathers since colonies established
ever since way back then
people settlin' for anything to pay that rent
peddling the ketamine for a maybach benz
cause if it don't make dollar boy it don't make sense
didn't i say that shit? way back man i'm back
i been laid back since
payback's a bitch
and a brotha back on my craft
tryna spread love to the mass
roll up a blunt fulla grass
it's only two drugs that i'd have
one's kinda obvious i don't mind a little bit of hash
but the worst drug out is cash,
i'mma let you think about that singing
i guess its the way that it goes
money make the world go round
round round
i guess its the way that it goes
money make the world go round
round round round
i guess its the way that it goes
money make the world go round
i guess its the way that it goes
money make the world go round
drown drown drown drown
drown drown drown drown
i never made honor roll
shoulda done it for my mama tho
but i was always so
caught up in the thought that everybody's so monotone
and i'm not like a lotta folks
i don't want the audemars or the gold
or the cars or the clothes
or the plane ride out to monaco
all this dollar for a dollar
got us livin' like autobots
peepin' thru robotical monocles
to say the truth i don't want the coupe that is two seater
with the roof missin' niggas loose spendin'
all this money and the youth need new leaders
so the crew keep preachin', we truth seekers
the only thing true to me is music
if you could listen truly to what i'mma say thru it
it's clear as a mirror image
imperialism deteriorated the planet
to materialism my nigga
when peter picked a peck of pickled peppers
other people pled to pinch a piece of lettuce
errbody's in it for the cheddar i get it
get yours get mine get set and let's jet it my nigga
x2
*talk shit*
i guess its the way that it goes
money make the world go round
round round
i guess its the way that it goes
money make the world go round
round round round
i guess its the way that it goes
money make the world go round
i guess its the way that it goes
money make the world go round
drown drown drown drown
drown drown drown drown
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i didn't wanna live like this
i didn't wanna live like this
i didn't wanna live like this
i didn't wanna live like this
hello lemme introduce myself
my name Keyz, 19 khartoum, Sudan
is what i rep, and in case you ain't know by now
i'm on my motive and i'm tryna make dough thru rap
cool
but thru the music i get introspective
it's helps me get perspective
it seems my memory's been selective
see i've never been neglected
i'm educated and intellect-ed
but i still question why i act reckless
doobies and booty bottoms, all the libido
i'm assumin' is somethin' all the doctors are callin' lethal
who better to do it than a middle class kid
skippin' school, dude never fit in classes
but he fit in all the parties cuz he lit up mad spliffs
typical story of a bitch ass trick
excuse my provocative language
had i not abused my blessings i couldve went to college at Cambridge
at least that's what my momma and brain says
but me i'm not the type for the parties and banquets
wearin' suits conversating with bankers and elites
me i'd rather shoot up the atrium and leave
*shots*
i never woulda guessed that i'd feel like
real life's shit
but damn it it's a clear crisis
all the spliffs i've hit and the beer i've sipped
i didn't wanna live like this
i didn't wanna live like this
i didn't wanna live like this
i didn't wanna live like this
i didn't wanna live like this
i didn't live like this but despite this
lemme let you know about my vices
my mom and daddy were the nicest
taught they little boy everything they know about being righteous
siblings barely paid fees for college
they beat the odds and got they scholarships
my brother studied economics
he was dabbling in marketing
my sister studied pharmacy
my other sister also is an economist
me i majored in creative writing
cause there's a little beast untamed inside me
that really wants to rap and change society
thru that and even tho the case unlikely
a brother went from basic rhyming
to not an empty space in timing
and i don't mean to brag
but these bars is
flames that might be taste refining
when i'm kickin it the same as tai chi
i didn't mean to go off on a tangent
sometimes i get lost in a trance and 9
outta 10
times
it's because i'm on an alternate path
from what my sisters, brother, and my mom and poppa done had
so i pray my bars is intact
because these beats by arthur enhancin' my speech,
and if the quality of audio's trash
i might turn into a thief, rob all y'all cash
singing i ain't wanna live like this
i didn't wanna live like this
i didn't wanna live like this
i didn't wanna live like this
i didn't wanna live like this
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CHILDHOOD INNOCENCE
TYPIN' UP MY LYRICS AND
JUST FREESTYLIN' WITH MY SISTER THEN
SHE TOLD ME TO TRY TO KEEP THE RHYTHM SICK
POUR YOUR SPIRIT INTO LYRICISM
BOY YOU'LL KILL IT AND THE WITNESSES'LL FEEL THIS
KEEP IT REAL AND CLEAN AND KEEP ON BUILDIN'
YOU'LL SEE FANS PUT HANDS UP TO THE CEILIN'
AND I'LL NEVER FORGET WHEN SHE TOLD ME
'LISTEN TO TUPAC AND ALL THE VETERANS
SET AND TAKE NOTES
YOU CAN BE BETTER THAN THOSE THEN I JUST FROZE (WHOA)
SHE REALLY MELLOWED MY SOUL
THAT'S SOMETHIN' TO TELL AN ELEVEN YEAR OLD
SKIN FULLA MELANIN
REALLY THE CHANCES ARE BETTER IN DIGGIN' UP TREASURES 4 GOLD huh
BUT I DON'T WANT LUXURY
AND TO BE REAL THAT VISION STUCK WITH ME
MAKIN' THE WORLD BETTER FOR THE COMPANY
LIVIN' INSIDE OF IT MAKIN' IT COMFORTING
VIA THIS MUSIC ILLUMINATING ALL THE MINDS
ARTISTIC EXPRESSION AT PRIME
STORYTELLING AND LEAVIN' THE LISTENER GUESSIN
WHATS NEXT I GUESS IT IS TIME (4 THE CHORUS)
i miss my childhood in a sense
but i still got childhood innocence uh
i miss my childhood
miss my childhood innocence
i miss my childhood
got that childhood innocence
CHILDHOOD INNOCENCE
TRYNA GROW UP INTO MEN
little dudes
middle school
miniscule with grown up
SENTIMENTS
ever since a kid
i been tryna rap
man back then every line was wack
but lemme tell a story to remind you that
if it wasn't for the man that's behind the track beat
i woulda spent my life just acting like a rapper
reciting their rap sheets
i would print out, memorize and practice
come back to school and act like thats actually my lyrics
my work of art from my heart burn
then i met a little kid named Arthur
makin' his own beats and raps that were actually harder
than me
i was like sheesh
he was like 12
i was 13
i needed help
rap game weak
in my first week
in a new school new dude Sudanese
he came to me said he heard me speakin
sayin' i rap and he said he's Swedish
no further information's really needed
this beast was unleashed by THAT genius
and that's real
now we're a squad with the illest rap here
AKA coming and we givin' mad chills
to the listeners, then we'll wait for that deal
that'll make this skill set pay these damn bills
and that's real
now we're a squad with the illest rap here
AKA coming and we givin' mad chills
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6. |
Hills (prod. AKA Blobby)
03:54
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houses up on the hills
i don't need 'em
five course dinner meals
i don't need 'em
all i ever need is you baby (you baby)
all i ever need is truth baby truth baby woo
million dollar deals
i don't need 'em
throw out yo fancy dress and heels
i don't need 'em
they say that real
recognize real
that's why a brotha need to *know* just how you feel
will you
ride with me?
till i die will ya vibe with me?
tryna spread love to the planet
i love how you manage to
just be funny without tryna be
you're nothin' like any of these other women
you probably heard that from alotta men
trust me i can sense something is different
i know that won't make a whole lot of sense
unless i can pinpoint
for example, the way that you been buoyant
laughin' no matter the situation
puttin' smiles on everybody's faces
i guess its the simple things that you do
that make you a little strange from your crew
i pray for a dinner date, maybe get a place
and a kid to raise with you
is that too soon?
i'm infatuated by your animation
our dynamic is never static ain't it
we just climb and we climb and we climb at it
till it is climactic then we get back to basics
exchanging social databases
buildin' a lotta momentum up
and i'm feelin' like a brotha fallen in love
ain't nothin comin' between us and endin' us
baby together forever's the minimum uh
you are like one in a billion uh
a brotha is feelin a crush develop
the second our fingers touch i let up
you make me wanna be better
whenever your round i never see terror
i could get aroused from ya fleece sweater just smelln it
houses up on the hills
i don't need 'em
five course dinner meals
i don't need 'em
all i ever need is you baby (you baby)
all i ever need is truth baby truth baby woo
million dollar deals
i don't need 'em
throw out yo fancy dress and heels
i don't need 'em
they say that real
recognize real
that's why a brotha need to *know* just how you feel
will you
ride with me
and live a life thats not 9 to 5 with me, see
all these butterflies in me
any time you flutter by beside of me
i wonder what i gotta be
to find a dime to lie with and dine with me
now i ain't got no type but i want to get to
continental flights
see monumental sights
not to mention all the shit i like but
often this is thought of with you I got
caught up with this constant misfit life
that contradicts wanting a mistress that'll complement the light
never change in the darkness
still the same in the rain and the pain and chasin' her dreams
till it pays her regardless
baby that's heart
every other dame i can name got a brain but is heartless
claimin' its smart but you
stayin' apart and
refusin' to play any part of the fakeness
and lately i started
to see how creative you ar e
embracing your art and
amazed that this lady's an artist
you blow my mind
like a nintendo cartidge
houses up on the hills
i don't need 'em
five course dinner meals
i don't need 'em
all i ever need is you baby (you baby)
all i ever need is truth baby truth baby woo
million dollar deals
i don't need 'em
throw out yo fancy dress and heels
i don't need 'em
they say that real
recognize real
that's why a brotha need to *know* just how you feel
will you
you blow my mind
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she said she needs some help
she said that she'd take her life soon
she doesn't believe in herself
because all of her friends say she's psycho
she said she believes in hell
but she went and got rid of the bible
cause she don't believe in a heaven
and hell is the only thing prevalent right now
she said that
hell is the only thing prevalent right now
so what can she do besides live in the moment
she's fumbling thru cause she ain't got a coach
and her company's foolish just look at her homies
just fuckin' abusin' the drugs
cause it's something that's cool and then plus
you could delete all the truth with a buzz
singing
somebody help me
let somebody know
that i need somebody to love me
before I go
i need somebody to help me now
tell me now
have you ever watched your drunk father
slap your druggy mother till she's melting down
tellin' her daughter to step right out
even though she know it's no escape
tryna gimme hope but i know no ones safe
because poppa knows when to close the gates in this
lonely place
i call home
i'm a phony faking i'm strong
just know that i'm not okay when i'm alone
i cut myself
i fuck myself up till i numb myself
till i'm bleeding so much that if i covered it up
i could make you believe I killed someone else
and if you're thinking that is heartless
take a trip into the darkness with me
listen cause most of this story is true
it happened to a girl i knew back in school
i heard it then i had to tell it to you
this what they never tell you on the news
her daddy is an alcoholic
mother is an alcoholic
the daughter is melancholic
cause the damage is catastrophic
and she need a steroid or an anabolic
just to handle all this
animosity it's mad symbolic
her life is sorta like a bad hydraulic
going up and down at random moments
and it's mad annoying
back in Jordan
where I used to live
my classmate faced abusive shit
her daddy drunk like he usually is
sippin' booze until the dude's fully lit
little did he know of the effect
that he had on his daughter, she was stressed
and the teachers that taught her could see the mess
but she'd blame it on PMS, she thinks it's best
just to keep it in,
never let nobody see within
her notebook was her dearest friend
where she could let all of her demons in
but one day
she was having her lunch break
then the class bully wanted fun play
he was fast and he took some duct tape
snatched her notebook then he'd run away
he opened it up started flipping the pages
and every page had the same thing
written over again and again and inscripted
read it aloud and the only thing written was
'somebody help me'
somebody help me
let somebody know
that i need somebody to love me
before I go
that was the most
embarassing moment i ever faced
remembering days of childhood made me start to resort to Haze
starting to smoke and blaze
everyday
and mix the occasional drink
cause all of my memories draining my energy
my whole life has been a waste god
damn it i been in a maze
every since grade one
nobody told me to stay patient enough
or stay strong
nobody told me to face any of this without a bottle
look at my role models
i hate them and they fucking hate me
and thats clear to see
her daddy is sick of her company clearly
his daughter turned into a druggy that's flirty
he's tired of all of the money she's burning
he's giving her off to his cousin to marry
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i'm from a city with many losses
nothing is pretty, I stay cautious
the president up in the main office
look at what getting him paid cost us
look at what getting him paid cost us
look at him getting his day off from
getting his pay off
it's really making me nauseous
no wonder my people are praying often
i'm from a city with many losses
tanks or tank tops,
take your pick
chains or chainsaws
take your pick
you gotta be with the government to pay your rent
baby it's tanks or tank tops
take your pick
i wake and bake off to
states of bliss
cause no state is in the state
my state is in
i pray to God to save the men say Amen
[Ameeen]
if you wanna be rich brotha join the [tanks]
get into the government or join the banks
exploit the rankings below you
don't overthink it mm
if not
then your working in a sweatshop
with a [tanktop]
in the middle of a hot summer day
thinking up 500 ways
tryina get paid probably robbing a bank
like
no options left
no options left
no options left
i'm on my own
I REALLY GOT NO OPTION
i'm from a city with many losses
nothing is pretty, I stay cautious
my president is living in a fortress
with a porche and military trained forces
and of course he probly got golf courses
tennis courts and a courtyard full of horses
and a front lawn full of sports cars too
rev it up like *vroom*
to tell the truth man,
i'm a pharaoh in a tomb and
a mummy, the money doesn't move man
and to tell the truth man
they really separated two lands
Egypt & Sudan,
and to tell the truth
it was definitely cause my niggaz too tan
my skin full of melanin, bedouin
they told me i would never win, (never win)
but remember when
we were the empire they settled in?
you remember that don't ya?
they was loving us and loving black culture
and nobody's stronger than black soldiers
so now i'm on a mission to put us up on their posters
it's really nothing i'm doing what i'm supposed to
we went thru ups and downs like a roller coaster
coast to coast i'm reppin' my town
its 249 till i'm dead in the ground god damn
i'm forever reppin my town
249 and i'm never letting it down god damn
till a nigga dead in the ground
i'm ready to battle it out
i'm reppin my town god
and i'm never letting you down pa,
i'm never gonna settle it down mom,
and i'm never backing down
until they give a nigga back his crown
cause I got
no options left
no options left
no options left
i'm on my own
I REALLY GOT NO OPTION
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