1. |
Not Fine
02:15
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I’m not fine.
Time’s was hard on the boulevard
Peers busting through the wall
I’m jealous, How you pull it off?
Who am I?
Who are ya’ll?
I need time to skew it on the barbecue
Talk about a consequence
That’s why I’m not involved with you
A hard spot to be in
Heart locked, I got 3 in
A good man to ya’ll
A bad uncle to baby Ian
So, what’s the reason?
I block son cuz I’m deflecting
Can’t make face time
A constant state of reconnecting
I don’t, wanna be legend
Cuz we grow up & out
I need room to be a mess
So let me clean up my house
And cuz I do it in your face
Don’t mean I won’t check your mouth
Now, let this be a lesson
On how to shimmy through the doubt
It’s really shitty having found
All your demons at a round table
Having table talks on how to keep you in the ground
City city boy sounds
Stoop kid afraid to leave his stoop
Not afraid to stoop so low
That he sees the truth
If not me then tell me who’s supposed to do it?
Who’s the one that I can call on
When the fall off is approaching through
The cost of living is the cost of doing
And I’m so self involved
I can’t hear you when you talking to me…
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2. |
P.S. (Breathe & Stop)
03:10
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Having a, hard time when my motion is still
My shark skin keep moving
Every moment is shrill
Over and, over again I’m reminded to chill
My brain hasn’t got the message
Cuz anxiety kills
Packed train
I’m duckin’ straphangers in the fast lane
Treatin’ family like expendables and that’s lame
Put my people in a panic like a bad strain
Of bird flu
Whos you? I’m in mad pain
But I’m entitled to a bad game
Twenty years of practice in abandonment
What's a lull between friends?
I'm thinking we could handle it
Stayin on the bright side
Not tryin to get all Anakin
Keepin my spirit from OD'n
You can take a look at him and you still don't see him
Feelin all alone in a crowded museum
I present exhibit A
It's impossible to please him
If I had a girl
A real good girl
She’d be the smallest thing in my big big world
A penny in a fountain
Or the shine in a pearl
If I don’t feel good
Take my pride for a whirl
Don’t your arms get tired?
From flappin in a fire?
A good egg with a cracked shell
Mami’s get inspired
Are you still burning with desire?
When you find out ya man been dealing with survivor’s
Guilt.
And even though we both fly
I need personal space
And not the evil eye
I use my words to get five
Feet of space even if we both jive
Oh my
That’s my alibi
Had my first panic attack in 1999
Imprinted on my mind every minute
Try to make plans, but you always in it
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3. |
Fresh & Depressed
03:22
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Funky fresh & depressed
(Ready to party)
Funky Fresh, depressed
(Ready to party)
I've got Noah faith in god
He wash away your favorite author
Why should we replace the heart
Because the marketplace is awful
Not a servant of the people
I just bleed so we can profit
I was born & raised in Gotham
Check your heroes
Check your pockets
They robbin
Peter paying Paul your info
Please remain involved
Or hide behind your firewall
And keep your mouth shut
The way my fucks is set up
is more like insufficient funds
I'd like to pitch in on your pity party
But Joseph got none
Yo Op, we up one
Fuck, almost forgot to pull the throttle
Plus that buck that bought the bottle
Also helped us strike the lotto
Home Cookin’
No looking pass
it's singing at the opera
Talking spicy over chicken
I don't have to do the Hot Ones
All I gotta do is breathe and stop breathing
Put my fears in the breeze
And break my people off the cheese that I'm eatin’
I don’t see no reason
Why I should stop venting
This mention, is gonna break the cycle of renting to renting
Ascension
Ready to party
Depressed, ready to party (Watch how we get up)
Ready to party
Depressed, ready to party (Watch how we get up)
Up
(Ready to party)
Up
(Depressed, ready to party)
Up
Watch how we get up
Love left us in May
Though one-sided
I wish nothing but the best from the fray
There's no severance
I wish I could give back every second
Pray for guidance on the 7's
Televise the revolution
Cuz, never again
No energy left to give this
I couldn't be more specific
He's teaching me bout forgiveness
Why wouldn't we go out of business?
You can't go on without me, no kidding!
The one time I've got a ride or die she's picking the second.
What a message
All praises due to the leverage
You broke the levees
A coupe in every colors’ what I'd give for you to get me
Watched the rain turn to hail
The last paycheck's in the mail
And time spent locked in a hotel suite is still jail
Ship's sail
And you can only begin after you end
The pain you feel is temporary
You'll see clear after you mend
What a beautiful life
Let's make use by not pretending
Here's to you,
A toast to looking onward and ascension
Ready to party
Depressed, ready to party (Watch how we get up)
Ready to party
Depressed, ready to party (Watch how we get up)
Up
(Ready to party)
Up
(Depressed, ready to party)
Up
Watch how we get up
Funky fresh & depressed
Ready to party
Funky fresh & depressed
Ready to party
Funky fresh & depressed
Ready to party
Funky fresh & depressed
Ready to party
Funky fresh & depressed
Ready to party
Funky fresh & depressed
Ready to party
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4. |
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Water whippin whippin music
We supplying the demand
Really really with the bullshit
Down from Brooklyn to Japan
Doin’ what we wanna do
Cuz we spent years of what we can
Leave a footprint in the sand
Catch the alley from my man
He’s passin’ up the rock
(the the the rock)
Pass up the rock
(the the the rock)
Pass up the rock
(the the the rock)
Pass up the rock
(the the the rock)
East 7th Street
260, that was the better me
A young boy
Never broken again
I’d give everything
Did several deeds
Good will hunting down these enemies
I swear I’m getting therapy
Deposit all my energy
And just living
Ain’t good enough for my thug spirit
Bump into signs every day that say I’m the illest
But pain killers say I’m not finished
So state your business
Runnin on empty
So hungry I need two dinners
With The right plan
Turn my inner network right into Viceland
I’ll leave before I fight the fam
And never ever bite the hand
Standing tall got no cost
So be a man
And when I talk I’m not moving around
My mic stand
Moments to make you cry
I put gasoline in the hopeless
So far be it from me to be half assed in the motions
Toasts should happen every morning
I’ma cheers to the moments
Every year that goes by is more golden
Hold it
Water whippin whippin music
We supplying the demand
Really really with the bullshit
Down from Brooklyn to Japan
Doin’ what we wanna do
Cuz we spent years of what we can
Leave a footprint in the sand
Catch the alley from my man
He’s passin’ up the rock
(the the the rock)
Pass up the rock
(the the the rock)
Pass up the rock
(the the the rock)
Pass up the rock
(the the the rock)
All my life I prayed for my moment
When it arrived
Wasn’t even present in my moment
I was depressed
Focused on everything but my moment
Until March 7th, 2019
When I had that platinum “Ah-ha” moment
Two years prior I chucked the deuece
On my first love that I had since a likke youth
Threw the baby out with the bath water and started new
I graduated out of barber school and rented a booth
Then one day out the blue
I went to go introduce
Myself to a brand new client
He said he already knew
Who I was from YouTube
And my catelouge was the truth
His favorite song of all
Was “Million Dollar Views”
So don’t stop being motivation for millions
Because your bank balance less than a billion
You could earn any amount
You just gotta keep building
If not for you
Then at least do the shit for your children
Water whippin whippin music
We supplying the demand
Really really with the bullshit
Down from Brooklyn to Japan
Doin’ what we wanna do
Cuz we spent years of what we can
Leave a footprint in the sand
Catch the alley from my man
He’s passin’ up the rock
(the the the rock)
Pass up the rock
(the the the rock)
Pass up the rock
(the the the rock)
Pass up the rock
(the the the rock)
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5. |
Welch's
02:31
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Pardon us
We grew up with a hole inside our fences
Pardon us
We didn't have a father to protect us
Pardon us
After school we wait inside the library
Everybody's busy working to worry if their child's happy
Pardon us
We didn't mean no interruption
One dollar M&M’s and Welch's grape
Which one you fuck wit?
Pardon us for dancing on the train
Pardon us for keeping everybody & yo’ mama entertained
Pardon us for trying to get on
I need to eat
More than I give a fuck about a song
That's really what we on
Pardon us cuz we don't see tomorrow
But pardon us from afar
You really not my mom though
Pardon us for being tardy
Pardon us for bringing too much drugs to the party
Pardon us for being rude
We really don't mean it
You need to pardon our attitude
We're not used to getting famous
Or rejection
Pardon us for being standoff-ish
Pardon my projections
Every wall’s completely covered
Completely covered
Pardon my projection
Every wall’s completely covered
Completely covered
Pardon my projection
Everyone’s completely covered
Completely covered
Pardon my projection
Everyone’s completely covered
What’s a dollar really worth if you’re not alive to enjoy it?
Eye of the storm ain’t a pause in the action
It’s unavoidable
Stand tall boy
Comes with a shot, like every time
Karma rewards the careless she don’t care if you blind
Every sword takes a beating first
You put it in the fire
When that steel cuts through
You’ll thank god for that envoirnment
We live inside the road rage
We don’t like cycles either
But tell me how you breaking them
Show us you’re a leader
All you show is you’re elitest
Cuz cowardice is easier
The world is not your whipping boy
Your girl is not your keeper
You ain’t ask to be born
But you ain’t have to be here
So how you look at this glass is your task to revere
Trauma responses
I think back my mama was solid
We could’ve used some more hugs
But you should try to resolve it
And if she wasn’t thats a favor
You don’t need ‘em to prosper
Let’s just keep on revolving
I’m just glad we’re talking
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6. |
Nola X Mars, Pt. II
03:14
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Ayo
You ever spoke with the universe?
What would you tell her?
Eyes deeper than a wine cellar
Brown skin vision and god bless
Highly favored by Christ
And I bet
If you stared long enough
You a whole mess
I was lost at sea
A beacon of light shine on the moth in me
Pardon
The vibes’ too strong to get involved
We could dabble in eachother’s arms and feel the grip harden
Hun, there’s love in the back of this car
So far
A cool breeze
When June met July in August
True,
He was through with minding his business
Ma, let me visit
I wanna kiss it
I’m on a mission
Be my wisdom
I want your undivided attention
And what’s the worst?
Leave me burnt like the cake on my desert plate?
Never that
I’m tryna fix wherever you’re blemished at
Baby please
Please baby please
That’s how I feel
But I’ma always keep it light
Leave the heavy in the details
Please baby
Baby please
Please baby, baby
Baby please
Please baby
Baby please
Please baby, baby
Baby please
I’ve been leaving room in my life to light a spark in your room
Orchids’ll bloom
We growing something more wit it too
I respect your freedom, flex that shit
But if you see me don’t forget
What we holdin in our hands is something lovely
The door's open
Come as you are
& leave as you please
I can be your everything
But it be what it be
Pulled you close, then you walk away
I wanna have your all today
You know better than to flaunt your options right in front of me
Sure as the sun rises, I need alignment
One assignment
Answer that question for Frankie Lymon
Why do fools fall in love?
And why you need all of us?
I got my things on the side too
You not alone, hun
I find it funny how you stay with them dudes
It's no hate
But if you standing next to clowns what that make you?
Just, do it better baby
Please baby please
But she's gotta have it her way
At your service ’til you leave
Please baby
Baby please
Please baby, baby
Baby please
Please baby
Baby please
Please baby, baby
Baby please
You stuck to the rivers and the lakes that you used to
I tender love & don’t care what happens with you two
So, you’re excused
The voodoo that you do turned out to spell nothin
Try not to fail, muffin
& I can’t front cuz
When it was good it was great
But you looked a gift horse in the mouth and said “I’m straight”
You ran away
Mad food for thought on one plate
Strong relations after midnight doesn’t mean that we’ll relate
We on square none, hun
We cleared the air once, hun
My honesty was too much
I make your crew run run
I played the role
And got paid back with fool’s gold
Another image deceased
Another story gets told
Kind’ve sad that it finally played out
That it folded
It’s always better to not know if Kobe beats Jordan
We wrote a check
Knowing damn well we can’t afford it
And Mars is still Mars without Nola
Hol’up
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Whole scene faker than a spray tan
Another lesson learned on who to put my faith in
Uncomplacent with the way that shits been changing
Like the faces of Two Face
When he was making that decision when to cross
So look at both ways...
You been actin real entitled nowadays, babe
You are not my trainer
And lions don't need taming
And The water isn't troubled
So what is you really saying?
And I know I keep it subtle but without you I won't make it
I’m still a man in the making
The mirrors still dirty, it don't help I'm drinking Makers
And I can't play it safe
Build me up, they break me down
Babe I can't get a break
Cried so many rivers it done turned into a lake
Strong relations after midnight doesn't mean that we'll relate
And I'm still trying to relate
(I’m still trying to relate)
And I’m still trying to relate
(But I’m still trying to relate!)
To you
To you
To you
To me
To me
To me
To you
To you
To you
To me
To me
To me
To you
To you
To you
To me
To me
To me
To you
To me
To me
To me
I try my best just not to make you my muse
You ain’t enthused at the thought that you could end up in blues
So now I be (B) a king
That didn’t CC my queen
Left a loose on the sill
Leave it to strings that can sing
And as the ash falls with leaves feeling’s tornado in breeze
And when I look to the door you put your hand on my keys
See emotions you pour through every inhale you breathe
Releasing tears through the pores
I stop for water you bleed
On bended knee I’m sorry
Communication is key
Was it in time like Lowry
Was I as clutch from the three?
Smoked a J to the Bowery cause now I need the release
Cause how you working on you, I’m steady working on me
And we ain’t nothing that’s Common so ain’t easy to Be
But if it boils like ramen that’s energy that we eat
That’s synergy at the peak
Catch 22 to for the ease- but when it’s late,
Strong relations after midnight doesn’t mean that we’ll relate
To you
To you
To you
To me
To me
To me
To you
To you
To you
To me
To me
To me
To you
To you
To you
To me
To me
To me
To you
To me
To me
To me
We can do better now
Pull it together now
Seeing through better now
Let it down
Settle down
I loved to love to luv ya
Luv ya, luv ya
And evidently fucked it off
Being Charles in charge
Toppled very fragile house of cards
We got an ongoing "on and on"
Telenovela style
Every time you thought we had direction
Couldn't quite get the steps down
I did the dance with you
I fancied you my favorite
All favors in advance for you
All flavors
Overstand
I know we know we weren't in it for the war
But overstand
The portal’s broken caught my fingers in the door
Today was tough
I've bled enough
I'm deader now
And I hate it when you act all federal
Reserved
My man Herb said that birds was the word
And in that moment, I knew I had to meet you at the curb
Baby, this is me stepping up to the plate
Strong relations after midnight doesn't mean that we'll relate
To you
To you
To you
To me
To me
To me
To you
To you
To you
To me
To me
To me
To you
To you
To you
To me
To me
To me
To you
To me
To me
To me
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8. |
Nevermind (feat. Firas)
04:11
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I would love nothing more
Than to sever ties with this war inside
Been strategizing exit plan
A true king at my core
Who’s singing that four part harmony when I’m gone?
And who’s gon’ tell the women that I loved I’m no longer above
Solid ground
I make it sound so lovely I’d run the town
Fuck around and get poppin’
Sweet nothings can turn to crowns
The life and times
Of a nigga trying to survive
How can I
Turn crumbs into abundance
Now where’s the sky?
People dont respect your struggle
I’ll tell you why
Cuz if you win before they do they’re a loser
Now wheres the lie?
So, nevermind..
Cut me my slice of the devil’s pie
Cuz I’d rather burn up trying
Than pleasing gods in a line
We serving truth
And that’s not so popular with the youth
I know those shoes
That’s why they shoot, it’s simple to resolute
Fast to conceptualize
Just live cuz forever dies
Beauty lies the eyes of the lovers I’ll never find
Now when the world is on fire
Swing low & scrape the bottom
Say ambitions on high
Why is effort always forgotten?
You could trend a topic, not so fast to share a profit
Been wealthy since I could read
I'm trying to monetize honest
Mom wonders why I'm hiding from her
I'm hiding from the trauma
That convo about abandonment is not something that I'm fond of
Me and Pop not talking either
Our father son bond is not speaking
If I lose ‘em I gotta eat it, no seasoning
Hurt children have children
Pass worries pass illness
Path building comes with cost
What would you bet on your discipline?
Are you willing to suppress your soul
Just to digest your goal?
Roll the dice, pass go
Let it snow
At seventeen years old I realized there was a road
How is Joe supposed to win lots of pots of gold now?
I gots to know
If all my actions take a toll
And how much a lost childhood really plays a role?
I got the world on a string if I tap into my talent
Don’t ask me what happened
A picture without a caption
I’ve studied the golden standard of everything
I’ve got reverence
Now where’s the reverend when I’m settling
Feeling like a new whip with no governor
Don’t cap me at 100 miles and running
Joe gon’ fuck it up
Now give me a chance that’s how I talk to me
In the mirror
Nevermind, that reflection’s bad company
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Mean Joe Scheme New York, New York
I'm my mother's son and brother's keeper.
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