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VALERIEY
03:49
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VALERIEY
My best friend told me
Never drop no album until I’m tethered
That same friend became the reason
I’m spiteful on all my records
They say
My ego should part from my thoughts,
I beg to differ
Left the valley cause of my own pride
No way that my soul would be delivered
Yet you like to play the victim
And to you, I’m too vindictive
But to tell the truth, I’m used to viewing
You as too complicit
So I live my life as if you
Never came into it
Pray I learn from my endeavors
Hope you know the spite stays in music
Yea it do
(Chorus)
You you you you you
You never stay when I need ya
You crowd pleaser
Everyday you live like I need you
You you you you you
You always missing your chances
It’s just cancer
Everyday you live like I need you
(Verse 2)
Another friend told me
Not to let my traumas shape our friendship
That same day I lashed out cause
I was reminded of who I was friends with
It seems the cycles repeat
Whenever my stubborn ass can’t listen
Blame the flesh and act as if my soul
Is hopeless, but I go the distance
So I pray that you find yourself
Remind yourself you will
Sometimes I feel I’m shadowboxing with trauma, against my will
So go ahead and throw your boulders
Only way to break the borders
Only God can see a soldier
In myself, so give me closure
So we talk it out
You tell me what I know,
I tell you that you’re lost
We argue bout
The image you imposed
I tell you bout the cost
We live in doubt
You live your life in gambles
Hoping I take apart
We break apart
Now everytime we cross
You tell me talk to God
You mean no harm
Or so you say,
You want to see me change myself,
Obey myself
You’re led astray
I never bend my knees or fold
You catching strays
So know your place
You call it love I call it cold
You call it free, I call it sold
You call it proof, I call it fate
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3. |
FOR (HIM)
04:02
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For (Him)
Do you ever wonder why
I been so crazy bout ya
See competition for ya
I tried to tell ya
Do you ever wonder why
My momma doesn’t like ya
So used to lying bout ya
It’s complicated
So I keep my pace
I don’t want yo ass to leave me
Aw for goodness sake
I just pray that you’re concealing
That you compensate,
Can’t feel a thing in your hand
For once I feel important
Not tryna lose my focus
(Chorus)
Time I
Told you how to step
I learned it by myself
By living for myself
For myself so it’s
(Verse 2)
Do you ever wonder why
I want to hold you tighter
Got my emotions tied up
I tried to show ya
Do you ever wonder why
Yea
Listen
You could never rely
For she tried to force
Pride is knee high
My weak mind can be blind to scorn
But I b-line for more, yea I b-line for more
Yea
I spoke to God
He told me not to
But I got to try
He told me
Not to intertwine
But she been out of line
She tryna hold you
Let me hold you
We can compromise
Cause I’m a soldier
But I told ya
Baby boy
We can make it to the chorus
But you got to block the noise
It’s sum you won’t believe
Ain’t mean to come between her
My demeanors of a thief but I can
See us out
I can show you how to step and
We can walk it out
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4. |
DAR ES SALAAM
05:03
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You were right
Texas is hot at night
To keep my cool
I’ll run to you
It was a good life
Where do you need me to go
To fly
Dar
(Intro)
We are happy that we
Have multi instrumentalist
Jru Anthony
And Martin on keys
I bring to you guys
A little ditty
By the Mishaps
We call
Dar Es Salaam
Home
(Verse 1)
I feel in my head
I got nowhere to stay
(I got your hand
When you’re all alone)
You been so close to my side
This whole time
(I hope you staying
Real close to home)
Still remember
The day we met
I said “You hands so cold”
You said “deal with it”
Oh I
Need time to
Feel it for myself
(Feel it for yourself, I wish you listened to me more)
(Pre- Chorus)
I know it’s scary out there
You’re lifestyles a punchline
Yeah they’ll stare
I’ve seen it all
I’m just one call away
(Chorus)
I don’t wanna waste your time
But I need your guidance
To my mothers hand
I know that she’s not too far
But I knew my heart
Was full the day we met
(Verse 2)
I feel in my soul that
you want me to change
(I want your heart to align with mine)
You know in my eyes
I got something to hide
(One day you will see my side)
Still remember the
Last time I cried
You slapped my head and you told me
To feel alright
Need time to
Feel it for myself
(Pre chorus)
I know it’s scary out there
Yea your lifestyles a punchline
Yea they’ll stare
(You think I’m fine
But I feel everything)
I’ve seen it all I’m just one call away
(Chorus)
I don’t wanna waste your time
But I need your guidance
To my mothers hand
I know that she’s not too far
But I knew my heart
Was full the day we met
(Break)
Can you feel it?
Can you feel it?
We over here
The Mishaps here live
In Dar Es Salaam
I just wanna let my boys
Perform a little bit
Uh yea
(Bridge)
Yea now we ain’t got no time
Now we ain’t got nun
Now we ain’t got no time
Now we ain’t got nun
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5. |
I CAN BE YOU
03:54
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I Can Be You
Guess I thought
Your empathy was desire
Even you can’t love me
Like I do you
It’s creeps me out
Cause I know
I can be you
Cause I don’t love me too
Can’t be by myself
love the nightlife
Cause I know we made it work
When I close my eyes
And it creeps me out
Cause I know
I can be you
Cause I don’t love me too
(Chorus)
I gave you feminine
Showed you passionate
You ain’t show me nothing
Nothing
But I love you too much
Is there room in your heart
Your heart, in your heart
(Verse 2)
Now your hand in mine
Feels wrong
All they ever do is go away
Always
And it creeps me out
Cause I know
I can be you
Cause I don’t love me too
Wish you hated me
So I have a reason
But I took it sober
Wish I knew you were friendly
Hate I knew that you presence was plenty
I can be you
Cause I don’t love me too
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6. |
STEP
04:24
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Step
Okay
I break apart these niggas
That gon talk about my place
All it really take is one
See how quick I break a front
Niggas yap until I
Slap these niggas up for acting up
Niggas yap until a
Pacifist destroys what they become
Whachu actin for?
You ain’t had no reason nigga
I know them screen protected niggas
That been thieving with ya (breathe)
They ain’t move like me
Papa they ain’t move like me
So I had to sit these niggas down
To get the truth, cause these niggas really
Ain’t about they shit
Whachu rappin bout ain’t rlly whachu live
Whachu askin bout is rlly what you’ll get
Yea you rlly about to get what you gon give
You better pray to God that Karma rlly ain’t about a bitch
You better pray to God
That Karma really don’t know who you is
Better pray to God
That Karma don’t bring trauma to your kids
If you step to me, I make you step for me
And I won’t rest until the blessings fall
Count your days, the curtain call
Was calling you to this
(Verse 2)
Nigga I been here
I been crucified
I been through the fire
Niggas wanna hit me up
And tell me bout another nigga
Nigga he the prototype
I been penalized
Wanna see you dead
I been praying niggas
Do a suicide
Im a hypocrite
I don’t wanna see another nigga
Winning, Nigga pay your debt
Nigga you got nothing on me now
I know you used to be that guy but now you
Lost what what you proud so Imma
Kick you while you down and you can
Finally stop the frontin you been on
Since you were small, cause you ain’t
Upper echelon, let me remind you
Where you from
Maybe it’s because I been fucking up
And you been above me
A slacker begging for money
Naw, begging for you to love me
Since you can’t, now I hate you
Maybe really I hate me
Maybe I miss the times you were there
And you’d would berate me
Taking my time for granted
Everything that we planned
Was it too small?
Did you really have to let me take that fall?
Yea you really make me want to end it all
You better pray God that Karma
Don’t come back for those involved
You better pray to God that Karma
Don’t come back for those involved
I wanna see you lose your shield
Wanna see you lose your crown
Wanna see you as yourself
And not the one to face the crowd
Wanna see you at my feet
I wanna see you in a bow
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REPENT
05:02
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Repent
People looking at me wild
Cause God been quiet through me
Ain’t you that boy who preached so loud
And made that holy music?
And I can see the reason why
You see the blessings truly
My parents came into this country
Only TZ fluent
They built an army up, they taught us all
We copied
Still surprised my sister done
Survived that Kawasaki
Still surprised she smiling
All in all, that woulda scarred me
I guess I thank my auntie, all God’s promises she taught me
If we had stresses,
vent to God’s ear
If we want Santa clause to come early
Then God was here
If we had beef amongst each other
Pastor taught me love my brothers
So we’d talk it out, put fists aside
Whom shall we fear
But I had questions growing up
And I had things that I would love
But I was taught them shits were demon spawns
Folks was mad, delete my drawings
But I never minded it
As long as I despised the sin
I knew that God would take me in
I knew my Pops would take me in
Middle school came
My dubious ways
Had got me questioning myself
That white boy in my grade
Became my first official sign
That I’m not okay
I talked to my youth pastor, was after
I realized I’m
Well,
He told me it’s the gates or the fire
No In between, so I spent days tryna see if I’d acquire epiphanies, but all I got was “if my son was a faggot, nah my son ain’t no faggot. I raised him too well to see him in hell”
Niggas never no had to time examine they self
pose a certain way, the church will frame you, the verses they’d yell
Thinking that they helping,
But inside you feel lesser than thou
Now you scared to move, you dancing to the raise of a brow
Still remember
When I came out to you
First time that I seen you cry
Now every time you try to mend it
Feel like it’s a guise
To try and pry into my mind
And slip in new agendas
It’s personal, but you trying so hard
And I commend ya
(Verse 3)
I love you guys too much
I guess that’s why i be too scared
To let go
Or just too scared to come close
I’m either two feet away
Or two years distant, I know
I tried convincing myself
That either one came from growth
I’ve seen too many ideas
That my Brain associates with hope
Because I’m scared to die and maybe
A heaven could help me cope
Letting go of that philosophy was hard for me
Harboring all this pain, because if I ain’t got Heaven, whats there to gain
Maybe that’s the root
Of my attachment issues with many
I be scared to hang up telephone calls
Because what if any
Thing was to happen once I end it
Had hope I’d see him call again
Died a fews days after talking about accomplishments
Tell me that he made he made it somewhere safe, or that he hit them pearly gates, you taught me otherwise, I’m scared he didn’t make it there
Now you tryna tell me He gave
Us hope and a future
What if Zay just had some questions, what the hell does that mean to ya
Man I swear I love you guys too much
I don’t care if you love me back
What’s the point of a heaven
If my niggas ain’t there to party
What’s the point of my life
If niggas interpret it ungodly
And I love you guys for that
Cause we been through all this shit
I know niggas who’s geniuses
Ain’t no need for scholarships
I know niggas who there for me
Even when the family feuds
I know niggas who there for me
Even when I lose my cool
So I got my drive to live
We all got torches to hold
We ain’t got no time to waste time
Cause nigga we getting old
In the little time we have
Maybe we could grow apart
Maybe one of us is next
And we can’t repair the scars
But Imma try to live like
It was 2021
I was Babyfaced and all
Y’all was hectic on my them calls but
It was all of us,
And anything could happen anytime from
Now
But I guess all I can do is pray we stay, if time allows
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8. |
DO BETTER
00:51
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Do better
You can do better
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9. |
EGO
05:19
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Ego Pt 1
Will I see my father
When I open the bottle
And get to the bottom
Will i see my momma
When I get scared
And I open my Bible
Will I lose dysphoria
When I’m like my brother
Or I’m like my sister
Allat
Will my friends accept me
For who I be or should I be like him
Allat
Should I change myself for the world
Or am I just that Nigga
Allat
Should I say sorry to these niggas
Or stand my ground and keep pushing
Allat
Should I blame myself, even though
You took my time for granted
Allat
Should you say “I love you”
Even though time and time it feels back handed
Allat
Should I repent to god the father
Or do you just hate what I said
Yea
Would you rather I be that side of me
Than tell you it’s all in your head
Yea
You tell me that I need help
I prolly do but so do you so
Take your truth cause I refuse
To tell the truth, I’m just like you
I’m lost to my family
Lost to my old friends
Lost in the stampede
Lost to Dibo, lost to Akinseye
Lost to my manly
Lost to my traumas
Lost in my walk
I’m lost in my karma
But I walk in dishonor
Can’t blame it on you
Tell the truth, I’m a monster
Ego Pt 2
If I’m
being honest
Only reason you here
Is to fill quotas
Nigga I can
Body your team
In 4th quarter
Haven’t my dropped my
Shit in a year
And it’s Still potent
Losing track of
How many tracks
They stay quotin huh
Had to switch my pronouns
Give ya Motown shit
I don’t even cosign
What I co-founded
I ain’t ever need a shooter,
I can do ya like my nigga
Soul Khan did to Dumbfounded
You got vipers, you got vices
But I do shit my on my own
wouldn’t recognize me
If you saw the shit on my phone
Wouldn’t recognize a nigga by
The shit I been on
Now they wanna throw a peace sign
For when I perform yeah
Church got me fucked up
The world got me fucked up
My niggas up north told me
Be like Aubrey
My niggas down south
Told me be more Godly
So Nigga wassup
Imma be more gaudy
Niggas on my timeline
Saying I live in sci-fi
Any way to cope
With the fact I’m making the top 5
Niggas from Minnesota
way down to oak cliff
And I knew I still I’d be the greatest ever
Before this
Loose lipped, I move different
I’m too gifted
Your top 5 begging for beats
I’m too livid
My friends best advice was to
Keep sinning
only thing stopping me was
I’m too timid
Take it back
To 2021
When niggas really said
We bout to fuck up the summer up
But now l cut you off you You cut me off,
And I been off it
Who’d a thought the fucker would come
Back the same year, with apologies
Talkin like I’m bout to simmer down
Astonishing
Niggas wanna tell me it was luck
It’s a trauma thing
Ian even like to talk my shit
Cause it’s dishonoring
Niggas rlly turn on you
They turn on you, I’m processing
Ego pt 3
I got nobody
I got nobody
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10. |
A SONG FOR SALEM
04:06
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Music.
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11. |
MOTHER
04:43
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Mother
Said I’m your sunshine
But I feel more like the moon
Cause one half illuminates
The other half died with you
You break apart now
Have to know you’re around
Try not to fret
Am I losing my breath tryna just
Learn from my feelings
Tryna cope with you leaving
I got nothing to say
Can you give me a sign
That you’ll be alright
Tell me pick up the pieces
I’ll show you a sign
And you’ve got nothing to hide
Just like that
Just like my mama, baby
Someday, you’ll be
Lost in the sky
And you will find I’m alright
Just like that
Just like mama, baby
Went to motherland
And you grew weary
Said if I we meet again yea
Bet on my theory
I can see heaven
I can see heaven
I can see my mother
You will find your mother so
Learn to be honest
Better live for your promise
I got nothing to say
So just show me a sign
That you’ll be alright
Tell me pick up the pieces
I’ll show you a sign
And you’ve got nothing to hide
Just like that
Just like my mama, baby
Someday, you’ll be
Lost in the sky
And you will find I’m alright
Just like that
Just like mama, baby
Learn from my ego
*murmurs*
And I do what
You say to me yea
Show me a sign
That you’ll be alright
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12. |
50021 (WILBALD)
07:31
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50021
Hello son this is your pops
We ain’t been speaking In sometime
Yea the last time that we spoke
You said I made you want to die
Nevertheless I understand that
When you told me you were queer
That day echoed through my ears
Never meant to share my tears
Back when I was in TZ
That HIV was like the reaper
Ain’t no therapy for me
So I still seek to mourn my peers
And the stigmas of my fathers father
Went deep in my psyche
You were born, you were just like me
So I panicked son, listen son
You’re far from my regret
And no matter whats under the Sun
I’ll love you til the end
Even when I reach the sky above
Your momma cries about you
And your sister cries to me
And your brother been my ear
For when I ain’t that strong to sleep
It’s business after business
Broken, dreamers deal with schemers
It’s the same ol joke, believe me
When I say it’s hard for me
So can you spare one call for me
Just spare one call for me
We’re an army, we accept
With open arms I promise
So you live your life as if
I never came into it
I remember as a kid
You wasn’t into music
You was an artist, then a chef
At each one you were the best
Wasn’t til I took your dream
I learned that I was foolish
So son, i promise you’ll see therapy
I promise that you’ll find love
I promise that you’ll find God
I promise I won’t force the bond
You have my face I hate to
See it cry, we’ll make it out of this
Just plz pick up the phone
I hate being alone
(Chorus)
Make sure that you make it
through all that is fated
I’m sure you will find me
I’m done saving face
So can you make sure you make it
Through all that is fated
I’m sure you will find me
I’m done saving face
(Verse 2)
Hello brother, this your sister
Been a minute since I seen you not
Pessimistic, your cynic views persist
All you do is talk to
People on the phone instead of me
And whenever you been distant
I annoy you so you speak to me
It’s hard being the only girl
When you were Christian
You would teach me bout the wicked world
It gave me hope that my suffering
Won’t exist on, so whenever I’m pissed off
The church became a second home for me
To get my shit off
But you ain’t been to church
And you and poppa fighting
It’s hard for me to understand
Because you’re not inviting
And I just wanna see you
All in Paradise, but when
I see the Devil expedite demise
It keeps me up at night
I read the book of Philippians
When this happened
You think I never see that you’re angry
When you be rapping
Your room is now a mess
I don’t understand depression
But I wanna see you put this all to rest
So you have my attention
Because it felt like
We were friends
You used to yell, but then
Would make make me food to make amends
What happened to that person
Cause when you go to college
I have this fear that this will worsen
I don’t know if you’ll miss me but
I’ll miss you
And I don’t know if you can do this
But can you save September 21st
For me, exclusive
I wanna celebrate my birthday with
My family, but Keegan please pick up the phone man,
Your family needs you home
(Verse 3)
Never thought I would see college nigga
Shit, I’m a college nigga
I promise you I can talk to you
I’ll be honest with you
I understand
Ian been the same since Iowa
I’m trying to stay high with ya
I can’t even say hi to ya
Father, I don’t hate you
I was scared of you
Well I was scared to disappoint
I won’t ever fit your standards
I’m just here to make a point
And I know I got the answers
So I’ll say it all, no holding back
What I been on for 2 years past
Thought I had a music group
We couldn’t keep it mutual, but
All my friends, they helped me out
We would’ve had a funeral
But Jeremiah cleared my doubts
I promise you I’m staying now
And please do me a favor
Can you please tell my momma
I’ll be fine momma, I’ll be fine
I’m thankful that you raised me up
To keep me so defiant
I made myself two albums that would lead
Me to the peace that’s deep within me
And these people rlly love me Pops
these people rlly love me Ma
And to my sister
Depression swaying my mood
And let me tell you something
It’ll be like I never moved
And me and God are tryna work it out
It’s all a quest
There is good and evil everywhere
In church and with the rest of us
I still believe that everything in life
Is just a test
Am I passing? Nah
But shit I stay doing my best
So any time you’re out of line
Or need reminders life is fine
I will pick up the phone man
You’re never on your own
To my momma
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