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Intro
01:12
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2. |
Slanted
02:18
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4. |
Rain
02:13
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Machine
But the music
Never feels
mechanical
Maybe cuz he’s
an animal
Ran the show
Like an antelope
I am a GOAT -
When I see em lyin/lion
I’m like Daniel
Not in panic mode
Stand alone
If I must because I don’t just
Trust the tangible
There’s higher reason
Reaching past the understandable
I don’t just sample soul
I am it like D’Angelo
They go over all my bars
like they scanning codes
Cuz I go deep like Janet goes
Deep like when a Manning throws
Like damn it
There’s layers to this like candy coat
Answer to prayer
For despair this is the antidote
Let em see your vantage
Before you vanish
Like vàmanos
Please excuse my Spanish
This the universal language yo
I’m Manilow
When I write the songs
Feeling fanciful
Pandemonium can explode
Every jam the most flammable
Getting loose I get lucid
The truth is
The truth is bulletproof
If you wanna prove it
Shoot
Keep it simple stupid
This is music
Just give your 2 cents
Then everybody moving (X4)
Keeping it simple
That got me on Complex
All of my pride
Put to the side
Me and myself in a contest
I’m giving em soul food
They can digest
All on my time
Spent with the rhymes
Hoping they get me on projects
Watching the evolution of the game
Provided the passion to press on
Shadow the path of the best ones
Shad told me that I’m the next one
Walk through the valley of shadow of death
With a pen and a pad I can sketch on
I see the dots then connect them
I’m from the Dot they got red ones
Put on your forehead when you makin a name
Doing it right
Craftin them flows
Doin them shows
Make it look light
Whatever happens in life Imma find me a mic
I saw the darkest of nights
And a song made it bright
Whoa
Debate the best
But there will never be
A better me
Became a better me
When I began to bet on me
Instead of being
Whatever the tv said to be
Funny: Getting free
Led to me getting a better fee
Leathery and feathery
Elegies and levity
Both speaking straightforward
Or more cleverly
My legacy
Forever my energy
Even when I leave
Like Lennon is
Let it be
Simple
Sing the melody
Keep it simple stupid
This is music
Just give your 2 cents
Then everybody moving (X4)
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6. |
Shad & TLO - Islands
03:17
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You can’t do all things
Don’t dream big
Til you handle small things
A wise tree
Understands it’s falling
Plant seeds in the rubble
For belief
For relief in the struggle
Peace is knowing
You’re a piece of the puzzle
Not the whole thing
You don’t control things
Don’t point fingers
If the fingers got gold rings
It’s out of your hands
Focus on what you’re holding
Those that do keep the world sane
Putting hope to work
They spur change
Staying close to the earth
They turn pain
Into purpose
Searching for light
They burn flames
Now you can build or destroy
Spread healing or poison
To fill in the void
Human nature
Is to fill it with noise
So we just do the labour
And then chill and enjoy
Islands
Land and water
Raise it up
Uplift this body
Sand and soil
Gold and oil
Nothing can stop us (x2)
What's left
If just a few can afford a roof?
Just a landlord or two
With their mortgage due
If the schools are too poor to
Support the youth
No art, no sports do
Just portables
If journalists aren’t brave
So they distort the truth
When they report the news
If entertainers
Perform with tuned vocals over
Vocals and recorded loops
If we all got
disordered moods
No Black, White, Brown now
Everybody sort of blue
If few vote
And politicians
are ignoring you?
If I’m buying this imported fruit
That gets processed and sold back
To those that export the food
For more
If it seems the only moral rule
Is I get mine and you
Get some more for you
Maybe we need something new
Things only seen in dreams
To look forward to
(We’re building that)
Islands
Land and water
Raise it up
Uplift this body
Sand and soil
Gold and oil
Nothing can stop us (x2)
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7. |
Bars and BBQs
02:45
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Bars and BBQ’s (X2)
I enjoy bars and bbq’s
I’m a free spirit
Like open bars with booze
Hard as barnacles
Bars sharp as barber’s tools
I do it for the Rap’s fans
Scottie Barnes’s crew
Barbaric
They’re more bark than bite
I only play the price is right-
Bob Barker-like
I’m sorry you just can’t barter
When the bars this nice
I’m The Bard meets Debarge
Ain’t no bargain price
As I said
I like lyrics and Foreman grills
Skillets and the sort of skills
That let you tour Brazil
More than ill
Raised on Dilla and Lauryn hill
The best recorded reels
Since jordan peele’s
Horror films
Matter fact I’m more Jason Bourne
Born to kill
But the source all life
Gives me my force of will
That and needing a quarter mil
For my mortgage bill
Just in case you wanted to support him
It’s important still
I like hot lines
And lines on my pork and veal
That’s bars and bbq’s
Bars and BBQ’s (X4)
The soul is still there like it’s always been
Music was always spinning
In the circles I was in
Before I was in the inner circle
I was him
Inside the gym
That’s why I’ve never been surprised to win
Even facing Goliath’s or Leviathans
I just applied the sling shot to the giant’s chin
Hold every title and no entitlement
Just see the younger guys
And try to guide them
Into wiser men
Cuz bars and bbq’s
Also form descriptions
Of our core conditions
From where’s sittin
Needing more nutrition
Sickness in every cell
And there’s more addiction
From what’s stored in kitchens
To us stored in prisons
That’s bars and bbqs
That’s how we’re made marginal
That’s how they’re starving you
The bars are food
That’s what we artists do
Stew on the thoughts
So the bars are never hard to chew
Bars and BBQ’s (X4)
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8. |
Discern
02:43
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11. |
Don't
02:30
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13. |
Fear of Death
03:44
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Shad Toronto, Ontario
Shad is a Juno Award-winning rapper from London, Ontario and the host of Netflix’s Hip-Hop Evolution. His albums have been recognized for their sharp lyrics and soulful arrangements.
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