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1. |
DJ Haterade Presents
02:03
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*knock knock knock*
G: Come in!
(DJ Haterade walks into the room to raucous canned applause. Gray smiles, looking mildly nonplussed at the entrance of his long time collaborator.)
H: Well look who it is! I thought I’d never see yo bitch ass again nigga!
G: (to himself) That's… not appropriate…. (clears throat) welcome in Haterade, how you been?
H: Oh you know, hating without reason cause these niggas aint eating and tis the season. Same shit, new toliet. Now, no one can get enough, but lets pause on Haterade and talk about Mr. Gray. (chuckles) I never thought you would release more music to be honest.
G: Hah, yeah, I can be a little bit…
H: (interrupts) Bitchmade?
G: …Indecisive. But! I feel really good about the work i’ve been doing recently. I think my writing matches my production matches my mixing and… I haven’t felt that in a long time.
H: Got it! So you stopped being a ho about this shit! That’s tight, that’s tight. So why am I here?
G: Well, Haterade, I was hoping…
H: (interrupts AGAIN) that I would host your project like an old school mixtape and add that sauce you need with ad-libs! (he proceeds to plop down in the nearest office chair contentedly) I gotchu bitch! So we got some Yoga Flames on this bitch? A couple Cigarettes??
G: ….wow, i am suddenly filled with an immense amount of regret. Uh actually, I was hoping you could listen to some of these tracks and maybe give me your thoughts on them? I’ve started writing more from life so i can hopefully connect with my listeners a bit more?
H: Wow. Sounds gay.
G: Haterade, you can’t say that.
H: (eyerolls) Oh my bad, sounds bisexual
G: That is somehow worse. Look, I really trust your opinion on things of this nature. (poignant pause) Are you down to help?
H: Alright you Charmin ass nigga, you know im just Drake and Joshing with you. I’ll listen to your project. (with robotic emphasis) And possibly add my voice in addition to greatly increase the quality henceforth. And some notes.
G: Thank you Haterade.
H: I gotchu nigga. What’s first?
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2. |
Distance (You & I)
02:52
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Distance
Far as the eye can see with 20/20 vision I saw where I wanna be
In the distance
So come here next to me, I only wanna close up any distance in between
Me and You (you and I)
Me and You (you and I)
Me and You (you and I)
Me and You (you and I)
Me and You (you and I)
Me and You (you and I)
Me and You (you and I)
Me and You (you and I)
I need more from
You need more from
I need more from
You need to come close and close this
Distance
Far as the eye can see with 20/20 vision I saw where I wanna be
In the distance
So come here next to me, I only wanna close up any distance in between
Me and You (you and I)
Me and You (you and I)
Me and You (you and I)
Me and You (you and I)
Me and You (you and I)
Me and You (you and I)
Me and You (you and I)
Me and You (you and I)
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3. |
Running Down
02:52
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One time for the movement, from the base to the center line
You know that pride makes your skill more incentivized
No excuse if you ain't energized
I'm in sync with this ink, I've arrived because my pen alive
If Geppetto couldn't pen a lie, then I'm him cooking life from nothing and I still don't get penalized
My discipline's from these penal eyes
Never sold coke but got to white money like it's gentrified
Don't get wise bro it's just a line
The best ever bet it's gonna be me, like I'm justified
Put yo hands up in the air if they ain't in the sky
I'll live forever through these rhymes, I ain't finna die
The flight
Coming round
On the way
Running down
Running down
Two times for the new verse
Working overtime I've learned the top brass should be usurped
I've worked with kids that are doomers
Tryna teach em that the sky ain't the limit if you do work
See to win you gotta lose first
I dun turned L's into lessons like Nick Jr
So young me would be astounded
Cause now i'm paid to rock shows like Medusa had viewed ya
Views from the future, a faint smell of ozone
Designer clothes with too many logos
Living through the photo, generalized madness
Two steps forwards and three steps backwards
Fighting for inclusion, don't let you own your masters though
No busters
Still suffer
But we buffer
For new ways away from complacency
Switch the scene, context and erase the beat wait
Ohhh wait a minute nigga did you do a beat flip
Oh you kinda going crazy
Yeah
Our young protagonist finds himself in the action
The aftermath of the masses retaining attention actually asking the question
What does it matter if music's atrophied
If I can dance to it and put some content in packaging
Suppose nothing in capitalistic majesty
Rich get wealthy, the poor make a fool of themselves for money
Percentage shortened for profit, monopolize what they want
And bet all of a sudden being the jester just isn't funny
I'm catching a vibe, it's not algorithmically sound
I just be making for me in hopes that my people are found
Peep, it's a legion around
Unconnected to lan, I hope that your funeral's full
100K on the Gram
Life is just grains of a sand
Sifted through goddess' hand
You caught me thinking aloud
This an elaborate front
The manor's façade to the north
And windows are facing the sun
I'm basically saying you shine
When you just live how you want
That's within reason
Wha-what wha-what
Don't be an asshole
Yu-yup Yu-yup
That's within reason
Wha-what what-what
If you take it literally, you dumb, you dumb
Ha
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4. |
Reset
01:04
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Can we get a reset
Can we get a reset
Can we get a reset
We can start over
Can we get a reset
Four leaf clover we can start over
R e s et
R e s et
R e s et
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5. |
Instead Pt.II
02:24
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The amount of utility you are getting outta these flips is kinda nuts
But is it hard
Yeah, i'm glad that you here
I'm glad that you took your time
I'm glad that you don't bite peers
I'm glad that you don't ice wear
I'm glad that you built who you are
From the things that at first you feared
I'm glad that you don't hate mirrors
I'm happy with the person that you is, Instead was not a prophecy
You done let loving get inside your heart my friend, why I feel like ain't shit stopping me again
The balance a challenge cause talent's a bitch
But amount that you cooked with your mind on the end
Unbeatable sitting on the edge of my bed
Planning days that can't be wasted with me stuck in my head cause now
Bet i'm just happy putting the rent up
'Cause I was unhappy having to live bruh
I'm closer to being ready for love now
But there's gotta be you before there is us
So i'm gonna love you
But it start with me
Bet i'm just happy putting the rent up
'Cause I was unhappy having to live bruh
I'm closer to being ready for love now
But there's gotta be you before there is us
So i'm gonna love you
And it start with me
Wrote a song to remind me to find me when it's all wrong
To be kind and speak mighty and mindful for the right one
'Cause it's you and you made it, not a damn thing you aint ready to face yet
Remember you a gem when yo vision get jaded, for real though
I'm closer to being ready for love now
But there's gotta be you before there is us
So i'm gonna love you
And it start with me
Bet i'm just happy putting the rent up
'Cause I was unhappy having to live bruh
I'm closer to being ready for love now
But there's gotta be you before there is us
So i'm gonna love you
And it start with me
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6. |
Build It Up
03:16
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Your body respond to love
Stayed single right after us
I'm down to rebuild your trust
Build it up
Build it up
Build it up
Your mind is so marvelous
They'll waste it they're not enough
I taste you its on my tongue
Build it up
Build it up
Build it up
Hands on a different frame
I tried but it's just not the same
Can never forget where I came from
Forever I'm thinking your name, love
They want what they want but it's not real
Smoke and I sip just to not feel
Surrounded and still so alone
I lose, it's not like when I'm with you
When i'm with you
When i'm with you
When i'm with you
When i'm with you
When i'm with you
When i'm with you
When i'm with you
Your body respond to love
Stayed single right after us
I'm down to rebuild your trust
Build it up
Build it up
Build it up
Your mind is so marvelous
They'll waste it they're not enough
I taste you its on my tongue
Build it up
Build it up
Build it up
You brought the feeling I must confess
I want your love and I want your sex
I want your past and I want what is next
I'll be your present never your
When i place my hands on your waistline
It's just us two and the bassline
We dance and the stance could erase time
When i'm with you
When i'm with you
When i'm with you
When i'm with you
When i'm with you
When i'm with you
When i'm with you
When i'm with you
Your body respond to love
Stayed single right after us
I'm down to rebuild your trust
Build it up
Build it up
Build it up
Your mind is so marvelous
They'll waste it they're not enough
I taste you its on my tongue
Build it up
Build it up
Build it up
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7. |
Hydrate
02:31
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I got work to do but damnit I won't do no work today
I would rather play some smash with chicken tacos on my plate
I be bummy on occasion that don't mean that I aint great
I'm back on it in the AM but for now I vegetate
Post up, bitch i'm koolin
Hydrate, drink some water
Post up, bitch i'm koolin
Hydrate, with some water
Post up, bitch i'm koolin
Hydrate, drink some water
Post up, bitch i'm koolin
Hydrate, with some water
Look all that effort's for the birds, sometimes you just gotta chill
Global warming cannot make a kool nigga hot for real
Stressing bout it ain't the movement bet that you just gon feel worse
On occasion just say fuck it like I did writing this verse
But well versed getting to the bag
Nights when the rock get handed off
They say that the cycle never end
Then at least i'mma put this ho on pause
I be grinding moving working every hour every way
This aint PTO it's SMD i'm bout to take a, break
I got work to do but damnit I won't do no work today
I would rather play some smash with chicken tacos on my plate
I be bummy on occasion that don't mean that I aint great
I'm back on it in the AM but for now I vegetate
Post up, bitch i'm koolin
Hydrate, drink some water
Post up, bitch i'm koolin
Hydrate, with some water
Post up, bitch i'm koolin
Hydrate, drink some water
Post up, bitch i'm koolin
Hydrate, with some water
Post up, bitch i'm koolin
Hydrate, drink some water
Post up, bitch i'm koolin
Hydrate, with some water
Post up, bitch i'm koolin
Hydrate, drink some water
Post up, bitch i'm koolin
Hydrate, with some water
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8. |
Tucks
02:31
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Look
Grizzy in it tough
You know I can't get enough
Call out many many bluffs
Big bet imma clean it up
He got many many plugs
In the cribby making juggs
Aint saddity giving love
If you wit me then it's up like
Ooh wee, ooh wee
You know Grizzy in it tough
They know I can't get enough like
Ooh wee, ooh wee
Aint saddity giving love
If you wit me then it's up like
If it's up then it's up
If you knuck, imma buck
Flow is wavy as hell
On the sea like i'm cuh
In the Dino with dinos, this shit jurassic as fuck
I'm still the dopest to do it I got immaculate tucks
Tucked in like I need sleep
Got the keys nigga beep beep
In that thang and i'm knee deep
They mail the check cause i'm CC'd
I need bread, I don't need sleep
Fuck with me i'm really Nick
I do it all I get you really rich
So have my pay ready you silly bitch
Aint no C or A or P
Sign that ho with Grizz it's all me
And imma get this work, this long road
Said if you got a voice then talk to em
So I tell em you know
Grizzy in it tough
You know I can't get enough
Call out many many bluffs
Big bet imma clean it up
He got many many plugs
In the cribby making juggs
Aint saddity giving love
If you wit me then it's up like
Ooh wee, ooh wee
You know Grizzy in it tough
They know I can't get enough like
Ooh wee, ooh wee
Aint saddity giving love
If you wit me then it's up like
Only song with my producer tag lol
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9. |
Renaissance
03:25
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Run through ashes of burnt bridges like a sandstorm
You crane your neck to see the ruins of the last war
They knees weak cause of deals taken in backdoors
My knees weak cause of everything that I stand for, i'm never folding
Effortless spokens, i'm forever golden
Kintsugi, I'm better broken fix it with better focus
Better direction plus better mixes and better motives
Make for better looks and much better bread in direct deposits
Fuck it we taking over
David Chappelle, we smoke this shit so casually think i'm in Castro wit it
Molotovs are adjectives to greatly build this accumen
Magic man's mana is immaculate, i'm Donald bitch
The dun dada, bomb diggity mixed with Rumchata
No chaser to my solutions nigga, I want problems
Cause what's life without conflict, boring
I got ADHD and my palms itch for more of this
So we running it back
The only way to get it is to get in your bag
Little long division split the chicken in half
And divvy with the niggas that aint holding you back
Cut more for less
A sordid flex, assorted checks afford the foreign specs
The out the ordinary told yo life is boring without it
A new experience, a struggle, a triumph over the pressure
Breaking personal records while putting it on a record yup
I got motives
Any minute in this bitch it all could go up
Be aware or you get put up on a poster
Lions, tigers, bears, goblins and some ogres
And some more stuff
Niggas go nuts
But don't chase dreams, cause they don't want much
I'll be damned I die before I leave a Mona
Say they don't feel it then them niggas do not know us
You know I got
Motives
For this
Motion
Honest
Money get my stack on
Comfy like i'm back home
I be in the pocket like I got a pair of slacks on
But never ever slack on
I'm back on
You know I got
Motives
For this
Motion
Honest
I be
Making
Movement
Often
You can bet it's Black owned,
Bitch i'm on a roll
Slide on the side of the north, ain't riding or dying bitch i'm alive to get nice at the sport of timely recited retorts
Since 9 I was fly as a hawk at times I was likely to soar
At times I got tired of sky, still got to the chopper you whore
I'm down like I get to the fourth and actually active for shit to actually happen bitch I will Mario Kart to the course
Lucario aura of sorts that's meant to be marquee aboard,
Malarkey I fall in the war I know what i'm battling for to master my mastery more no bastard could pass me but fuck I care I aint glance at the score
And that's it
Hahahaha nigga what the fuck
This is so much better than your old music
What the fuck
Nigga, at the very least bro, you get an A4E
You know I got
Motives
For this
Motion
Honest
Money get my stack on
Comfy like i'm back home
I be in the pocket like I got a pair of slacks on
But never ever slack on
I'm back on
You know I got
Motives
For this
Motion
Honest
I be
Making
Movement
Often
You can bet it's Black owned,
Bitch i'm on a roll
Yeah nigga you might have really done something here
Like I was not expecting this to sound like this but you get an A for effort
You get an A for execution, you get an A for excelling you see
It's really some shit going on here bro
This might be the start of something big
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