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1. |
Last Testament
01:14
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...Rappers are mad corny
I’d never fuck with em
I’ve never been that horny/2
You’d need beer goggles
Never been that desperate
you’ll wake up next morning
like damn they were half-stepping/4
You’re saturday night music
Get your friends drunk
And they said it was tight music/6
Im sunday morning
Wake up to the light music
And no it’s not religious
i’m just making the right music/8
i flip symbols and dip into my own well
you crabs imitate but couldn’t fit in my old shell/10
i pull gems from the deep
you pull stems from your weed/
vast difference, this is the last instance/12
that i’ll even address them
came from my vast deferens
rappers are my sons
you’ll pay for my transgressions/14
…my child support is lacing these damn lessons
onto concrete tablets
i’ve labeled my last testament/ 16
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2. |
Firewater
03:17
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(Hook)
I’m water
I drip a lot of,
Hot shit its lava,
Not just saliva
Spit the fire
The god given honor
This is the pyre
And it’s lit, lit, lit, lit
—
(verse)
I took my problems face to face
No john travolta just the cage
I was locked up in a way now
Stayed down, way down
But then i rose up from the grave
I knew i had to make a change
You don’t know what i had to pay now
(Break)
(Verse)
From the womb i was ripped
And haven’t gotten home since
But put a mic in my fist
its holy matrimony/2
You couldn’t fuck with my clique
Its only natural homie
A different category
Don’t know what happened to me/4
Whatever it was i’d say it’s habit forming
Whatever you love battle for it/6
it runs thru my blood,
I know i can’t ignore it,
A different category
I never have been normal/8
(Hook)
(verse)
feel like i’m from future
Had to kill the old me like a looper
I document the culture martha cooper
So time im in the booth im goin super
My alter ego an alien on my own planet
I’ve fallen feeble and failing to meet my own standards
Get all cerebral and frail im dealin with old patterns
I call my people and wail until they can overstand it
(what do they say?)
Give it away give it away give it away now
You’re giving it space to live in your brain
Thats giving it weight now/
What does it take to get to the change
Isn’t it strange how
We get in the way, livin afraid
Gimme the breakdown
(Breakdown)
(Hook)
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3. |
Energy
03:04
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(intro)
I cant get caught up with these people that refuse to be
…What they really could be
They start confusing me/2
...That shit’ll pull you down to a pool of disease
Like what the fuck i’m doing
I choose to be free/4
—
(hook 1)
When i show up to the spot
Im ready to rock/
Cause i Protect my energy
From the negative thought/6
And I don’t gotta be on top or
Ahead of the flock/
Let em rot,
Got something better to plot/8
—
(hook 2)
Stop, chasing attention, shit we all do it/
You know those people that
makes plans that fall through and/10
I know nobody’s perfect, we all human/
And I ain’t trying be nit picking or arguing/12
—
But you know what i’m taking about
Some people never got the time
Can’t talk to you now/14
No call nor text back
Gotta drop that kinda shit
Like ex-lax
Please don’t stress that/16
Yeah,
Gotta have esteem for myself like
Yeah
Cant be chasing no one else’s dream like
Yeah/18
You know what i mean,
(If) They playin with you, they aren’t on your team like that/20
(Chorus)
Verse 2
You got people you follow hoping they see you
If they don’t feed you, then they don’t need to/
Its kinda funny how social media’s see-thru
But yet this fucked up standard we all agree to/
so we log on every day,
Comparison game,
That doesn’t spark a fire
It buries the flame/
I had to cut it out my diet
Im barely the same
Protect your energy
Dog, Cherish your brain/
Stop chasing attention we all do it
You know those people who look great
Are all human/
Don’t measure your worth with the wrong units
And i aint trying to be nit picking or arguing
Why should i let these people up in my space
When they would never let em up in my face
Why would i let somebody up in my head
When they don’t give me time of day
And we don’t break bread
That shits dead
(intro refrain)
(hook 1)
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4. |
Rat Race
02:11
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bust the nuance,
custom shoe on,
the beat thumps/
turn a fuckin rapper to meat lumps
with each month/2
… and every day of the week
i leak bumps/
out the basement,
you cats taste it, but lack patience/4
to replicate, turn this shit up,
i bet ya neck’ll break/
respect the great,
a check and a mate/
that’s what I get from making/6
classics, your previous attempts
get smashed, kid/
infectious with the rap shit
a treacherous passage/8
what these cats face/
ya tape is unacceptable
like wearing blackface/
this ain’t no halloween festival/12
it’s a rat race,
so keep your balance and schedule/
you in last place,
my talents untestable, fuck/
(Chorus)
You know i stay fitted up,
Shit on critics and such
I know I’m dope fool
Aint no need to piss in a cup/
I did enough work, stages get murked
I go berzerk
with a verse
Put my dick in the dirt and didn’t squirt/ 4
So its still fuck the planet
Or at least the people on it
Make a hater vomit
Hit world like a comet/6
Super sonic,
Breakin barriers with phonics/
Trying to see my face up on the paper like the chronic/8
Since the 2 g, i grew to do this with ease,
first i heard it as a shorty
Now fulfillin the dream/
I still believe
Still recording
Trying to build me a scheme
No longer swimming with goldfish I filter my stream/
Upper echelon cat
stretch em on wax
Break ya back
To the Metronome snaps
Catch a long nap/
I keep the pressure on
Fresher on tracks/
I don’t smoke
But in the lab
You’re the one that catch a contact/
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5. |
Loaves & Fishes
02:31
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the most official to hold a fistful
of cold initials that drop/2
somethin like throwin fishfood
to a bowl of wishful young
souls that wish for
those golden crystals/4
that loaves and fishes for the starving
that cold and miserable with a heartbeat/
that never gave up yet and prolly not gonna
be cold day in hell if it’s not our summer/4
no way to tell til your spot got run up
rollin thru the city like i’m playin top gunna/
yeah i’m movin slow but at least i’m not runnin/
just a young boy creepin on a come up, run em/
gimme the kicks, i wanna get my thrill/
been in the mix since 06 so chill/
jimminy christmas, that shit so real/
and your shit isn’t shit if i don’t get no chills/ from it
started from a spark then i built from it/
i’ma turn it to a fire til the field burning/
feed it with the breath and the will of a/
stressed out villager that
Never got a meal from it
Givin ya something t’feel
This is your monthly meal
Listeners hungry still
Fishin for something real2
Live in a country where they spit in your lunchmeat
And equip you with nothing
But addiction to comfort, chill/4d
I’ma show how to really build/
Loading up the catapults out here in the field/
Hyping up the front row clattering the shields
With a sword tongue sharp enough that’ll shatter any steel/6
Who the fuck said magic isn’t real?
Everything I say put the maggots in your meal/c
28 daggers in the grill,
One for every day since the savages could feel
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6. |
This Is Real
03:40
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(verse)
i’m not a producer my friend/
i’m a hallucinogen
people were sleepin for real
make them lucid again
i make em lose it again/
i’m makin music that blend/
way i be fuckin with words
i kama sutra the gems/
i just go shoot and i win/ (swish)
im just gon shoot for the win
that shit was so good the first time
i’m just gon do it again/
Rappers can’t do what i can
Music is beautiful man
I bring you back in alignment
I make you human again/
——-
(Chorus)
(Verse 2)
You aint got the guts to spill
What you feel fuck your feelings
dont get offended
Im not kendrick, just brendan
Just building, on a friendship/2
Cuz I borrowed from the culture and lended
A helping hand a couple times I remember
Couple weak ass shows I attended
Just to be there, for my friends’ shit/4
My intention, to continue
Blow the roof off
At the venue/
With the real shit
What I been doin/
I don’t switch up
Like nintendo/
C
Let me just say what I been through
Rain on a instro
Mental plane with a pencil
Brain full of issues/
When y’all bust just stains on a tissue/
(Chorus)
(Verse 3)
Everyone keeping it real
everyone deep in the field, nah
Really you keep it concealed
Nobody speak how they feel/2
Wouldn’t be proper
Men must posture
Anything else just feels so awkward
Western culture, kill and prosper
Be a soldier, silkk the shocker/4
Fuck that noise ima burn that gospel
Why young boys gotta turn so hostile/
How do we raise em,
What’ve we gave em
Made that choice now
Learn what it cost you/6
Matta fact unlearn what it taught you/
Whatve we learned that is not true/
Growing UP as a boy in this world
To survive
And you gotta wear a mask
but its not you/8
Matta fact that mask is a costume
Matta fact that fashion is awful
(Chorus)
(Bonus Verse)
I Don’t wanna write this shit
I don’t even really like this shit/
Wanna light this bitch on fire
Like a night glow stick at a rave in a cave when the night goes pitch/2
Black, sometimes i get sick of rap
Get sick of running my yap/
Wish i could sit, back
Talk about runnin trap
Talk about gun and a mask/4
Wouldn’t be real tho,
Can’t play myself like a dildo
I’m white and soft like a pillow
When the mic goes off then they will know/6
Might as well be myself
At the same time i just wanna free myself
Sick of always thinking bout
How i see myself
Tryina keep it real i cant even please myself
—-
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7. |
Cool With Myself
03:10
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(Chorus)
Just wanna be cool with myself X2
Don't care bout nobody else X2
Just wanna be cool with myself X2
Don't care bout nobody else
don't care what nobody else thinks
... and if you feel this shit X3
you should.. (bop it, bop it, bop it)
... and if you front on this X3
you should... (stop it, stop it, stop it)
(Verse)
a lot of people yelling at you on the internet/
Trying to tell you how to think and be and give a shit/
Revolutionary fingers on the twitter text/
Before this shit popped off they didn’t have no interest/4
Hey, I’m glad you’re so engaged, so enraged/
so insane posting 20 things a day
Quoting everything in range/
nowadays, our reaction so immediate
that people post an article before they even read that shit/8
so go ahead and repost everything you see/ (go ahead)
That you think fits in with who you think you’re supposed to be/ (that's dumb)
If you do it just because you think you’re s’posed to/
You’ll be the first to fall off when it
Doesn’t trend in social/ 12
We’ve projected our addiction to anxiety
Onto the constant flood of content but the irony/
Is that it makes us a disconnected society/
I’m not silent i just do the work more quietly/
(Chorus)
(verse 2)
I cant follow everybody trying to say some shit/
Information overload,
For me that doesn’t make it click/2
That just makes me wanna crawl inside a hole lace a spliff
With some toxic
On some permanent vacation shit/4
...We all put so much pressure on ourselves/
Trying to show we’re with the movement
And we’re really down to help/6
But when you’re worried bout
What people think about
You, then You’re really only thinking
Bout you, how true/8
And i don’t think i y me projecting/
I know lots of people out there who don’t feel like they’re connecting/10
Somewhere along the line we forgot how to talk,
We form tribes born and died with no critical thought/12
Its all shake fist harder, try to act like a martyr,
Don’t even have to look em in the face
To tear em apart and I’m not
Saying you should let white supremacy slide
I’m talking bout the people on the same side!
(Chorus)
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8. |
The Altar
03:33
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(verse)
Click tight like the metronome/
Never falter, your altar’s my stepping stone// 2
...Verbal assault with the weapon drawn/
I’m who you cal cause i’m reppin’// 4
All heads to the front
Let it bump
We be spreadin the funk/
Real gas, not that fake ass
Unleaded you pump//6
Into the veins of these fiends,
But they know that shit’s weak/
You be takin bout your chain
But we know that shit’s cheap// 8
Let me walk em thru my brain
Cause you know that shit’s deep/
What i’m rockin on the stage,
I just wrote it this week// 10
You can quote it this beat
Gets the dopest 16s/
Cause the flow is magnum opus
And my focus in extreme// 12
To a T,
You can choke on this D,
You don’t have to ask who the vocalist be//
Bring your dopest emcee/
Let em go against me/
Send ya hometown hero up your local shits creek// 16
(Chorus)
bring em up, bring em up
to the altar X3
come on and bring em up to the altar
(Verse 2)
Who said i dont want smoke
I was referring to the weed/
As for the rest of you herbs
Who get too burried in the leaves/2
In a hurry just to breathe,
And leave something fertile for the seeds/
The reason that i’m murdering your team/4
Most of these cats is getting keyed like new whips
(They mad)
Cause Huff and puff but never really do shit/ 6
About it, i aint here to judge, but dont doubt it
If it makes your vision clouded
Ima smack the fuckin shit up out em/8
Just for slippin, ritually giving you the most
And most of these cats ain’t comin close//10
2 tables and a mic thats the trinity of life
And plus the imagery i write
I Leave em holy like a ghost//12
(Chorus)
(verse 3)
Who got problems
Come on and bring em up to the altar
Set yourself free i absolve them/ 2
Bathe in the blood sweat and tears
As i fall from grace just to fill the same space that we all swim//4
The place where the stage meets the crowd is exalted/
This where the brain waves evolved in/6
You can throw your troubles in
Just to keep it bubblin
Like so many rats in the cauldron//8
All that can hear
Let me make this shit clear/
This is our year, cause we breakin that fear//10
Take the first step,
Climb the first tier
Dreams at the top might be closer than they appear//12
You could find yourself altered
Try to lose yourself in the process
No longer are you selfish exhausted and Helpless//14
The cost of, holding onto that which is toxic? Colossal/
Come on and bring it up to the altar//16
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9. |
Have Mercy
03:21
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—— verse 1
its funny
she seems happy at her job/
as happy as you can be
when you’re trying to raise a family/2
as a waitress
wait did i say family?
maybe, makeshift,
far as i can tell baby daddy’s out the equation/4
which is cool with me cause truthfully i’m only trying to smash
just another dog thats only trying to roll in your grass/6
there’s no controlling the past
you either fold it or crash
i need the drama like i need a second hole in my ass/8
that’s funny
guess she missed the joke cause she ghosted me/
guess it wasn’t supposed to be, hopefully/10
you get where you’re going, and i’m on my way too/
don’t think you had what i wanted beyond the beautiful view/12
—bridge
anyway, any day, i’ma do,
what you been afraid to,
its in plain view you can’t escape you/14
ain’t it true,
I know I shouldn’t be the one to judge you
Just because i
———chorus
all these people seem like life is moving past em/
they don’t seem to notice,
i don’t have the heart to ask em/
Have mercy on the ones that lost their passion
But Ima be the one that finds his way to greener pastures/
——
Its funny,
He feels at home when at the bar
Just needs a couple minutes without stressing on the limits/
Of the paycheck the late rent
The shifts with no break, Just
seem to chew him up and spit him out
the tape deck in his car/4
Used to be enough when we were young and unimpressed with
The state of the world
Writing verses with cigarettes lit/6
In parking lots, the best shit,
You take for granted
Nowadays it seems like we
Living on separate planets/8
My man, you taught me how to put my heart into my rhyme/
And i ain’t trying to judge but
It seems like,
You fell on harder times/10
I wish you’d put down the weed
Allow your star to shine/
Til then your story is a part of mine/12
——bridge
Anyway, any day, i’ma do,
what you been afraid to,
its in plain view you can’t escape you/14
ain’t it true,
I know I shouldn’t be the one to judge you/
Im only trying to find the missing pieces of my puzzle
———chorus
all these people seem like life is moving past em/
they don’t seem to notice,
i don’t have the heart to ask em/
Have mercy on the ones that lost their passion
But Ima be the one that finds his way to greener pastures/
——
and everybody’s looking for the same thing ah
Everybody want change
Without changing ah
Just wanna make it thru another day
And survive
There’s more to life
Than just standin round waitin to die
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10. |
Deserve
02:37
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I’m not entitled to shit but I do deserve it,
I deserve love just like every person,
I want it now man that shit is urgent
When it’ll come it just isn’t certain/2
Whether daddy was a surgeon or He was servin
We all go thru different versions
Consider it/
I know bout privilege, i’m not an idiot
Thats why im living in service/4
Thats how my flow has been given purpose,
Thats how i know i’m a different person
Even when i was low never been a serpent
Even when I didn’t grow hid beneath the surface/6
In the winter when its cold had to
Be unnearthed/
Til the soil,
Feed the dirt,
Put the work in, feel the hurt
But we deserve to
Get what we’re worth/
—
Do you know the difference
Do you get this
You wanna know the reason
To be persistent
Where you wanna get to seems so distant
The voice says quit
But Please dont listen
You deserve it
That dont mean that
You wont work for
Everything
Life is hard
This world is mean
But you wont let it
Steal your dreams
—
—
Im not entitled to shit but i do deserve it,
Do you know the difference?
Its more than wording/
To open your gifts
You’re more than worthy/
So go out and get it
put the work in/4
There’ll always be obstacles or deterrents/
There’ll always be problems and heavy burdens/
Life is a lesson im steady learning
Life is a mess and its never perfect/8
Sometimes I do shit I don’t want to do, act like a person I don’t wanna be/
And that shit is hard because I’m not a fool,
I know that it stops me from being free/2
I pray to any and everything out there that might be a source of new energy/
even if its in me i ask it to help me to deal with me/
Ask it to help me with healing these/4
Wounds that i got from my history
How it all started a mystery/
But i know one thing for sure
It’ll stick with me
Just as it has every year of my life/6
I’m not the type to live in the fear of the night, i’d rather pierce it with light
Im not be the best that you heard in your life
but i meant every word that you heard on this mic/8
—-
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11. |
Heavyweight
03:00
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Chorus
Hol up wait,
I create,
Catch new vibes, elevate/
Even though this world is fucked up
You still gotta celebrate/2
Tune into a mellow state
Music takes the stress away
Making records
Pressin plates/
Liftin’ spirits, heavy weight/4
Verse 1
(Wait)
Take, that’s what they do
Fools always put cash over jewels/
They ain’t mastered the rules of this rap shit/
tools and the tactics,
Schooled in the practice/2
Life’s hard but it’s fuel for the matchsticks/
I’m practically drooling with passion/
Write bars
Mad stressed but I’m cool when I’m tapped in/4
When I write I’m so in the crease
Feels like it’s my only release/
Some nights I ain’t goin to sleep/
Memorized every fold in the sheets/6
No guru, don’t know the code of the streets/
Only thing I know is to me,
You only control what’s in reach/
Looked down I was holding the key/8
— chorus —
Lift the weight
Wish i could smoke this a way/
Or know bliss today,
Or know which a way is home, it’s debatable
Just the way it goes/2
If my name is called
will you play my song
When I’ve faded on/
I know I didn’t stay for long
did i make a bond
Worth the weight of it
All/4
The climb as well as the falls
I guess time will tell as it al-
Ways does, make love
Plus time to delve in the flaws/6
My minds a shelf for it,
Find the wealth in it
Hold the weight of this
Old debate, I feel cold and gray
But I know the drapes will get
Pulled away and those golden rays will
Come in,
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12. |
The M Word
03:43
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Ok boy meets girl, boy falls hard with no brakes
Shoulda got the cables checked for his own sake/2
Now he on thin ice
Trying to hold weight
Heavy hearts do sink ships
Loves a cold lake/4
Discussing the m word
Whats the diff
Between partners and friends
That like to fuck and kiss/6
Feelings get caught
they’re hard to fuckin miss
But i was never so dumb
To think i’d duck the risk/8
Now here I am, stomach in a knot again/
Caught up in the thought of wanting more than what you’re offering/10
When you call me your friend its gotta sting to it
Wanna call us something
thats got more of a ring to it/12
Wait, don’t get it twisted,
ain’t no tying the knot,
I ain’t trying to lock you down
inside of a box/14
I just wanna feel like i’m special
Like you’re special to me/
Cause if that aint the case
Im feeling pressure to leave/16
——
(Chorus)
M-o-n-o, g-a-m
Y we gotta be just friends? And it tends to get hard/2
Cause i just wanna be yours,
And i dont wanna close this door
M-o-n-o, g-a-m
...Y i gotta share you with them? And it tends to get tough
Cause i just wanna be loved
Still i feel like what we got is enough
——
I know nowadays the game has changed,
Everybody’s solo-poly or some other long descriptive name/
And i can dig it why so many wanna switch lanes
Monogamy’s a product of a patriarchal picture frame/4
But still I’m feeling drawn to the image/
Maybe cause i never had it
So i long for it’s limits/6
Your a strong independent and i want your attention
Trying to put the 2 together like a clause in a sentence/8
Its hard to be complete by myself
When i eat by myself Go to sleep by myself/10
Struggle thru my day and face defeat by myself/
Sometimes i think your worried i would cheat, doesn’t help/12
Trying to guess what your motivation is im projecting/
gotta trust what you say cause you know i respect it/
Only question thats left, are my needs getting met?/
And if they’re not, how long can i keep holding my breath? Shit/
——
(Chorus)
Ok I’ve thought thru the same shit
Nothing is changing/
Anxiety is so high im lying awake, the/2
Only time i feel ok is when we’re lying here naked
When you hold me in your arms i feel like i am a baby/4
But, soon as you’re gone i’m tripping
This is a true addiction/
Feel like i put down the drugs,
Now im just using women/6
I called you up like i might have to make a new decision/
I put it all on the table trying to diffuse the tension/8
Just couldn’t go through with it/
But then i realized that i just wasn’t thru with it/10
There’s something here
And I’m not ready to lose that shit/
Guess i can see an unconventional future with/12
(Who?)
...Well it starts with an M
I love you as a lover
& I love you as friends/14
I gotta tell to you
cause its hard to pretend
And im glad that i got involved
From the start to the end/
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13. |
Pull Up & Dip
03:55
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Hook
pull up and dip
hop out the whip
get this shit lit
then i bounce/
deposit the check in my bank account/
on to the next i could make em bounce/2
onto the next invade a town
put it together and make a route
do until i can make a thou
do it until I’m the greatest out/4
———
Verse1
i be in flex mode, situation is stressful/
Cooped up in my vessel
world burning outside like petrol/2
damn, Cant wait til my next show,
til i explode
til i get dough/
til i get close to my goals/
roastin like coals/
most of my whole life i’ve been cold/4
i’m not the type to do what i’m told/
but i’m warming up, i’m on a roll,
i’ma do me, finding my role,
might be a little stiff
but don’t fold/6
but i’m not a idiot or a troll
i’m just considering what unfolds/
people are quick to open they mouths/
i’m just a little bit more disposed/ to 8
keeping it closed
speaking to people i’m close to/
don’t think i don’t see what you’re going through/
i’m exposed to it on social/ 10
but i don’t just reach for my phone to add to the noise
just cause i’m sposed to/
i’d rather just phone you, that’s even more vocal/12
But back to the way that I’m loco
Came up with a workout to go thru
For when i can get on the road to
Go thru every town and expose you/14
To the sickness
not the covid but the writtens
with the coldness, you can witness
Like its golds gym, with the fitness/
When i goes in
——
Hook
——
tryina get larger,
call me the plug or the charger/
(why?) I been gettin my bars up/
but lately this shit getting harder/
artists can't even perform, venues are closed
you can't hit the road—you starving!
you dreaming of playing the garden
now you really gon' play in a garden
(beggin your pardon) but even if it's allowed?
how can you rap for a minimal crowd?
people are 6 feet away from each other
how can you capture the energy now?
How can we act like it's anything wild?
I be at home, inventing new styles
waiting until i can let them shits out
you already know what the message about
we goin thru it,
the choice is whether you'll grow thru it
do it or don't, stand up or fold
there's no secret code to it
well, maybe it's complicated
just let go of your shit, don't be constipated
just open your gifts and you'll be on your way
and it'll all come together like a constellation/
(Hook)
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14. |
Windows Cracked
03:39
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[Verse 1]
spring days locked up in the crib and such/
but i leave a window cracked just to get a touch/2
of the fresh air, blessed with the snares,
get dressed just to wear some fly in the mirror/4
and prepare for my next phase,
when i can say oh boy, cause i could just blaze/6
out of my door, hit the store when i get paid/
instead of sitting here indoors tryina catch rays/
through the window frame/8
silver lining is i tend to make,/
a lot of bangers i’ma demonstrate
i do it just to ventilate/10
and focus on my mental
buildin with my pencil/
layin’ down the blueprint,
what i’m doin eventually/12
and you will see, i believe
when its time to emcee/
i’m a shine to these beats/
like…
[Hook]
dark days, even though the sun is out/
make you wish we had another route/
make you wanna run around/
but its a simple fact/
you gotta stay inside
but keep those windows cracked/
[Verse 2]
Spring days, locked up in the crib and such
But i leave a window cracked just to give em a taste/2
Of the bump from the basement
I lace with the phrases
...That makes it contagious/4
Whiles Im waiting for my time to shine/
Design the line like contour/
Beyond raw, make me want more/
wishing i was on tour/6
Even in a honda accord
Or any kinda four door you’d afford/i’m
Lookin forward to it/8
Lets make some more music
Its love and war music
All’s fair, just use the fuel for the forge, through the
Eye of the storm, it got me dyin to go perform/ from the mind of a pawn that could finally cross the board/
no doubt
i leave the mics blown out,
when the lights go down and the night rolls out/
like a carpet... inviting me to rhyme/
on some Rakim shit… (“it’s been a long time”)/
[Hook]
[Verse 3]
We been waitin all year for the summer/
Its clear its a bummer
Theres been tears by the number/2
Everybody’s getting laid off, Thank god
my unemployment benefits are straight, peace to days off/4
But everyone ain’t in the same boat
Why some people gotta drown while a couple fools float/6
Its the same old rope wrapped around the same throats/
So jeff bezos can sit back and make toasts/8
But fuck that
what about the cat with the bus pass
What about the working mom and those that gotta bust ass/10
Who don’t got a trust fund
Tell me where the trust at/
Rich people sittin back
Lookin hella suspect/12
But fuck it we can make it thru
Getting heated in here let me ventilate the room
And play the tune/14
For the neighbors and the street/
When we laid up for weeks,
I play another beat kick up my feet and make peace/16
[Hook]
windows cracked, don’t need an indo sack/
but if you do that’s cool, just let the wind blow thru/
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15. |
If You Don't Like Me Now
02:20
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(Chorus)
If yall don’t like me now,
When i blow then they try to be down
And you know they’ll be like gee wow
Try to blow me and bite my style/2
When i make it where i wanna be
Honestly I’ma be/
on my knees thanking the heavens they honored me/
But it wont be for presents and property/
Just the pleasure of properly
dropping these/4
Gems
Treasures I’m offering friends
And yeah i wanna ride up in a benz
Yeah i wanna win
Yeah i wanna date a perfect ten
Top down hair blowin in the wind/6
But then, again,
I could never be fake,
Plus i’m more about trying to create,
Trying to be happy
Trying to be great
I’m on my way I ain’t trying to be late/8
I see people and try to relate/
But they don’t wanna look my way/
Look, my way is a different path
Already did the math, if you don’t value that you can kiss my ass
(Chorus)
But it feels so hard/
When you going to a job and it steals your charge/
And you got no energy, every day
everyone feels like an enemy anyway/2
And you just want to medicate
Its hard nuff to breathe in here let alone meditate/
You just want a better way/
They tell you you’ll get a shot soon
And you better wait/
But i don’t have a shred of faith
Took steps trying elevate/
When its my time to celebrate
Don’t try chiming in cause you’re hella late/
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16. |
Higher Power
03:14
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Level up now, time to glow/
Design the flow, find the soul/
Mining for gold
diamonds from coal
Im just defining my goals/2
I keep my eyes on the road
Told me to stay in my lane
I’m trying to lighten my load
Next year im taking the plane/4
But thats what its not about
Just put the product out/
fuck what they thought about it
You should not have doubted
Yourself for a second regression is not a route/6
That leads to some promised
But ain’t nothing promised
This america, ain’t nothing honest
Everyone chasing them commas/8
Everyone making up drama,
afraid to get on with/
making some progress, facing our conscience /
Like we might awaken our karma/10
we might have paid for this armor
But that shit ain’t making us strong/
Thats why our days will get darker
Til we learn to wake up at dawn/12
———
wake up in the morning every day I live/
trying to keep it moving forward while i pay my bills/
I’ll find a way/
even though I may not ever make it big/
———
Still workin on busted gear
But im making more cuts this year
Fuck, this weird, don’t touch them squares
Them dark clouds must’ve cleared/2
I just appear to have found a little momentum/
some time to finally do brendan/
Some peace of mind if i tend to/
And redefine my incentives /
In this rat race, i been cash chasing
The wrong way, with no strong pay
24 hours with no inner power’s
A long day, let the song play/6
What kept me there, part of me accepts me there, part of me woulda left me there
Cause its scared of anything cept be there, lets be clear/8
I still struggle but i will grow
Kick in the door with a steel toe/
Got my foot in,
Fuck haters ima do what
I thought I couldn’t/10
Thats why i stay cookin up
Devil tried hookin up
But im not quite shook enough
Stayed course with a crooked strut/
Been down so long guess i got good at lookin up/12
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My higher power is inner power
Every hero has been a coward/
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17. |
It's Time
02:37
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Ayo its time, son
Time to get on with
Making strong shit
They can bond with
take it long dist
And beyond with/2
Upon listening, some’ll respond quick
While others stay sleeping til the nuclear bomb hits/4
The most poetic, emcees is just so pathetic
My steez copacetic
so please don’t forget it
V fo vendetta
The G’s for gepetto
I need more than cheddar
Believe more than ever/8
I got something worth bumpin in the whip
Ima die rich gotta leave something for the kids/
But money ain’t it,
I speak of something more valuable
Understand that is what they’ll never allow you to/12
They meaning society but its us, too/
Thats why we gotta bust through and adjust who/
We idolize, we could try to rise
Our entire lives
Only to find that what we bit
Was just the cyanide
—-
I said we gotta rise,
I love this rap like a lot of guys
But gotta admit hiphop was colonized/2
never swallow lies we gotta do more than just apologize/
To put black artists on the rise/4
But is it authentic saying that now?
Its been true the whole time,
Are we playing that down?/6
In 2020 every white person making a sound/
Probably wasn’t before, but at least we’re breaking some ground/8
And when the topic cools off will we still be riding?
Will the silence that sets in still be violence?/10
Will we hide or will the lessons still be vibrant/
Will we make a little progress and still keep striving?/12
When im a old head
And retire and watch
I wanna know i struck hard
While the iron was hot/
Regardless what happens
The time is now
Thats why i’m trying to catch the feeling
By writing it down
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18. |
Cover Your Mouth
02:59
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trying to write
But its hard cause im trying to fight/
The feeling i should know what im saying before i spray it/2
To curb the spread of misinformation
This entertainment will be highly vetted
And not taken to be prophetic/4
Times is way hectic
But Its not about panic/
We got real life concrete problems thats gigantic/6
Restaurants and retail closing they doors,
Now workers have no wages
Being broke is contagious/8
Im trying to stay focused and patient/
in the basement,
Silver lining is i got copious inspiration/10
From these people cause they lack information/
Still they spout opinions not tackling situations/
How they should/12
cutting others down means you’re up to no good/
No time to be divisive its better to be precise/14
In this time/
Before i finish writing this line,
Let me cover my mouth/
(Or else the blind lead the blind)16
————-
People like to go with their gut
But a diet of (what?) internet bickering has made it defunct/2
The lining is so dissolved, the system is so infected/
no longer do we chew things over before ingesting/4
We only want to be right, not ask better questions/
channeling our anger into asshole projections/6
So prolapsed you kick no facts/
Trying to show we got the gonads
Need to go back/8
And check your math,
Check your attitude and ask
If you really want a solution why dont you kill the pollution/10
The uninformed opinion is so arrogant and stupid/
No wonder its become an American institution/12
——
I know i throw a lot of shade at those honestly deserving it
But i would be remiss if I didn’t list an alternative/2
I’m not saying that you should be apathetic/
Nor do i expect you to research everything EVER/4
But pick your battles
Decide what you care about
And if you disagree with someone
careful how you air it out/6
Cause there’s a route,
Aggression is a choice,
The diff between a lesson
And a threat is in your voice/8
And you can choose
who you let yourself react to/
Stop showing up for people you know will just attack you/
Once you do that, you’ll probably be less interested/
In gettin into it with every asshole on the internet/10
Start to see them as the victim of the ignorance/
Cause people might react to them but no one’s really listening/12
The difference is, where we’ll be at next year/
Will this message be invested in
Or fall on deaf ears?
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19. |
Still Here
02:41
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…one time for your mind/
with the dope beat, me and jonez make it combined/2
as I recline, now we cold shakin your spine,
so kick your seat back, and peep the whole sacred design/4
this type of shit is like watching the stars, it makes you wonder/
how many breaths i got left before i’m taken under/6
so much left to do and so much left to say/
I couldn’t say I wouldn’t have it any other way/8
But I’m still here doing my best,
Feeling the stress build in my chest
Releasing it by spillin this mess/10
An early bird building his nest/
A late bloomer who’s still in his adolescence trying to to build to his crest/12
Who knows its never too late, in fact he’s willing to bet/
He can do his due diligence so bill him his debts/14
He can make it thru the syllabus of militant tests
Because he doesn’t want feel he left filled with regrets/16
———-
I struggled for years
and still do
With some parts of my self/
Meaning mental plus the physical and spiritual health/2
I’m here as myself
and thats the hardest person to be
Wish i could wave a magic wand
And be a version of me/4
That doesn’t need to exercise and get my sleep schedule perfect
Every day
just to feel a little something like okay/6
Thats why i say that i’m stuck in cage/
Cause ever since i could remember i been stuck in my ways/8
Sensitive and guarded made it hard to be a part of/
So i went and got my bars up to buffer the pain/10
Its hard enough to feel so fuckin insane
It scarred me up, Sometimes it feels like nothing has
For every time i got it right and felt a little relief/
The other 95 percent i’m feeling buried in grief/
Sometimes hurts to be free/
Like a newborn, screaming cause i’m learning to breathe/16
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20. |
2020
02:31
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For my people with lead hearts
On some how you holdin up in this fucker
It gets dark
We shed sparks
And start
Spitting infra red darts
Son its tragic people losing they heads
Like ned starks/4
Aint no prepare
Baby, Winter is here
Ran into my man serge he said shit is severe/
I acknowledged the truth of
It was crystalline clear
It was Welcome to america land of missiles and beer/ 8
Welcome to america land of pistols and fear/
Welcome to the terror, now jam a fist in the air/10
People hate the year and wish it would disappear/
But it’s only shedding light on the shit that’s already there/12
———
Now its 2021 and already the shit begun
They breaking into the capitol, makin this shit a national/2
Disgrace, my distaste for goons in platoons baloons/
While they distort reality like shrooms/4
But i’m in tune,
This reality has sharpened me up/
We can’t ignore it any more
No chilling hard in the cut/6
We gotta deal with it/
Problems are real vivid/
We’re overstimulated
But We still need a meal ticket/8
For real, dig it,
Who’s fixing hunger for the poor/
covids the only one
Thats putting numbers on the board/10
Of course what i record
Melt your brain like smores
Dipped in carhartt
Here to put in work like chores/ 12
... lord!
And thats a reference to the pusha man
Think 2020’s over?
You better look again
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Gepetto
Gepetto is a Portland, Oregon rapper/producer who brings the spirit of early 2000s indie rap into 2022 and beyond
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