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"Open Bars" (2010)

by Manifest

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i'm backstroking in a world of illusions where i normally choose to step over the booth once in a blue moon, so interluding this institution is sin pollution since the movement and its principles were loosened all this to say introducing.. open bars receives you wit open arms when you thought that hope was far, it's so bizarre it's where the broken are, smoke cigars in slow mo as the backdrop a sleek grand piano is the mascot, topped with lyrical jackpots but what it does for you? ask not. just find out. improve your odds playa with bigger bets like pai gow this album is a freezing cold welch's grape soda when you're done soldier a bowl of pho when you're hungover a jazzy hip-hop fusion intrusion breakin the rumors it's the matrix wake-up, your make-up remover you love the rappers that be scratching the surface until their nails come off when i be hearing that i'm like "what else is on?" i'm going in you thought i was running my poems thin, and my glow was dim but you believed in me, the truth i sewed it in they judge me now and then, assuming who i am, but who are u? man shouldn't judge another man it'll only ruin you i told you what my focus was since '06, revealed it twice in both discs but still your hearts be looking like a closed lid so open up before your hope is up, i'm spilling bars from a broken cup i'll say it all before the notebook's shut
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(Hook) From the get go, from the ready get set go, i love hiphop, you know I'll never let go (let go) any tempo, switch it up from fast to slow i got them bars, you know it's so official (1st verse) We back again what's poppin? fresher than summer breezes you thought u had it locked but you didn't know i'm a locksmith i'm levitatin the game like david blaine, got more time than flava flav keep it real, filet mignon on paper plates how could you ever touch me, my style is so replenished korea born, philly raised, and now Virginia blended tippy toeing over the steppin stones and metronomes learning my self control, till i'm walkin on the velvet floor the seven 0 3's what i'm reppin if we met before, please let me know so i don't skip you like i'm steppin on leaves try to ostracize my entourage a thousand times I'm not surprised with your disguise you couldn't doubt the fire this is way suave, aint no child's play, do not hate can't enter my game, it's too way beyond late, do not chase check-a-check my fresh, more designs to press I promise so test this artist man I need that separate office (JL) (C-Note) (Lyricks) (Last verse) open bars the title, crossed my mind we're lost and often idle even on vinyl when we forgetting the truth recital, this is deeper than Manifest, Peter Kang and even through the making of this project i am positive i see His hands while y'all are swaggin we suave'in, trying to be nonchalant but i'm just confident, it's not a lie u know He has to be sovereign half of these artists they happen to happily pamper the market but i know the truth to that we stickin like a starfish
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(Manifest) Straight hustlin the rap game like G's do cane i just did it my way i don't care what you say i'm my own genre, so to the rest sayanara i lay it down smooth like some creme brulee I dabble in and out of the secular realm on the regular, Mani's a fan of befriendin the unfamiliar million lives yes alive but a million "dead" so misled i can tell by lookin in they eyes No disguise needed i'm a bonafide rhyme nine milimeter not a bad thing if u bleeding let me neutralize you.. to the bar hoppers: come and take a shot of this liquidized truth Representin camp ill caught up in the cycle different kinda soldier, i function as a light bulb haters are like aviators blockin the light but i can still penetrate, turn 'em into shutter shades *Why go with the rest of the crowd? Why flow with a similar sound? Y'all can do it like that but ima do it my way, my way (2x) (Lyricks) I bet you in this world there's a Rick that raps another Lyricks with his writtens in his knapsack halfway across the world the place where he naps at yo Mani, we should really get our stuff ASCAP'd "Whatever happened to Stack?" when people ask that creative differences my answer and that's that no last laugh or bitterness, both of us passed that "do what you do, God bless". That was our last chat Maybe I was wrong, shoulda got the fast cash get the jewels and the bling and started to flash that shockwave my website, get him to flash that but don't write lyrics, lyricks he asked that What? freezeframe, i had to reconsider do i retain integrity or become bigger bigger for what? for who, for me? cuz if it's really for me? Ima do it my way, you'll see like... *Why go with the rest of the crowd? Why flow with a similar sound? Y'all can do it like that but ima do it my way, my way (2x) (bridge) I feel this game's a changin' Everything's been rearrangin' Why is everybody not being themselves no more? (Mani) Smooth sailin' on the 808's What a getaway, I feel the breeze spittin over keys lets me ventilate Lyricks and I are never timid to try the undone I don't care where you from, there's no limit to life (Lyricks) I told my friends I wouldn't let this change me No matter how pretty she is or shiny the chain be No matter how big the check, wait how big is the check? I'm kidding, i'm playin JP expect the same me
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Me 4 Me 03:02
Love me for me. is the message i relay to all the chickenheads that's here to play and do just that. adjust that. you rugrats i know your smell i'm swimmin in a pond of little fishies and i'm michael phelps and i embrace the abundance, thank you but be aware of certain species, they'll shank you stick to you like leeches, kiss you til you're speechless attract you with they scent they always smell like fruity shampoo it's hard to dodge like avengers, do not feel adventurous a lot of em just want your shell, i've been through it judge me for me. i am not the mr. perfect in your mind so are you ready for a meet and greet? what if i said i couldn't talk cuz i'm busy could you trust me or blow up every phone like "where is he? have you heard from mr. mani from philly?? now i know why all these rabbits are silly please sit girl, you're makin me dizzy i'm feelin playful, not playschool sorry if i doubted your maturity, i need to make sure plaques of accolades and the income learn to look past the superficial, then you lose some but win one (chorus translation) "You Are My SuperStar, The Star of My Whole Life"... it's what you see, not who i am "Its Hard to Fall in Love, With Someone Like U"... What do you want from me? i really like you but my life is not yours to keep since you have a pretty face u think u have an advantage and it's true you really do but you aint ready for the whole package surprise you with gifts, and them candlelight dinners heart to heart talks on the phone girl i'm wit it i will love you girl love ya love ya til you go bonkers but don't trip if i gotta leave for a concert what you expect from an artist? if you catchin feelings then you clearly can't see what my art is. i could be gone for weeks. can you hang? but if you really can't trust me then get off of me. get used to the studio but don't touch nothin it's tempting when you see so many big bright buttons look beyond the music and the fans stop focusing onmanifest and try to see the man don't get me wrong this aint a diss song learn to look past the superficial and you'll lose none but win all
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i'm itchin for the big picture gettin fidgety not even kiddin, it's so intricate and if you're interested in what i'm tryin to mention then you better realize there's a different dimension that aint about big pimpin come what may, i will never pivot my position even just a little never did it for the nickel and dime wit just a mic i be livin the life, i love it whether it is here or live on jimmy kimmel i'm a simple dude, i'll drop a gem on an interlude pass on an interview, bad move? i don't care i was never in it to impress but to impact bring back the fire to the game cuz it kinda changed i'm a voice to the void it's a choice i enjoy it you can have all the managers and lawyers i'm unlike you, my only mission is a cycle FREsh, we bring the new, you recycle. exhibiting no limits i'm a killer like riddick and in a couple minutes diminishin the critics are u wit it? that will never change, i am here to stay.. rhymes over jazz, let me spazz out freakin different patterns when i'm at it i'm so agile anything i touch will be golden everything that's on your itouch is a manifest folder done datta, if u thirst then i brought water walk proper, get a job if u want profit what artist that you know when they're bombarded by negativity they giggle and just come harder no one other than mani i know u know already the rest will never make the cut like a dull machete there is no turning back when you in it let the games begin, and we aint running scrimmage and it's so typical for the culture to hope for no vivid lines, more minimized bullshit what i sing for you, don't forget it too... easily, but if you wish then you're free to leave and go on to your make-believes self opinion don't matter, what does your neighbor see? ima let my music pray for peace outlandish tryin to stand out from the standard i need an advil when i think about the standstill it's staring right at you seek truth on a daily basis otherwise what a bad deal i'm itchin for the big picture gettin fidgety not even kiddin, it's so intricate and if you're interested in what i'm tryin to mention then you better realize there's a different dimension that aint about big pimpin
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(Manifest) However which way i bring it, it's smooth with no ridges so move, move.. and i'll show you my new improved maneuvers, hello I'm very barracuda - deep, i'm very freddy kreuger ready to do it (do what?) come get you in your sleep. how can he be so uncanny this Mani Mani? and they try to dismantle this collab wit Danny, but wet they panties can't you see me, I'm reclining while you're climbin up crowding up your monitors, forming lines like taco trucks I'm popular..like Sinatra in the 40's I'm just knockin down the doors, here to get mines…while you wait in the guest line I'm so ahead that i caught up right behind ya, the type to turn wutever into bombs like Mcguyver, boom! I'm a rapper gone rogue, steppin gladly off road it's awful bein so bland right? yeah i thought so let me be the one to shed light on dead life, show u different angles X-Facta on the track, let's go *Ask me who I am, must ya? requested for me, did ya? this one is for the soul, peep the whole picture (you know me) I'll speak my mind, no one ever does it like I (you know me) Put the rest aside, I just get better with time I really need this and so do you, music's therapeutic influencing you right through it, speakin real talk I'm more than fluent i'm movin more like fluid, on-going yall know this touchin all grounds like roaches, you gonna get roasted foo I'm so potent, ooo i give you motion sickness, never trippin over business like artists often do the stress just heightens, so I packed an extra mic and every single word i Manifest you best Decipher (Decipher) Decipher Manifest words, understand that if worst comes to worst, we got a plan for this, first things first, get X Facta on an MPC tell him clear his cerebellum, let it empty, breathe see what an MC see, a lot of them see me the MVP, of course they're gonna envy me your friend DC gets busy when you send me beats so take the .wav and compress it into an mp3 and i'mma give it all I got, I was given not a lot got me digging out the ditches, now I'm getting to the top couldn't fit into the box, I was different, I was not like other chinks, they study, think, while I'm listening to Pac couldn't piss into a pot, I took what I had to looking right at you with attitude, you looking like statues looking back at me, rookies will ask me what it took to get nasty Hennessy helped, everything else got pushed to the backseat *Ask me who I am, must ya? requested for me, did ya? this one is for the soul, peep the whole picture (you know me) I'll speak my mind, no one ever does it like I (you know me) Put the rest aside, I just get better with time See what you saying Mani, See, we became a family we be the favorites, man, he still Peter, my name still Danny speak with some flavor, can we? baby, it's bound to work never seen rappers out this world that's so down to earth (see, i) found the words, wrap them round the sounds you heard I get high like pounds of purp, now I'm found around the birds a profound amount of work goes into what I'm into butter instrumentals, paper I put the ink to. Hiphop
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i wonder if we think alike. quicker than you blink ya eye (ding) somethin lit a light a little like the thing above the seats in every single flight airborne, cranky as hell was feelin impolite looked to the window then i thought - same world, different life from 30,000 feet high, the cities lookin clean right? flyin to hawaii cuz we buzzin like a beehive remember B was like we got a show there, go tell Rick fast foward now we chillin at the hotel Prince (Lyricks) Are you like me? landing on a island just for rhyming, where the oceans are blue Of course you not, we chillin in the sunny 808's, we chillin in the sunny 808's Are you like me? handin a mixtape/ while eating a mix plate cuz he heard it was hot Of course you not, we chillin in the sunny 808's, we chillin in the sunny 808's (2nd Verse) when i analyze this paradise i'm attached like parasites it's very nice, maybe it's the spam and rice i learned a smidgen of pidgeon, just to fit wit the system smitten by the women wasn't even thinkin of swimmin i was tempted to mentally muymuy, u kno i'm playin i can't pinpoint what i enjoyed most. k-nak attackin after zippy's zip pac, the funny chitchats didnt jump the rock, i shoulda went for it though (Lyricks)
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hidden like a buried treasure, under ur very noses bypassing the preconceived notions gotta get focused bout to get overwhelming when you know what it is unlimited portions like an ocean overflowing now you lookin for someone to dosey-do with the imminent motion, just learn to receive it don't wanna get toasted truthfully thicken my bars and make it a little more open for ya an open foyer, u better get in there's sum'in to show ya her name is grace, she'll give you the drive like a toyota what? she was given to us, kindly by someone whos bigger than us if u dont want it u finna get punted, the truth of the matter we're nothin but dust fine, i'll slow it down. try to catch the poem's motive grace is overloaded with everything good like homer's donuts more than a bonus, i'm tryin to convince you the gift could miss you but in case you ask, she's kinda like a safety net that can always catch you don't be lazy, life it can disappear. distractions yeah they can interfere but i promise, don't be silent, try to be solid - kinda like metal gear i'm lovin the freedom foreal, with grace i'm never defeated i want you to get with the party, i'm tryin to get all you to finally breathe it's not about getting that cheese, that ice or bling that's makin you freeze grace is a gift, not a girl that u buy pearls but way better, know what i mean?
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Speechless 04:42
i'm an angel wit broken wings, i'm a gate with some openings, i'm little but a bunch of things, i'm a mess, i'm a crack in the wall i stand but i happen to fall i'm a color that stands out but no one ever sees me no chains but i never walk freely, scream but i'm mute and i've bit into forbidden fruits but i smile and i interview easy i'm scuffed like shoes and i'm faded like jeans and i'm just like you but a little obscene my math is flawed and my vision unclear can i get a little help if ur up there? see, i had a wall built up but it's crumbling down i'm tired of the rap game dumbin it down for the masses i'm comin in blastin, yankin the system all backwards i, i, know i need to reach out to you, you already got a hand on me, me but i'm too distracted man, why can't i see see that you, you, are the number one source of truth, truth in any situation so it means we, we need to believe and be relieved that it always goes back, back *if there was one thing, that i know i could share wit the world one remedy, for my friends and my enemies, let it even be the death of me to say the truth you need to know, for you and me to grow when i am weak he's strong and it helps me keep on keep on i'm a man but i act so childish, can't wait so i'm marchin in i gamble my life all the time like rounders, two-face like i'm harvey dent what's wrong with my origins i'm jus tryin to be an audible artisan take a look at what's all within, it's horrible, all is sin i'm a prodigal tryin to make it home again i need to be born again, cuz i act too grown and i think i'm strong but im crushed like a soda can my shoulders tryin to hold boulders, wonder who loaded this now i'm caught up in the moment, brought up in a home that was holy never did i let it control me, naw but little did i know from before even time began you was moldin me you fill in all the gaps, and now you rightin the wrongs so now i'm writin a song that must be heard cuz /it/ aint/ my/ words see when i take a look at this game, everybody all talkin the same i'm bringin a change, we need this, and the truth will leave em speechless
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remember how i used to get, and used to be about us don't ya remember my daily quotas, never be dancin with the cobras remember my hunger? i was gluttonous and struttin stuffin up my stomach lovin it, with crumbs on my upperlip remember when we talked alot, formal or nonchalant vocal or vocal chords cut like barbershops young and less cocky i was, careless if you watch me this joe was sloppy, underestimated like young spock remember how much bigger, you really were to me remember more than makin figures but for you my urgency while it brings you most glory when in you i'm most satisfied through the hands of time i saw me slippin but i let it slide remember my, state of mind, and my former ways it was like, not from this world that i was born and raised remember when i felt what you felt, in every situation sensitivity went on vacation, you know me too well remember how i used to go to sleep and wakeup remember before the gadgets when i loved the nature major now was like the minor then this old passion's like an old song just fading out just thinkin bout the past gettin lost in the drums tell me what's going on, i'm growin up but growin numb
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Joy Ride 03:26
i'll be honest when i first arrived, didn't know what i was after i wanted popularity more than the souls that i could capture this is 7 years ago wit a mind state, so young no myspace, no buzz, but know what? still i chased the fast life wit a high taste for lots of cheese and luxuries but luckily i learned pretty quick , it wasn't my cup of tea holdin it down moldin and sculptin a sound confident but humble is the way that i go for the crown couldn't imagine havin real fans, i'm talkin about REAL FANS til i became the chef and saw the masses with the meal plans til i went out the state from coast to coast and met my listeners til i went overseas and saw they knew my songs in switzerland God respects the heart of those who keep it selfless if changin lives through music isn't power, then what else is? when i wanted this, he gave me that and it made me think cuz when i wanted Him that's when he gave me everything what, you, want, aint always what you get you'd be surprised, a lot of things you just can't expect what, i, know through my experience u gotta just enjoy the ride... what, you, want ain't always what you get you'd be surprised, a lot of things you just can't expect what, i, know through my experience is to learn we're free to fly... I got the type of sound this generation needed and was dyin for if you say you're married to the mic then why the bridal wars? I might'a lost a few fans for following a higher cause but staying parallel is hard as hell, it's all I felt it's automatic, kinda fell, compromising - trying to gel never felt this small like a smurf in front of Gargamel didn't mean to plan it it's like they added a 't' to a movie title, then i saw 'Snakes on a Planet" but meanwhile I improvise life like a freestyle thought I had magic but like Howard, couldn't rebound I realize I need accountability not a rowdy crowd around me clouding up my mind, slowly killing me pray for me all my listeners please I ask of you I need to be steadfast or else I'm only half the truth don't wanna be that, I think I need to revamp and hop into an S, not a mediocre C class
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This one's a lot of things: a message, a prayer a goodbye, some wishful last words, i wasn't prepared.. i couldn't imagine this happenin, im feelin bad for the family can't believe it still, and it leaves a chill just thinkin about the past homie if only i knew sooner, i coulda made it to the funeral never had the reunion, never got to show you around the studio what a tragedy man it was you me and steve, drinkin and burnin in the back of the van bumpin method man, parked near the sidewalk the golden years when 2pac and big were the top dogs a freshmen in high school, durin study time we studied rhymes through our freestyles you let me know your troubled mind, and we connected you was a street dude but deep too u rocked a buddha chain but used to tell me that you seek truth took you to church the next week dressin GQ i remember thinkin that if God could meet me, then he could meet you *If I could walk with you through the shadow of death pause your life before your last breath, would you let me be your light? would you let me be your light? memories will never be buried, i've accepted this reality but even my eyes of faith are gettin blurry man i wish we coulda met up like we planned when we parted ways damn i shoulda caught a train up cuz now it's all too late i'm mentally rewinding back, you was the kinda cat always crackin jokes when i aint tryin to laugh you showed me ur stab wounds, we talked about tattoos and we coulda got em together man i always thought that you'd be back soon fast forward, it was hard when you told me you was movin jersey was your destination, who knew that death was waitin i left a couple months later and the split was official u can think some things will never change but time will get ya we had some talks about the afterlife i used to sneak a little truth in the cyphers when you passed the mic still a lot more i had to say, along the lines of which path to take but then in 05 you passed away * the tragedy is i will never know of where his soul headed even so there coulda been a miracle before his death i'm here crossin my fingers now for my lost friend life is so fragile... was this God's plan? if only planting seeds came wit a guarantee if u are not sure where ur friend went, how can you sleep? my biggest prayer i will say it now homie instead of looking up i'm hoping that you're looking down on me
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And the cycle begins. it's like an epiphany everytime life is but a snippet, but i know i'm set to shine i was fourteen when i said my vows never knew this marriage would get me to carry luggage to concerts, but i take a bow thinkin wow when i think about it, wonderin how every step was crucial and necessary for me to get down every failure was vital, no mistake was in vain every flaw was a steppin stone in buildin my title i was the little kid thats sick at drawin pictures (it was meant to be) creative, innovative in everything i made (it was meant to be) never sober always high from expression (it was meant to be) caught a fetish for just rhyming everyday *I see it comin together* freeze framin all the pictures from my past wanted to grow quick but i was told "not so fast" i understand it's a process, in makin progress people and places, love and hate I see it comin together the cycle continues, it's like my life is my pen use experience is serious don't recycle them venues, cmon perception of self and your mirror image can be too dependent, can't do that it's hard to get through that if ur too defensive, for me people doubted like u really tryin to rap? when they never saw the wings on my back, look at me now I fly like gravity defied, like reality denied superman analogies and now you see the light given sight to reach the blind, my purpose unravels, i wrestled wit devils upgraded my levels it's true i was humbled when i stumbled at times but now lives are bein changed wit even words that i mumble d-d-damn everything happens for a reason, so relax and just breathe in (you kno it's meant to be) and this melody's the blueprint, who's thinkin otherwise? no ones budgin me i used to think my life was tedious but my view wasn't 3D yet switch it up. my potential never climaxed till i left my multiplex and entered imax now it's real i'm puttin haters on the bypass phantom power for the motivation, EQ'ing out any kind of sidetrack i mean business, dead serious like Zo when he's in the studio usin tools like a pro i'm untouchable status findin purpose gives u flexibility like doin multiple backflips yeah we here to get it, you'll never see me back down life is like a headlock, the key is not to tap out i'm sure to reveal it, im here recordin the realest to give em portable, affordable meals upon the millions and just when you think it's full circle, it'll hit your mind the cycle begins. it's like an epiphany everytime.
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(JL) Kickin rhymes when the nightfalls wid numerous hooligans tickin time like a time bomb different mind different lines drawn arteest.watch me paint you like picture that you might call flawless tossed in wid the bosses feelin ballsy, called put your cards all in but you lost it now all i really need is sum weed and sum MPZs and ill feed til i've crossed it 4,4's for the flossin, buck shots for the ballin spit for the fallen kicks for the balls in the midst of just all this just forget what they all spit/cuz its shit when you hold it anywhere close to mine i define what you supposed to sound like cuz when you rhyme you supposed to rhyme tight right? now my sight is aligned and i'm fightin to find light [pop pop] two shots make ya mind right bright light no thoughts of the hindsight cuz ya gone and you lost in the midst of the gift of divine light or its straight to the hell for you cuz its J to the muthafuckin L for you and i spell for you ya defeat so retreat to the trees as i blaze this L for you theres no help for you theres really isn't nothing else left for you you really need to try to get a set of tools and get a doctor to get you some medical or get caught wid ya head in a bed of the stool i just stop cuz im gonna be the better dude on a pedestle gettin rid of you cuz you pitiful and i'm not so just let us through (Mani) 2 double 0 9 is so mine. here we got a goldmine, getting every listener to get up on the co-sign oh my. why they tryin to step in wit a bad foot, that's a bad look when they fold like a macbook back wit a paul pak beat, and a raw rapsheet that'll get the game back on its feet and it's happenin so fast we be the one vaccine for the weak, and we eager to please murf you all. my words gonna burn all your perfume off and in turn ima let em see the hidden you let em get a better view but then again i know that everybody been offendin you already foo no one in the corner got a swagger like moi if you been a listener then you would recognize why mani, mani, fest, fest, better than the rest yes even when i'm spitting quick i'm takin my time i've mastered the art i be comin off hard like crashin a car and you all fall when i'm smackin you all, and u crackin your jaw paul pak in a song is crack, wanna snort that? sort that i can tell ur fake like ur borat back in the day used to slang with the mallrats, my cd's wakin up the neighborhood kinda like a grande latte see i'm caffeine, you're nyquil you be putting me to sleep, thats how i feel yo when i rock shows gotta make sure everyone participates just like fire drills it's so automatic and i'm dope when i'm at it and no it aint a joke and ur hopes getting shattered what you really want from a pro dawg cuz you never gonna make this roll call it's plain to see i can do what you do BUT WISER like a bullfrog (Lyricks) but it's okay! i'm at the studio or pho sate. and i don't care what these robots say. i don't know that game. they are *all the same* i don't play that game... yo you could never SEE me! no never.... my endeavor is way over your mini episode of getting better and rockin shows, i been did it... you could leave a mark in the game, i dented it. i offended em, like em did it. no end to it, like a pendulum i swing to it, i been through it. when did you / ever visu / alize/ that we can do, what we do in our lives... never! grown bitter, no neighborhood spitter, cypher... life was lil different.. no culture.. but i got you.. cuz i'm building... i'm a pioneer, the new pilgrim. you just spit right?! i'm filming! another perspective touch of realness. my crew is blessed with true gifting. i just make movies to prove whos different? youth listens. you trippin. i ripped it. you addicted. i flipped it. you wish that you did it. but if you did it, i will take you to the moon with it. losin' it, with the constipated CUBERUNNERS. i would die for Lyricks, how much do you want it!? waddle around the game with a FULL stomach... you don't even rhyme sick! (shoes got the cool colors) man i raped this beat... with like my two brothers this is why lyrically i believe that i rule others... man we MURFED this beat...with my two brothers which is why lyrically i believe that we rule others...
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Level 9 02:35
here's a heavy launch sequence, the impact is homerun grind behind the scenes late night when there is no sun solidify the brittle, i liquidize the hardest your views a little skewed but for me i see the harvest this is level 9 writin, several times severed ties burning bad bridges got the devil's side frightened too many limelighters, rhyme biters, this is non biased one touch they make it sweet like john midas call me the game riddler, brain wrinkler flood you while the lame are rain sprinklers, stray from plain thinkin vessel of light, best friends with the pen and the mic i'm here to teach you to EQ the decibels right c'mon chop chop i'm top notch u verbal cockblocks gimme daps when i snap like poprocks i'm a table overturner, put record labels over burners i slow reverse em in person to show i'm so determined take a look around, no one even comes close mani go hard, can you drop it once more strength beyond measure only in surrender who contends in my dimension, not them they'll never mix with my blend my flow is always fully encoded, when you decode the info you find your nemo, then i watch the seeds grow playback is definite so listen with your good ear a good year is evident, don't tire out like goodyear the proof is here, fleshed out woven like a textile i possess the best style, they fakin with they chest out yeah i reached the next cloud, pumpin out the fresh sound basically an exile but that's how i get down it's hard to keep a headcount, but fans i never let down mess around and get pounded, lookin like a damn flounder no way around it, these muts will always trot along save your mind now so you don't worry when your body's gone u gots to be the ride or dying kind when you outta time this is level 9, nobody can sharingan
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this one's about the women, from here to overseas i must admit y'all beautiful, i i do believe i used to crush on Mya, the perfect cute and sexy plus a singing chick, her signature thighs i do admire the mix is so exotic, looking automatic naughty she gotta know how to party, caught a fetish for the swiss chick well mannered, on top of the fashion game them european girls, i wanna know your names yo i love it when their hair flows down, who's next? put it all on black in roulette for brunettes naturally attracted to the asians the most shake n baking a roast and you'll be makin me boast, i promise can't forget the sisters, the sexy caramel they got the soul and now you know why we be parallel bottom line is all you women, i hope you see i must admit if you was gone i, i couldn't breathe
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The Balance 01:51
i don't mean to speak so deep, but this beat told me that i gotta show love to the ones that listen, so listen this more than a kiss and a hug u know without u i'm nothing, even in the thousands or dozen take away the fancy production, u the only reason i'm buzzing uh huh this level of thankfulness is way too heavy to carry i think of you daily, east to the west and it's stretchin from philly to cali got swiss on my mind, though i've been away when it rains i recall sunny 808's every handshake, interaction, every fan pic's everlasting fuel to the fire, and i fill up every pit stop… yall are far too kind to my inbox manifest is alive cuz of yall, what a blessin that we both speak hiphop and your words of encouragement stays a while cuz it's permanent sometimes i don't know if i'm doin it right, then i see your feedback confirming it for the fans i get down, down cuz of y'all never back down, down and i thank you you show me love, i throw more right back at you for the fans i get down, down when you play my songs out loud gotta thank you you show me love, i throw more right back at you i'm feeling your energy, learning humility now u make ya boy feel like i made it, sorta major they see the big pot and i'm turning over aces what more can i say (say) if i never had yall i wouldn't be the same and numbers dont matter as long as the customer's happy when they put they trust in m-mani, u would think the pressure gets heavy but naw u make me get better, and i'm grateful that you would let me u see i'm a sucka for challenge, u can say i over-achieve puttin out the dopest you'll ever hear, u can just call it the balance yall keep me goin.
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i can't say that i love you, no evidence to prove it the fire's faded out but tiny sparks is what i'm makin now i'm foolish, a modern judas, i'm a pro rebel each time i choose to sin that's my 30 silver shekels strip the glits and glamour no need for fancy grammar i miss the love i used to have, the title on his banner, i'm a rambler a tongue with no discipline poison i sip it in, and wield no shield so i get trampled on my life's a babylon i travel on how did you become 2nd place to merely havin fun this life is fleeting, gone in the blink of an eye we know we need you. and with this song i'm thinking it's time i do a heart check, a perfect life is farfetched i tend to wander off a lot and go on star treks i need the architect's help cuz in the past i fell i want to have a sure answer when i ask myself

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