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Dream
02:49
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Atom X:
i take for granted the fact that i can act on what im planning
soon enough ill be the man demanding everyone to listen
couple fans but my mission is to finish school
dreaming deals and a record but i know you arent expecting
me to be someone special the reason i make music is to speak through expression
hopin i can be a legend dreaming deeper every second
makin history and lead with intentions of never leaving for greed but im guessing
you decieve for a vengence let me breathe just reflecting
on the things that im left with the words that you said but didn't mean
ive accepted my life and everything aint what it seems see my momma telling me to quit tree but im reckless claiming i aint no fiend but her suggestin me to leave
like an ex who didn't need me for nothing
but these people make me grow and see the fear i know better
im waiting at the gate to heaven when can i enter...
Marcus Anthony:
i know that music is my savior, im sittin here written on the paper
i only could imagine makin rapping just my labor
with no label but im goin to the top
with a couple friends trying make it with no gaup
now listen to the way we talk and hear the way we rap
did a mention that we speak it only real not a act thats a fact
man im doin it really straight up pursing it,
n i know theres loot in it, but thats why im in it to get it
im winnin already because the tracks they help me with sinning
how can you telling me im happy n im not even grinnin,
but i understand it only takes time
so im right next to homie as we blowing n we rhyme
just rippin up through the underground to break the surface is my true purpose
n all the others under us can be the servants
not really but really so ima stand up while you kneeling,
the flow is so appealing, we feeling that we only have a dream
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Kick The Bullshit
03:05
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Atom X:
see back in 08 before the whack started rappin talking trash showing off
relax and let it happen using m.a.p.s. for direction
no discretion on a track because the words
i use are weapons that i shoot when i attack you
go on and ask me what its like to let my mind off on the mic
when im high and have the energy to fly away
ill tell you everything you wanna hear
learned it from women when they disappear
its different cuz they ended our connection
never shed a tear cuz they aint trippin off the loss
now you gone let it known that you moved on
to bigger better things even though you miss it all
reminisce and let it go cuz forever never lasts i think i know
i been through it back when i was acting foolish
now im trying to start a movement with my boy introducing
you to music from the bay in a different way from normal
but what is really normal in the world we live today
Chorus:
I got seven days to make it, so im takin on the world
Paint a mural with my words and kick the bullshit to the curb...
Yea maybe cuz thats really how it is
Makin music, we can use it neva stoppin with the bliss
Marcus Anthony:
I can feel it everyday, i feel it in my soul
its not jus a hobby, music got me outta control
I feel the masterpiece comin' it didnt happen magically
it started with a tragedy & rappin' bout my family
but now a man to be, i can see my future
i like tryin new things it aint always what im used ta.
Switch it up, you dont really give enough
I keep tryin' my hardest to go the farthest or its stuck
like quicksand, but thats another tale that ill tell ya,
leave you in my bars like no attempt to even bail ya
Get my point across, im on another level fella.
Im jus' playin cuz you know I can
I make jams with my friends, I dont want this to end
We stand out, how you gunna tell us to blend?
How we gunna fend for family that depends on us without the money?
But ill excell and thats a promise
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3. |
Wake Up
02:14
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Marcus Anthony:
When I'm wakin up I eat some cereal high pourin Cheerios,
Then I sit down, hear the sound of my stereo
Im Thinking clearly, now more than ever,
Plus we gettin better, Neva gunna let the negatives hold us down
We older now, a couple wise guys tryin rise fast to the prize cash in our eyes,
We wanna take it to another level, Make it right
Takin flight on em like Mike J in the red & white
But other nights I'm pippen, cuz mexi he be pimpin
We tryin spit it different. Ill hip hop is what we grippin
Don't know where we goin, trippin isnt in the plan
we gotta be the men thinkin do u understand
Atom X:
just another day the suns out
re runs of runs house has got me
on a mac makin rap until the blunts out
bouncing to my sound through my speakers
only underground allowed but i defeat another beat
then i think what i can be when im free and feel the breeze by my feet
relieven me of pain that i build up so deep learning lessons like a student
use the past to form a future that is destined to be looking better for me
Chorus:
Reaching high for the music, cuz you know we gunna take it,
If you feel the power running in your soul, don't mistake it
Writing all the lines to a beat that was naked,
You can call us some poets, you know this is are only placement x2
Marcus Anthony:
Im just an oreo, with a latin trying make it happen.
Attacking the beats, with the vivid rappin you know my shit is graphic
you know you shouldn't be laughing, actin like a parody
i know its only feelings disguised because you scared of me
apparently ima keep on doin me tho
haters keep talking shit n call me stupid negro
or the dumb cracka but you don't even know what i be after
im here to map a couple goals out, then roll out. Can we go now?
Atom X:
Master of disguise the plan is not to die
like a man about to cry water starts to fill my eyes
my little sister asking can i hear your music
you and marcus are the best i wouldn't choose another two
to take a movement through a youth that runs our future
meaning anything is possible i will rap and get approval
proving we the only two to ever do it with our roots we will influence
those who choose to be a nuisance
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4. |
Some Days
02:39
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Marcus Anthony:
I'm content, my content ain't nonsense,
I'll do away with the comments, it's all common sense n past tense.
So new subject write a new story,
I been trying to write tonight and fight and for the glory
In my territory, got my mom breathing down my neck
Everything weighing heavy, jus gimme a sec.
I need a respect, r-e-s-p-e-c-t
I need these bests. Ya n frankly man beats need me
I'm giving free CDs, to blow ya mind like PCP
I Neva tried it but I bet you get the P-I-C-T-U-R-E
Man who is he, man I be, Just the coolest and you knew this
Cuz I do this, all the music, we can use it, not abuse it
Turn the garage ass non factor rappers to the sewage.
The critics try to sit here and tell me I don't spit for my fam
Acting like you know who I am.
Chorus:
The old days were bad days but good days comin'
man i know that we have overcome the obstacles we runnin' over
Sober cuz the flowin' gets me ina zone
man i dont have to be in prone cuz we no longer alone x2
Atom X:
Northern California recording every moment
every morning roll a joint in hope that i can prove im worth it.
but before you write me off let me know so i can torch you
on the mic and leave your ashes in the corner.
the former mr. innocent now i never give a shit
i used to care what others thought but now i understand im different than
a lot of the suburban kids i kick it with
i let my fingertips tell the story that im liven in
im really smart to you im just an idiot
reciting all my lines like a script that i am reading from
freedom is the reason im alive so thank you mom for overcoming every obstacle
the hospital in oakland where the kids are born and blossom to the top
of a generation of abusing drugs and poppin pills
go on and stop me if im wrong but understand
that what i talk is just the obvious truth of why its popular
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5. |
Mathematics
01:42
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Atom X:
Wake up in the a.m. Listen what I'm saying
Just a normal kid in college tryna raise up all my grades
but the game has got me chasin like a shot i never tasted
at cal all the other kids were busy getting wasted
while I faced me up a blunt and float away it felt amazing
running over everyone who in my way
I'm always gunning for the one on top just an underdog but ain't no mut
I work 5 days a week but that don't pay me much
cuz in this country either make it or you just become
another person learning patience like a virgin
who is waiting for the perfect opportunity but still they run
away from anyone and anything Including love
I used to love but now my music runs my life
and everything I like to write comes from my mind I light it up
and every night I see the reason why I get high
So don't you tell me that I'm done, I'm bout to roll me up another one and jet by
Marcus Anthony:
Yea we back again to tell the story like you neva heard it,
Ride the beat like I was surfin', with the homies so it's perfect.
Everybody be askin us questions, you don't even know.
Behind my bars is where i needa go
Leave me though, I'ma show toe to toe
Conquer it n get it yo tell me I can't do the shit,
Ill make an impeccable flow
You don't even understand it when I be tellin you,
In tryin so hard writin bars, ima mellow dude
Just a couple a friends, tryina take it to the end,
Yes and all this music sends, happiness through my body
Like a slug to ya chest, I rap like a shottie
Not strapped, but I potty ona beat if you know what I mean.
I'm so clean, call me the perfectionist,
Ima teach the lessons, so the future won't be guessing shit.
Let em know, in other words when I rhyme,
It's a crime, If you're thinking that our lines could be lies
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6. |
Infinite Climb
04:07
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Marcus Anthony:
I know I'm young, but theres only limited time,
My makin jams for tha fam on an infinite climb,
A different design, just plotting it got hot i wanna master it
Single mother Neva was dad, I was the bastard kid
I wasnt having it, resorted into to rappin it,
Even if i told my story, you don't know the half of it
And I don't mean to come across with the attitude
I'm not even mad at you, be a little practical.
Yea you asked for my advice, and then I told you,
Please suck it up man do like a vacuum do
Plus I told you I'm not with the stress,
I'm never gunna sleep at the top I will rest
Till then, I'm hopin I can send out music,
Workin on the negatives & take'm to tha sewage,
I do this, im ready in every situation
takin my mind ona different kinda level,
I'm not talkin bout some drugs or signin with the devil
I'm a real ass person, I'm worth something,
Rhymes so incredible food for thought like edibles,
Came to cure the rap game, so call it medical
M-a-r-c-u-s, nd I'm always gettin' betta
And whatever the weather, I'ma stay getting smarter
And when its harder I really gotta practice just to embrace it.
Cuz im doin it to Chase it, now I really wanna lace it
Am I basic? Hell naw, neva was
I know that music is a hell of drug, maybe I'll take it far
But either way its gravy cuz it saved me hasnt paid me
You can hate me but that not why I'm doin it
Persuing for stupid shit that isn't like me,
I'm livin in the bay, what can I say I witnessed hyphy
I always do what it takes, You know I'm using the rakes,
to steady move all the fakes for god sakes I'm out
Atom X:
So let me tell you bout these 2 kids
Music is what they want and risk it they abuse instrumentals
is there anyone around who'd like to help or make a beat
get us featured with some people get us running on our feet
hopin I can be on top at the age of 23
I know theirs doubters and theirs haters but who are they to me
either come along and see or lead your march into retreat
understand that what I say I leave it all up on the beat
go to school for a degree but what if I don't want to be
A part of this economy the place we call the united states
we oughtta be paying back the people we owe
Or watch the anger towards uncle Sam increasingly grow
The problem aint Obama the media can change the innocent into monsters
The citizens they watch and form opinion never thought this world would come to what it's at just a country full of followers stabbing in the back
you think you know them but they act in different ways
that make me understand the truth and see the facts of what I had
But now the feeling has me askin why I love to lose and rap
about the loss of all the people that I push into the past
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7. |
Different Choices
03:56
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Marcus Anthony:
Tory was a great scholar, with a good education,
not thinking' bout the money or routes she taken'
but she was doin' good in school never actin' a fool
tory's only 16 and she had big dreams
she was cream of the crop for an academic scholarship
you see that T could be wherever she wanted
after her senior year, which it jus' so happened to be,
she killed essays as I do rappin' to beats
Atom X:
He in the 5th grade doesnt know the world is big and complicated
who can blame him mom and dad aint around see
they debated whether they could raise a kid or
leave him waiting askin if they ever loved what they created
but jason was a man of his word told the family he'd been liven with
since he was kicked to the curb that he wanted to pay them back for everything that they'd done so forever he'd lovem what a wonderful son
Chorus:
People handed different choices, and I choose to use my voice,
and im gunna be the one to carry on and keep my poise
You gotta be close to all ya family and ya boys
It's not just some noise, keep plottin' with all your morals
x2
Marcus Anthony:
Tory had a plan, with good grades, little friends
and very few to really understand
What she was goin through, where she was goin' too after high school
leaving' her brother in a alcoholic house when she bounces
visions of her father commin' n goin' and selling' ounces
She thinking' damn I need a counselor
And I feel so bad, cuz thats not even half
of Tory's story, damn it's tragic
Atom X:
jasons now 13 he's the smartest in his class
but to others they look down on him and laugh
cuz the fact that he is black changes everything
but wendy didn't understand why anything was different he a gentleman
so couple days go by him and her become official wishing
everyone would leave them alone and end the racial
negativity that follows them wherever they go
hopin' they can overcome different skin tones
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8. |
Our Gift
03:31
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Atom X:
im just an up and coming underground below the surface
living life without a purpose is for other clowns
from a place where money flows stay afloat and hope i never drown.
Im makin music in a room hopin i can sound
im only 19 and on my way up, the first demo hopin it'll make us
but theres still plenty to come this aint the end this aint the end right
my mind screams yes but yet i still fight
for what i know to love im never giving up on us
cuz we are 2 of the most lyrical bay area rappers where you at
putting oakland san ramon even frisco on the map
its time for you to notice how dope our flow can be
when we can open up and breathe believe in what you preach
leave the rest for the drama inspired people with greed
why do you feed on things not real makin deals out of nothing
thats just the way i feel theres a hundred million rappers
but none of them appeal all they talk about is bitches getting money slanging pills
which is cool but i aint rich stay in school till we make hits
what don't you understand about life and all its common sense
aiming to be big wanna change the world and give
leave my mark on planet earth before im dead and you forget
go on and cut us if you like but in the end im gunna to live with no regrets
and let these lyrics leave my head
Chorus:
This is the life that we live
Were never givin up or gettin' stuck this is Our Gift
This is the life that we live
Subtractin' all the strife by tonight, I wont miss it
This is the life that we live
Were never givin up or gettin' stuck this is Our Gift
This is the life that we live
Subtractin' all the strife by tonight, I wont miss it
Marcus Anthony:
I told myself this would be the last of my grieving
When times get deceiving just do what you believe in
The many reasons we stay close to makin all the music
Is to relax ona mac makin tracks it's a fact
My dad didn't know that his semen was capable of eating
beats like veagans eatin veggies I'm ready
Whippin' it up like mom speggetti we feasting so grab a plate
For gods sakes I been waiting just the day
I could say that I have writtin something that isn't hiddin
by getting it heard everybody else will hear my words
When failing does occur, its dispicable it hurts
What Am I really worth? As I'm kneading in the dirt,
Just striving to be better, neva worrying bout cheddar
cuz the treasures that I'm aiming are for closer everyday.
Just striving to be better, neva worrying bout cheddar
cuz the treasures that I'm aiming are for closer everyday.
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