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Fist Fights and Foot Races

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K33 00:57
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"BIG CITY BRIGHT LIGHTS" Chorus (repeat x 2) Big city bright lights ya the type for a dreamer Every dark avenue has a life full of secrets Get lost in the sequence or found in the reason From the top of the buildings to the edge of the beaches Big city bright lights (repeat x 4) From the top of the buildings to the edge of the beaches Every dark avenue has a life full of secrets Logics (verse 1) I’m from the land of the sun home of a million and one Cultures that drum to different rhythms but we share the same tongue I call it home some call it escape When I roam I always retrace when left alone she misses my face Holds the memories I thought I erased Cause they’re embedded in the clouds they come down when it rains Half way between the city and the country between a shade and a sun beam Part timers and drug kings All trying to hustle trying to put some heavy muscle Behind everything aspiration every hope every dreams Can’t let the city crush you everyone will try to touch you When you flip your situation and nonbelievers believe Ya and non believers believe Ya and non believers believe Can’t let the city crush you everyone will try to touch you When you flip your situation and nonbelievers believe Chorus Newsense (verse 2) And I’m in tune with it the city’s heart beats slow I can feel it cause the streets got a concrete pulse Watch my feet grow roots I stand so solidly Buildings keep growing like time-lapsed photography Scrape the sky scratch Heavens belly Come to the city of God and catch seven deadly Sins its like chaos with electric heat And dead at night the city lights give me restless sleep Pardon me its hard to be Within arms reach of where you really think you ought to be Trying to be at the top part of me wants to stop Curiosity killed the cat ignorance ate him alive So I’m going to keep wondering why till the day that I die But I’m staying alive that’s my echo in these city walls Ringing forever or at least until these buildings fall Chorus Logics (verse 3) Cuban princess Mr. Business Mrs. gets rich quick on lottery tickets Those out kicking those out copping Those living under bridges smoking rocks and Non stopping pop locking Corporate kiss ass on the search for stock options Ravers clubbers hip-hop lovers Forced underground cause we ain’t trendy this summer Runners readers leaders believers Teachers yelling out freedom for seekers City made of secrets walls made of silence Sun comes down traffic starts piling Chorus
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Skunk Ape 03:23
"SKUNK APE" Chorus Its automatic we slaughter characters with the narrative You spit a novel I kick more knowledge in just one paragraph For the ignorant ones who don’t know they better ask whose Rhymes don’t flow but glide like pterodactyls Catch me 5 days a week singing my tunes On the weekends in between dreams licking my wounds Catch me 5 days a week singing my tunes On the weekends in between dreams licking my wounds Newsense (verse 1) Alright here go my problems I’m a spit them at random So they can be memorized worldwide like national anthems But I want ya’ll to keep one thing in mind before you chant them Life is full of multiple choices just like a Scranton Find yourself don’t forget to seek purpose Keep searching no matter what happens just be certain That the struggle don’t drown you hold your breath till your reach surface If the troubles astound you don’t forget their with each person Cause and effect point blank we are all sharing them There’s no excuse it’s useless to start comparing them Pass impossible obstacles with my thoughts full of common goals My panoramic view makes my problems small as molecule While you were still wondering and didn’t quite understand They took your chance and now another man has the upper hand Tomorrow’s not promised that’s one thing we need to admit Exist to seize the day till the day you cease to exist Chorus Logics (verse 2) I handle my foes sick with a cannibal flow I drop hot originals you got mechanical soul Bullet riddle your skull and leave thoughts on your clothes Now that’s a fashion statement for those who try to oppose Sucka letting them know I ain’t repping a coast Universal like disease that’s why my enemies fold Like monopoly boards crowd is probably bored When you fuck with the best I leave your whole body sore Of course it’s raw stomping down your corridor From corner stores to coroners I bring the force Strong within the Jedi all with in the head I Manipulate these letters like big money investors All do with politicians spitting ammunition Yo this world’s a contradiction like religious terrorism Live within the system live without the system Pretend like I’m conditioned but didn’t give up the mission what Chorus
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"EYES OF A STRANGER" Chorus (repeat x 2) And I bet that I would make a lot of changes If I could see myself through the eyes of a stranger Time slows down moves slower than a glacier With every imperfection that’s embedded in my nature Logics (verse 1) Well the more that things change well the more they stay they same Got a thousand ways to talk and a million things to say While I formulate the phrase let it travel in wave Only one thought that keeps circling the brain Are you listening while I work my words into positioning Of all predicaments I’m still working on my conditioning The stress rests on my shoulders makes me feel older Accomplishing everything that you hope for Walking the path between cash always hustling over Moving fast makes your heart grow colder Wintertime in the mind but I keep the summer shine in appearance Grew wings from the spine got denied for the clearance Stay down to earth sharing time with the spirits I could pick a host and then mirror the image But I’m into making a difference into making it different Self appointed the mission 'til I’m lit for ignition Chorus (repeat x 2) Newsense (verse 2) I find the essences I climb the fences To backyards like track stars through exits But Lord it’s been getting so hard I’ll be waiting for the day when it breaks through the dark And so far I’ve been getting so far I’ll be waiting for the train when it breaks through the smog Fire burns strong Embers turn to fireflies to shooting stars I close my eyes and watch it all transcending Swallow Hell take a breath and spit Heaven Past the atmosphere in deep concentration Swallow stars by the mouth full spit constellations Sit in the dark with mischievous thoughts Then I put them on paper till I pick them apart Put them back together feel a sting in my heart Then I relax get better so I can finish the song Chorus (repeat x 2)
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Too Nasty 04:41
"TOO NASTY" Chorus (repeat x 2) Stop listen that’s how we get down On mission we cant stop now All in it ready and locked down That’s how we do what we do when we do Bridge Newsense just hold it steady I’m a hold it in place While I burn this verse to the ground and block the fire escapes We too nasty (repeat x 2) Yo Afterogics hold it steady I’m a hold it right here While I make these amateur rappers reconsider careers We too nasty (repeat x 2) Newsense (verse 1) Its so sporadic feel the force like a catapult When I release the illness no use in taking the antidote I succeed cause I manage to break your defense and damage you Stupid challenging me’s like free falling without a parachute Times I go hysterical chemically imbalanced Till the point where I cant stand it there I let out the savage Reek havoc sweep madness wherever my feet planted Each average weak rapper ends up with they teeth shattered Yes its so incredible rebels with chrome pedals Get run over if you’re skeptical knocking them off their pedestals The lone sentinel growing into a threat to you I’m not a GQ centerfold let a lone photogenic fool My fellow gentlemen all got exoskeletons Armed like ghetto residents charm with mellow elegance My gentle eminence calms the several elements Spawn with esotericness rob you of your relatives Chorus (repeat x 2) Bridge Logics (verse 2) Yo I scatter the pattern of average rappers with half a flow And casually counteract it like antidotes Get the crowd airborne like its shrapnel With lateral movements when I’m moving with Newsense Infallible smooth shit Get battered and bruised quick with hits from the two sticks Drums roll like the bullets flying out of an uz-clip No soul ya’ll got room for improvement Pack shows to the point people cant move to the music So leave your thoughts at home celebrate the night is long Alleviate your mind from the stress your day is based upon We gonna chip away at the night ‘til we break the dawn We gonna keep spitting on breaks so long as the race is on From the strong to the will of the weak Through the voice of the people we speak From the streets and the corners to the burbs where the grasses is green Universal like the urges to breath so dream on it goes Chorus (repeat x 2) Bridge
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Gone 03:43
"GONE" Chorus (repeat x 2) Sit back drift back yo you with that? I’m with that hits that split your wig back Mix match words down on this ink pad Spit that hit the booth and I’m gone Newsense (verse 1) I wake early morning the death of my dreams Take a breath and it seems That life is more than just that which reflects in the stream I crush the superficial with the crucial issues Sometimes my daily routine feels like a Voodoo ritual The truth will hit you hard enough to rip through your tissue Leave a mark like a bullet wound from a pistol Fist fights and foot races lets keep it simple I live in a glass house a stones throw away from a sad town Of residents who look for the slightest excuse to bad-mouth Lash out blow things out of proportion I look at the glass my image is reflected distorted They tell me I’m a dreamer that I think slightly different I tell them I haven’t slept since ‘97 Stay up all night legs folded arms crossed At all costs I want to know Gods thoughts Chorus (repeat x 2) Logics (verse 2) I’m a visionary by nature so when I close my eyes I wake up I see the world on fire hell storm lighting the blaze up Living the days of apathy so when we raise up We’ll be too late to reverse the tables we ate from We take from like somebody always gonna replace them 'Til we fighting these water wars to keep from dehydration Leaders yelling occupation and catch phrases As a sedation tactical separation You a terrorist or patriot and what’s the difference? Political affiliation? Or your religion? Are you following your instincts or television? Who you think is holding the interest to all those picture That they show on the tube just to keep us amused Got your wallet singing songs of that overtime blues Kids worshipping celebrities we say they confused Get rich or die trying and the body counts huge Chorus (repeat x 2) Logics (verse 3) What’s going on? The more and more I try to understand it Its like I lose myself in the language they take advantage To keep the people in panic I guess It just a form of deception to see how far we can stretch All the rights we posses right down to they tracking your steps And tracking your breath and tracking who you’re holding your debts with Ask the wrong question and end up with a death wish For every ones acceptance like a stolen election Newsense (verse 3) I’m rhythmically riveted you’re living with limited options The beat raped the chorus I’m the illegitimate offspring Spit syllable top spins with minimal consciousness Flip scripts with swiftness and ridicule artists Hypnotists swing pendulums spiting typical nonsense My continuous wisdom is an indispensable offset You’re lyrically impotent bringing your primitive arson Ripping your mandible hit with cataclysmical offense
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Clockwork 04:20
Chorus (repeat x 3) My time is running out the clock wont stop (repeat x 2) My time is running out (repeat x 2) Logics (verse 1) Uh running on the edge of a razor where Nature will take us it’s all in unchanging race Say grace before rhythm escapes us Got a feeling in my heart ain’t nothing now that could save us Still I hold hope like the breath in my lungs And let it out with a roll of the tongue When it’s said and it’s done Did you brave it or you stayed on the run? Trying to outrun your shadow by ignoring the sun huh? But it still there in the morning waiting for a rainy day Well the storm is approaching Four horse men got the world in a corner Call corporate headquarters tell them all that it’s over No more blood in the pipes depleted the lines of life When times get tight ain't an order that can stop the fight And we can stop the flight or let it go down burning in a burst of light ayo Chorus (repeat x 2) Newsense (verse 2) Sit back and listen impact the system Don’t let the system kidnap your children It’s a blackout but I got my candles See the city lights go dim in the background I cant tell if the sky is falling or the ground is rising But I’m tired of walking so I found a hiding Spot in the distance lit me some incense And it feels so good when the rhythm kicks back in My passion dictates my actions Last man standing still take my chances Blast at random escape from handcuffs Feels so good when the rhythm kicks back in My passion dictates my actions Last man standing still take my chances Blast at random escape from handcuffs Chorus (repeat x 2)
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"BOTTLE OF HOPE" Chorus If I could then I would but I cant so I wont Cause I got better things to do with this bottle of hope If I could sing I would sing but I cant hit a note I’m a rearrange these words and give you something to quote If I could then I would but I cant so I wont I got better things to do with this bottle of hope If I could fly I would fly but I cant stay afloat Above the clouds so for now I play it cool on the ground. Logics (verse 1) If everything I see is in the place that its suppose to be I got something to say to everybody who’s so close to me What if hope is lost? Would you still hold on to your rosary? Maybe all is coming to an end We used to play bows and arrows now its all smoking barrels And dirty cops that will put your face on the front of the herald Or the New York Times fifty shots fly by Pack you up and ship you out and you get back in a pine Box six feet under rocks take a look at your watch Time flies like them helicopters over them blocks Yo this new world's ordered like some domino stacks All it takes is one push to watch the whole thing collapse And so we push to the limits and yes push to the finish Unless they’re pushing bullets into stopping my breath At which point I'd resurrect as a wind from the west Crush the whole house of cards to kill the kings in the deck Chorus Logics (verse 2) I play it cool on the ground cool as the sounds of soul When the sun comes down and the breezes blow Some got dreams and hopes some got schemes to blow up Selling blow to grown ups Yo it’s the nature of the beast to leave your soul stuck So is the nature of man to take it and run? Living by the barrel of a gun trying to aim at the sun Then you wonder why we’re losing the fight Moving against the light Newsense (verse 2) Its been twenty four years and I'm just now recognizing There’s no way I can avoid it my life is an assignment To constantly move forward and never back peddle Spread my words across the globe like grenades do scrap metal Wait these accusations are killing me We didn’t kidnap your kids they actually came willingly Life ya life is a lucid dream And I’m a play my part like a movie scene Chorus Newsense (verse 3) We broadcast live in Technicolor cue the canned applause And you can sing the songs if you can stand the noise One thing I think I should confess to its I keep hope bottled up and faith in jar next to it I’m painting this picture While everything around me is changing directions My life is stranger than fiction I got this government grant studying the science of sleep But at night when I lay down I die in my dreams I’m trying to keep this dark secret well hidden But I fell victim now it’s hotter than Hell’s Kitchen I can still cope with the dangers I’m facing Cause I can find hope in the strangest of places Find me in a basement making my spaceship Little help from my friends and a whole lot of patience And no I’m not trying to reach the stars I’m screaming fuck the world and getting further from y’all Chorus
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"REMEMBER THE DAYS" Logics (verse 1) Aw man how we complicated our living Used to love the school skipping now I’m out of town on business Skipping lunch on missions high school misfit Running that lip shit will catch a battle in an instant Now they clutch a piston shift your disposition Fam in a funeral home listing your wishes Life can get all in your ass when unassisted Peace to the enlisted that held me down when I’m lifted Helped me up when I’m sinking Fuck those who faked the funk your battleships sunk and drifting Thinking that freeze frame of life when those feeling where right Used to sneak through the streets like a thief in the night Fucking with them beats and them mics Living life with a dream and dime Now the time fades away stuck between the work and the play Today I live twice in a day five light years away and say Chorus (repeat x 2) Remember the days Ain't no work we spent it all on the play Now it all fades away Now it all fades away Newsense (verse 2) I’m never really threatened when MCs stand and deliver Cause my worthiest opponent is the man in the mirror Throw a punch line end up with the broken fist The vocalist who’s only focus is to teach them how to coexist I’ll bust your veteran cause it’s evident Your hesitance gets crushed with a rush of adrenaline Announce the victor and afterwards count the victims Newsense the Demigod cast off from Mount Olympus Conspiring a mutiny trying to knock off the rulers Spitting more lighting than Zeus does and getting stoned with Medusa After banishment and making my way out the Labyrinth I caused a verbal avalanche just to watch the rappers scattering You cant run even all of the masses gathering still don’t have the advantage In getting past this establishment save the embarrassment Don’t consider this arrogance Just the unravelment of all the questions I hadn’t answered yet Chorus (repeat x 2) Logics (verse 3) A yo just kick a beat I’m a rip it right here ArtOfficial is official taking over this year Work the crowd into a frenzy get them outta there chairs Drowning in the mainstream? Here’s a breath of fresh air That’s how we handle our business We emerged out of the mist now we’re shifting positions Put that shift into your disk when you listen to this shit Put the vibe in the air like a spiritual mystic Fuck a living statistic we broke the restrictions Made it out the school system just to sharpen our instincts Now we hold a mic up try to make a life of Beats rhymes and rhythms all living within my cipher Idolizing the writers ‘til I became one Actualizing the flow to let you all know where I came from Small world big dreams living on a pay stub Running ‘round this world all at the pace of a bass drum Chorus (repeat x 2)
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Rewind 03:03
"REWIND" Chorus (repeat x 2) And ya you don’t dare stop (stop) Working ‘round the clock (clock) Mr. Selector give me one more gun shot (ohh) Either jump or run when I think about the things I’ve done Newsense (verse 1) Find a rhyme that you can have for less Most customers can’t pass the test Type of flavor where you can’t forget the aftertaste I bust long like tantric sex You’re probably not listening if it seems wrong Newsense my friends call my guillotine jaw Call me what you want I’m a ask you what you need My skins been getting so thick its kind of tough to bleed My style of rhyming is not short of dominant Spin ciphers to quick y’all might start vomiting Your incompetence is simply the consequence of no common sense Think you’re stronger than all the rest my accapella stomp your chest Incredible raps blast shells that you craft fast Think you’re better than that catch a skeletal crack Spit hellava track that tremble your back I’m head of the class trash all of your raps cause Chorus (repeat x 2) Logics (verse 2) I’m a lone traveling solider bone smothering flows come from my microphone Make home something you hope of Lost in the edit your merits get offesetted by the unfretted phonetics that’s Sharp as a shogun leaving them frozen The chosen one with the golden lungs Heart of ice that’s kept cold by place I’m from Another face unphased by the pace of the drums Live fast die fast breaking all of the rungs On my way up the ladder shatter the pattern of Naysayers and players conveyer belts rapper thugs ArtOffical takes no issue tryna catch that bus Rock the show and try to pack that up Keep it moving never backtrack what Make that cash cause life can get up in your ass when that tax act up I said rock the show and try to pack that up Keeping it moving never backtrack what Like pass pass puff
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Word Bending 03:54
"WORDBENDING" Chorus This ain’t rapping WHAT? Its word bending OH Lyrical acupuncture for your nerve endings Ya’ll ain’t rhyming NAW ya’ll just pretending YA You can’t fathom the way that we twist a sentence Newsense (verse 1) This ain’t rapping its word bending Lyrical acupuncture for your nerve endings Newsense the Demigod gruesome at any cost There’s a crisis these rhymes are priceless they cant be bought Black ink runs through my veins so I writes to live Fuck around and BLAM strip you of your rights to live Consider this swift and deliberate I get rid of it The rhythm will riddle your system with increments of significance Sing if you can’t rhyme scream if you can’t yell it While you sit and write rhymes I sit at home and write epics Caution you might get nauseous don’t throw up Quite often I get off topic but fuck it SO WHAT Keep insinuating that you’ve got invigorating raps But Incriminating acts only give my an exhilarating blast I much rather keep my job as a word contortionist Your life goes nowhere like the oldest kid at an orphanage Chorus (repeat x 2) Logics (verse 2) Words under my jurisdiction you’re sure to listen The purest vision of dopeness a euphemism describing my sonic mysticism Shatter your silly suggestive cynicism Opinions get split into pieces passing my mental prism Red for antagonism yellow for cowardice green for the jealousy and black for all the passionless Immature amateurs sinister saboteurs Meaningless matador got bullshit on your sole trying to dodge the horn Fuck your scorn use my time to be progressive Reality’s all perception take a view from my direction Humble yourself for a second I’m more than competition Listen or perceiving me from the ground horizontal position This ain’t a game this is more than running my mouthpiece Start expanding the outreach battle god for his house keys Stretch my words across the globe like lines of longitude If you can dig it close your eyes and let your mind consume Bridge This ain’t rapping This is word bending This ain’t rapping This is word bending Chorus (repeat x 2)
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Architect 03:46
"ARCHITECT" Newsense (verse 1) I’m the architect of a hard to catch punch line I blame cloud nine for trying to steal my sunshine Unwind at lunchtime binge on food for thought Results is regurgitated ideas and proof that the truth is lost I search for it in the eyes of every stranger that passes me by Search in my lovers face right after she’s been crying I might catch a glimpse they might hold nothing Drip gator tears I rock a crocodile smile we’re cold blooded This we know for a fact everything falls apart Adapt to circumstance like my eyes adjust to the dark But then again I could live my life at a slow pace too not to speed it up Hit the fast gears watch the clock catch up as I decombust The truth lies where deception walks erect Each step is in some way symbolic to a deep breath Waiting to exhale has been making my chest frail for decades Run the tracks till my lungs collapse and end up in a neck brace Chorus (repeat x 2) I want to know if we can see without eyes I want to know if we can speak without lies So I’m a open up my chest and you can touch me for a while Let Heaven send Hell away and cut me with a smile Newsense (verse 2) This juggernaut stays constantly on the hunt I do what y’all cannot fake crews get sabotaged My entourage makes moves that’s nonchalant Whether you Private or a General salute the Commandant I sacrifice my songs to the Gods its disturbing the way I slaughter tracks Making metronomes flat line giving young men heart attacks We compare graffiti to things like hieroglyphic artifacts Burning more trees than brush fires getting blitzed like quarterbacks Doors collapse never conform to ignore the facts Knowledge is truth we seek the realness living life at a pace that’s more than fast Chronological order it’s kind of hostile but sort of Stopping the clock on all the controversy that surrounds the borders Front like you got the answers but in actuality We analyze each others dreams and still can’t figure out reality My beautiful minds got a more than horrible will I think in haikus and got oratorical skills When the Sun burns out all you need is just patience Let me open my rhyme book shine some light on the situation Straight out the pages brightest ideas illuminating The night sky playing connect the thoughts to make constellations Chorus (repeat x 2)
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"Fist Fights and Foot Races" is a full length album that was originally released in Japan in 2008. It includes tracks from ArtOfficial's "Stranger" EP plus an additional 8 songs that were previously only available in Japan.

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