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Intro (Artscape)
01:49
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"You can't live in this world unless you help somebody"
Work tireless, I know I'm connected to somn
Do actions outside the interwebs
of fraudin & frontin
I don't care what you saying
You gotta do something beneficial
Stop typing in ya phone
and go get you some tissue
Temporary things are quite easy to gain
Much harder to attain those permanent things
It's not a game but we gotta play it
That's the truth so I gotta say it
If there's a chain then I break it
Remake it and sell bracelets is my thinking
Times shifting like corner pitchin in city spaces
Planets realign for the first time in ages
Universal stage changes
If the support isn't there
It might not seem real
Got to believe in ya skill
and then build
I chill, yet I'm working my game
At the same time feeling insane
Gotta balance some things
My presence Is a sentiment representin
Like the 66 Lincoln that was sittin on 7th
Reset the vision to get it
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Small Portrait
01:02
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Execution over wishes to fill up my dishes
I prefer to eat well so I'm ready to get it
When I was 20 sold shit to pay child support
wasn't for sport
I be dammned if I'm in court
for not providing
Let me set this shit off, I been surviving
I'm vital to the game,
they respect my arrival
Different streams of income for the money pile
Bol said he a soldier, I call em Gomer Pyle
Every soldier ain't a warrior, you still a child
We need leaders to delegate
niggas is wild
on a 3 block radius
Other places they complacent
Reducing they style
I'm adding earth to mountains
Putting fuel in fires
Filling tires with air
Digging trenches for the flow
And I barely perspire
Fuck these fake ass niggas
I believe nunya
They got temporary friends
and fake stream numbers
Story telling like
sunthin in the Daily Onion
I watch em run it
When I bring it up, they don't want it
Leave em punished
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3. |
Punching
02:06
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Exceptional & highly respected
Designs from the architect
with my heart on line reppin
Careful with the alchemy
Spiritual rivalry inside the machine~
Calm as it seems
Storm preparation
We tighten the seams
Describing the scene
Whats the cost of freedom mean
Inbetween. Yaa mean
Back on the block and I got me a vision
Game like the 80s my nigga
You watching PRISM
Gauge like a shotty
It never been hard to hit em
They say I'm too aggressive based
on my method of supervision
The difference of experienced vets
Watch how you walk
Take a slow step
Eyes like a hawk, I see no depth
They playing checkers
I know chess
Claim that they reppin
but they get the steppin
When shit start to go left
Only get loud during protest
Do it for the likes & light flex
Rockwell, they watching me
Value & curiosity~
Fire in my thoughts
Spark intellectual property
If you speak with hoes
You know they gone tell
Probably
Send her to bed like a hotel
She gossiping
Niggas show love
yet they never did a lot for me
~Outta pocket
Like a wallet in a robbery
I'm walking logic
some ppl too slow to follow me
Walking target
Let me show you how to slalom, G
More answers than Ivory
How High the science be
Acrobatics from my mathematics
Fantastic
Apply formula
Refuse the stone & format it
Full matic reactions
To ground out the static
Tenacious setting up spaces
Clearing out the attic
Just cause you holding
don't mean you gone blast it
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4. |
Cecil B. Teef
02:25
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Nothing to relapse to, never had weak raps
Best thing they spit scribbles from my scraps
Matter fact I'm the best ingested
She said she like the taste
That's good reception
Make mess at the exit, just to keep it hectic
I can wreck it verbally or in person
♤Threw a chair in high school
They tried to stop purpose
Threw a chair at Nights On Broad
worked up & cursing
Beat ________________ money,
hit the highway chirpin
Headlock famous in The Fire, sit yo ass down
Slim nigga bounce you out
Who got the juice now
Let my rage out on stage
I'm hard to follow now
Put me at the end of the bill
cause I'mma tear it down
The people that brought you speaking with me
Very eager meet, eloquence in my speech
They beseeched me to have shots
Share stories of what I think
Women that you want
Want me working out the kinks
Link
Zelda
Get coins, avoid failure
They never felt this cloth
Or seen the cuts tailored
Prominent with knowledge
From Muhammad to Mahalia
Concentrate on props to the God
It's unwise to fail em
Left choking smoke
Eyes tearing, arms flailing
You heat seeking, get mistreated
Broken & beaten
Foes need it, hang a demon by his toes bleeding
Then celebrate with the towns people
Heard em say "Teef the streets need you!"
Truth spoken, start flames and add fuel to it
Crusin with the movement like an old Buick
Squad deep, 5 blunts, Broad st, night creep
It tends to give fright to the beast
Earn equity off inequities
applied to my peeps
♤The Chicken & the egg both get fried ina grease
Fake prophets scream
Peace with dirty street sheets
Fuck a dap, send a slap
from anonymous cats
I got a reputation
Adherence to perseverance be my occupation
Action make it clear, cut the hesitation
If you aint hear it, you will feel it,
I wiil displace ya
This ain't SEGA, The field is real, mistakes major
The quiet riot of freedom fighters living inside em
Skills & talents
I keep balanced with oscillation
Postulate as king does, I got favor
My props major, apply greatness and swath labels
Willing and able
Spit more game than Clark Gable
They tried angles
But banged out. Vehicle mangled
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5. |
All Me
03:04
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Who Introduced you to the situation?
What made you want to get involved?
Was Money or the cause?
When did you really manage your creation?
I been stab Satan
That nigga mad at me
Smacked the shit out em
And popped 3 acne's
Don't tell me you still scared!?
Where have you seen the success in your career?
Broker deals over beers
still cohesive & clear
~ I be the hottest
With knowledge beyond my years
Never claim to be a prophet
Cause Aquarius is here...
We outta the water & in the air
Shoot me your email, I'll send you all the details
Still rotating like some mint condition Spreewells
Niggas pop on then fall off like Lee nails
I'm still litty, slid to the rave & seen titties
Performing in my city it's hard to handclaps
I understand that
My words bring em to the front
They don't stand back
No instructions but they hands in the air
I got the band up in here
Bob Marley bars
I be jamming in here
Set it off to the left
Steve Standard in here
Hook
People listen up when the bol speak
Sliding in the wheel down Broad St.
Girard, Lehigh, Allegheny, HP
Music up, loud pipes, yeah that's all me.
Verse 2
Alamo told you
we can only bring you close to water
I hope you got a glass
Politic with different people, simple math
Multiply then divide, then you'll know the half
They think I'm Irish
the way I be Dubl-in
Carbonated the game, I got it bubblin'
Niggas still rappin bout cane & gold chains
Still broke & never change
Riding wild on the wrong road
Swerving the lanes
Listen when I flow
I can be ya Geico
Nice with hands, my shits shine like Michael's
Jack son up if he wanna get trifle
Lean em like Piza
Me straight like Eiffel
It's clear what I come from
I need no title
Disseminate my enemies, I have no rivals
It's a way that my family talk
They may not understand
cause my bloodline raw
Once you figure that, you move different for sure
It ain't never good for you the bol ready for war
You're only good as your last day
Flip arithmetic listening to Hathaway
Lady Day, Coltrane, Gil Scott weight
The world is too big, so I'm flyin on planes
Plan, work, get money, hit the jetway
Now I'm bopping at the stop light on Biscayne
Top down, smoke loud, no disdain
Got the light on my crown
through the joy & the pain
I maintain
And never take a mission that
don't match my discipline
So I get it in with accurate aim
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6. |
Shot Glass Thoughts
02:35
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I don't say nigga round my white friends
That's so unnecessary
They say it on the wrong day
Then catch all these flames heavy
Knowledge of the past
become the keys to the future
I ball out but you never see it ~
Do some thangs you aint used to
Onomatopoeia
kick it like Bruce too
Discipline, but still being youthful
Older mind, aware of the new crews
News crew cast at the show
They caught the vibe too
Live on ya FM dial, and gettin views too
Who knew?
Thank God for making them moves
He had ya hand too
Beautiful plot, like
cornrows and bantu knots
Mohawk, representative thought
iRoc like a Z28 with t-tops
Burgundy, like the blood of my Ahk
We gotta stop
Dell - P represent on the street like high tops
African medallions, & Krylons
Higher plane than the demons
Define us. Remix.
Put the beat on a loop
And set it off
When you feel it right up under ya ribs
That be the call
Don't deny it or you might just fall
Talkin to ya'll
Coming direct at whoever involved
Kinda brash, I bust that ass
if you challenge the bol
Mentally fit, take aggressions & flip
physical gifts
Switch the shift in the midst pitch
Perhaps fathering a son of bitch
Cause when the sun don't shine
then the tempratue shifts
Nobody glad if she sad, so I'm giving a lift
Grab breakfast from the diner
Daughter running the shit
Reahearsal on a tuesday to handle my grip
Shit was live
So don't be surprised we set that bitch on fire
Right.
Ppl judge me by my clothes
They don't know that I'm the man
Potent when its spoke
My quotes cross the lands
Fast like hand to hands
Blasts heard through lands
While smoking in sedans
Burnt trash in clans
Shooting range in mind
Rage within the stands
Craze upon command
They trippin round the way
Silent nights with scams
Hustle around the way
Bustling through the maze
Accustomed from day to day
Uncomfortable discussion
Be buzzing like everyday
Wuzzle or it wasn't
The struggle of everyday
No hope for children they hustle around the way
Peace Peace to young boys hustlin round the way
I pray for some significance
Rid the world of ignorance
Ppl movin oblivious
Criticism is curious
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7. |
Pathways
02:26
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In the Vestibule lookin at the news
Waiting on my cue, checking out the view
Chillin in the groove, feelin out the mood
Know what it do, I am not confused
What's left to do
when it's nothing left to lose
Had a bump, had a bruise
pay the cost, know the floss
Count ya paper, set the start
Make a mark
Sunlight walking west
As the East grows dark
Decide to slide Kelly to drive
Just park up & spark
♤Slowly sift through my thoughts
My foes keep falling when I call on the Lord
Blessings of the knowledge
Keep my linemen involved
Scholar in the game
Hard to fuck with my name
Show & prove on arrival
Opposite of a lame
Switching lanes the same way
So I never changed
Seldom were we alike
No surprise, No shame
Delusions of grandeur
On the mind impure
Filter your imports
If you unsure
Not a tyrant but I got plans
Something to make it grow
I got a whole load to flow
from here to Japan
Last week a Demon
tried to touch my brand
But my hit was kinda cold
Left a crack in his hand
Been strolling with Jah
We on a roll
You never know until give of yourself
just let it go
These are beginnings of wealth
Within ya soul
Take a risk if you tired of the bullshit
Ppl dying on my screen
Damn, they dumped a full clip
Do the Knowledge
'fore I step into a pulpit~
Speak life
About to spark up the whole shift
Conformity is not knowing
what you doin it for
Sometimes you get a call
that you gotta ignore
Moving on is for sure
What I need an award for
Jamaicans say forward
See the goal for the score
Life is learned through the tour
With Muhammad my man
Going each and every place
with my mic in my hand
Turning lions to lambs
Redirecting life paths
To thrive in the land
Solidify the core so the building's stand
Bring it back 100 grand
Double that, triple that, then I pass it to fam
Nothing else I can stand
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Teef Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Lateef is a traditional hip-hop artist representing the New Jersey/Philadelphia area known for live band performances at
numerous festivals, venues, & private events. A grandson of the legendary Rock N Roll hall of fame artist Antoine "Fats" Domino, his music has lead to work & attention in Philadelphia, New York, Baltimore, Mexico, Italy, & Belarus.
Booking: info.lsw.events@gmail.com
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