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Still Me (Intro)
01:40
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It’s been over 30 years that I've been the sum of all fears
I poured my heart into these verses until my pen cried tears
About the shit that grinds gears and didn’t care who could relate
I wrote those songs to sooth my sanity no vanity or hate
Well maybe just a bit of late because this rage is like a battery
took hard-line positions that had religious people mad at me
And spit it with the savagery befitting of my origins
Cause the west side of Baltimore been filled my heart with poison
approach the world with hammers and everything looks like a nail
Sometimes that method’s not effective….in some circumstances fails
But I've been rocking with this hip hop shit since 1982
Before half your parents screwed so they could even make you
And I’ve seen all of the transitions….. and trends that came and went
How it evolved into this monster….. with murderous intent
And now the bars ain’t making sense...and the fans don’t even care
Now you could spit the illest verse and they just shrug it off and stare
if you think I do this shit to chase acceptance be aware
To kiss the asses of the masses ain’t the reason why I’m here
So imma use the beats I want to use..spit the flows I want to choose
Embrace what I have always been and move just like I always do
my audience will never branch from out of 20,000? Cool
That’s the reason why you’re switching up? well tell me how that works for you
Old man Landon...guess these niggas mad I kept living
So when they die at 29 I’ll laugh and just say good riddance
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2. |
What The World Needs Now
03:43
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VERSE 1:
My rhymes are catastrophic..toxic topics...
Pandora’s box long before they had the chance to come along and lock it
The masses screaming stop it...helpless as the flames shoot out their eye sockets
Satisfied I break the mic then fucking drop it
These days I’m quick to block shit
I’ve got too little time to entertain your mock fits
Not what I’m here for..so therefore
They’re sore I won’t engage with their poor
Arguments and rancor
None of it’s necessary
All of your heads are buried
Shoulders deep inside the sands of time
Pretending that your life is much more than temporary
And I ain’t wallowing in all your insecurities
Fake convictions and thought experiments lack maturity
You’re on your own with that...and by the way
If you should die today what would these people say about your life
Would they praise you for your accomplishments, salute you as a builder
Or curse you because gave the world nothing but strife
CHORUS:
What the world needs now
Less ringmasters less clowns
Developing people with know how
More honest people to hold ground
With less people talking to hear the sound
where stupid shit ain’t around
What the world needs now
Less ringmasters less clowns
The three ring circus burned to the ground
Less bootlickers kissing the ass of authority
More skeptics that question when leaders give us a story
VERSE 2:
Your form of activism’s lacking vision
It’s just a game you play but never really win because you lack precision
Lack of experience impacts decisions
So when you calculate how others live their lives you only use division
That’s why your commentary adds to nothing
Your podcast and social media content only proves you bluffing
That’s why they don’t believe in you...They only see deceit you spew
Your see through...that’s why your salty like some seafood
One of many millions that think they’re heroes... really villains
That only add to the discord and can’t control their feelings
Whose voice reaches the ceilings loud but ain’t got nothing to say
Well nothing original anyway
And I would rather stay away from all of the stink that you spray
So I just concentrate on building on my path all day
You can’t bombard this with nonsense because my peace of mind is a steady work in progress
CHORUS:
What the world needs now
Less ringmasters less clowns
Developing people with know how
More honest people to hold ground
With less people talking to hear the sound
where stupid shit ain’t around
What the world needs now
Less ringmasters less clowns
The three ring circus burned to the ground
Less bootlickers kissing the ass of authority
More skeptics that question when leaders give us a story
VERSE 3:
As a child I was a naive sort.
I looked towards the future and thought that evil distorts
but all the battles people had fought was for peace that they sought
see now I know better they love standing knee deep in a corpse
While holding a torch...smile on their faces talking bout fairness
Blood on their hands...truth to be told is that they just couldn’t care less
They only want to share death...compassion is the rarest
The truth is they selfish as shit… and not embarrassed
We can’t win...the enemy we fight is the one that’s within
And much to our chagrin honestly we strive to be him
So there’ll be no escaping our nature or reshaping
No matter how hard we try with all the scratching and scraping
It’s probably... so close to over...but fuck it we shrug our shoulders
And say it’s just not our business as slowly we grow colder
And then you ask me why I see the world this way
Your answer’s there inside the mirror so what more I gotta say
CHORUS:
What the world needs now
Less ringmasters less clowns
Developing people with know how
More honest people to hold ground
With less people talking to hear the sound
where stupid shit ain’t around
What the world needs now
Less ringmasters less clowns
The three ring circus burned to the ground
Less bootlickers kissing the ass of authority
More skeptics that question when leaders give us a story
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3. |
Age Of Dumb
02:10
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VERSE 1:
I put on the evening news just to witness all the pandering
Some politician lying because his paymasters demand a win
And then what had to be a massive sin
He said Americans are smart then flashed the camera with a savage grin
See he’s heavily invested in your ignorance and
Take a look around...the payoff was magnificent
Cause ya’ll stupid as fuck...and I ain’t playing either
drowning in an ocean of dumb....you need to take a breather
See I use to be so hopeful for the future..
but now I just resigned myself to be prepared to shoot ya
You humans had potential but you let a douche reduce ya
Now you rally up with demagogues and cheer as they seduce ya
To be completely honest this was so predictable
because you so attracted to everything that’s despicable
that you can’t even see that your scum…..lets’s face it stupid has won
thats why we’re living in the age of dumb...come on
CHORUS:
I am not a sponsor
This is not a test
Most will nod to the beat and disregard the rest
But
This is for the ones of you that still think
Who can understand these words before their IQ sinks
Finally the day that we all feared has come
So Educate the people you love and just run
If this message goes unanswered…
I'm not surprised none
Not many stay smart in the Age of the dumb
VERSE 2:
Welcome to a nightmare scenario horrific in scope
Where hope dies choking on it’s own lies in its throat
This should have been an era where the education was limitless
Instead all we get’s bunch of lemmings walking off of the cliff
About as disappointing as it gets
A failed experiment a species whose programming must be on the fritz
There’s something broken in us... something other than lust
Or any vices that they label as such
We got unprecedented tech...and data at our fingertips
The internet was born and you use it just to take a shit
Why would WHY ever put YOUR faith in this
See I’m an atheist I don’t believe in shit unless there’s evidence
This is a wasteland of poorly formed thoughts
Confirmation bias that deceives and distorts
And anyone not down with it receives no support
So the ones that’s selling stupid shit get celebrated more
CHORUS:
I am not a sponsor
This is not a test
Most will nod to the beat and disregard the rest
But
This is for the ones of you that still think
Who can understand these words before their IQ sinks
Finally the day that we all feared has come
So gather up the people you love and just run
If this message goes unanswered…
I'm not surprised none
Not many stay smart in the Age of the dumb
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4. |
Outrage
02:26
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VERSE 1
I heard you all outraged but don’t no one believe it though
your righteous indignation stagnated after week or so
So Now you want to keep it low but I’m the one that peeped it yo
The disrespect they show is so flagrant because you let em know
That you ain’t down to sacrifice nothing..you niggas will die bluffing
You fronting but all you turkeys full of stuffing
It’s plain to see that you value pop culture more than your dignity
It kind of sickens me these examples of your timidity
The nfl just took a straight dump in your plate
Then made you eat half of that shit and threw the rest in your face
You made excuses for abuses and you did it with haste
By talking bout if we don’t eat it, it’ll be such a waste
No need to wonder why... I saw them make you swallow your pride
Colin took a stand but you won’t even stand by his side
And you can’t even see the reason why we always dissed
Cause our priorities are fucked up from shit like this
CHORUS:
chorus:
There’s a reason why they don’t believe you’re outraged
Cause all they have to do is wait just a couple of days
When all of ya’ll just go back to your passive ways
Then it’s back to shitting on you until the next phase
VERSE:
It ain’t the drugs, guns or poverty or even the cops that shot at me
It’s the narrative they use to confuse and to fucking lie to me
The saddest day when I woke up to face the realization
That most of us are addicted to all the colonization
Our participation makes all of the shit that we’re facing worse
A cascade effect the superstitious say that we’re cursed
Yall let a coon moonwalk on the graves of the ancestors
And put them on the hook while you shielded the oppressors
That resentment you harbor had you cursing our forefathers
When if shit kicked off today half you cowards just wouldn’t bother
You not chained, you can read, and get your hands on a gat
But everyday you’re disrespected and still don’t know how to act
Before the fight even get started you pussies yelling retreat
Pretending Kanye is so deep because you fuck with his beats
And I’m supposed to believe you coloreds really down with the ruckus
Can’t even organize the boycotts of the ones that say fuck us
CHORUS
There’s a reason why they don’t believe you’re outraged
Cause all they have to do is wait just a couple of days
When all of ya’ll just go back to your passive ways
Then it’s back to shitting on you until the next phase
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5. |
The World Stays Fronting
03:15
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VERSE 1:
See they don’t like me when I tell the truth just watch em all jumping
Mad as shit and asking “why you fucking say something”
But this is what sounds like when a grown man ain’t bluffing
and gonna keep on talking shit because you won’t do nothing
It’s situational savagery
And If I’m a savage it’s a fact that I had to be
And since you ain’t live it that’s the reason you mad at me
Cause this exist outside your lane
And if it wasn’t I wouldn’t have to explain
You would know never to bump your lips
when you live by the sucker shit
Respect your place cause coming out your face could get you punched in it
Say what you wanna say ...just be prepared to ride for it
Make sure that light is green before you go and drive forward
Or else expect a wreck...just know the slightest disrespect
Could have you on a waiting list to get your fucking chin checked
A lot of ya’ll ain’t even living what your spitting bout
Them violent metaphors ain't stopping shit if I go in your mouth
VERSE 2:
I grew up with killers belligerent blood spillers
That never rapped a bar whether punches or straight filler
Sold drugs in alleyways wore the same clothes for days
And Who never heard a phrase to dissuade them that crime pays
I ran with unrepentant felons…. that wouldn’t hesitate to shoot you if you out there telling
So if their name in your mouth and they found out that it made it to court papers
You’ll come up missing like you just disappeared into vapor
I say that to say that you niggas just don’t impress me
so your internet shenanigans rattle them all except me
You’re powerless outside of this you faking the funk
So shove that idiotic meme straight up your ass you punk
I See you desperately seeking relevance man that shit’s pathetic
Your questing for more emoticons I guess I’ll never get it
Forever a spectator only contribution commentary
worthless and completely unnecessary
VERSE 3
Just exit out my face with all haste
Cause ain’t it It’s kinda funny how the ones that claim they don’t now need a safe space
The ones that calling everyone a little snowflakes
Start whining after punches get thrown and they catch a nose break
You bitches so fake….cause everybody’s got their issues
Go on any thread and diss Trump and these bitches need tissues
Said no more messiahs and everyone agreed with it
Until they crowned one with orange skin and greedy grin
I guess they found a new religion but in truth it’s just the same
Repolished, rebranded then labeled with a shitty name
Just another false idol to throw upon the heap
Now Bow and Worship at the feet of that toupeed creep
Ya’ll were all anti-government..now you bend over loving it
I guess your inconsistency is what I’m having trouble with
But fuck cause to be honest I’m not here for the debate
toss some racist shit my way I'll slap skin off your face
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Tombstone da Deadman Baltimore, Maryland
Raised in Edmondson Village on the west side of Baltimore, Maryland, Tombstone’s style is heavily influenced by pioneering hip hop legends like Rakim, LL Cool J, Big Daddy Kane and Public Enemy.
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