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Mutha-Luva’s Need 2 Know
My name is Plaedo
I’m always on a fight for a righteous cause
Who else but me, will fight the cops
And make it personal since my close friend was shot
Walk into a mob of proud boys with guns
Tell them all to go home
Leave my neighborhood alone
I’ll take on the mayer, the gangsters and bankers
And i’m not a hater of the game
I’m simply a player who is doing my thang
And i’m doing it major
So now you can read about it in the paper
Before i set it on fire, get high of the vapors
Cuz when life gets crazy, I get crazier
And now they label me a hero
Yo everyones impressed
But what they don’t know
Is that my life is a mess, I feel so stressed
And I’m ready for my death…
So walk in my shows
Live my life, see what i’ve seen
Be who I be, understand why
I don’t wanna live but I’m scared to die
And so they remember me
For these moments that I acted heroic
With a passion to show it, but know that
When I was fighting these officers
All i was was reliving my trauma
I was fighting the monsters
Who beat up my mama
I was traumatized and ever since
It’s been drama live, so i am trying
To move on with my life
I got two weeks to move again
My car won’t start again
I got nowhere to go
And I don’t know what to do
My wife left me, girlfriend did too!
So walk in my shows
Live my life, see what i’ve seen
Be who I be, understand why
I don’t wanna live but I’m scared to die
And so everyday i try to maintain
With this strange pain that pervades
Every cell in my body
My fucking nerves hurt
And everyday at work
They give us bandaids
To try to save society
As my clients sit and cry to me
Most of my experience is anxiety
So i want to be dying
I am now closer to trying
I now have a plan
And the sleeping pills to fill my hand
Next on my list is to slit my wrist
And bleed out to death on this troubled floor
And I won’t leave a note nope
Only this album finally finished....
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Welcome 2 Tha Apocalypse
04:10
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As the World Round Me Falls Apart
I'm trying not to go Crazy Crazy Crazy Yo
As the World Round Me Falls Apart
I'm trying not to go Crazy Crazy Crazy Yo
Welcome 2 Tha Apocalypse
Where monsters live in politics
they microchip the anonymous
as the eye on top the obelisk
now watches as big data
gets added to the AI
Now watch as the machine
becomes the master
as the death of capitalism
gives birth to fascism
now people livin’ in tents
next to empty buildings
out of business
still were building prisons
crime is on the rise
people fight in daylight
and at night cries
slice through the silence
harmonize with sirens
in a symphony of violence
in these times of civil war
another storm is coming
it's a drought yet somehow
still it's flooding
got me wondering
if it's all too much
As the empire crumbles
My only hopes for the future
Is coming from us
Yet most I know
Have PTSD
So how are we
Goin to talk about empowerment
Before the counseling
And how are we goin to get our way out of this yo!
As the World Round Me Falls Apart
I'm trying not to go Crazy Crazy Crazy Yo
As the World Round Me Falls Apart
I'm trying not to go Crazy Crazy Crazy Yo
So Welcome 2 Tha Apocalypse
An optimist I’m positive
The death of the empire
Will make space for new ways
But You may say I am insane
Yet since a juvenile
I was raised in the wild
In the eye of the tornado
So that's where I like to play yo
Chaos is my home
Addicted to insanity
I be the coyote the crow the raccoon
I’m not leaving going extinct
Anytime soon
I’m speaking my secrets
With the moon
As the World, Round Me Falls Apart
I'm trying not to go Crazy Crazy Crazy Yo
As the World Round Me Falls Apart
I'm trying not to go Crazy Crazy Crazy Yo
So Welcome 2 Tha Apocalypse
I apologize to all the kids
Who sensitive and empathetic
Sensing the direction
This world is heading
Yet it’s going to get worse
Before in turn it gets better
So try to keep ya head up
It is hard for us lovers
But the pain that does not break us
Will make us tougher
And since we have suffered
We’re able to help others
So I fight revolution
Create evolution
This is all I have
Since I had my soul mate
And twin flame both say
Go run to the roar
That is what I’m put here for
So if I must live with this madness
I will manifest it as a gift
Since it also is a curse
To be honest
I idolize the martyr
realize living is harder
My body’s growing weaker
But my spirits growing stronger
I’m going for the conquer
As try to keep my honor
And I wonder how much longer
I can stare into the face of the monster.
I wonder how much longer I can stare
Into the face of the monster
Before it stares back!
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Realizing Resiliency
03:59
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Hey yo I got that soul
Like you only can
When you suffer
When you been pushed under
But you still come up a lover
To discover the funk
The stank then come to know
From the compost
Is how the flowers grow
So I’m all about that g shit
All about the grace
And all about the grit
Cuz y’all I feel good
Though it’s never been easy
No no no no it’s never been easy
I grew up free lunch beat up often
Surrounded by adults high on narcotics
Cops and robbers
My father was slaughtered
I wasn’t raised by my mama
Nah I was adopted
And all I ever wanted was a little bit of love
But I never was the chosen one
Never had a trust fund
I was raised with the warmth
Of a frozen sun
So now i never hold my tongue
These are just some problems
We all got some
That we’ve got to overcome
I’m getting attacked by these christians
For living like jesus
Preachers saying play it small
Nah, answer your call
This is for the freaks
Outcast outlaws
Underdogs reaching for the mountain tops
This is for us…
We gotta be who we wanna be
Live how we wanna live
Love who we wanna love
Hey yo, lets get free
We gotta be
Because you never know
Just when we gonna die
And so today
We gotta live our life
Hey Yo I’ve been chased by cops
for selling drugs
face slammed on the sidewalk
I’ve lived on the other side of the globe
and gave a Ted Talk
I’ve been homeless got high with kings
and led angry mobs of protesters
occupied shut down every bank in town and I wasn’t arrested
I’ve broken up a bloody machete fight my life is crazy
kind of like Tupac’s I’ve been around the block
and I’ve seen some wild shit!
Like at the Apocalypse I’ll be saying to all of y’all
bring on some more zombies yet on a normal day
I walk with a swag stoned in my pj’s
Like y’all can’t judge me
I named myself created my image
than watch my world change as I lived it
better than the one that I was given
And If I can do it you can do it
What else should we do but vibe to this music...
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Yo fuck racism
It’s a stupid division
When the world that we live in
Is now a global village
If we want survivalism
End this tribalism
That is a prison of division
a competition
Of power rape and pillagin’
So the best use of privilege is
To combat oppression
So let us level out our positions
Give lessons to the children
Get in where we fit in
And then change the system
Cuz this isn’t the world
That I want to live in
For real then
Cuz we can kill em all
And build a wall
But then I have to ask yall
What type of world are we building
One designed to fall
See greed be the monster
We can’t feed any longer
When together we’re stronger
So whether black white
Red yellow beige or brown
We came to get down
Like a rainbow
So oh don’t you know
Our pot of gold
Is this moment of harmony
That we hold truth be told
If you look within beneath the skin
We’re basically the same
Yet we play this game
Of differences so
Who's really down
To change up the sound
Spread the love around
And break the walls down!
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These are dark times
That we are living in
It’s a broken world
And the question is
How we gonna fix it
When so many wanna talk
But nobody wanna listen
When we all think were right
So we march like peacocks
Around street blocks like
Ka-Ka mutha fucka
No more cookie cutter
No more melting pot
While those behind the dollar sign
Design the structure
Where everybody suffers
Confused through the fake news
Used to deceive you
To some they say it’s red
And to some they say it’s blue
Then they watch us argue
Over which color is true
And whose had it worse
Like it’s us vs. them
When we should come together
In the name of the earth
With the time we have left
I remember back when
We was chanting wake up
Now woke be the anthem
The fascist are back and
Stopping the nazi’s is the noble passion
But let this tailor tell ya of the fashion y’all
Let us not become what we oppose
The same energy just wearing different clothes
Activist attacking and I dig the passion
But you gotta know the facts
If you want to make an impact yeah
You think you righteous
You just misguided
Online screaming
While I’m fighting the lions in the arena
Real talk I’m in the real world dog
Don’t be a troll
An impotent critic
While I’m changing systems in the city that we live in
When we learn to sit with our pain
The world will change
I’m trying to give y’all love
Why ya wanna give hate
Cuz it’s a sad thing
If you got the change
You’d still feel the same
Because your not ready for change
Just to feel your pain…
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We Are a Generation who woke up one day then
noticed everything was changing
few things remaining the same, as if,
nothing is as it was, now we're trying to adjust
since that September 11th ride on the school bus
when we witnessed the towers crash in the classroom
who grew up in a war on terror
amidst the normalization of fear and modern day witch hunts
sensors and metal detectors at the airport gate
military recruiters in the cafeteria the war state
we are a generation
who watched classmates shipped off to Afghanistan or Iraq
with promises of college and come back
from the war unsure of what they were even fighting for
with PTSD and physical injuries galore
We are a generation
who graduated from college
at the dawn of the great recession
and couldn’t use our degrees to get employed
We are a generation
who watched the corporations destroy
the ways of the old take control
and now sell society mechanical souls
and we had to work for them to pay rent
Who grew up as America was awakening
from the mythological american dream
and nobody taught us how to cope
as we swing by the end of the rope
as we’ve had our hope betrayed
We are a generation
who came of age as that flag frayed
and peaked through where the cameras of the surveillance state
We watched the police beat our brown brothers to death or near it
for little or no reason on our cell phones
The police now look like the military and the phones now track us
The phones break quick these days
so we can buy another one
in between the mountain top removal and the trash mountain build up
Besides another model is coming up and you know you want to try it
back from the advertisement
We are a generation
who grew up with tornado’s floods droughts fires tsunami’s hurricanes
The open meadows we played in as children
are now out of business strip malls
The forests have been cut down
and we’ve been given the death of democracy
rebirth of fascism
Donald Trump as president
and Climate Change
We are a generation
who must make sense of this all
As the headlines often read like the end times
We are a generation
who inherited this mess
and now some us us have become parents
and we look at our kids
and wonder, and worry
what is going to happen
In the Next Generation…
Everything Changed when the virus came
And the lives were claimed
And those that survived
Were sent inside
To hide from the unseen
to wash hands clean
Because the past is infected
And the future is a question
Meanwhile the plague kept spreading
A globe at home
The stores shut down
The ghost of children now
At the playground
A town without sound
The rent went unpaid
As the old way
Began to fade
And they stopped the machines
To wash hands clean
Because the past is infected
And the future is a question
Time to play with your angels
Time to make peace with your devils
Time to worry because the time is blurry
A time to heal
And a time to kill
A time to know
Yo the status quo it has to go
So they wash hands clean
Because the past is infected
And the future is a question
Meanwhile, some of us
We Brave the outside
With masks on face
Put our lives on the frontlines
So that lives can be saved
But I would lie
If I said I wasn’t afraid
To bring the sickness home
And give it to my family
So I wash hands clean
Because the past is infected
And the future is a question…
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Sometimes I feel like it’s the end of the world
But don’t you know the Apocalypse is just is when the veil gets lifted
So the great shift is here that happens every few thousand years
It can even be felt in the atmosphere so it’s easy to be fueled by fear
when the old truths turn out to be lies when the meaning making structures
Fall apart and rupture when you come to understand that the kingdoms of the land
Are just castles made of sand and we’re drops in the sea
You feel the tides of change They are rising in we
so in this age that we all live in
If you need a compass use your intuition
to navigate through the nation
Where the fires are a’ raging in the forest in the trees
In the cities in the streets where employees sweep for needles
On streets where people lay half asleep and half dead
By the drunks who creep to the bars looking for the face of god
In the bottom of the bottle go to church like a brothel go online and get hostile
It’s all helter skelter you can follow all the rules
Still wind up in a homeless shelter
Because the big business got with the politicians
Wrote all the rules in their interest
So at our expense is how they get rich
But baby hold on I know that it’s hard
Keep that vision in your mind and that hope in your heart
Can't you see this is all a house of cards
And that their greeds causing it to fall apart
So when Babylon Be Gone Zion will be ours!
A whirlwind of transition until the world we live in
Is the world of science fiction
With the Crypto currency digital dollars
Radioactive rainbows stem cells and cell phones
Bionic limbs and genetically modified potatoes
With the rise of the robots everybody living in
Virtual reality as the internet
Weaves her world wide web
So society’s now a spider
On social media
Technology it is taking over
Yet what it wants evolution began
So hydrogen begat carbon began life humans than computers
So maybe this is all evolution
But still that don’t feel like a solution
The past is in the present
So what do we want to say about the future.
So we in the final hours of the ancient sunlight
Alive in these times that will try our souls
As we wonder worry woe if we can float
while the sea herself fashions her own boat
I don’t know what this means for you and me
in this moment but we gotta keep swimming in this ocean
So I looked within that was my notion And were 80% water
so it is not the Changes that we need to make
But rather the changes that are made through we
I navigate my space a captain of what I see
Because in the great shift many get lost in the mist
So I pray for those who won’t make it
With the faith that this is still sacred
Because it’s a brave new world
For the boys and the girls and the non binary
With the choice of who they want to marry
I never thought I’d see legal weed in the dispensary
So what I’m trying to say despite my fear in this age
For every yin there's a yang so with a bigger yin compes a bigger yang
What I’m really trying to say about this change
is it’s not good not bad not white not black it’s both it ‘s neither, it’s gray
Just like everybody is a little gay
So the truth is scary but don’t be afraid
no one will save you but it will be okay (repeated a bunch of times)
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Can’t stop the ticking tocking
So we rock it
Got no options!
The worlds psychotic neurotic toxic
All is a product sold for profit
And I want to stop it
Never would have thought that
It be from right here
That I would start it
But it’s only from here
That I can start it
In the land of the Godless
Cops and monsters
Gotta do your dirt than
Don’t get caught cuz
Black helicopters in the Sky
Van’s swoop you up
In the middle of the night
Behind closed doors
You get no rights
So they call it a riot
But it’s an uprising
I said they call it a riot
But it’s an uprising!
We moving through our shit
Moving through our shit
Throwing elbows like we in the pit
Giving that love given that love
Doesn’t it suck
To never feel like you are enough
Say fuck that
Kick it up like hacky sack
With all these drugs in my backpack
I’m dope as fuck y’all that’s a fact
If the end of times is where we at
Tell me how will you choose to react
Will you try to live in science fiction
Or will you paint it black
Will you try to survive the aftermath
On nature's path
Or try to control the habitat
Change is happening fast like avalanche
Better have your maps like what!
The momentum of opposing directions
Is at an intersection
And in a second
With no second guessing
We must chose our truth
And if there’s one thing I know
Our true face will be shone
When we at the crossroads
So which way will you go!
Can’t stop that ticking tocking
So we rock it
Got no options!
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I gotta change my story
If it keeps me from glory
I got too much to lose
To be addicted to the bad news
Which way to go I don’t know
I’m so confused
I thought I moved past
My past issues
I guess I just spiraled back
Into a greater truth
So reality’s my clue
To heal my souls blues
OCD ADD PTSD
I got an alphabet soup
I was given to consume
But that’s no excuse
To give out any abuse
If I made poor choices
can’t wallow in my gloom
It is what it is I gotta do what I can do
I’ll say I’m sorry to you
Take 2 steps forward than 1 step backwards
Towards my goals i move
Into something new
Slow it down
breathe through the ground and chose
Another destiny and Identity improved
They say the only way out of hell
Is to move through it
So what else can we do then
But dance to the music
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Time is the divine currency
And currently
I’m trading long term health
For short term Wealth
Cuz honestly you probably
Never met a mutha lova
Who work as hard as me
To realize the god in me
I’m gardening my artistry
You can not be stopping me
This be the prophecy
Watch and see
See your life change for real
Til the change feels so real
You say it’s surreal
The way it manifested
After we made the investment
Into our true essence
Spent years on these lessons
Not living right sipping wine
Sniffing lines smoking blunts popping pills
In the middle of the night
Been a long time waiting
But this ain’t no desperation
Nah this is inspiration
Spirit fuels me
To my destination
I know I got the patience
You know I’m gonna make it
In this second round blow up
We glow love
And so we stand right here
Made it through the nightmares
Now awake still dreaming
We made it to Costa Rica
For the pura vida
See I used to sell drugs
Now I sell music
Laced with my love still getting y’all high
It’s Plaedo from the bird tribe
3rd Eye Open Wide
Feel the vibe
Like your heartbeat inside
Look at what this life do to you
Make you forget
This life can be beautiful
We take it straight to the cuticles
So you can scratch and sniff
The realness now feel this
Cuz at this point
It’s all about the healing
So peace to the broken hearted
The start overs
The dreamers still searching
For their four leaf clover
The survivors of the 9-5
Yes and all of the spirits around ya that guide us...
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The pain that I’ve lived through
Is the love that I give you
I cry daily but don’t need no tissues
Because I don’t cry tears from my eyes
I cry tears from my heart
As my eyes see this world I Love fall apart
I put it back together
Through making this art
Because the old gods are dead
And the people are searching
For the new dream
And the bombs have been dropped
More times than I can count
Still I’m here right now
Like even if the world were to end tomorrow
I’d Still plant a seed today
Bring joy to the sorrow
And I walk this beach
And throw each
Starfish that I can reach
Back to the sea
And I walk these streets
And work with the kids
At risk that I meet
To complete the prophecy
Because sometimes mistakes need to be made
Sometimes resolution is an illusion
Sometimes there are no solutions
Except to accept the pollution
make your contribution
And call it evolution
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I grew up in the woods,
in the mountains with our wolves
a hippy child free and wild
it feels like another life
so much has changed but anyways
I'd explore the forest for
feathers berries magic fairies
feeling at peace as the breeze
through the leaves of the trees
waved high
I said goodbye
to the spirit of the forest
I fell in love with the stranger
and I moved to the city
yet something was missing
can we know who we are
if we can't see the stars
I tried to go back
to that old town
but the forest cut down
the mills shut down
it's a ghost town now
so in search of the forest
where more bliss is found y'all
I want to be in a place surrounded by trees
That grew eternally but yo I worry
So from the train tracks of our past
to traffic jams on trampled lands
the city expands in urban madness
Can’t stop what’s gonna happen
And so today I'm going camping
with my family relaxed and happy
because it feels real good
to be just with my kids
playing in the woods…
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Empires Die and Life Evolves
So were here for the ride and we hear the call
cuz the world wasn’t designed for our kind
yo we never fit in those boxes or descriptions
But yo we found each other and I’m grateful for that
So Fuck The Empire and Fuck The Elites!
We Gone Rise like yeast through the belly of the beast
take to the streets
or at least have each other to seek
shelter from the storm
cuz it’s cold outside and we all need warmth
So when the towers fall we will be here
to heal and rebuild
we are made from the stars
our life is precious
yet they treat us like peasants
I see your royalty and give you my loyalty
livin in a system
where some work for tips and
some own the business
and some hate each other
because of skin color
it’s just not fair
if you try to change things
if you live for a cause
you will pay the cost
because they will marginalize criticize
minimize criminalize
they will kill you
call you crazy
and make you pay
while a warrior for freedom’s receiving no wage.
Well my friend you paid it the price of righteousness
now look at what you bought freedom
something for the people to believe in
so even when grieven were still going to raise a fist
but yo were not afraid to let the tears slip
In love and in rage we promise to persist
through the fear and the pain the fog and the hate
a terrible mix look at what it creates
more of the same yet were working for a change
so this I know only love breaks the chains
but that’s easier said than done when you’ve been harrassed
until you feel the need to carry a gun
than that becomes the reason your killed anyway
So I’ll say it again Fuck This Empire
It’s scary how with the fear and the pain
in one quick moment everything can change
that you can be murdered
your life can be taken away
But it’s all for revolution right?
Aint that what we say
for people like us
in this game that we play
So in trust may you leave
the shores of this reality
and in love may you find
your next destination on this cosmic journey
So just know the garden will continue to grow
and I love you yo
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Blessed are the weak the poor and diseased
the broken and homeless of which we speak
blessed be the pain that leads to the escape we seek
through others and lovers drugs and tv
too tired to sleep too hungry to eat
those who don’t get high no more but still smoke weed
to try to cloud the memories and fear they repeat
for when done with the running the god within we shall seek
So it’s the fear it’s the pain that we must greet
in order for the broken to be complete
So one must become lost to become found
one first must die to be reborn
So cry cry until your tears run dry
sit with your pain
let it burn your image
let it burn your name
Give in to this flame
let it burn you to nothing
for to be nothing
is the beginning
of everything…
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I just wanna live my best life
I just wanna be my best me
Don’t know why life
Likes to test me
I seek comfort though
Not in control
So I wish you could see
The stretch marks on my soul
From the rocks I’ve had to roll
While polishing my stones
Now all I know
I am the flute
Played through me be the tune
So I like to let it blow
When it’s time to grow
Your never glow unless you go
Into the unknown
So here we go
The motto I live by
Evolve or die
So I move on through detours and dead ends
The darkness and the struggle
Until we see the light at the end of the tunnel
I transform am reborn
As that rainbow from that storm
I move forward I move toward
I get lost I find my way
Now once more
I can feel it coming
My stomach is rumbling
With the hunger for something more
Ya gotta believe me
I know that growth aint always easy
It’s painful it’s beautiful,
It’s ugly
As it must be
And I know I seem crazy
But y’all can trust me
I’m just going through some things
And making my change
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Shimmy Shimmy Yo
Shimmy Shimmy Ya
I was at my meeting
For sex addicts
When I started scheming
To get me some chicks
Ever since my marriage ended
Been living reckless so hectic
DMT for Breakfast
ODB be the Essence
Texted my Ex said
Lets get freaky with our fetishes
So Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes!!!
I say Yes when I should say no
When I know better
Yet I am a mad rapper
Mad as a hatter
Heading for an early death bed
I don’t care no more
It don’t matter
Scanning my friends
At 4 in the morning
Horny for some sex
Like maybe some lady
Can save me because lately
I’ve been making myself crazy….
So Why oh Why Am I such A Nympho
God I gotta stop thinking
With my dick yo (Repeated a bunch of times)
Took me years
To discover this truth
You can change your lover
But until you heal
The pain that is under
We’re just covering wounds
Wondering what we should do
When the honeymoon is through
And we’re not each others glue
when the truth gets told
Few want to grow old
Alone but yo
The older we get
The harder it is to commit
Once disappointment
Is expected
And moments are dissected
Inspected checking for clues
Reasons 2 distance from you
For sanity, safety and lady
Baby you do it too
Today I broke down and cried
Realized where all toxic at times
Wanting a love that’s divine
Devoted to our own lives
So we can’t find compromise
We just pass
Each other bye
Cuz ever knots once tied
In time come undone
Cuz I would lie
If I said me and the ex wife
Don’t have problems in our lives
Problems with the new loves
Problems that rhyme
So it doesn’t matter
Who you are with
When true love
Is acceptance
Then the question becomes
When the depression comes
How deep can we love
And is love
Even enough?
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I never thought that we would break apart
Just live together with our broken hearts
Make it work and call it art
For the family for the empire
My desire to hold it together
Help caused us to separate
Never would have gotten married
If I knew we’d go our separate ways
Knowing what I know today
Probably never would have taken that
First date but anyways
But then gone would be the family
No more camping by the lake
And I love that family
It exist forever in the memories
That we made but anyways
Nowadays I just need
To let these memories fade…
The most important thing to me is my kids
Without them I’d probably be
Just another drug addict
But this isn’t the life
I wanted to give them
Living in a state of constant transition
From home to home I need to know
There safe I try to stay with them
Drop them off at their moms
a couple hours After they are gone
And I Already miss them
Truth is I lost sight of my own vision
Forgot who I am and how to play
Nowadays I just want the people
That I love to be okay…
The chemistry between us
Made us perfect lovers
Until our traumas trip
The triggers of each other
And past heartbreak
Makes our current love suffer
I love her but yo
I don’t really trust her
She don’t really trust me either
Were two wounded people
Trying to love again and trying to trust again
When alone we were awesome
But together we became toxic
With the break ups and make ups
Month by month, but I know this much
You are the one that I truly love
To everyone that I’ve ever loved before
I hope you know that my love is eternal
It goes from a raging fire to a burning coal
Sometimes I just gotta go yes sometimes I just gotta go
I’ve been feeling out my soul
Filling out my holes
Til I be feeling whole yo Til I be feeling whole yo
I think I need to go home
Learn to love myself and be alone
I think I need to go home
Learn to love myself and be alone…
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So at his house
The kids couldn’t play
Cuz the parents caught up
In the stress and the drama
So he learned to plant seeds
In the cracks of his heart
As he grew these fruits from his trauma
Because all the vicious trouble
Taught him to be a gardener
Passed back to the forth
And forth to the back
Had to put in the work
Just to get the harvest so
Before it would get good
It woulda get harder
And so his sword was abandonment
And solitude was his armor
As he had to learn
To be an alpha
Without the guidance
Of his father
And so he was like a child
When he met her
Treated her
Like the mother
That he never had in his life
And for a time
She became his wife
But neither role
Where for her soul
And like before
He had no control
He was stuck way down
Down in a hole
For him to level up
He had to let her go
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So I had my breakdown
And Now is the rebuild
And I still feel afraid
At my age
To turn the page
I was drunk on pain
Crazy and insane
But now I’m getting sober
Don’t really know what’s
On the road before me
Just know I need to let go
Of that old story
No more late nights
In heartache and shame to lay awake
And think about mistakes
I made that I cannot change
Still if I could
Go back to yesterday
I know I would
Before communication
Got misunderstood
Til I peered through the rearview
And in the echoes of my conscious
Yo I finally hear you
So I wonder if you hear me
Say I’m sorry and I forgive you
Cuz I still love you
So I say Thank You
Thought you’d be my wife
But you taught me about myself
As a consolation prize
Now I got so much love
That I got to give
Time to ask myself
What type of life do I
Want to live
Yo that is a lesson
And a lesson is a blessing
So I can get it right
The next time be the message
So no more stressing over
Questions of direction
Cuzzzz I will live my answers
When I live my life authentic…
I finally see it clear
I can look in the mirror
Realize I deserve
Some of that love
I like to give others
See my heart was sacrificed
2 the martyr archetype
On a narcissistic ride
That left me high and dry
Empty and low
My heart so sore
But when the time comes
To fall back in love
I’ma do it like I never been hurt before
Yo I’m like a puppy dog
I am fun and I’m cute
Still might chew through your slippers
So please forgive me
I’m not a perfect man
But I’m doing the best
That I can
And if you give me enough tries
In time I will understand.
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Now what you telling me
That you don’t matter
When you are matter
You are stardust gathered
In immaculate patterns
So the magic you have it
In your childlike eyes
Let em shine and join the dance
Honor the prayers of your ancestors answered
Cuz I believe in you
2 make it beautiful
I see it true in you
But is a mirage
If you don’t see it too
So don’t self sabotage
Self hate isolate
We all make mistakes
So own your shame
Make that change
Then release your pain
Cuz life is a game
Play it for the fun of it
Play it for the love of it
Til we taken away
On the mother ship
So in the meantime
Relax your mind
Unwind be free
We put in a lot of work
Just to get here
So cheers for that progress
Know we aint stoppin
We treat each other tender
When we lose our temper
Remember we can’t dance for another
Make them change or walk their path
Only offer our hand and words of advice
Learned from our life
So i’ll tell you again
I believe in you friend
2 dance and romance
Enchant the path
Of your circumstance
Cuz I see no logic or reason
In us competing or beefin
Just believe in me and i’ll believe in you
And together were surprise ourselves
With all that we do
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Feeling good in the hood
With my lady yeah she crazy
I am too
So life is never boring
There’s always something
For us to be exploring
And I’m feeling euphoric
Just to be by her side
Cuz I laugh when I should cry
Thrive in the hard times
I don’t need much
Just a little bit of love
Some coffee some bud
And a beat to rap too
Let’s unite with the mushrooms
Live life like a cartoon
Yep I’m an adult
And I got kids too
And I love to watch them grow
Discover their soul so
Life is so hectic but check it
We gone live our best life like...
Last year I got divorced
It broke my heart
I cried leaving my garden my home
And everything I owned
So we bonded over pain
But yo we ain’t staying there
Nah gotta keep it moving
Grooving to the now
No longer responding
To future fears
Or past traumas
We are moving passed drama
Like haha yeah yeah
You can check it
I like my new life better
It’s more authentic
The worlds in a crises
Infected by the virus
And ran by tyrants
The systems crumbling
With so many struggling
It’s time to give back
Yeah I understand that
Everyday I run around town
In love with the sound
Of the playground but now
I need to slow it down
Ease up the stress
Take a deep breathe
Release all the grief
That I’ve seen
So I can be empty ready
for the new dream
And now in between
Let us be
Not bitter for what’s been taken away
But rather grateful for the beauty that remains
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I feel good
Like I’m falling in love
Hanging with my son
Riding skateboard
To the basketball court
Gotta little cash in my pocket
The beat is rocking
And when I apply the optics
To my life I got options
Came a long way
From living in the trailer park
Getting robbed
Running from the law
Searching for jobs
Spent years on depression
Now I master my fear
Stay true to my essence
The city is my playground
Respected by all now
From gangsters to the mayor
I’m on my grown man shit
Handling my taxes
No more moving backwards
I’m living my passion
To the maximum going savage
Cuz I done lost it all
Except what matters
And it ain’t about status
But if it was I’d be the baddest
Cuz I failed more times
Then you fools even tried
And I still find success
And I feel like sex
Been tested by tragedy
Found my inner strength
And met my soul family
I’ve suffered too many catastrophes
Not to be happy
With who I am
A flawed human
Doing the best that they can
And I’m still improving
I’ve saved lives
Watch people die
And sometimes
I just want to die
Realize y’all going to love me more
After I’m gone
But until that time
I’m gone shine!
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Life is too amazing
For me to ever waste it
So I’m staying activated
In the name of creation
Juicy Fruit Tasting
Forever Dream Chasing
Say I may flirt with death
But I make love to live
Make love to her right
In touch with the vibe
So I go all night
Til the morning birds sing
And get you so high
Might as well grow wings
I used to be a kid yo
My feet in the dirt
Now I’m big bro Plaedo
Hanging with the grown folk
And tonight we gone
Gather round the fire
Dance on the grave
Of the burning empire
And sweat our prayers
Like Awwwww Yeah!
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If Life is a hustle
Then this is what our love do
it moves through the struggle
to find its way through
so if we can’t leap
over them hurdle poles
we treat em like a limbo
yo everything is changing
for some it drives them crazy
I think it is amazing
This all started with a dream
Now I’m in Love with the future
that I’m growing in the moment
flowing in the wisdom
of the rhythm in this infinite minute yeah
this is how we living it
our life is on exhibit
for your entertainment
for your education
for your motivation
for your transformation
we spreading love vibrations
all across the nation
so if your grateful
then give us a little payment
we removing obstacles
like we was Ganesh
Yes you got to know
we make the impossible
seem possible
probable and logical
because that’s just how we flow...
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It’s Tha
A - U - T - H - E - N
To the T - I, C - I
T - Y See Why
I’m Fly 2 Live
2 Die, 2 Day
I say we gotta find a way
To love and celebrate (Hey)
We came from the section 8
Where they gave us lemons
And we made lemonade
To slang at Heaven’s Gates
4 the love of the Hustle like
Ooh - Ooh - Aah - Aah - Ee - Ee
We be from the jungle
trash pandas
With that checkered past
Getting ass smoking grass
Took a nap and still I pass
Now I get the cash just to give it back
Haha had to laugh
At the haters
Even when I st-st-stutter
I’m still a bad mutha la-la-la-lover
So I ride through my city
And I see my fingerprint
I ride through my city
You see we be lit
I ride through my city
With these gods and goddesses
So I ride through my city
On that boss shit...
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26. |
Celebrate Tha Liberation
02:34
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We need a celebration
For our liberation…
time to awaken the sacred
No more waiting lives we’re saving
By breaking out the matrix
Through imagination inspiration
Innovation in this nation
Peep my proclamation
We cannot survive on the 9 to 5
When miss raising our kids
And robbed of our drive
So we don’t wanna survive no
More now we wanna thrive cuz
This paid in the first
Broke by the third shit
You know it is absurd
We rise above it like the birds
Going garbage to glory
We’re writing a new story
And the more we believe
The more it comes true
So this a celebration for our liberation
I wouldn’t wanna be alive
At any other time
To redesign and realign
With the stars with our heart
Yo I know that it’s hard
To make this transition so
We go left step right step
One step at a time
Is how we climb
To the top of the mountain
Yo I know it’s hard to keep on climbing
But we gotta keep on climbing
That sun up there is shining
We gotta keep on climbing
Until we see the view
Peer clearly through the truth
That is what we gonna do
Tell the oppressor man no more
We will pray for his soul
As we take back control
Peacefully either that or either we
Be bringing back the guillotines
To these gully streets
We tried to come in peace
Was tear gassed shot by
rubber bullets In the kidneys
We all lost our jobs
In this quarantine
So we might as well reclaim the streets
Cuz we need some relief
Our hearts are filled with grief
From watching family
Be murdered by police
And I got no hope
For no change
Coming from a vote
When told then back to go
Punching the clock
Like punchline to a joke
You have to know
The status quo
It has to go
Yo the system won’t save us
It was written to enslave us
Tax dollars as payments
To the state of surveillance
So the only solution
Now is a revolution
But I don’t wanna be a part
Of your movement
If I can’t dance
To the music
So this a celebration
For our liberation (repeated a bunch of times)
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With a Big Bang Explosion
The Word Love Was Spoken
As a verb that birthed the universe
begat the earths and the oceans
Now from the water and the dirt
emerged the human
so here I stand with mud on my hands
holding
bacterial battles molecular make outs
because under the naked moon my mushroom blooms
like tonights archetype is hermes
from mercury I’m sure you’ve heard of me
Because I prefer absurdity
on the principle
of uncertainty
so certainly
I think I am badder than most of those radio rappers
but personally
I think that type of shit doesn’t even matter
because I play my heart like a harp
and the strings sing clearly a theory
that blows smoke rings around Saturn
so yep these are mathematical patterns
word to Pythagorus
from cave walls to space walks
cradles to caskets
students become masters
We author these chapters
As Kings and Queen’s Reincarnated
to speak these truths so ancient
in a process of progress
that remains sacred
though it often feels
like were just put here as Sisyphus
to push stones up hills
go to work go to school pay dues pay bills
still all of times polishing reveals
The crystals to be clear
that we are put here
for our love to beat our fear
and to peer into the universe
as it is our mirror
until all the riddles have been solved
we’re put here to evolve...
I am Nameless not Famous
To the Empire I am no one
Yet I am one with the one
energy enters me with the sun
I Manifest like Chloroplasm The Way I move my Masses
I am the glasses that you see the truth through
And I am You Too
Who knew the voodoo is I am ego eating fish
becoming egoless
doing backflips through the double helix
of our DNA like Thoth Hermes Trismegistus
Slippin 10,000 visions into your inner picture
Sippin on that crazy wisdom a magician with the system
So y’all better listen
I dream universes with blinks of my eyelids
Time is just a pattern on my Iris
So I’ve seen it all before and I’ll be here again
to battle the shadows turn monsters to friends
I am the serpent the mycelium beneath the surface
A spiritual gangster like Jesus Christ Merry Prankster
Overturning tables on the bankers and the money changers
Beyond good and evil I’m both God and Devil
So I am not afraid of your fear or your pain,
your greed or your hate
Your Devils your NSA that big brother the man
that incestral mother fucka whose also our uncle sam
With this knowledge of who I am
You Cannot Kill Me
For The End Is The Beginning of My Circle
So I remain
Eternally Fertile
Through The Cycles of Circles
That I Spiral Through
I’m Just reborn remade and renewed...
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So here’s what we gone do
we gone make our dreams come true
after 13 years
I’m sorry boo
they couldn’t be with you
I guess you needed someone new
and when I reflect I guess that I did too
so the relationship changed but the love remains
and it’s so strange the other night
I scrolled through my timeline
and felt that I lived a few lifetimes
yo there's been so many faces in so many places
and we’ve all had our reasons
for how we’ve moved through our seasons
so I have love and no anger
for all the friends and neighbors
who’ve know become strangers
The moon has its phases
we’re all vibrations
in states of transformation
so with seeds in one hand
and a gun in the other
we find each other
in back alleys and the streets
to laugh and to grieve
through the pain and the glory
of all the side stories
So I have dope friends we do dope things
we laugh we play we work for change
we get drunk on the weekend and hold each other up
yo we’re family related by blood nah
It’s a spiritual bond
that is felt in the soul
as we melt in the flow
and trade yesterdays for tomorrows
yo I used to be scared of my death
now I accept it as another step in
my soul's quest for perfection
so let's lose our mind
and find a good time
we gone dance in the rain
until the sun shines
and I know so often
we feel lost and alone
so we find each other
and we find a way
through the unknown to where wisdom is shone
together we go
on our walk home…
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Plaedo Eugene, Oregon
Plaedo is a story telling hip hop philosopher of play. Plaedo is a true M.C.- A Master of Ceremonies who Moves Communities with a Message to Communicate. Plaedo can Plaedo has been spotted at poetry slams, coffee shops, festivals, schools, protests and street corners performing, spreading peace, love, joy, and wisdom with his brand of performance art he has labeled "Tribal Hop Raptivism" ... more
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