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Odd Man Out

by Markings

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1.
Archnemesis 01:37
I am the Archnemesis The end to your genesis No felons or predicates I shatter the delicate Get placed into deficit Erase all your requisites The snakes that are venomous Poisonous, swollen Yo, call your boys up and warn 'em I ain't just going for gold My aim is to maim & destroy it You ain't gon' wake in the morning There ain't no space to deploy it You're best to change your employment Before I make this your omen But hey: Enjoy it while it lasts tho Shmings is such an asshole Spitting that tabasco Split it into shrapnel Ribbit to you tadpoles Grip it by the tassles Piffing by the grassloads Skinning 'em with glass wool Use your medula before you step to the ruler Your melon pressed into julep I'll grab your bitch by the cooter To have her spayed and then neutered I'm not insane It's the stupor This ain't a game It's the truth that I am the bane to you losers I came to shake up and rattle the cage Wake up and batter your brains Lace it with bags of the 'caine Glaciers are tapped in your veins Take it to back in the day Aching to smack up a lame Maybe attacking the reign Jake'll be asking for names Leave it to Beaver I'll feed the meat to a vegan Chop up the beef with a cleaver I'm wild unique with the steezes It's my urethra that's leaking up out the speakers you're peeping Just not a secret you keep But it's my mystique that intrigues you Who want it?
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Keep Me Down 03:36
I had a vision where I kept on spitting teeth out In my palm a neverending pile, had me creeped out Speaks loud 'bout the fear of not keeping my word I respect the passionate, that other shit's for the birds Bunch of bucktoothed fuckmooks, catch a quick one-two Guatemalan Sun Tzu, this is what it's come to Anything lost can be found, except for time wasted A direct hand towards your own annihilation I'll be your scapegoat, pin the world's woes onto me Case closed, I don't care, I'm living comfortably Carry the burden of art, learned it was ours Used the devices in my arsenal, assembled these bars Fragmented moments from the memories decayed How can you sleep at night when your energies were saved Accumulated a lifetime's worth of life lines That I kept safe just in case I lost my right mind We are alive in the strangest times, major declines But with more openings than ever, so I take it in stride The problem's in the heart of men Who are convinced they can break it down like cartilage Screaming that they gotta win Strictly partisan to to the cause, I broke all ten commandments just to follow up the 48 laws Go ahead and scream it loud: No matter how hard you push it, y'all won't ever keep me down I wanna show you where my spirit dwells Not every part of you should be put up for sale, skip the details For your consideration, these are pieces of myself From as high as heaven's peak down to the recesses of hell My recollections from the old tenement days When fam dukes broke even, making minimum wage Stationed out on 21st, northside of the Met Never lacked food, clothes or shelter, everything blessed I had a bowl cut, And while everyone was running 'round trying to get fresh, I was like: "so what" I was more concerned with building up a universe And reading through the lies to figure out just what the truth was worth Turns out it wasn't much, no one gave a motherfuck And then it hit me with the force of an uppercut I was so naive, But some of the things I've seen, I swear to god you have no idea A disemboweled cat, guts dangling on a loading dock The frozen glares of many, a love that was scalding hot I've seen the California sunset, swam the Rio dulce From strokes of genius to "how could I be so stupid?" Such is the duality that lives in us all The sort of thing that makes you wanna give up the ball I find solace in the chaos It's just a part of the game, so play on, playa I stay on the radar The space case, stoner by the corner bodega Got on for dolie, brought my cronies, I don't owe 'em no favors This is for everyone who's been pushed to the fringe But never let being excluded taint the feeling within I'ma get my Bob Marley on, filled to the brim And elevate with my audience, do it again If they could only see me now No matter how hard you tried, y'all can never ever keep me down
3.
Golden standard, propaganda On the road to riches, sold your fam out Gotta know the business, so demanding Lotta foreign interests, no companions Understand a whole world of trouble awaits Don't get Yella, like NWA You can never reprimand a pack of mutts that they bit the hand When ain't none of them ate (hold up, wait, eh) Starve the masses, cards of plastic Fund the bankrupt, Goldman Sachs it Have them all fucked, no prophylactic The boldest tactic, no open pastures It ain't just the grass that's greener Or the magazine models you can bag are meaner Or the Panacea bottles, Technomarines With a power suit on, matching garbardine (gotta get that) Flyer than a jetpack, setting it off All cut from a devilish cloth (god I felt that) We're the hidden hand That'll pull the strings & act like we were never involved You can bet it's on Underneath a moon of the bluest hue Where you can't tell who is who The new improved, coolest dude Through & through Headbuster like a rubix cube (not a setback) Regal splendor, Fill the kings' coffers with legal tender Many been offered to be the vendors Retreat, surrender Increase contention: supreme agenda So picture this: no crime is every truly victimless Money's why we came here Let me show you what the business is Oh you finna get paid? Make the sort of paper that you couldn't earn If you worked forever and a day Change the template, Take that motivation so you put a term on its worth Endeavour and obey Join a hedge fund, no more of them breadcrumbs We gon' help you see racks on racks and then some Deposit all that, half for pension Cashback advances when the checks come All you gotta do is put your scrawl on the line Cross t's, ensure you've dotted the eye I know it's moving kinda fast And the dubious have a knack for telling lies but trust me, bruh All of us signed The custie, the fiend and the cleaner Luck of the greedy, believe us Cuffing the needy to feed us 'nuff for a trip to Ibiza Everyone convinced they can beat the system Feel the need to mention their cheap position Get the statement right so we keep consistent Tryna shed some light so you seek its wisdom See the rich have a deep connect And redirect their green to get that interest Keep it circulating So they reap the best to each collect and sweep the debt Got it? Capiche? So next step up in the pyramid scheme Is to get a regime to go and give up the dream Get in between the men and machine Keep the overhead low as possible, limit per diem With the means of production out of their hands Make it splash like a catamaran No evidence, no witnesses I'ma show you what the business is
4.
The rat race changed the landscape On your last legs, barrel towards your maker, fulfilling your mandate At a set pace, strutting for the edge of the cliff I'm in a different headspace than these irrelevant pricks I bet you think you're a clever bastard Overstep your boundaries like death'll never happen Some hope is everlasting Bridges oceans, moves mountains Makes you brave the insurmountable, no matter who's counting I gaze at the stars bent, bask in their afterglow Could never stop the shine, until my casket closes I will not deal in maybes or what-ifs, I does this Strictly the sure shot, nevermind the dumb shit You Tom, Dick & Harry's stumbling off your 3rd rock Jumped ship, and got outfoxed like Rupert Murdoch A bitter pill to swallow, hard to digest Jagged edges rip your insides, carving your flesh When you're green, you have room to grow (But once you're ripe and ready?) It's up to you to go (I know, I know) Slowly you rot and decay Karma serves your just desserts, every dog has its day (2x) (Lex Garcia) From corporate monopoly to imposed monotony Passing by robberies, ignoring sobriety Numbing our reality, the devil is a part of me The truth is harder to swallow than pride Like I took the blue pill Hard to follow, right? Fathers are crashing planes, simple and plain Mothers are broken flowers, let's find the power To grow outta self-imposed obstacles With ceiling and floor effects, stay in the box Without breaking your necks, I wish you good luck Trying to touch the sky and remain down to earth Universal lies, the controller don't work I'm a puppet, no strings attached Life's a race, you can catch me cheating Growing as I'm breathing And I Inhale life, exhale undertanding One man standing on a thousand mountains
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Surely you can tell that I'm high From the glimmer and the look in my eye Ain't gonna stop I'm on my way to the top Spraying shots like: Wa-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-dye (3x) No I ain't gonna stop, I'm on my way to the top... I'm a slave to the rhythm and the flickering lights Hot summers, long days turn to blistering nights To get paid is the mission in life, I get it in Never fell for a bitch ruses, I'm a veteran Like Rick Rubin, hard rock Skip to the car lot Shorty in the passenger seat, making my balls drop I give a fuck about a dress code Push it to its threshold All up in her neck (ohh) Now we're by the sweatbox And I just got my rocks off Notice how her breath knocks? Talk about a bad case of halitosis Mad powdered noses Riding on the whitest horse E-pill poppers, draining fluid from their spinal cord Like: baby we can do it 'til your whole vagina sore That's when I set my sights on the temptress Restless, waiting in the line-up for the guest list Check it (Jus Frais) Bitch I'm climbing, Getcha claws up outta my coat tails I'm flying high, sailin' with no sails Money is time and I cannot spare no change Not share no days, All glory, no blaze I'm sorry (no I ain't) What the fuck was I thinking? Trippin' over you like: what the fuck was I drinking? What am I do to but suck it up and keep building Hit the drawin' board and draw some more Like I don't give a fuck, be grinning Keep winnin', never looking back As long as the globe be spinning, Keep it raw and keep it honest So that's why they say he different That and the fact I'm batshit nuts, cooky You stupid... I'm minted: loony I meant it, dukie: when I spit it like a loogie You be hollering for God like all them little broads When my dick is in the coochie I don't give a single dookie who you are or where you comin' from I just see the top of your heads, down there, from up above
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This is for big dreamers tryna shift gears in their lives, I see ya To pimps, divas pushing 645 beamers Don't fall asleep at the wheel, pump your brakes Eyes peeled, stay awake, in this day nothing's sacred Live according to the roll of the dice, raised the stakes Learned prudence,self-control of the mind, made mistakes History is littered with the corpses of wannabe bosses Who ignored the cost of building up their fortresses What is an artist but a liar and a thief Who steal their best ideas, camouflage it in deceit I am Mook Skywalker, swoop fly posture Gram spliff in hand, 80-proof rye vodka I made it out the struggle from my own sheer will To succeed and leave a trail for those that don't see good Throw fists 'til my knuckles sore, all's fair, love & war And if I gotta go I'm going out swinging, fuck 'em all To offer the listener a glimpse of what's in store Every topic that I touch upon, is nothing but the raw Unadulterated, procreation I mean fucking with the flow breeds greatness, and I don't feel hatred So I will disregard those that sit around, tryna bring you down I'll hit the circus if I wanna see the clowns A man's legacy is measured by the lives he's touched So best believe I'm reaching out until my time ease up Napoleonic complex, Alexander monstrous Strategist, the baddest spic you don't wanna contest Mythomaniac, the Loch Ness, speak proposterous Concoct the fresh, I think big, you lost the bet If you're dependant on your friends you're led straight to the grave That's why I roll for dolo, no one else is taking the blame Innocence lost, bitter winters in a sinnerman's heart Deliberately sabotaging, so I'll give up the march Dewie Cox the way I walk hard, And I'm backing up my talks like a smart card, certified top dog No need to spot me when I press I'm always plotting steps ahead, recollect, never ever second guess And I'm torn, between wanting to play it safe, the sure shot Or take it across the border, lane exchanging on the Turcott Life without a safety net, but now what makes me vexed Is that I blazed a trail, the rest are taking baby steps Up & comers are no test or rival I am an idol in my family's eyes, flyer than the friendly skies I'm the shit, steaming hot dookie butter, L-shaped doobie lover And if you don't agree, then you can sue me, fucker
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Carry On 03:37
Maybe if I slept less and dreamt more I'd be a lot more productive and significantly less bored I quit riffing like a Les Paul To focus on the task at hand, stack them grands Ravage up the chessboard I've been making less and spending more, fucking up my credit score Attention whoring out of the fear I'll get ignored And when it rains sometimes it's best to let it pour For this too shall pass if you read the metaphor Teardrops streaming down the face of my inner child I'm in a weird spot, guess it's been a while There's cracks in my foundation The beams are out of shape I mean the pillars have crumbled Right where the demon found its place You can feel it in your cuticles, visions of the Truman show Marinate behind the scenes til they give me the cue to go So my thoughts dwell, chill in the void Filled with everything that's beautiful til the nimbus' destroyed I say that, to say this I kept my eye on the ball, and that's the only thing that got me through the graveshifts Patience is a virtue few manage to apply Worried about the superficial like the Catcher in the Rye It's easy to blame the phony when you're drunk and lonely 'cuz when you look within that there's another story So I'm milking it for all it's worth like a dairy farm Yet still in all, it's so hard to carry on Dark clouds gathered on a faithful day It's safe to say the inner sanctum is a stagnant place to stay I was raised in the borough of the Archangel My thoughts tangled in an intricate web made unstable R.I.P. murals, chips in the paint, commemorate the fallen Elevate to martyrdom, the City of Saints Dark stained glass illustrates the harsh strange path Towards eternal damnation as we walk straight past Hold the telephone, behind the shadows where the Devil roams Hellfire & gravel, the time has come to send him home The shit is cinematic, Norman Bates hidden in the attic No escape, from the camera lens, the world spins erratic It's been established to orchestrate the masses Spread disinformation, what the fourth estate practices And I'll denounce them 'til I'm laid in the dirt Long Live the Duke, one time for Bad News, take 'em to church
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I flip that Hypnotic, kick knowledge, get brolic Quick minded, heightened senses, piff chronic Never concerned with dickriders, I spit fire This spic's flyer than a tilted space ship that's rip ridin' With slick tires, barreling speeds Click, blam at the D's with the pig fryer that'll split iron Under the radar so we slip by 'em, incognito Throw 'em way off, whatever's needed to uplift my peoples These frail fuckers are gullible mollusks that shake I'd go to hell so I can punch Allen Dulles' in the face Pound his mullet into place, tried to erase our culture MK-ULTRA, overthrew the Ayatollah, rape & torture Operation PBSUCCESS in Guatemala harnessed The carnage and you can bet your bottom dollar on it Not a problem, dissolve a law, revolvers, slums bombarded Pay us homage regardless tomorrow holds the dawn on us It's the return of that real life, recession-proof Timelessness, Iron Man Leviathan, step in the booth And it's epic, anthemic, start of a pandemic so call up the paramedics to haul up your ass deaded, and Nothing is as set as it seems Bonafide shitstarters bring death to the american dream blood dripping down the white picket fence Common sense for the senseless Lessons for the unrepentant The years are slowly creeping on me, quarter-century mark Meant to be smart, but the drama would eventually start Where did I go wrong? guess that all that glitters ain't a gold coin Cold, calm, weathering the snow storm I wasn't forewarned, I was so gone Cracks formed across the whole bond, latches hold on My attachment to this broken vessel reeks of desperation Tried to match it at this hopeless level, weeks'll test your patience Quiet as they turn to months and years, I turned to blunts and beer Desperate to forget, that nothing's left once it clears That's word, self-medicated, paranoid and anxious Mad annoyed the fake shit's getting on my last nerve I got a bad case of the jitters, battered lungs & liver Madness sprung the illness, now the damage done is bigger Than the personal, what's worst of all I got the nerve, the gall To curse at God when perfect flaws is that which makes of us a work of art We used to care before it started its ambivalent growth And so the game is now dangling at the end of its rope Clutching on its last fibers as it gasps for breath Hurled into a shallow grave, she raises after death And if it never happens I'm still forever rapping Conjugated slang, merging thoughts in clever fashion I reminisce on ghetto blasters, the lifestyle portrayed Before the overdoses, cosa nostra shit, the AIDS I wish I came of age in that era, it was that realer Cuz in our day, your innocence just might kill ya For the perennial underachiever, runners and schemers The loser and the undefeated, I wonder if either Meet the standards of the parents that breed 'em Reach for a handgun, cannons are the patterned procedure Maybe I'm delusional, But these right here are just a couple things I thought that you should know

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released December 29, 2011

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