Mekke on the beat
I'm here to create the live I deserve
I'm here to be free
You should be too
Ayo force the freedom
If it don't serve you
You don't need them
The thought of liberation
Makes your nerves weaker
Test it out
Like scientist using beakers
The one tainted chain
Break causing a leakage
Be tight like black fashion
Rocking ill sneakers
Value added
Like oration and good speakers
Thru the midst of
Fog and peak season
I'll overcome with
Will drop Rhymes
And make reasons
Electromagnetic force
Course through my veins
Kinetic energy
From before
Stored the pain
The thunder and lightning
From the storm
Surely came
Ashore
Shortly after
Petrichor from the rain
I keep the word
Of the Lord in my frame
No man shall stand
Before me All my days
Landed astray
And my core
Felt the strain
But I swore
Won't fall to the floor
Until I break
Break through
You're free to be
Who you want to be
Break through
You're free to be
Who you want to be
Break through
You're free to be
Who you want to be
Break through
Break through
Break through
You're free to be
Who you want to be
Break through
You're free to be
Who you want to be
Break through
You're free to be
Who you want to be
Break through
Break through
I need to break through
I need to be free
I need to break through
I need to be free
I'm at battle
With my reflection
The enemy telling me
Who I am Is a deception
I be like water
To test my reflection
Third eye crystal clear
To check my perception
A black and white world
Was never a thing
A coat of colors
On my medals
Getting veteran rings
And I'm just warming up
While you're settling in
Tried my hand many times
Getting better again
I flow like the wind
In sand sediments
Grow like sunflower stalks
So elegant
I rap for mine
And rap for your embetterment
I'm for the black
Like the black side of the kettle is
Nothing you can handle
Rap predator
Protect your neck
Or have your head
On the mantle
Spit straight fire
On wax
Just like a candle
Destroying Babylon
Until the case and my hands close
Break through
You're free to be
Who you want to be
Break through
You're free to be
Who you want to be
Break through
You're free to be
Who you want to be
Break through
Break through
Break through
You're free to be
Who you want to be
Break through
You're free to be
Who you want to be
Break through
You're free to be
Who you want to be
Break through
Break through
Break through
I had it all
In the crux of my palm
It was light
Slight felt
I didn't touch it at all
I worked long
Until the stars started forming
And dreams from the day
Grew Wings started soaring
Full plate
What's good from the fridge?
I remember days
I wasn't as full as a kid
Now I'm grown
See the cabinet bit different
Got to work with what's there and
Keep adding until it hits
My pen writes
But what's left I can give?
Turned tiredness and stress
Into gold, Alchemist
From the wind
I received transmissions
I know my water speaks
But I'm not trained to listen
I know the walls talk
But my back is not against them
My tongue is like a sword
When I rap
I'm really Fencing
I'm home
Should I go back
And carry out the distance
Learning to detach
For the good of the vision
Burden on my back
But I'm stronger with my lifting
And Christ is going to watch me
As I carry out the mission
Shooting for the stars
I Need the rocket for my pistons
Pockets need green
I'm in the red like Christmas
Red light district
For a man like MJ
The only thing I'm chasing
Is the MJ
We're not cut from the same cloth
You can't touch my kente
We got different walks of life
It gets caliente
I'm never short staffed
Big stick like Moses
The rose is in control
In all the places it grows in
It knows when
Fate reveals to it
What life has chosen
Here to rid my fear
Of loathing
I bask in the ambiance
Stopped my Mommas loans
Word to Navient
Couldn't stop her tears
For my Au Revoir
Couldn't even speak
When all I wanted
Was to pour my heart
Told me wished I leave
Many hours
Before our argument
If this is reality
Where's the part of the augment?
I enter metaverses
From within as I star trek
I'm left from my flight
Sign of peace
Not farfetched
Off hinged
My ankhlet
Off heads
The bar is set
Scholar at the heart
Of where my words were
Pen pierces palm
A bit further
Calm in the fervor
Staff and the rod
Bring comfort
Love in the cipher
Only want plus HP
In my circumference
Over competition
I choose cooperation
I know it's always options
I run the operations
In a random country
Lost in the stations
Took four years
Gathered all my patience
Got big
Got scammed
And lost all my savings
What a world
I break my daily bread in
Niggas out baking
Cake with revenge icing
Makes sense why
Their heart's made of ice
Naturally fragile
And self-care is rare
Won't indulge
Unless it's a vice
If it's good for you
Think twice
And move once
Because it's all that you got
I seen thru the plot
Been undid the knots
Rain on the window
Train at a high speed
Bedroom wall gallery
Of all my accomplishments
Shikuwasa water
Because I've heard
That Okinawans live longer
Ain't never been there
But I'm on it
One foot ahead of the other
Like hieroglyphics
Keep going
You got to stay with it
You got to share your story
With the kids
Make sure
They don't forget it
Go ahead and live
Among the legends
Got the wings now
Like falcon
Mans wanted football
So, we smash mouthing
QB collecting dollars
At the end
Extra orange slices
A reflection of what real life is
Seen my grandparents lifeless
So, I keep my light lit
I got to shine bright enough
So, I can reach the heavens
Across the world
To let my dreams unfold
Recorded my log
For when my story is told
Appreciate with time
Get the rate if it's sold
But the value goes higher
For as long as you hold
I stay true to my laurels
Can't let the game change you
I know my growth like florals
See what the rain do
I dig deep like
Shore-washed oysters
I write raps
For the times I felt voiceless
Call cousins
If I need grace and feel hopeless
I drifted where it's open
Shifted my focus
I turned inwards
I'm controlling my locus
Give my whole heart
Like this verse is my opus
And my spirit grew more
When my form was all broken
about
This album is a culmination of my feelings, emotions, triumphs, turbulences, thoughts, and everything in between throughout the course of 2022. Recorded in Tokyo and Fujisawa Japan, each track written and recorded in the start, middle, and end of the year.
This project is extremely special to me, very heartfelt and powerful, which meant a lot as I was able to pen this.
Thank you to Mekke, Flousen, and Nxtam for your production skills, and my Hilt members A.Valley and Monsieur Jovoni for your incredible mixing skills.