1. |
Who Am I
03:07
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*I haven’t described myself as of late
but I will now*
Chorus 2x:
Who am I?
Listen to the verses
Get to know me as a person
Don’t judge me off of nothing
Turn nothing into something
Verse 1:
Hi, if you don’t know me
I will show we... gonna get acquainted
I am jaded, creative, well educated
and well, I haven’t faded
and I’m greater than Al-Qaeda
Fuck all your boys
I will kill ya, I reach my goals
That’s my favorite, in my...
past, I have had bandages
My pad has lots of scratches but
my rap stands out fantastic yup
I got mental issues without medication
They get it wrong, I set it straight then
Alex doesn’t hold his tongue
The worst stuff, I said it without hesitation
I’m one of a kind, one in a million
one person out of six billion
Chorus 2x:
Who am I?
Listen to the verses
Get to know me as a person
Don’t judge me off of nothing
Turn nothing into something
Verse 2:
I am
paranoid with OCD and ADD
plus Tourette syndrome, initials AAD
a college graduate without employment
a psychiatric patient without counseling
with patience up and out the ceiling
For strength I don’t lift weights
To get strong for what I want
I hustle up and just wait
I smoke like an exhaust pipe
and swear a lot but I talk right
whether you’re female or are a guy
I don’t know where I’m going, I’ll go right
but in this direction I have no sight
if I’m blind and I only hear those lies
It’s those guys that told lies but no I
won’t be untrue like you not no time
Chorus 2x:
Who am I?
Listen to the verses
Get to know me as a person
Don’t judge me off of nothing
Turn nothing into something
Verse 3:
Put yourself in the shoes of a bookworm
if he even had shoes he could put on
with extra layers at the bus stop to keep warm
Nothing came easy, I had to keep going
I was always teased period bottom line
They put me down, I put it down on a rhyme
I bottle it up inside so then I
go full throttle on these guys rapid fire
Alex is my own worst enemy because
bad things are born mentally, he could
get better with a shrink or psychologist
but it’s too expensive like a college cost
so I let the illness take hold of me
I used to be sweet, that’s the older me
They say everyday’s a new beginning
Beginning with today let’s see how it’s gonna be
Chorus 2x:
Who am I?
Listen to the verses
Get to know me as a person
Don’t judge me off of nothing
Turn nothing into something
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2. |
Vent
02:56
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Verse 1:
All they ever see are the frowns
All they ever hear are the swearing sounds
They don’t ever see that I really hurt
It’s not just me, it’s your and my fault
I don’t sit around and just mope
I jump on the raps and get dope
This rap will not fix this mess
This rap gets shit off my chest
Wrong or right, impolite or nice
nothing or money, dead or alive
This song is not one of those songs
that’s slow and mad, it’s for me not ya’ll
and don’t think that I truly like you
just because it’s right to be rightful
For me I’ll always be nice to everyone
I don’t ever talk shit right to you
Chorus:
Here’s the hook, is the song complete now?
If I don’t like it, is it something to leave out?
Whatever, take a deep breath
and make sure you listen to the rest of my spit
Verse 2:
This is not philosophical
no lessons of life for you to wanna do
This is for me to get better
but not fully, just for me to get up
I don’t care about your reaction
Many times it’s a purely bad thing
I feel like I’m mentally ill
Curing it myself is a hard ordeal
like coming off your training wheels
or going back to the way I lived
Obviously I haven’t killed myself
which means I still got some hope left
If you’re the same way raise your hand
if you can relate to the way I am
Screw it, you don’t have to do that thang
I already know who can and who can’t
Chorus:
Here’s the hook, is the song complete now?
If I don’t like it, is it something to leave out?
Whatever, take a deep breath
and make sure you listen to the rest of my spit
Verse 3:
Yes I rhyme yet I’m not fine
Yes to wine, just drink it down
alcohol to help you when you’re down
seasonal depression, it’s wintertime
Okay, you have to work for the good things
If you don’t they’re good for nothing
I just vent, explode with this pen
If you say I have everything, that is fiction
You cannot say I’m ungrateful
See I take care of what I gain too
Some say the rap game’s bad
Please explain that as I stay with rap
Self medication, I say what I’m thinking
Sigmund Freud, free association
Lastly, the reason people are reckless
they wanna feel fine, these lives are bitches
Chorus:
Here’s the hook, is the song complete now?
If I don’t like it, is it something to leave out?
Whatever, take a deep breath
You’ve made it through, congratulations
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3. |
My Girl Song
02:55
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Chorus:
No, no, I can’t believe it, no
No, no… no...
Verse 1:
Finding a girl, it’s not a level playing field
I never got ‘em, how would that make you feel?
My chance came at the worst time
When I’m busiest, that’s when you come around?
Why in the world should I say yes?
I’m stressed, I got lots of work to finish
I don’t get ‘em, I’m alone
Why? I don’t get it, I don’t know
Don’t get me started, girls I came to
changed to dearly departed
Ninety-nine percent of girls are not for me
One percent I want to see on my odyssey
I could probably cure cancer faster
than getting a date with a dancer
Your antithesis I know it well
Your argument is I should talk to more of them
Chorus:
No, no, I can’t believe it, no…
Verse 2:
Nobody is perfected, I said it
Forget you if you get it
but didn’t pay the price
with years of struggle and working nights
If you didn’t serve the time
you do not deserve a slice
This pie requires sacrifice
If you don’t earn it, you weren’t challenged right
My talents are sky high, you say bye-bye
My skills--the tallest hill in eye sight
In hindsight I grind but she’s walking
That’s the closest I’ve been
She’ll close the coffin
With that butt she talks, she knows I want it
but she won’t talk, she will be coughing
Where’s the problem? My side or her side?
Let’s say both sides and call it a night
Chorus:
No, no, I can’t believe it, no…
Verse 3:
Men know the flaws in women
Women don’t admit ‘em, they cold commit ‘em
Who throws a tantrum? Goes on rambling?
It’s not a man, it’s only women
Get a job and cash, wait ’til you’re 30
like only money will make me worthy
Behold the most merciless,
remorseless, need I speak more or less?
About women I exhaust myself
Girl, take a good look at yourself
That man is much more than worthless
like you need to be bought like a purchase
It’s on me to find a girl good looking
to me, they’re looking at me, they’re not talking
I guess they won’t ever change
so I’ll be better and the better man
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4. |
Rap for Me
02:44
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*Here’s another one*
Verse 1:
I beat myself up ‘cause rap
We cuss, I don’t care about that
Coping mechanism, coping medicine
so obsession will hook me since I was in
high school, I listened to rappers buzzing
I moved myself too because then
I didn’t get where I should have been
What? What will I become of, man?
Rap taught me to go for what I can
For critics, it’s good encouragement
This is not what they would’ve seen
A mic booth they are not working in
so... stop, go and listen in
I for one can’t stop listening
and... look past the negatives
It’s all music, there are no exceptions
*Ya can’t kill rap or hip-hop, ever*
Verse 2:
Hip-hop, what a rich history
Since the '70s, rap gave us celebrities
Celebrate the knowledge they kick to we
Span the globe, kids get it instinctively
If it’s clean and it’s not explicit, these
fans will listen to it regardlessly
Hip-hop head, I fed on rap
I’m fed up with anti-rap...
ideas like it doesn’t help man
but when cats can’t get jobs
they jump on the rap bandwagon
Born in Poorville, poured over here
I need this music to breathe
I see this music is me
This music is harmless
so don’t you go saying that it harms us
*Wait, I’m not done yet*
Verse 3:
From poverty to consciousness to positive
from gangsta shit to the greatest hits from A to Z
we’ve come a long way from NYC
I’m keeping it up, don’t you start hating me
They’ll keep saying the N-word forevermore
It ain’t nasty, I said it bad, there’s plenty more
where that came from, I need a microphone
Hearing my voice heals the scabs on
my back from lashes, I don’t bat eyelashes
Rap shatters wine glasses on impact
What hurts me is thinking that I’m bad
for making rap, it’s how I react
I tell a story, my feelings, I don’t want approval
I don’t care if you disapprove, it is not wrong
I will listen to rap until the end
tell you it matters, I know it for certain
*So if ya don’t like rap,
don’t say anything bad about it
Just leave it be*
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5. |
Earn It
02:41
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Hello?
*Look at this hot shit this novice has gotten
This motherfucker is really spoiled rotten
I wanna stop him but he’s not stopping
A lot of ‘em are like this, it’s a problem*
Verse 1:
I’m serving this to no specific person
I saw your thing worsen, first thing--
For my lack of, I had to attack ya
It’s natural I have to set an example
The men with less can get the strongest
Ya’ll that hoard all are nothing at all
He who persists but doesn’t lift from shit
will enlist as the best
There’s no harvest without collecting
There’s no collecting without sweating
There’s no sweating without getting
to it, doing it, moving it and not bitching
If you’re nice but unrecognized
when you rise, just wreck them guys
Restless lives testify, the rest of ya’ll
get to work for what you get right now
*He got a lot of it, more than his allotment
He didn’t work hard for it, what’s wrong with him?
Some guys worked a lot harder than him
And they hardly even got a part of his shit*
Verse 2:
I’ve seen guys get girls, girls get guys
drop of a dime, both get cars, jobs
Did they try? Fall in your lap? Fuck all that
I grew up with food with my dad
in a house, not like all this rap:
ghettos, projects, hoods, the street
Kiss my ass, that is not me
Some are as happy as can fucking be
I wish you were as mad and as fucked as me
I’d get jail, you say ‘fuck,’ you’re free
Very quick you got As in college
I felt weak like AIDS throughout me
Very fast you got friends, I was teased
I searched for mine, now who’s the pussy?
You thought it was mapped out, planned out
Now you tell me who’s the man now
*He doesn’t wait, never slaved for a thing
He doesn’t understand that he just ain’t shit
He’s soft, why’s he gettin’ that?
Maybe he’d change if I kicked his ass*
Verse 3:
You thought rough road was easy street
You just bust loads and beat your meat
I love struggle, I reach the feats
I won sucka, just eat defeat
I know all my shit, I’m confident
I got it, it’s no problem
That’s the consequence of hardworking
and to not give in when it’s hard to win
Well you did not wait, you act fast
It ain’t great with no brakes, you have crashed
I didn’t make you race through that bad
Stand on your own two feet, be a man, man
Man up your whole routine, you need a plan
If plan A fails, follow your B plan
Then you’ll see cash but here’s the catch
You need to keep at it, your grind needs to last
*I don’t give a shit about him
We’ll see how it plays out in the long run
Between us, this race, which one won?
If he don’t fall down he’s still the wrong one*
Whatever
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6. |
A Day in the Life
03:16
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Chorus 2x:
Some got it really bad
so don’t be getting mad
Be thankful what you got
for things to build upon
Verse 1:
He came back from school
passed for credentials, a few months passed
a few bad interviews, a bad mood
a trip to Cali interlude
Got a job, moved into Apartment 2
always on the move
no friends, no family, paychecks, unhappy
paranoid, swears he going to swear and
yell, flip the middle finger
swings his car into a single space
checking things over and over again
losing control over everything
doesn’t know where anything ever is
feels like work will never end
writes notes, it’s hard to remember them
Society just won’t let him in
Chorus 2x:
Some got it really bad
so don’t be getting mad
Be thankful what you got
for things to build upon
Verse 2:
He talked to his mom, she started to cry
hung up the phone not wanting to fight
He showered, dressed and started his ride
It was hard to get by, he just wanted to die
At work, it was hard to say hi
They probably thought, ‘What’s wrong with this guy?’
He thought, ‘If only they saw me inside...’
He could work better with his problems aside
but it’s hard because problems started to rise
Got home and lifted a bottle way high
keeping all his problems bottled inside
smoking cigarettes, always longs to get high
driving around tipsy to wander the night
stopping at Taco Bell because he wanted a bite
Gets back home, it takes long to unwind
relocking doors, what’s going on in his mind?
Chorus 2x:
Some got it really bad
so don’t be getting mad
Be thankful what you got
for things to build upon
Verse 3:
The slightest change in his tone wavering
his boss puts him on probation
He got fired, going back to home again
The job search is not going as planned
Drowns himself in music, flowing and rap
doing checks, the refuse bin, that’s trash
gum, crumbs, toothpick, Q-Tip cotton swabs
and cotton balls, he will count ‘em all
His friend dissed him so he skipped giving him
calls and texts, he needed distance but
his other friends he knew pulled the same stunt
in his direction, he too became a victim
smoking like a chimney, the pack’s empty
on Wednesday, he bought it on Monday midday
The note said, "When I’m gone, ya’ll are fucked"
He died in his car, windows down, garage shut
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7. |
Experiment
03:01
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Verse 1:
We should be colonizing Jupiter
but we’re just getting stupider
move to the moon way from here
so when doomsday comes we’ll live on
Don’t you wanna live on? Get on
the spaceship and give the
human race a chance to expand on
Keep our minds alive forever
I wanna see the sky lit up with splendor
keep the great works of art alive
in the stars and skies like Star Trek
but we haven’t reached the stars yet
Sometimes I wanna die ‘cause
at the rate we’re going
when the earth will be exploding
after that then there will be no one
It’s the end of the world as we know it
unless we keep on growing
avoiding armageddon and apocalypse
and if this solar system’s fucked
we’ll find another galaxy exist
we’ll see show two, next episode
to be continued and no one will ever die
I promise you, I promise you
Verse 2:
No one ever remembers Joe Nobody
and if you’re famous, what about yo body?
and if you write great literature
what happens when the earth gets blown to smithereens?
The aliens won’t give a fuck
Those books they’ll still be there? In your dreams
That’s why the human race must live on
We need to inhabit other planets like Saturn
Hey scientist, start working
for you and the rest of your people
All our work must not be for cheap fun
not in vain, ‘cause if the earth just goes away
nothing matters, just blows away, oh wait, no way
Verse 3:
We’re just scurrying around, hurrying about
worrying about things that’s unimportant
We have to start turning things around
learning, making sure we’re bound to
have an impact on the future, working around
obstacles, put on spectacles, don’t make a spectacle
out of everyone, that’s for children
Put on bigger shoes, act like a bigger dude
Now one question that I put to you
Now I ask you what if this bullshit star system
that we live on disappears like a big fart then
why did you fly that kite? Ride that bike?
watch that live fight? Dine out that night?
when we’ll all just die out some damn time now, huh?
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8. |
Good Riddance America
03:57
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Chorus:
Good riddance America, you fucking cunt
Have a dick come in you with spunk
then blow it out like you no want
Good riddance, you whore
I no want to live inside you no more
Find another boy
or take that baby in you, abort
Verse 1:
Americans are too fat
Too many restaurants, too plenty
They don’t care if any
I can’t offend them, but they can offend me?
The morals are gone, no more of ‘em
The corporate moguls
got they fist up your butt or cunt
but you fags like it like it’s a butt plug
You’re buttered up
stuffed to the max with hedonism
Racism’s alive, the blacks they keep in prison
the key they keep it hidden
They creep and sneak
I flee the system, now peep the wisdom
We’re in a recession, it’s the people’s fault
The secret’s not in a vault
The culture is fucked, America’s done
One last hug and kiss, *mua* bitch
Chorus:
Good riddance America, you fucking cunt
Have a dick come in you with spunk
then blow it out like you no want
Good riddance, you whore
I no want to live inside you no more
Find another boy
or take that baby in you, abort
Verse 2:
They keep the poor poor
and go abroad and wage war
They should raise the minimum wage more
or drop the A-bomb over United States homes
I can’t take it no more
fired twice for no reason I can explore
You’ll never see my point of view
That is why I point at you
Americans are all lemmings, all blind
following leaders with no right mind
The right wing is rising, but why’s this?
A bunch of greedy bastards with no conscience
or standards, who stand behind the flag
plastered like a mask to mask
the bad actions that they stand for
Chorus:
Good riddance America, you fucking cunt
Have a dick come in you with spunk
then blow it out like you no want
Good riddance, you whore
I no want to live inside you no more
Find another boy
or take that baby in you, abort
Verse 3:
I remember the election in 2004
I made one of the biggest mistakes I’ve ever made
I only went to vote so I could feel grown
but I voted for that fake Bush, that evil hoe
I voted for Obama, but is he really worthy?
The USA’s dying pretty much early
Get it? Prematurely?
Give the death sentence to lady liberty
She must be having to shit on men
She’s misbehaving as she always is
We need to take back the land where we live
spend less while I’m on the subject
Shit, I’ll wear a construction outfit
if it’ll mean it’ll fix this shit
but I doubt it, this country’s finished
as it is, oh yes
Chorus:
Good riddance America, you fucking cunt
Have a dick come in you with spunk
then blow it out like you no want
Good riddance, you whore
I no want to live inside you no more
Find another boy
or take that baby in you, abort
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9. |
Multiple Personalities
04:12
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Chorus:
This is all three parts of me
The artist, the emcee, I’m Alex
The holy trinity, multiple personalities
(“I’m Alex D, AD and Klash”)
Verse 1:
This was before things came to be
before I knew that there was game in me
I was playing trumpet, I was humming
getting lumpy, golfing, caddying for money
I’m the geeky, nerdy, dorky Alex D
If you don’t like it, put your mouth on my phallic d
I should have known I wasn’t meant for the earth
I didn’t know shit about some men and a girl
locked in a dream world
head surrounded by clouds and
I didn’t picture a downtrend
I guess it’s better when you’re being a kid
‘cause when you’re a kid, you don’t need to do shit
especially with two parents
my larynx wasn’t as daring
but now it’s faring fairly well
I didn’t know this was hell
I was living in a fairytale
Chorus:
This is all three parts of me
The artist, the emcee, I’m Alex
The holy trinity, multiple personalities
(“I’m Alex D, AD and Klash”)
Verse 2:
Some people call me Dio, but I’m not that
Trade name infringement, that’s a rock band
Come hip-hop with me, I’m AD
Acing every examination that I’m taking
Oh your diaper needs replacing?
And you want somebody else to change it?
Here take your life and take it
‘cause I’m sick of grown folks acting like babies
What the heck else should I put in this verse? A curse?
I’m already a walking one, I’m cursed
We need to extrapolate this polar thang
on this graph I made and do a promenade
You are probably gay
I don’t know what more to say
“I’m coming for you, motherfucker,” aye?
Like Krazee-Eyez Killa and Larry David on
Curb Your Enthusiasm, baby
Chorus:
This is all three parts of me
The artist, the emcee, I’m Alex
The holy trinity, multiple personalities
(“I’m Alex D, AD and Klash”)
Verse 3:
Where’s my medicine?
Destined to be wretched
Wrecking everything that I get into
Thinking what you're going to before you go into it
Showing you and him
how human men have been losing
and how all our morals are loosening
with a rudeness trip
Klash on your ass
No matter what race, color or creed or ethnicity
all human males are niggas to me
all females are bitches to me
I’m not too big for my britches
You can’t even fit ‘em
Go inside, I’ll stomp you out like an insect
I intersect the devil’s interests
play Russian Roulette when the side of my head itches
All I wanna do is hate people
When I make a song, I create evil
Chorus 2x:
This is all three parts of me
The artist, the emcee, I’m Alex
The holy trinity, multiple personalities
(“I’m Alex D, AD and Klash”)
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10. |
Overkill
02:34
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Verse 1:
Too many people make too many useless procedures
Things are onerous, complicated, every trade is, extended dayshifts
They did away with extended vacations, hiatuses
Pressure’s on, population ascending too long
Jobs can’t keep up with the people at all
Lots of stress, people expect, never relent
Big mess, distress, duress
I’m not a complainer, bitch or negative nancy
They tell you it’s good, it’s catastrophe
Bosses are antsy
They lost touch with the subordinates, the lowers
All they do is bark orders
But what they don’t know is that we are the sole owners
Overkill
Verse 2:
Look at your tax forms, complex
Look at your legal contracts, long as shit
It’s rush rush rush
Tailing, trailing you in traffic, bumper to bumper
Workers are overworked, hurt, coerced, jerked, merked
Overexerting their person every single workday
I even feel rushed writing this stuff in the first place
Not everybody can receive first place
Isn’t that the first thing they taught you in the first grade?
But still people are sprinting and tripping and flipping out
to get to where they’re never gonna get to in the end
except for wiggin’ out
Overkill
Verse 3:
I’m a cynic but ya made me one
You’re a cynic, that’s the way we are
Take it easy, little wayward son
Be more trusting like a mother would
Don’t just fire someone for the way they look
Make the work less strenuous
not just for your friends but for everyone
Don’t say I have a bad attitude
or I’ll put your life on a permanent sabbatical
You’re a demanding dude
Relax, take a deep breath
and take a nap or two
Don’t run, amble to it
Hurriedness has reached a maximum altitude
so decompress gas and fumes
Unwind and relax your drastic moves
Overkill
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