1. |
Spring Showers....
03:37
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Verse 1
There's been a LOT on my mind, I been awake lately/
Went from sleeping 10 hrs, to keeping 7 daily/
I got a 9 to 5, it's a blessing this time/
I got a child in my mind til making living off my rhymes/
A car is broken down, got no way to get to shows/
But I'm saving 'til I make it, you can BET I get it tho/
I'mma get a vehicle, & I'mma work until I'm ghost/
I'mma go hard with both until my little man is grown/
See, my baby momma giveth/
We have a fight, then it/
Gets a little darker, 'cause I'm partial to the sinning/
But I'm all grown up - I need my bank account to get it/
Almost married & divorced when her daughter is a woman/
Had to get on speaking terms, now I'm on my third album/
So just how can/
You keep on listening without him/
Malcolm/
Showed that on your own still sold/
So I'm happy with pro's but I'm solo HERE I GO!/
Yeah/
That's/
Possible in fact/
Got the winners on my back, yellow hammer is tha champions/
Yeah this city DOES sleep, ain't no need for an Ambian/
We get our rest to get the rest, good luck to the camp you in/
Now you in the presence of a family running deep/
We got Yela, we got Reb-El, plus AK is making beats/
We got tha kinda drive to make us make it over seas/
What more you could ask for? Alabama sends a Peace!/-
Hook
And the shower's coming down, and the shower's coming down/
And the shower's coming down, and the shower's coming down/
And the shower's coming down, and the shower's coming down/
And the shower's coming down, and the shower's coming down/-
Verse 2
We been sitting at a bar, tried escaping where we are/
Man not far from where we are there's some cops that's stopping cars/
An when my ID is at work, they got a purpose for their work/
I got warrants for performance of my Taurus after work/
So enormous is my bad luck/
The chorus is "I get fucked"/
I'm sure that I should give up/
But not if I could live up/
To all those expectations, I'm impatient with my life style/
And by now, you see how I feel that way in my town/
It's about to come back down now/
The showers never back down/
Been told that when it's cold, that it's just frozen in the background/
And when it all blows over it's supposed to keep it fresh/
So the most that we can stress is "which is better: ass or breasts?"/
yeah/
Plus we gotta fine select/
But I gotta confess that them showers is a mess/
And the city still spins, and the city still spins/
The new city of the wind, man, you heard where we been/-
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2. |
Daze of Our Lives
03:48
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Hook
These our the, these our the days of our lives but we/
Keep grinding, keep grinding, ain't no sleep to-night 'cause/
These are the days of our lives/ X 4
Verse 1
I won't back down/
Though I know they got the crown/
Build my empire/
See their top & take it down/
See em out talking/
That's all they do, a jacking move/
No substance in their songs, so I knew I had to pack a groove/
Classic stew, I'll feed it to ya - ain't no diets over here/
Eat it up til you full, take the recipe & spread the news/
I got bigger dreams than fucking R&B bitches/
I got a son bitches!/
Try to picture better riches/
Gotta raise him til he's richer/
Find my niche & let em picture/
I wanna see him looking up, say "that's daddy, he's the victor"/
What Alabama artist you know turning down pussy/
Foot is firmly/
Planted on this planet/
Rookies pussy footing/
Cookie cut it's like I'm fucking using you like groupies do it/
Scoop your ugly girlfriend and sit beside to look brand new/
Ooh it's like you stupid, you're like Hoovers in the game/
Bet the pres had called & said "it's YOU that's changing things"/
Insane/-
Hook
Verse 2
Yo, I won't take no/
While y'all in the stop-&-go/
Over to the fast lane/
Look over/
"let's get it, Joe"/
Y'all gotta know I mean it, I'm just fiending for success/
I'm impressed with their ascension but their business is a mess/
And yes in the flesh I'm trying to get the best dressed/
I don't need to keep it flashy, if it's comfortable is best/
I'm a grown-ass man making grown-ass music/
See the trees flying by, keep it neutral, gotta do it/
It's a party tune, into it, so you know we gotta act a fool/
Throw ya hands up!/
Who wanna get into it?!/
Hold/
Yo/
Hands/
And make em touch the sky/
Throw yo drink up, get it done, bet it's a crazy night/
Crazy 'cause you made it, make some memories like Vegas/
I get faded, bet I make it til you see me in the pavement/
Now the test is/
Are we gonna be the greatest?/
Can you take it?/-
Hook
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3. |
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Verse 1 (Aldrian Auteur)
Yo where do we ever go/
When everything in life is hella-low/
And blood ceases to run through the earth's skeletal?/
Do we live on forever or do we perish slow?/
Or do we just end-up stuck in places we thought we'd never go?/
Whoa/
The question freezes the celestial/
The seeds I planted seems to never grow/
So I'm stuck here in this vestibule/
Searching for a direction but it seems there's no way to go/
My soul has sinked to the devil's slope/
Sometimes I feel like an extra terrestrial/
Who was blessed with the extra glow/
Special flow/
Giving people extra hope/
'Cause you never know/
Who can be saved by what's engraved through the X & O's/
My phonetics are visual through your pilings/
Whatever's hitting in life, I reveal it through your helix/
Critics say I'm surrealist/
I think that I'm the realest/
Capable of giving only the knowledge which I'm given/
I try to speak to the children, open they minds to listen/
I know, parents, it's hard to raise em without a village/
How can one expect to grow with no nutrition in spirit/
This is my food for thought for the tongue within your ear rim/
I feel off, & I'm too stuck in my memory land/
Searching for words to switch the position of your Enneagram/
Call me The Millennium Man/
With a pen in my hand/
I'm mentally miles from anywhere that you stand/
Circled around the earth and found my way to your land/
Hot-wire your scull after invading your head/
Gave you the information, but you refused to take it - you closed minded/
Searching for what's so easy to find, but you will never/-
Verse 2 (M.p.H)
You never know if him or her could be your downfall/
No homo, so if he, I personified a bank roll/
Thank y'all for the support so I'll know it ain't a fan/
You can't cool me down cause O'Shea the Ice man/
Fuck a fight man/
Not paying dues is how it happens/
Maybe that's what it takes to create a David Chapman/
Or is it infidelity? While you straying away/
He or she is all alone; how you passing the day?/
While she take the children, man, you sitting back puffin/
Two L's around the room - call that shit double Dutching/
Remind you 'bout your feelings, man, they ain't saying nothing/
I hope you really see the fucking hole that you stuck in/
Fucking/
Your cousin/
Just gotta say "fuck em"/
Ya told him/
He's nothing/
When you came back & stuck him/
Lucky is what you called when it don't get as ugly/
As weighing 125 & playing a game of rugby/
But trust me/
You're lucky if you can stay up-out the bookings/
Or your angel wings occasionally getting broken/
Fuck it/
You're lucky if anyone can help ya cope, an/
When it comes to One Love, ANYONE can be a rookie/
While we speaking on love, a pocketbook is overrated/
On comes the radio, you speaking what you making/
Silly mother fuckers that's like glorifying the slave ships/
You never really know like my rhymes contradicting/
You hear a line from me, you'll be surprised what I'm spitting/
You hear a line from him, you'll be surprised that he's spitting/
You live your life with me, you'll be surprised that I'm living/
Keep that in mind all the time, it'll be our deliverance/
You never know!/-
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4. |
Can't Believe
03:41
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Hook (Aldrian Auteur)
I just can't believe X 4
Verse 1 (M.p.H)
It's scenic/
Believe it, but I'm off of getting weeded/
Gotta beat it/
I'm going to show you nonbelievers that I mean it/
I was high for a time, head always in tha clouds/
Never felt a sense of clarity until I floated down/
I was/
Dazed & confused/
Sat amazed in my room/
Staring at the stereo like brides maids to a groom/
Like I understand the plan, there's a method to the madness/
There's a method to the madness but I bet I never had it/
I would/
Stare at the wall, watch the smoke swirl/
Now all I really stress is the old girl/
But back then I was in school/
Steady stressing that I'm cool/
I'm impressed I went from fool/
To the leader of the new/
Went from/
Two years of 8th to finally picking up my pace/
Not going to end this with cliches like a simile to 'race'/
I smoked/
Too much/
Thought I'm doing more work/
Than I actually was/
Man I actually flunked/
Man I actually snuck/
All of the answers to the scantrons but it wasn't enough/
I never finished with my class, knew I wanted to rap/
Even with my newer craft, my momma wants me to go back/
Ha! Picture that!
Hook
Verse 2 (M.p.H)
Fresh sky, take a second to look back/
I'm amazed about that hazing that went on in my past/
Not from/
Bullies in school, but the life I been through/
It's been a long one, but there's plenty I flew through/
Numerous tickets - think at least 13/
It was never having tags so lights flashed when they'd see/
I'd get a/
Walk to the door, "know why I'm stopping you for?"/
I'd quietly curse when they'd ask me for more (shit)/
No license or insurance so that's 3 in one trip/
Add another for the truck that took possession of my whip (damn)/
That went down until I finally sat down/
And got a license & a tag now it's time to get down/
Scoop my old girl up so we could find somewhere to curl up/
Try to avoid the tow trucks, 'cause we plan to fuck the world up/
Thought everything was great, but I knew I wanted more/
'Til an eighteen wheeler slammed right into my door (damn)/-
Hook
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5. |
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Up, UP from the bed, head squirming & swirling/
This job site's crashed, I wish I could find the foreman/
Shoot past the shoo pests, on to the new dance/
Fuck how your glass looks, up up to a new set/
SHOW me the megaphone, on some 'fuck how you feel' shit/
I'm out, and I'm out, bout to stumble up some REAL steps/-
Gotta take some bigger breaths/-
I hate this intermission, wanna skip past the commercials/-
It's like the only one of us that HATES the damn circles/-
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6. |
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Hook
I haven't seen that look in such a long time/
I've yearned to feel what could be called peace of mind/
X 2
Verse 1 [M.p.H]
Yo/
I haven't seen that look in such a long time/
Long time, wrong time, wrong place, still good to see your face/
Cute face/
Still chasing, but it's hard to replace/
Them old-ass feelings on the bed watching ceilings/
Watching ceilings/
Cold chilling; music making, call it dope dealing/
Old feelings pass when we both hit the grass/
Hitting ass & passing notes up in the class/
What a crash/
Course in being hard headed (hard headed)/
Never let it Go Low, like the boy from Philly said it/
Got me asking myself, "what's The Solution & The Reason"/
Cold season/
Use my tongue to make it hotter than the seasons/
Shit is pleasing, but sometimes my life, it ain't the reason/
Hitting trees an checking rear-view/
Watching out for treason/
But I'm leaving, but I'm leaving sometimes you'll see me speeding/
See me speeding/
Trying to figure out if it's what she did/
Ego feeding, but my peers, my peers'll be misleading/
If my body's like Christ, was she starved or was she eating?/
I drive it safe & slow but don't know nothing bout the Engine/
Word to Sean, word to Sean it's getting hazy in the Atmosphere/
A cat was there, his back was bare but shadow mixed with midnight air/
But was my decision fair?/
How CAN we coexist if you can't get near?/
I heard that you been crying, filling up the house with tears/
I just wanna say I'm sorry but you filled up all the air/-
Hook
Verse 2 [Reb-El]
Yeah, that peace of mind trying to get that peace that's mine/
From an unpeaceful grind held by chains/
But that Jesus piece is mine/
A friend showed his loaded piece and then blew his mind/
At lease joy has a lease/
But death has a open invitation/
Word to Tyrese/
Find the missing piece for us to have world peace/
Does my homie's niece/
Remind him of a piece of innocence/
But in a sense/
We're childlike 'til our sixth sense/
Is clouded by incense/
of suspense/
Lock on happiness' fence/
That we can't O-PEN
But nigga we stay HOPING/
For better days and we stay COPING/
Over this cold world but I gotta cold pen/
That rapes - better call Penn/
State/
Or you should dip like Copen/
Hagen trying to get right off the streets no Reagan/
But dough off those rhymes sheets and we living better now/
Gucci sweater, and momma said/-
Hook
Verse 3 [M.p.H]
I guess we all searching & fighting/
Looking for what's right, and/
Heading in the wrong direction, but hey, that's life/
We just living, we just living, looking for that little peace of mind/
But if you take a second, close your eyes & it'll be in sight/
Life is like a Sunday morning hunting for them Easter eggs/
take a pledge, stand on land, maybe you won't hit your head/
Throw up what you smoking on but not too high, you'll see tha FEDS/
but you can put your headphones on & drown out what the bailiff said/
Hip Hop music literally saved my life force/
So I say fuck awards/
I'm laying records hopefully to pass the torch/
Show my force/
Grab a sword, & challenge your Excaliburs/
You challengers are scavengers/
You should've grabbed a calendar/
The Mayan's saw my face/
2012 is when I'll win the race/
I'm finished pacing/
Played the game/
And laid some code down like the masons/
Now I pray I'll have it made, don't plan to cool in Escalades/
Getting payed & watching clouds, the greats are smiling down on me/-
Hook
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7. |
Untitled
03:09
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Take a seat on the grass, let it all wind down/
You may not wanna sit there 'cause it rained for about/
Hmm...I don't know/
Let's start with a toast/
To the host, baby it was your idea to get ghost/
And it's good 'cause the house can be overbearing & shit/
Well, you know, you know, I get weary & shit/
Nah, I didn't mean that I can't stay near & shit/
'Cause you know that it's not that I don't care & shit/
But anyway, babe, tell me a little about your day/
How were the co-workers, did you get there OK?/
Yeah, yeah, I know that your car is a trip/
Be lucky if you make it without being stranded & shit/
I heard of a mechanic, yeah, Booze talked about him/
Said that he was good, maybe one day we'll take a trip/
See what's going on/
He said it wouldn't take long/
Maybe half an hour, then the suspense is all gone/
What's wrong?/
Just lunch , that's it/
I just haven't seen you in a minute, see you manning the ship/
Yeah, yeah (p) REB's still talking to her/
And you KNOW Nate's ass is still talking to her/
AK?/
Well, that's ain't easy to say/
I mean I guess he's doing good, I mean he seems OK/
You know how, oh wait go ahead/
Oh yeah I remember him, man he wet the bed/
In first grade/
What happened to the homie/
I think I saw him at Walmart, but I didn't go see/
So yeah, how's your man, I...what's his name?/
That's right, yeah, I remember that game/
You & him came together, yeah, I remember his face/
I remember how you looked when you would glance at him, babe/
Oh yeah, I was jealous; I been thinking for months/
That I'm bout to ask you out right before the first punt/
But shit/
I guess it happened for a reason/
What more can I say?/
And so we stayed friends/
But I'd love to get that relationship feeling again/
No, no, don't worry, I'm just reminiscing/
That look you giving me, yeah, yeah, just relax/
When I see you, I can't HELP but think about the past/
It crashed/
Remember how we used to be?/
After you dumped what's his face 'cause on the side he had a fling?/
Yes indeed/
Yeah, yeah, I agree/
But it was so good to see the way you smiled with your teeth/
That little bounce in your walk, and the things-that-you-don't-see/
How bout that little bell and the things you said to me?/
Were heavenly/
Me, I tried my hand at style/
But but my actions couldn't catch up to what's coming out your mouth/
An now/
What's wild/
You probably gave-up all the waiting/
But only now I'm giving out what came out your mouth/
So you see?/
BET we've come a long way/
But now, even more today there's MORE roads left to pave/
More stones to unturn, no more boards for us to break/
It's insane/
I know, but tell me at this age/
Don't you think we've learned enough to brave the interstate ok?/
Maybe the butterflies'll catch up on the flowers on our graves/
I don't MEAN to depress/
But the time that we got left/
It should be spent with all the people that do truly know us tha best/-
What you say?
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M.p.H Birmingham, Alabama
Restless and passionate but with an unflinching realism at his core, M.p.H is as honest an artist as one can find today in music. A founding member of the DIY independent Hip Hop collective White Label, the artist born Matthew Patrick Holman took solace in songwriting early on as a child. His goal is to reflect the classic recordings that permeated throughout the golden era of Hip Hop's past. ... more
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