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Earthtones

by Crown City Rockers

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1.
Intro 00:33
2.
Another Day 03:30
Another Day Another day scribe writing fighting the force The fabulous never faking the funk Fool fever in my bones got me sweating solid gold microphones On some brand-new leave me alone Or love me to the world sunset earth unfurl Long arm of the pen, I done did it again From miraculous men and women that blend Into the earth rotation wind The roads hard and long but yo I be And that’s a guarantee that you could never disagree Another day rhyme writing fighting the force Saying nothing when I speak gotta stay on course But sometime a brother just wanna spit rhymes Talk about my shine or my zodiac sign and bra That’s the element that make me love the song It’s the balance or ma’at come along Rhyme writing fighting the force that make Mother nature laws deal with man laws I gotta pause on that and react to what’s real Cuz no man can make that sunshine feel Deal with folks best after solo time No interruption from the world creeping in my mind Another day scribe writing fighting the force Another day rhyme writing fighting the force CHORUS: Another day rhyme writing pressure is on I stayed up all night making hip-hop songs yo Now it’s 12 noon soon I gotta pay rent It seems all the loot I got before I had was spent Now the hustle start again I look around my crib Scouting things I could sell just to make that dough Another day rhyme writing pressure is on Aint kept up with my friends now the vibe is gone Yo I know I need to call e-mail or write It aint nothing personal I mean the love is tight It’s just the last 5 years I been seeing mad change Became more introvert it’s all so strange I’m Rhyme writing pressure is on I wanna move to the desert play guitar songs Move away from the big city crime and fear Cept I know the world needs me here you too Peace to all of the heads in the b-sides crew The ghostface night was hype and sade too Live band beat crew trying to make things fresh Hip-hop purists hating on us trying to bring that stress CHORUS:
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BALANCE I float with the sensation of flying underwater aqua acrobatics like dolphins flippin’ backwards tuckin’ in and the returning or plungin’ in swimming deep in the sky diving got a eagles eye to keep a close watch on you watchin me watch it now we futuristic you could miss it if you blink some shootin stars will fall with this pad of ink if we were in the same crew yo I’d have a fatter link just sit and think about it while we push it to the brink and route it thru your city thru your town come on now we rip it down dynamic duo shining like a jewel deep inside your pool of thought come on just rock with me I float with the elation of sunshine and rain similar gain frame the aim on point we rock citizens I’m hitten them and gaining momentum when spittin’ truth and venom all these suckas is sickenin a yo scarub (it’s like a bodyblow) crown city fa show interlock with the 4/4 makin it grow rockin the show dance fevah people let me see ya started on the kik but then I ended on the…I know you love it so I do it one more time the flow and vibe feelin blend rollin’ up the skin I’m in h2o and cinnamon flavor and some vitamins Chorus:We came to give you what you wan’t counterbalance it with what you need/ what you want/what you need/ what you want/what you need It’s the end of the world as we know it yeah it’s the changing of times for better or worse or which way you’re hopping the line will you find yourself victorious or on the side of the dying and when it’s all said and done was it fun or wasted on crying we got them hot compositions for them cold city nights when ain’t nothing going right and you searching for the light see as the planet jumps through orbits like elephants through hoops peep the circus of affairs best be aware of this troop we combine to give you what you want counterbalance it with what you need the outcomes alternative medicine open up let us in soothing with music so ya’ll take heed Plant the seed water and weed marinate with some spice we ready to feed I be backpackin all alone lost in the zone lost in my dome getting grown movin along pondering the universe while I’m hittun up dag poetics I had a slave to the system I tag it ain’t all bad balance got this dude so rad words inspire so I love vocab just a baby on this earth but through hunger and thirst I got girth and on a steady quest for come on first we all in together now come on move with the rhythm we can work it out Chorus:We came to give you what you wan’t counterbalance it with what you need/ what you want/what you need/ what you want/what you need
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Sidestep Seaside Salt winds cry When you gonna see your divine Seaside Salt winds cry When you gonna see your divine Seaside Salt winds cry When you gonna see your divine Noisemaker verbalist champ of amp fire speaker Form a extra line like a fake adidas sneaker Step up front get pushed sideways Living life vivid color you stuck them grays Time pays patience cash the most bucks Travel on a planet where life sucks but Shine beautiful like earthtones Future is now, hope that you see your way home 5 minutes of funk separate the good stuff from the junk Turn it up a notch let the beat bump Get crunk jump bounce to bling bling But never get attached to no material things Got style finesse brown skin, bird chest Funky like James Brown back-ups you wack what wassup the whole crowd now knows You got fresh beats but you lack them flows and you keep getting chickens cuz you jock them hoes You can’t write rhymes cuz you smoke you know Yo go to the forefront let love lead I’ll take the first step and I will succeed CHORUS: Seaside Salt winds cry When you gonna see your divine Seaside Salt winds cry When you gonna see your divine Seaside Salt winds cry When you gonna see your divine Enticing winds to call the fire Driving soul rebels cause and desire Higher to the purist ways Where truth gravitates Once again, a beautiful space VERSE 2 My life like glossaries prophesies plans Reach for the God sound walk with man Solitude harbor crude thoughts in solo Trustworthy I self help with love Blind by because maybe for season after season Breakthrough take to long Find peace in hip-hop songs cuz drums is so strong Beat out of my chest like my last Moved to caress natural factual untouchable Feelable healable realness Greater than the life span moment of bliss ness Feel so real undeniable dismiss just this Arm Leg Leg Arm Head Walking, most of my life been at war with myself But I just found jewels and tools that I need To proceed and succeed past need and greed that man feed on Yo the journey is so strong Take a hit of the rhythm and float on CHORUS: Seaside Salt winds cry When you gonna see your divine Seaside Salt winds cry When you gonna see your divine Seaside Salt winds cry When you gonna see your divine Seaside Salt winds cry When you gonna see You are, you are, divine!
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B-Boy Beat street wild style yo mtv raps Rap city 76 (cadi)lacs and soul claps Abstract, kangols and baseball hats R.T.D. l.p’s and subway maps Gang tats, kicking fresh freestyle raps Hoodied up looking so what and being in packs Star wars corner stores getting yours world tours One arm hugs, new songs making you bug Walkman’s, that rapper you can’t stand Not being able to rhyme without using your hands The running man soul jams 88 to 93 Rakim M.C. Lyte Stetsasonic Heavy D Wack M.C’s?, Fresh M.C.’s! Windmills 90’s pop lock rock freeze! Stacking cheese, 40’s and trees t-shirts khackis, doing things the G way like Graffiti on the freeway Altadena east bay, moving your neck Where your hands in the air is a sign of respect Street intellect derilect knowledge in the rhyme Greeting with a pound nod Throwing up a sign The perfect set, when D.J.’s get wreck The feeling when the music in the club make you sweat Mix tapes acting like your hard when you ain’t Sound and smell of an aerosol can when you paint CHORUS: I love, being a B-Boy! B-Boy pose while you rappin’ along Everybody in the club really feeling the song It started in New York with some tables and mics Now every country on the planet got somebody who write And that’s tight like fistfights Really going thru it paying dues doing music Tagging black books, hardcore looks Circles so the dancers get busy Culture felt and dealt from suburbs to inner cities Ugly and pretty people get with me group photos Slang rhyming to yourself just to maintain With your booming system rocking fresh gear Records in pairs B-Girls backpacks Kinda limping when you walk cuz it’s been like that Riding the rails staring at walls by train tracks Croquasacks saggin rocking with a live band Ripping next level music with the mic in my hand Where my friends is fam you hear the music groove to it Being first generation hip-hop music Culture pride rocking hats to the side plushed out rides All beat diggers worldwide Vibe to the drum loops, soul reggae and roots Forming groups, idolizing scrap and scoop Knowing the “B” in B-Boy stands for break I’m still using the term yo it sound so great CHORUS: I love being a B-Boy
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B-Boy 04:04
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Fortitude Pen and pad annihilator violator higher state of Wide awake and rhyme and vital tidal wave Enter this recital slay the mic all day microwave Mental frequencies as we take over your mind obey Trying to find a way out of this verbal maze jumanji lions Main recital making life so great when rappers praying Like they slaying something climb and raise a light And dine on they design recline and shine and trying To strike your spine and blow your mind away I’m kinda hey sorta like a Monterey eel I’ma build with the skill till it’s left and gone away Puffing on a j I contemplate this whole hip-hop monopoly The buildings full of flossers step aside and let the players play Float like a butterfly Sting like a python Walk like Egyptians Color like a krylon Dance like an African Cool like what’s happening Soul like a sneaker Rock your whole bleacher Freak of the speaker heat ya my words are the rhythm that reach ya Not a teacher but seeker return of the rhyme creature Divine in the mind keeper a beat and I’ll shine preacher Make you recline deeper the fact I’m a flow freaker Cut like 81 dance like 92 It’s 2003 b-side pedigree Ready as I’ll ever be to take over the melody Melodically melodical that’s the way we charging yo CHORUS: Mic check 1, 2, here’s how we come thru Ready to show you forms of rhyme kung fu Rock hard Move hard Latitude Longitude Attitude Fortitude Here’s how we bomb crews Mic check 3, 4, here’s what we came for Ready to explore tear up the dance floor Rock hard Move hard Latitude Longitude Attitude Fortitude Here’s how we bomb crews Verse 2 Hear the champ hit and vamp bogle b-boy stance Mic lance a sharp sword thru your entrance Freelance the sentence the raps is intense For instance just dance or body rock get amped Amped guerrillas in the mist lyricist pillaging Villages images thrill the realla so feel a the lyrical Killer dealing is healing your spirit lift Appearing the bliss take it to the infinite Living it spirited face it or you fearing it Truth are you living it The one and only benefit Magnificent motivated I’m shocking and celebrated Street and I’m elevated funky and unformulated The educated headalated celebrated elevated Meditated hella faded just went never waited Devastating ever blazing heaven raising Penetrating many nations liberating Making ya’ll a mental patient Ancient artifacts art of raps succeed Tough seed take heed Apollo creed with speed Vocabulary you need words freed to breed Ready to feed any race color or creed c’mon CHORUS: Mic check 1, 2, here’s how we come thru Ready to show you forms of rhyme kung fu Rock hard Move hard Latitude Longitude Attitude Fortitude Here’s how we bomb crews Mic check 3, 4, here’s what we came for Ready to explore tear up the dance floor Rock hard Move hard Latitude Longitude Attitude Fortitude Here’s how we bomb crews
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Maxlude 00:37
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Fate 05:04
Fate I seen sun in places that ain’t never seen sun Fantasies of you vision life to come My one, introduction to a real life Energized so live facing world strife Been waiting for you and ain’t even know your name Came at the best time sun clearing my rain And it was best; I wasn’t ready for the manifest Completion, perfection every time we caress Nothing less, cinnamon, mango lips Her hips and mine fit and makes me trip I realize the whole time I stumbled along Every breath that she breathes is my favorite song Word is bond body is a temple of light Eyes inspire these words I write And on moonlit nights you shine like pyramids Reflect God’s beauty, ancestors’ wisdom Chorus: Gotta be forbidden that I feel this great Most High all praise for fate, true indeed CHORUS Verse Two Let me count the ways she got em in a daze Happiness haze joy for days I’m saggin thinking of you Walking for blocks Diggin you like archaeologists and fossil rocks Hip Hop orange juice and croquesacks Got bangin body love and mind to match I’m attached see the stats of the words I flip For the longest time I tried not to trip But damn you got a brotha feelin hella good I wanna enter you aura and collapse Build foundations cover the maps I put that on the hand I write my raps Make love on the bank of the Nile to New Edition Inspired me to look into our ancestor’s wisdom Gotta be forbidden that I feel this great Most High all praise to fate CHORUS
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Culture 02:28
Culture Yeah it’s my culture, which means that I’m able to supposed ta’ Visualize and rise to any level I hope ta’ Sculpture scripts written down to make them future Change how it could, to the science that you used ta’ Produce the loop to enchant ancestor’s vibes Spirits of died indigenous tribes, Allah inside provide all Word to graffiti on the wall glyphs tell stories of where that you are Easy now star, stand still running thru your veins Joy and pain loss and gain ghetto and fame Sun and rain like my spirit can’t be contained And so I break outta the same combine with others to frame my Culture! That’s the truth in the truest form, like my son being born Adding on to the strong, like a break in the song lay the foundation of what I stand on A hip-hop song, c’mon that’s Culture! Tradition fruition of past combined with Present and future to meet on a path Check the math in the generations It’s the problem with politicians we facing, they got no Culture! Missionaries enter small villages with posters Images of they God civilize the savage, on average The people was safe and sound way before they was found And that’s world renown, in prayer sound and chant From Brazil to France, riverdance to b-boy stance We all enhanced by the flow My uncle Clarence to Geronimo Heart beat to the flow of drums in the congo o’ Culture!
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D Minor 9 05:44
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Simple 04:14
SIMPLE The super fresh breath now exhaled holy grail of vocab Superseding unbelieving boastful m.c.’s Who achieve fame but lack real game I spit fire with the heat of flame You fake like game boards at soul train awards Rocking with hoards of ancestors Rock dashikis to polyesters khaki cut offs Hard and soft perfect balance Challenge the kid get touched by the talents Sweet honey in the knock touch the bass frame the song Track rap along tell your friends it’s the bomb Long time coming I rock when the beats coming Flip like a samurai Suzuki expert Work it well gel perfect with the word script That’s true nicest like when icis transformed to lin que I send you the listener for your head and shoulders Flip my mic around and lay it back into the holster Like that CHORUS: You said you was tough but you got touched what Happened to the hardcore when it came down To the test you was rocking the same sound You gotta step up your shine, hey yo If you can’t write rhymes Then you shouldn’t write rhymes It’s as simple as that just appreciate rap If you can’t write rhymes Then you shouldn’t write rhymes It’s as simple as that just appreciate rap VERSE 2 Pro stereo sonic enhanced chance to duplicate zero Negate your hopefulness gift Play this for your pop’s say it’s the new rock Tougher than smooth jazz and harder than pop Hold your chops thru Babylon with hip-hop I stand firm and take heed and don’t stop Knocking my crop thru the forest where cops holding the street I maintain with soul singers and fresh beats That’s the heat raise outta your seats I distort your world vision like fox Clear the scope show the hope for all folk Travel the world and move blessed Then backpack back to the west I’m conscious to the words that I manifest And that’s the real but know I can still get ill I’ts the determined and still strong Raashan Ahmad Crown City crew every members holding they own Reppin the zone keeping the strong building the song Making things grow plus moving along And you Said you was tough but you got touched what Happened to the hardcore when it came down To the test you was rocking the same sound You gotta step up your shine, hey yo If you can’t write rhymes Then you shouldn’t write rhymes It’s as simple as that just appreciate rap If you can’t write rhymes Then you shouldn’t write rhymes It’s as simple as that just appreciate rap
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Heat 03:15
Heat This the scene, midnight hookers and fiends Black asphalt sin city holding the dream Pretty Kareem, dark skin legend I mean Nickname black supreme pushed weight and held cream On one, evening night colder than most Martin luther king and fifth was his favorite post Got approached slow motion rolled up on his spot Throw up green skylark off white rag top Instinct yells COP, Kareem showing his wheels mid thirties living the real loving the thrill hop a fence with skill style finess and stress confidence like who won test the legend and best 40th and west buick shadow the run Kareem quickening the pace thru alleys it’s fun 20 years on the run kids all over the hood went from G th O.G. life is good first shot ricochet thru wood adrenalin peak tires scraping the concrete the block is heat CHORUS: He in the passenger seat his road dog taking the wheel 45 minutes after sniffing can’t feel ready to kill tonight Kareem will stay still 17 year old cold sweating foreal car peel to a stop, next faze foot race 20 yards closing quick energy thru space bystanders saw a trace of the boy and man same size body and glide the way that they ran could have been fam point aim gun jam no matter I’ma beat him with the might of my hands hate in his glands Kareem never saw this one his was facing himself in the form of his son first blow was fun Kareem loving to scrap but when he saw the mirror image his flow was off track shank to the back combo to the ribs next thought before he outted should of raised them kids night enveloped the ground muffled the sound tears flowing with the fists everytime they pound rage and peace found in the very same place Kareem died tonight with a smile on his face CHORUS:
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Earthtones 02:57
Earthtones Earthtones cover the path I’m First strong revising the math that Burst on the planet but crash 365 wise wind move it’s browns crèmes greens the butter that low tones bring to color rap filling up the forest chorus that surround sonic silence opposite end blend earthtones out of dome experience headphones bring a strong deliverance get gone lost from how you living it movement underbrush and inner blend the rain stay Rhodes focus maintain don’t fold I wrote this on the edge of the forest staring into neon back against shades of autumn 180 free spectrum of sound the ground be me alive with puddles I found this bliss I witness is just this plus this is bliss I witness it’s EARTHTONES!
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Without Love Somebody said we stole the cookies out the cookie jar Praying hard for the sun and the star see Allah Hold it down gave us genesis and nemesis no Gave us loving so the spirit will grow so Where did we go wrong? On and on stream the questions Answer in my subtle dream sessions Hard to learn a lesson when I don’t respect the preacher Hard to be a seeker every student is a teacher Gotta reach the top let it knock Thru your speakers pop We counteract in the government plot Now lick a shot CHORUS: Without Love We are miles apart No doubt it left folks without it Cold hearted and parted lift voice and shout it No wonder all the stress and strife plague the planet It’s deeper than the structure that emerge from the granite I slam it from the soul Roll to the outside put Glory and pride aside encase the vibe Worldwide is the scene whatever yourself seem Folks say it’s a dream I’m living the real thing Whatever the earth bring keep it in first string Next time your hurting just let your soul sing CHORUS: Without Love We are miles apart We got bridges and gaps and taps and iller raps Stacks of wax flipped putting killing to tracks Filling the maximum passion blasting facts Live up your life did you have to ask, no I spit that willie natural now check that buddah flow And with this loving in my life the world look beautiful I wake up early in the morning stretch and touch my toe I need you with me in my life cuz man that’s all I know We do it digital with ohms poems for future leaders For my homies and all of my senoritas ya’ll complete us CHORUS: Without Love We are miles apart I seen it on the radio heard it on the TV. Images and words saying how we ought to be They follow prophecies then they got divisions in religions Corporations build prisons it’s business decisions Living on this foundation that’s been planted long ago Cats like willie lynch never wanted us to grow But the real flow came much long before Wall street dividends or even a world war That pure uncut 100 percent vibe Family reunion electric slide type of ride Love CHORUS: Without Love We are miles apart
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10:53 03:57
10:53 I been told that I got the light in me And most time those telling reflection I see Started out curios to the world I live Attracted to the vision so positive Flow free with the beauty of peace on earth Make it happen non-stop and I’ll rock it first With that supreme soul inherited from most high Life is like a dream in my dreams I fly I believe it’s all about give and receive Open up to the sunshine and feel the power Minute after minute and hour after hour And hour after hour when days turn to months But everybody gon rock if it’s just once Upon a time I thought about a fresh ass rhyme And how I could make it manifest in my world The idea was great but the action never happened Procrastination got me once again Just like lust envy and my so-called friends It’s the end opposite and I the first to be Riding on the back of love with hip-h o p Like Feeling like jazz That feeling more important than the stuff I has That feeling more important than the stuff I got That feeling more important than the stuff I’m gon get CHORUS: I been told that I got the rhythm in me And most time those telling reflection I see Came to be like the flower full bloom in the spring Enhanced with o2 from the songs I sing Feeling like im falling down and I’m caught off track Weighted by inhibition music bring me back And with that mantra I’m success in form Shed my disbelief now Raashan’s reborn Adios bad feelings farewell much doubt I done came into my own and yo it’s time to be out Follow me, no follow me no more Want my troubles to be left behind Far behind my being seeing so clearly now I’m, taking a siesta to relax my mind So I could, take hold of the mic and rhyme So I could, follow my path towards the divine My soul love cool what you thinking of The straight and narrows alright But sides and above show the whole set Yo respect the intellect from the inner you cousin It just makes sense remember views better from both sides of the fence look around ya’ll and look around peoples and look around ya’ll and look around peoples CHORUS:
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No Sense 02:52
NO SENSE Yo the coco low afro professional metaphor vessel Word special renegade aid pen and pad friend Call me jaws scully like a shark fin Cuz I’m bad as can be press the track to wax Recline relax journey thru the concrete cracks Write graffiti on the bus stop hip-hop-don’t-stop Pop lock look around lost in the sound of metropolis Who’s rocking this surplus of vocab Take it old school grab my gonads I mean dag Chilling in a superman pose Headnoddin up and down kicking fresh ass flows Scuffed kicks no time for fake hip-hop tricks Like black fist picks and work boots Yo troop rock hard hold down your boulevard God Too much time thinking bout broads lawd Change your image right now just a scrimmage Humility creeping in your sector to disrespect ya And expose behind the jewels and clothes Just another fake thug without flows You not CHORUS: What’s a dope rhyme if you ain’t got skills Why you front hard when you just ain’t real How you live right not knowing the deal It don’t make no sense to me Verse 2 Hip-Hop doo rock to cold freeze Motown soul sound caught up in the rhyme Rhymes rhymes hungry and alone Screaming into tape decks and broken headphones Rapping with the vision of the future generation Listening to my sound gaining inspiration I walk the cold streets in a bomber and a beenie Breathing on glass and hitting up my tag Vocab holding mad words to blend Sunshine happen when it touch the melanin Soul coaster toucher taster face the nature Of music absolute, I’d rather knuckle up than bitch out and just shoot Or better yet break dance and battle for the loot Hold your troop it’s the antique absolute Rhyming on the bus or in the back of your coupe Busting over loops cuz I’m (so fresh) rhyming off the chest cuz I’m (so fresh) reaching for the best you guess I’m (so fresh) CHORUS: What’s a dope rhyme if you ain’t got skills Why you front hard when you just ain’t real How you live right not knowing the deal It don’t make no sense to me
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Proteus 02:20

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Released in 2004. features Gift of Gab (Blackalicious), Zumbi (Zion I) , Scarub (Living Legends/Afro Classics), Destani Wolf, David Boyce.

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released August 26, 2014

All songs recorded, mixed & mastered by Headnodic
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Crown City Rockers is:
Raashan Ahmad
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Max MacVeety
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Raashan Ahmad is an MC/Poet with a thriving career. He has garnered critical acclaim from worldwide press. Raashan’s albums have garnered worldwide attention and earned him the admiration of fans as he has toured feverishly throughout North America, Europe, Japan, Australia, and Brazil. ... more

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