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Ride in the dark as a jit
We became child authors
But I'm fine with it, yes I'm fine with it
Permanent tears grow millimeters per event
Now they down to my feet
Thats a lot of traumas, but I'm fine wit it
Daddy fuck you, you chose crack over us!
You so damn weak
Step daddy beat us for small shit
I'm 30 still piss in my sleep
Yea
Okay
Where's my protection I'm just a reflection
Of you buying dope when yo kids witcha...
Nigga thats a deal switcha
Thats why I don't deal witcha
Walking around like a ghost everytime I show up to my grand mama house
You cursing my grand mama out, I'll rip the few teeth you got out
Ensures a meal to you now, but I'm fine wit it
But I go vroom vroom through this harsh life
Black car bat car make room, 02134 zoom zoom
Rocket launch problems go boom boom,
Kill-your legion of doom,
Better days now I got a bookoo
I got a bat bih ooo ooo
No thanks to you damn fool
Cold winter, no dinner
Not J. Cole but a born sinner
Ain't rich yet, but the Forbes in him
My dark days gotta forefit em
Feeling my pain when the chords hit em
Tour with em, spit a little more venom
-Crunch time and the core get him
No more days for the poor fiddle
-I done got bored with it
Clean this shit out like a chore with it
Beggin you to come along forget it
-Done- put a lil fork in it
Watching me pivot this time
Do it to benefit mine
All that I know is the climb
Shifted my motives to rhymes
Every word uttered divine
Speakerbox feeling the love is below
Push away when I know love is the faux
Premature living so steady the growth
7 this young nigga ready to go
Clean it and steam it, and ready the clothes
Uh, I'm always ready to show
Give it to those who are willing to know
Thats how you set it to blow
A decade long of this hard living it brought me down to my knees
All this mental anxiety it taught me how to just breathe
--If I never had this road, I couldn't be this far
-I'm a take this to the black, darker than Batman's car
Keep on goin, goin, goin, and you can't be stopped
Keep on rollin, rollin, rollin, you just can't be topped
Keep on showin, showin, showin, that you can't be rocked
Even when you know their hearts, darker than Batman's car
Keep on goin, goin, goin, all the way (all the way)
Keep on rollin, rollin, rollin, everyday (everyday)
Keep on showin, showin, showin, you got faith (you got faith)
Bet it all against the odds like anyway (all day)
Little did I know, who I'd become when I get old
Watchin everybody play the hand
cuz I don't bow out and I don't fold
Yeah - put in my hand I'm a get it sold
Here to open up yet still I close, uh
--Been a lil minute tho
Got my shit right let the business grow
-Thinking back then never been that low
Bank roll, unload when I hit my goals
-On time when I spit my flows
No woes, just know, that I been that bro
24/7 when I get that gross, uh
--Work round the clock
-Folks on the scene still know bout me even tho I'm not round a lot
-All year my season, I gotta feed em
Rockin my head, and got waves in my Caesar
Look at my lady I know how to please her
Yeah, tryin but never defeat him
Uh, energy never depleted
Him and then him and I'm handing out Ether
Given a gift that I hand to the people
Spillin this the paint and it covers the easel
A decade long of this hard living it brought me down to my knees
All this mental anxiety it taught me how to just breathe
--If I never had this road, I couldn't be this far
-I'm a take this to the black, darker than Batman's car
Keep on goin, goin, goin, and you can't be stopped
Keep on rollin, rollin, rollin, you just can't be topped
Keep on showin, showin, showin, that you can't be rocked
Even when you know their hearts, darker than Batman's car
Keep on goin, goin, goin, all the way (all the way)
Keep on rollin, rollin, rollin, everyday (everyday)
Keep on showin, showin, showin, you got faith (you got faith)
Bet it all against the odds like anyway (all day)
Raising up from my circumstance
Til I'm way too high like Urkel pants
-Keep it independent I'm a curve advance
Almost gave up for the world to stand
Uh, learned that I'm stronger than
My doubts, my fears, and the word of man
Stick around longer then a burden can
Hard to get it off like a burnin pan
-Crowd like Burnin Man, swaying all to my speech
Resonate with my peace
Cut it down like Bleach
I'm way too proud for at least
Let me off of my leash
And just gravitate to my soul
-And I’m not afraid, of moving in the dark
Cuz the challenge made me whole
Keep on goin, goin, goin, and you can't be stopped
Keep on rollin, rollin, rollin, you just can't be topped
Keep on showin, showin, showin, that you can't be rocked
Even when you know their hearts, darker than Batman's car
Keep on goin, goin, goin, all the way (all the way)
Keep on rollin, rollin, rollin, everyday (everyday)
Keep on showin, showin, showin, you got faith (you got faith)
Bet it all against the odds like anyway (all day)
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2. |
dedicate
03:59
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Dedicate
Split it up
Go our ways
Love at times, our mind and we seen better days
This house is not a home at best instead a cage
Dedicate
Then let it fade
High school love, that burns likes flames
they found that rush at high school games
And then that touch, it just can't go away
This must be us, it just can't go astray
Walking miles to get to you
Step by step you know its true
This spring we got a fling
We sing and let the old renew
Give your all to me, I'll give my all to you
A son is born in winter time
It begins and then he knew
Split it up
Go our ways
Love at times, my mind and I've seen better days
This house is not a home at best instead a cage
Dedicate
Then let it fade
Click, picture time, family on the page
What's up underneath, another beast and a father with some rage
Put it in the heat,
and the image starts to fade
They don't get along, do each other wrong, but they try their best to stay
Then little brother's born,
Off of Alexander lane
Then the drugs invade, and the love abstains
Every day he's home it's like we see another face
Til it's all no more
And that portraits been erased
Split it up
Go our ways
Love at times, my mind and I've seen better days
This house is not ahome at best instead a cage
Dedicate
Then let it fade
Gotta keep him warm, and my little brother's cold
I don't know this room, and the walls smell old
Where the hell are we, when the sun's so low
I try and fight with all my might, but I'm not that bold
Get us back to safe, I said get us back safe
If you get us home I swear to God, my life I'll dedicate
Anybody listenin, take somebody with a cape
So I hold my brother tight, til the sirens on the way
Split it up
Go our ways
Love at times, my mind and I've seen better days
This house is not our home at best instead a cage
Dedicate
Then let it fade
Lesson learned to never break
All the hearts that dedicate
To trusting you, and what you do
If you're angry there's a better way
Feel the weight, close ya eyes and meditdate
In therapy, take care of me,
and grow from my mistakes
Watchin us grow to better days
Can't stop this crop with a bed of flames
Even if you lost I’ll a find a way
Light of my life, I'm in a maze
Quicker pace,
Gotta keep up I don't mind the chase
Thinking I'm wrong never mind debate
You are my one, never calculate
So, -- we can stay
Can't wait to see what we grow
Kid in tow on the country road
Say it, I just wanna take you home
Playing our favorite song
Love you, when we don't get along
Don't be like Kevin's folks
Never leave me alone
Keep us here
Never stray
Love always, my mind and I know better days
This house is just our home and we got kids to raise
Dedicate
Don't let it fade
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3. |
sunset
04:00
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And when I wake up take me home now
Yeah
Every day I'm staring at the phone now
Yeah
3 months gone hangin on messages
And only adults know what the method is
My head stay bowed just like a Methodist
I'm restless, seeing pawpaw serving me breakfast
Runnin' round the hall in my capes
A pillow case with safety pins, I'm just tryna escape
And my friends and them can kinda relate
Another marriage gone and it's impacting my day
Suprised that I'm not packing my faith
Just what I didn't know I was packing to stay
Ain't no easing in it I just had to be brave
Knock up at that door and let me out of this cage
How'd it ever come to this
Longing for the things I miss
But its been days away
Just peerin on the outside
All of this on my mind
Knowing that things can change
Sitting in the office cuz I'm fighting on the bus stop
Protect my friends cuz I'm tryna feel my nuts drop
And what not, yet I'm feeling all alone
Bro retaliated hit my tooth up on a stone
And to this day, mark of rememberin
Of that house on 34th that I was living in
Shit, this again, no regrets
Cuz if I didn't live it then I wouldn't be the best
Hmm, -just forget it and lets go outside
The sunset long so we can take our time
Let's imagine see where we can take our minds
See the better days, it'll be just fine
The street lights on, gotta go in
Reality hits this where I live
Man I'm tired give me somewhere to lay
Then knock up at that door and let me out of this cage
How'd it ever come to this
Longing for the things I miss
But its been days away
Just peerin on the outside
All of this on my mind
Knowing that things can change
And I don't blame what you had to do
I wanna let this go so I gotta tell the truth
Don’t want nobody judgin so I tell the booth
Recoup, when I put my voice over every loop
I've been living with these lyrics every day
Sit in sessions, keep passin up on everything to say
Put this album out and leave it all on the page
Then knock up at that door and let me out of this cage
How'd it ever come to this
Longing for the things I miss
But its been days away
Just peerin on the outside
All of this on my mind
Knowing that things can change
Sun down riding round in James whip
Only 8 years old feeling dangerous
Nigga I can't wait until I'm famous
Stacked and living lavish ain't doin no mo favors
Ready so ambitious, they can tell I'm gifted
When I'm home I keep working on my diction
With precision, Terry Jr. circumvent the dickens
Ain't no wishin when the Lord put ya on a mission
-Now listen, don't be alarmed
Get the fuck up out my way and I don't mean no harm
Slayin emcees, I said don't need no Bentleys
Notorious like Biggie,
I'm winning anyway if they don't get me
Singing, rap, producing Hydra when I'm lucid
Try to count me out and how they get so stupid
Mmm, its Music for the Underdogs
I'm here for competition, I want all of y'all
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4. |
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I’m from a lil house on the west side
Shot gun dreams but we tryna live our best life
Stackin up, coming home from the Best Buy
Studying the lyrics of that nigga from the Bedstuy
Yeah, sittin on the bars and the gold
Sneaking out late go to bars for the goals
And while they at the mall with an arm full of clothes
I'm tryna to get some numbers but no car so its no
Step daddy steppin on the porch
Made me feel tense like he stepping with a horse
A star with the war cuz he one with the force
Cussin at us all that's just par for the course
You better have his meal ready
Pass him the remote so he feel steady
Get up out the way, go to bed and I pray
Lord make me feel brave so I kill Eddie
I'm livin on the West Side
That's life at its best right
Now Eddie love to drink Bud Lights
And try to tough me up so he pick up fights
But I've been getting strong so he give up twice
Always getting swept like when you pick up rice
It's kinda like we picked our plight
Living out in hell not a drink in sight
And every afternoon gotta hear him gripe
About not making money and his bitch ass life
Hmm, I guess one night he had enough
All that stress and the trama, no wonder it added up
Both parents dead no wonder he had it tough
He must of wanted out and that house had him cuffed
So, meanwhile he plottin on the ride
“When I get home beat the shit out my wife”
-Ooh it's his chance, she's arrived
But what he didn't know that I been up, surprise
Just livin on the West Side
That's life at its best right
Trigger warning, reminiscence
Bet Eddie felt strong when he's wrong with this fist
My brother and my sister at home so I'm pissed
This is my chance, got my phone and brick
Hit him cross the dome so he'd gone with his shit
Been wanting Eddie dead so I long for the risk
-I would take jail over this
Dail 9-1-1 while I wail at his tip
My family so you better come correct
I'll fight to the death with a knife at my neck
Never been gang but it's Blood I protect
Like Pirus in the West keep home on my chest
-So eventually he left
Alluded his death, God must of seen best
-Fight or flight mode so close to the nest
Wonder how I coped with this test
Livin on the West Side
That's life at its best right
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5. |
exclaim!
03:42
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Throw a little holy water on my head
I'm too tired for the message
I don't need nobddy preaching to me
While I'm 13 tryna eat my breakfast
Managed to be fine going this far
Now I'm trying not to go nuts for a good bar
Peer into my soul for a gimmick
Listen out, I ain't heard a good soul in a minute
I ain’t gon explain
why I wanna exclaim
and let it all fade away
let it all fade away babe
I ain’t gon explain
why I wanna exclaim
and let it all fade away
feeling no shame today baby
Good God, good God
In a room full of crooks I'm just tryna be the good cop
Dark clouds circling my head
That's why in middle school I kept looking for a good WAP
Cause love gotta let me in deep,
Get them cheeks in the sheets, til its TLC creep
Need a lot more like a DLC leak
Tryna get at everybody like they on Cc
I don't give a damn about the damage
Pressure as a kid, but a man gotta manage
Power dynamics, can I be candid?
Grow up in the hood, fuck shit comes standard
That's why I'm so angry and demanding
Been around trauma since playing in the sandbin
That's why we wanna the party in the mansion
Broken inside but we still keep dancin
I ain’t gon explain
why I wanna exclaim
and let it all fade away
let it all fade away babe
I ain’t gon explain
why I wanna exclaim
and let it all fade away
feeling no shame today baby
Took my first sip in a white Caddy
Riding round slow showing off for my step-daddy
Cause this is what a man be
9 years later, back seat getting handies
Not a saint, I'm just complex
I can write a good song, it's just better with some context
Studying the game while flippin through a Complex
If I didn't focus I was bound to be a con next
Hmm, what I miss
Got my face in my palm while sleeping til the benedict
Somebody must have prayed for me
Saw I had a gift and put art in the way for me
It was easy to forget when the day's crumby
Feelings try to catch me and that's why I spent the day running
Paid hundreds, I'm still a mess
And I’m tryna share my story, I'm just running out of breath
I ain’t gon explain
why I wanna exclaim
and let it all fade away
let it all fade away babe
I ain’t gon explain
why I wanna exclaim
and let it all fade away
feeling no shame today baby
Let it all, run away
Wash it all off, let it flow in the rain
Drip on the ground let it soak in the grain
Letting go of the pain babe
Let it all, run away
Wash it all off, let it flow in the rain
Drip on the ground let it soak in the grain
Letting go of the pain babe
Let it all, run away
Wash it all off, let it flow in the rain (Good God, I'm glad that it's over)
Drip on the ground let it soak in the grain
Letting go of the pain babe (If not will you let me know)
Let it all, run away
Wash it all off, let it flow in the rain (Good God, I'm glad that it's over)
Drip on the ground let it soak in the grain
Letting go of the pain babe (If not will you let me know)
I ain’t gon explain
why I wanna exclaim
and let it all fade away
let it all fade away babe
I ain’t gon explain
why I wanna exclaim
and let it all fade away
feeling no shame today baby
I know things may not go my way
Watch my tears and they flow like rain
Drip on down and then soak that grain
Telling the world to let go that pain
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6. |
in the mail
03:08
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Started in the bedroom, right next to the basement
Feelin' like I'm in the Matrix, but it's like I wouldn’t face it
Looking up where the days went, chasin
No fans, no bands, no stands, just work
My brow get hotter than the pavement
Sittin in amazement
My doubts, my fears just melt in the pages
See my dreams, I fiend, and all the seeds I sow, yeah
Just cooking up and saving all my dough, huh
Like Christian names just raising all these hopes, yeah
Set my sails, til I prevail, cuz I don't sink I float, yeah
Spilling my thoughts like lemonade, in a daze
Break it up and let it hit the waves
Man I’m feelin like a kid today,
Little rebel in my DNA
Catch fade like MMA
Center my thoughts then waltz, just dance up on these stars
Let me gone this far,
Let me hone these bars
Never gone sub par
Meanwhile my pawpaw helped me grow, yeah
Meanwhile keep sharpening up my flow, yeah
Do overtime and shit them folks can't know
No stopping me, took a lot to be, on top of all these lows
They can count me out
I will never fail
Pockets always swell
I keep doing well
They can count me out
I will never fail
Pockets always swell
Cuz the check is in the mail
Pushing my way right through, look up and its deja vu
Hustle for the pay per view, never been that phased by you
Do my thing and I make my loot, uh
Navigate the bars then leave, getting this large ain't free
Living my life for the work, gotta slide by the curse
No control and it just ain't me, yeah
Livin every minute, on my grind, I can get it
Put in 18 hours when he rhyme independent
I'm a make it doing crime ain't the business
Niggas like me do fine, we the winners
Sit with something fine at the dinner
Get up and it's time to deliver
Never doing fine in the middle, gonna climb to the pinnacle
Due time like an interval, aiight
Meanwhile my pawpaw helped me grow, yeah
Meanwhile keep sharpening up my flow, yeah
Do overtime and shit them folks can't know
No stopping me, took a lot to be, on top of all these lows
They can count me out
I will never fail
Pockets always swell
I keep doing well
They can count me out
I will never fail
Pockets always swell
Cuz the check is in the mail
I'm here now, heads up and my fears down
Spent many nights with my tears out
And I jump to the front when the cheers loud
Look in front of me never sheer doubt
Never really focused on my peers now
Chargin right ahead to the lear's down
They can make it all up but don't fear clowns
Meanwhile my pawpaw helped me grow, yeah
Meanwhile keep sharpening up my flow, yeah
Do overtime and shit them folks can't know
No stopping me, took a lot to be, on top of all these lows
They can count me out
I will never fail
Pockets always swell
I keep doing well
They can count me out
I will never fail
Pockets always swell
Cuz the check is in the mail
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It’s heatin up but I want you
Man, guess a thing ain’t changed
Could look around but don’t want to
But that thangs always the same
I wish you know what I go through
With these things inside my brain
If you wanna come thru, I’mma be right down
Cuz I ain’t got time to play
Tryna get you sittin in the ride cuz it’s been a minute
Waiting for our thing to pop off but it’s been beginnin
Thinkin bout you had me lil sick I needed penicillin
Wonder why it took us so long who we benefitin
I mean, looking now it ain’t a big decision
If you really into games we can pick a mission
We be going back and forth like a racket on a court
I’m just tryna be yours for the bigger feeling
If you really want somebody
Open up the door and let them know
If you really want somebody
Hurry up before you let them go
We can go where you want to
Man, I guess a thing ain’t changed
Look I know this a bold move
But what I want they can’t replace
Now we gone passed the old news
And these things inside my brain
If you wanna come thru, I'm alone right now
Cuz I got somethings to say
Lately I've been thinking bout our bond cuz it's been a minute
Wonder if we ever level up, I just get a feeling
We can get it better all together now we benefiting
I just wanna see you every day not just intermitted
Huh, I'm tryna tell you that I'm with the business
If you really down then there ain’t convincing
We can go from being separate up to codependent
And will you be my one and only til we hit the finish
If you really
If you really want somebody
Open up the door and let them know
If you really want somebody
Hurry up before you let them go
If you really want somebody
Go and celebrate like a whole damn party
Tell em right away and then hold their body
If you love em tell ‘em so
If you really want somebody
Go and celebrate like a whole damn party
Tell em right away and then hold their body
If you love em tell ‘em so
Aiight, we in this thing forever now
Never ever hesitated and we let it out
We can get through anything aint no let me downs
You'll be right there with a kiss never let me frown
I know this kind of love sound silly
Meet me in the city where the love's like Philly
And look me in the eyes with a face so pretty
never wait to speak your mind cuz it's worth a milli
If you really
If you really want somebody
Hurry up before you let them go
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It’s looking like everybody the ops now
sitting on my high horse, I been waiting to hop down
this industry be wanting me to hop round
Circumvent the circus recognize I do not clown
I been looking for that new shit
Something everybody wanna groove with
You know that change ya mood quick
-Lord help me just to move this
Lost religion and found myself at the same time
I'm notin scripture til I'm the victor with my lines
They be chillin and twistin fingers in Mai Tais
I'm disciplinin continuous changing my life
-Internal motives dippin all them high fives
I see their struggle steady beefing like Five Guys
They can't see it but I've been focused since 5'9"
Thought I was kiddin' til I was waving them bye bye
-Got a couple angels on my shoulders
I ain't prayin they tellin me when to hold up
Well connected, I can feel it when my soul rush
You got it too, you just gotta keep ya mouth shut
I been looking for that new shit
Something everybody wanna groove with
You know that change ya mood quick
Lord help me just to move this
Icarus Gray
I see God every time I grip the pen
In the wind
And then I let him speak through me again
And I win
I’m never gone pretend like I don’t sin
In the end
My final conversation is with him
Not with them
The way I’m living ain’t coming with clout
And I doubt
You sought him for yourself to figure out
What’s the route journey of enlightenment I’m proud and devout
To always lead with love and never change what I’m bout
I don’t get caught inside of tradition or religion
Or anything that’s not based in a good moral decision
The world is not my compass or a scale I weigh forgiveness
Too fickle in they image using faith more as a gimmick
Respect and care for others is a given end of sentence
And If this the only word you ever given attention
I pray that you experience a moment that’s uplifting
and everything is shifting to bring life unto your vision
I been looking for that new shit
Something everybody wanna groove with
You know that change ya mood quick
Lord help me just to move this
-I got my focus in the right time
If you thinking you rarely feeling the right signs
I'm still a Christian, but God is different in my eyes
He's universal the physical is just our science
-We speak the language but we disconnect
-It's hard division and so we learning to disrespect
-Cuz science and religion see they both correct
We just miss it in all the places they intersect
-The spirit and the matter they combine
-Just when you lookin it at it they defined
-That's they tell you Jesus healed the blind
-You could see it if you read between the lines
But you ain't gotta listen to me
Went looking for religion then I found what it means
But you ain't gotta listen to me
Went looking for religion then I found what it means
I been looking for that new shit
Something everybody wanna groove with
You know that change ya mood quick
Lord help me just to move this
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9. |
marseille
03:03
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Sailing out to Marseille
Ride the coast all day
I just float my way
Restin' on my faith
Sailing out to Marseille
I can coast all day
My way
My way
Feeling sunshine,
Glad I ducked all that gun fire
Rest in peace to my young side,
Man of the house since ‘95
Multiply to see mine, crafting gold with each line
Top of the beat just fine, gone get out - me time
looking for peace meanwhile
I forgot to meditate this morning, so I wrote a verse instead
instead of getting worse I led, (ugh)
Every bit of hurt I shed (yeah)
Niggas wanna work like Craig (yuck)
When you really know don’t beg (chill)
Every day I grow my bread
Get Judas’s off my head
Then I relax, pick up the tax, volume is set to the max
When I get horny we right to the sax
Stroking like front, back, back
And when I get done.
That’s that.
See I’m one
Shit, that’s facts
Let me know and we gone
Let me know and we gone
Tryna get in my zone
So I’m turning off my phone
And we just sailing out to Marseille
Ride the coast all day
I just float my way
Restin' on my faith
Sailing out to Marseille
I can coast all day
My way
My way
Mind steady,
Thankin' God for my therapist
Awareness might scare them
But on my back is a Seraphim
Look at all this shit that I bear to win
Got a few skills tucked like a veteran
When the shit looks rough better vet a friend
So I get a lot of sleep in the bed I'm in
It's all for the betterment, beach front with a lemonade
and M&M's, I'm a renagade
keep plans hushed like the NSA
Boy how you get this way (yeah)
Everything to get me fed (yum)
Put a little work instead (work)
Rather get it owned than beg (please)
Charge this shit like a visa, deluxe
Chase my bank better keep up, he’s up
Rattle like plates on tea cups, speakers
Setup my way like geezers, Jesus
Watching my slice like Cesars,
Niggas wanna cut my head
Let go of the opps
Stop dread
Let me know and we gone
Let me know and we gone
Cuz I’m tryna get in my zone
So I’m turning off my phone
And we just sailing out to Marseille
Ride the coast all day
I just float my way
Restin' on my faith
Sailing out to Marseille
I can coast all day
My way
My way
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WordPlay T. Jay Little Rock, Arkansas
WordPlay T.Jay takes his underdog story and flips it into a story of success. Creating music that caters to the underdogs of today.
WordPlay T. Jay recommends:
Take the man off the summit
by Kevin Shintaku
Kevin is an incredible part of my project 'terry' and this project is exactly why I asked him to work with me. check it out.
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