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by Allen Vice

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1.
i’ve seen idols turn to memes gods turned into pawns collapsing of regimes all the statues are gone i know nothing safe i know fort knox been empty i know nothing safe what you say i know nothing safe what you say is sacred i know nothing safe what you say is sacred yo i ain’t hiding i aint scared i was terrified at one point at gun point now he verified over weed told bro i was very high said if you think about it chief its like we never die for real just not around to the naked eye but trust very much alive the dust might settle on the west side her and I eyes locked as the sun rising now days really aint too many surprises I done seen it all how they subsidize talent for the wrong reasons blood on the line yea the dotted line yea a big fear of mine how they selling off they soul bring tear to eye would you sacrifice your soul if it means that your seed can thrive read between the lines these words of the sky transcribed before your mind just be mindful i’ve seen idols turn to memes gods turned into pawns collapsing of regimes all the statues are gone i know nothing safe i know fort knox been empty i know nothing safe what you say i know nothing safe what you say is sacred i know nothing safe what you say is sacred serpent shed it scales but it still slide the same slime same time u acsend it can drag u down exhaustion ya energy ciphoned ya lost one knowin' ms hill had warned us a long talon be hung a long line of faustian bargains I'm not budgin .... & no matter the budget there's no malice upon rather just drop the discussion cuz this mound l'm dyin alone crash courses all among yea ya tires blown I been tired it shows I stopped fryin my cells god prying my cellphone out of my fingers superior nature I ceased the escapisms l'm safe here & I can see the prisms in spaces I hope they sendin you angels as an anchor native tongues missin, my anger kindled anguish dismissive language l'm praying it all ends heaven on my mind I call dibs i’ve seen idols turn to memes gods turned into pawns collapsing of regimes all the statues are gone i know nothing safe i know fort knox been empty i know nothing safe what you say i know nothing safe what you say is sacred i know nothing safe what you say is sacred
2.
can’t run away from the past gotta face it can’t pass til the ash I gotta face it im like the moon nights pass you see the phases in monsoon foot on the gas like im racing i might crash shit I crash on daily basis yall shit not bad just not my taste and I find a lot of yall shit tasteless but still I move w grace and pray for them like goodness gracious god please teach these niggas how to rap or at least enlighten them on the time they wasting can’t run away from the past gotta face it can’t pass til the ash I gotta face it can’t run away from the past gotta face it can’t pass til the ash I gotta face it I watch my hands turn to calcium And calculate balance as I’m looking for my salvation amalgam I get my taste from the fountain Bring some paint to put my name on the chalice Running past a memory I wanna challenge can’t fake it Can’t learn and can’t take it Can’t move time but wanna make it Can’t move my eyes from the spaceships Can’t make the drive with ventilation Can’t keep my mind from creating Can’t fight urge to deviate from the basics Oblongata where I aim with a lesson in breath taking I can’t pass, till the ash I gotta face it I can’t grasp, on all that flashes through my brain My star sign resides with the pavement The same place I’m a car ride away from making stains in I know I need to learn patience but I’m looking for a balance between complacency and peace with my expiration can’t run away from the past gotta face it can’t pass til the ash I gotta face it can’t run away from the past gotta face it can’t pass til the ash I gotta face it Am I running in place Can you look me in my face And tell me the truth Can you tell me when I’m wrong You’re my little bit of peace Spliffs passed on the roof Moonlit nights Cereal with the cartoons Hand me the spoon But you the big one Her hand felt my heart Thump in my chest Back then my biggest vice Was flesh Now it’s getting high Sitting on the Lord’s steps Lord help Me reach and grab the moon Vert gone Achilles snapped But the average never dropped Every track he slapped Achilles snapped again Still score 50 Cause I have to win With these verbs I bend Watch him ascend So look out for the downfall But I’ll probably never touch The ground dawg I’ll never touch the ground dawg can’t run away from the past gotta face it can’t pass til the ash I gotta face it can’t run away from the past gotta face it can’t pass til the ash I gotta face it
3.
New Braids 02:09
im waking up blessed as fuck plays is up braids is clean and my bitch laid up sun is shining chasing bucks such and such im waking up blessed as fuck plays is up braids is clean and my bitch laid up sun is shining chasing bucks such and such feeling good fenna make a movie man pounds of the reef we gone need a moving van bounce in the street im him you a fan tried to compete go and join the loser band and play to the beat shorty tryna do her dance for me im w it and it’s sittin heavy in them pants can I grip it (yes you can) back of the civic like gettin it in we was downtown treating 4th like time square long as we can smoke and it’s hoes there im there cam for the flick cant pose in it im rare i dont be outside really in the crib im square i dont really understand the point of this life shit only thing i know for sure you cant live it twice so im im waking up blessed as fuck knowing no way you bums catching up waking up blessed as fuck plays is up braids is clean and my bitch laid up sun is shining chasing bucks such and such waking up blessed as fuck plays is up braids is clean and my bitch laid up sun is shining chasing bucks such and such
4.
Square One 01:55
how we keep gettin back here square one another page from the book of soul that i tear from last sound heard before the world ended probably be a dusty ass snare drum prolly be a angelic flip of a song you never heard nor cared for before but most likely handgun doom derivative anthems throw a tantrum woods and trees in tandem w da mandem off in the back of the mansion UAP landing if it was up to me all you bitches be abandoned bruh was really a bum pretending to be a bandit i need to sit yall make me so sick i cant stand it all this independent yall should be in panic AV set a new DIY standard cant be sittin stagnant too handsome i done gave niggas like a few chances now yall better off just shaking hands w him you don’t wanna dance the devil dance w me sticking to the plan all the raps inter planetary they was just pussy i guess cause yall was never scary lotta fake ass gangstas w a whole catalog of bars thats made up used to be gang and shit but turned into strangers turned into the type nigga i can’t hang with lame shit life comes with gets dangerous stainless pray god makes this painless shameless based god way this wave whip tasteless they wont understand til you make it face it we right back to the basics how we keep gettin back here square one how yall not realize this they’re done vice
5.
yo just in case you forgot you should know i didn’t I know it must hurt for you to know I’m winning i need the roof all missing I need the coupe all tinted I need that proof y’all did it I need recoup my digits and I’m in pursuit of my vision in the way that i had envisioned it she parasite in my mind i can not get rid of it And when im not in ya internet might as well not exist fenna put this mask on go load and lock this shit Go out and pop one you niggas the only option given this scenario opps gone where they go i don’t know Hope all is well tho I pray all is well (uh) Nothing hot as hell for me don’t try go thru this cell phone Baby It’s all plays in it spent the whole day in it riding round taking calls from it quick lane switching uh It’s all plays in it spent the whole day in it riding round taking calls from it gettin paid chillin Please don’t mind me at all Had to get up on the track Showing my a** off I’m that one n**** That they keeping tabs And you better not blink You might miss how I flow So, Talk to me nicely I can hit the booth And turn this b**** into a crime scene Aye! It’s that easy, so please don’t try me I might f*** around And have to catch me a body! You are now in tune With the lyrical Ali And he Mos Def Another Black Starr like Kweli Imma take this s*** As far as I see Got me looking at these n***** Like who gon stop me?
6.
u feel me ?? 01:21
shorty move like dai li the shadows in the night excite me inciting a riot inside of my divine energy all apart of gods femininity into infinity back to ville grounded stagnant fr en route and bout turn stack to a mill back when I just wanted a black and a meal back in the field knowing how it actually feels to feel you feel me you feel me mad cool but I keep it it tactical still nun personal the reasons I would actually kill non reversible unforgivable for that reason I actually will have to dispose of you world cold for real don’t stop turning 3/4 water and won’t stop burning my god fuck we doin here what we doin there who is this floating through the air oh is that oh is that allen aviator yea here to save the day no here to tear cause terror everywhere nigga fuck you and who standing there w ya prolly somewhere in the forest green tearing blair witch up can’t see you sorry ain’t standing in ya picture bitch one take
7.
i got hands like moses split the dutch like waters everyday from dusk til primadonna yawning stretching being honest started my day inhaling smoke yakking coughing laughing often also though same time im blessed we awesome quote flygod in my city im the zev love dylan i might let bygones be bygones if you say bye and be gone for good we good take a more conventional approach a more 3 dimensional approach ya whole team miserable we know they told me it was difficult to blow for me shit different it aint that distant no more yanno im w similee she thought it was bey bey bey when i got flowing energy flow like spent whole day within that ocean anyway tho niggas ain’t really having motion im just talking shit
8.
Big Cuzzo! 01:36
yea in any situation don’t test my patience yea shit fenna go down yea shit fenna go down this like the umpteenth time you must know it’s real forgotten punched in time working behind the grill maybe working dish maybe push boxes maybe shelf stocking either way i’m shell shocked sitting in this hell hole damn we might as well rot they say his villain arc started w ya mail box just a tiny tot walking past kick it over big cuzzo right beside me hit me on my lil shoulder said you gone be a problem when you get older now im older and the problems hit me when im this sober hell of a run you talking this shits over never begun the world only gets colder lil nigga zip yo coat up say yo prayers they gone float up we gone make it zip yo coat up say yo prayers they gone float up we gone make it on god zip yo coat up say yo prayers they gone float up we gone make it zip yo coat up say yo prayers they gone float up we gone make it on god yea in any situation don’t test my patience yea shit fenna go down yea shit fenna go down
9.
guess they want me out cold they won’t let me spit my outro im on running in and out mode s/o doh we gettin to the dough love you if you w the long haul smoking moving dirty south slow track screwed up like my mind was she toot it up i beat we switch it and she climb up shit look beautiful from down low this a movie we get groovy on some psychedelic shit no chain but my relics hits i was sitting in the moment tryna relish in it I take the blunt and roll it light it like the medicine we ride around at night dodging light evident i wonder if she still remember me i wonder if im still the mvp i hope i live and don’t end up 6 ft under cause they envy me i see they evny green i be like mike im climbing forest trees prolly in the forest foraging for some more to me i know it’s more to see I know it’s not foreign we just going A to B there used to be neither A or B but we made a destination baby go and wait for me maybe take a seat and breathe take a day to leave ain’t no way they take the lead take a leap of faith yea have faith and leap ate a eighth and took a leap of fate pray for me pray for me! s/o doh we gettin to the dough kicking in the door child of indigo type shit
10.
HOW I FLOAT 02:56
I be in the crib goin thru it Same shit day to day nun to it Inhale toxic fluids Telling all my young niggas you can do it I ain’t young bullshitted through my youth Hard to swallow The truth Nun but the truth in the music who my muse you Amusing shoutout to mechanisms abused to cope And my navy blue polo sports coat And Oaks bro said let me show you how i float & produced some new shit wide awake these daydreams seem lucid hide away these ill thoughts intrusive crosshairs right on top the elusive shot & I hit right through it drop dead stagnation never felt so alive never played chess how my chess moves right Vintage Guess sweater yea guess who’s live eye to eye easy to guess who’s lying If I ain’t know this quest was divine I would waste time trying We alive why waste time crying fruit of the labor sweet as the grape of the vine I heard ya thoughts through followed the compass cautiously I thought I lost you drum breaks over the la-da-da’s and my head bop I smoke like dem rasta w the dreadlocks better off dead stock based on a false story shots got gory lost his glory impostors annoy me lost me boring talking without shit to say how the game get this way shit’s lame & it’s on display just let this shit play
11.
Tango 02:16
pour a cup for a real nigga cant play yo cards I cant deal w ya 1992 tommy hilfiger peep how im coming thru u a lil nigga no foundation i cant build w ya cant be in the box granny still w me i smoke enough aint got no pills w me i learned enough dont hold no guilt w me they killed my brother tho it still kills me i mean the shit we seen it still chills me i mean that shit we from is real filthy fuck it we still gone have to get it bitch highly favored demons still tempt me just moving round the hood is still risky who that in this whip who that in this whip they lookin real fishy im puttin on for the city like life or death that lil part of me righteous left making these calls like im the ref killin these niggas all by my self holdin no weapon im protected shorty gone choose im prime selection every lil dollar i collected reflected every lil problem projected rejected mic check check check crew like wu protect ya neck moonlight moves less regrets you like who not like me not like gang not like team not like rain not like like sleet I can’t sleep we gotta eat we gotta win we gotta win
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closure_ 02:05
we take flight don’t take plane she aight but got bite I don’t take pain to well 2 blunts for my last 2 brain cells too much for you last night we raised hell post sex smile eyes locked euphoria you and i got lil secret victoria moonlit 2 kids exploring love energy changed we both grown i tore it up left the whole state said wait for me said i would but I can’t too patiently and so you justified in your lil hate for me but if i make it out I hope you still pray for me cause we go way back like basically to the farthest parts of my memories know ya love for me still glimmering i got love for you like frenemies we had lust don’t know bout chemistry we ran it up then we ran out of energy and my new shorty showed me what love is now i know what we had really wasn’t still turned me to a man I was bugging had to get it out my head i was running half heart was in the past and it’s none left gettin closer to closure by one step half heart was in the past and it’s none left gettin closer to closure by one step we take flight don’t take plane she aight but got bite I don’t take pain to well 2 blunts for my last 2 brain cells too much for you last night we raised hell we had lust don’t know bout chemistry we ran it up then we ran out of energy and my new shorty showed me what love is now i know what we had really wasn’t still turned me to a man I was bugging had to get it out my head i was running half heart was in the past and it’s none left gettin closer to closure by one step gettin closer to half heart was in the past and it’s none left gettin closer to closure by one step
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check wun! 03:12
check check check mic check one two, two check check check mic check one two, two check check check mic check one two, two check check check mic check one, one! I fell apart looking at a fucking waterfall emotional or human whatever you call it dawg type to make plans and call it off all because i dont know i can’t call it dawg just all feels off just all feels off check check check mic check one two, two check check check mic check one two, two check check check mic check one two, two check check check mic check one, one! I see the the sun and wish for rain I see the rain and wish for sun theory like look what you became bro hanzo like nigga you the one! taking it back to the park taking it back too boone’s dark I would just look at the moon and walk i was way to confused to talk i would just sit on the internet looking at anything for the amusing parts came across videos stumble on music ain’t notice that i was consuming art confusing taste nerdy kid and i grew up in the west still throwing hands and shit doing my best i had to plan some shit out and invest ended up partying check to check ended up further and harder in debt ended up lost alone drifting right at the end there kindled a friendship dark skin lil slim thick thing soon as we locked eyes both us knew that this was fate started kicking it every day noticed that the weather changed shorty changing everything turned to a forever thing one! love check check check mic check one two, two check check check mic check one, one! check check check mic check one two, two check check check mic check one two, two check check check mic check one two, two check check check mic check one, one!

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I MADE THIS IN A TIME LOOP
WHERE EVERYTHING WAS DARK
THE ONLY WAY TO SURVIVE WAS TO KEEP SHINING
I BECAME MY OWN LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL
I FREED MYSELF
I WAS ABLE TO SALVAGE THESE SONGS FROM THE BEYOND
I AM OK

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released March 3, 2023

PRODUCTION BY Similee, shy!!!, Pryvitt, Dohboiii, mynameisaudie, Shayro, Roundtree, and Ason Frio. FEATURES INCLUDE Ason Frio, Stephen, Shayro, SB Austin and WILL C
TRACK ONE "Sacred" MIXED/MASTERED BY Ason Frio.

ALL ARTWORK BY Forest Green.

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