Monday, February 28, 2011

Choices

Grab the mask, ask myself if I'm doing it righteous?
I've been lifeless more than once and solved a few crisis
Web slinger flow, instead of a singer glow
I make it winger so to defend I throw zinger blows
Check the wrist and check the fluid, and I do it
Dead of night with no recognition, none to intrude it
Stopping criminals, reading messages subliminal
I was in for the most pure of reasons, minimal
But nowadays the vigilantism gets complicated
Every move instigated becomes premeditated
It's like being a super hero is being the villain
And the villains are celebrated, they're making a killin'
I get held down with the tentacles made of anchors
Oil explosion of a tanker, a dent in a wealthy banker
Seeking the sea king, I'm the only one left
And I'm inept and in depth with no time to rest
The title of this tidal wave is just entitlement
And the betterment is just a settlement for our grave
Corruption's at an all time high like the fumes
But I resume the mask wearing like I'm Dr. Doom
Fantastic for your information, face it
The thing is I'm torching any kind of replacements
Though my plights and tasks are undone, invisible
It's making me miserable, my spirit divisible
Lose the heart and replace with a generator
No more emotions, use my wealth cause I've been a player!
The irony of this man is my personality layered
And no one ever dug deep enough to actually care
Never mind that, amplify my motions, quotients
Are being quoted as potent, so you should know this
Despite how I illuminate the truth with the lantern
The people see the green light and they damper
They stop and pop and are shocked so they mock
A parody they see as hilarity so I remained rock
Solid, I return to the sewers and the squalid
No brothers around and my master closed his eye lids
No one around except for all this hatred
Why not release the monster? They're gonna pay, kid!
Crack one joke, and now the whole game has changed
Burn an entire mountain of money for some change
Smile on everyone's faces, they called me mad?
Get glad, I'm what you wanted, no more being sad
The sunshine was too much for you, they did mind
So now the dark side is here, it's clear to find
That an apocalyptic frozen tundra is here to stay
Forget the heroes of yesterday, take the Bane way
I now scare crows and I go so crazy with the flow
That you should know I laughed at any joke
Riddle me this, if I belittle the wit
Then in the middle of hits, I would griddle the bit
The bat and at that, a two faced man said it best
Die a hero or live to be a villain. Yes!
Before I regress or I forget
The lessons here is to be a -

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

JustAnotherLoveSong

Intertwining fingers lacing together, perfection
Our steps lined up in the same manner and direction
Climate warming up, our bodies melt into one
The laughs we make echo, reflection on our fun
Quiet thoughts pass between us through mere glances
Conversing without words, we became through chances
The leaves fall and the rain pelts our skin
We smile through it all within we have a win
A spirit, a flame that cannot ever be extinguished
And our physical features as a unit is distinguished
People scratch their heads and look quizzically
I whisper in your ear and we giggle mystically
They don't know who we are, but they can imagine
Though it's hard to think of what really happened
Fuse into each others warmth, hand in hand
Heart and heart, we don't even understand
What this is, how it is, and what to make of it
Smudged cocoa on the counter and the oven mitt
Dishes in the sink, time flies by in a blink
We don't have thoughts together, we say what we think
Through all the weather, bad and it's inclemency
We found our own shelter for our intimacy
Crumbs left behind from grilled cheese sandwiches
Annoying couple antics, how can our friends handle it?

Embrace like lost lovers after five minutes away
Our faces are barely touching, we like it that way
Pearl white smile contrasts with my jet black hair
Yours a smooth brown and I grin wide enough to share
A tan complexion nears yours brings out luminance
Rumors about us? No one would ever stoop to it
Hall of fame couple destined to be in the year book
I wonder if anyone has us damn near mistook
For something else, someone else or a different relationship?
Well what you see first is just an interracial mix
But I guess we're deeper than that like a treasure chest
It's me and you together babe, this ultimate conquest
We can't be stopped! This is fact, obviously
Our skill together cannot be bought, Monopoly
Came through hard work dedication and all that jazz
We're the cat's pajamas, we're built to last
Preemo, indeed yo, we are bees knees, oh
We go to infinity and beyond galactic status, here we go!
Call me a bowl of Yoda soup: happy miso!
Adorable individual brings forth the best in me
A formula empirical, we have chemistry
Electricity in the Electric City
I'll make sure I'm dolled up so we BOTH look pretty
The odd couple, the flawed tussle
A match made for trouble but look at it bubble
We rose right up to be dancing with the lights on
Skipping in the snow without matching Nikes on

Sunday, February 20, 2011

30 Lives

[Chorus] x 4ish
Up up down down left right left right B A Start
We don't need cheats, we're smart!

[Verse 1]
Every time I'm on a beat the cheats are enabled
My rhymes more able and are fabled to be very stable
Yours need a leg, otherwise it won't be standin'
I'm armed with a mega buster arm cannon
Coupled with a lightsaber mic that lights and ignites
The plight like a fist in the air higher than a satellite
Punch out round 1, Mike Tyson style
Then raid the Psycho Brigade: M Bison smile
A sonic boom as I step into the room, check the status
Attack maxed, defense intense, I'm a poisonous mattress
Never sleep on me I'll remove the covers
Tear asunder and demonstrate the wondrous thunder
I surf on the verse and a lot of trouble comes about
I'll take the gold, the silver, the rubies then I'm out!
Sly cooper trooper, rock and roll like geodude
Light it up, ghost reporting just to conclude

[Chorus] x 4
Up up down down left right left right B A Start
We don't need cheats, we're smart!

On my feat is each and every Tetris piece
Increase to run these blocks so I never cease
Power, wisdom and courage on my back hand
Hero of Rhyme if you really didn't understand
Swagger and confidence in every scenario
Flowing through the stereo rolling like Cherry Os
Bump heads for coins like Mario or Mario
Work it like cardio, drink it like a party flow
I do it so fluid you can't measure or weather
This super feather fly or Raccoon tether
Whether or not I have an over braggadocio
I loop them like dosie dos or Merry Go
Rounds the nouns as I astound the town
On my pallet I challenge my talent crowned
Mind moving faster than that hog in the hedges
I keep my bars fresh like bathtub edges

[Chorus] x 4
Up up down down left right left right B A Start
We don't need cheats, we're smart!

Monday, February 14, 2011

Stuck in the Middle

Let me introduce you to a couple friends of mine
If you don't mind, but you'll like em just fine
The first one is Valor, he goes by a lotta names
He ignites with great passion, he's fire and the flames
The type of dude that dedicates his entire fiber
He's the dude that makes me a street fighter in ciphers
He never really gets tired, but strives unbelievable
It's hard to keep up with him, the man is deep in soul
I like to call him Strength, he's such an omni-don
His name is also Confidence, he is my confidant
The only thing is that he gets outta control every now and then
Loud and likes to stand out and never blend
You see, Valor is kind of insecure, though he hides it well
He's always happy on the outside, but it's hard to tell
He's got a couple problems, but all and all, in the end
I need Valor and he's one of my closest friends

[Chorus]
You've got some friends? Well me too
They're imaginary but not see through
I'm not trying to speak in riddle
But with all of my friends, I'm stuck somewhere in the middle

You've got some friends? Well me too
They're imaginary but not see through
I'm not trying to speak in riddle
But with all of my friends, I'm stuck somewhere in the middle

[Verse 2]
Reason is the brain of the bunch, the higher level thinking
Always tea drinking never letting time be sinking
He's high-effective, directed, with intelligence generous
Never letting it become irrelevant
Reason, he drops knowledge on the vapid fools
Staying calm, collected and cool like lapris pools
Valor on the otherhand is all gung-ho
But my man Reason can see when it's good to fly low
Always planning ahead, even if it isn't necessary
And he likes getting that CREAM, the best of dairy!
Reason desires the high-priced high life
But he does know it isn't required to be alive
It's just that Reason doesn't want to be forgotten
He needs to do his greatness before his thoughts turn rotten
Even so, he drops that nerdiness like falling comic books
My friend, you to me are an upside down rook

[Chorus]
You've got some friends? Well me too
They're imaginary but not see through
I'm not trying to speak in riddle
But with all of my friends, I'm stuck somewhere in the middle

You've got some friends? Well me too
They're imaginary but not see through
I'm not trying to speak in riddle
But with all of my friends, I'm stuck somewhere in the middle

[Verse 3]
Finally we have the troubled one, we call him Monster
He's like a mix of Valor and Reason unconquered
We've sent him to a doctor, but of course no cure
But's all good, we know him as one of our peers
Sometimes he slips in thoughts that are deemed scary
But his process varies expansive like a library
Monster is a little skitzo on the flow though
He switches to Hero sometimes before he blows yo
And Hero is the virtue and the gleam of brightness
That stand-up good dude that has no likeness
Hero is the person you would describe as flawless
Chilling in the office, so professional no novice
But Hero is Monster and Monster is Hero
And sometimes they all get mixed up and it goes
A bit crazy, a bit unpredictable, and difficult
But hey, these are my friends of my heart, very typical
Valor and Reason, Hero and Monster
If you take a second really to just ponder
You'll realize the song of myself, the balance of opposites
Is just how Takumi is deemed as the moderate

[Chorus]
You've got some friends? Well me too
They're imaginary but not see through
I'm not trying to speak in riddle
But with all of my friends, I'm stuck somewhere in the middle

You've got some friends? Well me too
They're imaginary but not see through
I'm not trying to speak in riddle
But with all of my friends, I'm stuck somewhere in the middle

Sunday, February 13, 2011

Saturday

[Verse 1]
Every morning I wake up and I basically lie there
With tight eyes, like wise, or a wide stare
Grab my phone and I send a text to my dearest
Automatically I get spirit and think in lyrics
I hop in the shower for bout half an hour
Minus ten minutes so when I finish
I get in it, my fitted, look in the mirror: no blemish
Methodically set up my gear like a chemist
Watch on the wrist with my favorite necklace
Check it, put on my kicks and then I wreck this
Eat some breakfast: bowl of rice for the champion
My life's a movie so I hear the musical score with violins
Gotta get caffeine in my bloodstream
Empty my tea, fix my jeans and get dishes clean
I walk to to the mall, my nearest bus stop
Saturday can't be wasted, this is the top

[Chorus] x2
My town is so down, we never get lazy
We never get lazy
I adjust my collar and I click my pen
The scholars now know that I'm once again

[Verse 2]
Seventy one takes me to my one and only
She keeps me high and mighty, no longer lowly
Where to go today? The world's our oyster
Book stores, restaurants, hell even toy stores!
Lemme get the check, the meal was delicious
I'll tip a little extra, thank you for those dishes!
Walk hand in hand as we cruise the avenues
On our shoes mind you, hey, at least I'm being true
Spend a few hours inside flipping some pages
Stumptown coffee I'm sipping should be famous
Rain soaked threads so instead let's go to bed
Back home where we can rest our bodies and our heads
Surf the web and we laugh at memes
Making jokes along the way, can't explain it is the theme
Dinner with your family? Sure why not
With you it's never I alone, never a cyclops

[Chorus] x2
My town is so down, we never get lazy
We never get lazy
I adjust my collar and I click my pen
The scholars now know that I'm once again

[Verse 3]
I kiss you goodbye and I hope on the nineteen
Time to prepare my rhymes, polish it to a gleam
Drew Kings house, what's good my man?
Ready to lay it down like sheet rock? Let's jam
Verses strewn about across the booth's walls
Unlike Berlin, this will stand tall and never fall
Recording like a stenographer, what do you call it sir?
Well I keep it popping and flashing: I guess a photographer
Brother picks me up and we feeling a little midnight snack
24 Hour Hot Cake house? Let's attack
Now we head downtown to a place for me to ground
The nouns and present them just to astound
MC Competition and the only Asian face in it
But it turns out those rappers have been diminished
Crowned the winner, let's call it a night
Today's Saturday, has been pretty alright

[Chorus] x2
My town is so down, we never get lazy
We never get lazy
I adjust my collar and I click my pen
The scholars now know that I'm once again

Friday, February 4, 2011

Literary Lion's Den

[Intro]
Every time I'm on a track, it's a hit, man!
Black suit red tie, lyrical hit-man
Making songs of myself, rap Whitman
I withstand quicksand and the tips and

Welcome to the literary lion's den
Armed without knowledge, try again
Welcome to the literary lion's den
Armed without knowledge, try again

[Verse]
I give y'all crime and punishments
My rhymes are gathered in a hundred abundances
Y'all are Idiots and I don't want one bit of it
Notes from the underground tell me that it's intimate
Getting my JD on, who's the challenger?
I'm a mix of Dilla Jermaine and Salinger
I'm the Catcher in the rye but way to fly
I call the shots from up high, call it in the sky
These phonys are baloney with their testimony
I lay down the matrimony in harmony like the Tony's
Not talking pizza, but I've got piece of mind
Machiavelli status, tactical maneuvers so I'm hard to find
I'm the General in the Labyrinth, grab a bit
And the saddest wit generates the maddest hit
Singing carols about jabberwockys way stocky
Don't mind me, it's confidence and not cocky
The five MCs that you meet in heaven
Are inside of my headphones, already connected
God sent talent that makes me balance out well
I excel well. Tale of a heart, please do tell
Frost on this track, I'm the road less traveled
I unravel, dabble and realize I'm my only battle
I stay clever and above the weather so together
My rhymes are wetter and bright like scarlet letters
Residing in the house of the lyrics, get in the spirit
The patron with mucho tone, you better cheer it
Otherwise spend 100 years inside of solitude
Playing marbles, cards without anyone to bother you
A lonely depression as you seek a great perhaps
Well this mishap has landed you inside my lap
And your Great Expectations lose inflation
The duration is shortened like a Scottish Locations
Short with the bread, greenbacks, so you dread
My style is sickening: keeps you inside of bed
I'm great like Gatsby, don't ask me
Remain classy, don't sass me or end up in the past, B!
Mercutio flow so I go plague your abode
And in this mode I shall speak in the most ancient of code
Like the catastrophe of comedy
My cue is villainous melancholy, fa so la mi

[Outro] x2
Every time I'm on a track, it's a hit, man!
Black suit red tie, lyrical hit-man
Making songs of myself, rap Whitman
I withstand quicksand and the tips and

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Freedom to Live

Dear journal, today has been of stressful nature
It seems my capers turn up with less paper
My pockets are as shallow as the society around me
As for my attempts on music, well, I astound beats
At least every now and then, my flow gets sloppy
Do I really sound like a copy? Choppy? Floppy?
I'm not obsolete and out of date, I'm young blood
Still no bud, not yet a stud and staying away from mud
What other events transpired? My transcript in pyres
My grade needed to be raised higher, I'm tired
It's wearing me down, the pursuit for a 4.0
I'd rather shout Geronimo or be playing Mario
Which reminds me, when did I last play video games?
Has my youth been eaten away by my lust for fame?
And has that aim just been feeding all my insecurities?
Well if I'm geared to be this I better hear it be
Ironically my skin hasn't increased the mathematical
But grammatical has proven to be my sabbatical
My talent lies in these words, must maintain balance
Because the sciences have shown me a greater challenge
But history is conquered by this literary doctor
Yet the proctor lies fearing the oriental monster
My own home language which I yearn to be fluent
I need to buckle down, learn and just do it to it
Meanwhile in the land of comedy and tragedy
I wonder if my acting skills will get strangers to clap for me
Or if my writer's wit is transcribed to a script
With visions and voices if I'll be something worth to sift
Find me as a diamond on a beach of rhinestones
Pick up, dial tone, in a mine zone, ordinary pine cones
I guess in the end time will tell all, but I give
Dear journal, in the end can I live?