[Verse 1]What a day, what a day is something that we might say
But you're still up working too much, I think I found a gray
You treat yourself way too harsh and way too hard
When everyone around you has got dropped down jaws
I'm not trying to tell you that you need to slow down
But you're working like a slave when you've already got a gold crown
It hurts to be looking from the outside in
Seeing you walking on pins working in the dim with your stress at the brim
And this is isn't me trying to play any funny games
This is me noticing you putting in overtime and getting underpaid
Even if you fail once, you've already succeeded
I hate seeing you defeated and depleted. You don't really need it
You've parted oceans and seas and took to the skies
I'm proud of you regardless even if you only tried
So fly back home. It's getting real late.
We made you dinner and it's getting cold on your plate

[Chorus]
I don't know now, but calm down
You've already fought all 12 rounds
Put your head up because hands down
You are the best, wow

Keep moving, you'll do it
Bigger than a movement, oh you'll prove it
You're the coolest
And I'll be here thinking that I knew it!

[Verse 2]
Straight As, GPA, grade made protege
But when do you find the time to just play?
Life shouldn't be about the awards on your chest
It should be about doing the things that you love best
This is vastly all about the good times gladly
Living and looking classy if you want to ask me
Because when I meet my end, I don't want five friends
Talking around my grave about how my time spent
Quit beating yourself up. I can see your bruises
And you don't have to be perfect. You don't need those excuses
Being happy with yourself is probably the hardest
And I know that you might not want advice from a starving artist
But it took me 18 odd years to convince to like me
And now I can look at myself in the mirror much kindly
I hope in the end you can flash yourself a smile
It looks much better on you anyways: it really fits your style

[Chorus]
I don't know now, but calm down
You've already fought all 12 rounds
Put your head up because hands down
You are the best, wow

Keep moving, you'll do it
Bigger than a movement, oh you'll prove it
You're the coolest
And I'll be here thinking that I knew it!

[Verse 3]
Let me lift up my cup, I shall raise my chalice
To the girl who has turned a house into a palace
Intelligence abundance, and though it's redundant
You're over 9 thousand! No where near the hundreds
I want to toast you tonight, and tomorrow and after
Let's capture your laughter inside some nice chapters
Pictures with trophies they sure look nice
But you're here with us and you look better tonight
Your mind is stunning and you are never stunting
But still defying gravity girl you are something!
Knock out in a dress, beautiful in some jeans
Whatever you wear, doesn't matter, you will still beam
I'm not blowing smoke: I don't like cigarettes
I don't even want to hear you say that word regret
Because you've gotten this far and I'm well damn impressed
Now let's keep making bonds like we're about to invest

[Chorus]
I don't know now, but calm down
You've already fought all 12 rounds
Put your head up because hands down
You are the best, wow

Keep moving, you'll do it
Bigger than a movement, oh you'll prove it
You're the coolest
And I'll be here thinking that I knew it!

A Song About A Girl

[Chorus]
I, I, I, I, I want to love you
But if it's not right what can I do?
Everything will be alright
So baby get some sleep tonight

[Verse 1]
And I find myself wishing it never happened
If only I could sit down and retype the things I imagined
Too selfish to leave your life, but I'm only there halfway
Don't want to commit but I'll listen on your bad days
Failed to utter the words that you so desperately needed
Used you as an ego boost even though I'm conceited
Now sitting around the keyboards feeling real defeated
Existing only in blog posts without proper nouns
Keep thinking about you, can't even count the times now
Wish washy, flip floppy
You were just to cute for anyone to stop me
We both made mistakes. Mine were a lot bigger
And our status shifts as if I'm the prince talking to gravediggers

[Chorus]
I, I, I, I, I want to love you
But if it's not right what can I do?
Everything will be alright
So baby get some sleep tonight

[Verse 2]
I never wanted it for us to be curtains
I'm stabbing them up like behind them is another person
But enough of this oblivious Hamlet shit
Can't keep living this life so damn blind and so ignorant
Because all I have are words, words, words
But I bet all you heard is disturbed nerd blurbs
What else am I supposed to do? That's what I'm good at
Keep conjuring lies and excuses out of thin facts
The impending increases along with distance
And I bet all your friends now hate me in an instant
Shake me like a polaroid, just a dumb human boy
Repeat to myself that feelings are not meant to be a toy
We're like one giant abyss: we just avoid

[Chorus]
I, I, I, I, I want to love you
But if it's not right what can I do?
Everything will be alright
So baby get some sleep tonight

[Verse 3]
I swear to God I never meant for all of this
But I also swear I was in the biggest bliss
The best thing for us is to just move on
Yet I keep staying up waiting for a new dawn
Just whisper in my ears again, maybe we can just be friends
I never wanted this to end, but I'm feeling too spent
If only I could change, if only I could rearrange
If only if only is only written in my page
The human heart is so damn powerful
Capable of lifting up the most doubtful
And take down the strongest in just a mouthful
So say it to me in your tone that's so vow full:

Everything will be alright
So baby get some sleep tonight

Red Hunting Cap

[Verse 1]
This is the one thing that makes me feel redeemed
Coupon status, mad at us? Ignoring the chatter seems
To be the only strategy when one hand writes poetry
And the other writes only in the dreamiest of realities
Semis 3 times but never an automatic
Gawky kid spastic, wordplay fanatic, almost fantastic
For your information. Break me out of plastic
Enemy to Majora because I'm trying not to mask it
Never following the stereotypes. I'm surrounding the sound
My heart pound is the bass now and it's getting loud
I'm tallying up my hours. Not even close to the limit
So I'm going to live it until my painting becomes vivid
Parents so livid that my life is dedicated to the arts
But it's hard to stop when you start and every single part
That you would cut into me would bleed lyrics and paint
But just like cutting my wrists, this will all make you faint

[Verse 2]
I've always felt mediocre compared to my peers
And the only time I gave an F is when at the final I failed to appear
So this is me starting it up, key in the ignition
Writer's block in remission, Trusting only the intuition
Tired of the lectures. Tired of the yelling
Tired of being a disappointment but there is no telling
How my future will turn out. I'm trying to craft it barehanded
An ambidextrous ambition is the only thing demanded
I will not be reprimanded for choosing happiness over the latter
I will never break nor shatter. This is mind over matter
This is heart and the soul. This is attitude and mentality
This is the gallery of my entire being without puff or flattery
My fingerprints are left in the dust of words long forgotten
Craggy fingertips gripping memories almost rotten
To try and transform my personal poison into antidote
Treated as empirical since this is the prince's anecdotes

[Verse 3]
Supported like girders in between my fragile flesh
The hardware is there. The gridiron and the tenderness mesh
You cannot match the freshness stored inside his chest
I've been studying myself for years, so go ahead and test.
The recipe for this is 2 parts wisdom, 3 parts fool
9 pints of liquid courage and let the bravado just cool
A dash of naivety but added in by shaky hands
Heavy with idealism and optimism. Far from bland
It's alright if he is burned. It leaves merely a char
Regardless, you will be tasting the stars
With feet that stand with the tenacity of The Tank Man
The parking lot of his head will never be vacant
Hands overactive with turning pages and scribbling
And scars left from 2 parents and 3 older siblings
You are about to partake in viewing behind the curtain
Despite the name calling he is a person, for certain.

Unlocked

[Verse 1]
They told me tighten up my game so I'm right against the lames
Who don't even know my name but know I hold this deer like reins
Who is this? Alex Dang? Who is this? Depends on your lane
Pick a side, choose a brain. One virtue and one bane
I tighten this up like tuning keys on my violin
Flow like Poseidon and stay on point: Trident
Rapid show? Try again. Rhymin with leviathans
Pious lion about to get rich or die with the Mayans
Used to have that long hair, switched up for the grown man
I can sell my own jams. No need for Willy Loman
The view from my bridge is so damn beautiful
Never being miserable but my life's still musical
As I rap I got in the back a dope ass ensemble
Kick it with me after the show for a classic convo
Something that you remember, goes past the ages
It'll strike down Alzheimer's and unlike Vegas
You're gonna wanna tell everybody about me and you
Tweet it from the mountains: OMG he so cool
Never thought he'd be a gentlemen with perfect meter too
And he's still in school? Educated man: oh damn is it true?
I got game like a rainy day afternoon


[Verse 2]
Confidence brimming every time I'm grinning
Even from the beginning I've been at least kind of winning
Talented and Gifted, style is so fitted
Popping TAGs so much like it's my professional business
Gray suede on the shoes, Neck and my cut is like my crew
Myriad of labels like a tabloid knowing who is who
Rapping like it's easy, no girl, believe me
Macaroni air conditioner: I'm cheesy and breezy
Whisper lines in your ears but now all of your peers
Might wanna sink this relationship, oh that's weird
Maybe they're all a little bit jealous
They don't have fellas, just zealous of our hella
Swagger back and forth just like a swap meet
Don't pay attention to them. Go ahead and mock me
At the end of the day just suck on my cockiness
Looks can kill and I might just have to body this
Came to box, leave in a bag, so certain, so sad
I'm holding the banner and you wave your white flag
Pimp like a cane and thus we are so able
You aren't my oxygen and time isn't your label
You're never running out on me, for that I thank you

Sleeves

 [Chorus] x2
Keep rolling up my sleeves past my elbow
Roll up my heart in the folds, still felt though
Just my forearms and morons. How can I go on
I'm asking for more nights and more dawns

[Verse 1]
I am Jack's cold sweat running down his arms
Past the bracelets and the charms and the scarred harm
When I feel the shittiest is when I try to be the wittiest
The prettiest girls are the one I'm trying to get intimate
Impress them with the psyche and mic, B
Writing poems and stories just so they might like me
But I figured what's more important is that I like me
So I'm tooting my horn like Beep beep near all the wily
Coyotes howling at the moon sitting locked in my room
Freed soon when hammers hit anvils: boom
Blacksmith make me some armor, grant me honor
Anything in this fucking life just to make me stronger
Excuse the language, but this is real and uncut
I'm asking why and who when they focus on the what
And the how and I'm stuck in the now
Wondering how am I supposed to make life perfect when I can't get my rhymes down?

 [Chorus] x2
Keep rolling up my sleeves past my elbow
Roll up my heart in the folds, still felt though
Just my forearms and morons. How can I go on
I'm asking for more nights and more dawns

[Verse 2]
This is me not giving a fuck: rolling up my sleeves
After all of this I'm going to get me some sleep
All the girls in my life causing me the strife and the light
When I imagined you would be wife and I'd be the night
1.) We are just too good for each other
2.) I'm looking at the stars and still stuck in your gutters
3.) When you sing, I fall in love with you
4.) There's so many metaphors that hold true
5.) I wish we could still talk like the old days
6.) I'm sick but you cured my old ways
7.) You knock me out with your orange scarf
8.) Who knew you would make things this hard?
9.) Goddamn it. All sorts of wonderful
10.) What did the hunter stole?
11.) Give me directions to your heart
12.) Show me yours and I'll show you my scars
13.) I still roll up my sleeves
13.) Do you still believe?
13.) Know that I still bleed
13.) Keep your head up. Love me.

 [Chorus] x2
Keep rolling up my sleeves past my elbow
Roll up my heart in the folds, still felt though
Just my forearms and morons. How can I go on
I'm asking for more nights and more dawns

Sweet Home

[Verse 1]
I'm from that city of green trees and cold breeze
Where the skies leave water droplets that don't freeze
We breathe coffee and try to rock clothes all jaunty
Mixed with the vagabonds of bad luck put on me
So calmly, I walk these different roads and streets
Putting my headphones in like kicks against the beats
Two tires, two feet, against the concrete complex
In context, we never what know we will conjure next
But I trust that where I'm from, the blood never spills
The ink does from the quill and we giveaway our will
From my home town we hone down and joke around
No more smoke rounds or bull nouns, we just cool down
And heat up when called for. We're tempered in our ways
From Sundays to Sunday we find salvation when we play
They tell me home is where the heart is, so when I start this
Just know that my house is inside my own body where my art lives

[Verse 2]
Voices calling me in rapid speed telling me what I need
Versus what I want. It's all the same when I read
The words they give me, please, just let me be
I never thought I'd end up like this in the end, who is he?
He is the kid with fingers like highways
From the city where every day is Friday
Rocking snapbacks like backward snaps
Just out of syntax or the synapse coupled with bad facts
Rain soaked everything, even to his bones
Too many seats in his heart to be left alone
Shattered and broken but still holistic
Speaking sad hymns with confidence prolific
Writing suicide notes that sound terrific
Hailing from the pacific and gets too specific
Look into his eyes, he's looking real tired
But when he smiles the mood gets higher
Label him a liar, label him a monster
Label him anything, as long as its proper
Call him what he is, call him what he isn't
Whatever you call him, it never is that distant
Think of the names, think of the slurs
Repeat everything he's said to himself for sure
You can't hurt him not because he's bulletproof
But because he already knows where he's from, he holds his truth
He holds his breath, he holds your hand
He holds a conversation, please understand
The home is where your heart is
Home is my own body, wherever it lives.

Wake the Giants

I carry myself with the air of a fictional character
Augustinian merits as I ride the American Chariots to
My destination and place. Going at a lazy pace
Hoping I don't lose and fall out of Hazel Grace
This is everything I dreamed of mixed with the nightmares
Most of my people will ask my why I even care
Come on bro, why are you even doing this?
I've got one life I'm not trying to just EXIST
Paying for my education. Avoiding to become replacements
Keep reading and writing to dodge being complacent
Check my placement and keep counting on me
Like I'm a digit, decimal, Dewey D or some calories
This is a life check and I'm marking through all the boxes
Heavyweight champion belt is Takumi the Fox's
Well maybe featherweight, cause I'm a lanky dude
Yeah I'm emotional, I will never blank out my mood!
This is my art, my pain, my heart, my brain
Spilling just to start then refine my game
You got boy problems? Well man, so do I
I'm a boy and a problem and that's one way to die
You got girl problems? Well man, me too
Chasing money, chasing romance is just the way we do
Writing letters to connections all across the states
Texting likes, singing crushes and talking to you face to face
It's a little difficult, quite the daunting task
Looking in the mirror and I forget I'm wearing a mask
Convinced myself on some days, get me an Oscar
My performance is hailed by my toughest critic: so proper!
Chapped lips and dry skin. Always an awkward teen
Mind of a scholar with a wit twice as keen
Never play my age but I'll always be playing
Time to be honest with myself. Forget just praying
Time to start planning, time to start doing
Who rewarded wishful thinking? This is me pursuing
Everything I ever wanted. All of my desires
Each of them a balloon and they're all trying to fly higher
So I'm learning about the sky, I'm learning how can I
Become light enough to float on far enough to spy
Doing homework in between creative bursts of energy
Summoning the deepest memories to be reinvented G
Turn traumas into commas. Editing for better karma
Changing like Obama. Avenging like some shwarma
Maybe I haven't changed that much, I still make my jokes
Mind spinning quicker than my bicycle wheel and spokes
And I'm supposed to be serious? XM Radio
I don't want that. Respond with No with 80 Os
I was made to blow like Kleenex tissues
People don't miss me cause I'm the big show: that's the real issue
Ballet on the page and my haikus on the stage
Role reversal, universal, in my mind it's all the same
Poetry in motion and my cliches are in abundance
Trusted like husbands who love cardio: I run this
Wearing my heart on my extremely fashioned sleeves
Looking like a clean mess might get haters peeved
How is he doing so well? Look at this goober!
I'm chill to the power of super, duper
2012: getting rich or dying Mayan
By the end of this I'll be waking all my giants
Come play, I'll say. Come play, I'll say
This track is my beanstalk. Fixed for the modern day

2012: getting rich or dying Mayan
By the end of this I'll be waking all my giants
Come play, I'll say. Come play, I'll say
This track is my beanstalk. Fixed for the modern day

Swerve

[Chorus]
Never let them tell you how to feel
Never let them tell you what is real
You have to figure that with your own nerves
You see an obstacle? Homie I just
Swerve.

[Verse 1]
I've had opportunity handed and results been demanded
Stayed way solid and never took it all for granite
Because the man is back up on his grind right in time
Before life was gonna hit em like he does with the rhymes
I'm at a different kind of place I've never been before
Opened up some new doors and closed a few more
I feel like I'm growing up but I'm always looking down
Too shy to really speak my mind so this is my honest sound
I ain't got another place to shout it all out raw
Scrambled up and cracked jagged like the edge of a saw
But what do I see? And what do I even know?
I'll still be a kid. Getting hashtagged is my green light to go
Updated the nerve. Installed some new patches
The hardware was always there but cleaned up to match it
You ever feel like getting reinvented and starting new?
I'm recycling the old pages. Back then I said it true
So now I'm just saying it a little more refined
A little more polished. Gander into my diamond mind
A girl's best friend. You know what it is
You stay for good when it started as just a visit
Even if I say something really specific on this track
Just bookmark it for the future so you can look back
Because every single song is a little note in my journal
In general this kernel of truth are my stripes and I earned them
Hit them in a major way. Comfort for the hater's day
Even in private I am deeper than Crater Lake
My pen is mightier than a sword or a gun
I hail from the land of bridges and a rainy sun, um
What more do I say? I'm forever right here
18 eternal within these sound bytes that you hear
Immortalized forever within my own writing
I've made a room for loving and an armory for fighting
This is my year. Go ahead and check my receipt
I'll build bridges of faith and the others will just have to leap
I'm not going for revenge. Just proving it my way
At the end of the day they will all say:

Nothing at all. Just see the lock jaws
Just see the jaws drop as the cameras flash my awe
I've lived romantically. Never shallow and pedantically
Jay turning into Gatsby. I am the man that I aim to be

[Chorus]
Never let them tell you how to feel
Never let them tell you what is real
You have to figure that with your own nerves
You see an obstacle? Homie I just
Swerve.

[Verse 2]
If my fans line up for me, what do they really want?
A little bit of comedy or some past tragedies and haunts?
Will I make it in rapping or in some other fields?
Is poetry my deal or is writing what is real?
Will Smith Format: rapper turn to actor?
Will being Asian determine a bigger factor
than I anticipated or even really thought of?
For now I'm feeling the swagger of riding shotgun
Elementary, to middle and I got real high
Residing at the collegiate level. Learning how to fly
Cooking my own meals, paying my own bills
My trusty quill and my inkwell is never still
What will life become? This verse is all uncertainty
I take a lot of things too deep and too personally
They resurface back up within stanzas and verses
Put it on the page and then I rehearse it
Recite every pain and memorize all my woes
Turn them into poems and morph them into flow
Disguise is in the costume of novels and characters
Everything's an abstract of me. I've learned to cherish her
And to appreciate him. To revel and bask
To take off my mask and to put down the flask
Getting stronger every single day when I awaken
Visibly cemented and my spirits never shaken
Stirred a bit loopy. A touch of insanity
A dash of vanity and batch of randomly
Assorted ingredients could be my real recipe
Sweeter than Devil's food and just as heavenly

A Page From A Journal

[Verse 1]
I've got holes in my socks that are inside my high tops
That ought to be filled by my heels and some other thoughts
I still pass to buy a youth pass for the buses that take me places
Look at Mr. Dodecahedron: 12 different faces
It takes too long to check each and every one of them
And I'm already running late for my next class again
I fall in love every time I rush by
I'm sprinting through an orchard, you're the apple of my eye
You make me blush and look down embarrassed at my textbook
King of my castle but closed in by my left side rook
So if I ever get brave enough to step to the side
Just please sure to bring band-aids for my wounded pride

[Chorus] x2
A regular guy, a regular guy
The scariest thing to admit now.
Look straight in my eye
You are a normal guy.
And that's just about it. Wow.

[Verse 2]
I wasn't ever good at talking with pretty girls
They make my heart beat too quickly and for this entire world
To go even faster will make my head spin. Dizzy
With the thoughts of getting a date in. It's all too risky
Now she says I am a nice guy and one of a kind
But I am just someone whose company she doesn't really mind
If we were a book, I'm the cover damaged and bent
Protecting you, who makes me happy, my table of content
I want to lie down with you and kiss your neck
Mr. Right Now or leftovers? I know you'll choose correct
So what do you really want? I'm not sure what will really fly
I've got a paper airplane or a foam glider for you and I

[Chorus] x2
A regular guy, a regular guy
The scariest thing to admit now.
Look straight in my eye
You are a normal guy.
And that's just about it. Wow

[Verse 3]
I don't think I'm special or that much of a professional
I could be your confessional Ms. Intellectual
I'm not playing any games, I'm all of out of change
Just sick with ODD, you can ask Dr. Strange
What can I even handle if I flip flop like sandals?
I've got more issues than multiple comic book panels
But maybe what I'm saying here is that I know who I am
And you won't have to worry about me becoming another man
Quite skinny with a head heavy of optimism
I've got courage and power. Could you help with wisdom?
So look at this guy:
My heart is pumping what if through my veins. I know you should at least try
with


A regular guy, a regular guy
You are really making my heart pound
Look straight in my eye
You're so pretty, oh my.
Where do I even start? Wow

Out of Place

[Verse 1]
Out of my mind, out of my time
Rewind the clocks just because I'm
About to lose it a little more severley
Purely for the notion and do it twice just to see me
Double take, hustle cake, struggling bakery
Causing mayhem like Durden did to catering
Reading books like the last man on Earth
Every Sunday put it all on the line to see what I'm worth
This is me right here, I'm not left behind
Ambidextrous ambition that can only be mine
Arduous unique to my entire standing
Time is an angry boss whom is way too demanding
Not concerned with the silver, throw away the bronze
What is even gold? All I need is the dawn
Maybe the glitter in your eyes, wait let me backtrack
You're a real cool cat and I'm caught in a rattrap?
Things are real confusing, who is even here?
I'm looking at someone else in the mirror
My life is boiled down into cliches
But take a look at my face and you think things are peachy!
What do you even see? Honestly?
A kid who's outlived his use? Obsolete
Can I reset this game if things go horrifically?
Uh oh is my native language which I speak prolifically

[CHORUS] x2
First is the worst
An extra second is the best
Third is the one with the treasure chest
Then where does fourth land in this mess?

[Verse 2]
Sharpie tattoos like crumpled grocery lists
I used to have people ask "What is this?"
But hardly do people take the time to ask what it is
I used to really be but now I just exist
I'm not that depressed, nothing really happened
Nothing out of the ordinary or too awful to imagine
I'm just a normal kid, and that scares me
I'm not individually cool or anything. I'm just barely
Messed up and broken in some weird way
Like a 20 minute flight delay
A little inconvenient, but you don't really care
You never really think "Oh goodness, what happened out there?"
No one is very curious, no one ever asks
No one sees my face, they just think it's my mask
But it's really my fault, I wore it on the first day of school
As a tool, as a guise of "Cool"
I could just open up and make one more connection
But in the first place it doesn't take a second
It's always in that third or fourth time we can talk
And by that time I've struck out or I walked

Great Introduction

[Verse 1]
I'll drive 500 miles on the interstate
Get you a home cooked meal on your dinner plate
You're indecisive and I don't want to wait
Breathe in and breathe out girl. Meditate
The inner machinations of your mind's an enigma
So drop me a sign girl, co or sigma
The summation of ourselves is so good
Let's adventure in the forest together: I wish you would
Set an alarm for me to wake you soft
Treat you like a zombie arm: break you off
Are you feeling down? I'll be your comforter
You're my marathon girl: I will run for her
The type of guy that you bring home to your family
You won't be waiting on the man I want to be
Keep it real simple, this makes good sense
A penny for your thoughts. Please just vent

[Bridge]
Do you really want me right now?
Is it okay for me to write it down?
Open heart, closed mouth, I'll
Compose you a great introduction

Are we gonna be a tragedy?
If I make a limerick will you be mad at me?
Read this without interruptions
Let me write our great introduction

[Chorus]
On the beats we will meet
Will you think this is sweet?
Poems maybe for your seduction
Proof read our great introduction

On the page or the stage
Count on me like a wage
No need for your deductions
Notes in our great introduction

[Verse 2]
To see you smile do whatever it takes
It illuminates all and erases my mistakes
I've got more faults than earthquakes
But you could end wars with that look for goodness sakes!
Runaway romantic, hopped on your train of thoughts
Stuck in the baggage cart but I like this spot
If you're strong enough to carry mine
I'm damn sure strong enough to carry yours in a bind
New objective: since we can all be selective
Get you to invest in this me and you collective
I've been holding a pretty short to do check list
And for now I'd just like to make you breakfast
Maybe I spend the night, credit or debit?
Hoping you won't ever forget it
Paint on my canvas with our mixtures
Because your words are worth a thousand pictures

[Bridge]
Do you really want me right now?
Is it okay for me to write it down?
Open heart, closed mouth, I'll
Compose you a great introduction

Are we gonna be a tragedy?
If I make a limerick will you be mad at me?
Read this without interruptions
Let me write our great introduction

[Chorus]
On the beats we will meet
Will you think this is sweet?
Poems maybe for your seduction
Proof read our great introduction

On the page or the stage
Count on me like a wage
No need for your deductions
Notes in our great introduction

[Breakdown]
A bouquet of proses to your house
Write haikus for you chilling on your couch
Sestinas for my senorita
Late night netflix and some pizza
Ode ala mode, check my inkwell
Compare you to autumn, I just fell
The age old battle between lovers and fighters
I can be both girl, I can be your writer

[Chorus]
On the beats we will meet
Will you think this is sweet?
Poems maybe for your seduction
Proof read our great introduction

On the page or the stage
Count on me like a wage
No need for your deductions
Notes in our great introduction

Everything You Hear Is A Lie

Scrape my tongue off and haikus fall into the sink
I rise out of the brink of denial covered in ink
Wipe myself off with sheets of parchment
Who even started this martyr up in his department?
I told them I would make it, I told them I would win
I told them everything in order to convince myself to go in
And now I'm standing here, on the mountain's edge
Feeling the call of the void, can you hear what she says?
She tells me that she's hurting. She tells me that she's angry
She tells me everything that makes me want to go real crazy
To go complete insane. To flow and delete the pain
Like I'm supposed to juxtapose myself in the rain
And this sounds banal. Echoes come down the hall
Keep my ear to the walls I haven't heard it all
I'm still standing. And I'm still fighting
I'm warring against all the monsters, demons and titans
Whispered in my ears nothing more bitter than doubts
I mean, you could even switch all of my words out
Wouldn't make a difference to you either
Because my believers are neither and made up like Peter
So I'll put the leaders in the pans and boil them
Until they get near the end of their life, about a millimeter
God made us in his image. Why we feeling devilish?
Idle hands are something that I hate to meddle with
A pen at all times. Anything to jot rhymes
I use tickets, newspapers and my skin to write lines
Whatever comes to mind, just to feel divine
I've been 8 for ten years and I wish I could just turn nine
Stuck in perpetual motion so scientists study me
Unlocking the key to sustainable energy
Keep watching me. I'm too clumsy for my own good
About to drop a few classics just like I should
Whether it exists in a script or the recitation
This time it won't get lost in the mail. Hold onto my invitation.
Because I've liked you since I was younger and dumber
And the only thing that's changed is I'm older with a tumblr
Rarely I make the time to actually connect with you
Since passivity is a social staple. I really thought you knew
I'll send a carrier pigeon with a thick letter
Maybe through mutual friends, internet or anonymous ledgers
Me and the truth are strained aquaintences
Everything you hear is a lie. That's just the basics kid

Honorary Award

[Chorus]
Held up to that one and only golden standard
Silver spoon fed the ones with the worst manners
Showing off my brawn by flexing off my brain
Well in the first place I've held my virtue and my bane
Blowing that gold dust, swept it away
Load in some silver bullets for just today
This is the bronze age, damn right, we fight
Diamonds in our armor to make enemies feel fright

[Verse 1]
I run this track like my tongue's an Olympian
Interior Crocodile Alligator Amphibians
Doing the internet one step better
Push me and I tumble back but I never let up
Gold star in comic sans because you tried
I wear my heart like a medal, my chain is my foolish pride
Glistening and shining, seen from all over
I just discover and inspire, call me the Mars Rover
The type of cockiness that is just alright
Mixed with the blend of humble pie for dessert every night
Study who I am so go ahead and test me
Bishops, queens and I make moves: Chess piece
Can't do it subtly, I have to flaunt it obvious
But the spectrum goes from me to the snobbiest
No, I'm not a lobbyist, I just embody it
Flow is the snottiest mixed with some karate kicks

[Chorus]
Held up to that one and only golden standard
Silver spoon fed the ones with the worst manners
Showing off my brawn by flexing off my brain
Well in the first place I've held my virtue and my bane
Blowing that gold dust, swept it away
Load in some silver bullets for just today
This is the bronze age, damn right, we fight
Diamonds in our armor to make enemies feel fright

[Verse 2]
Write it in the halls, scribble it on reciepts
I am here to stay. Cannot defeat or delete.
Only repeat like only repeat like only
Holden onto this cause I'm surrounded by phonies
If everything that glitters is considered gold
Then blindfold my eyes and let their value just hold
Seeing things differently: my head is on my toes
Surrounding everything like rows of Bose
Well I suppose that you should know and simply recognize
The cognitive responsive intent in my eyes
But I guess you can't see. Then let the spot run
Load it up like waiting bars or shotguns
I got one, jot puns and all sorts of witticisms
Split on my reviews like criti-schisms 
Do it just how I like it. At the top and I'm ordering
Don't patronize me. Might get kicked out for loitering

[Chorus]
Held up to that one and only golden standard
Silver spoon fed the ones with the worst manners
Showing off my brawn by flexing off my brain
Well in the first place I've held my virtue and my bane
Blowing that gold dust, swept it away
Load in some silver bullets for just today
This is the bronze age, damn right, we fight
Diamonds in our armor to make enemies feel fright

[Verse 3]
I'm what you desire like I'm a street car
Go into clubs and punch the drinks cause I beat bars
Put me in a dark alley with a new instrumental
Let mess it up and I don't have to use utensils
Not even a pencil, my mental goes postal
It's getting punished like I'm Marvel or Corporal
Equipped with the vorpal sword in my teeth
My words twice as sharp. Fall like a leaf
Not really bragging, I'm reading a list of facts
Everyone keeps asking me to just stick to that
But I improv cause it's honestly not very hard
Make up most of my life. No need for cue cards
Flow is contagious and twice as outrageous
Going against me without vaccines: quite courageous!
Style bubonic, I rock like Geodude and Onyx
Got issues like comics but I shift like tectonics

[Chorus]
Held up to that one and only golden standard
Silver spoon fed the ones with the worst manners
Showing off my brawn by flexing off my brain
Well in the first place I've held my virtue and my bane
Blowing that gold dust, swept it away
Load in some silver bullets for just today
This is the bronze age, damn right, we fight
Diamonds in our armor to make enemies feel fright

Sleepyhead

 [Intro]
And everything is going to the beat
And everything is going to the beat
And everything is going

[Verse 1]
Ignore the alarm, forget the birds chirping
I got paid yesterday, no need for working
Lay in bed with me just a little bit longer
Kit Kat girl, let me break you off proper
Stay here with me. We can go back to sleep
Get lost in the ocean of blankets. Sink in deep
Because I'm writing you stories in these sheets
Haikus and poetry and songs in the bed spring beats
Breakfast while we sit perched against the headboard
Let's just rest until we get bedsores
I'll kiss you on the cheek underneath your messy hair
Make caves with the quilts and come up for air
The floor is made of lava and pillow forts a must
Open a window and your smell lingers through the gusts
Trust me, I'll sail our bed through the storms
If not, we retreat to the cabin and get warm

[Chorus]
And you said
It was like fire around the brim
Burning solid
Burning thin the burning rim
Like stars burning holes right through the dark
Flicking fire like saltwater into my eyes
You were one inch from the edge of this bed
I drag you back a sleepyhead, sleepyhead

[Verse 2]
Marathon Netflix, no need to get dressed
We're up on this bed in the end between dinner and breakfast
I can talk to you from night until light
Your words keep me up being so bright
Phone calls going only to room service
Sheets pristine. Can't wait to break the tension of the surface
Conversations exchanged like steps when we walk
Keep whispering in my ears girl, I love your pillow talk

[Chorus 2]
They couldn't think of something to say the day you burst
With all their lions and all their might and all their thirst
They crowd your bedroom like some thoughts wearing thin
Against the walls against your rules against your skin
My beard grew down to the floor and out through the doors
Of your eyes but go in disguise like a sleepyhead, sleepyhead

[Verse 3]
Like bears straight out of hibernation
We can go slow. I've got plenty of patience
How about some pancakes? Omelet and some toast?
Time to get away before we get back close
Slide the curtains like we're going to perform
It's all sunshine now, we passed the storm
Stick your tongue out to catch sugar from the sky
You're my sweet dream. You've got sand in your eye

Calamity

[Verse 1]
Feelin' like a stampede, all I do is bam beats
Vash with extra class. Cleaner than some Pantene
Survived the calamity, became a typhoon
Throw you for a loop baby: Roller Coaster Tycoon
How many losses? How many victories?
Well past all the wizardry and trickery 
Is a stage past bickering and rude annoyance
I'm just bouncing along with lovely citrus boyance
All for enjoyment, lounging  like a couch potato
Haters ruffled up as my chips stack increase in ratio
Run blocks like LEGOs, on the grid like Eggos
Throw in some ultra c-c-combo breakers like Jago
Doing me is mandatory, but I still want to
Even if I had other choices, this is what I flock to
A secret combination locked inside so safe
Feeling like the best of The Pack: feeling so based
Keep making bad calls, keep throwing curve balls
Tip toe around pitfalls and I swerve to avoid falls
Shaking like a leaf, I play the theme of the thief
MC like Master Chief, halo ciphers are my belief
Kid Scapino moving dopeness like kilos
Boba Fett on the scene compared to you Greedos
They told me I was a loser, sometimes I even felt it
But I'm a winner who doesn't sag: you see my belt, kid?

[CHORUS]
Soy un perdedor
I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me?
(Double-barrel buckshot)
Soy un perdidor
I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me?

[Verse 2]
I'm witty, I'm pretty, and damn I'm sarcastic
Stretch tactics fantastic with 5 times the Jurassic
Not drastic: dramatic. Who's line is it anyways?
Drexler improv: setting this game ablaze
Clouds in the sky: you know how I feel
Orange juice concentrate: you know the appeal
Unlit cigarette in the corner of my mouth
Makes me feel real cool, this is what I'm about
Metaphorical resonance, rhetorical intellegence
Never ever forgetting. Swagger on elephants
Gargantuan aura when I step into the room
It's safe to say I'm the man and easy to assume

[CHORUS]
Soy un perdedor
I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me?
(Get crazy with the Cheeze Whiz)
Soy un perdidor
I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me?
(Drive-by body pierce)

[Verse 3]
Ramen noodle breakfasts and cereal dinners
What is in fact your definition of a winner?
What I wear to work is what I wear whenever
Dial up the monitors and pull all of the levers
Transforming and combining my egos together
Because just like the Zords baby, I'm mega
Cannon wrapped around my arm, looking so candid
My girl screws you up and blows you away: Samus Aran
I smash in melees and I decimate in brawls
Grizzly in closed locations: get mauled at the mall
It's glitter and sparkle, I scoff at your debacles
I pump out awesome. Get lawyerd: Marshall!

[CHORUS]
Soy un perdidor
I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me?
(I can't believe you)
Soy un perdidor
I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me?
Soy un perdidor
I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me?
(Sprechen sie Deutches, baby)
Soy un perdidor
I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me?
(Know what I'm sayin?)

White Laces

[Verse 1]
Shake the hand of this poor, poor sinner
The loser and the winner since I was a beginner
Playing games, call it Ender, do you ever remember
The tender feelings that we had last September?
Processed and rendered. Feeling a little more comfortable
iPad face, I'm so touchable even with a personal bubble
Muddled and humbled through experience and tips
I've made it through this and came back like a gif
So sift through the memories and come out with gold
Blindfold to the whole truth of what's hot and cold
Light cardigan and I'm getting carded again
All I wanna do is buy a cigar and win with the rest of my friends
Learning how to drive, steering with a nine iron
I defy lions like a circus tamer without tryin'
I'm, a little bit modest with a whole lot of weird
Give me enough cash and I'll be eccentric here

[CHORUS] x2
I've got, big words, big books, and big dreams
And I never want to do sew-sew it seams
I've got, big words, big books, and big dreams
Autobiographical confidence: my self-esteem

[Verse 2]
Pound the fist of this tortured and confused artist
Please pardon the mess inside of my apartment
I'm set apart in my craft, at least what I hope
Though I know there's too many ways for people to tell me nope
Measuring my design and calculating monuments
With honest bits founded in my starter kit
And polished mitts to catch all of their guardedness
I slowly become a part of this, stepping onto continents
Take a look into the aid box, equip my appropriate armor
Black jeans, crisp shirt and I'm looking like a goner
Never had a subject matter, let my brain Pollock splatter
If I'd go for subtly I'd make dents. But let's shatter
From tatters to threads, please get it through your head
Enjoy the ride and let's take some risks instead
Living real stable won't test how you are able
To survive the dead pool on the table. Strapped like I'm Cable

[CHORUS] x2
I've got, big words, big books, and big dreams
And I never want to do sew-sew it seams
I've got, big words, big books, and big dreams
Autobiographical confidence: my self-esteem

[Verse 3]
Give a high five to this misguided optimist
I see like a frozen optometrist
No matter how hard it gets, I continue the journey
Even nerdy, I've earned thee the birdie with more versions than Kirby
So if you heard me then let's take some time to celebrate
Calculus pathway: we integrate the interstates
Our roads finally crossed. Let's exchange pleasantries
Calm down, no need to tense up. Please, let it breathe
We can have style, but don't get hostile
Otherwise I combine the former and latter: Oscar Wilde
Never have free time, I use every single tick tock
Some dedicated to poetry, some used for Hip Hop
A bit for some groceries, a bit for a pit stop
And even a portion for sleep so I can stay tip top
Though sometimes those hours get moved around
At 2 in the morning is when the nouns get profound

[CHORUS] x2
I've got, big words, big books, and big dreams
And I never want to do sew-sew it seams
I've got, big words, big books, and big dreams
Autobiographical confidence: my self-esteem

December Sun

How uncomfortable am I supposed to make you feel?
Like Brothers on a Hotel Bed or Dr. Phil?
How sad is this supposed to be so you know this is ill?
Scarlet Letter status, I'm worth all of the chills
Trying to catch feelings like an outfielder
Dedicating moments to the real like Spielburg
Got a lot of different hobbies and a handful of talents
Keep the day balanced and keep the knight gallant
Man inside the shining armor
64 versions of this man like bomber
So I'm a bit conflicted in which direction to go in
They call me fruity like I'm cantaloupe-in
But I don't talk about gang stuff
I'm not a flake on your shoulder like dandruff
This man's rough. As tough as can be
As tough as an 18 year old boy can see
I still feel like a kid
Boiling over somebody please remove the lid
Try to keep it real clever, try to keep it real smart
I'm on my Tin Man, great Oz, trying to find my real heart
I used to have to take speech classes
But now I recite Shakespearean classics!
My confidence is truly massive
Though sometimes it can get super passive
Like trying to be savage but just looking rabid
Oh well can't harm a hare on me I'm a real quick rabbit
Can't kick the habit, keep rappin' and actin'
Asian Will Smith, I know it's about to happen
Man, look at these pretty lights
I sure love the city life
You know I keep it witty, right?
Damn, you look pretty tonight
I crush on a lot of girls
Duke of Disaster Dating, I'm the Erotic Error Earl!
So I write down all my stories
Wipe your feet off. Welcome to my laboratory 
Please don't mind the mess
It's a reflection of my mind, just a little stress
Damn, my bad, is this a bit too depressing?
Let me switch it up, I'll start impressing
I was born on Christmas, hence the trim and the dressing
Thus when I rhyme it's a holy blessing
How many rappers you know
That are aware of their song's tone in the middle of their flow?
Trying to keep it original
Call it hipsterism, I know it isn't typical
But there isn't anything new under this sun
So instead, I just keep in mind some different lines and puns
Ready to pop off. Lace up your shoes and run
We're just going to have a little fun
Are you ready for my shine, sun?
I bet you know what's about to come.

I'm talking real fast, I can say what I want
Dangerous Dang only deals in daunts!
I do these things so I can be cool
I don't want to be plain like a bowl of gruel
I add these things into my repertoire
The only reason why I can rap a bar
Is because I wrote words to relieve stress
Middle school problems, a personal best
Jonnas and Kratnas and Marrissas and Autumns
Writing off the top cause I was at the bottom
Joke's on them, at least that's what I hope
Because look at me now, cleaner than soap
And I'm dope, not like a dunce cap
I'm so dope like my brother's blunt wraps
I'm rich not like a hundred stacks
Rich like home made brownie snacks

So that was pretty amusing
You can see I'm winning and no longer losing
That I was begging before and now I'm choosing
That they all want to kick it with me like Bruce Lee!
At least that's just what I assume
I never asked them otherwise I might face doom and gloom
I can only guess that when they saw me at school
They thought I was cooler than a blizzard over a pool
Just a nerdy Asian kid
Who couldn't measure up to all the things his older brothers did
But it's all good though, I'm still pretty content
This could just be my authorial intent
I can't recognize the good things
Is it to maintain something humbling?
Of course I try to avoid the conceit and cockiness
You know what they say, ignorance is bliss
So I stay grounded like my parents stay mad at me
Though actually that is sometimes my reality
I watch Modern Family and play video games
Even though I want to kick it with video dames
Keep it real sheik like indie show fame
I blew up hot, call me an indigo flame
Nah the point is that I can be a little bit lame
Don't jump to conclusions, please state your claim
I bite my lips when I get nervous
Though you might see a clear and calm surface
I rub my arms when I feel a bit lonely
Cold and warm like feeling the December Sun only

Knockturnal

[Verse 1]
Exhausted all day and energized in the evenings
Practicing my logical doubt mixed with good reasonings
The city sleeps so I can hear her snoring
Quietly writing my thoughts to tell her in the morning
Scrolling through my dashboard like Super Nintendo
Cooking up midnight spam teriyaki bento
Headphones in my head as loud as they wanna be
No worry for anybody out there calling me
Text message on your screen, I'm looking for company
If the internet is our new god then I am just an underling
Lamp light provides the perfect reading luminence
Insomnia is nothing. Oh, but are you new to this?
It isn't really a problem, nothing I can't handle
Inside my mind at night ignites some roman candles
The greens and red reflect off my brain's chapel
Watching green and red apples drop like problems to grapple
Scribbling down life's greatest mysteries all on my skin
Doing this right now and hell yes, I'll do it again
Take covers under covers and daydream in the dark
Fantasize implies the nigh that it'll hit the mark
But since I don't sleep, I have to dream with my eyes open
Chain remains unbroken: solo cigarette smokin'
There has to be someone else awake right now
Driving through the night like I'm looking for vowels

[Chorus] x2
There's somethin' inside you
It's hard to explain
They're talking about you boy
But you're still the same 

[Verse 2]
Hand gripped tightly on the steering: watch my drive
Velour verses venerate vorpal villains: that's a v5
Looking cool as what, cruising through green lights
Traveling up in my lane so I'll always be right
But thoughts are crowded despite the empty vessel
So I drown em out by turning up the bass and the treble
Without the pedal on the metal, still on point like stilettos
Ride through the residential areas and the old ghettos
Sleep deprivation only throws a mean curved pitch
Giving more ups and downs than a hydraulic switch
Late nights call for very early decisions
Parked on the side to type out with precision
I'm lonely tonight, looking through my contacts
But anyone I would dial wouldn't pick up or call back
What a life I live. No one to turn to
I'm on a one way street with a full tank to burn through
I've earned dues and paid them. This is what I get?
A head full of what ifs and nights riddled with bets
Nothing concrete beside the road unneath
Maybe all I really need is just a good night of sleep
Too far gone: the sun is peaking into my faltered eyes
One night sapped from one misguided ride
I wish I was talking to you
Because you never know someone until you talk at 4am. And that's the truth.

[Chorus] x2
There's somethin' inside you
It's hard to explain
They're talking about you boy
But you're still the same 

Romeo's

[Verse 1]
Cigarette dangling and dancing in my mouth
Rhyming about bars and slabs like the dirty south
But check the massive clout: Great Bambino
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and in Reno
Taking it one step further like rehabilitation
This patient is patiently walking towards his fear just to face it
Basic was 4 years ago, I'm swinging in the Major Leagues
I've got that flavor steeze that makes all of the players freeze
Pocket on my shirt with cloth petals showing off
Handkerchief status like I'm about to be blowing snot
Loaning sharks swim around just to avoid me
Doing this music for the love, I am not an employee
I've been to the other side of sane and back a few times
Each step is one rung, this is my natural climb
This ascension has the attention of all the ignorants
Boy off the chain: Abraham Lincoln this
Bluegrass will do that, let it marinate quick
Fresh breath of air and vapor, nicknamed Vick's
Used to joke around like using the hash tag
Now I just pound that until I tic tac toe flow win with a zig zag
Might have over done it. There's a lot at steak
I'm in my prime like I'm standing on my dinner plate
Doubters all say that they can rap better than me
I'm a writer, poet and an actor too, so you better be!
If you aren't, then brother, that's kind of sad
I'm a student first and you got out rhymed by a future grad
Call the leg factory: you need something to stand on
I'm more hip hop than you because I proved them damn wrong!
Overcame the odds, though nontraditional
I'm about to play some different roles real pivotal
Spiritual or lyrical, I flipped my script and rewrote my end
Exit stage right. Move onto acts 6 through 10

End/Begin

[Chorus]
It starts with a picture,
And it sits in your frame.
And we part with a letter,
And it ends in my name.

And it starts with forever,
And it ends with a touch.
And I know that you're clever,
And I don't ask for much.

Maybe we forgot all the things we are, we are together.

[Verse 1]
I don't have enough time so I gotta make this fast
But god I wish we could have more time in class
If we lived closer, if we shared toasters, used coasters
Got me digging around in my memory like a gopher
I hurt you and this is the effect of my chemicals
Slowly burning my soul I need attention that isn't medical
Listening to the CD you made is self-inflicting wounds
Destruction is imminent and it's happening very soon
Stalking you on the internet, I wish things were different
I know I'm unwelcome here like a starving immigrant
Used you as an ego boost, but I fell down a few pegs
Skimping and limping around as I flip through your jpegs
What am I even doing writing this song about you?
When sadness comes you have to embrace it too
Here I am holding the hand of a lonely specter
When it was supposed to be your hand in the place of
But I really messed it up. Never expected this outcome
By any means just strike me down and x me out: Malcolm
Everything right now is so damn negative
Looking at these photos I guess is the best it'll get

[Chorus]
It starts with a picture,
And it sits in your frame.
And we part with a letter,
And it ends in my name.

And it starts with forever,
And it ends with a touch.
And I know that you're clever,
And I don't ask for much.

Maybe we forgot all the things we are, we are together.

[Verse 2]
Now I don't trust and I leave before the morning
Break it off when I get lazy or if it's too boring
Offense is the best defense so I'm always attacking
Fairy tales are all made up: nothing's everlasting
I used to be a sweet dude and now I've been poisoned
By my own malice. What can I say? I make bad choices
I should have drank clean water and flushed out my system
But now I'm chugging liquid courage and smoking wisdom
Gambling it away I don't want to feel this gray
Nights and days blend together cause I stay awake
Why is this happening? Time should be healing?
I hate this feeling and I'm staring at the wall paper peeling
Don't think about you but that's impossible
Overcoming these obstacles is too improbable
Caught an audible, I'm yelling in an empty room
I'm not completely dead, but I'll be empty soon
All books and stories can be boiled down to one question
No need for comments or any suggestions
I'm reviewing the past and I'm looking over thoughts
"Who am I" is what I'm asking and I'm lost.

[Chorus]
It starts with a picture,
And it sits in your frame.
And we part with a letter,
And it ends in my name.

And it starts with forever,
And it ends with a touch.
And I know that you're clever,
And I don't ask for much.

Maybe we forgot all the things we are, we are together.

Kid Scapino

[Verse 1]
I found god inside of my microphone
It was a really funny kind of experience
Maybe I was just really in the zone
Or he just really wanted to start hearin' this
And it's strange how no one else wanted to listen
I shine but rhinestones can also glisten
So if I'm a diamond I'm surrounded by badazzlers
Never claimed I was a hard core battler
But I can swing my battle axe rap just to demonstrate
And wordplay is always there, not to compensate
But to let you contemplate like "What the hell have I done?"
You know those days when you want to pick up and run?
I've had as many of those as rice bowls
And they usually all dropped like new years goals
But my pick me up is writing it all down
Receipts and bus transfers contain my verbs and nouns
And I love it when I get on the stage to share
You know what they say, if you do it then you care
Eyes transfixed on this Asian kid
It's enough to make you give a risky bid
White button up, underwear and my shades on
Give me some paper so I can go cray on
I'm over 9000 like a certain super Sayan
This is my parade and I hope that it gets rained on
We didn't bring umbrellas or any kind of poncho
We just enjoy the water so boy, let it flow
Let it go like pranking in tug of war
Let it show like the aforementioned metaphor
Relax and make sure to holla back real nice
To all the people that are here tonight
Shout out to Donald Glover: my real life idol
Inspired me to handlebars like bicyles
It's a beautiful life, I hope we know this
It's a bit difficult to really notice
But as long as you stay a bit more focused
You can stay off the ground without being so hopeless
I wanna get high without any green
I wanna be treated as an adult and stay a teen
I want a lot of contradicting factors as of right now
And overall I just wanna bloody write now
Let me slum it with the hipsters and the poets
Let me act dumb with my friends. But with opponents
Never shy away from a competition
Thirsting for a win. It's inside my composition
 Notes inside the margins: the key to success
Jingling on my belt loop. Oh shoot, let me suggest
A proper introduction with a multitude of names
The full one is Alexander Anh Tu Dang
But, I like being called Takumi The Fox
Nerdfighters give me reblogs, follows and props
Though I'm starting to think of alter egos
Because wherever I go, we go
So primo, I hope to see on VEVO
A song by me, AKA Kid Scapino
They called me this and that and told me I couldn't rap
I was a wannabe gangster and I wanted to be black
But I can clearly see my complexion
And I'm not coughing due to congestion
But just to lessen the awkwardness
AHEM
Let me school you in all of this
You see, I'm more hip hop than you'll ever be
Because hip hop is more than swag and jewelery
Call it adversity, call it the music of the youth
Just know when I do it, I leave it all in the booth
I write songs of myself like Whitman did
Did you just receive a huge shipment of wit?
Well whatever I am and whatever you call me
I'm sure I'll be damn skippy, peachy and balmy

The Criterion

[Verse 1]
From here on out, this is gonna be my sound
Work on my insight, make something profound
But as I found out, I'm not too bad with the eloquence
Elegant and relevant with my chemistry elements
Liquid flow so solid that gasses the masses
Graduated classes without being the fastest
Taking my sweet time like a late hotel checkout
Make shift alchemist: creating belief from doubt
Not too stout in stature but that is what I capture
Inside my chapters like Holden's heart in Catcher
Don't bore them with my decorum
These clothes I found in storage and still wore them
No discrepancies or treacheries
Supremacy recipe is hitting with accuracy deadly
I fly like an arrow down a path so narrow
Riding bumpy inside a rusted wheel barrow

[CHORUS]
They could fill books with what I never knew
That's why you always find me reading a book or two
Creating and writing only what is true
 I'm learning what I never knew: how about you?

[Verse 2]
Hipster with the mind of the urbanest
Trying to take flight without any more turbulence
Shooting for permanent, currently at transient
The most handsome of them all and the handiest
I've had my share of problems in one fine night
But struggles are finite and I'm trying to die right
At birth on this earth I was handed a curse
So without a terse verse I composed a hearse
Rest easy when you listen to beats so breezy
Believe me, see me and never know sick and weakly
Meek is not my style any longer.
Inches away from being the ruler. I conquer!
Watch and learn as I perform poetic epics
Too embedded so count on me like phonetics
These last bars I write
Haiku/ Composed so freely
Bless as I "Ah-Choo!"

[CHORUS]
They could fill books with what I never knew
That's why you always find me reading a book or two
Creating and writing only what is true
 I'm learning what I never knew: how about you?

Layover

I wake up to the speckled gray walls of the airport
Yawn and stretch and zip open my Jansport
Grab a stick of gum to combat the rotten breath
Stand up from my chair, look around at all the regret
Past decisions gone, mistakes lost and forgotten
Sleeping for once are my demons, ghouls and goblins
Every issue left behind, but running was not an option
It's a tactical retreat, not putting myself on auction
This isn't a reinvention or anything meaningful
I'm just getting away for a bit from this sleeper hold
Packed my life into one suit case and one carry on
A little bit sad but I know I'll be able to carry on
Catcher in the Rye by my side, read it to escape
Reading it on a plane, double flight like wings and a cape
Staring at the window on a mostly empty flight
The awkward moment where it's neither day nor night
Clouds hungover lazily like my peers of yesteryear
Sun slowly rising like my infallible sense of cheer
I've slept enough so I'm not drowsy in my chair
The stewardess asks how I am like she actually cares
A ginger ale in my hand coupled with a bag of crackers
This stupid game of life. Has anyone ever mastered?
Precariously stepping along the razor's edge
Did it without even knowing the danger with one wrong step
Living without company in this last chunk of time
Having epiphanies on this trip without knowing what is fine
Am I Okay? Or am I just alright?
Feeling shorter now despite my lanky height
Bags under my eyes puffed from the lack of rest
Sure I sleep a lot, but it wasn't deep enough or in depth
Now I'm stuck in terminals not knowing where to go
Gate A, B, C, D like eenie, meanie, minie, mo
I lost my boarding pass somewhere along the way
Not enough funds to get a new one to my dismay
Go outside with my possessions right when day breaks
The gray shakes as the sun rays take clouds to skate
Hail a cab and he pulls up immediately
"Where do you want to go?" And I pondered curiously
The cheapest inn, hotel or place with a bed
And we pulled of the curb with the window against my head
Arrived at the destination and I thank my navigator
Hand him a little extra and I tell him see you later
Walk through smudged glass doors and ask for the cheapest
The clerk smirks and says "It will not be the best"
I shrug hoping just for a place to lay down
That layover has laid pounds of stress on my head now
Unlock the door with the key card. Beeps me a greeting
Look around the room with my consciousness retreating
Set my things down and I roll up my sleeves
Unbutton the top of my shirt as my tie is released
Walk like a zombie to get some ice down the hall
And it turns out I have a couple of missed calls
Lost reception along the way but the satellite found me
As I'm scrolling through the log my heart is loud and pounding
Do I return calls for salvation or sacrifice for quiet?
Damn this human condition. I'm sick with this virus.

Polaroids

[Verse 1]
Summer time shine demands the proper attire
Cool threads cannot extinguish my burning desire
Withholding the fire, call me Prometheus
I'm just living my rebellion. No worries for consequence
Style like Guile. Sonic boom into your ears
So I'm the mos def and most dope out of my peers
This isn't clever for the sake of clever, none of that nonsense
This is straight streamlined direct from the conscious
More gold than Jeremy Piven's boasts
I'm a given toast on a driven boat rocking a Gatsby Linen Coat
Miss Daisy, it's the way you make me feel
Too thrilling as I'm spilling my emotions on this reel
A girl named Billie wanted into my jeans
I told her to beat it, but I felt too bad, it was a bit mean
Still, I'm living so delinquent: so smooth criminal
I'm the King and the Jester: goes without subliminal

[CHORUS]
no time for cameras
we’ll use our eyes instead
no time for cameras
we’ll be gone when we’re dead
no time for cameras
we’ll use our eyes instead
I see flashes of gold

[Verse 2]
Feet hit the pavement just like a prizefighter
So on top of the words: call me the highlighter
Who you know that's politer? I'm betting no one
Chasing me like track athletes: go run
But I'm just a wanderer with no particular direction
And who is way too fond of the word perfection
With a disposition more sunny than Liston's
I'm just hoping that you all listen when I glisten
Fired up like pistons, the keys is in the ignition
Ring on my belt loop, they jingle like holiday traditions
Every step sounds a lot like success I guess
Addressed like I'm blessed to impress and yes
I look better in real life, but not too bad in pictures
Crack open my head and let's break out the mixtures
Do it yourself chemistry, ready, set, go bubble
Constantly in my element, there's no need for rebuttal 

[CHORUS]
no time for cameras
we’ll use our eyes instead
no time for cameras
we’ll be gone when we’re dead
no time for cameras
we’ll use our eyes instead
I see flashes of gold

[Verse 3]
Memories are moving too quickly to simply just capture
Write it down in the history books in our chapter
The last thing we'll do is try to remember the times
No pennies for my thought. No change for dimes
Soundtrack pumping loud in the background
Lense-flare as we run across the tracks, sunset, to look profound
A shimmering ocean filled with diamonds on the surf
One last golden drop until it's swallowed by the Earth

[CHORUS] X2
no time for cameras
we’ll use our eyes instead
no time for cameras
we’ll be gone when we’re dead
no time for cameras
we’ll use our eyes instead
I see flashes of gold

The Jester

Even if my parents try to stop me
Even if times get too Rocky
Sylvester Stallone ain't got nothing on me
Felines on a machine just try to copy
But I make them floppy, throw them a disc
I'm slinging rhymes and lines, no throwing fists
Unless I represent power to the ceiling
I'm my biggest fan and I love this feeling
Doing it for me, stopping for no one
Even if I'm not allowed, doing it until it's done
Do it on the sly, call me Cooper
All geared up, yes I'm a trooper
Very super, edging out awesome
I do to rhymes like spring to blossoms
What the hell am I? Ball of culture
Roll me up, roll me down, pick at me you vultures
But I've molded to something of my design
My own architect, construction is mine
Pop the tags, I have no label
Standing on my own, two legged table
A fable that's currently being written
Protagonist with love interests smitten
Villain in my story, well doesn't matter
Don't really like listening to their chatter
Pulling down pants, writing up jokes
This is for my jesters, jokers, clowns and dopes
Never taken very seriously
Voted to be basement dwellers curiously
But watch in the end we come out on top
Like the foam of our champagne when we pop
In our campaign we like the humor
We might indulge into some rumors
But we are gentlemen when it comes down to it
Gossip and trash talk we try not to pursue it
Pull out chairs for all our women friends
Even if we don't like you, we'll try to pretend
No hasty gestures, no rash enterprise
Chivalry out the ass, what, you seemed surprised
Dressed to impress, wit never suppressed
Improv Comedian so what do you suggest?

Feathers

Let's just fly, you and I, against the sky, real high
Past the horizon, just look me in the eyes
Go through the sunrise, out like a sunset
This is best shared without any forget
Without regret we take flight like ambitious college kids
Calling without answering. Spread like barrages
No mirages or fun house mirror illusions and false bits
French fry classic with a milkshake malted
Salt on the brim of the glass of this thing we call fate
Drink it slowly and refills often. Seconds for this plate
Less vulgar and more class. Graduate like a cylinder
No beginner or winner sir, straight up like a marble pillar
No bologna, no lunch meat, none of that filler, grr
Like a beast, like a monster, like a demented killer brr
Too cold in these clouds as my breath is frigid
Vivid images of livid mystics within my lyrics
If you missed it, I kissed it. Every piece is intimate
Secrets whispered from a lovers distance
Longing to reveal to you my scars and my vices
What's the price I have to pay for sharing a crisis?
Mutual pain versus mutual hatred. What bonds better?
Fleeting connection like the mulching of a pigeon's feather
Make this stronger, make it more permanent
This tournament has turned events and they haven't heard a bit
Deaf ears are met with my blind rage
No one is able to see it or even read it on the page
So when I'm on the stage, I'm the most convincing
Even if you don't understand me, you get my feeling
I slow it down,
I roll the sound
Even at my loudest you can still hear my heart pound
I feel my lowest
regain my focus
Then I speed it up like wings of a locust
Kneel at the power of human emotion
Rocked back and forth from these loco motions
Train of thoughts pull into station
I'll wait for you, I've got enough patience
How am I today? I say I'm fine
That's just my pathological lie
Here's the truth, I'm attracted to hardship
Fruits of your labor, a real great harvest
Questions left and right, collecting words
Laying in the grass as we fly like birds
Look into your eyes, stomach churning
Talking is my only way of learning
Is it kind of sad? Well who knows
It's just a sadness that I chose
So trade me words, only if you want to
Help me believe, help me be true
I want to know you, tell me please
Hearing your voice only creates relief
Seeing your text pop in this bubble
Makes every thing worth the harshest struggle
This is what we do: staying together
Touch down gently: descending feather
We can make this better, let's make it good
No more shoulds and no more woulds
Never in the shadow of what if
You make sparks and I've got flint
Let's make a fire, let's break through
Let's paint something pretty, let's paint you
We can do so much, keep this alive
Give me more than just a reply
How was your day? How is your heart?
Aren't you glad we got to this part?

Undefined

Let me hear you all shout for the end of an era
Despite what you thought, good or bad, it's all the same area
It's all the same school, it's all the same air we breathed
We've all deceived, received, and we all did read, indeed
So let's Speak about our Part-Time selves and well
At least we didn't star cross, but only the clocks will tell
If we will excel like we did here in our halls
Trained to be better than all but we never did fall
300 odd strong and memories into a song
I might do this entire thing wrong
I hope in the end, you'll still enjoy it
The beats been deployed without a decoy, this
Is the legendary tale from 08 to 2012
Everyone around us so proud, can't you tell?
Started in academy, hormones we started battling
Oh god is she mad at me? Sarcasm was used against this beast
Roam from class to class like a pack of nomads
We weren't all rotten eggs waiting to go bad
But know that we dove into thorns and survived the cuts
This stuff in turn have made our walks into struts
We stride and glide and we moonwalked across
Diplomas in old English, it's time to feel like a goddamn boss
Cooked up something delicious inside of our brains
These thoughts cannot be stopped, watch out for our train
Rode freely like Tri-Met passes
All of us spectacles like a pair of glasses
We outlasted an entire chemistry dynasty
We voted this Asian Kid to be Cleveland's majesty
Raised enough funds to change our world
Convinced everyone the wisdom of our pearls
When pigs fly we would be the best in the blue
Well who knew, we do, in 09 Swine Flu
Assembled in the gym, got into that spirit
Green and gold, warriors, let me hear it!
Snagged a few 1st places along the way
When we first started you couldn't pay them to stay
They used to think that these teens were irrelevant
Now let's prove to them the truest intelligence
Out of the 22nd and 24th president
Let's give them something to mull over decadent
A dozen years in the making, this is our moment
Taking everything from teachers for components
Our opponents have lost in the face of our confidence
Saying how great we are is a truth and a compliment!
And on top of this, we won't ever be stopping this
It's time to roll out, in our prime: Optimus
We used to be the future, now we are the present
Time to make the world better for our descendents
And listen to this message, I feel blessed I could tell it
We sincerely have grown and developed
Each and one of you have made my time here phenomenal
Through the tragedies, the travesties and everything comical
The best time of our lives? Perhaps for some
But each one of you is in charge of your freedom
We never realize, but the moment you are born
Is the moment you've entered the real world, so these real eyes
Analyze through the real lies and we've been alive
For at least 17 years, so let's get wise
Take one step further into our Hero's Journey
Because we can all be macs like Bernie
Started from nothing and we wrote this manual
And now look at us: the hungriest Cannibals
More decorated than our halls during the autumn
How amazing how we rose from the very bottom
This is the end of something very incredible
We're diving into something so intangible
But I know one fact, this here graduation cap
Is something too awesome. Now THAT'S a rap.

Candles at 3AM

[Verse 1]
Paradoxical and oxymoronical, adjust my monocle
Stop and go through vestibules of my chronicle
Honest though I'm writing my entire heart down
Combining and mashing syllables and words to new compounds
It'll start now and wow as I lay down my verbs and nouns
Astound as the crowd crowds the stage as I talk around
The truth and make the ugly into something suitable
This is going past just some beautiful musical
Omnipresent author that writes the decisions
Precision with the pen like the scalpel's incision
Leave haikus for you at your grave and tombstone
Inscribe the groans against the air with a melancholy tone
And instead of a rose, I'll leave you a prose
Letters and words make up my being from top to toes
Trapped in a cage but I can deal with my curse
Come here and I'll show you how to compose a hearse

[CHORUS]
Sit down here and pick up the pen
Write me out until I meet the bloodiest end
Sit down here and build me a verse
Shed every cell and let the poems just burst

Sit down here and let the quill dance
Create for me the most tragic of romance
Sit down here and read the many stories
I'll never ever fit in just one category

[Verse 2]
Trials and tribulations, different tasks every day
Whatever happened to work hard to play?
They did say that things would get easier and harder
Difficult to make a difference unless you're a martyr
Work smarter or do it with more blood, sweat and tears?
Ghosts leave on my window of consciousness too many smears
So I wipe them off with my notepad and blade
Remember to forget and I look back on what's made
Make it uncomfortable for the listeners to read
Make it confusing for the watchers to hear, indeed
I've written my epitaph in the lines of these songs
Etched my bones with all of what's left and wrong
They tell me bloody write, so I jot with all my strength
Crimson in the horizon of my pages in red paint
With this weapon, I'm anything I can imagine to be
At the end of the day, I'm thinking "Who, me?"

[CHORUS]

Sit down here and pick up the pen
Write me out until I meet the bloodiest end
Sit down here and build me a verse
Shed every cell and let the poems just burst

Sit down here and let the quill dance
Create for me the most tragic of romance
Sit down here and read the many stories
I'll never ever fit in just one category

Cashlete

[CHORUS] x2
E-C-O-N-O-M-Y
I'm on your screens, I'm televised
R-E-S-O-U-R-C-E
Always in style, never scarcity

[Verse 1]
I lay it all bear so I'm more than stern
Step on the scene and wreck the aggregate supply curve
Cause there ain't no buying me, supplying me
With so many rhymes, there ain't no trying me
Kind of like bartering, you're so outdated
Just like the consumers of this world: you're overrated!
My balance sheet is so condensed in assets
Collecting more green than cabbages
I'm savage and mean, but don't call me average
Make a few withdrawals because it's all cash, kid
Hot commodity, please don't bother me
If I fall off I land on a pile of capital honestly
People look at me and show interest obviously
Probably in control like monetary policy
Obsolete, I spit cease and desist orders
Stop before you step on my lyrical mortar
I'm demand, I'm the man: Amanda Bynes
Please abide to me like the law of supply
Running circles around this life cycle hypothesis
No I'm not a prophet, but yes I do profit

[Verse 2]
1 for the money and 2 for the money
I used to write jokes, ain't this thing funny?
Economic theory, economic models
Buy the things I want that's an economic throttle
Stared at by a green face, give a discount rate
I'm not making it rain, I'm making people hydrate
I don't inflate, I just deflate egos
The people knows my worth is worth in euros
Entrepreneur with a firm understanding
Too fly in this thing so in 2020 I'll be landing
Excess reserves are for you to conserve
But I'll make real sure that my expert reverb
Will repeat my money. I'm implemented
Way too stocky, I'm a real good investment
My ability of efficiency has credibility
Gold standard, yes I'm the epitome
Employed now and forever in the long run
Cash rules everything around me: M1

[CHORUS]
E-C-O-N-O-M-Y
I'm on your screens, I'm televised
R-E-S-O-U-R-C-E
Always in style, never scarcity

C-U-R-R-E-N-C-Y
Money talks so I've got a good reply
M-A-R-K-E-T
Put me in your team without any liability

C-A-P-I-T-A-L
Call me spreadsheet, I just excel
O-P-T-I-M-U-M
Double my weight in precious gems

S-U-R-P-L-U-S
Past, future, present, so in tense
A-B-S-O-L-U-T-E
Advantage is handed right to me
Handed right to me!

Lifted

[Verse 1]
Cheat codes and power ups, living without a handicap
Watch me push my advantage with this dandy rap
Offensive pretenses as I remain intensive
Cracking a few jokes while I look over some Harvey Dents. It's
A little complicated with an inquisitive tone
Keep my head swimming with music: I'm in a spirited zone
C'mon, throw a bone. I've had enough of groans
Decimating and annihilating these unmanned drones
Nothing else out there can match intuition
Nothing is impossible, please cast me for missions
My goal is to be flyer than the posters in the hall
One day I'll be able to pull of a shout and call
Sign a slip of paper that increases in value
Let me stay humble and mean it when I ask "How are you?"
These are never what ifs, merely options
Flying out of this apartment

[Chorus] x2
So I stay rising and lifted.
They ask me how I do that? I'm just gifted
Angel wings over here
Paper plane over there
Ascension is second nature when you're the heir

[Verse 2]
Literally longing like laborious linguistics
If I invented inglorious illness, in instance
Forgetting for forgiving frees forlorn forces
Terrifically tracing these things that torched this
Endings eternal effervescent escapes ensigns
Dormant disasters doom denizens
Lord, leave lush listening lulls: ludicrous
Icarus incandescent in intense interests
Filling fast for firing fiscal finesses
Tying to torpedoes, try topping Tourette's
Endothermic entrances enter elaborate
Destroying dull distractions doing dragoness
Love If Feeling Terrible Ends Distances
Leveling Is Forever To Eon Dividends
Little Is Falling That Entertain Drips
Liberating Icicles For Tears Erodes Dips

[Chorus] x2
So I stay rising and lifted.
They ask me how I do that? I'm just gifted
Angel wings over here
Paper plane over there
Ascension is second nature when you're the heir

[Verse 3]
Steadily in the clouds, they want to bring me down
I'm above the influence but they just think I clown
I want to do this, and they want to do that
I'm talking logic, and they don't know the fact
Writing with a quill and I'm letting all my ink spill
But they just reject the request. My heart be still
They don't want to hear it, they don't want to analyze
They want to hear about my swag and what girls are fly
Composing compositions using devices and alliterations
They're telling me to give my truth too many alterations
Slant rhymes and dank vibes is what I do good
But they say that I'm killing the entire main mood
They keep yapping without any good banter
Kid Scapino on this with the heart of Leander
They're baring their teeth and they tell me to quit
I laugh and fly away thinking "is this it?"

[Chorus] x2
So I stay rising and lifted.
They ask me how I do that? I'm just gifted
Angel wings over here
Paper plane over there
Ascension is second nature when you're the heir

Cocky

Exactly what you gotta do, pump this jam up
Floating marmalade. Put your hands up!
Man this man sucks, is what some may say
So irrelevant, I'm in my hey day
So I say "Hey!" And I greet them hello
Watch me pull these strings, call it cello
I'm so jello, you're so jelly
My meaning is higher: synonym telly
In the belly, finally out of the fire
No more pots and pans, still cook to inspire
And what I inquire is some participants
If you're not solving, you're a precipitate
And the middlemen gets cut right out
Like a coupon. Who's on the mic now?
And I'm bout to strike down: flow straight picketing
All 1s in here. No bickering
All things considering, this guy is damn hot
But he's so cold, what's that? A Paradox
Not a pair of docs on this hipsters feet
What you all say? Nikes keep this complete
And there's no need to compete. No contest
I get real comfy up in here: nice armrest
Yeah I bomb tests and I ace classes
I'm a real spectacle like I wear my glasses
Cruise like molasses: I take my time
Get my Shakespeare on: I pen rhymes
And in my mind I'm the Gentleman of Roses
I'm supercalifragilisticallepxiealdoucis
Crazy with poses. I'm the man of the house
While y'all sit down I just stand out
Man I stamp out haters, call me the mail man
I eat beets so hard you call me Quailman
Make it hail man, I don't make it rain
In fact throw thoughts in the air: I make it braaaaain
Get in my lane dude, I do this calmly
Fresh to death I'm a well-suited zombie
Way too jaunty and all other adjectives
Some say hobby and I say passionate
I pass the fifth because I won't stay quiet
I push pens and jets because I am a pilot
I hush down riots and get them to mosh pit
Takumi on the microphone, this boy done lost it
Geeky jargon mixed with some street slang
Big bang mixed with the wisdom of Wu-Tang
Boomerang: I go over your head
They want to toast me, I'm supreme bred
Keep my head up, eyes are toward the clouds
Dancing with my own tunes that play so loud
And I'm so proud of how far I've gotten
Had a few hundred people bop up their noggins
And if I'm Robin, I feel like Batman
After all of this I can still be Dat Phan
Keep them laughin' but I make them ponder
Rapper over here and a poet there yonder
So I launder, like Godfather
Took the cannolli so why do you even bother
I am water, fire and the earth
Quenching thirst, spitting flames and doing my dirt
Is it a curse? Depends on perspective
I'm so protected, so contraceptive
Too damn receptive to any and all thoughts
I soak up like a sponge, absorb the entire lot
The fires hot and the night is so clear
Good evening world, yes I am right here.

R.I.T.D.

Swag.
Yes I can be your first but I'll always last
Honor roll, graduation, I'm the top of the class
Insane mannerisms, coveted gentlemen
Love is a battlefield and I'm a shipped home veteran
Adorned with scars, covered in medals
War time flash backs: I thought we were something special
Never late once: I wined and dined
I strapped clocks to my feet: always running on time
Didn't appreciate me and I couldn't even comprehend
I'm sitting in 9 circles just like where Dante's been
Writing a sinful tragedy with a couple pens
But I'll make sure the divine comedy is where it ends
Let me turn around, forgetting will be the first thing
So I won't have to forgive you or the tears that you bring
You don't deserve any additional break up effort
This isn't even about you really. No love lost letter
No grand gestures. You don't get none of that
This is all fact: wikipedia styled rap
Moved on with the thoughts, sent it all away
The recoloring is on: that thing is Cray
Yeah I don't mind right now you're dolling with some creeps
I got over you: I'm consoling with my peeps
You took away my rest: you were tolling in my sleep
But now I'm ghost: so I'm rolling 6 foot deep

SH1NE

Turn on the lights in here, baby
Extra bright, I want y’all to see this
Turn on the lights in here, baby
Know what I mean, want you to see everything
Want you to see all of the—

I got 99 problems and yes I am every single one of them
Tactician and a stylist put together I've got stratagems
Take the batteries out of the flashlight, invest in me
I'm Jay-Z and Beyonce's kid, I am Destiny
Shining like a UFO. Alienating with my flow
Pedal to the mettle, full throttle, my ambition ain't too slow!
Speed demon, quick monster, I am so sick doctor
Alexander the Great on this microphone and I'm about to conquer
Featherweight body with heavy hitting delivery
Crying all the way to the crib. Tears stream down bitterly
Step father status: you hate me but you will respect
Wu-tang loves Dang, so I can say you best protect your neck
I'm so bright that even Mr. Sun wants to battle me
I just put on my shades and tell him "You should come at me!"
DOPENESS.
Apollo reincarnate yes I can boast this
I bring the heatwaves, this beat is toasted

Who is this even? Takumi the fox!
Out of the package: thinking outside of the box
Bring out the confetti and sparkles: celebration
You all know that I am your favorite Asian
Freshman year, yes I was so mature
Sophomore year, set fire so I was sure
Junior year, so mint. What do you think?
Senior year. So swag. I can get away with a wink

I’m back in the game, coach put me in
T-Pain flow: All I do is Win
With a GPA full of Bs you can hear the buzz
But I'm A plus when you can see my love
What is even left? Gotta do this right
Stealing all the bulbs I got all of the lights
Speedy Gonzales with the punching bag
Yes I am the IT THING, do you see the tag?
I hope you can hear every single word
I am flier than every single bird
Atticus Finch: classical demeanor
2012 in here! Citizen: Senior
Very ill on this like the flu virus
I'm crazy on the mic like Miley Cyrus
Pious? I'm cleanly, so godly
At the end of this I know every one will want me

Turn on the lights in here, baby
Extra bright, I want y’all to see this
Turn on the lights in here, baby
Know what I mean, want you to see everything
Want you to see all of the—

Black Rain Flow

This is all fun and games until you poke an eye out
Captain on deck, boy so high you got to fly him out
Right below your belt, fly is what I talk about
At the end of this thing you will all know what to shout
I am just a rapper so I talk about drug deals
My rhymes shine like a nine that is thug zeal
I got four fives like change for a twenty
Talking about murder like the seventies: Ted Bundy
Make a comparison to me and a killer
Then do a punchline to make the rhyme iller
I am just a rapper I am America's vanity
I am all lies and talk: Casey Anthony
Oh wait, I forgot, I ride around in a six four
No seat belt, I'm a gangster to the core
Talk about where I come from, very rough shit
You eat up my words all day: consumption
Out the window so fast I am Mcfly
I want to die the truth, rappers live a sick lie
What am I? What am I? Identity crisis
I am just a rapper here's the bullet you should bite this
Spitting ammunition but not pulling triggers
Talk about moving units but really made up figures
Am I a living nightmare or do I dream awake?
Going down to court only for a fast break
I am just a rapper breaking down stereotypes
Mono? Surround sound. You better hear what you like
Asian Kid? Sure. Wanna be? Fine.
But I got gems inside my head: diamond mind
I got five on it just like Monticello
Relationship with hip hop: black and yellow, black and yellow
I am sick on the mic like Jackson and his charges
Aim for the head with my Nintendo cartridges
I am just a rapper, I am just honesty
I am everything that I'm not: everything I want to be