99/100

[Verse 1]
Laying in my room trying to get thoughts out of my head
I'm out of my mind, she out of my league and I'm still in her bed
Never believed in miracles but I got proof of her existence
And in case you missed it, this miss would make you think that I'm gifted
Living in the present, passed the future on my way to work
I decided to write a song tonight and it will find a way to surf
Sink or float, I think in quotes,
This is ragged, ravaged, raw rhyme, ragging from out of my throat
In this boat, I ink the most
Flooding title pages with sages and mages yes I made it looking fresh inside of my coat
Skinny pants, stands half a chance, the dude is a beanstalk
Keep talk to a minimum as I walk then knock giants off
Heart full of feelings and a noggin full of healings
Things I like to shatter include records, fasts and ceilings!
Always eating something or other, the hunger is a world wonder
Louder than lightning, faster than thunder, if you like it: here's my number!

[Chorus] x2
It goes 12/25/1993
D-A-N-G exclamation point just for me

Gotta say things really excited
The fire has ignited
This is you getting reminded
Longer than just one-night-ed

[Hook]
99 problems but I keep it 100
99 problems but I keep it 100
99 problems but I keep it 100
But I'm really bad at math so you might just have to double it

[Verse 2]
Well excuse me for a while
You might like me for my style
But the thing is that I do to words
is what I do to her nice smile
I am feeling very fresh
I got myself a haircut
Rolled up cuffs on my ankles
Hipster swag: I don't give a fuck
This shit, is never enough
Toned down, heart is buff
Life is this, life is such
Lift off and the cups is up
And you already know I can rap this fast
But I like doing it because I liked flash
I really like glamour, I really like cameras
I'm picking you up like good antennas
Never gonna stammer, got good grammar
Things so hot, I gotta use the hammer
Asian boy bear it all, call this the panda
and this manner is to make you laugh
Make you grin, I'm honestly not trying to look at this from a win
lose stand point but I'm pretty much at this point all in
Mentioned the girl I liked in the midst of my bravado
Awkward arrows being shot out of all of my staccato
Driving to Taco Bell, girl you know me well
I will only be coming first if in front of you is a blue shell

[Hook]
I will race across with you forever on Rainbow Road
I will take the loss for you but clever like I'm on some code
I will shake the boss so you can never have to hit reload
You ask me when this started and you already know it goes:

[Chorus] x2
It goes 12/25/1993
D-A-N-G exclamation point just for me

Gotta say things really excited
The fire has ignited
This is you getting reminded
Longer than just one-night-ed

[Hook]
99 problems but I keep it 100
99 problems but I keep it 100
99 problems but I keep it 100
But I'm really bad at math so you might just have to double it

[Verse 3]
Double it, triple it, you know I'm so sick with it
We gotta brag about ourselves, this is Hip Hop isn't it?
The boast and confidence helped boost my own
And now look at me when I'm almost 20 grown
I survived a nasty break up, every morning I still wake up
And I'm staring at your face even if I messed up your make up
Put out a book of my words, went from static to verb
And it's so shocking that the talking around the water cooler is about this sir!
I like my poems like I like my words: spoken
And lately I don't relate as much to the adjective "broken"
And notice that I'm liking myself
And if not, I'm taking steps to better my shelf
Put your favorite things on my back and I'll keep them held
Keep them safe
1st, 2nd and 3rd, I'm feeling so BASED

5' 8"

[Verse 1]
When you listen to this, the tag is "honest song"
I'm about to be on my Rudy Francisco game strong
All my life I paint wrong and I still turn out pretty pictures
Vivid images of scriptures turned backward on their figures
I figured that the mixture of soul and heart would be enough
But it's all deeper than skin and my layer got rough
It's hard to get underneath the impenetrable armor
The honor of monsters grew intense and I'm looking calmer
With words that I desperately need to say lodged in my throat
I'm rushing through poems and feelings to get something to quote
Something really catchy that sticks inside your mind
I just want to reverberate and hope the burning may find
Kind hearted individual that single handedly creates a whole
Digging for buried treasures under pressure I will turn my cole
Into diamonds. Something I can recognize
Something I can be proud of when the lead resides

[Chorus] x2
I'm five foot eight,
I really wanted you
I like my soda cold and can you understand these particles?
One hundred twenty five
Look deeply in my eyes
This the type of shit that I will really, really need to write

[Verse 2]
Because I like holding you tightly until my arms hurt
Until breathing syncs up since nightly I see the harm's work
I get behind dreams. The nightmares still gleam
Shimmering beams of light surround everyone else it seems
I get down on myself but I can pull myself up straight
Now straight up tell me if you think this is great
Because my speech is clouds when I want to speak concrete
My reach is loud when I want to peak on beats
Never needed pity and was never good at gritty
I've got city running through my veins and rain water pretty
Are you with me? Or against me?
Don't tempt me.
Since I've had those things raging inside my mind until the time ran out and yet they still live there since the rent's cheap
So right now mentally, to put this less densely
I need start learning how to be present in this or else I might forget me.
Or maybe I should just forget me

[Chorus] x2
I'm five foot eight,
I really wanted you
I like my soda cold and can you understand these particles?
One hundred twenty five
Look deeply in my eyes
This the type of shit that I will really, really need to write

[Verse 3]
And what I needed to write is all the things I couldn't say
It's all the things that I need to say, day to day
And it might sound cliche, but hey
Maybe that's the game I have to play
So stay with me. I'd rather not have you leave
We'll get along famously. Just you and me
But it pains to see that this is what I knew would be
So plain to we that this might turn into what could be

I Am Here

So no one told you it would be this way?
That's okay, because today is our coffee break
The sun is looking like the right shade of
Fuck it, I'm going to relax, kick back and remember how to play
Since all us kids keep yelling out acronyms
But you know that we won't ever be back again
We're only moving forward, we're constantly in motion
Awesomely potent: we've retouched our motives
But do you notice how often we get down on ourselves?
Us incredible radiant beings doubting our hands dealt?
Where our fingers see fists more frequently
When really they need someone else's hand in between
Friendships are never sunk, sometimes we sleep in bunks
And we'll need a boost up so we can do the dunk
And I'm a little messed up, bruised and scratched up
But it's lead me here to you, us improbable match up
I'll be your backup and if you ever back up
I've got my back against your shoulders even when odds stack up
It's all looking wonderful in the right lens
It's all worth something in the right sense
Pinky promises and swearing like sailor's into the night
We keep our shoe laces and our hugs real tight
More adventures like Calvin and Hobbes and
More dynamic than Batman and Robin
I like what we have, I like what it will be
I just have to keep remembering that you also like me
Twilight in the park, this is the summer I want
Me and you, laying on your stomach and something in courier font
Because this is all poems in the end, isn't it?
I guess I don't really want to get too into it
I'm not stressing love, but let's just remember it does exist
I'm not pressing love, but let's live like December 25th
And I'm hanging on your every words like the curve of your lips
I'll never get tired of this

Gold Knuckles

[Verse Simile]
Back again like I left but tonight I right like civil movements
No improvement just a new influence on this lucid music
Fresher hair like Gohan go on? I prove it
And do it to the maximum like tomatoes. Who's this?
Link I think, this chink spills ink, drop winks
Blink once and lose for sure like mink. Complete like Zinc
Rhyming inviting so damn exciting
Contrast to the snoring, boring, I'm straight up frightening. Stifling?
Like I'm just tossing word salad? Well let me break it down like work with a callous
Malice and ballads swing down like fists and mallots. Too damn gallant
So you better enjoy my damn pallet: I'm in town. I get down.
I surf on the verse when I'm around and I astound.
This templar is the highest, flyest and still cloak and dagger dark
Bring your magnum because you claim that you are so damn hard
I'll show you shaken up spears. You should know that I fux with the bard
This beat and I sparred and in the end it got straight up marred

[Sample]
Now we gonna get down!

[Verse Linger Rhyme]
Gold knuckles with my Midas hustle
Asteroid belt around my waist and yet I never seem to buckle
Or shatter due to the weight of the content matter
I just flatter and get madder in order to appease these fucking bastards
Rappers are just poets with impeccable rhythm
This wisdom and courage and strength is already within him
Triforce in the hand is worth a thousand in the bush
I'm towering potential in every direction getting pulled and pushed
East to west and north to south whatever comes out of my mouth
Is the autobiography of what I am really about
No more chains around my neck I broke free from those shackles
I'm about to tackle, battle for my tale: no more tattles
Or rattles. I'm making death be afraid to come and get me
Stay steady and ready the cannons that will stand in heavy
If they let me I'll go until the words are no longer
Monsters growing stronger along with iron mongers that I sponsor
Watch me conquer and offer nothing to the opposition
In this position I've switched it from the original mission
No hate for a lover and no love for a hater
Yo, let me take a breath: Vader

{GASP}

[Verse Fast]
Can't even handle my syllables
Rhymes billable to the one that will kill a bull
Minotaur: subpar. His head on my wall
You feel like testing me? Let's go play ball
Never gonna fall, unbreakable Jenga
You are forgettable, call you xanga
Call you myspace, I call her Topenga
Always did the opposite, text is manga
What do I got a lot? Disappointment
But I'm going ham, there's so much oink kid
You want ignorance, I want more bliss
You got really rich, I'm in poor debt
Keep investing, I'm perfecting
This style is check, check, microphone testing
And I'm passing with flying colors
Who else does this? I am like no other

[Sample]
That's what I'm talking about!

[Verse Switch]
Slamming down, jamming sound, I am ramming nouns
Into the lush instrumentation basements so I can earn my crown
All of these fly girls are hanging on my every single word
Like my speech has handlebars but I handle bars so absurd
Smash through windows, keep this simple,
You can just blow me, classic Nintendo
In the end though, fresh like mentos
And I'm rising to the top like a fucking crescendo!
Elevator: penthouse. Right girl, left the blouse
Thoughts so hot, this spot just gotta douse
Never being left out, feel me: textile
Flip over your phone because that's me on your text now
You cannot afford to ignore this knocking on your door
Matador waving red capes since at the core this break will take more damn metaphors
I'm representing this primary that will vary
In preventing the lacking of necessary lines that are legen:

[Sample]
WAIT FOR IT...!

[Final Verse]
Honestly? I've always wanted to be dominating
These starter beats with authorizing, cauterizing harder feats
But I'm probably in way over my head, so instead of monopolies
being lead astray, today from now on I will shed
All the complexities and hit them with the fundamentals:
This instrumental lends itself to the soulful stencil and the truest pencil
Trace my silhouette and see the outline that outshines
The pirouettes across graceful steps. Yes, I'm about mine
Looking cooler and cooler and cooler after each sun cycle
Begin running circles around this music like your most fun vinyl
And even though I'm dealing with issues difficult
This makes the individual whimsical: able to reach his pinnacle
Starting to tone down and tone up, no loud and grow up
Sit down and focus on the bigger picture of "what now?" and "so what?"
Realizing what art is granting:
I am human therefore nothing human is beyond my understanding: thank you for understanding

No Work For The Righteous

I gave her the bolt cutters without stuttering
Heart fluttering, nervous, chatting up and muttering
About the other things that have already built up, broke down
Repaired, destroyed, fix up and I know better now
Give a thief a key to the museum,
Handing matches to an arsonist,
Sitting down just to understand
Trying to get away and pardon this
is what I really am. I still feel your hands through
Rolled up sleeves and see my heart strong enough
to break promises like rocks against the waves and the sea
But believe me, I never thought I'd retrace
the lace from your dress and your breathe and
I'm a mess and in a sec, you'll forget and regret
ever picking up the phone to send me a text
I confess I never wanted it to be this way
But of course, the best laid plans of mice and men and those old cliches
These days, I reach for the clouds pinned on my ceiling
Waiting for someone to save me from the deep, I'm reeling
This feeling is something I'm all too familiar with
Too bad I can never get used to it. Billiards and english
Top spin, believe this, Jesus, wobbly knees is
Harping for nearness. I can make you some good grilled cheeses
But under the polices and watching eyes I am veering
Away from all contact but fat chance with that. In appearance
I'm just an almost adult trying to achieve something
Not nothing but the one thing is that the shadows bumping
and creeping in the background are seated and laughing
at my acting and my needing to be everlasting
When did wanting company and affection become a bad thing?
Good guy, good night, and the jobs go to the wicked
I'm about to call it quits but occasionally the call comes to
ask if if I just wanna kick it and the implicit meaning
of me coming over for this is that I really just miss it.

Ineffable (Yeah, Of Course This Is About Girls)

[Verse 1]

When the fuck did I become a love poet?

I'm usually in the mood to write for the slow it down,

light the candles, let the feelings come out

and now it's all I think about and it's not like I

really hate it. I got it in spades kid, the basic

placement of putting words in for the plays of

stand ins trying to convince the leading maiden

that in fact you are not playin' and this isn't maybe

but this is what you're really made of

I hail from broken streets down the beats of that

th-thump, th-thump sweet heart rap

That kind of I can twist it up to make it into a joke

so you don't feel bad kind of rap. You know about that?

I know all about that

From jester to joker to test her and no sirs

That break up really did a number on me if you look closer

I'm not a poser or a poster boy for

the romantic ploy with grand gestures like quotas

More of the I've got things to say like

snow is all over Minnesota

And It's always raining from my hometown

I guess that's the way I like it now

From skipping into puddles and

hoping I can use an umbrella so we

can cuddle under that rain is what I hope now

I'm not feeling broke now, I'm just more aware of it

And I still feel dope but it's with the shit I got pair it with

From dates that seem great that lead to dead ends

To good thoughts and intentions that instead blend

with all of my thoughts making me feel like that paranoid parrot

I'm not embarrassed.

But I do lie often.

The options of softness are wearing down

and I choose it so much that's it's like my defaulted

So many faults kid. I feel insulted

Too many waltzes that I rocked solo

So maybe tonight I better last call it.

Where did I leave my wallet? Oh no.

[Breakdown]

Dear god, I wish I could sing for you

but we both know that isn't gonna come true

Yes, I'm feeling blue, but what's a girl to do?

Keep doing what you do and we all fall for you

And now I wish I could carry a tune

But spend the night with me and I'll carry the moon

I'll walk through monsoons and other

of those cliche poetic weather patterns just for you

And I wish I could sing for you

I wish I could sing for you but

I really don't know how to do

I really, really, really, don't know how to

I wish I could just sing to you

make something pretty be sung for you

but I don't really know how to do that

so instead I just have to say it in this... kind of rap

[Outro]

Falling for someone.

is a culmination

of everything I could be afraid of. 

Falling already is unsettling, but when

you start to fall for someone, you start

to think you have superpowers. As if gravity

does not effect you and you’ve been granted

the gift of flight! But sooner or later, you’ll hit

the bottom. Unless you grab on tight. And I

seem to gravitiate towards people who 

have hands stretched out like tree branches,

sturdy, leafy, places I can spend

my summer days.

But the further I fall, the more I have

to confront my other fears. When you

point your finger at me, accusations flying

quicker than darts with tips pointed like

surgeon’s scalpels, all I can ever do

is just try to catch the statements through

my teeth and not let any of my own fly out.

And you’ll remind me that I can’t impress

you every second of the day and that more

often or not, I’ll just be an ordinary human, which

is scary. Because who ever wanted to be in 

love with a normal person? So I start

evaluating my life and my past and my future,

how I’ve been living and how I might die and

all of a sudden every specter from the corners

of the room start to surround my view every time

you ask me what’s wrong and I can’t formulate

words but only images and of course I’ll just say:

nothing.

Just stay with me.

Americana (Yo, lemme try to do something different)

[Verse 1]
Bomber jacket to match the status of
Rapper hatching explosive matches to drag against
the landscape of the planet. Manage to
not mess it up too badly in the long ran.
Past tense because the random vantage
points of view seem to hand in different scanning
Emulating different styles and for a while as a child
I wanted to be on top of the pile but the Nile
swallowed up this vile, bile spitting Guile
so it got real depressing in the permanent files
of the school bully, nerd king, hall monitor
check the thermometer, heat is rising and the
thing relates back to the bomber, so ya boy
is a Drama kid, acting bitch, Chameleon changing shifts
and clocking in double this and that, doing rap
and dramatic monologues about some sentimental crap
and what is that you better check your facts in the alamanc

[Hook]
Something something catchy
combination of rapping and singing will make this happen
Not looking that drastic because
there won't be any auto-tune in this forecastin':
Whether or not we actually just let it happen

[Verse 2]
Just got home to finish this song, wanted to do something
different but instead it came out wrong, so slap the palm
Give me high five and incite the rides to satisfy
the right to write and fly in sight of satellites
Tonight we might have strength and the chain reaction
of this action will gain some traction so the
mack shit of rapping is actively being active
without action to chat this up to all of the masses
looking passive when I pass this flyer of massive
task tips that rather gather looks of magic


[Hook]
Something something catchy
combination of rapping and singing will make this happen
Not looking that drastic because
there won't be any auto-tune in this forecastin':
Whether or not we actually just let it happen