Sunday, August 14, 2011

INTRO (Home Page)

TO SEE THE LYRICS JUST SCROLL DOWN AND CLICK ON THE SONG TITLES ON THE RIGHT OF THE PAGE


It's been over 5 years since I released this CD and this introduction to the lyrics page can now serve as a retrospective. This was my first album and I knew so much less than I do now about so many things. Primarily, I wasn't going to many protests and events related to social justice, and I didn't know there were so many other underground political rappers like myself out there in the world! It's laughable now to me, but at the time I thought I was like the only one still doing what I was doing! I was inspired by Public Enemy, KRS 1, Dead Prez, and other famous conscious rap artists I heard growing up, but at the time I wasn't aware of the independent scene, which I now know is often where the best music is, especially in regards to underground and political hip hop.

While I am proud of my musical ability and many aspects of this project, I am not proud of the overall studio production. This is because this album was recorded in an inferior studio in Philly with two crazy guys. The one who did the mastering insisted he knew what he was doing and evidently he did not. The 3 albums I did after this one were recorded in a true professional studio in Blackwood, NJ with an engineer who is an expert in his field. I would never go back to that studio in Philly, and I think their lack of skills with production make the lyrics on this one hard to understand at times, which is why I think it's especially important to provide the lyrics here at this site. On this CD I was doing things I no longer do like using quasi curse words ("buck" for the F word and "ish" for the S word). On my 3rd and 4th albums I found better and more direct ways to express myself.

I had a good understanding of politics and fighting injustice back then but I have evolved so much since. My evolution politically can be seen on subsequent projects when comparing them with this one.

The only song I would re-do or just not release in retrospect is Now. I am proud of what I said (even if I could do a better job with the subject now) but the flow was too laid back and complacent and should have been more aggressive and on point. I did have a large amount of yes men and women around me at the time gassing my head up with nonsense about my impending fame and their unconditional support, and this could have had something to do with it. It's a shame but I admit I now tend to regard most of what people say as just talk.

Despite these shortcomings, there is so much I still love about this project. I am proud that I espoused many critical ideas/messages like taxing the rich, that we're all one human race, that we need to unify to fight the prevalent racism that still exists, the inequality in schools, inequality between rich and poor, class war, double standards, fighting ignorance in hip hop and generally, not objectifying women, first putting yourself in the shoes of people you want to ridicule, and general consciousness, empathy, and compassion. Of course there is also quite a bit of questioning authority and this is the foundation of the search for truth and justice.

I was also proud of how I attacked racism and hypocrisy on immigration and in general on F BushThe Anti N Word, and Karma, and of all the important ideas and concepts on One Race. I still really enjoy the content and the way the flow bounces with the sound effects and back and forth dynamics on I Know. The song Karma is one I thought came together especially magnificently. The way the flow and beat came together is epic to me. I recall this was one of the few (if not the only) songs that I recorded in one take. I felt like that beat was made for me, and it strongly reminded me of a beat from an old movie I love called Big Trouble in Little China.

I'm also still really proud of bringing together independent, political rappers from three different countries for the monster collaboration song Its Time (Remix). I loved how it all came together and thought it was really powerful, especially T.O.'s verse.

To this day I'm immensely proud of the song Rhymes Anonymous. The whole song is a metaphor and it's intentionally eccentric sounding to go with the theme of a person dealing with addiction (in this case to writing rhymes). I wrote this song during a period where I couldn't sleep because I was writing rhymes all night and it felt like I couldn't stop. It was an exciting time. The metaphors within the overall metaphor were impressive as well, and I'm happy I still got a strong line or two about equality in there as well.

I think I showed versatility on this album by doing a love song and by conceptualizing some hilarious skits called Live from the Street, which satirized the state of hip hop and society. While doing those skits in the studio our heads hurt a lot from laughing so much.

I'll end the way the album ends by reminiscing on the final track (listed as the 2nd bonus track) the Its Time (Storm Remix) which was produced by Silent NRG. I can't say enough about how impressed I am with what NRG did on this one. He showed true mastery of production and DJ techniques and topped it off by going out in a severe thunder and lightning storm with a microphone to get the authentic thunder sound..

Peace,

Tha Truth





Saturday, August 13, 2011

Truth Intro

This intro was done by DJ Filthy Rich (R.I.P.). This is a very brief clip taken from the Its Time (Club Mix) he did. I put the entire version of it on my Tha Civil Rights Movement Part II album, which came out after this one. Before he died we spoke of our mutual love for the art of DJ techniques in hip hop and this is just a clip/sample of his skills. From my song Its Time he took the lines "Let's get it right I'll excite the type light up a fire," and "I'm reppin for the truth this is proof," and fused it together to sound something like: Get it right I'm Tha Truth - Get it right - Tha Truth - Get it - Get it. He actually turned it into a couple of different types of messages from my original intent and I thought it sounded spectacular.

Friday, August 12, 2011

Impact

Fans in the UK want downloads to play me - Truth in the streets 'cross seas - the youth need - time to lay the seed - rhyme - Truth against greed - mind boosts send teams of words at these herds (echo) shake up the masses - government need glasses (not seein clearly) - they miss facts and need to get back in classes (humanities/civics/ethnic relations/ethics) - I studied for a masters (sociology) - I rap more and faster 'cause it's too many starvin - I'm conscious - it's alarmin - they watch this it's harmin - not doin nothin - see playin this CD's a way that you can do somethin - call 'em on their bluffin - the media lofts softballs - their questions is compliments - stop the applause (echo) - start questionin the laws - unrest we don't pause - gotta stretch out like paws - gotta get a new clause - cite and rewrite the bills - my writings like a pill - from The Matrix - take it make fate get a chill

HOOK
Here comes the impact - they numb to the facts - I run - get the ax - words cut and never lax - they tellin me Tha Truth got melody like a sax - I'ma use this to move this - world and how it acts


I'ma bring it up again - my thing with the pen - too many in the pen(itentiary) - to many meet the end - too many die ignored - once again I implore - we need to look at Darfur - the crooks there is more - troops out bombin - Vietnamin' the wrong war - ignorin Africa - the US bleed greed traffickers - leaders locked in Attica    - that'd be spectacular - I'm the most dramatica rhyme wreck and batter the opposition to me - don't stop you keep givin me - ammunition for my mic - that's right - locked and loaded - anything you say held against you and noted - court of opinions - bring me your dominions - too many is imprisoned in - the mergers got us swimmin in crazy monopolies - competition they is squashing these - my thoughts beg you to hear me - see it real clearly - feel me on the mic 'cause I write unlike my peers be

Conscious what I'm doin - in the struggle we is losing - you CEOs - I got bars (double meaning) I want you in - the corporate the criminals - they relaxed like its subliminal - me I get hyped on site - ready to riot - put me in jail and still fail to keep me quiet - I wanna move the world (echo) - this my chance to try it - the words that I speak from the street here to greet - got my eyes wide open - they try and hide cloning - when I get enough loot - I'll buy homeless homes and this ain't no joke - what I write is how I be - askin all world leaders to leave town for me - all of y'all is corrupt - this is what the masses need - my words cut like glass and touch the class of greed - though it's no classes except the ones we be teaching - first lesson stop frontin (lying) 'bout the oil you is seekin (major echo) - it goes real deep and I'm a Natural Disaster - 'cause I'll save you from a deacon or a pastor - it's too much cash leakin in the rich pockets - it's time to stop this - a hundred thou(sand) given to the rich at the Oscars - I throw tomatoes at the screen and scream - Yo Natural - hold up man - nah nah - tell 'em - tell 'em - nah get out my way 'cause yo - time for me to rock this - my words go out across the world - my mouth the cockpit - I'm a street prophet and the truth I unlock it - it's real clear -  this they don't want you to hear - but it's burnin in my soul so I have to take action - play this we may get a real great reaction - I'm movin with a faction sayin *buck* how they taxing - tax up the rich and switch the way they is acting - if they don't rap like this - I'm not checkin (caring) for ya - the world's much bigger than what's on your corner - it's never too late - I take a stand to reform ya - understand I'm a man with plans to transform ya - a diagrammed warrior (fighting ignorance)

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Karma

My mind's like a horse in fright - I feel my mind's forced to write - I'll probably be in LPs that be six songs tight - I feel it's wrong to slight - T - R - U - T - H - I hate the way studios act like they too busy or too great - thats why you see LPs now and how the album comin late - when it come to dumb studio time - yeah I hate (echo) I guess they bate who I despise - unwise - who wanna rise - guess I could be - should - be unsurprised - like most other lives - they won't wanna be smothered in truth - they prefer bein (echo) covered in lies (echo) so now it's you that's in my bars - I wanted you to act better - you coulda helped make the album they touting the new rap that's better (echo) the fact trend setter - the tracks acts I capture better - attack - catch your cheddar ($) give it to cats that need it better - you ain't wanna call me back - now you miss out - it's karma - I told you to your face it's not me - wait fate'll harm ya

HOOK
Karma got us all you might think it don't your wrong - wait a few years it'll sear you like a prong - I been through so much sh** - I been waitin for too long - now you gonna feel my pain as I drain it in my song



People worried about their hair not concerned with world affairs - people bald with cancer - you want answered who won (American) Idol? - I give a *buck* who won the title - you all sheep (followers) - I'm like a rifle - I blast facts at your melon (head) - yeah I'm tellin' while you sellin - I'm a felon - while you dwelling with wolves in sheeps clothing (politicians) - while you posing - I'm upholdin - real woven truth that's holdin - I'm a criminal - breakin the laws of raps you cloning - and while you worried about your hair - I dare to care about cancer - you could regrow your stupid hair - but they're in doubt and have no answer - I used to hate karma - harm a guy for no apparent (reason) - but now I see my arms is rampant - this muscle man it's transparent - and think about the days where kids abused me like my parents - but now karma got me amped kid - bring harm you get stamped kid - I'm a non violent pacifist - but karma could still get ya even seein how I handle *ish* if forced into a corner - 'cause I got a lotta love but I'm human so I'm warnin ya

By the way I was drivin - glidin - ridin down the highway - seen this bumper sticker - picture the sign the time of day - it said, "Welcome to America - Now learn to speak English." Me and C we finished (upset) with *ish* we quick to pull - this prick think ignorant like a bullfighter (echo) - C full of flames like a lighter - she bright with brain like a fighter (trained pugilist) - we say, "Hey fool, You need to learn Native languages 'cause the English stole this land and never repaid the damages." - So that bumper sticker and shove it up your (*edited*) - and know you slow and grow ignorant ones you know who grow around you they bound to agree 'cause most can't take confrontation - but Tha Truth is a master who bring disasters that you facin - they say the truth hurts - they say ignorance is bliss - so your money's anesthesia (for the rich) though reality is missed - but do it ($) really make you happy? - or happy with how they jealous? - 'cause see I'd rather get love than hate for bein overzealous - and they don't love you - if they wasn't caught they'd probably rob ya - and think you a greedy snob and plot on how to conquer ya - me - I'm a monster - An open minded - no blinded - go find it - it's time - I throw timeless fineness - lines and bars is no concern - I throw truth I grow and learn - I burn with questions - answers - dancers trance and turn - physically and mentally - eventually I'll grab ya - you can run from the facts but the truth (double meaning) and karma have ya

OUTRO: Haka on the beats (producer Haka from the UK)

Sunday, August 7, 2011

Who's the Master

INTRO
The intro and song are all a metaphor and spoof of the 80's movie The Last Dragon starring Taimak and Vanity. The song and intro takes some of the concepts from the film and uses it as a metaphor for ignorant rap music v.s. conscious/political hip hop music.

They rewinding my rhymes like watchin the Sixth Sense (movie) - gotta stop it's intense - then watch the raps drop - shock and invent - sent fame wouldn't change me - like Jamie Foxx baby - I'm prepared - I know they scared 'cause I tell it like it is - bring truth on the mic - for the kids for the grown - an unknown disaster - it's Natural it's me boy - like Bruce LeRoy - watch it's comin faster - ruthless - Tha Truth kid - studied under masters - I uncover pastors - bring thunder out the rafters - it's a whole legion of us waitin in the wings - ready to roll - word is born - we come on ready to spring - it's time to bloom - rhymes kaboom! in this thing - don't test the left wing - straight doin new things (echo) Relentless - Truth - brings - Natural Disasters - Non Conformists formed we sworn to be the masters - molds you can't plaster

HOOK
You now dealin with some masters you don't want to come after - our wit hit faster - put away your plaster - we breakin the mold - it's time to find a new caster - we seen what they do - aligned a crew of true masters


All these rappers talkin 'bout they the best? (echo) but they claims remain lame just the same as the rest - on a test they would fail - though 'hoods on the scale - don't change - you (rappers) make change - but not the kind that matter - you need to change up your batter - come with a different mix - all these ignorant hits - at first I got bitter - now deliver these spits (raps) - keep littering for chips ($) - while I master this bit - we come faster after it - it's been told - we see and break the mold - you can't plaster it - you simply can't change if your mind stay the same - can't get a degree if you stand where you remain - cant stop bein bland if you branded like a stain - I catch rec (do it well) and explain - too many lost and they lame - took a minute - came back - the facts frame - I reign raps - take a break from time to time - so I can shape line for line - take it in for your mind - I drop it don't stop - fallin' rock - watch the signs - you can't be surprised - one of the first rappers who see times with both eyes - see right through your lies

If you don't recognize your self (echo) than who will? (echo) raps been infected my facts the new pill - dropin this - rockin this - lockin this flow - ask LeRoy - (echo) like him I rock the glow - they said, "You're a rapper."  I said, "They won't hear me. My politics, brain, name - they don't endear me." I didn't look into my soul, but now I did so watch this - you now dealin with a man with the power to stop fists (violence) - and change the whole (rap) industry back to what it was - 'bout the music not the plugs for corporations love - they made rap so bad I had to lace up my gloves - words is nuclear powered I shower from above - not conceited but got heated from hearin' you (ignorance) for years - I see these kids buyin you - my soul cried true with tears - and in 2006 I unleashed my inner beast - lyrically backed into a corner - now rap back a warrior



Rhymes Anonymous

So hyped I can't sleep - ingest sedatives at night - hocus pocus the way I wrote this stay focused on my magic - flows (rhyme patterns) go in my brain - became stained it's a habit - no bull - I pull hits outta my hat like a rabbit - for these beats I get rabid like please I gotta have it - if not I'd be forced to take a course in computers - to form that HTML format maneuvers (to flow online) - rappers shoot lukewarm - worn they need tutors - I'm extroverted - flow flows like it's cursive - moves smooth like a surface - for clues you need to search this - won't lose - I cruise fueled by fire like a furnace - I could burst - gotta quench (my desire) - to vent (rhymes) is what my thirst is - I gotta research this - find a diagnosis - pine to rhyme - fine lines describe my psychosis - I'm itchin feel it slippin if I can't spill the written - rap's my pill - I'm back ill - gotta fill my prescription

HOOK
Rappers try to make it they don't know what they doin though - right now (echo) my favorite place in the world is the studio - creativity possess - I dress my thoughts they attest - at best I got a small addiction - check how I be ripping



It's time you heard of me I murder adversity - verbally I throw flows so ripe like tomatoes - they don't be comin right - I'm tight (skilled) sound - how I made those - profound - tight wound - cover ground like tornadoes - I don't see how they play those radio selections - headed in the wrong direction - check your (mental) protection (to resist canned music) check me - how I'm mentioning - respect me I'm ventin in the first step in admitting I'm a fiend - not for cream (cash) got a dream to drop 19 hundred track cuisine - hunt rhymes by any means - don't read junk magazines - they racist and I hate it - separate like pickin teams - shoot for me - salutes be - ways I blaze the truth I see - straight casually - ask for the beat's hand to marry me - the beat be talkin to me sayin take me home and carry me - I got a girl - but I still whirl like Tsunamis - my canvas is strong I write long like Deuteronomy - still I keep it deep seek to murder the economy - make the poor rich - rich poor - switch the war - I'm not done unless you stunned - don't rest I gotta run - put up a track - I'm back - writing's like my crack - I attack armed with notebooks - the harm wrote my hooks - how long can I go I need 12 step meetings - my addiction so strong - flow chose to keep proceeding - hide the clock stop the flow of time to give us what we needin

I see these wanna be gangstas - I added up factors - these actors can't win (succeed) like they played for the (Toronto) Raptors - yeah cause money ain't success - Einstein quotes'll tell you that - you a joke your rhymes is broke plus you lack - yo loop the beat rope it back - no joke with my attack - I'm off the wall - assault gall I assert for the cause - cause my plans made a band aid for my hurt with the gauze - I leave 'em awestruck while I research your flaws 'cause...

Thursday, August 4, 2011

One Race

INTRO
Hey man by the way, what are you? 
What I am man? You know how many people ask me that everyday of my life? I'm gonna tell you what I am man - just listen to this

People see my face be askin 'bout my race - leavin me in doubt - mouth with a bad taste - it's not "your" people and "my" people - we all a group like The Beatles - still we got weasels - wanna conquer and divide - want you to have pride - but then on the snide - they don't care about you - and let you suffer - I'm a buffer - exposing stereotypes every time I try to write - wrote a book so you could look and shook it up on the mic - to me we all the same - all real and feel pain - but yo you gotta face - one group's disgrace - enslaving's not legal still people not equal - in the U.S. the people with money - had slaves - when they was freed no fee made up to give aid - we still see people with a similar complexion - just like the old days - raised with no protection livin in the 'hood section - direct - still affecting

HOOK
It's one race - we got a lot of ethnicities - a lot of facts held back I drop (rhymes) 'cause you missin these - we need to stop the norm of how people conform - I mark other when I fill out close minded forms


We need to have discussions like that first verse but we don't need labeling - that came from the worst inclination of humanity - to divide and conquer - and be about vanity - differences come from groups in isolation - inside we all the same - it's time you started facing - I done my research (on ethnic relations) and it hurts - 'cause things still lurking in their place and I hate labels and assumptions so much - when they ask me what I be - I say nothing - "I'm Human." - that's all you need to know keep it movin' - most people not 100% of nothin anyway - you could find you got a mixed lineage (family) any day - they ask me if I'm Black, White, Mixed, or Hispanic (and many more) - react on the mic - fix it like a mechanic - tell 'em "Don't tell me who to be or what I can do." - live life like Vin Diesel and people with a clue

Now

Say it loud - it's time to get it goin NOW - we roar 'cause it's foul - we livin in the same sequel (to sexism) - get 'em out they ways raised - women is equal - this one's for the people - all of us - not just the first like the prequel (Dec. of Independence) - women can do anything men can do - and hypocrites'll land in Planned Parenthood too - they be scarin you - mad -  its sad, rare, and true - men got lots of cash they don't wanna share with you - indeed - it's about greed and there's a need - I'm a man unprejudiced - I fan plans to settle this - unequal playin field - we need people get it - level this - and yo - don't be forcin no divorcin of abortion - don't be horsin (around with our) right to choose - prove the land of the free - so yo it's no morphin - what it's planned to be - let's get up - step up - elect what - we can be

HOOK
It's a big plan - the world raise women - to think that - they stay inferior to man - NOW group bring truth and superior plans - I rep get in the (recording) booth brining truth here to scams


It's a disgrace - let's change the luck set the pace - we need to see a woman join the presidential race (written in 2005)- and be in it to win it - and not just to place - men want food? - cook for your own face - stereotypes I bury and erase - let's stand and deliver no time for us to sink we - need to think swifter like the Grimke sisters - like E Cady Stanton - ladies get it stamping - we need to set our goals real high like the Hamptons - we not rest or campin - gotta be advancing - go up from the place in society we standing - girls can be ministers - girls can be finishers - girls can beat while collar businessman deliverers - girls can fight - excite - and play sports - girls can do anything a man can in short

I'm let y'all know when I blow - go for the top - I'ma encourage every female rapper I meet not to stop - don't let 'em condition you - Tha Truth who envision you - I detail - inspire a higher form of female - get at me - I'm happy to have ya rappin on my retail (CD) - don't stop and don't fail be the one who wrote the email - talkin' 'bout you ready with ease and drop hail (hard rhymes)- your new name for fame could be MC Grimke - look up what they did and speak good with their delivery -for now I'm "Wow! Who that?" - I rap and never bow - don't be submissive - I plow (go at) all the (sexist) cows in this business - I'm goin Queen Latifah - true U - N - I - to the T - Y - before she sold out & became a stereotype for pie ($) - my rhymes revolutionize - solutions in my eyes - my eyes is on the prize - not a typical guy's lives - - my lines is all knives - cut the pie size for guys

Tuesday, August 2, 2011

The Activist

Remy Ma (rapper with hit song called I'm Conceited) is conceited and the reason is ignorance - I got a real message for the people - here to deliver it - they sellin' out commercial - I'm hurt - feel deliberate - 'cause I gotta go around hearin little kids singin that *ish* (edited) I bring back the real - 94 you can feel - son of no one - son I ain't never had a father - what I'm losing's no bother - I'm venerable - my aurora - scar those penetrable - these rappers ain't movin me - like I'm a vegetable - I know you get a kettle full - I know Bush stole the country - yeah untold (numbers) died - but all of us know that - it's a fact - it's old pride - his father did it too - I'm just spittin what is true - while so many rappers pack the ignorant I can't do - but the time has arrived - let's get in line - my rhymes thrive - support the real finds - if you ain't real than shut your blinds - me I stay lookin out the window seein souls - platinum status that's not even in my goals - I'm the Phantom of the Opera (old alias) no need for celebrity - too busy as an activist my facts get you ready

HOOK
This is serious man. We ain't playin. With all that's goin down... You think we got time to be playin?


People comparin me to Immortal Technique (political rapper) - well that's alright - both of us got schools to teach - both got fools to reach - drop fools with true speech - truth never comes from - just one person - that's why my group Non Conformists is on the track mercin (slang for killin or doin' well) - plus us and Michael Moore - Malcolm X - cite respect - cite the King, Martin Luther - I ain't hypin nothin new for ya - but my Gandhi philosophy - might just be to new to ya (you) - the rap Robin Hood - fact - I drop bombs for good - lyrical weapon I'm not quiet - my canvas paint a riot - but it gotta be calm - in the open focused plans - non violent stands freed masses to open lands - not just here - but in India - the fear - I get into ya - Fox News talkin' 'bout war for 24 - time to shut of the TV - play my CD some more - go to My Space - my site - my place - I set the pace for race relations - I'm relating it with grace - I don't need to show my face - I drop flows you gotta taste - As I said - the concept of races is dead - every year I'm back in this pack your head with the activist

HOOK 2
It's Time. We got plans man. Startin our own organizations - our own non profits. And not those fake ones - them ones exploiting the kids. Nah man - ones that really do it's job


On One Race - I broke down the structure of society - but I still got more - in this war on sobriety - (George W) Bush a known drunk - known deserter - he pro murder - he got the White House - he grew up right up on the couch - his dad and Ronald Reagan - started beef (conflicts) when they came in - and actin all religious but they victims say they Pagans - now - this a demonstration like a march for the nation - start facin what you lacing - start charting and erasin - what's contained in your brain - you just here to consume - corporations place the gloom - told you - time to face the doom - to them you just a talkin -walkin money bag - I don't talk I don't brag - never throw up the flag - never salute nothin striped I shoot it down clownin hype - I turn down record deals - I got somethin proud I feel - I got masses to move - classes labeled and I prove - so go tell your friends or buy it for 'em with you ends (funds) cause when the money come in - we got plans that's not funny - startin up non profits with food to hand to cats (thats) hungry

HOOK 3
I had these thoughts for years - now y'all listen 'cause the flow (is) tight - that's alright - whatever it takes - as long as y'all follow me. That's 3 verses - that's a whole song. If you made it this far - you really seekin truth. If not then turn it off - but this beat right here - it's talkin to me - it's makin me want to say more


The rap Al Simmons (Spawn movie) - don't give in to the grim in (life)- my self defense training entertaining if they hittin - I never pack steel (gun) - but in this I'm well versed - I flip gun disarm training if it came worst to worst - I don't advocate violence but I'm too young to die in this - I put money on me if a dummy come tryin this - I'm all about peace still a beast raw survivalist - might die for who die in this - like MLK - still speak and still pining this - used to think about quittin - till the victims kept rising - now I got a mission to get 'em in (the struggle) like Verizon (who got everybody) - and *buck* (edited) that corporation they stuck up in they crimes in - my whistle blowin skills spilled all over the horizon - I spread like pollution - Houston - clean up the air - go thinkin on solutions till we got ones to spare - you (Bush) destroyin the whole world - Bill (Clinton) just had that one affair - when they march on DC ya see me I'm prepared - non violent demonstration they facin no scared - activism rap is bared



The Right One

Intro
Half Breed (Shout out to producer Half Breed aka The Derelict aka Mr. Hyde aka Asharri the Vagabond aka STK/Self Taught Knowledge from Pine Ridge Reservation. He also produced the track for Impact on this CD & several tracks on Tha People's Music CD I did.)


I couldn't sleep for days in a haze my song plays - I was lookin' for you - but in all the wrong ways - these rhymes in my mind - I'm feelin lonely all the time - wanna go home and find a dime (perfect 10) - so divine - sick of sleepin alone - on the phone (with lame girls) - fight the grind - I talk - but I'm walkin still in the night blind - I run (away from them) - still lookin for the right one to find - it's fish in the sea - no doubt but I be - so picky - so it's tricky to find one for me - (echo) - Truth he come smoothly - me - absolutely - love sick - watch I don't slip I'm gettin' woozy - show me what's on your mind - I got time - I could prove me (who I am) find one - go have fun - see a movie - met too many ditzes - flakes - a few floozies - some looked nice - I'm the type it (just looks) don't move me - I need one that stuns with her mind not to loose me

HOOK
You can't find the right one - can't rest and feel done - watch how you talk - gotta walk you can't run - (you) need patience - (I) know you hate it - (you) want fun (to) be elated - you sleepin' alone and want know what is fated.


Sick of the rest I gave the internet a test - first time we met you act so unimpressed - I was feelin (liking) your dress (outfit) - spent time to invest - we ate at Friday's - the kind of day I feel best - 'cause your thoughts is so deep - it's steep - I digress - got caught up in your eyes - so fine - I'm a mess- she steady feelin ready to give up on that quest - to find a man that understand and try to do his best - we can't sleep tonight - we sit talk so it's like - about 3 in the a.m. - we stayed in the car - we can't stop talkin - we gazin' at the stars - I drove mad far - just about an hour - but most girls is shacks - you're stacked like a tower - got knowledge - that's power - about more than flowers - we talked about "sheep" (conformists) - we get deep (conversations) where most cower - that night I could sleep - I got like 9 hours

Monday, August 1, 2011

I Know

HOOK
I know major airwaves play you if they paid - I know the age of cable run by government for trade - I know your favorite rapper bought the front page of The Source (rap mag) I know you feel my soul - it's swole (swollen large) for real - feel the force


Minds freeze - more songs for a minor than A. Keys - they won't play this on the radio - they'll play Jay Z - but see Jay Z is paying so - my conscience displayin' though - I know crass tactics make it in this practice - I know the rich they b**ch - still pay the lowest taxes - I know I break the brackets like low seeds Final Four - no greed I rhyme for more - for sure my lines of war - underground to the core - grassroots - class of boots - school of trees - Timb(erland) - Fraternity - alumni eternally - my skin I feel it burning me - flesh is skin deep - but I'm livin' in a world knwoin' that's the mess they seek - they won't look inside - I know the body's where souls hide - I rep with (producer) Mr. Hyde but my soul's bared with pride - I was cold down to ride - I know the flow's growin' wide - I know I done rose up (evolved) - unfroze - and got the prose up - this is the result of my life - *buck* Flo Bluff! (character from movie The Last Dragon) I'm glowin' up!

I know music is the language comin' runnin' out my soul - now I'm swole (upset) on the (NJ) Turnpike seein' smoke over the road - factories pollute the air - they don't care and got the (US) flag up - my CD's graffiti on the stripes - I'll write my tag up - - stop the smoke it's no joke you muthaf***as gonna kill us all - united we stand? - yeah right (they) divide 'em all - but I unify with my high minds you know I find - I know my rhymes fight the bind and give sight to the blind - in these times I found NRG - I sound penned intensity - I know black on black hats with Yankees on the cap seem like a mark of conformity - like suits and ties is boring me - the war to me is ignorance - but I surely see these hypocrites (in rap) do a song that's different - but next track they still ignorant - don't say I got skills - I got will - I'm just thinking - evincing thoughts out loud I had for years cause we sinking - can't think nothing more important in my life than words I'm linking

Ya hear that? - - yeah it's Silent - (producer) Silent NRG - my friend and me - partners in crime - (we) barter in times of money hungry thuggery - a two man mission rippin' the system of whips (cars) and luxury - NRG is pissed - at the (music) industry - they rippin' me - sayin' we not the status quo formula - not the norm of the - I'm warnin' ya my raps matter - chatter won't splatter - my mixed batter (of rhymes) shatter - platters of hate - with the great - producer - (using) no samples - ample (to) trample a refuter - he sick of the copyright - stop and get it right - 'cause he know the world exploits and makes points to rob and steal - he hate the job of signing deals - he hate contracts - and con acts - upon tracks I'm tellin' what he thinkin' in his mind - 'cause I'm the one who rap - I got his back with the rhymes - my facts drop shock the mind - and we a team - this the dream - not for cream (cash) - we drop themes - stop fiends who is followin' the rich 'till you switch

Soulful Reflection

You wanna make fun of people for carryin' more weight than you? - that's great why don't you try walkin' a day in their shoes - so you can see how if feels - y'all some hypocritical trippin' - wait till your metabolism slows and starts slippin' - you'll see my bars like its prison - your life'll get dark from living - so don't spark my vision - or you'll get locked in dropped wisdom - you wanna love me at present 'cause I can get it with the muscle (get love/admiration) but I see through the puzzle - you can't hustle a seer (one who sees more than the average) you can't imprison the mind - 'cause it's time and I'm a freer (of minds) my insight is key - my light see namaste - I don't play - I drop TRU to the T - H - with G - H - P (producer Gerard Haar Productions)- you see me - you never see lines - not aligned cleverly - I storm like the weather be - it's on definitely - my CD treasure in the sea - efforts stretch especially - at best against treachery - adversity that cursed me - it made me what I'm meant to be

HOOK
It's burning in my soul so I have to take action - play this we may get a real great reaction
(sample taken from the song Impact and mixed and scratched with DJ techniques)

I hear what they saying but I don't care if they famous - that's Tha Truth - it's me stainless - for real - this the deal - who I am - what's my name? - I don't do this for the fame - I do it to break myths - of those who come with bulls**t (edited) - I hear Byron Stripling spoke to kids listening - this fool in a school sayin' whites have no place in jazz - this disgrace - it was sad they had to face - so now blow (explosion sound) I'm on the chase - Tha Truth play police - on stereotypes - they say I speak heat with the beats - watch what you say when I'm around 'cause I'm bound - to have the worst views light the fuse of my sounds - and got rappers - not even from this country on the hunt with me - Logic, N.A., way too many to list - if you feel misunderstood - you could just play this disc - Non Conformists we open - so our minds like the ocean - we go stereo with mics and get stereotypes broken

This verse is for a certain person now it's Kobe that I'm cursing - you a showy type of person all for money and the fame - Kobe Bryant score(s) but Kobe's violent on the floor - he a bully and a coward more hate shower number 8 (now # 24 post rape case) - 'cause he'll try and choke a guy or poke your eye while he not lookin' - try that back against Shaq - you know the fact is that he shook (scared) and he lucky that I'm not tall enough to be in the NBA or I'd go Ben Wallace and send a message to display - 'cause he hide behind the league - they need their dirtiest player - so they can make more money off the fans that's paying major - for overpriced seats - I seek to watch ball for free - cause you won't find me payin' rich owners - more for me -  plus I'm all about Nash no flash I pass & help - my teammates is great it's my fate to share the wealth - so Steve (Nash) let 'em know - show 'em how 2 be a pro; you the true MVP that's why you won it - one for we

The Anti N Word

It's a six letter word it's been gettin' on my nerves - just a little nothin' major - but sometimes the line make me wanna rhyme with flavor while I preach 'cause I teach - if you can't deal than go feel the next song - if I'm wrong in your eyes - well sometimes people need to agree to disagree- and I'ma speak on world history - this word is a mystery - how some can say it - and it's acceptable - but others when they say it - it's not delectable - I'm tryin to see equality - so if one group can say it everyone should own the property - and if you ain't caught on - it's the N word they fought on - yeah the N word is the song - it's too much controversy - too much tension - so I'm ventin' - sendin' attention - I go on to mention how old slave masters laughin' - how they gave us the word we got the nerve to still bask in - still call ourselves what they wanted - still follow like days when we was hunted - we tried escapin' the system - sometimes victims take it with 'em - like me - I used to say it 'cause where I grew up we all said it - but after high school I learned reasons - learned I could dead it (stop it) - so watch me in my song tell you why I think it's wrong

HOOK
Think with your own mind - the world that we live in is the blind leading the blind - time to read up on my lines - time to find what's in my rhymes - what they sayin' is a crime - I display a free mind - it's time to think - read the signs


It's sad - how a lot of y'all don't progress past highschool - thinkin' life's about bein' cool - and who's the most popular - me I've evolved while you follow like a copier - self actualization - not wealth - I practice facin' - concerns of the world and how they keep us placed in - the rich stay rich while we got not a pot to piss - in this plot it spreads quick - they want us to follow - if we start thinking - we might get mad at how we sinking - we might get mad how we use a word they want us inking - and they don't want a man like me - gettin' educated - 'cause I can expose the system - and write prose to break it - my friends all called me an "n" - I called them an "n" too - my conformin' ended too - it's true - I'm not better than you - I'm just usin' my own mind - not followin' from behind - not swallowing my pride - not bein' who they want - I'm the one from the front the one setting the new trends - yeah I followed - but it ends - the world swallowing my pen - and we can agree to disagree and still want the same victory - still want the same peace, love, equality, and property - and probably - you thinking - who am I? - well I'm a guy - went to college and the masters - plus the school of hard knox - listen to my album - and find me it's not - a hard thing to do - my soul's in each song it's true

You not gonna find me doin' what other rappers doin' - I'm a individual - you not able to label me - I started my own label so these labels can't disable me - I'm free wit my poetry - I know what I'm supposed to be - but had the nerve to grow up and see the lies before my eyes - I got Logic by my side - we know they profit off the lies - we know that we prophesise of new times with new rhymes - and we civil rights leaders they wanna stop but they not - you think Martin Luther King - want you to sing - with the N word? - you think Rosa Parks wants to hear it? - you think the Freedom Riders died not to hear it - for you to say it? - but you don't think about the world you too concerned with your pay in it - too worried if you're thick - too worried if you're hip - too worried how you look - it's not cool to cop (get) books - education ain't white - slave masters wanted us to think that - that it's not good to get smart in the hood - they don't want us to read or write - 'cause they knew we might - get like me - and incite the revolution like Nat Turner - you can hate or love this burner - I burn the page with rage - 'cause we still got schools in the 'hood - on the same page - and if you know your history - ain't none of this a mystery - don't take my word for it - go learn for yourself - get a book up off the shelf - and think for yourself (echo) - and the book that got me to stop sayin' the N word - it was called Monster by Sanyika Shakur - a gang leader deep in prison for the Bloods & Crips war - he got out - now an officer - and author and more

It's Time

For the first two verses done by Tha Truth click on the lyrics for It's Time at this link: Tha Civil Rights Movement Part II  & the verses for guest appearances by rappers Logic, T.O., Double E, and Jon Blaq are below

LOGIC (London, UK)
It's time for powerful words and beats to meet - teach the streets - reach the peeps we need to reach - It's time for - the revolution in rap - globally - deliver the facts - in the form of tracks - no time to relax or lay on your back - it's time for the fight - black, yellow, purple, or white - just pick up a mic and shout - ah! - just get it out - ah! Yeah - I'm from the south part of London city - yeah Bricky (Brixton) it's sticky - see Tha Truth he never even had to pick me - cause the great one he chose us both - me 'cause I know the roads and I'm overspoke - Tha Truth's name speaks alone even on a rock hit - rappers got people jumpin up and down in a mosh pit - It's Time for the government to stop this war; It's time that we weren't ignored & It's Time for

JON BLAQ (Virginia, US)
Yo It's time for - the world to take notice and comprehend - we creepin' up on the end - the battle can now begin - but how do you plan to win without knowin' your adversary - it's scary how many people walk around in the dark - I believe 911 was a murderous plot - not necessarily committed by the ones that you thought - It's time for - us to see the truth in the lies - It's Time for Revolution - now it's do or die

T.O. (Regina, Canada)
It's Time for freedom fighters to legalize ganja (marijuana) - evil and righteous to find guidance - a beacon of light in rhyme sagas - so reach through the night and climb higher - see through your sight where your mind's eye is - It's Time for people to find Zion (Matrix) - teach them to fight to die honored - when I speak on the mic. it's my conference with Truth and Logic - It's Time to end lethal air strikes & suicide bombin

DOUBLE E (Manchester, UK)
Yeah it's Double E - I feel It's Time for us to stand as one - to speak our mind - stand and fight until the madness done - no more waiting while our plans are shunned (no more) - It's Time for us to take advantage of their weakness for once - It's Time to speak up on the secrets that they want to conceal - time for showin' we're not feelin' how they want us to feel - time to deal our own cards - and put them to use - see right now it's so hard - it's time for the truth (Tha Truth - double meaning)

F Bush

See www.ThaCivilRightsMovementPartII.BlogSpot.com for the lyrics to this one. The lyrics for the song F Bush (Remix) are the same lyrics for this song.