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Gangril
03:14
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VERSE 1
Verse 2
Now I don’t see how I could possibly
Put all this philosophy into a track, but here goes
You think you as fly as Peter Pan man,
I have all my fan’s in the stands screaming RUFIO
My bar was set so low it could make a roach trip
Now I’m fly enough that NASA has-ta ask me for tips
Like a waitress if I’m trying to skip out and dip like chips
That I stack til I get a grip
Or grip on a nine to five
And I don’t mind ballpark swine and Ramen to survive
As long as Im rhyming I’ll strive
Pursuing this music, cause everything I do seems new
And your use to- ‘em regurgitating rhymes so many times
That verses got little bits of bacon
While I’m shaking the foundations ancient generations
Set in place since the days of crazy legs breaking in his prime.
I’m handling rappers like a lifestyles factory
Used to be Screech now I’m feeling like Zachary
Banks like Carlton and Ashley’s
Nah, actually I’m jazzy banging Hillary or shaggy shagging Daphne
I’m the underdog that finally gets the girl
Cory from boy meets world, or Doug doing Patti
I’m nasty, 5 percenters call me blasphemy
Cause more catastrophe than a natural disaster scene
Hurricane Nyle, touch down and spit
Rounds of nouns that are coming out of my mouth
Cause my voice is a barrel to deliver these lyrics to your liver
My tongues a trigger and my mind is the magazine. (click)
Try to time me down, I play strings like Jimmy
Act up like Demi with an Emmy
When the remmy in me, Blast like a semi
You can’t pass me by like Pharcyde
I stay on point like Hawkeye
So call me Nyle, the angrypacker
Who switched to spoken word cause he hated whack rappers
Then went backward cuse he met mad actors
Now I’m less Common Sense and more Ol’ Dirty Bastard
VERSE 2
When I battle ya’ll scedaddle, when I’m spitting what I’ve written
Getting beat by a black man worst than Hillary Clinton
And the bar that I’m lifting got stars on if sitting
Which means yall chart positions are about to starts shifting
Bass pumping like a piston from Funknasty’s kick and
Mitch’s Gibson blends it with my lyrics tear it up like Popeye’s chicken
Cuz when I’m in it, then I’m fitting to be fixed in the infinite
Congressional hustle got me passing bills like the senate
Trying to make enough hits to win the pennant
Get high like my quills filled with crushed pills when I spit it
My flows so energetic that they call it ca listhenics
But don’t sweat it,
If I’m sweet, the crowd is diabetic
Getting lifted like an addict in an attic with Blue Magic
Get down like a manic on zanex reading bout Annie’s Annex
Till I’m back at causing static like Crispus Attucs,
Black acrobatik make the track to gymnastics
Like tik and tac, I be en know to make a crick in backs
Black Sheep of black sheep of rap I could do this or that
So go ahead and box me I warn you I am rocky
When it comes to rocking mics
You must be nice
Tighter than a vice to stop me
How many emcees do you know that can really rock a show?
And make it sound as live as a show in the studio?
Claiming that it’s a freestyle when you know it isn’t
Even Nasir Jones can see it was written
Arisen from a place where they hustle them street goods
And roll with a mac like fleetwood.
Bushwhick’s where I stay, BK all day
Till I die, I be reppin that 2-1-5
And that’s just the beginning I got a whole bag
Philly emcee with a Brooklyn swag
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Senioritis
05:43
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Verse 1
They say the best days in my life are now behind me
I could be spending my remaining time wisely
By sitting back and rewinding
But its hard to sit and reminisce when
all you can really think of is beginning
Now not the beginning when I was a freshman
inching to fit in with all the beautiful women
and girls who were so flirty
when bedtime at 3:30 was early
and its cool to go commando for a month cuz all your draws are dirty
As much as I hate to admit, these four years have shaped me
Financially they raped me, but spiritually it gave me
All the time I need to face down my demons
replace the voices in my head with the sounds of crowds screaming
and althoug I'm leaving, there's no looking back
Just another day headed on my right path
I refuse to choose that I've just pasted my prime
and maybe what I believe's naiive, but thats all in your mind.
And through it all, I've got the drive to be a star
It looks so close but its yet so far
And it looks so hard, but I've got one year left
Before reality comes crashing onto my front steps
Verse 2
I could get on A Trak like Kid Cudi and Sister
kick it with Janelle Monae or be J*Daveys mister
or maybe drop Factz like Mickey til I'm Blu from spitting
tour from the East coast to Pacific Division
I love Mark Ronson and my jam is version
But see Wale still working and become uncertain
No frontin cuz I was bumpin that mixtape about nothing
But its been 100 miles and that brothas still runnin
and I'm wonderin for what type of deal should I be huntin
cuz I could keep it real and never sign to a deal
and never spread my name and never get played
or sign to a major and get played like Joe Budden
Should I drop an album? Should I be independent?
Should I be Charles Hamiltion and make a million.
For now I'm indie, cuz any where else I'll prolly get shelved
Hip hop's a boys club where your name is your wealth
and I'm John Doe so there's nothing else
But to hit the road and go for self
But can you start paying dues at 22?
I ain't trying to still be on the grind when I'm 52?
Married with kids grade school
Where all the brats ask "What does your daddy do?"
And you're on thin ice when your fans can't decide if
I changed my sound or had a midlife crisis
-------Prechorus
So at what point does an emcee retire
and realize his time has already expired?
I don't know, but I got one year left
before reality come crashing onto my front steps
VERSE
And though it feels like its be forever
Forever feels like the blink of an eye
and I got mines open wide
Trying to soak up every last moment
and memoriy that this place can provide
But I'm complacent cuz I
got a high that feels like I'm pacing the sky
as I patiently spy
Every last thing I'll never be able to take for granted again, I can see that this is the end.
So thank God for granting me this moment of Clarity
(for ya'll to feel my truth)
From that Frosh beginning to that Capstone ending
(for ya'll to buy my tunes)
listen close, hear what its about
It's something undpredictable but in the end its right
So hard to say goodbye to yesterday, so say goodbye
To the dining hall, hello to being hungry
Goodbye to the bursar and borrowing some money
Hello to Sallie Mae, nope. Nothing bout that is funny
So the task at hand and the graduation plan
Is first to graduate and then take on the man
With a little cash in hand and a lil lady that can stand
my artist life stye, which can be wild
The truth is the way I'm living right now makes me smile
I finding it hard to be worried
in fact I feel I'm in a hurry
Because these dreams are all I got
and I'm the only one that can deter me
and through it all the drive to be a star
It feels so close, but its yet so far
It looks so hard, but I've got one year left
Before reality comes crashing onto my front steps.
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Sunday Afternoon
03:16
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VERSE 1
This, question of fate has a white face,
A red stripe on the right side and 25 lines
It stares back at me asking "You ready to quit?"
"Get a real job and do something legit?"
....Sadly, the answer is no.
I love to be this poet and this feeling is dope
But as long as I got these words in my throat
I will never question my soul
But in a year from now will I still be able to make it?
Wishing I had dropped out like Kanye's spaceship?
When I think of music
and the reason why I make it
I try to remember fun
and that while I'm playing its like
CHORUS-8 bars
Its like sitting back and chill with the fam, on a Sunday afternoon
Food is cooking and the game is on as yall all crowd into the room.
Its like, sitting back and chill with the fam on a Sunday afternoon
The sun is seting and the moon's telling you that Monday's will be here soon
VERSE 2
For the first time in my life I feel like
The doors are broken open, now I'm hoping
That the words about to be spoken half enough flow in
em to keep me coasting coast to coast
cuz I'm told thats the token
networking from Oakland to Hoboken
On the stage I'm never choking, man in fact it gets me open
Leaving stages broken, and microphones smokin
The equivalent to an ounce and a half, so just puff puff pass
sit back and get the toting
Who am I?
I'm a nobody
But prolly the hottest nobody you never heard of
Getting lost up in this heard of emcees that would murder
and given track, given that I don't have no cosign
I'm spending every last dime on this stack of rhymes
Feeling backwards at times, I'm nitpickin every word verb and line
When the rapper of the year don't make sense half the time
Man I got half a mind to put this napsack on my back and keep walking
all across the country from evergreens to palm trees
But this dreams the only thing holding me back
from telling my mom's PEACE
Almost got a degree, I'm spending it on beats
for a field where success means you barely eat
But every time I get a nine to five I'm reminded why
I struggle and strive to keep it all alive.
I take nothing granted
my feet are planted
Imma push off and won't stop til I've landed
When this crazy world makes me feel I can't stand it
Imma sit back and start laughing
and just imagine
Chorus
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f.a.n.g.
04:02
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CHORUS
All the men you loved
Just casted you aside
Cheated on you bad
Or punched you in the eye
Now you, broke up with your man
And he made you cry
Don’t go back to him (naw naw naw)
Just Fuck a Nice Guy
You want a smooth
Emotional type
A down to earth poet
at an acoustic open mic
But once you let him stroke it
He’ll be gone before you know it
Don’t let them pull emo wool over eyes
Just Fuck a nice Guy
Verse 1
Throughout school we were cool
Friends! The best! (BFF)
“Like Brother and Sister”
But I wanted incest.
Feeling like and insect every time that you wept.
About/ your ex/ who slept/ and left
And guess/ who’s next?
My shoulder! That you cry upon
Tears staining my tee talking bout men and how they wrong
In fact, I think I rather /Hold your hair back while you puke
Then listen to another tired excuse
I thought he was different, I thought that he cared
I thought I was Julia Roberts and he was Richard Gere
I thought I was Ginger Rogers and he was Fred Astaire
Nope! ……………………That nigga was Bojangles.
This seems to be over your head like both ankles
You gonna pay the price until you realize
That these guys ain’t really nice
They all just dogs in a sheep’s disguise
But you’re the one pullin wool over ya eyes.
Chorus 2
You want-ed someone
with class who was refined
Workin for the man
Pushin 9 to 5
Thinkk he’s clocks overtime
But he’s knockin that behind, working your best friend
Come fuck a nice guy
Verse 2
(They say)
There’s no such thing as nice guys…(nice guys)
But we exist, like a dark skinned dude with light eyes…
I feel like Puff and Mase askin why
“do good girls like bad guys”
Knowing the whole time they be telling mad lies
See, I never-ever-EVER heard a conversation my life
Like “Oooh I wanna do him!” “He’s so mutha-fuckin nice!”
But being nice ain’t the only thing we nice at.
Why you think they say nice guys finish last_____
Don’t you know we’ll keep you satisfied
And we ain’t gonna cheat, who else we gonna get?
With STD’s you never gotta be uncertain
Cause you can’t get STD’s from a virgin
But sadly some girls just like to be abused
Like some Asian girls just date white dudes.
Y’confused, you need a man with no game at all
But ya been watching too much Love and Basketball
CHORUS
Going to the club
A prince charming y’hope to find
But girl you need some love____
So just step out of line
You say you want a thug
To keep you satisfied
But don't go back to them no no
Just Fuck a Nice Guy
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X-man
03:50
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Living in the Shade
04:20
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Verse 1
This is where I go to school
Kind of crazy ain't it?
The first time I saw this studio I almost fainted
I could contemplate, how I had barely made it
From my Late Registration now I'm facing Graduation
and I ain't stression this recession, if it leads to a depression
it won't be in my mind. I'll be fine as long as I'm
surviving off of beats and rhyming
I don't mind surviving off of eating Ramen.
Cause where I'm standing, right now is the best time to be grinding.
Cause ain't nobody signing, so ain't nobody shining
No more dreams of going diamond and spitting that fly talk
Dudes acting like they street when they barely sidewalk.
My best friend said that music comes from someone in transition
so I'm shifting from pessimism to something uplifting.
So if you love something that is art of rhyme, with the skill
Then you will recognize when you see this's really real
See my peoples always mention that the industry is missing
Something, hunting someone coming with a mission.
Not to mention an inch of skill,
if that's how you feel
My name is Nyle that's how you let the beat build.
Chorus
Verse 2
Let the beat build from the cornerstone
Or call me stud when I'm of the dome.
Get screwed like a wall when I nail these poems
Your on top but you never flow (mess up)
On top like a steeple
Take it back like the repo, he know I fly like an ego from here to heathrow
ain't no equal when it comes to my ego
I want a piece of the pie,
but there's a whole line ahead of me.
Artists so hungry, pride's eaten their integrity
and their ambitions twisted up in their creative vision
so though I crave ya'll to listen, I ain't starved for attention
Ain't no honorable mentions, making winning look easy
With these locks I'm looking like the light skin weezy
Muthaf**** I'm ill, call me unagi
Wild out like Amy Winehouse and Paparatzi
and blow. Like Cocaine. No! Blow like Propane
Once ya'll know my name I'm a blow the whole game.
Wait, hold up. I roll with dames that put hair on your chest like bodywash rogaine.
And I don't need no sample
Here's a girl with a banjo,
From the first bar you could see that I'm a star
I make ya'll wish hard like return of Jafar
and make ya'll all see what if feel like to be in awe.
Aww!!!
Chorus
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