1. |
Prologue
01:56
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2. |
Sword of Nature
02:46
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A warrior walks the path
Without his past
The wind blows his memories
In the form of sand in his eyes
The blind imagery
Rather not be reminded if he cant find the symmetry
While Living in between
Having a mission
With something missing
The visions
A woman and children
Right on this earth just
Don't know what he fighting for
Surviving without a purpose
Haunted by a sense of urgency
Looking for why it's urgent
The legend falling on def ears
The silent city is
Home to a Heroes return
But he's oblivious
The gradual effects of decay
The day's Insidious
The gift fostered the orphans
To start the lineage
Hieroglyphic geniuses
Speaking through only images
Everything since the incident
Life without dissonance
But the harmony lives
If you willing to go the distances
The mind is a weapon
The gift is the only privileged
You would be cheating the planet
Not using it for advantage
The blade of the branch
Rose from the wreckage
It was Mother Nature's gift of a weapon
To fight oppression
He do the dance with his fate in his hands
Looking for the blade in the branch
The Sword of Nature
You ever dance with your fate in your hands
Looking for the blade in the branch
The Sword of Nature
He do the dance with his fate in his hands
Looking for the blade in the branch
The Sword of Nature
You ever dance with your fate in your hands
Looking for the blade in the branch
The Sword of Nature
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3. |
September
02:51
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If you doubted me
Never tell me you proud of me
Cause' I just quit my job
Before I turn 30
Whatever hurts me
Is
Manifesting itself
Into another verse of me spilling
My well being and you can't see it
You still asking for a feature
While I'm painting the Mona Lisa
Reality in the flesh
They relate to you being trapped in the mesh
But is walking away from a check
Walking over the edge?
Wear your feelings when you get dressed
But smile for the internet
They'll never feel the finesse
Or detect the stress
You living with
I hate writing in my phone
The government probably listening
And 45 will listen too
Grabbing women by the 'cooch'
And
Confederate flag wavers burning they tennis shoes
I put myself on a path and still dont know which way to move
Everything to gain
But everything to lose
The cost
So I march to the beat of my own drum
Quick
Somebody help me find my drumsticks
I'm feeling lost
September
Leaves changing like my life
September
Losing sleep you a thief in the night
September
I'm trying to find my way in the dark
But September had me feeling so lost
And I ain't slept in so long
When it rains
It pours during the brainstorm
The rise of the writer
Spilling coffee on the keyboard
But
Feel the demise of the mind
That I'm losing sleep for
Frank Dukes
You lack the proper training for the Bloodsport
Roads to the unknown
Choose a lane
Or get slayed
In the Kumite
Now what you know?
I made the sacrifices
But I don't see where the prize is
My eyes
See through the lies
But get lost in the time
Slowly becoming the blind leading the blind
But still peaking through the blinds
With the rifle for civil rights
While you defending celebrities
More than your families
May I shine through whatevers damaged me
The city's gentrified
And they staring at me like I should leave
Kids still running catching bullets without a pair of cleats
Blinded by anxiety
I don't see enough air to breath
Suffocate in silence
We ain't never been to therapy
September
Leaves changing like my life
September
Losing sleep you a thief in the night
September
I'm trying to find my way in the dark
But September had me feeling so lost
And I ain't slept in so long
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4. |
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Carry bushido across the seas
I made a promise to me
And the girl I couldn't defeat
The Pirate Hunter
My sense of direction is non existent
But I'm never lost in battle
Only those who've suffered long can see the light in the shadows
Santoryo is my vision
On a mission to be the greatest swordsman in all existence
But lost when I had my chance
My sword
My repentance
Protecting my captain's dream
Is better than my ambition
First mate of my band of misfits
My loyalty shines
Through the Wado Ichimonji
Kuina your dream is mine
As I push through the Grand Line
To ensure I'm undefeated
I'll be trained by the greatest in history
Then I'll beat him
That's my mindset
As long my captain's King of the Pirates
I would die for his destiny
That's my weaponry
Raise my bounty
They'll hunt me until I'm buried
Two sword Nitoryu
Kitetsu and Yubashiri
These the tales of a Samurai
My poetry deep as my sword
You hear the battlecry
(They wonder why)
These the tales of a Samurai
My poetry deep as my sword
You hear the battlecry
(Now one time)
These the tales of a Samurai
My poetry deep as my sword
You hear the battlecry
(They wonder why)
These the tales of a Samurai
My poetry deep as my sword
You hear the battlecry
(Now one time)
The Yamashiro shinobi
But that's the old me
My clan turned their backs on me
Corrupted for gold
I cut the head off of the snake
I'm walking a lonely road
But that was another time
And now my story unfolds
The story of the Vagabond
My blade got me caught in a war
Don't know what side I'm on
My sword is an angel to the 8 devils of Kimon
Watch the natural
Slice through the super natural
Tricked into this battle for the Shogunate
The toxins in my body against a Ghost from my past
Who my opponent is
This road paved with lust
But I avoided it
Only Kagero
My traveling beauty
Who's love is poisonous
With a skill set as deadly
As the look in her eyes
Only the poison on her dying lips
Will keep me alive
I'll face the devil himself with you on my mind
My Kunoichi
Only through love I survive
Now one
Time
These the tales of a Samurai
My poetry deep as my sword
You hear the battlecry
(They wonder why)
These the tales of a Samurai
My poetry deep as my sword
You hear the battlecry
(Now one time)
These the tales of a Samurai
My poetry deep as my sword
You hear the battlecry
(They wonder why)
These the tales of a Samurai
My poetry deep as my sword
You hear the battlecry
(Now one time)
The unconventional
Legend of the 7 sword style
Plus kick the lyrical
They put the beast in me as a child
Was never regular
The outcast
Hidden in clouds
Village protector
Nevertheless The
Sword play Jinchuriki
Used rap to take the focus off how they treated me
I've wielded two legendary blades of the Mist
The Executioner
And Samehada
Feed off your Chakra
To capture the monster
You'll need more than The Taka
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Any Leviathan
Get slayed to the sound that I'm designing in
Your silence
Can be as vibrant as violence is
Aligning with all timing
The Iron Fist
By design he just
Not blinded
See's the world through a calendar
Like the Mayans did
The legend born in the year of the Dragon
But in the Lions Den
Introverted Vibrant
And Shining despite the times we in
My only validation of college is
Being less than a writer is not an option
Regardless where my mind is
Still lead the paradigm shift
Then
Flip the synopsis
A world traveler
Far from passport amateur
Was clocking in
Late off the plane
Caught by my manager
Duffel bags under my eyes
No trip
But damage done
Behold the swordsmanship
Of the valedictorian
Appreciate the mind
Dropping bombs at the colloquium
My silhouette rise from the smoke in front of the podium
Dropping knowledge
But only to vanish before they notice him
The message leans
On every set of ears in the mezzanine
But any level of patience
Getting swallowed by the feeling of being...stationed
In the matrix
What you waiting for
Time is of the essence
And blessings wont even wait for you
A troubled venue to vent to
Quite jumbled see I reflect you
Neglect the truth, the proof so brand new
You subdue and I'm aloof
You got the juice I'd like to spruce, induce perceptions I wont neglect it, no less
Can we the best in question
All reverence, all excellence I settle in
They medalin, pedaling
My kettle, slight mellow...
At em like helloooo...
Stellar-type fellow..
No jello, this shake & it tremble
My own change,
My bros gains
Hope savior saved ya
Find out later
Aintcha, anxious
Ain't it dangerous?
Playful maker
Make ya say uh......
You came shaken
Wasted, gracious
Where ya anguish lately,
Baby I've been desecrated
What a waste'you remain stationed
In the matrix
What you waiting for
Time is of the essence
And blessings wont even wait for you
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6. |
5 Ring Rap
02:55
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I made it to the mountain top
To reach the levels of Heaven for my reflection
The life of a warrior 5 sections
Read between
Earth, wind, fire and water
Each of My lessons
Searching for the void
You'll turn the pages and find the message
Appreciate the power of nature
Follow the rhythm
In any situation
Your sword naturally plays it
Build your spirit to beat 10 men
It's in the training
The Vagabond kick in the door
The Vagabond waving the mic sword
5 Ring Rap
The Vagabond kick in the door
On and on and on
5 Ring Rap
The Vagabond kick in the door
The Vagabond waving the mic sword
5 Ring Rap
The Vagabond kick in the door
On and on and on
5 Ring Rap
Be with no beginning or end
Follow the way
Your spirit is a weapon within
The untouchable
Strategy my way of life
Nature is the way inside
The way of the warrior
Master the virtue of every weapon until battle's rhetorical
Be the Oracle
Master the timing
Of every sword you use
It's timing in everything
Even in the void
The way is in training
Your grip is the same
Intend to destroy
From 1 thing, Learn 10,000
Get your mind's worth
Do nothing that is of no use
Get your time's worth
5 Ring Rap for the vision to walk a blind earth
No design
No conception
Just find the void first
The Vagabond kick in the door
The Vagabond waving the mic sword
5 Ring Rap
The Vagabond kick in the door
On and on and on
5 Ring Rap
The Vagabond kick in the door
The Vagabond waving the mic sword
5 Ring Rap
The Vagabond kick in the door
On and on and on
5 Ring Rap
Self discipline
Put yourself through the trials
The reps
Step by step
Walk the road of a thousand miles
And well
Today is victory over yesterday's version of yourself
Tomorrow's victory over lesser men
That your better than
The evidence
Of every second you spent
Represent
Because you put in the time
Your mind up to it
Body chasing the spirit of a warrior
And finally catching up to it
The true way
Put all your training in how you do things
The Vagabond kick in the door
The Vagabond waving the mic sword
5 Ring Rap
The Vagabond kick in the door
On and on and on
5 Ring Rap
The Vagabond kick in the door
The Vagabond waving the mic sword
5 Ring Rap
The Vagabond kick in the door
On and on and on
5 Ring Rap
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7. |
Too Much of a Thinker
03:22
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I should have left a note before I left home
Return of the intellectual
Vessel to level the metronome
Using lows as stepping stones
For setting goals
Solitude is my zone
And Being left alone is not alone
But the ones who hold me close
Don't know this month
Felt too worthless
Thought I Needed the time away
But get homesick on Excursion
My mind
At war with itself
Who else bottles up their thoughts
Cause' they don't know who to tell?
Oh well
It's hell
Protect your energy
Not enough of a drinker
But way too much of a thinker
I don't share the progress until it surface
No more worries
You Put it in the Universe
The Digital surgent
Through streaming services
The gift and the curse of living off of
Racking your Brain for the illest verses
They done with your album
And the rest of the world aint even heard it
Checking into hotels where the beds don't serve they purpose
My mind's a cheat code
But the blood from my nose
Got my
Notebook jaded to the staining
Of all the pages
You top 10
I'm Eleven
But flip your dimension Upside Down
Who caught the reference?
My mind
At war with itself
Who else bottles up their thoughts
Cause' they don't know who to tell?
Oh well
It's hell
Protect your energy
Not enough of a drinker
But way too much of a thinker
The sleep deprived
Ride with the deepest mind
But falling asleep at the wheel
Abusing time
You crash then
Living proof that they failed at addressing
Mental health in black men since black kids
Who's Dad's split
Curing the minds
Of the blind poisoned by time
And living life
Defined as the right
But doesn't apply
The curator
Of legendary lines
When the water boils
Soak the pens in the Lazarus pit
The Words Immortal
My mind
At war with itself
Who else bottles up their thoughts
Cause' they don't know who to tell?
Oh well
It's hell
Protect your energy
Not enough of a drinker
But way too much of a thinker
Manipulate the soil
Put the state of the planet back in Mother's Nature's hands
No man killing for oil
No weather on behalf of machine
My thoughts digress
Don't sweat the Terminator
The killer is really Skynet
Tetsuo
My youth defined by how my mind stretched
But the same abilities may have poisoned my whole mindset
I push my body until I'm over the hill
Just a vessel where the spirit dwells
A Ghost in the Shell
My mind
At war with itself
Who else bottles up their thoughts
Cause' they don't know who to tell?
Oh well
It's hell
Protect your energy
Not enough of a drinker
But way too much of a thinker
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Who would engage in Mortal Kombat
With a blind swordsman
Whose vision is more potent
And focused
Than those who's eyes intact
Fully aligned
Your designs prevalent
Behold the lines of the prototype
With the slice
Eloquent
My mind has guided my blade
Through telepathy
The mental navigational weaponry
From the Elohim
Intellectual ichiban
My Solitude serenity
The ronin roams to make sense of things
Lethal and Bushido is everything to the chosen one
Appear through smoke and fire
Blade on the wire
I'm Scorpion
Izuna drop Ryu Hyabusa I lotus em
Vanish in the petals the flower looking like opium
Sprinkle some powder power whitey I mean we POTUS em
44 on ya blocka baracka no gun controlling him
Oh my God it’s a coppa throw out the rights they sold to him
Mortal Kombat Baraka I choppa nigga you know it’s him
Ayo
Blades of immortals who got the lighter
I'm sort of a genius writer embodied inside a fighter
That's ill
That's ill
Everything I write gone live forever
Now how you feel
Blades of immortals who got the lighter
I'm sort of a genius writer embodied inside a fighter
That's ill
That's ill
Everything I write gone live forever
Now how you feel
How you feel really tell me how you feel
Thought spill pen advanced past puberty it’s a Masamune
Sharp as ever baby clever know it’s love
If you been rocking from the jump
It got way way better
Listen storm weathered-leaning
Patience
Tested
Fly shit
Exceptional
Jacket double breasted gimme beats
Then watch me pull this pen up out the sheath
Start to feast
Flow smooth as butter leather seats
Im in it too deep
But I am not a cool j
Although I rolled these two L’s
Hit it watch you levitate
The devils in the details
Got myself a dinner plate
Watch a nigga prevail
Walk with an immortal blade
Come and get impaled
Inhale
Your strength comes from out your core he said
A myth that was formed from out the back of my head
Fairy tales my cerebellum roams for miles i was lead
Astray at first now i walk the righteous path instead
Wanted it more no longer shall I wander without purpose
Left out on my heroes journey but was walking in circles
Could capture gold but without your soul then its worthless
Panhandled my way home and looked alone on the surface
The Truth shines thru how vash eyes do
I made contact like the ginyu
Don't only train by the eye thats what the fools do
Having slices of life transcending space and the time
Used the blade to carve out another rhyme kick it divine and I'm out
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Moments of clarity with nothing but foreign air to breath
Empty subway carts and I don't know where to get off
And the feeling of being lost is too familiar
Going along for the ride and not knowing where I'm headed is embedded in every letter l've shredded my minds a weapon
Ain't that peculiar?
My Mic check's the breath of a shooter
But I don't support guns
So me being conflicted could ruin ya'
America, the wild wild west
Where you can be a teen
Buy an AR-15 with a vest
And they won't ask what you plan to do next
I go to war for a life without stress
And for the things I believe in like a Patriot
But my only allengence is to my family
And I'll never have faith as long ya'll making America great again
I don't know if my head will ever be straight again
I lost my Grandma and my best friend
And missed the biggest funeral in my fam
To rock a show in Japan
(And it damaged me as a man right)
It's 5 AM in Shibuya
It's 5 AM in Shibuya
Uh, it's 5 AM in Shibuya
I live a life full of maybes and 180's
So I twist words to...
Try to figure out my lack of virtue
The lesson behind completing the circle
It's a long road
If driven impaired it's sure to hurt you
Im hiding from this unlear fog that clouds my patience
Feeling complacent
In the void
Avoiding the matrix
I'm rich in other things these dollars don't always
Make cents (since)
And maybe that's the reason my crib ain't got no basement
Cause' I keep it hardcore
These powerbombs on the pavement
Only the strong survive
It's UNI
Verses
In my mind
Where I Keep my planets aligned
On the clock full time
To fund the job that keeps me alive
It's by design
For education to hit you with bad credit
Punch the clock while they mention my name among the legends
I stopped American dreaming
When I trotted the globe
Mind, body and soul
If you sleep you don't know
(And it damaged me as man right)
It's 5 AM in Shibuya
It's 5 AM in Shibuya
It's 5 AM in Shibuya
Uh, I was in Japan
Me and Mega Ran
In Japan the last train stops at midnight
And the next one doesn't come until 5 AM
So we were in Japan we did a show
We ended up having to stay out until 5 AM
So we did karaoke all night
After that we got on the train at 5 AM to take it back to the hostel
And I wrote this song on the train
And that's why its called 5 AM in Shibuya
Peace!
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Noveliss Detroit, Michigan
Member of the legendary world renowned Detroit Hip Hop Group; Clear Soul Forces. Noveliss is known for his intellectual wordplay and mixture of nerdy; anime, comic book references and deep societal subject matter. A distinct voice on the mic, the lyricist is known as the Microphone Hokage. Top influences are Eminem, MF DOOM, Black Thought, Redman and NAS. ... more
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