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1. |
Takin' Our Time
02:33
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Hold up
I'm taking my
Gimme some
I'm taking my
Gimme some
I'm taking my
Gimme some
I'm taking my time
Gimme some
I'm taking my
Gimme some
I'm taking my
Gimme some
I'm taking my
Gimme some
I'm taking my time
Gimme some
We’re taking our time
Gimme gimme that
We're taking that time
We taking it back
We’re taking our time
Gimme gimme that
Working check to check
Got us ready to snap
We’re taking our time
Gimme gimme that
We're taking that time
We taking it back
We’re taking our time
Gimme gimme that
Living check to check
Got us ready to snap
I'm taking my
Gimme some
I'm taking my
Gimme some
I'm taking my
gimme some
I'm taking my time
gimme some
I'm taking my
Gimme some
I'm taking my
gimme some
I'm taking my
gimme some
I'm taking my time
gimme some
Man made scarcity
Scared in the city
Ain't it a shame
Ain't it a pity
Start over start again
Build each other up
Keep it movin'
Don't push me
What's the rush
What?
Taking our time
Time to breathe
Taking our time
Time for ease
Life is temporary
Delicate and sweet
They always making
Life harder than it needs to be
I'm taking my
Gimme some
I'm taking my
Gimme some
I'm taking my
Gimme some
I'm taking my time
Gimme some
I'm taking my
Gimme some
I'm taking my
Gimme some
I'm taking my
Gimme some
I'm taking my time
Gimme some
Gimme gimme
Take
Gimme gimme
Take
Gimme gimme
Take
Gimme gimme
Gimme gimme
Take
Gimme gimme
Take
Gimme gimme
Take
Gimme gimme
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2. |
Necessary Illusions
03:07
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Necessary illusions
Necessary illusions
Necessary illusions
Necessary illusions
Necessary illusions they play on my mind
Causing confusion that seek and you’ll find
Necessary illusions that smoke and that mirror
Causing confusion look here nah look here
Ahhh
Who are you when there's no one looking
Riddles and fictions
Forced perspective and contradictions
Pseudoscience and a whole lotta ass
Life comes fast
Tricks for the trade
Terrorized the people
Throw them in a cage straw man - hay
Necessary to keep the face
Keep the pace
Keep us with them hands up
Democracy for rich elite
And their propaganda
Been kicking that sand up
Can't see
Got us fucked up
But we gotta get paid so avoid and escape
Hope through a fantasy snapped outta luck
Slapped on a filter
Still stay rough
Cause it's baked in the cake
Tweaking my recipes
Illusions get the best of me
Call it a necessity
Necessary illusions they play on my mind
Causing confusion that seek and you’ll find
Necessary illusions that smoke and mirror
Causing confusion look here nah look here
Ahhh
Necessary illusions
Necessary illusions
Necessary illusions
Necessary illusions
Who are you when there's no-one looking
Riddles and fiction
Forced perspective and contradiction
Pseudoscience and a whole lot of ass
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3. |
Essential A.F.
02:29
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Shoulda woulda coulda
Never done shit
All in together
We can handle this
Keep us shallow empty
Hollow tip
Shoulda coulda woulda
Never done
Procrastinate
That's what we ain't gonna do
Cause this shit can't wait
Remember i need you
No hesitate
You are not alone
We can relate
Always knew
They never gave a shit about us
With this virus it's more obvious
Nurses wearing trash bags
Police got tanks
Called us essential, treated like trash
Give us a hand with that clap clap
Called a hero
Felt like a hostage
Broke and exhausted they left us to
Die
Shoulda woulda coulda
Never done shit
All in together
We can handle this
Keep us shallow empty
Hollow tip
Shoulda coulda woulda
Never done
Shoulda woulda coulda
Never done shit
All in together
We can handle this
Keep us shallow empty
Hollow tip
Shoulda coulda woulda
Never done
Co-operate
That's what we gonna do
Cause this shit can't wait
A better way of living
We can create
Organize and imagine
Liberate
Mind, body and land
Get the resources in our hands
Poverty is violence
Quick to kill, not quick to heal
Said we don't want to die
Give us a banner, a ribbon, street sign
Stop
Y'all poverty pimps
We need care, not cops
Or these prison systems
Critical resistance
Resistance
Shoulda woulda coulda
Never done shit
All in together
We can handle this
Keep us shallow empty
Hollow tip
Shoulda coulda woulda
Never done
Shoulda woulda coulda
Never done shit
All in together
We can handle this
Keep us shallow empty
Hollow tip
Shoulda coulda woulda
Never done
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4. |
Happy
00:59
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5. |
I Was In It
03:20
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I was in it for the romance
And all it was promising
I was in it for the love and devouring
All i got was a whole bunch of arguing
But we still try
Little try
Little try
Little try
Little try
Little try
Little try
Little try
Little try
Little try
Little try
I was in it
I was in it
I was in it
I was in it
I was in it
I was in it
We still try (little try)
We still try (little try)
We still try (little try)
We still try (little try)
Hey
We still try
Cause we're all that we got
If we all do a little
We ain't gotta do a lot
Stay on in it
Cause we're all that they're not
This heart is a muscle
Getting killed in this grind and hustle
We still try
Cause we're all that we got
If we all do a little
We ain't gotta do a lot
Stay on in it
Cause we're all that they're not
This heart is a muscle
Getting killed in this grind and hustle
Little try
Little try
Little try
Little try
Little try
Little try
Little try
Little try
Little try
Little try
I was in it
I was in it
I was in it
I was in it
I was in it
I was in it
We still try (little try)
We still try (little try)
We still try (little try)
We still try (little try)
Hey
We still try
Cause we're all that we got
If we all do a little
We ain't gotta do a lot
Stay on in it
Cause we're all that they're not
This heart is a muscle
Getting killed in this grind and hustle
We still try
Cause we're all that we got
If we all do a little
We ain't gotta do a lot
Stay on in it
Cause we're all that they're not
This heart is a muscle
Getting killed in this grind and hustle
Little try
Little try
Little try
Little try
Little try
Little try
Little try
Little try
Little try
Little try
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6. |
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DDM and S.O.S.
We go forward with the struggle there's no turning back
Oh one day
Oh one day
Oh one day
Oh one day
Oh one day
I get one get one
You get one
We get one
My ma get one
Get one
Get one
Get one
We get one but one day
Get one day
Then you're right back at it
Got no time
Trying to keep a balance
Feeling overworked and underpaid
Unappreciated and a little played
Crabs in the barrel
Since the way back past
Get together make a ladder free our ass
Self emancipation
Of the working class
Collective liberation
We put at ya
We can work for each other instead of these masters
They taught us to hate ourselves and we ain't living well
Bite the hand that feeds
We can feed ourselves
We can be the leaders we have been looking for
We can be the shade when it's hot outside
We can be the water when the mouth go dry
We can be everything
We need
Without the greed, creed or that mofo genocide
Oh one day
Oh one day
Oh one day
Oh one day
Oh one day
I get one get one
You get one
We get one
My ma get one
Get one
Get one
Get one
We get one, but one day
One day, one day
Working class people organizing
Radically affirmed we furious
Call we gangstress when our liberation
Is at stake, with guerilla tactics
Unto the streets we shall take
Circle of oppression, exploitation will be
Trampling
Fruits of our labour will be dabbling
Freedom of Galloping Horse’s, will be
Acquiring
That day, that day
Konetha nase ntlango
Kuded’ ubumnyama kuvel’ ukukhanya
Restored will be our dignity
Change from below will be enjoyed
Direct democracy will be explored
Strings removed we no longer puppeting
S’dinwe kuphatha thina
Take over means of production
Real distribution of wealth to the people
Addressing all social ills
Oh one day
Oh one day
Oh one day
Oh one day
Oh one day
Yeh shout out to DDM, E.K., Soundz Of The South
One Day
One day the future will be feminine
Rebel Sistah on the move watch us stepping in
Crashing hierarchy sexism misogyny
The spirit of imbokodo we channel in
Fuck the horns grab the bull by the balls
Liberation for all
Oppressed people here we go
Break free from the chains, fly fly like a bird
Siyimbumbha sizolakha elilizwe
Free from domination and captivity
Stomp for the revolution we building a free society
Sinyathela amaqhubusha
Push back, crash down capitalism
No more, representative democracy
No more
Cos we're building our communities
Taking a stand to return power to the people
Oh one day
Oh one day
Oh one day
Oh one day
Oh one day
I get one get one
You get one
We get one
My ma get one
Get one
We get one, but one day
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7. |
Blood Money
01:02
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Blood money drip drip
Blood money drip drip
Blood money cash
Blood money cash
Blood money drip drip
Blood money drip drip
Blood money stack
Blood money stack
Was it money we chase
Or freedom
Felt something like a
Full fridge
Making it through these
Seasons
Gonna feed these
Kids
Pay to be born
Pay to die
Blood money
Stack it to the sky
It's a vampire state
Coming for your neck
Make you act in ways
That you come to regret
Chasing blood money bags
No brake/break
Blood money bags
I chase
Blood money blood money
Without it nothing funny
Nothing funny
Blood money drip drip
Blood money drip drip
Blood money cash
Blood money stack
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8. |
Whole Lot
03:46
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They say you came from nothing
And nothing you will be
That nothing made a whole lot of me
They say you came from nothing
And nothing you will be
That nothing made a whole lot of we
Keep your head up
Cause there's a whole lot of us
Keep your head up
Cause there's a whole lot of us
What we got inside this shit you can't buy
Don’t let them tear us apart
What we got inside this shit you can't buy
Don’t let them tear us apart
They say you came from nothing
And nothing you will be
That nothing made a whole lot of me
That nothing made a whole lot of me
That nothing made a whole lot of we
It made a whole lot
Whole lot
It made a whole lot
Whole lot
It made a whole lalalalala
It made a whole lot
Whole lot
It made a whole lot
Whole lot
It made a whole lalalalala
We are better when we work together
Don’t let us tear them apart
Our odds are better work together
This is just a thought
Instinct is missing
We forget how to start
Better when we work together
Don’t let us tear them apart
Cash poor but so rich
What we got you can't buy this
Radiate loveliness
Shooting life from these thighs
Rage in the eyes
All their fuckery
Came at no surprise
Gonna stop all the beefing
Cause the stakes are high
And some still believe you can own another
We are not alone
We are in this together
This poor man shame
Is rich man butter
We buttered his bread kept him feed
And they make it hard for us
Hard to live
Seems what we will take
Is what they will give
Remember this
We are hard to break
We throw it back
Cause it ain’t gotta be like this
Nah, it ain’t gotta be like that
We are better when we work together
Don’t let us tear them apart
Our odds are better work together
This is just a thought
Instinct is missing
We forget how to start
Better when we work together
Don’t let us tear them apart
We left the lights on
Your always welcome here
Shelter from the storm
That's what you wanna' hear
That you'll have a place
That you have a plate
Yo, you gave me strength
When i was low
Said you’d have my back
And you showed
And that means a lot
That is more than nothing
In the dark days
It's really something
It's standing right here
We care a lot
Not allowed to show
We try to get her going
They always block the road
They throw down obstacles
Shove them to the ground
Everything is possible we can do it right now
Keep your head up
Cause there's a whole lot of us
Keep your head up
Cause there's a whole lot of us
What we got inside this shit you can't buy
Don’t let them tear us apart
What we got inside this shit you can't buy
Don’t let them tear us apart
They say you came from nothing and nothing you will be
That nothing made a whole lot of me
That nothing made a whole lot of me
That nothing made a whole lot of we
It made a whole lot
Whole lot
It made a whole lot
Whole lot
It made a whole lalalalala
It made a whole lot
Whole lot
It made a whole lot
Whole lot
It made a whole lalalalala
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9. |
Got No Home
02:48
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The morning is nice
Nicer with you
The morning is nice
The morning is nice
Nicer with you
The morning is nice
The morning is nice
Nicer with you
The morning is nice
The morning is nice
nicer with you
Something like a new dawn
Nowhere nowhere to go to go
Got no home
Got no home
Got no home
Got no home
Nowhere nowhere to go to go
Got no home
Got no home
Got no home
Got no home
Ripped them roots
Strange fruit
And everybody stares
Invested interest kept us
Swimming and running from
Where you can't go back
I heard that
No man's land
Built on this
Visa's, extensions
Permesso
Permissions to exist
Born on the wrong side
Of the coin toss
Sorry for your luck
Kept you stuck
Kept in boat
Kept in cage
Watery graves
Lost in time
Lost in space
Integrate
In numbers games
Lost your name
Called you migrant
Refugee or deportee
Nowhere nowhere to go to go
Got no home
Got no home
Got no home
Got no home
Nowhere nowhere to go to go
Got no home
Got no home
Got no home
Got no home
Looking for a place to
Rest your head evicted
Looking for a place to call home
Exhale
Inhale
Can't pay no
Rent with the wages
This shit is outrageous
Priced out of the town
Skid row all around
Living in your car or a tent
Cause numbers don't add up
Sorry for your luck
Kill the poor is the motto
Shelter basics of survival
Violently our human needs
Commodified
Bad vibes
Speculate on precarious lives
Nowhere nowhere to go to go
Got no home
Got no home
Got no home
Got no home
Nowhere nowhere to go to go
Got no home
Got no home
Got no home
Got no home
The morning is nice
Nicer with you
Something like a new dawn
Always asking where are you from
We’ve been living under the sun
The morning is nice
Nicer with you
Kept my head
Above water
Hold your breath for the next tragedy
Don’t worry about me
Save my daughter
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10. |
Self Made
02:12
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If blood be their price
If blood be their price
If blood be their price
then believe we've paid
fuck off boss man
you ain't self made
Self made
Ain't no self made milly
Self made
Ain't no self made milly
Self made
Ain't no self made milly
Ain't no self made milly
Ain't no self made
They ain't self made
They making a killing
They stand on our shoulders
We get used to the feeling
Predicted fates
That we are living
They ain't self made
They making a killing
Corporate privilege
Been making a killing
They hold on their share
Pulling billions
We hold on our stake
Pray for our children
They ain't self made
They making a killing
Media is a fan
They spin the ceiling
Glass i skate on through the flames
We get used to the feeling
we can't have a life worth living
Wause they always making a killing
If blood be their price
If blood be their price
If blood be their price
Then believe we've paid
Fuck off boss man
You ain't self made
Self made
Ain't no self made milly
Self made
Ain't no self made milly
Self made
Ain't no self made milly
Ain't no self made milly
Ain't no self made
They ain't self made
They making a killing
No self made millionaire
Took a village
To get you there
Billy ain't the goat
He's a villain
Kept the knife on the throat
We got used to the feeling
They ain't self made
They making a killing
Took all our lifetime
We've been giving
To make their living
Old bucks
Daddy's cream
What it mean
Cat stay fat
Bitch stay lean
They ain't self made
They making a killing
We caught between
A rock and hard place
Corporate and the state
We can't have a life worth living
Cause they always making a killing
If blood be their price
If blood be their price
If blood be their price
Then believe we've paid
Fuck off boss man
You ain't self made
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11. |
Swingin' Back
01:51
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That’s why our shit talk about
My shit talk about
Our shit talk about
Swingin' back
Swingin' back
Swingin' back
Swingin' back
It ain’t right but it go
How long have we known
You under attack everyday
It ain’t right but it go
It ain’t right but it go
How long have we known
You under attack everyday
It ain’t right but it go
It ain’t right but it go
How long have we known
You under attack everyday
It ain’t right but it go
It ain’t right but it go
It ain’t right but it go
It ain’t right but it go
It ain’t right but it go
It ain’t right but it go
It ain’t right but it go
It ain’t right but it go
It ain’t right but it go
That’s why our shit talk about
My shit talk about
Our shit talk about
Go go go!
Swingin' back
Swingin' back
Swingin' back
Swingin' back
It ain’t right but it go
It ain’t right but it go
It ain’t right but it go
We are not a brand
This is not logo
We are not a brand
This is not logo
We are not a brand
We are not a brand
We are not a brand
This is not logo
Swingin' back
Swingin' back
Swingin' back
Swingin' back
It ain’t right but it go
How long have we known
You under attack everyday
It ain’t right but it go
It ain’t right but it go
It ain’t right but it go
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12. |
Raw
03:47
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Treat us so
Raw raw
Treat us so
Rat a tat tat rat a tat tat
Treat us so
Raw raw
Treat us so
9 - 5
6 - 2
Overnight
4 till noon
Unemployed
Got a job to do
Stay predictable
Re-run
Another round with these pinkertons
Keep the wolf from the door
Keep the boss off our back
Still searching proper check
Poverty the parent of crime
Murder the rhyme
Curve em duck em every time
Nothing in my fridge for weeks
Eat the rich, little snack
Know our worth
Take it back
Keep us with
Busy work busy work
Pointless jobs
They hurt
Feeling worthless
Waste of time
No purpose
Killed your mind
Self esteem
Down low
We could be more
I know
Stuck in a trap
This maze
Another lap
We pray
For escape routes
That's why you faded now
We could be more
Tell us how
We've been feeling disconnected
From the world
People and other creatures
Influenced by
Money greed
Power and them preachers
Been going through the motions
Dumbed down
Numb now
Silent rage
Silent shame
Cradle to the grave
Treat us like dirt
Treat us like
Mother earth
Treat us so...
Treat us so...
Treat us so
Raw raw
Treat us so
Rat a tat tat rat a tat tat
Treat us so
Raw raw
Treat us so
Violent as that apple pie
Fruits of our labor
Blessed for my overtime
Yet causing
Strange behaviour
Exploited many
Prosperous few
We done
That work for you
Human capital
Like a pack animal
We’ve been riding
On this elephant in the room
It's so cool
Most of us hate the job we do
This ain’t nothing new
Class war 2.2
Waking up tired to do it again
They need us
We don’t need them
Life we living
Death of a salesman
Or blair mountain
In this rust belt
Pants down
Caught us slipping
Tech boom
Bay Area
You can't live in
These grenfell towers
With flint water
In love canal
Corporate culture
Hustle
Don't stop
Have you sleeping in our car
Dying on a big lot
Monetary mental physical decay
Cause we get the dirty
They get the honor
mmm
We get the poverty
The get the power
mmm
Defend all life
Iit's time we shine
Like dynamite
Treat us so...
Treat us so...
Treat us so...
Treat us so
Raw raw
Treat us so
Rat a tat tat rat a tat tat
Treat us so
Raw raw
Treat us so
I hate that job
But i gotta go
Work like rust
Cash stay low
All the time
You know
Feel the same
But you gotta go
I hate that job
It ain’t gotta be like this
I hate that job
It ain’t gotta be like this
I hate that job
But i gotta go
Work like rust
Cash stay low
All the time
You know
Feel the same
But you gotta go
I hate that job
It ain’t gotta be like this
I hate that job
It ain’t gotta be like this
Treat us so
Raw raw
Treat us so
Raw raw
Treat us so
Raw raw
Treat us so
Rat a tat tat rat a tat tat
Rat a tat tat rat a tat tat
Rat a tat tat rat a tat tat
Rat a tat tat rat a tat tat
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13. |
Summer Song
01:10
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14. |
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One day
Oh one day
One day
Oh one day
Get one get one get one
Oh one day
Get one get one get one
Oh one day
If it ain't one thing
It's always another
Got no time
Trying not to go under
For family and friends gonna be strong and tough
Work work
One day off
Never enough
All these shit jobs take your life
We don't need them
They want cheap hands we want our freedom
Working just to barely exist ain't living
Stuck in survival mode
Got us on a tightrope
Like where the time went
And working for who?
The benefit of all of us
The benefit of a few
We always sifting through
The muck of life
Free weed for single mothers
And all of us working O.T. tonight
Time is the new wealth son
Get it right
So i called in sick
Read some bell hooks
Watched some bill hicks
We’ve been jones'n for a big fix
Settled for some sick kicks
I get one day
But one day
One day
Oh one day
One day
Oh one day
Get one get one get one
Oh one day
Get one get one get one
Oh one day
Get one day
Then your right back at it
Got no time
Trying to keep a balance
Feeling overworked
And underpaid
Unappreciated and a little played
Crabs in the barrel
Since the way back past
Get together make a ladder
Free our ass
Self emancipation
Of the working class
Collective liberation
We put at ya
We can work for each other
Instead of these masters
They taught us to hate ourselves
And we ain't living well
Bite the hand that feeds
We can feed ourselves
We can be the leaders
We've been looking for
We can be the shade
When it's hot outside
We can be the water
When the mouth go dry
We can be everything
That we need
Without the greed, creed
Or that mofo genocide
One day
Oh one day
One day
Oh one day
Get one get one get one
Oh one day
Get one get one get one
Oh one day
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