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1312 Intro 01:01
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Listen 02:46
Sit Dooown shut up shut up Sit down Sit Dooown shut up shut up Now x2 Listen to the sound Listen to the voice People never heard Never had a choice They talk to much They never shut up They talk to much Time to listen up Ive done the math theres more of us to all my people feeling stuck love us on the ground always get up skinny lil bit thought you’d roll over when we come together transformer stand so tall shooting the shit i got shit to shoot I’ve been watching all y’all where you took our loot observing think your cute think your slick eat a dick that don’t work suck on this get it quick pulling all that green never pass shit poor always carry the rich we work for it you greedy exploitive manipulate youza cold bitch scandalous murderous We stay warm as the sun sun kissed Run with us raised fist trying to resist best you can no more head in the sand carry on tradition fuck the man by the man we meant the corporate government taught us all this gangster shit Sit dooown shut up shut up Sit down Sit dooown shut up shut up Now Listen to the sound Who silenced our voice Silenced for a reason Ignored by choice They talk to much They never shut up They talk to much Time to listen up They talk all that They talk all this But the poor stay poor and the rich stay rich Talk all that make ya ears bleed Talk all that never get what ya need Poverty created daily no dignity we angry and tired placing blame where it don’t need to be they created a violent society we need to punch up punch up we on some they need us and shit like they trying to make us forget we do all the work all days always we don’t need you checkmate its true . we never hear our point of view our words we seek talk all that with their butter ass teeth yuck mouth get no relief let us live let us breath borrowing courage from each other to speak lean on you lean on me then we don’t need that position change with ease the system make it obsolete Listen
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Salt In the daylight salt In the nightlight salt Salt in the wound Light weight but i stay heavy small thing but i say plenty good from the get saving them pennies legs like spaghetti set my watch 420 dream chaser no paper made mistakes big eraser learn from kept on moving show and proven all that salt aint soothing learn from the pain don’t do the same make a dirt lane and clean your own shit All come around call it hoop we stay in the bit cause it loop grassroots deeper than we knew come and feel that truth come down on you Live for no man we called it find leaders within ourselves co operate with each other thats don’t leave your friend behind and be good to your mother indentured servants slavery power social control our common humanity never had a chance it was already sold ripped out the nest egg ready to hatch truth hurts regurgitate put it on plate thats hard to digest hard to take truth hurts dig deep cold stares slow creep In the daylight salt In the nightlight salt Salt in the wound dehumanized staring at each other licking them wounds hungry motherfucker thats hella sus they need cheap hands that need us say its a hard time to be alive but i think its always been when you standing below other men its always a crisis we full of vices fuckshit in this state dreams fade. drowning in class war choking on jim crow leaves us dying in the street overseer officer 5-0 our tragic stories never out of reach who believed the words they preached how long anger steeped deep rooted start digging we all know they been killing look at the rez look at the prison look at the hood look at the trailer look at the system look at the face say the name wheres the spark all this salt do we have the courage to play it smart radical struggle empire class and race horse and cart burn it down john brown abolition was it between skin or profits reaped off it still succumbing to it truth hurts dig deep cold stares slow creep
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I believe I believe in you x 4 I believe I believe in you we ourselves I believe in you we ourselves I believe that we all need someone to believe in us I believe we’ve all been burned so hard to trust I believe that life is a pie but some only get crumb and them educated fools they sure like to talk some I believe im deadass with it 50 of us smoked out in that civic all stay livid trying to get it but we all we got stuck in a cycle that never stop feed the fire stir the pot I believe in the people and power to fight we the only ones cause we live this life someone did you dirty someone did you wrong pain that you feel wanna pass along hurt people hurt people bitter truth we’ve been learning since our youth we from the time of the pager little bit of now and later mace and a taser why most shit won’t faze her seen it before heard even more broken back and all that kept the soul sore class war I believe cause the things I’ve seen thru experience not magazine I believe cause the things we dream sweet thoughts that are unseen I believe cause the things we do Imagine then we follow thru Little bit of science Little bit of hope and all thats in between I believe i aint gonna quit it quit on you we nuture different view side of human nature you feed is what ll come thru when you know better do better me myself and you I believe in the collective process i believe those in power will try and stop us they like a fake pocket something we really don’t need i believe that position obsolete If we all do a little we aint gotta do a lot I believe we can unlearn the shit we’d been taught thats end a sickness bad heath I’m believe in you till you believe in your self i believe that we borrow the earth yo in case we forgot they like to tell us they own her they like to tell us alot I believe that we all need someone to believe in us I believe we’ve all been burned so its hard to trust I believe that life is a pie but some only get crumb and them educated fools they sure like to talk some I believe in you x 4 I believe I believe in you we ourselves I believe in you we ourselves I believe
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On The Side 03:23
On the Side Im gonna have to give it some thought Im gonna have to give it some time Im gonna have to give it just little bit of minutes and whole lot of loving On the side Im gonna have to give it some thought Im gonna have to give it some time Im gonna have to give it just little bit of minutes and whole lot of loving On the side On the side x 4 Communication ain’t as easy as it seem Ive been talking for days you still don’t know what i mean Recognition and it seems what we need tell me about your story tell me where you been we can build and bend thats grow defend in the hard times mend maybe call you friend what you wanna do If you keep it true If you keep it cool then we fuck with you This information that i just received Im gonna have to think it through thats check some facts digest and stew Gonna have to roll it over think about it blazed think about it sober yo whats the intent the concept the context gonna let it pickle gonna let it tickle no need to simplify whats complex or complicate whats simple Im gonna have to give it some thought Im gonna have to give it some time Im gonna have to give it just little bit of minutes and whole lot of loving On the side Im gonna have to give it some thought Im gonna have to give it some time Im gonna have to give it just little bit of minutes and whole lot of loving On the side On the side x 4 Misunderstandings happen everyday and assumptions can be deadly im trying to be clear with the things i say we aint taught to work it out yo we taught to obey misunderstood misunderstand standing under no man thats the plan looking for some advice some act right always stay in the short sight of the situation Our insecurities can get us acting crazy dodging all your attitude trying not to be petty petty comes so easy hoping that my patience come and save me empathy compassion fly like eagle except we people care bear stare shooting rainbows from our fuckin belly that shit is honey sweetness come and get with us and thru this end a sickness Im gonna have to give it some thought Im gonna have to give it some time Im gonna have to give it just little bit of minutes and whole lot of loving On the side Im gonna have to give it some thought Im gonna have to give it some time Im gonna have to give it just little bit of minutes and whole lot of loving On the side On the side x 4
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Bad Mood 03:29
Bad Mood Lately Lately Always in a bad bad mood Lately Lately Always got an attitude Lately Lately Always got a point to prove Lately Lately Always in a bad bad mood So was it lately or has it always been since mama said life ain’t fair way back when you better get used to it learn how to move thru it I could never groove to it seemed we always lose to it Gotta stay tough hold that head up don’t take shit and always spread love I cried for you but tears don’t matter just created more sad songs to sing maybe it was the rain that help me see the sunny day maybe it was the pain that helped me hide the love away Skipping along this slow rot eternal sadness sweet spot waking up to another day what do you got Ive been cussing threw that yoga finally feeling good pain puffin on the green since the age of thirteen under night sun day moon fell in love with life living for the good things living like its full spring pulling me through kiss on the cheek or glance from you midnight glide under the moon had me feeling see thru she said baby what it do bad mood Im in a funk I can not shake whether sleep or i’m awake sunshine should know our name good times should come and play cause these sad stories all the time leaves us fuckin stagnant no stimulation no creation we gotta make it worth it find a little time more than just survive grow together build each up and try Good friend good food a little conversation Good art good love a little relaxation this is real medicine what laughter can do we sick of always being in a bad mood Lately Lately Always in a bad bad mood Lately Lately Look at me my face is screwed Lately Lately Angry as fuck its true Lately Lately Always in a bad bad mood

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6 track EP by DDM (Drowning Dog and Malatesta) written in Berlin. Recorded and Mixed by Tristan Mazire @studio Garage / La Fugitive, in Paris. With a lot of love :) April 2019.

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released June 30, 2019

Mastered by Audible Oddities in Colorado.
Artwork/logo design by Flaccidia in Macerata.

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DDM (Drowning Dog and Malatesta) Berlin, Germany

Class conscious electro rap from San Francisco to Berlin via Milano.

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