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Never Looked Back

by Obeah

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I started this on Dilla Day vibing to a Dilla beat Thankful for the inspiration, the kind that makes me feel complete Yup, I still do it and I'm still unique Give a fuck if you suckas aren't feelin me I kill MCs at will and freeze the XLR cables These rappers on the track telling extra large fables Its time you yung'ns start respecting y'all's neighbors Used to wanna diss, but i guess you caught vapors 'Cause they're hella nice now If we're talkin 'bout the raps, young fella, lights out If we're talkin 'bout the cuts, DJ Lord fucks it up, so what what.... Sometimes these years fly by with the speed of a light beam I take it sky high, seeking a pipe dream They're saying 'Why try?' These people are frightening I'm taking my time and I keep it enlightening So many sights to see, so many wines to drink And then its time to leave, not enough time to think I sink into the pages, let the phrases flow I'm gonna say it quick but take it slow The pro vocalist, not one to boast or diss But no candle exists that you could hold to this No opiates son, we're smokin spliffs Some things I can't even miss A few, I won't resist No sweat bitch, add it to the checklist So reckless, Savennières for Breakfast Then, its Champagne for lunch That red wine, it can stain your fronts My man came with blunts, session complete Peace to Michal Menert, blessin the beat I'm reppin the A, I'm reppin PE And I'm ready to slay if you're steppin to me My DJ is a black belt, 7th degree Spit fire, watch that ass melt, bless it then Peace And we're headed to the next town Most of these rapper's live shows is a let down But we're coming for your throat, place your bets now From Atlanta to Tokyo with that fresh sound
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Life is a test, I can press or relax That's why I left and I never looked back They're all depressed, in a cell or a trap That's why I left and I never looked back Only the best get ahead of the pack That's why I left and I never looked back I know I'm fresh with incredible raps That's why I left and I never looked back I'm rollin' in my grandmother's cadillac Don't worry old man. I've got plans for your habitat I'm burnin' blunts in your back yard We act hard, but ain't about shit Little kids in some fast cars Got rap bars Never fucked with the Xanax Can't relax, I don't trust how your man acts I've been in trap houses with uzis pointed at the dome Straight out of a movie Please remove me from the catacombs And the wish was granted, but listen damnit That doesn't mean I didn't overcome a disadvantage From the gifted program into alternative school Sittin' next to dude who's runnin' jewels and murderin' fools And now there's workin' to do if you wanna raise the bar up Your not makin' friends when you're actin star struck Don't know where to turn. All my friends are on that hard stuff Livin on adrenaline pretending that they aren't stuck But they're lying to themselves Its a vicious cycle yo, they buy it 'cause it sells Small town mentality divided into cells Calm down, don't shout at me I'm trying not to yell, but I can't help but rebel against this dump he chose to raise me in Feeling like Del, I'm just a funky homosapien School is like a cell, they try to punk me but it makes me grin You'll never break me bitch, punch me in the face again No disrespect to the city that spawned me But half the town is tightly in the grips of the army And its really alarming: all the violence and ignorance Shouts to all the ones that try to put an end to it Fuck your censorship and schools of false history But I'll be foolish if I do let y'all get to me Instead I'll quickly flee to a center of culture You keep feeding on those carcasses and kick it with vultures I'm out
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That's lights, camera, main attraction These motherfuckin rappers take evasive action My brain's detached grim, plus I came with masked men So class you only see my name in past tense Yo, we're drinking old fashions stinking bowl passin Chill homie, whatever you're thinkin, don't ask him He wouldn't listen so I slapped him into Saturday Lip synchin pseudo rappers paying cash to play I have to say that we rap in an attractive way Son Daddy, Mack, Obeah back in the A We snappin away, the wordplay's attacking your brain Pass through the veins This dope got you scrathin your face You can't get a taste You punks are lacking obedience You don't have to agree with this, but we have what you need to get Like fine wine, my rhyme's like a glass of some demon piss Hot flame, octane We're the last of a breed of pits They're actors, comedians It's not supposed to be a joke I'm not believing all these garbage flows that people quote You're hangin on my words, don't even need a rope Shit's bananas, your sandwich could never be as dope I need a dose of beats before I go to sleep at night That's right, we're mutant ninjas holding the mic like a pizza slice Hands golden and spiked like a freezer fight I seem to write the shit that people like, plus my speech is tight Ha ha ha ha ha ha Ain't no comparison, competition embarrass 'em I just sit there and stare at them Then I flip, throw a chair at 'em While I'm sippin a Terrapin 'cause my click is the garrison And your kid's gettin scared of him Your girl trip down the stairs again Sit down Americans, prepare for the terrorists Go share with your therapists and your arrogant parents bitch We're derelicts and heretics shittin on your heritage And even confederate veterans knew it was perilous Experiments Watch me tear to bits what you prepare in scripts So, when you hear me spit your tears will drip and then you'll barely blip On some scary shit, so if there's beef, then bury it Think you could fuck with the squad? Ha! That's hilarious
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My job essentially is thinking up goofy shit (fart noises) So, I think up the goofy shit and come on the weekends and report it to you You don't wanna be around when the iron bends Fuck around and wind up a lamb in the lion's den We throw the rosemary sprigs straight on the coals Got the mint jelly on the plate with the rolls In this bitch with a leopard print bindlestiff Ball out with my balls out till I'm penniless Pants in the dryer, chicken in the crock pot Time bomb strategically placed in the lock box Boredom be a fat chance, posted in my rap stance Throw an 1/8 on the plate, mexican hat dance I nerd out with my bird out, throw your herbs out The feral ginger lurkin outside the bird house Y'all motherfuckers throw your forks up You know there ain't no shortcuts when I slow and low that pork butt I'm always on time, yes I rock thorough Me and Gerard Germaine down at Rimerock Borough We ain't no hot boys that love to talk noise Got the stir fry for your 3rd eye with the bok choy Bust out my secret automatic private dictionary Shit is scary when I'm mixin berries with the pitted cherries Reefy leafy dutch, ornery enough to make a preacher cuss Keep my tosie wosies cozy in the sneaker guts Too silly with them loose Phillies Sorry you doggy dined on my dong bag E Wayne and Bruce Villy That's disgusting, that's terrible You kiss your mother with that mouth? You eat with that mouth? Garbage mouth!! Garbage mouth, toilet tongue, sewer mouth... Backwoods and Beaujolais I rap good, so they say Crafting masterpieces while you're churning out throwaways Earning clout multiple ways, fuck what you say I'll climb that mountain in a couple of days Drunk up in the function and I'm hittin the blunts You might learn something if you'd listen for once Try to tell the tale of ridiculous stunts, but yo That story's stale and that kid is a dunce Our words'll make 'em nervous while we're dining full service They're verses serve no purpose, so its time to pull curtains B Rude lurkin, lookin like the Leprechaun King All bets are gone, snackin on the Szechuan wings What else she gon bring? Biscuits fillin the bag With a pen and a pad down on Venable Ave. Not a cynical lad, actually quite the optimist Twice as confident, gold lining my esophagus Tonight we're rockin it Empty Glass, on and poppin bitch No stoppin this, coaching this game longer than Popovic Off a 1/5 and we're clownin like Homie Listened to your song and I found it quite phony That's why we don't play that Don't frown like you know me I'll be in the way back while I down my Negroni Call it 5 star, but it's brown Rice-a-Roni You sound like a Brony Downright Baloney
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Fam... You got a problem? Damn... I'm a grown ass man, you're a sonogram Concerned with the image of your embryonic steeze Actin like a critic and then send apologies We're blending all the trees at the end of the trip Light up the potpourri, hold it in and then slip Into an extra conscious state Think of all the thoughts that I never contemplate The metabolic fate of these substances is sacred Criticize my taste, but your stuck up in the matrix Practices are ancient, but you spread hatred Our images are genuine, but all you do is fake it Straight masking it, actresses glorifying evil practices I'm a peaceful man, but I'm smackin kids Gotta keep 'em in line, then its back to biz Y'all know the name, you're tuned in to the sounds of the acid brain Enter the winter of my solitude and center Fangs over paragraphs painted under scripture Picture me being free by the spitting image of seeds Everything around me, Kings A piece laid in different palms, you're just a pawn I'm the illegitimate child of a beast in black dawn I'm an actual artifact of attack with a spiked bat and a capsule of blood taped to my Adam's Apple I'm the catalyst casually carving pieces of people caught in my castle with the accuracy of a lasso I'm the asshole, point blank cocked back Blast any passenger dumb enough to be caught in battle We follow shadows, ghost to the face I keep my poetry poison, but shit... Those are the breaks You keep the tone low to atone for the coded face Fuck it Feed you to the lions so they know how fake you taste
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Livin in this pestilence Prison of the present tense Criminally negligent I fear for what it represents They're ignoring the evidence and we explore it with eloquence Estranged by the sane, left to the elements But when I speak of it they question the relevance It's a touchy subject, it gets hella tense But on that stance, I won't break and I've never bent My chest is dense, wearing a heavy heart They're keeping us in the dark Don't let me start They steady shark, existence is carnivorous We're just living as victims of y'all's ignorance All idiots and I don't claim to be above I just wanna eat some grub and show my people love On the humble, having trouble keeping up Livin in a bubble, powerful, but weak as fuck The pestilence, the hard headed never learn Its my testament till those burn Play my position in the pestilence Dying in this pestilence Trying different medicines Force fed to the youth, stifling intelligence Finding all the evidence, frightened by the precedence set While the titans get excitement from our detriment They feign benevolence, but never was the good guy Could save the world, but instead of that, they stood by And watched the hood try to very little avail You try to move forward, but they're just pulling your tail Or put him in jail for reasons they wouldn't detail Or murder a motherfucker so they wouldn't prevail And they're good with the veil Known for the cover up They huddle up to keep your brother stuck What the fuck Life sucks in the pestilent place, but now we're used to how the medicine tastes We're running in circles and they're setting the pace If I see one of them devils, spitting dead in his face
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Mistakes 02:21
I'd rather innovate than instigate hate Fish on my dinner plate, that bitch will taste great I might finish late, I rarely make haste Don't hyperventilate, I always save face I wanna set sail into the unknown With no regrets, fail, and then come home For some rejuvenation, then I'll deploy again Ramble through the places to find some loyal friends And boy oh boy, I've been around the block and back Smoke lots, but not the crack, and know how to know 'em back There's just some things that I had to embrace Even though I knew those habits were base There's not a dream that Adam won't chase Then lose steam and fall flat on my face, but We're gonna make mistakes, but so does everyone We are not bad just because we wanna have a little fun I get myself back up and brush it off like, 'well, that sucked.' I've never felt that nuts Traveled from the depths of hell back up You're curious about the smell? That's us I used to sell that stuff Trash bags full of beer cans and backwoods guts So very few friends a cat could trust, and plus I gotta keep my personality in check They're lookin at me like I just don't have any respect I had to be the best, but that's a fallacy I guess Feels like a test, life challenged me to chess I'm blessed, a life full of fruition But when they get depressed and try pulling you with 'em, just remember We're gonna make mistakes, but so does everyone We are not bad just because we wanna have a little fun
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Grapes 02:20
Never had existed more delicious a taste than that exhibited by Vitis Vinifera grapes When fermented ever so specifically You've tasted mad shit, but you never know that difference, see The history is rich Go to Italy on trips with one sip to sun kissed vineyards seeking bliss This is an ode to the juice in my glass Swirl it around, release the fruits and the gas that mimic phenolic compounds If you're drinking that, you don't get it You're not at all down with what I'm talkin 'bout Like, what makes Côte Rotie taste so smoky Moan with satisfaction like a bass note, low key Homie, you know we are sippin on the finest wines Taking advantage of this age-old phenomenon I could find the kind to satisfy any mood The perfect balance that I had in mind with the food So, listen to the dude proposing the toast Saying cheers to the host with the most
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They very easily might vote for the wrong man or want the wrong thing, so they had to be guided from above Riots in the streets They try to keep us quiet, but we speak Not interested in violence We're fighting for some peace Generations of conspiring and lying through your teeth I will never cast another vote for a president You think you make a difference, but its hopeless, irrelevant A joke, an embarrassment to mind kind For a long time I teetered on a line, but I can't find any reason to keep participating in this charade They're force feeding misinformation and disarray Just repeating the situation, an endless game played to make us think that we're really making genuine change And if you think that, then you're not thinking much Just stare at the television, pop the top and drink it up You need to ease back, you think you need it 'cause you're weaving through an endless crowd of lazy, stupid, stinking fucks I'm searching for the diamonds in the rough Shining, not blinded by the lining of the cuffs on their wrists and brains This shit's deranged If it's burning down, you best believe we lit the flames They say I'm irresponsible, I think that they are That fake ass debate ain't even on my radar Stay calm... There's no need for alarm The unscrupulous manipulation of the press by big business Corrupting and deceiving the public Riots in the streets They try to keep us quiet, but we speak Not interested in violence We're fighting for some peace Generations of conspiring and lying through your teeth

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released June 20, 2016

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Obeah Atlanta, Georgia

Obeah has been cutting his teeth in America’s independent music scene with various groups &performing across the world with P.E., all the while remaining true to his desire to serve a cause greater than his own. Raised in Columbus, GA and now residing in Atlanta, Adam’s southern influence is undeniable but this Renaissance Man could never be defined by one genre, occupation or geographic region. ... more

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