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From the Home of Brown Babies & White Mothers

by Big Quarters

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Newborn 02:47
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Protection 02:57
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All Day Long 03:31
[Brandon Allday] 99 the best rapper i knew i went to visit in jail had a beat tape said epl heard a story about him fucking with a broomstick they say pain make better music she was not an artist he was a mix between crazy and bizzy i've been both the memory with me i had a line or two my man laughed in my face just a dj then 4 hours on the freeway then 7 years if he did rape her wouldn't wish it on a soul if it don't break her it took a piece won't be back soon if you see me around here i'm just passing through [Chorus] [Brandon Allday] 2001 this chemistry teacher i had took a girl a third his age pick a spot the world don't change strongest violation exercise of control don't know what was in his mind he had a child of his own so why take another greedy or selfish she can't offer you shit needy please help him most weekends our family went to church he was there with his rare they missed i hope he's locked somewhere if he did rape her wouldn't wish it on a soul if it don't break her it took a piece wont be back soon if you don't see me here tomorrow you know what to do same year the best rapper i knew came by the perpich studio where zach went to school han put us on the stage at the red sea felt real good we didn't rap but he felt we should before the soundman got famous in a kennel, he kept his woman's daughter in the basement claimed she had 3 square 4x4 sarah white grabbed the mic before she moved to new york if you come back bring kayvon a song to every memory in a blink they gone my brother zach played me the melody i had the beat in my head all day long [Chorus]
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Ladies Know 03:22
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Blessed 03:33
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[Chorus] x2 you shouldn't have set my soul on fire led me to believe i'm you're one desire [Brandon Allday] land of the corporate criminal and we support so it'll grow everything i ever wanted or asked for within arms reach and the grasp short side of my pinnacle no other provide identical could freeze & capture the image (pose) but couldn't seem to master the mimic (nope) last album thought my inspiration finished much to my surprise i kept on living hit a stride when i pick a side serve breakfast allday make 'em look laps off pace i think we in tune clearly tell me if you want me like amel she think another buzzing on my cell need a 25th like ed norton waiting in the bed for him [Mankwe Ndosi] why why why why, why why why why shouldn't have promised me so many things [Chorus] x2 you shouldn't have set my soul on fire led me to believe i'm you're one desire [Medium Zach] common theme caffeine for the common fiend without a drop for weeks feeling out of key basic migraine throbbing on stage got then nausea setting in I'm sure the feeling john had when his pension left him hope they call pacal corporate thugging it recession go gold slow getting him his chunk of it check in the mail the ride home humbling none up front high go plummeting repeat it keep it faithful ear drums take a beating chasing was better than the catching ran from her face time lapse convinced not attached not the only one knocking gentleman call lady friend options open insignificant who nah he wouldn't do assuring me he was cool [Mankwe Ndosi] why why why why, why why why why shouldn't have promised me so many things [Chorus] x2 you shouldn't have set my soul on fire led me to believe i'm you're one desire
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Firebird 03:36
[Chorus] bring the curtains up our day is done i hold the window open but the winter's come i woke up this morning await the return of the phoenix flight of the firebird [Brandon Allday] i woke up this morning with a fresh new look don't mean my coutoure stopped through on the way to her job off hiawatha used to wait in her car brainstorming a song as i wrote it one earpiece in one eye open kaplan's on lake one winter hooker hopped in i'm not that visitor not that customer wonder what she'd really want to be if it were up to her another life fabricated live it when she in her mind as he taking it solace no prints worth lifting first time felt like hell felt like hell the earth shifting grew up over south i bet she miss it [Chorus] bring the curtains up our day is done i hold the window open but the winter's come i woke up this morning await the return of the phoenix flight of the firebird [Brandon Allday] i woke up this morning with a fresh new if i could write her into falling back into it son of a daughter of an immigrant want to be friends i'd prefer to be intimate too late for all that too early to call back LA reading New York Times it not the grind til you lose your mind took her to a room on the beach in venice 50 yards out the pacific stateside wayside when the daylight fell i bet she miss it [Chorus] bring the curtains up our day is done i hold the window open but the winter's come i woke up this morning await the return of the phoenix flight of the firebird [Brandon Allday] andrea playing pots improv on the kitchen floor another line a couple steps i trace why contest my taste all these memories captured on audiotape home on 38th but we've all been away oak street but we've all been away why you long in the face could've told you it's all gonna change she like to travel been a few places i've been there too privi to the love language listen to the ocean and the stars plus dilla donuts in the deck see the bird out in the yard all so picturesque get at her when we get done recording out there a whole world of fortune came to that realization let me share a token, if you prepared to take it [Chorus] bring the curtains up our day is done i hold the window open but the winter's come i woke up this morning await the return of the phoenix flight of the firebird
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[Crescent Moon] don't time fly like an aeroplane run like the dollars do sink like bullshit that talk but never follow through knock a few rhyme books out the attic cause i'm sick of that radio static crescent moon that's the name i was given it came in a vision now it's stained in my pigment blessed with a baby things changed in an instant but it shouldn't take that to see the game that you're living another day another record to play and i done lifted every crate trying to measure the weight if it's free they'll say it's better to pay where will the sheep lead the shepherd today met many people and seen many places moved a few crowds that didn't even speak the language travelled on a dime and some old suit cases still saw the sun on my ancestors faces [Chorus] care at all care to speak make the call every week grab a ball make a beat write it down it's therapy [Brandon Allday] say my name on a record click a pixel with a line form an image with a vector culture ever evolve and redefine would not take a word for what i read between the lines music is a monster like kody or codeine widely used and acceptable plus you highly susceptible song du jour i'm an entrepreneur wrote a lake city song many here many gone interfere thankful we intersected inner thought i'll stop burning flags when the cops quit harassing me don't know when that'll be i give it to 'em cause i knew 'em they support as well i return home like dorothy gale tell him when you see him that i love him cause he breathing plus hug him cause he need it [Chorus] care at all care to speak make the call every week grab a ball make a beat write it down it's therapy care at all care to speak make the call every week willingness to listen it's therapy
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Good Look 03:25
[Chorus] it's looking like something i've seen before but somehow we're gonna have to do it our way yeah i know it's not the way it was before but somehow we're gonna have to find our own way x2 independent made ground industry breaks down what else are you coming with it's not grinding if it don't feel like punishment [Brandon Allday] come together like new birth, allday a trooper my northern slang overhang like a yuper spend dough i don't have like AIG they still speak of brandon allday highly anticipated pages full of red white and green like lowrider magazine playing this song please roll by slow got a 1200 plugged to the 05 pro chopping boom boom click [Medium Zach] suggested prerequisite for grooves that hiss at 10 Khz made my songs similar to primo, pete rock, rza's work in it for decade, then I saw hardware dinosaur, best way? not no more you can estimate when end days will find us all or use time to solve your problems by tomorrow [Chorus] get what you put in proofs in the pudding made in an instant wouldn't taste your cooking - good looking x2 independent made ground industry breaks down what else are you coming with it's not grinding if it don't feel like punishment [Medium Zach] brothers work close like wilsons, not owen could have got us a loan but still gonna put it out on our own break even, few dollars got us affording brothers in business, not cohens though minnesotans, if you didn't notice brother's brown skin not showing for 6-7 months of cold, underexposed [Brandon Allday] own spin on a pivotal role call it a fingerprint all this a stimulant couple years since i last spoke to my brother phil could go a couple more he my brother still let your hips dip like a baptism zip pop lock lips against fascism profane call it sacrelige ok perhaps it is [Chorus] it's looking like something i've seen before but somehow we're gonna have to do it our way yeah i know it's not the way it was before but somehow we're gonna have to find our own way x2 independent made ground industry breaks down what else are you coming with it's not grinding if it don't feel like punishment
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Can't Wont 01:27
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released May 5, 2009

(B.Bagaason) Jesus Was A Commie (ASCAP)
(Z.Bagaason) Real Proper Like (ASCAP)

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