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Dreamin’: Ride In: I swear to god im dreamin…. (repeated softly in the background) Verse: They say you changing Jamil, I’m sayin the world is/ Everything gets swept inside of the whirlwind/ Got me twirling around just like a ride at the circus/ High off the ground exhilarated with purpose/ But, what happens when all your dreams come down crashing/ Used to be secure suddenly you’re asking/ Cops be harassing tryna take our rights/ When the whites drive by they say keep on passing/ When we drive by, homie no point asking/ One step outta line and our face gets bashed in/ Got me rapping, words with passion/ I’m an Activist and Emcee multi-tasking/ Organize against these, rules established/ Illuminati order written on stone tablets/ That dates so far back you wouldn’t imagine/ They been killin us for years and then they calling us savage?/ Ravage whole countries, bomb whole cities/ They kill our Mother’s and Brother’s, no dignity what a pity/ See what’s really distorted, is the way they report it/ They glorify the war and the way it’s consorted/ They twist up the Truth to make it seem contorted/ Most should be educated but can rarely afford it/ And while the powers that be, fight about Woman’s choice/ Claim to be pro-life while the youth aborted/ And that’s real, you know so, act like it’s no joke/ My words bridging gaps from the rich to the po folk/ Youth to the old folk, sick to the healthy/ Wealthy or go broke, somebody help me/ The Truth Alone Triumphs, just like a proud Lion/ The proof is in Zion, these hypocrites is lying/ And Babylon is crumbling, but ain’t nobody crying/ All I see is O.C.’s my People’s brains frying/ They lives steady expiring, I try to ring the siren/ What can I do, I’m 25, they think that I’m buying/ Into all that bullshit up in the media/ Don’t believe a damn thing that they feeding ya/ See I’m a King by divine right/ All my People follow me because the time’s right/ Forget the limelight and paparazzi, I stay underground / Homie they could never stop me, I do it for my Town/ Seattle give me love, the time is now or never/ Even though we live forever, so baby blaze it up/ Free Prince Capone, until you be out I be scheming/ Somebody wake me up, I swear to God I’m dreaming/ Ride Out: I swear to God I’m dreaming, I swear to God I’m dreaming, I swear to God I’m dreaming, Somebody wake me Up… I swear to God I’m dreaming, I swear to God I’m dreaming, I swear to God I’m dreaming, Somebody wake me Up… I swear to God I’m dreaming, I swear to God I’m dreaming, I swear to God I’m dreaming, Somebody wake me Up… I swear to God I’m dreaming, I swear to God I’m dreaming, I swear to God I’m dreaming, Somebody wake me Up… I swear to God I’m dreaming, I swear to God I’m dreaming, I swear to God I’m dreaming, Somebody wake me Up… I swear to God I’m dreaming, I swear to God I’m dreaming, I swear to God I’m dreaming, Somebody wake me Up… I swear to God I’m dreaming, I swear to God I’m dreaming, I swear to God I’m dreaming, Somebody wake me Up… I swear to God I’m dreaming, I swear to God I’m dreaming, I swear to God I’m dreaming, Somebody wake me Up…

Daily Grind: Verse 1: Daily Grind, rise and shine, wake up dreams are on my mind/ Look the clock right in the eye, blinking at me guess it's time/ Force myself to get up, stretch, shower, shave I'm fed up/ Of the same ol boring game, this life is getting lame/ Damn homie do you blame me for thinking these thoughts/ I'm just like you with a job and an incompetent boss/ My co-workers are drug counselors who love to get tossed/ What can I say, we getting pimped, so I'm guessing we lost/ I'm paying the cost, and do it for some minimal comfort/ While the media keeps us numb with subliminal numbers/ They got you working for a Hummer or a S.U.V./ The only price you have to pay is that you'll never be free/ Come follow me as we sell off our soul/ This is the life of reality T.V. glitter, beautiful, bold/ You must be bored cuz the television owning your mind/ I guess there's nothing else to do, but follow suit, and get back on my/ Verse 2: Daily Grind, 9 to 5, same ol’ bullshit every time/ The way the rich got us in line, many you'd think it'd be a crime/ While they're wining and dining I'm whining bout the fine I just got/ A parking ticket for parking on my own block?/ What the fuck is that? When I speak, they never listen/ And then they take my tax money to build up another prison/ And plus this racism and gentrification is fucked/ That's why kids shoot each other over trivial stuff/ Cuz everyday when I talk to lil dudes on the block/ The tell me how the hustling and they be ducking from cops/ Who be protecting property and those cops who got shot/ Are a reflection of society’s bubble going… POP, POP!/ Damn, I hope that new mayor can come and stop it/ Everyone in Seattle is strictly going for profit/ In the land of milk and honey, an American Dream/ Corporate Capitalism is a pyramid scheme/ And who’s on top? Me or you? I think not, no room for two/ It’s just a hand full of these companies, who be on top and the running things/ And that pharmaceutical that runs your H.M.O./ Is prescribing you meditation that is killing your Soul/ You smoke a bowl it’s a crime, you pop their pills and it’s a privilege/ This society is backwards I’m surprised we still live in it/ But everywhere you go, homie you’ll seek and you’ll find/ I guess there’s nothing else to do, but follow suit, and get back on your… Daily Grind…

Union (feat. TraQ) Intro: JS: Damn, who is that?... TA: I don’t know, you better go say something to her though! JS: Yeah, but what would I say? TA: Man, just say something slick like… Verse 1: First time I seen you I was smoking on a Black/ At the Bus stop, thinking “Who That”?/ Eyes so mysterious, and booty so fat/ Make a young man really wanna get at that/ But alas, my imagination decided to pick thee/ You be Mona Lisa, I’ll be Da Vinci/ You crack the code, opened up the Safe/ I could love you for life, I swear to god this is fate/ I don’t even know you yet, but you so beautiful/ We ain’t even met and I’m already used to you/ Like our Souls done danced to this tune before/ What can I say, J’adore mi amore/ The past got me thinking I’m a blow it/ Her touch is what I want, and I just need her to know it/ She don’t know, no man can love a woman like a poet/ But its all up in my mind, I just wish I could show it/ Chorus: Everything I do, you know I do it for you/ Everything I see, you know I got you on my mind/ Everything I do, you know I do it for you/ Won’t you ride with me, listen to this melody/ Verse 2: And I’m back at the crib where the fellas be/ If they found out you was with me, they’d be some jealousy/ Guaranteed, cuz u know how the fellas be/ Bullshit and bicker, that’s why I keep it zippered/ I ain’t a player, I don’t do that shit/ But if you down, we can roll this spliff/ And you can take this ride, touch the Moon and the Stars/ I heard you from Venus, well you can meet me at Mars/ Or we can meet half-way, bring it down to Earth/ Our Union is birth, and we can rehearse for what its worth/ But, before the verse comes the U-N-I/ We in this together like the Sun, Moon, Sky/ When you in my orbit, it’s Balance &Harmony/ And when we together, I feel nothing is harming me/ Our conversations so deep we create a bond/ That keeps this Union sacred despite what’s going on/ Bridge: Lost in the whirlwind, 2010 Bonnie and Clyde, Me and my girlfriend, kicking up dust as we ride/ Leaving a track that the Feds couldn’t follow/ Living our life like no 2morrow…/ Chorus: Everything I do, you know I do it for you/ Everything I see, you know I got you on my mind/ Everything I do, you know I do it for you/ Won’t you ride with me, listen to this melody/ Verse 3: It ain’t about what you do, it ain’t about what you say/ It’s about that Vibe that you be sending my Way/ One eye glance away can change the mind-state/ Heart palpitate, no time to hesitate/ I know you excited, no need to fight it/ You ain’t gotta front cuz we both know you like it/ You got a gift, no need to hide it/ I got something to share, and I know that you gon like it/ To touch you where you like it is sublime/ So you gon get yours before I’m a get mines/ I must say, that your taste of feminine simply divine/ Your safe in my embrace, just let go and let it shine/ And plus your freakiness is so refined/ I just wanna wrap around your body like a vine, cuz your always on my mind/ To the point I’m wasting time, I swear its getting pa-the-tic/ I’d better say something quick before I re-gret-it/

Sent Away: (Feat. TraQ) Intro: (Phone Call) Bridge: Remember that chick, remember that spliff, remember that Hennessey/ Remember that lick, remember that shit, remember them memories/ Remember you are free, no matter what Judge’s say/ Remember this dedication, to the homies sent away/ Chorus: Every time I look up, a homie got Sent Away/ Stuck up on the block tryna get that pay/ Dedicated to my homies that got Sent Away/ I pray that they’ll be back someday/ Verse 1: Dear Ant, I know it’s been a minute since I’ve written you Bro/ I just had to let it marinate and sit with the Soul/ It’s been a year since we heard that you got Sent Away/ Know that I’m holding you down as best as I can in every way/ Your Brothers are growing up, they’ve been through a lot since you’ve been locked/ I can tell that they’ve matured and through life learned a lot/ Your Son’s about to turn One, you know that the World need him/ That lil Souljah about to lead The People straight to freedom/ I can see it in him, shit, he look just like his Pops/ I can’t wait to see what type of rap that he finna drop/ All the homies on the outs say whatup to you/ And-all the lil homies on block still look up to you/ But the World out here ain’t really changed much/ Obama in office, but you know that’s it’s the same stuff/ But they can’t fade us dogg, and our bond is the proof/ Signing off, hold your head, this a Souljah’s Salute/ Chorus: Every time I look up, a homie got Sent Away/ Stuck up on the block tryna get that pay/ Dedicated to my homies that got Sent Away/ I pray that they’ll be back someday/ Verse 2 Dear Los, I know that you feeling hopeless, locked up in a cell/ You probably thinking that life was meant to dwell in hell/ We can’t make the bail, but your family cares about you/ They was all there to visit, no doubt my brotha we got you/ A couple of words from me, about what it means to be/ Truly free from this self-destructive society/ They try to keep us locked down in every way/ And the lawyers only thinking bout the bills to pay/ And him and the judge swimming in the same pool/ They all in it together u cant play me for a fool/ This systems sick but I found out it was choice to react/ Just because they hand you the map, don’t mean u gotta follow the track/ Its funny how they give u time for doing a crime/ When the way you were conditioned led you right down the line/ But like Bobby Seale say it’s our turn to seize the time/ And like Marley say none but ourselves can free our mind/ Chorus: Every time I look up, a homie got Sent Away/ Stuck up on the block tryna get that pay/ Dedicated to my homies that got Sent Away/ I pray that they’ll be back someday/ Bridge: Remember that chick, remember that spliff, remember that Hennessey/ Remember that lick, remember that shit, remember them memories/ Remember you are free, no matter what Judge’s say/ Remember this dedication, to the homies sent away/

Judgments: Intro: Judgments, Judgments, Judgments, Judgments, They’re all/ Judgments, Judgments, Judgments, Judgments, They’re all/ Judgments, Judgments, Judgments, Judgments, They’re all/ Judgments, Judgments, Judgments, Judgments, They’re all/ Verse 1: Started off with Adam Eve, ate the Apple from the Tree/ Fell from grace, sow the seed, di-vi-ded reality/ Now everywhere I go, I put Life up in a box/ Limited my perspective, living it by directive/ That was decided at a very young age/ And was conditioned by the Government to keep me afraid/ Until I realized the President’s getting paid/ And we were all lined up to be consumerist slaves/ And yet I grew up in the Belly of the Beast/ Suburban nightmare full of scavengers and freaks/ My Family deluded by self-limiting beliefs/ Had me associating mad hate with the Police/ Check it out, in college had me fighting back with Marches and picket signs/ Until I realized it was just a choice in my Mind/ You see my Judgments created the condition/ For them to make a similar decision, if you FEEL me just listen/ Chorus: It’s all Judgments, Judgments, Judgments, Judgments, They’re all/ Judgments – black, Judgments – White/ Judgments – wrong, Judgments – Right/ Judgments – Rich, Judgments – poor/ Judgments – less, Judgments – More/ Judgments – Us, Judgments – them/ Judgments – Enemies, Judgments – friend/ Everywhere that I go-o-o-oo-oo-oo-oo/ Everyone that I see-e-e-ee-ee-ee/ I Judge them, like they are differen-n-nn-nn-nn-nt/ While in the End, they’re a reflection of Me-e-e-ee-ee-ee/ Bridge: Now if I didn’t make those Judgments tell me where would I be/ Tell me where would I be, tell me where would I be/ If I didn’t make those choices tell me where would I be/ Tell me where would I be, tell me where would I be/ If I made different decisions tell me where would I be/ Tell me where would I be, tell me where would I be/ If I went Right and not Left tell me where would I be/ Tell me where would I be, tell me where would I be/ Verse 2: What can I say, I get caught, by my eMotions and tHoughts/ They got me making these Judgments about what’s Right and what’s Not/ Tell Me what’s Good and what’s bad, what make me Happy and sad/ Is it a function of society to make it a fad/ Think about my Dad and my Mother, what they instilled in Me/ And now looking back I just wonder, were they limiting Me?/ Is it true that the World out there is scary/ Or am I living in my head and don’t see things clearly – Anymore? I don’t know, I’m just lost in delusion/ But my homie told me, “Dogg this whole life is illusion/ It don’t matter what you think, if you Focus you Create it/ Your Inner turn to Outer, you will gradually make it/ So don’t take it for granted, check them Seeds that you done planted/ They water with attention, so don’t forget the Lesson/ If everything is One, and everything is God/ Then every Judgment that you’ve ever made is a facade/ Ride Out: Judgments, Judgments, Judgments, Judgments/ Judgments, Judgments, Judgments, Judgments/ Judgments, Judgments, Judgments, Judgments/ Judgments, Judgments, Judgments, Judgments/ The Ego in my mind is manifesting all these lies/ I’m living just to die, so I can resurrect and fly…

Meditation Muzik: feat. The Essence Chorus: The system got me living my Life by the edge of a knife/ And if I can just empty my Mind I know I’ll be alright/ Cuz despite all the drama outside I know it’s within Me/ I know someday that I can be Free… Free, free, free/ Verse 1: I got my Mind on that mellow tip/ So I don’t even have to rhyme on that ghetto shhh-/ Because my Spirit so affluent/ It’s worth more than any mansion or a dollar get/ I’m in the Tao, here and Now/ The Present Moment is just a Present meant to be Opened/ The past wasn’t meant to last/ And the future is a fallacy, just like a mask/ (take it off...) Chorus: The system got me living my Life by the edge of a knife/ And if I can just empty my Mind I know I’ll be alright/ Cuz despite all the drama outside I know it’s within Me/ I know someday that I can be Free… Free, free, free/ Verse 2: Like a bird out the cage/ System got you living like a rat in a maze/ To the Mind you are a slave/ And liberation, is brought about by your Meditation/ So while you perspiration thinking thoughts/ Focus on your respiration, Spirit will take off/ Into the sky where I be,/ the Universe where I see/ Fi-nal-ly Free!/ The Essence Ride Out Poem....

Whispers in the Wind: feat. TraQ Verse 1: Day in and day out, there’s a way in and a way out/ When the pain gets too rough, and Life gets played out/ Make you wanna ask yourself, why sometimes/ You wanna go get a gun and blast yourself/ They say that suicides the worst way/ Cuz then your Soul has a million stepping stones to get it back to birth day/ To do it all over again/ Just to realize in the end that the answers are within/ Just like a whisper in the wind/ If you can silence your mind for just a moment in time/ Something divine, will rhyme in your mind/ It’ll give you a new Vision a new life you will find/ You’ll be FEELING like me when I’m writing this rhyme/ It’s like me and the Universe are partners in crime/ It’s like I finally let go and let God in/ All my problems get solved when I listen to the Whispers in the Wind/ Chorus: It’s just those Whispers in the Wind, I’m feeling like a kid again/ Whispers in the Wind, following my intuition/ Whispers in the Wind, it’s like a Dream that never ends/ Whispers in the Wind, following my intuition/ Verse 2: Now I know life can get frustrating/ Between the people that be hating and the BS they be saying/ But remember that they’re you too, just a reflection/ No need to judge for they know not what they do/ And if you harbor all that anger, guilt and rage/ It’ll haunt you like a plague til the end of your days/ Just realize you can trust, and it will be fine/ Cuz all things pass in time/ If you can past distractions, and get back to laughing/ Start enjoying Life and everything that happens/ Like me when I’m rapping, I just let it happen/ Heads start bobbing and them hands start clapping/ FEELING so Free, light as a feather/ And I got everything that I need to feel better/ Feeling like a Butterfly, utterly High/ 3rd Eye open wide, whole sky’s open… Fly/ Chorus: It’s just those Whispers in the Wind, I’m feeling like a kid again/ Whispers in the Wind, following my intuition/ Whispers in the Wind, it’s like a Dream that never ends/ Whispers in the Wind, following my intuition/

Follow Me: Ride In: Ride wit Me/ Ride wit Me/ Ride wit Me/ Ride wit Me, Ride wit Me/ Ride wit Me, Let’s Go/ Ride wit Me, Let’s Go/ Ay, Ay, Ay, Ay/ Ay yo kuhnex… I’m Going IN! Let’s Go, Let’s Go/ Let’s Go, Let’s Go – Clap!/ Gimme that Ache, Gimme that Chi/ Gimme that Prana, Gimme that Energy/ Let’s Go, Let’s Go/ Let’s Go, Let’s Go – Clap!/ Gimme that Ache, Gimme that Chi/ Gimme that Prana, Gimme that Energy/ Verse 1: Now Follow Me, Follow Me as I Go/ I got my People riding with me and we ready to Roll/ And we gon’ Ride whether rail, hail, sleet or the snow/ They say it’s Darkest before the Dawn, homie you already know/ So, So, til that Sun break the horizon/ For my People, til we equal, these songs we be writing/ This is more than just Rap, this is music to March to/ And it’s more than just that, this is a Movement to Spark You/ Let em know though/ One the Eve, coming through just like a Souljah bro with mad credentials/ Thought I told ya, like hova, no pen, no pad, no pencils/ Fibonacci in the frontline, Killuminati all up in the bloodline/ End of Days, just began/ Can the lord within, Bless this man?/ I got this plan if you really, I got these seeds if you hold your Ground/ Do you now, hold me down, homie now, hold up now Muthafucka better watch it, Government is watching, we be running out of options/ But if we suit up, and boot up, ain’t nobody gonna stop us/ Verse 2: So Follow Me, Follow Me in the Night/ Though we enveloped in the Darkness know I see with the Light/ And I got people all around me and they ready to fight/ And they just move upon position when we ready to strike/ So you just ready the Mic, and I’ll be ready to roll/ I’ve gone way past fucking rapping dogg, I’m spitting my Soul/ And plus I roll with a Pride, and they Loyal to me, Because I’m Loyal to them, homie we Ro-yal-ty/ Let em know though/ A simple lesson to learn and take, we be plotting fate/ As we decided our fate in 08’/ Predicated by Makaveli, articulated by Ninth Trybe/ Organized by my People tryna stay alive/ I’m on some 2012, til the death of me, my destiny/ Drop in the pool as my cipher circle endlessly/ Powers in the People, but first it comes from within/ And if those People knew their Essence, a new hour would Begin/ So Follow Me….

International Stars (feat. TraQ) Verse 1: I’m headed I-5, South bound, top down, the homies with me/ We got a fat blunt of sticky that we smoke like chimneys/ Headed out of Seattle, rolling with the whole Family/ Cali to Mexico, Mexico to Miami/ Miami to Trinidad we up in the GoatHouse/ Kick it for Carnival, and have a brew or two/ Head back down to Cape Town and blaze a few/ I got a hook-up with the homie out in Langa/ We post up and smoke blunts with ganja/ Living, living life a dream come true/ Just me and my whole damn crew, who would of knew/ It took two to Tango, I’m eating on some Mangoes/ With a model chick who be speaking some Lango I don’t/ Even know on this Say La vi/ If that’s Life that’s all right with me/ know why… Chorus: I’m living life just like a movie, while I’m smoking on a dubbie/ With some cutties in the back of my car -- / After the show we feeling groovy so we head to the Jacuzzi/ Living like an International Star -- / Bridge: Until we free from these Bars/ We International Stars/ We International Stars, we be doing it large/ For my People til’ we equal and we free from these bars/ Verse 2: I got homies all around me you could call em kuhnex/ We got girlies all around us and they calling for sex/ No disrespect cuz you know that I’m a first class guy/ Let’s hop on first class and see if we can get high/ Up in the sky cuz you know I be an Addicc on the Traq/ With the Essence in my Spirit so I’m never falling back/ And with the homie Ramon, we be Rhythm & Rhyme/ This for the homie Capone, who be doing his time/ I’m living life just like a movie, Tokyo for the sushi/ Brazil for the beaches, Jamaica for the dubbie/ Afrika for the beauty bro you already know/ I manifest my destiny and then I spit it in flow, let’s go!/ Straight out the BassMeant and into the jet/ An attitude of gratitude and so there’s never regret/ We International Stars, we be doing it large/ For my People til’ we equal and we free from these bars/ now tell em Ride Out: We Inter-national, anyplace, that we go/ Inter-national, Inter-national…/