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I’m just tryna make mumzy proud
Pops your on the journey with me so don’t feel left out
I hate the idea of letting either one down
Browner my skin the louder I shout
Rap about it until I’m 6 feet underground
And all I ever say is we’re all family now
Lost a couple who I thought were locked for life
Cuts through at the time so I keep certain people close in line
Really flirt with the danger of losing life
Remind myself the vision is my limelight
Link jack on a cold night bill a zoot in the car up tiddseley
Duck for a next set of headlights n drive off swiftly
Leave love in Greece come back and my hearts all twitchy
And I swear If I ain’t have this campaign to focus on
I recon it’s more than likely I’ll have gone MIA
Cos I CBA with the shit I get dealt with every day
I really fear my fate
We sell mirrors in the city of the blind
Our cries ring out but fall silent time after time
But our hearts remain fulfilled
Despite the failures of our prime
Some are only silenced when dead I move silent but deadly
Set my sights on a knifes edge you’ll struggle to check for me
I’m Trapped gifted but cursed
I’d leave the west but their the ones who keep my feet to this earth
Greatness since birth
Yet it still hurts
Frustration strolls in and gets a little too comfy
Takes a sip of my drink taxes all energy from me
Strips me down to a tee reducing my bliss to poverty
In all honesty,
I’d appreciate these mirrors shifting
I’d be quids in soon dipping from making a living out of the kitchen
Quit all the bitching and seek clearance from this life I’ve been living
Leave the devil in my ear livid
Chances will come and I’ll make peace with the paths that I’ve run
Feel my way to the front, harness the spotlight and leave the microphone spun
Tears they’ll turn from water to rum and the food on our table soon comes from my mothers son, yeah
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Dead Grass
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Riddled with pain
I’m riddled with pain
All hopes lost on the shadow play
dead grass dies on the side of the road
dead grass dies on the side of the road
last laughs die out when all happiness goes
An obligatory silence proceeds to cross the road
Affairs with defiance seem to lose all hope
As I speak my mind I become the butt of all jokes
Karma aint frightening it pushes me forward
I’ll walk up to it’s front gate and start knocking its door
Heavy as my heart the thud hits my feet on the floor
As the door opens and asks ‘do ya want some more?’
I place my hands out in front of my face
With my eyes closed bracing myself for a another quick taste
Instead of a handful I’m graced with my fate
So full of danger it rapidly chases me out of them gates
I walk towards the shop looking for a little escape
The yellow glow of the Lidl sign the only comfort I take
I look down at the ground notice my feet on the pave
In the cracks of the concrete dead grass displays my disdain
Now I’ve come away here with way more than I bargained for
With comfort taking the form of a human force
Tricky as shit it’s ducks and dives my reaches
leaves me lay out on the ground man I’m fucking speechless
So out of reach is the peace that I seem to be craving
That I lose myself trying to find out if it’s baiting
Or if it’s possible that I may just find it
As I walk down the street man, my minds in conflict
I pass two guys who look at me so awkward and strangely
Is it cos I’m waved or to my mind are they aggravating
Try to reach out and explain my situation
Results in a another failed attempt at a normal conversation
Again and again and again and again
I place myself in the picture but in this frame there’s just shame
All things considered I place the blame at my name
But this dead grass on the roadside still displays my disdain
Yeah, this dead grass on the roadside still displays my disdain
Riddled with pain
Riddled with pain
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Clasping short straws the feelings grow more broad
As we walk I talk about my thoughts and the connection they have on my flaws
My walls break down the further along we draw
The line that gets crossed gets forgiven are we lost?
Or is the path we’ve taken just getting crossed
By mixed emotions ever flowing the pain in my chest is ever growing
Loosens for a day then grabs my face and says there’s only one way you’re getting out of this
Dig out the pits they say I’m getting out of breath
The sun attacks my eyes quite gradually
Sadly though I’m getting panicky
Environments change the way I like to see
The people around me the wind that surrounds we
Who’s following who now are we taking the lead or just walking aimlessly
these days it stays the same, cos I can't change
your forced to fade away, can't face the day
pretty sometimes when you realise, takes time
and things will start to realign
outside, clear skies
Another thorn in a thorn bush getting trapped in the four walls look
Guidance is lacking but in this backpack I’ve got some buds that’ll send us both packing
Trapped in the maze of all this batting away our emotions
Sometimes we need to let the ball hit us square in the face in order to set the flow in motion
Ever growing like i mentioned before this feeling is ever flowing
We’re getting tokens passed down to us with a message from the man who says let go it’s no fuss
But who wants to lose control nowadays
The culture of instant information traps us into this feeling
That we’ve always gotta be connected
Never stretched always directed
By some greater being
Is anyone else seeing what I’m seeing?
We’re fastly losing sight and it’s frightening
Not quite right and it’s rapidly tightening
The grip on us they say is built on trust
But whats trust if it’s one way I’ve got a feeling that we might have just turned down the wrong way
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Listen, I’ll forget the times I lost feeling
And regret the times I weren’t sleeping
But looking back I was just learning
My mind to escaping it just kept flirting
Cos I missed my fucking family
And I wish that I was there
The day my mum gave birth to my brother
Bro the baby boy answered all my prayers
I won’t stop working till my brains dead
Even if now, lighter are my paychecks
I ain’t seen my old mates in fucking ages
But boys to this process there’s many stages
I’m worried about one of em and his bad habits
The boys been playing in the snow without his jacket
I’m losing breaths tryna tell my story
But mate playing in the cold ain’t mandatory
I’d lose love for a thousand nights
If it meant my pages gained some light
Cos this pressure Oh it’s bodying me
And I dunno if I have the fight
I look up to the men in my life
And I wonder if they’re right
Cos this path that life’s taking me down
Bro I think it needs to be retyped
I’ll find peace within my soul
Or maybe hers, his or someone else
Cos my stability don’t grow old
It stays rooted, fixed below the belt
There’s times where I just want silence
From the madness that grows around
But I ain’t talking silence deeply
Just some calmness within myself
I worry about what’ll happen
If plan a don’t quite work out
Cos although I assured my mother
A plan b seeds refuse to sprout
Do I work enough on a daily basis
To secure a future for myself
And the people who surround me
Do I give justice to the word proud?
Cos I can’t be asked worrying anymore
About the stresses in my life
A heart that’s not enough, never lucky when I decide to roll the dice
A youth that maybe got wasted
A subtle knife in a summers night
And this ain’t even a third of it
It’s time I looked down from this dizzy height
Cos this sadness ain’t me at all
And I remember back in year 8
A friend I used to know said
I was never without a smile on my face
And I’ll try to replicate that
Even now that I have aged
That young boys smiling face
They’ll say it never changed
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The New Consistent England, UK
West Midlands based artist The New Consistent has carved out a niche as a rapper with a difference. His silky, bona fide delivery is matched with unique melodies and beats inspired by both modern UK and classic US Hip Hop.
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