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H.A.R.D. (feat. MRK SX)
03:13
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"Survived in the era where Starter would get you ended" - Joell Ortiz
Yea brother it’s been a ride since that cover
From the hood to seeing the whole world wit 1 another wit 2 other Mother fuckers among us the 4 Brothers
To this day, we break the internet we talk to each other
Maybe one day we’ll reunite at Coachella
Til then, it’s just me and my dog Old Yeller
Jo-ell is just a Fresh
poem teller from the jects
Where dope sellers wore a vest
And chrome metal would eject
Til whole melons was a mess
In front of the building
I minded my business bumpin that Audio 2, sipping Yoo-hoo milk i was chilling
Buffalo Hat Top Billing man give me credit
I survived in a era where starter would get you ended
It’s was cool to get love but still move wit ya snub
Cause that 8 ball, a have you playing pool full of blood
Fast forward just bought a billiard room and a club
Chalk it up to how I still be in these booths wit the drugs
The Yaowa like the most potent sour diesel flower
Crushed wit the coca leaf man that’s a high powered powder
Like how the fuck can the sound of me have you both down and up together like the staircase I came outta
I amounted to more than any coward fingers could count up
I got Bullets for haters and a trigger for doubters 2 sig sauers
Become a headache, they Aleve u right over the counter
Near all the sunflower seeds sour powers and now and laters
Now the neighbors wave they see me come down the
Block remember my shop teacher telling me stop
Wit the beatbox lunchtable hip hop I’m a flop
He failed me, 20 years later look who’ setting up shop .. Really though
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2. |
Get Ya Money
02:43
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You can’t tell me shit I’m in this bitch taking belvi sips feeling like the only one who truly knew JOELL a be rich
I’m walking into 40 feeling 26
Azad watch, heavy wrist
Pull ups push up and dips 20 a clip
I’m in my tank top looking like the old Fif
Enemy killer on my hip, gues that’s why they call it a Foe Fif
Jump in my new whip, bumpin some old shit
Grown shit, Fahrenheit cologne shit
Oh shit
Them 1st half deposist from them shows Bank teller cougar looking at ya boy ferocious
No miss I’m a married man
wife badder than arrival time of ambulances in the hood with traffic jams after them cannons blam
Digital scale wit shake on it going hand to hand
Now business deals we shake on it, still a hand to hand
But different though... careful how u living bro
I keep business on my mind and stay minding my business yo...
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3. |
Caddy Bump (LBC)
02:43
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4. |
Catchin' Bodies
03:51
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Joell “Catchin Bodies” verses
I always been athletic, some people say this rap is a sport
Walk them cleats on this field, drag yo ass on this court..
You enrolled in Sunday School, u ca slack if you want
See Some artists request love, I just Black in my thoughts
It’s rooted in me, do u grizzly with the back of my paws
That’s just a bare handed smack can u imagine my claws
Ripping Grissle you’ll need a million feet of tissue and gauze
To absorb puddles I’ll pluck u, reposition your jaw
Stomp ya favorite rappers head his brains a spill on the floor
That’s bootlegging, see his album before it get to the stores
Give u this whole magazine until you sit wit the lord
You know the vibes XXL shells hitting the Source
Street showers, clear the block like its street sweep hours
Then Spin the block and sweep again I’m a neat freak coward
Run outta all 9 lives when u meet Me Yaowa
I’m wit all that Riff Raff I’m like Heathcliff partner
My wordsworff.. no amount of money shit is priceless my mic Gets divine drip every time spit leaves my lips and finds it way to the windscreen like glass in front of a pilot in the sky wit unlimited flight mileage ..
its like Glasses wit prescription mixed wit Pateks from the district
Time to focus like I crushed a hundred adderalls and sniffed it
Pick any rapper you fathom, simply add em to a wishlist
Ill rap circles around ‘em like a basketball for Christmas
Who wanna bet I turn Jedi knight
And wave lights day and night like a red eye flight
Leia princess in the sky like she Luke partner..
one Han Solo out the Windu here’s something for you to Chew baca!!!
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Joell “Lose My Mind” verse
Grandma used to tell me everything a be ok..
radiator broke and the cold won’t go away
Sick for 6 days man this cold won’t go away
Elevator stuck and it’s no hot water
Another night taking baths in that stove top water
Moms running out the house when her blow got shorter
Somewhere in the Bronx this nigga Po shot Porter
It’s Rich families on tv wit a robot daughter
I’m standing in the arcade and don’t got quarters
Sneakers got the lean made my low tops shorter
Lent in my hair, snot in my nose
Stains on my gear, nobody knows
What it feels like to feel like in real life you gotta lie to feel like ya real life don’t feel like you not alive
Standing in the spot where ya partner died
Too young to see homicide, you traumatized
Visions of the back of ya fathers ride
Pulling off, u smelling the exhaust while ya momma cries
A young man, wit nobody left to idolize
28 grams, y’all know the bottle size
My block got monetized, monopolized had my own park place .. never put they whip in my spot.. I’m driving by
My hood right now thinking how the hell I survive?
That liquor every night, chicken wings, a side of fries
And beef that never took a day off... stay off the strip during holidays wit fireworks cause they Are
The perfect camouflage for drama let the K off
And never take work you can’t pay off if something go wrong ...
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Wolves (BKLYN)
02:55
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Nah... Don’t asked what happened to me...
Before you put out the weed and try to preach, just pass it to me
Much respect for tryna keep me out the game..
But me and you is the same lost people just different names
Admired the nicer thangs from afar, but ain’t complain
Just put our brain to work and created our own lanes
But see my lane picking up and I’m a need the whole thang
My connect ain’t got it like that and I’m done wit small change
Every day he make me wait another day I must explain
To a hungry ass team to sit tight and maintain
I Was hoping me and you could you know... let me explain..
I’ll pay a whole extra point just to show u that I ain’t playing
I got them boys getting busy, the comeback is insane
Ain’t gotta worry bout no heat, no whips, no gold chains
Just a whole lotta money while everybody stay plain
I’ll knock off one a week in my sleep, wit no strain
WOLVES CHORUS:
I’m a product of where they move product
Getting money cause the block got us
The Top dogs make the Top Dollaz
But the wolves get money and they Robbers
Ooowwwuuuuuu
(Welcome to Brooklyn nigga)
Ooowwwuuuuuu
(Welcome to Brooklyn nigga)
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Lovely
02:39
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Joell “Lovely” verse and hook
Every day I wake up to the same old thing...
it’s hot as fuck, my ac broke, my windows stay open
Mosquitos taking me to church these niggas pray on me
My momma chewing off my ear, boy you need a J.o.b
Man I should tell her I sell.... never mind I’ll stay low key
I grab my keys, throw on my headphones play that H.O.V
Head right outside to check my homies I know where they gon be
They on that strip, busting them licks they ain’t gon wait on me
I can’t blame em, gotta get yo money man get paid OG
Lemme stop at the store to grab a Dutch and roll this Hayes up B
Walk towards my crew and take a puff ok I take like 3
Y’all niggas done snatched up all this bread y’all ain’t gon save none for me?
My niggas laughed, I passed the gas like I ate OD
Yo What we drinking on tonight..? Somebody gon say OLD E
Man I ain’t drinking that shit no more man that shit taste like pee
*Crook* Ayo Whatever, man it’s better than that St IDEs Gee
Them cops was tripping last night they raided 803
P try to H.O.P over that G.A.T.E
easy the cop said them pigs waiting on P
He gon be fronting when het home wit all his weight up B watch....
Chorus:
Lovely day.. Lovely day..
Such a lovely day around my way...
Lovely day.. Lovely day..
Such a lovely day around my way...
Lovely day.. Lovely day..
Such a lovely day around my way...
Lovely day.. Lovely day..
Such a lovely day around my way...
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Memorial Day
03:49
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We all standing outside in that all black
Some niggas dress the best they could in them worn slacks
I don’t get along wit everybody here but outta respect I’m a fall back, so today I ain’t on that
I was just gon sign the book and dip
But u my man so I’m a give you this
last look and shit ..
Now ya mother coming my way
For her I’m a act ok, but Son I don’t know what to say...
My mouth ain’t move for nothing is wild
I just paused... She gave me this long hug and then smiled and said.. im ok
But she ain’t mean that I ca see she torn apart and that just hit me in my heart
They finna start ya eulogy ... Yea, that part..
I just flashed back to that park in Brooklyn where we slap boxed
Or took it to the court and slapped backboards then pushed it to street, 2 hand touch, we’d play from that car to that car
We go that far back Im talking little
Just happy while u was here I always told you that you official
This shit foul man blow the whistle
Hang my man Jersey in the Rafters we gon miss you
Wet tissue, as ya fam lift you
Walk u out the church to the hearse give u that last lift to
That place they gon forever sit you
Below the ground, I’ll hold it down and never forget you...
CHORUS:
Pledge allegiance to the flags and the doo-rags
None of us came up good so we do bad
Victims of circumstance, food stamps
Cash advances from welfare and bullshit healthcare ....
We all we got..
look around this house of worship let’s dead this war shit we all we got..
We all we got..
look around this house of worship I mean come on kids we all we got
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