1. |
5 A.M. in Kyoto
02:53
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30 odd something years and feeling lost
Running away abroad
And might be gone til the fall
What if I never returned at all
It's not money that makes my wheels turn
Inflicted by this addiction to living on my own terms
A slow burn if you willing to get the blade right
Steel will never become a sword without
being burned and beaten
Keeping every sleepless night on the forge a secret
You see the bags under the eyes of the genius
Tell the tale that
everything isn't as right as you think it
I feel it's too easy to lose me
That train ride from Tokyo to Kyoto
All for that window glimpse of Mt. Fuji
Hearing rappers and athletes say their life is a movie
I feel the same
But I would never let the cameras shoot me
Truth always reflected by the blade
Same way I've seen the truth get reflected by a belt rank
Learned to swim by drowning with black belts in the shark tank
No language barrier in jiu jitsu
Judo
Everybody speaks Water it's universal
Immersing myself in different parts of the world
Gives me new hope
At this point I'm all about chasing distance
And you too close
Each experience of a new high
Brings the new low
Lost an already non existing desire for new clothes
As long my kids
Stay upgraded
I'm facing that matrix
The way we give our energy to machines on the daily
Stressing
How many art forms
Separating me from a different direction
[You ever accidentally catch the sun rise
I don't even take the photo
It's 5am in Kyoto]
Belief can be manipulated
Only knowledge is dangerous
This something for the readers
Who used to vibe with they teachers
Couldn't tell you what page it is
Eyes low
From jumping time zones
Couldn't tell you what day it is
The message
A trial by fire
Drowning but calling it swimming lessons
A rolling stone
Whether home
Or
Some 10,000 miles away from it
Hide from another birthday
Because what does it even represent
Climbing down from the mountain
But staring at the one next to it...
With wisdom
Comes the new danger of premonition
Trying to predict the journey
Before you even begin it
The Gardner planting trees without enjoying the shade
I've said it before but now the picture has paint
Is time made of infinite days?
Still Stressing
How many art forms
Separating me from a different direction?
[You ever accidentally catch the sun rise
I don't even take the photo
It's 5am in Kyoto]
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2. |
Coffee in Switzerland
02:57
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The last 3 days have been a maze
Lost but amazing
That Temporary elation
I never abandoned patience
The planet has shown me achres
My understanding of ancient
I master the English language
The art of peace is allusive
I paint it through every movement
The silent battlecry
Reading stories of Black Samurai
I've grown as an artist
But what about as a person
My communication skills
Fall deeper beneath the surface
A man of few words
If didn't write them with purpose
A European breakfast table
My phone Don't got any service...
An early riser for training
To hone my alchemy
Sun beaming through the mountains in Switzerland
Touch the balcony
1 honest rule
Every rhyme written in solitude
The chemical imbalance
If having too many watching you
My superstition
Of you lifting the hood
Seeing the engine
Since the beginning
I hide my mind from my limits
[Hook]
I fall in love with a country and then I leave it
A cup of coffee my only solace
They'll be no evening
My nocturnal asylum don't let my eyes shut
The Sleep deprivation
Still walk away from the Matrix
A mind of my own
Iron poems
Within a song
Perpetually stuck in the zone
On top alone
Only leave the throne
To pull the sword from the Stone
A jagged edge blade
I rebuild it until it
Until it's whole
The journey of a writer
We choose the life on the road
In love with the cobblestone
Can't distinguish rappers from machines without capcha
Catch a Dragon Suplex
Go buy your masters
They literally burning the planet
What's coming after?
Homeless war veterans still observing the Sabbath
With a church or Liquor store observing your every habit
I'm so far removed from daily traffic
Until it slows up
And chasing dreams may have stunted my growth
As a grown up
But so what...
[Hook]
I fall in love with a country and then I leave it
A cup of coffee my only solace
They'll be no evening
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3. |
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A different breed
I desire no enemies
My technique the elephant in the room
Your favorite rapper rocking dead animal furs
I don't approve
We just waiting for harmonic convergence under the moon
The legend empathetic in everything
To the letter
Every life sacred
That feng shui
Energy stay connected
Where the art is at
They charge for entry into
Museums with stolen artifacts
We've seen too much for Sharingan
Not to manifest
Never forget I left my manga on the plane then
Replaced it
Had To finish the story in foreign language
I've had some tough years that I've seen the circle of life through
My uncle lost HIS son
The same day that HE gained a nephew
I write this about a week removed from a glimpse of heaven
Every prayer and positive vibe
Spinning my record
I almost lost my life in the pursuit of precision
The ancient weapon of warriors old
Taught me the lesson
The relationship incomplete if I don't fully respect it now
And God let me tap into energy
I've only read about
The open mind
That's the tale of a Samurai
My poetry deep as my sword
You hear my battle cry
Exilherating the human experience
Up to checking out
I just need some time to level out...
We better now
[These the tales of a Samurai
My poetry deep as my sword
You hear the battlecry]
Since the womb exit was destined to be the struggler
Thought I knew the world
But there's an entire other one
Raised on the battlefield
No matter the cause
Always carried the biggest sword
To prove my worth to the boss
A mercenary
Sword for hire
As long as they paid the piper
Never once valuing life
Only a fighter
The trauma
Taken advantage of in the worst way
Then forced to watch my love
Get broken by the same fate
The darkest story for another day
Found a home in the Band of the Hawk
Brothers in blades
I've seen things not of this world
Strange relics
Crossed swords with Zodd the Immortal and lived to tell it
But all I've ever been is a weapon
And a stepping stone...
Strictly For others to get to their goals
A pile of flesh and bone
I made this story my own
Only for you to do the unthinkable for a seat on the throne
The eclipse
Every sleepless night an abyss
Doomed
My brand of sacrifice throbs under the moon
Couldn't protect Casca
I'm worthless
In every version
Cursed to wander with no ties
Or a purpose
Long as the earth spins
The dragon slayer colossal
I cut through every apostle
I'll go to war alone
As long I get a shot at you
I'll destroy myself for revenge
Or is it love
Or is it jealousy
Or maybe all the above
[These the tales of a Samurai
My poetry deep as my sword
You hear the battlecry]
An Elegant weapon for a more civilized age
We talking lightsabers or traditional blades
Set tradition a blaze
With the political ways
My master left me astray
Became the monster of legend
I've often wondered how I got lost in deception
I continue to wander
Still replaying your lessons
In my head
I journeyed to the edge
Saw the deep end
You lost yourself completely to darkness
I won't believe it
Two swords
Reverse grip on the handles
djem so
Way of the Krayt Dragon
But tell me it aint so
The malace
White Kyber Crystals
For balance
Seek the light
But free from the burdens of serving sides
The order made me a child of war
Unseen
Clone Wars
Commander Ahsoka
Fourteen
A master without a master
A ronin roaming the galaxy
I know we'll meet again
May the force be without end
These the tales of a Samurai
In a galaxy far away
Formally jedi
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I get assertive with verbage on the verge of harmonic convergence to right the earth with
In hard times
darkness thrives in the void
but always yields to the purifying light of my voice
Food for thought
Who washing plates?
I came to connotate
Indecisiveness my arch nemesis
My mind oscillates
The curse of the Scorpio
Amongst other things
My celestial spirit animal got a venomous Sting
Watch
Put EMCEES in the scorpion death lock
With titles on the line
Like most underrated rapper of all time
To every single fan that ever wrote me
you fuel Noveliss
All the Otakus I helped get through they exams In colleges
The most relatable content on the continent
I perpetually
come in peace but the beat ominous
It's a coded language
Among creatives
And dream chasers
Fear of Innovation will never decode the matrix
[I cross home plate
Throw the crowd into a frenzy
Victory lap in LA banging "Loaded Bases" by Nipsey
Hustle and Motivate's what we into
A legend lives on
The Marathon continues]
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5. |
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This my special attack
100 swords
100 episodes
And here's to 100 more
Who got next
Place your change on the cabinet
Air Combo University graduates
Juggle my enemies
Before tagging in the master it's Hir-O
Pro's in action
Toe Tagging Champions
Getting active
The message will get near you
Return of the dream team
Spider-Man and Strider Hiryu
When the mask is on
I can't promise you Cyclops will keep his glasses on
The handshake was potent
The inner glow
Shown as a mega optic blast
Trailing behind a Shinku Hadoken
How you gon dodge both them?
Blast you down to the last atom
Best regards from the Proton Cannon you couldn't fathom
If you were raised on gaming
Then put a controller up
I'm old enough
To study the meta
Before I bless ya
We understood spacing
The dash clean
We need the Justin Wong Poster right next to the pro athletes
Final Justice like a Primary Lotus
From out of the sky
Stars and Stripes
Reminding you racism still alive
Bring a Plasma Sword to a Gun Fight
Hayato
Bring a Hurricane kick
Tatsumaki Senpukyaku
One time for all my otakus
Who played the console til they eyes closed
Prolly forgot to study for they finals
[Welcome to the Swordcast
Swordcast
My wordplay my swordplay
When blades clash]
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6. |
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Sharp like the edge of my past
The sword in it's purest form
Only to be tainted by the blood of the forge
Every skill that was molded into the weapon
I'm living as
The illest path
There is only one master
Bestowed this particular craft
The legend is catching up to me now
Carry the torch but was forced to burn the legacy down
The truest
Mujushin
not as free as Mugen
Precision in every movement
Ironically
My modus operandi exactly why I was clueless
To construct the perfect album my structure needed amalgam
But something I couldn't fathom
Until the moment presented itself
My final lesson
The blood in my veins
Had to be cryogenic
All I know is the art I've done
While I show you the one who defeated Enshiro Mariya
Touch the hand of God with the sword
To stay the course
Of course
Until now
My entire life only for myself was my study of the sword
Steel Packed tight in micro
Chip on my shoulder
No lords worth risking your life for
Only the way
In pursuit of something worth
Protecting with my blade
I find multiple
It's honor in every quotable
Once chosen one of the shogunate
Adjusting to how a ronin moves
Until Fuu smells the Sunflowers
When the gunpowder get slashed
Bring the sword to a gun fight
Too quick for the blast
You shooting at after images
Half your vitals get opened
On behalf the magnum opus
[Steel packed tight in micro
Chip on my shoulder
Under pieces of armor
Flesh and bone
Get immortalized through a song
Remember to spin it after I'm gone
After completion]
A strange man
A sail away from the mainland
Formless
Clean spins
March to the beat of my own
drum but it's a remix
The blade my only instrument
A pirate turned ronin
I'm going off of the deep end...
With each grin
My sentiment
Sara left me empty in the rain
Feel I've died multiple times
I'm infinite
My past has made it's way to the light
Reactions from each one of my actions
Not valuing life
Nothing is off limits
Emerged from empty beginnings
And I remain wreckless
Though in the name of my friendships
Half of these masters
Look laughable
In the path of the
Freelance savage
Stylin without a style
A wild one
Every movement
Expression
A Shapeless and unpredictable message
Extending me from my weapon...
Live for some action
Die without passion
Every time the sun rise
Will it be the last that I bask in it?
Steal packed tight in micro
Chip on my shoulder
You decide how your life goes
No excuses
You make your own decisions
I'm moving
Until it's my time
Until then violence is therapeutic...
It's Mugen
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Akame let me hold the Murasame
It's lighter than the Tetsaga
The Eye of Thundera
Give me sight beyond sight
How many mics do you rip on the daily?
Out of your atmosphere
The binary star
Embrace simplicity
trade the wifi
For a library card
Too far?
Blessings of an ancient relic
That'll never be stolen
And placed in a museum
Far away from the culture
Spot the vulture
Carry burdens from different roads
Where the wind has blown
His quickest poem
It's always weight on my shoulders
I'm Piccolo
Special beam cannon
Turn you to gas like a Jovian Planet
all we see is smoke coming out of your sneakers
When the dust settles
From intellectuals who don't always follow the metronome
It's been years since I had a boss determine my schedule
Words from the dragon
All power to the people
The poetry from the pineal
I sleep in rhythm
Perpetually in the pocket
Unintentional
Sub consciously take over the lab
And mix the chemicals
But the explosions only digital
[Immortal content
Who coming for the Rap Supreme
Afro and Noveliss]
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8. |
Jobu Tupaki (Feat. L05)
03:01
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Battle tested
Often had all the questions
None of the answers
Let it play out
You're gonna carry that weight
Until the day you max out
Only to gain strength
Through all that should've taken you out
Kage Bushin
I run away from the music
Uzumaki
Multiverse jumping
To piledrive every rapper
Jobu Tupaki
Miyamoto Musashi
Accept everything the way it is
There's a way to this
In pursuit of the meaning of life
Been a couple years since I slept through the night
Put Everything on a bagel
Sooner or later it'll pull me inside
I'm Everywhere
You never there
Over exerting my mind
All at Once
I'm raising a family
using only my rhymes
Journey to the Horizon to see if the two really meet
And showing signs of mental fatigue
Still out your league
Capitalism
A dollar
The only Pilar
Rage Against the machine
Aloy driving down Rodeo with the Sky Killer
[You'll be alright]
And everything is alright
[You'll be seeing changes]
Or Nothing matters goodnight]
When reality is Unraveling
The message is true
Is that Jagan Eye
Or just the one that Evelyn used?
Does it matter?
When you tap into self
From every universe
With empathy as your weapon of choice
No matter who you verse
Think only of your art in the dark
Can you believe they tried to limit me
Six eyes
Staring into Infinity
Untouchable
No curse as twisted as love
Believe it
Rika bless the sword everytime I unsheath it
We getting closer to the deep end
But keep it inside us
Is it Poseidon or Regrets?
The Greek Mythology Siren
The illusion of things could've been better
Instead of living in the moment a single LEAF
Get preoccupied with it you end up missing the TREE
Where to begin
Mastered putting others before me
Even the pen
All of your art
Shines outward so
What you keeping within?
Anxiety Preserve a loss instead of nurturing wins
How often we here
Not valuing self again
Kusanagi against the Spider-Tank in the end...
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9. |
Maki Zenin
03:14
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Finding out you not the chosen one
Dedication untouchable
Seek approval through the eyes of none
Only your own
You the only one who knows
You navigating alone
This unfamiliar road
Domain expansion
Technique
Reaching the highest level
Advancement
Domain Expansion
I still wasn't in the plans then...
Way less traveled
Or never traveled at all
And
They literally wouldn't survive the different ways that you've fallen
It's all in climbing a mountain with your hands bound
While everybody made it to the top
And the lot staring down
Alone
But one is a crowd
When your mind is loud
But maybe your mountain is different
Lost in the distance
Destined to find what's missing unique to every consensus
You've failed to mention
How much that it hurt to never be mentioned...
Domain expansion
Technique
Reaching the highest level
Advancement
Domain Expansion
I still wasn't in the plans then...
But your name is the only one that'll rise
From the Zenin
Death to every ounce of the politics
that determined your place in this
Every scar lasts forever
Been charred from past endeavors
My lack of curse energy
Enough to vividly limit me
Perpetually at a disadvantage
But naturally
I'm mastered things
Cultivated Weakness
To immortality
A single moment of realization
We've waited patiently
Heavenly restriction
I'm passing my limits gracefully
Sacrifices never in vein
Mai
You've stayed with me
This split soul katana
Escort me to what's inside ya
Cut through your minutiae
My revolution
Is new to this world...
Domain expansion
Technique
Reaching the highest level
Advancement
Domain Expansion
I still wasn't in the plans then...
Hard work and underachieving
Could breed malice when
Your Judgement only lies in the eyes
Of the born talented
Walk with the Playful Cloud
They still tryna figure me out
Remember when they used to single me out
Now
Couldn't last half as long
Let alone
Holding this pair of L's
Standing Parallel from the Dragon Bone
I stand alone
Destined to find my own path
Maybe in correlation with legends from the past
Before we strayed from the path
Toji Fushiguro
No domain expansion
Could offer you an advantage
I'm one of one
Watch me
The worlds my barrier
A monster in the eyes of these standards
It's Maki...
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10. |
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Before I take form
I've got some lore kids
An orphan
Adopted by
Political agenda
Solidus
A snake nonetheless
They made us killers
Jack the Ripper
A proper nickname for one of the children
A mind molded for
Violence and nothing more
Child soldiers.
Liberian Civil Wars.
Killing without a purpose
A mind warped
Still a machine
Before the Cyborg
My mind was never mine...
Now upgraded
And better suited for revenge on a Patriot
A product of those profiting off war
Jack is no more
I buried the memories
Beneath metal gear corpses
And cybernetic extremities
Traded guns for blades
It's raining remains
I revel in violence
It's Raiden
Sliding down the machine with the Blade still in the side of it
The Lone Wolf
Piling up bodies of scrap metal
Thorough with the Nodachi
at High Frequency
Watch me
[Fox Hound Represent
Metal gears
Running in fear
Knowing they'll never win
The soldier and the ninja
The legendary experiments
The soldier and the ninja
The legendary experiments]
[Mega Ran]
I remember big Shell like it was yesterday
wish I had the strength to stay
But it took my whole breath away
How you was just a youngin,
determining if a snake could be trust
ulterior motives yet we discussed it
How This game was way deeper than either of us could’ve thought
Sponsored by monsters who hunt and kill us for sport
The s3 program we sign up for freely
Had us worse off than the pilots in Tuskegee —-believe me
Lead me not into temptation I can find it myself
Play Patriot games win stupid prizes
I’d say I’m solid, but these private military operations got us locked in constant conflict,
Tried to encourage you to choose peace
Rather than violence.
The Word on the block
Is that the typical trauma symptoms arising
I know the cost when you take that oath
So I pray you find your back home
Way back home
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11. |
Cyberdyne Systems
03:09
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[Yo yo yo
This beat got a unsettling calm
Like Nostromo]
Social media ground zero
Watching the masses
Embrace AI art
Zero questions
Surrender your likeness
For these likes quick
And
Fall in love with this image of yourself
Created by machine
And chase it like it's a dream
When art's official
Do you choose to care?
The artificial been self aware
Miles Dyson alive and
Disguised as one of these billionaires
Look to the SKY
The NET cast over the ones the planet fears
Cyberdyne or
Amazon prime
The stars allign
For what it's worth
Humanity the biggest threat to the earth
Free Palestine
Free every mind from screen time
Does your heart beat to a rhythm
Or
Algorithm?
I weaponize a sound system
While you weaponize a religion
I've seen art without a soul now
Visual
We've heard art without a soul from every rapper you listen to
Wasting time through competition with others
Insecurity born though comparing yourself to your brothers
Still seeing ourselves as the enemy
Wouldn't win a war against anything
(Hook)
[Come with me if you want to live
Is your art official
Or artificial intelligence
They can shoot the messenger
Long as you get the message sent
If you seen what I seen
You wouldn't fear man or machine
It's not a dream]
He hold the fate of planet in a brainstorm
Electromagnetic
Touch down through time displacement
Naked
Lost in the present
A message
Only need to turn one to believer
Just came to fall in love
To ensure the birth of the leader
Kyle Reese then
I told you
I'll be back
A promise is Immortal
Long as you keep it
They'll tell it later
I'm cutting up
Shape-shifting
Swords for arms
Prying open the elevator
To get to the next level
No telling what you would do
Ellen Ripley
Against the countdown
Looking for Newt
With age comes the wisdom
You wish you had when you grew up
Old models performing at higher levels than the newer ones
The 800 stick a pole in the 1000
Exploding rounds
Warping that liquid metal
To a twisted shovel
Until it happens they gon call you a liar
Throw the chip in
Before I lower myself to the fire...
(Hook)
[Come with me if you want to live
Is your art official
Or artificial intelligence
They can shoot the messenger
Long as you get the message sent
If you seen what I seen
You wouldn't fear man or machine
It's not a dream]
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12. |
The Protagonist
03:10
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Introverted
Moving Inverted through time
Knew it before you heard it
I heard before jotting the rhymes
I'm
Not throwing knowledge
But catching it
As the record spins
In the opposite direction
And making it sound dyslexic then
Spending a lifetime decoding the message
An algorithm
Destroying your past
For what you did to the present
Perpetual battles against self
Where'd you hide the advantage?
I've felt the struggle before the wound shows up
When the sword navigates back in the sheath
And the wound close up
Hold up
You rise back to your feet
Before the two of you meet
Instinct is king
Never try to understand it
Feel it
As I Deja Vu the same path
With the knowledge of how it's finished
Follow the Lanserat
No computers
His minds a Mentat
They bring the shooters in
Temporal pincer maneuvering
You catching up?
We live in a twilight world
With no friends at dusk
Fremen sinking into Arrakis instead of rising up...
My mind is numb
Spice driving these premonitions
I see the demolition
Shai-Hulud move in reverse
Moonwalk without a rhythm
Every secret
Thats Hidden within the Sietches
I've seen the meanings
In search of different believers
[We live in a twilight world
With no friends at dusk
Fear is the mind killer
The mantra living inside of us x2]
Snatching Oxygen masks
From lungs not functioning backwards
In the Palindrome
Left is right
But the mic was right where he left it
Right?
Probably
See the ending before the beginning
Lisan al Gaib
Or
Kwisatz Haderach
Or
Atreides Muad'dib
Birds flying backwards
The imagery
You must be kidding me
The dragon breathing ice shards
At the reverse of the entropy
Does the Protagonist
Even know how the story ends?
According to his story
He shall know your ways as though born to them
A reverend mother pulls the Gom Jabbar away from the the chosen one
A Crysknife exit a Harkonnen
Back where we started then...
Damn...
[We live in a twilight world
With no friends at dusk
Fear is the mind killer
The mantra living inside of us]
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Noveliss Detroit, Michigan
Member of the legendary world renowned Detroit Hip Hop Group; Clear Soul Forces. Noveliss is known for his intellectual wordplay; martial arts influence and is a master of blending pop culture with philosophy through a sea of references from the worlds of anime; pro wrestling, video games and whatever he's interested in. There is always a message. Top influences; MF DOOM and Black Thought. ... more
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