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1. |
Phantom Feeling
02:46
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New shit, who dis
Please excuse any undue rudeness as I do this
But I'm cold as Ice that's Cubic signed to Ruthless, yeah
But to be fair, it's y'all who moved me here
To the future where there's no more room to err
Now let's play truth or dare
Right hand on your holy book
Tell me that you don't be shook
When you hear my name, lowkey hoping that it's overlooked
Now you can plead the fifth or either this
Send me a diss with no subliminals and we'll see what sticks, and stones
I'll pick a bone
And keep it for my collection if it fits my throne
And come to find out that I'm the shit, yo I wish I'd known
Some people can't stand me, they just sit at home, ha
Now what's beef when you still learning to chew your meat
From a booster seat
Legs dangling when you move your feet
Don't bite off no more than you can eat if you're too petite,
This shit's too easy, it's like shooting skeet
With nukes for heat
Body to mind, mind to ya spirit
Cock aim then, bang
Yeah, I know you hear it
Still earshot even though you ain't near it
And you can cut it off but I bet you still feel it
I wrote a couple verses that I hope to not record
These demons want my energy
This time they got ignored
You start to recognize that you're a prisoner of war
When negativity is paying visits to your door
Now who's that peeking in my window
Better move back
All eyes on me and yes, I do too pack
Digital underground
You can download my new app
Daily notifications sent reminding you that you wack
You know where the proof's at
They cut my head off but it grew back
They stare like they seeing a ghost
When they see me approach
Interrupting their group chat
The shit that I do with a 2-track
Got people reacting like sumac
I'm pumping this shit like brew tap
Allow me to lace up your bootstraps
I must've been born in a manger
They calling me lord and the savior
They coming with more of the same
But you already know I got more in the chamber
I'm puffing on 31 flavors
They stuck on that thirty one pacers
I'm moving on up the majors
So You can feel it, but nothing can save ya
Ooh what's that baby,
Just that phantom feeling,
Just that phantom feeling,
I say baby, you can cut me off
But you're still gonna feel that phantom feeling
So fuck your feelings
Body to mind, mind to ya spirit
Cock aim then, bang
Yeah, I know you hear it
Still earshot even though you ain't near it
And you can cut it off but I bet you still feel it
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2. |
Go To Sleep
02:19
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What the fuck is lo-fi? this fie fi
I symbolize the resistance like omega no psi phi
It’s all Greek to me, if you ain’t all the frequency, it might as well be, it’s like seeing through a blind eye
I rock it like broke up them threepeats in 9-5
Ain’t hiding can’t say find me, just see me on my side
Slide
Been through more beef than five guys
You pint size fries only got a couple of nice tries
Been surrounded by some stone casters,
But my skin is unblemished, I’m my own master
Just cuz I say nigga don’t mean condone crackers
Guess you think it’s only forward motion if we both backwards
It’s no comparison, y’all can take it as arrogance
But white on white crime’s just history to Americans
And these the people y’all worried about embarrassing
I’m having conversations with Yah, say a prayer for them
Ain’t gotta prove shit and I won’t waste my time
So if all lives matter, bitch don’t play with mine
That’s the only way that you’ll ever be safe and fine
That sounds better, dare you to change my mind
The deaf dumb and the blind
Keep coming for the one of a kind
And they come in every color ya find
Y’all niggas so deep, y’all searching for old tweets
Y’all sipping the woke tea and ain’t getting no sleep
Go to sleep, go to sleep
Go to sleep, go to sleep
Go to sleep, go to sleep
Go to sleep
Wake up and get a life, get a life
Live the life, live the life
Day and night, day and night
Hold ya peace and then go back to sleep
Even when I’m getting shuteye, gotta keep one high
They lynching brothers up tied, twisted on a trunk‘s side
So way before I just die, gotta let a slug fly
Drop em like a buckeye, mop em like fungi
Never was the tough guy but I’m not the one to come try
Imma bring the drum line and I ain’t waiting for one time
Them daffy for Donald porkies, nah Imma have to duck swine
Dust them in the dusk so I can live to see the sunshine
The women are mothers, if you touch her it’s like she was mine
This is what is sounds like when the raven makes the dove cry
We the same people that boycotted them bus rides
But next time we just might have to bust nines, make 'em go to sleep
Go to sleep, go to sleep
Go to sleep, go to sleep
Go to sleep, go to sleep
Go to sleep
Wake up and get a life, get a life
Live the life, live the life
Day and night, day and night
I hold a peace that'll make you go to sleep
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3. |
Easy
03:08
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Easiest thing to do is waste time
Hardest thing to do is draw a straight line
It’s easy repeating things from the grape vine
its much harder to take that and make wine
It’s take a trained mind
Not the lame blind
Easy to say Fuck you
Harder to stay kind
Have you ever try to change minds
It’s easier said than done, shit's harder than when clay dries
If I was simplistic, y’all would still miss it
Cuz even implicit, my shit hit different
They say it ain’t easy when you pimp with it
Unless you From Memphis, it’s hard like emphasis
But I’m from GA, where it’s easy to get a PK
Harder getting over on the freeway
It’s easy to shoe gaze like Eastbay
But it ain’t to hard to move along to the deejay, so aye
Simple as a riddle, easy as the breeze
But trust me dog, it's harder than it seems
I make it look easy
I make it look easy
I make it look easy
I make it look easy
I make it look easy
Easiest thing to do is lie to you
But at the same time, it gets harder to hide the truth
So easy to be myself
Hard to be someone else
Why it’s easy for many to front
It’s hard to find a clue
Made a left on easy street, and parked the coupe
Hardest part was comin back to that orange boot
Real easy tossing trash down the garbage chute
Way harder reducing carbon and not pollute
But with bars and loops
It's so easy like Mase, Dave, and Posdnous
Eazy E said the boys in the hood are hard, it’s true
So turn this off if you lookin for a softer view
Easy money is only legally tender,
It’s cold hard cash, easy to see that you hardly knew
I ease in like sliding in hard bottom shoes
Easy star, try your hardest but warning you
Simple as a riddle, easy as the breeze
But trust me dog, it's harder than it seems
I make it look easy
I make it look easy
I make it look easy
I make it look easy
I make it look easy
Easiest thing to do is stay in bed
Hardest part is missing out on making bread
Gotta ease the hunger, closed mouths can’t get fed
So I’m hardly sleep, I’ll catch up on the day I’m dead
But I’m way ahead
Y’all some easy prey
Like you sold hard, to the DEA
But easy bake fakes got no range
So for cocaine, it’s hard to see how you could heat the yay
I guess we can say it’s in my DNA
Don’t need no fossil, it’s muy fácil porqué
If I would’ve went and took the easy way
Wouldn’t be the hard ninja that I am today
But I’mma have to take it easy for at least a day
Because this hard liquor known to make me feel a way
Yo, I'm normally easy going but my people still holding
Break at the hardware broad day in the open
And you might just think I’m joking
But homie take it easy, believe me
Hard knock life shit precedes me
I'll make it like Sunday morning
I knew you wouldn’t listen to the warning
I make it look easy
Simple as a riddle, easy as the breeze
But trust me dog, it's harder than it seems
I make it look easy
I make it look easy
I make it look easy
I make it look easy
I make it look easy
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4. |
Land Line
02:16
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I'm on some new shit, yeah
On to the other thangs
Former falcon, but now a Phoenix that's up from flames
Up in the air, far from the flare of haters' musket range
Out of your budget, mane
No wonder the number's changed
I'm beast mode
My ego threefold, eats whole elephants
Flippin through my call log deleting old messages,
You'll never see receipts saying I'm reading those texts you sent
Cocky motherfucker, yeah but he is no Oedipus
Remember Icarus
Don't get to close to the son
I'll scorch you for fun
Look at that
Over it's done, nowhere to run,
Hold up
Over my shoulder there's one
I'll let him go to tell the story so they'll know not to come, aye
Now listen here
This is for all of you with your pretend careers
I'm tryin to get rich this year
If you ain't hollin bout business, then disappear
I will not lend you an ear
Most of you backstabbers, bending your spears
Skin is too thick,
For you to get near
Interfere or enter my sphere
Ah, you just keep blowing me,
Just keep blowing me up, keep blowing me up, baby
That's why I wish I had a land line, so when I hang up on them
I can slam mine
Ah, you just keep blowing me,
Just keep blowing me up, keep blowing me up, baby
That's why I wish I had a land line, so when I hang up on them
I can slam mine
The other day I got a call from this number I didn't recognize
Didn't answer so he called me back like, several times
Then I got a text talking bout he's an exof somebody I just met
And he's really upset, ha!
That shit I don't respect
I ain't even respond
A couple minutes later though he sent a link to a song
Now I'm thinking this fool is crazy or his drink is too strong
Either way, I'm just making sure that my ringer ain't on
Wish I could blink and be gone or snap my fingers
But I don't believe in magic
Just need to getaway like Lenny Kravitz or P and Havoc
Where the only ones who got my math are the ones who need to have it
If it ain't peace or increase, might as well be receiver static
Ah, you just keep blowing me,
Just keep blowing me up, keep blowing me up, baby
That's why I wish I had a land line, so when I hang up on them
I can slam mine
Ah, you just keep blowing me,
Just keep blowing me up, keep blowing me up, baby
That's why I wish I had a land line, so when I hang up on them
I can slam mine
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5. |
Let Go, Let's Go
02:15
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Let go, Let's go
Let go, Let's go
Let go, Let's go
Let go, Let's go
Let go, Let's go
Let go, Let's go
Let go, Let's go
Let go, Let's go
Will you ever get what you wish
If you never do nothing different
It's better to take a risk
Than settle for the what-ifs so
Let go, Let's go
Let go, Let's go
You've been eyeing a newer life
Tryin to do it right
But fighting instead of flying ain't getting you through the night so
Let go, Let's go
Let go, Let's go
The bees create the honey
The sting ain't so lovely
But sweet taste isn't nothing
If things never get ugly, so
Let go, Let's go
Keep going
Let go, Let's go
You need to take it from somebody who understands
Someone who understands
Understands
Nobody understands
'Cause everybody heard the sound of the leaves blowing
But ain't nobody heard the tree growing, so keep going
Yo keep going
Let go, Let's go
Let go, Let's go
Let go, Let's go
Let go, Let's go
Let go, Let's go
Let go, Let's go
Let go, Let's go
Let go, Let's go
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6. |
Sins of the Fathers
03:52
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Microphone check 1, 2, What is this
No sabbatical like a radical adventist
Last of the black princes who witnessed when crack hit us
Red dogs came to your school for them class visits
Saying watch out
Syringes can be in the grass hidden
They also told us it was all about the cash getting
I'm sure they knew that some of us already had visions
Of trap flipping
Moving birds like badminton
Now were they warning us or alluring us
Later on in life it got me curious
I just know that there's more for us
I just know that there's more of us
Fingertips dipped in the water
How long have we hid from the karma
So I make amends at the Altar
From carrying the Sins of the fathers
Fingertips dipped in the water
How long have we hid from the karma
So I make amends at the Altar
From carrying the Sins of the fathers
'Cause Daddy had the half moon
Stashed in the vacuum, closet in the bathroom, told me he'd be back soon We all heard that tune
Can't forget the lyrics if it's the only thing you passed to him
The Most High told me stopping asking him for a sign
If I do it again, he'll send me one I can't ignore this time
How you born to shine but sitting with your thumb up your rectum
Why everybody looking for what's right under their septums
Waiting on someone to accept them, look where it kept him
Salty, needing the epsom, from false flagging when flexing
In too deep, pressed, need deep breaths, depression
But every burden is a blessing
Fingertips dipped in the water
How long have we hid from the karma
So I make amends at the Altar
From carrying the Sins of the fathers
Fingertips dipped in the water
How long have we hid from the karma
So I make amends at the Altar
From carrying the Sins of the fathers
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Out of all y’all I seen boast
Half of y’all ain’t even dope
I’ll eat most like a meatloaf
They’ll be toast like brioche
That’s west coast or the east coast
This dirty south, but I’m clean though
Washing my hands free of these hoes
Only time that I need soap
Niggas road my wave like speedboats
So I turned that shit into a ski slope
Let em sink slow into the deep snow
But never decompose 'cause it’s freezing cold
How the leading role keep stealing shows
Feeling bold off grigio
I’ll sing a note and still ring your throat
Got em breathing slow from sleeper hold
But what you reap you sew
So watch the seeds you throw
'Cause the weeds’ll grow
Then I’ll need to mow
Gotta keep it low
So the weak’s exposed
The beam will glow, then I’ll squeeze and blow
I would read Thoreau when I was three years old,
You can’t see my flow
It's like the Sphinx’s nose
What you need to know is I’m a genius so
Bring your folks, I got steam for smoke
When you sleep, I’m woke
When you sink, I float
Everything I wrote is the meanest quote
It’s the king, I’m home In Phoenician robes
I’ll seize the throne before they reach a vote
I see green and go, speak in code
Burn leaves in coal and turn steel to gold,
Seal it closed from the thieving souls
Don’t watch me watch your speaking tone
Benovative, limit greatness when you live impatient
Kill creation trying to mimic they shit
I don't bend or sway, i just incinerate shit
Let you live, I feel I've been too gracious
Catch you slipping like a figure skater
Imma figure eight your throat with this razor
Then disinegrate to smoke, Ninja Gaiden
From a tender age, your boy been this crazy
Bring the pain I feel til this day
I get the pen and page and it's a ventilation
Give the spliff a blaze, a little quick elation
When you getting paper, turns friends to haters
Saying Ben has changed, but really them who changed up
Anticipating I would switch their way
They would if situations ever in their favor
I don't entertain these little entertainers
Lit this thang up like the fist of Raiden
I can kill your favorite, never lift a finger
We on different pages, rather different playbooks
'Cause the risk I'm taking, at a glimpse, you'd faint
You never lift the stakes, you only wish for changes
We were renegades before the Em and Jay shit
Against the grain is where i built my name at
You Nicholas Cage niggas be switching faces
To sit at the table with those who whipped and chained us
Instead of building the thing on your own, you lift a stranger
Than forget where you came from for a smidget of famous
Typical slave shit, predict your behavior
Just forget what I'm saying and go and pick up your paycheck
The missus is aching for a penetration
It's against my nature to keep women waiting
So i'm out
But
If i hear my name, you better hit the pavement, nigga, bloaw
Huh
Lazurus, Yamin, another Skytzo beat
We in the house
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8. |
Skytzo's Sunday Session
02:21
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9. |
One Deep
03:02
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It's just me
Riding through the city, nigga, one deep
Nobody beside me in the front seat
Still feeling like no one can touch me
And it must be
Whenever it’s time to do work
Rolling up my sleeves, each side of my shirt
Bon a petite when I serve, peep them eating their words
Two crows and one stone, humble pie for dessert
Nigga, that’s soul food, not the kind they cook in the South
I mean they’re sole’s food, yeah they put they’re foot in their mouth
I’m a beast, you won’t catch me with my hoof to my snout
Or my tail between my legs, outchea looking for clout
That ain’t my motivation
Fuck all the faking, dog I’ve grown impatient
You trying to locate the remote, I'm in remote locations
That’s why they got my photo posted at the local station
I got away with words and left a this ransom note for payment
Don’t make me have to amputate the hands of fate
Then send ten digits to you like we planning dates
That’s unless you plan on meeting all the demands I make
Now you tell me, who else would you rather hate, I bet they say
It's just me
Riding through the city, nigga, one deep
Nobody beside me in the front seat
Still feeling like no one can touch me
And it must be
Rarified air in my area where am I
Very up, very high, there he is in the sky
Prepare to die or dare to fly
Compare, decide
if you scared to try, spare the embarrassment, step aside
Pierce through your soul like 2pac’s nose
All eyes on me like a Yukon gold
It’s dark and tea is hot, watch the oolong scold
Everyone lying tongue, when the time has come for truth not told
It takes a lot to push me, but homie I’m not a rookie
Status is known, class of my own, y’all play hookie
I ain't bout to call no names, but word is bond like James
A couple niggas went from akh to pussy
I put that on everything
Think they won’t flip, I see that they will son, they're Geraldines
If they throwing shots, it’s ketamine, 'cause I ain’t felt a thing
And I don’t need no help to bring because
It's just me
Riding through the city, nigga, one deep
Nobody beside me in the front seat
Still feeling like no one can touch me
And it must be
It's just me
Riding through the city, nigga, one deep
Nobody beside me in the front seat
Still feeling like no one can touch me
And it must be
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10. |
Unsay Love
02:34
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They say the power of life and death is in the tongue
I'm more focused on life, you know
Matter fact
Matter fact
I can show you better than tell ya
Otherwise it's only words like an acapella
Which option's better
Just look at how we were brought together
I'll hit you in the DM, but now I drop you letters
Written with an ostrich feather
The medium's the message
I've been receiving blessings since I chose to heed the lessons
I had to stop choosing women that wasn't chosen for me
One day it's orgies with shorties, next thing you know you're 40
Not like I don't get horny
Plus I always had my pick
Like Tariq's drummer
Each summer, got a badder chick
I told a few I loved them but then one of us would damage it
Only reason I ain't said it yet, but yo I plan on it, so
I wanna say it to you
You wanna say it to me, baby
No one can unsay love
So when I say it and you say it, I just want you to know
No one can unsay love
I know
I wanna say it to you
You wanna say it to me, baby
No one can unsay love
So when I say it and you say it, I just want you to know
No one can unsay love
I know
They say relationships are work, I been receiving unemployment
Checking in on a Tuesday for weekend enjoyment
But if expectation is the root of disappointment
That little voice is telling me to make better choices
Saying that it's better this way
It's for our own protection
Let's clear the air, here's a chair, non-smoking section
So you feel it way before you ever pose the question
I reach into your solar plexus when I show affection
I feel the energy inside you when we coalescing
Got you pushing your diaphragm like a vocal lessons
But what I found beyond the physical is most impressive
Nouns and verbs, four letter words can't hold your essence
You a gift from Yah, I'm humbled to behold your presence
Love is a gun, such a loaded weapon
But I gotta keep the safety on
But I can promise, it won't take too long, so hey
I wanna say it to you
You wanna say it to me, baby
No one can unsay love
So when I say it and you say it, I just want you to know
No one can unsay love
I know
I wanna say it to you
You wanna say it to me, baby
No one can unsay love
So when I say it and you say it, I just want you to know
No one can unsay love
I know
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11. |
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Let the roach ash
Running fingers over rose quartz and topaz
Thinking how the days tend to go past so fast
Still trying to figure things out with my grown ass
Sometimes I wanna throw all in a tote bag
Be a nomad and tell these stories to my notepad
I always knew that I had to make my own path
Feelin like Gil Scott, 'cause hatred's where your homes at
Compared to how some brothers came up, wasn’t so bad
Wasn't no Huxtable, but i did have a Ghost Dad
Mom would take slow drags from her smoke stash
Temporary sedation, but know it won't last
It’s cold out here, it's a bucket of snow crabs
After high school, most end up low class
All I got in this world is my word and my gonads
Before my toe's tagged, what the fuck will I be known as
Finally in a place with myself for company
I know that you sent for me
But I won't be returning
I wont be returning, no
I found myself lost at sea, realizing it takes time to see
The things that I've been yearning for
Now I won't be returning, no
No, I won't be returning
I have three songs (that I know of) that people say have made them cry. This is the latest one. That’s a very high compliment. It’s almost scary to be felt that way, but this is what art is for... Link in bio for the newborn project #PhantomFeeling produced by @aceboogie7
And I keep having this dream where I survive a shipwreck
Washed up on an island that nobody knows exists yet
Couldn’t shake the feeling that the shit was kismet
So I never tried to send a signal of distress
I took vines from the trees and made a fish net
And I casted it out along the inlet
First time I ever felt that I could get rest
So when the search team came, guess what I did next
I headed for the hills, I hid deep in a ridge cleft
With the insects right next to a wren's nest
Stayed there until I knew for certain the men left
'Cause the world they wanna put me in is a big mess
It's so beautiful, but everyday it's a bit less
Tell me why we can't get the water in Flint fresh
Meanwhile, the same people slave for a rent check
Seems like alone is the place where I fit best
Finally in a place with myself for company
I know that you sent for me
But I won't be returning
I wont be returning, no
I found myself lost at sea, realizing it takes time to see
The things that you've been yearning for
And I won't be returning, no
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12. |
Immortal
03:17
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Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away
So what's the voice that you hear when you read to yourself
And everything else you can't see but is felt
You leave ice in the heat and it melts
But that water's still water, you can drink to your health, yeah
It's energy, there's no creating or destroying it
It's still water, even when you start boiling it
Life goes on, even if you ain't enjoying it
You might as well create the panacea from the poisonous
I'll make a noise that's boisterous while my voice exists
The world is what my oyster is
I'm 'bout to stick a sword in it
Blade pointing an Ancient Pistol at Dr. Morbius
The way I'm living, boy, you know I'm an immortalist
I think of a rhyme, write it down and record it then
So I can take it for a spin next time I'm born agai,
Going back to the future with no Delorean
No dashboard or fast forward
It's straight from the origin
Like, yeah
My niggas, we immortal
That's why you see the light at end of the portal
When I die, don't cry, 'cause I'm coming back for you
Yeah, I'm coming back for you
That's why my niggas is immortal
That's why we see the light at the end of the portal
When I die, don't cry, 'cause I'm coming back for you
Yeah, I'm coming back for you
This is for the men and women who were murdered by one time
Even children, 'cause they're trying to cut off our bloodlines
Them suicidal sufferers, the people who done tryin'
I'm here to tell you all you're coming back like the sunshine
It's reincarnation, so while you stargazing
You're looking at a representation of our nation
Maybe I'll have a daughter with the spirit of my momma
Pure like before she ever suffered from the trauma
I swear I'll never understand why she hit eject
'Cause everybody had the understanding that she's blessed
A part of me guesses that she just needed a reset
My biggest challenge is giving her memory respect
So Father, please forgive her
Then forgive me next
Guide me in your righteousness
I'll go with your lead
So many of the oppressed are feeling so depressed
They tried to bury us and didn't know we were seeds
That's right, that's why
That's why my niggas is immortal
That's why you see the light at the end of the portal
When I did, don't cry, 'cause I'm coming back for you
Yeah, I'm coming back for you
Yeah, that's right, that's why
That's why my niggas is immortal
That's why you see the light at the end of the portal
When I did, don't cry, 'cause I'm coming back for you
Said I'm coming back for you
Now keep it moving like this, keep it moving like that
If I die, I'ma only come back
Keep it moving like this, keep it moving like that
If I die, I'ma only come back
Keep it moving like this, keep it moving like that
If I die, I'ma only come back
Keep it moving like this, keep it moving like that
If I die, I'ma only come back
My niggas is immortal, immortal, immortal
My niggas is immortal, immortal, immortal
My niggas is immortal, immortal, immortal
My niggas is immortal, immortal, immortal
My niggas is immortal, immortal, immortal
My niggas is immortal, immortal, immortal
My niggas is immortal, immortal, immortal, immortal
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13. |
Phantom of the Outro
01:03
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Yamin Semali East Point, Georgia
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