05/03/2024 Click here for Spotify, Apple Music, or Youtube. “Westside Connection” is my 76th official release and my 116th track published. This 6-track EP features Kokane from the alcoholics, Tash from the dirty ogs, Xzibit, and Kxng Crooked. This is intellectual music with a hardcore vibe and a west coast sound that pays homage to west coasts legends like Dr. Dre along with conscious bars along side of some of the regions top mcees. It’s more than an album, it a connection, and it not just any connection, it’s a westside connection. The beats and features are all from Anno Domini. The entire project was produced by Keyano and the cover art is by Gigzlogo from Fiverr.
I talk about this blog post and other updates in the latest Sunday update here:
I actually really like “Symphonies.” I took the liberty of explaining why I haven’t made it yet in “hot fire.” I assume the position of and alcoholic and I show you whats important at the end.
Project overgrowth was a domestic civilian disobedience campaign that got started in chat rooms in the 1990s. The government had outlawed marijuana to such a degree that even having it on your land could land you in prison for decades. The problem and advantage is the plant is everywhere, and grows like a weed. So the project was to tell people to take marijuana seeds and plant them everywhere, especially in public parks until there is an overgrowth.
I did a word of the day rhyme for months. I wanna say 7 months, without looking. It doesn’t create enough attention and I don’t have the money or willpower to really make it have that wow factor. I want it to be fun and if I have to worry about all the technical aspects its not fun. Anyways, it’s my aspiration to achieve and like I said in my top 10 that I publish ever year on the blog, to work with Dr. Dre is the ultimate dream.
Lyrics
Afterlife
(Xzibit’s verse)
Forever ever we rock the mic
Even when we’re dead the real will Rise
Like that zombie shit
That Jesus did
My music resurrects the feelin given
That self-determination
And inventive creation
Derivation
And attitude that’s audacious
X and I are legends
Next level like the episode
On the metronome
We flex on um, impeccable
The way we rhyme, it’s on a pedestal
These pussies are, delectable
My rise to the top is inevitable
Cuz I’m the shit, colorectal flow
From west coast to midwest
We have the most fun
They flex, but we test
And show them up
When you see me playa, just roll up a blunt
And we can reminisce about all songs we’ve done
Show you, how i did it all for the love
And bring this energy to the industry and build up my buzz
So there’s one thing that I seek
I need you listening to my symphonies
What you know about a fan base
Or all the hate you can take
Or all the waves you can break
When you surfing the music sample bank
It’s my destiny, to rock these beats
I be standing on my own two bringing that heat
That fire, to light the blunt
I’m looking at Xzibit like pass the Dutch
Alcohol and bud, I’m just tryna amass a buzz
They dissuade and front, while I rage and stunt
We fresh bud, you distillate carts
Been real from the start, and an ace, word to cards
This shit hear not for the faint of heart
Soon I’ll be meticulously arhythmically climbing the charts
What goes up, must come down
Unless you escape Earth’s gravity and your outer space-bound
Shh, you won’t hear a sound
As I transcend and descend on you and come for the crown
From west coast to midwest
We have the most fun
They flex, but we test
And show them up
When you see me playa Just roll up a blunt
And we can reminisce about all songs I have done
Show you that I do it for the love
And bring this energy to the industry and build up my buzz
So there’s just one thing that I seek
I need you listening to my symphonies
Hot Fire
I was putting in work
While you were getting worked on
I’m a hundred percent independent dawg
I own my own masters and control my songs
They trust in me because my word is bond
Bang this in the east
Bang this in the west
Turn up the base and make it sweat
Hot fire, on the deck
I bring the heat, til she wet and vexed
I ain’t in a gang but damn I bang
These lyrics are a verbal assault that I slang
You should be offended by what I have to say
They like my evil, sinister accolades
Sit and Stu in your hate, cuz I do what you can’t
I’m here to piss the world off and take some names
Of these wack Mcees that think they’re great
Cuz they can’t compare to what I’ve made
I was putting in work
While you were getting worked on
I’m a hundred percent independent dawg
I own my own masters and control my songs
They trust in me because my word is bond
Bang this in the east
Bang this in the west
Turn up the base and make it sweat
Hot fire, on the deck
I bring the heat, til she wet and vexed
I been grinding for years, without reward
I’ve made less and spent more than that job of yours
Tryna build an audience to go on tour
But the algorithm not interested in promoting my store
Success in the industry is more about
Who you know, not the songs you put out
How much you have to invest Is basically clout
Cuz you can pay for the promotion that plays you loud
In hip-hop, hard work doesn’t pay off
Unless you have an audience and can rock a crowd
If you don’t agree then tell me how
When the room is empty that plays your sound
But This flow so retro like you got it on your iPod
I wanna get that money like a reticulating python
Real real long, like pics from a Nikon
It’ll be forever Until I die like Rit or Dylon
I was putting in work
While you were getting worked on
I’m a hundred percent independent dawg
I own my own masters and control my songs
They trust in me because my word is bond
Bang this in the east
Bang this in the west
Turn up the base and make it sweat
Hot fire, on the deck
I bring the heat, til she wet and vexed
Happy Hour
(Hook)
We drinkin beers, takin shots
As you’re sippin suds, let your body rock
Weather in the cut, club or spot
Alcohol is what you got
This really isn’t funny, I have problems
And make them go away by shooting vodka
My gaba receptors can’t handle the interruption
I’d probably have a seizure if i just drank nothing
So Imma lean back sippin
World Spinnin for my health
We need free healthcare
Before I can afford some help
I spend money on addiction
Not accumulating wealth
As long as a drink in my hand
The problem solves itself
At the bar playin the game “you call it”
At happy hour,
(Hook)
This the type of music, To tell you how to do it
Because Technically, alcohol is a solution
My therapist said I need healing
But I don’t like sharing
So I drink, till I can’t feel feelings
Tennessee and Kentucky like a country song
That’s Jack and Jim whiskey in my cup
Thought I found a girl to love, and have some fun
Turns out I can’t remember who she was
You’re not a bad person because you drink
We all got problems, I hope you see
It’s okay to fall apart, relapse, and binge
Tacos fall apart and we still love them
But Cirrhosis of the liver ain’t gon’ develop itself
It needs help, so call me
(Hook)
We drinkin beers taking shots
As your sippin suds, let your body rock
Weather in the cut, club or spot
Alcohol is what you got
This the type of music, To tell you how to do it
Because Technically, alcohol is a solution
Damn I’m thirsty, I hope they serve me
If not I’m asserting
Project Project Overgrowth
(Tash Verse)
Puff puff pass and blaze the weed up
From Michigan to Cali go and spread that seed stock
This is Protect Project overgrowth
Go ahead and help it grow
This sound like the dope you roll and smoke
Puff puff pass and blaze the weed up
From Michigan to Cali go and spread that seed stock
This is Protect Project overgrowth
Go ahead and help it grow
This sound like the dope you roll and smoke
Throw those seeds in ditches
Til the weed takes grip and then
Plant them in parks
Undercover at dark
On the side of the road
Or in a box in your home
They call it a weed, so plant it and let it grow
The plan is to overwhelm the government
With marijuana germaneness
Put in the work to get
An overgrowth of permanence
Blow her back out
Then she ask for it again like please
All my boys with the bud be like “sheesh”
I do it for the love, and that buzz, capeesh
To bad we can’t make THC outta yeast
Drink a drink that beer
I know you’re thirsty
Celebrate, go shawty, it’s your birthday
Drink a drink that beer
I know you’re thirsty
Celebrate, go shawty, it’s your birthday
God’s plant is calling you to get dirtay
What you need to do
Is plant weed for Earth Day
then
Puff puff pass and blaze the weed up
From Michigan to Cali go and spread that seed stock
This Protect Project overgrowth
Go ahead and help it grow
This sound like the dope you roll and smoke
Puff puff pass and blaze the weed up
From Michigan to Cali go and spread that seed stock
This Protect Project overgrowth
Go ahead and help it grow
This sound like the dope you roll and smoke
These cali girls got me pitchin a tent
At Cocella wishing I was playin a set
Ride down PCH lookin out west
And she’s like “I want you to stay and get wet”
Cuz I do it for my girls
That growing all the herb
Harvest every 10 days when I’m chilling with her
She always horney, and likes to be on top
Feeling trim, and like a lollipop
Break it break it down now
How they gonna find out?
Germinate and spread around
Seeds while in your local town
Then
Drink a drink that beer
I know your thirsty
Celebrate, go shawty, it’s your birthday
Drink a drink that beer
I know your thirsty
Celebrate, go shawty, it’s your birthday
God’s plant is calling you to get dirtay
What you need to do
Is plant weed for Earth Day
then
Puff puff pass and blaze the weed up
From Michigan to Cali go and spread that seed stock
This Protect Project overgrowth
Go ahead and help it grow
This sound like the dope you roll and smoke
Puff puff pass and blaze the weed up
From Michigan to Cali go and spread that seed stock
This Protect Project overgrowth
Go ahead and help it grow
This sound like the dope you roll and smoke
Aspiration
I’ve made my name, like Dr Dre
I’m a legend from the lane I’ve paved
Edutainment, what you learn today?
Aspiration is the word of the day
Aspiration is about what you aspire to be
A goal that you strive for and try to believe
Obstacles in the way of what you're trying to reach
Is how you dominate adversity and learn to achieve
Failure is natural,
Make up what they lack, envoke
If you don’t have the capital
Put in the work until it’s equitable
If you have hate in your heart, let it flow
Back into your home and shut the door
Don’t start nothing, it won’t be nothing
Unless it’s your hope
To spread some love at the show
I got that feeling and let ‘em know
Coming real, is the next episode
I’ve made my name, like dr Dre (still)
I’m a legend From The lane I’ve paved
Edutainment, what you learn today?
Aspiration is the word of the day
Aspiration is about what you aspire to be
A goal that you strive for and try to believe
Obstacles in the way of what you're trying to reach
Is how you dominate adversity and learn to achieve
I need a doctor because I forgot about Dre
But the physician said, it’s nothing but a G thing
What your seeking, is chronic and riesling
You gotta guilty conscious from the envy you’re feeling
No diggity, I got some California love
All the way from Michigan I’ve been telling them thugs
From the D to LBC is the simplest cuz
That’s the route of the next shipment of bud
So I roll another blunt and try to focus
On writing dope bars while I’m toke’n
Puffin the leaf often leaves me stolid
But Dre in my mind saying “make it explosive”
We gotta smoke that weed, some devils spinach
While tracking the lyrics on beat and rhythm
I’m telling you, look before you finish
Let me put some kush up in it
I’ve made my name, like dr Dre (still)
I’m a legend from the lane I’ve paved
Edutainment, what you learn today?
Aspiration is the word of the day
Aspiration is about what you aspire to be
A goal that you strive for and try to believe
Obstacles in the way of what you're trying to reach
Is how you dominate adversity and learn to achieve
What If
Yo what's happening, it's King Crooked
I dedicate this to all the rappers out there
That's better than the rapper that's on right now
I know it's hard, hold up
I know you wanna make it to the tip-top
But it's difficult to get it in Hip-hop
So you side hustle, bag it in the Zip-Loc
Cause you're too lyrical to go viral on TikTok
Under the radar every time your shit drops
Cause they listening to kidz bop
And you like 'Ah nah... Dog... Y'all really think that shit's hot?!'
How many spitters the top ten got pen drop
Silence of the Lambs there's too many sheep
While you reaching for your dreams there's too many asleep
But you in there deep so you gotta keep going through the pain and the failure
You gotta keep growing
Let me tell you what this shit is about
This rap biz is a math quiz, figure it out
Bigger the problem you solve, the bigger your house
Bigger the cheques and six figure amounts hit your account
If music is your real occupation
This ain't no rap homie this is a consultation
A business conversation about your operation
I see the spot you're chasing like Roc Nation
What if you never meet Jay
You never meet Em'
What of you never meet Dre
You never meet them
You better be ready
You're never overweight to take chances
Then your chances can never be slim
I want you to make it
I know I can make it, I’ll build it up
Put in the work, but still hope for luck
In this philosophy of mine and I’ll tell you what
As long as the sun shines, Imma soak it up
I know I can make it, I’ll build it up
Put in the work, but still hope for luck
In this philosophy of mine and I’ll tell you what
As long as the sun shines, Imma soak it up
I don’t need to be at the tip-top
Just wanna represent hip-hop
Banksy to my Basquiat
Be like exit through the gift shop
Wanna bump it loud
Make the OGs proud
Be like he bite me here
But made it his own sound
I wanna be like Tyrese
Represent and take the lead
Change what you see
By educating through reach
Work with platinum producers
Teach my audience cool shit
Find a new ways to grove to it
While we’re making the music
Of course I want to meet Dr. Dre
But I’d take Timberland or DJ Quik
I would be honored to lay a rift
See if you’re open, and have the bandwidth
I’ll serve Um up like a sandwich
Put on Jurmain Dupree as the deli meat
Pharelle as the cheese and spread upon the Mustard seed
Learn some alchemist, Classified, or the Rza
Got that Metro Boomin' Swizz Beats like J Dilla
I know I can make it, I’ll build it up
Put in the work, but still hope for luck
In this philosophy of mine and I’ll tell you what
As long as the sun shines, Imma soak it up
I know I can make it, I’ll build it up
Put in the work, but still hope for luck
In this philosophy of mine and I’ll tell you what
As long as the sun shines, Imma soak it up
It’s hard not to be dark
Damn Crooked brought the art
I think about it all the time
What if my dreams are never realized
What if I never meet Em, What if I never meet Tay
What if I never meet Mary and get carried away
What if I never meet Cary and try to marry her and stay
What if we don’t become us but face rejection all the way
What if I never find love
What if I never become the one
What if I stop putting up money
Cash my chips and say I’m done
But on the real homie, I’ve already made it
I don’t have to work but still can’t pay for it
This all me, I don’t get no help
Don’t have a label or a manager, hell
I don’t have the money, I’m going into debt
Cuz this an investment and it’s going to sell
But what if I never blow up
What is I can never afford a home
What if investing in this rap shit was what’s was really wrong
What if I never get the opportunity to get out on stage
What if they never get to see love your way
What if my meds fail and I find myself harboring
Malcontent for the ones that are starving
What if my cards are spent
And my chips are in
I’m called and fallen
Come up short and like Van Gogh
I paint it like Bawden
She gotta know I’m all in
I love her and the thought of it
But what if I never meet Charlotte
I know I can make it, I’ll build it up
Put in the work, but still hope for luck
In this philosophy of mine and I’ll tell you what
As long as the sun shines, Imma soak it up
I know I can make it, I’ll build it up
Put in the work, but still hope for luck
In this philosophy of mine and I’ll tell you what
As long as the sun shines, Imma soak it up
And I know I’ll make it, cuz I’ll build it up
Put in the work, but still hope for luck
In this philosophy of mine and I’ll tell you what
As long as the sun shines, Imma soak it up
I know I can make it, I’ll build it up
Put in the work, but still hope for luck
In this philosophy of mine and I’ll tell you what
As long as the sun shines, Imma soak it up
All the what-ifs in the world can’t amount to the action you take