1. |
Family
03:43
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[Intro]
Hey
Where are we now
Yeah
You know I’ve hit a point in life where I don’t see the value in being around people I can’t trust
Doesn’t mean we have to be blood ‘cause I’ve got family members who’ve done some wicked stuff
But at the end of the day we fall back on one thing and that’s love
And that’s the only thing that’ll take you up
Hey, aye, aye, aye
[Chorus]
I put The Family over everything
Would drop anything I’m doing for you
And how they act is unsettling
Falling out voluntarily with who created your youth
I put The Family over everything
It doesn’t matter where I’m at in the world
After that it goes God, health, friends, wealth, paper in abundance and protecting my girl
And I’m alive, so I’m reppin’ for The Fam still
What I stand for is never at a standstill, I give you my word
You see me sticking to the plan still
Never waste a minute trippin’ to the landfill, I live and I learn
Doesn’t matter where I’m at, anytime
Any lows, any highs, I’ma always be around for you
Direct line anytime, direct flight to where you’re at if it’s needed
Family is what we do
Over everything
Anything and anyone…
[Verse]
Yea
Get frustrated when we outta touch
Been dedicating my time to gettin’ my power up
Can feel my sins wash off me when I shower up
I got family in the ground, I know they proud of us
No matter what be happening I ain’t allowed to fuss
Long as the fam’s good, your man’s good
The shockwave is devasting if I hustle weak
‘Cause everything has got a cost you know that nothing’s cheap
Type of mentality that really stuck with me
You know the time we spend together is my luxury, one and only
Not taking care of who created us is nothing holy
Financial freedom is necessary get up and own it
Without a single sip I’m good at having double vision
Take the music scene and switch it up to something different
Boston my Mecca spent every one of my summers in it
Divide and conquer, then switch it up to another city
Nah
Reinvest and stay loyal
Growing out the same soil
As family that came before him
My grandfather spent his life inside a tannery
Did it for The Family
Sacrifice you can’t believe
Built a three family up, to keep my grandmamma stable
Passed away from heartache but gave her all that he was able
I’ll do my best to go match it
Family over everything, its modern day magic
You know it
Yeah
Flash forward he a poet
And gettin’ this ship rollin’
[Chorus]
Hey
I put The Family over everything
Would drop anything I’m doing for you
And how they act is unsettling
Falling out voluntarily, with who created your youth
I put The Family over everything
It doesn’t matter where I’m at in the world
After that it goes God, health, friends, wealth, paper in abundance and protecting my girl
[Outro]
Yeah
Over everything
Anything and anybody
Yeah
Cassidy
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2. |
Guillotine
03:16
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[Intro]
Yeah
92 Elm on the beat
Gettin' Cass on his feet
[Chorus]
Still the one to lose my head without a guillotine
Smoke that’s crowding up my section means we never sleep
I rock with me myself and I they know that we the team
I hope we make it out alive you got to let me breathe
Still the one to lose my head without a guillotine
Fog that’s crowding up my section means we never sleep
I rock with me myself and I you know the winning team
I hope we make it out alive you just got to believe
[Verse 1]
Unless we talking ‘bout my own, I need no company
Just something to ice it up and poor a cup for me
Slowing down all the drama mix up with Dramamine
Psyche, I get higher off life than you can do with lean
Connor Cassidy the mother******* new machine
Smoke me out and have me sleeping on the bluest dreams
Coasting out the 7th wonder of the 7 seas
Call them back and put my Ex’s into ecstasy, never mind
I keep it moving like a gentle breeze
Slow and steady, ‘till I get the bag I never leave
Been spending heavy hoping God has put his trust in me
The only luxury I need is all the winning keys
I got no time to behave
I got no time to relate
If you sinking lower man
Hop over you we overcame
Might get a little PTSD from all the pictures that a soldier paints
Come here I’ll numb you up with Novocain
We oceans away
Hey
And I’m dressed like oceans 11 get paid
Hey, hey hey hey
Yea
[Chorus]
Still the one to lose my head without a guillotine
Smoke that’s crowding up my section means we never sleep
I rock with me, myself and I, they know that we the team
I hope we make it out alive you got to let me breathe
Still the one to lose my head without a guillotine
Fog that’s crowding up my section means we never sleep
I rock with me myself and I, you know the winning team
I hope we make it out alive you just got to believe
Still the one to lose my head without a guillotine
They know we never sleep
Not the winning team
I hope we make it out alive you got to let me breathe
[Verse 2]
Cold-blooded, so flooded
Tripping out with no luggage
Hold grudges, only on bitches that I just don’t fuck with
Nose running’, trouble I can sniff it out
All the shit you bitch about reveals who you are
No living out of my car
I’m driven now; my fence is how I pick it now
I roll around
The blocks, my momma used to push a stroller out
I’m older now
I lift it up and hold it down
I split the swisher down the middle turn my sins into a cloud, and then I’m out
I get it moving man
Shooting and we crop you out the movie frame
This is who I am I don’t know to blame
The vices of the music game
Money, women, power, sign me up you know my true disdain
Is living on the cusp
[Chorus]
Still the one to lose my head without a guillotine
Fog that’s crowding up my section means we never sleep
I rock with me myself and I you know the winning team
I hope we make it out alive you just got to believe
Hey
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3. |
City Lights
05:08
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Uh, Cut the city lights out
Roll around, let our eyes get adjusted like night owls, on the move
A little bit of cash in the trunk
I’m Living right now, you can have what it was
I cut the city lights out
I let the night come in
I only got so many left so I’ma max what it is
Get this shit maxed out
The night darkens up the life above ground
Cut the city lights out
VERSE 1
Bring us back to the roots
Melatonin starts releasing at the sight of the moon
Nonetheless we wide awake, and out of state on the move
I go wherever I gotta go, I’ma go and get to it
I gotta lot to entertain me but I dodge it like bullets
I gotta be really be willing to die to live my life to my fullest
I cut the city lights out, and see motherfucking day fade
Never pay attention to what they say, life is me and God
Uh, No separation is all
If my station is on
You won’t hear this bullshit today’s rappers passing off
Look I’m talking like an old head
Love the style that I know’s dead
Well shit let’s let it be gone
I gotta lotta shit to say inside the time that we have
And more importantly a lot of time to hop in a bag
Let’s keep the remedy strong
Uhh, Cut the city lights out
Roll around, let our eyes get adjusted like night owls, on the move
A little bit of cash in the trunk
I’m Living right now, you can have what it was
I cut the city lights out
And let the night come in
I only got so many left so I’ma max what it is
Get this shit maxed out
The night darkens up the life above ground
Cut the city lights out
Got a lot of shit on my mind
I tell her get me out of it
But Connor what’s it’s matter? It’s a matter of time
Before our time runs out of it
Don’t spend your whole life trying to block what it is
The present is a gift I call it pressure to live
Besides dawg there’s just way too much paper to get
For us to ever let us let depression exist, uh
My brother still taking pills
He been doctor prescribed
I saw the whole thing the fall off the loss of his vibe
Tinder bitches with him all of the time
Yet he’s empty in soul
I’ve seen his highs so I’ma see him through his heaviest lows
Seratonin levels drop to the floor
Try’s to kill the pain out with the smoke
We take a drive at night with all the city lights low
I tell him dawg this isn’t you you, find your way home
Now
Uhh, Cut the city lights out
Roll around, let our eyes get adjusted like night owls, on the move
A little bit of cash in the trunk
With what I’m living right now, you can have what it was
I cut the city lights out
And let the night come in
I only got so many left so I’ma max what it is
Get this shit maxed out
The night darkens up the life above ground
Cut the city lights out
Clocking out if I get uninspired
Hit the road and swerve
Sacrifices getting made shout the folks I I curve
Not waiting till the end of every week to get it turnt
I never read the manual I jump inside the game and learn
Only way to do it
Let’s make another movie
I get the hell up out the cast if it just doesn’t move me
Not broke enough for me to compromise
So I don’t make decisions solely for my bottom-line
Bottoms up, Player
Self conflicted all the time
Too many choices for me
I got to live or see it first for me to voice a story
The city lights are low
That’s when people are in there rawest form, letting go
Let the Truth be known
Though I don’t know the truth, truth be told
I act on what I feel, and let emotions go, lock and load
Cut the city lights out
Burning, bridges behind him find another way out
To the night
Uhh, Cut the city lights out
Roll around, let our eyes get adjusted like night owls, on the move
A little bit of cash in the trunk
How I’m Living right now, you can have what it was
I cut the city lights out
And let the night come in
I only got so many left so I’ma max what it is
Get this shit maxed out
The night darkens up the life above ground
Cut the city lights out
I cut the city lights out and get this motherfucking rolling
Uhh, Got to whip it like it’s stolen
I bet they can’t see me now
Cut the city lights out
Cassidy
So Special
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4. |
Dedicated
04:27
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[Intro: Connor Cassidy]
Hey
Me
Yeah
Lately been waking up to the dream
Rollin’ over to kiss the neck of my queen
You say you got it I wonder what do you mean?
Cause I don’t see you going out for the team
[Chorus: Connor Cassidy]
Pray that time will get you dedicated
Yeah, they rock your jersey around the city the art of being celebrated
Yeah, took advantage of when they hesitated
Man, I pray the shine will keep you dedicated
Yeah, no high like it, climb higher for the sake of those who never made it
The real among us get separated
Hey, It comes down to being dedicated
[Verse 1: Connor Cassidy]
Ones and twos until the knuckles bruise
Feels like yesterday bouncers said who the f*** is you
Young and overeducated sung a ton of blues
Now single women that come in twos get you comfortable
Mix the ganja with the whisky get you medicated
A metaphor for how I take the bar and elevate it
Something new to refresh me and boost my meditation, up
Yeah, been spending paper like I don’t know how to save it
My spirit getting contagious, I roll a clip and I face it
I travel to different places
The perks of negotiating with God of how I been fated, is what?
Full control of my mind in every occasion
No problem with compensation, no desperation of love
Double down on dedication, a declaration of us
Cause it’s the only testament of what it was…
Give my sweat and my blood
[Chorus: Connor Cassidy]
Pray that time will get you dedicated
Yeah, they rock your jersey around the city the art of being celebrated
Took advantage of when they hesitated
Yeah, I pray the shine will keep you dedicated
Yeah, no high like it, climb higher for the sake of those who never made it
The real among us get separated
Hey, it comes down to being dedicated
[Verse 2: Connor Cassidy]
Still surrounded by faces going through worse
Cancer patients who live and die by the word
Dedication it relates to any person on this Earth
Who got something they fightin’ for when it’s worth it
I don’t got the same circle that I had when I was young
Wanted more than nightlife and so it put us out of touch
Stream of narcotics I was pumping through my blood I put a end to it
Big life lesson quit just doing what your friends doing
Let out my heart and tat the venue with my pen fluid
Buggin’ cause the shit that I love I’m paying my rent through it
Dedication
Quiet victory’s I celebrate ‘em
And tip my cap for the one’s behind us who never made it
Yeah, But everybody dies we share a final destination
Roller coaster ride of my life, is teaching me hella patience
I can’t afford to just talk about it, I demonstrate it
It comes down to being dedicated
[Chorus: Connor Cassidy]
Yeah, they rock your jersey around the city the art of being celebrated
Took advantage of when they hesitated
Yeah, I hop the shine will get you dedicated (This one for you Connor)
Yeah, no high like it, climb higher for the sake of those who never made it (You hear that n****
It comes down to being dedicated
[Verse 3: Kyle Bent]
Lately I been on some other s*** getting my mind right
Soul type, different universe getting my price right
Boston turned a n***** cold she gon’ ask what the ice like
I put the wrist up, gling, baby I shine bright
I said I’m meditative, medicated, and inflated
I got the plans in my mind you know we created
I open portals in your consciousness I play it like matrix
Baby when you wake up the whole world gon’ be calling you crazy
I’m driven, I’m passionate, they cannot stop the kid
I got the biggest heart, my veins might pop & s***
I’m a wholesome soul & my spirit might blind ‘em
Who the f****** man? I had to remind ‘em… Bent
My parents got introduced to a new me
Young king, no Egyptian I’m not no newbie
Business n**** just like Jay-Z, formalities don’t suit me
She gon’ suck this soul, then she gon’ call it juicy
[Chorus: Connor Cassidy]
Kyle I pray you stay dedicated (N**** that’s fire I don’t what the f*** you talkin’ about)
Yeah, they rock your jersey around the city the art of being celebrated
Took advantage of when they hesitated
Yeah, I pray the shine will keep you dedicated
Yeah, no high like it, climb higher for the sake of those who never made it
See the real among us get separated
Hey, it comes down to being dedicated
[Outro: Connor Cassidy]
Ice
Cold
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5. |
Stories
04:19
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[Intro]
I got stories for days, kid
Stories for days
Yeah
[Chorus]
I got stories of life
Got stories of pain
Got stories of love, I got stories of drugs
I got stories of God, got stories of me
Got stories of people who I know and that I see
I got stories of times in my memory
Stories of my friends and all my enemies
Got stories of the nights, stories in the safe
Come on over, you’ll get the story of the day
Get the story of the day
[Verse 1]
It’s gettin’ late I throw my coat on
My exit what I prolong
Haven’t been here in so long
But all of my friends are so gone
So they won’t notice
I make my Irish goodbye
Get outside, where it’s quiet
Then scenery fills my iris
Get on the road and pass the medium-sized houses dipped in white
Drippin’ ice, snowfall is like a giant poltergeist
I call my lady, checkin’ on her, hope she up I know I’m right
I make a right and park the car at the rightest side of the yard
And then, right when I park
I get a call from momma
Telling me my momma's momma’s
Bedside with a doctor saying she ain’t got me much longer
I make my way as fast as I can
She got Alzheimer’s and so she doesn’t know who I am, and yet
Somehow she smiles, whole fam is there and cryin’
‘Cept my Dad but yeah he’s stressing cause my mom is scared of death
And she doesn’t want to let a parent go
The strong one is my apparent role
I smile and her eyes close, she goes
[Chorus]
I got stories of life
Got stories of pain
Got stories of love, I got stories of drugs
I got stories of God, got stories of me
Got stories of people who I know and that I see
I got stories of times in my memory
Stories of my friends and all my enemies
Got stories of the nights, stories in the safe
Come on over, you’ll get the story of the day
Get the story of the day
[Verse 2]
Yeah
Fresh up out the freshman class, got to save the best for last
Red sox cap-wearing Cass is who you know me as
The frat house is where my homies at they rushed it early
I saw ‘em go through pledgin’... body abuse to earn it
Swallowing vodka like it’s water to impress the older brothers
Puke themselves like they some models in this club
This s***’* disgusting
Not really my style
But I did it too, the ridicule I got from fam was wild
Connor what the f***
Been hearing on the up and up
You partying with the wrong crowd
Your quote-unquote brother caught a rape charge
And molly is what he stays on
Tellin’ me that’s that s*** you went to school to do?
Your momma slaves her life to pay your bills and you just cruising through?
Nah brotha this ain’t you
Telling my cousin to calm down
He says “Dawg you family, if you fail you bring us all down”
Chills… when somebody says what’s real
He says “It’s never too late to breathe life in time that you killed… get right”
[Chorus]
I got stories of life
Got stories of pain
Got stories of love, I got stories of drugs
I got stories of God, got stories of me
Got stories of people who I know and that I see
I got stories of times in my memory
Stories of my friends and all my enemies
Got stories of the nights, stories in the safe
Come on over, you’ll get the story of the day
Get the story of the day
[Verse 3]
I got stories of fear
I got stories of faith
Got stories I would never tell nobody in this place
I got stories of livin’
Got stories of dyin’
Got stories of actually doing, stories of tryin’
Got stories up, apartment’s on the seventh floor, I’m higher
Stories of what’s real, I got some stories where I’m lyin’
Got some stories so fire they could heat entire venues
Got so many stories I’ma probably never get to but we movin’ on
[Outro]
Yeah
Off-key, don’t care mother******
Yeah
I got stories of me
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6. |
Cold Blooded
05:20
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Yeah
Grateful for it all
The good, the bad
Grateful for it all
I’m in and out so keep the motor running
The deal is done way in advance there should be no discussion
Just put the paper in my hand, don’t waste a moment of it
Shout out the world cause she don’t owe me nothing, no
Ice is in my veins man I’m cold-blooded
I guess December here to stay man I’m cold-blooded, woah
Cause we don’t got a lot of old money
Young on and my grizzle keep the motor running, up
Yeah, couldn’t slow me down with Robitussin
My energy level stuck I’m keeping my soul a hundred
We spread across the map don’t got a lot of local cousins
Wonder if success would put us back in touch, there’s no discussion
Nowadays, heard that ****’s back in jail again
Somewhere in the south it’s only rumors I’m inhaling in
I tune ‘em out
Focus on my own grind
Selfish and my watch is only spinning on my own time
Got family closer to me not part of my bloodline
Loyalty been shown they reaped and sowed it more than enough times
As I grow in life, I only value who I trust
I believe in preparation, I don’t really believe in luck
Connor you Irish or what?
Half and half
I’m Arnold palmer grab a glass
To cool you out, the school is out
But I’m utilizing the math
I’ll work whatever job is highest paid
Pack the duffle up and swing it back to my estate
Capable of it though I never had the highest grades
Time was cash involved
Reinvest it back and throw it back it y’all
I got to see the world before the casket falls
5’5 know I chose music over basketball
I stack it till it’s taller than the rim, hey
I’m in and out so keep the motor running
The deal is done way in advance there should be no discussion
Just put the paper in my hand, don’t waste a moment of it
Shout out the world cause she don’t owe me nothing, no
Ice is in my veins man I’m cold-blooded
I guess December here to stay man I’m cold-blooded, woah
Cause we don’t got a lot of old money
Young and on and my grizzle keep my motor running, up
Stacking under Christmas lights
Life is fast-paced you might miss it if you misinclined
Game is no love I shoot a missile at the mistletoe
Need you by my side or it’s nothing don’t got a kiss to blow
Rubber tires hit the road
Tour until we burn ‘em out
Dreams have really hit the weights a lot of shit been working out
Mute whatever word is out
Silence is my way to live
Quiet down my soul my turbulence been on some crazy shit
Now
Yeah
And I just hope you proud
Hey
I’m in and out so keep the motor running
The deal is done way in advance there should be no discussion
Just put the paper in my hand, don’t waste a moment of it
Shout out the world cause she don’t owe me nothing, no
Ice is in my veins man I’m cold-blooded
I guess December here to stay man I’m cold-blooded, woah
Cause we don’t got a lot of old money
Young and on and my grizzle keep my motor running, up
Wait up
Young and on my grizzle keep my motor running way way up
Young and I’m cold-blooded
Young and I’m cold-blooded
95 degrees in the city yet I’m cold-blooded
Gripping paper we don’t hold grudges, nah
I’m in and out so keep the motor running
The deal is done way in advance there should be no discussion
Just put the paper in my hand, don’t waste a moment of it
Shout out the world cause she don’t owe me nothing, no
Yeah I’m cold-blooded
I guess December here to stay man I’m cold-blooded, woah
Cause we don’t got a lot of old money
Young and on and my grizzle keep my motor running, up
Hey
For it all
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7. |
Why Wait
04:08
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Yeah
Do it now
Yeah
Young but I’m dedicated to cash
Not even time to get medicated with hash
Lately can’t even resonate with my past
Keep my eyes on the present or future so where I’m at?
I got this bird’s eye view, of the game we in
Calculated and calm, that’s the way we live
Threads are dark like the nightlife we stay up in
Life a game, I been getting b-b-better at playing, know what I’m saying?
Spraying cheap liquor over the balcony
Valuing money different when you earning it hourly
Every dollars like a minute of time
In the summer we chill
In the winter we rhyme
In the spring, I spring up
Back into my prime
It keeps going cause we living in this infinite time
Viewpoint is sublime
Swiping my debit for new clothes
I notice my old highs, becoming my new lows
Run into a few folk that I knew from back when
Way before tuition started hitting my friends
Now everybody working double-time
Caught this lady out the corner of my other eye
Excuse me a minute
I haven’t seen her since I first tripped out in the city
50,000 downtown at a concert for Mac Miller
Now I’m standing here trying to get my mac on
Romantic attitude what I been back on
Show manners but I won’t let opportunity wait
I’ma a sharp enough fella I can cut to the chase
I say, “You’re still like the only 9 I see
So if you want to get some dinner that’d be fine by me, by me
On my way
Carpe Diem for every single day-ay-ay-ay-ay
I’ma tell you straight
I’m single I don’t got a single minute to waste
Not a day goes by
That your Boy ain’t fly
And I’m human so you know it’s just a matter of time
Before I fly away
We could die today
Mother****** why wait?
Yeah
While you got me here I’ma tell you why wait?
Yeah
I keep breaking through fear, mother****** why wait?
Yeah
Living nothing but real, cause mother****** why wait?
Mother****** why wait?
Do it now
They say I got high grade standards
Shawty in the hotel dancing
Time it out right, won’t chance it
We at a hotel in Seaport
That’s the B-town SOHO, the green shore
Money maker of the city
I’m guessing it’s 5 milli
Neighbor is an FBI agent, kinda pretty but she never home
Weed as loud as a megaphone
Couple high class problems y’allready know
The host showing it off, like he bought it with his own money…
Bet his parents gave him a loan, funny
Students want the flex on the Gram
Couple bottles in hand
When they never worked a day as man
Money’s power I ain’t saying it’s right
Women I brought with me, I bet they staying the night
My prediction was right
Cause my vision is tight
Later on Jackie even started dating the guy
Can’t say I’m surprised
F*** I came to party tonight
And you the one with s*** to lose, if we starting a fight
So say the word and we can throw hands
Either that or introduce me to your ol’ man
And we can get this bread
On my way
Carpe Diem for every single day-ay-ay-ay-ay
I’ma tell you straight
I’m single I don’t got a single minute to waste
Not a day goes by
That your Boy ain’t fly
And I’m human so you know it’s just a matter of time
Before I fly away
We could die today
Mother****** why wait?
Hey
While you got me here I’ma tell you why wait?
Yeah
I keep breaking through fear, mother****** why wait?
Yeah
Living nothing but real, cause mother****** why wait?
I’ma tell you why wait?
Why Wait…
Do it now
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8. |
Sad Boy
04:24
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Hey
I can’t stop
Nah
Yeah
You live and breathing why the hell you looking sad boy?
They got my picture everywhere I’m on them tabloids
They getting mad I got the action going mad boy
S*** if I like it then I’m hopping in my bag for it
You live and breathing what the hell you looking sad for?
I’m back to life, there isn’t s*** I’m looking back for
We laughing to the bank, I’m headed off the backboard
I graduated from a sad boy
Yeah
Forget a 7 day tour I kill that weak s*** off
B**** I’m driven even Uber drivers’ get pissed off
Pissing excellence so everyone’s who we piss off
Meditate until the Earth is something we lift off
You see some leeches tryna’ ride us up
Ladies tryna’ ties us up
Tell my barber line me up
I’m flying till my time is up
I wonder how high is really high enough?
My eyes above the clouds but looking down
I see my ride is stuck in traffic
Fate would have it that this s***’s a grind
My heart is cold I’m barely smiling when it’s picture time
My alibi for all the liquor that my liver finds
Just get me loose and let me see the fact I’m living fine
Lately swerving off the track and losing track of time
Getting back to my method of getting back in line
I promise
I wrote a big a**, I owe you to my college
I got some s*** to learn from life, as I maneuver my knowledge
I pop my cork and my collar, nothing short of a scholar
But feel like more of a doctor, filling orders for profit
Getting sort of obnoxious, go tell the coroner watch ‘em
They try to corner my logic, when I ain’t built for an office
Connor go cry about life is work, got to bring that mula in
Time is money know there ain’t no money in this music biz
Only in the movie clips, follow suit of Marky Mark
Shooting for the heavens if I fail I fall among the stars, gone
Yeah
You live and breathing why the hell you looking sad boy?
They got my picture everywhere I’m on them tabloids
They Getting mad I got the action going mad boy
S*** if I like it then I’m hopping out my bag for it
You live and breathing what the hell you looking sad for?
I’m back to life, there isn’t s*** I’m looking back for
We laughing to the bank, I’m headed off the backboard
I graduated from a sad boy
Yeah
Graduated un-employed
Money coming, reppin’ hard
So much for a better start…
Stage hopping, faces say “we don’t know who the hell you are”
Living out my repertoire
Set is getting set apart
The best for last and best of all
The b****** at this festival
Ain’t f***ing with the rest of y’all
Break ‘em off and never call
Aura stays forever on
Hit the road and pedal on
Silver to a golden road
My role inside the bigger picture plan the heavens only know, hoe
Come here let’s get it on
Heavy like I’m Megatron
Madness turn the treble on
I’m on some s*** they never on
Headed where they never been
History gets penciled in
Young and well accredited
Humans die and legends live
Momma praying let him live
Greatness is repetitive
Get us to some better s*** …
Don’t only make it tentative
A rapper or executive
Wondering which road to go
Fact of what it means to be a man is having cash to hold
I got to provide
Open up hop in the ride
Keeping god on his side
But got a lot on his mind
I been perfecting my vision it takes a lot of my time
Put my attention on my mission I can’t live on the line
No way
F*** being sad boy
Rather be a bad boy
City tracking mad noise
They follow us on tabloids
I rap to me I ain’t the one to ever tell you how you live
Addicted to the power till they knock us off the power grid, one
Yeah
You live and breathing why the hell you looking sad boy?
They got my picture everywhere I’m on them tabloids
They Getting mad I got the action going mad boy
S*** if I like it then I’m hopping out my bag for it
You live and breathing what the hell you looking sad for?
I’m back to life, there isn’t s*** I’m looking back for
We laughing to the bank, I’m headed off the backboard
I graduated from a sad boy
To the one
Hey, aye
And you know we get it done
And got these suckers on the run
Let it run, let it run
Yeah
Coming at you live
From Boston, Massachusetts to the world
Just wait till it’s my turn
Soon as I get this Dunkin’ Donuts sponsor
It’s a wrap for you
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9. |
Connection
04:37
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Cassidy
Woah, keep it low
Yeah
Can’t you see me head hunting?
Red rumming
Stress nothing
Any type of limitation seeing less of it
We just out here headhunting
Yeah
I keep the led pumping
Get some rest and kill the rest of ‘em
My words rip through flesh
You should invest in a vest
Though I ain’t waving a tech
B**** I’m just working in tech
It’s more dangerous
Social control man that’s a notion entertaining us
You barely skating by we playing billion dollar games
Got you addicted to the phone the drama hits your veins
That’s the s*** to bring my paycheck in
Sell your info off
To Cambridge Analytica and get my rims rinsed off
Lot of wealth gets concentrated making you drift off
Time to go I tell my team lift off
I’m getting paid for every single thing that you click on
Whether it’s fake news or not don’t give a f***
Long as you’re online for a long time
Let my technology learn you
And integrate the ads all into the blogs that you turn to
Just enough to spend the money you’re earning
Keep you up all night
We turn your life nocturnal
And let the world keep turning
High connection I can never get away from
I keep a tech on my side
I roll over in the morning and I check it when the day comes
I let it get in my mind
The life that I paint man I can never get away from it
With this tech on my side
I love my friends I’m checking on ‘em when the day comes
I let ‘em get in my mind
Though they ain’t even on my side
I’m head hunting, head rushing, red rumming
What’s around me I’ve been seeing less of it
Due to, tech on my side, glued to my eyes
The phone can only bring a bill I tell my momma “you right”
But it’s a high and so I’m cool to pay the price
I walk around heavy with this tech on my side
Got control of my mind
But f*** it I stress nothing my heads rushing
These companies are out here head hunting… us
I wonder do you get the punch like Tekken?
How the tools that we carry are technological weapons?
In Korea they got rehabilitation centers… for phones
The most highly used drug on the globe
Popularity’s a hell of a thing
Drive you into some p**** or suicide man it’s King
Cut attentions spans in half and got you chasing some bling
It can even get your a$$ into a bag, cha cha ching
You’re not a Queen not a King
High connection I can never get away from
I keep a tech on my side
I roll over in the morning and I check it when the day comes
I let it get in my mind
The life that I paint man I can never get away from it
It’s on the tech on my side
I love my friends I’m checking on ‘em when the day comes
I let ‘em get in my mind
Though they ain’t even on my side
I’m head hunting, head rushing, red rumming
What’s around me I’ve been seeing less of it
Due to, tech on my side, glued to my eyes
The phone can only bring a bill I tell my momma “you right”
But it’s a high and so I’m cool to pay the price
I walk around heavy with this tech on my side
Got control of my mind
But f*** it I stress nothing my heads rushing
These companies are out here head hunting… us
I got b***** asking me for the code to the Wifi
And it’s my time
High connection I can never get away from
I keep a tech on my side
I roll over in the morning and I check it when the day comes
I let ‘em get in my mind
The life that I paint man I can never get away from
It’s on the tech on my side
I love my friends I’m checking on ‘em when the day comes
I let ‘em get in my mind
Though they ain’t even on my side
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10. |
Not An Addict
03:48
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[Intro]
Yeah
Yeah
Give me a minute
Yeah
[Verse 1]
Wake up to a white capsule
Enough buzz to get me through the day by the night I’m back at it
I’m not an addict
I just like hugs from Jesus
My prescription keeps my drugs convenient
Ridin’ down the inner state
Late to work but on the way
And kind of like the sky my mind is grey
Reminded daily baby who the f*** I am
Gettin’ slapped with judgements hands
I hate the f****** job I got
Faking a smile for every customer up in the shop
F*** it, it’s all that I got
Cause I didn’t stay up in school
Wages are minimum
Caging adrenaline
I’ll never be s***
Wavy I’m seasick
Losing my focus
Double the dosage
Help me to cope with
All of the locals
Feeling immobile
20 and hopeless
Water is frozen
All the emotion
Numbing me slowly
Day and day out I make it to closing
Tossing and turning ‘til it’s in the mornin’
Wake up
Don’t pop a downer stay up
Rollin’ Sativa
Runnin’ an engine and runnin’ a fever
Wake up
Yeah
Don’t pop a downer stay up
Momma, I’m on my way up
I’m back to using straight up
Hey
Straight up
[Chorus]
The summit gettin’ higher every mile I climb
I’ll make it hard for you to read behind my smile I’m fine
Say what do I gotta’ lose?
I don’t hate you enough to tell you to walk in my shoes
I try to level my moods
Up and down as I ride around through the town, but I choose
To get a helping hand
My family probably thinks that I’m a selfish man, no-o-o-o
I see no problem with the way I am
I get addicted to the way I am
[Verse 2]
Yeah
You know she 22 & graduated
Dollar sign infatuated
Happy she ain’t come from wealth
She stacks it up her f****** self
I met her at my last occasion
Nice to meet you glad you made it
Watched her pop a pill to take her out the matrix
Nothing graceful
I done seen too many times
Demons come from drug encapsulation college times
To accept it now
I’ll see you out
I’m ain’t around that type of wild, won’t pretend
I see 2069 on every lawn around the bend
There’s people dying out here
Doctor prescribed
They making a killin’ in medical fines
No medical school, it’s better if I
Study the business and try to configure
A way we can flip it away from the riches
My nation is missing a modern solution
No money for therapy, turn to the music
Look at the times
[Bridge]
Hey
You know I read yesterday
That sixty-thousand people a year die from opioids in the U.S
If you know someone going through it
Find help and get it for ‘em now
[Chorus]
What do I gotta’ lose?
I don’t hate you enough to tell you to walk in my shoes
I try to level my moods
Up and down as I ride around through the town, but I choose
To take a helping hand
My family probably thinks that I’m a selfish man, no-o-o-o
I see no problem with the way I am
I get addicted to the way I am
[Outro]
Hey, aye
Sixty-thousand
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11. |
Already Us
04:21
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I hope you got it right
Yeah, plottin’ on the future hope you got it right
Hope it’s bottoms up
Fear that’s bottled up will muddy up your bottom line
Priorities are all aligned, I hate Connor cause I’m trippin’ on him all the time
Mistakes burn me and I learn we got some weights to lift up
Back on my grizzle, heat the stove and see it sizzle we young
Already jumpin’ the gun
Toxins jump out my body I sweat bullets, it triggers
Adrenaline and I rep this shit to the fullest
See me moving with a change in my pace
God’s my shooter I don’t got to keep a cobra on my waste
I stay away from the snakes
Around here when love is lost they let the hatred replace
Then bada bang but they high for them to properly aim
On my walk to school, I step on needles
Roxbury needs help, not these luxury apartments
We departed hope a while ago
Smiling though, ‘cause I’ma be a change to bring it back
Momma, what you think of that? An Irish boy on African soil
Conversating with Steal and we talkin’ ‘bout all the toil
City gentrified, the poorest in it left to die, they moving out cause rents are high
And students get incentivized with parents there to pay the fine
My aim as steep as Mission Hill
I steep my tea, while I stare at screens of this bigger pill, to swallow
Lack of money leaves you hollow when you halfway through college
And you hate that shit, but you suck it up and pay that shit
And pave your way through the classes and meanwhile your cashless
And watching rappers in your town get overhyped
Either that or they just move out to Cali leave us behind
And claim the city from a distance you a motherfuckin’ lie and we see it
But I’m done with complaining, hop on a plane to get mind away from hating
Cause there’s life to live, tonight was lit tomorrow will be iller though
Bitches come from different zones to party with us
Jäger and Bicardi mixtures smooth us out
Money comes in new amounts when work is life and God is now
Demons they get bodied down, the man I am I thought it out
Time is money, bought it out ahead of time
Got some lazy cousins want a better life? You better grind
I ain’t got no problem being straight with who I know
Shade? Nah it’s shine because it only makes us grow
Got to keep the honesty as absolute, more is what we have to do
Cash to gain and cash to lose, time to see what Cass can do
Where I take my talent to?
Stressin’ that I balance through the ups and downs of afterschool shifts for us to just survive
Though I don’t give a fuck if I got to run through thicker walls
Down to play my part, I know my heart is God, suffering is all mirage
Building up a mental callous, pedal faster, retroactive, silencing when bitches call
Better action manifests from better choices
And silence is a mix of all of heavens voices, straight up
Meditate until the drum inside my chest slows down
Let the blissful me in, let the rest of me zone out
Too many sides to ‘em quiet ‘em down
No single drug on the market will get you higher than now
Enough of that, you motherfuckers want to know what I’m plottin’ on lately?
Don’t you worry ‘bout it all it’s gonna take’s a little paper to show it
Mix mimosa out in Boulder I’m posted they say this Colorado lifestyle’s golden
Like the nuggets in Massachusetts, come and get your NETA prescription!
Seeing folks from new Hampshire make the drive to get lifted I twist my lemonade cap and relax
Perks of being sober: waking up with your cash, still intact
Drugs used to be the cash crops of have nots in trap spots
Sales that wipe the tax off, the well-employed get dabbed on, but now?
It’s legal smoke… companies with currency to blow, can reap and sow, oh
Names indicted but today they open storefronts up?
Taxation the new weapon for the war on drugs?
Got the students in my college on my floor pumped up
My advice? Legalize it all, it’s already us, us
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12. |
The Marathon
04:21
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[Intro: Connor Cassidy]
Yeah
Stay on it, stay on it
Yeah
[Chorus: Connor Cassidy]
Lately been praying for all my enemies
I got your engine runnin’ all the way home
Said and done I bet they remember me
But I know that they won’t love you till you’re gone
The marathon goes on
Crazy how we got to die for us live inside the minds
Of every fan upon the planet we hold
F*** it, I’m down to the be the sacrifice as long as you grow
Hustle is all that we know
[Verse 1: Connor Cassidy]
Yeah
Yelling rest in peace Nip
Sprint a victory lap every time I enter the gym
A heavy heart… as I chip away at this heavy bag
Been losing faith that the hate among us can never last
Ugh, cause it all goes on
Pouring liquor out and roll down the window to blow strong, been so gone
Frustrated my country out of control
It’s translating to the burden of emptiness in my soul, I’m on the road
Eyes witness the different sides of the tracks
My city is not divided by different colours and tats
It’s segregated by a money sign
I understand aristocrats don’t got to wonder why
It runs deep just like the basis of the racist administration that leads us
Seeing people losing hope and turn to dope
Not an addict, but of recent been escaping through the smoke
Smoking killa with my AC on my ceiling cracked, yo
Light my ‘back and count a hundred racks
[Chorus: Connor Cassidy]
Lately been praying for all my enemies
I got your engine running all the way home
Said and done I bet they remember me
But I know that they won’t love you till you’re gone
The marathon goes on
Crazy how we got to die for us live inside the minds
Of every fan upon the planet we hold
F*** it, I’m down to the be the sacrifice as long as you grow
Hustle is all that we know
[Verse 2: Connor Cassidy]
Know the recipe is?
For people to want to take what you live?
Give ‘em enough of who you are, so that they take it to heart
The envious get sunburnt under the shine of a star
Start hopping out enough cars to get ‘em shot at
Grind to where the top at
Teaching what you believe will set the community free
Talking ownership of the streets, taking buildings off of a lease
You don’t need a business degree to give ‘em all that, ugh
Music communication of mind-state
The details that could slow the wheels of a crime rate
Of forcing your people into survival mode
Kill or be killed as far as rivals go
I can’t relate to that I pray for that
And Growing up away from that I had to learn it later on my own
Food Shopping in Dudley with skin as white as my money
Can feel the hatred of the eyes around me cut to my soul
Yo
[Chorus: Connor Cassidy]
Yeah
Lately been praying for all my enemies
I got your engine running all the way home
Said and done I bet they remember me
But I know that they won’t love you till you’re gone
The marathon goes on
Crazy how we got to die for us live inside the minds
Of every fan upon the planet we know
F*** it, I’m down to the be the sacrifice as long as you grow
Hustle is all that we know
[Verse 3: Kyle Bent]
R.I.P a real one you know how it go
You-friddy rivers with the drip you know just how I flow
I’m trying to shine a bright heart they gon’ catch the glow
Solid N**** from the Bean and that’s just head to toe
Listen
This independence turned me to a monster
I’m blasting for new beginnings we ain’t slinging choppers
Trying to take over the world super villain, Gotham
Young boy got big vision call him Steven Hawking
My man Connor said, run a marathon so I’m jogging on that b****
I’m just swerving angles I get the toggle on that b****
I’m a holy saint, I might write a bible in this b****
Whether they hate or love it just know that it’s Kyle up in this b****
I’m a tiger roaring, eagle soaring
Open doors up
Create a new song, but you know it ain’t a chorus
We gon’ spread the love even if they isn’t for us
Listen I’m a hurricane, and you know this n**** pouring
[Chorus: Connor Cassidy]
Yeah
Lately been praying for all my enemies
I got your engine running all the way home
Said and done I bet they remember me
But I know that they won’t love you till you’re gone
The marathon goes on
Crazy how we got to die for us live inside the minds
Of every fan up on the planet we hold
F*** it I’m down to the be the sacrifice as long as you grow
Hustle is all that we know
[Outro: Connor Cassidy]
Yeah
Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah
The Marathon goes on
It goes on, goes on
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13. |
Fine
03:04
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Can’t even front I’m doing fine as I am
At this point, I got my life upon the line for the Fam
All I do is make my jump and go as high as I can, as I can
I got control problems I don’t want my life to slip away through my hands
Though I know I’m just a flash and that I’ll happen again
When I go I pray to God you take me just how I am
How I am, go as hard as I can (go as hard as I can)
Pray you take me just how I am (take my just how I am
Mandatory lows that take me higher in my understanding
Though I swear I’m from another planet I been feeling kind of human
No lie, get my demons off my back just give it time, I know my pain is just my
Weakness leaving the body, I been cleaning out my closet every week it’s a hobby
Why you think I’m always pulling up late to the party?
Struggle tryna’ see beyond myself, entire past I bond myself, I load the clip and bomb myself, yeah
I know my gratitude’s a weapon and it’s time to use it
My solution for confusion in my nation’s music
Might change my rap name to Lil Confucius
Kill my own excuses reaching for the top
Type to go to work and by the night I did my job
I find it odd that motherfuckers’ still complaining what we got
Most comfy generation yet the farthest out from God, hey hey
Can’t even front I’m doing fine as I am
At this point, I got my life upon the line for the Fam
All I do is make my jump and go as high as I can, as I can
I got control problems I don’t want my life to slip away through my hands
Though I know I’m just a flash and that I’ll happen again
When I go I pray to God you take me just how I am
As I am, go as hard as I can (go as hard as I can)
Yeah, I keep changing slow and karma levels rise to re-arrange my soul
I’m training for whatever mountain’s left to climb
Can feel the stress of time, ironic cause that isn’t real
I testify my lows in life at open mics with hopes to find an open mind
To open mine I break the ice with how we doing tonight?
Just stick around and I can ruin your night
Tell you stories of my painful days get faded till we fade away that’s doing it right
Just like our parents did it, know just what we want but yet we scared to get it
Power blinds the powerful the hours go, on and on
I take a breathe and find my calm the mirror shows the eyes of god
That pierce thru me and beyond
Since Paul Pierce was wearing green I had a dream
Not for rapping or stackin’ but more along the lines of peace
They say the grass is greener I’ll admit I haven’t seen it
Maybe hope that’s blind is still the shit we really need
Just to feel fine
Can’t even front
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14. |
Double Vision
03:30
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I got whatever you want
Whatever you need…
Yeah, and I know how to get you high to me now
Cause when you see us through the eyes of the crowd, it’s like we up in a cloud
And that’s a long way down
I see you working you should call me when you’re out
Let’s go
Let’s go
Sippin’ passionfruit I’m in a passion phase
Know our energy’s a match I feel it gravitate
And I ain’t waiting on no accolades to act a way
Cause I ain’t s*** but I’m the reason that she masterbates
Clock my hours in and skate I got to catch the train
Coming home feel aggravated like the cash is late
But she know how to lay me out and set my mind at ease
And keep my focus on what’s major, f*** these minor keys
And you should see the way she move, she in the highest league
Takes me up to levels didn’t know that I could reach… true lie
What would I do without my Shangri-La?
Divine feminine high
Poor amaretto out and light up this fire
I catch your vibe
Mainly on my tastebuds
Take you to your zone and have you sweating out your make up
We fight, f*** and make up
Private room’s a better show
Take you up a level then I drop you down a semitone and let you go
Whatever’s in the past I got to let it be gone
I don’t got just what you need, I got whatever you want
And that’s wherever you are
I’ll be the double threat
I won your heart and I ain’t even on my hustle yet
You know whatever’s in the past I got to let it be gone
I don’t got just what you need, I got whatever you want
And that’s wherever you are
I’ll be the double threat
Won your mind and I ain’t even on my hustle yet
I’ll make you drip with the sauce
She got that 110 degrees
Her friends’ll label her a centerpiece
She got that double threat cold blooded tendencies
I’ll pay the price to get a better seat
A gentleman but not so gentle with my tendencies
It’s like I turned her to an enemy
Don’t send a picture of it come through and let me see it
Life is short, and we could never be, without the sauce
You know I gotta spend my time around a real one
Hop you on the back I hit the gas and pull the wheel up
Couple times, hell and back just so we can feel love
Flyer than a helipad, these haters better fear us
Remind ‘em what they ain’t got
Stick around for take off
I see ‘em out here treadmilling running in the same spot
F*** ‘em, it’s just me and my lady vs. the world one time
If you love the one you love then put your ones up high
I pray to God I see the blessings right in front of me
My mind is always in the future cause it loves to speed
So she pulls me back into the present with her company
And keeps her finger on the trigger if they come for me
Rider s***
Early sun horizon lit
Open up my eyes and the let this image of a Goddess in, we home
And never argue over petty s*** that hits us we grown
I take a hit of fresh air and get myself on the road, get goin’
Whatever’s in the past I got to let it be gone
I don’t got just what you need, I got whatever you want
And that’s wherever you are
I’ll be a double threat
I won your heart and I ain’t even on my hustle yet
You know whatever’s in the past I got to let it be gone
I don’t got just what you need, I got whatever you want
And that’s wherever you are…
I’ll be the double threat
Won your mind and I ain’t even on my hustle yet
I’ll make you drip with the sauce
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15. |
Lately
04:34
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Hey
Baby one more time
One more
There’s only one more time
Only one more time
Yeah, no matter who you are we’ll overrun your effort
Skin as tough as leather
Life a b**** the lust is nice but I know love is better
Bump The Beatles when we f*** oh yea we come together
Lately cheesing in my pictures over summer cheddar
Stacking anyway I can
Clear the road like I’m an ambulance
Loud as hell as Satan’s rants
Had a shot but it slipped through your hands
Now you sing the blues you blew your chance
Bank account is in the red, I’m spending time with fam
There’s more important s*** than money at this time at hand
Life a game of blackjack I got the highest hand
But this dealer keeps matching me, tragedy’s in air
My luck is off
I feel the stress and run it off
I got a feeling God about to put me through another loss
I just pray it isn’t family
What’s written will come across
I comprehend and understand it
But if it can be prevented you know I’ma chance it
Candles light my room up in the summer when I’m home
Miami made me introverted like being alone
Until I call you over and we flip this to a zone
Kicking back to watch her body twisting in the shape of smoke
Relate to dope, she American with a European tone
Likes to slow me down then speed me up and hit a zone
Picture perfect but she flawed inside, envious in soul
Don’t say that s*** to judge her I just know the s*** I know, yo
And I been running out of time baby
On hiatus, cause the only thing that matters in my mind lately
Taking me away
They put my momma in a home baby
And Dad’s already gone she been alone lately
How can I be sane with all the s*** that’s going on?
Not afraid to die, I’m just afraid for who I know
Try to calm it down I got my sister on the phone
She can’t see me so I try to fake a smile through my tone
Thinking how can I be sane with all the s*** that’s going on?
Not afraid to die, I’m just afraid for who I know
Lately I been out of touch, roll and hit the smoke
Singled out amongst the crowd crazy I can feel alone
Lately
VERSE 2
Lately I do give a f***
Listen up
No matter how strong your guard is you know the jab of life will you hit you son
Operating table have ‘em stitch up
Then hop back into operation, go fit on the gloves
And never take your foot off the gas
Or take a look at your past
Just move past it, fuel it up and move faster
It’s disaster if you fail to hold the family up
Until your final breath is out you got to keep on manning up
Some can’t adjust, they break and fall and numb the pain with cannabis
Knowing that the money’s low, yeah I understand it’s tough
But how you getting high, when no heat has got your people cold?
To each his own, we reap and sow
Then meet the moment head to head with what we’ve grown
Life is like a labyrinth it’s the “what we know”
That either gets us killed or gets us out and puts us in control
Walls are hit with bullet holes
Glance through ‘em like we should’ve of known
Cause on the other side we see a light too bright to hold
To write a map to it
Got to look inside your soul and stay attached to it
Life a rhythm let it flow
Because your heart is still the drummer that taps to it, you know?
And so if you do it, don’t half do it
Make a show of true control
Yeah
Concepts are elusive it’s not something you can hold
But you know
Yeah
Lately I been running way, way, way out of time
Yeah
And I been running out of time baby
On hiatus
Cause the only thing that matters in mind lately
Taking me away
They put my momma in a home baby
And Dad’s already gone she been alone lately
How can I be sane with all the s*** that’s going on?
Not afraid to die, I’m just afraid for who I know
Try to calm it down I got my sister on the phone
She can’t see me so I try to fake a smile through my tone
Thinking how can I be sane with all the s*** that’s going on?
Not afraid to die, I’m just afraid for who I know
Lately I been out of touch, roll and hit the smoke
Singled out amongst the crowd crazy I can feel alone
Lately
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16. |
Otherside
03:49
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[Intro]
Yeah-yeah-yeah
[Chorus]
I let the other side take me for a mother******* ride tonight (Ride tonight)
Yeah
I let the other side take me for a mother******* ride tonight (Ride tonight)
Yeah-yeah
A couple b****** got it out for me they wishin’ I’ma die tonight (Die tonight)
If so, I let the other side take me for a mother******* ride tonight
(Mother******* ride tonight)
Yeah
[Verse 1]
Ugh, Yeah
I got control of God
He only doubles up the s*** I focus on
The road is long
I travel light, the battle type, young Bonaparte
Try me you get blown apart
I rise above like Noah’s arc
Blade lookin’ shoulder sharp
Light exists although it’s dark, we spark it
Keep my soldiers marching
Driven into madness, Rosa Parks it
At the top of where my energy goes
Gut the bottle out with hookah pipes that’s Hennessy smoke
Exhale until my lungs are black
Life I’m having fun with that
The upper-classes subtle jabs of “You ain’t got the funds for that”
Don’t bother me none
I know girls who went to college for fun
Daddy’s allowances, they funded the drugs
High as hell as I excel to different peeks of life
I peek around with mental notes of what we all are like
My observations hit conclusions that we’re all alike
Maybe the darker zones are something that we all can light
Death is a constant possibility
And so I’m in the moment, one and only
Something holy
Self-sufficient I don’t need a hand to hold me
You don’t know me
Don’t tell me that you feel me
Not the real me, baby really
I would spin your world backwards like a wheelie
If I showed you who I am when the moon is high
I hide it for your safety cause it’s do or die for you and I
To really let my rage out, hop out the suit and tie
Let the monster out and then eat you alive, hey-aye-aye
[Chorus]
I let the other side take me for a mother******* ride tonight (Ride tonight)
Yeah
I let the other side take me for a mother******* ride tonight (Ride tonight)
Yeah-yeah
A couple b****** got it out for me they wishin’ I’ma die tonight (Die tonight)
If so, I let the other side take me for a mother******* ride tonight
(Mother******* ride tonight)
Yeah
[Verse 2]
Woah-oh-oh
What you want to know?
I got some secrets that I hold
Would have to kill you if I showed ‘em
Life is cold and I been snowed in since my younger days
Killin’ time just keep it pushin’ look the other way
Ugh
I got to know, s*** I got to know
So even when I sleep I keep one ear up to the globe
Hear the whispers of the winds of time direct me where to go
Turnin’ in my soul
As I’m swervin’ off the road I get my handle back
Replenish all my ammo back
Vodka in the camel pack, Connor can you handle that?
Silent only time’ll tell
Life a b***** she fine as hell
And so I leave my number on the table after dining, well
I fell in love, with being me (me)
So my game is tight
The days are still whatever I arrange the nights
A little more carefully
The darker side of light
Where I get my energy the other side of life
I’m gone
[Chorus]
I let the other side take me for a mother******* ride tonight (Ride tonight)
Yeah
I let the other side take me for a mother******* ride tonight (Ride tonight)
Yeah-aye-yeah
A couple b****** got it out for me they wishin’ I’ma die tonight (Die tonight)
If so, I let the other side take me for a mother******* ride tonight
(Mother******* ride tonight)
Yeah-aye-yeah-aye-yeah-aye-yeah
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17. |
Woke
03:29
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[Chorus]
They say they woke it’s a joke
Life wise I’m starting out by saying I don’t know
So my eyes open up to what it actually is
Gives a glow to my aura on behalf of your b****
I’m looking better feeling better than I have in the past
Committed to what’s real so it actually last
I keep pedaling forward with my eyes on the road
Starting every day with I don’t know…
Homie I don’t know…
[Verse 1]
Kiss my sac b**** I’m sacrilegious
Don’t identify with anything or any system
That’s a one-way track to freedom
You should feel it in my tone when I say I mean it
And I’m just one track away from eating
We in the digital age
Media hits us and changes us in subliminal ways
A lot of people confused
A lot of ego ensues
We start beefin’ over Benzes and shoes
And now my face is on a screen got ‘em glued
Am I clearing out the toxic smoke filling the room?
Or am I adding to it?
So much for walking down an eightfold path
I sell a couple CDs to get my payroll back
Live in the city so my time is where the pesos at
No apology, I got to survive
No time to sit philosophizing ‘bout what we can’t change
Whole classroom like “what the f*** we doing here, mang?”
It’s been a hot minute since I drove my suby out to the church
Momma thinks I lost God I can’t remember the words
To all the verses I’m supposed to memorize when they read
But God doesn’t use words to talk to me so instead
I envelop in silence, take a trip to the mountains
Tapping back into the mind of my nature body in balance
Pass days, weeks, months, years, f***ing lifetimes
Never use my phone call or lifeline, I’m out on my own
[Chorus]
They say they woke it’s a joke
Life wise I’m starting by saying I don’t know
So my eyes open up to what it actually is
Gives a glow to my aura on behalf of your b****
I’m looking better feeling better than I have in the past
Committed to what’s real, so it actually lasts
I keep pedaling forward with my eyes on the road
Starting every day with I don’t know
Homie I don’t know
[Verse 2]
Hey, aye, aye, aye
So what’s faith? When I admit that I don’t really know a God**** thing
I try to synthesize, what’s in my heart and my mind
Hard to make room for s*** that’s not a part of my grind, be honest
How you measure dedication to God?
By appearances at church or what you do for your squad?
Whether a church, monastery, a temple, or synagog
Do your judge yourself on what you do that’s sinfully wrong?
Take a closer look at ISIS the intent that they have
Views are backed up by scripture that they keep in the stash
So are they wrong trying to follow in the word of their God?
A lot of war is in the Bible, am I reading it wrong?
[Chorus]
They say they woke it’s a joke
Life wise I’m starting by saying I don’t know
So my eyes open up to what it actually is
Gives a glow to my aura on behalf of your b****
I’m looking better feeling better than I have in the past
Committed to what’s real, so it actually lasts
I keep pedaling forward with my eyes on the road
Starting every day with I don’t know
Homie I don’t know
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18. |
To Give
03:29
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[Chorus]
Hey
Know I got so much to give I don’t know how to gain
I know there’s only so much she can take on
I don’t want to know it all before the love is made
I want experience to show me who you are
I got so much that I can give I don’t know how to wait
I know there’s only so much she can take on
I don’t want to know it all before the love is made
I want creative freedom painting who you are
Hey, aye
I got so much to give
I don’t know how to gain, hey
[Verse 1]
Love a game and we know how to play it
Floating like we outer space
Crush until our powers drain
Combine and put us out again
Cooking up a thunderstorm, glancing through the eye of it
Anyone besides my lover I don’t make alliances too lightly these days
All the noise I got to silence it
We don’t know what time it is
I wake up the horizon lit
Her body turns the fire on
Knows just what my mind is on
I study like a scientist
Connect with my environment
The love is where my time has gone
Elevate to higher thought
She plays me like a violin
I tap into the mind of God
Let her take my life and turn this s*** into my final song
Smoke and throw a vinyl on
Mix up something kind of strong or not
Cause either way we get our rising on
And get our practice in
Professionals don’t make it there on accident, nah
[Chorus]
You know I got so much to give I don’t know how to gain
I know there’s only so much she can take on
I don’t want to know it all before the love is made
I want experience to show me who you are
I got so much that I can give I don’t know how to wait
I know there’s only so much we can take on
I don’t want to know it all before the love is made
I want creative freedom painting who you are
Hey, aye
[Verse 2]
Yeah
Can feel the tension break off
Feel what’s smoother move in
On the moment that I lose you, that’s the day I lose bliss
I got so much that I can give… I don’t know how to take
So much I’m tryna’ do inside this life, how can I wait?
Floating like we outer space
Whip a Suby like a Wraith
Just call me when it’s late, and God’ll send me on my way
Hey
[Chorus]
You know I got so much to give I don’t know how to gain
I know there’s only so much she can take on
I don’t want to know it all before the love is made
I want experience to show me who you are
I got so much that I can give I don’t know how to wait
I know there’s only so much we can take on
I don’t want to know it all before the love is made
I want creative freedom painting who you are
Hey, aye
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19. |
This Light
04:56
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[Intro}
I just get mad man
Some days you wake up
You look at the world and you can’t not get mad
Tryna’ figure it all out
You know?
We can never runaway from this, no lie
Only on earth for one more time
And I can never turn my back on the ones who hold my side
It gets hard baby it’s alright
Just got to play your part as day turns night
We protect this light
We protect this light
Ugh, learning how to rise
Wake and I shine on ‘em
Balance out playing add a little grind on it
Mean what I speak so I bet my time on it
If I want it all I got to do is set my mind on it
Then I grip it in it’s physical form
Never fit with the norm
It’s my reign, these b****** can only big up the storm
Give a warning to ‘em
Winning is really nothing when you born to do it
Shedding light, I dedicate my mornings to it
The one sun rises in the east of the sky
My spinal column got to keep it in line
So I can program the universe into my mind
Give me light
I promise I can guard it for you
One seed, I can bring back a garden for you, no lie
Human being one more time
Before I take my own place in the sky
Give me light and let me go
Yeah
At least try to let me know
That we can never runaway from this, no lie
Only on earth for more time
And I can never turn my back on the ones who hold my side
We protect this light
Ugh
Pass the torch how The Fam do it
Dark moments I really became a man through ‘em
I got a long way up
It’s an ideal saying that it’s always love
Not life
Cause these b****** want to shoot me down
Throw me in the den and see ‘em chew me out
True fact
Take your best shot, cause we shoot back
Labels are only friendly ‘till they recoup that
Whatever game I trust no one but me
Loyalty is a rarity though I’m open to see it
And I can read it in the eyes of the few of the faces I keep with me
Offices or not it’s street business
In this world I maneuver for mine
Young, business driven with a musical mind
See I’m a seeker not believer cause the truth is sublime
Man you think you know it all? Who put you in the blinds?
God give me time
Give me time
We can never runaway from this, no lie
Only on earth for one more time
And I can never turn my back on the ones who hold my side
We protect this light
Yeah, life as a human
Linking up and we learn to move as a unit
Cause we can cover more ground together
And with the right mix really put it down forever
I got the same job title but it’s sounding better
Chairman of social affairs
I make the locals aware
Every time that my energy up
And my cold brew mixing with my Hennessy cup, ugh
I get my people together to toast ice
Life is meant to be shared, the only fee is the time
I’m feeling free in the mind
My whole world snapped
S*** I might even call my old girl back
I’m tapped
Her request she on the bed strapped down
And she don’t even ever yell the safe-word out
I try and navigate it all man, life is a maze
And my heart the only thing that ever guides my way, hey
We can never runaway from this, no lie
Only on earth for one more time
And I can never turn my back on the ones who hold my side
Held up high
It gets hard baby it’s alright
Just got to play your part as day turns night we protect this light
We protect this light
Ugh, got to let it rise
Learn to move as a unit, man
Yeah, we protect this light
We protect this light
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20. |
Getaway
03:48
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[Verse 1]
I’m here to gamble like Gambino
Moving silent maneuvering where they can’t see us
I’m recruiting better join us if you can’t beat us
20 beats a week will have you having hand seizures
Hope they hired paramedics up in paradise
My boys throw a lot of ones without thinking twice
Us losing is as likely as us drinking light
In other words, you can save it for another night
Or for another life
Shades are on because the summer’s bright
You should come fact check me for what I hum to life
Time is all that it is
Gives an edge to my verses see ‘em cut thru skin
Muster my patience now the building’s what I run up in
Knowing me I’ll probably run it to the ground
I been under underground for too long
Time to get my suit on
Plotting while I pour out a concoction too strong
Those who ratted on get ratatat
We duck away from street life, and turn catalogs to Cadillacs
Keep it low, I keep the plan wearing camouflage
Win the war without sending any ammo off
Meaning I can taste victory without licking a shot
Pissing excellence, I know it only pisses ‘em off
Get on your job, lil man, this ain’t a time to be lost
Luxury of depression no I ain’t paying the cost, no way
[Chorus]
And I ain’t got to getaway
I pull the lever and we levitate
We doing better can you resonate?
Got a lot that we can celebrate, what it is
I don’t ever got to getaway
Work and play we don’t separate
Moving better can you resonate
Got a lot that we can celebrate, what it is
I don’t ever got to getaway
[Verse 2]
And I been fighting like a heavyweight
It’s all-natural how we medicate
Just let the elevator elevate
Pace it out but we ahead of pace
Might hit the party but I never stay
Unless my people are at it, from the floor to attic
We put the crib into action
I even got the social chair up in heaven hating
Jealousy is just a hell of a drug
And that can mess a true gentleman up
I don’t let my ego block me from a chance to learn something
I know the stunting for the flash of it only is worth nothing
We here to inspire
Clear the fear from my iris
We fighting fire with water, they on fire with fire, they burnin’
The game is life-like, it follows a purpose
Names change over and tables just keep turnin’
I’m emotionless, I get mine
Ain’t no way to live though
Pull up to the block party see my ride dip low
Life is moving too fast, soundtrack is disco
Around here you either get aggressive or you live broke
Machiavelli mindset
Cause we don’t want the paper ordinary minds get it
It’s not a judgment it’s a preference
Self-employed but I’m restless
Talking to God like will you write me a reference?
Living better I credit
Building up a muscle of faith
Cause life without love is just a f***ing mistake
Chase time cause she always gets to runnin’ away
Reinvesting every cent I got no money to save, no
Say what I mean, speak nothing that’s vague
Keep it quiet on the nights where I got nothing to say
A man of many words, many shots, and many mistakes
I keep it moving got to keep my fam and enemies safe, hey
[Chorus]
And I ain’t got to getaway
Pull the lever and we levitate
We doing better can you resonate?
Got a lot that we can celebrate, what it is
I don’t ever got to getaway
Work and play we don’t separate
We living better can you resonate?
Got a lot that we can celebrate, what it is
I don’t ever got to getaway
Hey, aye
Cassidy
Me
Been a hell of a ride
And it keeps going
Peace of mind one is out
See you next time around
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Connor Cassidy Boston, Massachusetts
Connor Cassidy is an American rapper, producer, and guitarist from Massachusetts of Irish & Lebanese descent. He released
his debut album PHOENIX on Nov. 12 of 2020.
His ambition-driven sound expresses his journey towards self-mastery & the cultivation of a peaceful warrior’s spirit.
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