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Hohenheim's Burden [pt. 9]

by Nakama.

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1.
One too many times I hit my roof, roof, roof/ Thought I wouldn't get no better I might, Pew, pew, pew/ Shadow boxing wit my limits then I grew, grew, grew/ And I self actualized so who is you, you, you/ Big...petty, In the field I cut a couple off, Let the pieces fall, Way they, con-fetti, I cant micro-manage anymore, If you still unsure, Then just, Don't...hit me, For the lack of faith you been absolved, But you insecure, While I, Stay...ready Can't say I ain't knocked on heaven's door, Where I been before, Yeah that pain was pure, Gave plenty, In the maze, battling with myth, like the minotaur, man wan' retain acres, niggas daydreaming bout space lasers, the gas high til it hit layer 2, later too proud, favored being an irreverent dude, peddling food, War-n peace Buffett, buffet plates stacked to the moon, boorish in a bull market, hustling T in cardboard boxes, branded with attitude, ... Oh you a deadie its okay, we move plenty, too attuned, Lock me in, my pressure produce some lacrima, One too many times I hit my roof, roof, roof/ Thought I wouldn't get no better I might, Pew, pew, pew/ Shadow boxing wit my limits then I grew, grew, grew/ And i self actualized so who is you, you, you/ Glitches in my SIM card, ion need to reach you over telecom, the wind talk and carries all my messages, Meet me in the dream, Where the cloud stores all your memories and air is always clean, Balanced like a beam, Switched the ultralight for vantablack and didnt pay a thing, its a riot we need rations and some fur, I'll pull a mink, Winter feel like Hell but it get warm then we don't think, lock me in, pressure produce lacrima, obvious, hold me to my vision like my robinhood got oculus, Popular? Possibly, but why cater to populace, positive, either way there really ain't no stopping this/ One too many times I hit my roof, roof, roof/ Thought I wouldn't get no better I might, Pew, pew, pew/ Shadow boxing wit my limits then I grew, grew, grew/ And i self actualized so who is you, you, you/ /Off the pick up, Since a youngin I looked at Academia funny, in the crib, felt the Lauryn Hill bumping thru The Playmobil, it was in the miseducation I assailed expectant tyrants, Antidote for the G-Virus, mixing my green herbs and popping on Birkin types, You ain't in ya bag you get observed with sights, unabashedly depraved despite the size of the ascent, forage for a cure to cope the force is cognitive, Slip a sub on celluloid, an invite for new operatives, frigid-aire to chill shit is heating up/ One too many times I hit my roof, roof, roof/ Thought I wouldn't get no better I might, Pew, pew, pew/ Shadow boxing wit my limits then I grew, grew, grew/ And i self actualized so who is you, you, you/
2.
w/ a kiss_ 01:56
From a place of absence comes the callousness that's needed, FREE UP SPACE Whatever the void is, don't avoid it From a place of absence comes the callousness that's needed Thankful I had my pops, feel I'm still battling his demons, How this rap shit go, Gotta find new balance like some sneakers, tweak how you perceive us til we really in your speakers, it come natural, expressive, meditated catharsis, Teenage angst went with the flow circa Era Vulgaris, losing guitar picks tryna float over chromatics, felt every low note extended my finger and barred it, You don't wanna start shit And end blemished, sent to the shadow realm deaded like Akhenaten legacy, Ob-sessed with Aten, God bless, you see the disk, we see the Sun and its peripheral objects, you wild vexed, we presume its endemic to your squad texts, friends kept at high accountability really the remedy, trimming the dead leaves for a better identity, ready to speak in multiplicitous ways, what you expect of me? We gon deconstruct the image they paint, What comes extensively is change, we flipping mole hills into mountains massive as pop shots on the Gaza strip, Copy the subtext, we not war criminal apologists, y'all be too suspect, forgo the tax return for operatives, they using teenage common sense to send us packing overseas, packt like sardines in a tin can, clamoring to defend democracy playing the damsel in distress, yes, and even if you gaze upon the parallel to war received on domestic soil its all the same type of aggression, bet its better with a browning or a pistola parabellum off the cerebellum, you look like the Mayor, Lady Liberty take your calls and then it's nap time, it apply to conservatives and the liberals, war and running ops through local neighborhoods is unilateral when the ones who rep don't live with you, the cost of life is miserable and yet we persist, the thoughts are conditional the action is permanent this bounce back is pivotal, let me get a grip or two and get witchu, Top it off wit a kiss
3.
DEADIES!!! I think this heater rock the key, Unlocked the latch, be-bop's revenge, These cats are just pretend, My feet up on your love seat, Insulting, blunted ducking hot takes, The cool back, we stunting, Just hunting disruptive tech, Our good will rusting/ I'm seeing cap-a-lot Camelot, ama-teurs talking/ the king is not Author, his writing team appalling/ these niggas not protected, ill put that on my pauldrons/ they claim that they be balling, they homies name is Spalding/ They chatting to they self and faking jax inside the ball pit/ they playing with they food and puking putrid in my cauldron/ Our gallery of rogues is more formidable to spar with/ nobody know the darkness like the inseam on they kente cloth, whole body cloaked in my ode to folks revered as senseis lost, souls in my boat, jumper red like tethered unionized to tempt fate's cost/ the next tape raw, e-ver-y form from threaded cane to saw cleaver chop sonic remedies up with some tempeh sauce/ rolling gas from Dende's plug then en-gage Slumlord Slug, keeping a breastplate tucked, l bet they cough/ My friends stay course, my voice stay coarse, the plays take off, the range stay far, entertain they scoffs/ Finger flick on Yusuke at the swap meet, if you slothy don't stop me, we allow breaks not full stops, no soft in the step, but wool on my good socks, marching again, and march here again, heady change make these days all feel the same but my focus get more sharp/ Glint on kusabimaru hint at what's impending/ Headless get ahead sending terror through the next cave's walls, when it hit our fleet I bet they stop/ I think this heater rock the key, Unlocked the latch, be-bop's revenge, These cats are just pretend, My feet up on your love seat, Insulting, blunted ducking hot takes, The cool back, we stunting, Just hunting disruptive tech, Our good will rusting/
4.
droning_ 03:16
Loathing, Smoking, choking, Hoping, Something, Gon bring, Some change, Droning, Holding, Some J's Floating, It's been, Some days / Don't be trepidatious with the step, Every time we splash, it get wet, Dirty snow where every corner bend, thats a fact, unconcerned with purity, just getting the job done/ My attention ate up, Every day more data, I need better pay cut/ Caught the game in beta/ I know what it's made of/ Binary can't fake us/ Think I'll lift my rate up, You cute with ya buds, but we be blowing up hydrangeas/ Garden full of blue chips You took too much dip and want your dogs to scrape the plate up/ Loathing, Smoking, choking, Hoping, Something, Gon bring, Some change, Droning, Holding, Some J's Floating, It's been, Some days / Time is not an approximation of value, much as we think it, insular as our lives be, intellectualizing on life seen like memes, mimetic but not quite right, Misinformation paradigms, Mosh the prof pic, post pop shit but really at home petting your doxen, My guys really be locked in, Where proof bears true evidence denies, 99 the zeitgeist was occupied in my mind, Larger than the shadow cast by Collosus, Horse power like Beast Titan pitching no hitters clocked in, you cave to the armature we never sit, stop it/ The resonance grows like when gongs shift and we rolling strawberry blonde spliffs, what harsh gifts guided us to reconvene, arms drip white phosphorous on the guard rails, leaping deep, gatekeeping insight like Rom did/ Vacuous farces, protected from what sits behind the dark veil, welcome to our ship/
5.
Police in the white vans/ Screaming til our head split/ Belly ache from trash food/ Shit seem to hurt the most for real/ The block remembers what God forgives/ There go another one/ Lost some captains for capping/ Lost real ones for laughing/ Gained clarity in the pattern/ Taste like receding gums and a hairline to match it/ it get old...mad quick, Will my kids live to see they own magic, Will the will of my legacy match it, Can't afford to lose, I'll immerse in advanced tactics bold in my stupidity/ Surely you know you don't know diddly/ The shifting world literally breaks and reforms, my folks earned they little things but it's more that they owed, there's more to KO, brick and build a bridge to Mordor with some Dwarves who brought the payload/ Gnomenclature is a well of what fate told, language adapted from years off a Mayflower bank roll, colonizers sank low, ad-apted to tank tolls and expanded folds of the operation accordingly/ Courting these flashes of success, fashioning tighter adapters and lengthier cords for when shows get put on/ Look back on my scorn and I laughed at how long it was lasting/ this whole life has been taxing, I stepped into space where I could let it go/
6.
vTech_ 02:10
It's a reflex, buried in the doldrums, I take, Just a brief step, pushing what's evoked from my taste, cause it's deep reps, everything is boba and blades, I'm on vTech, teaching you the code in my name/ Whole different lane, aura pull the peaks out the lords in the chain/ not a Cuban link but it's foreign and hangs/ when it get compressed, that's a war to the stage/ pivot to the screen, its awarded some things/ Frenching wit a multilingual baddie on the low (one)/ lotus out in London, Lisbon, NY, Tokyo (two)/ anyone who seen it re-peat custies for the shows (three)/ in the room wit legends while the normies think it's slow (four)/ we ain't low, we just picky ... If it's up then its sticky ... Madarame getting duffed fucking wit me cause my vision way too pretty to get stolen by some deadies/ (dummies) It's a reflex, buried in the doldrums, I take, Just a brief step, pushing what's evoked from my taste, cause it's deep reps, everything is boba and blades, I'm on vTech, teaching you the code in my name/ Here's what I learned, seek better world model recourse, it get reckless like Ebaum's, proxy on Leap Frog/ Need opinions from strangers like holes in my sneakers/ keep up/ Inuzuka like Kiba/ Cause my dogs is my blood and I know how they treat us/ You heated we healthy, The reaper my keeper/ Pessimistic like Nietzsche/ Its a reflex, popping fake golds outcha face, cause I detest when these fake hoes in my way, playing defense, You ain't got control of a thing, In the deep end, channeling the smoke from the flame/ It's a reflex, buried in the doldrums, I take, Just a brief step, pushing what's evoked from my taste, cause it's deep reps, everything is boba and blades, I'm on vTech, teaching you the code in my name/
7.
Totem Spinner: Lean back, I'm a skeptic, cause these actors, always rehearsing, telling me this art could bleed magic, I bet, they callous capturing trans-Atlantic aesthetics, I won't be a prop I'll be the medic, cure they claims to copywrite and slice the ties, my timing business casual recapturing the edifices, old Khemetic presents, pardoned for being parts of the starship, extrapolate from my ancestral garden, guarded by the tillers of the sand, Stiller look like Ben brandishing a flashlight elucidating theft, not a sponsor that I trust among conquistadors, my peace is raw where the identity extend, | can't steal what we was peerless in, innovation through fearless skin/ Ankhs on us glimmering, nose ain't missing, we smell the bullshit contingent to robbing our eminence, domain where my melanin go, y'all lost tryna translate our heavenly scrolls, let it be known, white-washing with feathery prose render penalty blows, catch it off the strength, indebted thee smoke off Nile ibises, birds of a feather flocked under sciences undermined by Greek revisionists, tell em cease, desist, they not the beasts they think, we creaseless in exhibits of sleeplessness, stay woke, word to my DNA and credo, never stayed low for y'all ego to placate a payroll grave-robber/ Gave Alexandria back with interest at the pearly gates, catch me swirling sorrel with some rum cake while the doves sing Beneath The Mask every Sunday Dapping King Tubby trading dub plates/ open up the flood gates, No-ah got a lunch date with Granny by Dunn's River Falls, hitting Ocho Rios after while the sunset and my duns link/ and in one blink/ the flashes is gone, I'm back in my corporeal form, tightening tear ducts, life be weird as fuck for showing me some joy amidst this chaos/ and I'm still stuck performing these rites to equivalent exchange, contact, the seance delivered me your name/ dang My thoughts like a totem spinner, Whirlwind when when they twist, This is it, I see some familiar faces In violets/ keep your flicks, by the bedside underneath heavy eye-lids/ in silence, hear you cheering for abundance in my midst/ I give thanks/ couldn't do it without you, I bow my head/ I feel blessed/ let peace in, rebuke the hate inside my chest/ hold my chin, I see devils smiling heinously again, they brought friends, I brought family and something by my hip/ My thoughts like a totem spinner, I be in the shits, Deconstructing self assessment through the means I took to win/ Told the ferryman remember me, you picked up summa my kin/ Missed the boat more times than I'll admit but now I got my zen/ When my cousins reconnect wit me I'll show em where I been/ Print some pictures out and matrix link the goals to close some gaps/ Launch some burdens I been holding onto out and jettison, I convinced myself this energy need more room for it's wings/ Free up space/ Free up space/

about

Peace to the eternally strong, the eviscerated robes of persistence draped haphazardly over our respective voids. My impetus here, with these songs, is a simple call to face far more complex issues. Of identity within the reflection. What colors do the means of self-actualization dye our garments with? Where does passivity and stillness belong in a world that is overwhelmingly kinetic? Do the dimensions of our multitudes unknowingly replicate mistakes prior? Have we ascertained conviction at the cost of some semblance of our own joys?

The process, my particular process, is the crossweave fabric of grief and acceptance, love and immovability. The well is deep. I took this step, for my first release of 2021, towards some type of calculated vulnerability. The story is there, if you listen for it. I do this to honor my mother, who departed to the next life on this day in 2003. I do this to honor her mother, my grandmother, whose entrance to this world was only days later, on the 21st. Time is the non-linear anchor to my awareness. I do this to honor myself, in so far as allowing these lessons, hours, days, years...amount to art that I can say I am proud to share.

Perhaps this collection of 7 songs will soundtrack your morning commute, or perhaps the opening of a late-night dour portal. Perhaps you'll listen once and say "I don't get it". Maybe you'll listen 99 times and catch the hardest Bloodborne reference ever at 2:42 of Droning. Or maybe you won't overthink it all like me and just enjoy 18 minutes of resolute, free and adaptive praxis.

I leave it to you beloved. Free up space. -
Nak 🖤

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released March 17, 2021

Nakama on all raps, production and theoretical brushfires.
s/o JH for the deconstructed Nak face.

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