Paulo's Path mixtape vol. 1

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1.	Bar Sharpen Bar 01:16	lyrics	buy track
Long covid cough, mask up my shit the illest Flow so sick I unemployed penicillin Balls dragon sized word to Krillin, dirty lab villain No direction home, broken compass bumping Dylan Rolling stoned, writing poems till I turn em into millions Boy I'm a soldier tell em, my demons I killed em I make guardian angels put in their 2 week notice Style lotus, perfected and goated, do is my modus I'm friends with ravens and odin, my pen is atrocious I'm not hungry I'm ferocious every new songs my opus I would've ate my way out the whale if I would've been Jonah I'm in the middle of a 1000 bar freestyle hypnosis Singing supercalifragilisticexpialidocious Bumping Ghostface buck 50 was the dopest Giving soul to the souless genocide Joe is the potus If you ain't screaming free Palestine then your heart is frozen Steel sharpen steel I'm doing reps with the craft Bar sharpen bar I'm on Paulo's Path Steel sharpen steel I'm doing reps with the craft Bar sharpen bar I'm on Paulo's Path
2.	The Art Of Bar 02:20	lyrics	buy track
Under a melancholy moon for my soul I search Dark night of the soul like Santiago at the church The roof fell in and a sycamore bloomed Sometimes things fall apart to give creation room I'm a journey of dreaming, I guess I'm yearning and scheming I'm trying to decipher the meaning of these nightmares intervening On the blood of energy vampires I'm feeding I'm always eating I wrote this with a wood pen I staked em when they were sleeping I read The Art of War and confused them and said I was bleeding That's when they attacked they didn't know the art of deceiving We had em surrounded on all fronts and started stampeding We acted scared and started retreating highly misleading We started arrow releasing, they were dead by the evening These were the deceiving demons in me that were always creeping By moonlight I'm reading, my knowledge I'm always increasing I got one and a half lungs but I'm still fucking breathing On frozen nights I ran Colfax till my head was steaming We used to go rim stealing, karma came like karma was speeding For forgiveness I'm pleading I guess I'm still healing Told my story to a therapist she said it was intriguing She said due to trauma you're addicted to achieving Validation seeking and never satisfied with succeeding I used to medicate with pills over coffins I was leaning Life flashed before my eyes I left the reaper at the screening With willows I did some weeping, the trees are always speaking In my heart I did some cleaning, in my soul I watered seedlings Parasites I am bleaching, negative thoughts I started seizing My ancestors I'm finally meeting, glad we're finally speaking Belonging is what we're needing, inspiration I am seeping The blue flame on my throat chakra is heating, bars I'm sneezing Reps I am increasing infinitely exceeding I am not a machine but my gears are grimy greasy Are you projecting or perceiving what you chase is always fleeing Chasing fans goes no where like the one on your ceiling I hope these bars have feelings, I hope they help you with grieving They banned Kaep for kneeling the state is always policing Reminded me of Rauf he put Allah first and stayed seated Too many fold when the devil is dealing I'm never bluffing or leaving I show my hand and keep my house full of love to the ceiling Colonizers throw away medicine and call it weeding Reality I'm peeling, is the wind the universe screaming? With cheat codes I'm cheating, I'm in the matrix and peaking The fabric of the universe is ripping out the seams it's seeming Paulo's path with destiny I'm wreaking
3.	Murder The Maybe 02:29	lyrics	buy track
I use a book as my pillow till my dreams say hello Astral travel with a willow, melatonin keeps me mellow The city smells like hell, the smoke stacks bellow To many eyes turn yellow from newports and modelo Spiritual armor on me like a 6 ft armadillo I'll be rapping till my wig turns white like Patrillo My flow stays golden, I got bars by the gram I'm a cereal killer, treat beats like son of sam I shot the zodiac killer aiming with my horoscope I'm an aquarius but I don't have a moral code Swimming through the sky like constellation Pisces Perseus to these snakes with venom trying to bite me I vomit the drama I spit to break thermometers My raps fly far like comets from Andromeda I took doubt hostage and i will not negotiate I turned it to ash it blew away with a smoky haze I locked up probably and I murdered maybe Used to shoot hoops whether sunny or rainy Discipline determination stay focused daily Paulos Path, Alchemist beats saved me I locked up probably and I murdered maybe Used to shoot hoops whether sunny or rainy Discipline determination stay focused daily Paulos Path, Alchemist beats saved me He looked at the stars through the destroyed roof Shepard or sheep, we're all looking for truth Are you a human or a myth maker? I jumped off the turnbuckle tombstoned the undertaker Stone cold storyteller breaking all your archetypes Inspired by the moon the pen slides when it's dark at night Ink like starlight, bars like a shark bite I wrote this in blood, read the code with a dark light I ripped the cables out my neck and broke out the matrix pod Higgs boson flow, your sword could never slay god The studio my citadel, I practice like a ritual The reps are habitual, the poetry is visible Oceans of ink backstroking through the metaphors I came to cast spells that's what we got letters for I cremated doubt and i scraped off the residue Paulo's Path, rap extraterrestrial I locked up probably and I murdered maybe Used to shoot hoops whether sunny or rainy Discipline determination stay focused daily Paulos Path, Alchemist beats saved me I locked up probably and I murdered maybe Used to shoot hoops whether sunny or rainy Discipline determination stay focused daily Paulos Path, Alchemist beats saved me
4.	Talk Fecal 00:59	lyrics	buy track
Every night is open mic night my mind take flight With my cerebral I fight, on an easel I write Too many people they bite, talk fecal I might The evil is trite, but my pineal is right My merits are esoteric your flow is generic I write in code alphanumeric to hack your genetics You rappers are pathetic man fuck it I said it My pen prophetic Nostradamus wanna get it Poetic elements but my bars still militant Al's the chemist, he cook the illest shit Dirty lab all star you don't wanna try me Been rapping for eons used to bump high n mighty Vomit dogma, drink god, shit reality Left right left triangle, fatality The mic bloody I turn stages to crime scenes The coroner came, cause of death a 16 Fade me out Fade me out Fade me out Fade me out
5.	Tea At The Market 02:04	lyrics	buy track
At the market he met a girl with raven hair They talked all day like they knew each other for years You could smell the toasted spices in the tea house Rose hips and lavender, the merchant brought the tea out Saffron curry swirl the wind made the trees bow The bees clocked out the queen sleeps in the beehouse He said you're always reading how do you inspire yourself? She said with intent the universe conspires to help She said knowledge begets begets knowledge and power is power But without mixing both then the power devours If you use the metaphors of war you feed war The best weapon is alchemy that's what your mind's for The essence of a demon? unprocessed grief It actuates as attack, mistaken for relief The frankincense burned, the ash slept in the window sill Ambition like a whale but actions are minnow still At peace with yourself, hell, every freaking day I have to ask myself will this day be the last day I lie in the sun? Do you understand the angles of metamorphosis? There's more to linear time other cycles exist Have you ever seen a butterfly turn into a caterpillar? Are you a human or a planet killer? He contemplated the question and self transformation The art of shapeshifting and cell manipulation A hero with a 1000 faces a villain with a million He learned to forgive em all and reality melted A pixel in a mosaic, a puzzle piece in a collage Words are things, your thoughts are your entourage Psychic surgery, cut the ego pass the blade Cut the mask away bring the light to the shade She said feel what you felt every time you were betrayed The fear frayed away, I no longer felt afraid She said fast for 3 days and swallow the wrath Then take a left at the forest, that's Paulo's Path
6.	Truth Be Told 01:47	lyrics	buy track
Truth be told I use this music as therapy Truth be told, without it you would bury me Truth be told I think life is a scary dream Truth be told they lied about the cherry tree Truth be told the founding fathers were pirates Truth be told they stole the land with violence Truth be told it still hasn't stopped Truth be told from Palestine to Standing Rock Truth be told the slave patrols became cops Truth be told white supremacy should rot Truth be told they keep building more prisons Truth be told they legislate with religion Truth be told they hate freedom and autonomy Truth be told they want to control women bodily Truth be told protect trans lives Truth be told colonizers lie Truth be told no settler futures Truth be told tell the truth they'll shoot ya Truth be told read Klee Benally Truth be told there's informants at the rally Truth be told they're militarizing the border Truth be told capitalism is a hoarder Truth be told they got trillions for war Truth be told they'll sweep your tent if you're poor Truth be told abolish the jails Truth be told you're data's for sale Truth be told we're in a climate catastrophe Truth be told give the land back actually Truth be told every city is ableist Truth be told I'm an artist not a fatalist Truth be told they'll give you liquor not books Truth be told read bell hooks
7.	Soul Calibur 01:48	lyrics	buy track
Gather round witness, I got the cure for your sickness Audio antibiotics the spit is liquid Anti-capitalist but let's get to business You don't need a mic, I think you need forgiveness This ain't a verse it's more freestyle fitness Doing reps in the studio, the bars is unlimited Abolish prison open the cages like Nicholas Mindstate ridiculous, dark like down light switches is Hey I heard you wanna battle but I'm busy battling my shadow I dipple and dabble I'm leaving the vampire castle Hey I'm inside of my soul cavern doing soul work My soul was so tattered but I healed it worth Hey I think you're angry cause you wanted my attention I think you're too focused on the 3rd dimension Hey I heard demons were obsessed with flesh That's why they focus on murder sex and death Hey I was looking for ascension maybe this a test? I thought I exorcised the demons but I got possessed Instead of fighting for my body I sat down and meditated I left through the astral my soul body elevated Word to K Dot for revenge I'm overly dedicated Constantly training, back to my body I'll make it Rule 1 make em confused i read Sun Tzu I haunted him with my thoughts with fear he got consumed I learn from the youth and I learn from the elders I learn from my future self I'm a soul builder Never a coward I'm a soul challenger Soul caliber, my bars are so fuckin Excalibur There's one rule to swords and it involves your life If you don't hold it right once you won't hold it twice I beheaded him in the snow the blood started steaming I guess I got work to do I'm no different than a demon But that's ok I got my body back She said go take a left that's Paulo's Path
8.	Haunted Sycamore Tree 02:12	lyrics	buy track
I made friends with a haunted sycamore tree We talked about birds and nests and the changing of leaves She said don't worry about my ghosts they're apart of me She took a piece of her bark and said here make some tea Transcendent fire, I boiled the water She told me bout the seasonal wars with beavers and otters I said damn, she laughed and pardoned the pun I sipped the tea gently, it healed my lungs The steam of the tea wrote in calligraphy The cursive was fleeting but there was a message for me I can't describe it with words if i tried it'd be a book Maybe staring at a sunset while eternity looks? She said trees don't die, their light goes dim And even when they're just a stump we send nutrients to them She said my branches are antennas they're much more than limbs She said we're all part of earth we're much more than friends She didn't use words more like telepathic hymns Vibrational emotions like the voice of violins Ancient mariner through these rimes I swim Patient with the derringer the reaper grins I won't catch a fade the cross hairs won't win Catcher in the Rye but I harvest within Crop circles in the sky in a Fibonacci spiral The sun goes down the moon blooms on arrival I asked if trees were like hotels for birds? She said you think give and take in possession and worth She said hotels are property and they cost a fee What's a market but a thief? what's lack but grief? What's death but commodity? money's from a chopped tree Before a bank robbery, the forest had a robbery I once saw a mansion, all I saw was poverty The greatest crime is when they stole curiosity She said human means clay you're the planet's pottery The earth spins and we grow her clouds come and water me She said we were one I didn't charge you for tea I learn from you and you learn from me Each one, teach one, that's reciprocity Each one, teach one, that's reciprocity Each one, teach one, that's reciprocity Each one, teach one, that's reciprocity Paulo's Path
9.	Soul Wound 01:42	lyrics	buy track
If your soul is wounded ask what is it consumed with? Desire is doom, in the ego it's rooted Blood red horizon the sky is polluted With fires the forest cry cause the mountains got looted Hurricanes, typhoons, apocalypse looms Bringing death and destruction like when mayflowers bloom Drills like fangs sucking all the oil Single use plastic stew as the ocean starts to boil Forever chemicals get poured down the sink The frogs get diseased, the coral reef gets bleached Microplastic beach, the lifeguard is deceased They greenwash for money while emissions increase Crop fail no cereal in the dust bowl Rust belt broke the jobs left with the dust though Black lung cough, hacking from the crushed coal The barb wire poke we got tetanus in the blood though GMO bread, packed in the sack lunch The kids in the coltan mine haven't had lunch Just so you could minecraft in a pixel mine shaft It ain't a game in the Mediterranean in a life raft FEMA ain't helping, the ice caps melting An 8 year old told me the future's overwhelming 6th extinction, birds and bees dying Every year's the hottest year the fryer pans frying Rename flint Ukraine and fix them pipes The contradictions remain but water is life The rain has acid and the tap has lead There's plastic on Everest and in the sea bed All the fish gone they got stuck in a net Kind of like us just scrolling on the net Social media that's why they call it the web Cuz you're stuck on it, the spider's fangs in your neck
10.	Kissinger Dead Now 02:03	lyrics	buy track
With bars I'm blasting deadly assassin Sabotage your pipeline, black ski masking I wrote this with a razor blade I cut em with loose leafs Spit out your gag order no NDA when the truth speak Free your mind your ass will follow bass like Bootsy I walked him towards the light, the preacher read the eulogy He was touched by an angel with raps I strangle One hundred and 80 degrees man I'm trying angles We are not the same my skills scalene On the mic I'm nice but my bars they mean RIP Tortuguita stop cop city Do copwatch in your city the cops are busy ICE is trying to deport neighbors and families No human is illegal fuck your settler fantasy Propaganda everywhere the dollar bill stares at me I made a boat with bars these syllables carry me Down streams of thought through rivers of consciousness Flow obnoxious the catalog is monstrous Boycott your sponsors, till the bombers are jobless They came with god drinking blood filled goblets Discovery is a synonym for robbing I am not a rapper, I am a problem ACAB that's Batman in Gotham You may disagree but listen regardless The justice league wasn't justice to me If they gave back land that would be justice to me I burn your narrative in the third degree Marvin sang about ecology on mercy me My pen move fast messenger like Hermes Kissinger dead now in hot place like Mercury In the underworld with Hades and Hercules Even with a bunch of crows you couldn't murder me Fuck trump, obama, bush, biden, bill and hillary All they do is drill and go sell artillery They do drone strikes then condemn drivebys Dystopia so real I don't even read sci-fi Dirty lab Mob we Goodie like Sky High You ain't got no bars that's why you need wifi Flow aggressive not passive I wrote this in acid Paulo's Path deadly assassin

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released January 31, 2024

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Time Denver, Colorado

Time was deemed the future of independent hip-hop by VICE and URB Mag. He has been called the Radiohead of rap and the love child of Neil Young and Andre 3000. He was named one of URB's next 100 artists in alongside Drake, Kid Cudi, and U-N-I. Time's worked with Mick Jenkins, Jake One, Che Noir, and Common. ... more