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Paulo's Path mixtape vol. 2

by Time

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Dream Investigator 02:38
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He met an old woman who interpreted dreams He walked to her chair through a curtain of beads A cloud of myrrh incense traveled the room He took a deep breath to dissipate the doom She looked at the lines in his palm like a riddle She said you're stuck in a maze, a labyrinth in the middle She took both of his hands and quietly prayed He felt happiness and joy and violently afraid She said find peace in the past through quiet today That's when he felt the guilt in him silently fray She said listen closer to the whisper inside of you There's wisdom in the darkness, mix it with the light in you Illusions are tricks but there's magic in the abyss But stay present it can be a trap to reminisce She said you attract everything that you resist The curtain beads sounded like rain then she turned to mist And she said Dream weaver put this dream yarn in your loom Hold it through the bardos and you'll walk out your tomb Dream detective, dream investigator Dream protector, synchronicity surveyor Dream weaver put this dream yarn in your loom Hold it through the bardos and youll walk out your tomb Dream detective, dream investigator Dream protector, synchronicity surveyor He could still here her humming a song like medicine The sound waves penetrate the marrow bone sediment He thought about how words affect things he can't see He thought about how his words could be an axe to an astral tree He thought about fermentation, alchemy of the ground The worms and the fungus, in the filth it will be found He looked for god in the church, the preacher said you owe us But you'll never find god unless you look low enough The darkness you've endured is the light you hold for others Is desire to control, desire to suffer? He saw a hand graffitied on the wall he looked at the palm In the middle was a mirror his reflection was calm He went to the cafe to get hibiscus tea Someone drew a maze on the table, in the middle was a bead He dreamnt of a serpent, did it bite or did it kiss? He saw her silhouette in the fog then she turned to mist, she said Dream weaver put this dream yarn in your loom Hold it through the bardos and you'll walk out your tomb Dream detective, dream investigator Dream protector, synchronicity surveyor Dream weaver put this dream yarn in your loom Hold it through the bardos and youll walk out your tomb Dream detective, dream investigator Dream protector, synchronicity surveyor
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Dogmouth 01:20
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Break the podium gimme the mic start the lecture Each bar a brick, each song is architecture Poetic palaces, drinking from golden chalices My pen is where the malice is go ask where Alice is I'm not friends with cowardice, hand full of callouses From writing obituaries for every challenger Each verse a dirge cue the bag pipes Thoughts from my minds cavern stab em with stalagmites I skate on tracks like Hawk on the half pipe You don't need a cosign you need some act right I bit through the journal call me MC dog mouth My flow stays fire each beat bring a log out Big stick, big words, plus I talk loud God was by your side but then he walked out Metaphors like C4 you can see it visually Explode you with similes, stab you with epiphanies Invade your dreams with the demons that visit me Give you visions of prophecies that are sickening You'll wake up and think it was a dream that's my trickery I'm vegan so i never squash beef or dinner meat You might get checked in the cypher like a hockey team Might push you down the stairs then start the Rocky theme If you got bodied on a track it was probably me I never went to church but I'm a god emcee Get back
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Aspen Tea 01:14
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Dream incubator help me hatch these thoughts I got a dream egg in a dream nest, that's the plot She said do you think dreams are the language of god? If so the words are odd in a cryptic dialogue Maybe it's a code, an allegory or a parable? Maybe there's no god I believe in variables Dear mystery what do you want me to know? I'm just a question mark flying through the cosmos Flow so hot like a knob on the stove I took Paulo's Path at the fork in the road I got ambushed by some thieves and some dream bandits I write away the pain each loose leaf a bandage Last night i dreamed i was hunted by assassins She replied what's a blue whale to some aspens? I said what do you mean? She removed her glasses She said the sharks leave when dolphins come in masses I said gem received, the riddle was relevant The tea pot steamed, she poured a cup with elegance Knowledge was evident, the message was heaven sent Paulo's Path, here go the evidence
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Chances 02:32
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I take my chances with wolves I take my chances with drought I dug a well with these words, my mouth is the spout Are dreams the language of the soul, if so make me fluent For school I was truant for alchemy I'm a student The difference between you and me is I do it I don't drink lean I'm a machine I drink coolant I spit steam in the booth, like a smoke stack polluting Bars highly concentrated you need to dilute em Paulo's Path pursued it, I'm a poet I'm a mutant I rock hard but fuck Ted Nugent, leave racists in ruins The flow is automatic they distract you with pateks Do you make music for shopping or classics like The Ecstatic? Nightmares we go to war with them in the dream auditorium Bring an urn, we turn shows to crematoriums I'm not a living legend I'm just living in the present The frankincense burned, the moon was a crescent I take my chance with this pen I take my chance with this ink I take my chance when I speak and tell you what I think I take my chance with these words that paint with my soul I take my chance on this path and surrender control I take my chance with this pen I take my chance with this ink I take my chance when I speak and tell you what I think I take my chance with these words that paint with my soul I take my chance on this path and surrender control I take my chance with these dreams, I take my chance with this mic He said what does it mean when you dream the same dream twice? She said it could be a trick or a sign of passion She said it could be destiny or another distraction He said what does that mean? She said go with your gut She said intuition is when alchemy erupts Thoughts like tectonic plates he made an earthquake A cemetery for souls? That's called a workplace He broke outta the cubicle and HR manuals Singing a synonym for shareholder is cannibal Is a skyscraper a temple for materialists? Jets fly over football games cuz we're imperialists? Rome worshiped death but the US does it best The country's a coliseum, even teachers wear vests I'm not a living legend I'm just living in the present The nag champa burned, Paulo's Path omnipresent I take my chance with this pen I take my chance with this ink I take my chance when I speak and tell you what I think I take my chance with these words that paint with my soul I take my chance on this path and surrender control I take my chance with this pen I take my chance with this ink I take my chance when I speak and tell you what I think I take my chance with these words that paint with my soul I take my chance on this path and surrender control
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Cinderblocks 01:09
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We used to steal rims and drop their car on cinderblocks Now I steal fire, and drop rhymes with cinder thoughts I turn any studio booth into a tinder box And swipe left on any negative inner thought I'm not a philosopher, I'm just a critical thinker I'm not a rapper, I'm just a rhyming middle finger Addicted to these bass kicks, addicted to these snare drums Dissing rappers is basic, I hold the mic like a bear hug Eros was born out of chaos, I was born to slay all The devil don't take a day off he want me on his payroll Follow Paulo's Path till it payoff, god never say no I think this world want my heart so I fatality Kano Never had writer's block, my baby bottle had draino I'm probably just a shadow in that cave with Plato I swished the earth through a black hole with a hook shot I seen everything in this world, except a good cop Paulo's path and I'm running red lights
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Spiritual Shovel 02:39
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Death comes, death goes, I don't have a fear of it She grabbed his hands they transported to the pyramids Afterlife was the rubric the teacher was Anubis He gave em pomegranate juice, he took 2 sips Vision lucid, he saw the universe's blueprint Monuments, pixels, everything's made of cubics He lined the molecules with a twist of the rubix His DNA looked like a lapiz ladder with blue tips Event horizon he heard the black hole's acoustics The sound of light bending tends to be therapeutic Who lives and who dies he wondered who picks? Was he a human or primordial soup mix? Was he just a bunch of cells with legs like toothpicks? Do you live in fantasy with the truths you pick? She said buried in your soul you'll find a hidden treasure But you'll never find it, if your shovel is pleasure He dug with his arms he dug with his hands He clawed at the soil till he scarred the land He dug with backhoes he dug with machines He dug and made canyons, he dug and made ravines He dug through the summer and he dug through the cold He dug and found oil, he dug and found gold He dug and found riches but still felt poor Cuz you got to dig with love to dig into your soul He said I dreamnt of soil she said interpret the dream He said it doesn't make sense it's not worth it to me Plus after a few minutes they seem to fade away She said that doesn't mean it didn't have a story to convey The language of the world doesn't always use words Sometimes it uses omens, stones or birds He thought about the shovel it was shaped like a blade He remembered a fox yell, it sounded afraid He thought about their relationship to the earth and land How their homes are burrows and get crushed by man He thought about how he dug like stabbing a knife And how she bled minerals, the essence of her life He thought about greed and how he dug for himself He thought about desire and how he dug for wealth He finally stopped talking and started listening He threw down the shovel and started digging differently He dug with patience he dug with curiosity He dug with kindness and no animosity He dug with conviction he dug with discipline He dug with humility he dug with forgiveness He dug through the peace he dug through the war He dug for fun he dug to explore He found the buried treasure and no longer felt poor He found spiritual wealth, he found the love in his soul
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Astronomer's Poem 00:48
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My flows constructed of sine wavs and protons My thoughts expand with the universe they go on Bars radioactive in the dark they glow on I don't even rap, I blackout and go off Back in beast mode I rap in cheat codes Hack the matrix till it cease it to code Flying kites in lightning storms with sting theory Been sick since day one so don't come near me I spit ash I cremated the alphabet Spit fly 1000 years like the falcon is Seeing words in constellations, astronomer's poem At glass houses I threw philosopher stones I've been mining for my heart it's a lonely gem The fog in the field looked like smoked opium Saw the devil in my dream like a goat on hind legs The only prison there is is the one your mind makes
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Death Cult 01:20
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I got a lotta dreams but this is a difficult one I shoot em with stories with a mythical gun Ink bloodbath i spray em with paragraphs I got more shells than the whole sea has Sawed off stories with blood it's so gory But the pens the only weapon in dirty laboratory I got clips full of periods, commas, and dramas I'll end your history like Fukuyama With verbs and adjectives I'm angrily blasting The mag spit blasphemous putting angels in caskets My sniper scope shooting out poetry and stanzas To give a head shot to the hopeless propaganda I'm involved with, 6 shooter revolvers Full of nouns, vowels, verses, bars, and sonnets AK in my left hand, uzi in my right Blasting constant consonants all through the night A desert eagle with 8 stories about to take flight A bazooka with a fable, the bread and the dog bite ARs in the school but we don't get the lesson A death cult with violent metaphors we're obsessed with Allegories of hate will always keep expressing A country built on genocide, slavery, oppression The pen or the sword, the pen made the nuke The pen can manifest the evil that we do The pen can write the good, the pen can write the bad My pen just writes the truth, it's all that i have
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Antennae Heart 02:27
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He threw his notebook in the trash and said I'll never dream again He sacrificed it all, he lost family and friends He flipped off his boss and he walked out the job He walked to the lake and slumped on a log He thought about circles, was the earth a clock? And how he spent all his time on the surface of a rock He thought about how dreams are a pretty lonely business And how society grinds itself into sickness Skyscrapers full of dead beats and excel spreadsheets He said life is short any moment I could be dead meat His heart was a drum, his mind was like clay Vagus nerve like a guitar that he strum and played He started writing on a rock, the trees cheered em on He was never by himself when he was writing songs The biggest lie ever told is Sisyphus was alone There was other people to help push the boulder home Remember creation is always a collab Feel the spirits enter and the ether in the lab Listen to the trees hear hi hats in leaves Antennae heart, message received Remember creation is always a collab Feel the spirits enter and the ether in the lab Listen to the trees hear hi hats in leaves Antennae heart, message received He used to feel abandoned rejected and damaged Until he took his doubt and he smashed it with hammers Expectations reexamined his ego reimagined Discipline established, he even started fasting He went back to the park the tree was his trainer The tree said why do you mistrust the stranger? He thought about the question and the trees angle The tree said behind the scenes our roots are tangled He thought about it for a minute the sickness of capitalism How he was caught in it seeing others as competition He thanked the tree for the wisdom and went on his way He went to an open mic and cheered them as they played He met other artists and friends who shared skills Cathedral consciousness, this is how you build The biggest lie ever told is that Sisyphus was alone There was other people to help push the boulder home Remember creation is always a collab Feel the spirits enter and the ether in the lab Listen to the trees hear hi hats in leaves Antennae heart, message received Remember creation is always a collab Feel the spirits enter and the ether in the lab Listen to the trees hear hi hats in leaves Antennae heart, message received
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Coyote Communique 01:40
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My eyes weary, my mind varies The simplest things in life are the most extraordinary A ripple in a pond is a lesson to me That every action has a trajectory Staring at the branches in the wind I'm mesmerized The lines in a leaf I sat and memorized The bulldozers came, the engines murdered silence They came with chainsaws to do surgical violence The raccoons held a meeting a stone was thrown The windshield cracked, the brakes squeak and moan Dry grass in the gas tank turned it to an ash tray The men ran away they got chased at a fast pace Coyote communique, the men just heard a howl The birds did recon, surveillance from a owl The coyote growl translated to we got em now The moon couldn't look, it hid behind a cloud I woke from the dream and heard a fox crying Ironic how under your skin your skull is always smiling Are dreams a bridge between the night and the day? Or is a dream the underworld where we go to play? Are people I meet in dreams, the divine wearing masks? With faces I recognize so lessons I can grasp? Did we abandon the sacred for statistics? Did we trade screens for secrets from mystics? Or maybe we just rearranged the characteristics We pixelated our minds into code linguistics I'm trying to accept defeat, the desire to know Maybe curiosity got knotted with my ego Is to interpret a dream a way to kill a dream? Or if you focus too much you'll see it in everything? The palm reader said you're on the run from mortality Do you interpret dreams or make them reality?

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released March 2, 2024

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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

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