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Paulo's Path mixtape vol. 5

by Time

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Spirits in Attendance 01:00
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Drinking mint tea do what i want cuz I'm indie A 1000 bars in I made the whole city windy Panty hose pop filter dirty lab thrifty Dunking mixtapes through the legs like Finley I'll never stop dreaming I'm following the omens My songs are sermons for rap theologians Wearing white linen for the energy benefits Writing is my remedy a scalpel is what my pen is Give me a journal and the ink'll start hemorrhaging Earth Wind and Fire and Ice Cube are my genesis Society's a menace they kill the forest that's precious I'm a willow's apprentice, alchemy's my premises Transphobe nemesis, fuck you white supremacists Fuck you in italics yes I added emphasis Lighting candles for the martyrs, spirits in attendance Nex Benedict should still be alive repeat the sentence
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Dream Historian 02:43
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Too many know their dreams but they're afraid to realize them They don't realize, real lies grow inside them Afraid to do the action so they start to theorize them The cops in our head so we start to legalize it We police ourselves then we go and demonize us But we wear talismans you can't evil eye us I see you with my eagle eye my talons are arriving No waiting for the wise men the gifts are inside us Pessimists say a pyramids a pile of stones Does that mean a bodies just a pile of bones? When I die play my rib cage like a xylophone Is there an afterlife or just a dial tone? I don't really know I'm just freestyling these poems Drowning in these notes like a rapping Brian Jones No Sympathy for the Devil, America's a private loan It's karma went bankrupt piling up bison bones Aurora borealis in the sky looks gorgeous Lucid dream notorious, I'm a dream historian Astral travel poet, I'm a dream laureate I'm a dream warrior I woke up victorious Aurora borealis in the sky looks gorgeous Lucid dream notorious, I'm a dream historian Astral travel poet, I'm a dream laureate I'm a dream warrior I woke up victorious A few years ago I lost my mind thought of suicide Made myself a victim felt double crossed and crucified Had to Get My Mind Right, Anti Smiles to rewind They feed us pills and whisky so we slowly die and euthanize Not to mention GMOs plus our food is friend Algorithm showing fast food, the poison is computerized White Jesus on the mural, the message is dehumanize Free Mumia, free em all, they shouldn't be doing time My friend said he travels out the prison through the astral In his cell he made a shrine, in his mind he made a chapel He's been reading Jung he said an archetypes a castle He said no more rappers start battling your shadow Red eyes in my subconscious I see the jackals He said I'm in prison but you got the shackles The judge is a snake he bangs his gavel like a rattle I woke up from my dream and I saw a bitten apple Aurora borealis in the sky looks gorgeous Lucid dream notorious, I'm a dream historian Astral travel poet, I'm a dream laureate I'm a dream warrior I woke up victorious Aurora borealis in the sky looks gorgeous Lucid dream notorious, I'm a dream historian Astral travel poet, I'm a dream laureate I'm a dream warrior I woke up victorious
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Unconscious Transmissions 01:58
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How can you battle what you don't even know? I walked into the coliseum looking for my shadow The audience was my biases, my trauma, my wounds My laziness, my selfishness, my greed to consume The ref said you need to meet yourself let me introduce A hole appeared in the floor, he pushed me to the truth I fell down the slide I saw my ego and abuse I saw my cowardice and my unpleasant qualities I saw my insecurities and animosities I saw parts of my psyche that i wasn't aware of I saw parts i abandoned, I should have repaired em I found islands in my mind that I refused to acknowledge I tried to find the light but I didn't have the wattage He said put out the torch the treasure's in the darkness When you find home in the dark you'll see shadows are harmless And every time you deny them they always get stronger And every time you try a shortcut the path gets longer Stumbling through the dark I found fangs, claws, and friends I saw my weapon was blame, unconscious patterns within I surrender intention it's a limitation A tree just grows, it flows with creation I was projecting my shadow onto others seeing enemies I had to sever the victim as part of my identity I'm trying to integrate my shadow and merge my sides I'm trying to trace the roots and see where triggers collide Scuba diving the unconscious the sinister spaces Active imagination, uncomfortable places I found a cave in the abyss it led to the dream realm It had a type of honesty that a scream held Voices in the static, unconscious transmissions Trying to decipher the rhythm the patterns have wisdom Trying to uncensor myself with journaling and meditation I'm trying to reverse engineer the projection with patience Success has nothing to do with the shadow or art Light can only be found when you emerge from the dark There's no answer on the way to assimilate your shadow Every time you think you've won you restart the battle
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Shadow Intervention 01:38
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Come on dude why you even still rapping? It's been 20 years and nothing has happened It's a pipe dream, get you head out of the clouds Look at the truth, I'm not talking bout doubt There's a 1000 rappers every square mile I saw your picture in the dictionary by denial I saw you in the DSM5 by delusion Let me introduce myself, I'm your conclusion Can't you read they writing wack in the comments They even used a bunch of emojis of vomit And instead of reflecting you just blocked em You hide away your misery, well I'm the locksmith You still have a job and you never had a hit You been rapping 20 years you should fucking quit You rap off beat plus it's too abstract Talking bout psychology no one wants to hear that You're too radical, your politics go too far Plus you use too many syllables in a fucken bar You're monotone, boring, plus you can't sing Rap doesn't need you, what value do you bring? You're almost 40, your friends don't support you You need an intervention in a spiritual courtroom You've tried autotune, you've tried selling out You've tried gimmicks and features, who's the villain now? You never sold out a show or been on the radio You're a white dude rapping on the slim shady show You go by Time, you can't even google that You should be MC Cringe, change you name to that You don't have a seat not even a crumb on the table You even got dropped by Kweli's label I'm your shadow I Shouldn't be showing you the light I'm here to speak your fears, don't mistake it as a fight
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My Familiars Eat Fear 01:45
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I stared fear in the eye until it blinked I saw through it I saw betrayal, I saw lies, I saw myself in Judas I felt comfort like seeing fireflies in august This isn't a diatribe, I'm just being honest A decision is a current, regret is going against the flow Whether you surrender or fight the same place you will go The alchemist is fluent in the universal language My familiars eat fear, they eat hate, they eat anguish I don't really hear beats I just see buffets and banquets I don't see enemies I hear their screams before they're vanquished Kill demons like Peter Venkman busting ghosts is thankless Kick out the trap he gone I'm a scientist like Spengler I'm sliming these beats, I stay puffing on beats I'm climbing these beats, taxidermy stuffing these beats You lying on beats, I'm truth never bluffing on beats They threw a flag in the studio they said I'm roughing the beat In my Prime on these beats, I'm getting Buff with these beats I'm dining on beats, pass the knife, I'm cutting these beats I'm flying on beats, I'm the shit, I'm buzzing on beats I'm shining on beats, you dull, you struggling on beats I'm frying the beat, with the grease I'm brushing my teeth I'm diving on beats, I spit till I flooded the beat I diamond these beats, I royal flush on these beats I'm clubbing these beats, king of hearts loving these beats Candy crushing these beats, hacking and debugging these beats Juicing and chugging these beats, I need a truckful of beats Flow father sonning these beats, I rap and mummy these beats If you need a beat bodied, no discussing it's me
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Future Corpse 01:36
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I put my shadow to work I never battle for worth I grab the mic with Guts then I go Berserk I know myself I know the magic I encompass I grew up talking shit so I guess I am a lumpen Used to take pills cuz I wanted to numb shit Now I stay in the studio vampire sunless Dropping funk like fungus over Alchemist production Kill you gunless, with bars I'm dumping Eat the beat scrumptious, next rapper cutting onions Hit em with a cannonball like Nat on the trumpet All my friends hate injustice They yell Free Palestine and fuck Columbus I'm a future corpse of course I know my fate But until then dope flows is all I procreate I'm just using these atoms ill give them back to time space I'll return to the earth like dust I exfoliate Demons try to follow me, the coffin wanna swallow me I said fuck em both and I never give apologies The devil wanna borrow me, the reaper wanna bother me In my mind, I think hell made a colony No toxicology, in drama don't involve me I say fuck em all like I never knew monogamy I won the bar lottery, body beat policy Me without a mic is like Rae without Wallabees
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Circle Of Salt 02:22
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She said there's no such thing as coincidence She made a circle of salt then said let the spirits visit us The plates came out the cupboard like a poltergeist incident The glass wouldn't cross the circle im glad that they're missing us I asked who they were she said it's us it makes no difference She said your eyes and ears only misinterpret where the hidden is You got to find the music in the gaps and dissonance The universe is gonna universe there's no convincing it She said society will make your mind a dried up lake Curiosity and magic is how you hydrate They made necessary illusions for social hypnosis To atrophy thought, imagination necrosis Patriotism's stockholm syndrome that's my diagnosis My flow makes friends on a scarecrow a crow sits My long term goals involve exchanging gifts with corvus The feet next to me in the bathroom stall were cloven He said humans are a crop and mortality's a locust That's when the strobe hit, magenta glitch color chroma He said the scarlet beast woke up and crossed the sea like Moses Leviathan's wrapped around my neck the scales got me choked up I’m always half losing my shit and half calm and stoic Apocalyptic commotion but still the globe spin Gaia love us so much she let us hurt her with explosions She love us so much even though our end is approaching She love us so much the soil has oxytocin They distract us for profits and make us focus on more sin In school they said i had an issue in my frontal lobe and I was obsessed with diplodocus till i found about jadakiss In detention they locked us i left invisibility cloaked up Through streams of consciousness with 2 pens i rowed us All the way to Pleiades the seven sisters know us Supernova sunset the spectrum was gorgeous We broke down in Andromeda a mothership towed us Whirlpool galaxy the nebula's a lotus Is karma police just a celestial cop? She poured more tea and said untie the knots The mountains are old and wise you can learn if you listen It doesn't involve ears, only your submission A plate broke on my head, she laughed and said it's your fault She said with your foot you broke the circle of salt
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Seek No Praises 02:40
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He followed a star to an oasis the earth is a spaceship Thoughts deep like coral reefs and crustaceans I work the swing shift, the night shift and the fucking day shift No more corpse colored glasses, got my 3rd eye lasik My pen from louisville, homerun base hit I see thieves behind my rhyme scheme trying to retrace it Throwing bleach in the studio I'm leaving no traces Saturate the beat I find comfort in tape hiss You cannot disgrace us the way is the wayless Everytime that you hate us the blessings embrace us Everytime you betray us you really just raise us I don’t think you understand let me rephrase it If you think there's a wrong way then you believe in mazes Your desire to erase us only further creates us We are interlaced you'd disappear if you replaced us Granpa said humble man seek no praises We are not separate, release the illusion They make us hate each other with borders and seclusion I'm trying to surrender egos want solutions Don't fear the unknown that's my conclusion We are not separate, release the illusion They make us hate each other with borders and seclusion I'm trying to surrender egos want solutions Don't fear the unknown that's my conclusion My heart is all I carry in my inventory Is a windstorm just the sand telling stories? I don’t fear the mystery I embrace the strange I’m not looking for answers I’m content with unexplained I’m afraid of losing possessions but i know it's just carbon infected with materialism, leavers, takers, and bargains Laws don’t bring justice when control is the margin They'll probably put the sun on trial and convict it of arson Fire alchemy, the sword is liquid then it hardens When your life goes to shit compost it in your garden If there's no enemy then they always invent one We're born with soft hearts but the city cements em Each trap is a test, even being optimistic Is getting rid of the ego still egotistic? Skillful devices bodhisatava breeze Would you rather have gold or a yellow leaf? We are not separate, release the illusion They make us hate each other with borders and seclusion I'm trying to surrender egos want solutions Don't fear the unknown that's my conclusion We are not separate, release the illusion They make us hate each other with borders and seclusion I'm trying to surrender egos want solutions Don't fear the unknown that's my conclusion
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Jokers & Jesters 01:53
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Nobodies an alchemist but im close He drank the elixir of life and out the coffin he rose You don't just pick the path, the path knows what you chose Are all things the one thing? I don't know I suppose You don’t just walk the path the path allows you walk You don’t just cross the street the street allows you to cross What I’m getting at is that the soul of the world is also you Alchemy's a serious discipline I thought you knew? I guess everything on earth is going through transformation The train stops to get graffitied paint sprays imagination In a graveyard he buried a message to the gods He said I just want to create some art to make you applaud In the distance lightning cracked then came the thunderclap He took it as an answer but went back to the path I guess an alchemist's job is never really done Cuz he'll still be transforming as ash in the sun Maybe he'll become soil, get baked and turned to clay And become a cup to quench someone's thirst for the day Or maybe he'll become sand, get baked and turn to glass And help someone see until their time pass He learned how to talk dragons instead of slaying them A king has no friends, only sentinels obeying him The crown only represents fear of rejection The clown paints a smile cause his natural one left him The only ones laughing are the jokers and the jesters A laugh is a reminder to let go and take a breath And remember everything's conspiring for your success
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The Dot In The Question Mark 02:03
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Maybe the answers aren't written cuz words can't convey it? Maybe the truth isn't a sound and there's other ways to say it? Maybe there's no lies we need to decipher the code? Maybe the story happened but it didn't need to be told? Maybe the dot in the question mark is a grenade that explodes? Maybe paragraphs are walls and sentences are a road? Maybe we're afraid of silence cuz it makes us reflect? Maybe we're afraid of loss cuz we feel like we're next? Maybe we could harness the technology of dreams? Maybe that's where us and the afterlife meet? Maybe we could find the fabric of space and rip the seams? Maybe we're in a simulation being ran by machines? Maybe a black hole is someone's eye looking in at us? Maybe we're lab rats and the experiment is up? Maybe beauty is seeing a leaf pause in the wind? Maybe nirvana's just a quiet walk with a friend? Maybe everything's all at once, eternity's a moment? Maybe we're stuck in a hall of mirrors mistaking the opponent? Maybe we're just fractals, tangled in the branches? Maybe this is a memory from a poem that vanished? Maybe this is a lucid dream and we never existed? Maybe god playing marbles really makes solar systems? Maybe I’m a ghost, I wear this skin like a garment? Maybe we walk towards the light after 9 months of darkness? Maybe if artists can't save the world then no one can Maybe the world doesn't need saving because no one can

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released April 12, 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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