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Cyphin in the Stairwell (prod. Back Alley Kat)

from Still Everything Blessed by namebuddha x Time

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There’s a lot going on these days
People getting sprayed while grocery shopping
Cops still killing my people, killing all people really

And in them moments
I felt the globe shift
My soul twitched
Domestic abuse sky rocketed durin covid
Roll the potent
In the matrix where we forced to code switch
I’m loaded off the quervo
In the valley of Pharaohs
spit it like
I'm cyphin in the stairwell
You livin in despair while
Your vision is impaired tell
The pigs we the ones who keep it lit up in air
yo
Punchlines techs with the air holes
Cops is overglorfied scare crows
Jim crow got new clothes
Our nation reached for new lows
My 6th grade teacher’s
Name was Ms massulo
she hated a nigga I aint forget that
Paint a picture every time I sketch tracks
Mind state Frida Kahlo
Ice detention centers genocidal
My mom's was on that shit so I was fed from bottle
The feds Gestapo
They follow like apostles
Atheist with a god flow
The fuck you gon tell me?

And I’ve been disappointed in these styles lately
Dudes be acting woke but they move fakely
Rappers, pigs, happiness they all hate me
This game tried to break me, buffy tried to stake me
But I busted out my coffin like gas lighter pay me
Undertaker came to take me, I killed em with a break beat
Fuck 5 mics only god can rate me
If pain is a mindset that's where my mama raised me
North side, porch side, that's where my source lie
That's where they killed Ryan, of course the pork lied
The world going under water, denver's on the shoreside
Climate catastrophe, hell is just a short ride
RIP to Lonnie put me on my first courtside
Swimming in tears, eyes red from the chloride
Cyphing in the stairwell, buddha's bars medicine
Give the land back to the Cheyenne and Bedouin
Prisons are death camps, abolish the regiment
welcome to the united states of embarrassment
Destroy your walls like one punch man with adrenaline
Fuck rapists, fuck manson, fuck marilyn
I write my truth with a pen then they scratch it into paraffin
I eat to live, I mix the lentils with the lettuce and
Put some black seed in the licorice tea in the kettle and
Add some nettle so the depression isn't an impediment
Cyphers are portals, these bars are paranormal
Thoughts echo through the universe, art is immortal

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from Still Everything Blessed, released August 25, 2023

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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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