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Dusk [Prod. By Misogi]
03:17
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[Hook]
Thought I loved my ex but that was a myth
I just loved her for her figure, she treated me just like 'ish'
Tried to take me for a joke nar that never could run
She tried to break me down
What?
Playing with feelings are fun?
Thought I loved my ex but that was a myth
I just loved her for her figure, she treated me just like 'ish'
Tried to take me for a joke nar that never could run
She tried to break me down
What?
Playing with feelings are fun?
[Verse 1]
Never made me shed a tear
I only wasted one year
I once bought her flowers, got aired, she didn't care
That was P's straight down the drain
Leaving my heart feel the same
Sun has gone in, look to the sky, the rain would keep me sain
Decieved by looks I didn't even take time to read the full book
First chapter in I was content
Live and I learn and I hate to regret
That was a mistake it won't happen again
That was a mistake it won't happen again
I was a state, fam I was weakened
Seeing her with a next man the day after that, it felt like treason
So now I grind through the weather
Snow, sun, rain any season
She played me like a game, she had codes, she was cheating
[Pre-Hook]
To this day, dunno why she did it (I don't)
Sometimes I wonder why but I've got a new girl, that's lies
The past is done, I've moved on
Looked to the future as I made this one or in japanese, Suru ga, Suru ga
[Hook]
Thought I loved my ex but that was a myth
I just loved her for her figure, she treated me just like 'ish'
Tried to take me for a joke nar that never could run
She tried to break me down
What?
Playing with feelings are fun?
Thought I loved my ex but that was a myth
I just loved her for her figure, she treated me just like 'ish'
Tried to take me for a joke nar that never could run
She tried to break me down
What?
Playing with feelings are fun?
[Verse 2]
She said that she loved me but it was all just a lie
She said it as she looked at me dead in the eyes
Of course I believed her
Why wouldn't I?
But don't get it twisted '013 was the last time I cried
Cus back then I had flashbacks, back then I couldn't let it go
Thinking shoulda, coulda, woulda, until I knew going back there was a no
Emerging from the clouds, my head was hanging down
Until my chin was raised, thank her that I was saved
This one has the right energy
This one has the right aura
This one is flawless and for that I have to applaud her
Forever corrupted and yet I've still been blessed (I'm blessed)
Taking it day by day
And I can't wait for what happens next cus
[Hook]
Thought I loved my ex but that was a myth
I just loved her for her figure, she treated me just like 'ish'
Tried to take me for a joke nar that never could run
She tried to break me down
What?
Playing with feelings are fun?
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[Verse 1]
Link with Barkz at Co-Op, 2 man deep fam we do this co-op
Everybody on about bad and boujee, I got brothers move hood and they booky
Can't seem them in the dark and they don't spit bars
That's them non music dons in the backseat of the car
MCs get rinsed like Sound Of The Sir, MCs get rinsed like Spyro
Shaolin purple spit fire like Spyro make them hail me just like Hiro
Nar, not glyphics (SWING) pitch man for 6 like cricket
That's what happens if I leng one lyric, body mans soul, clart his spirit
[Hook]
Make that money like Mansa Musa
Make that money like Mansa Musa
Help my people, climb the steeple like I was Mansa Musa
Make that money like Mansa Musa
Make that money like Mansa Musa
Accumulate wealth take over the globe like I was Mansa Musa
[Verse 2]
16 bar just come like a kick from Tekken
Go run and hide I make the same 16 bend round the wall like Beckham, I got hunger like Creed
Man for man you can't take on me, my gunfingers make a man act jumpy
Can't bar like man, write like man, hype like man, I'll pull up and leave man span
I'll Skududu just like MDargg
Can't do that lyrically catch a M-Charge
Redrum backwards, radio for practice, always match fit strapped for the war
Can't take man for a mongoose, rain on man like a monsoon coming like weather
Ban man, beat me, tan man, defeat me, that would not happen ever
Talk is cheap and I get busy so show me that you're on job
Work on my own man I get that lizzy I'm out tryna make prof
Typical lyric but holds bare truth
Money affi mek and you know the rest
Money talks fam that's not bluetooth so I don't wanna hear about why or less
All work no play gotta make it keep pushing somehow someway
Grind and grind through grit and pain of hand cramp and wrist ache
Can't be scared of consequences just dive into risk take
Slowly building my own lane but not scared to overtake
[Hook]
Make that money like Mansa Musa
Make that money like Mansa Musa
Help my people, climb the steeple like I was Mansa Musa
Make that money like Mansa Musa
Make that money like Mansa Musa
Accumulate wealth take over the globe like I was Mansa Musa
[Verse 3]
Keep your mouth shut get your money up don't want me to put your name in a dub
Eat from my plate? you can't have none, boom bye bye like Buju Banton
More interest then payday loans and I will put my keys to the car you own
Chat about your gonna shoot me though but you got no P for the studio
Grind so hard I didn't shower for 3 days, don't give a F of what he or what she says
Not really into all the pissa passa, you can talk bad but trust it don't matter
Never really cared for a next mans chatter, first is true and so is the latter
I'm corrupted Mayday Blatter, Kingstanding Captain man are
I'm putting work in racking up milage you can't see it though because everybody knows that champions are crafted in silence, got the weight of BrumTown on my back
Tryna stay fresh under pressure but I know that's how diamonds are mad
Can't crumble in the concrete jungle forever hungry so I can't be pray
I lose some, I win some, as long as the outcome is income
Never spend P, always stack high, save then spend, I'm that guy
Rather look broke then stunt and act rich
Even in my trackie I could take your - Ah, fam, you ain't got one, dead trim fam so go cop one
[Hook]
Make that money like Mansa Musa
Make that money like Mansa Musa
Help my people, climb the steeple like I was Mansa Musa
Make that money like Mansa Musa
Make that money like Mansa Musa
Accumulate wealth take over the globe like I was Mansa Musa
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[Hook]
Mayday's the name and I stand by it
Double 4 the area and I came from it
Don't watch them though that's a alias back when I was in Dubai with the Arabians
Mayday's the name and I stand by it
Double 4 the area and I came from it
Don't watch them though that's a alias back when I was in Dubai with the Arabians
[Verse 1]
Merhaba, Wagwarn
Let me tell you about Mayday before I ever said ring the alarm
Let me tell you about Mayday before I ever put pen to the page
Let me tell you about myself and how I got given my name
It was back in '09 when I first learnt I could spit but I didn't start doing anything until the start of my uni stint so the rest is a myth
I wonder how many lectures that I've skipped to pursue this
With the stress of writing a dissertation and sending 16s at the pagans but
I skipped some steps, so lets rewind, to an easier time, when life was fine and I loved Grime from before the hype
When it was music I related to
When I saw H's soul get taken to and I wrote my first lyric, needed a name to go with it
We were jamming to Invasion Alert he said let's change it I said to what
He replied with Mayday Alert it stuck
From there on fam I was named, name was claimed, started to enter the game become a student to the game of writing bars and so
I again gained meaning found new feeling realised I had to break through the ceiling
Cus nothing and noone could stop me like getting gold stars in Mario 3
Influence people like Dale Carnegie
Not on purpose though I'm on my own ting cus
I'm tryna eat with my people like Saudi Arabias' King
[Hook]
Mayday's the name and I stand by it
Double 4 the area and I came from it
Don't watch them though that's a alias back when I was in Dubai with the Arabians
Mayday's the name and I stand by it
Double 4 the area and I came from it
Don't watch them though that's a alias back when I was in Dubai with the Arabians
[Verse 2]
Merhaba, Wagwarn
Let me tell you about Mayday before I ever created OI NA
Let me tell you about Mayday before I ever went out to the mountain
Let me tell you about myself and how I learnt to watch my own back
Never been taught out here so I'm doing trial and error
Once I embraced Mayday I fought through the mist and saw things better
I've been biding time analysing and breaking it down like enzymes
When I attack no army can strike back like Nas in halftime
Plotting, I'm plotting, still plotting and plotting
I'm out here to make my city proud, coming like a king just without a crown
On my Yung Lean steeze but still Mayo to the G's
Still Ricicles to my fam still that kid from KS sides but
[Hook]
Mayday's the name and I stand by it
Double 4 the area and I came from it
Don't watch them though that's a alias back when I was in Dubai with the Arabians
Mayday's the name and I stand by it
Double 4 the area and I came from it
Don't watch them though that's a alias back when I was in Dubai with the Arabians
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[Verse 1]
I was on top of the mountain peak scouting the earth at 360 degrees
Eyes everywhere saw the rain a mile off so I thought I'd shower bare MCs
You can try, do or die, suicide, who am I? Don't dare test fate
Brush aside parasites, brutalise alibis I'm not here to play
I was ninja training in the temple with Dot he taught me about the skill within
Watched, learned about spitjitsu now I merk on any riddim
Himalayan peaks cold thats Cryomancer
RainWorld native so hands off
Knowingly I know I got gripped by Satan
Lost my way then I found it Shaman
[Hook]
Came from a grove like CJ
Came from a grove just like Big Smoke
Travelled to the top of the mountain peak 1 on 1 training call that bespoke
Came from a grove like Sweet
Came from a grove like Ryder
Selfish boy went away things changed and now I feel like an outsider
[Verse 2]
That's nomad striving, hilltop climbing, dark cave searching, thirst is yearning
I need answers like Shenmu so I go and find them it's them I pursue
Can read history not the future
I soldier on Mayday trooper
To Osaka shouts out producer, that's man like BOLUS
Cross me and survive, know you got luck on your side
If it was down to me you'd get ran out have nowhere to go nowhere to reside
Send for me get spun
Can't come to the dance yours is already done
Don't let your boys talk you into beef, feed you to the beast, you're life get decreased
AVALANCHE! That's rocks falling down the side of the mountain, answers found them, Hong Kong fountain, flicked in a penny and it didn't start drowning
Prime example to a tiny sample, can't come ample get manhandled
Outangled outbarred outversed could be high in the sky still get your cloud burst
(CHU CHU BURST CHU CHU BURST)
Don't wanna swing it with me with the words
Don't wanna come through get your life cursed or end up dead in the back of a black hearse
Don't forget the route of the map you're using
It's your future that you're choosing
Them risky plays can be confusing like picking from identical twin
[Hook]
Came from a grove like CJ
Came from a grove just like Big Smoke
Travelled to the top of the mountain peak 1 on 1 training call that bespoke
Came from a grove like Sweet
Came from a grove like Ryder
Selfish boy went away things changed and now I feel like an outsider
[Verse 3]
Now I feel blessed surrounded by trees with Charlie but it ain't wave, forget wave, I'm a tsunami got many pieces to me that's origami
That's layers on layers, that's sides on sides
So don't try turn back time cus I'll go to my old ways no more Mr.Nice guy
Cus I look back an I'm not satisfied but I know that is a good sign
Progress improvement head of the movement why would I be stressing?
I'm doing way better then last year, I call that progression
I'll make smoke out the Vatican I'm adamant you can see it in the sky like javelin
And I'm cut from a different cloth feed me to the lions I'll come out on top
Seeing the sky from eye level, seeing life from above taught me a lot
So forget walking in my shoes you couldn't walk in my socks
Beefed the grim reaper 3 times I'm still standing on top
That's cus I did what I had to came from the caves to reside not hide
Then I run up on the mic with a bo staff and a big shield
Shaolin techniques in a rave I wield
Bun a fork in the road I'll put a fork in your face
No collab with an MC that I don't rate
Can't eat from my plate, didn't trek 1,000,000 miles just to make you great
Came from the Grove, alone, deserted home just to make it know
Got the weight of the Grove on my back
With the City of Birmingham sitting on my shoulders
Now that I've been and came back, know it's time to take the flag from the olders and run with it like a charge to attack
To make sure that the rest of the world know us
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[Verse 1]
I was in Ireland searching heritage
I was on my own moving like a heretic
At peace with what I've done after searching for what I needed
I was in Thailand culture tasting
I was on my own in a baron wasteland
Eating massaman thinking how to be a man
Cus life comes fast
And it hits hard
And once its done its done
The curtains close, legacy wrote that's how it goes, that's the code
Why do bros still beef over postcodes?
Why do they still beef over ends?
It doesn't matter now
Did it really matter back then?
[Hook]
I am a man but still a kid
End of the day is what it is
Call me mature call me what you want
If you don't mean it please don't front
I don't beg friend cus I lost all of mine
15 in 3 years I'm still doing fine
RIP to those of my bros in the sky
[Bridge]
I was in Dubai with Arabians as I was dreaming of selling out stadiums
Constantly chasing and never quitting
Life is a game one day I'll be winning but that's a long time away
I got no need to rush
I'm tryna craft art but running out of paint for my brush
[Spoken Voice]
Currently the paint is empty and you see the brush? its dry
And that happens from time to time
You run out, take time out and then come back and get back to doing your thing whatever it may be
Everybody has been in this situation before
And when you come to a state of realisation and a solution of how to fix it you're back in the game
Remember though it takes time
So don't be afraid about trial and error
[Verse 2]
I was in Jamaica steel drum listening
I felt the passion so I tried mimicking
What I was witnessing
Matching the intensity of what I was hearing
The fire in my belly cus I've already been in the one of the beast my turn to eat and feast
Reap what I sow, eat what I've earnt, analyse, contemplate what I've learnt but
It's a lot to take in but
So was growing up in a City of Sin
I've already say it but I'll say it again
My ends we weren't built to win
Nobody famous where I lived
We weren't meant to reach better things
Don't tell me about it, fam I lived it
[Hook]
I am a man but still a kid
End of the day is what it is
Call me mature call me what you want
If you don't mean it please don't front
I don't beg friend cus I lost all of mine
15 in 3 years I'm still doing fine
RIP to those of my bros in the sky
[Bridge 2]
20 straight years round struggle and strive
20 straight years of grit and grind
Do you know what its like to see you're Mom cry getting back from work in the dead of night?
Head in her hands tryna make plans thinking of ways to get out
Eyes are reds cheeks are the same but always put on a brave face
[Spoken Voice]
That right there is real, all of it
If you've seen that you know exactly where I'm coming from
I'm forever thankfully though but I've talked to much but I've said what I needed
Lemme get back to lyrics
[Verse 3]
I was in Poland lone wolf riding
I was out there bare Zlotys in my hand
I was enjoying I was living like a king
One man exploring Polish land
Shoutout my shaman, that was Jacob he helped show me the way
Eating donuts and jumping trains
A memory made for the rest of days
Travelling changed me I saw new things it remade me I met the King of Kings
Out in Egypt, Gaza Strip
It was '06 when I took that trip
The world is big there's so much out there still can't process it's actually mad
So many cultures to take in
I guess I'm Forever Nomad
[Hook]
I am a man but still a kid
End of the day is what it is
Call me mature call me what you want
If you don't mean it please don't front
I don't beg friend cus I lost all of mine
15 in 3 years I'm still doing fine
RIP to those of my bros in the sky
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Mayday Birmingham, UK
Crafted by himself, Mayday hails from Birmingham. Taking inspiration from garage mixes his mother use to play in his early
years and infusing them with a love of international music, the 0121 native is set to bring his playful storytelling music to the world.
The self-proclaimed ‘Kingstanding Captain’ is one of the most exciting prospects from the West Midlands to emerge in recent times.
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