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lyrics
Paps:
I’m not superstitious
but i believe there’s a new affliction
cuz the true depiction of the truth is not the one that you’ve been given, it’s a crude rendition
So question it,
make sense of the worst and the best of it.
Don’t just read what you think, read the rest of it
and develop x-ray vision through censorship
Hop fences and discard the common consensus,
a synopsis will clot your perspective.
Its not an objective thought,
nobody coulda guessed it would get this dark...
In the age of information you choose your ignorance,
you choose your impotence,
you choose to be schooled by the media,
ruled by the greedy and used like a simpleton
Yeah, shame on them,
but it still means they fooled you once.
Hard time for being a pothead
but a rapist only gotta do two months
Does that seem right to you?
Does it feel like its just a part of life to you?
Are you really tryna tell me that you honestly think
that justice should be cold as just ice to you?
Nah fuck that, it ain’t normal!
We should stick to one another like cornrows.
So many know this but so many don’t,
some’ll take action but so many won’t.
Some’ll make movements, some’ll talk big
some’ll talk friendly, some’ll talk shit
some’ll make progress, some’ll make dough
some’ll stay sleep till the day they woke...
Imagine:
I fell in love with the music,
can't stop won't stop,
must be the movement.
I got nothing to lose here, don't you think I got
something to prove here.
Do they really wanna hear it?
Who's in here with the feeling and the spirit,
it's just the beginning, dream's never finished.
Anyways, who's believing in my lyrics?
Do this for the ones I love, for the friends and the family
only in these songs I trust, where rhymes can live happily.
writing is fighting and fighting is writing,
the right to enlighten the sight on the blind ones.
Show the minds they can open up (wide)
'cause they might never know enough.
Everyday is a lesson,
learn from mistakes 'cause that's what your'e left with.
No answers to questions
living in a world where guessing is a blessing.
Factual,
you think that your'e free but they got you all.
They even got me when I rap new flows.
First to stand will be the last to fall!
Fast and furious, life is a pilgrimage.
Got to be curious, try 'till the end of it.
Surrounded by souls yet we die alone,
help those in the cold to find a home.
Ladies and gents it's time to ascend,
no Mercedes Benz will drive us to sense.
One day will arrive, hope,
is what keeps me alive.
Dr Koul:
So-called leaders lying in wait, leading the blind astray
Leaving the right of way, leaving behind the greatness
I read between the lines seen between the lines we’re erasing.
Then flip a page sideways, slip into a sleep that’s wide awake.
Time is fake, whether chance or fate, we’re stuck in place
‘Cause life is a dream that our minds create
And we’re just not lucid
So how can we choose the approach we should use
If our own subconscious won’t let us view it?
Last night, I dreamt I was a butterfly
Or am I a butterfly dreaming I’m human?
Dammit
I sting like a bee, I’ll be free in another life
And for now I keep moving
And I believe I can make it right
So I put up a fight and I read and debate and I try to defeat the hate,
So I run to receive sun rays to my face when my dream gets gloomy.
Maybe I’ll perceive real truth one day.
For now I just want to feel beauty,
Laughter, happiness, harmony…
and I let it flow through me.
Feel the winds of the heavens in the presence of a new me.
I’m a lonesome child and a wise old sufi.
I’m at home in the wild and my soul is music
Open to shining but so translucent
I am one with the Tao, in the Now, is the true me
Peace, love, unity.
credits
from We Remain,
released June 26, 2019
Recording: Catacombes Prod
Mixing: Osciopak
Instrumental: Amok (Catacombes)
Rap: Imagine (C.O.T.I.), Paps (Sly Ink) & Dr Koul (C.O.T.I.)
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This group has that laid-back, introspective, poetic vibe that inspires us, along with the soul and funk sample style we grew up on and continue to value. Captains Of The Imagination (C.O.T.I.)
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Our favorite underground Geneva-based label. Some of the most poignantly conscious Hip Hop music our city has ever seen. And they're great people who do it for the love <3 Captains Of The Imagination (C.O.T.I.)