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TRUE​|​|​FORM

by RA Scion, Gifted Youngstaz

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1.
Threshold 02:17
I blow with the force of Santa Anna Stand in awe of the windfall This man’ll fold manna Men’ll eat to famine and then speak with candor Chill Fam we dancing for the bandstand camera Wallow in the gluttony developing vices Tomorrow they’ll be flooding with me help and advice Amazing the lost see disciples as slaves And try and liberate the devotees from mass graves The nerve a few in the flock got plots reserved Hop to serve when the wolf spots the herd Atop sugar hill cock, aim, shoot to kill You call that executing god’s will The fury materialized within the flurry of shells The shepherd’s body found buried in the well The Exo will decompose the manifesto grows Sip the spirits from the brim when it flows The reticent are standing reverently at the threshold Awaiting the command to join the regiment inside We traveled from every spot on the map without rest so Prepare and hope the space in the gates will open wide Brothers welcome sisters thank y’all for coming Blessed are those who heed the summons of the drumming You are now in the presence of light Sight is inconsequential welcome to the temple They never studied busting tempo in the temple Rise to one oh five flying by simple They stepped to me now they're walking with a limp yo Dragged down the silk road young but I think old Sitting in the citadel hearing a distant drum and bell Spinning me like a carousel spitting out all my parallels I'm not discriminating simply eliminating The men and women with a demon that's ruminating A human sacrifice if it could bring you back to life I have to lie the truth is that you have to die Recognize my closed fist eclipse your wits quick But me I keeps it going like a bottomless pit And some of the time I'm running circles round you and shit And I can't even see you cause I ground you to bits And I can't even see you cause I ground you to bits The reticent are standing reverently at the threshold Awaiting the command to join the regiment inside We traveled from every spot on the map without rest so Prepare and hope the space in the gates will open wide Brothers welcome sisters thank y’all for coming Blessed are those who heed the summons of the drumming You are now in the presence of light Sight is inconsequential welcome to the temple
2.
Don't disrespect cause I'll straight correct As I'm lifting up my fist I'll find your chin and then connect It's about how you act yo skipping hitting a plateau I'm a classless asshole I'm a king in a castle It's my empire as if I'm Ross Perot When philosophy meets poetry like Henry D Thoreau Meets Rousseau what you know when I let the haters know Slipping hitting dipping and kicking it like it's Tae Kwon Do I'm sick of pacifist thought man would you fucking just stop Dealing amethyst rock instead of cannabis pot Habitual it's ritual it's whatever you want to call it Elevating to another plane and grabbing knowledge Tempo offsetting heat that's why your sweating And now you going down in flames like you was Otis Redding These despicable political inexplicable criminals Simply unforgivable a fact that's unequivocal A nation that's divisible hating it and we miserable Living life this predictable bordering the unthinkable Living life this predictable bordering the unthinkable Cool wind replenish the energy spent In the argument against a battle for supremacy One not control one son you know the rules You know where you come from sun you hold tools Sharp tip spent time on the grind Stone faced my elements are refined Go head send the inquisition apply pressure I betcha before they finish their intention they bow I plow six mile furrows three hands deep Plant seeds from the Burroughs reap a Flatbush Passion push em over the edge Now they asking us how can this zealous one dwell among the heads Sitting patient awaiting an explanation for truth Fucking my wordplay up suck on the fruits Of my validated pass to pass for flash cards Some hate to have to do math to find proof Issue that decree to murder my last sons but Yo they getting Murked fore they touch the first one Hit em high DESIGN BUILD bombed across the sky in stencils Welcome to the temple
3.
LISSIN' 02:03
Hope that you Hope that you Listen Listen Listen Listen I ain't citing no biting or rewriting I'm too exciting When I'm letting my lyrics fly right on time and Taking no prisoners firing all my cylinders Slicker than Pernell Whitaker slicker than oiled vinegar Style's my signature smooth like a caligrapher Writing mad rhymes to pass the time When it was simpler thinking bout my choices Avoiding rejoicing poison spitting lyricist be making active noises Destroyed this repping like the man from Illinois did Science and mathematical beast Hank McCoy kids I'm getting elevated name was Earl Boykins It's pointless and every track be disappointing Fuck, doesn't mean that I ain't gifted I'm grinding all my gears when all they really need some shifting I'm running a muck all out of luck I'm a be spitting to make just a buck Ain't gone be quitting til I'm in the dust Mozart, Beethoven and Iron Lung busts I wont compete in this competition Because I have a greater mission I hope that you listen I hope that you listen Hope that you Hope that you Hope that you Listen I hope that you listen Hope that you listen Hope that you Hope that you Listen Listen What if all of my fears irrational Why am afraid of dying That's nothing unnatural Why are we afraid of trying That’s nothing but attitude Why are you wasting time if You know they wont give it back to you Battle each of your demons Challenge every doubter I doubt if you’ll be so lucky to Live or to love without em Fought em, thought I was drowning Waded way out the fountain Deep at sea a piece of me just Praying I see the mountain Oh lord forgive him He’s so weary of seeking to be Rewarded for swimming But it’s punishment at the functional Core of the system As the laws is written It’s a war of attrition Yo what more are we missing They keeping all of this wisdom And the wealth for they selves We in cells and prison With no help and assistance I think hell is a business Where the key to success is kept Hidden in the darkness Don’t be afraid to go in it come on I wont compete in this competition Because I have a greater mission I hope that you listen I hope that you listen Hope that you Hope that you Hope that you Listen I hope that you listen Hope that you listen Hope that you Hope that you Listen Listen
4.
Son of Menelik made it possible to be here We wanna thank y’all for being here Children of the rap tradition back with what you've been missing This is a world premiere Original seed made it possible to be here We wanna thank y’all for being here Children of the rap tradition back up in the kitchen Cooking up a world premiere Warp speed y'all caught the feed via satellite Postmodernist philosophy of the Pre-Adamite News attuned to the prattle right moving to shut ‘em down Troops of The Sound we Seattlites A dew drop of this’ll do for the populous It’s poppin and obvious we bout to drop for the democratis In the pockets of the economy the bomb ticks About to cook and the outlook is ominous Who you ride for fuck it I’m trynna drive y’all To the brink of your instinct survival better think fore we extinct Fast tribe will sink under the tidal the last link is vital To the alliance and the principle appliance of the method We all revolve around science Both the biased and the pious will lie in ruin alike When you and I are defiant yo Son of Menelik made it possible to be here We wanna thank y’all for being here Children of the rap tradition back with what you've been missing This is a world premiere Original seed made it possible to be here We wanna thank y’all for being here Children of the rap tradition back up in the kitchen Cooking up a world premiere I'm here to wreck a beat and break this mother off You could say I'm busting lyrics like you in your socks I rock with it in it again and again Feeling to stop the rhythm hitting within em I stock venom The drops sentimental I'm locked from heavy metals Tupac got shot to cop his heavy mentals I guarantee it that I'm visionary seeing Believing to be perceiving what your eyes are not receiving You should leave this to someone that could weave lips shut I'd leave you out to dry just hang em up Cold like Minnesota barely has iota in his brain stem Want to battle me you'd hit the pavement No trap it's only boom bap saving us from dude That shit is fucking whack change the track Finishing it pro rata fighting back like Zapata A Filipino flipping off damaged Spanish Armadas Son of Menelik made it possible to be here We wanna thank y’all for being here Children of the rap tradition back with what you've been missing This is a world premiere Original seed made it possible to be here We wanna thank y’all for being here Children of the rap tradition back up in the kitchen Cooking up a world premiere
5.
Flamethrower 02:46
Killing yourself trying but why are you still lying Problematic multiplying the issues that's underlying I feel it that it's visceral bombing just like a missile You got to flip the script up on it's ass and write like Cicero Be invincible I vent it all Invent it all We gone win it all, gonna see it all like I'm the Pentagon Gunning them up, running them up, selling them up short Cause for sport barbarians carrying Aryan filth back north Seattle where the greyness is famous for being heinous Doesn't fade us here to train us get up and entertain you I'm knowing that flowing is going to show that I'm going to make everything aight I'm full of fight, bark and I bite when I be ripping em right off the mic I'm doing it with my mind spray up like the crime rate Finally finding that rhyming is going to be what I'll be doing full time A battle royal cause few will ever be loyal Aluminum foil for my paranoia conspiratorial Drop a sweet sixteen like the Sistine Chapel when I rap I'm the man Lil Dap what Doused in the fountain mist drip city center house Enter into our shit gather round Shout it out holler if you've had it Now the whisper get a little bit louder Til the balance of the power shift Stone throw dethrone the king of planet rock Got the hammer cocked maybe never know the scope of damage Cocked gun if the beast is breathing we are not done Organize the posse tell em drop it on the one Let’s take the shortest way to orchestrated chaos You’re forced to face the source of pain it may cause The lord forsake the wards of state your faith’s lost Forty days of storming the gate Sure to pay off soon, right Riders assembled under the moonlight Commune of lunatics troop move in unison Ruins of the new writ loop played news clips Shooters of the gift ricochets graze the crucifix A spark of truth is lit Dionysus It shines bright guide us through this newest line of crisis It’s a different type of fighter this resistance requires Generals are temporal leaders never retire We set afire the missal Epistle begin to burn When it’s finished you’re finna see your returns get diminished It’s low percentage interest if any in your privilege bro Just sew the seeds and hope the people reap the benefits Doused in the fountain mist drip city center house Enter into our shit gather round Shout it out holler if you've had it Now the whisper get a little bit louder Til the balance of the power shift Stone throw dethrone the king of planet rock Got the hammer cocked maybe never know the scope of damage Cocked gun if the beast is breathing we are not done Organize the posse tell em drop it on the one
6.
DOAP 2020 04:43
Regulators in the graveyard new rules for the new school Set a date for the seance voodoo's what the crew use Stay awake for the chaos shoot for the blue suits Hang loose with the fang tooth grey wolf with the wasted youth Take two say who who made you All time great not a two game rule All white race not one lane lose All white lace in the Kool aid juice Hey Zeus Jesus all praise due who do they pray to All heads turned for the melee brood Been away came back to the place they roost Woof shit is about to get ugly hens Are holed up in a house full of money The field is on fire, the barn is all bloody And nobody's heard if the farmer is coming to tend to his flock Been here since ten of the clock stock in that simmering pot Trying to buy time is not working sir - are you for certain It's worth what you spent on that watch Watch. Keep one eye open No blinking you sink into sleep and you meeting its cousin Eye of the needle the reaper is coming The brink of extinction the people's destruction Keep on disrupting the evil republic Do not hold grudges against your own brothers Cause you and me will continue to be considered enemies One in the same to these fuckers I swear Right there a kick and a snare And a stick and a spear and the spirit of 76 in the air In the era of Ish are we slicker this year Shit is not what it appears How is this governor stuck in arrears What is this button this buzz in my ears The mamas and papas I'm no son of theirs Run for the hills head for the border with portable drills Scramble to dam up the waters i promise you We will dismantle whatever you build Real recognize real whether the texture is weathered and peeled Solar exposure to polarization of Particles brought us together to kill Death of a precedent the rest of my testament Malevolent rebels are yelling oh what an expression of eloquence Arrest the precedent sever the heads of his delegates Welcome to hell where the resident celebrants relish in decadence It's like I never thought I'd be doing this shit anyways Hit you with a right hand BING call me Hemingway Little man but I swing like a heavyweight Ready, wait, too late staring at the ceiling fan Yes from a little man guess I am the riddle man Strung you like a fiddle pretending to be the middle man Yup I think you better duck I don't believe anything just for a buck Truth hurts when your long in the tooth Shirts bloody with the two verse murdered coming through here Syncopated rhythm while shaken up from the rhythm or the schism Or the chick that had that motherfucker singing I'm a keep on swinging I'm a sling it like I'm Brett Favre Damn it all to hell when I'm spitting up with my hell fire You missed wide right, kicking from the white right Ease up on 'em Mikey Shybee damn it ain't excite bike Spit it with the quickness verbal fitness in a half bar Going down Xan bar, greatest since Alexander Slicker than your average rapper is with the language Slam it doing damage think I'm going to need a bandage One thing I've been thinking bout is speeding up keeping up Farthest thing inside my mind I got beats I'm beating up I could do it in my sleep counting sheep Dropping lyrics, writing poems while you're pissing in the sheets Death of a precedent the rest of my testament Malevolent rebels are yelling oh what an expression of eloquence Arrest the precedent sever the heads of his delegates Welcome to hell where the resident celebrants relish in decadence Death of a precedent a test of intelligence The best of the messengers said it with debilitating impediments Settle your reticence, and ready your regiment Steady your weapon and let it eliminate all the unpleasantness Lick that zig keg full of powder got kickback kid Little dot fixed on a slicked-back wig Lick that Sig, lick that Sig Whittle that switch for to stick that pig Hogs in the back of a big, black rig Spit in the pit get it lit quick took a Little sip of the swig then i hit that zig Clouded my vision, smoke in my eyes, slight astigmatism Write a prescription to right the deficiency I can see clearly the cycle is vicious Righteous administer rites of the wicked Afflicted, befallen of all type of sickness I offer my alms slit in my palms the Sign of stigmata that's my crucifixion It's my jurisdiction I've been commissioned you under my supervision It's time that I tighten the reigns, Crash of the titan's wave, the tides have changed Triton's back the Scion of Poseidon cites the title track A life of modern miracles this here might be my final act Death of a precedent the rest of my testament Malevolent rebels are yelling oh what an expression of eloquence Arrest the precedent sever the heads of his delegates Welcome to hell where the resident celebrants relish in decadence Death of a precedent a test of intelligence The best of the messengers said it with debilitating impediments Settle your reticence, and ready your regiment Steady your weapon and let it eliminate all the unpleasantness
7.
Vibe Aquatic 04:13
Bringing the beauty of Venus into your intravenous Some say I'm a genius others would rather quarantine us Synthetic aesthetic I think that shits pathetic Your rhymes need paramedics to save us from anesthetics This is my op-ed a hip hop head make em all drop dead Plop when I pop gems It's a disgrace like Chuck three verses Tito Drug sapped libido Rich like Incognito I could spoon feed em weed in the middle of arboretums Thinking bout my freedom but that's already deleted Stop bleeding, stop breeding we leaving the Garden of Eden For freeing our minds with truth but paying for it abuse Stop, alfresco I let my breath go Inhale deep when I say it with my chest yo Ripping a rhyme I'm finding double time is designing A maze of lyrical haze that's always ending up on time Fatal flying guillotine coming from the Philippines Make a dent heaven sent hype like amphetamines No serenity that's my identity Temperamentally to my enemies there are ten of me This is rap right fuck your back track aight We don't need training wheels when we make it slap live My ability exceeding probability that I'm a have upward mobility dependability In the middle of me killing is more than it seems I'm not a villian but I'm willing to meddle with things Scribbler of literature mind dribbler Magic with the words and I'm random with the trivia Vibrations, that's the mind power With the vibrations I find it easier to express outrage Ain't ever really outgrew my burn shit down phase Maybe that's the reason I've been seeing my fan base about face Going for a bucket brigade to keep their house safe Doubt plays a pivotal role travel down stage Cast of characters disparaging renowned names Salivating over salvation what the palate wait Trying to find a way to make it without faith Bounced on the counter revolutionary Califate Press power from the state brush the palace gate The loner's army never let the code evalobrate Artificial allies always coming around late Occupy is trying to take a slice of pound cake House way outright entitlement nowadays Weight crash party somebody smash the Palisades DJ play the crowd fave drown em in sound waves Blow the corpse float across the floor plains Pay with chump change must train to hunt game Bloody Sunday same as any other day Commonplace, ordinary, humdrum, mundane Somethings strange coming through the grate Will the son stay? Not if the father ain't familiar with gunplay Shuffle up and deal the cards suits called Trump's played Surfs in the graveyard refurbishing the love trains Scream and shout blow the speakers out Do you even know what you need out of a leader now The tryant's in in the tower and the only way to climb is with the mind power Streak and how make your people proud Do you even remember how to let your feelings out Clap your hands a little louder stand up and get free with that mind power Vibrations, that's the mind power That's the vibrations, that's the mind power With the vibrations, the mind power That's vibrations, mind power
8.
Tao Jones 02:26
I'm down to kick it take a sample flip it Gifted Youngstaz switch it now we got a remix kitchen Change the beat change your mind like I'm Zecharia Sitchin I'm the opposite of bad but I rhyme so wicked I'm rapping this shit when I'm off if I am soft gonna be lost Stranded straight candid I'm moving up like a boss I'm a grow with my music No, I didn't choose it Realized I had the Gift of Gab and so I used it Don't you think if you could rhyme like this That you'd be blowing up mics in every city you could fit Right back to the lab again I'm a be straight up grabbing them I'm talking about beats making hits when I'm slamming Doesn't matter if you're losing as long as you keep on moving You probably pass me on the way to higher evolution I'm getting used up but it's for the revolution Fluent while pursuing all my views I'm never losing Fluent while pursuing all my views I'm never losing Freak freak y'all Breakanomics y'all check it out Twenty two with the chrome lip Blocks hot careful for you cone drip roadblock Clocks stop cop watch pockets where the phones hid Slick shot get up off the office if your homesick Duty calls color flash Goosebumps Sweaty flesh vomit on his sweater like he Jimmy Smith Ready yet lost selves lost cause soft bet I would wager they ain't educated on the process Hold tight get a read on em Body language speaking volumes Loud pump it summers running numbers for my cousin I was plugged in I just didn't love it enough My buttercup overrun spill the wine to their swollen stomachs Elites surrounded by groundskeepers and gopher hunters Explosive in the hole blow the cover Slot stones hot motherfucking fun in the summer what's up Peter ring them bells Tell David get the harp play that thing like hell Sound the warning the herald of the horn of Gabriel On the day of great awakening we gone break that spell Peter ring them bells Tell David get the harp and play that thing like hell Sound the warning the herald of the horn of Gabriel On the day of great awakening we gone break that spell
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Enigmatic spitting melodramatics fanatics of the mic you bout to be ecstatic Slipping I ain't ever quitting imprinting the vision With precision make incisions to see if you're not listening I rhyme when my mind channels Mobb Deep I'm sick like the sickle cell and you don't sleep Saying my holy Mary's sitting in solitary I'm writing rhyme schemes that's making me legendary fucking what All fairness I bring the rareness so I don't fault you for bearing this unawareness Mad scholastic bring back boom bap shit verbal gymnastics when I attack this Weak it's plastic fake like the glass shit way too enthusiastic rap quit Sorry that I'm saying it bullshit delaying it Rhyme like a MAC-10 packed in spraying it The point of fact is making you overreact Hijack the track deliver what you lack I could run techniques all week mind is a reservoir this is just a leak I could run techniques all week mind is a reservoir this is just a leak Chrome thirty eight in the breadbox Seven shots in case I need them And not because I think that that's the only path to freedom But wrath and righteousness ideas that I believe in I been applying discipline and practice all season So when the spring arrives I'll be alive to see the liars Tried for treason in the highest degree That'll be the time we find a lion sleeping tonight The chief is dying my people form a line in the street reading the riot act Beautiful irony finally sees the right back Peaceful iconography assembled The symbol in sight is violence the knife is deep inside the giant's back Scion of Ra the end side of a pariah organize entire communities of outliers To rise just high enough to tie a rope around a spire Collective retribution of soul from the proprietor Stolen rivers and gold built an evil empire No stream of economics chose gone grown tighter My adviser wrote the guidance in code I know the ciphers unbroken this flow could set the wall a fire Fall out surround the fjord through some warriors attire The carriers of torches for the lighting of the pyre Put the flame to the white flag hanging from the wire Cue the hallelujah chorus by the angels in the choir Round sang out the canon loud banging out the operational base Operation raising the stakes with the rates and the fees To get paid to police these cops only serve and protect palatial estates They say if you wanna cook ya gotta break a few plates I shattered my share of platters at a youthful age The sous chef used pepper to spray the toupee Recipe came straight from a book with two pages Hey look I ain't gotta prove nothing to nobody I ain't ever represented no academic embody And been admonished by scholarly types who read the manifesto But never broke bread w the communists Stop with all the posturing it's time to either shit or get off the pot Flock fled the rooftop when a click it's one dead six apostles shot Yeah we coming for ya head with the gospel chop come on Yeah we coming for ya heads with the gospel chop Yeah we coming for ya heads with the gospel chop I could run techniques all week mind is a reservoir this is just a leak I could run techniques all week mind is a reservoir this is just a leak

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In May of 2019 a chance meeting between legendary Seattle emcee RA Scion (of Common Market) and emerging stalwart Gifted Youngstaz led to a two week intensive that birthed TRUE||FORM, their self-titled debut album featuring throwback production from Diogenes, Ifthen, Akira Gautama and Chris Carroll. Available for streaming everywhere September 19th, 2019.

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released September 19, 2019

Written by RA Scion and Gifted Youngstaz
Produced by Diogenes, Gifted Youngstaz, Ifthen, Chris Carroll and Akira Gautama
Recorded, Mixed and Mastered by Sendai Mike
Photography by Sam Lewis and Quinton Peters
Seattle WA USA 2019

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