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Let's Ride! (Intro)
01:11
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Title drop and go, never slowin’ my roll
Spindash at high speeds but I stay in control
No cruise, but you know I’m top gunnin’
Sonic boom, but my charge ain’t stoppin’ for nothin
Keep it runnin’ like a motorized hare
Sound that boom, boom, boom, Outhere in the air
Noise pollution, let it sound in the ozone
Like it’s getting mastered in the bedroom, homegrown
One man powerhouse
Million tricks up my sleeve, pull the flowers out
Sleight of hand and a flick of the wrist
D. Blaine, D. Wade, you know I don’t miss, nah
Click-clack yeah I’m aiming for the moon
I’m making my announcement, my reign is coming soon, but
I ain’t here to be no rock star, more like a fox star
Barrelin’ like the last word of the starting bar
[HOOK]
This feels so right
My soul, this hype, that’s why I rhyme
Strap in cuz I’m bout to start the ride
Jump around, let it go, absorb the vibe
That’s just my style
Should know by now that I go wild
If you feelin how I’m feelin, throw ‘em high
Count it down now, ready set, let’s ride!
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[V1]
Check the method when I pop off effervescent
Relentless in a split-second, time is of the essence
A second spent is a lost cent and I’m low enough already
On my cheap hustle like Eddy, getting primed to rock steady
I make the speakers knock harder than Jesus
Revelations 3:20, while I’m spittin’ blasphemin’
Lyrics, I'm steady schemin while consumed by the seven
Let the hate flow like Sith, tear my ticket to heaven
Now I’m rippin harder than Jack, man I’m just killin’ this
Off me and I’m back in your face, means I’m Krillin this
Maybe I’ll tour the world and take me home a villainess
Wife the blond cutie, knock her up and have a kid in this
This bald brotha’s coming with his guns blazing
Spittin’ fire endlessly, I'm feelin' so amazing
I’m goin’ crazy, takin to the heights
Of mass hysteria up on this mic, so let's get it tight!
[HOOK]
CHECK THE METHOD BOY!
IT’S GETTING HECTIC BOY!
CHECK THE METHOD BOY!
YO DON'T FORGET IT BOY!
CHECK THE METHOD BOY!
I'M GONNA WRECK IT BOY!
CHECK THE METHOD BOY
BETTER RESPECT IT BOY!
[V2]
Check the method, unstable, nah you can’t salvage this
I done already got it started I'm the catalyst
Cataracts under rose-tinted glasses make you disregard
My style because I ain’t classic, but I’m still goin hard
Balls off the wall to the window, no sweat drops, effortless
Now get to skippin', I double Dutch like the Netherlands
Holland will holler, I’m Euro-barging like a vandal
National and Globe tours, wildin’ like a tabloid scandal
Exposed blunt and candid, holdin’ back nothin’ dammit
Limit breakin’ there’s no mistakin’ I’m up like salmon
My time is now, bringing revolution through wicked stanzas
Usurp the throne, now I’m a chief like I play for Kansas
I talk a big game cuz who don't love them exaggerations
From minor league junkies with hella major league aspirations?
Call it my reason to pack my bags and go make some tracks
Cuz once this train gets a-rollin', there ain’t no turnin’ back!
[HOOK]
[V3]
Check the method, impeccable, void of X’s
No second guess, no corrections, no ivory liquid messes
Call it controlled emissions pinpointing precise positions
Buckwild, but still proficient, that’s just the way I be trippin'
No loss of balance, I’m steady, I keep my bearings like Teddie
You suckas just keep forgetting I’m on the prowl so be ready
I’m ambushing your bases, ya blindside, get some Lasik
Invader won’t die so face it, I’m out for blood I can taste it
Count on it like I’m Dracula, loss ain’t in my vernacular
Lyrical beast when rappin’ up on this mic I’m too ravenous
Called "savage" by these white men, these John Smith's frightened
They dashin’ like some hyphens, cuz I’m likened to a Lycan
Animorph by design, the wolf reigns with ferocity
Turbulence gettin' heavy when you reachin' my velocity
Needle is off the hinge, radar just can’t detect it
I'll split the atom and scatter, that's the madness to my method!
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3. |
Visceral (EP Edit)
03:10
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[V1]
Another day, another bout with depression
Morbid mentality steady gets the best of
Me, nope, no glee in my vision
And my will to live is just about diminished
Too scared to die, still feel unsafe
My one sanctuary's my own headspace
Where I wonder how's it feel to be someone special?
To be happy, full of presence with a perfect vessel?
But why? Why was I born like this
When they don't treat those like me with kindness?
Just a nervous wreck afraid of things to come
Trapped by anxiety no means to run
Man forget it, enough is enough
I'm sick of trying to keep it all together I'm dropping the bluff
I'd rather lucid dream than face the future
In my perfect world I'll finally be useful...
[HOOK]
Don't wanna walk in a world where I feel so invisible
I'd rather thrive in a perfect dream where I won't be miserable
My own great escape where my time's anything but ephemeral
The only way I can bear it and cope with the pain, so visceral
[V2]
This is everything I've ever wanted
Perfect body, and you know I'm gonna flaunt it
Got "friends" as far as the eyes can see
And the one that I love has eyes on me
No one judges me for my vices
It's all perfect, but perhaps the nicest
Part is that I have free reign to destroy
Every little thing that pisses me off, such joy
But why? Why do I still feel empty?
Because these stupid killjoys won't let me
Exist in my own headspace like I planned
And they’re blocking all my goals, I just don’t understand
This ain't what I was promised, struggling to defend
My better way of life from my so-called "friends"
Trying to lecture me and tell me what's best for me
Screw off, you're all dead to me!
[HOOK]
[V3]
What kind of creator am I?
I became a victim of my own design
This perfect space that was meant to protect me
And my mental fragility now rejects me
I'm over my limit, I'm losing my hold
On my sanity and the world around me’s so cold
Like, do I have to get blood on my hands
Just to give my sorry self a fighting chance?
Why am I now the same monster I made
To destroy the negativity and keep the charade
That everything was fine and nothing was out of place
But now I can’t recognize my own damn face
God, I’m pathetic
I thought this was right for me but now I regret it
I tried outrun my mental health
And these made-up people had to save me from myself
[FINAL HOOK]
So I'll walk on my own in a world where I feel so invisible
Can't run from the truth, lest I run the risk of staying miserable
I gotta make a move cuz I know that my time is ephemeral
Need to stay strong, help me fight through the pain, so visceral
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[V1]
“No way you’ll ever make it” having to hear that mess awaken
In my own mind was a pain to keep confined
I bought into it, ain’t put stock in myself,
In my goals, or let alone my freakin’ mental health
Absorbed the illness till it seeped through my rhymes
Wrote about depression least a dozen times
I’m like damn, nine years that I lost to that
So why’d it take me close to thirty to just start from scratch
Third time’s the charm, yeah that’s what they all say
And after dropout number 3 I’ve really seen better days
But it ain’t over, nah, I’m only beginning
Might take some punches ahead, but I’ll still come out winning
Can’t stop the world from burning, but I’ll channel the flames
Like I’m Zuko on a journey, I won’t come out the same
Used to think I missed the train to find me a purpose
But now I know my youth is barely scratching the surface
[HOOK]
They say that time won’t wait, no it’s never gon wait
I hate to leave you but I ain’t gon stay, I can never just stay
I know you’ll miss me, but this ain’t my fate, it was never my fate
Because I told myself “It ain’t too late, no it’s never too late”
[V2]
Tryna make it while steady being defeatist
So when I get up, I’m all like “Yo I can’t believe this!”
Cuz like, the less you expect, the more you’re surprised
When you meet Miss Serendipity in front of your eyes
She like, “I seen your hustle and your ethic to grind
You may call yourself a dim bulb, but you still got a shine”
Welp, I can’t deny it any longer it’s true
So like Ash I twist my cap and then I do what it do
Tryna kick it through the struggle, work up on my hustle
Lift my burdens, Mighty Mouse up with my muscles
All the while I gotta juggle staying in my self-care bubble
And my obligations to adulting troubles
But hell, what can I say, my foresight ain’t the best in execution
Hardest lesson learned within my 20-somethin revolutions
Don’t get me wrong, that ain’t me saying I’m finished
Just my life is much more chill with inhibitions diminished
[HOOK x2]
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