Brace yourself, I’ll take you on a trip down memory lane

Playlist link: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4eKIoKDNnfcBv4vmr58F5j?si=43cefefba2914b15

Brace yourself, I’ll take you on a trip down memory lane

~ a playlist for a dose of reality, from master MCs and urban poets, from people that have lived in the underworld of modernia — or just have a message to spit into the world in the form of enrapturing stories about survivals, battles, loves.

Artists: Kendrick Lamar + 2pac + Nas + Wu Tang Clan + MF Doom + Madvillain + Run The Jewels + A Tribe Ca l led Quest + Ka + Kanye

memories
stories
reality

Hoppin’ out before the vehicle crash, I’m on a roll
Yellin’, “One, two, three, four, five
I am the greatest rapper alive”
So damn great, motherfucker, I’ve died
What you hearin’ now is a paranormal vibe

Screamin’, “Thug Life” every time they pass, all eyes on me

Yeah, yeah
Ayo, Black—it’s time, word (Word, it’s time, man)
It’s time, man (Aight, man, begin)
Yeah—straight out the fuckin’ dungeons of rap
Where fake niggas don’t make it back
I don’t know how to start this shit, yo—now;

No question, I would flow off and try to get the dough all
Stickin’ up white boys in ball courts
My life got no better, same damn ‘Lo sweater
Times is rough and tough like leather
Figured out I went the wrong route
So I got with a sick-ass clique and went all out

Rappers need to fall off just to save me the trouble, yo
Watch your own back came in and go out alone, black
Stay in the zone—turn H2O to Cognac

[Madlib and *MF DOOM*]
Where Quas at?
Yo!
DOOM, you got the trees?
“America’s most blunted!”

We are the murderous pair
That went to jail and we murdered the murderers there
Then went to Hell and discovered the devil
Delivered some hurt and despair
Used to have powder to push
Now I smoke pounds of the kush
Holy, I’m burnin’ a bush
Now I give a fuck about none of this shit
Jewel runner over and out of this bitch

[Bridge: Phife Dawg & Q-Tip]
The fog and the smog of news media that logs
False narratives of Gods that came up against the odds
We’re not just nigga rappers with the bars
It’s kismet that we’re cosmic with the stars

Loved things I should’ve lusted
I rushed it, snubbed things I should’ve trusted
My comments ain’t for quick alignment, it’s for full adjustment
If saw who did it and chopped with the cops, the hood disgusted

I just wanna feel liberated, I-I, na-na-na
*Who can I turn to?*
I just wanna feel liberated, I-I, na-na-na
*After all, who can I turn to?*
If I ever instigated, I am sorry
*If I don’t turn to you*
Tell me who in here could relate, I-I-I
*No other help I know, I stretch my hands*

~ Vibe

Passionate lyricism from the arena of life. Tracks for those wanting to hear a good story, or just vibe out on a late night. Music from men that are truly acting out as the protagonists of their life.

S1E20/21 – Mortal Man by Kendrick Lamar from To Pimp a Butterfly: https://dissectpodcast.com/tag/2pac/

~ Aesthetic ~

Tracks about life on the streets, on the edge of the world. Lyrics on life in zones of America where growing up at all is a gift. Songs about community, about life and death, about battling with minds and bodies.