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Nu' Ol' Skool
03:06
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I ain't underground and I aint main stream
I'm in da ground see? somewhere in between things
I admit, I walk the streets wit a backpack
But the streets are concrete, so I'm rarely abstract
I am rude though but I ain't a ice griller
Not a tough guy but I know some guys that might kill ya
Since I'm peaceful, we'll leave the subject
Like some cops do when I smoke weed in public
They be like, "leave him, fuck it
Move off this corner and keep your shit covered"
I'm a writer that needs to get published
For both the recognition and fees I get from it
Also for the shows that I need to rip, punish
Destroy and annihilate til you see that Swift's rugged and
He's a sick puppy, on beats it gets ugly
Love when party people get to the feet and get jumpin for
What I call the Nu Ol Skool
When I spit that shit they like you so cool
Yeah, I know that
Let's go, retro, throw back, oh snap
Fresh, for '09 you suckas
Whether in red dunks or some sky blue chuckers
A lot'll change around here if I do numbers
Poor people on the rise, true brothers
And sisters, hustlers, ministers, let's just
Get it together and run this forever
I need my kingship better than Chris Webber
Luckily, my flow's colder than crisp weather
Oh but it gets better
Nah it doesn't, fuck it, I was frontin
Recognize I'm comin wit new styles, oooh child
Step your rhymes up somethin or move out, blaow
Born in the vill that's brown
Heart of the city, ain't nothin more real than that town
And the Lower East Side is where I'm buildin' at now
Baruch Houses all day, is you feelin that sound? yeah I'm feelin that
It's the new old school
When I drop them gems they like, you's no fool
Yeah I know this
Get this vintage old shit, oh dip
I make jams like Teddy
Steady ready for a battle and I am quite deadly
But my fallen foes can rise from their graves
If they tighten their flows and act wise for their age
Otherwise yo, them guys are just played
I'm more precise on the page than designs in a fade
And if I freestyle then them lines just amaze
Everybody including me, why, cuz they great fam
That's the category, ill spit mandatory
Powers try to hold me down, but it ain't no handles on me
Tell lessons like allegories, fables
Verses, chapters, word craftin master actually able
To make a difference, I'm on my grind in every waking instance
Movin with a mind like mine, it takes persistence
K the Swift is payin homage to pioneers
Keepin the culture breathin is the reason I am here
Reppin the Nu Ol Skool
Reppin the Nu Ol Skool
Uh huh, it's the Nu Ol Skool
It's the N.R.O. and we the Nu Ol Skool
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Alternative Progress
03:07
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Guiding ink flows across pages
Pulling object agreement arrangements
Don't worry it makes sense any way it's taken
Irregardless interpretations breakin rules of grammar's basics
This takes bits and pieces of epic thought
Necks get caught like a Wu rapper swept a sword
Them dirty ninja type of spitters, yeah I rep the sort
Listen to Shaquan's shit, get hyped and prep a song
I'm on my grind, treat words like peppercorns, mash tracks
You could say the tater's what I'm steppin on, scratch that
Metaphornography, top the beat and fuck wit it
Get deep into it, my tongue freaks the music
It gets hot and heavy, recorded and played publicly
Exhibitionism is a form of luxury
I'm lyrically lovely, line leap leisurely
Track suited black booted troops move easily
Always making the freshest spit to bless the kids I'm burnin' this
Alternate your progressions and progress to the alternatives
I rhyme time zones, my mind roams timelines
I was on that next shit last time
Best in class, rap laureate the story gets better
Like the second half of stormy weather
When there's a break in the clouds the sky clears
Like ideas when you break'em down, let's try it right here
There's no mirror clearer than a self reflection
It makes minutes into minute perceptions
I'm presenting convected subjects
From an objective stance - the director's vantage point
Has its advantages
Joints get bandaged together when I damage them and
My standard gem shines intensely over the average emcee battlin'
Staggerin' flows will have ya staggerin', say that again
You'll get it twice the first time, alert your mind a bit
Rhynastic verbatics all kinds of flips
I promise it's automatic when jammin' wit a click
Cuz you're standin' in the midst of some magnificent shit
Always making the freshest spit to bless the kids I'm burnin' this
Alternate your progressions and progress to the alternatives
Scuffed kicks and crisp laces
Same outfit as the other day but I'll be ok, it's cool
I'm foolish at times but I'm only playin'
Rule: it happens to everybody, or so goes the sayin'
And I listen to my elders, spit a little iller
Roll the dutch vanilla when I kick wit the fellas
Not a misogynist bias, it's like-minded science
You do the knowledge like household appliance use daily
The government is drunk off giant violent juice
Judges and jurors aren't trying the truth, are they?
My odd ways are aimed at evening scores of years
Tear torn trails and blood stained shores
Laughable laws, futuristic weaponry for primitive wars
Ignorance causes equal significant force
Being put forth towards gains disguised as losses
Incorporated bosses cold lamp in fortress flavor
Pray sayers praise saviors for providing price savers
One shouldn't blame'm, there's guns in the playrooms nowadays
So-called thugs move in coward ways with uncivilized minds
The OGs note the decline so respect mine
Alternate your progressions and progress to the alternatives
Alternate your progressions and progress to the alternatives
Always making the freshest spit to bless the kids I'm burnin' this
Alternate your progressions
Alternate your progressions
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Crack Is Wack
03:30
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Get Loose
03:17
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G.O.D. feat. Q-Storm
03:28
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Black 2 Beautiful
04:53
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They say you shouldn't judge a book by it's cover
But a book is a poor comparison to a lover
Or should I say a sister, if I never kissed her
Or if it was only an introduction, my function
Is to lift her, exalt her
Not to go out my way to fault her, cuz everybody falters
And she's somebody daughter, so I ought to be a good brother
And show that I'm down with being down for one another
Black woman, I love ya like nothing else
White supremacy says you shouldn't love yourself
If it helps, I'm putting fire to their beauty standard til it melts
Not that they can't be beautiful but
It ain't suitable to pretend their looks are suitin' you
And niggas bought into it so you do what you can do
Cuz some got brought into it, enslaved mentalities
So I'm washing that self hate up out of me, you see
We need to go Black to beautiful
We still look good but should go back to beautiful
What happened to Black is beautiful?
We still look good but should go back to beautiful
What happened to Black is beautiful?
We still look good but should go back to beautiful
What happened to Black is beautiful?
We still look good
This verse is dedicated to the brothers
I'm tired of seeing us in the streets grillin' each other
Killin each other over absofuckinlutely nothing
Honestly, the hood could use more huggin' than thuggin'
I say the same words to the kids in the burbs
You ain't got no real reason to be playin the curbs
The reasons faded in the ghetto so you look absurd
Rappers lyin on they albums, don't believe what you heard
Black man, I love you like nothing else
I got no choice in the matter cuz I love myself
I'll say "pause" if it helps you get to know just what I felt
Cuz I said what I meant, put any mix ups on the shelf
So we can spread love infinitely
Cuz when our natural affinity to our own shines, we can't be harmed by enemies
That's word to all, you got a friend in me
I'm here to heal the wounds that lead to fratricidal tendencies, see
We need to go Black to beautiful
We still look good but should go back to beautiful
What happened to Black is beautiful?
We still look good but should go back to beautiful
What happened to Black is beautiful?
We still look good but should go back to beautiful
What happened to Black is beautiful?
We still look good
Original man, woman and child, the holy trinity
Strong on their own and together there's such synergy
Plus, minus, female, male need symmetry
Ever since since, and until infinity
When was the beginning of time
Now what came before that? Now I got you spinning your mind
I wanna take you to the edge of the universe
What's on the other side of that edge? Can your brain do the work
To wrap your mind around these concepts of absolute blackness
Which is original light in both theory and practice
So as this word spins on its axis, I ask if
The whole rainbow plus grayscale can sail and be
Beautiful
Be, be
Beautiful
Be, be, be
Beautiful
Be, be
Beautiful
Beautiful, beautiful
I know that Black is beautiful
We still look good but should go Black to beautiful
I know that Black is beautiful
We still look good but should go Black to beautiful
I know that Black is beautiful
We still look good but should go Black to beautiful
I know that Black is beautiful
We still look good
Black
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Play Safe
03:30
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Come So Far
02:51
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M.C. K~Swift Brooklyn, New York
M.C. K~Swift (New Rap Order) is a Hip-Hop artist and educator, who has been recording and performing since his teens during the early '90s. A founding member of the progressive Hip-Hop collective, New Rap Order M.C. K~Swift is among both the vanguard and the old guard of True Hip Hop. ... more
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