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Work ft Aeon
03:34
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I be outside, I be out there/
I just work, work, work/
I'm outa my mind, I'm way out there/
I go bezerk, zerk, zerk/
On the 9-5 at the redline/
Fuckin skirt, skirt, skirt/
Head in the clouds, ten toes in the dirt/ x2
I be outside I be outside/
I be out riding to get mine/
Outa my mind outa my mind/
I won't even look for what I wont find/
I don't even care i really don't mind/
I don't wanna think I wanna let it flow/
I been overthinkin it this whole time/
Then I started thinking why not let it go/
Any insecurity I never let it show/
No brainer Cobain pump pump let it blow/
Give a fuck about a set back i know ima get back/
You don't have snowballs chance when I'm on a roll/
I been working overtime trying hit a couple goals/
Haters I don't empathize with never fuck with those/
Whole world getting overloaded in the 2, 0, 2, 0/
Stopping my grind tho? You won't, you won't/
I be outside, I be out there/
I just work, work, work/
I'm outa my mind, I'm way out there/
I go bezerk, zerk, zerk/
On the 9-5 at the redline/
Fuckin skirt, skirt, skirt/
Head in the clouds, ten toes in the dirt/ x2
I'm a do the work, go until it hurt, then I push it past that/
Hurt feelings been a jerk, you better get past that/
Skirt skirt prefer the jeep to the Cadillac/
Pull up red alert, duck bitch, aflac/
Honeys with the fat backs, used to try tap tap/
Actin like I'm pacman, chasing em like batman/
Now I'm house shopping with bad mamma jammer/
We a bad batch, probably be right at home in the bad lands/
I'd rather be the regent, killing these motherfuckers in every single region/
If you go against me and my brothers in our kingdom we aint reasonin we slay em filet em leave em bleedin/
I know you're thinking Jesus whatever have they been feeding em its like he got a demon inside him that he been keeping in a/
Cage and he been thinkin he may be ready to free him its appealing to me to see my enemies all defeated/
Fuck making ends meet, I'm eatin, can't nobody at odds wit me get even/
Yall will always be behind me i'm leadin, can't none of yall seem to see the signs I'm readin/
And that's fine by me and my team last of a dying breed yall couldn't fit ya feet in my adidas/
Till I d.i.e put in work till I bleed let me tell you how I'm feelin I been feeling like/
We just win, win, win/
They don't get it, they don't get it/
We just win, win, win/
They ain't with it, they ain't with it/
They don't wanna see us get paper/
They don't want that, they don't want that/
They don't wanna see us gettin paper/
They don't want that, they don't want that/
I be outside, I be out there/
I just work, work, work/
I'm outa my mind, I'm way out there/
I go bezerk, zerk, zerk/
On the 9-5 at the redline/
Fuckin skirt, skirt, skirt/
Head in the clouds, ten toes in the dirt/ x2
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I just wanted to talk to you
For just a minute
For over half my life I held a grudge on you
Fuck the courts I been the most active at judging you
I cant remember the last time I showed love to you
Not gonna lie lately it's had me real uncomfortable
I'm not sayin I forgive
Just sayin that by now I probably should of
To this day if I saw you I'd still probably put my hood up
And act like I don't look just like that man there
Lookin back that shit probably isn't fair
Cuz I was too young to know
The shit you were dealing with
The budget the money flow
The loan from the dealership
It feels like an undertow
The surface it seem legit
In love with a woman don't love you back that's the realest shit
You got a teenager now
He smoking that reefer skunk
First born of two hippies you had to know that was creeping up
The son of a drummer
You had the nerve be stunned when the boy grew up
To love a genre that was
Literally born from percussion
But ya losing your grip
You been starting to snap
Hiding bottles of Monarch I'd see the red on the cap
Sticking out from the cabinet when I opened it up
One time I found one right in front of you and opened it up
And took a dozen or so chugs of the sludge to the gut
Man, if my kid did that I'd a hung the stuff up
But I don't know you
I don't really know you
I never offered you the chance to let me get to know you
See I don't believe you were you when you were raisin me
Soon as she dipped you dipped mentally, you weren't there for me
You lost so much of yourself you couldn't barely see
That face that was lookin back at you reflected hazily
The day you put your hands on me was possibly the last day you ever did
Still don't know if I was better in that moment
Or let the devil in
Balled my fist, swung hard as I could I could of killed you then
Dug a hole, dropped you in and filled it in
Wishing I had different skin, a little thicker
Been a little bigger
Cuz I'll never know that feel
When those closest to you cant deal with ya
They turned they backs and leave you to fight all these demons all by yourself
At a time when you needed help
Cant imagine how that shit felt
I'm still mad as hell
But I don't wanna get that call that you gone
And I was too stubborn to let these bygones be bygones
Part a growing up is learning how to unstack all of these pylons
That we build up letting stress wrap us up tight as fuck like a python
And I got more than enough love round me right now
I can spare some
Been collecting these stories up like memoirs
I can share some
I just hope that it's not too late
Cuz I don't wanna die
With none if this hate
Give it one last try
We can't go back in time
There's no way to undo
You left me with pain that shaped me
Only goal was to not become you
Now I'm grown and I've really lived
I can't say I fully forgive
Even after everything you did
I'm willing to wipe the slate clean and start new
We can't go back in time
There's no way to undo
You left me with pain that shaped me
Only goal was to not become you
Now I'm grown and I've really lived
I can't say I fully forgive
Even after everything you did
I'm willing to wipe the slate clean and start new
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3. |
Hyenas
02:23
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You got me feelin some type a way about
Never a mention of me when I come up you sway around it
basically sashay around it
Act like fanny may around it
You got the money, honey then pay up
This ain't an issue for me its a lay up
Baby you better get prayed up
My reputation ain't made up
A serial mic killer
With nothin not free time and enemies chained up
Ready to get flamed up
I'm checking they pay stubs
Do you even qualify for the homicide
13 to the right side call it colonizing
I might bring the heat down till I see a few of you caramelizing
Ya'll don't wanna make foes of me
Have ya momma sayin woe is me
Deliver lines of that dopamine like I don't know my own potency
Ya joking me
I'm LOL'n like OMG
You really wanna go at me
You got me laughing like hyenas
Laughing like hyenas
Laughing like hyenas
Laughing like hyenas
Got me laughing like hyenas
Laughing like hyenas
Laughing like hyenas
Laughing like hyenas
Who are you again
I don't even know
From the look of things
Just another joke
HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HAAAAA
You got me laughing like hyenas
Laughing like hyenas
I'm feelin real in my bag today
All I want before I pass away
Is 9 to 10 posthumous records ready to go
Put the laboratory in the pad man its handy I'm always ready to go
So I really would figured you knew better
But shit evidently you don't
So may I remind you I'll roll up behind you, blind side you, you'll never see me comin
A chicken dish to a Wenwu
If I offend you know I ain't sorry bout nothin
I been to the edge and my heart still pumpin
Ya yours pump too but I bet you somethin
If you cut me my blood be runnin
If I cut you bet Kool-Aid dumpin
I'm bout my shit
Fun and goofy when it suits me
Nice when they introduce me
But cross me next time you see me might be with an Uzi
Inspiring a lifetime movie
I'm truly kooky, get loopy
The thought of you even moving me's really some foolery
Mother fuckers got me
Laughing like hyenas
Laughing like hyenas
Laughing like hyenas
Laughing like hyenas
Got me laughing like hyenas
Laughing like hyenas
Laughing like hyenas
Laughing like hyenas
Who are you again
I don't even know
From the look of things
Just another joke
HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HAAAAA
You got me laughing like hyenas
Laughing like hyenas
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I won't even pull up less the money's in the bag
I won't even show unless I'm pain in all the cash
We used to be so broke, remember that
Remember that, yeah, you remember that (x2)
I remember every crib
I remember every spot
I remember weekends at my mommas house, always sleeping on a cot
I remember pops
Drunk and awful lot
Shake and Bake on every chop
Now look at me with a lab in the pad and the tier we livins at the top
I remember wishing I could learn how to whip work in the pot
Serve on the block
Just for a couple of dollars I went and I sold me some pot
I wasn't a flop
But it wasn't paying no bills either
In these streets in a real beater/
Probably cuz I was too high on the shit I was sellin I wasn't a real dealer
It just wasn't my bag
I was focused on them raps
More focused on that then family I am not proud of that fact
But hindsight is 20/20 time keeps ticking can't go back
All I can do is do better no more cuttin myself slack
So I'm not about to regress can not be depressed I proved to be dope
I am goat I can not be less let out like recess recoup and reload
Gimme the loot
Gimme the loot
Word up to Biggie I'll get me a coup
Air Force 1s that go with the suit
Like a drippin superhero, bitch
I won't even pull up less the money's in the bag
I won't even show unless I'm pain in all the cash
We used to be so broke, remember that
Remember that, yeah, you remember that (x2)
I remember sleeping on them couches
Gymnast wit that weed watch me flip a couple ounces
Feeling ODB for that fact I likes it raw
Almost went Tecca Nina for the cream I coulda took the beam and then broke into colored houses
I done came way far
Now a nigga get paid more
What's a Ramen package to somebody who 8 coarse
Nah I'm lying
But wait for it
Ya'll can speak it in fabrications I'll be straight forward
Been broke
And homie I stayed far
I ain't living too lavish but I'll be damned if I go back to that mattress that couldn't hack it
I ain't capping wit rap shit I get it crackin
Put my ethic in captions to captivate
Who ever thought it was magically finna happen
Word to Nip how I hustle and motivate
If you been thru this struggle then get you a plate
Fill up a couple and add to the weight
If they fuck wit you heavy and everything's great then it's nothing to pull out some money and pay
Cuz I done been minimum wage
For way too long
Putting in maximum effort to get where I'm at so applying this pressure ain't only for coal
When it comes to the green
I see its a Go
Put me wit Cory you already know
I'ma body whatever whenever fasho
Unless you ain't paying then I gotta go
Church
I won't even pull up less the money's in the bag
I won't even show unless I'm pain in all the cash
We used to be so broke, remember that
Remember that, yeah, you remember that (x2)
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Best That I Can
03:27
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I know that it gets hard when you praying on a come up/
You screaming in the dark just tryin to wake the sun up/
We can only do the best that we can/
We can only do the best that we can/
I know it will get worse way before it can get better/
Outside with my umbrella waiting for the rain to let up/
And I'ma do the best that I can/
I'm just tryin to do the best that I can/
I have to remind myself that its not always my fault/
I shoulder so much guilt a toxic trait its hard to halt/
I know sometimes two people grow a part and thats the part/
I have to learn to live with helps that I can put that in to art/
People love a good sob story, yall can cry at mine/
Any time, I dont mind, every line/
Thats my heart on my sleeve not stains of wine/
Bleeding out this pen I find a way to silence all that noise/
And realign serenity won't be denied/
I keep whats most important in my line of sight/
Be wary of the ones who wanna try and hide the light, I wanna share it/
If i struck gold today I'd throw a block party all a yall invited/
Midnight strikes I make it rain over the terrace/
Yall embracing, hordin shit you barely even worked for/
You bonus off your forces and barely pay your work forces/
Then bitch about the homeless who just wanna relax at night/
And vote against resources that might go against your taxes, right?
I know that it gets hard when you praying on a come up/
You screaming in the dark just tryin to wake the sun up/
We can only do the best that we can/
We can only do the best that we can/
I know it will get worse way before it can get better/
Outside with my umbrella waiting for the rain to let up/
And I'ma do the best that I can/
I'm just tryin to do the best that I can/
I cant believe how fickle people be/
If thats the way it is all yall can leave me be/
I'll just live vicariously via DVDs where all the opportunist stay behind a screen/
Thats probably best I been tempted to make scene/
Lately, been debating it, add that to my greatest hits/
I been in and out relationships, I thought we had it made then baby switched/
It made my brain spin its still spinnin/
Forgot what it was like to feel these feelins I'm feelin, dont fuckin like em/
Feels like you all alone when you know that you not/
Feels like you rock bottom but rock bottom folk know that you not/
Perspective is a bitch I dare you to walk in shoes you would normally knock/
So you know what it's like to lose the soul of your holy Reeboks/
But in the moment its relative pain is evident/
I see it in the mirror so clearly think my reflections getting bad again/
Its talkin back again the only difference is/
I know that it gets hard when you praying on a come up/
You screaming in the dark just tryin to wake the sun up/
We can only do the best that we can/
We can only do the best that we can/
I know it will get worse way before it can get better/
Outside with my umbrella waiting for the rain to let up/
And I'ma do the best that I can/
I'm just tryin to do the best that I can/
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6. |
Mandatory ft Chris Kemp
03:16
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7. |
Cute
02:29
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8. |
Lose My Mind
04:07
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How you plan to
Get it how you live
When you live like this
How you plan to
Get it how you live
When you live like this
Yo
I got brodies who sell weed
Brodies who hang tv's
I got brodies who got heaters that give folks them heebie jeebies
I got brodies who got bars that got bars please believe me
Yall just hate on all your brodies when they face 180 degrees
I don't understand it
Yall from another planet
Yall don't belong where we be at
Yall belong under granite
Yall don't deserve to breath my air
Yall deserve lung collapses
I'm here to shock you Charlie Browns
Anaphylaxis
Cuz we don't give a fuck about you
We'll knock the punk up out you
Say "later alligator", watch you float on up the bayou
See I ain't nothin nice
Despite what I may show you
If you cross me get you canceled quick as Gen Z kids on YouTube
How I move you can not match it
You'd have to have like two decks up your sleeves
Just to play go fish with me
That's no cappin
This a new era, who better
Yall should switch ya tactics
Fuckin dickheads
Ya whole persona's flaccid
I am constantly amazed yall ain't die yet
Yall get to flexin and display fake triceps
I get more mentions on your page than you guys get
Bein the best I never claimed that's just my rep
Top left vet
I ain't worried that I haven't blew up
If I had me and Ace may have never couped up
I'm talkin two door, two seater, chuck a deuce up
We on that grown man shit and still ain't never grew up
So I'm sayin
How you plan to
Get it how you live
When you live like this
Like this, like this
How you plan to
Get it how you live
When you live like this
Like this, like this
How you plan to
Get it how you live
When you live like this
Like this, like this
How you plan to
Get it how you live
When you live like this
Like this, like this
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10. |
Neo
02:50
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I ain't never ran from shit
You takin aim at me you better make sure that you hit
Got a bullet with my name on it ain't that about a bitch
Cuz I'm a lean and do the Neo soon as trigger fingers itch
If I see a twitch, its gonna be aeon, otherwise suck a dick
The heavier the kick, the slicker with the snare trap
Lookin in the mirror tryin to check on where the beard at, Little salt and pepper give em something they can stair at
(Intruder alert) yes I am prepared for that, I ain't really worried bout you finding where my lairs at
You can catch a buckshot right where ya hair at, make a forehead smoke straight through a DARE hat
Settle your affairs if you dare jack, I'm aware that I'm a bit hated, isn't it the greatest
I don't give a single solitary fuck, I ain't playin with a full deck only with my aces
Queens, kings, came with them things, I'm here with my team, we coverin bases
All of your claims, baseless, need I remind you that Cory tate he aint never ran from shit
Never have i ever not really been legit
If I told you once told you twice told you 3 times right from the rip
Back when I was rip, rappers get ripped
Not talkin abdomens im talkin coffins and people who hated you tweeting out hashtag rip
Yall really want me to flip, throwin your fits, actin like kids
I'll turn a bronze in to gold, yall can stay right on that bench, watchin me win
Everyday is a new beginnin, Screw your opinion I'm a legend, every bar hard feelin like it's Armageddon
Who are you impressin, do you have message, you know where I'm headed
Rap gave me purpose, for that I am indebted, so in the name of her, anyone can get it
I'll never forget it, when I left a beat deaded, way before leaks on discreet Reddits
And I only got better, a mother fuckin wolf better roll with the flock pray I don't get a new wool sweater
For the weather when it's cold, at it's coldest life been a bitch since I met her still I ain't never ran from shit
Cool calm when I go in for the switch
Cut from a different cloth and stitch
Just remember this
I ain't never ran from shit
(repeated a whole bunch of times)
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Cory Tate Everett, Washington
The official place for Cory Tate music. The new album "Work In Progress" is now available! Featuring 10 all new tracks
including Lose My Mind produced by Brainstorm. This release marks the first album in my catalog to be mixed and mastered by myself, along with some of the most versatile songwriting of my career. I'm incredibly proud of it and I'm positive you're gonna love it.
Much love, BC fam!
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