Lyrics
Gray Area
mc e-majyn
Something you don’t expect like a midnight sunset
Or naturopath rap our sickness is medicinal
Fistfulls of soul, and we’re throwing fastballs
Just to melt your mental. I’ll spit it vicious
And I’ll be that gentle man, sending gems
Of treasures from my chest, buried in my breast
A cross marks the spot where I rip open my ribs
and give you all I got…
Aloof
Red-e
Sergeant Aloof still dreams about his troops flashing back to Iraq and lost lives of youth
And due to that truth he can’t fit into society, he hopped in his car and drove away to find peace
It rolled to a stop, on a road that was blocked, a lost soul with the key turned back and gun cocked
He stopped at the spot to watch the sun drop, forgot who he was and remembered what he’s not
(I’m not a killer, I’m not a terrorist, I’m only 18, how could I prepare for this
I wasn’t aware of this, when I signed up, I watched my soldiers fall down cuz I said line up
innocent blood on the bullets of my gun, Forgive me Father for I know not what I’ve done!)
Eliminate the enemy, yeah that was the plan but he didn’t see and enemy, he saw his fellow man
Saw a father, a husband, a teacher, a poet, saw himself in that man before he made the hammer go click
He’s contimplating suicide, (I killed out of love), for his comrads and his country for a cause he didn’t trust
Again he finds himself with a gun in his hand, but its pointed at himself instead of the Taliban
chorus- Sargent Aloof yo, where did your troops go?
mc emajyn
Mr. Aloof another dude in the loop of status quo attitudes/, gratitude was something he lost in his workaholic pursuits/ he does what he has to do to be a whos who among the colleagues/ that I wish I never knew, but its cool, it’s my gateway/ to a dream state of six figures annually and a re/tirement fantasy, but can it be vanity ? Na man/ listenI work hard for what I get and so I put death grip my desire/, but his grip slips because his arms are tired from climbing slimy corporate ladders/, and it bothers him for a second that my friendships are shattered/, and is it right that I fight to back bite my associates?/ But he takes these vital thoughts shrugs em off and refocuses/ on his future goal at any cost I’ll be a CEO/, so pseudo dreams of promotion keep him going and going/, but dumb and numb to emotion and out of touch without any sort clue/ to how the hell that he fell. He goes home his own house/ feels more like a hotel, with surface conversations definitely/ damaging family, but Mr. Aloof has a remedy/, I’ll keep practice pretending everything is peachy and polished/ the way I love my kids is shown by paying for their college/, but to his knowledge his children are strangers only connected by common name/ same blood and same dna. But a lack of depth to relate/ Is this really the way that its supposed to be?/ Never mind me, don’t talk to me./ mr. aloof, afraid to talk honestly/ to himself, he makes his own hell, its hella lonely/. Mr. Aloof afraid to talk honestly/ hurts more than himself as he making a hell,/ saying if only…
chorus- Mr. Aloof yo, where did your truth go?
exquisite visit
by mc e-majyn
verse one
an exquisite visit to just listen for minute to way of the singers singing, voices laced to the beat of silence making sounds so symbolic, every instrument calling, but without using English, to distinguish the interest, watch ‘em talk with their fingers, for all these feelings to linger, communicate in a way where you feel alive in your skin, so we think again, the way we did when we were children feeling those feelings we were supposed to be feeling, and dancing to the music that our parents were playing, remember the day when innocence was traded for acceptance, to please those who we wanted to think that we were something we weren‘t, there’s a struggle occurring, the empire’s current is determined, to the certain way that they want you to learn it, but we’re discerning there’s a better way, drum beat of faith, lacing the pathway of the ages, invitations never famous to blameless chambers of untied tangles, and all these angelic angles
chorus-
Listening the Musician, play the beautiful songs for all the children. With a soft small voice like the whisper of the wind. The people are dancing, the people are dancing
Listening to the Musician, playing a sad, sad songs for those dying in their skin. With pain in their voice cause they’re losing a friend. The people are mourning, the people are mourning.
verse two
Undress the message, The present present of the presence, so peacefully aggressive, just let it be painfully persistent to benefit to our creature confessions my fascinations with the rules of mystic fools. Contemporary contemplatives, infested with medicines, of pure penmanship, poetic etiquette, let it be a poem sown to the seeker, there’s food in the feeder so follow the leader, increments by meters of style, feels like I’ve been here a while, so strangely familiar, I put my hand on the pillar of a strong song soul felt story, freedom is for me, but oddly, freedoms not autonomy but being bound to fidelity melody, faithful features telling me to hope in a world to come, I can learn from the bum, slum of suburbs disconnection from communal progression, lessons I’ve learned from vulnerable attempts at raw life exposure, sing me a song over and over and over
chourus
verse three
yea there’s a better way and its new and its ancient, loving love is the only thing I think that is really gonna change us and its harsh to really do it, but its better through it and to do it as music, that’s why I agree with the psalm, that the Lord is my song, so I’m adjusting ways to play the music with passion, I rap from my abdomen, imagining the ways kingdom come in the moment, the opponent doesn’t want us to own it, but dog gone it wisdom loves to be free, and as a slave I agree, that’s why I cling to King, crucified for sake of a liberated existence, cosmos are singing it, An exquisite visit and the whole thing ridiculous unless your see through bifocals giving vision of faith, and way that promises were made, serenaded by the Great, shaping the fate of fake to fade into a numb state of too much shade, not me us prayed, not us
Anewus
Red-E
We need a new us, lets redefine the US
The president can change but we still in a huge mess
Uncle Sam lost his job and and he’s getting abusive
We rapping for change and to the world it looks foolish
Words are my weapons they’re just packaged as music
My Tech’s a 1200 and I scratch it to shoot it
sample your spirit make you part of the beat
Let me hear you one time, REAL PEACE
(REAL PEACE) we don’t understand our riches
We bathe in life saving water they bathe in the filthy ditches
And the food that we be throwing out, easily fills the dishes
Of of the ones in ill conditions, give em waste its still delicious
Give em access to the exess so that we become the nexus
Of healing for humanity, the one that reconnects us
On that lowercase t, my social security
forget about retirement the focus is eternity
chorus
Be the new us
You are the new us
This is the new us, us, us
A new connnection, a new perspective
A new way to go thru an old intersection
A new way to know what you already know
A new season comes for an old seed to grow
This is a new…
This is a new…
e-majyn
is the definition of living being a puppet in a system
just jerk all the right strings so we can buy the right things
cause happiness is purchased on credit cards?
so charge us what we don’t own, to please who we despise
guys, something tells these are lies
the status quo bites, and its venomous
living numb call it blessed?! its non-sense at best
we need to reassess the mess, what’s the meaning of progress?
gut check. can my paradigm handle
more change this time? I’m acting like we’re fine
but I’m lying to my face when I stare in the mirror
do I really I want to hear why I’m here?
stuffed my ears with cotton balls, pull wool over my eyes
to deny what I saw, but damn it all
the call is too strong, I’m barely holding on
by the skin of this song, so you gotta sing along
chorus
Red-E and e-majyn back and forth
New news, new tongues, new souls, new shoes
to stride toward the peace of the New Jeru
old stories with new twists, new mystic measurements,
silent linguistics, new ways of existence
new sisters, and brothers, new fathers, and mothers
new family of faith, a new feast, a new plate
celebrate the wait, the least become great
new grape, new vine, New Bread, new wine
new man, new mind, new hands, new time
new world out the womb with a new design
A new architect in creative connection
A naked confessions, a thirst for redemption
A brand new promise, new life, new conscious
New ears to hear, new eyes to watch this
new hate for old pleasures, new love for old treasures,
New ways of together for now and forever
Boom
e-majyn
A hundred ways to feel high. A hundred ways to die. But how many ways are there to truly be alive? Being a being what does it mean in the grand scheme? The quest is guided by the questions my friends. I’m searching for an answer to dance with her again. She taught me some moves, and my rhythm getting better. This life in the present moment is practice for forever. So sink into the stance dedication and growth, praying for love to impregnate everything that we know. I think found a dream I’ll give everything to marry. Matrimony sealed with ultimate vocabulary. It deeper than language, I forgot what a stranger is. This calling is daring me to live where the danger is. What I have now I’m not calling mine. I’m plugging into the vine, labor for sweet grapes to make righteous wine. So get your cup up its time to quench our thirst, my names emajyn and I’m pouring the first verse
chorus
Say Boom! Get alive with us.
The next thing you know we’ll have to buy a bus.
Say Boom! Come ride with us.
The party’s over here gettin live and nuts.
Red-E
Through this art my heart is crying / for a spark its dark I’m dying
And its hard to be lion / but this harp I found inspiring
Asking God if he is hiring / for his army spittin Fire and
If you’re dripping down your blood / best believe I’m be refinin’ it
Break some bread and drink some wine with it / Give and take and take a lime with it
Punching in, forget what time it is / make you see that ain’t my job
I didn’t come to preach / no, I came to praise my God
I saw some heads to reach / so I came to make em bob
In the safest place, so save your face, with a saving grace, escape this race, with a name at stake, one day we’ll break this womb we call our mom’s
That’s when it hit like an 808, my life is already gone / he told me he’d return again, big fish kicked out the pond
But the weight is getting heavy, broken shoulders, broken levees, with the waters rising high, come come we’re flying with this song – Yeah
We’re flying with this song – Come with us ya’ll we’ll be flying with this song
chorus
Unblind
Red-e
I’m mean, ya’ll know what I mean / I mean, its too long since we worked as a team, I mean
The struggle, but not the average emcee / lets meet up in the middle I’ma blow off some steam
If this life is a movie, I’ma go off the screen / turn my insides out, I’ma show off my spleen
Every time I spit a rhyme, it is often the cream / of the crop, through the pop, filter out what I need
Now hold shift, hold the paradigm key / I write my own rhymes or a parrot I’d be
Slak the parent of this track, he prepared it for me / that makes me like an uncle cuz we one family
Steppin’ right over left why does God bother me/ best believe God only wants the best out of me
Out of me, the inner workings of my mind / A vision, no division, I’m beginning to Unblind
chorus
Unblind! an ace is an ace, I call em how I see em,
yea an ace is an ace
e-majyn
I call em how I see em not by reason alone,
I experience life just to learn what I know
I’m a collection of souls, that I’ve met along the road
watch the stories unfold, from Kansas city and Philly
to Zig Zag, what? where? really?
mt. hood foothills to city of roses coast
to coast with overseas doses seventy seven
pairs of eyes to see through the people I’ve met,
the books that I’ve read, conversations I’ve had,
wisdom from my dad is ‘work hard and be good.’
thats understood pops my moms sings the songs
of a mustard seed by her prayers I breathe
to believe and feed off all the magic I see,
the great Magician mixing mystery to see
beyond the realm of physical unblind to invisible
grace upon grace makes an ace an ace
chorus
Red-E
An Ace, its the King of the Kings / Mother earth is the Queen to the heavens she sings
Adolescent emcees be jacking for beats / Count down the Pre-ten(d) and the track is complete
9 lives on the mic these cats can take a seat / sQr 8 ‘em up they attacking his feet
And then craps, life’s dice rolled a 7 / I know that its 6 so you might wanna hold your breath in
Give me 5, here’s a time card to check in / I told you be 4 there will be no half steppin
Don’t just ask questions there’s nothing to 3 (spanish) / Told 2 remain true to the path no create
The 1 way, the way of the free / this isn’t something that I played from my sleeve
The alpha to omega, the A to the Z / I was saved by an Ace it was played eternally
ID Enigma
e-majyn
I’m emajyn, I’m living my life,
I’m crying through my pen, I’m laughing in this mic
I’m not saying anything new, I’m rapping about something that might be important for you
I’m nameless, I’m faceless I’m Jesse John David
I’m nobody special, I’m crowd favorite
I’m a seasoned veteran and a brand new beginner
I’m the scum of the earth and recovering sinner
I’m as hot as July, I’m as cold as December
I don’t belong here, I’m a full on memeber
I’m a failer, a freak, I’m cuddly and sweet
I’m chaotic and calm,
I’m the seed of my dad, I’m the egg of my mom
I’m scared of rejection and hungry for acceptance
I’m searching for wisdom but avoiding the lessons
I’m a coward and selfish, I’m courageous and selfless
I’m a baller, a skater,
I’m do it right now, I’m gonna save it for later
I’m trusting, I’m suspicious
I’m gentle, I’m vicious
I’m a warrior, I’m a pacifist
I’m a artist, an activist
I’m a hypocrite, I’m genuine
I’m one man, I’m many men
I’m believer, I’m a doubter
I’m getting quieter, no wait I’m getting louder
I’m hopeful, I’m discouraged
I’m hungry, I’m nourished
I’m honest, I’m a liar
I’m like water, I’m like fire
I’m stressed and I’m wise
I’m gray haired I’m blued eyed
I’m not sure and I’m certain
I’m a whore I’m a virgin
I’m excited, I’m bored
I’m 27, no wait I think I’m 54
I’m old for my age and young for my body
I’m a shy hermit I’m the life of the party
I’m gone till November, I’m here for forever
I’m not them, I am them
I’m you and I’m me
I’m a slave and I’m free
I’m a layman, I’m a priest
I’m medicine, I’m a disease
I’m follower,I’m a disciple
I’m a friend, I’m a rival
I’m searching for a wife, I’m gonna stay single for life
I’m married to the community of Christ
I’m fasting, I’m feasting
I’m content and I’m needy
I’m generous, I’m greedy
I’m wanting less, I’m wanting more
I’m a wall, I’m a door
I’m off the hinges, but I’m still on the hook
I’m reader of books, I’m book being written
I’m sturdy, I’m slippin
I’m a sound, I’m a vision
I’m in another dimension, no wait I’m right here
I’m full of love I’m full of fear
I’m way off, I’m dead on
I’m a poem, I’m a song
I’m 5 foot 11 and 3/4 inches
I’m not my measurements
I’m not what I do, I’m not what I have
I’m a beloved pilgrim walking the ancient path
I’m a receiver of grace,I’m gonna pray on face
I’m gonna taste the new wine,
I’m a dark cloud, I’m a ray of sunshine
I’m dehydrated I’m thirsty, I’m gulping this infinite mercy
I’m just me, I’m not sure what that means
I’m a bundle of paradoxes read me for learning,
I’m seeking God cause my heart is yearning
I’m Jesse, and I’m living this life
