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Foreshadow 01:47
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The Basics 02:51
Raw Proof Not a rapper, I'ma mic murderer, big dog you a cat burglar, I never heard of you bruh, Nameless nuisance, hangin' with a gang of stupid , don't you feel foolish tryna rearrange my blueprint, But you're bad with the hands no way to box me in, skills are rusty like iron when exposed to oxygen, this is not the 90's and I'm not in my 20's, you don't have to do the math to know I'm doing good and plenty people show respect, but don't assume I care, wear my work clothes in public fit in well with you illusionaires, mix nice with beats like wet mud and rock, concrete stand firm, burn when it pops, you gotta go hard or go back to the block, and I'm not movin' back in with my Mom or my Pops, rest in peace, my higher self inspire someone else, not tryin' to preach but I'll say a prayer for your health! Chorus: Back to the basics - Everybody face it - Everything based off Love or Hatred - Back to the basics - I'm slightly wasted - Them beats don't bump and your rhymes don't say shit!!! X 2 SK9: Strick-9 Its like one step, two step, crawl before you walk, think before you talk or get outlined in chalk, I'm not the one to balk when the shit gets dark, my Bruce Banner thoughts shock the whole block, with gamma radiation, Bush dead? We celebrating, bureau of investigation got our song on rotation, and they plotting for the framing, with their lame insinuations, when they're facing the American Gods, I'm Neal Gaiman, you get played like atari, drugged through the hood with a stick in your ass like Muammar Gaddafi, we the thugs in the lobby, deadly as Zimbabwe and Robert Mugabe's socialist party, my high level rhymes change the paradigm, still catch a brother in the club with a pair of dimes, white chick, black chick, Pam Grier and Susie Chapstick, holding my money, I'm dirty bastard, merging jurasic, modern iconoclastic, psychological fabric, in every musical aspect, I keep it funky like a Prince song, rhyming with a white boy that look like Vince Vaughan, the shits on! Chorus: Back to the basics - Everybody face it - Everything based off Love or Hatred - Back to the basics - I'm slightly wasted - Them beats don't bump and your rhymes don't say shit!!! X 2
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Raw Proof I'm just a Blue Collar worker pulling white collar crimes cuz times is tough like the Bloody Harlan county in K.Y - Planned obselescence it's chess not checkers -I'ma market maven you won't catch me shopping wreckless - Investments and assets last debt paid in full but I ain't hurt a fuckin' soul or play no one like a tool - Instead of mixing school with religion - We need to mix business ethics with religion (No Politician) - Race color and creed it doesn't matter - Greed is the sin that left my father shattered - Self-made millionaire depressed and addicted - Bad balance between heart and mind that's the sickness - I can't relive this - I can't walk in them footprints - but I know my potential is full of independence - That's why things should be used and people should be cherished - and the CEO of your company is embarrassed - No merit - Puppet on the string or a carrot - Don't care where you came from but know how much you inherit - Song and dance the foods that you eat - Health is wealth better find something better to believe in - Vultures are stalking your culture this evenin' - Demons with darken the days that you're dreaming of - The best math won't let you break even - Plus the IRS caught wind of what you scheming up... Chorus: Democracy in chains that's the aim when you play the game (For WHAT!) Capital Gains x 4 SK9: Strick-9 I'm like Che Guevara, no bling on, maneuvers through the jungle, no king kong, the guillotine drops and the queen gone, real hip-hop, no sing song, legendary Ho Chi Minh, my name ring gongs! Thomas Sankara, salute the Afrikan martyr, we live in squalor, investors play with the dollar, roaches and rats where the niggas live, while they sniff coke off oak desks, playing derivatives, 2008 reflected 1929, its 1984 in our minds, 187 time! Before the last bubble pop on a HUD house, Ben Carson? That nigga sold out, he should be thrown out! On his fucking ear, let's get something fucking clear, get our backs or get sacked like a Buccaneer! My vitriol on a funky banger, cause there's plenty anger, even Christ fought the money changers, y'all want the mark on the palm and the forehead, I'm down with Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, we've gotta tax the rich at 70%, and if this roof ain't fixed, we ain't paying the rent! That's democratic socialist economics, corrupt administration now singing like the Del Phonics, with prison sentences, wrist taps and penances, snipers at the roof, scoping at all entrances, to assail ya with drug paraphernalia, the jewel is to watch the news from Venezuela, I'm here to tell ya, you ain't gotta follow me, just acknowledge me when they seize the oil property Chorus: Democracy in chains that's the aim when you play the game (For WHAT!) Capital Gains X 4
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Raw Proof They call me dirty filthy unclean and unfit - C'mon ya'll take a look at this environment - They don't like Muslums and Muslums don't like me - Comparing me to cops but I don't bother nobody - Just here trying to eat - And feed my seeds - But y'all won't let me sleep - Judge me by my feet -Pacin' in my stall todays the day they said that I'ma be hauled off but I don't even know the cause - And all I call family are with me - Leaving the farm passing through a bunch of cities - Probably saw us I know we saw ya'll paused at a red light ya'll was playin' on ya phones - I was shittin' in my draws feelin' sick - They prod and they pricked till they got us up off their ship - Now I can tell that we have arrived - To our final destination and we probably won't survive - They shocked and they gassed and they killed my fam. right in front of my eyes - But that's not my demise - Kickin' and I'm screamin' and I let a wail out - Wish my fam. from the South would come and bail me out - But no ones comin' - I'll be damned if I stay in this dungeon - I broke loose and started runnin' - Away from the chains - Away from the grave away from the barb wired fence that kept us all enslaved.... SK9: Strick-9 Ever been locked in a box so small you can't move in, forced to eat your bowel movements, intravenously injected with growth hormones to your dome, no family and no home, fowl homicide, chicken genocide KFC to Kroger, pop wings from bird shoulder, fry the evidence, rotisserie bulb light bright, sheer the skeleton, refrigerate flesh then check, see the gelatin? This ain't a game being game for human consumption, they'll even eat your brains, it ain't nothing, try to stay clucking, kicking my feet, hope for release, daydreams that I fly like geese, then back to reality, I'm nothing but poultry, living solely for the reason of them killing me slowly..... Size With da nerve to say we mad, biped please mankind been beefin' wit bovine throughout time...Once revered as devin, now treated no better than swine,a murderous operandi of barbaric design..Systemic elimination of my kind, genesis wit an add campaign this hate is worldwide..Humans done evolved out of they minds, separate our women from our children so they can homogenize...Behind mass propaganda the animal hides, top of the food chain so we forced to fall in line...Now it's wow how now wow how wow brown cow, the motherland is the second largest exporter now..How can you praise me and sell me how, raised and adorned in Nepal but now..A trade or commodity arrow on the dow, the greener grass is the path to the slaughter house..Vicious repetition they never raise a brow, turn the other cheek to have that cheek cut out..Five to eighteen till I'm finished then I'm out, enter the next victim of the bolt pistol pow...Holy cow pain raised in da feed lot foul, trapped in the grind and the steaks is high....Evil entrepreneurs profit of empires, paired wit fries society turns a blind eye
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Eddie B. I got a rocket in my pocket don't make me pull that sh!t out - I cock it and lock it I'm always ready no doubt - Spark your brain cells straight to hell and back out - I'll blow your back out while I perform to a packed house - I'm past your capacity as I rip mics up nastily - Happily murder your style yet you have the audacity - To pick up a mic anytime you're rapping after me - Deep thoughts overload and explode your brain cavity - Don't you attack cause I'm packing the mack in the back of me I'm all over the map - So there's no way to keep track of me - Drive by in my caddy haters dream about jacking me - So fresh and so clean while your whips looking raggedy - It's a tragedy but it had to be done I ain't the one son - Everywhere I go I carry more than one gun - Two guns three guns enough to function - He's not armed? Don't make that assumption..... Chorus: Bet'cha bottom dollar y'all don't really want a problem All cards face up on the table yeah we all in Full House 3 Kings tell me what you callin' All cards face up on the table yeah we all in Play the hand you was dealt come on now you stallin' All cards faced up on the table yeah we all in Eddie B. - Strick - Raw Proof that's the squadron All cards face up on the table yeah we all in Raw Proof Blazingly eloquent - Raw to the skeleton 💀 - Took a trip to Heaven then I left just for the Hell of it - Serenity settles in - Energy is evident - I can tell your chemically imbalanced by your penmanship - Jot this down take a mental note whatever - It's clever hardcore metaphors that I set up - One for my ego - Two for the thrill - Three for the emcee - Four for the kill - It's five fingers balled up like a python turn the lights on cuz I black out when the mics on - Snap and get my snipe on - It's a lifelong mission in addition to the dough I hold - Stop that! no you won't - Got cats! comotosed - Wanna judge me that's funny- I get the last laugh - R.hymes A.re W.eapons and you don't even know the half - Notice that every time I spit it - It's authentic - And you're bound to need a medic - Make that call hurry send it (send it, send it) Chorus: Bet'cha bottom dollar y'all don't really want a problem All cards face up on the table yeah we all in Full House 3 Kings tell me what you callin' All cards face up on the table yeah we all in Play the hand you was dealt come on now you stallin' All cards faced up on the table yeah we all in Eddie B. - Strick - Raw Proof that's the squadron All cards face up on the table yeah we all in SK9: Strick-9 Imagine Kubrick with a Defter hand - Oliver North when the plane land - Criminal clan - Contraband - Poppy fields Afghanistan - Now the percocet's in ya hand - They found circles in the Aztec sand - Alien outpost - Hustled the bank - Got ghost - My chic like Glen Close when she's doing the most - Fatal attraction - Handling guns - Ready for action - I aint even bragging I'm packing it's just the shit that happens - Ya'll Republican - Log Cabin - I'm the God - How Saturn revolve - I made it all happen - 24 scientists - Incense and iron fists - Wanna build with my alliances - I keep it 100 - Yeah my blade's sharp - Play the Nick Cage role - Take your face off - Before you face off - And get fileted apart - Like the hooks came out the Hellraiser box - I got major thoughts - Some theoretical - Some like to smoke to get high - I eat the edible - But'chu a beta male fronting telling major tales - I debate scholars from Cambridge to Yale! Chorus: Bet'cha bottom dollar y'all don't really want a problem All cards face up on the table yeah we all in Full House 3 Kings tell me what you callin' All cards face up on the table yeah we all in Play the hand you was dealt come on now you stallin' All cards faced up on the table yeah we all in Eddie B. - Strick - Raw Proof that's the squadron All cards face up on the table yeah we all in
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SK9: Strick-9 December 26, 1893 Xing Dynasty - No metal face - A villain was born - Check the irony - A student of Confucius at the age of 8 - Arranged marriage at the age of 13 made his teeth grate - So he studied warfare to escape - Joined the rebel army - His wife died in disgrace - He stayed gone fought wars in Hunan and then Shanghai - Fathered a son from his second wife - Clung to the Communist cause of Karl Marx fellow comrades round up and shot - The long march - But eventually - His crew crushed it - And stood before the world as the people's republic they loved it - Until they devised a new plan: The Great Leap Forward - And slaughtered his fellow man - Men - Women and children - The elderly civilians - All died inside the famine - That old God and Mammon - They say power corrupts if you lack understanding - Champagne with Richard Nixon - While the Chinese slaves had to stay up in the kitchen - He got sick at the age of 86 and in 1976 - His heart stopped ticking - To this day - His body's encased in glass - Millions of Chinese cry as they walk past - Spit on his grave or salute him right now for his style - That's the biography...of Chairman Mao... Raw Proof Stalin the m*********** named himself - Man of Steel and that's how he felt - Steel was the industry he brought to the country - Russia that is all the farmers went hungry - Writers and artists like me lived in fear - Doubt the regime you'd be cut from ear to ear - He kept Germany at bay in World War 2 - Perceived as a hero from what the average man knew - Farmers that were starving were the ones 'bangin' steel' - Forced into something like a slave labor deal - Serfdom man he cursed them - Berserk he was certainly sending his rivals to die in Siberia - Them some zero and below frozen tundra temperatures there - How the f*** you gon' make it bruh?! - Next he pressed power all on Eastern Europe - My ancestors came from there I'm not a tourist - Conform to this and die!! Nah we flee - Rather take our chances on a boat going overseas - Safe to say Josif Stalin died in office - Great grandparents fled so he couldn't off us...
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Surf 02:31
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Dad Is Dead 02:51
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Bleakmatic 02:03
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Riot 03:08
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Blindfold 03:47
Riders on....The Information! Theology of the brain dead - Misled kids devoured - 5G towers got our brains scoured - Soured over another shooting - Hijacking in Houston - NYC they burning and looting - There's no solution - Just stay with me....cuz even this song....is Audio Slavery I'm watching people people watch Black Mirror irony - Headline news - Playin off your fear entirely - Marketing research - The diggin' dont stop - They know every character trait and personality flaw Reality bites - From the inside out - We walk about in a world where people murder for clout - Throw it out on 8 chan - Darwin awards the new ape man Flying in the highest of heights - In outer space cans - Oligarchs owning Twitter - People are bitter - The metadata in your phone is your babysitter The states digging even deeper They knew your license was suspended from the license plate reader Vintage wine society primed for hard times - Recession stock plummets in every headline - The rise in crime - Homeless vagabonds - Wearing drip from the 80's like Simon Le Bon Suicide rate on the rise - Inflation wearing the disguise of war - The broken chain of supplies - Crypto digital currency got the feds shook - Missing' out on tax money played off the books - But they are the crooks - That's the point of conception - The central bank aint nothing but their biggest fuckin' weapon No life skills taught illiterate to finance made it through high school under the bridge they set camp - Set fire to street trash stayin' warm in the winter - But that's government property you can't stay there My n!66@ Bleakmatic in these times you can't even say I - Am the real Keith Griffin or a fucking AI - Indictable crimes? If you're rich - Slap on the wrist - Ice Cube said a bitch is a bitch - If you go for the shit - Be yourself or fall for the mind bender - As long as its legal and green it's fine tender - You can't make snowballs melt in dead winter - And no that's not a shot at the cats that switch gender Creating somethin' out of nothin' that's the essence of it all and they do that with the issues that only they can solve - I'd put a gun in your palm if you knew how to use it - But most of us woke folks aint pursuing revolution Digital overload - Witches with crossbows - A president over 80 years old - Is that the code or the coda? Range rover price with bad motor - Vodka with the club soda - White supremacists in North Dakota - Plotting global take over - When capitalists - Remain the real cause - Avoid the new world holocaust Far from living in tune with the planet we inhabit - Just now figured out electric is better than the gases - It's all bad as population exponentially grows - The bottom line is still the dollar for the CEOoOs Blindfold - Distracted me from my soul Blindfold - Distracted me from my soul Blindfold - Distracted me from my soul Blindfold - Defter - We see through it Blindfold - Distracted me from my soul Blindfold - Distracted me from my soul Blindfold - Distracted me from my soul Blindfold - Defter - We see through it
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Raw Proof Back to the basics Everyone face it Everything based off love or hatred Bang that sound bring it back to the basement Raw Proof Now! There ain't no replacement All truth Pow! Gonna leave your face bent Vital styles gonna change where the game went Y'all lose power with each and every statement I make no debate call it fate kill the fake raise the stakes cut the brakes what it takes for the place to erase and eradicate the enemy we leave no trace Later we can pay for the penalties Right now I need you to follow me Keep up with the pace of the movement Keep it movin' This is how we do it Say what'cha think Think what'cha say when ya do what'cha say Really get into it with no delay That's how I was raised Seen brighter days Have all the answers But the problem stays So we kick down doors Create opportunities Fluently Fluid we Ruin thee Who to be Stupidly Choose to speak Foolery Jewelry used to be cool to me Now it's a tool to me Who see's the truth so crystal clear Back in tact and the missions clear Rappers are role models insecure Fathom the fans they pretend to care Madhouse move like the military I'm sittin' near with a pistol here Better yet call it a fist of fear Rappers better get their sh!t in gear Best believe half of what you see And everything that you fuck!n' hear SK9: Strick-9 Back to the basics spaceships low-top Asics Eminem and Dr. Dre shit Muhammad Ali rap I'm the greatest Smack my bitch up Rhyming sadist Never been a sucker for the instigators They lost their minds They inclined to hate us Couldn't see the brothers as the inspiration When we the gods of the dispensation Jason Pinhead Michael Myers Rap messiahs New cars, Kicked tires Dope suppliers Griselda Blanco - AC OJ -powder white Bronco Me and Proof - Lone Ranger Tonto Talking 'bout Bass Reeves - Powerful black seeds Known to stack G's - Monthly inventory Competitors get shot down - End of story... Don't - Don't hurt me again - You got the sword I got the sharp pen The king is here bow down when I walk in 3 out of 4 I'm the one like Ben Grimm (Ben Grimm) Don't let me Fl🔥me on Make you Invisible* expand your name on (On what?!) The obituary column Man verses man and you're just a damn Gollum And that's far from a bro but I know the YZ when the road covered with snow It don't matter how high it's gonna melt like the pop pop thing in a drive by And the dogs is Iditarod White girl lay on the scale like Pat Bennatar I eat her like Lecter the best of the sector Respect the barchitecture of Defter
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Raw Proof Back to the basics Everyone face it Everything based off love or hatred Bang that sound bring it back to the basement Raw Proof Now! There ain't no replacement All truth Pow! Gonna leave your face bent Vital styles gonna change where the game went Y'all lose power with each and every statement I make no debate call it fate kill the fake raise the stakes cut the brakes what it takes for the place to erase and eradicate the enemy we leave no trace Later we can pay for the penalties Right now I need you to follow me Keep up with the pace of the movement Keep it movin' This is how we do it Say what'cha think Think what'cha say when ya do what'cha say Really get into it with no delay That's how I was raised Seen brighter days Have all the answers But the problem stays So we kick down doors Create opportunities Fluently Fluid we Ruin thee Who to be Stupidly Choose to speak Foolery Jewelry used to be cool to me Now it's a tool to me Who see's the truth so crystal clear Back in tact and the missions clear Rappers are role models insecure Fathom the fans they pretend to care Madhouse move like the military I'm sittin' near with a pistol here Better yet call it a fist of fear Rappers better get their sh!t in gear Best believe half of what you see And everything that you fuck!n' hear SK9: Strick-9 Back to the basics spaceships low-top Asics Eminem and Dr. Dre shit Muhammad Ali rap I'm the greatest Smack my bitch up Rhyming sadist Never been a sucker for the instigators They lost their minds They inclined to hate us Couldn't see the brothers as the inspiration When we the gods of the dispensation Jason Pinhead Michael Myers Rap messiahs New cars, Kicked tires Dope suppliers Griselda Blanco - AC OJ -powder white Bronco Me and Proof - Lone Ranger Tonto Talking 'bout Bass Reeves - Powerful black seeds Known to stack G's - Monthly inventory Competitors get shot down - End of story... Don't - Don't hurt me again - You got the sword I got the sharp pen The king is here bow down when I walk in 3 out of 4 I'm the one like Ben Grimm (Ben Grimm) Don't let me Fl🔥me on Make you Invisible* expand your name on (On what?!) The obituary column Man verses man and you're just a damn Gollum And that's far from a bro but I know the YZ when the road covered with snow It don't matter how high it's gonna melt like the pop pop thing in a drive by And the dogs is Iditarod White girl lay on the scale like Pat Bennatar I eat her like Lecter the best of the sector Respect the barchitecture of Defter

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Broadcasting from the underground lair of Music City, where musicians sacrifice their soul for a guitar and a dream, Defter has been reporting and recording on all the current events facing the music industry as well as society. Modern Boom Bap sounds echo from the depths of dive bars, college campuses and local breweries that dare to let these gentlemen speak their minds through rhyme to an audience open-minded enough to hear the truth but not ballsy enough to do anything about it. Raw Proof and Strick9 teamed up after hearing about each other through a shared recording studio. Naturally, sharing the same producer and mixdown engineer, all tracks were backed up by the multifaceted beat junkie/DJ/Emcee-Eddie B. The music focuses on social political content and there is an emphasis put on original ideas and topics. They will continue to shed light and do their part through music until they can find an anti-racist militia to join.

Re-released August 6th, 2023 w/ 4 Bonus Tracks (13/14/15/16)
& re-created coverart by Sam Ohisoli (Sweden)

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released November 20, 2020

Produced by Eddie B.
Executive produced by Raw Proof & SK9: Strick-9
Recorded & Mixed at The Madhouse Recording Studio

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HipHop Recording/ Performing Artist who emerged from the flames as a man in the world but not of it. Freestyler/writer who lives in the community but claims no clique. Congregates with preachers, politicians, and the poverty-stricken, while always speaking for, not at, the common man. ... more

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