Funkdafied musings of a lostman

Basically a place for me to collect my rhymes in one place. I need to get some material for a project that's waiting for me back in DC. www.lostmanrecords.com Also, for audio files of me doing my thing, check me out here. For a beat to listen to while you read, click here

Sunday, November 22, 2009

my computer doesn't understand me

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Saturday, December 27, 2008

rhyme

Wake up, rise and shine
Where's the glimmer in your eye?
Had some good dreams, had some bad dreams.
That's life.
Like, a cipher with no mics
Sometimes it sounds tight
And other times I don't have the fight

Sunday, August 03, 2008

Feel It

I feel like your brain is a cigarette
My rhymes is the light
Take a puff, come inside, yo, it feels nice
Feels like
Rhythms from your subconscious mind
Some image from the vivid dream, remembering last night
Gimme a flash light
Sun under sunshine eyes
Turn it on skeletons and monsters living under the bed
No doubt I
Strive for vigilant samurai
Fe Fi Fo Fum
We get it done
Solve this abstract problem
And then you run
I do it too
Scared of the knowledge, though we just begun
One time, one second
One crime, one lesson
Spontaneous momentum
Keep the satellites guessing

Only one

I see a million faces when I'm walking the streets
I see eyes
But the glances only meet sometimes; I wonder why
Mine are green and nice
I can only see yours if you open wide
So fuck pride
Get up out of your mind
There's a whole world outside, your whole life
So think twice and rage against the dying of the light
Some choose to be men
Some are born, live and die as mice
My sacrifice was no say, so I know mics
In the meantime, I've got a question to ask
Are you part of the solution or part of the mess?
I'll never know if it was really all that simple then
A simple man simply isn't what I am
So I'm doing what I can to maintain and strive
Elevate the rhymes
Trade the nickels for dimes, and live my life

The point of it all, moving along
It's wrong if you feel alone
They just tryin to divide us
Cause we're weaker that way than whole
So maybe time to change your mode
Cookie cutter copies time to explode the mold
Stake it all
Never fold

Free

Sometimes I fly away
Find a hideaway
It's more than I can take
Tough finding destiny in these streets
I feel it's just me
Got our minds washed clean--antiseptically, anasthetically
But now I'm like a caged beast tryin to be free
Like Mandela locked up back in '63
I explore like Magellan 'cept it's internally
Open my eyes, what do I see?
We're seeking meaning in demeaning though the reason's that we're seeing
Even our leaders think they're shit don't stink
It's like the seasons, straight circular
Three-sixty
It's like a barrier, no matter what, we just can't see past
I see grass
And you know it's a fact
It's looking greener than where I'm at
Keep that delusion intact
Keep ourselves grounded, calling all planes from the air
Like a terrorist scare that's not there

Overfilled, it seems, with this nervous energy
Don't get ahead of me, please
I'm not talking anxiety, though that's what it seems
All that I see--vivid in 3D
Extra vivid, yo, I merge with it
Taking creation by force
Who shot ya? I did it.
Just trying to get to the source, and then I'll burn in it
The phoenix did it
Don't mean like the vietnamese did it
Igniting monks while they're sitting
In zazen
The depths of your mind, it's surprising
How's she keep passing me by when
I just need to open up my eyes and
See she's standing right there
With the body of a goddess and a flower in her hair
And she's smiling
Laughing cause she's been there all the time
And I'm realzing what it's like to be alive when
Your country wants you to be all you can be
When the only strength I have is the urge to be free

Sometimes our mind goes to a different place
For me, it's when I try to put it's contents down on page
If you were following my thoughts you'd probably be amazed
Quik like what I'd drink when I was six, but still crazed
It's a maze we're in
We're on a wheel that spins
And you only gettin off when you tame the sin
St. Augustine said: grant me temperance, but please not yet
Summing up my 20-something soul's perspective
All the haters please proceed to the exit
Cause love is the nexus
From the time you born
Til the time you gone
You've got a choice with every breath that's drawn
Both Bob Dylan and Badu's On and On
Recognize the rolling stone, but you don't have to get pushed alone
Free will's real
So please don't swallow the pill
Trying to brainwash your thoughts for the dollar bill

L-I-V

When my mind goes and the soul manifests
Like a trick how I'm seeing every card in the deck
Howard Roark architect, spit a blueprint from my lips
I feed my soul from the Earth; I'm up outta the ground
Now take a dip in the innocence
It's heaven sent like the breath; you just forget where it's at
But I feel it
Don't let my mind conceal it
Keep the legs steady moving, but my soul stays kneeling
That Coltrane feeling
Six million ways to die
But I'm building, fulfilling and tilling and reaping what I sow as I go on the long road
I never let go
It ain't optional; it's what I got to do
Through me all things remain possible
And fuck you if you don't think that it's logical
It gets deep, this stuff of life
I grabbed the mic
And swore to God I'd never compromise

L-I-V
Leave the E for your dreams
Or pour it out for the moment that's passing

Like I'm dynamite blasting
Everything standing in my way til I get a hand free
Then I'll knock 'em into last week
Killer bee thoughts that swarm are nasty
I used to run, but if it's on, then it's gonna be on
I cut through heat like a summertime storm
I still wait for grace like the break of the dawn
I still hesitate over rightin the wrong but carry on
In the distance I can see the horizon
It's comin on with the quickness
The moment ain't scripted
Yo, so don't think slow or you'll miss it
Afflicted minds, the sign of the times
I sit back and gaze through closed eyes
And get clothes lined
Playing the role of the fall guy
But it's time to get up, stand up
Motherfuck throwing your hands up

L-I-V
Leave the E for your dreams
Or pour it out for the moment that's passing

I fight against the cynical, hypocritical and skeptical
Deal the devil in you a deadly blow
And it's true; he's on my shoulder too
I brush it off
Won't let my virtue catch a double cross
Cause I know what it's like to get thrown for a loss
And I know victory never comes to the soft
And I know it takes strength and speed like Ali to pull it off
But it's all I really want
Got dream like Gandhi or MLK in '63, you got me?
I'm finished on the sidelines watching
Time's of the essence, and there's none like the present
It keep moving on
Still I catch it each second
It stays hectic, but teaches me lessons if I let it
If it don't, then I know my mind is misdirected
And that's infectious
You never know the breath of your conception 'til you strech it

L-I-V
Leave the E for your dreams
Or pour it out for the moment that's passing

Side to side

Whether it's smoking a blunt
Or getting it on
Or ignoring the vocals I spun just to hear the instrumental
I got it for you
Something to bob your head to
Or take it serious, get deep, catch the spiritual
But that's optional
Cause what I do when I'm listing to this music
Ranges from the basic and stupid
To seven steps from heaving, and I'm moving right through it
Gaseous, solidified, or fluid
I knew it
When I came out the womb it was mine to take
No delays; not trying to wait for the end of days
Hesitate, catch that shit at the pearly gates
At least I think; I take my mind to the brink of consciousness
Might be some nonsense
Definitely a hypothesis
But on the way to law, keeping it raw, waitin for y'all
....to come along

Waited for this moment for a long time comin
Grown up, but sho nuff, these rhymes is my youngin
And I raise 'em, emblaze 'em with dreams I'm chasin
Stay facing to the East, waitin til the sun's rays hit
Then the peace on my face manifests in these lyrics
Unless I spit when I'm mad as shit
My depths flip from my lips til there's nothing left
Then the cycle starts again
None of us are perfect men
Sin and virtue both hurt you if not kept in balance
I've never been one to embrace silence
Conspiring too much for too little in return
So let the motherfucker burn
If you don't, they'll never learn, and they need to
Where do we go, people? Surrounded by the wicked and deceitful...
All other things equal
I'm hangin out under the steeple of where the beat go

You need to get up right now and move with this
I heard that shit when I was new to this
I had some plans, but they got dismissed
Casualties of how I'm tryin to live
Actually I'm on the bridge
With some shit to implement if I'm gonna get where I'm goin
East coastin
Metaphorically got the three-wheel motion
So wave 'em high like the ocean if you're open
If not, find out why your innocence was stolen
Or maybe it's imagination that's broken
A nation of hoping when acting's the last thing that anyone's doing
Enough to make your head spin
But c'mon, stand up anyway
You won't faint, trust me
Not today
Out your seat
On your feet....
Hustling'll get you what you're wanting
But maybe you just wanna sit back and hearing the beat pumping
And that's okay with me

Let It Go

I can't quite tell where I've been, or where I'm going
It's only the mic I'm holding
Perpetual motion
Coasting on the wave I stay floating
Far away from that deadly 27 overdosing
Hoping that the karma's lubricated like lotion
The honest get corrupted off the gospel y'all quoting
Cause it don't mean a thing if it don't shed a little light on the point of the game
Time's change, mind frame's ain't staying the same
6 billion thirsty people steady praying for rain
Unnamed by the power's that be, but the destiny speaks
Eventually we stepping to free
At least that's what I'm thinking when my mind's optimistic
Thoughts and emotions, like time, unscripted
Stick 'em, and they move cause they're quicker than you
You never hold that shit that you think that you do

You grab it tight, hold it, squeeze, hoping please
But it's in your dreams
I don't know what it be
I got mine; it stays temping me
A ten-cent deceit
Like somebody sentenced me to simply stay in 2nd speed
Blinders on our eyes as the innocence bleeds from our energies
Even though it's all that you need
So forgive me
For trying, gonna rip 'em off, insisting
Cause if we staying hiding then we're barely subsisting
And yo, there's more to existence
The cover over the essence I been trying to rip it
Tried to hack it; the code is entirely cryptic
Tried the guess and test, but in the infinite it's hard to get specific with what the message is/
So we second guess
Close to the vest, we keep our cards
Act hard--I'm not really impressed
Cause you goin need more than that if you goin bring out your best
Existence, stress, then there's nothing left

But still these cocky joe know-it-alls think you got us down cold
Though we changin like the timepiece goes
Just say they figured it wrong
Here, then a minute it's gone
Break your own mold; you know they imitated wrong
Insatiably long, the road we on through time and space
Whether it's all new or more of the same, the only constant's change
Your styles brew; that's not you
You're every single action that you do, not yourself in '92
Can't think of anything that could be more true
But my music's populated by these ignorant fools
And don't even get me started when I'm watching the news
What they shovin down your throat every night at the tube
Angst-ridden, it's true
So what the fuck you gwan do?
I got big dreams for my people and you
More than a little bit; open my eyes it's illegimate
How can we rise if we're looking at the sunset

Tuesday, June 06, 2006

Howl

I saw the best minds
Generational obsessed minds
Naked in the power of their thoughts they stressed mine
Soul starving
Burning in supernatural darkness
Portrait of an Artist; starry dynamo, chart this
Contemplating these DC streets,
Hiphop and where the sky and Earth meet
Illuminated university tragedy
Burning all their money or making that fat salary
They're banging on the wall, through the wall
Still living their live on alchol and through their cock and balls
Incomparage traffic light moon visions that stop it all
The ranting, the endless chained mind joy ride
The sun shines exposing brilliant eyes
So do or die try, do or die try
The crack of doom
The hydrogen boom
Consumes on a stale brew afternoon

[When we fire escape it all
Drop that ball
yackety yack intellect total recall]

Hook:
As we await the sunrise the moon makes me Howl
How you like me now?
As we await the sunrise, yo, it makes me how
So how you like me now?

Wondering where to go, we bone grind on the bleak road
Boxcarred in the souls are in withdrawal
From the sun to the snow
From the East to the West coast
From Bmore to Idaho to Los Alamos
You are not alone
But the suffering ain't optional
So take your mind all the way off to oblivion
With red eyes or waitresses
Nitroglycerine or hatred, it's leaving your soul naked
But it's familiar cause you probably seen it in your dreams
Or in the imagery of some sordid movie that came down from Madison Ave.
Drunk in a taxi cab, wanting what you can't have
And I'm not talking about no romance
In the shadows of your mind it's approaching midnight
Every impulse of delight subsides
Scream two or three times: Eternity under nighttime sky

Hook:
As we await the sunrise the moon makes me Howl
How you like me now?
As we await the sunrise, yo, it makes me how
So how you like me now?

Lectures rejected
Books flung out alchemy's window
Innumerable thoughts with the rhythm unknown
Til you rose incarnate in the ghostly clothes
Had a elemental shift in your consciousness
And it grows, a rebellion, not a hallucination
What we defy in our minds belies categorization
Or what matters to this nation
Building on the steps already taken I'm creating
Vibrating on a plane
Incanting through decades to explain
With a leaden verse, resist the regiments they're goin' send
Damn close to defeat
Cried why on my knees
My mama, please--yo, I think I 'pproached insanity
Whether it's comin with the sweet blues
Or on your knees under the steeple
This country's split like that pea soup
It's not equal
So where the fuck do we go?

Hook:
As we await the sunrise the moon makes me Howl
How you like me now?
As we await the sunrise, yo, it makes me how
So how you like me now?

Thursday, May 25, 2006

Circles

It’s not everyday of my life I consider myself a lost man
In fact, too often I’m all too found
Profound thoughts evade me
Too much hesitating
Try to keep my feet planted on the solid ground
Now….
I guess I need a blindfold
Spin myself in circles
Walk to the horizon and never stop
Hiphop don’t come to me as a my daily routine
Stolen moments, Regain focus
Know what I mean?

Wednesday, May 24, 2006

Luck to make

My past goes way back
I see it clear like digi playback
Landed me right here
I can't ever explain that
I ain't been perfect for certain; everybody's got regrets
What I manifest exhibits much respect for this genesis
I'll never rest 'til I lose my breath
In the lifetime next, confident I'll see the struggles that I left behind
Karma dwells in the essence deep down, yo, and yes it shines
Eternal mastermind made me sign
Hancock the dotted line
Now I reside in the skin I'm in
A tenement
I think I need ten of them
Less of a demon than many men
But no angel either
It keeps me freer, walking in the shades of gray
Never went black or white all the way
Keeping my own pace

Hook:
Navigating through the maze
With the rhythm as my cheese
Three-sixty degrees
In this life that we lead
Don't get stuck up isosceles
Just one of my philosophy's policies

The ill rhythmic elicits responses, twitches from the nonconscious
In an instant, start this like a bomb does
Then end this--boom
Beats, rhymes and life fillin up the room
Am I going home soon or just approaching my doom?
One question that's destined to turn on your perspective
Resurrected before
Still struggle to catch the essence, yo, so give me some more
Wondering if I left it with my innocence outside at the door
I probably been here before
So I can't rest until I get to the raw
Fuck the metaphor
The sermons, the gospel of the surgeon
Who only believes in science
I've tried real hard to convert him; he won't buy it
Can't open every mind when I spit, though I'm trying
I'll just take 99 percent, I guess
And fight for the 1 percent left 'til I'm out of breath

Navigating through the maze
With the rhythm as my cheese
Three-sixty degrees
In this life that we lead
Don't get suck up isosceles
Just one of my philosophy's policies

I melt static away
Fanatic how I do it
Automatic I spray
It's all that matters to me
It clears my brain
Can't explain
I think it's keeping me sane
Try to stop falling like the rain, na mean?
This life sometimes, it's hectic as shit
I've got that or this
Don't which to get with
Make my life make a switch
But it's harder than dicks get around a bitch
Harder than Starks starting on the Knicks
Man, back in '95 I was so childish
Innocent
Now I spend my time with Regret
Kick the jack back to make my mind black when it gets bad
Usually just the pen and the pad
That's the program
I'm a lone man
But the mic I'm holding
Is scolding my hands
There must be a bigger plan

So then I jump right in

Not knowing how to swim
But I’m ready to begin



Sunday, March 19, 2006

moonshine

From the earth star moonshine
The most sublime
I'm inside your ears and mind
Like you were sitting there high
Puff puff
Then wake up
I shake up your mental landscape
Like a San Fran quake
That shakes to motivate
As I vibrate these thoughts I make
To the treble and bass

Unconscious to the consequences I create