1. |
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Everything won’t go your way
But you Keep the faith
Hold on
Keep the faith
Be strong
Hold on
Keep the faith
Keep on
Everything’s gonna be okay
If you keep the faith
Keep the faith
Hold on
Keep the faith
Be strong
Hold on
Keep the faith
Keep on
My wife throws the best get togethers
New years we prepped for another with the fellas
knew this would the best year ever
I had a whole year planned out
bring the band out bring the fans out
sometimes it doesn't quite pan out...
they told me don't go on the cruise
I'm glad I did, it was the last thing I'd do
came home and the whole world's confused
the east points, west, the west points east
the stay at home orders everybody off the streets
but how's a working man supposed to make ends meet...
Everything's not okay
something still makes me say
what a wonderful day...
V2
Meanwhile in the twin cities
cops get reckless, the people get busy
We aint seen it like this since the 60s
8 minutes 46 seconds
No weapons but somehow he felt threatened
Say his name so they won’t forget em
And there’s so much deception here
Governments warnings all etched in fear
All of this in an Election year...
We gone talk about this for generations,
How We the laughing stock of every nation
This is gonna be one for the Ages..
Everything won’t go your way
But you Keep the faith
Hold on
Keep the faith
Be strong
Hold on
Keep the faith
Keep on
Everything’s gonna be okay
If you keep the faith
Keep the faith
Hold on
Keep the faith
Be strong
Hold on
Keep the faith
Keep on
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I spread love,
Because somebody showed it to me
See the world how I know it can be, that’s why
(I spread love )
Appreciate what I’m given,
No time for hate gotta
Stay on the mission
(Spread love)
I show compassion for my fellow man
Lend a hand let em know I understand
No doubt
(I Spread Love)
I do it when i sit and write tracks
Gimme love and I give it right back
(Thats why we spread love)
Mega Ran:
I got, lots of love for my crew that is,
No love, for the enemy, confusing kids
But if down then you gotta know what time it is
And if you don’t, then allow me to enlighten
With my writing, precise I lay it all down flat
Practice till we nice get it all down pat
No stressing Maximum Effort, PMA
No Question, back in the session, see the hate, but it
Kinda Boggles my mind
showing love
To my enemies - who plotting on mine
I show love
Cause it doesn’t take a lot to be kind
show love
So the energy ain’t stopping my grind
Sho nuff
Hate is a burden too strong for me to bear
Not sure when it got corny to care
I’m not above ya not below ya
I’m right here witcha,
Permanent fixture in the mixture
and I spread love
Because somebody showed it to me
See the world how I know it can be, that’s why
(I spread love )
Appreciate what I’m given,
No time for hate gotta
Stay on the mission
(Spread love)
I show compassion for my fellow man
Lend a hand let em know I understand
No doubt
(I Spread Love)
I do it when i sit and write tracks
Gimme love and I give it right back
(Thats why we spread love)
23
I wasn’t always shown it - I remember moments
Feeling like the world was my opponent, but yo…
I didn’t always spread it - and that’s connected
People tend to give it how they get it, but yo…
Now I don’t just reflect it, I generate
Hit center stage, entertain, enter brains and set em straight
Elevate mental states, levitate and celebrate
Hit my booking agent up and set a date
The gentlemen with medicine for what ail ya
Spread the opposite of failure from here to Australia
Saddle the steeds - Mega Ran and 23 - the cavalry
That battle weeds of apathy like Johnny Appleseed
I plant it deep in your heart beat - My art speaks
Poetry - So sweet, but sharper than shark teeth
Turning pencil lead to gold, that’s what my head does
Positivity’s contagious like bedbugs
I spread love
Because somebody showed it to me
See the world how I know it can be, that’s why
(I spread love )
Appreciate what I’m given,
No time for hate gotta
Stay on the mission
(Spread love)
I show compassion for my fellow man
Lend a hand let em know I understand
No doubt
(I Spread Love)
I do it when i sit and write tracks
Gimme love and I give it right back
(Thats why we spread love)
MC Lars:
You might ask, “What’s wrong with a meme?”
If it’s dank, and it’s edgy sarcastic and extreme
But how are we no longer shocked by mass shootings?
Or saying that alternative facts aren’t confusing?
So excuse me if this verse gets a little bit serious
White nationalists have really got me furious
The KKK? Please go away
When Trump got elected, I saw you celebrate
A wall won’t solve it, believe in progress
The power of compassion, all I ask is your involvement
I’ll admit there’s no single answer to this cancer
But apathy is poison and love heals much faster
Honestly? Robert Lee statues, time to melt ‘em down
Spread love with the future, ripping hate to the ground
You won’t see Hitler statues down at Brandenburg Gate
It’s time for them to go if they’re representing hate
spread love
Because somebody showed it to me
See the world how I know it can be, that’s why
(I spread love )
Appreciate what I’m given,
No time for hate gotta
Stay on the mission
(Spread love)
I show compassion for my fellow man
Lend a hand let em know I understand
No doubt
(I Spread Love)
I do it when i sit and write tracks
Gimme love and I give it right back
(Thats why we spread love)
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3. |
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(A LOT OF ADLIBBED TALKING THAT I DIDN'T WRITE DOWN)
Mega Ran
Now I’m sure you heard about your favorite comedian
Actor, or entertainer, or whatever medium
Seems he in little bit of trouble over something that he did
Something he been doing since he was a kid
Misusing his power, and influence on people
For evil, and the matter has now become legal
Let’s talk about some things to make your interactions greater
And keep you off the front page of this paper.
first of all, lets talk enthusiastic consent,
Consent is what is said, not what you think she meant
Any intimacy, from a peck...to sex
I suggest, asking the question and waiting for a yes
Next is locker room talk, you know how it goes
Objectifying women behind closed doors with the bros
People think being a player is cool, but it isn’t,
You know what’s really dope my friend? Staying committed
Being open and honest, vulnerability,
Willingly, bringing back the lost art of chivalry
Not for a prize or for recognition,
But to make this place a better one to live in
I know you think I’m coming down on you and I am,
Know why? because i know exactly how you think,
You’re a guy
And guys lie
Trust me I’ve seen and heard it all,
Many more deserve the fall
And somehow still it’s doesnt quite occur to yall
Time to break the system of
Blaming the victims,
Take Em to prison
cause no ones above criticism
Hope you understand this is not okay
Now let’s continue on with our day
(MORE ADLIBS I DIDN'T WRITE)
E-Turn
I know you haven’t been told a lot about a lot of these things
And what you see on TV don’t really help my team
It’s woven into our system to downplay & demean
A patriarchal foundation that also limits your dreams
Not only ours, cuz you’re left with lots of feelings to guard
Told to “be a man,” “man up,” and just ignore all the scars
Being open is hard..but necessary for art
And every other facet of your life from ending to start
Time to shift the way we treat each other, you play a part
Like Ran said, being vulnerable is a good start
And ladies, don’t ever feel like you’re not enough
Or that you have to change who you are to really find love
Let’s gain knowledge of self, and also learn to be tough
Diversity is beautiful and independence is what -
will help to raise our self-worth and get misogyny cut
And at the end of the day... always. follow your gut
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4. |
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Let me tell you about the Proto Culture
If you don't know the culture, here's the whole structure
20 years ahead of the game, we gave props
And we still play the kind of games you can't pick up at Game Stop
From arcades to consoles, you name it i got those
Hop on the sticks and i shut it down pronto
My ensemble, got mad combos
Never been Butt, unless I was playing Garou,
Mark of the Wolves
Hey But I like that game
Had other imports that was twice as strange
Dungeons & Dragons, Capcom's best
Radiant Silver, guns in the treasure chest
Before n64 i was getting a whipping
From sneaking and calling Nintendo hotlines in the kitchen
In tomb raider I crawl through, telling the homies to Fall through
Maniac Mansion but I had to use the walkthrough
The homie put me on to the emulators
Every game in the arcade, already played 'em
All the original rhymes got translated
Now video game studies was mandated
Let me tell you about the Proto Culture
If you don't know the culture, here's the whole structure
20 years ahead of the game, we gave props
And we still play the kind of games you can't pick up at Game Stop
Yo I had to make important life decisions
Will I study something to help me make a living
Or will I continue to spend time progressing
Analyze combos and strategies for Tekken
So damn bad I beat Mario with a dance pad
Ransack, hit high scores you ain't got a chance at
Smash cats, like E.Honda with hundred hand slaps
Del dropped the syllabus, now we in the advanced class
In high school I played this boy
Out the golden Zelda cartridge and Metroid
For Gyromite and Clu Clu Land
Told him next day, "black black no trade backs"
Hee Hee
I still prefer 3rd strike cause of the guard parry
NBA Ballers, crossing over with Marbury
PS2 had some bangers, Okami and San Andreas,
But I still prefer Dreamcast, that was prolly the greatest
Let me tell you about the Proto Culture
If you don't know the culture, here's the whole structure
20 years ahead of the game, we gave props
And we still play the kind of games you can't pick up at Game Stop
Catch me at GDQ, E3 too
We been about this life,
Don’t let em deceive you
20 years later everybody jackin' the style
Every month a new battle royale, slow down
Twitch overrun by --hold it down now
There's games, see 'em loading up in the background
I remember getting bootlegs from my favorite store
Till the feds busted them and I didn't no more
I would pass on Smash, the combos were too meticulous
Movement kinda limited, i couldn't get into it
Imported Million Arthur with my stimulus, but I
Still know the code to Mike Tyson its ridiculous
Right now I'm playing Project Warlock, y'all
and Prototype 2 running up sides of walls
Slicing the vice and cops trying to shoot
Laughing, throwing bums off the roof
Haha
Let me tell you about the Proto Culture
If you don't know the culture, here's the whole structure
20 years ahead of the game, we gave props
And we still play the kind of game you can't pick up at Game Stop
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5. |
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She gets up at 4 everyday
When she sick when it snows when It rains
...Hops a bus then a train
Letting nothing stand in her way
Pulls up - Puts her key into the lock
Waves to the neighbors on Both sides of the block
Flips the light switch, counts up the stock
Ready to open doors on her very own shop
There’s the ring of a telephone
A customer, hoping she can work in her schedule
Luckily for her she’s flexible,
Salon opened a sec a go, now we red ta go
Like Wanda, her dreams are in living color
A hairstylist just hoping to get discovered
2 hours later
Customers impressed
Tapes the first dollar to the wall behind the desk...
ayyye
One time for the creators
So close to God so motivated
it didnt exist until you made it
Just wanted to say you’re appreciated
V2
He started making tracks on a new app
Shared them with his homies spamming the group chat
Everybody's impressed by the quality
Posts on socials, with the hashtag follow me
Slow traction, better than no action
But He keeps at it even if something don’t happen
Every free minute of every night
Got his headphones on in a zone, getting it right
But with every adjustment hes closer to rock bottom
Mad Payments due and running out of options
Hard to to focus with an eviction notice
It’s Getting bogus, somethings gonna change man I know it
wifey yelling, kids need to eat
Ain’t no nutritional value up in them beats...
Just then... New Notification
An inquiry on your track
And the best method of payment... ayyyye
One time for the creators
So close to God so motivated
it didnt exist until you made it
Just wanted to say you’re appreciated
She’s classic trained in painting
Her ability in creation is simply amazing
Youngest in every class, dazzling demonstrations
Wanted the world, while her mentors told her be patient,
Lofty aspirations of paradigm shifts
It’s clear she’s got a verified gift
But one issue,
She gave it all her heart
You she never saw her own reflection drawn in her art
So one day she decided to be the change she wanted
Painted black and brown girls and the results were stunning
Straight originality
Quit her job now the art pay a salary
Next up her own gallery-
Ayyye
One time for the creators
So close to God so motivated
it didnt exist until you made it
Just wanted to say you’re appreciated
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6. |
Do Better
03:51
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I used to play Apache at the end of every show
Till a brother pulled me aside he just had let me know
He said my girl is Native, and she hates when people play it
So when she saw you dancing, she just-wanted to go home
I meant nothing by it I replied, she understood
How could something be offensive that made people feel so good
He broke it down
Apache’s not the name of a tribe
It’s a word the Zuni and the Spaniards used to describe
Natives, so it’s probably best translated as enemy
Listen further and you can understand her energy
The systematic oppression of their genetic pool
There’s plenty about it that they won’t ever teach in school
Tonto is Spanish for a moron or fool,
And the war chants, unnecessary as well as cruel
manifest destiny the concept is so odd
Displacing and pillaging in the name of a righteous God
Who promotes peace,
while infesting them with small pox
Which ran through camps like Mike Alstott
Virtually exterminating millions, in a systematic way
Till only a quarter million natives are still alive today
So, when you dance and smile on stage your hurt may go away
But when I hear it, I’m reminded of all of the pain
All The murders, the sterilizations, kidnappings, and enslavement,
So I just had to make a statement ,
She educated me so now I’m passing it to you,
And now that you know better, tell me what you gonna do.
I’m gonna make a change as well as try to educate so I appreciate you broadening my view,
so I’mma do better
do better.
The stars and the bars were a failed experiment
Representing a system of enslaved Americans
Yet southerners will try to Change the narrative
Pained with arrogance confusing Hate for heritage
A symbol of supremacy for generations
I’d rather see real change occur within the nation
If we just fighting over cloth, and no other change comes across,
Well then it’s obvious this is all for naught , cause
We get busy, From South Carolina to Mississippi
Imagine being that far on the wrong side of hist’ry
Where Monuments to lifestyles you don’t believe in
Stare at you in ever state and you don’t see the grievance
You think you know me man, the Situations lonely
Even when I taught I never gave Participation trophies
We want justice, pass it down
Till the last statue comes crashing down
Do better
Do better.
Sending this one out to whoever
If you knew better you would do better
And now you know.
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7. |
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The news just said we’re doomed, but that’s not gonna ruin my hope
My hope hope hope
Oh my hope
My hope hope hope
No it won’t
No it won’t
The world is changing fast, and the direction is bad we need hope
We need hope hope hope
We need hope
We need hope hope hope
We can cope
We can cope
I feel like Jack Nicholson, something’s gotta give
It’s hard to write a song about something positive
In the world that we’re living in
Filled with negative influence
So I’m guessing our mission is
To say something significant
I tried my best find the words that’ll put you at ease
While we’re fighting racism, misinformation and disease
But I can’t
Cause these problems feed my anxieties
And I’m not the only one, many suffer silently
Nothing gonna change from holding your tongue
We need a new hope like the end of Rogue One
This weight on our shoulders feels like 4 tons
So we gotta bring these issues straight to the forefront
The news just said we’re doomed, but that’s not gonna ruin my hope
My hope hope hope
Oh my hope
My hope hope hope
No it won’t
No it won’t
The world is changing fast, and the direction is bad we need hope
We need hope hope hope
We need hope
We need hope hope hope
We can cope
We can cope
Honestly I never knew what depression was till now,
Quarantining inside got me constantly feeling down
Then I turn on the news ,
expecting fair and balanced coverage
But instead I get the opposite of it,
Now the public going wild,
I just think about the child,
Growing up and watching all this going down,
What a time to be around
Too much to handle it’s testing what I stand fo’ instead of cursing darkness,
I’d rather light a candle
So when I write a verse,
I accept my destiny like Miles in the Spider Verse,
You don’t you can until you try it first
Remain Calm under pressure
When we do get out of this
, trust, we’ll be stronger than ever
Now do what you got to do, Make impossible Possible
Might as well believe, seriously what you got to lose
Flee the Toxic, rise above the nonsense
Christian, Agnostic
Have faith we got this
The news just said we’re doomed, but that’s not gonna ruin my hope
My hope hope hope
Oh my hope
My hope hope hope
No it won’t
No it won’t
The world is changing fast, and the direction is bad we need hope
We need hope hope hope
We need hope
We need hope hope hope
We can cope
We can cope
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8. |
Wanderlust / Outro
05:04
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Yeah, this remind me of mike & ikes and tastykakes
they make it hard to stay in shape but yo you got to on this paper chase
Been in the cage so long its time to let the ape escape
Peace to Omodaka, we rocked a show in Osaka
Came back home and composed a sonata
The flow is proper but that ain't enough
Cause plenty rock wit me, but won’t make me top 50
The stuff i jot quickly they say Mega got busy
hit ya like Pop’s whisky
Yet couldnt keep the same energy when I got risky,
Whole scene got shifty
Keep the portions of gold
I want fortunes untold
I grabbed a shovel when i got to the fork in the road
Went straight, since Sunday nights at Penn State
Mario Kart Tournaments to impressing some journalists
Who call me influential, couldn’t have dreamt of this
Made me Aware of my impermanence, up in the firmament
Amongst the stars, i pray i influence the younger gods,
Forget the guns and cars, find the strength to buck the odds
Yoshimitsu when i hold the pencil
My flow like pixels, so rigid, and simple, yet the result is blissful
So many broken pencils, nights I almost quit the game
The light at the end of the tunnel it is a train
Used to stay up all night composing messages,
That would never be open, just wondering where my blessing is
Seeing lesser talented brothers shine
Knowing they can’t hold a candle to none of mine,
I don’t mean to undermine, anyone successes,
But depression got me lashing out in everyone’s direction
A World warrior, yet still no idea know where to go
Every Allen iverson needs him an eric snow
Gotta know ya role and know just who to talk to >
The game of life, don’t come with a walkthrough
Sorta like a battle royale,
We all drop into the map,
With set of instructions,
Now we plotting our attack,
While the world around us gets smaller by the second,
And you dont if you don’t have the right weapon,
and connection
You left in the dark.
I Tried to play my part but had it backwards,
Now it’s a trap, I flip the script like bad actors,
In movie roles, mark grayson in the studio
Invincible, teacher turned heel on the principal
Redefined my life like a thesaurus
Traded rent for a mortgage and started
Writing raps with No chorus
Whether they ignore us or adore us,
I gotta do it my way, and I’m better for it..
it’s wanderlust yup
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9. |
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Call me the gran torino
Throwin like Dan Marino
you aint advanced as me tho
You like a damn mosquito
Gran Torino ...
Gran Torino ...
Get off my lawn, im bout to win
Yea, we know
no peers im an only child
Diddy and mase couldn’t hold me down
I been a menace It aint a gimmick,
Need a pandemic to slow me down
You should see my texts..
Please..help me meet connects
I stay grounded hard
Like ethernet
I grind like no one do, just like the OGs showed me to
Guess it was overdue for senpai to notice you
Rhymes and flows your lies exposed
Cut the lights grab the mic and strike the heisman pose
Mega
All Gas cover your eyes and nose
I post a routine day, all the replies is “goals”
So they sweat me like i’m Bakugo,
Unstoppable
Please Tell me how im not the GOAT
Mega
I can’t *** with them don’t hear no pain when they rap
I stole my momma whip and D Nice had that thing on his lap
Coulda lost my life that night and that ***** went insane after that
You roll with me can’t do cocaine after that
I’m traumatized this the truth
They stretch they lines I don’t tell no lies in the booth
Act like you know and if you don’t
Then **** pretend like you do
I came up with my *** Shrub
We like Eminem and Proof
and we don’t wanna stray shot I don’t intend to shoot you
Came up with pimps and boosters
Thugs, killers . Thought I’d be one of those in the future
Look at me now
Throwing bows like I’m Luda
Aint get no hand in that ditch
Reached for a star till a ****** land on that ******
AZ came to me with the torch
And I mega ran with that
Wooooo
Call me the gran torino
Throwin like Dan Marino
you aint advanced as me tho
You like a damn mosquito
Gran Torino ...
Gran Torino ...
Get off my lawn, im bout to win
Yea, we know
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KU
In team deathmatch I need less scratch
it's an optical attack, with optimal attachments
I had to wait to customize in Phantom Pain
the way Konami did Kojima was just a shame
DEL:
Yo I had to make important life decisions
Will I study something to help me make a living
Or will I continue to spend time progressing
Analyze combos and strategies for Tekken
SkyBlew:
Grew up a game freak, Pokémon, caught 'em all
from the street, but a geek overall
I recall GameShark; lives lost, gained heart
started selecting the right controls to paint art
GIZMO
I walk through creep on the ops like Splinter Cell
the outer haven I burn thru the ice crown citadel
melt solid to liquid snake my brothers them vicious
Big Boss on em we geared up from Metal to Rex pay respect
Let me tell you bout the proto culture
If you don't know the culture here's the whole structure
20 years ahead of the game we gave props
still we get the kinda titles you can't pick up at Game Stop
(2x)
JESSE DANGEROUSLY:
I had Mattel Intellivision in the crib as a kid
I had to tell my friends that visit what the hell that it is, it isn't
Sega, Coleco, Atari, Tandy or Commodore
It's the system that belonged to my mom before I was born
Respect that.
WORDBURGLAR:
Nintendo Power Acheiever - Wordburglar, last name Jordan
No wonder number 23's the one my high score's in / Facts!
You never played Chrono Trigger? A shame jack
But you can always go back in time and change that!
AO LYRICAL:
Playing these fighting games, gotta get techno kid
i'm repeating combos I'm punching i'm winning I'm sending
Castlevania whipping, sippin dippin flippin
keeping all the money to get extra life and spirit
DA RAP NERD:
A monster hunter and a gunner with a goldeneye,
I'm staying sly and rap to GTA for life
Keyblade on my hip to switch it up on sight
Till it's the last of us and you dead by daylight
Let me tell you bout the proto culture
If you don't know the culture here's the whole structure
20 years ahead of the game we gave props
still we get the kinda titles you can't pick up at Game Stop
(2x)
DEL:
Twitch overrun by -hold it down now
There's games, see 'em loading up in the background
I remember getting bootlegs from my favorite sto'
Till the feds busted them and I didn't no mo'
MARK COOPER:
We gamepros where the demos hold in the centerfold
Same era where my grades would enter the blood code
On 99 i'm a contra fan, Konami plan
Brand midway on fire, that Nba Jam
KU:
Locked and loaded, the block exploded
when the message is decoded then I've clocked your motive
Gotta get your whole squad in order
overtake your mother base and give my marching orders
INT EIGHTY:
I remember saving money pressed to buy an NES
Only just to later pirate games when I was penniless
With plenty debt, weighing on me like I'm heavyset
Forever Famicom meant surviving pandemic events
LEX THE LEXICON ARTIST:
Only ever watched my brother play Pokemon Gold
till he told me make your own so I dove in the fold
Built my teams, beat the leaders now it feels so familiar
Like going back to kanto during Pokemon Silver
MC FRONTALOT:
Every platform’s got a gospel, religion
I was apostle to MULE and Impossible Mission
on my 6-4, Way of the Exploding Fist
L, shift-O, shift-2, asterisk
MEGA RAN:
Man, we So ahead of our timing
ultima up to skyrim
Skills never declining
Loving the endless grinding
Never know where you’ll find him
Rhyming on twitch
Defining our niche
This is the remix
(COME ON!)
Let me tell you bout the proto culture
If you don't know the culture here's the whole structure
20 years ahead of the game we gave props
still we get the kinda titles you can't pick up at Game Stop
(2x)
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Mega Ran Phoenix, Arizona
“Mega Ran's proven he can excel in storytelling, punchlines, poignancy, freestyling and, well, pretty much any other way you
can measure an MC.”
— LA Weekly
An incredible impromptu "freestyle" MC, Ran's unique combination of fantasy and introspective hip-hop has found its way all over the world, into leading press outlets and most recently, into the Guinness Book Of World Records.
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