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In A Stereo Field

by L

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1.
… I’m up and working, Pouring words on this new page like it’s thirsty, I’m serving The ones, the people, who might dig a beat like, It’s dangerous, illegal, if these tracks were lethal right? … So sit tight and tune in intently, This ride’s like a Bentley, smooth like my pen be, When writing on pages, if this could earn wages, I’d learn to embrace it, it’s not why I make this. .. I wanna do better, my best can, Step up my game have you thinking like chess can, … And I’ll be here, loyal like Hachiko, And no changing stories like Han shooting Greedo, … I’m forever evolving and growing, And morphing I know it cause sometimes it’s showing, … I’m sharing and learning and living, And laughing and breathing and loving and giving. Chorus … I’m done and sleeping, Running through dreams like I’m thinking my eyelids are sinking, And some are insightful with real inspiration, Life changing at times and feeling elation, Dreaming for dreamers, my spirit rises, My brain in a dream is when I’m at my wisest, The other side’s different, the scary, disturbed, Nightmare’s occur, wish they never were, Shadowy figures appearing in doorways, Screaming, I’m losing, that’s what the score say, Alien craft and experimentation, Fingers in scalps and rubbing abrasive, Waking in sweat and shock and surprise, The scariest thought is to open my eyes, One night is rough, the next could be pleasing, With laughter and breathing and loving, I’m leaving. Let’s get out of here.
2.
When the day feels like it’ll never pass, And you just woke up from the night last, And feeling trapped like an arm in a tight cast, And praying that the day will end like night mass, Without a bad thing happening to fight past, You never know how long things might last, I take a step back to let all the hype blast, I’m an old school producer that’s my type cast, Groomed and cut like yard growing nice grass, Rhymings meditative, makes my eyes glass, If attacked I might strafe to the side fast, -> Swimming through the business, how long will the tide last, Explosive like a plumbing type pipe blast, -> Cutting like a DJ scratching trying to fight rash, Yo, This is a bright splash, -> Bolder and fuller, like pulling off a nice (mous)stashe. Get it! Chorus … I hit the studio to flip tracks, I hear a dope beat can’t help but dip back, Get me moving, I might just rip slacks, -> Feet stomping heavily my floor might chip crack, Ready to rhyme, listen to my lips smack, A real scissorhead every time I clip facts, Every line, tasty like a quick snack,-> I write rhymes in the cloud, can I have my Bic back?, Words precious, nothing like a knick knack, Spirit broken? Let the music fix that, I make tracks fast kind of like a quick hack, Buds blossom so no need to nip that, I’m like a poet peeps snapping like a kit kat, -> Words pouring out, can’t help but want to sip that, Steal a cookie, might feel a wrist slap, Unless I’m getting cookies in return like a kickback. Gimme that??
3.
… Yo, I got words and insight, Others might say i’m all wrong but I’m alright, … My energy is bright, locked in and tied tight, Loosened up, ideas illuminated like a night light, … And that helps with my blurry sad eyesight, Reading these lyrics feels good makes my pride spike, … I’ve been a strong MC, though my build’s slight, … Writing rhymes since a kid, am I skilled? Quite! … … I’m half filipino, half white, … A big life with my only average height, … I’m not walking round holding onto spite, … I let it go, fly off, like letting go a kite, … If a mic can be held, I’ll hold on tight, … Til we gel, it’s all live when I’m on site, … It’s like magic and words bringing on might, Strong, can’t untwist this cap because it’s on tight. What! Chorus … I set it off with my own raps, Cause I’m as ill as the feds with phone taps, … This beat is all new, nothing thrown back, you feel hype? Imma tell you something what my raps like) … Even if I wanted, I couldn’t go back, So I stand before you now, where’s my slow clap, … Ah I’m kidding, i’m just a normal old chap, … Not lying, straight up solid gold fact, … I feel young, dancing like my toes tap, … I’m taken, not hanging when my bros mack, If you’re seeing red flags, you should ghost that, … All my beats exist just to host raps.
4.
… Hold up, Let me take a breath (inhales) I’m on the mic like it’s life or death, Words come to me, like Showbiz and AG, Showing and proving, good’s how I’m doing, … Keep it moving like meters on mix bridges, … Straight up and down like ruffles have ridges, And crunch crunch, I make beats in bunches, Sampling what I want like chump bullies taking lunches, … Give it back cause kindness is moving, Best part of life is helping others, how we do things, … Nothing new, I’m chill, a relaxer, 95 bpms and not a beat faster, … This track is solid like cement plastered, Well put together, and never a disaster, 10000 hours in and trying to be a master, At getting you jumping like a horror movie slasher. … I never made any headlines, … I’m on time way before deadlines, … Every line i’ve written is a said line, … I’m old can’t stay up past bedtime, … Don’t really care what the fed finds, … All I’m trying to do is just spread kind, … Everything I got’s above the neck line, … All I wanna give you is your best time, … I never made a single headline, … I’m on time way before deadlines, … Every line i’ve written is a said rhyme, … I hardly stay up past bedtime, … Don’t really care what the fed finds, … All I’m trying to do is just spread kind, … Everything I got’s above the neck line, L duped a verse, so you won’t have to rewind, yes!
5.
Life moves fast speeds by, I’m dead last, Dreams from a kid still stuck in the past, I’m trying to do right tonight, and try and be productive, Trying to live a life where I don’t care what luck gives, … Nothing is easy, only the wind’s breezy, I feel like a magician when I don’t even believe me, Myself, self help, self motivated, Working so much, I should probably hate it, .. And berate it, but really it fades when, It feels so good when I get to be creative, … And that’s everything, to me it means so much, My legacy to pass on when done as a grown up, My hands get thrown up, I don’t really own much, Smooth on the mic, deep down I feel so rough, ... But it's a better place, smiles on all faces, Memories last even the faintest of traces. Chorus … In these times, we try to be stronger, Push through and push past, hold out longer, Growing like plants though the last was a goner, Surviving misfortune like a party with the Donners, … I think about what life has given me, Stress to live blissfully only leads to trickery, Not making a mockery and not hot for misery, I’m not about victory, I’m all about the mystery. Deep thoughts!
6.
… This court is in session like Chill Rob, I’m guilty of holding back beats like a pill fob, … Then let’em fly like I’m dunking from an ill lob, If fat tracks make you tear up, then you will sob. … … I cook beats heated like the grills on, … When the tracks done, that’s when all your chills gone, … It’s like the dark being lit up by a still dawn, Truth comes to light, even if it feels wrong, … That’s how it happens, for this track, it’s two strong, … It’s like the funk getting dumped when you move on, … Such a deal, like a Costco coupon, … Time to bounce and eat and get my soup on (slirp).
7.
… I step up, my chests up, Breath control, holding it in, face red like ketchup, ... I always bring it to you, never let up, As many times I fell down, it’s one more to get up, … And suffer with the pain, get back to it, … Been rhyming longer than peeps watching Bachelorette, … Dropping a new album, immaculate, Conceived rhymes, excited by all the tracks you get, … … Yes I’m a new kid and an old timer, … Making beats, sift through them like a gold miner, … I’m trying to shine a little, make your head nod, … Energetic like punk but with the amp off, … I’m low key, grinding like a pepper grinder, … Every day I focus - getting better, well, kind of, … Who has time for all the time it takes, For all the time I put in, this is the rhyme I makes. You know? The Process … I fire up the One, get some samples going, Find something wow like a crossover with ankles broken, … Something that makes you take a step back, Get my rump shaking like Wrex-n-effect is back, … Then slice it and change it and loop it, The break has to Give It Up sort of like Troop did, … And layer drums, to get it right is magic, If something stands out … well I ain’t having it, … I’m all about the flow and feel, If I can’t listen for hours to a loop it gets peeled, … Next is percussion or sound effects, Something to break up the musical boundary checks, … Something that stands out, enticing, Taking notice like putting the crown on a right king, … Organize it, arrange it, and let it, Stay [in] a folder on your desktop til you forget it. That ain’t right.
8.
Take A Trip 03:04
…This is my habitat, factually it's more than that, I live between the tracks, lay it down like I'm mapping rap, … it means so much, my own way of blowing up, Just chilling in the background, learning, never know enough, … I’m still growing up, Forty some and showing up, The works gets done I’m hard working I’ve been broke enough, … I’m feeling old enough, now my voice is low and rough, … Words never fail me, cause words come from knowing stuff, … But it’s a new age, and like some high school days, I’m feeling kind of emo like Picasso in his blue phase, … I’m always searching for the next thing and new ways, Like glue stays - these words stick to you after two plays. So let me take you somewhere new, you know. Chorus … The mic doesn’t know it but it’s taking in, The highest form of rhyming like a cat burglar breaking in, … And if I’m staying in, I’m going to be making them, Tracks on fire so cooked like I’ve been baking them, … And even shaping them, to get heads shaking when, The beat hits. It could be dough that I’ll be raking in, … So here’s the next one, another vocal flex done, With cuts thrown in so unique like a checksum, … I vex some like a complex hex done, Happy like I won it all but only had to bet once, … Now set for months, maybe we can jet for lunch, “Simon Says”, “Oh No”, “Let’s Go” like Pharoah Monch. Alright, let’s do this, you know! Let’s go!
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Groovy 03:01
… I’m a funky one, words come natural, On the mic theatrical, hot, actually cool, … I’m a funky one, words come easy, To me, flipping it, everything is bull-feazy (ble-feasi), Tasty and greasy, I’m glad when crap leaves me, Beats flying round like the groove is trap-eeze, … Bars to bars, I hold it down like tar, Words travel far, from here to where you are, … Let’s get loose with this, it’s how I choose to spit, Fighting evils, like how Bruce Wayne would get, … Nasty, contraptions in action, I only have a mic and turntable by the back end, Behind me, finding, a wake of joy, And if you’re just playing with the mic, I’ll take your toy, Boy, don’t get me started, park it, This hits harder than the ending in Departed. … But I don’t smell rats, I smell facts, I got you like a bear trap, you’re covered like you wear caps, And hats and stuff, I like to rap it rough, On point like a laser, it’s exact enough, … Do you feel it? Biters want to steal it, But trust me, house always wins, it’s how I deal it, … I’m a funky one, words come to me, Born 1-9-7-5, I’m qualified groovy. And I’m groovy … I’m a tell you bout this person I know, And how they’re telling me how up you have to grow, … And how there’s so much you don’t know, And why you won’t show up, and honestly why you can’t flow, … I feel like doing a chant so, I can’t slow, But fast, I would if I knew how the chant goes, … I can talk a good game if I need to, Say I’m all nice when I rhyme, though it’s see through, Be cool, be true, even in bad flows, Even in good times, you’re followed by your shadow, The shadow, the dark, the heart rides, Up and down, like the coaster on the ride to the pharcyde. Let’s keep it rolling…
10.
The feeling is wonderdrous, booming, and thunderous, Fingers interlocked and tight, knotted like monkey’s fist, Butterflies swelling, feels like we’re gelling, It’s telling inhale then relief when exhaling, … Gone stress, no mess, gone less, Present in the conversation, listening, yes, Feels so homey, content and blessed, Self unfiltered, no need to impress, Right there in front of me, a style in kindness, Love so bright, like a blinding blindness, And find me, mindful, time does the passing, A dime dropped on me, I'm thankful it’s lasting, …The future is ahead of me, However it comes we’ll be ready as we’ll ever be, … The future is ahead of us, Whatever happens is cool cause plus one’s the best plus.
11.
… … Who puts it down, all this hard work, … I got projects all around, it’s my art work, … It’s my frame of mind, up early, a-lert, Try to stay clean, don’t talk stuff or say dirt, … Can’t live off of this cause the pay hurts, … It’s a passion and hobby, could be way worse, … Used to have a sailors mouth, now I fake curse, … I don’t wait for things to finish, yo I take first, … Taking off can’t slow down or brakes burst, … No selfies on the gram, zero trap thirst, … … I bring beats to life like they’re back nursed, … This is a PH balanced type phat verse.
12.
Fascinating 02:45
I’m on some new stuff, verbally a true buff, Chilling if the crew’s tough, I kick it til my shoe’s scuff, … My rhymes do puff, feel it like the blues, rough, Living makes you too tough and locked in like two cuffs. … Yes. Yes. I’m bound to have my thoughts heard, Verbally top third, it’s almost like I bought words. … It’s how I brought nerds to the front, not stirred, (up) Keep it cool like the opposite of caught birds. … Put your tie back, cool it with the wise crack, … My rhymes are elevated higher on this tight track, … Keep your eyes cracked, ears open, why’s that? Never selling out but if I did I’d just buy back. … I’m an old soul, young spirit, all told, … Dropping nuggets of wisdom like small gold, … I’m not at all old, I make the ball roll, We hit the shelves then it’s out like all sold. You know! … My friends all around me keep me grounded, I work hard, just another average whitish brown kid. … I’m blessed, just to be so surrounded, By good folks, dope beats, my edges feeling rounded. … Yes. Yes. I’m bound to have a point made, … The whole reason for this rhyme’s to have the joint played. … I keep grinding, if I’m sinking then I won’t stay, … For things I’m passionate about, yo I don’t play. … All effort being shown when my dome spray, … Multi-tasker in action like clones strayed. … It’s the known way, the path’s paved, … Mind roams, then I’m back, well you don’t say.
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My Name 01:52
… Two lines, horizontal and vertical, Perpendicular, all straight and all surgical, Meticulous, slicing beats, so ridiculous, .. This L track probably feels a bit ubiquitous, … At least maybe it will be, Funk so filling plus I don’t hand thrills cheap, … Kind of alarming like a deep jeep grill beep, Horns go blazing, I should rep like a hill seat, That’s how it will be, trust me, I’m sill-y, Beats banging harder than to make your first mill-y, Or even harder than it ever could or will be, Touched by the mic, yo … do you feel me? Scratches … I couldn’t think of a cool name, Vhibes, with a VH?, naming is a fool’s game, … I stuck with something simple - L, Since back in 93 I think it’s served me well, You heard me tell, all, it's hard to forget it, L ain't for losers, it's time that I said it → ... It’s for lustrous living, loving, and listening, You get more than you pay for... nothing is missing, A letter like no other, standing straight and high, … It’s who I be like a capital I, It’s a tactical try, the only reason why, I went with my initial, is it’s as easy as pie.

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These songs were made in 2022 after picking up an MPC One. It's an album about self-reflection, things to be grateful for, and music. It was also a way for me to process everything that's been going on in life and the world. Lots of turntable scratching too :)

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released December 2, 2022

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Love making music, especially hip-hop or alternative stuff. I've been fortunate to work with and record music with lots of great friends over the years in different countries. Hoping to continue that into the future as well as work on my own little projects. ... more

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