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Homebrew

Now I know fools get their own when they chit chat Haven't heard yet but youcan bet I'm not with that With that talk with that digi walk I stack a bird youheard absurd word to the fact I'm a cat Nippin' Sippin' on the flask Passin ittalkin' shit but only if your ass In front of me cause you could run from me butIn the end revenge sends you to the defendant I can't get caught in the spiral,cause every bit of energy It goes to my survival out my way I'm a flicka flackablotter Ya try to find a weakness but the shit keeps getting harder Fourth ofJuly/with Lucy in Sky I remember pine trees and the coat of many colors I wasnineteen/I'd do anything Shit like that now scares me but I'd like to do itagain It was Independence Day I've seen the other side and I say I've beeninsane And I won't ever be the same Cuz we flow we must be fly First to flowNickel my brother so wise And then I rise here's an ill kid pumpin' cuz he is soslick Step's from darkness his body electric A drone buzzes the air a cracklin'tone Then boomin' like thunder in a cosmic jungle Death defyin' like Knievel heweevil Words that will wobble awkward and evil Cuz he flow and rock the hardestof the crowds A marvel pow how you like me now I've returned the kiss of deaththe last Damien From the abyss fresh eternal alien Now famished from pathlessways I ma, do damage To the wack MC's I know you can't stand this Right aboutnow get down I'm the annhilator Rockin' with the rhythm of my rhyme detonator Fourth of July/with Lucy in Sky I remember pine trees and the coat of manycolors I was nineteen/I'd do anything Shit like that now scares me but I'd liketo do it again It was Independence Day I've seen the other side and I say I'vebeen insane And I won't ever be the same.

Lucky

I'm taking it to the bridge and there's a different country I'm bringing youa people I know deep down are funky Oh yeah we dap we got the juice it's on tapNever take the time to rewind all that weak crap Here take it it's yours thegift is calling The sunshine be falling our way first every morning I'm amagician you see I'm christened with condition Held over from a future worldI've come to you so listen There's a place out in deep space Where all thebrothers chant and dance and rant And shave their heads like Buddha I'm a flyguy you know I'm smoother Of course no remorse is left for all those loser crews I do not care what you do I always screw up But when I do it's nothing like youI wish you grew up You're saying anything like promise to get clean Won't kickhalf dead you're fucked up in the head [Just] get him out of here, get him outof here Get him out of here, he's making me sick We push a sucker out, with muchforce and much clout Didn't want to do it, that's not what we're about But wegot to have a limit, how low can you get it Seems about time to change thesubject and sing about The wise eyed girl that makes me feel good And never do Ileave misunderstood Damn, you know I feel good true Got a choice of what I'mgonna do it's like this That, up is where it's at Mix a melody with some backchat, tell 'em again Damn, I know you feel good too You got a choice of whatyou're going to do it's like this That, up is where it's at Mix a melody withsome back chat I'm rollin' slow no particular place to go nothing's changed Themore things stay the same the more it doesn't matter To a latter day St. Bernardacting hard But I throw down like a crazy retard But what could make a man Wannawalk around the schoolyard with his tool hard What could make the switch to calla woman a bitch It probably downed when you couldn't get a date to prom And youwere stuck with Beavis Let's leave us on a note of positivity, I'm saying thisfor Levity, but if I leave it brief I call it brevity I said I see the peoplerocking, which means there's no Stopping the flow And you can just tell 'em thatyou know Every night yeah we turnin' up, and comin' off live Like a final 311battle breaking idols On the one you never heard before You know the hard-corerockin' pumpin' the dance floor Leave ya feet sore looking for the Micatin Youknow the mic is deadly in the mood we in Certified not fakin', cool like aJamaican Every time the enemy hear us they will be shakin' Damn, you know Ifeel good true Got a choice of what I'm gonna do it's like this That, up iswhere it's at Mix a melody with some back chat, tell 'em again Damn, I know youfeel good too You got a choice of what you're going to do it's like this That,up is where it's at Mix a melody with some back chat.

Nutsymtom

The colda funk has you sunk feel the mids pump Blessed are those who eruptwhen we turn up Right now we corrupt Cons the shades we don in the neon nightWe're gonna feed on the mics and blast through a pipe I gotta cool capability totoast and ill Yo my daddy told me, "Hey son you must act chill" Alienrough my galaxy is tough Here comes the bang of a hip-hop thang that we bringand swing Men from Mars ain't ever gonna hang With dope Buddha's we come to thestage we are attackin' Space assassin naked live and never slackin Come a day onthe way enter one S.A. Amplified from another world far away I got the pang of agang and I come from the Southside Here's the thang that I bring and I promiseto come live While the masses passes upon their fucking asses And if you don'tsee get glasses That is a shot out to the words of Curt Grubb The motherfuckeris no scrub I said the man is the kind With the one that I call Brine Shrimp Wenever ever do skimp I limp on stage in a huff Like magic dragon on puff on thestuff of a Humbolt cone Then I'm stoned watch out Smoke the weed that come fromNorthern California Not do no cocaine that come from Columbia That the thingthat mash up your nature Mash up your body and mash up your culture Take a tipfrom the flipped script of Daddy Freddy I give complete props to the one thatrocks steady With dexterity that goes on and on and on And turn out the dopeshit like the one that's called Pawn Shop Press Yes, it's on, what's up P-Nutchange it up, what's up on your mind, watch out.

8:16 A.M.

Stranger flowers yet, there will never come a day that will ever regret Thehours, days, years and the minutes The joy the pain the sunshine and rain in itThe drives on the coast to nowhere, nothing to say just sit and stare There'snothing like the comfort of a silence that's comfortable Not talking small, justskip the bull Then I find myself in servility, didn't think that was my abilityI go a yard and a mile to make you smile, but then I'm happy see I got so manyways to make your gaze elliptical Got a ways to go, the future's so crypticaland I'm glad Just another many things we've had It’s 8:16 A.M. will youwake up to me, the first thing that you see My eyes open, I'm just hopin' youfeel the same as me The day starts carefully On the sidewalk with the dog,you're right last night I was a hog Come on I'm sorry It's 73 degrees, Januaryeasily glides Stranger flowers still, if you're gonna wanna go another day Iwill Like this, make it a deal, sealed with a kiss Sealed with the feel ofimpermanent bliss Today my love we shall let the world slide Turn off the ringerand just glide For we shall never be younger again than, what do you see It's8:16 A.M. will you wake up to me, the first thing that you see My eyes open, I'mjust hopin' you feel the same as me The day starts carefully On the sidewalkwith the dog, you're right last night I was a hog Come on I'm sorry Holiday onthe radio, Billie knows that is the way to go The way to go A place where weboth can spend our same time, not collecting interest Maybe the same reason wealways find ourselves homebound I've got to do some homework The leave responsewe want to leave Wisconsin for a new life A new trailer with an antenna and aporch Of course we'll bring the dog.

Omaha Stylee

In a minute everything you have can all be straight gone In a minute thingsyou thought were tied can come straight undone How about some knocks on on woodsome so far it's good any day What you think is solid earth can jump up andspread out To the north and to the south that's what plates are about Nature hasno conscience, no kindness or ill will The dreams they had make me sad becauseof the vibes of them When one girl dreamt a fire in hers and then it happened Tome and my family my bro's and I were driving the RV Bleeding flames us leapingthrough fire surviving Zoned with no home there was fire all on it Umm let mehave my life I want I'm gonna let you know that I said We're comin' in killwe're comin' in chill We're comin' in how we will Want to tell the whole worldhow what's the deal And I say know no critical border cause we do what we wantGot more funky styles than my laser jet got font Not one to get over soundinglike the norm Friendly to the radio, all that shit is corn All we coming with isa little bit of swing And we go on like it ain't no thing, and I say Omahastylee did not think there was one where you know the Radios weak and the showsare more fun but you know we Fuck up the dance hall since 1988 Many did notthink when they hear we come from this state Still we're down like that Stillwe're down like that Still we're down like that Kickin' the funk that smells ofskunk Omaha stylee did not think there was one where you know the Radios weakand the shows are more fun but you know we Fuck up the dance hall since 1988Many did not think when they hear we come from this state The dance hall thatwe come from has a pool table basement The the rent was low-key and the recordswere Jamaican Such occasions occur back in the day It begins you're a raw kidall the way Son of a gun but then you drifted All are endowed but few are giftedLampin' in the light the cold world awakes Deeper is the light to open up thesky Look into my eyes and see their dialating Omaha Stylee is the shit we comewith man Embedded in our souls it breaths out from this band We always knew thatwe could Thank you if you too thought we would Not one to get over sounding likethe norm Friendly to the radio, all that shit is corn All we coming with is alittle bit of swing And we go on like it ain't no thing and I say Omaha styleedid not think there was one where you know the Radios weak and the shows aremore fun but you know we Fuck up the dance hall since 1988 Many did not thinkwhen they hear we come from this state Still we're down like that Still we'redown like that Still we're down like that Kickin' the funk that smells of funk We will arise Explore these worlds and find the grass roots how to Crew to dothe grinding of the grounds to brew My dude on the one to come off like TeflonRock your shit and you will rise on If you're a farmer outstanding in your fieldsay uhh Do as you will do as you wish follow your bliss say uhh We travel aroundthe world giving it our best We like to see the people dancing and the bouncingand the rest The hammer and the chisel and the rule it compass We forge a swordthe chariots of war a battle axe There's much power in anger but loves a biggerbanger Complete props to my crew cause this is what we do Omaha Stylee.

Applied Science

Nod your head to this as a lot of apprentice Some of this were standing onthe shoulder of giants Some tryants some benevolent To the followers it'srelevant The rest get bent on lending opinions I'm sending to a brand new levelI revel in completion deletion of suckers Getting served like Smuckers Jam Foolknow rules but the rest keep bouncing back With the lack of further adieu see Asone can deduce we Slam the shit out hard and long Cuz we got more song Something you might like now So check it All-star bound yeah your so sound Coolas the blue water all around From a force field flashing aliens are sendingBlack evolutions of love you are hearing The dark supernatural is the world wecall Our own home lightning in the mind comes out in song But we're wild theysay never trust us we're shady In lieu of the crew your into we are baby Cuzmusic will be coming out the words we speak We erect breakbeats shatter waxstill on the platter Our shit is badder we come fly then we scatter Cuz we deepand we solid yeah we hear ya holler Feels good Sometime the only thing that really ever could Feed that hunger I crave it I love itI gave it I shove it in a battery and save it for later A waiter in the DorothyC. Pavilion in '89 I met some wierdos and had myself a real good time DowntownL.A. is a soul graveyard Where you got to be hard or get jacked It lacked acertain sense of something Something basic no karma in the least I broke eastYou know I had to face it I guess I flaked but it was no mistake because 311'sgot the boom My mic check is giving me Electric company I can't see the highwide sky or stars above me Are you a flower or more like a high rise tower If sothe soul of sweet delight on you will shower There's a place for us they say issomewhere Not a dream but a place and you will be there Your slippin' butcontent because your spirit And hills are alive with the sound of music

Taiyed

Returning from the water cold alive and shining Rock a mic in the afterlifewhile your moon is rising Heatin' up forcing steam whirling to be seen The darkheld stars are the frost of my breathing Swimming through the darkness I'm aghostly shark Developing like a photograph slowly in the dark The hereafter theaction the main attraction One love in all of this that I'm going after Nowthere's fire inside but black space surrounds you You think "Where oh wheream I" But even your light continues See through us see a soul we have notyet Learned to harness see the next world inside it We are the people of skinwho left water Inside the dark womb inside of our mother Prone to the beat andvibe of our tribe We catch the drift and ride moving tides Out from a love thatwill keep on burning Now see yourself to the next world returning This life anold place we face to live again What is it to understand the heareafter

Silver

(Bobby you be quiet out there) Don't fear mere words cuz if it takes a wordruin ya You should have already hard you're finished through and soon ya Seethat stifling sentences is so much more suspicious Much worse could come of thatso much more delicious To the dastardly basturdly plans of little mice and menUgly rears its head and speaks from now and then People love to disagree soavoid the endless bout make no attempt To try and suss the stupid out But of theracist institutions simple minds belong Not happy just being human, no wish toget along Little people need exclusions sucker groups to throng It makes themfeel special it makes them feel strong Now I got a click but it's more like afamily Not an ethnic trip more like an ethic see I write the rhyme today tell itto you later Whether were coming in wack or what it's a waste to be a hater Graffiti bombs-from the palms-love is so strong Can't be stopped too long Forthe night it will come Shaped in the form of Mars that stone afar Ghetto cool Ohwell Now you feel the spell The color rocks the bell The king of swing rise tothe top The rhythm possessed in ya and it don't stop The mise is broken Thedemon locin' Dropping the bomb and all that is left is the smokin' Cloakin'chokin, the lyrics are spoken Infrared vision scopin' condition Now breakin' 'emall to pieces like a sly rap bandit With a fly Lui-Kang kick in Mortal Kombatand I land it So get your own back when I jam it cold and Hearing about yourhyme style been outmoded The dopest flow upon the planet Dope is the word thebro throw up on the down low goddammit You juice your fucking friends likeDracula But when we kick you out you're just brokula You left a big surprisefrom Pacific Bell Called all your relatives and your friends in Hell Now let metell you something you fucking piece of shit You'll never have no money, nowtell me was it worth it? You leave a trail of lies that's why you keep moving Wewon't come after you we'd only end up provin In the end revenge send ends to thedefendant I know that statement's true I wear it like a pendant I know you'llhear this song so I think it's funny The name is thief or trust and money LikeCaptain Picard we come hard in light years Our star has long bust but nowreappears In your sky at night rising and immense Yes you see ourselves in theshine of it And so passing under the dome of the great sky Beware we are thestars Holmes that you ruled by Where death reborn into the world is a gift Sothe future with no voice of its own will uplift All is gone, all is calm y'allAll is gone, all is calm y'all All is gone, all is calm y'all All is gone, allis calm y'all All is gone, all is calm y'all Set wrecked in L.A. All is gone, all is calm y'all In the Wetlands of New York All is gone, all is calm y'all Atlanta and Phoenix All is gone, allis calm y'all Portland, Lincoln and N.O.

Grassroots

I flip when I kick it trippin it So I can check shit not in a daily styleBut once in every while so I can File check file check the files of my brainMany of meaning manage to come from the insane And the butcher the baker thefabulous drama maker A cracker on a truck goin' breaker, breaker Listen toeveryone then disregard it The maningful shit comes back back to where itstarted In your cranium surrounded by pot like a geranuim A capital 2 burns inmy mind give me some peace I looked at her I looked at him and neither one didknow Where the wild thoughts grow check it out I look to absolutes and there'sabsolutely none The truth is what you shoot for not one Nothing brings it alltogether the journeys never done I'd sing you Stormy Weather but it's been sungso Let's have some fun Three Eleven has grassroots come on now Three Eleven hasgrassroots true Three Eleven has grassroots for your momma Three Eleven hasgrassroots Challenge comes and goes and there will be another I say bring it onThe roots that grow underground are as big as the tree That you see if not itwill fall down We waste so many moments standing on convention The only surveyis when our heart pays no attention Move with persistence cover much distanceKnowing no perdition that's my game for instance Three Eleven true to notradition And the Three Eleven crew not dow with convention But a hundreddifferent people already told what we about So I make not attempt to try andsuss the stupid out I'd turned into a roughneck that was not my intention Itdoesn't even really matter unless I fail to mention that Peace to all crews thatwant some peace First the Mid then the West then we slide through the East Apiece to any crew that want a piece But peace to all crews that want peace Checkit out I look to absolutes and there's absolutely none The truth is what youshoot for not one Nothing brings it all together the journeys never done I'dsing you Stormy Weather but it's been sung so Let's have some fun Three Elevenhas grassroots come on now Three Eleven has grassroots true Three Eleven hasgrassroots for your momma Three Eleven has grassroots Challenge comes and goesand there will be another I say bring it on The roots that grow underground areas big as the tree That you see if not it will fall down We waste so manymoments standing on convention The only survey is when our heart pays noattention.

Salsa

We were born in the seventies The rippin and rhyming and brethren see We'refilling taste great In the old school I was eight For the new school I was lateBut in high school I was debate I rate in the great state of California I'mwarning ya Je vais a la plage parce que le guignol est chouette! I kick nonsensein French tasty like Crepe Suzette I bet you gonna wanna try this but it takesniceness I like a beat that's unique and I like my head zooming And in myContinental you know that shit's booming With the diamond in the back suicidedoors You can look from here to eternity And never receive your morsel Anothertale of ordinary madness The girl who gave you her sex I heard was homeless sayAll I really wanna is to feel nirvana Won't you take me tonight and we justmight find A bottle of wine and feel our nasty nature Your tongue lickin' up mytongue Your radio pickin' up a smokey jazz love song Madness becomes you eventhough your Livin' life it's hard to exist When you're tempted by flesh youwanna bust through Beautiful legs in the bar there is poetry She bends andsuspends and her ass Is a marvelous thing A dance dancin' at a club theHereafter Who can't really dance but that doesn't really matter And she won'thear applause Cuz your drunk and lost All light is gone Your arms spread like across And you're dreaming that the world will soon fall apart Topless girl inyour gaze which is hazy Takes your dollar In the gutter without cigarettes Orwine you're hungover I was warned of your normal behavior and felt My life wastoo short to consider your wack self It's like this when you dip down And youare boxin' Reeling against the ropes and you Face some young Mexican Yourscrappin' your neck gets Snapped back your eyes have bled Your thinking' about acomeback But your takin' it to the head You little bastard Better watch you backCuz we're after Your punk ass by God we're gonna jack it You're played out andsmall time And your show is over You're 'bout as lucky as a three leaf cloverAnd your older ho bag sceezer In her droopy saggy skin Who thought she was amodel But in truth a never-has-been I'll slap that witch as if I were her pimpAnd my crew will attest to her fradulence.

Lose

I can see it now have to show you how The funny thing is that we couldn'thave it any other way Still it kills me when we say All we've been through Allthe songs that I've sung for you We both know I'm gonna lose you I hate to bealone There comes a time to reap what you've sewn All we've been through All thesongs that I've sung for you We both know I'm gonna lose you Let's think of allthe good times Instead of wish we could times So much better that way This iswhat I ask for This is what I deserve Be careful what you ask for Let's think ofall the good times Instead of wish we could times So much better that way Thisis what I ask for This is what I deserve Be careful what you ask for.

Six

You know patience pushing a dream brings my demons to life Songs arevacations our soul salvation will you Suspend your disbelief I'd like to be thethief That steals that jaded necklace that you're always wearing I'd take thatthing and with my knive I'd start pairing so Chop chop piece piece and send itto the raiders of LA There are so many this land of plenty The things we lackstraight square within our grasp Ever you do ever you think Whether you're brownor you're pink I think not thinkings better bout it When you stop to think Thejaded ones will wither While the optimistic grow I settle that a bet will let alarge amount so Indulge me just for a minute imagine no one holdin out Alltrying for peace my brothers down Some others down it happens slow Think youshould know the direction that the world go peace They number six to make themfeel like men They one up us cuz we're much to much for them OK the method tothe mischeifs over there then Sike shazam we strike with the lightnin' Throughspace we move and emit an ill tracer We're set to light your world kid we'reyour maker Style of out sect wise to ways comes to wreck While themasses mill around curse in anguish Ever you do ever you think whetheryour black or your pink 311 stompin' em down with the quickness Ithink not thinkings better bout it when you stop to think We see all thecrews that be comin' around The jaded ones will wither while theoptomistic grow Makin they notes to get the sweet-ass style down Fending off the foes that try to shut us down Like the warrior souls we are wenever give in So what you call is dope, we know will come round Chill inSouthern 'Cali y'all that's how we're livin' We spend our lifes learning lifeis large It could never be only the ups and the downs will always come aroundLike a drive through Estes park you savor the sun But when the clouds come makeanimals

Offbeat Bare Ass

Any different people can apply to drop the funk It's not a country clubreview board steady talkin junk Many people would have it others go put and grabit Some trip over roots and say fuck it I'm sunk I put it in a limerick and kickthe slick nick verbs I am the one who scores the herb When we're on the roadP-Nut rolls it up Throw me a joint on stage what's up I will tell a cop that Iknow my fucking rights And we can match wits all night for real He said if I hadnothing to hide Then of course I wouldn't mind if he looked through our ride Uh,no I'd really rather you didn't And no we don't have guns hidden We stood therefor a while continue to decline Firmly, I didn't lose my mind I didn't let himbreak me he's just another human Not a bit of shame in what we were doin' thatday He couldn't make us stay We had our shit together It don't matter whether Wesport the dread locks or a shaved head Or if we have a sticker from the dead Isaid a better verse rehearsed about the roughneck curse Last week I keep an evenkeel and bow in place And face the music every minute Never could see my homeycomin' till he passed Funky gas by my way all the day I couldn't laugh Oh by nowI'm chill with it Bare ass in my face I'm ok but Chad's like "Uh-uh no heisn't" So I proceed to hear him get loose with the Fartin' all over my facesometimes my tummy He fucked with my flow although I thought it funny I probablywouldn't care if I smoked more kind bud But that wouldn't do me shit cuz thenhe'd fuck me more up Crazy ill and chillin' rude but I'ze a real cool dude Hedidn't believe the day would come when he would get his too But then one dayright in front of his face I got him He looked over said "God damn get mesome water" The one time I hadn't wasted till I got mine Smeared his nosewith my armpit funk slime So you get it the picture just how sick we were thenBut before I jet "Hey yo Chad sniff my finger man" I can see a lot ofpeople who feel like I do I can see a lot of people who feel like I don't I goon step lightly even when I'm heavy High jump the slump open up fot the RevyHorton Heat Sweet what am I displayin' forgot what I was saying I know I must belaying a pipe you got a gripe With the way I get high Graffix bong sing alongwith a cry of a Mandatory sentence for a crime with no victim When everyoneknows jail terms should be picked in Order of the pain that they cause Do whatthou wilt shall be the whole of the law Until you violate the rights of anotherRespect the space of your sister and your brother The war on drugs may be wellintentioned But it falls fucking flat when you stop and mention The overcrowdedprisons where a rapists gets paroled To make room for a dude who has sold Apound of weed to me that's a crime Here's to good people doin time y'all Bareass, yeah Bare ass, yeah Bare ass, yeah Bare ass, yeah

1,2,3

Long time did I run down like that I would have three years ago-today butnot now It's not like that It's all right to feel good It's all for nothing tobe wrong The deepest dream that we have Could be tomorrow's song Long time didI run down like that I would have three years ago-today but not now It's notlike that It's all right to feel good It's all for nothing to be wrong Thedeepest dream that we have Could be tomorrow's song Just what did he say stop 1and 2 and 3 Run up the hill do as you do I'm going to chill you know you reallyOught to do the same They wanna bug you But I won't let them today It's a sureshot to the bomb drop Every single You know you swing it and you fling it Andyou make some shit up but It's just 123 And you know it don’t stop, proceedWhat you need is guarenteed the deepest dream that we have could be

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