9.16.2015

say my name


Morales

Weighing scales of justice
Seesaw heavy balance missing

Dizzy needle in rainy jungle
Puddle on top of glacier

Salt crystal at bottom of shaker
Small ant on blade of grass in ghetto acre

All praises to divine creator

Plowing path on planet rock
Floating in vast universe

No reverse abstract cyclical
Material deadened spiritual

Long travels circle enough laps
Turn dizzy

Not wrizzy until you concede defeat
Legacy of royalty

Describe concrete against warm insides
Regurgitated

How much further can you take it
Threshold is stagnant alcohol
Mixed with gut acid

Thrashing like cat in cold water
Dame un refresco
Tengo que respirar

Ghetto scholar
Hood thespian

Spontaneous block theatre
Rare referendum
In pointless election

Perception outweighs politics
Porqueria infects your immune system

Is it possible to purge
Heavily processed perspective
Regulated with internal critics

Integral lyrics
Connected with your pride

In your darkest moments
Truth will let you survive

Working on fumes
From wombs zoom until tomb

Marked or undistinguished
Relinquish that pedigree

Effortlessly holding onto negativity
Distracted by intangible

Handle with kitchen mittens
Too hot to touch

Avoid the cherry on the j
Lingering too close to pointer

Raised to sky

Berrylicious morality
Never was sweet lies

better said no one misses me


Mejor Dicho

Let me say it better
I have not fully healed

No space for such shy
Fruity pebbles pink milk

Fall sink further into
Well done mistake

Who can relate
Except who always been on time

Slime from chemical residue
All this is long overdue

Petty scofflaw
Penalty inattention fine details

Spiritual forcefield
Repeals those demons

Serious integrity
Never had to schluck and gibe for sanity

Fist bump associates
Hugs daps for family

Handle tragedy as well as
Two tears
Same weight
Dropping in sequence

Broken grammar gives you
No pretense

Pass frank the blunt
Kind candor in choppy cadence

Tell me tomorrow we have clouds
Today been pouring

Honest dollar speak off screech
Squeak young pip
Gone with great expectations

What odds we facing
Chase what block will offer

Hold on to home
Stealing city less likely

Release bullshit lethargy
Pardon me dipstick

Take fridge off door
Step back inside

Provide for who makes you alive
Let faith be your guide

Boi become man
Never too late

You gotta say
What manana you will create

RIP ASAP YAMS


It was the YAMS
            SIP Steven Rodriguez

Every blackout
Becomes more like Bushwick in 77
Or the Boogie in 05

Thinking you live
More rehearsed regression

Poison a weapon pointed at temple
Filtered through battered liver

Liquor liquid pain
Leaving you in physical hurt

Translated in lyrical verse
About leaning while vertical

Dreaming while drowning
In puddle of purple hurl

Different world when elders
Never served as positive example

Take classic sample distorted
Standard of realness transported

OT back and forth
Work designed to bring profit

Crossing state lines
Crimes are pass limits
Of human consumption

Uncontrolled substance packaged
Luxury brand high end fashion

Corner is runway
Bring crackers close to where we live

Make em sponsor our suffering with
Cross pollinated culture

Vultures hover over bloated carcass
Getting plug on exclusive epitaph
Scratchitti on tombstone

Bottle up tears
Fragrance sour and eau de tragedy

Tattooed MOBB LIFE across knuckles
Who knew celebrity shuffle would rob life

Had all the CEOs waiting on Hood Pope
Pretty Flacko

Bag up the block
Blessings squeeze through stylish streets

Brief appearance give motivation
Added inspiration from aura
Trapped by slavish system

When we make our pain popular
They might listen

Lords Never Worry Bout Pesos
Standing in rain on 1 train platform
From Dyckman to the Ferry

Knowing this vida if you don’t got it
Go get it

Always Strive and Prosper
Assassinate Snakes and Punks
Abandon Stress and Pressure

Future will flip
Flex your heart
Simply strut


trying to keep living yall


Honest body

Blessed temple
Might be some next
Shaky don’t get easily gassed

Time passed
Grab clock
On pause

Presence don’t mean
Someone will pay mind

Knowledge background noise
Harmonize horrible high notes

Soldout symphony
Static shatter frequency
Bold clarity

Molecules residue yesterday’s trauma
Delicate armor skin

Brain still rattling chains
Invisible cuffs
Palmful wallet

Scratched couldn’t identify attribute
Powerful energy
Set you free

Zoom while walking
Silly superhero humble humor
Take off when you want

Packed duffel full of doubt
On quest fulfill duty

Duende darkens night
Precise pinnacle of power

Demons say you ain’t ready
Unsteady on loose rock

Spinning like you stuck
Lick knuckles
Bloody due diligence curled fist
Sweaty adrenaline

Which way do we go

Can’t look at compass
Heart guides what’s next breaths you make
Take reparation by any leans necessary

Don’t die
Waiting on greatest miracle to manifest

Each second blessed
Even when you won’t see past struggle

Bubble burst
Flaunt flotation

Material consumption
Pockets don’t got bottom

Who follows apologies of broke philosophers
Barely cover basics but
Craft complex cocotazos

Raise palms to cry manana is possible
If I add up this stress to wavy yesterdays
Might could ride this current
Back to uncomfortable coast

Touch this land have a chance
Beginning one more mile in magical marathon

Bound to be strong
Blessed fire diving spark
Giving warmth

Replenish what been diminished
Epiphany reinvented when kindly connect

Invite insight
Pigeon shit on you for suerte
Said good luck
Take flight

I MISS NYC SO MUCH


The city is my muse

Breathing that traffic train
Rush hours heart don’t stop
Until you get home from work

Brick wind
Concrete grill bitter
Go to hospital be iller

Hit fruit stand
Shiny apple in rotten manzana

Street level pharmacist
Lets you self medicate

Cost of living easy to hate
Gentrifucker hipster
Pricing you out petty paradise
Faking discovering your corner

Life and death been
Standing on the crossroads

Opportunity missed the shuttle bus
Regret begging for a transfer

If you give me a swipe
I’ll freestyle a bootleg fuzzy
With laugh track and camcorder jiggle

Bleak clouds tear jerker
Benefit cut Boar’s Head
Diaper loose and beef pattie

Crying baby needs to nurse
Under neon dollar menu

Parents missing in action
Tears collected in reservoir
Ready to be bottled purified from tap
Slapped by sidewalk

Who will stop and feed that child
Raise youth find beauty in cold cement
Joy in barely paying rent

Suspense not knowing where yesterday went
Born in uncertain barrio

Who will lend you a napkin
If you leak from jugular

Oppression so regular got grooves
Where stiff cuff clicks
Paint by numbers chaos

Sidewalk chalk body outlines
Reaching vertical stretched horizontal

Blast Uptown Baby at OT drivethru
Forever bleed Knicks orange blue
Haunted by lack of success overdue

Make it aqui you will be popping papi
Si no another case of the coulda shoulda
Who wouldn’t put up a battle worthy

Candlelight memorial even if you empty
Every 40 guzzled gallon of goose
Hyped off henny you still can’t drip
As heavy as east flowing to Harlem

Bubbling to Atlantic
Stranded on islands of isolation
Cut the bullshit

Why you carrying around baggage
From past decades
Grinding for minimum wages of routine
Rigamorole all control freaks

Who can’t hold onto hope for too long
The beast will break you weak
Streets can make you strong

What’s more beautiful
Than summer morning
As we wait for dawn

yeah i moved


Ojala

Take a chance stage dive
When unexpected watch panic set in

Let syllables bungie
Gravity grounds you in the ghetto

Petrified perpetual
Reasons been regretful
Recent resent sent again
Return to sender
Low postage

Marked date forgetting everything
Except your laughs

Drafts with holes in windows
Too chilly to get snuggly
Brisk breeze pull skully tighter
Early riser sun won’t pull
Something surprising

Flicking mooga
Left pockets parched

No phosphoro
For back up clips to spark

Stark bleak stare
Widescreen off tint
Collide scope dark canvas

Who waits for
Tomorrow wasting today
Watching yesterday
Disappear hoping to blow up
Next week

All the ashes will resemble
Statues where shadows once stood

Don’t celebrate execution
Or rejoice in demise

Dance with divine one more time