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Tribal
02:28
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Neke Shutshiinan
Neke mashiihanan nutum tshakuan kauapinimakuiiach
Ninan ou Naskapi iiyuch
Told them all from day one
What matters, don’t say done
Never fade away once
Born with the mic and break some
This indigenous in the rez
Seen as a savage and that’s till the death
You don’t wanna have it, I bet that’ll be the one you regret
Still represent
Tshe ke mamuinu, muk stahuikunoo
I’m savage, I know and I been at it so long, I ain’t ever gone
Tshe kui shutshenu, mentshi awhuykoon
We savage, I know it, never ask if we’re ever done
Can’t you see me now
Speaking up with no one around
Full-blooded half-breed blasting back
With the rap that I been laying down
Nomads that can’t be found
gotta be tribal with that sound
Neihey nii ouu eeyou
Uan ou tshiuau, stiish michisaimitnau
So, it’s like that
Native with no life hack
Stolen everything about us
Now we fight back
Oh, It’s like that
Home invaders side tracked
Rose from the ground up
To bring them down and fight back
Tshe ke mamuinu, muk stahuikunoo
I’m savage, I know and I been at it so long, I ain’t ever gone
Tshe kui shutshenu, mentshi awhuykoon
We savage, I know it, never ask if we’re ever done
I do it daily, going hard with this
Indigenous natives from the north
Climbing the highest peak we never quit
Back with all of them flows, never leaving out
My nation my home, believe in my name I gain
The strength again, beginning to break my goals
Don’t wanna be falling, I’m creeping and I'm coming up
Taking advantage we landed now lifting up
Every level so challenging and I keep battling
For the whole family gathering knowledge and more
Still every day I’m at war
Putting my people Naskapi nation on the atlas
Tryna conquer the world
Tshe ke mamuinu, muk stahuikunoo
I’m savage, I know and I been at it so long, I ain’t ever gone
Tshe kui shutshenu, mentshi awhuykoon
We savage, I know it, never ask if we’re ever done
We the Naskapi Nation
A group of people, Indigenous
Connected to one another
Connected to an idea
We stay humble
We Tribal
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I’m playing this game, it’s capture the flag
I got your girl, she running right back
I do what I'm supposed, I’m just making these moves
Straight from the rez, I’m high off the doo
I feeling like a hundred men, I ain’t talking bills yeah
I feel like you don’t understand, I just made a mill yeah
I’m in my bag, hey
I’m in my bag
Got you running around, hey
Till I capture the flag
I’m in my bag, yeah
I’m in my bag
I got you running around
Till I capture the flag
I do it for my native people that live in the rez
I rep that nation Cree, Naskapi, Eeyou
Wanna make it better for the next generation
Out the snow we grow through
Surrounded by family and the forest
I'm loving it daily, blessed with all of this potential
Kawawachikamach, I rep Mattmac, Violent Ground
We all connected, all of my neechies respected
And all of my haters deflected
With dope sound, flow so profound I hold it down, nomadic
I like the clouds, kananutshaak, don't mess around with our status
I’m playing this game, it’s capture the flag
I got your girl, she running right back
I do what I'm supposed, I’m just making these moves
Straight from the rez, I’m high off the doo
I feeling like a hundred men, I ain’t talking bills yeah
I feel like you don’t understand, I just made a mill yeah
I’m in my bag, hey
I’m in my bag
Got you running around, hey
Till I capture the flag
I’m in my bag, yeah
I’m in my bag
I got you running around
Till I capture the flag
Yeah, we started out on our own
Living up in the cold (from the snow)
Naskapi flag waving
When I made my way home (my way home)
It was just 2 of the bros
Trying to make it with a flow (Nabinacaboo)
And no matter what I was playing
Just hoped some would know (unknown)
That my natives still stand
In that terrain, in that land
Of winding rivers, and man
I'll never forget my clan
So don't ever think that
Nesaitan tanda aouchibeeyan
Kawawachikamach, its VG and MattMac
Continue what we doin, never losing
Creating a movement, kool as the northern wind I'm using
To make that fire music
Our people rise, improving, vibe influence
Sky is blue and I'm as high as you
They asking who, Eeyouch enn
I’m playing this game, it’s capture the flag
I got your girl, she running right back
I do what I'm supposed, I’m just making these moves
Straight from the rez, I’m high off the doo
I feeling like a hundred man, I ain’t talking bills yeah
I feel like you don’t understand, I just made a mill yeah
I’m in my bag, hey
I’m in my bag
Got you running around, hey
Till I capture the flag
I’m in my bag, yeah
I’m in my bag
I got you running around
Till I capture the flag
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I, I’m meant for more
Than I been settling for
Let go of all the doubt
And never back down oh
And you can hate all you want
I got this thing on lock
Leveled up now I got it like that
Yeah I got it like that
Never turning back
I gotta change up my flows like it's in danger
Oh no, I ain't a Saviour, but yo, I'm not a stranger
I'm been here, just learning in the shadows, constantly working
Watching these assholes be certain that shit, they be saying is worth it
But I know when something is foul, I can smell it
By the way they talk and acting while I'm in their presence
That's why we step aside like brandish weapons
Rep the Rez Life, like we don't even know no difference
Woke up feeling motivated, I'm praying to the higher power
The only creator, today I will make it up the ladder
Another step up, upgrading
Better me in every way
And getaway from all of the pain
Inside of me cravings are fucked up
No longer will be getting away with running around
Gotta be doing it cleaver together we never be letting the fire burn out
Violent Ground is something they say, but I see that nobody stays
For the longer run, until it's done, I be coming to any one’s aid
I, I’m meant for more
Than I been settling for
Let go of all the doubt
And never back down oh
And you can hate all you want
I got this thing on lock
Leveled up now I got it like that
Yeah I got it like that
Never turning back
Sometimes it's like Imposter Syndrome
Don't know if what I'm doing's really right or is it wrong and so
Got me fucked up mind while writing this song
So I decide to post my life, but it's a lie and then some
Because who cares if do share
Anxiety like oooh yeah, you there
Gotta combat that like who's scared
Not me, cuz now I could give a shit what they would think about me
Only the day ones are close enough to feel the ground heat, aye!
Now ya see I’m not we ones
This industry is constantly changing daily it's hard to keep this up
Now better believe it, we see this
Never leaving only be creeping
To the T.O.P. you be thinking
We sleeping but that’s shit fucked up
The only one reason we ain’t been around is because we are home
Don’t fuck with the COVID I’m living the moment now wait for the day, we be showing it off
Violent Ground is something they say, but I see that nobody stays
For the longer run, until it's done, no more coming to anyone's aid
I, I’m meant for more
Than I been settling for
Let go of all the doubt
And never back down oh
And you can hate all you want
I got this thing on lock
Leveled up now I got it like that
Yeah I got it like that
Never turning back
I, I’m meant for more
Than I been settling for
Let go of all the doubt
And never back down oh
And you can hate all you want
I got this thing on lock
Leveled up now I got it like that
Yeah I got it like that
Never turning back
I, I’m meant for more
Than I been settling for
Let go of all the doubt
And never back down oh
And you can hate all you want
I got this thing on lock
Leveled up now I got it like that
Yeah I got it like that
Never turning back
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Headed down the Long Road
Yeah, It’s Anu Budz
Yeah
Back in Kawawachikamach
Let’s go, Aye
Violent Ground
Headed down the Long Road
Tryna make it worth it for my purpose
Every day the whole team be on go
Headed down the Long Road
On the hunt for the gwuap
We don’t stop through the eye storm
Headed down the Long Road
It happens everyday
You either hide or let your story unfold
Headed down the Long Road
Never let the pressure get into your mind
Stick to the goal
Headed own the Long Road
To the city and back and I admit
I won’t change for the dealings and cash
I had to grind for my stack did miles and laps
I kept my style intact I'm not a silent man
I had a violent past
There’s a time and a place
Been long time coming, It’s a mile away
There’s one road out here don’t you come this way
We'll cross paths no chance you won’t know my name
And don’t talk too much cuz they listening in
They tried to catch me on the phones
But I never will give
I got too many reasons to be pleading the fifth
So they gon’ hear my name before they hearing the myth
And I can slide we can drift
I ain't blind to the eyes of you fish
I won’t side with no lies
I provide the demise of the rich
All the cries that they hide are within
Headed down the Long Road
Tryna make it worth it for my purpose
Everyday the whole team be on go
Headed down the Long Road
On the hunt for the gwuap
We don’t stop through the eye storm
Headed down the Long Road
It happens everyday
You either hide or let your story unfold
Headed down the Long Road
Never let the pressure get into your mind
Stick to the goal
Headed own the Long Road
Bout to pack it up
Now I'm ready to walk on that long road
Let whatever unfold
I know what I was told
I don't know what for
Cuz I'll forget when I'm older
Lemme hear it before I'ma go
Get another bottle, look at me I'm on a roll
Even tho I don't even got a comma to show
Whatever endeavor I'm giving, I'm living it though
Did I forget to mention I'm in the north
Flow is cold as snow
That's blowing over in the morning
Hold my thumb out for rovers
Hoping they gon pick me up
Done with my night cuz now the sun's up
Walk a mile in my shoes
Switch'em for moccasins
When I feel I'm in the mood
Walking all over them
If they make the wrong move
Final leg of the journey, I'm early
Indian timing is so good oooh
Headed down the Long Road
Tryna make it worth it for my purpose
Every day the whole team be on go
Headed down the Long Road
On the hunt for the gwuap
We don’t stop through the eye storm
Headed down the Long Road
It happens every day
You either hide or let your story unfold
Headed down the Long Road
Never let the pressure get into your mind
Stick to the goal
Headed own the Long Road
On point everyday
Roll a joint that's the moment
I be living it every second, consuming the positive
Climbing like everybody but never be falling
Only continuing the mission that be giving
My people the recognition they be deserving now
Figuring out a way to get away but never down
Seeking the peak but negativity is all around
Feeling I'm dreaming, I’m peeling the skins of my demons
Never leaving any walking out
Ah shit, taking a weekend but no
Putting my feet in the snow
Feeling I’m gonna be awakening
The inner beast from the North
Bringing the weak to the floor
Breaking away just like hockey
Popping every pharmaceutical
Oh no should I go that way
Put it all to the brain feeling unholy
Me and my temperature heating up like flames
Smudge it out, let it all fall down like rain
Headed down the Long Road
Tryna make it worth it for my purpose
Everyday the whole team be on go
Headed down the Long Road
On the hunt for the gwuap
We don’t stop through the eye storm
Headed down the Long Road
It happens everyday
You either hide or let your story unfold
Headed down the Long Road
Never let the pressure get into your mind
Stick to the goal
Headed own the Long Road
Violent Ground
Anu Budz
Makeway
91Base
Headed down that Long Road
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5. |
Fallout (feat. Robbie G)
04:00
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I been sleeping
Lying dormant but never dreaming
Woke with a feeling
I'm ready for war no peace keeping
I'm knee-deep in the land
Where they left my people bleeding
They see me alone in the zone
While I keep screaming
My voice is unknown
My soul roams in the catacombs
My dome is in the clouds
Mud flowing through my bones
My body is on that Violent Ground
It made the soldiers cold
Awaiting for that final sound
To let me know I'm home
But I can't get there yet, ain't dead
Better get up cuz we dropping the warhead
Feel the adrenaline fill the red that I shed
Not even the enemy could get me to repent
Gods or your God or the next
Caught in the crossfire
Sort of blessed
Lost in the gun fog
Brought the test
Nod when I'm gone but I will never rest
No, your intimidation doesn't impress me
Seen the disasters they direct to me
Stand on my own two soles heavily
I'm close to the end zone
It don't pressure me
So don't lecture me
Rest in peace to those who fold mentally
So it's meant to be
Foes to who step to me
Chose the best of me
Close the text because they count another dead!
Violent Ground
Robbie G.
Yeah
Fallout
Soul-searching I'm a grown person
Won't sell my soul yeah I'm no merchant
King of my own
I'm no servant
See through the lies of those serpents
Stay away from the death and destruction
If you don't know facts
The rest is assumption
The lies and the heresy cries of Cherokee
All the money in the world can't buy you the therapy
And it barely gonna help anyways
It's the self they degrade
With the belt that they felt and the welts on their face
No shelter is safe
The perpetrator we hopin' they go to hell in their grave
There's hell to be paid
That's the cost of retribution
When you treat people
Like they're less than human
The effects of the restitution
Catch wreck watch the execution
This right here's no political rap
Use fear to fight fear I be givin it back
See the fire in they heart like I lit up a match
Two eyes in the dark hear a sinister laugh
In the past where the memories are scary
A violent ground where your enemies are buried
Can't drown the pain with the Hennessy and Mary
The type of burden you should never need to carry
But you already know that so don't ask
Why the times is so bad it don't matter at all
When everybody feeling like their back against the wall
We know the pastor in the Vatican involved
I'm just rappin’ what I thought
And you don't gotta buy what I sell
I wouldn't tell you the truth just to lie to myself
Blowin smoke clouds gettin' high as hell
Cause they found another dead
Yeah
VG
Violent Ground
Nomadic
Yeah
Daily I wake up with images something horrific is coming
Out of the gutter the fire be burning the microphone changing no reason for jumping
Filling up with daydreams got to be a better me
And everything i'm nervous but never the more hungry
Feeling elevated no breaking apart tshiampi
Nekemashitshanan ndapuanan
But more deadly
Neyhay nass
Ain't nobody listening
I’m feeling like I’m a villain
Depending on how you look at it
Fuck it if I give a shit
Difficult when I’m into it
Getting into a deficit
Daily forgetting evidence
Hell no I never be falling out
It’s only the beginning of winning becoming a beast in the north
Feast your eyes on all the pain I caused
Nekepekuenan, nekepekuenautch
Now it’s only me in the darkness
And I feel like the devils a part of this
Draining away all my confidence
Now ain’t that a fucking coincidence
That I be living a life
Without anyone right beside me
With a knife behind me
Everynight with all lies given
I don’t really give a fuck
I’m still loving the adrenaline
Coming when I get pissed off
Been taking the lid off
Delivering my point
Middle finger to the law
Low blows to the ball
Everybody giving up
My people be like fuck stand up
Know what the knowledge is
There ain't no apologies
I know what the problem is
I be saying it daily till someone acknowledges
I know what my status is
Another dead
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I was raised by drunks so I became a drunk
I was raised by drunks so I became a drunk
I was raised by drunks so I became a drunk
I was raised by drunks so I became a drunk
I was raised by drunks so I became a drunk
On the streets, dirt roads, in the ditch ‘n dumps
I would hang with the bros just to drink so much
Had to stay with the hoes cuz my house was fucked
Now I know, I don't know no better
Burned up all my brain cells and my liver
Hope for more, cuz I wont cope with hangovers whatsoever
Take a sip, then another, I don’t give a shit
Wonder why must be a problem that I'm fuckin with!
Whatever its round two
That's what someone said
Gifted us the poisoned brew
I lost count again
Just another day ‘n night in the rez
Sometimes, I'm still surprised that I ain't dead
My body's wish
I was raised by drunks so I became a drunk
(I was raised by)
I was raised by the drunk bodies on my rez
I was raised by drunks so I became a drunk
(I was raised by)
Every day, hypnotic cuz I lost my head
I was raised by drunks so I became a drunk
(I was raised by)
And I wake up hunting out the bottle man
I was raised by drunks so I became a drunk
(I was raised by)
I don't want to but I gotta do it all again
I look like an idiot feeling so dumb
Everybody telling me I wasn't myself
Feeling like a madman on the microphone
Don’t wanna be a loco - Aboriginal for the north
I’m riding all of my people they always denied it
I’m am delighted
But we gotta get together before
The land grabbers they to ignite us
Divide us
War
Is that what you want?
I got my vatos, my brothers, my cousins, my people, they hunt
A lot of my buddies they are quebecois
C’est quoi ton problème?
C'est quoi tu fais là?
Only wanna be the one to make a stand
For the fans but then again
I'm alone in the rez
Trying to be a better man but I can't
Because all my life is planned
For the government living in struggling they making more trouble the law
Thinking there bigger dismantling people that only wanted to be more
I'm growing up breakin em boulders
Nakashutshiet, throwing out them phonies naketautshi
That be running and looking for trips
Headed for liquor not calling it quits
I was raised by drunks so I became a drunk
I was raised by drunks so I became a drunk
I was raised by drunks so I became a drunk
I was raised by drunks so I became a drunk
I was raised by the drunk bodies on my rez
Every day, hypnotic cuz I lost my head
And I wake up hunting out the bottle man
I don't want to but I gotta do it all again
Yo raise up, days up
Remember the days when I had to wake up
Wondering why these bodies never gave up
AM, PM, had to stay up
(Stay up then)
Gave in, temptation
At the ATM where’s my pay den?
Booze gone, they don't stay friends
Yeah who’s wrong?
They just pretend
Been walking around all the bodies
Fuck around might catch a robbery
I was making bottles like pottery
Trying to figure out who I ought to be
Lost in the sauce, popping them shots
You getting the cheques and you get it on top
They getting you drinks, put in on the rocks
Stinky as shit, waking up no socks
(No socks)
And they thinking this is all we do
(All we do)
Yeah, chilling with the crew, have a drink or two
(Drink or two)
Yeah, everybody drinks this is real truth
(Real truth)
Everybody do it quit blaming natives dude
(Hell natives dude)
I was raised by drunks so I became a drunk
(I was raised by)
I was raised by the drunk bodies on my rez
I was raised by drunks so I became a drunk
(I was raised by)
Every day, hypnotic cuz I lost my head
I was raised by drunks so I became a drunk
(I was raised by)
And I wake up hunting out the bottle man
I was raised by drunks so I became a drunk
(I was raised by)
I don't want to but I gotta do it all again
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People think I’ve gone crazy
But they don't really know me
People think I’ve gone crazy
But they don't really know me
I took a hit and grab a sip and think of what I did
I know I was bad but I was just a little kid
And now I dreaming about angels and demons
I don’t know the meaning but my feeling says I’m leaving
Heaven or hell, tell me what do you believe in
I’m just another native
Living in this region
The rez is a prison
Can you hear me screaming
I’m running to the light but I’m held back by demons
Yeah I’m a little nuts but I don’t give a fuck
You can say what you want
I still don’t give a fuck
Gotta do what I do and that’s stay true
You never heard this before
You got no clue
People think I’ve gone crazy
But they don't really know me
People think I’ve gone crazy
But they don't really know me
They don’t know me or what I can do
I walk tall similar to the rock above fools
And all haters they come and they go
Wanted to follow the flow that I make
Sad to say you can’t so don’t even try to copy
What you can’t achieve
Letting them all fall so they can see
I’m the only native Krazy in these streets
K-Reserve coming clean
Straight out the blistering cold
Save yourself from defeat
Cuz we claiming the North
Trampling foes with bold
Lyrics that explode too heartless
When it comes to my skill
I blow up like an appendix
Defending all of my people
They always tend to be hating me
It’s plain to see
I’m head up top
Never underneath
Yeah
A couple of krazy natives blazing like the old school names
Burning up residential places haven's with no space
Playing games like the mazes
Save you prayers for the gates
Cuz what you say today is aimless
Turn from savage to ravage dogs
I sparking sage in the morning
Hold it long until the night then I'm gone
Out from the smoke before I choke
I won't go back to sleep
Too many shadows I see
And even more in my dreams
That's my rival, was prophesied in a Bible
To gun em down with a rifle right by the Nile
Take the throne to transform, they want a psycho
Cuz on arrival, your sanity is in denial
People think I’ve gone crazy
But they don't really know me
People think I’ve gone crazy
But they don't really know me
Crazy world we live in
The system is corrupted
Stolen land, broken treaties, best believe it
First nations people paved the way
Before all the mayhem
Discrimination, hatred
Assimilation, genocide, you name it
A lie still, till the day we see it
On the flipside, happy hunting grounds take over
Our ancestors didn’t create a meet and greet
Like fire, full of blaze, unstoppable
Gravewalkers coming back
In and out, out and about
In the paranormal afterlife they call it
Forever looking for a portal
I think it’s clever, host woke up
Made my spirit
Maybe somehow my soul
Will be summoned this is crazy
People think I’ve gone crazy
But they don't really know me
People think I’ve gone crazy
But they don't really know me
People think I’ve gone crazy
But they don't really know me
People think I’ve gone crazy
But they don't really know me
People think I’ve gone crazy
But they don't really know me
People think I’ve gone crazy
But they don't really know me
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8. |
Grime
02:44
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Been drinking firewater everyday
How do I lose it when I'm all the way
How do I go back down
When I can’t fall back now
When I’d be aiming for that higher ground
Been drinking firewater everyday
How do I lose it when I'm all the way
How do I go back down
When I can’t fall back now
When I’d be aiming for that higher ground
Everyday is a little bit different
But the lies they never change
It’s a fucking addiction a sickness
I witnessed all the pain
Everybody keeps pointing their fingers
I kindly put my middle one up and say
Fuck you wanna go then stodis
Brewing up another movement let it begin
Putting every piece together finding out
Everything I did meant nothing for ya
Pulling everything out the book, one individual took a good look but they still got drama
Dropping like a warhead skoden brew it
Think about the friendship that's how I dooz it
No losers I’m grinding defying
Dividing the kamikaze on the violence they bringing
Been drinking firewater everyday
How do I lose it when I'm all the way
How do I go back down
When I can’t fall back now
When I’d be aiming for that higher ground
Been drinking firewater everyday
How do I lose it when I'm all the way
How do I go back down
When I can’t fall back now
When I’d be aiming for that higher ground
Bread in the rez, no wonder
Instead I'ma stand till my end
Left, then again, roam where I can
Nomad in that anatomy of that man, I am
Posted like the note my bro be holding
Not like I'm giving y'all the coldest shoulders
Only moving up n fucking forward
I been only learning to murk the wording
Y’all thought that was the second language
Sharpin that skill like it's stainless
Cuz I remain in the state as if
I'm the highest as fuck
Rhyming In time like it was luck
No wonder why y’all line the way up
Wanted to get high but now ya stuck
Now pass the bucks, cuz, huh
Been drinking firewater everyday
How do I lose it when I'm all the way
How do I go back down
When I can’t fall back now
When I’d be aiming for that higher ground
Been drinking firewater everyday
How do I lose it when I'm all the way
How do I go back down
When I can’t fall back now
When I’d be aiming for that higher ground
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9. |
Details
02:48
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Now tell me can you hear me
Violent Grounds the only competition to many
Y'all feeling really paranoid
Take a second I’m breathing
Looking over the kinda people
Depending on me homie
Hell yeah take a chance invest in my pain
Ain’t nobody wanna fuck around in my lane
Ain't got nothing here
But surrounded by green trees
Nobody gonna hear me
When I put you down deeply
Thinking about the pressure we put up in the north
We control the aboriginal men hunting all day
Gonna eat the caribou every part is dependable
Taking apart the animal valuable to Naskapi
Take a walk in the deep snow
Just to get warm at the disco
Cause I'm getting really cold
And ain't nobody here to comprehend
To anything that we pulling
Like unfreezing the microphone
Gotta keep going everyday
Tryna get out of this hell
And everytime I try to escape
I hear them calling my name
Gotta find a way to save
A little piece of myself
My life story’s written down in every detail
I am the one, roaming the dark the mic and the blunt
High off the rum, write what I like when I’m done
Fuck everybody I hate everyone
Yeah, that's what it's like when the mind isn't numb
Rollin it up like the highest has come
I'll bring the light but do not call me Sun
Conjure up fire and I'll make you run
Guess it will be like I'll never make it out the life
That I'm find, minus the time
That I been wasting
Tryna take a couple shots in the basement
Maybe it all would've been good if I lied
And nobody finds the lyrical
Aboriginals with the rhythm
Spitting this in the village
In the middle part of the eastside
See the skin in my eyes, not the color outside
I bet you’ll realize a native is the place he resides
Gotta keep going everyday
Tryna get out of this hell
And everytime I try to escape
I hear them calling my name
Gotta find a way to save
A little piece of myself
My life story’s written down in every detail
I've been trying to get it all together
I keep on falling deep into depression
How can I continue
Literally sucking up the venom
But what the fuck am I doing
Thinking that I am untouchable
Sipping up daily and alienated by every native
Thinking that I would never make it but I did
With flying colors yo, everybody want it tho
The flows they go exposed to anyone original
There Better not have been anyone
That thought of us as not enough
Or low like a sub
Sink with bass and the drugs
High, top down like the lines
I been writing on my rhyme book because
We arrived to retaliate on higher grounds
The battlegrounds ain't around for the latter days
Right now, the Violent Ground is on the fucking stage
Storytelling every detail on the page
Gotta keep going everyday
Tryna get out of this hell
And everytime I try to escape
I hear them calling my name
Gotta find a way to save
A little piece of myself
My life stories written down in every detail
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10. |
Alone
03:01
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Why do I feel like I wanna be left all alone by myself
Look into my mind I find in the rez there ain’t no way to fucking heal
Thinking about it battling patterns guiding the violence
Digging up all the past and that is why I rather be all by my lonesome
Wholesome, negative folks I lost em all
I don't wanna be another reason why my parents
Always telling me I should've done better, the weather's cold
Living in a village where everybody got the liquor
Fully tempted but I’m feeling old
I don't wanna do this anymore
Don't wanna feel like I’m shit
Yeah I don’t wanna drink anymore
Might as well just call it quits
Looking back on these days
Finding where I belong
Changing my ways
Hated what I've become
Trying to see friends but all is see are the wrong things
Honestly, I'd rather drink alone
Looking back on theses days
Finding where I belong
Dead if don't start
Changing my ways
Hated what I've become
Damned if I'm there not
Trying to see friends but all is see are the wrong things
Honestly, I'd rather drink alone
It's about that time
Get some alcohol ‘n it's all mine
Gonna kick it and I'mma just unwind
Here I go again, all up in my mind
Shit, what happened to me?
I turned into an introvert
Worked on vocabulary, maybe I know how i'll be
Prolly not depends on what I drink
Cuz normally I'd wanna party with people
But being alone is not something I'm into and damn
Things change when your mental is kinda fucked up for grown man
I’d rather sit on by lonesome
And think of where It all went bullshit
It's hopeless, the bottle’s the culprit
I know it, how did I lose focus
Looking back on theses days
Finding where I belong
Changing my ways
Hated what I've become
Trying to see friends but all is see are the wrong things
Honestly, I'd rather drink alone
Looking back on theses days
Finding where I belong
Dead if don't start
Changing my ways
Hated what I've become
Damned if I'm there not
Trying to see friends but all is see are the wrong things
Honestly, I'd rather drink alone
Aye, I'm not the same person I was back then
But if I'm sipping
Just know I'd rather drink alone, man
That way I won’t fuck anyone's life but mine
I hope you understand
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11. |
Better Man
02:57
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Radio tunes impacted my mood when I was down
But hearing the natives coming through
It just made me proud
Instead of many nights wasted drowning
I was in my lab, hoping one day I could escape n make it out
Found out that I can, gotta build my craft
Mastermind with the rhyme, and I’ma make it mine
Got the game in my hand
With a pad and a pen, and even tho I'm losing my own
I'ma continue to spit with lyrics
So people like you can understand
I bet I'ma battle the elements to keep me warm
But matter how bad I burn, the fire's what I'm coming for
Yeah, the strategy, learn the pattern
I'll adapt n morph, Bless the casualties
They collapsed as I gathered my form
I claim to be the man when I'm mainly in the stands
But the music can adjust my attitude like I never can
Developed my style in the rez while listening to the wild
Hear what I found, now I'm out with a better plan
I'm just trying to be a better man
Trying to find a better plan
Trying to do better and…
Doing everything that I can
I'm just trying to be a better man
Trying to find a better plan
Trying to do better and…
Doing everything that I can
Came out the northern area with a bang, feeling delirious
Tryna be deadly but slowly dropping to my grave
I still feel it staring at the mirror, telling myself that I can hear it
Daily pursuing the truth foolish but that is my middle name
I'm off of that heavy-duty drug and looking for a place where I can become a saint
No longer will I be trapped but negative energy remains
Tryna get better for my people Naskapi eeyou ou nii, believe me
Creeping slowly no trouble I'm wanting, katshuapi just love me
Tshiampi no fighting you acting greasy
This lost cycle of lost titles I'm all tribal
Breathing out fire but all gone on like lost vitals
Been off idling love battling daily
Forgetting the music lately but strong with raw gravy
On the mic I lay my life on the line like I’m gaming
Training for a better day, I pray I stay gaining
I'm just trying to be a better man
Trying to find a better plan
Trying to do better and…
Doing everything that I can
I'm just trying to be a better man
Trying to find a better plan
Trying to do better and…
Doing everything that I can
I'm just trying to be a better man
Trying to do better and…
I'm just trying to be a better man
Trying to find a better plan
Trying to do better and…
Doing everything that I can
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12. |
Business
02:59
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You wanna take it there then you better get going
Knowing only in the moment the battle be brewing
Putin every little bit of energy into it, using up my brain
Defending my inner demons, getting low
In the reserve snow blowing everywhere
The cold is my element getting froze to permanent
And I would never picture that operating a finer path
Would lead me to a fucking place blasted on the internet
Things change, it's never staying the same
Gets difficult everyday, whenever you feeling pain, its constant
Looking like I'm running exhausted
Not enough options when you live in a reserve in this world
So when you get it don’t ever forget your people
Shaketshiuapitau mah pakuau, be ready but medieval
When it comes to the biz, quit listening to bull shit
Gotta know the knowledge to acknowledge all the nuisance
That's what it’s all about
Got nothing in common now
No kin, no friends, only want meet ends
Don't look back if they let you down
Cuz it's all around
We got nothing in common now
No kin, no Friends, only wanna meet ends
That's what they don't tell you about
They took our took bullets
Back in the day
Misunderstood them
So we parted ways
Left all my people dead
Unmarked graves
So I guess it’s good
For their business' sake (fuck that)
Well, I'm all their money and I'ma double it
I'ma make an advance and you can't rebuttal it
You can talk to your people up in your government
But we had enuff of it
Stand tall, while I'm tearing down the offices to break walls
Getting back a piece of mine, no stopping at all
Taking out opponents when they making bad calls
But they don't want to see the cost
It's about mine, gotta go handle my business
I know u don't mind, but I’ma settle my riches
All in due time, like I been making investment
The best was a vest to protect us from their message
That's what it’s all about
Got nothing in common now
No kin, no friends, only want meet ends
Don't look back if they let you down
Cuz It's all around
We got nothing in common now
No kin, No Friends, only wanna meet ends
That's what they don't tell you about
Tryna be better than most
But I'm too rez so I just let that shit go
Lookin at days when I walked on dirt roads
Missing those days, why can't I let them go?
Damn
Maybe it's the fact that we're still caught in the Indian act
Like what we doin is bad
Look at my skin, like did they win fuck that
I'm living within, that's my relative path
So I keep on coming with the hard facts
Lost track, been walking into the darkness
But never minding the bottom
Illuminating every path I pass
Connected fast, I lasted all
Bombarded but never falling into a trap
Gonna murder with lyrical bullets that I got
No target when I be writing the product
Him parting of my own logic
I’m about it, I’m all business
That's what it’s all about
Got nothing in common now
No kin, no friends, only want meet ends
Don't look back if they let you down
Cuz It's all around
We got nothing in common now
No kin, no friends, only wanna meet ends
That's what they don't tell you about
I guess that’s how it is huh ?
It’s all business from here
Let’s go
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13. |
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It’s Time
Get steady and feel the vibe, It’s right
It’s Time
They never gon’ realize, besides
It’s Time
We going all in tonight, no lie
It’s Time
You ain’t ready better sit aside
It’s Time
They will not find me down deep in the void
I stay consistent the systems destroyed
Keep up your fists it’s a fight with a choice
Sat in the middle I’m making some noise
What do you think that they thinking of ?
When they load up their straps everyday
The federal government eyes
Are peeping our moves just to lock us away
I run my business I'm paid
I do not do things the same
I choose what goes in my veins
And I still be making a way, aye yeah
Been to the north and way back
I felt the cold on my back yeah
Constricted access to restricted lands
Now what's the plan?
I passed the void now I'm back too
Another dimension now katshtuu
Everybody drinking up that brew
Feeling like an idiot that's true
Got to the healing higher than the ceiling
Looking for the meaning of my life
Everybody going to heights
Never down now it’s time to take flight
Back with a deuce, new with the crew
Never drinking booze in the booth
Fool with the woo tight
Utshepetoom nu menebou, living like a true
Individual cooler than ice
No clogging like sinuses moving up out of this
Music providing this joy and I
Wanna be the best for my tribe
Eye for an eye, no not slippin I just glide
I'm been standing in my position
So long that I hide in your vision
Now gotta get back for the attention
Otherwise you'll be missing the mission
So listen
Cuz this a resolution, from the rez
To blessed with new sins
Yes we savages must be a nuisance
For your blueprints
Thought they be stopping me
Honestly I'm just an oddity popping off properly
Calling me wannabe but now they copy me
Copping a problem they caught from me following nothing
Top of the dome, scalping ya mind
Man I feel right at home
It's that time and I think they know
They can read the signs, they can see the soul
It’s Time
Get steady and feel the vibe, It’s right
It’s Time
They never gon’ realize, besides
It’s Time
We going all in tonight, no lie
It’s Time
You ain’t ready better sit aside
It’s Time
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14. |
Conquer (feat. Q-052)
04:18
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How come they only see the negative inside of me
Been working everyday to make a difference and gradually
I take another step but I keep tripping on my tragedies
I need to find a way to take away the pain and make it a memory
Look, I will never change but my mind elevate
Damaged by my past thoughts, that’s where I keep them lyrically
Jot them all down, trying to make a song
Write a piece of perfect poetry or form a perfect melody
To anyone hating always taking the happiness
Y’all deserve a better place instead of your predicament
The realest would never look down to anyone struggling
So budge up it and make wonderful life for the next generation
We are stronger as a nation but lose power when divided
I am seeking better knowledge for my people undecided
Where they going, where they’re headed, where their head is
While they drinking, firewater is burden
But don’t let it take the image away
Fuck you, it’s my life, I'll die slow
I know where I'm from, where I'll go
I feel everybody's against me
I know nobody's a friendly
Fuck you, it’s my life, I'll die slow
I know where I'm from, where I'll go
I feel everyone is against me
I know anybody will tempt me
I used to ask if they could hear me
Now I see not only can they hear and see but they ignore me
The native seen as a story,
Legend dead in his story
Records meant to be buried, hurry they rising before me
Blended, came in the rez and suspended
My language hanging by a thread in what's said to be heaven
I'm losing my talk with every text and letter I sended
Respect intended, maybe I'm meant to be extinct, left for dead
But every rez is resurrected when it comes together
When the challenge represents itself we end it
We going against them, using our words
With these weapons to be heard
Don't get upset if you end up hurt
Our people are dead but that's expected
This double standard’s got me stranded
Cuz I'm mixed, but I’ma yell it
Niiyuu Naskapi Eeyou, never forget it
I guess the message is better be prepared for the exit
Cuz when you see you perished, culture and tribe ascended
So how do we make the transition
From all this trauma inflicted
By all these catholic missions
When their only true mission
Was to create a division between the Indian man
And the creator’s own vision
Replaced our own teachings with genocidal incisions
Locked us up in their prisons
For their freaking judge’s decision
Propagate their own lies through our own televisions
And falsify the news about all our collisions
Fuck you, it’s my life, I'll die slow
I know where I'm from, where I'll go
I feel everybody's against me
I know nobody's a friendly
Fuck you, it’s my life, I'll die slow
I know where I'm from, where I'll go
I feel everyone is against me
I know anybody will tempt me
I've been on the frontlines and I felt the energy
Of a thousand warriors standing up to the enemy
I feel the power that my ancestors sent to me
With my drum in my arm and my feather in hand
I can feel the heartbeat from our mother, the land
So I synchronize the sound with every step I advance
You can feel the earth shake from the Indigenous stand
And we'll rise up and conquer like our ancestors planned
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Violent Ground Kawawachikamach, Québec
Violent Ground are two brothers from the Naskapi Nation of Kawawachikamach, a small community in the northern borderlands of Quebec and Labrador. They are composers and lyricists who aim to enlighten and inspire crowds with powerful lyrics and their unique brand of Rap Music. The group's name is inspired by the history of the land we live on and the issues indigenous people face to this day. ... more
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