Guavamatic Space Dream

by JP Reynolds

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Lighthouses 05:35
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Inception: Portals open And the skies become as crimson glow Spirit has been poured Sons and daughters prophesy Elders dream dreams The young see visions Hook: I just wanna say free things Peace and Power be the dream team I told all my guavas the power's internal Now let's get it bumpin like bee stings Verse 1: Don't ever limit yourself is what my mirror be saying We living abundant, let me clear with my language I peer where the pain is, where there is fear-laden anguish And then I shine a light in it, make it a pier 'luminated Picture an edifice erected on a crag A shepherd more effective In what's desolate and drab Lighthouses I'm seeing far in the distance Right after I stepped outta the boat with air maxes, no slippage Legs quivering but I’m gripping on the rhythm in my memory Remember Decembers when eye sockets were more like ember sleeves Vintage dreams in capsules built by enslaved forbidden screams Posed by griots, I see those energies vividly Dreams and sleep don't always coincide Stand in a river dried, pumping living water where the flow had died Become a vessels right here and now, well I guess I'm open Take out the rocks from the bottom, see where to put the hope in Stay woke in the land where nightmares can overtake you Feel all the stories of the shores, don't let em novacane you Sugarcane to tobacco, cotton pickin sharecroppers A pair of choppers a test to us, go prepare the proctors Fearless prophets don't stop until they demolish falsehoods Feel it rocking Jay Electron mixed with Richard Smallwood Dreams All I see is empty tombs Dreams Back up, give me plenty room Hook: I just wanna say free things Peace and Power be the dream team I told all my guavas the power's internal Now let's get it bumpin like bee stings Bump, bump, bump (feel that) Bump, bump Bump, bump, bump (feel that) Bump, bump Verse 2: Bump Ancestors behind my sternum My heart be like a drum Bump I told you it be all internal Connected to the most high, what you want The beat it go deep, it enlivens my core Never fall to defeat, it up rises for more Get that boost Guavamatic, no static Emphatically move Hook: Oh my God, how I got here? My thoughts on the dot, in the spot here Losing all sense of tick tick here All I know is stay sharp with that voir dere Hold up I just wanna say free things Peace and Power be the dream team I told all my guavas the power's internal Aight check it out Verse 3: Oranges, pinks, yellows, blues Brightened brooks, mellow hues Goodbye haze, hello snooze It go from gibberish to genius if you spell out clues Heaven only knows, this be poetry Liberation out loud, come and flow with me Go with me to the depths where there's revelation And then we climbing off in the heights where the clouds spacious Bridge: Where there's Dreams All we see is empty tombs (Fel that) Lighthouses I'm seeing far in the distance Feel that Dreams All I see is empty tombs (Feel that) Lighthouses I'm seeing far in the distance Feel that that that that that that Hook: Oh my God, how I got here? My thoughts on the dot, in the spot here Losing all sense of tick tick here All I know is stay sharp with that voir dere Hold up I just wanna say free things Peace and Power be the dream team I told all my guavas the power's internal Aight check it out Verse 4: The beat it go deep, feel it deep into your core Never fallin to defeat, we ain't looking at ya score Get a boost Get loose The team so free, seein so much more No need for a key, ready opened up doors Get a boost Get loose Guavamaric, no static Emphatic where the love at set the bar low for me flying way above that I do That's Truth Free things, free things I ain't never gon stop Putting that on the top On my list of priorities I can't afford to freeze So I am acting accordingly This is for those who supported me My guavas be holding it so complete My God behold what you showed to me Over my shoulder you go with me no defeat Seeing Orange and pink and yellow and blue Feel the cloud round you, redefining all the rules Don't snooze Get a boost Get a boost
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Harry Belafonte 03:17
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Hook: My people screaming like what's going on (Can't nobody see it's straight savage on a black man and woman out here? Tryna sell me on orange and pink unicorns. What u talmbout?) Bloody streets, don't push me I'm barely holding on (Nah, nah man I know a serpent when I see it. Same snake, new skin. Where do I begin?) Now it's time for me to fly Ima take it to the sky Verse 1: This got that making of a rebel feel Lifting up my fists, don't make a difference let the wreckage build Killing off your systems sit with scripts on my director’s bill Peace and Power reppin till we're victors Still I rep the Ville Villains learn your lessons here Weapons will draw but your weapons wield flawed Vaudeville be a chopper but you weapons never prosper Ima monster, Ima brute I despise your biased eyes Tragedy too common, I swear death advises lies Ahhhh What's going on? What's going on? Marvin gone but I sing the same song There's something deep inside us that accounts for why we're strong They try to bury us but we are seeds they got it wrong Hook: What's going on? (I swear it's wild out here. Folks acting the evils ain't real. I be like, ‘get familiar with the danger g.’) Bloody streets, don't push me I'm barely holding on (Just tryna keep my head above water. Feel like they want me drowned, bound, uncrowned. Never that though) Now it's time for me to fly Ima take it to they sky Bring my power back (I want it all back. Every. Single. Droplet.) You tried to steal my soul from me Got another thing coming Bring that power back (Nah you playing with it. That, that, and that too) Verse 2: Now I’m Busting through the ceiling Can you dig it? Got me feeling like I'm Harry Belafonte, Pauly Robey with my story Punches throwing at my dome I be rolling, I be rolling I got fire in my bones I can't hold it, I can't hold it And I'm really bout this life so trust me this ain't just recording Plotting on how they can shorten my life They shading my light, but no I’m not having that So now I'm on this journey with drive and I'm taking my flight Ain't no more middle passages I'm not in the business of seeing no limits So can you imagine what status my vantage is God is the size of my hope and I'm praying, ‘Dear Lord can you please help me manage it” Young, Gifted, and Black: That weigh a ton Nina gone but I sing the same song There's something deep inside us that accounts for why we're strong They tried to bury us but we are seeds they got it wrong Hook: What's going on? (See my ancestors was enslaved and they paved the way But I'm still wondering when the change gon come?) Bloody streets, don't push me I'm barely holding on (The truth is buried inside me and the secrets of kingdom Are hidden in my unborn child My love holds the future) Now it's time for me to fly Ima take it to they sky Bring my power back (Hats off for the heist. You laid the theft game crazy. But run that!) You tried to steal my soul from me Got another thing coming Bring that power back (Yea yea you thought it was over Soul game too strong, though) Now we’re busting through the ceiling With this Vision on a trillion Bring that power back You tried to steal my soul from me Got another thing coming Bring that power back
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Ready [Aim] Fire 03:44
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Intro: Welcome to Harlemville Capital city of Peace and Power Planet Where the music is undeniable And it's Guava Season all year round Where groups undercounted arise very adept Hidden home of the legends We in here Verse 1: It's feeling like 1992 again Mt. Vernon in the building coming true with it - thunder Vision fallin like flurries Tryna have the best summers Wonder where the fire went Trust me the best coming Steady salute the homies Steady salute the fam I be pushing deeper This that back of the van This that knocking on lockers Quick to rock it raise your hands This that if you try to knock me down you lost ’cause ima stand Steady praying for wisdom Steady leanin on faith Steady hearing in paint Steady killin them can’ts This that other folks can be scared of your power but you can't I fall back on my people when energy lookin faint PAPFam Climbing on my journey Yea I'm free now Never quit from learning I been empty but I'm free now thankful for my story I been slave but I'm free now focused on purpose And I'm tearing tyranny down Hook: Ready For whatever you throw at me Aim At the systems saying no to me Fire I ride for my village And I ride for my tribe Till the sunset get us Ay Ready, Aim, Fire, Ride Ready, Aim, Fire, Ride Ready, Aim, Fire, Ride Ready, Aim, Fire, Ride Verse 2: Bullet holes in my soul from the fear Stitch them closed then I grow from the fear Switching flows I suppose I could steer Oral O's round my foes but I chose to adhere To a mission that I'm on You wishing I would front But my back is attached to a latch that lets me freely jump Check the transport I deliver frigid bars But I ain't in no truck, turn than jingle off I'm in the booth with my Jesus peace you can see the frost And feel the fire at the same time My ribbon’s in the sky ribbons in the sky Can you my love is my reply Black ops in the wilderness of rap and I'm a spy If you want some depth instead of death then I'm your guy Prolly think I lost my pebbles but the devil is a lie You ain't supposed to be a light to these kids down in the gutta Ignite a fire, inspire to see high beyond what covers Change the game (Hook) Verse 3: I am climbing defiant with a definition Rebel with a cause slaughter the devil's kitchen Where they cook oppression, embellish it with the hellish isms And Relish in ignance, and veil it in business Yea, tell your story young man You ain't the same Tell them the names that were stolen in this land Tell them the story that's redacted from history it's a sham Undistracted we react to our redaction with a blam Shooting back with all our actions never slacking not a chance God got our back we call that chiroprac advantages Chains falling, chains falling Metal to concrete Rose petals from concrete Let a petal meet my feet Unfatigued tire marks howling hit up in the street Lotteries, lotta beef, and a lotta bodies to beat Beat residue in my teeth, be hollering bout police Collard green with my speech Model pottery complete, sheesh Outro: Still dealing with drama from my teen years Past the skin, Beneath the surface like a spleen tear Tell me what was Beneatha’s purpose, set the scene clear Alien possibilities, unseen yea When I was younger I hungered for thunder rumbling under footsteps Running footballs was a good step In the direction I wanted to head in Following those who came before May their memory never perish In their name I'll be rebellious For the Nats, Denmarks, and Harriets
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Baltimore 04:45
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Inception: I dream I am a rebel. Bearing the marks of Jesus Screaming Jeremiads Waving the flag of scars and gripes Blue uniforms extinguish pink fire Shadows rise. Intro: We out here marching they city Traffic stoppers stomping with me Invisible systems fence me Riot gear on those against me Voice hoarse See the boys on a horse while I die in Only armor that I'm sporting been absorbed, it's my skin Verse 1: Bandana round my face to keep the spray from out my nostril Stop and frisk surveillance so my energy be hostile You say peace but you saying that to pacify me Nah I see through what's deceitful you can't gratify me With your calculated apologies There is no honesty You gon need a little more to outwit me That's hollow scheme So I'm out here in the street With my fist in the air That's pepper we smelling That ain't no mist in the air You should tremble for your symbols remember that God is just I know your systems want me missing but I'm here and God's with us You see me as a threat Scared to death of my life I'm desperate, if you think I'll grab a weapon you're right If I gotta cop a bottle and toss it to stay from shot up Then so be it: Molotov cocktails all up in your Starbucks Tea up in your harbor I harbor revolutionary thoughts up in your yard bruh Unguard to what you've authored The heart of my acts lie in your lies, undisguised Both a dream and a nightmare, I am the uprise I been robbed, I been stolen from I want what's mine You call me a looter But whose looting whom My demise is designed I don't care about these TVs I just want for you to see me I won't cool it You think I'm stupid These two fists you can meet these Fire bomb on your city Come and get me you like you want to I can't say taking my life is something that it couldn't come to Suicidal thinking You could kill me tonight I might as well die for freedom Only seems right I got the light I see the light From the flames screaming from the top of cop cars This escalated quickly, tryna stop war But you started that We mobbing back Back against the wall Go and place my path on martyr tracks My actions have evolved Peace is costly, Ima honor that With madness for a cause It be ugly till it's over Time to uproot and destroy And I ain't afraid to die Nah I ain't afraid to die, my Lord Nah I ain't afraid to die Nah I ain’t afraid to die, my Lord I'm standing, not moving They running and shooting But I ain't afraid to die Nah I ain't afraid to die Nah I ain't afraid to die, my Lord (Wailing) Bridge: (2x) I'm more than a bit fatigued It's war up in these streets You should prolly tread softly We get no justice, you get no peace Verse 2: Spot your power, I attack it Kuz you use it to diminish me You may think it's drastic But excuse me I'm defending dreams We apart of heart the uprise We're tearing up lies You can look I ain't showing no fear in my eyes I'll throw it all on the line We know, we know We know the tricks we done been here before Yea we know, we know Kicked to the floor but we screaming no more Yea, that's dangerous They can't handle us so they just aim at us They think we brainless but we know, we know You tried to sell me on broken potential I resent who sent you, it's a shame when the hate is central Oh, that’s dangerous They can't handle us so they just aim at us They think we brainless but we know, we know Outro: Yea we know, we know Oh, that’s dangerous They can't handle us so they just aim at us They think we brainless but we know, we know We know, we know I ain’t afraid to die Nah, I ain’t afraid to die, my Lord
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Black Paranoia/Black Vision (Ft. Isaiah J. Tate, Antoine, Li) 05:46
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Black Paranoia Verse 1: Dreams can turn to nightmares Transform into something that you might fear Dark skin, hoody up Get paranoid like no light is here What you seeing when you see me I ain't plotting I ain’t scheming Unless I'm getting my Ben Banneker on I step outta the boat trying to handle the storm Woo! Good God It can all seem so bleak I’m over here trying to sound the horn All they hear is a screech My presence is a breach Of any intention to kill my flow But I refused to get beached So Ima scream until you hear me yo Hook: I'm feeling like a problem ‘cause I don't fit in a box My body feeling alien, my stomach be in knots Black Paranoia (4x) Feeling like a problem ‘cause I don't fit in a box If you try to shackle me I'm breaking off them locks Black Paranoia (4x) Verse 2: Everyday when I leave my crib I strategize what I'm gon bring with me My headphones, my phone charge And I never neglect to bring something to read I be on my black black black black I can face an attack tack tack tack And that thing come around and I don't get down When I hear the sound of kak kak kak kak They gon see when they search my corpse Howard Thurman in the side, stored So maybe I wasn't liable To be the oppos that they spy me for Oh, poor black boy In the newspaper got another sad story Killed by the force or in gang territory Can't walk nowhere without bags on me (Hook) Verse 3 (Isaiah J. Tate): Ooooo The blacker the berry the sweeter the juice And they looking thirsty They ready to shoot Ready to light me up, I know the truth I am not moved My soul bulletproof They hanging on corner with drugs in their boots Applied by the system I call it a noose What we gon’ do when they’re feeding us lies Put down the semi and pick up a book And start feeding your mind ‘Cause we ain’t go time To ease up with our feet up Gotta get it Before they take us all in the middle of the city Got their hand on the trigger Got my hand on the Bible Fists in the air ‘Cause you know it’s Black Power (Hook) Black Vision Hook: Black vision it be so bright Dream on You got a special sight Black vision it be so bright You can only see the stars at night In darkness I see starlight In darkness I see starlight Verse 1: Precognition Rapid eye twitching Welcome to the interstitials of my sight space With all that's transpired And the tears made of fire You still lookin through me and you’re looking like grace put your wings over eyes Now it’s WEs over Is Stay grounded in these roots We believe we can fly You see us in a different way we're more than what they say we are They try to put me in a cage, instead I’m penning cajun bars In spite of all the wrong done to us You let a sweet song to come through us They stop and frisk us They’re closing schools We live and love We're changing rules Glimpses refined by Divinity's design Senses sublime 'stead of empty and resigned Nothing can take this hope from me I’m glad u came in the night and spoke to me Black vision (Hook) Verse 2 (Li): I remember when we used to socialize About our lives And realize that life was such a blessing Even in the midst of pain We would gain the knowledge To understand a setback is a setup for a lesson But now the world is getting colder Gotta look over my shoulder For the ones who can’t admit my black is beauty Full of hatred My soul is aching They trying to strip us of our melanin And get us naked But I’m here to bring the power back Black vision Something like a Rosa Parks But a little different Something for the hood Mixed with a little Christian Yall see they killed Jesus Christ But he still living That’s black vision That’s black vision (Hook)
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Destiny 02:58
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Inception: I dreamed we loved each other in a past life And found each other again in this one Intro: Can't see the future But I know it's bright I'm all in my feelings tonight Hook: (3x) Thanking God you next to me You are my destiny 3x Verse 1: I feel it all in my face That flush that rush That blush that chill I feel like I'm up in space Kuz I don't care about no gravity fields I fly And I got somebody I'm fly with Navigate this sky with Thanking heaven for my gift Good god Verse 2: I found such a good thing My pretty young my lil thang Sophisticated still could hang She the leather smooth to my wood grain She nice But I'm tellin you shorty so bad Mind sharp, soul connected A fine dime breezy oooo that My wife I’m winning Oh, what a feeling Celebrating life with our hands to the ceiling Walk wit me, walk with me I'm too turnt for what's about to be Get them shackles up off me Change the frame for what you often see We dreamers, we lovers, we out of our minds To the rest of the world But we gotta go hard we don't know about time And I'm glad I got my girl For life I'll be waking to to two sun rises One is with the glow God lights the sky with And the smile on ya face is its own horizon I'm hype Drive: This is for all the people trying to catch that bouquet This is for all the people trying to run away from that garter belt This is especially for all the people who just jumped that broom Bridge: I feel it all in my face That flush that rush That blush that chill I feel like I'm up in space Kuz I don't care about no gravity fields I fly And I got somebody I'm fly with Navigate this sky with Thanking heaven for my gift Good god (Hook)
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Strawberry 04:45
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Inception: Strawberries have seeds you can see on the outside On a orange cloud in a yellow chariot I've seen them. It seems then that we've touched Embraced Hand planted on back Planted in past Rooted in future May my seeds be free to be. I dream. Verse 1: Was that you who was crossing my mind? The light was red so I instead walked to you I stepped out of time How'd you get so big? Matter fact, how'd you get here at all? Such a flawless withdrawal of laws This encounter, it charges my heart Your mama and I we have called upon God For guarded arrival - no drama, no harm As long as it wasn't like mine But it looks like you breathing just fine I imagine my Grandmama did this with me So I jump in her sleep and I'm hitting repeat Covered by prayers from deep Don't worry, you'll see They gon try to Venus Hottentot you Or tell you what is possible And death’ll try to mock you But you got Life up in your nostrils My dream for you is you'll be unconfined I pray the Lord your soul design I cross my heart and I hope to fly Back to these skies, before your time Like la La la la la la la (La Laaaa la laaaa la laaaa) Hook: Tell me, tell me how I'm gon live Tell me, tell me who I'm gon be Show me, show me love and protection Tell me the stories of my family Tell me, tell me how I'm gon look Tell me, tell me what do you see Show me, show me love and affection Tell me I matter, that I am unique Verse 2: Was that you who was crossing my mind? That red light disappeared like No stopping for us, it's a sign How'd you get so big? Matter fact how'd you get here at all? This encounter is (aww) I'm enthralled And I'm looking at you, here you are Your body is prolly a target and I tried to stop it I promise it aww Your mama and I, we went through it ourselves, We know just what it's like to be dark No matter what things fall apart Let nobody dishearten your spark I imagine my Granddaddy did this with me So I walk with his feet till the cyphers complete Covered by prayers from deep Don't worry, you'll see It's going to open up, pouring love Water droplets to you be a sea They gon try to New Jim Crow you And play by ghost rules Work on your post moves Center on where the ghost rules My dream for you is you'll be unconfined I pray the Lord your soul design I cross my heart and I hope to die Before you, lord let him see 25 Like la La la la la la la (La Laaaa la laaaa la laaaa) (Hook) Verse 3: Was that you who was crossing my mind? That red light is green now It's only a matter of time I ran into you in a purplish blue The hues and views sublime Your eyes and your shoulders were mine Now you're vanishing, fading in light Outro: Was that you who was crossing my mind? (6x)
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Guavalicious Funk 04:25
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Hook: All my guavas in the house feeling blessed now Turn it louder, get down with a step now Get loose go and do it, we be movin, we be movin Steady groovin, steady groovin with our hands in the air It's how we do It's how we do All my guavas, my family, my people Go do your thing Verse 1: Take a stroll down memory lane with me Put on your crown, get wild, come and reign with me I put it down for my town in the white uptowns So fly there ain't nothing you can say to me Hit Rick at the shop for the fresh cut J Harold's on 3rd where the best was Pete Rock and CL shot a video there Now we rocking with Pete so we bless up So special, so special Car wash with my pops that's the next move Tightened up the ride, looking right in the light This a super duper koopa trooper vessel Got this barbecue sauce for the party in the yard Yea the grill bout to be on fire Playing Earth, Wind & Fire, dancing hard into the night You know you gotta turn this song up high Fireflies in the sky, food in my belly Grown folks playing spades, the game is on the telly Cakes and pies get sliced for our consumption They swear they dance it off to the beats that be bumping Get on the floor and do something Slide back the furniture if you need to, jump in Jokes and laughter, folks is scattered But don't be napping, ‘cause we get active Whaaaaaaat (Hook) Verse 2: We can go back even further To them growing up days when your crush made you nervous Or when it's on ‘cause your kin from the south came Their accent made people take notice Your uncle had hooch in a mason jar Telling crazy stories but nobody would dare to say he's off Ribs in a cooler, Glen Island on the grill Quarter water, ice pops, Faygos on chill At the park for the reunion, how we do it for the cook For the shorties sorta sporty I was steady on the look Steady off the hook, running through a sprinkler Super soaker fight, good clothes all wrinkled up It's feelin like Bad Boy in 98 A love like this til the speaker break Stone cold like a sly guy These are high times Family affair If I said I didn't miss it, I lied Now let's work Bridge: (2x) Gon get it Gon gon get it Gon get it Gon gon get it Gon feel it Goin gon feel it Gon feel it Goin gon feel it (Hook) Verse 3: Or we can stay here right now Whole team chase dreams, yea we living out loud No roadblocks or barriers could ever ever bury us Won't stop till we walking on a cloud Craft sounds for our sons and our daughters that'll come After us so they can be proud of everything that we've done I teamed up with Roddy, I'm with God, riding shotty Goin salmon on the tracks With a flow hardbody Gym to the hospital spittting something ill Been revealed, give the people something they can feel! Something that can heal, and time do that About time that somebody let they rhymes do that Cross lines like finding that Shonda rap A lotta shine where I'm at the Divine do that A lotta grind you should put us in a laundromat Unwind dance time yea this song do clap Like that (Hook) Outro: On a ride guavalicious supreme Radical pinks and blues do you cruise what I mean Cue the scene Where we do that thing We groove so free On Peace and Power planet The hate can't stand it While I talk my guava Rebellious fodder For the offspring We sing off shackles Our troops follow suit And that’s the truth, Ruth Shout out to Naomi And all the homies You know me Ya diggs This is Eusebius Valentino Coming straight, live from your Guavamatic Space Dream
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City of Love 04:49
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Intro: Get funky now Pre-verse: You know every once a while You gotta fall back on a cloud In the spirit of love And get loose Celebrate life Know what I mean? Woo, good God Verse 1: Look at that night sky Starry collision Get lost in your eyes And feel that rhythm Yea yea yea yea This air is so rare Hook: I look left, look right I feel a little spark tonight Do u see the light We can make a city of love Don't be so tight I feel an open heart tonight Do you feel the flight We can make a city of love Pre-Verse 2: Now what I'm a need is for everybody To get up on their floor I know you feel the vibe That means you And you too And you over there with the wing tips Verse 2: I'm feel just like I Don't know no limits You love me now I'm Now I'm so fearless Yea yea yea yea This air is so rare (Hook) Bridge: I know you think it's impossible (it’s possible) I know you only see obstacles (we are powerful) But we can fill this place with love With love With love With love Drive: (Hey won't you come wit me We can show this city what it's never seen) Now by this time the warm up is over You might even be good and sweaty But keep moving Dance your heart out Sing your chains away Smile your mask off Let's show ourselves a love that has become so unfamiliar Yes, you too darling You with the curly fro I see you Peace and Power to us all (Hook) Verse 3: Feel the vibe feel the force right here Dove-tailed lamb be the source my dear More power than a horse or Porsche mon frere Far from par for the course I steer Spot me like a tiger when I'm lion on the green Strolling on the soul train line while I sing I rock Gordon Gartrelle special animal print Rise, people, rise, got us to convince I rush to defense but I back peddle never Running to my post, I'm in tow with propellers Fly baby fly be that larvae living Growing out wings going farther no division Make a City of Love Revolutionary Healing joy Beautiful solution Everybody on the dance floor getting all free Shackles getting shattered catch me whipping that beat Uncaged by the bars, irony to a T I believe jubilee's under siege in the streets Seize misery and release energy Undo shoe tie Do you see what I see Starlight disco, NY, Frisco DC, Chi Make it sweeter than Nabisco This go hard as a rebel do So we bout to go farther than ever WOO! Chucky
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This Could Be Us (Ft. James Gardin and Franceska Marie) 02:45
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Hook (Franceska Marie): (2x) You may not see what I see I know I’m crazy One thing I know: We gon’ make it baby Verse 1: Put some people with a dreamer they'd be so perturbed I be thinking about intangibles it works your nerves I be like I wonder who I'll meet today You could be like I wonder how we’ll eat today But nah we're more the same with our heads in the clouds Pescateri non-dairy with a vegetable style Do the secure thing, I'm glad you ain't like that Right on the money we be safe in a bank like that I'll be a truth teller and on account of this ring Can't nobody rob me of all the commas you bring We going hard no matter what The hustle is on Jagged rocks and cracked stones, a comfortable zone Got enough of a jones, skin tone Same color as the mission I be on I'm home Where I belong The journey is long But we’ll be on it together Steady leveraging levers We pushing pedals forever Let's ride (Hook) Verse 2 (James Gardin): You’re wondering why I ain’t bigger yet Another late night, clothes smelling like cigarettes I had a shot last year, ain’t pull the trigger yet I should be getting them fat stacks But I’m still cashing them thinner checks But Queen, I ain’t seen you in a minute I love how you’re riding around and getting it Riding to the finish And your patience, it won’t diminish I love how your love has no limits I see you in the front row Reciting all of my lyrics And you know what to say When the world lowers my spirits At times I’m kinda stubborn Like ‘I don’t wanna hear it’ And if there’s some confusion Then I really wanna clear it Good God Y’all see I got a good one A keeper I don’t ever want to let her go And in this journey of living out our purpose Just know that you got a very special role Vamp: We gon’ make it We gon’ make it baby We gon’ make it Oh
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I Got Bread 04:57
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Intro: At our low points We can’t let our joy dissolve Stay up Stay up, up, up Hook: I got a dollar in my pocket and million ideas in my head Thanking the Lord I got bread Thanking the Lord I got bread Thanking the Lord I got bread And I'm steady on the grind cuz the ants don't rest Eyes pierce struggle in a trance focused Steady on the grind cuz the ants don't rest Throwing up my hands kuz I am so blessed Verse 1: Yea It's like everyday I wake up Everybody around me is tryna get they cake up Everybody tryna survive and stay alive People be like where is the God in a 9-5 What you gon do? In the hood they be shooting Drugs a problem too In the burbs they be shooting Up And we're battling upstream And I be looking crazy when I begin to sing Tell them about the joy Enough with all the sorrow Tears falling tonight, but Ima smile tomorrow I ain't tellin stories but I pray you catch the moral On my shoulders you can lean and my ears you can borrow Where he hope at, put it in the air We getting too comfortable with them bullets in the air And I know that we're all responding to something But it's about time that I come with the triumphant (Hook) Verse 2: Eyes straight, head tilted down looking at an angle Staring at their phones but I'm looking up towards the Angels Pleading Lord please will you show me the way I can show the people you so we can get through the day And I ain't selling miracles, no money making schemes But I necessity I hear it though for tummy aches and screams People looking for love, in jewelry and salaries Hustlers move weight Ike crunches moved calories Dudes muggin, no Folgers involved People tryna survive only see the smoke and the fog Go from doing all right to where hope is dissolved Now they something like August cuz they close to a fall Yea Aww man how I wish I could take away the pain now I'm feeling childish I gotta ask the creator don't possess this type of splendor All grown up now I know when I should surrender (Hook) Verse 3: I can see it in his eyes, carry spirit so heavy I feel his heart broken like parents at cemeteries What I wanna provide, don't know if I am capable Praying that he hold it all together like a staple though Now I'm thinking maybe I should talk to him I feel it in my spirit go ahead just walk to him He asked me for some change but I’m broke myself So I said God bless you, what I spoke he felt Can compassion be exchanged in a handshake? I understand that if we touch and agree, that demands faith And on this man’s face something changed Just because of the touch something got rearranged He coulda thought I was strange, but I realized We're invisible when we only really care about I War I wanna stop it Put love on the docket But while I got a dollar in my pocket, I'll speak Life (Hook) Inception: It's true I've dreamed Sheep feed the multitudes Who are you Where is your root? Human lack Or Divine gift Time for a shift And let's dance while we at it Guava Outro: I got bread Oh Thanking the Lord I got bread Oh
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Moving Mountains (Ft. Tina Colón Williams) 03:54
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Intro: I'm seeing things I don't see yet I'm just getting my feet wet Nothing's impossible, believe that My plate's full and I'm grateful Crazy where this faith will take you Hook (Tina Colón Williams): We’re Moving Mountains Aww yeah we’re moving mountains Oh Lord we’re moving mountains My plate's full and I'm grateful Crazy where this faith will take you Gimme that mustard In the kitchen with the guava ain't no fear Mama told me she ain't see no crystal stair Verse 1: It just came together I don't understand how, I just look back and smile It can't get no better I'm feeling the force I'm walking through doors Too much to cherish I must be living the dream The one that was seen generationally In my face you will see a vacation from all reservations to be We get free Refrain: Clap your hands if you know You gon hit your target You gon hit your target You gon hit your target Put your hands up in the air If nobody gon stop you Nobody gon stop you Nah, nobody gon stop you Hook: Oh, this is the future Oh, we are the future We’re moving mountains Aww yeah we moving mountains Oh Lord we moving mountains My plate's full and I'm grateful Crazy where this faith will take you Gimme that mustard In the kitchen with the guava ain't no fear Mama told me she ain't see no crystal stair Verse 2: Only see green lights, why not Everybody on the team like, why stop Free from the fear that I'll fail or flop Fleas gotta flee Ima seize my spot Tweak everything that you think or thought About me or the dark skin league, my God Gratis how we be we don't see your box Abba dee abba dee abba dee that's all We get free (Refrain) (Hook)

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During the creation of this project I've explored communication with my unnamed ancestors and my unborn children. I’ve also been deeply inspired and influenced by my parents, Nina Simone, James Baldwin, Nas’ Illmatic, the Psalms, the Black Lives Matter Movement, Jesus of Nazareth, the Baltimore Uprising in response to the Freddie Gray homicide, Michael Jackson’s Dangerous, late 90s Bad Boy, Parliament-Funkadelic, Mount Vernon, the Peace and Power Family, and my wife. Very guavalicious.

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released September 23, 2016

Episode 1: Anachrons
Lighthouses
Harry Belafonte
Ready, Aim, Fire

Episode 2: Sankofa
Baltimore
Black Paranoia/Black Vision (Feat. Isaiah J. Tate, Antoine, and Li)
Destiny
Strawberry

Episode 3: Ring Shout
Guavalicious Funk
City of Love

Episode 4: Feathered Melody
This Could Be Us (Feat. Franceska Marie and James Gardin)
I Got Bread
Moving Mountains (Ft. Tina Colon)

JP Reynolds - primary artist, executive producer
Tina Colon - primary artist
James Gardin - primary artist
Franceska Marie - primary artist
Alia Pierre - primary artist
Isaiah J. Tate - primary artist
Melay Araya - background vocals
Antoine Dolberry - background vocals
Destiny Davis-Tolbert - background vocals
Lillian F. Reynolds - background vocals
ZILLA - art direction
Rod the Producer - music production, recording & mixing engineer
Hayling Price - music production
Jarren “XM” Simmons - music production
Sevy the Producer - music production
Chucky Kim - music production
Ibe Soliman - music production

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JP Reynolds New York, New York

JP Reynolds is an innovative rapper and magnetic performer with an eclectic sound. With The PEACEANDPOWER Band, JP Reynolds challenges expectations and changes the way people experience hip-hop's rich, vibrant, complex culture.

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