Laraaji - Armand Hammer/The Alchemist.mp3

[00:01.945][Verse 1: ELUCID]
[00:02.851]Jazz hat like Laraaji
[00:04.315]Black derbies and denim, Conway bag for the boosters
[00:06.776]CocoRosie, codeine trippin', a home with no heat
[00:10.433]Grandmaster Flash gave me a job
[00:12.150]Coon storage, the room is live
[00:14.484]Myth of meritocracy, **** a cock-and-squeeze
[00:17.272]Tender-headed Black boys sleeping under the ginkgo tree
[00:20.581]Dreaming of becoming ungovernable
[00:22.380]Make trouble for you
[00:23.879]3D-printing guns in gentrified public schools, this is Bucktown
[00:27.928]All I lost was my mustache, rank and file, they all cut down
[00:32.157]What now?
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[00:33.025][Verse 2: billy woods]
[00:34.071]Should've killed me when you had the chance, now it's out your hands
[00:37.079]I don't need an advance, I don't dance
[00:40.259]Herzog voiceover, the camera pans
[00:42.986]Everybody's a cameraman
[00:44.368]There's no use writing, rest assured, you're wasting words
[00:47.759]The world doesn't turn anymore
[00:49.977]Half burns, the other side will never thaw, burning books to keep warm
[00:53.390]Should've killed him when you had the chance
[00:55.352]Overseas, underpasses, cupped hands shield matches
[00:58.557]Fentanyl dream catcher, 9-to-5 dream snatcher
[01:02.043]Bleed you slow once you captured (Yo)
[01:03.538]Say less, it's tacit
[01:04.883](Should've killed you when I had the chance)
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[01:06.392][Verse 3: ELUCID]
[01:06.752]Uh, private pleasure, beggar's banquet
[01:08.332]Weights and measures, coded language makes her anxious
[01:10.980]I can taste it, when chickenheads come home to roost
[01:14.485]No, it's not the same as Bluetooth
[01:16.738]Emperor's new groove, can't play it straight
[01:19.105]Fangs dipped in gold, screw face, who knew?
[01:21.596]Like Palm Spring reparation
[01:23.820]Pay more, be poor, that's just basics
[01:26.399]Ain't no ambulance, ain't no spaceships for no niggas tonight (Ain't no)
[01:31.080]Hell no, hell no, won't be no very special negro show tonight
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[01:36.323][Verse 4: billy woods]
[01:38.366]Went to sleep in a tree and woke up defeated
[01:40.585]Every man for himself, that's the edict
[01:42.871]God side with the winners (Cold facts), the thief next to Jesus
[01:46.586]I wanted to be better than my father, but history just repeated
[01:50.035]Mystery god, but y'all still looking for a reason
[01:52.915]Broken men playing out the string
[01:54.922]It's football season, December in Cleveland
[01:57.987]Lining up, but in my heart, already beaten
[02:00.717]Narrow cot in the SRO, no mirror, I already know
[02:04.071]Killers on the stairs, man in a hole, I'm through running
[02:06.661]
[02:06.868][Outro]
[02:10.049]The universe is a cycle
[02:15.564]Body of death
[02:20.511]What is death?
[02:22.821]Is it another part of—