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New Classic Mixtape

by Bomani Armah

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    Get the first limited edition cd version of the mixtape at SXSW festival on March 16th at the Historic Victory Grill and Opal Divines March 20th at .
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Welcome to the joint new classic My names d’mite I’m your new habit If there’s a chair near by, you should grab it If you wanna get your monkey (unh!) kicked try to match this Mattafack, I’mma need ya’ll to stand up And if you love hip-hop throw your hands up This is why the industry can’t stand us I ain’t down with the boys, (unh!) that tryna man up Don’t it make you wanna holla Brush your shoulders, pop your collar Like an old batch of collards And it cost no dollars Got RBI digging through the vinyl To find the chords that you feel in your spinal As I kick my hip-hop recital And I’m the realist (unh!) I know Fino-lee you found a real emcee Who mix the beats with poetry Low key, like jay-z In Hawaiian sophie You use to love her but your (unh!) chose me, oooweeee Can’t you feel it in your nose Cause I’m in the game, all ten toes How my fan base grows You should see my live shows Right now I know you wonderin’ where they found me D’mite, reppin pg county So you fake thug rappers get from round me I’m a bad mutha (unh!) Richard Roundtree Betta yet Rudy Ray Moore They like your light weight rhymes but mine weigh more Is that your free style, you get what you pay for And this is what the (unh!) I was made for So I had to get up on it The rhymes are smart, the beat is retarded Like the drummer just farted So let’s get this party started
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My imagination exploded Now locked and loaded Blood sweat and tears was the price I was quoted Nothing you can do to me To keep me from what’s due to me And luck is when preparation meets opportunity no more being reckless I’m going through my checklist I eat a slice of humble pie with me breakfast And in my coffee I sprinkle awareness real softly keeps me focused and keeps all the hatas up off me check that, 1 and two When this train is coming through I’m doing what I have to do so I can do what I wanna do this train ain’t swervin’ cause now I’m determined strictly business like parish smith and erik sermon I’m getting prepped What looked like missteps Was me only practicing, I’m just getting’ reps So children gather round This is how it sounds when you going for the crown just let me break it on down (CHORUS) some people finger snap it out but that ain’t what I’m rapping bout kids looking for a way I’m about to map it out listen to your conscious use it as your compass learn all you can you can keep all your options itsa full time job just sifting through the nonsense that’s why you gotta enjoy the whole process close to my dreams like goapele invest in mental property they can’t break up your monopoly keep an eye on your health cause that’s your real wealth the worst person to lie to is yourself to thy own self be true you get 1 life not two remember you are what you consistently do you can find this useful while you’re still youthful The watermelon man spitting seeds be fruitful wise words lead to wise actions break it down like fractions for man in the mirror like Mike Jackson
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You live in my lap… top You let the camera get back shots You had more balls bounce of you than a black top A co-ed who gives more head than a mascot But still addictive like a crack rock Am I bad boy cause i won’t stop and I can’t stop I’m permanent ink, always on your page White chicks hate your booty, blacks hate cause your beige want sumtin’ different? nuthin to worry ‘bout I got more options that a Chinese carryout I like’em brown, yellow peurto Rican or black It ain’t PC, but baby I’m a mac You keep giving me something I can feel (CHORUS) What’s love got to do it with it Type freaky stuff with triple dub dot and you in it emotion just screw wit it, conversations ruin it I want one thing, tired of beggin it and wooing it you’re willing in able I’mma knight in shining armor you’re a horse in my stable Guarantee you’re a pleaser a quickie off a thirty second teaser I ain’t pullin out visa my old lady is rockin the flannel type you up, could care less bout da scandal You got viruses that Norton can handle your body is fire but I can light my own candle give me something I can feel
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Ghetto 04:03
Is the place to find Worst in drugs and crime Where justice went to go blind Spending time in the Where preachers show the end of times By pointing out the ghetto signs Etched out in the chalk lines Pick up or drop a dime Either the way the cops are fine Cause they be working over time Where the streets are unkind The residence feel confined some say it’s just a state of mind marked out with clear borders crumbling brick and mortar where the water, is colored and cost a quarter young runners taking orders young gunners cause disorder young stunna’s living shorter cause of slaughter in the where you boughta a piece of pussy you ain’t oughta and nobody taught her leaving mothers raise the children of their daughters far away from the reporters with their cameras and recorders with no supporters crack games top importer start school but never finish it except for jail we don’t complete sentences a new meaning of penmanship the block crew has its benefits see growth in its membership but rico laws means nobody innocent where hope is an invalid and despair is so diligent serve you your fill of it for the thrill of it foreigners own the business locals take out witnesses no peace on earth in 50 christmas’ where food stamps are collected health is neglected death is expected where churches and liquor stores are erected full of strung out and infected where broken dreams are collected and flaunted with a gold necklace the police are running wreckless you one thing on their checklist then your suspected get inspected politicians say they can’t correct it there help? dont expect it so when they elected, our views rejected Kids dream of escaping it Corporations steady raping it We keep police taping it Gang tags are defacing it Gentrification is reshaping it The rich are displacing it Suburban kids dream of tasting it Drug shopping, this is the place they went Cause nicks and dimes pay the rent America is shy in facing it We need to start embracing it I’m hell bent on erasing it Cause it’s an abnormality we’ve accepted as reality the pain and brutality A new sense of morality And understanding of frugality Could bring about a new vitality When warring sides find neutrality understand their commonality ghetto is a nationality And don’t take life so casually
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In this system of checks and balances We gotta check our balances we have broken knecks and calouses While our leaders live in palaces After further analysis We should give them pimp chalises So we can recognize phalics and their fallacies it’s patriotic duty? nothing butt pirates and they stealing all the booty The president could be a shia or a sunni It could be george Clooney It’s still scripted like a movie So brother where art thou Imperialism was a game, you made it an art now You talking bout change, waiting for you to start now We drowning in sorrow, can you build noah’s arc now Cause the people bout to panic And they say you just rearranging chairs on the titanic The ships off course, looking for someone to man it Maybe captain sully, captain kirk, captain America and captain planet (CHORUS) You know the people are fickle they want it to rain, even if they get hit with nickels corporations have us sucking their nipples if you protest they brand you with the hammer and the sickle cause they believe in trickle, down economics I’ll break it down for you like sounding out phonics they pissin’ on you, welfare is colonic e pluribus Unum doesn’t translate to ebonics while their wealth grows like they using hydroponics they got sticky fingers till we throw guns in the air like onyx and take back what’s ours we wait for mannah from heaven, they us send golden showers the recession is just like the towers they intimidate the people to they hide and cower they see it, they conquer and then devour I wanna take out these fat bastards like my name is Austin Powers. (CHORUS) These rappers spray their spit until they believe themselves Talking bread, cheese and dough, they can barely feed themselves worst kind of liars, those who deceive themselves give Obama credit for changing how brothers see themselves His accomplishments are more than notable He speaks to the poor and vulnerable Like those in NO who weren’t floatable His fathers day speech should be a hip-hop quotable Maybe he can quench your thirst We still excited cause the brother is a first He seems wise enough to guide this country through its worst But if you drown does it matter whose driving the hearst Cause he’s presidents, we’re all political game He shoots where ever big corporations aim he’s an inspiration to sons with funny names Nothing’s gonna change til money doesn’t reign
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about

Do you remember why you love hip-hop? The uncanny ability of your favorite artists to take what they have and turn it into what they want, is what made Bomani fall in love with the art form that has led pop culture into the new millennium. Trying to recapture that feeling, he had one of his favorite Dj’s (DJ RBI) send him classic break beats during fall of ‘09. Whatever RBI emailed him, from James Browns unforgettable “Funky Drummer” to Melvin Bliss’ often flipped “Synthetic Substitution”, he would cut up and re-imagine, using the some of the original songs words as the hook.

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released January 27, 2010

Executive produced by Bomani Armah
Produced by Bomani Armah
Co-produced by DJ RBI
Photography by Efirst
Graphic Design by Night Train

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