1. |
Memorex
02:48
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[Verse 1: Valle]
Up in the morning and I just gotta thank God
I don’t know but today seems kinda odd
Yeah that’s strange, but before I say Good Day
My name ain’t Ice Cube and this is isn’t Friday
But Namaste, the weathers good and the birds are chirpin’
Shit we smokin’ all day cuz I ain’t in a hurry
Wait a minute I need to hit the clinic
I done finished my prescription last night when I was chillin’
Cuz I met a group of woman we was out at the show
Said they had blunts to roll so I said ‘fuck it lets blow’
Fuck it though, shit Im bout to hit the store
Lets have a barbeque at four
Lets piece up on Asada, and some bomb salsa
Irie vibes like a Rasta, peace and love like Dali Lama
Don’t you bring no fucking drama
Shit is all-good when chillin’ in the hood
So you know we finna cook while we sing this fucking hook
[Chorus: Ambiguous Culture]
You know we comin’ from the bottom up!
Ohhh Ohhh Ohhh right
You know we comin’ from the bottom up!
Ohhh Ohhh Ohhh right
You know we comin’ from the bottom up!
Ohhh Ohhh Ohhh right
You know we comin’ from the bottom up!
Ohhh Ohhh Ohhh right
[Verse 2: Valle]
Lets get busy like Bone Thugs, sweep it under the rug
Fucking without a glove the homie got his girl knocked up
So he called me to roll one up and I told him to come thru
Cuz we finna cue at 2 but yo problems ain't escaping you
No matter how much booze you choose
That can't change yo’ blues
But if we must set loose and let loose then fuck it
In case we need to forget
All of this little bullshit that got us actin’ foolish
That’s why I be string pullin’
Because I’m on to my next show, I’m on to my next flow
Sometimes I gotta go ghost, It ain’t personal though
I’m in the studio so
Ill see you on the other side of what is tomorrow
So let this be a good morrow to all of your little sorrows
You gotta get busy when you livin’ in this city
Everything ain’t perfect when its barely the beginning
So put your hands up in the air while we out here fucking singing
[Chorus: Ambiguous Culture]
You know we comin’ from the bottom up!
Ohhh Ohhh Ohhh right
You know we comin’ from the bottom up!
Ohhh Ohhh Ohhh right
(From the bottom up from the bottom up from the bottom of the ground)
You know we comin’ from the bottom up!
Ohhh Ohhh Ohhh right
(From the bottom up from the bottom up from the bottom of the ground)
(From the bottom of the ground)
(From the bottom of the ground)
(From the bottom of the ground)
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2. |
Dulcita
04:08
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[Intro: Valle]
Now uhhh… I get my inner peace, from my inner beat
So if you feeling me let’s go to Venice beach
Got trees for remedy, give me serenity
I hope you really see just who I really be cuz
[Verse 1: Valle]
Who you mean to be ain’t exactly what’s perceived
Some people think that I am sweet
Some people think that I’m a creep
Cuz my thoughts ponder deep and it’s hard to be discreet
And I be getting’ cold feet sometimes when I have to speak see
We could maybe be sort of like a fantasy
We can love sexually and not for eternity
But if you feeling me then I hope it’s naturally
So we that can be embracin’ all the places we can take it
Cuz only time will tell, and I hope it tells well
Lets go play up in the waves while we catch the next swell
Summer comes and goes but I love how it feels
I wish that I could take time and just hold time still
Sometimes, the good times, I hope they never end
So lets toast up in the air when we with the best of friends
The ones that love us and the ones that don’t pretend
Because even when the fall comes I’m wondering when summer’s next
[Chorus: Cesar Portillo & Ambiguous Culture]
You are my sweet thing
(Good times all right, good times all right now)
You are my sweet thing
(Good times all right, good times all right now)
You are my sweet thing
(Good times all right, good times all right now)
You are my sweet thing
(Good times all right, good times all right now)
[Verse 2: Valle]
Summer time weather got me craving cold brew
Lets got to my place straight for the rendezvous
We could sip tequila and be waking with a crazy story
As long as I ain’t driving drunk fuck it lets just keep it pourin’
My engine roarin’, so lets go out exploring shit
Lets get reacquainted I forget just what yo’ name is
Horrible with naming but I never forget faces
And I’m only being honest but its too much fucking conscious
And a whole lotta nonsense but I’m seeing why your cautious
And in a world of double standards I could see why though
You could be self-entitled
It do not make it right though
I hope you be the type though
To know so just what ya like so
[Chorus: Cesar Portillo & Ambiguous Culture]
You are my sweet thing
(Good times all right, good times all right now)
You are my sweet thing
(Good times all right, good times all right now)
[Outro: Valle]
Uhhh…Check it
So play that Cumbia, Bachata, Sonora Dinamita
Shut it down with some soul, shit play Aretha
I like tangents and tandems and shit that’s hella Random
I like dancin’ and prancin’ while I be smokin’ fat ones
Hands up like ransom! When you come into my show
On the mic I just foam cuz I'm on the mic and raving
Coming in like I’m M80, no it’s not no grits and gravy
Not no slim shady or either a Patrick Swayze
But I be breaking point so apologies if I annoy
I be straight actin’ split personality, you mad at me?
Cuz I’m doing this shit so admirably
I’m just another one that’s refusing to be a casualty
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3. |
THIS TOWN
03:03
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[Intro: Valle]
Now here today
Just another kid from South Central LA
At the end of the day I’m just tryna get paid
Just so I can be made while my conscious gets laid
WHAT THE FUCK DID I SAY?!
[Verse 1: Valle]
I’m like a fly in molasses when I’m sitting in traffic
To myself, I be asking, ‘is it worth all this madness’
Tryna hit a lick and come up by the time I see the sun up
Just so I can have a 1up make me feel like something was won
Vanity or calamity, cuz people still going to be mad at me
It be happening naturally so I’m doing it casually
Put my trust in the Universe
Watch me blossom like junipers, middle fingers to Lucifer
Cuz I'm coming like Jupiter like I was sent from space
Like the Sayan race, on days I’m out of place
Because my thought keep on racing cuz I be contemplating
‘If I just steal for the taking’
Saying fuck rap racing cuz
[Pre-Chorus: Valle & Aster Mari]
When it comes to that work know I’m down to roll
(Down to roll)
When it comes to the tree shit I’m down to blow
(Down to blow)
One thing that you should know
What glitters ain’t gold better reap what you sow
Tell that to someone broke cuz they wouldn’t even know
Before I hit the door I'm letting you know
(Im just letting you know)
Fuck yo judgments and fuck yo assumptions
The beat keeps bumping let get into something
[Chorus: Aste Mari]
This town’s gunna knock your ass on the ground and
This town’s gunna leave you there down and out
It’s a beautiful thing what you can be
In this town
In this town
In this town
In this town
[Verse 3: Valle]
I want money and honey
Shit I want people to love me
And I don’t wanna keep running but if I have to go
Im taking blunts to my dome, 3-2 I’m in my zone
Im working down to the bone cuz that’s the product of the story
Of an LA minority yelling ‘Fuck authority’
This world is ours im talking Earth not Mars because
They place bars in more than prison cells to live in cells cuz you know
When the price be right for you to live a good life but you got no education
Different dollars you obtaining something different that you chasing
But dammit oh well if I gotta see blue just for me to be true
Then fuck it I’ll pay dues
[Pre-Chorus: Valle & Aster Mari]
When it comes to that work know I’m down to roll
(Down to roll)
When it comes to the tree shit I’m down to blow
(Down to blow)
One thing that you should know
What glitters ain’t gold better ‘reap what you sow’
Tell that to someone broke cuz they wouldn’t even know
Before I hit the door im letting you know
(Im just letting you know)
Fuck yo judgments and fuck yo assumptions
The beat keeps bumping let get into something
[Chorus: Aste Mari]
This town’s gunna knock your ass on the ground and
This town’s gunna leave you there down and out
It’s a beautiful thing what you can be
In this town
In this town
In this town
In this town
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4. |
Elevators
03:41
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[Verse 1: Valle]
It’s a hard knock life but that ain’t nothing new
I look at people ‘round me and don’t know what the fuck to do
I be on some new shit but I swear to keep it true
Rendezvous at the studio right around 2
Fuck a middleman cuz I don’t want a cash advance
Before money it’s a craft but they do they really understand
Every night we seeing hands we go back to the lab
To pick up the pen and pad
I hope they like me for who I am cuz
[Pre-Chorus: Valle]
I’m on an elevator and I’m only going up
Yeah you know the same kid now I’m showing up
Never been a bust only just ‘bout to bust
Through the roof, in the sky, just can't get enough
90018 in my chucks
Damn we done made it this far
They always use to say ‘damn kid you got bars’
I tell ‘em I’m ok shit I just be working hard
[Chorus: Valle]
No I ain’t tryna be a Superman
But where I’m going I ain’t looking back
No I ain’t tryna be a Superman
But where I’m going I ain’t looking back
No I ain’t tryna be a Superman
Cuz where I’m going I ain’t looking back
No I ain’t tryna be a Superman
Cuz where I’m going I ain’t looking back
[Verse 2: Valle]
Caught up thinking bout past regrets do I resent my negligence for better sense
Wishing days were better spent
Took a long time for me to find my benevolence
‘Cause this city from the bottom could really turn you malevolent
So I’m voicing my resonance just so I can be resonant
And I thank God for music cuz it helped in my reticence
So I’m coming in pestilent just know that I’m petulant and we gunna get real high
So its gunna get turbulent but don’t you question my etiquette
Or what I do to pay my rent. what makes you so heaven sent?
You perfect model citizen, you can catch my discipline
I be fucking fidgeting as my plot keeps on thickening
With metaphors and synonyms
I be procreating orchestrating I be elevated
And I ain’t getting tired cuz I’m refusing to be caged in
I’m the raisin in the sun but my story’s far from done
Because I’m speaking with my tongue
And that’s bigger than any gun
To that bullet make you go hush?
So you willing to push your luck?
For yo head to get lead struck now I’m saying what the fuck
Now I think that’s hella sus
So you better find your love cuz when it’s all said and done
You may not ever get another one
[Pre-Chorus 2: Valle]
Just a soul up on the beat is all I’ll be
Just a soul up on the beat that’s all I ever really need
You can catch me rolling weed I need to blow to steam
And I’ll be chasing clouds cuz I always been about
But if we prosper together we’ll make the future proud
Because the time is of the essence and the essence is what’s now
So put hands together cuz more hands the better
We gone get through any weather so that we can shine forever
[Chorus: Valle]
No I ain’t tryna be a Superman
But where I’m going I ain’t looking back
No I ain’t tryna be a Superman
But where I’m going I ain’t looking back
No I ain’t tryna be a Superman
Cuz where I’m going I ain’t looking back
No I ain’t tryna be a Superman
Cuz where I’m going I ain’t looking back
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5. |
Lucid
03:42
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[Intro: Valle]
Now tell me what’s a dream and tell me what is real
People arguing over bills or people fighting over meals
People popping pills just so they could cop a feel
I forget that money kills but I gotta pay my bills
[Verse 1: Valle]
F.D.R shit, this is my new deal and
Only time will reveal everything that is concealed so I put into music
Past aggress included, I wouldn’t be the same had I never been secluded
I wouldn’t be the same had I not been bout to lose it
All them days at shitty jobs, co-workers think you odd
Everything is for a reason that’s why I be writing songs
But ain't nobody perfect and we can correct our wrongs
But we was brought here together by the power of a God
And the laws of attraction yet sometimes have they flaws cuz
Shitty people for some reason goin’ be shitty people
But no matter what I was told nobody is beneath you
Its all just a product and how they gone perceive you
Some people think you bullshittin’ some people goin’ believe you
But they really need you and you don’t really need them
No need to be friends and we just pretend
[Chorus: Ambiguous Culture]
Everyday is all your energy
So just smile
Cuz you know its all your energy
All the time now
Everyday is all your energy
So just smile
Cuz you know its all your energy
All the time now
[Verse 2: Valle]
Chuck Taylors on up in 6th grade
I remember washing cars with Paul
Just so we can get paid that was back in them chirp days
And hitting girls on AIM, until that MySpace came tryna get on their top 8
Poetry was my first taste cuz it helped me imagine
The beauty of what could happen cuz life could be like magic
But the beauty is in the traveling and less the destination cuz
I be testing patience when I’m writing raps and pacin’
Looking at me like I’m heinous cuz my time ain't being wasted
Battling all my fears with my blood sweat and tears
No matter how many years the kid inside will never die
Even if they criticize they can never kill my high
My shit is natural spitting bars that’s factual
What is impractical has potential to be actual
Peace and love is something that should really be so casual
But in this world were living in that shit is really just so radical
[Chorus: Ambiguous Culture]
Everyday is all your energy
So just smile
Cuz you know its all your energy
All the time now
Everyday is all your energy
So just smile
Cuz you know its all your energy
All the time now
[Bridge: Valle]
You smell like my past regrets
And you smile like you want your check so bad
So find your way to it
Find your way to it
Climb your way to it
[Outro: Valle]
I’ve been thinking what’s the power of a dollar
Trying to get these hoes to holler
Ambitions of a baller tryna be a shot caller cuz
Our future sons and daughter are the niches in the armor but energy will last longer
Than the power of any dollar so I’m shining my light warmer
Cuz the cold will turn you over next thing you know the shows over
But uhh...
Fuck that no
We ain’t having that
Tell me brody DJ M-O we bought to bring it back!
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