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Prodigal Sonshine

by Irie Givens

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ruptzy Strong authenticity in the variety of themes, revolutionary and thought provoking lyrics, as well as a surreal production invoking a state of "flow". Very easy to feel the synchronicity and universal vibe as the artist takes us through the every day struggles of spiritual existence. Favorite track: 5. 永世長存 Live Forever (ft. EatFish吃魚 & MCHateDiss黑帝斯) [PROD: Restraint]].
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[Alan Watts] There is nobody impartial who can decide between all the religions because, more or less, everybody has been in one way or another influenced by one of them. So - if the Church says the Bible is true - it finally comes down to you: are you going to believe the Church? Or aren't you? ... That may be your opinion and you are at liberty to hold it. I don't agree with you. [Irie Givens, Verse 1] I'm the dot in the dao, talk to me now You're so used to talking me down, talking my style Here's my thoughts in denial: split your dreams in half Talk about foul... I was thinkin' bout all the things we had in common - Like I'm on top, you Top Ramen You string theory strung leery all across the amygdala Make a decision to Muhammad 'fore I come finish ya My black hand side'll take your Yang and your Yin from ya Fuck an enema, enemies up from Nineveh Could separate your head from your leg, nxgga, at minimum. It's fuck me? I give a fuck unless you finna come But I'ma whip it out and wet it up before you get a pump Where I'm from, get a gun mean you getting jumped Throw them hands, let me see 'em You gettin' Punk'd like I'm all in Avril Lavinge's DMs Carpe-fuckin'-Diem 'bout you 'never liked my girlfriend' in your captions Bust a fire ass nut then I Ashton [Hook] I know, I know I'm so hostile I blow my 'dro so obnoxious I don't ride slow My flow nitro This a Midnight Run, I'm UNCONSCIOUS [Irie Givens, Verse 2] Man, I wish you nxggas had daddies so I ain't had to go son you on the mic All fucking night for your claps and your likes And I wish the white kids had bigger problems to come relate to me Then feeling like a nxgga 'cause, "Bro, it's wage slavery: Nxgga." Don't rap to me like I'm the racist If you're gonna b.tch, make a switch with the poor and the rich Whatever get more clicks, 'cause let's face it: Joyner said the same shit and ain't nobody say shit But I'm a rapper, I'm not 'sposed to be right! Said I don't got to be the way, I'm just supposed to be light I spark the brain that change the world and shit Only go as deep as the surface is 'fore I fuck around and trigger up some nervousness SKRT, skeeting and swerving shit - The Soul Plane got some turbulence 'cause the flyest rappers fly you into furnaces! I'm Abed-Negro and my fuckin' purpose is To stand you fucking stans out of Salem 'fore you go burn a b.tch. [Hook] I know, I know I'm so hostile I blow my 'dro so obnoxious I don't ride slow My flow nitro This a Midnight Run, I'm UNCONSCIOUS [Alan Watts] (laughs) Now... you've become very aware of this... If you ever do momentarily slip into some sort of a mystical experience You become aware of... of this tremendous gamesmanship going on And you see it as continuous with all sorts of cosmic games that are going on Of creatures eating other creatures up. And... uh... [Irie Givens] I don't shed my skin just to bleed, so I don't let the wind tremble me, no! I don't shed my skin just to bleed, so I'm gon' get my win. [Hook] I know, I know I'm so hostile I blow my 'dro so obnoxious I don't ride slow My flow nitro This a Midnight Run, I'm UNCONSCIOUS [Alan Watts] ...you'll realize very clearly that the state of development that you are in now Is no better or no worse than anybody else's state!
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[Verse] I'm late but I'm here, case you been waitin' And I don't have no great presentation, I was just flakin' From the "When you finna drop your mixtape"'s and fakin' my statements After I drop this college, I'm late to my registration But every cypher, been the best man-in since Peyton You fuck around and fumble or mumble and watch me take it And I don't have to wet it, my handles could break the paint in Hell yeah I switched the game up like I'm Mike Jordan, but I take the bases And yeah I got a mic on me, but it changes places With a light bag and a range of phases inside my basement What I keep inside, the content gon' remain nameless That's how I'm killing shit that I waived from my interfaces You nxggas copped a stand and hopped all the way off to races None of your legs could brace it I'ma make you hoes and hoteps embrace it You SoundCloud rappers is so amazing Being so lame when I lapped you that I ain't notice you clout chasing If you get played in my presence, ain't 'cause you buy it It's 'cause I'm pulling your card for you, you wanna try it Nobody in these bars adore you, you fucking light it If the body in your bars ain't on you, you fucking lyin' But hip-hop ain't dead, it's a book of life with writing And what's Heaven if we don't let some of the light in So come, sing your Hosannas then make way for the starkest Titan Like I'm heavy with the bars and got Cyborg looking light skinned I've come to take my lyricism to its rightful Literary heights amongst the men and them fucking mice books. And maybe I can't sell a million copies But a million couldn't copy the punches left when I write hooks. At the end of every testament the people fear doom And God clear the room And promise them real soon that they're all gonna make it Then they come down on they shrooms But Irie Givens trippin' through religion starting June:
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[TD Jakes] I don't know, but I got a feeling somethings gon' happen in this place this morning. I say I got a feeling somethings gonna happen this morning, I got a feeling somethings gonna happen in here this morning. They asked me at the pastor's meeting, they say "What in the world did you do to have so many men in your Church? Your Church is 50% men: that's unheard of!" And I tell them that's not what I did, it's what life did. Because life will make you get up out of the bed on Sunday morning And pull your britches on And say "No, you ain't going without me. I'm going to the house of the Lord!" Life will bring you from North Dallas to South Dallas to get a word from the Lord- Life will make white folks worship with black folks and brown folks and red folks - whatever! Life will make the judge sit down beside the criminal and say JUST IN I AM!
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[Irie Givens, Verse 1] This the renaissance of Ahmadinejad Ah Shalom Alaikum, Alaikum Shalom Like I’m the fuckin' bomb "Oh, you fuckin' wrong!" Don’t be fuckin' square; I’m just fuckin' round. Ain’t no fuckin' man down Stand down With ya nananana now, I ain’t lovin’ it Back to the sad clown Get to stuffin' it Have a coke and a smile 'Fore you suck a dick I don’t fuck with your legion I don't touch the pigs cause they teeming And jumping off the cliff for no reason They showing off the ribs with no season. Said I don’t fuck with your legion I don't touch the pig cause they teeming They jumping off the cliff for no reason Saying y’all the shit but don’t mean it: Jesus! [Hook] How you livin'? How you dealin'? If you illin', bring the noise: Irie Givens, I be chillin', highly livin' with them boys. Fuck yo feelings bout my rhythms: I got lyrics, I got poise I get ignant when I’m pissed and bust like Griffin's in Detroit Get yo Lipton, when I’m spittin', I be rippin', you be spilling Holy shittin' like some chitterlings with them Grits from mama kitchen Get yo glimpses and yo kisses 'fore I finish All my sweet swine swindling God done witnessed, next I’m jumping off a cliff and- [Irie Givens, Verse 2] I been a good lil' boy this year, In the hood, even played with the boys who squeal 'Cause if I should be afraid of them boys on wheels Then how I could be a man, not a boy for real? See I could fuck with blue blood, it’s love until The gov. concealed the Crip who killed Phil Castille Fuck Leviticus? they fucked themselves Leviticus 11 told me not to fuck with 12 - I could still feel the steel and hear the shells So - I don’t fuck with your legion I don't touch the pigs cause they teeming And jumping off the cliff for no reason They showing off the ribs with no season. Said I don’t fuck with your legion I don't touch the pig cause they teeming They jumping off the cliff for no reason Saying y’all the shit but don’t mean it: Jesus! [Hook] How you livin'? How you dealin'? If you illin', bring the noise: Irie Givens, I be chillin', highly livin' with them boys. Fuck yo feelings bout my rhythms: I got lyrics, I got poise I get ignant when I’m pissed and bust like Griffin's in Detroit Get yo Lipton, when I’m spittin', I be rippin', you be spilling Holy shittin' like some chitterlings with them Grits from mama kitchen Get yo glimpses and yo kisses 'fore I finish All my sweet swine swindling God done witnessed, next I’m jumping off a cliff and-
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[Verse1-吃魚] Survive in danger 物競天擇 萬獸搶奪一個王位 是誰訂的規則 人身在叢~林 豈有別條路可以選擇 Ladies and Gentlemen. Welcome to THE REAL WORLD 適者生存 不 適 者 淘 汰 藏不住 那些冒牌 我試著生存 把 自 尊 拋 開 搭建我的砲台 Haters虎視眈眈 他們眼紅妒忌 Haters隨時犯案 當你一不注意 所以 小心腳步 以防行蹤暴露 他們隨時報復 危機到處 小老鼠趕快跑路 你的生命正在倒數 當我獅子大開口 你的未來 是死亡 我稱霸森林登上王位 成為 獅子王 [Hook] Came from the bottom to drop out the ceiling We hop in and kill it Said I am the realest, HateDiss is spittin, Fish out the water - he wet up, we drippin And I'm Irie Givens, we lettin' em know: We gon live forever We gon live forever We gon live forever [Verse2-Irie Givens] Boy I spit that good English! Irie get the whole hood to sing it, I Never seen a gun in 701, but I let em all hum My 'brrrt' the meanest I don't need a clip, my clique could bring it Swinging out the whip, what’s the ish they singing? Tell em: We THE ARMY Tell a trick get off me My 'reca palm Got your lady fiendin', ah? My 檳榔 been dumb, huh? You want some, come get some 你不需要醫生 I got just what you need son.... Here’s my villains prescription: We the illest written in the description, Swim with the Fish if you spittin' them writtens Then Hate-a-Diss make a kid swallow they sentence like: 然後是我 right now 大家好,你能叫我 Irie Givens 在這裡 或是爸爸,都可以 說英文, but I'm still a resident Tell Tsai Ying Wen I’m the President And this the election Procession, I'm guessin' I’m flexing my blessings And ending recessions! Like: [Hook] Came from the bottom to drop out the ceiling We hop in and kill it And I am the realest, HateDiss is spittin, Fish out the water - he wet up, we drippin' And I'm Irie Givens, we lettin' em know: We gon live forever We gon live forever We gon live forever [Verse3-黑帝斯] 埋藏 在 危機之中 難 免成驚弓之 鳥直搗心 中被他人輕易命 中 要害-負面已經超載 就算熱水燒開 物資匱乏也要將它飲乾 要小心自 己的餘力別 被他人輕易擰乾 精氣頂穿 WHO! 做壞事後假裝正氣凜然 把真相隱瞞 對著你玩 完蛋 當局者迷 得 團團轉 轉轉轉喔 幹 逼這麼緊 要讓 人怎 麼呼 吸 你 把我搞得很慘 不會 變得比較 有 出息 生存在困 境 才看透人 心 什麼是人 性 他不講仁 義 沒道理 什麼-都要 二選一 不是天堂就是地獄 當個奴隸 (也得努力) 當個英雄 (沒那個命) 就做你自己 做你自己 你自己是誰不該被他人定義 [Hook] Came from the bottom to drop out the ceiling We hop in and kill it And I am the realest, HateDiss is spittin, Fish out the water - he wet up, we drippin' And I'm Irie Givens, we lettin' em know: We gon' live forever We gon' live forever We gon' live forever!
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[Irie Givens, Verse 1] She say she do it for the head flush Then legs bust up on the floor, she feelin bed bugs Itchin' for the next jug, or the next club Sipping from the next cup - okay, next cut: She say she ready for next drug And she won’t ever forget you just for the next thug She say this her best love, & you believe her 'cause your legs touch Ready set, bump in case the feds rush! And then... You never did it but you read 'nuff You fully in it even when you never said much And she committed, you can feel that she can feel it Hit the ceiling in a minute then forget it all till the next cut... [Hook] Tell me you just fell in love too Tell me you just fell in love too [Hook] Tell me you just fell in love too Tell me you just fell in love too [Verse 2] Damn, I wish that I remembered what his name was We shared the same love plus we did the same drugs Plus I think he famous Not that it matters but who said a couple cameras ever change us?
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[Irie Givens, Verse 1] I feel like Melania Trump I be my best from the jump I pump my chest on the front Whenever I’m in the spread That’s why these nxggas with money love me, bump me to the front Wear "Ion't care" on my back, long as I’m getting my bread: I’m eating, you tweeting so y'all don’t get what I said, Y’all round here geeking and tweaking cause I don’t talk round the feds, And I don’t speak 'less I mean it, that’s why I don't got to say it, And my greetings is fleeting like ODB out the projects To cop this government money, tell 'em thanks for my closet Hop up back in the whip and get back to stackin' my chips Don’t take no crap from the gits Don’t even crack my own whip Tell big boy run up on Bambi daddy and craft me a switch Like they gon' catch me, some shit? Don’t have me spaz like the Brits Y’all couldn’t even pass my mans when he was passed through ya fence And this ain’t even my area, heard that This is America Well I rolled up in here and I bagged America’s bxtch [Hook] (Throw some D's on that-) Let me flex, Let me flex, I’ll be best, I’ll be best (Throw some D's on that-) Let me flex, Let me flex, I’ll be best, I’ll be best (Throw some D's on that-) Let me flex, let me flex, I’ll be best And I’m keeping my promises: treat people with respect. (Throw some D's on that-) Let me flex, Let me flex, I’ll be best, I’ll be best (Throw some D's on that-) Let me flex, Let me flex, I’ll be best, I’ll be best (Throw some D's on that-) Let me flex, let me flex, I’ll be best And I’m keeping my promises: treat people with respect. [Verse 2] Y’all on my set and my nuts and my neck for the fuck of a check Play with my fame but don’t play by my name when you pay for my plane 'fore I fuck up the jet Perth in the morning then Rome with the homies, might swerve through Nairobi to fuck with the left But y’all couldn’t cap me; they nappy but clapped me all happy to catch me be Jackie the flesh ...Lemme catch me a breath, which city we headed to next? Pull my card: I got black and a green in the vest, I’m rollin' up clean to the decks Heard my nigga got caught in the storm but if he don’t pull up we ain’t stressed I still got niggas on dial who could lay the pipe down fore I get to unbutton the dress It’s only which button to press? ...Should I check if we fucking through SMS? Two phones like I’m Hillary, literally got way more than one address to the flex Where should I cop some chains or some stains for the neck? Only make it rain where I get it wet. Dry texts for these lames on the internet Tell 'em be at rest, cause I'ma be my fuckin- [Hook] (Throw some D's on that-) Let me flex, Let me flex, I’ll be best, I’ll be best (Throw some D's on that-) Let me flex, Let me flex, I’ll be best, I’ll be best (Throw some D's on that-) Let me flex, let me flex, I’ll be best And I’m keeping my promises: treat people with respect. (Throw some D's on that-) Let me flex, Let me flex, I’ll be best, I’ll be best (Throw some D's on that-) Let me flex, Let me flex, I’ll be best, I’ll be best (Throw some D's on that-) Let me flex, let me flex, I’ll be best And I’m keeping my promises: treat people with respect.
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[Verse 1] Only thing can ensure closure is infinity See me to the end I put some green up in that synergy Grind it up you get some hard dick Makin love is art, shit... I get a stroke in, you could say you got a friend in me Ima get to strokin' soft to hard like when we frenemies Ima get to strokin' like you need a paramedic please I might get to chokin': you can’t breathe and I can’t breathe! Let me be just like a sheep, 'cause I'm a-breed, 'till I can’t breathe [Hook] Let me in your ocean so I wake up in yo dreams Let me get this motion in the way I get my cream Let me get some lotion 'fore I get all between, LORD Let me get to soakin': Hallelujah! Now I’m clean Let me in your ocean so I wake up in yo dreams Let me get this motion in the way I get my cream Let me get some lotion 'fore I get all between, LORD Let me get to soakin': Hallelujah! Now I’m clean [Verse 2] Truer words ain’t ever been so slow to get so spoken Wasn’t jokin' when I focused up on floatin' to yo boat and Opened up a conversation bout you staying over something Like a Sunday in the river... or a Sabbath on the mall... Gave a weekend; what you thinking? 'bout "you wanna have 'em all," You ain’t even really thinkin' that you tweaking? Not at all? If you wanna be the reason that I wanna have a god, Show me something every season not only when I Fall. Let me in your ocean so I wake up in yo dreams Let me get this motion in the way I get my cream Let me get some lotion 'fore I get all between, LORD Let me get to soakin': Hallelujah! Now I’m clean [Hook] Let me in your ocean so I wake up in yo dreams Let me get this motion in the way I get my cream Let me get some lotion 'fore I get all between, LORD Let me get to soakin': Hallelujah! Now I’m clean Let me in your ocean so I wake up in yo dreams Let me get this motion in the way I get my cream Let me get some lotion 'fore I get all between, LORD Let me get to soakin': Hallelujah! Now I’m clean
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[Boddhi Sativa, Intro] If you see yourself as part of the whole, Would you dwell here in safety? Where else would you go? If you love yourself, as all under Heaven, The World can safely into your hands, be given. [Boddhi Sativa & Irie Givens] Into your hand, be given. [Hook] Chilly Wind Don’t Blow through my Town Can’t Get Out This Mood, all this sonnin' got me down Mississippi Goddamned, Florida heat don’t fuck around Nina make a Sinnerman feet fear to leave the ground: Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood to understand my sound & since My Love is Gone, this a Work Song now - [Verse 1] Fuck it, I should have been a pianist: "Yo Nate, what fucking key is this?" 'Cause all I'm tryna do is rap and now I gotta sing and shit Let my freedom ring to get A bar from out my armory To lob up on the harmony The rest of y’all gon' waste ya clip on all these feeds to talk about these Robberies you never did, Babes who never hit ya crib, And tragedies to add to ya personalities Yeah it’s liiit -erature, your caricatures of rappers, clowns Comic book characters, pass ya panels - you puffin' clouds? Shit I’m glad Slim Jesus was never ducking rounds. If he was black you nxggas be bumpin' [Slim] Jesus now? Guess that’s the hood and how we hold us down We say we kings then stick the thorns up in each other’s crowns, Then Pilate wash his hands: we paid for tickets! Sell our souls to Lucifers trade, then blame the bigots Shouldn’t have gave us “nxgga”; shouldn’t have made us nxggas; Well why you stayed a nxgga? Cause they still pay for nxggas 10 Million Plays, my nxgga? We gettin paid my nxgga. Go get your paper nxgga. [Hook] Chilly Wind Don’t Blow through my Town Can’t Get Out This Mood, all this sonnin' got me down Mississippi Goddamned, [Bridge] ...the hook, I ain’t gotta fish for clout I got too many verses left to air out So I let my hair out and put my palm to my nuts And cock 'em up just like my cock could bust a glock off the cuff [Verse 2] I’m honest enough to say that I was soft to the touch To be molded like molten gold in spite of god and his dust I dropped a rib to drop a kid and now I hardened us up I put the apple in my throat but you was all in her guts And then you callin' me the bitch because I’m not with the fuss? You eat the fruit or eat a dick, I don’t think God give a fuck! I think the way we make machines is God’s regarding for us, To execute to the extreme the things we harbor like lust: He blew his dreams into our brains, we artificial as fuck So I used the rhyme just a second time cause nothing new since genocide & Genesis: life is gon' loop forever, nxgga, then it’s this: Sisyphus up the precipice. We all go around: Intelligent monkeys washing our nuts in the sound Somebody did it before like somebody doin it now. When I was six I took a dip and wondered what if I drowned? I held my head under the water felt the silence profound And ever since I felt the pinch of demons pryin' my crown Cryin aloud, "Why you thinking 'bout it? Try it you clown!" Then I got pissed and put the pills inside to quiet 'em down Like was I sick or was I living too outside of my dome? Having out of body experiences, but crying for home This life insidious to tell you we was dyin' alone (We ain't dying alone). [Verse 3] I used to think that God would stay up in the sky, I was wrong So when I tried to die I thought I’d spite her just like her own Ask her why she had forsaken me like she hadn’t known Abram wouldn’t have killed his son, and then the message was felt How you gon' body somebody you can’t embody ya self? Life’s a bitch and then you s'posed to wanna die so what else? Body yourself because you wouldn’t body somebody else? So I let Jesus have his role, and Saul could have his road and Lazarus have his hole and Lucifer have his goal, And gave myself but a song and some work to go sing along As I’m steady pushing my Rock like I’ll miss it when it’s gone 'Cause death and taxes are certain. Life and work have surprises So if you wanna [redacted], take it from one who tried it: The meaning of life is love and how we dying to find it. Afeni Shakur was right for sure: how we die should define it.
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[Kanye West, Intro] (Interview segment, not reprinted for copyright) [Verse 1] Wanted to tell you something important Something deluxe and potent The homies told me you won’t get Nothing if you ain’t touching on What you puffin' or smokin', Tokin', takin' or chokin' on: "Irie, you just a rapper! Tell us what you been snortin', cause We just wanna relate to you Tell us what you been takin', we Taken all that you taken to Take it, and we gon' take it too. Life is so situational, Simulations of placement, so Stay in yo situation: I learn from the way you play and flow." [Hook] Rappers do repetition 'cause listeners never listen: Pastors do praise in rhythm, Pass you the prayer to give 'em So when you spit it the message ain’t hidden Now you forgiven 'cause he Mastered how to tell a god the words that mean precision. Yo... [J. Cole, Bridge] (Interview segment, not reprinted for copyright) I said: Rappers do repetition 'cause listeners never listen: Pastors do praise in rhythm, Pass you the prayer to give 'em So when you spit it the message ain’t hidden Now you forgiven 'cause he Mastered how to tell a god the words that mean precision. Yo... [Verse 2] Just 'cause yo feet hurt don’t mean you doin' the research: What’s your epistemology? Research design philosophy? Honestly we can get on the mic and think we got policies... Yeah you seen the world in spurts, and I don’t think we the worst For preaching to the people, but worse, the purpose of rappin': If people didn’t know they problems, pastors would've went platinum Creflo should get his jet though if granny don’t wanna let go The halo she putting over him: none of us really special. He hurt you over your virtues, I’m just sharing my vices You droppin' paper for all my failures? I raise my prices They slaughtered my forefathers for they spices, so how we lost? You Bleed us like they did Jesus, you squeeze us to see the sauce Thought we was made in His likeness? How these men turn to mices And stammer over my grammar? I guess that syntax suffices... We hear the most in our fragments And feel the fullest in slices; We straight when we know who crooked Just live and you’ll be the livest, Yeah. [Kanye West, Bridge] (Interview segment, not reprinted for copyright) [Hook] I said: Rappers do repetition cause listeners never listen Scrub up over the surface to glisten over the glistenin’ We told no money meant no problems but also had a shiny suit That’s why we put it in the hook so you won’t have to go fishin’ That’s Jesus mission: we follow what we was given Even if we up and down like the contra to all his Diction I thought we s'posed to shoot but apparently I been missin' Move in ways that they don’t understand and cheat the game to win it. [J. Cole, Bridge] (Interview segment, not reprinted for copyright) [Hook] Rappers do repetition cause listeners never listen But itches always do itchin If all I did was "b" a little I’d make a killin' But I’m an a-hole, see me in your k-holes, kissin' ya cognition, like I love you even though you was born sinnin' J.Cole the way we power trippin' just to get like the shower drippin' Wet up like the bull markets or Pippen when the DOW was illin' Then corona cooled us over, asked us “son, how you feelin?” Heat it up [Kanye West, Bridge] (Interview segment, not reprinted for copyright) [Hook] I said: Rappers do repetition cause listeners never listen But itches always do itchin' If all I did was "b" a little I’d make a killin' But I’m an asshole, see me in your k-holes, kissin' ya cognition, like I love you even though you was born sinnin' J.Cole the way we power trippin' just to get like the shower drippin' Wet up like the bull markets or Pippen when the DOW was illin' Then corona cooled us over, asked us “son, how you feelin?” Heat it up [J. Cole, Bridge] (Interview segment, not reprinted for copyright) [Hook] Rappers do repetition 'cause listeners never listen And all you want to do is go hard, but you don't care about our feelings. So rappers do repetition 'cause listeners never listen So tell me how is you feeling when you singing these lyrics?
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[Irie Givens, Intro] Na na, nah nah, nuh Na na, nah nah, nuh Nananananuh Ow, ow, uhoh- [Verse 1] I make good sounds So let yo hood down Then bring yo hood round Let’s start the barbecue We got two ounce Of some that good loud And packs of that good owl So what you wanna do? Trust it’s no stems no seeds Just ten box of beef We eating after we chiefin': Both the flavor good But first we gotta roll up the paper good And fire up the neighborhood Homies from off the streets could get it too [Irie Givens, Bridge] Cause this finna be the spot to play I finally found some faith up on my block today Hey So let the people say preach Cause this the height of my speech And I just wanted to reach out and give y’all a spot to pray. [Message the Lioness, Hook] I know that things get so heavy I'll open your mind if you let me Don't trip on the past, keep it steady 'Cause I got you, and you got me You got me? Never putting my faith on temporary Life is too short, it can get scary I'ma live 'till I die without worry! [Irie Givens, Verse 2] Shout out to Cheikhou, yo- I heard my dawg don't touch the swine no more Come take a plate, you'll stay divine for sure Already know we got that kosher, halal But still got pork and kabobs Corn on the cobs and we loaded with sauce Jamaican patties from the granny with the shop up off of 75th Her nephew Ray brought the Wray and Nephew we ready to sip And yo - on no petty shit, I know we can’t play R. Kelly no more But I’m tryna step in the name of love out here, damn it, so whoever on the aux YOU BETTER be lit [Irie Givens, Bridge] Cause this finna be the spot to play I finally found some faith up on my block today Hey So let the people salaam alaykum Like the peak of Ramadan with speakers on Let's lift up every voice and pray Cause this finna be the spot to play I finally found some faith up on my block today Hey So let the people salaam alaykum Like the peak of Ramadan with speakers on Let's lift up every voice and pray [Message the Lioness, Hook] I know that things get so heavy I'll open your mind if you let me Don't trip on the past, keep it steady 'Cause I got you, and you got me You got me? Never putting my faith on temporary Life is too short, it can get scary I'ma live 'till I die without worry! [Irie Givens, Bridge] I don’t care if you don’t like them I’m gonna invite them Ya better let the past get past! Or y’all gon' have to fight then Minute round of excitement Whoever getting last, get last Oooh, If y'all fine now, aight then No time to spite them The cypher bout to start up and spazz! If you coming up too light then Pass up to my white friend The mic, cause trust the homie could smash Yo! [Myles Optimystic, Verse 3] I'm like Oooh, Deja Vu Something feeling real familiar, so how about you Turn the speakers up to make them bump 'till 2:22 AM, we're playing all the latest, greatest records that spin, woo~ The smoke in the air - not just the grill, you smell me Louder then the music and there's nothing that a pig could tell me It's all good vibes in my tribe, we know our rights And if it comes down to it, all we ever pack is that light, so Spark your brightest flames as we maintain And simultaneously ride the tide Create a new wave that you say Is right for humankind right here in this day and time [Irie Givens & Myles Optimystic] But first you must look inside [Myles Optimystic] But first you must look inside: There's no reason to hide, the gift you have within is divine I got a feeling we could find faith if we open our eyes wide You always have a choice to question why And if you question, you may find there is nothing to find. [Irie Givens, Interlude] I know, I know: We are the World, We are the Children But you know what else? We are able to get ignant with it too! Now I got two white friends, you look at MDDM- [MDDM] Why is Spongebob the main character, but like... Patrick... He's the star? [Irie Givens] ... Because he's a square like yo ass If you don't pass the- [MDDM, Verse 4] Choking from all of the smoke Spirits, fillet and a coke Feet up, we laughing and joke It's me, my homies and folks. Somewhere face down in a pool Got me high acting a fool Red eyes, starting to drool Pulled a table to stool Bro in the corner rolling a zoot Some of that purple Gorilla Glue Pass to the left, got in the queue Came to my turn, lit up this Jew Pass it again, pass out of 10 Puff, puff, pass, and I'm feeling the zen Woke up and then Picked up the phone Did it again Did it again- [Irie Givens, Recessional] End of Prodigal Sonshine :)

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Congratulations! You've made a solid audiovisual decision here, and I welcome you to this transformative work:

Prodigal Sonshine was originally named "Trippin' Thru Religion", and told the journey of a Prodigal Son breaking out of his determinist canon and into that space Between God & the 4th Wall: freedom, civil apostasy, enlightenment. It felt not too dissimilar from my own post-graduate journey of running from everything that had raised me in the United States thus far. I had the time of my life recording this over the past two years in Taiwan, where love from myself and others gave me the clarity to think about where home was, and why the answer was not "where my peace is." Fortunately, the journey unfolded into Prodigal Sonshine, and the album changed with me from pride & wealth in solitude to peace with my part in this "home."

"浪子回头金不换"
A Prodigal Son Returned Home is Worth More than Gold~

[P.S. Check out all the videos from this project here: www.youtube.com/channel/UC__nZx4voN_hzFJGa9Sf7gQ]

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released September 11, 2020

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Irie Givens Denver, Colorado

Irie Givens - Highly Livin':

Multidisciplinary emcee, DJ and storyteller repping Caribbean roots, Miami flavors & 我的台灣朋友。

Catch me rambling 'bout God, the Fibonacci and my feelings~~

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