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Life Is Change

by Arkan

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1.
1997 04:11
This is my story my life my dreams Can you relate I'm lost at sea Eyes clouded by all these trees Now I see how reality breathes May 97 swept past 28 days All the same life went an gave my name Deep in the forests and swamps I'd lay Coyote screams leak in window frames, Learned nature of life at an early age The good die young weakness is prey You wanna live forever an escape fate Our dreams lucid so forget that display, Don't charge the game listen an wait Hate lights up neon in bars charades Don't mime others actions dispel fake Empty promises see through if it's made, What do I make from that? Just hate You don't have cash so we'll do a trade Your life for an opportunity to elevate Survivals built off blood banked This is my story my life my dreams Can you relate I'm lost at sea Eyes clouded by all these trees Now I see how reality breathes Growin up rap took me at once Parents never got it rhythms stuck Lyrics spoke to my soul cleared head of dust Polished morals so they shine from rust, Moving forward one way my engine chugs Smoking weed at 13 breathing harms lungs Swallowing smog lookin down so smug, Believe they're better trustin only their funds If I was rich greens the color I would love Some family had wealth care shown none I got a chip on my shoulder with little trust, Aimin to build a bank invest back in day ones Can't change my past but a future's done Gotta succeed life taught me we live once Pay off parents debts before I turn to dust This is my story my life my dreams Can you relate I'm lost at sea Eyes clouded by all these trees Now I see how reality breathes 97 I was descended from heaven What's life on the other side I question Swear I seen death pass as a vision Sometimes you hear truth if you listen, Sickening some lie sleep on any mission Goals better yourself not run from conditions Feeling like an alien if my nation seditions Who knew acceptance requires petitions, Why's immigrant different to native citizens Havin 1 percentage don't claim a tribal nation Spelunking for gold recording this cave in Stuck in place dreams wither as shades grin, Chasing a connection this societies plastic Bend in frustration in life just remain elastic There's 6 rules to life mains being fantastic Life is Strange open a 3rd eye if it's drastic This is my story my life my dreams Can you relate I'm lost at sea Eyes clouded by all these trees Now I see how reality breathes (x2)
2.
Detroit 03:07
People hate my state and city please I prefer to be underrated when I'm seen So much better when truth's made clean Why lose our identity like other scenes, Sound of my city's more than screams We got hearts of soul that always bleed Crowns of thorn crumbles with dreams Underdog Pistons constantly it seems, I embody a contradiction of my beliefs Lyrics of anger while calling for peace In a direct line to God I'd never speak There's nothing to say I live what I see, Do no evil but in Motown I'm complete Summers cold but love fades in heat Michigan's tetanus for a different breed Guess it's the rust on spoons we eat Relate to me my city's more than death Talking on K/D but life leaves some deaf Spirits can't speak only spread by dread Drink for success rather than mine lead, Respawn spent one chance for success Tadpole to egg society's larva never rest Gotta grow to mine just to go invest Spoken but words will never indent, Paragraph of pain dice cubes for breath Puzzled? Raise spirits quarter what's set Shine against jackals collect what's left Pulling teeth answers always spent, Pay for truth if you can handle the debt Owed honesty never what's ever cent Pennies for thoughts mine this trench Despise corrupt government instead
3.
Activist 03:48
Activist in the trench so many try to blick Can't afford hospital bills leaving us sick Speak out getting beaten all over again Make a stand tortured and killed again, Stuck in this never ending rendition Many act militant under any condition But fall back against any opposition America an Belarus will it ever get fixed The revolution ain't televised This society's on a wild ride Dictators demand an cops comply Choking people strangling life Life's concrete in sprawling steel trees Cracks in this asphalt always bleed Rocks crumbling communities to sleep It's a stones throw away from the elites, From glass houses crushing our speech Dialects restricted by steel toes in streets Don't swallow your words if it costs teeth Ask why they never want you to speak, They'd rather see us kill all as we bleed It's bipolar reality with this personality Don't rush to dirt just to plant seeds It's better ways to check trees & see green, Don't ask for help just to build a monopoly Life ain't a game calculate carefully Diaspora in this beat is life's morality Don't question the method enjoy mortality The revolution ain't televised This society's on a wild ride Dictators demand an cops comply Choking people strangling life Gotta code switch be taken seriously The people like me who speak? Not many Beat down KGB badges always grow Murdering our language I'll make it flow, Why's our language limited to home I swear growing up time moved so slow Now I'm speeding just so love will show Gotta be quick to succeed on this road, Don't be too fast cracking open a coke If you wanna bag success just to blow Package success with an actual goal Your image is pictured if you ever show, Televised because prison is your host Some try to get close for some toasts Others shake hands you're their hope End of the day none will save or cope The revolution ain't televised This society's on a wild ride Dictators demand an cops comply Choking people strangling life Trying to X leaders for waking the sleep Martin to Catholics inspire infallibility They murder for making truth seen Why you think truth won't set scenes, They'd rather choke others life for green The only color here that reigns supreme Privledge to dead presidents is nobility That's why WASP call it blood money, Inherit off sweat from others deeds Why have equality truth's in equity Claim to stand for anothers dreams All while a heel restricts will to breathe, Issue is I can't see in society Blind to others plastic mentality Soulless dreams you chase the greed American dream exists to stifle needs
4.
Humble 03:01
Humble life is change not strange Butterfly effect if jackknifes strain Price of life switches down a blade Cut for life? Don't box in we gravitate, Iron your core tunnel till tremors shake Take light stabs at survival blood reigns Slayer with the metal leads all I ever lay Worms wriggling in dirt hook then prey, Stay clean death notes Light for cheese Suspend disbelief Ryuk a piece in threes L's double up lame leads grip if you speak Line up the shot just to bat when we eat, Soup their brains melting pot to the heat Lighting bars like these it's 300 degrees Recess for peace depress every sheet Cover up facts with me they always sleep Humility is strength pride is great Greed needs green to eat in fate Patience won't give time to wait Gotta do what I do for some change You speed through streets smoking rubber Whaling bitches scream if I gun a stutter Pockets fat got em sobbing as I blubber Call me Brainard mind on green to flubber, Oceans concrete murk clowns who flounder Made man? You clean my mess for power I rock a trident Tryzub up you rushin to cower Little mermaids drowning trying to tower, Wipe the slate clean plottin Robin today Stamp a Red X villainous in visions I take Apprentice to the knight winged with a Drake Masked with fung shway in Shade I'm Slade, Air em out radio support they'll Sway Got starfire raven for light work to change Beast with the dirt Terra bitch with a fade Bodies spud by burying this page Cuban links got necks ready to choke Surf turf just to scarface hope Real money? Dirtier than dope Oil & diamonds bleed but go tote, Get away clean in mink coats Act like ya deadly wit a boast Fried brains then gave a toast Egghead scrambled to break bread, Burnt on the side it's Harvey Dent Two-faced snaked till the wire bent Flipped wit a coin landed on heads Live humble instead Humility is strength pride is great Greed needs green to eat in fate Patience won't give time to wait Gotta do what I do for some change
5.
Scammed 02:21
I'm here for a good time living life You're only copping pleas don't die Live it to the fullest it's a wild ride Faded till I've totally lost my mind Pass the liquor open beer under weather Sick of same old same old just a stoner Not a killer step up wrong see a smoker Life's too short to stunt me from flower, Smell roses Budden so I'll go to tower Babylon the beat where others will cower Accolades are never needed for power Ghost the bitch in a champagne shower, Delinquents all they'll ever encounter Told me she wants me to go rougher Memory id like to forget call me a cheater Don't blame me if you got a hot mother, Don't blame me cause your friends hotter Told me it's benefits we're not together Can't call me fraud cause single's better She's calling again I hit ignore forever I'm here for a good time living life You're only copping pleas don't die Live it to the fullest it's a wild ride Faded till I've lost my mind! Hitting another joint stretching the fire Puff on oxygen to draw up the lighter Sketching the way my mind gets lighter Elevate to the moon ready my incisor, Cut through the fog just flip this lever Eat so many these bars I'm never sober Chief keef till they permanently hover Don't like to preach repping a chopper, I'm a hell raiser impersonating a barber Wake me from dreams in a flying saucer Pray I don't fall off I'll put em in bowl cut Their bitch'll grind super fine to be blunt, Wrap her in my paper present the cunt Too slow to keep up but I'm not a dunce Sad when I walk in clowns get cucked Gotta leave her cheaters I'll never trust I'm here for a good time living life You're only copping pleas don't die Live it to the fullest it's a wild ride Faded till I've totally lost my mind
6.
Yeah I'm a contradiction lil bitch Listen but hop off of my dick Not my issue you fell for a trick Pistol on me bodies with the Wick You wanna know how I do this listen quick Carry the torch just don't burn a bridge Knot the rope but never noose for a lift Selling out's suicide go execute that drift, Tires screech supe a ride to cape shifts Listen for engines to chug just for a hiss Check in cause talons always got a grip Just make sure you never save that bitch, We call her cobra snaking for some dick Gotta have an eagle eye to spot a script Fly through making bird calls just to flip Hognose with a switch their nostrils drip, Check her motions the pussy's an ocean Sharks circlin with made up commotion Avoid the back door the front's promotion Be yourself don't fake condition Yeah I'm a contradiction lil bitch Listen but hop off of my dick Not my issue you fell for a trick Pistol on me bodies with the Wick Get fit counter all dividends gettin made Why scam they can't tell real from fake Wanna be in any gang looking lame Regardless of cliques pistols shake, No need to kill paper opens trades Sign my check dot lines an I's to wake Pop off juice too sweet for certain fates Runt since a kid leaf cash not rake, Tryzub up tridents gettin displayed Pahonia on my chest shield wit a blade Don't gotta be iced out they want the fame Need plaque of diamonds to coat my name, Long-sleeve roaring cold if winter flakes Avoid war we'll always force you to break Always represent for Belarus an Ukraine Russian what happens if you escalate Yeah I'm a contradiction lil bitch Listen but hop off of my dick Not my issue you fell for a trick Pistol on me bodies with the Wick
7.
Hyper 03:06
Lost in the sauce girl I'm a boss Ridin with him that's a major loss Dance an show me how you floss God you're good don't look so cross Don't check my pockets I got a rocket Ballistic when I kick it off launching hits Wanna bless up hex em whenever I spit Fuck karma fung shway a clowns clique, Juggle O's with ease juice a pussy quick Rotate 180 run it rock with the wrist Fucked their bitch claiming that I'm a lick I am what they believe bless that I'm rich, Pray for them I'm just here to see her strip Too many trip getting laced up and slip Focus on the money don't save that bitch Wanna shine aim figures higher than 6, Too many walk in clubs actin like Wick Getting fired up careful when getting lit Some keep lighters for wax don't miss I'm here for a good time not provin shit Lost in the sauce girl I'm a boss Ridin with him that's a major loss Dance an show me how you floss God you're good don't look so cross Put em to sleep make eyes X over clout Say they fly as a bird Reasonable Doubt I'm a Bad Boy tell Larry he's a clown Adidas stomping em if they really down, Screamin loud flockin through the crowd Not surprised they dropped to the ground Why you try to knock off peoples frowns No smilin before I had dreams in town, Gothic homes built stacks by the pound Tell me why they're gone every round Tryin box me in that ain't very sound Ears to a message lost an never found, Skies the limit I zone past the clouds It may storm drinkin but never drown Scale growth weighin bars dent crowns Comin clean told me she'll buss it down Lost in the sauce girl I'm a boss Ridin with him that's a major loss Dance an show me how you floss God you're good don't look so cross Dance for me I got plenty of cheese Dance for me I know you got needs Dance for me don't tell me the deeds Set him up then hand over the deets, Backdoor that fiend sipping on lean Lead mixing with fentanyl dreams Really think you OG as you sleep Knocked out on syrup an a little tease, Was it worth acting out just to bleed How you wilding out knowing this city Went for some fun price was steep Now you face down brains on a sheet, Learn from others don't envy green Don't follow pussy gotta take the lead Dog hoes she'll beg with a please Block the bitch or someone will creep
8.
Nostradamus 04:02
Taken in by extended family band the brass Trumpet stacks? You'll die over some cash Stingy in this republic can you ever blast? Demo crazy life's political corrupt so I last, Think you'd survive with the will of glass? Transparencies an easy rock to crash Hunt diamonds snare anybody camp See through junkies in songs I trap, Family's there wolfin down copycats Pigs in blankets pushin cap that's fax Separate reality an facts in any my raps Just cause I sleep on most they go nap, Think I'm lying is on you I'll really snap International ties suit up to ship the tax Ocean or skies these depths gotta crash Dummies checking life sign to box a task I'm high demand Tap in the Beats telling you to listen Taught by the best share this lesson This a song for grip on life to lessen Don't be afraid of death only hell or heaven I'll go the con way when everybody's food Like Conway it's survival in an out a booth Pusha coupe they shine the golden goose Boman arrows a margin gotta aim to shoot, Dope to most dogs eat from palms for truth Teachers pet a junkie sacrifices youth Illuminate pyramid schemes for the proof Candy's cheaply packaged set by WHO?, Organize health this world's too uncouth What's a cog to the machine point's moot Shine your teeth and smile problems root Gift presence I choose to strugglebar you, Things come natural in whatever I go do Can't stand the fake sickening to peruse Saw the real use heat to smoke the flue/flu/floo This a fire place where devils really grew Tap in the Beats telling you to listen Taught by the best share this lesson This a song for grip on life to lessen Don't be afraid of death only hell or heaven Legends from Detroit the Chi an KC-MO Rust on the belt snaps to shine an grow Normal to wear shorts if it's fourty below Step wrong a .40 raps they flow in snow, Knock on their soul staring in the window Home invasion read minds know I'm dope Bust shots pause for effect if they show Strapped up life's a movie who you know, The greatest will say I'm too thorough Up to scrape the sky looking for growth They go for broke breakin will's my M.O. Modus Operandi love life as I go to toke, My family scribbles bars prescript hope Doctor reality warp life check for smoke Inferno with lyricism other regions cope Midwest epic watch us author timecode, Automate souls package em if we tote B2R2 an BMG my family never cloak Question us you'll get chopped to coke Indomitable bars causin others to choke Tap in the Beats telling you to listen Taught by the best share this lesson This a song for grip on life to lessen Don't be afraid of death only hell or heaven This is my life ready for the competition? We vary and exceed on any condition Too many think they know our nation Midwest to the death tetanus their vision, Can't see the Great Lakes bigger mission This games on lock check my prediction We're the greatest to speak so listen Nostradamus flow in this rendition

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I wanted to make an EP for the summer, something to have fun and party to, but also bring up political and real life issues in one. Both with an older boom bap and newer trap sound so I decided to make this EP. Included in it is political issues that stem in America and overseas in Belarus and Ukraine

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released June 24, 2022

Artwork by Vorona - Contact is ashleythesadcollegestudent@gmail.com

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Arkan Detroit, Michigan

Artist from Michigan. I rap about my experiences in life and aim to consistently elevate!

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