[Video: Illy Funkstas - I'll Make You Famous]
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I realized i didn’t bless Life Sais with this video. It’s become sort of a ritual.
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Stroked this one chick, redbone in complexion/ass so fat her measurements started guessing.
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Fun Fact: I was in a rap group once called Thrill. One of the members was Emaye. This a little joint he did back in the day I used to love. He had been staying in Virginia for a while and came back with this verse and I told him to record it real quick so i could listen to it when he went back down.
Only go to clubs where the girls dance topless/swirl down the pole like propellers on choppers
*My adlibs for the win lol
Cluckaz
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Sais & Hi-jynx – Hyperstrike!
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I had put this on www.supersais.com ’s blog before I took it to here, but I felt I might as well repost it here til I get my comp fixed and come through with some new audio. The new mixtape isn’t going to be Sais XXL as said at the end, but O2 as in Oxygen in Overachiever 2 as in Oxygen. Hi-jynx always wanted to do a joint together but we never got around to it til now. There’s another coming as soon as I get my ish together I’ll post it up too. 
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If you would like to download this it is available in the News Ticker at bottom of www.supersais.com until the Extras/Downloads section is complete.Sais & Hi-jynx “Hyperstrike!” Sais
Guess whos back up in here
Back but you still can’t see him
you could try and peer
as he shines on his peers
gimme room as i furnish an idea
like ikea
They say look at him bout his paper
he right there
Big font he type clear
cold as siberia
dope coke yo peep white bears
all you could do is stare
as he step up like stairs
as he step up in pairs
that you could never wear
take a step in his shoes
and lose ego bruised
realize he’s so smooth
but his life is a doozie
far from a rookie or a newbie
spit off like oozies groovy
who he? pat or sais
mesaisah who the one that john baptized
who lied on the ground and came back for lies
spit that fire he was in front of a flame
and scored so high
on that breathalyzer
at one time people thought he’d die
Sais capable of shit you’d only see through sci fi
channel thoughts to touch you from afar like wi fi
or a sniper that ll leave a colored ring on you like tye dye
I’m so hyper
in hyperstrikes quicksstrikes
thick dykes i like em
i’ve been likened to Michael
anyone Keaton, Caine, Moore
Jordans kick in the door
in black red 4s
feel the force
as i invader like darth
red condom on look like a saber in the dark
Sais drive so far but parked
jumped out car with chalk to outline those birds who squawk
TalkHyperstrike
Uh,
Imma be honest I dont like college
I prefer yelling into microphones and kickin’ ebonics
So logical and clever whenever I get it together
When I was young my pops said peace, I said whatever
But it’s a +New Era+ get Capped by the lyricism
and 59 fitted into a casket, bastard who’s a masochist getting his masters
I mastered making it come together with no plaster
Just a plasma that I sit back and gasp at
Step to me, and you’ll be falling like the Nasdaq
Who? A rude brother that’ll run up in your lover
With no rubber under the cover now she puts you where the trash at
Im, the teacher where the class at
I make it rain when I brainstorm, they asking where the bath at?
But I go past that, run up in your session so fast
You stuttering repeating wh.., where the cash at?
I can be found no matter who’s around
Shots at the bar, pass them all around
Grab a dimepiece, order some patron
That’s Hi-Jynx definition of Pattin’ them down
Any and every cipher I go
I’m like the plague ’cause I be killing yall slow
Yo, Cynicism with a vision to get ‘em to listen
The magnitude of my lyricism is like a religion whoa
They all know, each and every part
‘Till the mayor knows my name, be the talk of New York
The whole Q-Boro know I spark from the heart
Just to make my engines start, Talk.Uh, Hi-Jynx
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Question of the Day? Did Bitches Feel Canibus?
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Prepare for the worst
This next verse
Is a face of death
Me without lyrics is like a porn flick without sex
I was listening to the Buckingham Palace and remembered the killer buzz he had before his album dropped. Mad dudes, myself included thought he was going to take over with all the killer verses that came out. I remember at that time it was his verse from Beasts from the East and Cappadonna’s from Winter Warz that was the topic of discussion of that time.
The thing I really don’t remember is if chicks were feeling him. You could ask girls and they will give you the default. I like Jay or I like Nas, but memory may be a little skewed. I vaguely remember a time where rap wasn’t as partitioned into dance track/girl track/battle track, but that’s just me.
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16. Overachiever Mixtape – UFOA (unfinished)
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Ok, I appreciate when I get to see a bit into how an artist behind the tracks. I think that rapper’s put themselves into certain restrictions and sometimes are afraid to let their guard down due to the nature of Hip Hop. I even thought, should I even like do a track like Random MC if people are used to my more aggressive tracks? Well I always was a fan of mellow beats and always rapped over Luda when he this song was on the radio so I decided to rock it for the end.
Did a little of “Mesaisah” at the end for the fuq of it cuz I kept on saying the lyrics to this instrumental
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yo i track down a track
then beat down a beat
bring that motherfucker down to its feet
passion for heat and to serve treats
and floss my expertise east west beats
sais is a beast
say hello to the captain of cappin
patent holder of pattin
wit a passion to take nigs out in orderly fashions
dashin in a whip fast wit no fear of a crash
and then cash in wit my nigz out when fulfillin a task
then repeat the first action when i complet it i’m basking
full steam ahead nasty til i’m reaching a casket
how he do it so easy is what the breezys be asking
acting like they cant fathom how easy i b attacking
i’m what is up look me up i’m at ease i’m rapping
thats why they play me back
rerun it like a scene of whats happening
i’m lightning and the thunder with a gun
and a barrel of fun plus some other hot shit
that i aint even thought up
im never caught up wit negativity brought up
take criticism all up and give ya’ll niggaz my all
pititiaitiat a full clip when i trigger you fall
a 911 emergency but i’ll dip let ya niggaz call
slow down sais you kilin em
n
you could get worked and hurt
if you lurk thats one of the perks of acting a jerk
the clip is inserted if you fresh like a certs
its working gotta give it up to its purpose
the kid is assertive with a flow like cursive
signature style can you feel it
its burning
chain bracelets with 3 rings like a circus
every track i get on its murder
when i rap its bezerk
i listen to other rappers and they shit full of quirks
these niggaz is herbs and gassed like a burp
i myself relay a message nextel like a nextel
when i do it i chirp
speaking the language necessary
that could influence birds
spit a few phrases
and the niggaz say Word
he kinda sick when he flowing
i think the kid is disturbed
when i’m feeling these words
and spit it a surge
and onlookers could peep
the kids on the verge
Mesaisah go for days without acknowledgement or praise
but when you get through words like mazes you find that shit amazing
Sais Supa Like Danny
Met Colored Opposite of Yankee
Uncanny Not from here Quite Frankly
People that pray to my pops
say i’m stunting like my daddy
whether i chill in the backstreets
or fuq wit clubs like caddies
Life’s A bitch
Divorced
Then Got Back Up
We back together now i’m catching things up
Books hold true
you can read my joints from old to new
Pick a verse thats close to you
and end at your perusal
Got caught in a betrayal but its a new day
So no grudges held today
No et te brute , Juda’?
At times I still flip like Harvey on a Two Face
For the coin I leave you defaced
Mesaisah
It’s Over
Mesaisah
It’s over.
Tags: glock, Life, Mesaisah, mixtape, oa, overachiever, Pat, Sais, second half
15. Overachiever Mixtape – Cardiac Arrest
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I feel the need to break this one down in detail. As I right this I have the song on loop as to try to capture everything.
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The degradation of a relationship is not really explored in the realm of rap music. Towards the end of my relationship I would repeat the same phrase to my significant other. “This is not healthy for our relationship.” This was a phrase said to the point that it lost it’s power or meaning.
While I was going through the recovery of losing something I felt dear, I thought to myself “I lost my heart” When I said that I realized that just how you take care of anything, a relationship requires maintenance. Since love is always is equated to the heart, I decided to break this down in a direct correlation to physical health.
In Random MC, I was in the stage that I just wanted to reconcile and I thought I was at fault, so I was pretty powerless in my pleading of trying to repair what was broken.
This one is a bit more arbitrary that I show each side of where we went wrong.
First I decided to expose myself as the cause of the heart failure, detailing how I disregarded her mentions that my frleindliness was killing her inside.
First Verse
I once had a chick but her heart stopped working
don’t know why but she called me a jerk
said i didn’t put my work in
Always chasing skirts
Flirting and making her worry.
As i continue on relating to maintaining your health i make a few exercise references
Foresight was never my strength
or feelings of expression
had to keep it behind the bars like bench pressing
i pushed up too late too much lies
she still kept her chin up
but it was no more XO Sais (excercise)
Second Verse
Next part’s about me ya’ll .. shows what happens when you ignore telltale signs of an imminent failure. Basically the denia of a gradual loss of love.
Would lie with me
then lie to me
i knew it
and on the low my heart was dying
Pulse slowed down
Mind racing
Yes I’m faced with decision to regain my rate
or getting a pacemaker
Pacemaker referring to should i just get rid of my heart and get someone to replace her function, or try to make it work (regain my rate)
Third Verse
This one is basically through the view of a ghost who doesn’t know that they’re (the relationship) dead and is still trying to keep it alive. Inspired by The Sixth Sense of course
I know what could bring us back
if we lay down relax
and do mouth to mouth
while you laying on ya back
we could survive
get up and rise
we still breathing
after getting rescued from this deep pool of lies
CPR = Sex.. yeah.
If i could revive you I would
run the clock back and rewife you i should
Let it go
but it seems so close
and if i press hard enough its like i feel a pulse
but i’m talking to a ghost
Stuff that goes people’s minds when they think they could repair an ended relationship.
Shoulda kept it honest like I promised
now we’re laying there .. goin in the coffin
Both dead. bang bang. Sigel Street. Early.
Tags: cardiac arrest, expression, Fairweather, feelings, heart failure, imminent failure, Karamel, Komplexion, love, maintaining your health, mixtape, oa, overachiever, physical health, rap music, Sais, Shaulybeth, telltale signs
14. Overachiever Mixtape – Lost Ones Free
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This one was just fuggin around cuz I wanted to get on this beat and I was on this state of mind of rapping around this time wasn’t really about the energy but trying to get a message across with such shit. I wasnt in a happy time -=0x
Sais enterprise lies where my hope dies
and resurrect a fresh look through a newborn’s eyes.
and
I’m past all that material checkouts
And payments
So If u like “I just bought supreme or bape” I’m like ” save it”
to show that there’s a more sensible way to do this shit
For the sneakerheads my life teeter from low mids to highs like air forces. People call me a sneaker-head rapper but its not like i push it or mean to say these things its stuff that just come out i guess its just a part of me. I never want to come across like the crop of cliche’ rappers that make a song like I LOVE MY DUNKS lol or some shit like that.
Favorite part
Only got feelings for one
let that one remain unnamed
until we patch it up
then i’ll rep that one again
until then
i’ll rep number one with a pen
or probably get locked in the pen
for reppin’ with a weapon
I probably appreciate my rhyme structure more than anyone else ha!
I promise I’ll go in extra on the last two, I’m tired, but anxious to have the wheels turn.
THere you go !
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13. Overachiever Mixtape – Random MC
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Random MC
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She used to call herself Random MC when she freestyled to me.
This one was never supposed to see the light of day, real reason it was even on the myspace after a while because I wanted to make sure my message reached her. I originally gave this to her as one mp3 on my ipod with a gallery of pictures of us. Nothing really to say flow-wise over here. Maybe a bit of wit injected with the “I’m trying to put all my cards on the table, but I don’t want to be a player.” trying to get across that I wanted to have everything out in the open so we wouldn’t have to play the games that boys and girls do. Well the song didn’t work.
Everything else is very laid out pretty simple. A lot of references that would only really be known by me and her, but it all makes sense I assure you.
I didn’t expect this to be felt by the general public, but I have gotten a couple people that told me that told me that it was their favorite song or it helped them deal with their breakup.
Tags: Beginning, Fairweather, girls, guest appearances, Karamel, Komplexion, Life, love, mixtape, oa, overachiever, Sais, Shaulybeth
11. Overachiever Mixtape – Black Belgian
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When I first heard Black Republican, I was like OH SHIT !, cuz i remember when i was watching Godfather 2 ( my favorite out the trilogy) I fell in love with this part of the movie where The Godfather kills Don Fannucci (THe Black Hand) during this Italian parade. I always thought to myself man if i made beats I would make this into a beat. Same shit happened with Nas the message that samples Sting the shape of my heart , which you could hear at the end of the movie Professional if you want to go out your way.
Murder of Don Fanucci
Well I knew i was going to have to come with a flow with this shi a lil something different but still me. I remember I was watching Citizen Kane depressed and the first few lines came into my head and i just let it linger then someone hit me off wit the beat and i just went on from there… I got the whole verse written below but my favorite part is
its the way that i flow ock
that house a track like a co op
that have em suck me off like a blow pop
that have em givin me that schmops and theres no stopping
drinking this hard liquor dont take a tips brain to reach a synopsis
no peach schnopps , hypnotiq
or other bottle popping
could reach the explosion of the glock when
its locked in
cocked in
Shoot aim steady Pow! got em!
cuz i started it off a lil laid back with the flow and kinda went in with the op ock ocking multi layered rhyme. Shit these days it seems like rap devolved , dudes only rappin at the end of their lines like its the 80s, maybe thats whats hot but whateva. I GOTTA BE MEEEEEEEEEEE
and i gotta shot out Lloyal who told me while I was on his radio show that the last lines stood out to him
Meanwhile my girl says I think the world revolve around me
I look up like “Sun, who shine like me?
I’m sitting disdain
stay riddle my brain
lay fidget the pain
watchin Citizen Kane
i keep an image hidden
supreme cap on my lid and
suprise em wit some sickness
to whoever thought i was kidding
these chicks and the hoes want the secret of my success
but only wind up feeling secretion from the suck sex
its the way that i flow ock
that house a track like a co op
that have em suck me off like a blow pop
that have em givin me that schmops and theres no stopping
drinking this hard liquor dont take a tips brain to reach a synopsis
no peach schnopps , hypnotiq
or other bottle popping
could reach the explosion of the glock when
its locked in
cocked in
shoot aim steady Pow GOT EM !
my lines quality my venemous rhymes
reinforced heavy like theres selvage in mines
take a shot like MJ
fall back and remember the times
yea i done did my dirt
but its settling fine
just want the v
wit the trunk in the front like a elepehant
im/so relevant
i’m so tentative
they dont mind that they gotta wait in line
for the way i say a rhyme
its this line i say to dimes
Sais says Hey.touch yours whilie i touch mine
same game replayed wit each dime and each time
in a hotel motel fuck it im a sucker for nut
so you knowim fussin til i bust it
meanwhile my girl say I think the world revolve around me
i look up like SUN ! who shine like me
who shed light on a topic
draw a picture like a comic
spit flows thats atomic
thats seen rarely like a comet .. its me
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^^^ If you can’t respect that your whole perspective is wack.
You can download mixtape by clicking this text by the way.
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10. Overachiever Mixtape – OA James
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For the first track of Side B of the OA tape I enlisted James Watts. These are his words <– read that in a british whisper.
JAMES Watts – OA JAMES
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Back when Sais first asked me to drop something for the Overachiever, I didn’t really know what type of song I’d do; thedude is so diverse in his taste of music that I wanted to make something that fit in with the overall scheme of the mixtapebut still represented who I was.
We started going through a couple of beats over Instant Messenger, and the Ador joint (”Let It All Hang Out”) just grabbed me. For people that don’t know, Sais is a dyed in the wool hip hop guy who knows his musical history, so it didn’t feel out of place. Me being me, I live for that raw, original shit, so it was a nice common ground.
The writing in and of itself was easy; with a title like “The OverAchiever” coupled with my own arrogance, it was a no-brainer; I wanted to express that I didnt feel like all I’ve accomplished has been really appreciated by a lot of people — the perspective for these verses was “what more do you want for me?” — like a blog post comment, the kid has a lot of “firsts”. More so, I didn’t just want to delve into any current accomplishments as far as music was concerned, as I felt like that would be beating people over the head with the fact that I feel I’m nice; instead, I discussed a lot of things I’ve done outside of music, to show the listeners that I have a broad character, with diverse interests. Everything’s not a mixtape placement, a show booking or
a magazine article with me, though I’ve done that as well.
Both of the verses on “OA James” actually went into detail about my college years; a lot of people are surprised to know that I graduated from a Pre-Law program and that I’m in the process of getting my masters. I choose to leave it off of the table as a topic of discussion because in the music business, when you tell people you have things going on outside of music that feel that you’re not taking your dreams as an artist as seriously as you should. My issue is, to be just a rapper would be limiting to me; a lot of hip-hop people are on some “fuck college” shit ever since Kanye West emerged, but I’m not giving up all that I am just because one rapper made it. For every one story like his there’s a million stories of guys who left school, quit jobs, or moved to New York to be rockstars, and subsequently ruined their life.
Not I. Even though music is one of my most fervent passions, this is bigger than hip-hop.
As for the verses, here’s a breakdown of some of the key portions:
- “I mean FUCK! What the hell you want from me?/I wasn’t “In School Gifted”, I-S-G?/I ain’t get a 12-something on my SAT’s/Then go on to Rutgers College to get a degree?/In a four year span/Shit, four years and/I went from 1.9 to a 3-0, DAMN!”
From grades 3-7 I was in a program for students in my district who were deemed to be of exceptional intelligence or talent; granted, I was never the best student for most of my years, particulary through middle school and early high school, but I think that the district saw that my grades weren’t the best indicator of everything I brought to the table. I feel like I had too much imagination for the classroom and it hurt me; I wasn’t able to just take in information, digest it and regurgitate like the other kids — everything was a questions for me — I always needed a “reason”. I go on to talk about how I finished up my
undergrad degree in FOUR years in an era where it’s taking a lot of people five, six to bang out 120 credits. Not only that, I left my freshman year on academic dismissal because I had like a “D” average. I went on to pull that up to a 3.0 by the time I graduated. Not the best, but coming from where I was coming from, that was big to me.
- “I took a hundred kids down to DC with my man/In the name of social justice for all Ameri-cans/Affirmative Ak-shan/And
not no “Firm Biz”/On our own, homes, nope we ain’t learn this/In the classroom or at home with our parents…”
Back in 2002-2003 my friend Eric (who played “Young Generic” on my Shameless Promotion Mixtape skit) and I started our
own student group and diversity website at Rutgers University in New Jersey. One of our projects was taking three chartered
buses down to the nation’s capital during our senior year for a march on the Supreme Court. The issue was that the federal
government was looking to dead affirmative action for graduate admissions in the U.S. due to a case that started at the University of Michigan. This civil rights organization flew out from Chicago to meet with us at our campus because they wanted us to spearhead the movement to get bodies for the march. When we got down there there were like 40,000 people walking through the streets. It was nuts. The second part of this quotable is just saying that neither of us had firsthand examples of people who were doing this kind of stuff – we just came upon ourselves, and learned everything with trial, error, and hustle.
- “I went down to Trenton with a suit in my duffle/$1000 plates to have dinner with Russell/And the gay governor/Before the boy came out with his gay lover/”
Again, Eric and I used to go down to Trenton all the time for these “future leaders of New Jersey” mixers and shit; he had a connect with this girl who worked as an assistant to Jim McGreevey, hence the “gay governor” reference. She used to always send us invites; she’s a like a congresswoman or something now for the state. At these events they’d have like big players in government business dropping dumb cake to come eat and politic, and we’d get in for free. Russell Simmons would be there with a tuxedo and a Phat Farm cap, and Ray Charles or someone would be playing piano in the corner. Wild.
I’m not going to break down the second verse, but in summation, it’s just a short list of music-related things I did while I was still in school; I was taking 19 credits, with a 40-hour-a-week internship at the Middlesex County Civil Courthouse, buying mixtapes on my lunch and shit. Even with that on my plate, I managed to host my own radio show every Wednesday night at from 12am to 2am. I didn’t care. I was getting four hours of sleep every night but I was loving my life — everything was fun back then, even when we were broke as shit.
”
I fully endorse this post” -Sais
Bonus *
Here is the Original Track of the beat he ripped. I think It is necessary that i put you guys on !
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