L I F E S A I S.

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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.

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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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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

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.

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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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The thing that’s missing in music that was present is the sense of ownership. Buying a tape or a cd, you had a sense of “yeah this is my shit” Even if someone gave you their maxell tape that they dubbed you still had to take care of the tape. Not like a mp3 where its just there, you can’t hold the mp3. You don’t have to take a screwdriver and open up a mp3 because it got fuq’d up in the tape deck and you REALLY need to hear that song.

In the cassette days there would be two questions you heard when someone copped a new album. You like that shit? and what you think is better Side B or Side A.

In my experiences it always seems like Side A is better because people usually try to push the best joints in the beginning. I’m the type to treat the mixtape organically, the Side A was more uptempo with the flow and the beats and I took it slow and had more laid back topics during the second half until I reached UFOA with a killer flow IMO lol.

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I can attest that Arcieri is a big herb. It’s no lie. Thanks for the writeup Arcieri- Sais 9 JordanZ

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Yo, man, this song is just so me. Those that actually have met me in person and hang out w/ me [coughs SAIS] know what kind of guy I am. I’m really corny, honesty. Well, the song made me seem like a brilliant bloke, that’s because I really am. Heh
The thing is, I’m really a slacker as far as college goes, I would do all my big assignments like last minute. I would have a 10 page paper due and do it like the day before and get an 85 on it… I slid my way through college, seriously.

Okay, now to beat down this song. I wrote the song when I was at this crappy tech job I use to have but I won’t name drop. I was just listening to a beat cd I had, and a few of the old guys at my job were joking about how uncool I am (they BETTER had be joking). So, I just thought about what I do on a daily basis and I wrote a song about it. I use to sit in the front of the class and I would day dream for about 70% of class the other 30% was between staring at the pretty girls boobs or pretending I was listening to the teacher. Yet none of the girls ever paid me attention so titty staring was easy to do. I was the best student in class… believe it or not. The only thing that’s not true about the song is the glasses part “I’m the one w/ the square glasses,” I don’t wear glasses for seeing at all. I was told that I look like I wear glasses a lot, you know how some people just tell you random gay things like that. I am a video game addict Street Fighter, Tekken (self-proclaimed champ), Zelda, God of War (Series) and a whole lot of other stuff. I don’t like to say uncool though, because being uncool is such a cool thing to be. I’m just not as complex as some may think, I’m just in outer space a lot. When I talk or tell you a story I can just picture it in my big ol head. When I do music, I just tell what I’ve seen and lived. You can’t lie to the world about who you are, because one of these days someone will discover the truth. The fun thing about the telling the truth is, you CAN embellish a tad bit. Hey, they do it in movies all the time… sue me.

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Godspeed.