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Recognize Real ft. Tone Benjaminz

from Of Ink and Stone by Eville/So.Au Ink

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Stabbed by the thorns, I'd still pull the rose..
I've seen more murder then a field full of crows..
Kneeled in the snow..
over the blood spilled for the dough...
Looking for a deal for the low...
I was observer, just capturing things..
But I couldn't h elp but wonder could it happen to me...
One minute flicking pictures throwing up a capital V..
Then getting blasted by an actual beast..
I mean, what are odds I get snuffed like a cigarette...
Just for some disrespect..dust, in a millisec..*poof*
just a chalk silhouette too..pressed on my neck now i'm feeling death's boot..
you think it's too deep....in truth it's not unique...you knew me..
I was the hoodie with the dreads on that through street...
the bus driver with tattoos and the blue jeans ....
that little kid drawing on pics on his loose leaf...
who keeps track..if they're weren't black would you loose sleep??
maybe a few winks....if they featured it on news week...


(I was shot by a cop) yah , know me (x3)
(died in my cell) yah you know me(x3)
(raped in my tent) yah you know me(x3)


It's like I finally feel like Ralph Ellison...
I guess they've learned to deal with mad elephants...
even when they're pressing them..leaving an impression..
in floorboards...stepping on their pores...where's the effort from?
who believes skin color makes a human being?
stupid greed makes demons you and me....
two degrees separating us from losing steam...
cool it G....I would try to ruin genes....
even when its chock of full of hatred...
had my people locked in the basement....
found all their art and defaced it...
amazed when I approach you grace not impatience..
b/c I know feels like to be rolled over....
to have fresh fangs push out the old molars....
have the will to be warm when your souls colder..
to side step avalanches when they roll boulders..
once we step then fetch...but the shows over...
there's a few who forget..they're just holdovers.....

was I was walking to the store
I was playing in a park
I had both my hands up
I was selling cigarettes
I reach was reaching for my wallet

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from Of Ink and Stone, released May 9, 2017

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Eville/So.Au Ink Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Firmly attached to the golden age of hiphop when you had to actually rap to be a rapper.

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