1. |
Dangerous (WATCH OUT!)
03:03
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I got places to go and people to see
Ain’t got no time to waste on the feeble and weak
You want dope shit? Homie, you can leave it to me
Cuz I’m the type of artist that you always leave on repeat
Cuz I be doing the work and paying my dues
You can spew it’s absurd or say it’s a fluke
Or choose to say it’s a lie but dawg it’s the truth
You can try to take me down but ain’t way ima lose
I’m a space cadet who’s making checks within my set
We be poppin making them beats that break they necks
Been killing the game come pay respects
man all the fans can’t wait what’s next
26 years on Earth and I ain’t waste one yet
Running with a tight circle ain’t no space that’s left
Tough skin I gotta deal with hateful texts
Cuz these snakes be hissing like a tape cassette
It’s so dangerous
(Watch Out! Watch Out!)
The world is so dangerous
(Watch Out! Watch Out!)
The world is so dangerous
(Watch Out! Watch Out!)
The world is so dangerous!
Proceed with caution
The evil be plotting
concocting ways they can put you in a coffin
Believe they gon’ snatch you while you walking
Then all a sudden 12 feet under is where you’re tossed in
Wild Wild West man it’s lawless
can’t accept loses
Lose the game and homie it’s your life’s what it’s costing
Only the strongest survive all the hardships
That’s what it takes to be an artist
Ain’t no half stepping (no) ain’t no crying in baseball
Get with it or get lost haters never take days off
Devil on your heels? Time to pick up the pace dawg
Temptation's real the weak seem to get way lost
Stakes is too high for any blunders
Dog eat dog world are you food or a hunter?
Man it’s a jungle some times it makes me wonder
How I keep from going under
The world is so dangerous
(Watch Out! Watch Out!)
The world is so dangerous
(Watch Out! Watch Out!)
The world is so dangerous
(Watch Out! Watch Out!)
The world is so dangerous!
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2. |
Better Recognize
03:39
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I’m a phenom
I’m a leader but believe the whole team strong
Got my angels and I balance it with demons
You may not like me or my music
how I look or how I’m movin
but the hustle is something we can agree on
I ain’t ever lookin for your validation
Mama took me to church for my conformation
Only a matter of time ‘til I conquer nations
Build it from the ground up like my occupation
Is a mason I’m amazing
God I’m brazen, success is what I’m craving
Insatiable appetite glutinous and impatient
Not the best traits but it’s a deadly combination
Coming for your head no hesitation
Murderous intent won’t relent like I’m Jason
Ima get my rest when I’m dead and I’m ancient
But until then get this bread like I’m baking
What in tarnation is the bread of this man
Impregnate the beat like when semen implants
Give birth to the seed and indeed it’s a jam
My verses they reach from the sea to the land
Cali to Japan. From Greece to Sudan.
New Guinea to Chile to Philly to Afghanistan
Gah damn! The list goes on and on
It’s BTE man the Don of Dons
Y’all Better Recognize
Y’all better recognize
Can’t see it? Then you need a new set of eyes
People gon’ study how I bend the rhyme
This is gon’ last ‘til the end of time
A living legend
My whole life been given lemons
That I turn to lemonade. I’ve sold since I was six or seven
Made a profit off my lack of privilege
I’m a prophet I don’t care if that is sacrilegious
Never let the universe confine me
Never given labels cuz no labels can define me
Challenging your social norms. Challenging your mind, g
Life is a game ima win it like Jumanji
I’m just taking what is mine schee
Lyrical Al Capone on a written crime spree
Headed to the top doesn’t scare me that the climbs steep
Earning my spot. If you want it then come find me
BTE he a beast
This animal shouldn’t be released in the streets
Apex predator he feast on the weak
But the ladies still love him yo they weep when he speak
But let me slow it down make it smooth
For all the ladies that wanna just move with the groove
Let me talk to you and your crew for a few
Baby turn around get that 360 view (oof)
I try to keep it chill
I know I be a lot like a full course meal
Got a big mouth hard to keep my lips sealed
But I wanted to remind y’all that I’m the real deal
Better Recognize
Y’all better recognize
Can’t see it? Then you need a new set of eyes
People gon’ study how I bend the rhyme
This is gon’ last ‘til the end of time
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3. |
The Recipe
02:54
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It’s more than ear candy
Fresher than the products you find inside of your pantry
Tasty like the apple pie made by your Auntie
Simple by design but it’s how you make it fancy
To make sure that your fans eat
Or at least want to try it
One bite in will get your taste buds excited
People want to know about the herbs and the spices
And why people purchase regardless of what the price is
It’s so enticing the way we chop it up and package it
Everything is calculated nothings done by accident
Scientifically tested and proven to be accurate
That we got the recipe and everybody’s after it
That’s why we had to patent it
Go ahead and bite our style we gon’ make the cash from it
Royalties be coming in like we be building palaces
I am my own catalyst
Spittin so hard yo my tongue be getting calluses
Every time we in the stu we got the kitchen heating up
Cooking up the beats and we got all the people eating up
Like Mmm Mmm M-Mmm
M-mm Mmm Mmm
Wait a minute can it really be that it’s that good?
I don’t know you tell me
Why we got people in line for second helping
Why all the merchandise is flying off of the shelving
Why this fan base ever growing and staying healthy
(Apollo Bebop) that’s what everybody’s belting
Recommending to all their brethren
The second we step in we slay the session
Eyes glued on stage they paying attention
When you on they conversating or texting
Yo I’ma let it marinate
Let it sink in like the Titanic
Yo I feel that it’s fair to say
That the gap between me and you is gigantic
Yes, the proof is in the pudding
Recipe consisting of all the work that we put in
You mix it with the talent you couldn’t find if you’re looking
Yo it put us in the room when you ain’t even got a foot in
Every time we in the stu we got the kitchen heating up
Cooking up the beats and we got all the people eating up
Like Mmm Mmm M-Mmm
M-mm Mmm Mmm
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4. |
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Yo, do you feel that funk?
Yo, it’s potent stuff.
I ain’t usually condoning drugs
But it’s so good it’ll open up
And free your mind of the shackles of society, son
Mans it’s so much pop makes me burp a lot
Makes me wonder if music’s even worth a shot
Cuz I can never seem to figure what on earth is hot
But I guess we’ll see if I can earn a spot
As a G.O.A.T. Of MCing
Greatest of All Time be it
MCing
Producing
Or just a human being
So I, I continue to pursue what I believe in
Which is throwing up dope bars that are sicker than bulimics
Now listen up I got the rhymes that are most clever
Step to me, son, c’mon you should know better
Cuz I can shred you up like cheddar
Without breaking a sweat, kid
I eat rappers like you for breakfast
With a side of milk
Gotta make sure I’m strong when it’s time to kill
Mama took me to the doc cuz I was kinda ill
And the docs diagnosis said that the cause is my rhyming skill
It’s inside me still
to this day
But I’m ok
It just takes over when I play
Like a bandit taking my disadvantage for his advantage
Causing damage on the planet wreaking havoc and panic
Like “God, damnit”
Where am I going with this?
Man, my minds racing in an oval and shit
Probably cuz it’s dope like smoking a spliff
So be careful when you’re toking this shit
C’mon it’s like
Wait, where am I going with this?
Man, my minds racing in an oval and shit
Probably cuz it’s dope like smoking a spliff
So be careful when you’re toking this shit
Now crowds go crazy whenever I hit the stage
No ones been able to do it like us in decades
Killing careers left and right every which way
You’ll be gone in 60 seconds like Nicholas Cage
I just can’t explain the way these thangs
Just happen it’s like magic, David Blane
Apollo Bebop
You know we got the waves of flames
The dynamic crew bringing all these lames to shame
So brave your brains for impact
Get mind fucked on this track
You’re wick wack
Step to me and lyrically get bitch slapped
Don’t get mad
Cuz I’m better than you in everything that
You do
Yes it’s true
Listen, dude
You should sit back
And let the professionals handle this
Shits about to get hotter than wicks on a candle stick
And even hotter than the lava that these volcanos spit
You’ve been warned
I’m not liable for the damages
Caused to your career
Got hurt?
Go ask your mom for bandages
I bet she packed it in your lunch bag with your sandwiches
Matter fact, I’ll snatch that cuz I’m famishing
From working to be the next Hall of Fame candidate
Got hooks I’m able to catch salmon with
Ima stay hot for years like Pam Anderson
The chosen one like I’m Anakin
But this lack of sleep has got me standing like a mannequin
God damnit, I’m rambling
Where am I going with this?
Man, my minds racing in an oval and shit
Probably cuz it’s dope like smoking a spliff
So be careful when you’re toking this shit
Yo, where am I going with this?
Man, I don’t even fuckin know anymore
Probably cuz Grover’s smoking a spliff
So be careful when you’re toking this shit
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5. |
The Other Day
02:41
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The other day I hit up my bro “Come to my show”
He asked if there’s a guest list and I said “no”
I asked why, then he’s like “yo, I’m kind of broke”
“I ain’t got the dough” I’m like “aight, fosho”
But regardless man is gonna be dope
Doesn’t matter if there’s 100 people lined at the door
Uh-oh
There’s only five people in the front row
We still holding it down it’s just the way that we roll
We coming straight from my soul from my brain to my toes
We don’t complain we just go with the way that flows
We still blazing the roads in this lane that we chose
But I ain’t spark up nothing I be playing it sober
Unlike my homie and his name it be Grover
Hitting the doobie before and after it’s over
To get inspired to fire up the motors
But I’m cool man I’m kosher
I ain’t really planning nothing when I’m coming up with something
(Ayo with something)
The only criteria that I be needing is it’s gotta be bumping
(It be bumping)
Yo I’m saying I ain’t really planning nothing when I’m coming up with something
(Ayo with something)
The only criteria that I be needing is it’s gotta be bumping
(It be bumping)
Like the other night I was chilling then I realized
I got people supporting would I be doing on the mic
And I’m like “damn, that is pretty freaking tight”
Cuz I never felt like I was ever the certain type
To be the most liked or popular
But I always was the guy with the hottest bars
Life filling up my mind like a shopping cart
That’s why it ain’t hard to find where the diamonds are
But I get lazy I get lethargic
I lack the discipline when it comes to hard shit
Brian to Earth but I feel like a Martian
I think way too much I’m an artist
But yo me going back to the basics
Back to when I would say shit just to say shit
Simple as that I don’t need to complicate it
If you can’t see the vision I suggest you get Lasik
I ain’t really planning nothing when I’m coming up with something
(Ayo with something)
The only criteria that I be needing is it’s gotta be bumping
(It be bumping)
Yo I’m saying I ain’t really planning nothing when I’m coming up with something
(Ayo with something)
The only criteria that I be needing is it’s gotta be bumping
(It be bumping)
Yo I’m saying..
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6. |
Intermission
01:03
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7. |
Feastin'
02:19
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8. |
Headphones
03:56
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Always got my headphones on
On the bus riding with my headphones on
Catch me straight coasting with my headphones on
You can’t tell me nothing with my headphones on
Really I be writing
Sitting thinking focused that’s the reason I be silent
Fishing for ideas until the lightbulb starts to brighten
Hold up think I got one yeah the fish they started biting like
1,2,3,4
Carry on carry on
This won’t take me very long
Promise by the end of this you gon say it’s your favorite song
Even just the demo be creamy like Ben and Jerry's
Then I Bring in the boys so they can the put final cherry
On Top top
Then we go and drop drop
Then we got the block chanting Apollo Bebop (Bop)
Cycle never stops
Keep on taking shots shots
And they stay wet you gon have keep a mop mop
Someone call the janitor
He be getting cuz all the toilets we be jammin up
From dropping this hot shit Aint running out of stamina
We are on our way to make it prime time
But until then staying focused and that’s why I
Always got my headphones on
On the bus riding with my headphones on
Catch me straight coasting with my headphones on
You can’t tell me nothing with my headphones on
Really I just listen
Breaking down my work cuz homie I’m my biggest critic
Gotta pass the quality control before I dish it
If it don’t pass then yup I just ditch it
I don't settle for anything that is less than exquisite
That is my position
I care about the presentation like an aesthetician
Thank you for your two cents but we don’t need assistance
From him or her or you and them or any apparitions
No, no we don’t believe in ghosts
Every word that I speak I wrote
Every thing that you hear we play
We really really out here each day
No acrobats no backing tracks
No razzmatazz no flashing cash
If you had ask the fact is that
It’s all passion that’s in our habitat
Like yuh bruh this a labor of love
We mixing all of our blood, sweat and tears in because
We realized that talent is game just ain’t enough
I ain’t gone be left in the dust
And that's why I
Always got my headphones on
On the bus riding with my headphones on
Catch me straight coasting with my headphones on
You can’t tell me nothing with my headphones on
Don't disturb me I'm working
Got my headphones on don't disturb me
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9. |
You Ain't Gotta Worry
04:19
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I know the world can be a cold one
Making you feel like there’s no sun
You fight against the wind and it’s uphill
Both ways but you haven’t given up still
Tenacious (uh) ambitious (uh)
So driven you would think you work for Lyft and
The things you do you straight do it with precision (uh)
You see your goal with 20/20 vision (uh)
Running ‘round doing the most
Making everybody think that you were a clone
Or had an identical twin you told no one about
Really you just can’t stop once you go on a route because
You don’t quit once you go in but
The problem you don’t stop to smell the roses (uh)
You’re stressed out feeling worthless
So tired from working the circuit
But hold up girl let me just remind you
I know you don’t need me and that’s fine too
But if you’re ever feeling alone
Just know the inside of my heart there’s a home
I said
You ain’t got to worry baby
(Yee ain’t gotta worry bout a thang nah)
Cuz you know that I got you baby
(I gotchu I gotchu I gotchu)
It’s tough to give trust when you’ve been hurt so much
Figure you’re better off alone than with a herd or a bunch
Figure if you never open up to let people in
Then you reduce the chances of you getting hurt once again
Now your guard made you closed off
And the callusing for fighting made you so hard
All the folks thought you were born with no heart
Forgetting that you used to wear it up on both arms
You take on so much for nothing in return
But when offered help you say is none of your concern
I’ll be fine I’ll be fine repeat
You keep lying and keep lying until you believe
The lie until it becomes the truth
And honestly I'm surprised that you have a chipped tooth
That is the reason why you can do the things you do
Betting you must be tired it’s easy to get consumed and then BOOM!
But hold up girl let me just remind you
I know you don’t need me and that’s fine too
But if you’re ever feeling alone
Just know the inside of my heart there’s a home
I said
You ain’t got to worry baby
(Yee ain’t gotta worry bout a thang nah)
Cuz you know that I got you baby
(I gotchu I gotchu I gotchu)
Yee ain’t gotta worry bout a thang nah!
(I gotchu I gotchu I gotchu)
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10. |
Ok with Not Ok
02:59
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I don’t really like to get too personal
Scared that if I open up it could be hurtful
Worried that my secrets can be one day used against me
So I keep it bottled in like a can of Pepsi
See it’s fine and protected until you go and shake it
Now even just the slightest bit of pressure gon’ break it
And then I explode I’m saying “Oh, no!”
How can I recover when my cover’s been blown
I’m supposed to be the pillar. The one that people lean on
The one to tell you everything is gonna be OK and you can be strong
The one to reassure you. The one to reaffirm you
The one to help you rebuild and salvage any pieces
That have burned to the ground I’m not used to being down
When I say it out loud it still has a weird sound
Bitter taste in my mouth but I ain't gon’ lie
The hardest thing I’ll ever put aside is my pride
I have to be OK with not being OK
(Ok? Ok?) Ok
Man I’m really good at hiding behind a smile
This facade has been fooling everybody for a while
Been lying through my teeth
Surprised that my nose isn’t longer than the Nile
But I admit I’m living in denial
And even saying that sucks
I didn’t know this boulder would be weighing that much
I thought that I could manage it
Thought that I could handle it
Clearly the jokes on me cuz it’s damaging
My health and my relationships
I need all the help from my acquaintances
And as much as I believe that I could do it on my own
What’s the point of reaching the tippy top when you alone
And share all the fruits of your labor with your neighbor
Because you can’t take your paper when you meet your maker
It’s all part of the process but I ain’t gon’ lie
The hardest thing I’ll ever put aside is my pride
I have to be OK with not being OK
(Ok? Ok?) Ok
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11. |
Some Things Change
02:25
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I don't remember the time when I was teething
But I remember when my mom thought I was a heathen
Running climbing trees and destroying my jeans and
Tearing up the asphalt grass and the cement
Nothing was safe from my rampage
Family thinking it’s a damn shame that I don’t feel no damn shame
Still don’t I say fuck it
Still be out in public daily making a ruckus
But now I’m on stage with it
Nothings really changing it
Still the same dude but found a way to get paid for it
Instead of trees I be climbing charts
Instead of jeans I tear mics apart
I used to get loud playing YuGiOh
Now I get loud in the studio
But I’m still not down for them doobies bro
A whole lot smarter but act stupido
Just tryna to keep the essence of my youth, you know?
Some things change and some things don’t
Some things change and some things won’t
“You’re insane” is what I’ve been told
But that’s what keeps it interesting bro, so...
Ever so mischievous
Little hell raiser just without any needles in
I’ve been bull headed with the horns of a demon kid
Hated anything that was tedious
Getting me to budge in itself is an achievement
Still to this day I’m adamant in what I’m believing in
Ask my band they be receiving it
I be the main reason for disagreements
Cuz I’m trying to frame my vision like Anne Lebowotz
Not the type to get inside a screaming fit
But if I ain’t finding peace with it
Then I ain’t tryna pleas the fifth
Been told many times I need to ease a bit
Cuz my assertiveness be hitting hard like I speak with fists
I need to work on these quote unquote flaws
But these flaws are the reason I have journeyed this far
Must be written in my DNA
So instead of fighting my strengths I accept I need to be this way
Some things change and some things don’t
Some things change and some things won’t
“You’re insane” is what I’ve been told
But that’s what keeps it interesting bro, so...
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Apollo Bebop Santa Ana, California
Apollo Bebop is a Santa Ana, CA, based hip hop / jazz quintet.
Members:
Brian to Earth: Emcee
DeAndre Grover: Tenor Sax
Dom Cruz: Guitar/Bass
Chris Trimmer: Guitar/Bass
Donovan Cruz: Drums
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