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Layered Paint

by Pruven

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verse 1 You say, "Moves" "Make", "Moves" "Make", "Moves When I say, "Gain" You say, "Knowledge" "Gain" "Knowledge" "Gain" "Knowledge" When I say "Go" You say, "Hard" "Go" "Hard" "Go" "Hard" Oxygen inhale sanity into my brain While I canoe out the softness from your veins Cut out the shame Your veins clogged with doubt cut it out Be proud and inject confidence speak from your mouth Chakras open Negative forces closing Size "14" stomping your nose in Negative corrode Hard times uploaded focus downloaded Issues with trust ways to discuss haze to puff Maybe I should change maybe you should change Spirit lame, more attractive than my flesh Rhymes stay fresh I ball like I'm next in the draft Contrast with my metallic badge Bad cop gone mad Throw it in the trash Whip lash finishing from first to last Opposite exposed Math from above push & shove Right here reign down aggression Chorus: When I say, "Raw" You say, "Music" "Raw", "Music" "Raw", "Music" When I say, "NO" You say, "Fears" "No", "Fears" "No", "Fears When I say, "Reach" You say, "People" "Reach", "People" "Reach", "People" When I say, "Hip-Hop" You say, "Alive" "Hip-Hop", "Alive" "Hip-Hop", "Alive" Verse 2 Confrontation Build a Heaven nation Humans get annoyed with each other Feel the void from our brother Witness consciousness Tipping the scales spit it well Right here breaking the face of Hell Spit the frail (naw) Beers for breakfast Crack the shellfish Colors went from black to velvet Smacking Elvis Make a wish to pass the time Take actions Find stare in God's eye's for the 1st time Found lust in the virgin Certain the "sin" office is straight hurting Not deserving those votes Believing your votes count.. ouch Right now get up off the couch Doctrines: Red gravel The Devil's gavel no judgment baffle matters or what have you Trust few Some on the blocks non stop with the product I'm the interstellar prophet Chorus: When I say, "Build" You say, "Nations" "Build", "Nations" "Build", "Nations" When I say, "Bronx" You say, "Barian" "Bronx", "Barian" "Bronx", "Barian" When I say, "Dig" You say, "Dug" "Dig", "Dug" "Dig", "Dug" When I say,"Select" You say, "Few" "Select", "Few" "Select", "Few" written by Pruven (ASCAP)
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Sun Code 03:05
Verse 1 Hip Hop She won't answer your text nor calls Anxiety irritation became the best friends yall Ignore that the hell with that Use your CD to roll trees & don't spread the business of your own family Impale "jake" inhale fate Exhale hate Nastier than "Drake" with dicks to taste after kissing Madonna's face Headache cocaine heat wave cold play So cool the brain burn rust decay Pull ups on street capisce Shut the hell up quit talking Trees sparking Refuse to die comes to mind the guy composing in the present time Blue ink tat. flower Tetsuo devours Man don't cry over a girl I don't go outside I don't do shit I bet you can't shut up and listen from a song from start to finish without talking through the ending and you talking about you listen No one cares no one really cares Step up your business affairs be prepared stay rare never scared Mature your mind open your eyes feel the sun glares Open your eyes and feel the sun glares Chorus: The sun does exist and it arose from the mist & I feel it's bliss the energy precipice Our code to exist our code to exist our code to exist X2 Verse 2 You better have that never leave the porch Repping with the pack burn your fort We do enforce that you are moist Coming with the stats "black" the choice Laryngitis sounding horse Hepatitis C- that's your fault Spit in the cop's coffee Bloodstream rat poison prison food channel doom Change news to change views to daughter excelling in school Smiles no one confuse to those uplifting tunes Grief is good Good misery over stood Giant Andre Defiant always Chronic cough haze Bubonic dark plague sharp topic harp blade Always cut that rage Eric Von Daniken came Chariots of God's reign Substance sustained Tat. the face no way The lighter lit the tip of the needle Went under the skin remove the splinter people Lying to these people lethal We all equal Hell no Lying to the face of God Is evil let's go Horses tied to the limbs Pull him apart at the end The point is to transcend & scope in Doors of the mind never opened I enjoyed Justin Bieber getting roasted Im still flowing I realize I am not all knowing Find more in life & do something with it Do something (Chorus): The sun does exist and it arose from the mist & I feel it's bliss the energy precipice Our code to exist our code to exist our code to exist X3
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Chorus: Stop come again Plot running thin Spot ways to win Stop come again Plot running thin Spot ways to win Stop come again Plot running thin Spot ways to win Stop come again Plot running thin Spot ways to win Stop come again Plot one to win Spot ways to win VERSE: Easy does it touch it Was he buzzing in the function? With percussion was he something? Was his life really fronting? Inside you look divine took The bankers run this country Elbows bloody The movie, View from the zombie Hat camera Photo shot spectacular "Jeru The Damaja" Like he need me to say his name So lame I did it anyway Much respect To say in check The statues of art Hip-Hop halls I walk Tag get off your ass & move with class This is Russell Westbrook fast But not his dress class We think we supposed to be somebody So does everybody lodi dodi party held the shoti No balls to use it It's so congruent The chrome doors, those Angels walked through it The first verse started strong The 3rd verse ended soft The bars all off holocaust at the dawn the skeletons on the yard Robert Frost poems Vs. Langston Hughes zone The lion hunter Where's the thunder? So catch it good as Steve Largent Harvest, what you smoking on? Is the song strong? Scaramanga 7 eyes 7 horns The song recorded all wrong your bars sound soft Why you scared to say it Convey it & spray it Count your blessings & wisdom is the lesson. (Chorus) Stop come again Plot running thin Spot ways to win Stop come again Plot running thin Spot ways to win Stop come again Plot running thin Spot ways to win Stop come again Plot running thin Spot ways to win Stop come again Plot running thin Spot ways to win Stop come again Plot running thin Spot ways to win Stop come again Plot running thin Spot ways to win
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Enstinctz (verse) I'm dancing with the devil & my passion Everyday advancing Reaching my goals no time for laughing Straight to the business That's what I'm about I show love to everybody no doubt I don't have no reasons I'm letting out my demons This could be a hobby & a sport & make money believe it It just matter where your mind at Your music or a dime sack You better decide that before your dream die fast & I ain't playing around Every record got a message I can help you out I'm dropping knowledge I hope you listen My ship will never sink Because we walking on water You say your crew sick But I know we much harder We don't have to boast even though we do the most Better check your bread & butter before your ass get toast We indigenous to the realness while your gums still flapping Get exposed for being fake through these speakers that's blasting Enstinctz (Chorus:) Everybody look We spitting that fire Everybody shook Because we stay much higher So Everybody look Now it's down to the wire I'm about to be the dude you hate cause I made you retire We the new generation all our music on deck We the new generation you consider us threats We the new generation so you better come correct You need to pay attention we ain't stopping till death Pruven (verse) Reign fire Hip Hop attire Witness digital surveillance Governments not caring Apparent abandoned music candid Physical bandit elaborate technical magic You ugly with the dandruff You tell the truth I'm yelling telling the felons The white cop shoots the black teen because he believes she stole the watermelon Race profiling hellish (smell it) Racist cop relish in pro violence tell it Speak ways to end it reform reshape it make life the greatest Insight! Clarity raw beauty in life Fire! Razor wire wrapped around his neck for lack of respect A wet snatch cum inside like House Arrest Perhaps D.D.T. concrete neck snap Craft words skill Tiger speed zeal It's ill my best friends left me for dead for real Stainless steel truth cuts skin to peel Some holes in the heart will never be filled A real man earns his meal Reign Fire My paradise tree snake technique won't expire Music of fire (messiah) Tablets of the sapphire New generation climbs higher Enstinctz (Chorus:) Everybody look We spitting that fire Everybody shook Because we stay much higher So everybody look Now it's down to the wire I'm about to be the dude you hate cause I made you retire We the new generation all our music on deck We the new generation you consider us threats We the new generation so you better come correct You need to pay attention we ain't stopping till death Pruven-(outro) Never, never Bronxbarion rising, Enstinctz rising, Pruven rising, Indigenous Culture Records rising
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Pruven (verse 1) Whiskey for breakfast Exotic text messages Chinese men made their Woman bind their feet At birth cause pain & hurt They thought it cause the beauty first Modify the sketch For the surgical test What's left the scar tissue sketch Botox in the breast For the best body we do not rest The class advance know the ass implants Social retards laugh We bad lab rats Ebola virus, man made that's a fact Reflux acid the paragraphs straight classic Victoria's secret Was she a king? Naw she was a man a faggot It's all been so tragic Demonic foes Put the shotgun in your mouth and pull the trigger with your toes Expose Soda corrodes the flesh G.M.O. side effects We just trying to live our best (correct) D.N.A. changed chemically We don't exercise regularly The hospital feeds off the many deaths in the community HooK: ZaZa Ali Verse 2 (Pruven) He sniff coke off the switch blade He pulled the mask down over his face & then ran into the bank Big mistake He felt a shotgun intake No money gained just a life lost For greed it was gone & if rap was all love The fair ones wouldn't run from corruption There would be none From the slums where we from Our potential with our tongues Will turn darkness into Sun This is that King Tut, bear claw, guillotine, advisory poems. Grab the mic & show them thrones I show you porcelain & gold & rubies But you medicated off roofies and living so loopy Families backstab shot down with the uzies Muslims wearing bullet proof kufies From responsibility do not leave His tunnel vision, is a gold mine for peace His bloodstream found a cure for "Aids" you see He knew the right people in the community. (Magic) Claud Anderson wisdom I use The school of hard lumps will bruise leave you confused I'm chilling with Dilated Peoples & D 12 too See the Evidence in the Proof Rest in peace to the legends hook: Claud Anderson
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Pruven (verse 1) We scatter crews Select few are coming through Homonyms in the proof Garcia Vega pull with a brew Jason Voorhees fighting Goro, who you chose? Basketball Bronx park art Ratchet whore wrong from the start He don't read no book of Mark (nope) Ecclesiastic vocals clone the start I infringed on your right to copy Sounding sloppy Lighter to your library Cremate your energy Your drained If Hip-Hop was baseball Yall Michael Jordan at the plate Batting .208 (strike out) Deflate the confidence Close the gate To change game to re a rate Always Bodega corner stores, tobacco tax Cab drivers perhaps Getting cars waxed Probation officers getting faxes from their lawyers Public pretenders (nigga) Pretending to care about your life to go figure (Whoa) Felonies enter He record but never (why) Who is to blame? Society or the actions in his brain. (Lame) Making excuse lame (shame) Huh - Paraplegic self defeated with yourself your not believing & spit with meaning SAMPLE Pruven (Verse 2) I write harder than you. No shower for weeks dude stinking on these beats See these coons remain weak Defeat the hunt is on Malebolgia verses Hell Spawn Electric razor on Rocking on in college dorm perform (Rock) You real fake living something that you ain't Paint brush the pain away Writing that gorgeous decay Opposite fame The white boy at the studio like Sage Francis Damn it He look like a addict stabbed up and damaged Had a Sage Francis tattoo on his ribs Either he is a true fan or sucks the jizz Be about your bus.. iness Suggest song to perform (YOU) I'm the anti-norm The Russians helped the Chinese in the Vietnam War Sworn barbaric with approach (choke) Limitless metro card smoke Subways full of dope Provoke find life vessels there's hope Protect you vex you I remain to be the life vessel Over step fools Over stepping with values Basically, become a man of integrity Sip a Modelo & think great On the 12th floor of my boy's apartment elevate Scenery, beat creamery, heat seeking deeds he smoking trees (Lead) Incredible Hulk green beating teens Knowledge so brolic, huh, it's sort of established (bastard) He decipher text from those emerald tablets Whoo.. it's magic. Sample: listen close listen
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Up Switch It 02:41
Pruven (verse 1) Castration delegation Your pathetic meditation Out of the realm of the living Are the phantoms grinning? On the desk 3 shots of Captain Morgan While you stay coke snorting I been confused so confused Don't know what to do Hearts doomed Look at myself words dealt Caribbean sands cock tails in hand Property Godly The rhythm and base they flow through her body Internet sacrifice the creativity Sow seeds can't read but G.P.S. on the celly The bastard rapper from Chicago, "Young Q.C." Killed his Mom for insurance money Insanity He get life get raped to knife His father doing time too We doomed Not true & Walter Scott got shot by the cop 8 times We need know rip those tides Chorus: Protect your mind, body, spirit Protect your spirit, body, mind Protect your mind (spiritual) Protect your mind, body, spirit Protect your mind, body, Protect your spirit (mental) Protect your mind, body, spirit Protect your mind, body, spirit (physical) Protect your mind, body, spirit Protect your...mind, body, spirit Pruven (verse 2) Intuition causing friction Grimace with the sentence Splitting senses living wicked soul restricted soul is vengeance (whoa) No petition with these pictures (c'mon) All lifted gifted spit it splendid vivid live it with these vital visions No restriction with these missions (c'mon) Hack saw circumcision Coming timid cut short I burn your biscuit No petition with these glimpses Coming raw no ending Jack of all trades days sip the liquid He's hitting when he's driving Frost bitten stricken sub-zero cold shatter the body of competition Decay the henchmen when he's ripping Holy Grail glisten Fake in the first place find ways to mention Mind body riffing iffy when you spitting contradiction Your character surrounded with suspicion Dark cave wisdom No light to fight the bat bite hemorrhaging Hip-Hop is not forbidden (tell'em) Not extinguished nor diminished Eternal light infinite Brail thoughts are transmitted (boy) Chorus: Protect your mind, body, spirit Protect your spirit, body, mind Protect your mind (spiritual) Protect your mind, body, spirit Protect your mind, body, Protect your spirit (mental) Protect your mind, body, spirit Protect your mind, body, spirit (physical) Protect your mind, body, spirit Protect your...mind, body, spirit
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Pruven (verse 1) Fist band the chest twice Fuck who you say is nice Struck thrice hold heist hold a golden mic device Hold fight insight willing to write Debug your head of life Conquer the disrespectful Head cold flu Learn from the funeral drum roll true Ride the beat slide to me dishonor thieves Sip a Grolsch Sprew a quote I'm getting honor and anger though Bang a hoe Use to care but not no more Father "Time" Sitting fine We sipping blue tea to heal the arthritis right in His spine Acidic minds Burn for Lucifer crimes Refine the Jezebel You can't so oh well Her queen traits failed There's coke in the blunt Chaos that you hunt Define the word "What" With punks that stunt in the studio that front Life is no game Select Few we trust Chorus: Be real to you Trust a Select Few Select few we trust We kicking up the dust Show love to everyone Show love to everyone The emcee's job is never done (x2) Scvtter Brvin (verse 2) At my best still try to keep improving A space ghost coast to coast keep it moving While they in quick sand Knee deep in a street illusion A Mushroom cloud All you see was me & Pruven No days off Everything remain raw The word shark sound like I'm juggling chainsaws I paid off the referees in the playoff And did a séance Had to face off with Adolf I'm half machine A rebel from Heaven's core The brown "He-Man" mixed in with "Skeletor" Fuck the beef I'm eating plants like a Stegosaur In a cage with metallic books out in Ecuador I'm formless Turn satan to a sword eater Auspicious Slay demon like Lord Shiva No one in my klan giving a fuck Playing soccer on P.C.P how I'm kicking up dust Chorus: Be real to you Trust a Select Few Select few we trust We kicking up the dust Show love to everyone Show love to everyone The emcee's job is never done (x2)
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LYRICS: Verse 1 TELL'EM THAT THE WELL RAN DRY TELL'EM MECHANIC CAN'T FIX YOUR RIDE CAUSE NOW HE'S BLIND WE DO WHAT WE WANT TO DO PARENTS CONFUSED THE 24 YEAR OLD MODEL SHE WILL DISS YOU TELL'EM GREED TELL'EM SINS TELL'EM EVERYTHING THAT YOU SEE WHAT YOU BELIEVE IN LIFE! NO PRETENDING BLOCK POACHERS STOP VULCHERS POWERS THAT BE SEE US AS COCK ROACHES STOP WAR PLOT FOR ROCK FOR INTELLIGENCE SPIT ETERNAL MESSAGES GRIP TO SPIT DESTROY APOCALYPSE COMPANIONSHIP I TELL YA SEEN FAILURE AS A WINNER LIES SNAKE SLITHER PRACTICE & THEN I ENTER PRACTICE DON'T TALK STRONGER THAN WHAT THEY FOUGHT HERE LEAVING MY MARK THE SPIRITS THEY WILL DO SPARK WE NOT CATTLE BOUT TO BATTLE BONES DO RATTLE LEAVING SOULS FROM THEIR SHACKLES THRONES OF PHARAOHS JUST ABOUT TO TEACH DEFEAT TELL THESE WEAK EMCEES THAT WE ARE FREE! (CATTLE FOR FOOD) (I WAS CARRIED AWAY BY THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD) – sample Verse2 LORD OF THE SPIRT TELL'EM WE NEVER TIMID DIMINISH THE WICKED IN THE ENDING THAT BEAUTIFUL GRIMACE IT'S NOT WHAT YOU SAY BUT HOW YOU SAY IT LIVING THAT HATRED GOD WILL TEST THAT PATIENCE BEFORE HE DROWN I SAVED HIM WE KNOW MORE THAN THEY THINK & I SEE THEIR WORDS DO CONTRADICT WE SAY RELEASE MINDS FROM GRAVES NO ANGER TAKE ACTION & DO NOT COMPLAIN CLIMAX OF SPEECH RAISED COMING WITH CONVICTION MAKE'EM LISTEN PEOPLE WE TEACH PEOPLE WE DO REACH TECHNIQUE RAZORBLADE DEFEAT WAVES OF HARMONY DUSTED ARMORY SPIT IT SO WHOLE HEARTEDLY STOP BEING SOFT BROKEN HEARTED SOLDIER STAND UP BE A MAN & REP. YOUR CULTURE TE TELL'EM ABOUT YOUR LIFE TELL'EM ABOUT YOUR LIFE TE TE TELL'EM ABOUT YOUR LIFE TELL'EM ABOUT YOUR LIFE VOCAL CALCIUM VOCAL CALCIUM TELL'EM ABOUT YOUR LIFE TE TE TELL'EM ABOUT YOUR LIFE TELL'EM ABOUT YOUR LIFE TE TELL'EM ABOUT YOUR LIFE TELL'EM ABOUT YOUR LIFE VOCAL CALCIUM
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Pruven (verse 1) High as those Nazca Lines Nazca Lines Nazca Lines He's high as those Nazca Lines Twisting up as I walk by "Jordan L. Mott" junior high Dance with a gold tone Advance hold your own home "What you talking bout yo?" Did bitterness grow as old age arose? Mind operates free thinking Tattoo the face of "death" Divine dominates greed wishing Do you know your best? (huh?) She look good in them white sheets Little feet Rock band from the "70's" Acid tongue sheets Nail color purple Tongue kissing virtue Her father was fan of last name "Walker" & first name "Herschel" Back with a run Running back with the funds Concrete tongue Pavement wisdom Rise from slums Hear vomit on eardrums Naw Find happiness to mom's birthday kiss to Christmas open packages exist Ignore religion Ignore the symptoms I mold my own zone of spiritual wisdom I'm spiritual Not religious there's a big difference Say (chorus) You like her more than she like you You like her more than she like you You like her more than she like you Stay true move along be strong You like her more than she like you (Come on) You like her more than she like you (Say word) You like her more than she like you (Naw) Stand up be strong verse 2 By the time he realized she was no good for him It's too late Love turn to hate feels like a mistake Some say move away or stay Her face transform from a Queen to that Jezebel snake No pretender He met her off of "Tinder" in the winter He thought she was a thinker (nope) & not really Cocky with hoe tendacies she slept around frequently You like, people you not supposed to like Their energies won't ignite Can't be too nice in life He drove her everywhere She did not care He was too nice and that cause despair She admit She like guys that treat her like shit & little did she know he treated girls like awfulness bitch Before this trick She didn't realize it & wasn't on his level to exist & even though she was fine Grotesque inside Too selfish immature Had a good guy for sure He was a good man & she let go of destiny's hand Follow the signs Not all stars are meant to align Powerful, powerful Karma Whatever, so I say... (chorus) You like her more than she like you (Come on) You like her more than she like you (Tell"em) You like her more than she like you (That's right) You like her more than she like you You like her more than she like you You like her more than she like you (Tell'em) You like You like Stand strong these are real songs You like her more than she like you You like her more than she like you You like her more than she like you Real songs stand up be strong High as those Nazca Lines Nazca Lines Nazca Lines He's high as those Nazca Lines
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This is another body of work by Pruven reflecting personal experiences and thoughtful ideas about his interactive environment. The beauty of existence along with the turmoil of the everyday while encompassing there is a struggle to succeed in this enigmatic society. A visual clarity approach with an abstract journey in hip hop displaying directions along with the potential of humanity. Questions are always flowing through our walks everyday as people and this album is a guide to alleviating negative stress. Although this music is compiled from stress it plays with a harmonious demeanor to learn from it and then go beyond.

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released July 31, 2015

1. Lava Lamp Intro
Producer: Indigenous Culture Records






2. Nations Built
Producer: Dig Dug





3. Sun Code
Producer: Iron Feather





4. Ways Of The Enigma
Producer: Indigenous Culture Records





5. Fire Checks
featuring Enstinctz
Producer: Indigenous Culture Records




6. Virulent Kindness!
Producer: Indigenous Culture Records





7. Science Of Mind
Producer: Scvtter Brvin




8. Up Switch It
Producer: Iron Feather





9. Respect Is Earned
featuring Scvtter Brvin
Producer: Iron Feather




10. Vocal Calcium
Producer: Mainiakist






11. Novocaine Withdrawal
Producer: Iron Feather





12. Lava Lamp Outro
Producer: Indigenous Culture Records

mixed by: Pruven, Jesse Dunn, Scvtter Brvin and Ron Vetter


Tracks # 1, 6 & 11 mixed by Pruven
Tracks # 2, 5, & 10 mixed by Jesse Dunn
Tracks # 7, & 9 mixed by Scvtter Brvin
Tracks # 1, 3, 4, 6, 8, 11 & 12 mixed by Ron Vetter


The album "Layered Paint" was mastered by Ron Vetter

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With a sound that can best be described as quintessential hip hop, Pruven delivers thought-provoking, razor-sharp lyrics that just might cause folks to stop nodding their heads long enough to write an e-mail to their Congressman. The Va/Connecticut-based emcee now resides in the Bronx, Ny brings a soulful respect of hip hop’s heyday to the present-day ... more

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