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We decided to put together a MixTape to pay homage to a few of my favorite artist and to introduce new music to my friends and family, all while introducing James Klynn to the world as an artist
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released 13 July 2010
Written by James Klynn,Ernie Bordon(EbGb), Kenny Pistol, Death Cab For Cutie, The Kick Drums, St. Vincent, Chin Chin,K-Os
Produced by James Klynn, Ernie Broden(EbGb), J Dilla, Pharrell Williams, Flying Lotus, Ski Beats, K-Os, 9th Wonder, The XX
Mix,Mastered and Recorded at The Black Light District
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James Klynn, a Brooklyn bred emcee who loves where he's from so much he made it a part of his name. It didn't occur to him ... more that he'd be a lyrical talent until the latter part of his teen years, while residing in Naples, FL. Once he let his pen speak, he was encouraged by his older brother to give rhyming a try after an english teacher
recognized his gift with words, during a school assignment. less

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Track Name: Intro
The kick ignites
The spark
Which makes a line
That travels through the spine
To the mind
Which sets off a light
That's what obviously makes him write
He holds the pen so tight
It cuts off the blood flow to his fingers
But the beauty that comes through those speakers
Is worth it
Might be hard for you to digests
But this just his creative process
Ahhhhyes
One of those types is he
Used a subwoofer to replace his
Right kidney
Had to do it
Without it he was type dizzy
Goofy, big ears like Mickey
Type Disney
Quite iffy
About future and things
So he started to write his dreams
That's where he spent all of his time
In his room, Just writing
Then it all started rhyme
Then he started to climb
The mountain
Tryna find the fountain
Of youth aka the booth
Check his feet if you proof
They both bruised
No clue
Where it is he's going
But knows what he's suppose to do
Protect those close to you
Cause there's a war going on outside
And the war is approaching you
So true
He found his purpose
His dismount from the circus
So perfect
No words
Could explain his pain
Just know he's hurting
Below the surface
No purchase
Could ever amount to your worth
It's worthless
To stop searching
When the futures uncertain
But the past lurking
It's just begun open the curtains
Track Name: Dead Presidents
(V1)
I spit that
Lets Free the people
The playing field ain't equal
We are the sequel
Our ancestors
Was the prequel
The evil lies
Inside the eyes
Of the guys
Who see the prize
In deleting lives
I write for the voiceless
And those who don't speak the same
Language
Even if it's on some slang tip
You don't see what they point is
Jvion told me don't forget what the point is
There's 2 sides to every coin kid
So check it
I'm in street like bruh man
From the 5th floor
In ya window
Getting dough
But the pigs know
So
They threw my ass in snow
Tied my hands behind my back
And sent me up north yo
Now I'm locked
In what some would see as a contest
Survival of the fittest
Prison industrial complex
Yes I changed whole way of living and thinking even blinking post 9/11
Bomb threats
Pushups working on my chest
Then I read
I do about 3 sets
That's 3 books a day
I don't got time to waste
Gotta change the mind states
Of kids round my way
Wait
As I found myself
You are not the country's pride
I realized It's wealth
What I did in the streets
Equals Vietnam
It was inhuman
There's 2 sides to a coin in this case
Both sides are the same
They all saying

(V2)
I'm so sick rappers
I'm tryna get this money
Who isn't
It's kinda talk that me think
You probably on your way to prison
Son got that BET vision
Instead of living
They get knocked
Then watched under state supervision
Listen
I'm in a place you never seen
Time I start shaking things
Like the HAARP machine
I mean
I had dream
I was sittin on a hill
All these rappers coming towards me
Running from they're deals
And the deals were being chased
By the 7 deadly thrills
Followed by the worlds ills
And ppl that love to kill
For real
It was ill
Craziest thing I'd ever seen
Then looked across the filed
And seen a girl under a tree and
She was sitting fondling pearls
And I could see it in her eyes that she was promised
The world
So I crawled over
In attempt to console her
She was a lone soldier
And gesture just insults her
I'm from Brooklyn I was gone say
For get ya
Then I thought what if this was my sister
Couldn't dismiss her
Had to Pick her off the ground
Run across the city
But there's a fire burning it down
My whole town is blazing
Then I remembered nossirah
Telling me about this safe haven
Where bands were playing
And everybody loved life
Nobody lived by following statement
Nas say it

And everybody loved life
Nobody lived by following statement
Nas say it
Track Name: Patience
(Intro)
Swing high then swing low
I know we all know
Swing high then swing low
I know

(V1)
I was rushing to the end
But you're everything I saw, again
And hoping to pretend
I was knocking on heavens door my friends
But I was just a fool, caught up in the game
Everything was cool, believing in my name, instead of his
And when the sun came out
I couldn't find the shade, I am not afraid
Of the light anymore

(Chorus)
Patience
Heavens on your side be patient
The universe is wise
Patience
Everything is grand
Use patience
And you can understand

(V2)
Now everyone knows
We hold the key deep in our souls

But we are living a life, on the surface yo
What is the purpose of
living lies, somebody tell me
Some hearts are made of stone (of stone)
They'll find their way back home (home)
I know I walk the path of life eternally
To be free, its all time

(Chorus)
Patience
Heavens on your side be patient (heavens on your side)
The universe is wise (and you know the time will make you wise)
Patience
Everything is grand use patience (use patience)
And you can understand (and you can understand)

(Bridge)
Swing high then swing low
I know we all know
Swing high then swing low
I know

(V3)
I know momma
Taught me better then this
If she was standing here right now
I'm sure shed be pissed
Materialistic
Of course I'm is shit
From the projects
Where drugs are more important
Than kids is
And this is my opportunity
To change that
But when I came back
They looking at me like I changed black
I'm just tryna help
But I need patience
Only problem with that
Is that I hate waiting
In the train station
Praying that it's raining
I don't want no one to see my tears drop and
Hit the pavement
They'll think I'm sad
I'm mad at the situation
Beat in Police stations
Sentences for each statement
Telling me to chill
And I should know my place
You for real
They spit in my great grandmothers face
For that reason I should spray off
I stay calm
But it's hard to stay patient
In the midst of all this chaos
Track Name: Summer Skin
(First Verse)
Squeaky swings and tall grass
The longest shadows ever cast
The water's warm and children swim
And we frolicked about in our summer skin

I don't recall a single care
Just greenery and humid air
Then Labor day came and went
And we shed what was left of our summer skin

(Second Verse)
When the seasons change attitudes go along with it
It's like a change in spirit
Even if you just sit back and hear it
Everything is sounding different
From the tone on your phone
Even the way she postpone
That date
She been making wait for so long
Somethings wrong it just don't feel right
Days are shorter and now it's colder at night
That's why I wish I Could fly
Back in time
Cause it's december and we just tryna remember July 4th
Of course I was high
Laying on the Cloth
Watching stars
Shoot across the sky

(Third Verse)
On the night you left I came over
And we peeled the freckles from our shoulders
Our brand new coats so flushed and pink
And I knew your heart I couldn't win
Cause the season's change was a conduit
And we'd left our love in our summer skin
Track Name: See Right Thru (Feat. EbGb)
(V1)
I'm talking X-ray extacy, bliss with my head sitting right next to me
Mind fuckin you til' you can't think, all I gotta do is drop the mic and let the fans sing it
I put my soul in what I write and haunt the fuck out of a beat until it can't sleep at night
And even if it's takin pills to help it sleep right
At midnight, I'm in it's room with a knife, give it's adam's apple a pinstripe
I'm a tasty kind of crazy, can't believe when they hear a track and see I'm casper pastie (no way)
I'll float away for a couple of days, puffin haze
Wana know where I come? I'll bust a nut in your face
Cuz you fuckin lames are trying to run a race when you stuck in one place
Comfy in your bubble til I run up and fuck you with change
And ain't nothing the same, fuck a feelin I'm used to
You think you got an eye on me, but in actuality I...I...

(V2)
It's The asthmatic
spazmatic
Rap assassin
That's crafting caskets
For these rap bastards
I'm talkin ingravins on the tomb
Of the slave men
Who think they free
But indeed they live in the matrix
See They tried to recurt me
But seen
I was to deep
And I wouldn't dumb down my sound
For jeep and some groupies(Nah)
That Didn't make sense to me
That's like tryna show me a sence
When I done seen the whole damn movie

Issues and scar tissue, I still got em
Still tippin the bottle til the last drop in the very bottom
Still writin everyday, rhymes, I still got em
When I jot em, they're sick as me the first time I tried oxycontin
I'm outta my muthafuckin mind (can't you see that?)
Got ya kids pointing n sayin (I wana be that!)
I'll be that thorn in your side until you all
Just realize I'm simply here to remind you of skills I can...see...right...

(V3)
When the pen touches the page
That excitment you crave
Plus insight
Is sealed tight
With in a titans grenade
Held by the guy
The resights the lines
That plays in your mind for days
He pulls pin and throws it into that rave
(Bang!)
Thus the last thing that you'll hear
You'll wake up in the emergency room
With Klynn and Eb working on you
Pulled out your heart
To give you a new start
Were misleading the people
Leaving them to believe that you weren't to smart
(Tisk Tisk)
This an art
I put soul into it
So that way I'll be my little brothers
Soul influence
Cause all these actors
That are so called trappers turned rappers
Got a bunch of wholes in they
Characters
I see thru em
A glass pitcher of air
Or one of those acts
That hide in that back
At the state fair
(Yea!)
Let's keep rollin like ecstasy
If you aint a friend to me
Your a threat to me
You best believe
I'll let the pen bleed
Now I... See... Right...
Track Name: Brand New
(V1)
The people in the street had overtaken you
By the time you rounded second avenue
So I walked away all perfumed
I'm just the same but brand new

And anything you wrote I checked for codes and clues
The letters stopped unceremoniously in June
So I changed my I's and A's to yours
I'm just the same but brand new

And I do my best impression of weightlessness now too
And I might be wrong, I might be wrong, I might be wrong
But honey I believed I could
Float away dangling
I'm just the same but brand new to you

(V2)
I put my thoughts to the sides
On Thursday I deiced
A love supreme
Just means
You and I
Not enough pride
To keep my eyes dry
In love on cloud 9
But I'm falling outta the sky
Crash and Brun
To earth, No return
Sunny days means pain
But rain brings me out like worms
I'm tryna rid my hands of these germs
They've grown
I can't sanitize time
So my mind is on it's own
While memories linger
Leads me to be a Hennessy drinker
The glass echos
From taps made by ring finger
Daydreamer
To much of a thinker
I'm Trying to leave her
But the past begs for me to bring her
She's the same
But something about her has changed
And I can't yet place it under my finger
Maybe it was time
That's what I'm tryna find
She said it was forever then she changed her mind
Said it was forever then she changed her mind
Said it was forever, changed her mind
She said it was forever then she changed
Said it was forever, changed her mind
And that's the mountain I stay tryna climb
But reaching the summit
Sets off my asthma overtime
These are things we already been through
She's just the same
But so brand new
Track Name: Creative Control
Now this is creative control
Created from a soul
Cut from a different cloft
He Taylored for the cold
Seamless flow
The dirtiest and cleanest tho
I mean this
You have to see this yo
This kid is amazing
He carves his name in the pavements
Can't inslave him
Cause his brain is a spaceship
He travled the globe
Then universe
And goes home
They see he's changed
But no they don't notice he's grown
It's goes
On & on & on & on
Like Eryka
His Master teacher
Welcomed him to a new ameryka
You'll need these tools
Teach these fools
The fiasco's to smooth
You most leave the food
And liquor
The coolest n****
Got left behind
Cause he didn't view your scripture
Instead he followed his heart
Which got him out the dark
you threw a dart
But you couldn't glue it to his heart
The last of a dying breed
They never watered that seed
Still it grew
To prodcues something you need
Now when hee turns the page
It's like he just opened the cage
And phoneix on fire
Flew out in a smoking rage
Not to save a girl
Mad not just at Hip Hop
But at the state of the world
Him contaplating
On saving it
Is breaking
His contraction
Makin him late for his conciltation
With hatred
The whole village is saying that he's the greatest
For slayer fire breathing dragons
With his statements
His patience equals out to creations
And takes you places
You wouldn't go in your own imagination
Now that's the difference when he's spitting
It's uplifting
Plus pinches your attention
His magnetic force
Is a ship
Making it's way across
It has a grip
And it
Will not let you off
Gone
Track Name: A.C.L(Audio Composers League) (Feat. Kenny Pistol and EbGb)
(V1 Pistol)

(V2 EbGb)
Burn the candle at both ends, expensive drug habits and broke friends
No hope, no dollars, and no sense (no!)
I'll take the pain to relieve my brother, that's the only thing I can think to say when I see his mother
It's a, suicide it's a suicide, but who am I to preach? Sitting here mumbling super high
Watching the pupils out grow the blue in my eyes, with a future are bright as mine, why the fuck would I pay you mind? (please..)
You can sign these Siamese nuts, high off that pine tree
Wave hi to the mind freak, your rhymes weak as fuck
I'm sick and tired of being so tired, cuz I be the sickest rhymes sayer this side of the island ugh!
I'm that feelin that you get when your brainstorming, recording til 7 am plus you got work in the morning
I ain't a G, ain't a hustler, ain't a thug. But I'll punch to your fuckin face off if you touch my drugs (Eb!)

(V3 Klynn)
It's the most soulful
Nowhere close to global
Reggie Nobel ain't as red
As ya skin after
I scold you
I told you
One or twice or maybe trice before
You ain't like us on mics
So slice your cord
I write this for
The light and lifeless all
Tryna insight then engine
The fight in y'all
Cause I browl
Like a bowling
Rolling down the hall
Hiting a pin size Granade
Then they blasting on your door
Thats what i pack when i punch lines
I turn on the mic
When it's
Crunch time
Minus your life when it's lunch time
Not phiscaly
Or littraly
But lyricaly
I'm illity
Throw the beat in the guillotine
And squeez till I feel it sleep
Then scream
I ain't mean to do it(!!)
Come back
Don't leave
You know need you stupid
Like the fluid
In my pen
I will do this till the end
Till the casket gets droops
And I will not breath again
They dirt on the top
But my heart didn't stop
It started to knock
Then I rocked
Now that's only beat that i got
Track Name: It's Just A Game
(V1)
Tell me my friend, have they gotten to you
Have they gotten inside your head?
Into the world trying to face existence
Will they remember us?

Here we are hesitant in speech, lost
Just, trying to let him know
It’s all a joke you shouldn’t take that serious
Or else you might crack up

(V2)
But hail to the thief, he’s getting away again
The world wants its fees, might be you and me in the end
While one wants to believe, another one wants it to burn
It’s just a game, it’s all a game, it’s just a game

Tell me my friend, have they gotten to you
Have they gotten inside your head?
Life’s just a game and we all play along
Some pray to a god, some try to fix the odds
But into the world trying to face existence
Will they remember us?

(V3)
Lights, camra, actions
No time for practice
In game experience
No time for slacking
No time for acting
As if you don't care
There's some that aren't here
That would love to live in your bracket
Some actions
Lead to bad habits
And the worst things can happen
When the defense is trapping
At halfcourt
Most of them bad sports
That don't like to lose and to win
They'll resort
To worst measure
It's halftime get a Gatorade
Your second half can be better
Be ready to run
If the coach calls your name
But remember have fun
Cause in the end
It's just a game

It’s just a game, it’s just a game, it’s just a game
Track Name: It's Your World (Feat. A.J. Wheeler)
(V1)
Horns blow
At hoes at work
On they stroll
Tryna make payroll
Cause know that's first
Even tho toes is froze
And noses hurt
Gotta patrol
Then upload
That dough in purse
Dealers on coners
Made it worst
It's bad as is
Just tryna get to my
Basketball practice
Time passes
Light flashes
From cop cars
Responding to a call
Of shots that rang off
We mightve seen it all
But you know the rules
Can't talk the cops are involved
Thats how it was in those days
I ain't saying it's right
But hey that's the way we were raised
The rain
Keeps calling name
James that's all Im hearing it say
Just rain
And banging on my window pain
With no sample
before the Fresh prince
Got cancled
Running up and down
The hall working on my handle
Handball
Tennis ball
Whatever I got my hands to
My moms gave birth
But she ain't like to hold me
She left that for moma
Tiff had to mold me
Had to grow up homie
Get my lil brother from school
There was No snacks
No cartoons
I ain't saying our road was the roughfess
But it wouldn't smooth
I just wasn't paved
We couldn't afford the tools
Yet my family don't produce no fools
We just make lowsy disions
With cloudy vision
AND
I ain't never ever ran
I was young when my father me
Fought me how to use my hands
Here's the plan
Hit me as hard as you can
Then I'mma swing
You either move
Or get hit by a grown man
Understand

(Chorus)
Live your life
It's your world
Don't let it pass you by
Live your life
Its your world (yea)
Live your life
It's your world
Don't let it pass you by
Don't let it pass you by
Don't let it pass you by

(V2)
Life and death blow around us
We don't respect herbs
Or words from outter towners
Police suround us
And pound us
To the ground
Till we laying face down
In a puddle of blood
They try to drown us
Lost
Capt morgan the only explorer that found us
Cause he had fried chicken and 40s
Pimps, hoes, and shortys
Girl name dorathy
Walking her dog toto
Dressed in fly polo and nauthy
Timberland boots
Camerflos suites
Durags on dudes
That stand on corners and shot
Dice
This is life in NY
It never rains
There's pain and Blood stains are dry
We forced
So of course she high
Tought to stay to fly
And never ride under the sky
As a person why care what your worth is
What's more important is the surface
And all the cloths you purchase
Anything to keep her from searching
Inside they smerking
Cause she hurting and they know it's working
We like jordans, AirMax, pennys
Gucci, Louie, and fenndi
If it's new and it's trendie
But it's usless we empty
Inside
We strive to have plenty
No drive she wants heaven
But gets denied at entry
It's an ugly scene
Know what I mean
In NY We even routing for grabage team
This queen never seen life
Outside of my city
To pretty to have an attitude so shity
But on and on we creaters of all
In bedstuy Brooklyn that's where I was born
Where Faking ain't apart of the game
And who you know that love where they from so much they made it
Part of his name
It's James Klynn

(Chorus)
Live your life
It's your world
Don't let it pass you by
Live your life
Its your world (yea)
Live your life
It's your world
Don't let it pass you by
Don't let it pass you by
Don't let it pass you by

(V3)
People got me goin crazy
Listenin to wat they sayin
Never underestimate me
Go ahead I'm claimin greatness
Stay the same, never evolving
See a problem, never solve it
Those kind of people hold you down man
Hold you down for their endowment
They hold you close and say they love ya
They'll neva put no one above ya
Well take their love and then reverse it
And you will see the evil in their words