1. |
Vibin
03:45
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Graftul
ama-zon like bezo
blessings from the work
money right we stable
preparation meeting opportunity
seeing the light my history
uh, flip mode enabled
swipe right with that green light
and carving my name in that table
we not school no more
and fixed skin cant be ignored
found my pattern in the chapters
the author and stopping the action
Living like a movie,
staying present like Tolle
And we only getting started
I be feeling this all day
-
we be vibin
energy don’t lie and
you can see flying yea
we be vibin
its all the writing
you can see we grinding yea
we be vibin
it all in the uh uh uh
yea yea yeaaa
uh
we be vibin
—
ay
check
Sun is shining, i be vibin, chilling with my girl,
out the country in a buggy, half way the world
in Philippines on private beaches,
plankton in sea,
glitter in her feet,
She’s looking juicy,
like ooh looking at me,
it was dream, feeling a king
this is suppose be, when your built to win,
hardwork pays off, now vacations
travelling asia from animation,
counting blessings I created
paint in the music making,
i be documenting, move beyond forbidden games,
Took Flight 314 to Glastonbury aay,
Gigs in Europe - from France to Ukraine,
Working with Producers from the U.S to Spain
I cant lie I pinch myself
I never use to sleep to work work work on myself
They call self help, I don’t know nothing else
face your fears, build seeds in the palace to excel, yea!
—
we be vibin
energy don’t lie and
you can see flying yea
we be vibin
its all the writing
you can see we grinding yea
aay
we be vibin
energy don’t lie and
you can see flying yea
we be vibin
its all the writing
—
Want to know your rainbow too
the spectrum in abundance that’s forever mood
Once I saw secret I was locked into Groove
Running my meditation,
where I see my thoughts choose
I can lose, L turns lessons,
lessons turn to blessings
magics from intuition,
be your own therapist,
flowstate from the tunnel visions,
If they hide and seek,
just your follow ambition ye ye
living with no expectation
just follow the frequency of the station
signals not always clear
but you know when there
yea
all you need patience
we not rushing with statements
its universals language
we gota find our pattern
in the bandwidth
transmit on the canvas,
root it the atlas
spread and water seeds
with belief and no attachment
have it
—
we be vibin
energy don’t lie and
you can see flying yea
we be vibin
its all the writing
you can see we grinding yea
aay
we be vibin
energy don’t lie and
you can see flying yea
we be vibin
its all the writing
you can see we grinding yea
—
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2. |
Before I'm 25
03:19
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If I die before i’m 25
If I die before i’m 25 yea
If I
If I
what If I
—
Came out Uni with a D & AD new blood
2.1 but it should of first
fuck it, now its time find work
new challenges will emerge
can’t pay rent, go back mums
building up dent, now you will learn,
The job centre not helpful,
the mindset there is mental,
so putting in work with the redbulls,
late nights are instrumental
tonne of emails on regular
need stability in this nebula
cause I cant be a failure
if I cant get work in the sector
from what I graduated from
Cant be cleaning with mum
Cause confidence will be done
-
if I die before I’m 25
let me skydive into my dreams before i rise,
see my father for the first time,
write an album about my life
before i’m 25
if I die before I’m 25
let me skydive into my dreams before i rise,
see my father for the first time,
write an album about my life
before i’m 25
—
I use to sleep on job
the flow state wasn’t getting up
Boring work need to adjust
find the method to madness
this mind aint mind up
I need to master my art
know the target
make music to find answers
see my father
sky dive into darkness
face fears rather barking
curiosity knows where the heart is,
And thats where the art lives,
Dont give a shit about making hits
as long as it hits
true colours from the abyss
withs no regrets so when I’m older I can say I did
—
that I tried,
i skydived into my dreams to feel I’m alive
not just leaving for this 9-5,
with corpses in my mind
quarter life crisis and fried
nah, I was born to fly
and what’s failure if you continue
to take life one step at a time
—
so I quit my job
went freelance
when a boy called ric
was made and mastered
to put my all in marketing
and take a trip to johannburg
to see my father for the first time
with his wife catch his vibe
get some answers I’ve wanted all my life
closure so we kosher
not necassilry closer
already got a foster father
who is much broader
work harder than most did
doesn’t ask for money
and supported my focus
grateful for all of these moments
life a trip, roller coast it
-
if I die before I’m 25
let me skydive into my dreams before i rise,
see my father for the first time,
write an album about my life
before i’m 25
if I die before I’m 25
let me skydive into my dreams before i rise,
see my father for the first time,
write an album about my life
before i’m 25
—
This is the number one rule for your set
In order to survive, gotta learn to fast your fears
On the rise to the top, many won’t, don't fear
In order to survive, gotta skydive to your fears
This is the number one rule for your set
In order to survive, gotta learn to fast your fears
On the rise to the top, many won’t, don't fear
In order to survive, gotta skydive to your fears
-
Falling
your body’s calling
Falling
your body’s calling yea
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3. |
Never Grow Up
03:12
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Ay yea yea ay
uh ay
I never wana grow up
I never wana wake up no no
I never wana grow up
I never wana wake up no no
I never wana grow up
I never wana wake up no no
I never wana grow up (i just wana fly)
I never wana wake up no no (i just wana fly)
I never wana grow up (i just wana fly)
I never wana wake up no no (i just wana fly)
—
I never wana grow
imagine myself a new home
neverneverland with the kangol
white flat cap looking kriss Kross
Top of the pops on the channel
Eyes wide shut to the council
Jumping like Jacks as Rambo
in my front room As I jangle ya ya ya
These strange fruits don’t hang low
but I handle bars without a bike
and bite like a lost boys the night
who’s seen too much or too little 
makes me fly yea
—
I just wana fly
i just wana fly
—
I never wana grow up
I never wana wake up no no (i just wana fly)
I never wana grow up
I never wana wake up no no (i just wana fly)
—
Creeping in my innocence
Call it discipline
In my world I know I win
won’t be cast an African witch
lost boys from Lagos
just a radiant kid
with scars around the wrist
but its not what you think no
—
The caregiver -
wants to get rid of bad spirits
doing what she does with tradition
heavy in religion and mystiques
these methods are not quite english
Hammer horrors take flight in the late nights
I’m stuck like a rabbit in the brake lights
DARK brides with Jekyll and Hyde
Frankenstien they all friends mine
in mind,
from the age the five,
shadows creeping in the twilight zone,
Oliver twist Home Alone
immigrants on low gota working loads,
get the benefits of England
even if care ain’t commercial
kids having kids still learning
fathers aint shit, all selfish
I wouldn’t of know better
if I didn’t see social service
—
its funny how life turns out
—
I never wana grow up (i just wana fly)
I never wana wake up no no (i just wana fly)
I never wana grow up (i just wana fly)
I never wana wake up no no (i just wana fly)
—
can’t hold me down (i just wana fly)
can’t hold me down (i just wana fly)
can’t hold me down (i just wana fly)
can’t hold me down (i just wana fly yea)
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4. |
Camo Cool
02:42
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aay uh uh uh
okay
let me take you back now
uh uh uh
let me take you back now
yea yea
let me take you back
uh uh uh
so let me take you back now
haha
let me take you back
limme yea
um
aay
—
Let me take you back now, back to btown
the foundation of Jungle Brown
before myspace or what you called it sounds
just kids of noughties immersed in our playground
Live and Kicking, Top of Pop riddims
Middle child immersed in what television was giving
Mobo Ghetto Supastars, Mase and Nas
Busta Rhymes, A+, a little Champagne Dance,
Pay As Go with the Cartels,
Nike tracksuits, Tns hat and Rockport boots,
late night of Dream Teams and Femme Fatale
On radio 1, recording mixtapes ourselves,
More fire for the crew,
football, girls and school,
Westwood, Fake IDs, Opera House and Booze,
Oh no.. I was sponge to it all
Black Sheep turnt Camouflage cool.
—
Black Sheep turnt
Camouflage cool,
A Special Kind a Fool,
Run Come Save Me
as I Roots Manuve
A Brand New Heavy
just finding my Groove yea
Black Sheep turnt
Camouflage cool,
A Special Kind a Fool,
Run Come Save Me
as I Roots Manuve
A Brand New Heavy
just finding my Groove yea
—
Summer Madness abstractions
money transactions,
clear like fear false discipline attractions
Kool with no Gang,
catalogues of neverland
CD:UK wave, high rise like peter pan
break clocks,
feel the aftershock in bedrock,
Rugrats making looney tunes with his xbox,
couldn’t afford a console
but snesing in 2nd home
Excited like Pogo
Feeling Rofio,
wake up before I go go
flashings like La Gears with that Skateboard flow,
I can’t ollie ollie but I know about that the oi oi
More fire for B, as I ozzie with the mcCoy
Big world, change narration, cut up scenes
create new chapters in this western world dream
Seen, i got this, keep it movin with these options
Living in abundance hop scotching over problems
-
Black Sheep turnt
Camouflage cool,
A Special Kind a Fool,
Run Come Save Me
as I Roots Manuve
A Brand New Heavy
just finding my Groove yea
Black Sheep turnt
Camouflage cool,
A Special Kind a Fool,
Run Come Save Me
as I Roots Manuve
A Brand New Heavy
just finding my Groove yea
—
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5. |
How's Your Day Been
03:24
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Yea so how’s your day been?
haha check
-
Hows your day been? Same old regime
self-isolating but i’m still maintaining
Writing on occasions, struggling with patience
I’d rather be lockdown on beach somewhere in Asia
instead I’m bed, not knowing what day is on the gram
being unproductive, but it is what it is, jot it in pad,
unproductive becomes timeless,
Rhymes reflecting times of crisis
Exercising? I run a bit, did 6k round the park
thats meditation when I motivated
Routine gota get back into the routine
Roots manuva Run Come Save Me
Actually Ive been listening to Things fall Apart
On my Quest Love and Black Thought Got me inspired with the art
So I’m on the youtube Success leaves clues
Stream of Thought Vol. two oomph
Freethinking, just illustrating how the days been spent
rather than putting pressure to be productive
its okay slow down amongst this
reflect on good memories and just be honest
—
Take each day on your ones on your ones
You don’t need try so hard
We all go thru ups and downs
You don’t need try so hard
Its already written in the stars
You don’t need try so hard
We all going through it in yard
You don’t need try so hard
—
yea yea yea
You don’t need try so hard
strange occasion
but i keep it moving with these jazzy vibrations
Pinteresting inspiration for animation,
abundant in creation, escapism from the frustration,
face lifting,
no photoshop, mood shifting
after effects for you listeners,
something like adobe vision
renaissance business, nothings forced
just raw curiosity of the spirit
poured with awe
in the rich reservoir
glass still half peppering my sentiment
flow state in the elements
reflecting my spectrums with elegance
Synaptic magic building connections
hope over scars, built character
added contours to the marathon
In my Oasis no Gallagher’s
But I rock the band width, own swagger
back to back track suits no kappa
its a mazza, but i keep gathered
Unrivalling this grey matter with the stanza
The Dr Sebi to these cancers
break away from snakes and ladders
see clear, follow intuitive to ears.
build resilience from experience,
seek brilliance, one in mill,
Godzillian,
Flyerian, British Citizen
Expressive with the hands like Sicilians
painting these images
the conductor,
the artful dodger
doing this until morning
proper
no mocha,
just pure energy for the muse
music rules
you snooze you loose
and that’s not an option
—-
Take each day on your ones on your ones
You don’t need try so hard
We all go thru ups and downs
You don’t need try so hard
Its already written in the stars
You don’t need try so hard
We all going through it in yard
You don’t need try so hard
—
whats the problem?
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6. |
Feel Somethin
03:25
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Feel somethin
Feel somethin
what what yea
Feel somethin
Feel somethin
aay
—
The resurrector,
The grim reaps in your shadow
but should know better,
Death awakes, blossom from grave,
Figure 8s, unlimited potential beyond the gates,
You born to great, why wait,
Jump over, Patients evaporates,
Stand on the shoulders of giants,
with the force the alliance,
Any excuse, is minus,
Change your attitude
Or bring the noise and violence,
I'm non-complainant,
Not under any influence,
I'm aim higher,
Elevation attire,
Supersaiyon
Energy of desire,
The messiah
Holding grace
Cause i got power,
So switch up my lift up,
Brothers and sisters,
Zombies and gravediggers,
You get picture,
fulfilli your own scripture
Passion the pain killer.
—
Feel somethin
the flow state will make ya
Feel somethin
intuitive nature
Feel somethin
apply pressure
Feel somethin
il be the resurrector
Feel somethin
the flow state will make ya
Feel somethin
intuitive nature
Feel somethin
apply pressure
—
It's so easy become complacent
Numb to the feel time wasting,
Average relationship don't wana complicate it,
Respect yourself enough to break it,
You can do better, she can do better,
Don't hide from thoughts, say it,
Heart breaker but love sacred,
I don't wana be caught up in the matrix,
Disconnect to connect with something native,
Sex and drugs can only a temporary replacement,
Look I knows bad habits,
"easy said than done"
knows will power
"needs energy to run"
But breaking the cycle is the vital
To start new life rather than be suicidal,
Each day, we wake slightly altered, and the person we were yesterday is dead. So why, one could say, be afraid of death, when death comes all the time?”
that word to Alan Watts
-
Feel somethin
the flow state will make ya
Feel somethin
intuitive nature
Feel somethin
apply pressure
Feel somethin
il be the resurrector
Feel somethin
the flow state will make ya
Feel somethin
intuitive nature
Feel somethin
apply pressure
—
incarnated soundwaves
vibrating flavor,
raw like the elements of nature,
Intuitive, dream lucid,
Levitated on clouds 9,
Paralaxing against your movement,
Aligned,
Direct, interdict any fuckery Aside,
Bout change,
reflective of the mind,
Applied,
The effort of the fulltime,
Graphic designing life
To craft something I'm proud of,
Outcome Eps and Album, visuals outstanding,
Maximum potential, living it
Continental, monumental,
Always Being true to self - essential,
Now You could be
Running all your life,
To realise what you have is right here,
Capture it, before it's too late, right there,
The Spark of life, hold it within sight,
Innate ability, you know the feeling of your inner chi.
Wickedly Live vividly. Yea
-
Feel somethin
the flow state will make ya
Feel somethin
intuitive nature
Feel somethin
apply pressure
Feel somethin
il be the resurrector
Feel somethin
the flow state will make ya
Feel somethin
intuitive nature
Feel somethin
apply pressure
—
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7. |
Forbidden Games
03:21
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(skit)
A whole generation of people that came over
that were struggling to kind of have jobs
in the time when it ‘no dogs, no blacks, no Irish’
had to foster their children
so theirs a whole generation of young and old people like myself
that actually have this disconnect
in regards to black African culture and english culture
because they were fostered
and some of them didnt have good situations,
some of them did
so John Fashanu is an example
that story hasn’t been told yet
—
Diasporic karmas on the family business
I need to love you at a distance
trigger warning and silent treatment
energy done persistence
I need to lead by example
mental health you can’t see it
actions speak louder words
See you gave up to the meeting
Respect has lost its meaning
Too much trauma, yea numb the feeling
You won’t find this Tracey Beaker
British history aint got this feature
I don’t wana get deeper
I just wana heal pain
The disconnect is real.
what you reveal you heal
break the chain
-
I need you love at a distance
at a distance
I need you love at a distance
at a distance
I need you love at a distance
yea
I need you love at a distance
—
No one perfect we got blind spots
Suffocated by the gridlock
Lose chapters,
pissed
in same pothole,
trying find truth,
blinded by doe
the ego, the clothes,
the gossip, the flows,
the fake pastor on the phone
This spiritual warfare I know
But I gotta let go
dont call yourself fam
if you’ve never been celebrate
just take take take
Like I wont seek change
like
you walk all over plate..
its a new dawn, new day
separate the true and fake
the snake from the mates
fam your business can wait
Who’s there to really listen?
And check your okay
-
I need you love at a distance
at a distance
I need you love at a distance
at a distance
I need you love at a distance
yea
I need you love at a distance
—
Silence speaks louder than words
sometimes you have to submerge
scream in the water so you are not heard
The Requiem for dream
The drugs calm the nerves
But the music needle in first
Wake Me Up When I Get Home
so the truth dont hurt
drown the verse than burst
freedom from the burns,
let it sizzle in hirst
The Meek Shall Inherit the Earth
Grounded from the dirt
Serving his purpose
scratching beyond the surface like herc
on the curbs like Grandmaster with the word
In between two world like authoric author
Power, Corruptions and lies change New Order
New forecast, in the sky for this Walker
Embedding legacy with these forces
—
(skit)
the reason why I talk about these things
is not because I want sob sorry scenario
but i want people to know
look you can tell the truth
someone will benefit from the truth
what we don’t have in this country
is what dont have any documentation
of what African people went through
went through, when they came here
we got the Windrush documentaries
all day long
but no caribbean person can tell me the name of the airlane
my parents came on
nobody knows, nobodies told the story
—
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8. |
Flo State
03:42
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“Have a mind, that is open to everything and attached to nothing” - Wayne Dyer
Flo state
check
yo
—
I’m making short term goals easing souls with flows
on illadelph high you can’t knock the hustle
as i funnel these like Def Jams like Russell
Ric the ruler rubin crusin phenomenal
Flintstone cold wana barney ruble
crash the bandicoot as I work the puzzle
tunnel vision, no kerfuffle
canon focused, Gordon Parks when i’M SHOOTING Opponents
blur them the moment, fucks these donuts I be chosen
Talented no need still with manakins
i keep it moving, crusing with these bars handling
ambitionz as a rider
from a mongoose bmx to a private pilot
tamdem diving
trekking Himalayas I’m not lieing
living to the most, swimming in flows
looking as whale sharks nose to nose
the life i chose,
on my Wayne Wonders in Wayne worlds
no letting go
Wake me up when I get Home
Flo
—
Flo state
—
this master suite like adobe
flo the poet flying like boeing
sowing these rhymes real cozy
leaving chemtrails when I excel
with no cigarettes or rollies
no Hawaiian Sophie,
no fake sets or oakleys
I am Legend in the Jungle like mowgli
walk what I talk man like Sony
But now spotify knows me
algorithm
let me infect em with my own seed
and grow them proceeds
boom town stadiums casting my Vibranium
Outkast like ATLiens in my palladium
Radiant child and there’s no fading him
curious and dedicated sure elevated embrace it
I’m amazing no debating,
humble statement i know
why you waiting
save the your catalogue
quit lazing with flo
cause there’s more
digital store
free mental thoughts
with this cashmere melodies intercourse
—
Flo state
—
before music had a pay check
we were bustin to folk in a tribe,
not on a quest or indépendant in debt,
dancing in circuits, way before the sugar hill
slavery and brands we worship,
soul music, storytelling to keep fire burning,
do you remember the times
i channel ancestory memories
frequencies beyond telie-visions
and the weight of my pedigree
see no enemy, Fela kuti grounding my legacy
vibrations you can never measure these
when I’m on the wave of tidal tendencies
in my hawk house,
with a little more elbow room in London for the bounce,
came along way from A Boy Called Ric i’m proud,
Live-Ation with Jungle Brown
Doing up Lovebox, Glasto and Boomtown, wild,
—
yea Flo state
—
ay ay
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9. |
Acceptance
04:17
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Acceptance is not needed
i accept myself
confidence took it time
but every little helps
I never use to see myself on the shelf
until i recognised the hero the story
is on the journey for glory
exploring inner demons
like what’s this idea for freedom?
when you living with racist
and wife beaters
But God Ive been a sinner too,
cheated and denied the truth
confused drinking the bitches brew
for what its worth to numb these words
introvert more time I just sit and listen
some think arrogant cause I’m silent
and words seem be missing
day dreamer caught up in inner visions
thats always been the peace for the spirit
when the external feels like mission
I just leave it
learnt to replace rage with breathing
count my blessings
and found something to believe in
love been a social service
be cause Ive seen people go that extra mile
to show its more than money
and what you see the surface
heal the hurting,
let the music interpret
flush out the vermon,
output
growth from inner workings
On this life of the unlearning,
smile because you earn it
Show what
made the person as you
Rise from the furnace
yea
—
we still rising
limitless possibilities on this horizon
no hype ting ha
truth and enlightenment
vibe with it
yea
—
uh uh The i am other
Drawing on true colours
not rich and poor dad,
being there is what matters
Supporting the balance
not being passive
understand farming
to new pastures
new chapters
The last tree,
grown roots
on this pursuit
sharing with likeminded
redefining his alignment
whispers of intuition
slowly saw the phoenix rising
in his ambition flying
conquering fears
sharing tears of joy
on Himalayan heights
and travels abroad
open to more,
not closing the door
to limitless possibilities
to this awe
of tranquility
flowing with his ability
with a queen to compliment
with that synergy
grateful for the journey and imagery
and never stopping
with self developing calligraphy yea
—
never stopping
no photoshop when we rocking
its been beautiful
A boy called Ric to Ric Flo
what’s next
elevation only, greatness only
you just gota keep on going on this journey
flow state matters
the rebirth of the phoenix
hope you enjoyed the journey
thank you for listening
thank you for letting me bless your ears
thank you for supporting
this music and this learning
we still on this journey
we still gota keep winning
and even when we not winning
that’s an opportuninity
for lessons
and you know lessons turn to blessings
so thats it
Rebirth of the Phoenix
blessings to you and yours
Peace
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