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Rebirth Of The Phoenix

by Ric Flo

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1.
Vibin 03:45
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 —
2.
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
3.
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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Camo Cool 02:42
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 —
5.
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?
6.
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 —
7.
(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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Flo State 03:42
“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
9.
Acceptance 04:17
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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Blessed to have created this in Lockdown.
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released September 3, 2020

Written, recorded and performed by Ric Flo.
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Mixed & Mastered By Sumgii

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