1. |
Zone
02:00
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I'm in the Zone
Like them little orange cones
Now they on the tip, like they giving me dome
Saying they wanna help but the breads what they want
No, no, no, my brotha gotta get cha own,
I'm in line to the thrown
and I'm trying to get home
I was lost like a celuar phone
that's on roam
now the tone
is a warrior surely that went wrong
send the word to the Emperor my journey has been long
send your best fighters and write it in their songs
Royce Diamond bring the end like the gong
independent of what the citizens want
I've been offended how they've written me off
as a trend
and I come for revenge
so I'm taking everything thing that I can
they trying to stop the advance
close the gates and you can wait for the man
forget destiny, I'm making a plan
feel the breeze that's me, I'm the winds of chance
and the people chant
he's back and I can see they hands
as I'm greeted by the ponds of the land
man I'm coming for the crown, the robe, the seat
you can try to stop me, it's yo defeat,
it ain't about power, i'm just trying to eat
as far as I can see
That's the best place to be
heavy is the head but they'd answer to me
and I'm a leave the kingdom to my first bred seed
Pre-Chorus
Up out of my sleep
To get back on the J-O-B
And keep it S to the R-EET
Pushing harder and harder on the C dot D
Won't yawl com see bout me
Up out of my sleep
To get back on the J-O-B
And keep it S to the R-EET
Pushing harder and harder on the C dot D
Won't yawl com see bout me
Chorus
cause I'm in the zone
cause I'm in the zone
cause I'm in the zone
cause I'm in the zone
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2. |
They Wanna Be
04:11
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Pre-Chorus
Living my life trying to get free
They treat me like a dog with a collar and leash
They talk about me bad everytime that they speak
I used to wonder why, but now I see
Chorus
I'm everything they wanna be
I'm everything they wanna be
I'm everything they wanna be
I'm everything they wanna be
My rhymes
my flow
style my clothes
my swag
my show
my hustle
my flow
my go go
Verse I
Why you think they hate
why you think they wanna take
then they wanna be all up in my face
on stage i'm a kill it
i'm a raise that ceiling
leave the women in the crowd with a really good feeling
I don't worry about another and what all they building
call em on the phone like we homies chilling
I ain't got no bone I just don't wanna deal with
so much drama like all my children
wanna be a boss, I ain't stopping you
I'm at where I'm at cause of what I been through
me and my hustle in a bubbly mood
that don't include
no 1040W-2
you,
Chilling with yo girl, I'm working
on the net
to the video set
to the show and I know they better have my check
then I'm out to the crowd that love "Don't Stress"
you small talk and all shine
I'm no floss and all grind
I like to look good homie just like you
but I'm from "The Dotte" it's certain things we just don't do
I'm true to myself man I know it's cause I'm bubbling
I just got used to em, man yawl don't mean nothing
Chorus
Got a little bit of grace
I'm straight
don't care what another brotha do or say
as long as he don't come around my way
never understood how people gone hate
tell me
how you got all this time
put you with the rest you can fall in line
ever since I've been on my grind
I done seen all the signs
most that were friends of mine
blew away like dandelions
I ain't trying to kick it bro
that's what you been trippin fo
I handle my B.I. and you ain't had a bit of growth
tricking all your ends away
while I'm touring on the interstate
yeah, it's small time but I'm doing it anyway
you ain't at the first door
thinking you deserve more
whatever is at the end of this I know that I done worked for
I am not ashamed that I grew up dirt poor
Momma finished High School, Poppa never tried to
I'm working so my son will never go through what I do
grinding all my life since before I hit puberty
the Lord is on my side, it ain't nothing they can do to me
Chorus
Can you feel it
ill it's
got to be
they just want out that poverty
and they feel like I'm gone probably leave
I got love but I can see
it ain't gone lead nothing good to me
cut em off like Toby right off the feet
looking at my plate like what happened to me
I don't know but I'm happy to be free
still trying to get it while I push the cd
and I ain't even got my foot completely
them old school cats is trying to teach me
this the life man grinding
finding
every opportunity I can shine
away from the family calling crying
it ain't all good, it's often trying
hustles constantly magnifying
addicted to my status climbing
stay up out them bad environments
stack until you have retirement
love em but don't cater to
stay up in your hater mood
wisdom told me they are cool
go on out and pay your dues
Chorus
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3. |
Move Back
02:43
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Move Back
Vi
From the Dotte to the burbs
I'm hot in the verse
you that token brotha in that movie got served
WORD
we gotta saying for black
but he's probably gonna wanna go to hands for that
so "Move Back" cause I'm not that dude
you ain't scaring nobody cause you're wearing tattoos
I'm kind of amused that your girl speaks through
and wanna be rude
just to see what she'll do
I'm from the hood sometimes it seeps through
that's good for me but it ain't for you
let me buy you a drink and call this a truce
cause honestly, I'm not in the mood
Chorus
He's at the bar complaining what they tax
Then tell him to move back
Then tell him to move back
Come in your face and he smells like Yak
Then tell him to move back
Then tell him to move back
He's in the circle but the dude can rap
Then tell him to move back
Then tell him to move back
Move out of state now you wanna talk crap
I dare you to move back
I dare you to move back
VII
Through heartbreak and struggles
to money making my troubles
I doubled
my hustle
and kept good energy in my bubble
got my team in a huddle
came out ready to scuffle
my skin is thick so I don't quit or retreat for a cuddle
regardless of hurting
I still be putting in working
one thing for certain
without pain
there is no gain
and I'm lurking
through this industry
that's looking at pimping me
intentionally
so I examine what is sent to me
I'm "fen na" be the number one product
the hotter of the hottest
being modest
ain't never got it
reading rappers like audits
so I stay on my path
my mind on my track
moving the music and keep it pimping like that
thank God for my time on this earth
for what it's worth
I put in work
for my people so we can be heard
little nerd
got em waiting like the first through the third
from the hood to the burbs
cause I'm good with the words
Chorus
I said it straight from the jump
I'm a man I don't front
watch your tone when you saying what you want
cause as real as it get's I can get it from the trunk
the truth is your a chump
and your girls just junk
I grew up on Parliament I know about funk
bro, I'm making moves while your jaws just bump
your balls are too shrunk
to brawl with this hunk
words or zig zag and I'm so blunt
son
I'm no lame
through the years I'm the same
you can probably expect, I ain't gone change
you a pond in the game trying to rush my queen
I'm a player fool, I can see everything
you're limited moves
I'm sending them dudes
I'm more concern with what my percentages do
I ain't got time to be spending on you
you might wanna check what you're getting into
Chrous
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4. |
I'll Lead
02:45
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I'll Lead
Chorus
I'm the next thing coming
if you in the room frontin
I'm testing and I'm stuntin
I'm flexing on you something
hard
give me round of applause
I got em bouncing like a double d with out no bra
from the land of the OZ
full of Tin Men without no heart
where they don't need T and A for them to rub one off
comes me Royce D on a Solo Walk
if you didn't think that I could do it
man, what's yo thoughts
KC all day homie that's my boss
I'm out the Dotte
with a plot
to make the block go soft
meaning money in the pocket so the glock don't cough
and my people educated on profit and loss
the kids the only ones that will play in the chalk
while you're trying to get on man I'm trying to get off
Chorus
Verse II
What you got on that, partner I got a stack fo
rap show
ask Pro
homie you on the back row
that go
harder than Dashikis and Afros
Black folks, Latino, Indians in a rap pose
you got my last song
you don't know what I am on
on to the next one
cooking like a restaurant
I'm on bubble
for rappers that want trouble
you come into my huddle
then brotha you gone hustle
hate the name
hate the game
hate the struggle
but your knees gone buckle
when my fees go double
you see
the cheese don't chuckle
that's part of the tussle
plus you working that cerebral muscle
when you're
Chorus
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5. |
The Dotte
03:45
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The Dotte
Chorus
They see me on top
and figure I forgot
but homie i'm from the Dotte
With all that has changed ain't a thang gone stop
the fact
I'm from the Dotte
homie i'm from the Dotte
The J.O. tag zooms past your spot
but homie i'm from the Dotte
homie i'm from the Dotte
The music is all I ban the only thing I'm gone pop
but homie i'm from the Dotte
homie i'm from the Dotte
VI
Check the mics
and save your stereotypes
I'm Royce Diamond, formerly known as Royce White
I ain't seen the block in years man
rolling with my peers fam
trying to get this music out, for a mere grand
Indyground, Datura on the logo
what am I gone worry fo
Steddy gonna get it for the lo lo
we coming like the po po
with a plan that will get my city in a choke hold
homie, I'm the R.O.
go ahead and call Pro
I'm a get it banging on the block like yawl don't
why be a thug, hell naw, I'm a cute dude
rolling with my new crew
the stars is what we shoot through
I ain't gotta claim man the thang is
I live that
guess what I'm saying is this is my give back
I ain't gotta million I can share with the streets
until then the children can live through me
I know how they feel I done live that pain
that's what I'm saying when I scream that name
you think we don't know that the city so hot
troops overseas when we dieing on the block
they figured I forgot
out of sight out of mind
but I ain't gone forget man I'm out on the grind.
Chorus
Yeah, I was born in the 816
and my family probably won't be happy that I'm saying this
but I was all alone in the Dotte
I didn't have no family in the home or the block
the friends that I made were my only kin
so I made this song for my homes back then
my childhood loves and my life long grind
my old neighborhood and my brand new shine
everything it did for my brand new mind
I can't imagine life without that time
peeking through the history within my mind
now it's all good and everything fine
I used to feel bad cause I made it out the grind
leaving all my people man I felt like crying
my momma bring the paper showing everybody dieing
you never really forget, there ain't no use trying
they act like we immune, man I'm telling you they lying
I feel a bit bruised on the inside sighing
I ain't the only one, I ain't up here whining
but I'm let you know since I'm up here rhyming
that I'm a keep it moving for the city that I'm reppin
and bring the music back for adults and adolescents
that
Chorus
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6. |
Where Yo Mind Is
03:06
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Where Yo Mind Is
Pre-Chorus
Now I don't know where yo mind is
and I don't know where to find it
but I've been searching for a long while
but I ain't the type that you can tie down
Chorus
With your love and your hate
with your give and your take
with your hurry and wait
what are we rushing today
With your love and your hate
with your give and your take
with your hurry and wait
our lives are rushing away
Verse I
It's always been a thang for me
to have a little bit of fame in the industry
dream complete
and I ain't had a wink of sleep
where the good and the bad meet
I'm a work like an athlete
cause the future is passing
it's the present that I'm rapping
understand what that means
it's all about the crowd that's clapping
make it till it's hot
and drop
it's gone pop
even if not
it flops
don't stop
it ain't about the thangs I think I'm gone cop
coming where I came from I feel I'm on top
looking at the crowd I know I'm gone rock
living in the burbs when I came from the block
Momma said family's all I got
don't go living like it's not
if you can't depend on yo Pop's
raise your own seed don't be shocked
keep your thoughts on what in your pot
that will keep the doors wide open and not locked
locked
locked
Chorus
Verse II
Try not to lose sense
caught up in the movement
writing out the blue print
might tighten not unloosen
what position you in
when you so busy proven
you ain't got a flaw at all your so cool
so cool
so cool
meet you
at the Princess ball around two
doubt you
got something to bounce to
and I don't know nothing about you
the word give me reason to doubt
the crowds who
you better vouch to
all you wanna be rappers, this going out to
how do
this is the perfect time to get out fool
bow to
the game
the thang will roll without
nothing gone change
the same when I'm out too
it's a game of change is what it mounts to
you gone be in the same place they found you
independent
discriminant
in the sound tubes
very few will make it pass the sound booth
and if you do, they probably gone clown you
being me is all that I'm down to
do
Chorus
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7. |
Vibrant Hue
03:34
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Verse I
Can you believe that it finally happened to me
and I'm not giving a reason for times that I was sleeping
I'm grinding on the weekend
the morning to the evening
and writing Monday through Friday for those that I've been reaching
it got me thinking about times lost in the seasons
but I, can't call it, it's all for a reason
today is for today and tomorrow is for the reaching
the teachings of yesterday is what I'm always speaking
the truth is just opinion
the movement is so genuine
so I pay attention to all the music that I'm sending them
instead of back and forth like a pendulum
I don't mean it, I don't say it, words of a gentleman
even in the grind my word is my bond
I'm moving through the sea like I'm moving through a pond
I'm early in the morning, I rise with the dawn,
rap is real to the roots like a sista that's blond
feel me
Chorus
A vibrant hue
lost inside you
but if you choose
you can unleash
a vibrant hue
lost inside you
but if you choose
you can unleash
a vibrant hue
Verse II
The more I grow the more I disconnet
with the thoughts that life was never bigger than a check
stress is just regret
we dieing with every death
dreaming about the end, scared to take a step
pain is just change
put plain it's a test
if you don't know where you are why are you worried what's next
I'm living for the moment right now I'm blessed
please don't judge me if I'm right or left
where I come from or how I dress
if everything has a shadow then life has death
what does it mean that it reflects
you got to admit that so perplexed
I ain't convinced that it's over yet
I'm on a mission like a covert vet
man Oh G like and older set
come on
Chorus
Verse III
She said you Pisces
highly unlikely
I could be the right he
she could be wifey
by my birthday she done typed me
five minutes ago she was saying she liked me
it made me think about myself and my pipe dreams
maybe I'm in my own way ain't that frightening
something that's so simple could be so enlightening
striking
how I think
while sipping on my drink
I thanked her for sharing her time
it took about an half an hour and a bottle of wine
I've never been so proud to put my name on the line
for less than a hundred, I was freeing my mind
Chorus
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8. |
Tonight
03:06
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Tonight
Verse I
Can you imaging living your dreams
it's something serene
and nothing you'd think
was seldomly seen
me and my team
nod our heads in agreement
I feel i'm finally free and I can hardly believe it
I give the honor to Jesus
man, I'm finally breathing
I got my life off my knees
I ain't biting I'm eating
hyping my writing with leaking
fighting the fight and the treason
like they indited for leaving
lighting strike in the night
and I am the reason
I untightened my leashes
right in my site in my reaches
featured like trying achieve this
man I'm trying strategic
the memoir not the thesis
written through messages
pieces
yes we invest in the season
rest when we definitely eaten
and I am
Chorus
I'm the jack of all trades
the king of my mistakes
I can't let time slip away
Not tonight
Not tonight
I've been dreaming of this moment for all of my life
and there is not one fear that it won't go right
Not tonight
Not tonight
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9. |
Get It In
04:12
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I Get It In
Pre-Chorus
They yakking on my name like their feelings got hurt
Probably ain't the last and it sure ain't first
Been putting in their raps how they kill me in the verse
When really their just mad that their feeling my work
Why
Chorus
I get it in boy
I get it in boy
I get it in boy
I get it in boy
I get it in boy
I get it in boy
I get it in boy
I get it in boy
Verse I
While their hating
at home caking
I'm on to making
the greatest creation
right there in the basement
and tomorrow, I'm a make it's replacement
I ain't worried about them haters man my paper is waiting
can't you tell that I'm favored for greatness
all praises
to the Lord
and your support
man, I finally made it
I remember working hard for them minimum wages
now I'm a business on the climb and I'm grinding it daily
meaning there ain't no time off or no weekends
no reasons
we can't get it in while their sleeping
keepin
my family first
and then work
treating sleep like a perk
did you notice I didn't mention not one of yawl jerks
Chorus
Verse II
Investors don't wait
the pressure is so great
they believe in the product but the dollars is yo fate
so take a few moments to see from my position
I'm not going dwell on it
your not my competition
tradition
is gone disc em
I wish em a long living
in addition
I've got a mission
politican
my vision
now I'm hot in the kitchen
and I'm trying to get it
don't dish it
if you ain't wit it
and highly committed
you wanna talk a percentage
okay, what dollars make senses
you dudes is highly pertinacious
get an A for inventive
but I am working I mentioned
Let, let your effort be in it
that's right you not ready for me because I'm already in business
now sit down
Chorus
Verse III
I heard your sound and you faker
than what is found in the paper
I shut em down like a breaker
Biz Markie, they got the Vapors
You've got your talented haters
then you've got clowns and the cakers
release their albums on prayers
screaming loud, it is not fair
well, I've been planning a year
while you were playing with your peers
get up off the vanity dear
and pull your panties up here
if you are hearing impeered
then let me say it so clear
I'll put my tongue in your ear
don't be sleeping around here
I'm a keep em in fear
beep beep I see in my rear
that they don't eat when I'm here
just ask the street if I care
I ain't been peeking at theirs
so why they seeking arrears
when you were sitting with your feet in the air
I was working
Chorus
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10. |
I Bet
03:23
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I Bet
Chorus
I bet they like
I bet they love me
I bet they feeling everything in between
I bet they like
I bet they love me
I bet they feeling everything in between
Verse I
Wanna make their body rock
hit em in the place you probably not
you a sucka like lollie pop
when I come out you probably stop
probably off that heat
I'm smoking rappers like Brush Creek
I must be
cause the looking like me
better get that grip on your tongue lip
and your whole clique
I came to rip and then run through your whole skit
better know this man I'm so focus
I see the door is wide open
like I done broke out the Matrix
and I am coming to take it
the greatest right in your faces
write it on all of your pages
wait, it's the breaking and latest
Royce Diamond finally made it
look out his spirits contagious
mirror mirror I'm hear and amazing
who's coming near in the races
you better face it complacent
I am here for the taking
only the spots that are vacant
I am not a replacement for your crying and hatin
handle your B.I. man don't come at me jaded
my new record is on the shelf and where is the city I made it
Chorus
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