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A Tale of Cool Cities (pick your own price)

by Ayoinmotion

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Willkommen (Welcome) (free) 00:12
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Roman's Taxi (free) 04:21
Intro: conversation in the Taxi between Ayo and Roman Verse 1: Heavy like a chevy I shed the weight Focused on my fate I could shape it Goal is to be great I could cape it You know superman fly Life is kryptonite That’s when superman dies Fuck fantasy, dealing with reality Trying to beat gravity Of haters being mad at me I found clarity The formula: Do more doubt less Stay calm some stress Feel fear repress Take breaks recess From a city where the rich man lies Poor man cries, layman dies While everyone tries To make it No dough take it Bake it now you got a cake Cut a slice then Let your fam eat Let your friends feast Let my thoughts beast Optimus Prime to lyrics Verses become hieroglyphics My flow of the wall So I MJ, be obliged to listen While I glisten like a piston I am Sisten Chapel Dave Chapelle my punch lines The boy is really dope Get your fix like Olivia pope Take hits off my hits, Ayo is your Fitz Give me 2 years that prophesy dawg Busy with your girl I need privacy dawg All you do is bark, bark at me dawg/dog Watch my bite, catch my light Angels permeate my space Drape me with lace I bask in their grace Smile on my face I mask my pain No one sees you cry if you stand in the rain Cocky but at times I fear all this might be in vain Skipped law school for music Happiness is having talent and you use it Don’t try to excuse it or recuse it And go the safe route, that’s not what am about Go the safe route, that's not what am about Go the safe route, that’s not what am about Go the safe route, that’s not what am about That's not what am about Ayo and Roman's conversation resumes.. Verse 2: It was all a dream Drive to the top Like it was all a beam Plotting my moves Like it was all a scheme Stunting on these tracks Like it was all a film Put the tape on No need to make up Stories just memories On how I came up Young boy from Lagos Shinning like Jacob My heritage was coming of age With a degree of rage in a city with no cage Opportunity on the low Crime on the high Let the plane fly Flint in my eyes Homies rock timbs like they just got a prize Fronting like their fly Take the tag off Wrong thing said, things could really pop off Arguing about J's While Jordan getting paid It’s a tale of cool cities Pretty to the gritty New to the old The story is getting told The story's getting told My story's getting told Listen.
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Hamburg is for lovers (X 2) Every night we touch we touch we touch Every night we lust we lust we lust Every night we love we love we love Our love is a must, a must, a must Verse 1: Bright lights blind sight of goddess Skin tight so wrong it seems right She takes flight so I move fast Only in Hamburg for 2 nights Might be now or never for me to find forever Pursue with the chase Slows down her pace Smile on her face, my God am loving this place Chrous: Hamburg is for lovers (X 2) Every night we touch we touch we touch Every night we lust we lust we lust Every night we love we love we love Our love is a must, a must, a must Verse 2: Atmospheric pressure ambiance with my touch is atmospheric pleasure pillaging her treasure make her come for leisure bodies aligned in tune she's in the mood platter of food save that for later she's the customer I play the waiter you bet i cater she feel it in her crater fish on the hook just see how i bait her If hamburg is for lovers hate is for others Love can be a mother But it's really why we bother Back to the groove 2 step with the moves love the way she doing it Ayoinmotion She got me pursuing it She want it She flaunts it Bad when I want it funny how her fronting took us from nothing to something Dance floor on fire We taking it higher Hamburg is for lovers Bridge: You love me I love you too You want me I want you too You love me I love you too You want me i love you too Chorus: Hamburg is for lovers (X 2) Every night we touch we touch we touch Every night we lust we lust we lust Every night we love we love we love Our love is a must, a must, a must
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Malacove Flow (free) 04:07
They judge the chicks that settle Funny how pot calls kettle Gun pointed out but never in Can’t face the sin within Soul lost in a bin As you listen with a grin Ayo is the truth So last night almost got murdered Escaped Though my face got smothered Assassin Try to put me in a slumber I killed him Like they did the pilgrims And left with his car Now friends at the bar Handle my Jack Nicholson bars They say am the best by far Tracks laid like tar old tiger on the par Off your radar Can’t see me coming Climax on arrival Break backs when it’s carnal She’s passed out like revival Lost words like recital Speechless speak less Rapping is my reflex Reel (real) like a cineplex Spitting in a zone sense Breaking up your defense Laying out these words While you take it in like incense It’s the Malacove flow So I Malacove go Ayo mainstage on the Malacove show Detonate bombs mehn I Malacove blow Mehn I Malacove blow Mehn I Malacove blow So sure the house afraid to take bets on me the sun is sky high till it sets on me Teflon vest brush the stress off my chest Better than the rest like A+ on the test Sitting on the porch Drink some moonshine listen to my shoeshine Lyrics it glistens Michgan that’s piston Critics insisting they can’t resist it Cause I spit that intravenous shit Defibrillator impressed on your chest Make you wake up kind of shit You know that Dominican in your chest Make you mamawana shit These fools wanna battle but have A better chance counting cattle In a farm with countless cows While I rattle off my mantle Winterfell castle Am past you Scale of 10 Ayo’s awesome Check me like am custom Am harmless (armless) can’t stand how my contraband band out of hand Like a stripper handstand in aqua See that’s beyond land Feel like shortest man No one understands me Liberaci in a suit No one outshines me It’s rapping or bust I don’t give a fuck goose to lame ducks cook you mob deep shook you Look you in the face and shoot you Nasty like Nas Gentleman but crass class like Tella Bass Fast and furious fast Welcome to the precipice Malacove masterpiece Front-page centerpiece Shitting on these rappers human centipede X 3
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BAD MEN 04:03
LYRICS: I want you to listen to this story; it’s my story of bad men. Synonymous for military dictatorships around the world and they are usually men. Like the likes of Pinochet and Idi Amin. I think in this particular case, I want you to vibe and listen. Yes. Grew up taking cold showers in a place where men live and die with power, build statues of themselves that tower, under fear the people cower, Fuck that I am fighting them till the 25th hour And I could spend the first 24 Telling you about citizens pain Real life not scripted like Citizen Kane Waterless faucets people praying for rain The type of shit that would drive a mother sucker insane Wishing life was sweet -sounding like Danity lost trying to find my sanity blurry like lenses lacking clarity feeling held down like gravity so low yet poverty on the rise pilfering our money land generals in a high rise with Corruption as the grand prize in their garments well-tailored army tried it on for size See how well killing your people fits when you feed them in pieces and bits Like Dante’s peak set in the blistering heat In a plot of Psychopathic tyranny Like serial killers maiming for giggles and shits, for real! That’s how it was back then Wish I could tell you it changed Not much, the country is still ran by bad men x4 June 93, I was 5 witnessing the riots Masses tired of military stick and carrots Turmoil on the streets at the failed golden chariot Of democracy, which was all talk like a parrot Growing up in tyranny does something to your psyche Dictators never leave till they get killed by their sidekicks Change of face but still the same outfit Trust issues since I realized early on Police and robbers are interchangeable In a land where law and order ain't the sane as truth Flip it see it can change you too You try to see if you are able to Cope in a place with bliss And sometimes shit Greed and thievery Go in hand with love and happiness When you’re chasing that Al green Sometimes life can be a split screen The good the bad and the in between You just try to get in where you fit in That we do as a people of survival So religious every night could be revival for the wrongs done, did enough right to make a decent rival That’s the beauty of it all My people always rise, never fall Life is beautiful never dull And we party till it’s last call Hold you up, even when drama holds you down like a ground ball That’s how it was back then Wish I could tell you it changed Not much, the country is still ran by bad men x4 Coup D’etat Voiceover: Attention! Ladies and Gentlemen of the republic You are now being overtaken by a new Lieutenant General I am imposing a 7pm curfew! And those who violate the curfew or speak up against the Nigerian government will be: TRIED! JAILED! AND SUBSEQUENTLY KILLED! God bless, the Federal Republic of Nigeria!
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Verse 1: Sticks and stones Could break my bones But words could never hurt me Their words could never cut me - Lies She tells to herself Think that it’s best, Better than this feeling in her chest Better that feeling she was less Dark skin was their issue Yet she cries in a tissue Her beauty tied to self-confidence She seeking sense in backhanded compliments Waste of time / I didn’t know Insecure / I never showed The hate for her skin Got her wishing white was her kin Got her wishing melanin was thin Self hate, she’s pulling out her kinks She’s feeling like she stinks She’s living on the brink Self hate kills, It kills from within Chorus: Pretty for a dark-skinned girl X 2 He said, she's pretty for a dark-skinned girl Bridge: Naturally she's ebony The world see's an anomaly She wakes up to greet herself With hopes to see somebody else With skin, maybe a little more fair and eyes, a little more clear she don't now the value of being black and beautiful Verse 2: Ebony shinning Stars aligning Presence in my life Perfect timing Sun kissed, your skin is glorious Insecurities, her confidence so porous Legs so long and luscious Still she was so self-conscious They say beauty begins within She thinks beauty begins with skin Chorus: Pretty for a dark-skinned girl X 2 He said, she's pretty for a dark-skinned girl
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Harlem To Bedstuy (free) 03:39
Chorus: Harlem to Bedstuy My thoughts ride Harlem to Bedstuy My thoughts ride Verse 1: So much on my chest like the crest on my shirt Real life is a stress, Real life is a test Forget the grade, i want to get paid just like them Developers building, new owners moving Neighborhood loosing, not by their choosing Life is a cycle Harlem is changing , everything ranges on profit, pay up or forfeit you ain't really gotta love it New names like Soha Call it a joke say no ha But thats Noha Real estate your place New face new taste Rent on the rise cant afford it Bodega on the corner gone men I use to love it Feel some kind of way Money rules the day I don't have a say All i got to say is: Harlem to Bedstuy My thoughts ride Harlem to Bedstuy My thoughts ride Verse 2: A train , riding to Bedstuy Earphones in my ear Trying not to care Thoughts of last night Keep ringing in my ear She said it isn’t fair I was quite selfish Said i never shared Something like a shellfish in relation to emotion I think she meant love All we did was __ She really wanted more But she really wasn’t sure Hopped off the train Standing in the rain It stopped I walked past brownstones in the corner occupied by new owners Barbershops gone, restaurants come Barbershops gone, restaurants come Bedstuy is leaving Bedstuy is gone Harlem! Bedstuy! Harlem! Bedstuy! Conversation with Francois begins about his thoughts on changes in the neighborhood

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Welcome and thanks for downloading ATCC. It brings me great pleasure to share an album that has taken a multitude of influences, collaborators and musical journey across Europe, Africa & North America. Please share this gift of music with all your friends. If you wish to support my art form, which I would really appreciate...pay what you want.

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released January 10, 2014

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Pulsating Afrobeats, hip-hop, spoken-word, a hard-driving band, and dancers make Ayoinmotion in concert a captivating experience. Essence magazine said the Nigeria-born performer creates “unforgettable music that leaves a lasting impression on any audience.” He has made his name opening for such superstars as Davido, Teni The Entertainer and Talib Kweli & was recently spotlighted by the GRAMMYs. ... more

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