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Do The Math (prod. by The Bossmen)

from Black Duke by THE XAV

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    Tracklist:
    A1 Do The Math (prod. by The Bossmen)
    A2 Black Duke (prod. by Large Professor)
    A3 Short Money (prod. by The Xav)
    A4 Do What You Want To (prod. by Nottz)

    B1 Come On (prod. by Amazing Maze)
    B2 Bad Rap (prod. by Large Professor)
    B3 It‘s Xav (prod. by The Xav)
    B4 Find A Way (prod. by Nottz)

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    Tracklist:
    A1 Do The Math (prod. by The Bossmen)
    A2 Black Duke (prod. by Large Professor)
    A3 Short Money (prod. by The Xav)
    A4 Do What You Want To (prod. by Nottz)

    B1 Come On (prod. by Amazing Maze)
    B2 Bad Rap (prod. by Large Professor)
    B3 It‘s Xav (prod. by The Xav)
    B4 Find A Way (prod. by Nottz)

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    Tracklist:
    A1 Do The Math (prod. by The Bossmen)
    A2 Black Duke (prod. by Large Professor)
    A3 Short Money (prod. by The Xav)
    A4 Do What You Want To (prod. by Nottz)

    B1 Come On (prod. by Amazing Maze)
    B2 Bad Rap (prod. by Large Professor)
    B3 It‘s Xav (prod. by The Xav)
    B4 Find A Way (prod. by Nottz)

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lyrics

Pen game on em
Still crazy when I gain on em
Watch em complain that the master put the chains on em
This is exercise training the thought muscle to push out a paragraph
I’m deep seeded in this culture rooted
I got the keys to the Rover your Toyotas booted
I’m hyperbolic how symbolic that ya raps are rentals
Speechless on ya bitten track call it instra-dental here’s experimental
Nothing is accidental
Everything I’ve done is certainly and purposely
Definitely meant to be the best that it’s supposed to be
Making a mockery mediocrity’s blocking me
Psychologically debauchery is comedy
Introduce me properly I tell em
Ya sloppily propell em topically to sell em
Box em in the vellum
Shipping it platinum
I purchase the wax unwrapping the plastic
And laugh at their craft
They should do the math

My shelf life is high up
Ya milk life will eventually dry up
If I hit you in the brain it’ll fry up
I’m the same fella
No matter whatever ya name fella times up
I keep it seasoned like the holiday trimmings
Emcees are seasonal it’s the reason I’m never leaving em
It took a lot for me to get to this spot
Watch xav turn to xeno I’m nice some say I’m not
But they right with the mic muscle I mean with a light tussle
Excite with a bright burst of the sheen blessings’ll curse you
I’m on the ball off the wall like ya checkered kicks
A Rollin’ stone gathering ya’ll’s…Bull shit
I aint falling to squalor ask a scholar
The lack of quality’s equal to black equality…Hollar!!
Still shipping em platinum
I purchase the wax unwrapping the plastic
And laugh at their craft
Do the math

credits

from Black Duke, released September 18, 2020
Produced by The Bossmen.
Cuts by DJ Danetic.
Mixed & Mastered by Carsten Daembkes.

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Black Duke comes to you after a 37 year practice in hip hop forms.
It began as The Psyche trip. A look at the dark side of being an artist fighting depression. During the making of the album, writing new songs served as a form of therapy and the concepts changed.
Black Duke is about fighting, Surviving conflict and proving that longevity does matter in a form that is associated with youth. ... more

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