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1der 2der

from I Am Water by Jesse Abraham

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Yeah some people grind / And everybody hustles / That simply means you try / Just pieces of the puzzle / Some people use their mind / Others use their muscle / How're you defined? / True design or foolish struggle? / And pain seems like the theme to ya / Mind on the beat / Knew ya might let me speak to ya / Some love money / Me? I love freedom / Treats? I don’t need ‘em / I’m already too sweet, um / That's sweet meaning nice / Your mantra's fiction / I'm a contradiction / Mean and nice / I'm a pizza slice with a side of beans and rice / Bein heated up by Jesus Christ / You couldn't see me twice / Using TiVo / I'm no fiend though / I won’t go pop on a weasel for green, yo / I mean I'll go chop up a beat for some cream / Oh, the green that I speak of’’s the root of all evil / He got his hat turned back / And his sneakers untied / Headphones, backpack / And he’s smiling wide / But he’s workin / All day / And when the sun goes down / And the feeling’s right / He puts down the pen / And picks up the mic / And he’s workin / All night / Yeah, that’s right / Cuz yeah I earn money / You could learn from me / You ain’t heard of me? / It’s no concern to me / Half of the time I'm Santa Clause with a backpack / History and math facts / It's who I am personally / Me as a human / You seen what I'm doin? / 50-hour weeks I be tutoring / School’s an institution / Me, I’m independent / I think the grading is degrading and delaying true improvement / 30 kids weekly depend on me / 80 other kids are workin with my employees / And I own that company / We LLC / OK check the initials on my LL Bean / That's JAH / The most high / I stay floatin / Learnin more from teaching than I ever did as a student / That’s why I got no error in my syntax / You check for me on iTunes like my students check the index / He got his hat turned back / And his sneakers untied / Headphones, backpack / And he’s smiling wide / But he’s workin / All day / And when the sun goes down / And the feeling’s right / He puts down the pen / And picks up the mic / And he’s workin / All night / Yeah, that’s right / So just imagine it / Picture just a day / Wake up with no alarm clock consistently at 8 / Check my emails and texts like everyone in the world / Cook some breakfast for myself and my girl / Read about some new debacle with the Knickerbockers / Peep some tweets and beats then, uhp, there’s a shocker / A parent is disparaging / Gotta change the schedule / This isn’t original / Repetitive, a ritual / On my phone, at the gym / I check prospective resumes / And text message some DJ’s between sets of bench press miseries / Bathe. shave, then I’m off on my journey / Hittin five houses daily / Teaching as I’m learning / When I was in school it wasn’t for knowledge I was yearning / But now it’s my concern / Instantly earning while I’m working / Til ten o’clock I’m with these kids repairing all their grades / After that I’m at some venue straight tearing up a stage / He got his hat turned back / And his sneakers untied / Headphones, backpack / And he’s smiling wide / But he’s workin / All day / And when the sun goes down / And the feeling’s right / He puts down the pen / And picks up the mic / And he’s workin / All night / Yeah, that’s right.

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from I Am Water, released January 29, 2014
Prod. !llmind
Features additional vocals by Likwuid

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Jesse Abraham Brooklyn, New York

UMA Lyricist of the Year Jesse Abraham was born in NYC. His debut LP, One Day, spent weeks on DJBooth’s Top 5 & was nominated for Album of the Year at the 2011 Underground Music Awards. In '12, HipHopDX declared him their “DXNext” artist, right at the start of Abraham’s push towards his next full-length LP, the project entitled I Am Water, scheduled for a 1/29/13 drop via Fat Beats Records. ... more

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