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A Death Away From Paradise

by Iyosi Pydas

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Mental Intro 02:14
…>Often I gambled on life, …>Sampled a slice amplified ….Handled Advice ...Wrapping my hands around mics Chopping Precise as a knife Botched up in price So >I, took a walk like a hike When problems would pop up and spike? …>Solved em’ despite …>Answers >Not >knowing the right Just glove up and go in the fight …>Like minds ...Simulation >Fa the prime time >Out of Mine? >Sending Information through the pipeline And I find Motivation combined >With the >right guide, Could break a whole Wave into a Pint sized… Issue Getting there seems blissful >Wear, >a Parachute Be Careful not to misuse Enthused Cuz You found a Pair of big shoes >Real boost But they got some tears and they fit loose? …>Succeed on purpose and win Coming back like it’s a murder revenge For hurting a friend? A Flirt wit’ Disaster She grinned? Asked If I’m working again? Yes!, >I’ve Got my tuxedo and vest Knives on the set? >Come From being a chef? The cutlery Cuts out the fuckery >Trimmins’ I chuck em’ Like rubbish then bleed out the rest! …>There might be a version of ME >Where my future was slightly uncertain Used like a tool A mule and a fool?, Sutured the wounds >so my >body wouldn’t worsen …>Returned a new person HI plus AI immersion On Display, I’ve EMERGED from an EARN Buried concerns, all my worries and BUR-DENS! …>Pydas smash the verse Strong enough to outlast a gamma burst Use it as a fuel I’m a man of thirst A NEW, evolution That you can’t reverse ...As I planet search Slicing up samples in NASA merch >Paradise in a culture Past the PURGE, …>Vultures of prey on the branches perched …>Feel that I’m limitless And I’ve been given this Gift For the Grimmest of livin’ >The missions’ One Hundred Percented, All my Attention is centered Abundance in minutes, …>Da blunders are endless >Gotta be willing to Hunt In the jungle or thickness >No luck being timid or skiddish Run and compete with the fearless and you’ll see the finish …>CLEARLY!, >No option to FAIL Or reaching it NEARLY Your Eyes gonna swell, Get itchy and teary Old Life I can tell I’m Missing it DEARLY ...>Felt A little bit leery Of pulling the plug, I’m testing my theory Of fully debugging myself I wonder what Else Would help When I buffer severely
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VS1 INQUIRIES for POSITIONS, But they DIDN’T HIRE ME …>Should I COMPLY? or CONTINUE with MAKING FIRE BEATS?! PIRACY of my VISION >With a GIFT to APPLY INDEED... …>That LIFE STORY is BORING... And IT INSPIRES SLEEP! >Finding PEACE …>OUTSIDE the DOOR, ...WALKING WITH A PURPOSE, We HAD the SETTINGS on HARD-CORE, BUT they NERFED US! …>Feels LIKE >PENNIES for your TIME When it is WORTHLESS ...>REASSESS invested GRIND, And SEE what WORKS BEST! …>YOU’RE NOT IRREPLACEABLE, But YET in SURPLUS... …>So I’m TAKING the ROLE In CONTROL of my BURNT BRUNCH ...BACHELOR’S on PAPER >BACHELOR in LIFE! NAGGING GRIPES! Quickly UNMATCHING WITH a SWIPE! …>THEY FIGHT for YOUR TIME While you SEEM, to ABUSE YOURS Why your POCKETS so SORE?! Cuz you NEED to PRODUCE MORE! 2 to 4 BARS! >CONSUMED could MOVE POOR …>From GLOOM to COUTURE While They CHART Their NEW COURSE! Hook X2 ...Who BRINGS the KNOCK From the CHOPPING BLOCK? (Background) “Toasty Pye Krust” (TPK beat tag) ...SMELL IT THROUGH THE BOX AND it’s PIPING HOT YEAH ...DINNER SPREADIN’ on a VINYL PLATE (Background) “Toasty Pye Krust” (TPK beat tag) ….WHENEVER YOU’RE READY for the FINAL TASTE VS2 ….(kick)>WE FACED HEAT! Like the OILS of GRAPESEED >Grade A GRAZING MORE MEANS to ESCAPE, SIEGE! ...CAGE-FREE When I’m BLAZIN’ ta LACED BEATS FILLETTED AGED BEEF(S) INTO STEAKS THEN MADE TREATS! TASTY DISHES Walk HELL’S KITCHEN?! BY a DUDE from MICHIGAN?! ...A RAVING Two STAR REVIEW from MICHELIN!... Fill up the DISH with INTENT! GOT A MEAL With an INCENTIVE to BINGE SO Let it BEGIN! …>MARVEL in the MEDICINE, >That is BETTER WITH FRIENDS …>PART OF the TREAT When DINNER ENDS, >SWEET as GETTIN’ REVENGE …>HARDLY a BEAT to SKIP When WEAVING through CREDIBLE WINS! …>INSTRUMENTS of EVIDENCE! for an EDIBLE BLEND! (Background) “Toasty Pye Krust” (TPK beat tag) ...LIKE it or NOT?, I’m AROUND till I ROT! GROWING on you LIKE a CROP? SPROUTING SOUND when I DROP! ...Fresh out DA POT With the RECIPE STOCKED! ...The GAME is SOPPED While the REST of YOU FLOP! Hook X2 ...Who BRINGS the KNOCK From the CHOPPING BLOCK? (Background) “Toasty Pye Krust” (TPK beat tag) ...SMELL IT THROUGH THE BOX AND it’s PIPING HOT YEAH ...DINNER SPREADIN’ on a VINYL PLATE (Background) “Toasty Pye Krust” (TPK beat tag) ….WHENEVER YOU’RE READY for the FINAL TASTE
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HOOK X2 …>Bake up and cruise, >We take up room Shakin slews of Pirates Your fate is dOOmeD when the tides align us …>Breaking the rules, >Un-mis-take-able With the CREW beside us? We’re making mOOOves on The Flying Pydas VS 1 PYDAS It’s VOYEURISM watching lifers FUCK each other OVER >Touring VENUS HILLS, with my SQUAD >In CYBER TRUCKS and ROVERS (vroom) …>A BEAST with my CONTROLLER In this 3D SIDE SCROLLER >Disappear like MEESEEKS, …>After >COMPLETING >JOBS SOBER! …>CORONA PYDAS?! A PANDEMIC, I’ll SPIN IT ... IYOSI VIRUS, ALL the work-at-home AGENTS GET IT! (BLUUAAAH!) Been INTROVERTED since a BIRD CHEST So MIND your DISTANCE Or just, DENY EXISTENCE! (Poof) …>The LONELY ROAD is ENDLESS >AS I take a WALK in these SHOES That haven’t BROKEN IN YET …>From FARM to TABLE FRESH >I’m FLATTERED, ...>ZIGERIONS (Zyjeerions) PRESSURE ME for the RECIPE To CONCENTRATED DARK MATTER Fed em’ a COPYCAT for DEATH when all the PARTS are GATHERED …>Show no EMOTION like a VULCAN When the WATER’s SCOLDING >THREATS get REMOVAL?!, like an ARTICLE of BORROWED CLOTHING, >DAMAGED MENTALLY, ...>SILL CONTENTING with INJURIES The LEGS of the TABLE, >You’re REPLACEABLE like a CENTERPIECE! I am GROOT! …>Travel PORTALS with MANY(mini) TREES, …>the ROOT of ALL EVIL, And ABNORMAL ABILITIES …Turn your BEING into an ANIMATED SERIES! >Put you in a PANIC Like all the CAMPERS Fleeing the CITIES... It’s IYOSI the Rogue SHINOBI With a grappling hook Swinging SWORDS for more SATOSHIS ... And if it’s BEEF?!... then I prefer THE KOBE And I PEEPED your last LAUGH, >its’ WEAK MINE is MORE THROATY! HOOK …>Bake up and cruise, >We take up room Shakin slews of Pirates Your fate is dOOmeD when the tides align us …>Breaking the rules, >Un-mis-take-able With the CREW beside us? We’re making mOOOves on The Flying Pydas …>Bake up and cruise, >We take up room Shakin slews of Pirates Your fate is dOOmeD when the tides align us …>Breaking the rules, >Un-mis-take-able With the CREW beside us? We’re making mOOOves?! Hoax From the Pydas bakery, varieties of flavors From the spicy to the savory, fired up and served tastefully Prepared from the finest ingredients, timeless Johnny droppin' all kinda science, walkin on the assignment Never out of practice, so you couldn't counteract this Deeply profound assassins, focused on the fact patterns Calculate the maths and reduce 'em down to fractions Rearrange the masses, freeze the frame read the captions Married to principles with the discipline to stick to 'em The foolish fall flat I move students through the curriculum A man to always stand opposed to candy coated simpletons & syntax to flip enthusiasm from indifference Check what I'm averagin' it's Rick Rude ravishing Hit you with the passion and I smash 'em with the acumen For the next crop of chefs with the fresh chops layin' the groundwork to wreck shop HOOK X2 …>Bake up and cruise, >We take up room Shakin slews of Pirates Your fate is dOOmeD when the tides align us …>Breaking the rules, >Un-mis-take-able With the CREW beside us? We’re making mOOOves on The Flying Pydas Grey Solar fire heavy Notify the heli You can catch me eatin beats/beets in Iyosi Pydas Deli Passive cheddar, lecture bread to entice Beef off the secret menu, everything extra spicy Try to scare me when really we grillin bear meat, I had all our recipes buried in cemeteries, ...You stuck in the pickle, we brought the whole dill Risk or no thrill Our lines are 1 billion scoville Hold still You aint goin nowhere You’re to be served Upon a plate of lies with no fare Your minds stuck -> politickin’ -> with wine buffs While you can only find us bakin up toasty pye krust ...exhume the bakery’s aroma Taking you flavors you’d never taste if you didn’t know us ...Multiple fusions spring to mind Dishes that could be lit with the ingredients of rhyme HOOK X2 …>Bake up and cruise, >We take up room Shakin slews of Pirates Your fate is dOOmeD when the tides align us …>Breaking the rules, >Un-mis-take-able With the CREW beside us? We’re making mOOOves on The Flying Pydas
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Mirrorverse 03:36
VS1 Every time I, -PEDDLE a, >RHYME, You get a, -LEVEL-UP! Gotta Learn to ROLL with Some GRIME? or you’ll be KETTLE COOKED! You BETTER LOOK Both WAYS! WHEN YOU STARE AT US! Crossing our PATH in This SPACE? Is PURELY PERILOUS A PARADISE and a STERILE LIFE Sound VERY NICE! TA PHEASANTS that Don’t FIGHT? …>FEATHER SOFT? for TAKING FLIGHT! Every DAY and >NIGHT >GROUNDED like I’m AFRAID of HEIGHTS >CHASIN’ MY DEMONS? ….>Smiling FIENDISH? AT the STAGE of FRIGHT! ...>FINANCIAL CRISIS? >Go THERE and FACE IT! …THIS ONE’S for the ROOMIES, and >The MILLENNIALS >STIFLED in THEIR PARENT’S BASEMENTS FULLY FURNISHED and LUSH? The SINGLE THOUGHT of it is MAKING ME RUSH!, >To da STREETS? >To BREAK SOME THINGS UP! …>REARRANGE ISLANDS? Like HURRICANE PYDAS! >With PLANS to LEAVE A STAIN? Like the MARK of a SLAIN GIANT! …>CARS on THE ROAD >REMAIN >FAR >From a LANE!, ... >SPIRALING >OUT OF CONTROL!? ...Your LIFE’S a BABE!?, THEN SHE Can, ->SWALLOW IT WHOLE! HOOK …>CLIMBING out of a BLACK HOLE! >Through my PRIME, Bending time-loops To CRACK CODES …>Manage my CASHFLOW, and STACK GROSS! I’ll take REALITY HEROIC for the LAST DOSE! …>CLIMBING up from a BLACK HOLE! >Through my PRIME, Mending time-loops To CRACK CODES …>Manage my CASHFLOW, and STACK GROSS! I plan to SHATTER all my EGO with the LAST DOSE! VS2 One MINUTE you're HOT, next SECOND you're CROC-CHOP TREATED like you’re WASTE Discarded for HOG SLOP …>Depression and Anxiety Hitting Me FULL FORCE ...>There’s no way you could PAUSE >And I WANTED it ALL- STOPPED! …>Never SPOKE to a SHRINK or a PSYCHOLOGIST >In my ADULT LIFE!? ...>That’s PROBABLY! What my PROBLEM IS! …>I’m Losing GRIP …>Behind on the RENT? >Energy SPENT!, >Spending all of my CENTS On STUPID SHIT! …>NIGHTMARES, of Being SWARMED in MEDIOCRITY >CONSTANTLY! The THOUGHT of Being AVERAGE REALLY BOTHERS ME! ….Life is PAINFUL, don’t BAIL on your EXISTENCE You might-be-getting SOLD if someone could tell you DIFFERENT …>PENNY PINCHIN’ Because my FUNDS are INSUFFICIENT ...>All of my DEBTS LISTED Like a Hit List of ENEMIES >EFFICIENTLY >My MEMORY Stores ALL of their HISTORIES >So …>I’ll slay EM’ One-by-One In ORDER CONSISTENTLY! HOOK …>CLIMBING out of a BLACK HOLE! >Through my PRIME, Bending time-loops To CRACK CODES …>Manage my CASHFLOW, and STACK GROSS! I’ll take REALITY HEROIC for the LAST DOSE! …>CLIMBING up from a BLACK HOLE! >Through my PRIME, Mining time-loops To CRACK CODES …>Manage my CASHFLOW, and STACK GROSS! I plan to SHATTER all my EGO with the LAST DOSE!
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Intro think I realized, I’m not really here to defeat others, But maybe I was put on this planet to defeat myself Forgot I said that Yeah Pydas VS1 ...>I Hear the >LAUGHTER and CHATTER …>Become UNCLEAR as I PASS through the CAVERN, >A SMEAR, - >SHADOWING the MASTERS! ...>GATHERING over the MICROSCOPE, for some ANSWERS! ...>I’m UNDER IT With a CLOUD of SMOKE! …>And a SAMPLER! ...>POISONOUS CONTENT!, >Of the VOICES in my CONSCIENCE! >GET MET WIT’ GAUNTLETS!? ...>Won’t >ACCEPT, >Of any NONSENSE! ...>TRY IT, …>LIKE a SATIVA DOMINANT HYBRID …>IDEAS RIPENED >In Thee ARENA PROVIDED! CONJURED thee IMPOSSIBLE, to CONQUER OBSTACLES, >When your STOCK doesn't GO AS PLANNED? ...Just WATCH your OPTIONS CLOSE! …>And FROM the CARDS that SHOW THEY THINK that I should FOLD! …>With INGREDIENTS I BEHOLD? >It SEEMS ILLOGICAL!? I KNOW! …>SITTING DUCKS Getting PLUCKED, with SHITTY LUCK And PENNIES TUCKED?!... >Be AMAZED if ANY STUCK, REALLY! UP from a PUDDLE of SELF-PITY >The MUCK, -> WHERE I FELT HIDEOUS …>Had NOTHING LEFT? but my WITTINESS HOOK This life No Classes Shit Happens >SELF-ASSASSIN, ...>Sick, >SACRIFICE OF PASSION …>Gotta Practice >Outlast the VAST >Through the LOOKING GLASS, …>QUICK ACTION >Till I’m ASH-ENED! This life No Classes Shit Happens >SELF-ASSASSIN, ...>Sick, >SACRIFICE OF PASSION …>Gotta Practice >Outlast and GLANCE >Through the LOOKING GLASS, …>MOVE PAST the View of >.. BLACK-NESS! VS 2 ...>ALLIES in this Galaxy >Gathered on each END! …>You don’t want this WORK,!? >You’d RATHER go SLEEP - >IN! Master of your CRAFT! Or SURELY you’ll BE-FRIENDS with >The other BATCH of WARRIORS TRAVELING WEE-KENDS! …>MIRAGE! of the other side of ME? that >You don’t have to KNOW, …>RELEASE an AFTERGLOW after I drop ACID THOUGH! The TOXICOLOGISTS >Won’t >EVEN shed RECONNAISSANCE AVID FLOW, Straight to your VEINS!, BUFFET BOTTOMLESS! …>Snakes at the BASE, >I can HEAR them, >shits, RATTLIN’ …>TATTED up, >FACE FAKES And all the KIDS TATTLIN’ …>I’ll take the >BLEAK >SPACE, >that APPEARS more >CHALLENGING >BETWEEN my >CAREER, >...And the DREAM CHASE that I’m BALANCING …>As I break DESTRUCTIVE PATTERNS of THOUGHT, ANY-THING SMOLDER-ING below my STANDARD gets TOSSED! …>While you’re >ONLY blowing SMOKE like a FALSE FIRE! …>If YOU’RE not a BOSS FIGHTER?, Then you can SKIP the COURSE like a LOST-DRIVER! HOOK This life No Classes Shit Happens >SELF-ASSASSIN, ...>Sick, >SACRIFICE OF PASSION …>Gotta Practice >Outlast the VAST >Through the LOOKING GLASS, …>Quick ACTION >Till I’m ASH-ENED This life No Classes Shit Happens >SELF-ASSASSIN, ...>Sick, >SACRIFICE OF PASSION …>Gotta Practice >Outlast and GLANCE >Through the LOOKING GLASS, …>Move PAST the view of >.. BLACK-NESS VS3 FUCK being POOR I STRIVE, >to ACHIEVE MORE! Working at a FEVERISH PACE I’m PRETTY SORE! You’re a CURIOUS ON-LOOKER So Watch the METAMORPHOSIS >STAGE as I GO and HOOK UP? >Internal reconfigurations! ...>TRANSITIONING >From MOTOR-MOUTH to LISTENING >Polishing THOUGHTS, >WHILE the >Outer Shell is GLISTENING! ...>SENSING >That the INTENSITY Doesn’t seem APPEALING >BUILDING up to a MOMENT of GREATNESS, >Breaking through the CEILING! ….>Pushing Past the Point of PAIN, Like I’m DAVID GOGGINS! >Made a PROMISE? >I wouldn't be JADED? By the WEIGHT of PROBLEMS …>Consistently FADED for a WAY to STALL em’ >Taking a Vacation Away, …>In a SACRED GARDEN …>You Can’t DISSOLVE My mind, Cuz it’s Staying HARDENED >If you FALL >Get left BEHIND?! >Only the LAME are PARDONED >Thinking I can make it far As I’m barely starting >In my cave Labored in darkness For the rarest carvings HOOK This life No Classes Shit Happens >SELF-ASSASSIN, ...>Sick, >SACRIFICE OF PASSION …>Gotta Practice >Outlast the VAST >Through the LOOKING GLASS, …>Quick ACTION >Till I’m ASH-ENED This life No Classes Shit Happens >SELF-ASSASSIN, ...>Sick, >SACRIFICE OF PASSION …>Gotta Practice >Outlast and GLANCE >Through the LOOKING GLASS, …>Move PAST the view of >.. BLACK-NESS
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Alien Nation 04:26
INTRO Yeah Dear Elly Grae there’s a reason I made the choice to leave and do things my own way And it’s important to let you know that that reason... was not, Because of you! VS1 ...I Fell off of the PLANET and FACE-PLANTED! Badly Damaged from the IMPACT Embraced Landing >When I DID! Situation was bad So I HID No Communication, >Losing Contact with my KID! Know she’s wondering where her DAD up and went While her mother collects checks BASKING in my Absence! >SINCE ...I’ve been GONE! With This route I’m ON! Making Moves like a ROOK Using my SPAWN as a PAWN! It Dawned upon me Hard, how your Motive Was, DRAWN! ...And how ya Motor RUNS >Why you DROVE me So YOUNG >To BECOME! A Grieving FATHER Who BARELY See’s his DAUGHTER!? TIMES get HARDER!, ...>While His POCKETS are BEING SLAUGHTERED! ...Regardless of the Narcissistic Governmental tools That People USE! As an Excuse When they >SEEK ABUSE …We Reproduced >Because >it was a THRILL >Seek ta DO! >SPEAKIN’ TRUTH! To Bend the RULES We Aren’t EQUAL TO! HOOK This is AlieNATION WHERE men are Replaced with imitations Expendable to our GRAVES Stuck KEEPING PACE Chasing that feeling Of pure EMBRACEMENT This is AlieNATION WHERE men are Replaced with iMATATIONS Just Memories to ERASE! ...BLED ENERGY Treated like ENEMIES of the STATE!? VS2 ...>Now could he BE, DEAD BROKE or >DEADBEAT? ...AS Long as He’s Resourceful? They’ll PLAY Remorseful Wit’ their Shame and Quarrels Paintin’ a Negative >PICTURE About Me?! In My CHILD’S JOURNAL?! PARENTAL ALIENATION is NOT NORMAL! ...Nomadic escapEEs Go oversEas! Create a Longer rEach! AND A GREATER Forum FOR PEACE! Yet! DRONIN! in their TALL VICE ALL Night… AND LOST SIGHT! …>OF their LOT in LIFE?! …LIKE it’s A SMALL PRICE! …>What if I STAYED? Would I get your respect THEN?! Even get ENGAGED When you Really Detest MEN! ...WITHIN NEEDED me STUCK Like an OBEDIENT CUCK! My HEART BEATING but CRUSHED You were SEIZING ME UP! >On the CUSP Of going BUST >TRUST, Right >THROUGH the DRAIN >Throwing GAS upon the FLAMES! >Then PROBED for FUEL ta GAIN!... >On the ROAD to PURSUE THE CHANGE... ...As I get DRESSED in my Emotional MASK? My PSEUDO NAME?! And my SUIT OF PAIN! HOOK This is AlieNATION WHERE men are Replaced with imitations Expendable to our GRAVES Stuck KEEPING PACE Chasing that feeling Of pure EMBRACEMENT This is AlieNATION WHERE men are Replaced with iMATATIONS Just Memories to ERASE! ...BLED ENERGY Treated like ENEMIES of the STATE!? VS3 Just wanted to be the one who provides, nurtures, and guides Apart of your life Not an observer from a bird’s eye …Feel like the worst kind of person…. >You don’t deserve just words, …>so I’m encouraged to assert THEM Highest percentage of the fatherless epidemic Lining up to pivot? No one wins however you spin it ...The facts matter And so does the data She showed to >be combative? I chose to keep a back up ...Now it’s a broken home Renovations postponed Cuz I don’t condone You in my face with that vocal tone …(Nah!) Now we are Single parents On our own Cursed to keep the cycle goin’ on ... …>IS IT A COINCIDENCE My FATHER wasn’t INTO HIS MENTORSHIP >Role, OR his KID To show INTEREST?! …>Definitely a BENEFIT >TO BE Able to FLIP the SCRIPT! And CONTROL how YOURS REMEMBERS IT! HOOK x2 This is AlieNATION WHERE men are Replaced with imitations Expendable to our GRAVES Stuck KEEPING PACE Chasing that feeling Of pure EMBRACEMENT This is AlieNATION WHERE men are Replaced with iMATATIONS Just Memories to ERASE! ...BLED ENERGY Treated like ENEMIES of the STATE!?
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Yeah Yeah Little somethin’ about my life And maybe some others out there Yeah >Yeah Check Yo Uh VS1 ...UNFORTUNATE KID born OF THE 90’s >PRECISELY on the GRID Where it’s WAR TORN and GRIMEY!... …>UNLIKELY >For me to see my FUTURE BRIGHTLY? Tension HEIGHTENING?! Daily Beatings Shootings NIGHTLY! On the Defense BECAUSE THESE! times were FRIGHTENING Morbid SIGHTSEEING Eyes wide BUT TIGHTENING! This is HOME, Though Is it RIGHT for ME?! Feeling lonesome As I‘m roaming The STREETS To find the likes of PEACE There Is None Except the FEARSOME You don’t check when Dinner’s Done? Get left with MERE CRUMBS! …>Tested to my limits Rejected and SHUNNED …Pestered for FUN Festered HATE! For the ACCEPTED ONES ...>I Went from being >ROUGHED UP and TIMID ...To >Throwing myself in the RUT >Seeing how TOUGH >My SKIN IS No WEAKNESSES or LUCK PERMITTED SEQUENCES of EVENTS ...That I’ve LEANED to adjust Were RIDGID! HOOK ...Looks like I HAVE a Score Ta EVEN OUT! Crafting SCENES for the SCHEMES that I’m SEEING NOW ...Recording MASTERFULLY and FLEETING DOUBT >FEEDING GROUNDS For me to CAPTURE what I NEED in SOUND ...Another CHAPTER that I’m LEAKING OUT PROPHECIES of What can HAPPEN When I SPEAK ABOUT ... Pressed Ta GET IT… TEST The LIMITS Possess RESILIENCE SET in RETROSPECT?! ....TO REFLECT The BRILLIANCE! VS 2 ...What if I told you That your TALES were SCRIPTED?! You’re in CONTROL and WILL PREVAIL Once the VEIL Is LIFTED >NO HELL WITHHELD >From the SELDOM GIFTED >I phoned a FRIEND and Sought their HELP, >But it FELT INDIFFERENT ...HAD MY …>HEAD Pressed Against A FIREARM at TWELVE Never THOUGHT I’d be the ONE to try and HARM MYSELF …>DISPELLED …>The Hail of FALLING SHELLS ALARMS and BELLS Felt FRAUD Making the SALE? So the TARGET WAS SHELVED! …>PRODUCT is HIDEOUS And Charmfully INSIDIOUS >Round up the RAW INGREDIENTS And FARM the AFFILIATES …>I know it’s TEDIOUS And HARD to ENVISION ...>ESPECIALLY When the MEDIA’S at ARMS with OPINIONS And MINIONS I’d Rather PROSPER than to BE DEPENDANT >Or Get LOST, Even FORGOTTEN >For my WEAK ATTENDANCE …>IT Is, CRUELLY Exhausting When I PIECE the REMNANTS …>MUSICALLY Expressing THOUGHTS That are LEAST ADMITTED …>But LIQUID! HOOK x2 ...Looks like I HAVE a Score Ta EVEN OUT! Crafting SCENES for the SCHEMES that I’m SEEING NOW ...Recording MASTERFULLY and FLEETING DOUBT >FEEDING GROUNDS For ME to CAPTURE what I NEED in SOUND ...Another CHAPTER that I’m LEAKING OUT PROPHECIES of what can HAPPEN When I SPEAK ABOUT ... Press Ta GET IT… TEST The LIMITS Possess RESILIENCE! SET in RETROSPECT? ….TO REFLECT The BRILLIANCE!
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VS 1 Pydas INTELLECTUAL HUMANOIDS Wit’ STUPID NOISE BANGING Through your PLAYLIST SWOLLEN JOINTS like RHEUMATOID! ...When We HANDLE the BOTANICALS! ...Opens Up a CAN of FLOWS Can’t EXPAND When you’re THAT ENCLOSED! ...BALANCED like a CATAPULT ...In the CHAT with that FRACK,?! >You Can get BANNED like ALEX JONES! You’re GOING FULL DUMB, We’re on a BULL RUN! UnKNIT COMMUNITY With MANY FINE THREADS to PULL FROM! ->REFRESHING like A >COOL ONE >DEFLECTING >NEW NORMS... ->WEATHERED A FEW STORMS >Building UP to OUR> TRUE FORM ...>PERFECT FIT Without the SHOE HORN ->Newly WORN... GOT BIBS for THE.... >SMORGASBORD, While UNIFORMED! …>40 TIMES OVER ONE of Morty’s MIND BLOWERS >Every RHYME GOER’S >LOW-POINT Like a FLYOVER! ... IN the CREW! THICK as GLUE! STICKIN’ TO... THE PLAN With the TOOLS Ta PICK it THROUGH! VS 2 Kizzle Galactic Gladiator, taking a stab at Vader. Assassinate him, The Cosmos is where I had to slay him... Past debating & civil speaking -This shit’s unleashed an.. Anger in me, so potent it’s like a mythic demon... I’m guillotine-ing, so bring a king in, his ears are ringing... ….Sterling Archer, also partial to wet work Scalping foes & funds till I’m at peace with my net worth >Rhymebook: Clark Ashton this song’s only an excerpt... ...Professor level, Small-Fry’s aren’t in the same debate From cuttin meat on plates to beats & breaks They seem to hate... So I don’t do it for love, But for Heathen’s sake… flee my wake... Veins quickly drain at this bleeding rate... Maybe I’m crazy or sane who would I be to say?... Please berate... I’m as lethal as Green Berets ...fling grenades & await shrapnel to eat your face... Heed the taste… that’s what I like to feed to snakes... Deplete to waste any artist that cannot keep the pace... Kizzle’s the actual Emcee, >you can’t compete with greats... >Men In Black We’re gone before the amnesia breaks >You’re playing a game but never bothered to read the stakes... In our airlock… probably gettin spaced A species you’ll never find inside of your database... A brief glimpse of our faces would take your sanity... Past mechanically… our tech is grown organically VS 3 Greydon Lyrical force choke Critical sword stroke Visit to the war zone Visual Morse code I aim to explain the ancient mystics The same conflicted, materialistic brain that claims ascension ...feel these small impossibilities All hostility halted once I unlocked the villainy Philosophically I’m Socrates I can take the electron and predict its position and velocity ...Trial by inflation I can rewire physics, several violations Watch me interact with I’s from a higher station Same space and time occupied no annihilations The hunger grows inside us Only subsides when we eat from infinite menu of Iyosi Pydas ...So keep whatever you chose to peddle And we’ll just keep kickin technology at the lowest levels Vs 4 Sai Phi Holdin me back Nobody better be ready attack Melody heavenly how many Snacks Pydas hides them in the back Tell em sai phi and I Divide em thoroughly The murdering occurs once We leave the room encouraging Absurdity to take place urgently Hurdling the hardest type of strikes Currently i am serving thee A four course meal for disorderly Delivered by the greatest emcees Quite affordably but this aint mickey dees So beware of what your ordering Cause you could end up after me in line Abnormal torturing Watch it cause i am possibly Mistaken But Your rhymes have the same effect on me as floppy bacon A nice crisp with the kicks when it clashes Handing you a fine iyosi dish for the masses Pay attention kids in your classes Or you could end up food for this dude when he smashes
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Vision 04:39
HOOK ...Vision within our reaches There’s no limit Bigger picture in bits and pieces Take the need to exist, then increase it >Resist Break and exceed, illusions prefixed ...Got the vision within our reaches There’s no limit Bigger picture in bits and pieces Take the NEED to exist, then increase it >RESIST Waking from DREAMS That you FREQUENT VS1 Master, carver, sculpting for my final form The farther I go, the older parts of mine are torn Used to FEAST on my scars and scorn >Now there’s a newer timepiece on the sleeve where my heart was worn …>Replacement optics Wit laser options Braced for storms in my cockpit >Airborne like droplets 1…>My sight is telescopic 1...>Props and lights that you see on the set is just the biopic ....>Flex and accomplish like soft robotics >Through obstacles and Objects? Specialist moves that I’m pulling auff next ...I’ll microwave you with my solar jewel, Hyper-Inflated >life entanglements get overruled …>No more room for bad decisions To fit in? >Or duller tools that lack precision Punctured from cut wounds and stab incisions A function of removal to enact the vision HOOK ...Vision within our reaches There’s no limit Bigger picture in bits and pieces Take the need to exist, then increase it >Resist Break and exceed, illusions prefixed ...Got the vision within our reaches There’s no limit Bigger picture in bits and pieces Take the NEED to exist, then increase it >RESIST Waking from DREAMS That you FREQUENT VS2 …>Only the brightest resonates Never Hesitatin’ Ta blow through bias and decimate Barriers, Trollin’ about Running your mouth, >And nefarious?, >You’ll get rubbed out Like trouble AREAS! …>Uncommon amongst the uncommon >with my Shaman? ...trip sitter to help me sign in, ...>Roll with the motto that you might win …>My lights are on >like Cus D’Amato in the mind of Mike Tysons’ …>NEVER OFF!, better off, dead of exhaustion, Forgetting Costs when Tossing cautions to the lost wind! …>Your fire can either cook your food Or burn Bridges ….>But when the Furnace goes out The mood Returns to Fridged …>I got the vision if you listen Complete your mission? And you’ll be bound for a UNIQUE position Key Ignition >Altered route, noticed the past difference …>Closing several accounts, like the last instance HOOK ...Vision within our reaches There’s no limit Bigger picture in bits and pieces Take the need to exist, then increase it >Resist Break and exceed, illusions prefixed ...Got the vision within our reaches There’s no limit Bigger picture in bits and pieces Take the NEED to exist, then increase it >RESIST/SEQUENCE Waking from DREAMS That you FREQUENT VS3 …>Evolving crawling through stages Your calling’s hella dry I know your Coffin’s (coughing’s) contagious ...>Book of Life, gloss over pages >Where I took a flight, and couldn’t fight, ...Not so courageous ...>You’ll be salty for self-preservation Detonated on the inside I felt the ressonation, …>And the pressure to release With an exclamation >Vegetating all of two weeks, like a resignation …>Gettin’ after it I’ve awakened Surprise ending Different chapter to dive my face in… …>Betting on all of the cattle racin’ And cash inflation While Manning my BATTLE STATION …>PENDING, message still sending Suspending?, the landfill that the machine’s vending …>A handful of meal and seeds BLENDING >All the while >Likely to spill what’s seen TRENDING HOOK x2 ...Vision within our reaches There’s no limit Bigger picture in bits and pieces Take the need to exist, then increase it >Resist Break and exceed, illusions prefixed ...Got the vision within our reaches There’s no limit Bigger picture in bits and pieces Take the NEED to exist, then increase it >RESIST/SEQUENCE Waking from DREAMS That you FREQUENT
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VS 1 Pydas …>The BABAYAGA performing HAKA? on FLOORS OF LAVA! A BALACLAVA and Shot->Gun in my STORAGE LOCKA! Java POURED, >Impaled and, joggin FORWARD Across the BOARD …>In-haling the FOG of WAR! ...>THREAT, …>Low-tech, >NONINVASIVE >Mind-machine, INTERFACES? Leaving the crime scene with THINNER TRACES …>Of the Wired cash gone in a FEW TAKES Assassin for hire stance, Swords with the BOOTS LACED >Pri-vate >STASH, >PHONE All FLUNG in my SUIT-CASE A tag-along with NASA, Elon and the NEW-RACE! I’m just WINGIN’ IT, Wanna BITE?, then BRING A BIT Escapee from the Matrix Now life is tasty? like FINGER LICK ...1,2 >AGENT, Free of STATE BASICS <BREAKIN’?, The the WALL for CREATIVES?, …>Like it’s CLAY BRICK! …>MORTAR and PESTLE With the GREY MIX …>Ignorin’ the THRESHOLD?, Like the GAME’s FIXED! HOOK Shooting high into space to dive >Take the rise, And Move aside, or you’ll be vaporized! …>Resuming flight, so evade the skies >Save some lives ...A human sight, that’ll break your eyes We’re Shooting high into space to dive >Take the rise, And Move aside, or you’ll be vaporized! …>Resuming flight, so evade the skies >Save some lives, ...>Future’s bright, >You should Shade your eyes! VS 2 TOMBSTONE I’m wired different//to spit terrific // it’s scientific So If the beats horrific //I gets prolific// just hit me with it I rarely flex//when I’m barely vexed// but it’s scary yes And if I’m very stressed you gonna be the one that gets buried next I’m the final boss// my arrival starts// your final loss You get your spinal cord ripped and then tossed...just turn the game off erase your fucking name off// I’m scheming like Bernie Madoff I’m the team that always wins that you hate to see in the playoff Invoke my name you choke in pain.. realize all your hopes in vain I bring the smoke and rain then after that it’s life insurance claims Old and cantankerous.. I’m bitter and kind of rancorous and mean enough to shove a sharp blade straight through your pancreas These days I’m at my angriest...I stay on some bullshit I feel morbid..chop you up to see where your corpse fits Then torch it...and leave a scorched pit Rocket to orbit….snuff the planet and use human screams As my chorus HOOK Shooting high into space to dive >Take the rise, And Move aside, or you’ll be vaporized! …>Resuming flight, so evade the skies >Save some lives ...A human sight, that’ll break your eyes We’re Shooting high into space to dive >Take the rise, And Move aside, or you’ll be vaporized! …>Resuming flight, so evade the skies >Save some lives, ...>Future’s bright, >You should Shade your eyes! VS3 Pydas Cryptically hidden, Smug and aloof But muzzle proof Flick you in your senses Pretending there was a bug on you …>Opinions are Shruggable >The DEETS are what I’m geared towards >Your Boos mean nothing to me, I’ve SEEN what you cheer for ....>Low Technology, and >reaper legion, ...We keep it sharpened >words and knowledge leaving deeper lesions …. hear the honor and the passion from the speakers bleedin’ You could clear the farm AND take a stabbin’ at what you believe in ...>Or play up the lies and dated fallacies >To find , Several layers of SIMULATED REALTIES >Hungry after the battle for glory and valor >Ego Eating, shots below the waist >Then Store the rest away for calories …>We are the Vandals on a Grabbin’ spree The Last of us? Then I’d Rather be an absentee ...And your fadeout we’d be glad to see >So you’re better off casting speed to your craft to flee HOOK Shooting high into space to dive >Take the rise, And Move aside, or you’ll be vaporized! …>Resuming flight, so evade the skies >Save some lives ...A human sight, that’ll break your eyes We’re Shooting high into space to dive >Take the rise, And Move aside, or you’ll be vaporized! …>Resuming flight, so evade the skies >Save some lives, ...>Future’s bright, >You should Shade your eyes!
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VS 1 Adjudicators from the high table Spotted me on paper An Excommunicado spy waiter Serving sweat and labor by da ladle I Hope they buy it later It’s getting old like expired labels, >They try to ma-cerate Because I got the sauce to make you sa-li-vate Clearing up your nasal pas-sage-way But at a faster rate My accounts’ dissolved Then Evaporate Liquid Assets in a Gaseous state, ...>You didn’t even get to see my final form >Past the aftermath of a weed dealer inside ya dorms …>No need to >fit in, Class livin’ OUTSIDER norm, >MADLY take your Path >Have a Backup Plan as I was Warned ...Getting rid of the suit ….and Puss n’ Boots Pushin’ >through Revealing the Hidden Forbidden Fruits …>Naked and afraid, all Alone Survivin’ on an island >In Vein I Brought a Drone >I’ll take a rest from hiding, yet STILL remain at >LARGE >Makin’ Death defying fight scenes Get BILLED and feign a CHARGE …>GAINING STARS, >Running >START from the >NEIGHBOR’s YARD! …>On CHAMBERED GUARD! This is SPARTA BEHAVIOR BARRED! …>Hard to kill if it’s >ill And SHARPER than SHARDS I CREEP upon >A PROBLEM left to be CHARRED? Then I’d GRILL IT! >Rhyme or REASON >Get flash fried …>Minor spillage …>SEASONED like a black cast IRON SKILLET Hook X2 ...A cauldron of concoctions >Secret elixirs >Pullin the toxins from your conscious (snare)…>Stirring the pot? Then Feast with caution >Something to sink your teeth into >Get Lost in the Sauce with! VS 2 …>Yellow caution and red DANGER tape Emulators?, VR training and Space SIMULATORS ….VillaiNous laughter with the PHASED DELAY >TRIM the FADERS!? >IT >Don’t Phase us >When we Facing IMITATORS >Planet’s >Dusted!, (after snare) ...>After >Destruction >the re-birth Of something >Newly Cannon? >Should Nourish the famine of the >TRUE >MEN STANDIN’! ..…>Ap-pe-tite, >Feasting on a >FLEET for >SNACKS at NIGHT >Covered in an ocean of >SEAWEED after it’s Wrapped in RICE! YEAH! …>Got the DRIP, and the SAUCE! See! >The perfect >viscosity when you DIP, and it’s GLOSSY! ...>High in calorie count, and hella costly Provided them a mammoth amount, And never lost sleep! …>Exhaust >heat >Piping the fumes from a mile away Likely to consume >Your diet’s through and a pile Awaits! …>I’ve >decided that I would Chew into some rhymes today >A chef to COMPENSATE, instead of Stewing like a consomme Hook X2 ...A cauldron of concoctions >Secret elixirs >Pullin the toxins from your conscious (snare)…>Stirring the pot? Then Feast with caution >Something to sink your teeth into >Get Lost in the Sauce with!
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VS 1 Pydas >Risking it all, >for the muse, No proven system involved And >I lose, Track, Of the wisdom, and laws …>Drawn to the FRACTAL , >VIEW >Where the CON-CEPT of minutes DISSOLVE …>Gotta get this OFF ...>Weight on my shoulders? Benched at a decline >Shaking but >holdin’ >Developin’ boulders and growing Because there is greatness in BOLDNESS ...BONUS >HIT, >MAD POINTS (announcer) Hearing that CHIME! when you GET THAT COIN When the heat is goin’ >Find a BEAT with a real fat LOW END >EQ then you whip that FLOW IN, ...>Hoppin’ on thee OPPORTUNITY, To CHOP on people out to RUIN ME, ...>In the pocket for proper congruency There’s no stopping >I’ll continue fluently Hook ...Slowing the pace, >I’m floating Through Space, With nebulas holding my gaze …>Inhaling these clouds, I’m breathing out stars, with replicas loading in place …>A scene to embrace so enormous ...>My dream on dis-play and it’s gorgeous …>They wanna see me NORM >Try ta get me to CONFORM, but The shape of my BEING is FORMLESS! VS 2 SAI PHI I am out of my mind Why are the lights out Never be happy to find Suffer the lines how You and I define Sound now I'm down Loose in time Rewind Found alive now Every planet of mine Suffer humanity Signs of life ignite The fire you bind You idol the people That leave you behind Never be settling Pick apart the melody Underneath the meddling I release the Recipe Of The past You can ask me I'm lasting the last Ever rapper An athlete Maddening Done with it had Enough Of the misery I'm entering a Literal Assembly of Nothing but A self centered Symphony surrendering I'm suffocating Simply I've never needed nothing From you Mentally. Hook X3 ...Slowing the pace, >I’m floating Through Space, With nebulas holding my gaze …>Inhaling these clouds, I’m breathing out stars, with replicas loading in place …>A scene to embrace so enormous ...>My dream on dis-play and it’s gorgeous …>They wanna see me NORM >Try ta get me to CONFORM, but The shape of my BEING is FORMLESS!
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VS1 Pydas ...Spread my music as you would do my ashes Knew I had some lashings to >get through >As I pursued my passions …>What would I ultimately do so I could move to action? In my room cultivating tools for all my screws to fasten ...From procrastination to back-breakin’ All my baggage stacked up, moving away from stagnation >Got my bladder pack in my camelback For hydration >Pydas going my own way Nomadic Migration (big breath)17 ...From a citizen, to an ex-pat All my Dividends from my Businesses Brew the BEST MATCH Invest Startin’ a Garden Growin’ a TEST BATCH Making sure to not over-water causing a wet patch >Defeat with setbacks? I suggest that You get a Walkthrough of the Gameplay, The Easter Eggs are FRESH HATCHED!, >3 acre MASS >As my MAN CAVE, PRIVATE, >Limited ACCESS >Remote LAND Be my Mainstay!, >A >Snug>house >stashed, Out-back in Mi-chi-gan >Got my BUGOUT bag For when shit hits the fan >On the run and I’ll be gone, until countries LIFT the BAN! ...>Emergency fund >if my income SHIFTS AGAIN! ….Travel AWAY, UNRESTRICTED >In the sticks >Where true family, could STAY upon a visit ….Had a CHAIN of events, come UNPREDICTED Retained my strength >And fought to regain my OWN SUFFICIENCE! VS 2 Greydon Square searchin for drive then stay in yo lane Cuz if you aint willing to die for it, you playin them games Shamed The wisdom remains ingrained pivotal Its critical out to seek claim, we mame intervals ...Burial music the same ritual Trying to carve my name on the famed acclaimed citadel ...What vice would you give up for your dreams? ...What discipline would you take on? What method or means? Who might you declare war on? Which weapon? What team? Which predilection of wretched? What depths of obscene? .....The cost of it varies, when’s best to achieve? This is another lesson indeed. Message received. All of this is to distract the mind given stacks of stacks of time A rigid offensive is asinine Past the line Life the cast of iron Pay for dream with sacrifice with ash among the mire ....Children of chance A village of sand That’s pouring out the hourglass Revealing no dams/damns Hope the hopeless feeling isn’t enhanced We’ll slay the hog and watch the village go ham ...There inside Heat measured in fahrenheit Grey & Iyosi Pydas a death away from paradise Bear in mind Errant crime snare the book of destiny and tear the spine To climb the thoughts of measuring what’s there in mine VS2 Pydas ...You can’t pull the trigger unless the SAFETY’s OFF >Duel ahead with vigor >Push the pedal to a GREAT EXHAUST ... (Snare/pause…>Foolish >men they’d rather TAKE a WAFT Then SCRAPE the POT with those Who didn't just let their FATES DISSOLVE Greydon ...What will you do to render course major decisions fast approaching you as the river forks -> “Lift your sword”, the only warning you’ll ever get When you live your life as a warrior on the precipice (Pydas)…>Yo, Whose head is this?! (Greydon) Egos screamin’ “Let us live” (Pydas) Shed the skin of Arrogance (Greydon)Survival imperative Deadish amongst the dying (Pydas) kept alive in The narrative (Greydon)Keep them hung and compliant (Pydas) by Providing a Sedative ...hubris is where the error lives >Kneeling gets a deal that leaves you full of shit and less fulfilled ...Met with Grey, till this day we still connect and build >taught me >how to slay, my >dreams are prey, so who’s next to kill?!

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released February 5, 2021

Production and Mixing by Iyosi Pydas
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- “Settle the Score” and “A Death Away From Paradise (feat. Greydon Square)” Produced by Greydon Square

Mastering and Executive Production by Greydon Square
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Album Artwork by Charles Hayslip
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Branding and Videography by Jeshua Booth instagram.com/creativejesh?igshid=8zmbka6656yc

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Sai Phi
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Greydon Square
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Johnny Hoax
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Tombstone Da Deadman
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Kizzle the Emcee
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Iyosi Pydas Phoenix, Arizona

Producer Iyosi Pydas combines Lo-fi, Gritty soul and New-age production w/vintage analog sound to produce his raw signature style. Pydas also shows off his lyrical sharpness as a member of Low Technology. With the long anticipated release of “A Death Away From Paradise”, supporters get to know Pydas on a personal and creative level like never before. ... more

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