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War of the Words: Master of Pen & Sword

by Rion Atom

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To me there ain't no better thing than Lead to paper and vibing off the melody So we're rolling up a Sweet I got a little treat with the beat on repeat And you know how it is A creative creative young mind trying to handle a little biz Yeah, now that's what I'm talking about Same shit different day straight rocking out And I know I'm gonna make it someday All I've got invested into one thing Keep my head straight and never back down 'Cause where we're at, there ain't no turning back now So I'ma keep my aim steady Locked on target and release it like a levy Puffing on the Mary very extraordinary Every night I bump the stereo and bust it when I'm ready Grab ink (and) a quill (and) I dip till it's filled With thoughts that have taught me my flow will overspill From lead in a pencil through lines on a page Over an instrumental I've been hearing now for days Same tune same keys of the same Melody I hear it long enough to bring a blow up out of me Extract with schematics you couldn't have imagined The tactics of that's been other forms and fashion Relaxed when the fact is I'll take another Fat hit 'Cause that spliff's attracted to my lips like magnets And I've been up on this wrap is shit I'll never quit (na) cuz I'm a fanatic And if that's what it takes I'll keep pushing bars 'til my pencil lead breaks Then sharpen it remarkably jot the thoughts I oughta keep Then build it up like carpentry with the proper properties This is my expression reflection on my direction I'm destined to be the best and I press it on my perfection I wreck it in every session a preference that I possess and I won't settle for less than making it my profession
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Popping off the top and I look for something to say to Every-fucking-body in the audience today who Has an aspiration they're chasing hoping to stay true Never quit in play through this is how we make moves Push it to the limit every minute you with it and yo Every road you're headed [down] you get it and never let it go Quitting doesn't fit in giving in is overrated so Hitting a committed note submitting a written flow And whatever you happen to do in life with Any dream don't turn it into a nightmare Go the distance like you were traveling light years Put it into the ear and feel me like you're right here Hold it you saw that I wrote it over the shoulder Loaded a bowl of the doja blowing it like supernovas you know it As it unfolded I noticed no one is going it's hopeless Throw into motion a potion causing a stir of commotion And it's like that homie this is life at A better time and so we kicking it right here And it's like that homie so we light that All the phonics the chronic will help me write that And it's like that homie this is life at A better time and so we keeping it right here Yeah it's like that homie so we lie back On a dream already within a tight grasp Stay on the grind and I said it don't ever fall, na Putting your time into something you really wanna Keep it in mind that I'm writing on this for all y'all Everything you saw altered into a song uh! With a message embedded I want to get across Hoping to spread it to everyone as I met them all Put it in lead and I read it, man, I'd've never thought Then I would be better off meddling with lyricals But here I am and I'm rapping and living a dream And I'm encouraging everyone do the same thing Go on a route of your own and say fuck the mainstream Get with you been chasing no matter what they think When there's a will there's a way that's enough for an attempt Why not make a living of something if you love doing it Support your habit no go on your way to moving this Further than you ever did living life in happiness
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My mind's an audio file my rhymes are projectiles With a thousand unit radius measured out in miles A Lyricist I'm a Trooper like Orbital Drop Shock With an armed bomb and point of position willing to drop I mastermind my rhymes a gift that you cannot buy It's acquired with experience over a period of time Alternate the state of what I say to concentrate And accumulate the weight of all what precipitates When the clouds are dark I be storming in on the spot Sparking lightning I'm so frightening leaving them all in shock Drop heavy artillery locked onto the enemy Stop all that pretend to be now pop off of your feeling me I'll never let this go so none of it ever fades Forever in my grip and never will it evade The revelation's in effect so the prophecies are final I'm changing the course of Earth on the day that I drop a vinyl The battle's done but the war is never over Stay sharp I'm a hip-hop soldier Giving it everything I got like I told you I'll never stop I'm a hip-hop soldier I'm writing every frontline growing colder Look alive I'm a hip-hop soldier Simply because I'm in love with the culture Until I die I'm hip hip-hop soldier Delta unit 9th battalion valiant like a stallion Rallying through the valley and tallying Diamond brilliance A decorated general hotter than lava minerals A lyrical individual appearing all through your stereo Here to serve and protect and prevent the grim fate of rap No I'm not falling back 'til all of my shit gets dap I wrote in this note clean occupied the whole thing Been active since '03 and now patiently waiting For the perfect opportunity to synchronize in unity All of what is new to me and jot it in my eulogy Build an archive that will reach into our skies No matter how far I will sit where the stars lie To get a vantage point from out in the cosmos So I can't deploy wherever the sounds go I implement the sentence envisioning every witness is Vanquishing all the mischief and mission finished with viciousness Thoughts in my mind a No. 2 at my side And I'm all ready to ride so I lock, load, and shoot Mic in my hand so to strike and defend And I'll Fight to the end so I lock, load, and shoot Shots are inbound and I'm not falling down Without dropping a sound so I lock load and shoot Set to attack in the depths of the track And I'm never falling back so I lock, load, and shoot With a weapon that's firing ammunition That comes in the form of rapping and backed into my position Ice lot of the opposition with ink all over the tip Or a lead piece .7 millimeters thick And When the smoke clears from out of the battlefield The bass resonates to make it all rattle here playing it back and I'm making it move break out a track out of taking a tune Give it a wrap with a better impact and a veteran and [I'm] gonna get it to boom
4.
Roll the weed up then I turn the beat up Just a little bit of all that I'm in need of Then I get more 'cause I know I'm in for Another long night of rapping when I record I got this feeling so I get out my pen and go right Ahead and look into my new composition of rhymes Put on a beat and found out how to compose a compound I pick a rap and a style and wrap around it a sound Invest the best of my thoughts in every line that I jot And then I take what I got and rearrange in a spot For illustrating a verse articulated the words So when the lyrics are heard they're visually observed Concise a message only using what the beat provides I spit to people, fine, right over their feeble minds So I wrote a dime multiplying whole Supply of the coldest rhymes Like they derive from Yodenheim I remember I'd obsess over every line Like, "Did I used the word 'my' one too many times?" "Did I focus more on metaphors then I'm punchlines?" But I can hear it now and yo, I'm doing just fine So here I sit contemplating on another bar Hitting this blunt that when I bought was still a cigar Stare at my page, and for days, when the beat is on Looking for typographic rivers leading to a pond Assemble words together to obtain a verse Then we dispersed and branded it on planet Earth I feel it's worth it every time we put in work I'm making sure we get it done but first things first I count the syllables of every bar within the flow and I'm doing good and so I stay headed where I'm going The letters coming to mind from there, to words, into rhymes I see the steps that collide and take it one at a time Until, before I know it, after much deliberation I see these thirty-two bars crafted from my creation The hardest part is to start for me, in all, that's an art I take the basics and lace it to place it well over par I got this notion that I keep my flowing ever going In no particular direction has long as it's in motion The verse and chorus- sonorous and furthermore it's enormous I'm placing more as before this and flipping through the thesaurus So I can describe how my mind gets a rhyme in a line Organized in a measurable time With the rhythm and knowing the ability Restoring glory, I utilize my free speech Recording stories with lessons in them we teach Regarding all we have learned by living each, peach I think the more we try to open up your mind The more liable everyone is to think deep And if it happens I'm happy we have an impact And I'll be happily rapping and give nothing back Just to keep the lead dragging across the map Until they act as paperweights and [start] counter-balancing the rap With overflow until I cannot flow no more And so I go and get it like never before Lyric assassin when lashing in any fashion And mashing on any rappers who are rapping and lacking passion so It comes with writing igniting the light enlightening Highly and burning brightly and slyly lying inside me, yo In my whole life never did I know why Or ever so mind any 'bout it so I
5.
It started off in sixth grade when I turn to rap As I recall I don't remember me turning back I prove them wrong when they said that I was fucking wack I've even spit some shit that made people come give me dap Now let me see, how exactly does this story go? I started off, yo, rapping as a juggalo And I thought I was bad with my pencil and my pad Jotting horrorcore bars in the back of science class And other rappers at my school, they would give me shit Telling me I was "too white" to be a lyricist It was automatic how quick they created static But inaccurate 'cause I'm actually Hispanic I never let their hate convert into discouragement I said fuck'em all and made me rapping permanent No beats, I had no mic, or way to record what I'd write But I had some rhymes that every night, I'd recite Staring in the mirror that was in my room pretending I'm playing a show Rocking the fuck right up out of that crowd while spitting in a microphone Telling myself that I'm really going to make it that I got potential So all I really need is a rapping habit and [I'm] never gonna let that go 'Cause hip-hop is all I got Not concerned with the top I just learned not to stop and it Might not seem like a whole lot But this hip-hop Is all I got I switched my name, I had a crew, but I took a solo route This was about the same time high school came around Still, there were things that I felt I had to straighten out So I started working on developing a better sound Before I knew it I advanced in what I wrote down And everything I wrote then became a bit profound I had a couple friends who were down and wanted in So we made a pact that to this day we're still honoring From UGS to Manifest we must have just progressed, I guess We tried our best and never rested every second never less Soon after that, I recorded my first track I was so mesmerized when I first heard me rap But something was still missing that the engineer saw So he taught me all about and how to organize bars Then after that it was on, or so I recall I've been on a campaign steady trying to change the world None for the money, one for the show Two for that #GU now here we go And so the moral of the story is no matter what Never let anything keep you from what you really want Keep your eye on the prize and go right up front And capture what you after like you know it ain't going undone And once you did it you know that you stayed committed To the path that you've chosen no matter the road in distance You can get this depending on your persistence That's what I did and [have] been loving it ever since then
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A mastermind is at the line his path aligned the mad in mind He rolled the die and overnight his own design to mold a rhyme's A goal in eye he traveled all throughout the globe, inside Only go to find the opening of closed-in minds Normal lives will open wide and notice no one died The older culture lies now beneath the road in mind As is it at the point where tradition withers down Wit' a sound that surrounds that position ...We're far beyond to only listen Pursuance of the mind can well lead to a transition A physical designer of life is a damn myth and It's minuscule to be dying from violence of that- Listen ...As it falls to a pause For the restoration of any stamina lost Recover every bar discovering every star Constellations with a draw recording them in a clause like... History is in the making and taking the time to make it Then breaking off in a tangent away from the once stated Where parallels are the same and they aid in the levitation- Negating the gravitation- maintaining the animation Of this pale blue dot insignificant in size So the term world wide's only relevant inside But through the outer limits where digits are never written Indigenous individuals digging the composition Taking it back and a regular path it don't make it a competition When weighing out the differences making it the decision Of life and everything in it living it to the limit Beginning and then it finishes ending within a minute Enlisted in hip hop from Pv to a Lt Continue a new avenue and new it was intended For sentences to defend it and send it tenants to tend it Intentional and incentive a sense of a sign infinite More sick sources are coursing in through the pores and Endorsing the four forces of Mother Nature's resources A hop aboard in where sorcery comes in portions A vortex of massive fortunes all on untrackable coordinates ...Far out into the abyss Away from everyday to contemplate why it exists Maybe it just is survival of tha fittest With no further analysis because mystery is a gift Extra terrestrial surroundings- every acer Everything in sight inscribed in literature Open ranges possibly all are dangerous Only one way for me to find out what changes Go exploring seeing what lies more in Preparing for conditions that I might be enduring It starts pouring liquids of dark orange Sequester 'til the morning this nature is rather foreign Day two: In seclusion while off in orbit Accumulated knowledge and all I can do is hoard it Perhaps store it and forge it into a torrent, Record it like reported, find a planet, then import it Infinite decisions and coming in any size I've managed to narrow down to the planets that have life- Forms I Can benefit by bestowing intelligence Upon the minds of residents in harmonious resonance Ever since I started with real intent A lot of me saw the artistry [that] part of me still invents The instruments engaging in this intense Relation that's arranged in a way that u can't intend Only then will any being noticing The symphony of entropy witness the event Then again maybe it's just an end To one and to another the only way to begin
7.
Before I leave like debris in the breeze That was lifted and drifted was torn at the seam I'd like to thank everybody from supporters To the personnel who helped me get this mixtape in order Never "sorta" couldn't afford it always made sure I was more than Okay with what I imported so I stored and left it dormant Until the day that I needed and restored a- Sorted corpses full of organs and I sorted them according[ly] Then resurrected my collection in a couple seconds Of broken fragments and pieces of time invested Within the remnants the edits of every sentence And letters that I intended to set up as when I said them And so now I'm just trying to reach out to all The people out there who support me throughout all The time I've set on me to get all these sounds drawn Here's what I did to just bid u a peace out, y'all I never thought at the start if this mixtape I'd hit states to hit stage but it's been great Now from the East to the West Coast I get praise From Sweden to Germany they telling me my shit bangs Even a few plays from a mate in UK And that's the only way to do it if I do say Ha... Yeah... Shout out to Fat Jon, and Tsutchie, Force of Nature, and the late Nujabes Everyday new emcees hit the stage soon to be Just the lamest new thing once they pay u the fee but I digress back to paying my respects I'm Delta Nine and Grand Unified until my death 'Til I've taken my last step; 'til I've inhaled my last breath 'Til I've impaled my last chest with a pencil and that's it. I walked back to when this was just a concept And saw that I was able to evolve and I thought, "Damn. Metamorphosis is odd, man." I'm drawn in by the fact that we all can And so I often look back at the start when I introduced the idea to kick some bars and... I told myself if I did it, I'd take it far then Before I knew it I do it and now I'm all in And since then I've moved to a different state, Moved back, performed in others, and finished a mixtape I'll sit, wait, and hope that it gets played And maybe a couple people'll like why I did say But until then I really wanna see how far The music made can be taken beneath ground floor With each endeavour we're better than we now are And I love the sound but for now, I’ma peace out y'all

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I want to thank everyone for taking the time to give this small tribute a listen. In making this project I aim to pay homage to the show Samurai Champloo and it's amazing score. I want to personally thank Fat Jon, Tsutchie, Force of Nature and the late Nujabes for the production of the music. On that note, I do not own the rights to any of the instrumentals on this project, I made this simply out of love for the show and the artists who scored it.

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released May 8, 2017

Instruments by Fat Jon, Tsutchie, Force of Natue, and Nujabes
Lyrics written and recorded by Rion Atom
All tracks mixed and mastered by Chris Cafe (aka Double C)
Artwork by Tony C. Moya

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