ACV2 Music

Intro - DJ scratches and chopped soul sample

Yeah... uh...

Verse 1

Years spent stacking syllables like bricks, laying foundations

In basements with busted speakers, patience was the payment

They told me chase the wave, I told 'em dig a ditch deeper

Let the current come to you when the angle's steeper

Phonetic architecture, every consonant a corner

Vowels swinging like a pendulum, the flow a warm un-warned storm

I'm not the same kid who was praying for the placement

Now the placement prays to meet me, that's the rearrangement

Hook - Roots reggae style

(Jah know, patience a the weapon)

Let the river run, river run, river run slow

(Jah know, steady is the lesson)

Watch the seed grow, seed grow, seed grow tall

(Jah know, the fire never borrow)

Feel the rhythm roll, rhythm roll, rhythm roll deep

(Jah know, sunrise after sorrow)

Watch the mountain keep, mountain keep, mountain keep

Verse 2

Internal rhyme mechanisms, medicine for the momentum

Every bar a gearshift, watch how the syllables bend in

I used to grip the microphone like a life raft

Now the words just find the pocket and draft fast

Chop the sample, flip the break, feel the 93 lock

Dusty vinyl wisdom, this ain't a trend, it's a birth rock

They ask me where I learned to walk between the drum hits

I said I listened to the silence till the whole frame split

Hook - Roots reggae style

(Jah know, patience a the weapon)

Let the river run, river run, river run slow

(Jah know, steady is the lesson)

Watch the seed grow, seed grow, seed grow tall

(Jah know, the fire never borrow)

Feel the rhythm roll, rhythm roll, rhythm roll deep

(Jah know, sunrise after sorrow)

Watch the mountain keep, mountain keep, mountain keep

Bridge

Skrrtt... (sample cuts)

The sound was always circling

I just had to stop chasing

Let it land on me

Outro - DJ scratches over soul sample

Yeah... let it land...

Intro

(beatbox build)

Yeah... raw

Verse 1

Crackle in the vinyl, I'm spiralin' down the stairwell

Every step an echo chamber, hammerin' the player

Lip-roll fill the spaces where the bass drum settles

Throat bass rattle, my syllables become the metal

Upright thumpin' through the concrete, 88 on the tempo

Hungry on the landing, I been starvin' since the get-go

Multisyllabic puzzle, I unravel what they can't hold

K-snare inward, I been buried but the ant gold

Chorus

Stairwell cipher, the reverb never lies

Every line a lifeline cut between the tides

Stairwell cipher, I been climbin' in the dark

Echo off the walls, I'm leavin' fingerprints and marks

Hook

(Inward click... outward breath)

It's the raw

Verse 2

I ain't got a plug, I got a patch cord and a bad cough

Spittin' through the stairwell, watch the plaster chip and crack off

You want autotune? I got a hallway full of static

Human on the beatbox, every pattern automatic

Upright loopin' lazy, let the dust collect and layer

I been waitin' on the landing, I been sayin' it for years, like

Four flights down, every sound carries double

Lungs full of concrete, I been livin' in the rubble

Chorus

Stairwell cipher, the reverb never lies

Every line a lifeline cut between the tides

Stairwell cipher, I been climbin' in the dark

Echo off the walls, I'm leavin' fingerprints and marks

Bridge

No computer, just a mouth and a hunger

And a bassline that been loopin' since the summer

Throat bass tremble, make the stairwell feel like thunder

Hungry emcee, watch 'em wonder

Outro

(beatbox fades with reverb)

Shh... listen