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Levity Mixtape

by Tribe Of Levi

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MICjordan (Intro: MICjordan) Party people in the place to be 1-2-3, we are the Tribe of Le-vi emcees My man P-O-O-R right beside me and I am E-N-S-I-T E N-O-N-S-T O-P and to my man N-O-N, P-E-A-C-E (HOOK:) We do it for the stunned expression Yo, son is flexin! Just one direction I run-- towards perfection! the wonders, the blessings the blunders, the stressing conversations with the ones who constructed this profession! (VERSE 1 - MICjordan) The claps, the props the gasps and the shocked expression on listener's faces after we rock and it has to be hot, so I try to play it cool speak on dastardly plots and denial of states of truth slash the trash and the slop to swipe it away and move you from your ass to the top of your spinal cord, rhyming for all the times that I adored titans before who made fine things out of fighting words, designed so superb so when my mind swerves like skidding on a wet road, I make minds blow 'cause my goal is getting your head to explode I came to let 'em know, we better change or grow 'cause right now we're trapped by shackles and chains of gold (VERSE 2 - Poor) I grab mics just to grab your attention although at a show, what I'm known mainly for is listening beats bang loud as fuck head noddin, breakin your cup these live vibes got 'em givin' it up but under the surface, verses and feedback a purpose emerges, and that's why I squeeze mics 'til they short-circuit never nervous, workin' and ready and rockin' steady like Fab 5 Freddy, legendary like Andrettis we burn rubber on emcees like Charlene and pour gasoline on their tight jeans jumping-in-the-scene-ass marks I don't write dark, I write smart so play your part and I'll play mine, we do it from the heart (HOOK)
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lyrics: NowOrNever, Mahtie Bush, MICjordan
3.
lyrics: Poor, NowOrNever
4.
lyrics: Old Ghost, MICjordan, Poor
5.
lyrics: MICjordan, OunceWon, DJ Nobody, NowOrNever
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lyrics: Blaze AKA Joan of Ark, MICjordan, Poor
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lyrics: OunceWon, NowOrNever
8.
lyrics: Poor
9.
lyrics: NowOrNever, MICjordan, Poor
10.
lyrics: Mahtie Bush, MICjordan
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lyrics: NowOrNever, MICjordan, Poor
12.
lyrics: CheckOne, Sunny D*Cypher, Joselph, MICjordan
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lyrics: OunceWon, MICjordan
14.
lyrics: Poor, Slack, Clockwork
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lyrics: Poor, MICjordan
16.
lyrics: Poor, MICjordan, Bru Lei
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lyrics: Rick Tognotti, MICjordan, NowOrNever
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lyrics: Old Ghost, Poor, NowOrNever, Random Abiladeze
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lyrics: MICjordan, Mahtie Bush, Poor, NowOrNever
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lyrics: NowOrNever, Knewmonik
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lyrics: NowOrNever, Gibbstock
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lyrics: NASAone, EnsiteNonStop (aka MICjordan), Joselph, Sunny D*Cypher
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lyrics: Poor, NowOrNever, MICjordan, Sadat X (VERSE 1 - POOR) Does it mean I'm always a victim of racism, a product of the system, dead, or headed to prison, or just a slave to addiction? maybe a man who descended from rape or reading restrictions or from a family tree with most of the roots missing or is it being stripped of religion and called Christian or maybe its being conditioned to situations that we live in or maybe its being born with rhythm or rhyme spitting being skilled at sports, sprinting, hooping and even tennis What's it mean to be black and from the motherland? or on the other hand, what does it mean to have melanin in my skin? someone once said, "I am Rock And Roll, I am Soul, I am Hiphop, and R&B, I feel God in me" But the mystery remains, because our history decays and BET nowadays is just bitches and Escalades that isn't me, so does that mean that I am less of a nigga? I hope so, 'cause ignorance is just a part of agenda no pretender or surrender to the world as we know it plus I was born black, and I don't need nothing to show it this is for brothers who are hopeless living with moms, tats on their arms to Uncle Toms in higher echelons in a large garage so being black to me is loving yourself and trying to learn how to love someone else, and spread love and being black to me means loving your fam and trying to hold them down the best that you can, you understand? (VERSE 2 - N.O.N.) Black as the universe, I stand on a planet, Track the timeline of mankind, 'cause I span it, African descendants that's way older than Sanskrit, skin with melanin thats just as intricate as granite my history has granted me fortunes, still candid through the perilous tortures since this is where my fam landed through American eyes, I understand their plan's demented, since they want you to compete in their race that they invented I know my historyand so I gotta represent it In the direction we're headed, it's strongly recommended They call it the "White house," and y'all don't think that that's offensive? being black in america has never been splendid I wish that I could end it, all the hate on the map because your skin is way more than just a mindstate or act people often mistake stereotypes for facts, and get caught as they walk right into the trap (CHORUS:) So what's it mean (what's it mean) What's it mean (what's it mean) What's its mean (what's it mean) To be black, ya'll? 4X (VERSE 3 - MICJORDAN) Blackness is defined as the absence of light It's often used as a synonym for evil and bad In the west, it's the color of death, so I slept on the impact of what the word really means when my dad said "I ain't gotta do nothin' but stay black and die!" it a fact that so many things came from back when tribes were abducted and placed into the bowels of boats in chains it persists to this day in our style, our quotes, the way our bodies move how to us, art is really part of you all you do, equivalant to life itself it's the story that I might as well try to tell, even on my mom's side, hell, she was born and raised in Africa plus Sicilians have really been black because the Moors got the drawers from so many so-called pure Neapolitian girls that curly hair and dark hair endures to this day so like they say, what's in a word? Especially one so political! I'm yellow on the islands, colored in Johannesburg, in America, I'm a nigger though even so, as a kid brothers was like, "how you figure bro?" whether white kids or black kids, fists was getting thrown I fought for my place to belong to a race slaughtered, disgraced, and often we're chased its odd, 'cause we face such losses but make the soundtracks of mordern life, so people feel the deep blue soul below all the hype! (VERSE 4 - SADAT X) Brothers Labeled As Conquering Kings Acknowledge the black man when he walks and how he swings it's the natural, rhythmic, mind detect mind see me in the sun with my natural shine lineage stretches from the Pacific to the Euphrates peace to my kings and civilized black ladies, me, Im all about the babies, watching 'em grow, feed 'em in the nest so when its they time to go I'm the proud papa, just look at my brood teach 'em to be black, they've grown well off my food Blackness is also attitude and swagger we deserve the be part of this so-called Earth How dare you measure the worth of the world's first man I love black people--I am one, I am a fan! I love how we hit home runs, I love how we put down guns love how we cure desease Creole, Mulatto, Midnight Black, all of these You better hear the message of the breeze! We coming back to take ours from the land to the seas You know you when show us something once, we gon' master it with ease! (CHORUS)

about

The Levity Mixtape was put out as a semi-retrospective, introducing our fans to some of our older work and giving a brief cross-section of our repertoire. Some of these songs appear on other albums or mixtapes, as noted.

Keep an eye out for new solo projects by MICjordan at ensitenonstop.bandcamp.com, Poor Majesty at poor.bandcamp.com, and NowOrNever at www.reverbnation.com/noworneveroftol


for music by other TPR artists, please visit:

Agustus ThElefant at soundcloud.com/agustus-thelefant
Bru Lei at soundcloud.com/bru-lei
Century Got Bars at century1.bandcamp.com
Mahtie Bush at mahtiebush916.bandcamp.com
MICjordan at micjordan.bandcamp.com
MLS (Monotone and Lou Slug) at soundcloud.com/wearemls
Nome Nomadd at www.reverbnation.com/nomenomadd
NowOrNever (NON) at www.reverbnation.com/noworneveroftol
Old Ghost at oldghost1.bandcamp.com
Poor Majesty at poor.bandcamp.com
Styles1001 at styles1001.bandcamp.com
WesttKraven (AKA TheGreenRoom) at westtkraven.bandcamp.com

credits

released June 21, 2008

all songs recorded and mixed by MICjordan @ Metroplex, Sacramento, CA
except 7 recorded by NowOrNever @ Chez Non, Sacramento, CA; 8, 21 & 22 recorded by Gibbstock @ The Cave, Sacramento, CA;14 recorded by Grey @ The Clockworks, Yuba City, CA

interludes, mixes and skratches by Tribe of Levi except where otherwise noted.

all lyrics by the respective vocalists

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