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The Neak Experience 2​.​0 (Live)

by Neak

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Verse: Elevation everything it's fame in that mantra I live by, glory to glorious power you know the most high, do it for believers no reaching to get a co-sign, do it cause I love it y'all can dickride...immortalized for truest lines and being fresh, to def flirting with demons I must be near the thresh-hold, story foretold already written like Nasir's piece, classical, nothing to fuck with, condoning no dumb shit, the media tell us your music gotta be poison for us to bump it, what I'm looking like feeding people love knifes, cuts are running deep and I ain't paying that full price I'll choose, to not walk in the shoes of fools, avoid all Eves, easily you'll die in the muse huh, need no experience I'll stop at the queues huh, fame is a monster that statement ain't skewed huh, reminiscing watching The Box, stomach in knots, butterflies watching legends requesting them nonstop in the mind, something told me none of it is real fast-forward now I'm grown, and see it was all a thrill, rapping what you told, records gotta get sold, execs gotta get paid, so what slaves we can mold? Image is dread heads, jewelry swinging and flashing hella dead prez screaming golden era shit dead, so divisive, fight for the genre, shorties riding strapped with gats bigger than Contra, run the profit like a mobster yell it proper, people are in pain night and day no Sinatra, seeming like the most important thing is a passport seeking Higher Learning conflicted with Rapaport, skinhead, over your head, flow nice Knowing the Ledge like resurrecting Rakim twice, only Chris momma acknowledge come with a T-ChrisT, played Chris, B.I. her nerves like ice so Chicago nights, she don't know those sites, only options is push dope or fade like Mike, went to college, degree'd up, caught that plight, getting interviewed notice they don't like my sites huh, I'm young, black, and gifted said It in King Deferred, deny a black keep them away from knowing they worth, Messiah, needed, the Simlah attire on my black skin peep it, haters won't ceasefire, say you want it all ever thought what that would come to, God dream can't control it or simply undo, only one life who we are we can undo, judge me not, you don't know what I've been though it's so real I gotta be the realist, if I don't show my soul in these lines how the hell you gone feel it huh...
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Verse 1: Staring at the ceiling fan tryna catch that feeling, Outkasted rapping past 30 is unappealing, everybody reaching for levels that's Billboard, you know made it when it's something they'll kill for, famous, same ol G but nah but life changes, unfamiliar these brights lights they yield strangers, penning autographs Mannequin in mind aimless, time flys, the routine's to flee Satan, any day now I tell myself, gold Gramaphone polished on my momma shelf, tuxedos front row nominated the wealth got gold diggers in 4s, I'm addicted to quartets, know it's coming soon seeing days like this, prayers rugs in my living room, I am not convinced, I won't see the beast, belly of it capeesh that's scheming on my soul with hollow tips for teeth, word to Fiasco recycle the lines, change lives, for the people that Basquiat flow, just know life bigger than yourself, heavy is the crown rocking it, do it to death, what.... Chorus: DJ RTST (cuts)... Verse 2: All prayers everything tryna live righteous like poor Teachers leave a legacy like of a TIP & a Phife it's a blessing how when changing lives, find a quest, find a tribe, find the meaning that lies within your soul, the reason why those Marilyn Monroes front row at the shows with sexual healing goals, a king always seen before he know he a king, the reason why he can't find demons in life's seams not a thought like jeans the enemies skin deep, you gotta elevate before you covered in deceit, the evils want it all no way they dying discrete, bad rap gotta give em like I'm skipping off beat who you be, what you represent represent like Illlmatic, authentic vibes is the key, perpetrators, violators, getting caught up in cross-faders, scratched out cause they don't flow Avis, they don't go, no drive to bring changes, build legends like Tongues Natives reverse what I stated, Native Tounge’s riddled me that, tryna be what they said I couldn't be get back, whoa.... Chorus & Outro....
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Verse 1: When it's all fallen down I still came to be a ruler, hand build a kingdom and keep a shooter for Judases, only deal with suitors who suit up suited to bring in mula, why get a boss when you a king fitted to fill arenas, that's in the chapter, legendary nothing else I'm here to capture, monument the pose long as it comes with the rapture triggers pulled in chi city you caught in the rafters, with Ray Charles vision for tomorrow see disaster, non-believers you're meaningless only fuel for the fire, reasoning only rooted in insecurities seeing this so defined tryna find the key to life, and mostly what we find are leeches, hoes, and an added vice, I pray to Christ and hope His ears ain't deaf, we keep calling catching sleep tryna snitch on his cousin death huh, to learn from it cause his lessons could've killed me heaven in my hell nigga feel me, and I can hear the..... Chorus: I can hear the slander, I I, I am a King, I'm still amongst thieves, the drama it shit brings...ah huh huh, I got to let it go freedom over everything.....case you didn't know.....and I can hear the Slander, I I, I am a King, I'm still amongst thieves, what it what it all means, ah huh huh, I got to let it go freedom over everything.....now you niggas know, and I can hear the slander.... When it all fallen down we gone come together or take it down hella hater city, around the world it's kinda profound, outsiders take shots at our legends, that false prophets shit real sad it took a Cole to address it......what did momma say, keep the drama in-house, and anybody come at your brothers you call em out well......where I'm from that loyalty just never sat well they diss you, something like Jada P when you Inkwell, you either build or destroy, how do you avoid being devoid of hateration when it's in the soil that we grow up in, pray to God it gotta end, word to Chance he's showing us how that logic transcends cause Chicity, full of Grammy-could've made it non-nominated go-getters who simply got outdated, fought jaded fighting through culture contaminated with niggas who staying frontin' but really was fascinated huh ....bottom line like corporate talk I hate it, never snake it to you make it for sake of being the greatest ....My Life, no J. Blige, lessons could've killed, heaven in my hell nigga feel me, and I can hear the... Chorus: I can hear the slander, I I, I am a King, I'm still amongst thieves, the drama it shit brings...ah huh huh, I got to let it go freedom over everything.....case you didn't know.....and I can hear the Slander, I I, I am a King, I'm still amongst thieves, what it what it all means, ah huh huh, I got to let it go freedom over everything.....now you niggas know, and I can hear the Slander....
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Stay Alive Verse One: Fightin' my demons off me since '84 / wealthy in character but she said we po' / momma / I walked around with self-esteem lower / drama / cause they Jordan's fresh and my Fila's is / Madonna / so old see right through the souls / I fought off the hatred so no hatred would grow / it's hard livin' / thankful my old man never let it break his spirits when bringing bacon for children home / but we couldn't afford to keep me with Nia Long's / you know the girls / pretty girls follows who's on / my bigger brother's gettin' fresh up out the blue / yeah I snuck and wore his gear so the ladies could say ohhhh / Dominic Dominic you lookin' like my king / come and get the pussy they sounding like black Eve's / let me get on back / getta get on track / you say I'm special / how / everybody hit on that / looking back reminiscin' I'm missing my childhood / crazy in the 'Go a black child could leave the hood in the box from a bang / bang bang no boogie nah / leaving my twenties a rarity I'm speakin' to y'all / could've been like my close cousin serving some time / he say he good if it was me I'm losing my mind / they say that freedom is an art controlling the mind / on my mind are riches and I want 'em for mine... Chorus One: Come on my nigga let's stay alive huh... / come on my nigga let's take 'em higher... / let's get to these riches we are survivors... / before they come kill us we'll kill the wire / fire / setting the world in it my desire... / I'm telling these hella haters retire... / come on my nigga let's take 'em higher... / let's get to these richer we are survivors. Stay Live Verse Two: Yo I'm screamin' fuck the police / they the biggest gangbangers that we ever gone see / and then I think about all the murders from my brothers / I'm thinking like damn we doing it to each other man / I wish more of our people can stay together beyond lustful endeavors / we making babies the set up is we don't know each other / having babies with strangers / these families are being broken for ages / tired of all the killin' / tired of drug dealin' / tired of seeing robberies / they don't even have to kill us / cause we do it to our own / searching for black leaders / never show they face till other races defeat us / in this game called life / dealin' with bad hands / dealin' with bad cards / many won't understand / I praise God daily for steering me into college but I / become a slave to student loans / my money gone / my white friends be chill / they daddy money long / my daddy tried / momma tried couldn't hold on / from growing and make sure I'm feelin' secure / so rap money a must / blessings for being pure / and loving me though I'm flawed / workin' to get a call to be in meetings and be like my niggas we want it all / all the press / president's dead / that long money to be a blessing to people / we made it nigga we gone uh huh..... Chorus Two: (Repeat of Chorus One). --- Verse 3 (Neak - Dreamer's Sadness): Yo, the motto shine bright never simmer, that lifestyle tatted to my inner, soul, never let a dream glimmer, leave it beyond flicker, where you barely give it life.....a highway to liquor...a road to depression, swimming pool for sinners, don't know where you going tuxedo'd out at the devil's dinner, meaning he's feeding you words, leave you broken down, stressed, and even discou-raged from being called, so our dreaming is blurs when you royalty it's more to me than dreams deferred, coming of age, platform leave me torn, medicine, is thoughts to my IPhone lettering, pile up paintings form in lover's lane sketching in, means it's from the heart when I say it unlike many men uh, I can make amends with life if what I'm doing fails, it's when I don't try, and what ifs all sail to the back of minds like what he could've been if he been a little stronger in the grind, Lord knows, dead dreams wouldn't wish em on my own foes it's hard watching pain sit up on an old rose, life's cycle goes young, old, back again, double dutch, take control, look within it's on you to be the best you that ever did it if you don't write your own stories believe it's taken lies with it I can't say enough legacy is all we got your only mark what you plan to blot, I plan to leave a path tailored to my kid's kids, and show em life's biggest lesson's is to give, it's not about you, it's not about the fruit, you're born with, the power's for the less fortunate and how you pull em through, it's one life and one shot, I'm hear to give it all I got....God knows....
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Gold (Live) 04:51
Verse 1 (Neak): My identity’s tailored just how I’m clothed....don’t know how to feel when I ain’t fresh.....Dapper Dan we channeling call it goals.....insecurities manifest in the flesh, hella furs baguettes, momma was full of debts, she looked fly partying posing blasting cassettes, I felt how you feel about self was in the linen...thinking back now my spirit was dead...Lennon ...materialism God these items can’t take it with us.....key to life is what we tryna cover up in us, validation is poison let’s call it Eve, fruit is Eric Gardner no Gold we can’t breathe.... we think of wealth we think of bands rubber, round the money perspective is seen no Wonder...can’t knock it that feeling like when we pose, fresh to death it’s the motto my people chose... Chorus (Peter Jericho): A wise woman once told me what good is it to gain the whole world but (Lose your soul), I mean you better find more value within shorty (I feel rich with what i can control), O my brother your worth is yours (Goooold), O my sister your goal, your goal should be (Gooold) Respect my goal.... Verse 2 (Neak): Huh, can’t function without that fly ish...diamonds keep us caught up in all bliss, jewelry dripping like Slick Rick The Ruler it's how it fit in your heart’s mind I diss the notion that cash rules, something I had to see, it’s what you own that’s completed legacy, sporting the latest Jordan’s is false self-esteems drivers....yet I swipe my credit card for em being honest, every purchase is a step away from being modest, you can’t tell me nothing like that dropout from college I be, the most niggerish gold grills is infinite posture of king but say I’m in need of christenings, baptized in the fire when no nigga was listening divided my soul like partitioning.....at the root I just wanted love Godly....never see it unless we Louis Vuitton buying I’m eyeing examples of what’s defining the spirit that we implying that spend a trillion defiant, trauma from the slave ships & slave quarters, an asset can buy an asset this pain potent........self-righteous for the enlightened....judgmental the climate we all lost in the iris huh...nonetheless we still fresh to death that’s how it’s goes the motto my people chose... Chorus (Peter Jericho): A wise woman once told me what good is it to gain the whole world but (Lose your soul), I mean you better find more value within shorty (I feel rich with what i can control), O my brother your worth is yours (Goooold), O my sister your goal, your goal should be (Gooold) Respect my goal....
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Neak Verse: Legend in my own mind, blind, how I see em' in the flow as I'm flowing over minds, overtime, so ahead, let's it's tails on the grind, pedal to the medal, finer things and the shine gotta get it, momma said don't let em kill your nerves when you feel it, daddy said don't let em kill your world when you feel it, king shit, thorns on your brain, and the girls you couldn't get at steady callin' to gain everything that you own, swear that you're amazing, swear that you're the one, let me fix the phrasin', really like baby, swear that you're the ticket out my current situation these demons got me facing, loving who I am, living what I are, things you gotta deal with when tryna be a star, and the people call you shady cause you ain't showing love, tryna keep it cool cause I'm reaching what's above and it's..... Chorus: Up jumps the boogie, the boogie the fly shit, 20 years from now you're grooving to my hits, fly girls and kicks, dope linen and trips, passport dreamin' cartier on the wrist and... we do what we love, and you love how we doin' it (4x) Neak Verse Two: Yo....I was raised with the cold killers, soul like a penny with a hole in it, I never close it when tryna hide behind designer clothes, console in it, liquor poured, no limit, no tank, no feeling, never have I flown in it, world crazy, my contribution all in it, I tell myself someday I'll see the world and every time I say it back, another dead, what a swirl in my soul that I'm feeling, know that inner pain that getting when you're dying cause your dreams ain't living, life keeps going and it's so unforgiven, taking what I want, not accepting what you're giving cause I can't....take....that.....pour is played out like an A......Trak......flyest in the room like I came here in wings go crazy, living for my God and I swear that he amazing me.... Chorus: Up jumps the boogie, the boogie the fly shit, 20 years from now you're grooving to my hits, fly girls and kicks, dope linen and trips, passport dreamin' cartier on the wrist and... we do what we love, and you love how we doin' it (4x)
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Verse 1 (Neak): It's the joy that we living, coming from the soul inner glow unforgiving, hella gold rock it not to cover what missing depiction of poor niggas you painting a poor picture I'm breaking the mold, its a it's a new day....we love our skin it's a new wave....elevated going higher like a bouquet, no apologies given I don't care what they say from summer to fall days we gone do amazing things put the guns down give our girls wedding rings, bleed for my brother let em know We are Kings, party like it's Prince 99 live our dreams, love it means, can't stop won't stop Little Bro flow loving it, Neak, Rita J, I can take it off my bucket list....and I'm grateful we came together, made a song you rock to and sing forever cause we.... Chorus: We do it for love, everything we yo we do it to rise up above, put em up, wave em like you just don't care, get em up, spread love and live it up / cause we....2x Verse 2 (Rita J.): What it is what it do move and shake show and prove feeling good how are you operate nice and smooth got the tools to infuse fine tunes chosen few high noons housing you full moons coming through dope lines soothing you hard rhymes grooving you getting mines hard times changing signs staying true I know you wanna ooh I got you on the ahh be rocking shit that's fly me oh me oh my come with me touch the sky don't worry bout my guy he ready to apply make magic multiply keep rising on that high and watch out for that low not telling you no mo release and let it go I'm with you gotta flow feel freedom never po enriched but didn't know Chi City till it blow illuminated glow available's in stores Rita J and Neak planting seeds watch em grow... Chorus: We do it for love, everything we yo we do it to rise up above, put em up, wave em like you just don't care, get em up, spread love and live it up / cause we....2x Verse 3 (Neak): Enlightened like freedom fighters we ghetto dreamin....indicted the illest writer aim to achieve it, Bonita, Applebum breathing the scheme deeper she gone be the serpent, the purpose, the pull on born leaders...and I done see the stranger thangs but when you one love living, you living to change, not addicted to the jewels, the dollars signs, and pain, come along with the fame that come with the flames word life... Rita J: In my own skin built to win in my own zone never alone that's word got a herd full of opportunity community peace love unity having fun work is never done missions on the run message weighs a ton shining like the sun that's word feelings felt getting dealt that's heard shaken never stirred mics melt... Chorus: We do it for love, everything we yo we do it to rise up above, put em up, wave em like you just don't care, get em up, spread love and live it up / cause we....2x

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"The Neak Experience 2.0" is a live album featuring Neak's previously released material.

Live Album Recording Date: August 2019 @ Emporium Arcade Bar (Wicker Park). Recorded By: Spenser Morris.

Mixed, and Mastered by Jason Pamon.

Album Art / Photo by Irv Vaz.

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released August 25, 2020

MC: Neak
Keyboardist: Tamar Grier
Drums: Irv Vaz
DJ: Slot-A
Featured MC: Rita J.

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If your father performed alongside Funk & Soul legends like James Brown & Sam Cooke, chances are being a product of your environment meant only one thing; following the path of musicianship set directly before him. Chicago-based Hip-Hop rapper and producer Neak draws vivid verbal portraits which find inspiration in the spirit of U.S. black culture and his own deep-seating personal experiences. ... more

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