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Junkie

from Die Wurzel by Neak

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lyrics

Neak (verse):
Huh, don’t feel ashamed but what I feel is different, I feel a judgement in any circle that see me twitching....scratching, no one listen and no one cares, I’m like disease with no cure seemingly in despair, fair, I want it, the needle, the high of being beetle, Lennon, and repeat it when falling from the steeple....beginning.....to be seen as something as problematic.....family hide pursues, I’m labeled a drug addict, that’s automatic in any setting I wear it proud, the shame, lease I found a way I can leave the pain....behind, in my mind cause I’m on a different vein, flyer higher than kenieval this a different plane, drained, momma sane not, this mental strain, I’m the baby that grew up Gator, the Samuel L. lane, Jungle Fever, pops was a believer of the highest kind so when I see him, all he see is demon, defined, so then I’m locked in those parameters, even if I show up different you white to my Banneker, nigga, never different, you still a slave to the baking soda white mixture, can’t see the bigger picture, soul issues, the soul misused, sole issue is how to heal the root so it won’t continue....but you ain’t hearing me....so let me leave so you won’t infused in my energy, and let me look for the dealer who like a friend to me, who serve me something that you cause poisen, so why my spirit free.....apparently you don’t know what it’s like when you can’t renew the mind, the greatest struggle all through mankind, I don’t know where I’m going, when I been, or where I must be...I guess I’m living like....like a junkie.....like a junkie....yeah living, like a junkie....


(excerpt):
You read about it.
you see about it.
This shit real.
People dying every fucking day.....for not a got damn thang.
How the hell you think that shit getting in here.
Into our neighborhoods...our corners...our streets…
You think we bring that shit? Think again muthafucka.
it’s a set up.
Not because they bring it, but because we fall for that shit.
Wake up niggas…wake, up!

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from Die Wurzel, released February 27, 2023
Produced by Neak

Kenneth Leftridge (alto sax)

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Neak Chicago, Illinois

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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