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Well-have-ya’-heard-it-did-ya’-see-it-it-was-dope-couldn’t-believe-it-
guess-it-was-one-of-those-things-that-ya’-had-to-be-there-to-feel-it-
type of hype I don’t like, so, tell someone that might
cos’ maybe they’ll be interested and dumb enough to (Bite!)
It’s like fast food without the calories, a vibrator with no batteries,
a battle MC that gives compliments and apologies while he’s battling.
It baffles me, half of your rap’s straps, crack, and capped casualties
when in all actuality, you’ve never handled a piece or dealt calamity.

Oh can it be, that people can open their mouths
and drop a verse that’d grab you by the heart so deep and profound
while they ain’t got a clue of what the fuck they’re talkin’ about,
just sayin’ some shit, just to sound deep and profound
and get a crowd, talkin’ about how bad your life is and how hard ya got it
while your livin’ under a roof with money in your pocket.
I don’t understand it, how your takin’ it for granted,
then again you don’t know what you got until it’s gone, granted.

Had it happen to my boy who had a message:
He wrote lyrics every night, despite his father who was against him
doin’ hip hop, said it was a waste of time
and a beautiful mind, so he walked out the house to concentrate on rhymes
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now if he listened to his dad and followed the family function
he’d be in the house much ado about nothin’.
Ya’ say that you’re a gangsta’ but ya ‘ never seen a gun kid,
sounds to me, ya much ado about nothin’
I got this girl’s number and I thought it would be somethin’,
but she turned out to be much ado about nothin’.
Talkin’ in my face, yea yea, keep it comin’,
cos’ when Adam shows up, you’re much ado about nothin’.
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A few ado about somethin’ and handle
their business, here, let me give an example:
I was with the crew gettin’ down and shwilled
at a party havin’ a good time up until
this kid walked in with the Iceberg Sweater,
Suburban fabulous, all about the glitter.
I didn’t know what to think or let alone figure
when he approached me, “What up my ------“.

Had to educate him, had to let him know
that that might’ve slid by in 1904
opposed to two, double o five, right now
afro-centric in the present and I will throw down.
Insult the brown, I don’t stand still and act chill,
I hit harder than an overdose of Advil.
Back to this kid yappin’ and actin’,
throwin’ the N-word round and laughin’,

I asked him, cool as I could,
to not use the word “around me, kid, understood”.
He said, “I can use any word that I want
and if ya’ gettin’ pissed off, that’s ya’ fault”
Well hold up, picked up the phone, (blaow!)
called Daddy Rocks, it’s on.
He killed his Keystone, hopped out Delta Chi,
I told N-word boy that we should discuss this outside.

Didn’t wanna fight or brawl,
I’d rather communicate and keep it calm.
He was pretty cool, collective, and patient,
but he kept usin’ the word in the conversation.
I couldn’t contain it, I was losin’ my brain and
The next thing I know I’m swingin’ like Roy Jones.
He hit the pavement, floored, bleedin’ of course,
Daddy Rocks hopped off the back porch to serve more.

Bet yo bottom dollar
from then on he would think twice not to
drop a word like that, because I stood up for somethin’.
Ya ghetto façade ain’t nothin’.
Don’t talk how ya heard it and word it,
walk and dress up just like ya seen it,
cos’ya might run into the originals
and get them heated
when ya steal a style, based off of stereotype assumptions
Get that ass rocked, much ado about nothin’
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from After What Came Before, released April 25, 2005
Vocals & Lyrics by Toussaint Morrison
Percussion by Spencer Austin
Bass by Daniel Leussler
Guitar by Edward Folly
Keys by Linden Killam

Recorded in Minneapolis, MN

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The Blend Minneapolis, Minnesota

A nationally touring group of misfits making sound wherever beckoned, The Blend dominated the midwest pioneering hip-hop and rock in the same breath from dingy basement rock shows to capacity hip-hop shows. Now, their fate unknown having disbanded for several years, Linden Killam and Toussaint Morrison continue the group's legacy of unconventional, top tiered sound. ... more

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