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Def Sound IS Alive.

by Def Sound

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    Its 2010, all I wanted people to know was I was Alive. So I made this in my first year of fully dedicating my life to art. I want you 2 feel as Alive and inspired as I do. Its an ITtape because its not really a mixtape its just IT for now. Whatever IT is 2 you. Its been 2 years since I dropped “Something.” literally… EVERYTHING has changed. I felt like writing my name on everything especially things I dont own. Like your ears. Just like a young graff artist with a bunch of new cans he cant wait 2 use. Just a reminder 4 people I am Alive. I thought about it the other day randomly and BIGGIE named his first album “Ready 2 Die” and I am naming my first tape “Alive”. Theres something significant about that without trying to be different. I just am. I didnt want to make something that was 2 contrived or boring I wanted something 2 show the growth that had 2 happen before I put out the Sequel 2 “Something.” (“Anything.” Jan. or Feb. of 2011) there have been many transitions and choices (Art is just a publically displayed choice that exists independent of opinions and its creator). I wanna thank Maceo for the artwork, every feature, guest, muse, and The Port's for all the support on the project, and EVERYONE who already knows the deal I couldnt make this without ALL of you.I feel like a completely new person.
    I am Alive.



    -Def
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Let me make a list of everything you missed it chopped and screwed point of views auto tuned my whisper had 2 change my hair before my hair changed me if you looking if you listen its the same me party less praying more speaking less reading more sleeping less seeing more God with us meet the Lord i aint writing 4 reviews i aint writing 4 results im writing 4 my pulse so u aint gotta post mind state global mad shows local studio in no ho Mace did the logo the logo is my icon Roy Hobbs whens Mic on get the picture Nikon a new dawn my eyes on etc and so on I'm so on hi with the LO if you listen its like you got my life on talking 2 myself helped me learn 2 talk 2 beats got an inner view without interviews I met Shafiq Britt got my on Gondry art got me Godly Ty got me more Ghandi Henny got me more charming Poetic got locked up now he's out all love Holly was the mentor Fasfa got me in the Mac store "so what we doing 2night?" all i wanted 2 know is what we doing with life cut her like my locks and shit aint a dissss Raad is missed but ever since shes gone and went Happiness no accident doubters wont believe me RC went 2 Fiji inhaling on sea weed Lite dropped a cd Cut Ties with Fresh 2 Def made a couple hits with Kev wipe me down I'mma mess "wipe me down I'mma mess" Local Tourist sponsored me didnt wanna manage me its all love applause you can give a hand 2 me shows with Novena then met Safia couple vids with Rica Amy's in the freezer 5 hour energies OD'ed on inner peace I'm not more polished I'm just more honest I'm not less human I'm just more artist living in the now, Mos say I'm Def say Hello 2 Mr. Sound -Def
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Verse #1: Love without instruction speak with out discussions something something something i didn't like the rest cuz I'm nothing like the rest I write songs about her she'd rather i send a text when i commune with cate I'm anti gravity I'm immune 2 wait everybody likes her but i would never say i would rather show she would rather know without further notice her favorite song it goooooes Hook I been waiting on you but you been hating on you why is she so scared of heights ? don't she knows shes the sky? Why she gotta learn 2 fly? forgets shes the sky Why you gotta learn 2 fly? don't you know you that your the sky ? don't you? verse 2: (*clear thoat*) Ummmmmmm sorry I'm late 2 the 2nd verse I couldn't find parking can i beg your pardon? ilove a lil joy your my favorite martian i aint window shopping and you aint on the market does everything have 2 be a poem? yes we're different the difference between a crow and a desk collecting all the o's plus the x catty corner categories cuz they kinda really bore me snooring I loved you before i liked you I drew you before I ever eyed you forgot, before I ever knew you standing still and then I still moved you Sidebar our sidebars need on stars we dream on beyond stars beyond far find us here Hook (Additional layered hook) airborne new borns eyes closed we’ll soar -Def
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Verse 1: The innocence of hello the natural high of hi the 1st text message you waiting on reply love aint like like aint a metaphor you try in hindsight my sight caught her right eye Caught her like cold she was under my nose like words my words go but certain words wont when loving love dont she so butter shes so cold that I want covers but i wont smother multiple choices and i check other blind like stevie but I wont wonder I just want her love aint science no L. Ron Hubbard invest all my time I'll just fund her for certain and forsure she "in search of.." a n.e.r.d I'm in search of some words (2 insert within hers) shes like favorite song that I've never heard but I know every word Verse 2: infatuation will arise but u gotta be smart about it I am on a 24 hour Def sound diet *laugh*don't knock it before you try it love i cant describe it i can just supply it I love her 4 her brain you want the booty like a pirate I am on my disney shit u can call it pluto flow here we go like merry go in the air we aerial a ring or a fling who's thinkin marriage tho? we can go 2 paris tho Perris california have you ever been there? ink what i think then i let my pen stare cheating on you with you depending on your view of you the un 2 my usual glue us 2 lose my mind @ the thought of losing you -Def
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I don't think I wrote this song down anywhere.....
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cough cough cough cough into laugh HOOK We don't your money we just want your time we don't want your girl we just want her mind Verse #1: dance floor general militant mind state messages subliminal read me what your eyes close on minimal project on runways war fares chemical listen let the song say HOOK We don't your money we just want your time we don't want your girl we just want her mind Verse #2: Change your Twitter status distortions so beautiful baby let the static in question what is usual mummy wear these bandages birthday suits are suitable gallery your galaxy exhibit what you listen 2 HOOK We just your money we dont want your time we just want your girl we dont want her mind Bridge: what you want from me ? you don't want your needs you don't need ya wants is it me you want? Whats the matter? Hey Its Only Matter Hey Hey Hey HOOK We don't your money we just want your time we don't want your girl we just want her mind We dont your money we just want your time we dont want your girl we just want her mind
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Verse #1: shittin on everybody aint no laxatives purpose on purpose aint no accidents trippin while trippin aint no acid in my drive so crazy no aint no passengers this so crazy what comes after this? the after party at the after hours after all aint no band going after ours scream if ya feeling this go get louder? she's so trendy your so right now she's a freestyle i could write down aint no i in we, poke your eyes out 2 turnt up turn you life down free ya speech free 2 speak now 1 st amendment just beginning backs I'm bending im offensive your offended take no non sense god on conference calm in conflict concepts constant got it all cover till im covered of complex sorta gotta a complex with being so complex the winner all winter cold aint no contest butter in the summer yo i got this ear 2 the streets thoughts in the clouds outside the box try hearing me out Hook: Get up like its the new down def bringing that new sound sky high like its the new ground lose ya mind nah got nothing 2 lose now Get up 2 us baby its up 2 us Verse #2 (1:38): verse 1 times two stuck 2 the beat like tongue got glue win crowd over mind i lose if you got couches I'll Tom cruise jumpin on ya shit jumpin on ya shit serious I'm jumping on ya shit usual aint usual what is normal? cartoon network I see coral girl lets mind sex this oral music lives on I'm immortal walking with jesus stroll with allah whatever you wanna call em only one god only one you only one us theres one we only one love Novena: (You gonna have 2 talk 2 her about her lyrics and email her 4 them lol) Hook: Get up like its the new down def bringing that new sound sky high like its the new ground lose ya mind aint nothing 2 lose now Get up 2 us baby its up 2 us verse #3: Aint no telling where my flow is @ colder than a polar cap holy snaps he's been holding back higher 4 hire cali where the low is @ i thought style was on sale where he order that? reading all the blogs shit sorta whack posting all ya friends when they sounding sorta ehhh couldn't find em anywhere ya gotta order maps find yaself some talent aint no app 4 that talking bout you so what you laughing @? off season all season show's zoo, I'm beastin iron on style i can see stop creasing wallets got me with a smile on my face baby i'm cheesin you living in the past tense where ya @ i'm past it in a class in you cant teach class in if my callin aint rapping don't cry cuz its over smile cuz it happened Hook: Get up like its the new down def bringing that new sound sky high like its the new ground lose ya mind aint nothing 2 lose now
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Picante is the pace on sense I aint making none senseless baby endless maybe stupid ink the flow is dumb niggas aint just faking jacks these niggas here is faking johns shittin on every thing i get up on on up get this is what I'm gifted with christmas merry Kwanzaa shit Hanukkah ya monitors twist it with the dradel spit earth 2 down down 2 earth I am like lawns with this deeper than a casket dig? I am like one with this hard kworking, Juan and shit I know that you don't know me but u see me @ a lotta shit hanging like an ornament Something and I'm Anything I'm Everything I'm all of it excuse me if I'm feeling this sleeping on me save yawn's every songs the mattress huh? Huh? a time upon a once it is once I spit a quotable so backward u gonna have 2 real really really forward it more of this this of more this aint music this is war the new wave you can pick a sure hop on board baby what snoozing 4? we wake it up u thinking that this shit is fresh? listen man I make it up local talent native tongues take it all or take enough slap boxing with the track u punching in I take it once elevator flow u press a button take it up rappers here is fucking up pardon me I'm making love urbanspoon your food 4 thought think about it shake it up u niggas aint just wasting time you wasting us artists aint human man this shit is like a race 2 us it really aint a race 2 us pass baton race it up take your time erase the rushed listen I wear bow ties lines doing tie bow head bob sideshow slideshow you the 3rd person in 3rd person 2 say mr. def's dope eye know like the eye iphone I'm done Yoni: (Talk 2 him bout his lyrics most of it was written in studio and freestyled @ the end enjoy it....lol) -Def
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Hook: Trickin, Trickin, Trickin, Trickin dough one day its here next day its gone one day its here next day its UMMMMM Trickin, Trickin, Trickin, Trickin dough one day its here next day its going going goooone! Verse 1: We want Lamborgini eye balls Guicci print teeth Some shoes dont touch the sidewalk a quater mill each a new nose a new face a urainium TV a bunch of expensive shit when you die you cant keep True story my hair is like two stories dreams f*ckin with my goals two orgies listen Jr. its the balancing that challenging You could own the whole world still want a galaxy Verse 2 by Ty aka Trill Scott: Dedicated to Mr. & Mrs. "I Gots To Have It" Who's married to the game but joint accounts but never happend All them middle class niggas who imaginary trappin Them million dollar fables & them thousand dollar habits Top billin for them labels give a fuck about the fabrics & if you don't have it; you should probably follow suit & just kill yourself in an ordinary fashion #Cash! Hook Ty: Me and $ go together like Tattoes and rachets Def: orrr ummm bad chicks with accents Ty:low credit,dont sweat it you can throw it on the debit Def: No medics, no headaches, cant buy it? Steal it, F it food keep stamping me Ty: school keeps granting me Def: perspective is bitches be like so what? forget getting wifed down rather get wiped down strip club post uppppppp Hook
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Verse 1: Life aint a Warhol living in wars zone working til a corpse holmes ya friends gone and the tours on, but you home and ya phone off Rain it pours on raining cats and dogs and u got a bitch @ home fleaing from the fleas makes ya scratch ya dome makes you wanna zone and its looking like Twighlight looking @ ya past like look @ that highlight before you hit the high life before you saw the bright lights before stadiums screamed ya name, what that sound like?? and it sounds like nothing when you really aint stuntin and u lookin from a stunt man your adrilinelines pumpin inspiration aint coming forgetting where ya from in and ya growling from ya stomach ribs get 2 touching they lifes a bitch I'm just lookin 4 a woman I used 2 love her HOOK: Life, is everything you make it time, its yours if you can take it sooner or later later makes yesterdays todays kid Buck the world I'm here, bring ya braces 1:18 Verse 2 : I could have been a doctor just didnt have the patience could have been a lawyer but not enough plaintiffs life treated me foul I'm lookin 4 a flagrant my style was 2 free I'm just looking 4 an agent artist @ a gallery just lookin 4 a paintbrush staring @ the paper tryin 2 make some paper girls sounding like hater tryin not 2 hate her feeling like mule looking 4 some acres a new clothe 2 cut from tripping through customs watching people get high wonder what they run from a midget with the income hanging with the in crowd wishin you can u stand out looking 4 a stand in hour glassing it now u lookin where the sands been lookin @ the crowd like I wonder where my fans went feeling like has been now you outkastin getting extra in a show you werent cast in and really aint feelin school boxes aint fittin u praying 4 miracle hoping you get listened 2 staring @ the beat like bitch I will spit on you HOOK: Life, is everything you make it time, its yours if you can take it sooner or later later makes yesterdays todays kid Buck the world I'm here, bring ya braces
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Verse 1: I like people I love women I love thrifting 5-11 jeans fittin I wear 32 you wear a wave cap mixtape with no signal where ya bars @? See what I write like is deaf eye sight see me, hear me, feel me, show ya senses what all 5's llike so where my 5 mics? I need 5 boothes f*ck it 5 studio's for what the f*ck I do I aint a beast homie I'mma whole zoo its free admission hit me up after 2 so while you craft singles 4 the cheese slave to the checks but our minds free We... Hook: So down to eath that I'm out this world I'm outta this world I'm outta this world So down to eath that I'm out this world I'mma outta this WORLD Verse 2 by Nerd Hook Verse 3: No the track I aint done with u are spitting I just vomit Aint a star Imma comet this whole planet I aint from it Fly saucers then I plumit 2 the stomach Of nowhere Yea I go there U still you thinkin I just thunk it Wait a minute That sunk in I am bass before the drums in Fresh air where ya lungs is Hello's there before you come in But they never seen me comin Lazy laying up No I am Dunkin like donuts Then I go nuts Beat beats into commas Leave it stitches yea its sewn up childs play I'm grown up I aint playin wordplays @ playground And swanging automatic I aint thinkin I aint rhyming I'm just sayin Without talking Lines written in martian -Def
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Verse 1: Say a prayer that is hopeful mom's cookin Tofu every function I coast to is located local Lite on Thurman ave. texting me 2 come through as I stroll through the area the various hilarious episode we livin in preparin us 4 night life sicker than malaria in the cut, Caesarean my life time time flies when you in the air with it 3 feet and no pressure claim streets we own letters all dressing no lettuce phone beeps a text message pardon me but I'm living if I text you back then I'll prob. get a ticket If you really gotta talk to me keep the convo @ a midget short words short terms food 4 thought orderves Ha I'm just loving life G Roto Rooter ya goals PAUSE no longer pipe dreams Hook: My love letter 2 life I'm enjoying every minute Life's my favorite movie I'm just happy that I'm in it Heeeey I'm just happy that I sent it uh uh uh I love life can you feel it? x2 Verse 2: Living my every day like I'm not your everyday citizen dippin in every car pool swimmin in cooler than a cooler chillin it driven in 2 no drive through come thru I'm Earles grillin it full like my gas tank the present is a freeze frame of pictures that your past paints down 2 earth grass stains 1 minute def sound on streets that we driving on aint a walk in Kenneth Hahn got me got my living on tracks that I'm spittin on got Val gets his spinnin on artwalking attention drawn copy and I paste every quotes of day 2 the twitter page analyzing thru the waste for the miles that it takes 2 put a smile on her face Permantly with the passion of me captured belief ahead of my time as a past time til I'm passing and leave -Def
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Verse 1: Let forever start here diamond in the ruff lookin like debeers in class of my own with a absence of fear so alive so gone is he here? Dark hours Bright moments Great seconds God's blessings I bring 2 my brethren and I sing thee exception of extinct black perceptions sick flow infecting talking 2 the people that they say were invisible here another rapper that they said you'd never listen 2 Def with the vision 2 20/20 syllables listen man my mind is a parachute openly I share with you sicker than some theraflu free falling freefrestyling landing where airfare is due leaving birds with jealous view and the telescopes are telling you your 2 high your 2 fly gravity is scared of you Hook (sang by Regan) : He makes me feel so Alive Alive Alive and I tell him that every moment is Alive Alive Verse #2 Hahaha aint life funny one day ya rolling like a rinking raking in the money the next you craiglistin just like sunny listen 2 and love me 2 def life or 2 something Wave good bye the shackles they used 2 chain us say Soo long 2 angles they used 2 paint us self hate they wont claim they gave us Alive, amazing times we living in sometimes, you just wanna hear the instruments...... Your ALIVE! ---------------------------------------------------------- Bonus: U.&.Ur.:) Lyrics: Hook: just you and smile lets be here while Verse 1: midnight dancing on a star real life looking so bizarre we get lost lost in who we are you aint moving everywhere seems far HOOK Sub.Hook: some days ya don't wanna speak, ya know some days I just wanna see, ya smile Verse 2: Tried loving @ life speed God gave me my heart back like something you need hit record when I'm board playing with heart strings swear she aint from here something you sight see ya know,uh she must be a tourist she might be a taurus I seen it in the star she's in another orbit relationships a tour bus the single lifes a porshe seats a few 4 a few imagine when tour stops ya know, mentally absorbing ya the apple of my cornea dead all ya fears you can leave em @ the coroner the girl of my dreams but I think I got insomnia hey,aint we all thee exceptions behind every break up there hides a blessing Word, uh even tho ya walkin out looking in ya rear view always something 2 smile about... Hook -Def
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(All sorts of Captured Laughter) Verse 1: hate is just love that we dont know what 2 do with, listen 2 or mute it, close your eyes and view, find it more or lose it find yo mind so we lose it in conclusion we're confusing and batteries included it sucks when your stressed out and yourself is feeling left out sanity is less now spoiled like left the milk out old views old you's rolling with your ex now phonetics with yo feelings trying 2 sound the rest out music is a hiding place I hide away I'm wide awake I write away right away now is now ride the wave title wave of lesser played you say that you like it def I'll glady be your hearing aid this is sick you hearing aids let be sincere and say you arent who you appear 2 play I'd rather just watch a play Bridge/hook/Outro: Its the Natural the organic 4 the love the romantic The Natural the fantastic the miracle no magic The Natural all planets the everywhere the outlandish The Natural all passion so foriegn no accents Just Natural you cant plan it its something it just happens -Def
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Hook Yea we want yo money and we want yo time You can Keep yo girl cuz we got her mind mind mind mind mind money times girls money times money times money times Verse 1: Dance floor general All things awesome mind state No that aint subliminal the mantra when we meditate she can have my whole heart I'm trying 2 find the rest of me food 4 thought such an art baby what's yo recipe? Hook verse 2: Change yo twitter status' find the ugly beautiful If everybodies weird what makes you unusual? look inside my lab and see I'm recharging my batteries Anythings almost here run around on saturns rings landed on yo planet gallery'ed your galaxies re appeared and vanished put the in in your insanity Jig saws simple freak shows nympho's low life's limbo lost my mental Hook... -Def

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No. I wont tell you why some songs have *'s in front of them. You will just have to listen now wont you. Thanks you in advance.

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released June 26, 2010

1. Say.Hello.2.Mr.Sound. (Prod. by RC)

2. If.The.Sky.Was.A.Her.She'd.Be.U. (Illegal Instrumental Inspiration Supplied by Metronomy)

*3. In.fat.u.ation (Illegal Instrumental Supplied by Black Rose)

4. Take.You.T.h.e.r.e. (Prod. by Roosevelt for Susman Productions)

5. $.Times.Girls (Illegal Instrumental Inspiration Supplied by Metronomy)

6. Up.Is.The.New.Down. feat. Novena Carmel (Illegal Instrumental Inspiration Supplied by Mr. Scruff)

*7. Time.Up.on.A.On.ce feat. Yoni Hawk (Illegal Instrumental Inspiration Supplied by Flying Lotus)

*8. Trickin.$. feat. Trill Scott Her.on. (Illegal Instrumental Inspiration Supplied by Chase N. Ca$h)

9. Every.thing.You.Make.It. (Prod. by RC)

10. Out.of.This.World. feat. Nerd (Prod. by Roosevelt)

11. Love.Letter.2.Life (Illegal Instrumental Inspiration Supplied by Thes One)

*12. A.Song.Call.ed.Alive. feat. Ragen Fykes (Illegal Instrumental Inspiration Supplied by 4Hero)

13.Captured. Laughter. (Illegal Instrumental Inspiration Supplied by

14. End.of.Thee.World. by Erthman & Def Sound (Prod. by Erthman and Dave Torres)

15. Out.rance (Illegal Instrumental Inspiration Supplied by Vera Lynn)

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Def Sound is an Afro-Caribbean transdisciplinary artist. born and based in South Central LA. Def is a non binary Grammy Award considered contemporary hip-hop artist, producer, published poet, and award winning academic. Def is currently teaching Hip Hop Critical Theory & Practice at the California Institute of the Arts. ... more

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