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KNOCK! [feat. J​.​Mo, Jack Davey, LafemmeBear]

from COLORED by Def Sound

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I was really inspired by Missy Elliot on this one. Specifically her 2nd album Da Real World. The night Neon Phoenix made the track I was like quick, save it! KNOCK! was the name of the beat and some beat titles are so accurate no matter what you write to them they don't outgrow that initial feeling. I listen more than I rap, so I became what the beat told me to. This song should come w/ a gym membership it goes so hard.

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[verse 1]
I keep it 100 w/ 5% tendencies
everyday we be making black history
channeling the energy of a Pac off the Hennessy
my guy
in my rap can’t no find lie
it’s wrap that come w/ fries
thats a gyros
I’m idol
you be rapping for some likes
I be rapping for survival
omg
know your worth don’t compromise
confidence go multiplied
raw energy
breathe empathy
I aint having fun I’m having life

pay homage
game, blouses
keep your playlists and your genres
find me up where thee clouds is
dropping songs
dropping tonics



Hiyaya
iconic
good karma
drop jewels (Juelz)
Santana
whole time
my mind
on mañana


Alvin Ailey with thee dance moves
Gary Payton w/ thee trash talk
Jim Carrey with thee Mask off
snap through w/ the flash off


since a younger adolescent never less than all my lessons
black inner essence shining bioluminescent
like…


HOOK ::
(keep going keep going)

(keep going keep going)

I been waiting on this
I been working on this

All my life
All my life


Verse 2 ::

decolonized
and I’m ancient

I identify
as I a sacred

don’t minimize
for the matrix

unmemorize
all thee cages

I don’t need nominations

to validate all of my greatness

just venmo thee whole payment


double disc deffery
(oh kay)
on my own settings
(oh my)

Live the bars
Heal em all
Spit a poem
them in awe
synagogue
Ceilings off
Meal it raw
Dinner fork
Dinner for
Ayeeee

(reversed)

Hook outro
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credits

from COLORED, released July 23, 2019
Prod. by Neon Phoenix
Guitar played by Jairus Mozee
Additional vocals by LaFemmeBear , Jack Davey, FluteBae
Mixed by Corey Williams
Mastered Kelly Hibbert

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Def Sound Los Angeles, California

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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