1. |
Murals
03:26
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[Intro: Katsumoto]
You know sometimes
I catch myself dreaming and shit like
I-I stop and I think
What if shit was different like
You feel me?
What if what if niggas was like
"You know what fuck all this
Fuck all this shit
You know fuck anything anybody else is trying to give me"
You know like I'm for us...
What if we was really what if we was really
Fubu like I know it seem corny
But like what if we was really Fubu?
For us by us you feel me?
Like what would it look like then?
Maybe niggas would actually realize our value
You feel me like, not niggas, but people outside of the community Cause apparently people don't understand what we contribute
And that shit be...
That shit be wild cause like they think like us, they act like us, they look us, they sound like us, talk like us, everything like us but low and behold at the end of the day we never get the credit bruh...
[Pre Verse: Kuro Silence]
You running off on the plug
I’m running off all of the levels of pressure
Cause the boys do tend to suppress us
Depression comes from regression
Aggression manifested as a .40 cal strap on the side
I’ll put your ass to the side
Don’t push me nigga
I ain’t for all this hood shit nigga
I’m too damaged damned by my surroundings
Trying to find clear mind
Tranquility don’t exist here
Hereditarily in fear
Cause these jackals that jeer
Are neighbors and peacekeepers
Police ain’t all they’re cracked up to be I suppose
[Verse 1: Kuro Silence]
Look at me a black rose
Grey type,"Black" rose from the concrete
Only to fall back with holes deep in his chest
These shooters don’t jest
We really out here
That’s why we look out here
And only see degradation
And to us myths are graduations from all this faking and pain shit
I ain’t saying shit
Cause you can’t reverse
Never focused on backwards
Cause you can’t back words
You can’t re verse you can only write it once
So what you say carry weight
Like the niggas moving work
And they say nigga moving works
And I say then get rich
You all ain’t top dawgs so stop thinking you at the top dawg
You barely know the plateau
Sure you rise but that runs
Didn’t you pay attention?
On how when you change dimensions
Everything gets affected
What the hell you think time is?
It’s only a matter of that
Matter of fact it’s elementary like L, M, N, O, P l e a s e please, please Don’t take me the fool
Yeah
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2. |
Look
02:52
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[Intro: Kuro Silence]
Yeah yeah yeah look
Hey hey hey
Yeah yeah look
Yeah yeah yeah yah
Hey hey hey
[Verse 1: Kuro Silence]
It’s the
Maneuver master
Still moving faster
Skip the minutiae mannerisms is solo class
This shit never do change
Want us to fade away
Shading the good so I guess that we dying young today
You see the pavement
They’re seeing paying customers
'Gone get your paper
But why we live like this?
I know you’re tired of being tired of desolate
Them boarded houses reminded me that I’ll never win
Them backstreet niggas might hit you onside you pockets
Them the types of residents
Ones that you don’t want crossing paths
Them be the wolves
You know that they tend hunt in packs
Bicycles and chains were often changing hands
If it’s a come up
They swiping right on that bitch tonight
Don’t miss them corners
Cause streets is watching you all the time
The stress be weighted
The world’s praying on your demise
Or at least that’s how it seems through perspective of mine
[Hook]
Where you going?
Why you running?
Hold up let me show you something
Ever seen a dead body?
You can peep them every summer
Winter, spring clean
Fallen bodies ain’t estranged this is war this is rage (x2)
[Verse 2]
This is
Love that’s all we got for it
Look what we got for it
We’re often treated foreign
Guilty automatic fuck you want with me?
What’s with all the static?
Act like it do not matter
I do what I want till I’m tattered
With bullet holes blood splatters yeah
The coroner cliché
But that don’t make it a lie
Surprised if I make it alive
Always keep up alibi
These niggas got Robin Hood robbed
Make the wrong move and you die
We wear the mask that be disguise
Keep us in dark believing the lie
That we ain’t shit got reason to cry
This city of dis is city of mine
Insidious eyes stay scoping through blinds
Pull up on the block drive slow with that 9, 45 or whatever you like Even a tec and you still won’t survive
This shit is a cycle that we recycle
Cause we rely on the revenue
You think it’s a lie why don’t you try it too?
Just don’t hit my line trying to leave stoops
Hey
[Outro]
Don’t want to hear it
I don’t want to hear it
You sound like a bird you parroting lines
You saying you bang we know it’s a lie
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3. |
Firebird
03:11
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[Intro: Kuro Silence]
Poetic justice nothing here do feel the same, I
Would die eternally to hear you say my name, uh
No I don’t care for just anyone of these dames
Yeah my girl fire and I love her flame...
[Verse 1]
Ok lil baby you got me intoxicated
I know it’s early to say this
But you know me I was fated
To stay with the fastest movers and shakers
But you keep me on slow
And babe when the lights is low
I can’t keep my hands off
I’m really feeling you’re energy
Wanna match it like synergy
Like when them matches strike
Love your fire what’s gotten into me?
I mean I’m dead on these lines
For you I only have eyes
And when you said you’d be mine
Babe I was on the moon
Hope you know it if often I do not show it
I want to keep us in motion
Even if it’s the slowest
Oh lovely you’re skin is poetry
Way you move always throwing me off
Like how am I holding you
I must have been a saint for you to feel for me
I’m really hoping you understand what you mean to me
It really seems to be you are my only remedy
Your voice a melody
I love the way you play for me
I’m a romantic hopelessly
[Hook]
Poetic justice nothing here do feel the same, I
Would die eternally to hear you say my name, uh
No I don’t care for just anyone of these dames, yeah my girl fire and I love her flame...
[Verse 2]
Look
It’s reverb how we work
And your eyes when you ride
Keep me out of my mind
Ticking time when I’m with you
I do find that sublime
Ain’t a climb or a stretch
Catch your breath
Lay with me for a sec
Not just sex let’s vibe
Dark humor you and I
Much the same we’re alike
But still different
I don’t get it but really I ain’t concerned
Cause honest I can’t discern
What I love about you more
Like maybe how your noir
Complexion reminds of stars in space
Or how your smile can make
Even the worst day great
And on my nerves you do grate
But I still love you the same
For the way that you move
Or way that you groove
Or way that you talk
Keeps me in the mood to fawn over tu
Laisse moi être avec toi
Cause ooh j'ai besoin de vous
So let’s rendezvous
I speak love for you cause you
Want me to or like when I do
It’s what you deserve and if it please you
Then that’s all I’ll learn if you want me to
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4. |
Rosegold||Akai
03:45
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[Intro: Kuro Silence]
Yeah yeah yeah
Yah yah
Hey hey ho
Ahh ah yeah yeah
Look I'mma be honest and I don't do that too often
Look we on and off again how you nonchalant with this?
[Verse 1]
I’m a kiddie taking flight
To them kitty cats alike
To the ones that came before
Fornication breaking walls
Hope for highs on the low
Like your keys on the floor
Don’t let everybody know
Value anonymity see this animosity
In my city keep me stressed
So when I’m laying on your breast
I’m just tryina catch my breath
That’s meditation at it’s best
Type of friends that we could be
If you don’t see your man in me
Then friendship just as lovely
Beneficial how we be or really been
Cause being we ain’t really where we ever are
I mean we barely got a car between the two of us
So seeing romance in that scene
Is justifiably obscene
Or asinine if you ask me
So tell me why it hurts so bad
To see you leaving loving me
Not the same way as I
Your sky is what I’m trying to be
Behind facades I tend to greave
Death of the thought of you and me
Guess you think I love the Id-e-a of how you be
Way you walk, talk, dress got me racing high speed
Heart and mind you’re capturing
Your my captor can’t you see
I guess that it ain’t meant to be
Young hearts sway so constantly
Passion burn like Constantine
Concentration on these seems
Seem to show them breaking down
Guess it’s back to falling out
Shooting stars what we are
Flash pan that arouse stimulation of these senses
Burn out quick losing incentive
Like woah
[Hook]
Lacking senses of tension
Call your body attention
Can’t you feel it, the pressure?
Eliminating our leisures
Drown out the world with
Pleasure ride how you like I stay measure
[Verse 2]
I’m tripping over stormy weather in may
Like why I’m surprised?
I mean that’s just how it go
Why can’t you supply luh?
The question I always ask
I stay up stuck in the past
Watching events from our past
Like where the fuck I go wrong
Like this ain’t where we belong
City of dis that surround
Wonder how this still astound me
Know I’ve seen it before
Hopeless romantic on boats
Like the titanic
A Rose by other name still a rose
But I ain’t got none of those
Persona grata to hoes
Like really why I’m surprised?
I wasn’t cut for the role of being happy
So woes stack by the pile some more
Till I collapse and return to digging vibe of no clothes
Digging for panty on hose under panty with the hose
With yours truly as host like parasites playing hosts
Using bodies for my needs
Say fix your mouth on your knees
Baby just focus on me
Forget your man and his pleas
Misery love company and
I’m depressed for the moment
So I spread this empathy
Why I call myself a villain
He feeling something like me
And when that lump in your throat
He be the one that’ll choke
Backing them tears that he hold
Know love is rage and it’s war
So this is fair let us fall
No consequence till you’re caught
So keep this vibe on the low
And phone on do not disturb
What he don’t know doesn’t hurt
So keep the vibe ride the flow tonight you’ll be mine alone
[Outro]
Lacking senses of tension call your body attention can’t you feel it, the pressure? Eliminating our leisures
Drown out the world with this pleasure ride how you like I stay measure
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5. |
Window Seat
04:25
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[Intro]
Don’t you see the image
All them streetlight vigils
Don’t you hate that visual
Transfixed just tryna see the world
But I ain’t hit pinnacle
Pain like Barrett .50 cal
Straight to my head
I’m really hoping that you hear me out (x2)
[Verse 1]
I been depressed baby give me a moment
Relieving stress when I’m out and roaming
Smoke got me wavy I feel like the ocean
To feel something different is why I stay smoking
I need that potent my soul too corrosive
I might just drink when I’m on roller coaster
That I call life more like strife and I’m hoping
Torture will end for me cause I can’t cope and
I’m feeling gone out my mind half the time
I really felt Mac when he gave us that line
Do anything to get out of my head
Really I’m thinking I’m better off dead
My heart too damaged too long have I bled
You seeing green all I see is red
You cashing in on sorrow of death
Why you so trip? Man I don’t understand
Bodies on bodies they all in the streets
Tired am I of red on white sheets
I don’t want to wake up yeah I’m tired of this pain man
I might go insane on some Kobane eternal rain yeah
Need eternal rest I’m in distress I need the sandman
I just need escape from mental states that debilitate
Have you ever visited the ledge and deliberate
Should I jump or should I stay
Stop a moment contemplate
On the finer things in life that shit only motivate
Me to take a running dive
Know that I got plenty time but I’ve never known sublime
But I know that it’s a lie dreams they sold me blinded eyes
Only for limited time and I’m at the end of my
Simulation stimulating sense been lost
Now that I can see the cost
I know I’m only a pawn feeling lower than a prawn
Back and forth I’m feeling torn
Moving slow my soul too worn
Weary spirit tired eyes oh you say you wanna die
Is that real if so then why you might be the same as I
[Hook]
Don’t you see the image
All them streetlight vigils
Don’t you hate that visual
Transfixed just tryna see the world
But I ain’t hit pinnacle
Pain like Barrett .50 cal
Straight to my head
I’m really hoping that you hear me out (x2)
[Verse 2]
Try for higher heights
World ain’t mine I don’t want it
I just need freedom from spite
I don’t hide from devotion
I always keep in motion
Work too hard for y’all to notice
Call it cute and say keep going
While you never lift a finger to get what you own
That shit is sick
Man suck a dick
You don’t do a thing
But feel entitled you my rival
I would throw you off the Eiffel
Coming for your head with rifles
I ain’t asking nice hoe
Gimme that bitch I’mma snatch it
If I see it in your home
Your abode oh your throne?
I’mma throw Molotov’s through the windows
See if you still feel so cold
I’m inclined to decline no rewind
Catch the vibe that was lethal like these weapons
Don’t you play on my aggression
Fore I come back on suppression
Detest a nigga neglecting lessons learned
Throwing blessings out?
That’s absurd how you think you can flout
Honors you ain’t earn like it’s money just to burn
You is moving too fast
You focused on them
Then focused on her
Then doing this
Transition to that
Cause we never rest ain’t no room to slack
It’s never on back
Keep outta past narrative passed
Do not witness how they be killing our ancestors
Yeah they tryna rob you don’t you get the picture?
[Outro]
Don’t you see that image?
All them streetlight vigils
Don’t you hate that visual
Transfixed just tryna see the world
But I ain’t hit pinnacle
Pain like Barrett .50 cal
Straight to my head
I’m really hoping that you hear me out (x6)
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6. |
Find It||Reveries
02:56
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[Intro]
Fallen away mania keep me shaded
Or shielded from smoking the pain away (hey)
Eternal vagrant my soul is too vacant man
I’m finding solace in yesterday (hey)
Please do not bother me now
Just let me drown out the sound
I don’t want to see another day
Cause it’s all the same
And nothing do change so I’m going insane
(Hey)
[Verse 1}
Find it hard to cope with the fact
I’m lost inside I’m out of mind again
Like look at me and that’s my visual
Starring mirrors got me going off
The deepest end and that don’t mend exhaust
I feel like jacking people like I’m frost
The rim is cracking on reality life is beautiful but like a dream
It can end as quick as it begun
It don’t care how far you aim to run
You won’t matter when it’s said and done
You haven’t begun to comprehend all the concepts I’m on
And that ain’t a diss it’s more of a nod
To ignorance of these masqueraders
They hide their shine and stumble in dark
Moving in place their’s a curious art
I wonder what thought could’ve sparked so much pain
Today I face the same fate
Constantly fading away
I say it and say I so
Thus I know it should be
Talk like you know the masterplan
To match the man that made you
Called creator matrix must have you on relaxing daze
Amazed travis even gotta say aye
Stop trying to be a holy saiyn
Whoops I mean savior it’s all the same though
Tell me what’s Sambo
To a Usain Bolt? poor slave to rich man?
Nah they in the same boat
Woah
You’re only as good as your body can last
When you’re old and grey to the shadows you’re cast
Can’t be number 1 for eternity there’s
Always somebody that comes to surpass
Metal gear nah I’m just playing on that
But serious though
Why we let the greats fall with no help
It’s hypocrisy we cast them to hell
But held them in grace like we was entranced till that was dispelled Cause we saw the man behind the curtain they’re mortal like us so Rigor mortise is our inclination serve condemnation to idols you Made statues for it don’t make sense
Aye
[Outro]
Fallen away mania keep me shaded
Or shielded from smoking the pain away (hey)
Eternal vagrant my soul is too vacant man
I’m finding solace in yesterday (hey)
Please do not bother me now
Just let me drown out the sound
I don’t want to see another day
Cause it’s all the same
And nothing do change so I’m going insane
(x3)
(Hey)
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7. |
Gameplay
01:59
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8. |
Specter Detector
02:26
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9. |
Azure
04:21
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10. |
Backtrack
02:37
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11. |
Afterimage
02:57
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Kuro Silence Baltimore, Maryland
I am sound incarnate.
“Kuro Silence is a rapper/producer from Baltimore, Maryland. From trap to
experimental, Kuro’s work defies normative currents of Hip-Hop’s soundscape with his work ethic and forays into Hip-Hop’s many sub-genres.”
-Channel10 Podcast
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