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My Brother's Keep, Volume One

by Mercury Waters & Choppy Chop-e Sound

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1.
This Intro Sucks 01:50
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Carried away for carrying faith to an early grave Cause you couldn’t bury your blade in the state And your face is the latest shame on the king’s plate Your head was requested like a record out the crate Any blackface at the mercy of the rat race is fair game Light em up cat and mouse chase We’re counting on your violence don’t you dare raise the stakes Change the state of the fair play or photograph my behavior and dangerous hearsay Never to be questioned Raising my weapon to any who threaten my airspace Monsters incorporated by rare snakes who legislate Your flesh to be the bear bait that sharpens up my scare face It’s getting it’s getting kinda hectic When your tribe’s effort is questing for relaxing electric But only met with the buzz of a taser every second god Status quo is the oldest weapon up in the repertoire] A sharpshooter pierces the illusion Without confusing my kindness for weak and spineless] Or televised gunshots aimed at your highness When we were kings dying from refinement] Comb-overs holding over American bigotry Mild mannered grandmothers carry like the infantry Public opinion won’t grow out of infancy > The truth is still life’s greatest mystery Who got comfortable with Huxtable imagery And thought it to be realer than our struggle for centuries When hate stacks the deck and we shuffling energies The slight of hands different with the same old enemies
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Future 02:16
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what’s this future where terror from computer’s worse than bruisers from Fallujah and treasure troves of knowledge hide in Google-fied minutia pursuers of lucifer no longer move through sewers they in broad day-light from they lies blind truth from the mouth of babes stay of execution for the nooser and 25 to life for every innocent accuser prayers like a rumor only spoken in hushed tones the few allowed to touch thrones are closeted abusers the golden rule is losing its touchstone for purity lawyers move quarters into quarantine for surety away from the grubby mitts of money starved minorities who can’t afford the luxor of authority pennies on the dollar for your mortgage backed security blankets empty bellies grumble as they gorge at the banquet the anguish is more than just thankless it's game breaking pain hydro-planing in late payments Can I borrow a dollar Verse 2 Unmastered niggers swore to god we would out run master killers never wake face down like a queen on the river you were dealt a hand that prizes struggle over vigor cutting ties from the sinners hot as the sun in the winter stared the glare down i’m scared, i been a month behind for 8 years now like my future’s in a funk I can air out like there’s hands around my neck keeping my air out Unprepared for the fairness of life with awareness of self Bought a heart off the shelf out of warranty but they're assuring me it's all there now And not for nothing I'm supposed to let my hair down You relax with a timberland on your back And the necessary assurance your lover she doesn't care now So face the ugly mug of fate lies scribbled on your slate and never bat a evil eye in the stare down Can i borrow a lover
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The All Knowing 02:41
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Chorus An eye on every shoulder Satellites circling a murder of crows they want to see the subtle shapes of your soul and every fiber of your being they want to be him the all knowing Verse knowledge is powerless against the subtle art of devouring cowardice in all of it's forms when the fear of the unknowns a catalyst for no unturned stone the flames from the cross burn your home that ain't a leap of faith from surveillance to a million eyes militarized for a nation of hatred the blight of your whiteness is sacred and no dark hearted con artist pierces the arc of the sanctum your whereabouts are tantamount to paramount television live at 5 see the nigga and who's with him seeking deep wisdom about the way that you're living in and out their system of algorithmic prediction they want your speech restricted but copy the subtle rhythm of your diction appropriation turns into addiction for every Tom, Dick, and Karen blessed with this affliction here's a message in this never ending battle of attrition Verse I can feel every eyeball slide and crawl over my skin like goosebumps couped up in the lions den eyeing my iron skin] hoping to mine the fly design to clip my wings in hopes I'll never fly again but I'm a hang glider head held high to the wind still defiant to compliance attempts the line of questioning I'm wrestling with is why you trying to treat my melanin skin like it's a sin saying hail Marys of varying length parry your evil eye sent with a crucifix slipped through a needle's eye twisting your feeble mind fruit of the spirit of blackness rotted by the dollar sign grubbing theatrics yarn spinning fiction bending truth ain't elastic i am the culmination of the state of fantastic a powder keg begging for the strike of a matchstick to burn down Babylon's cradle of craftsmen
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Mind Your Business 02:33
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Chorus the mirror image of your fitness begging you wear bear witness imperfection reflects your motives to mind your business Verse 1 what you lost I'm a double in kind that was the promise faith wasn't top of my mind mostly the profit uncovering the key to this dream but could have lost it belief wasn't strong in my mind just being honest future bright as sun but can't make it out from the cockpit piloting a life through the eye of the false prophet swallowing the truth regurgitating the gossip sun from my lungs they stunned and still watching common sense a commodity probably so is logic lies from the pulpit keeping ya spirit hostage fraud get behind me devil be the accomplice let the record dub over everything you accomplished and pounded with the force of forty men in a mosh pit bonfire burned til the essence is toxic and met foot first with a aerial drop kick til it kneels prostrated at the foot of colossus Verse 2 what you gained i could bury in vain like a syringe engage 'til the pendulum swings off of the hinge remove every dream your imagination pretends remove your beginning before it even begins when my imagination and your reality start to blend you can smell the victory oh so vividly on the wind it smells like electrical charge teen spirit and bitter ends a smidgen of get it in and interim gods i'm playing the odds even to win muttering a path to being human again VIP access bringing you and a friend pull up to the table say grace dig in I bear the name of the creator make'em say it again from the coin to the grave the life that never ends drop gems like a bomb that detonates in the wind ay yo chop bro we did it again
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The Man Who Must Leave 03:24
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Verse offshore drilling offshore order fulfillment cold war slaughter of children encore martyr for millions bomb your part of the building blood pumps the heart of the realness the roof is on fire god pardon the ceiling bargain of the century acquiring the sire and the saddle of the throne where the mechanized clones are programmed full of the skill to aim for the dome the flames get thrown like planes from the no fly zone like planes from the consciousness weak pockets seek sponsorship from the gifts of the broke phi broke sent anonymous welfare child Tel Aviv style improvised detonators in the trunk of the Escalade his face is well made and can't be profiled or paraded on channel 8 for crimes against the empire smile Chorus heard but not seen unnerved and obscene I'm gone please but why am i the man who must leave Verse grappling with facts backtracking and contact reactions poor black theatrics lackluster stats in mathematical factions bad time for mad max sabbaticals tactless absent sounds for the massive crowned king lounge in the casket who's ready to die with heavily taxed assets Cadillac health plan uncle Sam guarantees death tax charity a parody of madness Nigerian prince schemes inferior pipe dreams criteria constantly changing between Liberia and dates with the hangmen guilty since the birth of the arraignment the whole things full of strings plainly seen by the naked eye puppeteers swear there's nothing to see here maybe then why's my whole heart full of fear and the powers that be refuse to save my rear Chorus heard but not seen unnerved and obscene I'm gone please but why am i the man who must leave Verse ghosts of the most high soaked in the post 9/11 pigsty splinter cells enter on the inside doing damage from the vantage point of analog humanoids digital souls are kept fresh in a humidor moving on the mooly movement assuming the feud is on recycle the garbage for environments of future born pieces of a super sound broken down and sutured on hell's kitchen whatcha fixin contradiction soup is on 8 more bars calling all cars the flow travels on water like electrical charge and sidesteps the slaughter despite incredible odds we need ideas for drama and they better be large gigantic bigger than the size of the planet you only find freedom when the prize is demanded hopeless opponents are tied and abandoned and our last resorts to make sport out of cannons Chorus heard but not seen unnerved and obscene I'm gone please but why am i the man who must leave

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A collaborative EP by the team of brothers, Mercury Waters and Choppy Chop-e Sound.

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released April 22, 2022

Emcee: Mercury Waters
Producer: Choppy Chop-e Sound

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Mercury Waters is a DMV born and raised hip hop artist who brings thought provoking lyricism with a grown man sensibility to his decades long career. Waters counts creative rap luminaries like The Roots, Common, and Yasiin Bey among his influences. With a style evolved into its own form, he creates moods, soundscapes and visual pictures that seek to engross, educate, and connect with the listener. ... more

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