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1. |
Today Right Now
03:20
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Red Pill
I don't know what I'm here for, I don't know what the point is
Spent so many nights alone sipping this poison
All of us trying to find it, some of us call it purpose
Don't know if it's divine or can we even define it?
Am I playing a role in somebody else's theater?
Look around at this world and nothings been getting clearer
Only been getting weirder, I just sit in Detroit
Little blip on the radar, maybe there's not a point
Maybe it's all coincidence
Trying to make a little sense, out of something that doesn't
Maybe there's no significance
We're just rational cattle, end of discussion
And as lonely as that can sound
When you look up at the stars on that black background
And you wonder where you came from and why you stay
Maybe there's not a reason and that's okay
Verbal Kent
no matter
what road I travel on
add a little Somethin to the catalogue
I'm livin in stereo n analoge
where we go is
unknown, tryna to get a handle on the cut throat, nature anticipate it with utmost
energy: remember me as give before he took, guy who did the right thing took your hand and then he shook, played it
straight but coulda gone sideways like any rook never
judged the contents by the cover of any book, pay it
forward any possible place and time knowin' every
turn that for most shit don't go just the way it's designed-
I cheated death some say it's a sign- I think the
strength that others gave me is the way I survived, maybe it's
open to interpretation, the moral of a story
touching us at different points of life at different phases all the
places I've been..ive always looked for different help, at taken
in the scenery...a different version of myself
Hook:
No ones ever promised
tomorrow, I'm a be who I am ?and you are who you
Are.....let's let the past be that, that shit is
over why over react, yeah....
no ones ever promised
Tomorrow, let's do today right now..
Maybe the secret to
Life? Is that you're not the main character, and the fact? that
You're even a factor is a miracle..
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2. |
Daisies
03:25
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Verbal Kent
My life was
Never complicated as I made it out to be in fact the
answers were always right in front of my face it seems that every
Little thing that bothered me was truly little- I made em'
big deals..handled like a true beginner..that's not to
say I didn't problem solve, I'm just sayin' I wasted
time I wish I had back to spend with those I loved is all..
I mean to focus on only the bads counter productive
-I was a writer, business man father and husband
a true Chicagoan..I feel proud saying this, I
saw Michael Jordan play at Chicago stadium
greatest rapper Rogers Park ever saw, got into my
share of trouble but I always knew to call Saul made my
friends laugh: gave em' my all: you know Dan, as far as
Enemies? Shit I can count em' on one hand it's been a
good run: no regrets..Everything is everything
anticipation builds feel like everything was meant to be
Hook
1- When it's too late..and all the what ifs are
no more than
butterfly effects..
2- did i choose fate? Let me look back, cause
if not? than what did I expect?
3 ....What did I expect?
what did I fight for, and what did I accept...
4 -did I choose fate? Let me look back, cause
If not? than what did I expect?
Red Pill:
Here lies Chris, died 2-0-1-6
Born 1-9-8-7, many roles he lived
He was a son, he was a lover, was an artist, was a brother
Not always the happiest, an honest motherfucker though
Some people loved him for that
Hip hop had given him hope, it made him want to give back
put everything that he knew in every one of his raps
and he would give you the truth and he would run from his past
Maybe he was too hard on himself
He let his drinking and depression hurt his art and health
he let relationships get rocky while his problems took control
and his girl put up with things that others probably shouldn't know
He lived with guilt, he lived with doubt
He lived with demons in his heart we'll probably never figure out
but at the end of the day
He had too big of a heart, he'll be remembered that way
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3. |
This World
03:14
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Red Pill:
I leave rappers more afraid than two racists
surrounded by 22 Ving Rhames' each with .22's and two big razors
Trapped inside of two big cages
with a moat around the outside with sharks that shoot lasers
I feel a war coming, so pass the war drum
and bang on that bitch till you feel your fucking core buzzing
whether it's your cousin, your brother or your husband
If they're not screaming "Fuck the police", then you're suffering
For every fake cop who midnights on his KKK watch
Trust that I pray that they drop
I'm more of a lover than a fighter
But if it's fire that they want then I'm happy to spare a lighter
Confederate Flag wavers in Carolina
I'd be happy to take you to your intelligent designer
I don't care if it's Darren Wilson or Paris Hilton
I'm tearing through all of 'em, not even sparing children
Verbal Kent:
This fucking interview is
Over...pshh, You got somethin' to ask me?
I'll be watchin' Wrestle Mania with Brendan Daseey at the
Avery salvage yard: you wanna rumble? Get your parents..
- and tell em they better be ware of somethin worse than Jared
I'll rip the hair off Donald Trumps scalp, for runnin his fat mouth truthfully?
I'd rather elect Alf.
I go deeper than scuba divers, to bring truth to you
guys its....more than just Isis....and uber drivers
devices to give us divorces and force us to believe in
forces: cry in' over Han Solo corpses. The
rebirth: your means of egress is slim, slimmer than your
neck: choke you out with an ' I can't breath tshirt for
Freddie Gray: Say all lives matter
say it
just once and all bodies and all minds splatter, I'll push over a
push over, your hopeless..nothin' el help, stand
up for yourself? N stand
Up for your self...
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4. |
Notions
02:59
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Hook (VK):
I got a feeling that my
truth is my own and I own my truths
I got a feeling that I'm
here for a reason and the reason is you
I got a feeling that the
Past and the present and the future are the same
I got a feeling that I'm
Nothin much more than a student of the game
Verbal Kent:
1 uh, Another day another dollar
Weeks worth of work in my wallet
Life's what's you
2 call it that's why I take shots at these bars, listen
close I'm not talkin bout bein a alcoholic
3 Interpretations everything: business's kids and
wedding rings think we need shrinks stress the cheddar brings
4 What the fuck money el solve
In fact money makes a
ass out of most when big money's involved, when I
5 slow down and think about it? Half the moves that I've made? I wish someone said slow down, and think about it
6 nothin in life lasts, I wish that I could stretch this
moment to infinity and back and fight math
7 sittin' in a diner with the mother of my child thinkin,
how can we make this moment forever now cause at its
8 simplest life's perfect, fuck work and fuck the other earthlings. Fuck what's on the surface. None of this is worth it.
Red Pill:
Life'll get overwhelming, devil on shoulder dwelling
Telling you all the reasons that death could be so compelling
Selling you stress and chaos, never taking a day off
All you doing is working and never seeing a payoff
Wondering where your check at
Knowing W2s are just going to pay your debts back
Well F-that
Getting pulled in every direction and you don't gotta accept that
And I don't mean to complain
But you gotta believe me it isn't easy to feign
Happiness or a smile when all you're feeling is pain
Only way to maintain is with chemicals in your brain
When everyday that you wake
Is just another reminder of smiles that you gotta fake
Try to remember the time we're given is borrowed
Knowing you gotta do it all over again tomorrow
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5. |
Peace of Mind
03:19
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Red Pill:
And every single morning he'd wake up to an alarm
Wake his kids to go to school then sip his coffee in his car
He had a 45 minute commute
To get to work, hop in a truck, delivery route
He'd drive around with dreams of winning the lotto
While his wife would sit and scheme about sipping a bottle
She'd bitch and scream and they would fight most nights
after he worked a long day keeping on those lights
He loved her, though she loved liquor
loyal to a fault, his kids wondered why he stuck with her
Thought if he kept the family together
Something would change in her, things would have to get better
Stood by her till death, when most wouldn't bother
And if you still haven't guessed, this man is my father
Taught me loyalty, love and hard work so I respect that man
The reason I'm the man I am
Verbal Kent:
I told myself there's No
1 way i could watch it happen, I'd have to leave the room and let the doctors handle it then come back in, I've never been as
2 wrong that, look at that woman, no, look at that powerful soul I've never seen anyone be as strong as that
3 - they say the baby takes the fathers image first
I went back and checked the photo from my own birth it was
4 identical: he looks more like his mother now and that's more than acceptable..... beyond the eat your vegetables and
5 brush your teeth talk...I lock the balcony like,
what if he sleep walk, might sound ridiculous but
6 that's just the icing on the cake
no sugar for
two years now all wants is icing on the cake
7 peace of minds a mystery, but after true love everything
else priors misery, I promise you,
creating life's a
8 Self fulfilling prophecy..Born eleven
eleven eleven...I should play the slot machines -I hope you find some piece of mind
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6. |
Choir Practice
03:17
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Red Pill:
This is for all the heroes, people been living Ugly
Welcome the second coming, not a human can judge me
It's a new age for UH, it's too late for you fakes
To pile on the toothpaste and smile with your two-face
A wild fucking goose chase
But you can catch me out in Leipzig eating schmaltz on a Tuesday
The crew got it, it's too toxic, it's bubonic
Already gave you a classic, nothing to prove, stop it
You lose, time to move to a new topic
We see you dudes watching like how could those dudes top it?
Truth is - I don't fuck with comparisons
I don't need the attention and I don't fuck with your arrogance
Only got one imperative
That's living my life and sharing it
Not trying to do it how the rest did it, motherfuck the next critic
People love it cuz they connect with it - Ugly!
Hook (VK):
They say they keep it movin..
We say they slow us down ..
They say they got it locked...
We say in whose town?
I never seen em' reppin,
Fronting when there rappin'
Made up artists with makeup artists there's nothin happenin'
Verbal Kent:
1 - this isn't choir practice: this is laps around the
track: this is rap, better than who you admire practice-
2- I got that new flow with chops from the golden era:
I swear I'm bringin'
crack back Like chiropractors-
3 -battle rapper tactics: With an emotional
IQ brutal n Beautiful..Serena's tennis racket-
4 what bracket you wanna put me in now you basic bitch-
-my craft el leave a witch jealous swift penmanship
5 This, member dismember your membership: jam January to December head to Michigan, buildin' with my
6 Fam in this kitchen don't front it's a non contest-
-rappers pack knives and go not top chefs-
7 -conquest mode codin' all my concepts I'm kinda
pissed... but I stay focused and count chips with
8 confidence: and I stay close to my outfit cause
I'm convinced...that no one's spits like the ugliest what
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7. |
Place Called Home
03:17
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Red Pill:
They say the new Detroit is coming
People flocking back the opposite way on the James Couzens
And I don't know if it's ill intentioned
The city needed something, I suppose it's still progression
Positive folks who wanna take on that endeavor should
But does it need another store that's filled with leather goods?
And when I think about Shinola watches
I don't think about Detroit, I think of stolen profits
They praise the entrepreneurs, the restaurateurs
And tell the residents they should be resting assured
Gang busting, beefing police back up
Patting themselves on the back for putting street lights up
New ambulances still don't run on time
Cops still harassing people, pulling guns on time
Let's just see how long the new dollars last
When the people with the blue collars ask
Hook (RP):
And we are the blood, sweat and tears, The people, we keep the love and the fear
Doesn't matter where the hell you go, There'll always be a place called home
We know there's a time for a change, but you are where your heart remains
Doesn't matter where you take that road, there'll always be a place called home
Verbal Kent:
Strategically
1 placed, highways, liquor stores cameras at
stop lights neighborhoods divided by race, I grew up
2 in a middle ground: one of the only places in the
city where people from all backgrounds were found Rogers
3 park: Koreans, and blacks, Jews, Latinos Pakistanis, shit there was even some black Jews
4 no one had a problem with anybody we had what we needed
giant game of 21 we needed everybody
5 land of submarines on the corner
now it's a currency exchange, google Touhy and California,
6 Chippewa, learner n warren parks,
Baskin Robbins on
Lunt...used to hit the Belden on Howard for lunch, cooped
7 40's from quick stop in high school, couple blocks from
my school...Saint idea and bibles,
love to the
8 Hudsons Shwartz Miller....the Gables lived closest Mike
Tae Aviv Rami
Comorovs and the Robesons
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8. |
Can't Win For Losin'
03:26
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Red Pill:
It's the incredible, anti-surgeon general
Chain smoking drunk who's eating anything that's edible
not a single bartender that could ever keep my beverage full
and never met a dollar in my bank that wasn't spendable
Calling me healthy would be unethical
Cuz I don't even fucking smoke weed if it's labeled medical
That brisk-walking hyper-ventilator
Who wishes every stair case could be an escalator
Self deprecator, doing haters a favor
when I had too many makers, and I can't control behavior
And I get online with strangers and I try to be good natured
But the YouTube commentators turn me back to a teenager
Man fuck it - I guess I'm kind of a mess
Guess it's a miracle that I even got out of bed
I got some issues and lord knows
I been down on my luck please pity this poor soul
Hook (VK):
ITS LIKE
no matter how hard I work to be the best person?
I can be I'm completely not the best version -
excuses for my imperfect execution
I lose when I win, only win when I'm losin'
Verbal Kent:
It's like
1-sometime I wake up in a daze unraveling..
cereal in the fridge: put the milk in the cabinet
2 Wrong side of the bed, want nothing to do with nobody:
stumble out my room like a zombie from walkin dead n
3 I ain't really slept well, hit snooze
repeatedly..
thought about booze immediately not cause I
4 wanted it, only cause I still tasted it woke up early this
mornin, I didn't want to but wastin' it wasn't part of my
5 plan: by the time I hit the shower I was less discouraged
and I started looking less like someone who had just been murdered
6 I looked around for clean clothes but my laundry was dirty
Stomach rumbling I'm not usually hungry this early
7 ....no food in the fridge, it's cold as shit in the
crib, I start thinkin oh shit- rents due it's the 5th
8 late fees on the 6th, he'll kick me out on the 7th, I think I'll smoke on a 8th. I should relax for a second
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9. |
Roles
03:11
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Red Pill:
I'm terrified of having children in this world
Where destruction is more valuable than building in this world
Loving is harder than hating in this world
And it seems you gotta be a snake to make it in this world
Got starving babies who need feeding in this world
With Travel Shows on overeating in this world
Murder justified policing in this world
It's disgusting how the women getting treated in this world
Can't imagine having daughters in this world
And they're poisoning the children with the water in this world
People with infinite money in this world
When for some it'd hurt to even spare a twenty in this world
Sometimes it's hard to see a purpose in this world
And I know that I'm not perfect in this world
I hope the world will have a change of heart
In order for things to change we must all play a part
Verbal Kent:
I had a
1 dream: I was fallin' down a elevator shaft, thought
to myself: should've took the escalator Dan
2 regrets even in my deep sleep
hauntin' me: one time my friend Bens dead father talked to me. The
3 thing is, his mouth never opened- his presence in the
dream at the moment he appeared was the omen, the
4 sun peeked through the clouds over his face, the way he
smiled the same way he did back in the day..was
5 symbolic of a time I needed most, a welcome
reminder to keep youth, and it's innocence close..my grand
6 mother performs encores in dreams fairly often
wearin' the same outfit that she wore in the coffin
7 -when I see her? My
confidence boosts, like a
angel guardin' over me to watch how I do, heh.
8 -it's sorta strange how we choose who stay dear to the heart
-In order for things to change we must all play a part
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10. |
Heart Attack
03:25
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Verbal Kent:
It's never too
Late to die for somethin' you love never to late to
make somethin' out of today, It never was it never
will be: I used to walk the neighborhood I didn't really
fear much
walked around the neighborhood with headphones as
earmuffs: Frozen tears cloggen' up my tear ducts: I'm
older a nickel bag was cheaper than a beer was
only cause I knew the dealer...it was me
It was easy everybody smoked: it was weed
we can see the pattern here, life was easy going then,
I would be fronted and then be owin' them, who could stop me:
Steph Curry with Del watchin my confidence
level swelled i never even threw a punch but I could
excel boxing I tell people I couldn't lose, Parker
Lewis with Ferris Buler reviews: I think I kept a
little of that swag: a little of that beta that
Young dreamer is Annakin.. I never ended up a Darth Vader let's
Go
Don't you ever lose your heart, man don'tchu ever lose your heart
This world el try and rip you apart, don'tchu
ever let Em' take your heart
When everything is falling apart, take a second and go back to the start,
Don't you ever lose your heart, don't you ever lose your heart
Red Pill:
I know most people wouldn't call me optimistic
At best I'm realistic and at worst I'd say a cynic
and I get it, but honestly I think it's too simplistic
My entire life is based upon a pipe dream and I risked it
Cuz as a kid they fill your head with so much pressure
But I never bought their method of the way success is measured
They promise people treasure in the form of legal tender
If you leave behind the hopes and dreams that give you real pleasure
But I remember back in Kindergarten, writing what I wanted to be
I wrote 3, one was a wrestler
two was a singer and the other was swamp thing
Now we choose careers because we want things
As we get older, society on shoulders
Holding our dreams hostage and turning us ever colder
I do it for the dreamers, it's not a newsflash
fuck the non-believers, you got a heart don't ever lose that
Chorus
Don't you ever lose your heart man, Don't you ever lose your heart
This world'll try to tear you apart, Don't you ever let them take your heart
When everything is falling apart, take a second and go back to the start
Don't you ever lose your heart, don't you ever lose heart
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11. |
Force Fed
02:48
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Red Pill:
Lemme give you food for Thought, like a Roots' rider
New saga is here, I'm coming for you truth hiders
Coming for all of you motherfuckers that prove liar
New higher power, new assassin for hire
I'm The Wire meets Breaking Bad, Boardwalk Empire
Man on Fire, the drunk writer, there's none nicer
Ain't a pie on the earth I don't want a slice of
So I Mike Tyson the game till I'm dulling my incisors
Most rappers think they need a deal
I saw it differently, most labels need a Pill
So if you're claiming that you're ill
I will flame you on your own shit, make your label pay the bill
They claim my raps are just a lot of bitching
Talk to me when your sales got a comma in it
Talk to me when you're traveling the globe
and your fans aren't just a bunch of friends and family that you know
Hook(RP):
So get your motherfucking hands up
And everybody at that bar better stand up
Shoutout to all the people who demand us
We doing it till they can't stand us
Verbal Kent:
Watching the
1 world move at light speeds...Some of us star, and
some sight see durin' the fight scenes, I'm a grab the
2 bull by the horns..nah fuck that I'll take it
steps further and grab on the bull by its arms
3 pull the Ålarms on the walls: not a drill, not a feel it out moment you focus cause now is real
4 not a pill that can be taken that could make this go away, you the captain? Or a stowaway..get to know my name cause
5 I'm a be around n long after? they'll put my flow
away in some
hall of some fame on some plaque
a tough
6 act to follow: I black out and write scriptures make the
devil and his triple 6's back down n grovel on the
7 gravel n hells realm: no ambulance
Is called on:
pray for the long gone the avalanche falls on my
8 life is like a box of chocolates- forest gump el tell my
story at a bus stop to anyone he wants to talk with
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12. |
Soul Searching
03:38
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Red Pill:
This fucking buzz is wearing off
I'm preparing for the --- well, you know how that goes
Pour a shot of gin and toss it back slow
End of the night I'm on my last smoke
And she already went to bed
With the stress of life steady weighing heavy on my head
I've come to appreciate the quiet
In this climate of depression I've chosen to remain private
It isn't often I can sit alone in silence
With no cloud of overwhelming thoughts for me to be reminded
I'm not a giant
I am the sheep who sits and dreams of living one day as a lion
My eyelids closing I am defiant
to the tick tock of the clock as it downwardly is spiraling
Cuz in this moment I'm content
With my life as it stands and the time that I have spent
Hook (VK):
Life's about moments, most imperfect,
which makes them perfect
and when put in perspective kind of makes everything worth it
everyone is searching for self, soul searching
Everyone is searching for self, soul searching
for the moment
most imperfect, which makes them perfect
and when put in perspective kind of makes everything worth it
everyone is searching for self, soul searching
Everyone is searching for self, soul searching
for the moment
Verbal Kent:
1 -you ever feel lucky? I've Been given things that no
one on this earth could ever take away from me, I've been
2 down and out and left for dead,
That's how I learned to fully
understand the value of the life that I live, I wasn't
3 always a strong person- in fact put me on a
task 10 years back? I'd say you had the wrong person-
4-it took Low's to know highs were in reach, sounds
simple, but learning how to learn before we teach is the
5 thing, I used to feel connected, to something bigger than my
self but I couldn't accept it, I almost let it slip
6 away so I could stay drifting, days shifting into
weeks months years melting, something held me back
7 and now I live for every second- cause every second past's a
Second we cannot get back, so whether first or second
8 hand you better take my warning, n take advantage of
tonight before your last morning..
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13. |
Unforgiven
03:44
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14. |
Fair Weather
04:06
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Verbal Kent:
What if
1 Walter white had saved Jane?
You haters make me feel the
same thing, let you live? you'd be runnin the same game so
2 I'm a let you choke on your vomit
watch the homicide cops rubbin their chins tryna come up with who done it..far from
3 super man, Verbal is Clark Kent pull off the table
cloth watch as it becomes my cape
On your mark set
4 go: if I had a nickel for every time that I had a
pickle to push up out of
I'd be filthier richer, what if
5 everyone who got doubted got down and out n stayed down and out
for the count, bunch of bodies rollin down the mountain classic is
6 classic a asskickins a ass kickin
you askin for
one if you agitate me I'm unflappable incapaci-
7 tating you ascertaining Intel that pertains to you turn a
fair weather fan to a permanent patron who
8 pays to get in pays to get in good before the goods gone
Cause when I write? My favorite habits proving everyone wrong
Red Pill:
I'm trying to move units like Chevy moves Cruzes
Expose the heartless like Betty Lou Who's Kid
My rap fingers got hair triggers I'm steady with my tool kit
So it's best if you avoid any unnecessary movements
I know there's people betting that he loses
But for every fuckboy 20 fuck heavy with the music
I hear more gossip than hairdressers
And people only go to ball games in fair weather
Before I ever fucked with Mello
I could barely get a fucking what's up or a hello
Now every other day I got people sending their demos
Telling me I touch more chords than Tom Morello
I'm happy that people coming around
Just don't be the type to get up and leave when I'm down and out
Capricorns are loyal to a fault
So I expect the same back whenever loyalties involved
Bridge
Step by step get my feet off the ground
Till there ain't nothing left and I reach for the crown
It wasn't often I would see you around
You better be there when it all falls down
Hook (VK):
You fair weather fans cross fingers behind backs
jumping on board, where were y'all at
No thanks (no thanks)
I'm good (I'm good)
Do yours (like I said)
I'm good (I'm good)
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