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Homestead (LIVE at Joker's Pub)

from iMaintain & LIVE at Joker's Pub by ISWHAT?!

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lyrics

I want the homestead
I need the homestead
I want the home instead
these streets is dead

from the trailer parks to the projects
from the settlements to the boat decks
this is real poems for the stressed homes
and the latch keyed, everybody gone

from the, from the trailer parks to the projects
from the settlements to the boat decks
this is real poems for the stressed homes
and the latch keyed, everybody gone

there was a quiet place waitin for the weary soul
for the early born and the nearly old
clear and shelter from the gun clap and head tricks
from back break and the mean stick
we bought the noise in through fussy box
we let the glamour sin, the glass crib throwing rocks
quiet rushed away as we rush away
bringing stale baggage in from a past day
and now the homes look like the streets
dis funk shun we climb from underneath

from the trailer parks to the projects
from the settlments to apartments
these is fresh poems for the wrecked homes
and the latch keyed, everybody gone

did you find it on the block searchin a dirty ride
escaping harsh judgement that won't crush your pride
or was it on the court bounce'n the rock to score
once in doors you rejected no more
needing brothers cause my sisters is nice
but the need to belong is crippling vice
and the more you get away from yourself
the less you getting out of yourself
so you can try to work it out on your own
but half the home less will send you home

from the trailer parks to the projects
to the park benches where they get respect
these is lines for wise ones
that make the running understand from where they come

the pilgram and ronin is same
on a Haj trying to move with the change
walking steady being washed by the rain
smiling ahead understand the theme
was the meaning only real in the dream
or is life the nightmare that it seems
and they tell it from difficult place
its theirs etched deep in the face
when you get the understanding that they givin to you
you make the home they had once again brand new

credits

from iMaintain & LIVE at Joker's Pub, released May 26, 2020
Napoleon Maddox - vocals & beatbox
"Ragy" Erik Sevret - saxophone
Brent Olds - bass
D'anna Kennedy - drums

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ISWHAT?! Cincinnati, Ohio

ISWHAT?! is a long standing, eternal cypher of hiphop, headed by Napoleon Maddox. Since 1996, ISWHAT?!, based in Cincinnati, Ohio, is comprised of a international family of like-minded musicians and artists. This global musical concept allows ISWHAT?! to perform in many different configurations. Recently ISWHAT?! is touring the world with "Twice the First Time, Stories of Millie-Christine McKoy". ... more

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