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I'ma Do Me

by The Raj!

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I’ll welcome you to the HOMIEST Loneliest Rapper, SAMPlin thelonius Bumpin THA FUNK Bow to my Bretheren and Abide to THE PARAGON Monk An insight to a story Of 20 something Lores Tours through my mental allegories And Emploring the world to feast on my mental MISHMASH of midwest vintage Spitting ESSENTIAL born to the mixtures of gods Indians and Paleness All ya’ll regale this as hip hops new unveilings Sailing from MIDWEST To the BEST of the WEST, TestED and tried only to come out 2nd best A story of love, ladies Parties With 80s babies Crazies trying to date me Crazily loving the ladies WHO HATE ME Play me Bass, Snares, woodwinds, a cello SMASHING pumpkins dramatically mello Ivory crisp bounce when I jiggle the Keys like Jello Like a prince when I accapella Talk of Hella Bay area Rockafella Beats SMASH so FAST They Rock a Fella I pack a punch Packed to CRUNCH It’s a Fact, I Play the Piano with a Hunch My Music will impale ya’ll with THRALL lyrically crumbling the essence of Trump’s Wall As I tell the tales Of how I started with Sonic and Tails 8 bit circuits, I used to work this Lyrical circus Middle Earth Magic, Andy Serkis So phat, homie I TWERK My musical Purpose fincancially Worthless Been BRUised, beating and forgotten None ya’ll can hurt this The dude, MIXED Indian WHITE Who what when When I write, What I’m Like Ripe with Hype Music for Miles out of Sight Now you HEAR my sound, Like, YEAH he’s cool, WE friends Homes, I don’t need THEN And I DON'T NEED YOU NOW, I’m Free That’s WHY this Called I’ma DO ME
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Cold were my ways, back in the day I used to play playstation all damn day final fantasy 7 and sonic hedgehog, hip hop and pop, coca cola homie, my addiction I couldn’t stop frozen in -40 degrees, icicles clinging to my veins To my balls and to my sleeves, straight out of Uptown, the bougousiee, I’m the whitest Indian west of the MISSISSIPPI shit I’m the only Indian ya’ll can see! The land of 10 THOUSAND lakes, the land of 10 MILLION snow flakes and after this take, I be taking hip hop BACK from good to great Homie dont make no mistake in the heart of the city hennepin, to 1st ave Ya’ll be like DAMN THIS BROWN DUDE IS SIN-BAD I SIN BAD I BEEN MAD I STILL ROCK THE 6-1-2 CUZ I”M IRONCLAD THE ICE IS A ON My lake wobegon is frozen My ladies strong, AND my children are THE chosen To watch my musical parade, Homie I’m Minnesota Made —————————-- Lyndale and Lake, Catch me on my grind Moving from Calhoun to isles IM Turning back TIME SOUTH HIGHHHH REPRESENT I’ll be a tiger till I die and I’m REBORN as a PEASANT burnt to resin I’m testing and messing WHILE critics are asking the question Is this Minnesotan ICING ERY recording session YES And I confess, Every SESH is BLESSED by the angelic nastiNESS that I possess You wanna exercise these lyrical demons your gonna need a priestess, with holy water To beat this TEST Im the Minnesota STORM Roast you CHILDREN OF THE CORN Sell down ON EAT STREET Run of the GREEN MILL Run of the deep DISH, Run of the CLEAN ILL Run of the ICE COLD Run of the BE TRILL I’m blowing you away Going totally robo- Like DOROTHY and TOTO As you bop to my mechatronic LOCK STOCK and two smoking JUCY LUCYS I’m lava hot HA HA Yeah What I became My minnesota Mastery Endless purple DROPS are staining on the back of MY tapestry I”M Bowing to my PRINCE The artist formally raining like a PALPACY Darling NIKKI LICKING on you NASTILY the BINARY feeding from my COMPUTER BLUE And its asking ME was prince DYING a minnesota CATASTROPHE? YES, IT WAS He died in VAIN VIKING colors BURN in purple FLAMES my tears streaming forever in PURPLE RAIN And what can I say? Homie, I’m Minnesota Made!
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Word Vomit 02:02
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Like In Tekken Im wrecking you like deadly infections Infecting your mind with recollections Collecting the Hit points to HIT Joints With enough mass to crack bit coins Repping these sessions MCs Be learnin my WORDY profession Teaching these KATS ABCs Elementary 123s The birds and the B’s See my lyrical Geometry Goes 360 degreess, And PRECISE to the ANGSTROM I angst them, I aint them They aint me, I ate them, Berate them I feint them, I fake them, I take them, I’m just the Indian Medic, Hermetically sealing the lyrically pathetic Overhyped jazz kat WACK Jackson pollack-ESQUE Grotesque, I swat these pests , YES Lyrically bumping PROFetically droppin Hits to face combos lay waste To your face Sqaushed TO tomato paste Burning WASSABE with MR Miyagi HOT like mohavi On TOP I SPIN like this earth, I ROCK Minding my OWN chopsticks like NUN-chucks, I ROCK this like ROFFael, Don’t I tell? When DONNA TELL OH NO I fell But why do we fall BATMAN? So we can learn TO GET REVENGE Yes I mastered the Dark Arts Dark ON the SKIN Art ON the IN I Fart on YOUR KIN Lyrically Cocky Rocky, I’ll BOW you BACK to BAL BO UH Park Fact I’m RAPs new story ARC And I DON”T lack rap Rap LACKS my FIRE crack Mi Fuego Stacks Tacs on Atlas, at LAST I rap past these Anach Chronistic Chronies, Fake Ass Jabronies Hooked on phonics, Ho your phony And when I’m reppin my Tekken, I wreckin you like your apendix did you dirty while I Curtsy, Yup, call 911 its an emergency I backhanded a wack man that Couldn’t stand back, so I smacked him like CRACK diddem BACK BEFORE 90s rap DIDDEM Now send an ambulance STAT Why don’t think about that? I write like a shakespearian 12th KNIGHT Amiguously switching left to right Like PLIGHT BROUGHT by WHITE conquistadors Feasting likes BEASTS And whores Just for WAR And each day, I yell Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow Creeps in this petty pace from day to day To the last syllable of recorded time Or until I record my rhymes, OUTSHINE these brief candles Your life is BUT walking shadow, POOR PLAYER So get your shit OFF the stage, the RAJ against the Machine The GOD of the OBSCENE I SABATAGE your whole TEAM I’ll do it TO the universe like Star Trek Beam me up scotty With my HOT TODDY, I’m probably Robbing an Army Across the galactic safari Just to give you a Srinavasian Hari Apoligies and sorry But your dimension is about to DENALI That’s just Like in Tekken
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This isn’t funny I’m not trying to cunning I’m MISS YOU hunny What am I’m running from? What am I doing? Screwing All these ladies, And I’m screwing up what I could be having with you And lastly, No fuck that, firstly AND First off I’m just jerk off Can get TO YOU quick enough Now I’m thinking I am WORST OFF Without you in proximity Your vision has gotten into me IM just the sickness your the remedy Snicket to my lemony Why don’t stick it to me pleasently I could be more elequently Said Close MY EYEs, I’m better off dead Infested with an obsession Arm wrestling with the thought of you without a question, I want to coddle you I’m over the TOP But under your spell Well The thought of ME Well ITS hard to sell But girl, homie, I’m lonely I want to be with you ONLY No one told me That this is how life IS You far away, but so close to my thoughts Yup I’m over here Your over there AND Somewhere in between I find despair Or an empty stair That leads me nowhere But somwhere Over the rainbow Theres a PLACE where I’ll never be the SAME THO Your my DAME, and JUST THE SAME I’m your knight in shining ARMOUR Or you could be MY knight And save me LIKE A DAMSEL in distress Through the darkness of the night That could be tight? We CAN reverse ROLE STROLL backwards through A grassy KNOLL Moonwalk IN YOUR ARMS While playing motown SOUL BE my alpha Be on TOP Hold the DOOR FOR ME while we WALK TALK OVER ME I don’t give a fuck, GOT nothing to say AND IF I”M WITH YOU GIRL you CAN call me BAE I want you so bad, I’ll do the dishes I’ll take the kids I’ll feed the fishes It just doesnt matter to me, In my fiction I would rather be Convicted with my conviction If I DIDN”T THAT would RATTLE ME Unsaddle me IF I DONT think OUTSIDE THE BOX I’d be CADDLE SEE? So girl, in my vision we living like kings and queens in the kitchen Inbetween the seems Aint nothing missing
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So Far Away 04:43
(Chorus by Carole King) You’re far away And I miss the way you stand next to me Now I stand alone perplexedly Without the ingredients to finish the recipe Vexed that I can’t GIVE YOU the rest of me This is the universe testing me Will I ever really get to hold you Will YOU ever really LET ME get to know you? Will you REMEMBER stories that I told you? I keep my memories locked up Like melodies Locked in a lock box Thinking of you endlessly But there is no end to this This distance Thousands of light years but your existance Shines bright, shining on me tonight with persistance And if I listen right I can hear your voice Musical notes DRIFT cross the distant void Im devoid Of color touch and rhythm I’m only livin From decision to decision Your love gripped my heart and made an incision Can’t cauterize this wound it continues through fission Metastasize to my eyes, I’m losing my vision My broken heart too large for any physician I need a MAGICIAN To send me remission Road to perdition, end with mortician die before I finish my MISSION I’ll scream to the void, will I be forgiven? Would you have loved me on your own volition? Or am I simply wishing?
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I dreamt a dream, dreaming that life would be free from the fear that I see Free from politicians ripping the roots, from under my knees, we siezed, the opportunity to be free we held each other imagine THAT and rationalize, our passion and cries, for everyone that was killed by our lies we stood together and loved one another Understand, THE strings were cut from the puppetry of the MAN I dreamt a dream I dreamt a vision, a united religion, muslims and christians buddhists, hindus, ALL ELSE that I’m missing We melting together in mother-natures kitchen a republic of sorry Jamming so VAST from city to safari monopolies crumbling Like asteroids on atari And all THE WHILE, we were asking who the fuck are we? I dreamt our ideas expanded like the universe Infinitely bursting like luscious lips pursed and we thirst for moral perfection, Intellection infected our minds Like inception I dreamt a dream that Martin Luther King his words were words that we would sing and his words would give life to the lifeless, bring brightness to crysis turn evil to niceness defeat the virus of ISIS entice us people to, write this via papyrus fight this evil gripped in vicegrips I dreamt of lightness like this might we might use to smite this abuse by mankinds unrighteous I dreamt through the night finally provving that HUMANITY WE’D BE ALRIGHT I dreamt a dream
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I'ma Do Me 04:09
I gotta say, I may not be the best person today or tomorrow, I might even leave you in sorrow break your heart puncture it without thought you'll be like, please Raj Stop They'll say, he's just looking to play looking to slay looking every which way he's too into himself no need for self-help to CONTINUE his hubris ways programmed to be self-involved 100% of the day but ya know what you won't see? from day to day from the big bang to early next may and ultimately at the end of the day Ima do me and I'm sorry But I'm me and I just mean that I might be mean, less meaningful than you can percieve, please, believe I'm an asshole living in an imaginary castle unable to grieve for the sea of reasons that you got against me and I gotta be honest Im hyped evertime I meet a new you wanna get to know the who, what, when, be your friend, send my love again and again then, all of a sudden i'm a stop, drop routinely disapear better than houdini you'll go looking and even if I was right next to you you wouldn't see me and when I come back You'll feel like you got smacked like your emotions were hacked tell me to pack send me on my way consider me dead and soulless less soulfull than the holes in whole block of swiss leave me without a hug and a kiss but ya know what you won't miss? from day to day from the big bang to early next may and ultimately at the end of the day Ima do me And I won't apologize for wanting to know more I won't apologize for being a man-whore for doing everything I can to score rewriting my bible to tell my own lore for loving my life more and more loving my mistakes more than my success i'll never give up a life where I'm meant to impress or be the best shit I'll never be a genius at one thing, cause I want to be the king of 10 million little things I'll NEVER change the way MY song SINGS I'll never CLEAN my GOLD so it BLINGS I'll never hold you so close that it STINGS I'll never yell I love you At least not loud enough that it rings And maybe I'll write the rest of my page solo maybe they'll send me to mars alone, as I hashtag YOLO maybe I was meant to have all the friends and feel Hollow wallow emotionally naked in my towel with an unmatched scowell mysteriously hidden by a familiar grin molded by miles of sin empty as a man made of tin haha yeah I get it, Raj, good for you to admit it you did it, did fabulous, grabbing ass across half the atlas someone give this guy an award cuz this badass is horribly bad and an ass for having us RUININ R TIME BY FILLING our minds with CRASS splashing our ASS with SASS goddamn Raj, its a blast! haha my bad guys I love ya'll and even tho that statement may feel small minute, miniscule, microscopic not even today's main topic its all I got until I can find a way to stop it but ya know what you won't see? from day to day from the big bang to early next may and ultimately at the end of the day Ima do me
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Outro 00:34

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released October 2, 2017

Cover Art by Jacob Vollum

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