(+2 rating, 2 votes)If you missed High Focus’s ultimate prodigy The Four Owls (Leaf Dog, BVA MC, Verb T and Fliptrix), you’re mental! Their first release, Nature’s Greatest Mystery, is simply an epic lesson in what hip hop should be. Every track is…
SAMPLE:
- Like a leaf clings to a tree
VERSE 1:
LEAF DOG
- The world is well balanced like karma is
- Do you fight freedom on the front line where the army is?
- Or in your mind opening the left part of this?
- I feel it in between my bones just like the cartilage
- When I’m partin' this world I won’t be sad
- The true gift was the blessing of life that I’ve had
- You can think that I’m mad
- ‘Oh Leaf’s on some hippy shit’
- It took a lot of changes in me to consider it
- Inspired by an old ancient manuscript
- The Mayan’s did predict
- But can you handle it?
- It’s a sign of the times that's hidden in the lines
- The description is what the Indigenous define
- As sure as the sun will shine, and the rain falling
- The balance is untold in this life we’re all in
- On this misty morning, I zone
- At one with the things that’s moulded how I’ve grown
VERSE 2:
BVA MC
- Looking at the bigger picture, there'll always be people like Hitler
- And balancing it out, Mother Theresa trying to fix the world
- Then Ghandi making sure the scales don’t tip
- Turn the darker side but that’s just the mix in life’s elixir
- Without bad there’s no good, without wood there’s no fire
- Without the hood the posh house price wouldn’t be higher
- No stronger, no weaker
- No stupid, no deeper
- No dick dropping rubbish, there’s no work for street sweepers
- Without life there'd be no death
- And that don’t stop the pain, just concentrate on the memories they left
- When I’m looking at the stars I realize I’m just a speck on the Earth's surface
- I measure my worth by my intellect
- We've all got a purpose, some people got three
- Some people fall in line and others have got dreams
- We all do our best with the tools we were given
- Shit my hammer and chisel is this life that I’m living
CHORUS
VERB T
- Life in the balance, scales of justice
- Reached for the answers but failed to touch it
- My mind lost in this, defined by my opposite
- Life in the balance, rise to the challenge
VERSE 3:
VERB T
- Eight steps away
- In fact, flip that eight on its side because now I infinitely chase
- For that intimate embrace with Lady Luck
- I mean fuck, how long can someone stay in a rut?
- I’m like, ‘No’
- You see that’s all on me
- To re-evaluate my roles and forget the green
- But sometimes, I think: do I know myself?
- And if not, is that why I can’t control myself?
- I got a family, man, I should be responsible
- Same type mind states held in that constant pull
- That’s why my girls’ so stressed hey
- Cause I get under your skin like a x-ray
- But let’s pray that it change for the best
- Deep breath to the chest
- Now I’m ready for the next day
- Viewing life with the next brain
- Trying to be the opposite, like a sex change
- Focus head space
CHORUS
VERSE 4: FLIPTRIX- It’s like I’m standing on the moon staring at the world
- Trying work out the balance of this life we hold
- It’s all a mystery encrypted in the Mayan scrolls
- The cycle of the fifth sun is coming to a close
- Twenty-twelve will only truly show us what that holds
- The plot thickens as I stand here to break the mould
- Got my hands out, trying not to feel the cold
- But some people walking by are fuelled with an icy soul
- Tools by the side, they take your life for your frickin’ phone
- Others feel helpless, the selfless give a child a home
- Rich feed the rich while the others just apply for loans
- Money buys everything but love, that’s the finest goal
- I gotta live fast, but won’t be dying barely old
- Hedonistic lifestyles reflect how our lives’ unfold
- Life is one big cycle like the vinyl spinning, round it goes
- And it goes...
VERSE 5:
JAM BAXTER
- Check
- Equilibrium
- See a billion disparate parts conjoined in deified brilliance
- The grand amphibians, submerged in slime
- Emerging like blood when blunt worlds collide
- The sun burnt his eyes, the ice sliced his feet to bits
- And you ain’t gotta teach it shit
- Cause the change is instinctual, the pace is unthinkable
- And never put your faith in a fake individual
- Balance
- From the fangs and the mandibles and talons
- To manacles and batons, to cannons
- To mechanical contraptions, fashioned out of passion
- That could turn the Earth back to a burnt black chasm
- Shit happens
- Atoms, bound by compassion
- To fractal patterns I saw spinning in the caverns of my mind once
- It all ties up
- If I can see a bright sky shine when my eyes shut
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Jam Baxter – See a billion “disparate” parts conjoined in deified brilliance”
Cheers boss. Duly edited. Keep ’em coming.