1. |
Pray4Cry4You
01:36
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[Verse 1]
Yes I do
Yea,
Getting colder kicking scripture is a testament
Working for, seven whole days
Now let me rest a bit
Kept it humble in the beginning
Now i'ma flex a bit
My words cut right through her spirit
Like i'ma exorcist
Life is delicate
Very delicate
I disrespect your every breath
You sound desperate
Watch us party through pain
Poppin' Mollies for medicine
Men what's going on?
Have we forgot who we are?
Created by the one who made the moon and the stars
Creating every second see my thoughts have evolved
Every fear of mine is dissolved on this planet of ours
Spirits we can't see, life's related to ours
Give every piece of energy in me to a song
It's been real, since Noah every put a foot in the Ark
I forgive the people who hated
See I made it this far
Off love, faith, and a prayer
Sent soul thoughts to the air
Touch the temple of God, and tell em I still care
Sodom and Gomorrah
Send your Angels down here
Demons don't play fair
See they got a vendetta
Know some niggas puffin on stress to fight pressure
Need it out my system
I'm dying to live forever.
[Hook]
I pray for you
I pray for you
I pray for you
I pray for you
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2. |
The Growth
02:21
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[Verse 1]
Yea,
Yo I came in the lackin'
The Growth is straight passion
No witches and Black Magic
Just bitches and bad traffic
Henny and Craftmatics
Pussy and fat asses yea,
that's what you love to hear
Now that I have your ear
I hope you hear me clear
I got a message more powerful than your politics
Lucifer and his pile of tricks
You got no common sense
You took a lot of dick
I live where trust ain't a thang
They only model it
So when you nigga leave,
some nigga hollering
He tryna offer wood
You know that Holly shit
I look around
Ain't nobody here to be Godly wit.
Uh
Ya'll on that Batty shit
Ya'll on that Batty shit
Then try to play it off
Like its some Gotti shit
I used to wanna chain
Now i'm feeling chained
Such a dirty game
But I gotta play
Ain't no other way
I can't take a break
Got a point to make
So I can't fade away
Like a Kobe or Jordan J
If I don't start a movement
I'm starting something like Michael J
This shit is not ok
[Hook]
Da da da da da da da da da da da da da da
Da da da da da da da da da da da da da da
Its for the soul
Da da da da da da da da da da da da da da
It's for ya soul
Da da da da da da da da da da da da da da
Its for ya soul
Da da da da da da da da da da da da da da
Something for the soul
I won't fade away
I can't fade away
A Soul fade away
I won't fade away
I won't fade away
Can't fade away
You can't fade me
I won't fade away
They can't fade me
I won't fade away
You can't fade me
I won't fade away
You can't fade me
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3. |
The Score
02:15
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[Verse]
Fugee la
Whaddup Lauryn
Left right
Left right
Left, left, left
Yo Look
You plottin on us
You see we wanna settle the score
Too many centuries of losing in a unholy war
It make you question what ya homies is for
Niggas be weakened by the weekend
Through the passing of the seasons for sure
A kid in a mad city
Surrounded by bad bitties
passion to past 50
Wit bottles of tan whiskey
I know
We some natural born sinners
Now I gotta fight whatever was born in em (us)
pull em out a glass and pour em some more liquor
While runnin from my past
I ran into more niggas
They tell me things changed
I tell em it's no different
Ready or not
Here I come
You can't hide
The presence is apparent
Anti-Christ is on that rise
Either you ride wit, or you die
Why?
Testing our pride now
Feeling like Im trapped in the winter
Drink is drowning my liver
The stress to bond wit my niggas
An bitches cold as November December
Now Love is a distant stranger
Remember the feeling?
Now we just want the ass
Some sexual healing
I feel it
Sometimes I feel like I just want independence
from texting calling, visits
Need soul for the spirit
Trade it all for some brilliance
To keep my mind on my vision you dig it?
Or iz it that I been trippin'?
Fuck it give me a minute
Feel Like I ain't been livin'
Survival is for the fittest
and I been slackin on fitness
Jehovah give me a witness
I ain't knocked on a door in a minute
I got a issue wit teaching
I was taught in a region
They switch the image of Jesus
and scattered lies in his teaching
You reachin they tell me
Previously programmed
Stop reading they tell me
I'll never do it
Whatever they tell me
I'm here to settle the score if he let me
Yea
[Hook]
Na can you tell me where the soul is
You remind me of my old bih
Na can you tell me where the soul is
You remind me of my old bih
Can you tell me where the soul is
You remind me of my old bih
Na can you tell me where the soul is
You remind me of my ole
You remind me of my adversary
You remind me of my enemy
You remind me of my adversary
You remind me of my enemy
Said You remind me of my adversary
You remind me of my enemy
You remind me of my adversary
You surviving off my energy
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4. |
Malcolm
02:27
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[Verse}
Tree of Lyfe
Get ya rights
Get ya life
Uh
Whatever
Uh,
I'm no longer how they make em
So it's asa lama lakum
bow a head say a prayer
like you bout ta meet ya maker
If you ain't getting saved
Would you wanna see a savior?
Where the women is hoes and niggas wanna be players
Tell us follow ya goals while leading us down the stairs
It's the wrong way
I'm conjuring up integrity
Trading fame and celebrity for a chance to be everything I kept in me
Yea, Yah's original recipe
All you see is my fist in the air for my acceptance speech
I realize this might frighten the masses
Brother that's well dressed with vision behind his glasses
They left us here in the flames
Who the fuck is you gassin?
Sobotaging in classes like how the hell could we pass em?
You know they turn up the fire when they burn us to ashes
I'm talking to you America online thru screen
Revolution in my bloodline it's in my genes
Every person that I get around I made them think.
Think about it.
This is spiritual awakening on concrete street
El Haj Malik Shabazz spirit speak thru me
I'm just a man with a gift
Slept on, get a sip
Won't coon for a shift
As real as it gets
Man this may be too much content
My vibe so conscious
We so no nosense
BSD
We ain't weak, we honest
The world gone live
I'ma live beyond it
You gotta be a Lion when you up against a Lion
and your history is Lying and your people stand behind it
Thirsting riding like vagina
I ain't hating on Obama but the country got a problem
I don't think a man can solve em
Scriptures warn us often
We don't listen we evolving right?
Everybody wanna see the light
From Sheol to Rio til my soul is repoed
If I know, then we know
From Phazzeone to eLO
We the Biz til we gone
This the tree that we on
Tree of Life people
It's Tree of Lyfe people
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5. |
Family Business
03:17
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[Verse]
Look at you
Living proof we in a new age
In life there's only two ways
I'ma need some new sage
When I was young I had a crush on Lauryn Hill
Bumping the score wondering how it would feel
To have a strong black woman with a voice that gave us chills
Fighting with Babylon without the fear of being killed
Now I rock Kufi's, a true life Fugee
No group, just groupies these hoes so choosey
I rarely complain, I laugh at my pain
Put my interest in love
Just to see what i'd gain
Zion all on my brain
I am stuck in my ways
Triumph all in my name
Different habitual lane switching
Red light
I got my vision and my soul with me
No longer feel the need for ya'll to roll wit me
Nobody feel how I feel
Ain't no consoling me
Swear to the death ain't no controlling me
One love
Family should be our strength
Somehow hate crept in our skin
So na na na I just wonder how it ends
Cuz I, I done noticed that my best friend
Could be my worst enemy and my enemy my best friend
Wait until the sex ends
We all lose connection wit the same soul
That you once have shared reflections with
Yea it's all the same story
The serpent in the grass
Man and Woman in the orgy
[Hook]
Just walking the streets
Death can take you away
There's not a guarantee that you'll see the next day
At night
The evil army of Satan don't play
So defend the family
That's the code to obey
Well If I wake up fully and life takes me away
Don't be surprised son
I wasn't put here to stay
At night
The evil army of Satan don't play
So put the family back together
No don't ever betray
Aye, to ensure the mass insanity
Teach the people vanity
Reduce em to depravity
While worshipping your majesty
Pollute em like a cavity
Let music move em backwardly
Narcotics change reality, poison our humanity
Tell em that they're free in a land made off slavery
To corrupt a world you must first destroy the family see
The other night I feel asleep watching the Truman show
Woke up and realized it's the human show
Ain't it unusual how something once beautiful
Can turn into the opposite
Depending on the purpose that you use it for?
She could be wifey
Or just a new stupid hoe
And make you wonder what you do it foe
A friend of mine lost a lover to shots
He ain't recover now he visits in the dark of the night
She's in her covers
She think she talking to her dead love one
To hard to explain
That it's just a dead love hun
Cherish the moment cuz when it's gone
You ain't got one
The evil army of Satan don't play
The early bird get the worm
Check the instant replay
Wouldn't be surprised
If you could sell ya soul away on ebay
[Hook]
Just walking the streets
Death can take you away
There's not a guarantee that you'll see the next day
At night
The evil army of Satan don't play
So defend the family
That's the code to obey
Well If I wake up fully and life takes me away
Don't be surprised son
I wasn't put here to stay
At night
The evil army of Satan don't play
So put the family back together
No don't ever betray aye
[Outro]
They killing us softly
uhn
They killing us now
uh
They killing us softly
Uhn
They killing us now
They killing us softly
uhn
They killing us now
uh
They killing us softly
Uhn
They killing us now
They killing us now
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6. |
Mirror
03:47
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7. |
Concrete Eyes
01:13
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[Verse]
Tree, yo
Me an my niggas on some other shit
Connected with the Earth, Universe and the Mothership
Poetry is deep like spirit killers and government
Came a long way from Train chasing and bussin' it
No Lie
So here it is, all eye seeing without the pyramid
Discussion bout the end
Toasting to new beginnings since
What does it benefit
Man with ill sentences
To spit sick spells in hell
Tryna distance it
Tapped into my melatonin zoning feeling limitless
Make it to the media they'll label me as militant
Like El Haj Malik
Qualified to speak thru my turban
Keep a lazy eye
On my peace, I deserve it
I'ma excel
Writing all of my word perfect
Niggas is ass they get gassed
You must be nervous and I understand
I live in Babylon, but spit it for the holy land.
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8. |
Love
03:05
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9. |
RealLove
03:43
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10. |
Thinkin' Bout You
04:56
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[Biz Verse]
Damn, this what you want?
Damn baby, damn baby
You a never know yo brand new mercedes
And it's so sad hun
but girls just want to have fun
You love whatever neglects you
That's probably why he disrespects you
You put a good man thru hell so stuck in your ways
As soon as a muh fucka say, um say, say
Shut up bitch move (bitch move)
That's when you drop it down low
Down to the floor make it do what it do
(make it do what it do)
Prolly why you make a muh fucka feel that he gotta talk to ya like this
So shut up bitch
Bring that ass over here and come and get this dick
Come and get this dick
[Hook]
Tree of Lyfe no lie
Ain't no roots if you ain't got truth
Girl God made you out of my ribs
If there ain't no me then there is no you
I thinking bout
I thinking bout you
I thinking bout you
I thinking bout you
I thinking bout you
Thinking bout me is thinking bout you
[Biz Verse]
You don't get it
Damn baby, damn baby
I swear i'm bout to go crazy
You a never know the whole truth
We gone fuck me and pay you
5 racks drop it all on you
You a never how I ball on que
When you play me to the left
As soon as I say I love ya
But soon as a nigga say other like
Bitch suck the top of my dick
You can see all this ice on my wrist
It should be enough to keep you in check
Wanna piece of my monopoly then don't pass go
Think you bout to get it you a dumb ass hoe
I heard you like to have fun
So fuck me good til I cum yah
[Hook]
Tree of Lyfe no lie
Ain't no roots if you ain't got truth
Girl God made you out of my ribs
If there ain't no me then there is no you
I thinking bout
I thinking bout you
I thinking bout you
I thinking bout you
I thinking bout you
Thinking bout me is thinking bout you
Dummy
[Tree of Lyfe Verse]
Girl you don't want a gentleman
So, so i'm canceling our dinner plans
Throw it on a nigga so we can get back to sinnin'
And pretending that this really gone work
See you like pain
Im'a make that thang squirt
Put it back up in them ribs
Let me see what it's worth
On the basis of us God created this Earth
It's like you'd rather live cursed
Don't tell me that you love me
You ain't loving you first
Baby this the Tree see growth in each verse
What they say about the truth, the truth the truth hurts
Uh the truth the truth hurts
Came from the ground baby girl im'a ground you
Could tell you was hoe from the hoes that's around you
I can't save you, but won't leave how I found you
2013 Man I'm talking bout wifin'
Niggas talking bout pipin' killin pussy no sniping
Murder i'm writing que thunder i'm lightning
Niggas kickin' that real
If you trill you a like it
If you trill you excited
Tree of Lyfe no lie
Ain't no roots if you ain't got truth
Girl God made you out of my ribs
If there ain't no me
Then there is no you
I ain't thinking bout you
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11. |
Talks with eLO
03:29
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[Verse]
Yea shouts to eLO
know the gods can see you
Type of shine of course our vibe illegal
Fuck the game because the game a eat you
Rob your soul before you know what hit you
You know me dawg
I know the shit you been thru
Night after night after night after night after night after night
On these instrumentals
I was right beside you with the pen it's mental
Fly as hell like a helicopter
I swear a lot but shit I swear I got ya
On my grind feel like it's not a problem
Name is Bruce and no i'm not from Gotham
High class nigga but I rep the bottom
Hollywood another name for Sodom
Working day and night like Mike I check the mic
Cuz I promise mutha fuckas wasn't hearing us right
I feel like Eren Yaeger Attack on Titan
Behind these walls with the balls to fight it
This ain't a anime
We where the hand grenades is a hand away
So put your hand away
Put your hand away before you catch a blaze
Truth inside us how the fuck we find it?
I'm agitated slash absent minded
The past is blinded
We relocated what it mean to make it
Enough dough for these hoes and the smoke to fade us
Now i'm hard on hoes for them years I caked it
This is ain't life to me I know we both frustrated
Life starts and stops
Til'l the casket drops
Can't even walk the streets
I'm like fuck these cops
When the cops pull up
I don't talk a lot
They say the end is near
Somedays I hope it's not
Somedays I pray it is
We live in hell is hot
We so well informed that we can see the plot
Yea
[Hook}
It's just me and my nigga eLO
conversatin' about the evil
You invisible til' they see you
In this life you don't get a re-do
Yea, It's just me and my nigga eLO
Me and my nigga eLO
Just me and my nigga eLO
conversatin' about the evil
You invisible til they see you
in this life you don't get a redo
It's just me and my nigga eLO
conversatin' about the evil
Let's go
[phone clip]
[Hook]
It's just me and my nigga eLO
conversatin' about the evil
You invisible til' they see you
In this life you don't get a re-do
Yea, It's just me and my nigga eLO
Me and my nigga eLO
Just me and my nigga eLO
conversatin' about the evil
You invisible til they see you
in this life you don't get a redo
It's just me and my nigga eLO
conversatin' about the evil
Let's go
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12. |
Dat Gwap ft eLO
01:39
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[eLO Verse]
BSD
Get Yours i'm a get mine
If I don't see the money
then its out of sight out of mind
Intentions are definitely yours
You like to waste time
It's like spilling red wine
The carpet like white though
So don't let em stain yo name
And it won't be the same yo
It was snow white
Now it look light cream
It's the motto
Im'a follow to fulfill my dreams
I had a vision we was winning
it was me and the team
[Tree of Lyfe Verse]
Yea me and the team
Yah the Elohim
Ain't concerned about the green
Prefer the gold for our fee
Another branch off the tree
Never leave em extinct
She wetter than anything
I've seen close to a beach
But this means nothing
If the love ain't something
Like a drug keep puffin'
Im'a man need woman
so my heart keep pumpin'
Got it lit like we blunted
You can see the weak plummit
I ain't got a weak stomach
[eLO Verse]
Yo an ever since birth
these eyes have been cursed
for seeing the good bad the ugly and even worse
Take the time that i'm living
Subtract it from what i'm worth
All I want in return
Plus the feelings that I hurt
real lady killer
[Tree of Lyfe Hook]
The only way in this world you get a thing
Yo my dreams in the vending machine
I need change
BSD Brilliance over everything
Yo my dreams in the vending machine
I need change
[eLO Hook]
And that's the only way in this world you ever get a thang
Yo my dreams in the vending machine
I need change
M.O.E. Money over everything
It's BSD hoe we in this thang
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13. |
Exist
03:07
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14. |
HyMm
04:16
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15. |
Kingdom
05:03
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[Verse}
Yea, I was walkin' thru the weeds
Bout as high as I could get
It's the Tree
Only good niggas
Know its that good shit, we young Pa
We just wanna party an bullshit
Penetration on our minds
Wit a body to pull in
Today is like a rodeo
Stuck in a bull pin
Told em I seen the light
Even when it was still dim
My people from the past
Wondering if it's still him
Or just another character
Thats plotting its on film, its terrible
But comparable to the parable of the prodigal son
If I return i'm the one
But if I don't then i'm done
Said a prayer to the east
Forehead touching my knees
Wit my J's on my feet
Not dat dat dat really mattered
I been gettin' too deep
As if my audience was wizards
Fortune tellers and priests
Jay an Jay Electronicas
The masters of speech
Imagine if the masses
Felt as massive as me
My aggression used to be passive
Na i'm passin my peace
Oh God I need the keys to kingdom
Uh
But I ain't worried bout it tho
What you speak you receive so
Faith the size of a seed
Move a mountain, a beach
This ain't a figure of speech
Biggest challenge of my life
Been tryna figure out me
Uh, yea
Ima get back at this world
This world been getting at me
Full of demons in bodies
With flesh that get filled wit they spirit
Is he preachin rappin or snappin
Like a bone from a tendon?
Or funneling tension he feeling
To get back to livin'
Uh
This ain't a test bitch
Its all the above
All heads touchin' the water
Trick is keep it above
This Earth is a war zone
Lacking brotherly love
Niggas dyin
Waiting on your kingdom to come
Chasin riches an loose women
Who was taught by your sons
Puttin more faith in a mic
And a speaker turn up uh
[Hook]
I need the keys
I need the keys
The tree so driven
I need the keys
yea
I need the keys
I need the keys
The tree so driven
I need the keys
[Verse]
Uh, I was putting faith in the world
I had so many first dates
Til I realized I aint need her ass in the first place
Scenarios always be the worst case
This the point where I usually shout out my birth place
We fighting the seen and unseen
Addicted to the light like
Nicotine fiends wit dreams
Of plush scenes
Lettin God intervene
Devils show no mercy
Pain add to the journey
So we murk beats
An leave the red sea murky
I'ma truth seeker
Deep thinker, a street sweeper
I don't dine Divas
Never seen beauty in Mona Lisa
My art breathes exhales hell
Like blunt chiefers
Who puff reefus
So high they can't see us
Niggas born gifted
An still waitin' on Santa
Promised land missing
Im stretched out for some manna
A couple lost souls
Love to pose for the camera
On the inside
More shot down
Than black panthers
In a cursed land
Where the owners can't stand us
When we shot down
Don't nobody throw a hand up
Real niggas too busy ballin'
To understand us celebrating soul success
When they soul distressed
Drop the LP then disconnect
Drop they first LP then they disconnect
Cuz when you disown your own
To receive a check
An the only way you win
Is thru some disrespect
The woman who brought you in this
World of sinnin'
Which means you hate
Your beginning
So how you think it's gone end then?
Uh
I put it down wit this pen in
I represent the souls of the folks
From the sit ins
And the pain of niggas who seen millions
& still couldn't build nothin' from it
Yea
Still sick to they stomach
Down in the pits
of the flames of the fire
I spit that throwback
Yeezy thru the wire
I need these keys for I expire
Yea
I spit that earth wind and fire
But the tree a keep you higher
The keys what I admire
God don't leave us in the fire
They shoot us wit the iron
Yea the serpent is a liar
We ya people
We survivors
Now listen to the choir
[Hook]
I need the keys
I need the keys
The tree so driven I need the keys
Uh
I need the keys
I need the keys
The tree so driven I need the keys
To the Kingdom
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Treeoflyfe Los Angeles, California
Tree of Lyfe, aka T.R.E.E. An acronym for (Truth Reveals Everything Eventually) is an American soul-hop artist and designer from Inkster a small suburb outside of Detroit Michigan. Tree debuted his first project The Growth, released August 2016. The Growth serves as an introduction to his early years and explores his growth and observations as a black youth in America. ... more
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