Lights The lights flicker in the background Reflecting on my life Can barely see through the crowd But I can see their eyes watching Piercing like they can see who I really am I grab the mic off the mic stand Become the person Im suppose to be I wonder if they notice it All of my life I’ve been working for this moment here If only they knew half the fight They think it happened overnight But behind the doors the lights are out shadows of my darkened past Depression Ive overcame and had to mask Hidden behind a smile A kid pretending to be a grown up I guess I never lost my inner child He plays inside my mind seeking and hiding between my 9 to 5 At night he comes alive So the question lies Do I sacrifice my life for the lights? Or let it go and let it die inside? A question of a lifetime You’re now experiencing The Born The city lights shining brightly in the background It’s a perfect silhouette I can feel the city breathing against my flesh Mos Def The most slept on but I can’t rest my head till I’m dead Represent the first class of the next on deck Unheard voices in my head just waiting to be said But whats there left to say when there’s nothing left to save at all Every season someones preying on my fall But I crawl back crabs in a bucket is all we are I heard a voice in the distance telling me to keep longer Every day I grow stronger with the thought of living beyond words Scribble in my mind take notes get ghost in my thoughts The train leaves before Im caught up But I’m here now Forever never last On the road less traveled searching for my past So I can tell her that I’m long gone there’s no going back Im headed for the lights like I’m about to die But Im barely even born yet and Im just getting warm up Cold world so you better watch your karma Comes around before you know it But I keep it locomotive Kept it real you haven’t noticed though Its just the way it goes Its called reality and I take a heavy dose Everyday when I pray to the most Its like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder How Ive mad it this far Holding the same cards Ive been dealt with My whole life they neglected my perspective Intercepted my message cuz my story’s worth telling Cuz it might change yours and it might make sense You gotta take what’s yours before the daylight ends Reach for the lights

Never Die You’re now experiencing the Born The abnormal from the norm Formed from the eye of storm April 1984 Halfway around the world Nothing you’ve ever seen before No amount of metaphors Can explain my mental force Verbal Intercourse courses to my inner core till Over pours out my pores to the ceiling to the floors I’ll Murk a matador for instigating with a boar I’ll decorate your face for imitating my decor Dedicated to the lord just in case my life is short And If I ever die every other day Im Born And I told them this before But they just couldn’t afford Whats in store whats the cure? Nothing short of legendary when I’m stepping through the door When I leave you dead and buried like a cemetery floor I live for every moment every second thats in store I get stronger everyday for every pain that i’ve endured Been a long time coming somebody open the door Fore I kick it all down and tell him to hit the floor Tell em to hit record cuz Im back for more You’re now experiencing the one and only Manila Born

Forever Born They say time is irrelevant when you’re dedicated to what you love I’m anxious of whats to come and fall victim to pressures of Im dreaming of your Love Supreme Sometimes I Wonder if we can Stay Together like Al Green How Sweet it Is It was all a dream just a week ago I do this for my younger brothers Just so they can see me blow We’re all one in the same when you’re in pain I can feel it bro Anything is possible You just have to believe it so Spill my soul and speak it slow I gotta let the people know Remain true t o the blue skies While I’m here below the heavens Leave a legacy like legends came before Fulfill what I’ve been destined for While I dig for soul in record stores Catch me playing Tekken 4 With my dogs reservoir One man wrecking force Till I enter heavens doors Make sure that they remember me Forever more but never mourn Cuz when I’m gone my legacy lives on I’m Forever Born Reminiscing about the times When it was just you and I Funny how the time flies And its only the beginning No one ever really dies Whether or not you believe it The time is always now I don’t plant to waste a minute They say time can heal anything eventually So when i live past this song will you remember me I wonder could you remember me I guess for now lets bring it back (bringing back sweet memories) Livin through the words written and the lyrics I been spittin The treasure is hidden But it shines inside the MIND I've given All of the knowledge I can impart in my lifetime Imprisoned by unhealthy cells but soul food'll fight crime You better recognize life is right behind your eyes Thoughts form reality so whatever you visualize Long enough and strong enough eventually will manifest I caught a vibe and let it swell up like an abscess Mad stress kept a brotha stuck on past tests Lookin' back I wanna relive the good and forget the rest Of the people that trespass They left class a little too early to learn a lesson The audacity to passively project aggression Overnight like One Direction I'm a multi-dimensional entity so my progression's Hard to follow all the hollow perpetrators gotta wallow Inside of the inimical energy they tend to borrow See the Legacy Never Dies My enterprise built upon honor and honesty I personify Why lie? I do not believe I will die The natural path of our essence, infinite, the why Is sometimes harder to figure out than the how The fear of the future it must succumb to the now Everything I thought it was dissolved in the presence of Love Heaven is inside of you No need to look above.

Its the one and only Filipino Homie Rocking dope beats since 03 When Kobe had a goatee And a Fro on his dome piece Tell em watch me closely Cater for the OG's Sipping OE by the oz’s Low key But I’ll murk a hater on a soul beat Blow trees Like Hawaiian tropics with a cold breeze Hold please Im answering my calling on the other line I must’ve been a writer in my other life I’m born again Pushing lead like my life depended on the pencil I hold the mic like a memory thats sentimental The definition and exception to the rule That if you drop out of school That you’ll never be successful Intellectuals analyze the meaning While the other 85 can only describe the feeling so If only some of you get it I can dig it If your’e sheep let em sleep That’s none of my business This is soul music Feel it put my soul in it Food for the soul Grab a bowl While I slow grill it Rhymes clever Delivery better You ever thinking ‘bout quitting nigga the answer is never ever A fresh prince til they drop me like Trevor Self made jetsetter keep it low on the errors Im blowing up myself so they thinking its terror Its rarer than female president in our era My heads in the air like shots of flares They aint tellin you the truth makin lots of dares And I do it for my city like plots of mayors Until i put my team on we was roster players, yea Wavy i’m the nautical one I'm back again like the prodigal son Hate to bother you hun’ I’m bigga bud and i’m the leader of dumm And ummm We been seekin’ the fun So you should speak it to none Cuz i been thinkin we could leave it and run I send you back to ya man when the weekend is done Wit some soul

Another sleepless night another day goes by Another baby dies another angel cries Another love lost another living to die Im not trying to make a love song Im trying to make it right Im trying to save a life from a lie that we chase every night With our eyes wide open tell me why We have to let the love die Tell me one time Do we really have to let go And say goodbye In her eyes I reflected on my past Looking back like a photograph snapped In a flash I relapsed And I realized you and I Were the same And In her smile I can be me again Since (you’ve been gone) Nothings changed but the seasons In search of the reasons For this pain that I’m feeling cuz You and I were meant to be free Then we stopped threw the key Into the bottom of the sea She was looking for a lover And I’m honored to be And I would never a leave I gotta promise to keep I leave it out all my blood on the beat Till it drips from her eyes and it falls to her cheek Feel me out hear me now hear me breathe You don’t have to agree But you gotta believe There’s more to life than meets the eye There’ still love between you and I Since you left aint nothing changed much Still the same love You’re still my little angel So fly with me We can take the skies you and I We were meant to be free And I hope you get this message from me Cuz misery loves company and I don’t wanna proceed Foresee the future in her eyes every time that we meet I need you in my life she’s a sigh of relief Wait a sec take a breath make it deep My momma always said better follow your dreams So I dropped out instead started writing 16s Hoping that my little brother doesn’t follow my lead Earn a college degree Be the man that I never could be Learn from me cuz the lessons are free See I made my mistakes so you don’t have to repeat Where I’ve failed many ways where you gotta succeed (And since you’ve been gone) Rest in peace to my brother Big Don Your memory lives strong through this song I carry on Its been a long while since (You and I) last talked Still haven’t played much ball at all where you left off But i picked it up back now And Ill never back down Since you fell on that floor I still haven’t sat down And really thought about it cuz Its hard to re-imagine Your closest friend collapsing in a second of a fraction you were gone In front of my eyes In the middle of court you died without a sign And If i don’t live my life to the fullest for you and I Everything else would be a lie And since you left aint nothing changed much Its still the same love I miss you everyday bro Wait for me till we reunite Imma make sure to live my life for You and i (And I hope) you know what you got Before its too late to know what you’ve lost and its gone Cuz (you and I) is everything that we need Anything in between is obsolete (Since you’ve been gone) Ive moved on and never looked back But memories of the past I reminisce Over you my God Making sure your legacy never dies is my job Forever aint long cuz everyday Im born For every page thats torn Another day has gone by And Another page dries In this book called you and I And since you left aint nothing changed much Its still the same love I miss you everyday Wait for me until we reunite Imm make sure to live my life You and I

Young Love Do you remember? Can you remember? When your smile was pure Before the world was cruel We were just fools in love Pain for the poet is fuel and only fools fall in love Well I should’ve stayed in school instead of spilling all my guts Inebriated fool throwing up Life’s an elevator ride waiting for you to press your luck In search of more Were all questioning the same things Just a different day dream All the same Matrix Basic instructions before leaving earth Leave a legacy worth being heard for being birthed Words wrestle in my mind intertwined with my memories Dancing to the rhythm of the melody Destiny calling falling deeper into ecstasy Pen and pad daily next to me Cuz I know life’s testing me Mercy me Things just ain't what they use to be Consider this the eulogy Beautifully we connected before she hit the exit I left her this message for eternity Hoping she’ll return to me And thats when she turned to me Is this what you accuse me of? Foolish Love? I said certainly Even though I wasn’t sure But at the moment it felt pure Young Love

Last night I fell in love again Something must’ve happened In between now and then Since the last time we spent life Laughing over red wine Staring at the blue skies Wondering when we’ll expire Will there be enough time? To make amends with our past lives Timeless in her eyes so I stare till Im blinded in her Iris Atlantis creeps to the surface Still water runs deep As the earth twist But I keep strolling like a rolling stone Pops was always gone He was searching for a new home roaming Landed in the stolen land back in 95 Never looked back until I realized Who I really am Divided by the oceans but my love keeps growing Idolize the moment cuz the clock keeps going Knowing no one will understand your journey as a man Cuz God made a plan for you Nobody else the truth Universe seeking wisdom through the silence of the lambs Sacrificed my own being for a scam Working for the man trade the stage for a cube My mic for a keyboard and a desk for the booth Never will again Cuz it all makes sense now They said that one day that it will or it might I guess that you could say last night I fell in love again Something must’ve happened I Imagine Dragons when I breath Spit fire till you freeze Spit bars till Im free from Freedom in a free form Live til I’m Reborn Searching so I read more pages Burn as I write scriptures in the light Waiting for the right moment to strike Before Midnight passes pay my homage to the Tribe On a Quest to survive right before the love dies I guess Last night You could say I fell in love again And somehow the story never seems to end But it all makes sense now They said one day that It would I just never really understood

Alone in The Rain He walks alone in the rain Thoughts drenched in the pain Begging for change And every other day's just the same As before He walks alone through the rain Lost broken in pain But he strolls through the day with his head to the floor He lives under the rain Under a bridge on a floor Couple boxes and crates But he praises the lord He lost his leg in the war So he walks with a cane Drugs in his veins Lost and deranged Alone in the rain Some are cold some are old some are broken (Struggling for change alone in the rain We’re all the same) I struggle just to keep my heart open (Struggling for change alone in the rain We’re all the same) I'm afraid of the pain that you been through Afraid of what I'm getting into (Struggling for change alone in the rain We’re all the same) But at the end of the day (We all the struggle At the end of the day We’re all the same) We're all the same He walks alone in the rain Ignoring the pain Works everyday Struggling hoping for change Pay mortgage and rent Double timing again But he’s gotta support Cases in court Collections knock on the door But somehow he maintains Through the stress and the pain Puts food on the plate For his family of four See he crawled through the floors And he ran through the rain Jumped over the wall For a chance to make change An everyday Hero And he never complains He just walks through the rain And fights for his name We all struggle in our own different ways And at the end of the day We’re all just the same It aint fair we share the same struggles in the fight I know first hand exactly whats it like To be stuck in the sand and Nobody understands To give a handout to you I dedicate you the truth We’re all the same

I Fell Asleep In Manila Woke up bumping Dilla Feeling like a new man Since I the last time I seen ya Ive been lurking in the shadows Thinking about tomorrow Plotting my escape from this black cloud that follows Rain drops wherever I go Drenched in my own thoughts Soaking in the pain Hoping for change I pray to God She tells me what I need to hear Shows me what I don’t Tells me theres no need to fear It doesn’t mean I won’t One day ill be gone I contemplate what might be said Might be too far ahead You’ll know never know It could be less I could be next now who’s to say it is I hope to live Whatever’s left of me Complete my destiny Before my Exodus You’re now experiencing the Genesis Beginning of Foreverness Embedded in my skeleton Where heaven lives This is my testament And this message is for you Before the sunshines gone I hope it shines through To You

Mello beats banging summer breeze blowing by Got me thinking about my life and I’m sitting wondering why But today I don’t mind and I don’t really care Cuz its something in the air and its got me feeling high And I feel good I can feel the change coming Grinding working for my money Cuz you know I’m just a country boy Manila Born to be exact And I’m always dropping that Im trying to put us on the map Usually suspect the usual Wake up like the Truman Show But today theres something kind of beautiful I know If I work hard enough with whatever I have Everything else will grow and my grandma told me that Back back in the days when I was young Im not a kid anymore but some days I sit and wish I was a kid again Back in the days where I was from We were living it poor And one day I’ll give back and make a difference Instant classic when Im rhyming on the jazz beats Got your mind running when my words and the track meets Im so deep the underground Sac scene Can’t figure out if Im top tier or Im not here Well its a little bit of both Keep it low pro but I’m postal when I push the envelope Delivery is free like the bars I wrote Cuz I don’t touch the paper anymore I take mental notes Fresh off the boat like Im Eddie Huang probably said it wrong But never mind lets set it off I mean lets get it on I mean lets bet it all Before we fall asleep But for now just breathe (breathe) Hello good morning Sacramento Woke up to instrumentals From the night before I met you I should’ve never left you But I had to from the get go But I came back just to say that I never really let go (go) I catered served em with the first course Elevated from the first floor Resurfaced on a surfboard Reverse regurgitated medication For my homies impatiently waiting on my return for me to make more This here’s is what I’m made for Sacrificed and slaved for The OG’s told me take yours And I’ll be honest I’ve been on it Since the problem's Your reconnaissance Cant find me in my conference Since Common Sense Dropped the sense I’ve been sick Anonymous They’ve slept on my accomplishments Consider this the consequence Call it real call it dope call it consciousness I call it how I see it even if you feel the opposite You’re now rocking with the best kept Rocking till I’m breathless Mobbing by myself yes (yes) I overstand so I tend to stress I know you know homie don’t forget Jus Breathe

This is the story of Life and Love Growing Up Manila Born Imagine me packing my clothes ready to go not knowing if I'll see this place again My life hasn't been the same since then I was only ten and innocent without a cent or sense of what’s about to begin A journey that can never end Im jumping on a plane the American Dream A place I’ve only seen on the TV screens I remember leaving knowing that I won’t come back The kids from my block asking for the clothes on my back Cuz they know I got a chance most people would die for Grab my passport and say my goodbye Fast forward 16 hours later I can see the lights of San Francisco my new home my new life Imagine that Couldn’t believe it Even the breeze that evening smelled so brand new Imagine what that could do To a kid like you with nothing to lose And everything to gain I jumped off of the plane feeling like a king I think i made it I met my parents for the only very ever second time that day They’ve been away slaving away for us to make that plane -ride And everyday I do the same to make it right To make sure my kids one day will never have to face the fight That we did, if that aint real then what is And if i don’t care then who will? Ive been dying to live grinding hustling for bills So fuck a deal Im just trying to make a living Im just blessed and thankful that you actually listen Its life