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Fedora Love / Dark Red Rose

7/1/2014

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My verses is your alimony, yes your welcome.

for taking you mind off that bad rep indie sits on,

artist now are sitcoms

first debut is hot, then theres re runs and re runs, then more fucking re runs.


I’m the newest entertainer who’s been put on.

swagger decked out smooth smile, just look at me,

so many doctors for raps broken arm,

Its like a mechanic for Fiat, you got to “fix it again tony”


well um....


I got it alright, I got you alright,

that dress is real nice! whats good for tonight?

you got a peanut crisp step caramel voice,

dipped in chocolate, I got a thingamajig for your whatchamacallit?

go ahead laugh say stop it.

tomorrow let do brunch or we can call a cab and split it 

cause separation makes the heart grow found.

so break me that Kit Kat  , that Caramello,  that bon bon.


Walk it out, brush it off, haters to the left,

do the damn thing, your the real boss, go ahead girl just flex.

Fuck whoever is your ex, R.I.P to all the rest,

we got that classic love, that real love, Fedora to my chest.


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her love is a dark red rose, cold its frozen,

ice cave of her heart, hollowed out by men of her past.

careful of the actions I take, 

no sudden movements it could be the last.

from her glare chills run my spine when she says i was chosen.


breathe in breathe out,

i need to rest, 

the tension between us side by side keys together you press,

blood pressure rises from stress, muscles tighten when she flex.

cause that sex is good, sex is good, ill make the cookie stretch.


bless, yes lord her love i’m all about it,

excited like that expectancy letter getting into collage,

enlightens me with her knowledge, breaks the chains that holds me hostage.

i can do anything in her presence, she’s the teacher i’m in detention,


its the bitter sweet suspension, between love and intervention.

its a little hard to describe, but i can point it out when its mentioned.

hashtag  with babe, anniversaries, and marry me’s

when social practice dictates something personal, sounds like a curse to me.

just a dark red rose...


her love is a dark red rose, burns from her heat.

she lashes out at me, every second she gets a chance to speak,

false love made her cry, false hope made her weak

now i’m stuck with rising rent, when i signed a fixed lease. wait.


breathe in breathe out,

let me tweak,

i’m maintenaning a building drowning , she only showed a leak.

kodak moments fill my desk, her passions better then the rest,

and that sex is good, so damn good, give her the star box crest.


yes, i’m the realest man in every building,

its not easy looking inside, then publicly admitting.

that your staying and waiting in a situation thats not permitting,

you to be your best because your heart is so fucking forgiving.


understanding, what she’s been through once upon a time you were feeling,

the same way, your reminisce, your empathize, you sympathize, and you kiss.

time passes then your right back at the beginning.

it hurts like hell to cut out the infection, but its the only way to get proper healing.

just a dark red rose....

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Romeo & Juliet

7/1/2014

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wherefore thou my love, 

and what should I call you?

tis the peoples view that drives your name,

and the title that stands by you.


categories and genres divide,

our bond to reside, inside 

our hearts prizes, dies

from lies, of the minds, that believe hate will rise,


so who am i to,

claim your love like they do,

if i’m hated then its spiteful.

and theres no man who I idol.


high praise to the one true,

Shout wagwan ta all my yutes.

who support my love, my Juliet.

whose to say are bond untrue.




oh my Juliet...




O my love, my heart, my Juliet,

tis the passion that is our glue,

and the sun burns to reflect.


fear not we will connect.

an eclipse can’t block our set.

all non believers and negative minds

will soon be laid to rest.


My heart tells me I can reach any height,

My actions tell me its only a matter of time,

My team tells me 8th republic is the light.

And niggas hate me cuz i marked the game as mines. 


Green taint the masses

Fashion devil marked my glasses,

i’m lavished with hells ashes, 

replenished when cameras flashes


why O  Juliet must we lie

next to hell’s eye

to feel your loves warmth 

to survive.


I guess time will speak to our endeavor,

the worlds our audience, the stars will sing our number

live now, work for the future, let history rest and remember,

O my heart, my Juliet, my love its forever.



-Zaafir Love is...

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Falling on Deaf Ears

6/24/2014

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Some say its the hand upon your shoulder,

the companion thats there as time renews itself.

The pursuit of our inner most desires

Spotlight, flashing lights, or wealth.


With late night thoughts of someone special,

the one you confess to, it seems to protect you.

you begin to hope they will call,

certain situations they cant call at all.




the perfect imperfection of them all...


Bright stars and great health,

Silent dreams that hope filled

that beautiful smile when victory’s real,

or when water rises to your eyes cause the pain you feel.


Eyes wide shut ear clogged up.

tasteless smells and a numb touch.

Naive thoughts of truth and trust.

now your left with the pieces ground down to dust.


Walk mountain trails, thats never smooth,

So high up, you fall, your stomach drops

reflect on your reflection, over still water tops,

as tears fall your future blurs under a full moon.


Candlelight in a diamond cave,

the shimmer is dull but its there you got to find a way.

you want to enliven your live so you seize the day,

though the nightlife is what drives you thats a high toll to pay.


your words  move but your body’s stuck,

its a crutch.

you see the seasons take there change, 

you just want to rush.


now your loves gone, and your blind from the choices you made,

but in g-d you trust.

so you fall to your knees,

and pray for luck.


Love will...

Love can...

Love is....

Always falling down on deaf ears.



-Zaafir


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Project "Love is..." coming soon

6/27/2013

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Love is a complicated emotion we can all agree on that. It is expressed in many different ways, a person who cannot stop singing, writing, or painting, the person who gives there all to another or overwhelmingly enjoys bringing people together through event planning. It could be said that these people “Love” what they do actually it most likely would be said. This type of love is in most circumstances positive, as well as healthy, as long as its not hindering any type of normal human emotion or promoting negative emotions. What about the other type of love? the one that leaves you sick, hurt, or uncertain. Watching the person you care for most just scraping by with someone else... How does one express these feelings? How do they cope? How do they heal? Its a mountain trail no matter how many times travelled the road is never smooth. its such a high no matter how many times you jump your stomach still drops...  a journey through a diamond cave with only a candle light to reflect the shimmers, a moonlit lake with no clear path to the ocean, a blind journey, its life. “Love is...”

- Zaafir 

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30 days

5/18/2013

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All is happiness. All is love. We are all in nature, happiness and joy. Sometimes we find ourselves disconnected from that which we truly are, but in the absence of resistance and negativity, like air no longer being forced underwater, we raise right back to the surface. We move right back into alignment, harmoniously flowing with life’s stream of events and situations. The hardest part of our life and the biggest obstacle which prevents success is the inner conflicts we have with ourselves and negative belief systems. Beliefs are us. They are the biggest factor in what determines what we do, what we achieve, who we are, and what our future hold. Consciously sifting through and choosing my context is far greater than any goal because it will determine what goals I’ll set. My collection of beliefs is the lens through which I view reality. For the sake of simplicity I’m using Steve Pavlina’s approach to removing and installing beliefs. They are like programs running on a computer. I am not the beliefs themselves but instead that which is aware of them (as well as my collective mind, body, surroundings, etc…). In truth I am nothing. I am pure energy pure awareness pure consciousness dougie-ing in the intricacies of the infinitely creative mind. Over the course of this month I am dedicating 24 hours each day to altering my context to become more congruent with my long term goals and intentions.  Through the use of affirmations, neuro linguistic programming techniques, hypnosis, affirmations, meditation, meditation, and prolonged meditation (this stuff is impactful), I will deliberately shift my beliefs to more empowering, new age, pleasure-increasing, pain-reducing, accurate, flexible, ethical, all-inclusive ones. Why? Too often I find myself preaching but not practicing. Too often I find myself feeding into negative thought patterns. Too often I find myself hearing but not attentive. Too often I find myself thinking but sloppy in thinking. Too often I find myself desiring but not moving. Too often I find myself overly vigilant and not trusting. Too often I find myself displaying confidence but shaking internally. Too often I find myself focused on sexual gain through rendezvous with attractive women instead of focusing on the humanity of the interaction. Too often I find myself living for what’s impermanent. Not good at all. I had to be totally honest with myself. When I finally understood how past conditioning shaped my identity, I ignorantly withdrew to denying responsibility for creating change. I blamed and complained for dwelling in shame, I aimed to cause my family pain, carried away? I’m carried away, I’m carrying yay, I’ll spare you a play…… but I eventually realized how I was going about reinforcing the same negativity I so strongly wanted to eradicate. I then quit resisting the nagging fact that this finger pointing behavior does not in any way coincide with my newly adopted (but not fully integrated) spiritual beliefs.  While no longer moved to see others suffer for my shortcomings and instead focusing my energy towards creating happiness, I kept finding myself lacking the persistence required to maintain the new vibe. After reading countless articles on personal development, conscious living, and spirituality believing that things are happening and in time I will feel the power, it is NOW that I’ve quit faking progress, it is NOW that I’ve come to accept full responsibility for setting things in motion, it is NOW that I’ve become fed up with laziness and complacency, it is NOW that I am powerfully moved by my chosen purpose in life. I guess things were happening behind the scenes. 30 days of isolation. 30 days of intense focus. 30 days of deliberate action. 30 days of inspired living. And it is my strong expectation that I will come out on June 1st a clear minded life force, ready to wholeheartedly attack my goals with an unwavering knowing that success will crown my efforts. The 30 day turn-around will not by any means be easy, but the choice was mines, to have an awakening and continue to sleepwalk in spite of the knowledge I had attained because change is “too difficult and unsettling”, or to get my hands dirty and live up to my fullest potential. Yeah the brain dislikes new. I think it’s a survival mechanism? One will always be drawn to the comfort of familiarities. But like saying goes… “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore”.  

Carl Jean
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Hard work makes the difference

11/20/2012

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Here's a little something I read from another blog . I'm doing this to get firm message across. Credit goes to Steve Pavlina we have similar thoughts your words were fashionably put together.
When you step up and learn to see yourself as the driver of your life instead of the passive victim of it, then it becomes a lot easier to take on big challenges and to endure the hardships they sometimes require. You learn to associate more pleasure to the character development you gain than the minor discomforts you experience. You become accustomed to spending more time outside your comfort zone. Hard work is something you look forward to because you know that it will lead to tremendous growth. And you eventually develop the maturity and responsibility to understand that certain goals will never just flow into your life; they’ll only happen if you act as the driving force to bring them to fruition. Hard work makes the difference. It’s what separates the children from the mature adults. You can keep living as a child and desperately hoping that life will always be easy, but then you’ll be stuck in a child-like world, working on other people’s goals instead of your own, waiting for opportunities to come to you instead of creating your own, and doing work that in the grand scheme of this world just isn’t important. But when you become driven by a purpose greater than yourself, you embrace hard work out of necessity. That child gets replaced by a mature adult who assumes responsibility for getting the job done, knowing that without total commitment and lots of hard work, it’s never going to happen.

-StevePavlina.com
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Just a few months ago...

11/16/2012

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8th Republic, Ah man I remember it like it was yesterday… (Couple months ago but were getting there ha-ha!) My team I call my family, these are the people who inspire me every time I write a verse/song. The day ظافر (Zaafir) offered Thrilla, Kevin and I to be a part of this label I was all for it. A group of people who don’t just make music but believe in moving emotions within others, dedicated like myself and the last members of New Dynasty ( Carl and Kevin). Months later we have inspired people across the world London, Germany, Finland, Spain and parts of Asia. The feedback we receive is surreal. We strive to create clear emotions in our music, so even if one of our fans has not experienced the situation, there is so much clarity and light shined upon the picture they can still generate their own personal feelings. As well continue to instill our beliefs in to our music the vision becomes greater, what’s really exciting… were just getting started.

- Lear Yzeb


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No Limits on...

10/25/2012

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When first meeting with the owner of 8thRepublic records it was different because I haven't seen him in a while and all the other times we met we never talked on a business level. Since my brother Sage was already sign to his label, he took me over there to record. I was just now getting started on my second mix tape so I just wanted to record some rough drafts to start. After the Recording session Zaafir spoke with me about music and asked me, '' Where you want to go with music what are your goals.'' I said '' well I want to go far, I want  people to hear my music everywhere they go, boost Hip Hop music for my generation.'' after we discussed my goals he offered to help me with my career.


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The Beginning- Thrilla

10/25/2012

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Walking into the studio it was like any other day. Daylen introduce Chris, Kevin and I too Zaafir, and immediately we got crackin’ on a song. When the smoke cleared and everything was said and done, Zaafir then threw us a pitch. He told us he admired our ambition and was feeling our sound, so he offered we sign with 8th Republic. My initial thoughts were, “Wow! Here’s that golden opportunity we’ve been working so desperately for! This is surreal!”


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How do you get ready to perform?

9/16/2012

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Getting ready for a performance…*sigh* is the most exciting and nerve shaking process in entertainment. This is all assuming that we want the show to go off without a hitch, (will smith is more than welcome to come though #movie reference.) The process is simple but there are many details that get over looked I know this from working with other artist. So let us go over some of the basic steps that get over looked when getting ready for a performance.

1. Self-promoting. When striving to get people to come to a show Eighth Republic (8R) is performing we tend to market at minimum a month and half in advance. Reason being when asking last minute there time might be occupied, the funds might not be there, or they could feel as if you’re asking last minute because there not important. I find when asking earlier you can receive the payment and hold the tickets until the week of the show, fans tend to make a day out of your show they get there hair done, go shopping, go out to eat, come to your performance then hit an after party. Lastly it’s professional, bigger company’s promote there artist shows months in advance and if we cannot give the courtesy to our fans by informing them in advance how can we expect a great turnout? How can we expect to compete with bigger companies in the future?


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