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Home
02:54
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Can a prophet still speak when his time passes?
What's an "influencer" who never had the masses?
Whatever happens to your mission when it hits a setback?
If it crumbles does that mean you never had the passion?
Sittin still, the world is movin ever faster
Never popped a pill but I've been high on my own satisfaction
Hit the gas at 25 and sped thru all the crashes
Lookin back, like, maybe I shoulda asked directions
Comparisons, funds become embarrassing
Considering my marriage and my message, tried to balance things
Friends make Facebook posts about the joys of parenting
And I'm like, look, that one single got a lot of streams
But I'm still out here in the studio to make a change
Believing that these words can heal and that it just takes faith
Produce a dose of hope, and inject it in the veins
Magic - how it works, even if the doctor's strange
Been sayin prayers that my lifetime might be used well
My momma named me as a healer, and she chose well
Talkin to her back home, she said "I'm so proud
What you give the youth with all a the stories you tell"
Still, I got a lot more questions than I do answers
But I've learned to do dishes and to love dances
Don't know what lies ahead but that’s become standard
I moved to LA with no plans except to take chances
And I've spent these years, written them in my poems
To bless you with the stories that I carry in my bones
When I’m layin in my tomb, they will write it on my stone
And my children and their children will always have it be known
That their ancestors and parents fought through racism and wrongs
In a world that rejected them but still they made their own
And the music that I make might be forgotten before long
But if I lay a single brick to build a future - I reached my goal
To make it home
to make a home
To make our home
Let's go
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Mood (feat. Leo Xia)
03:01
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0:12 Chorus
My life scrollin by
Highlights scrollin by
I see myself in your eyes
I feel so alive
You got me tongue-tied
Unravel it if you like
You can tell when I lie
From you where do I hide?
0:36 Verse 1
Checkin myself out in this black mirror
Look at my outfit, isn't it a killer?
They say if a pine tree was to go timber and nobody was around the forest wouldn't remember
I was back in New York, it was back in December, the photo of 30 Rock look like a greeting from Santa
Cupcakes at Magnolia always look like a winner but I would prefer the dumplings that they serve near the Chambers
Street station
Glasses on, I look at life with my lens craft
Face ID, I guard it like a PIN pad, whitewash the grill they told me other colors look bad
I guess the yellow always remind them of witchcraft
Why buy the six when they got the seven?
Rest in peace to my headphone jack, I hope it's up in heaven
Don't go to church no more but I will stream the sermons
Nowadays we rather live a meme, than die a legend
1:32 Chorus
My life scrollin by
Highlights scrollin by
I see myself in your eyes
I feel so alive
You got me tongue-tied
Unravel it if you like
You can tell when I lie
From you where do I hide?
1:52 Verse 2
If I occur in your mentions please pray for me
It's been a long week and I ain't found time to feed
If I disappear from this earth was it the result of curse
Or did a higher plane just open up vacancy?
You got me sub scribed, I just wanted the free wifi
A fire fit and a walk along the Highline
A pint of cider or a cup of chamomile, I'm
simple in desire, I don't need the second phone line
The candle was a votive
I used to want to get quoted
Now I just wanna learn to be devoted
Fell out of line like an old notification
That red numeral haunt me like a seance
God bless the decimals and every algorithm
The court cases that told corporations that they livin
I find my space in the recycle bin and I wonder if it's true that stray dogs go to heaven
Amen.
2:40 Outro
Tap me on the shoulder
I'll hold you in the dark
They say all we need is time
But all we got is us
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Influencers
02:58
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0:12 Verse 1
I got lost in LA, for a hot second
All of my life goals turnin into life lessons
Seen viral success turn into second guessin
Done too many things just tryin to find mentions
Insecurity, almost thirty actin immature
Inadvertently, I was thirsty then it's all a blur
No analogies, I won't hide behind the words
It's just my apologies to all the friends I might have hurt
I know you well-wishin when you speak of fame but it's a thin line between well diggin and diggin graves
They let the bird sing inside the cage,
But the clipped wing rings louder than the praise
hey
LA got haze that's the green weed,
Ever since a shorty, I aimed for the big league Chu, in the pocket like iPhone in jeans
My dream: make a livin if I just do, me
Wanna see beyond the frame of the Gram pictures
I wanna see what I can make without the analytics
wanna rip stage without thinkin attendance
Learn to lead by listenin, not like these influencers
1:11 Chorus
I got lost in LA for a hot second
All of my life goals turnin into life lessons
(Life lessons)
Learn to lead by listening, not like these influencers
1:31 Verse 2
I'm less concerned about what they think of me now
I tried to stay home and learn to be a good spouse
Real spit, we was always a second away from dippin, thanks to Jon for input and weekend spent on his couch
Right now? I measure impact in my house
If I can't rock that then why would I go out?
They say the other side, that's where the grass green
But if you ask me, it's freshest where you water the leaves
Wifey was my partner like we sponsorin a start up
Satin garment like a Starter when she came home I was starstruck
Sparkin like a starter spittin fire in a motor
You come startin shit unguarded she be very far from harmless
Honest, she kicked it with the crews like a princess
Never got bored with her moods - that's Pinterest
That ring - that vow - that was commitment
This life - that girl - that's who my influence was
2:20 Chorus
I got lost in LA for a hot second
All of my life goals turnin into life lessons
(Life lessons)
Learn to lead by listening, not like these influencers
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4. |
24/7 Chill Lo-fi Vibes
01:50
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5. |
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Go, on and on
And on and on
x4
0:22 Verse 1
Holy water rainin from the skies I call it Christmas
The best gift since I would come to Jesus wit my wishlist
Back when grandma lived in DC, we would drive to visit
Back when CDs outta the plastic were a new religion
Prayed for it
Saved for it
Wait…
Used to dream about this very moment when I felt foreign
Runnin like Gump, Forrest life slippin past me
Not into athletics, more a type of Mathlete
Track meet, souls on concrete outside that Acme - fillin the parking lot, acne and energy
Used to ride in Brett’s side seat, shotgun
Now he got a kid in first grade, that’s awesome
I only met his daughter twice
Ten years went fast, out of sight
Drops on the sidewalk in the light
And the water wash away all my sins, Christ
1:08 Chorus
Take a look at me now
And I'm fallin
I'm goin right back to your arms
Take a look at me now
And you're calling
I didn't know we'd get so far
1:39 Verse 2
Been down a lot of these roads
That no one knows,
where no one goes
They turn no stones around here
Seem fishy like Pisces, but the water they swim in is up in they eyes like it’s Visine
Or geysers
Faithful
Who do
you pray to?
And who do you pray for?
9-11 come through just to pick up the pesos
And they don’t even leave bits when they leave the room announcin it’s case closed
It’s a puzzle
In my face, I wear it like a muzzle
I trained it like a muscle
Hard to crack, yea, it’s like a mussel
But when the eyes opened, the chakra, can flow
Hands up they still blow
Nonviolent, the steel toes
The lion, the witch knows
He’s silent, but not for, ever
no
2:48 Chorus
Take a look at me now
And I'm fallin
I'm goin right back to your arms
Take a look at me now
And you're calling
I didn't know we'd get so far
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0:28 Chorus
Will you hold me close in your memories?
Will you smile when you dream of my open doors?
Will you hold me close in your memories?
I smile when you land on distant shores
0:52 Verse 1
Now let me celebrate my town a little bit
To keep it humble, people forget that we exist
Odds are good, they don't know anyone that reps
But you know: anything precious is often scarce
This is a love song to cold nights and rainy winters
Headlights on Kirkwood Highway in December
Slidin down Lancaster Pike at like 6 AM and Wawa's diet peach iced tea, the taste still lingers
To all the townies, who grew up on Main Street
Half your high school class wound up at UD
Sneakin in the Stone Balloon with fake ID, get kicked out, then we hang out in the side streets
Rehoboth summer breaks and Hockessin Soccer Leagues
Three Little Bakers and Kahunaville, RIP
I been all around the world but still I never leave cuz everywhere I go, I bring it with me in my memories
1:38 Chorus
Will you hold me close in your memories?
Will you smile when you dream of my open doors?
Will you hold me close in your memories?
I smile when you land on distant shores
2:01 Verse 2
Now let me first of all acknowledge what it is
To keep it honest often I wanted to just forget
Spent half of my lifetime just runnin from the past - but I,
Circled the track to see it made me who I am
So it's a love song to warm nights and wet summers
Two showers a day, the sweat still runnin
Happy Harry's, runnin errands on a low budget
Rita's Italian Ice, eatin cold custard
Sheel's basement, Woodside Creamery, The Harmony Grange, White Clay Creek scenery
Often dreamed of escapin to Philly sEcretly, instead we loitered in the Newark Shopping Center frEquently
These are the places that raised me right
95 percent of yall might not get that life
That's fine, because it's not why I write
It's to connect me to my roots so I can reach towards the light
Chorus
Will you hold me close in your memories?
Will you smile when you dream of my open doors?
Will you hold me close in your memories?
I smile when you land on distant shores
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Verse 1
Thank God for every microphone and engineer
Every single plane ticket that done brought me here
All the late nights it took to build a long career
And the job that moved my family to Delaware
Thank God for my family, my mom and dad
We got our battle scars but they still got my back
My little sister, I'm proud that she's in therapy
Teachin me to do the work to build a better me
Thanks to the exes, who gave me a chance to love
Thanks to homeschooling I never got hooked on drugs
Thanks to John, who taught me how to use kung fu
Thanks to 302, you taught me how to stay humble
And thanks to the fans, and every single person, who took the time to listen even if you didn't purchase
I hope that it was worth it and it gave you a sense of purpose, if I helped you through the day I was happy to be of service
And I was grateful though it didn't always come through
Thanks for all the moments that you thought I was the one too
Elizabeth, our marriage, it was the hardest thing
But I was thankful every time I saw our wedding rings
Chorus
Sit here as the world spins
Sit here as the world spins
And God bless the day
God bless the day
I sit here as the world spins
Let's sit here as the world spins
And God bless the day
God bless the day
1:35 Verse 2
I curse like a sailor, then I sing like a choir
Go to church in the morning, get to work after hours
.Sit on the stoop and meditate to get higher
Step to the stage then I burn like a fire
Let me build a bigger chapel so the world can visit
If I paint a better picture, would you come and listen?
Living present in the moment cuz I know that every one is precious
What would you do if you knew there was no fear of failure?
Resetting what I thought the game was in life
Even if it's all for love it still takes sacrifice
Too many artists wind up Fyre festivals -
I'mma be rap game brussel sprouts and vegetables
A superfood, superlosers co on my back
My very first praise song, Jung on the track
I'm not here to perform, cuz I don't know how to act
I'm just sharing my life and I do it through rap
Chorus
Sit here as the world spins
Sit here as the world spins
And God bless the day
God bless the day
I sit here as the world spins
Let's sit here as the world spins
And God bless the day
God bless the day
Bridge
And bless the day, the sun is
Going down
Bless the day, the world is
Spinning around
Oh, bless this day, the sun is
Going down
Oh, bless this day
Chorus
Sit here as the world spins
Sit here as the world spins
And God bless the day
God bless the day
I sit here as the world spins
Let's sit here as the world spins
And God bless the day
God bless the day
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Dumplings
02:47
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Russell Jeung says
Chinese people can speak two love languages fluently:
food
and
sacrifice.
Every time I visit her apartment,
my grandma does two things:
she cooks pan fried dumplings
and she presses a new $100 bill into my hand,
Benjamin Franklin wrapped in a red envelope
like a robe.
She lives across from the Montgomery Mall,
where we walk after lunch,
bellies straining,
to search up and down the aisles of K*B Toys.
I lie on her carpet through the late afternoon
playing with my new LEGOs
as she watches the Chinese news on her old TV.
Grandma is an immigrant -
worked to support three sons -
knows how to leave everything behind -
knows these dollars
are nothing more than a nursery of fading green,
a paper thin cocoon
transforming labor
into
life.
What idiot
collects
shed skin
and
dead hair
and calls that
life?
I do.
For two months,
my friend David
hid every mirror in his house,
turning frames and taping up newspaper
until he was living in a perpetual state of tornado readiness.
He said:
the more he looked at himself,
the less he saw others.
I’m afraid to accept
that I’ve forgotten how to see
you,
grown used to seeing
what I need
from you;
Terrified to confess
that I care more about
what I’m saying
than
who I’m saying it to.
That’s not language.
It’s a mirror.
And isn’t our world filled with mirrors,
kisses like cold glass
and
songs clear and clean like the air in a bank?
Maybe the answer
is learn from grandma:
I'll cook you your favorite food,
press into your hand my stored labors
which you will spend on late afternoons with me.
If I'm gonna live in a world where
kisses taste like summer
and
songs sing like two palms warm against each other,
I will need to speak
In a language I haven’t yet mastered,
but need to.
We speak two love languages fluently:
food
and
sacrifice.
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Honor (feat. Uzuhan)
03:07
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Thank you, but it's an honor
Just to be asian
Honor
Just to be asian
Honor
Just to be asian
Honor
Just to be asian
Verse 1 (jason)
From gold skin to cinnamon
Green cards and citizens
Airlifts, university scholarships, and immigrants
Dark hair and irises
Young without collagen
Whatever we playin at you know we be killin it
Humble but dominant
Grew up an acrobat
Flip from laundromat to graduate to diplomat
Called Chinamen by the ignorant
The wise they call them gentlemen,
Yall know what time it is -
I love my people how we haggle at the markets
Take a family vacation to the outlets
Eatin out it's not a question if we gon split
Or if anyone take the last portion, no
I love the smell of salt and sweet,
Gold in the air like the sun off the beach
I love the stories that make us so unique
You can copy the food but the soul is outta reach
It's an honor
Honor
Just to be asian
Honor
Just to be asian
Honor
Just to be asian
Honor
Just to be asian
1:06 Verse 2 (Uzuhan)
Ay, OK
It's the voice of the people, uh
Voice from the steeple, uh
Voice of illegals who tug of war with the eagle, uh
OK, I speak up, go kick your feet up
Then say they takin all the jobs while they clean up, yea
So just sweep em and push em to the side
But keep em if you see the dollar signs
Your story's so unique!
Say we need em but actions admit the lie
If history's repeating I don't think we'll even mind
yeah
Get your clout points, mm, pimpin our voice, yea,
breath of fresh air, guess I'm just your Altoid
People of color, yea, need to be scholars,
and lift it up in honor, time to remove the shot caller
Used as your token
but even checks fade
Tell me, which of your pawns will fight a checkmate?
I know you need us, just admit that you do
In a decade you will see if what we're saying is true,
It's an honor-
Honor
Just to be asian
Honor
Just to be asian
Honor
Just to be asian
Honor
Just to be asian
1:23 Verse 3 (jason)
White and blue collar
They come, became martyrs
Honor to all the mothers and fathers of daughters,
Sons of back kitchens, liquor stores, and corners,
Dollar cabs, massage parlors and fruit farmers
Grew up with no role models and no stories
Learned to use tongues and brains in due order
War? They called on us then left us war-torn, it's
no surprise we cut borders but not corners
And they treat my father like he still a tourist
But they got no problem buyin Sony or a Taurus
Hypocrites, I'm learnin to ignore em
Cuz the obstacles they gave us only taught us how to flourish
Artesia to Tyson's Corner, the streets of Flushing, Plano! Yea my peoples gorgeous
Sky is the limit, since Bruce broke the boards, I know no bamboo could ever hold us under water
It's an honor
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Westworld
02:41
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On the train with a strange man sittin next to me, if I end deceased, rest in peace and call my next of kin
I'm ponderin this question on a concrete mezzanine:
Entertainment is a necessity? Or luxury?
Give me a tummy tuck or tuck me into cotton sheets
Either way my appetite is piqued by the monotony
Now every director out here playin Sophocles
Bored with the vanilla, had to push it til they fed asleep
Ever been out on the road?
Wonder if you could handle the tours
I know that you think you could go
But really you more of a tourist
Why are we all runnin so fast?
There's dignity in being tortoise
Told all a your friends you was lovin the show but you only was singin the chorus
00:55 Chorus
Photographers come for your head
This music it go to the chest
You tired? I sleep when I'm dead
This music it covers the rest
x2
1:07 Verse 2
I wanted to follow the King
But I slipped on the balcony steps
The bullet went over my head and it hid in a box of ballots instead
I wanted to carry a crown but they gave me a circle of lead
Put my hands on it and turned it to gold then they took it and gave me some cash
Moon light, white beam through my window
She's on my lock screen til I been home
Red eye, numbers pass like it's bingo
If this was a sing along her beat would be my intro
This music is really so beautiful, I been to everywhere except Georgia
Shouts to the people I met who the homies, the circle is really so gorgeous
Picked up a cookie and broke it in half and inside I discovered this fortune:
Luck and ability get to the top but it's character keeps you from fallin
Drivin, 75 in the fast lane
Snow drifts on my windshield like ashtrays
Headlights up through the night like Batman
If I made a mistake, pray that God can back space
1:49 Chorus 2
She's flyin away on a jet
With music to keep in her chest
I'll carry her smile in my head
I'll see her again when we rest
x2
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jason chu Los Angeles, California
I make rap music + speak on what I believe in.
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