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For It's Own Sake

by Native Theory

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1.
Smooth intro 01:45
You can probably figure this one out.
2.
It's Like 06:54
3.
GO! 02:56
Rally 'round the cypher with a pocket full of words, a verse, a curse, murder in the first, ready with the hearse. (GO!) Stamp passage from my bars to cross but Woe drowns to leave you sunk because you forgot the cost. The weight of my words is incredible, inedible for the modern something-something pumping beats through Beats, so I beat my raw speak like beets in child's cheeks, to beat my enemies, a feat to me? Please! I defeat like Hercules any labor you deem, I leave mortality to those that spit weak. Lyin' on bars? I'll skin 'em with my claws. You change labors to bars I'm already 12 deep! Ask for your favorite rapper? I already know it's me. I'm just keeping it moving proving the Smooth is straight beast. Proof is in these lines that run deep. Still waters, the surface is calm but inside I've go to go! Pour the juice! My ladle you can't handle. A sample's a gamble, leave them saying "Mmmmm" like it was Campbell's. Leave 'em Twisted, got their hands out for more. They needing, fiending, screaming for a taste of the cure. You hear my name with every clap of their hands, I strike the band up! So you can get down with every drop. I can't stop, won't stop, can't stop, I can't stop, you can't not hop and head bop to my rock! Write venom to kill 'em. Winnin' by illin'. I'm feeling my villainy come willingly. Pen elegy sounding symphonies, enemies get no sympathies, enmity for simple MC's. Yagami notes: writing felonies with a pen uh. Freeze framed like a Kodak op when you blink. In your brain, ingrained like wood stain. I guess what I'm saying "the norm"? It ends here. You expecting that 16 I hit 'em with 32 of the truth! And ya'll can't do nothing but lose! When I ain't got nothing but time in the booth! When I ain't got nothing to prove to no fool, I can't do nothing but me I ain't worried 'bout you. Smooth the dude! Perpetually versatile switching the flow up like "Damn, the plan was to go and he ran!" Penning cascades that amaze in mass. Flow's to great, waves to get you swept away! You know my steeze I got moves to make. Grooves to set loose like rounds of 12 gauge. The boom shakes room, assume doom for fools, mega joules to move jewels, pool juice like Zeus. Testify! Kicking new flavor to ears: taste of cinnamon skin plus that red hot blend of jazz, funk, rock, hip hop from my pen main lined to stems to rev motors with the need to GO! GO!
4.
Bounce 03:27
That nasty flow. We killin' everything you know, or thought you knew about how the realist do. We capture you! Caught inside our groove like glue. and quicksand too. The more you fight you like it dude now check it. Depart from others just by rocking a live band. It's not bad seeing how we wreck it like we can. They all canned, sounding like they came from the same brand. Preservatives unheard of when you make that real jam. Yeah. Spitting with the flow you like. My words like light through night when my pens on white. And I, fight and recite when the moon's on bright. You not feeling this?! Then you must not be listening right. So make sure you pay attention we made a conscious decision to be noticed due to passion and skill, makes sure you notice that we: flip the flow to kill the show and let you know we're here and we're good to go! People on the floor! You feeling me now, we're rocking out as we put that funk groove down. It's nasty child. You move groove and dance it out! It's crazy how we kill on every beat we pounce. People on the floor! You feeling me now, we're rocking out as we put that funk groove down. So if you feel this in the place let me see you just, bounce! Bounce! Bounce! Bounce! A step closer to being the next of the bands you respect. We fully expect not to be the ones you eject, but the ones you suspect as the best. You'd be correct not to label us as one of the 'next'. And don't forget the music's in our souls. Double stranded to the helix it's our genetic code. Can't let it go start low and spread it across the globe. Injected through the music we infect you to the bone! Just giving something you might like. Recognize true talent standing in bright lights. I did my homework so at the show we perform right. And now for show and tell we present how we wreck mics, to rhyme tight, groove nice, colder than dry ice, the flow bites, soaking in that venom you can't fight. The booty don't like so stay rocking with us aight? Well that's good, cause we're going to the end of the night! People on the floor! You feeling me now, we're rocking out as we put that funk groove down. It's nasty child. You move groove and dance it out! It's crazy how we kill on every beat we pounce. People on the floor! You feeling me now, we're rocking out as we put that funk groove down. So if you feel this in the place let me see you just, bounce! Bounce! Bounce! Bounce! Looking back to the ways that we came to this path, it's not math but the soul that you have. It can't be calculated and put up on charts. I knew from the start I'd do it 'cause it stems from the heart. We're making art for the sea of heads that bob in the dark. You like the start? We may be fresh out the gate, make no mistakes, raise the stakes 'cause I'm ready to play, aiming to stay. I came in like a wrecking ball to change up the game! It's like a diamond in the rough. Ademas, Greek meaning, Bruce Willis, too tough. It's not luck. The beat lab's been doing its stuff. The time I put into the writt' my pad and pen's had enough. Open and shut, but if you need a little bit more make sure you peep the roar when you head for the door. Take it back to the forum and spread the lore that when we stop... We got them screaming for more! People on the floor! You feeling me now, we're rocking out as we put that funk groove down. It's nasty child. You move groove and dance it out! It's crazy how we kill on every beat we pounce. People on the floor! You feeling me now, we're rocking out as we put that funk groove down. So if you feel this in the place let me see you just, bounce! Bounce! Bounce! Bounce!
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As I proceed, to rock the mic right, from '91 'til I've been feeling this funk like, the only known cure was to rock in the lime light and quite nice. Stay cool, overclocked to make moves. Pen grooves with fumes as the night consumes. Remain true, rain jewels, I continue to slay tunes and pay dues. How do you think I get down fool? Back to back rhymes, packed with fat lines, rails to end lives, done. Led by accumbens lit live, addicted too high, a rival supply? None. Can't mirror me, a tendency to this villainy. Plotting to get over a vacancy for my plot to be. Bringing the funk back, get up offa that thang. You know the name movin' this crowd and killin' the sound like... And continue, to get down to the sound provided. Feel the current in the room as we electrify and shock your mind shooting sparks like a wire: Live! Sweating bullets from the heat I provide. Have your girl waving hands like the high of July. Blinding! The shine alone is enough to trigger tremors to trickle down your spine. With no stones, let the beads run down my neck. Natural, fist comb, he classic, best! (Just too classic! Hey! I know you got more for 'em go and get it!) I seed dreams every time I speak as I, use speech breathe life in chests like King. Uplift, close rifts, tear down this wall. Let's mix thick, rock hard like the best of them all...
6.
A city full of angels and my favorite is upstairs. I'm drawn there she's the answer to my prayers. Back lit she stands my religion, my vision from heaven that's fallen upon my present. With a smile that could end all grace, her eyes liquid amber, her wings out of place. She loads up my Bulleits, I treat those shots like blanks. Pour me another just so I can forget why I came. Novacane, she's the chemist for our pain. Her prescriptions addictive yet we follow all the same. Up the dosage 'til the numb consumes. Sitting here watching as she tends my wounds like hellooooooooo nurse. She's always on call when it starts to hurt. As she pours her allure right into my veins I can just make out her smile as it starts to fade. In a city full of angels but for her I'm aflame. It's like fate when I'm with her it's the charm of her claim. She could be my world, together we could reign. So I'll say this prayer as many times as it takes. She's my favorite kind of escape. The kind you adore, the kind that you hate. The kind that takes hold with a manic embrace and won't let go without that one last taste. We're all pushed ahead at the speed of pain. I'm just keeping ahead it's her life in my veins. She's my enabler, I favor her, sometimes I take after some others but in the end it's back to her like: Once for the misery, twice for the pain, three times for hate, and yet I still come again. Still I don't wane, trapped in the same always the same. Time after time, and shame after shame like it was fate. Addicted to her taste, uncut with smoke and such venom to burn nerves so as to fade with no trace until I can't feel a thing then let go, to hate someone else for a change. In this city full of angels still it's her that I crave. Addicted through the shame, with her there's no pain. She became my world from the serpents taste, so I'll say this prayer as many times as it takes. Do I love you? The angel that's filled me with this hymn. Clouded my vision with her image and charmed me to her whim. Or do I love you? The spirit that gave my angel wings, and led me through deceit until she's tangled up my strings. I love you This angel who's afforded my sins. Twisted my vision with her venom until grief became motif. I know I love you. The spirit that graced me with release until grace turned disease cultivated by this drink. Now wait, Let's go back, was that love or hate? "I can't take this anymore!" distilled ravings of fate. Backstrokes everyday in this bottle but I can't find escape. I can't find myself I'm lost in my daze, I'm drowning with haste, I'm crowning the shade. No one can catch me now, I'm too far to chase. Trainspotting with swallowed tracks so you can't trace my fade. Hail Mary? I hail whiskey like she's my patron saint. Drinking my penance, how many prayers does it take?! Once for the pain, and twice for the pain, three times for-- aw fuck it man it all ends the same. Trapped in the same, always the same. Is this my fate? Deja Vu endless replay? No peace, just turning graves? Your vice grips so great I can't seem to escape. Relapse into your arms when I can't find closure. Until I wake up, and reach for you to lessen my ache. When all my friends are made of glass there ain't no point in staying sober. A city full of angels but for her I'm a slave. Held in her embrace, I'm bound by glass chains She could destroy my world, I'd kill for such grace so I'll say this prayer as many times as it takes. x3 In this city full of angels but for her I'm a slave. Held in her embrace, I'm bound by glass chains She could destroy my world, I'd kill for such grace so I'll drink my prayers as many times as it takes.
7.
Kinetic 06:31
Oh how rude of you. I don't even think you knew, but one look and the hook was all I tasted. Allured by your song, sirenaded in an instant. Not alone in your queue, but I guess that's just what you do. I couldn't brace for the impact that you made. This love with a stab of hate, enraptured by your gaze. And I know. I didn't stand a chance, that glance has fell Troy their hearts pumping as they're held in your hands. This trance ever eternal, infernal isn't the half of it. Golden grapes for the fairest, with heavenly fruit the taste of sin. Still sands when you walk into sight. Moving in my glance as in a gentle spotlight oh! I just want you to know that I am ready to go. My heart beating in this fleeting moment, I owe this to you. Because you make me move. I move because of you. My catalyst. The truth when it comes to the baddest bitch. Well not you, but the you en route. Let me explain, I know truth when you're the proof. You make me want to write for her. Aim every single word and verse at her. Late nights and blue lines blueprint my mind just to show her when she shows at the shows that it's all for her. All we want in life? A queen for a kind that has to fight. A muse for a fool that has to write. What we all think we're owed: love and life. When we all think we know just who is right she'll walk through the scene....and it's silence right? I will move, I will prove, I will do what it takes just to get me to you. I am all in, I'm giving it all out, all in, no doubt this is what it's about. And I know that it's coming, I know that this running will pay off with something, I know that you're the source of it all I won't forget it. You are kinetic. Nobody asked you to walk on through, my life all sylph like, tempest eyed. Still trapped in this K-hole you are on another plane, still can't explain,. still love and hate. 'Til I found that you're the pain to cause me to change, the foreshadow to what I now crave, but I've got to say what a mess you made. You walked in, pulled the pin and left. Talk about a drive by heartbreak. The moon in this my total eclipse of the heart. My star, more scars as we gravitate. Aggregate, escalate, culminate and let it loose. The end to a good thing? Bathos to a new scene? Was it all just nothing? Just nothing?! I will move, I will prove, I will do what it takes just to get me to you. I am all in, I'm giving it all out, all in, no doubt this is what it's about. And I know that it's coming, I know that this running will pay off with something, I know that you're the source of it all I won't forget it. You are kinetic.
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I'm a slave to this vision in my minds eye, strive and get by on "Quality" like shine. But I'm enchained by the need to do it right, it takes my time, I take forever slowly losing my mind. Exhaust don't feel the good kid it be killing my vibe. I need a breath of new life. Exhale, inhale, repair, reveal the key, relieve all this strife. Unlocked we're moving, grooving, doing it however we like. If only just for the night. Lose yourself in the music, no excuses. The key is in the movement, releasement if you choose it. Party's over here so let's get down to it. Follow this funky blueprint if you need help removing yourself from the world and put your fears on ice. Swear that it's nice. Infected you might, enjoy the fever that's worldwide, swept up in the tide with eyes wide, you surrender to the current just along for the ride. You've been working with a whole lot, taught, wrought with the fight no end left in sight. Lost? Let us lead you to this world that's just right. Well we gon' try but you got to let us... Pass the Vibe hard, give me what you got ya'll. Pass the Vibe! Pass the vibe hard, give me what you got ya'll! Not just passing but heaving, not just, climbing by reaching, not just hungry but fiending. Not just tired but empty, how many time you bet it all to walk away screaming huh? Like we've been stomping the ground for so long, still no rain from this dance and song. So stay strong? Advice that'll come across wrong. Yea we'll push on, but this lactic's never built so long. You see we carry such weight on our shoulders. A titanic pressure known to cripple soldiers. Charged by thunderbolt and inspiration it bears we'll take on the heavens themselves only to be crushed if we err. Awestruck by how we face such demands as we stand trembling, bloody, but our fate in our hands. Andi f we shrug? Pardon indifference if you would. We'll carry our burden, wouldn't trade it if we could. We've been working bone to grindstone. Lone, zoned out to fight, blaze oil through the night. Exhausted from just trying to reach that next height. Yea, it's a stretch but you can help us if you... Pass the Vibe hard, give me what you got ya'll. Pass the Vibe! Pass the vibe hard, give me what you got ya'll! Def said it's coalminin'. Dirty while you're grinding, shrapnel flyin' as they leave you to refinin', filin', shinin' the diamond that was forged to your soul with each strike. bear witness this holy junction like: Dearly beloved we are gathered here today, to reignite your flame and instate this name. To bring back the back the beat to your drums, to breathe back the life in your lungs, to pump back the heat to your blood, now how's that for love? Through sickness and health we will not give up. 'Til death do us part overflow my cup. For better or worse we do work because enough is never enough we will fight! 'Cause all we need is a feeling, forget the reason. A "why?" will never keep me from breathin'. This is life! Not just pass passing but heavin', not just vibing but thriving, this is just what we needed. We've been working just to feel alive right? So vibe, and tonight ignite, let's burn bright. Get down, cut up, just let loose, it's alright. If you're looking to get live come on and together we can... Pass the Vibe hard, give me what you got ya'll. Pass the Vibe! Pass the vibe hard, give me what you got ya'll!
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Ambedo 07:50
Ambedo: A moment experienced for it's own sake.

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released July 27, 2017

Brian Carson- Drums, Mike Birk- Guitar, Matthew McConahay- Bass, Ana Nelson- Tenor Sax, Adam Marchand- Trumpet, Curtis Williams- Vox, Alto Sax, Keys

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No matter what genre of music you grew up with, identify with, or listen to the most Native Theory is simply the idea that people like what they like and tend to have a difficult time really diving into unfamiliar musical territory.
We aim to bring a generous mix of genres in the best performative displays in order to expose the audience to new sounds and ideas.
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