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1. |
Let's Begin
03:12
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his is Normalize Growth
The Search for Zen
The music you are listening to was expertly crafted by Dayton, Ohio’s own Clint Taylor
The speaker will be with you shortly
For now
Let it rock
Love is more than just an emotional passport
Can you forgive someone that never asked for it
Can you hang on to somebody that ain’t holding back
Bare their cross while you watch em add more cracks
Will a new season be the reason you should leave
How much is what you give tied to what you receive
Are your sacrifices purpose for what you achieve
Is it true that feeling good is what you really need
Or really mean when you ask for some understanding
Are your mood swings activated underhanded
Do you overreact knowing you under planned it
First to blame when your own life is under managed
Public shaming while yo private shit is way worse
If you’re breathing then you too have the curse
You too fill the earth with desire unrehearsed
As death and taxes does it all comes with your birth
Human
Do the best you can with what you gotta work with
The best advice ever be earnest and you can earn this
Tournaments are tourniquets cause races are impermanent
America’s for sale and says my job is to purchase it
Forgot I was an artist and got caught up in the markets
Now I shop the perimeter the aisle shelves garbage
Read through the labels and could not pronounce the harvest
Those who want to kill you will never announce the target
I am not the smartest but they see me as a peer still
I remember Willie had the Caddy with the rear will
Detroit city legend and my sister daddy too
I told him when I grow up I want a Caddy too
He said Mark just become the best at what you’re doing
With hard work You can build castles outta ruins
Make room for rooms of improvement
Everything was possible when you become a human
Who am I not to forgive you
Cause I’ll be joining you soon even if I outlive you
I know I know
I know you ain’t askin
But the answer if you got time is compassionate
Normalize Growth
Welcome back
Let us begin
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2. |
We Need
03:00
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We need love
We need joy
We need love
We need joy
We need love
We need joy
We need faith
We need love
And a bag
Every political decision misses somebody it's two sides every time and that's the way it work
So even though asking for change does feel right the same time you're asking for who it's okay to hurt
Worse thing that can happen to you happens daily
And then the next so holla at me when you done ya prayin'
If all my brands black owned what is my image sayin'
Will I still get the draw good as a Disney favorite
My opinion on your opinion of me is this
The D is all I know so I could never take offense
I never Crip'd or Blooded all that blending is intense
Escaping by minute sold us Fentanyl and took a Prince
As any journey begins the uncomfortable truth is every journey has an end for foe and friend
So not to be mean, but what it means to the ends is in the mean time you should
Find a better mood to be in
Cause we need love
And a bag
We need joy
And a bag
We need love
And a bag
We need joy
And a bag
We need love
And a bag
We need joy
And a bag
We need faith
And a bag
We need love
And a bag
Hating me is wasting time you ain't got
You learn everything bout life from the sandbox
A kid takes your toy you either cry or wanna fight
Then an adult lies and tells you that it's best to play nice
That is till a pandemic becomes the main issue
And that same adult is buying all the damn toilet tissue
Then it's Mi Fi Mi, back to that Army of one
The best leaders fail cause they ain't as charming as some
The charismatic get the hoes and job
Or depending where you live it's just the hoes with the jobs
Most pimps had they roles get proposed by a broad
I know that probably goes against what you believe in your heart
Like who in they're right mind would wanna jump in and out of cars
Not to say that women love it just to say they play a part
Some shop it on the gram other shop it on the corner
To help are you the customer or the informer chose
Cause we need love
And a bag
We need joy
And a bag
We need love
And a bag
We need joy
And a bag
We need love
And a bag
We need joy
And a bag
We need faith
And a bag
We need love
And a bag
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When was the last time you smiled
I bet it’s been a while
You poor soul
For today don’t worry bout what’s behind the cloud
Won’t you smile for me
Like a child at ease
You just might change your day
You have nothing to lose either way
Smile for me
Well alright,
At 25 I got braces and in my mind the very next step was being famous
The glory of the moment left the old me ancient
So ready to flex that I forgot it wasn’t painless
To have a stand out feature round black folk is a joke
You get a automatic nickname to add along the pain
Sometimes they be endearing like Man Man or Fat Fat
You get older and skinny it’s a fact that people laugh at
Other times the added adjective describe a athlete
Like tall Mike that be dunkin’ on niggas with acne
But at least Mike could hoop that ain’t bad as ashy Kathy
Or in my case it was Mark with crooked ass teeth lucky for me
When Hip Hop became the proud new fixture
It was perfect nigga I ain’t have to smile in the pictures
But to smile is to let the soul take a break from pain and who do not deserve that
We should all be ashamed
Show them teeth my nigga
When was the last time you smiled
I bet it’s been a while
You poor soul
For today don’t worry bout what’s behind the cloud
Won’t you smile for me
Like a child at ease
You just might change your day
You have nothing to lose either way
Smile for me
Yo
My mother said I jammed up every class picture I ever took
Ice grillin’ I kept it crook, like I’m bout to catch a jooks
Cause Brooklyn ain’t never shook but bit my lip for the chicks
Gave em Mason Betha look the funny thing about it
None of that was my intentions when the shutter opened
Young enough to not care but old enough to notice
That a smile might keep a Copper from off you
But feelin’ like that’s a shuck and jive made that shit aweful
Stay out of courtroom but if not know how to walk through
With a Nat King Cole for the King that you are dude
Used to try to smile but literally didn’t know how
Sat to watch how my neighbors did it till they got roped out
Corners kept me from it but never knew I wasn’t
My blessings in abundance that left me to become it
400 years of telling us to keep a stare
But soon as my son was born I ain’t no longer care
Bet I smile now
When was the last time you smiled
I bet it’s been a while
You poor soul
For today don’t worry bout what’s behind the cloud
Won’t you smile for me
Like a child at ease
You just might change your day
You have nothing to lose either way
Smile for me
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4. |
Superstar
02:45
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This is Normalize Growth the search for zen
The speaker will be with you shortly
For now let it rock
Well alright
Motivate, in search of me I locate spit full of pits sour grapes
Hate how you out power faith love how I powdered my face
The sweat ran and erased the drops damaged my taste
Swallowed expanded my waist who knew I’d follow and break
What was my model escape since when was this ours to take
What joker’s proud of his ace what card was I supposed to play
No backing back in my day truth is I sometimes today forget you’re not in my way
But what if a nigga was right though for the street I’m a light pole
Over a kid with his bike stole fist balled up in a fight pose
What if that kid was my son and I knew he was the one
Would I interrupt the story and change how it begun
What if the hero is him and my stories for them
Well then I guess I some ways my story’s yet to begin
See that’s the problem with maybes, maybe I’ve gone to far
Or maybe we both trippin’ and I’m already a superstar
Yeah, I like that better
What if they’re right about you
What if they’re wrong though
What if what if what if
Is a gift
What if they’re right about you
What if they’re wrong though
What if what if what if
Is a gift
I speak knowing your indifference and that you avoid listening
I’m trying not to be too old to enjoy the wisdom
Entitlement can grey the way of love and it’s privilege
For years that invoice pretended to be a glass ceiling
Shout to you thinking it’s more happiness in choice
The sound in your head is proof confusion has a voice
Pull it back or wind up learning time is not a toy
I remember thinking I could make a mentor out of Royce in my head
He would unlock me from dread teach me how to get bread
Hop out that bible I read that sexy shit’s overfed he’d be my Right Said Fred
But what I found was a man with a family and plan
And with a brother that raps and with a niece that sings
He wished me well in my dreams said never settle for things
Thought he would love my bars and my care for this thing of ours
But he was just doing his part on my road to becoming a superstar
The music you are listening to was expertly crafted by Dayton, Ohio’s own Clint Taylor
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5. |
Talkin Bout
03:00
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What is we talkin’ bout
Can’t be that
Well alright
Champagne wishes, injury reserve those are camp pain glitches
Fraud with some bars made sham with sentence
Bread and bitches on beach making sand witches
A major key is not mixing my voice and fan friction
Green light and drum sticks my band is with the bandwidth
The blam blam is brand dished I’m funny bout the brand fit
Not counting the lambskin
Only haters a tell you not to win by an advantage
Damnit get your damn kicked to bits by us
If I ain’t at the tip top the list is bias
Let whoever checkin’ for you know I’m feeling FICA
And you can get dissed direct or you can get it via raising my click to make chips in China
And I ain’t worried bout corona nigga line the limes up
My excellent brands versus poor client conduct got me crushed between crime and luck
Cummerbunds and chucks classy with a touch of nigga dust blow it in your face
Light a match turn it to the max and blow it with the bass
Knuckle to your jaw like the bell don’t work link in the bio normalize growth sale on merch
What is we talkin’ bout
What we talkin’ bout
What am I missing
How is it not obviously different
We can’t be talkin’ bout the same thing
Hell nah
What we talkin’ bout
What am I missing
How is it not obviously different
We can’t be talkin’ bout the same thing I refuse
I try to keep it peaceful
But name another business where the customer competes with you so much so it confuses whatever’s
Really unique to you
Old English D protruding my skin tissue just checking if that’s a issue
Circular with the wrist move crushing the clutch zip zoom
Pit crew full of pit bulls starving coming to get you your bitch baby and WIC too
Wave turned to ripples wave turn em to cripples see walkin’ it out they gone swear they got some Crip pull
Crown diamonds and crystal from living hand to mouth like I couldn’t find the utensils
Pencil pilot credentials booked and fed with the pen move
Your purpose ain’t close nigga miss me making it meant to
Look what you got into fake as kin to a Kendal
Fake fuckin’ a Ken move this I gotta put ends to pleasure paying the principle
Tell Janet I’m gentle but she gone bring it outta me bringing them dimples it’s simple
NRMLZ GRWTH
What is we talkin’ bout
What am I missing
How is it not obviously different
We can’t be talkin’ bout the same thing
Bruh
What is we talkin’ bout
What am I missing
How is it not obviously different
We can’t be talkin’ bout the same thing
I refuse to believe
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6. |
Zen feat Elzhi
03:36
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Sometimes I forget
Not to force it
And that zen is my friend
Zen out my friend
Zen out my friend
When you see me you see him
Zen out my friend
Zen out my friend
Well alright
Back seat of the Uber feelin’ like film bloopers
Reaching the end and self medicating from the humor
Time seem to never mind me so I press on
When it finds me pray this make me just a little less gone
Took a crack at Atlanta cause I was brave enough
I learned fair was just some shit the rich made up
Genius though I ain’t no hater just a washed brain
Became a G-Nah in a race against my mama pain
She prayed Jesus have mercy on my qwerty
I ain’t got the heart to tell her all rap money is dirty
In a back room of a packed saloon gettin’ vacuumed
Tryin’ to catch my longitude and latitude attitude
Without it you a lite snack to a lion
Men nobody cares about how hard your trying
Better it from me because I care kinda
These niggas hate to share a post they’d rather share vagina zen
Sometimes I forget
Not to force it
And that zen is my friend
Zen out my friend
Zen out my friend
When you see me you see him
Zen out my friend
Zen out my friend
While predicating meditating comes a zen state
That shows the head of satan separating from a ingrate
No one can stop me why oblige or act sloppy
Don’t dodge the fact acknowledge and say Roger that copy
The three out of my four shadows get foreshadowed
Rats or rattlesnakes and fragile tanks with war battles
That’s a slap in the face that makes a bully hold his lips
Who knew I came in peace forgetting I was fully loaded clips
That bang biggest theories on how the earth gets formed
I watched dark clouds equal out to a perfect storm
I saw the nightmares that I had offset my wildest dreams
Replacing the childish schemes that wasn’t worth it nor-ma-lly
A step begins now I’m closer to what has kept me zen
That’s writing lead poison til its ink that flows outta epipen
The third eye stays red if life’s your preferred high
I was winging it till I got it right that’s how a bird fly
Zen
Sometimes I forget
Front seat of the Uber swiping the start to ride
Convo started fo’ I even put the car in drive
Nice weather nice bride very nice lies
You’re a nice guy smiling with your nice eyes
Fishin’ for content really I’m just a nice spy
Tell me your secrets ma lean back and open wide
I know it’s in you cause all hearts come in broken size
Canvased by parents demanding we take the strokes in stride
I slash me slash ego had a talk
To tally up the opportunities we have lost
We couldn’t agree if things are better or not
Made a toast to experiences better forgot
Swap the coffee in the perfumes place
Same difference cause I love the smell and hate the taste
Alan Watts got me thinkin’ Buddha like the differences between you and I
Are not different at all winds pitch and they yaw
What does snitchin’ really solve rob Peter to pay Paul
Just to pay Peter again but Peter work for the law
And now Paul tellin’ ya business to Peter and all his friends
And that’s the Big Bang folks how it all begins
To do crime legally see the following model
Become a pharmasist put the heroin in a bottle
Now your a millionaire heroine leading by far
She said thanks for the ride and then rated me five stars zen
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7. |
Let It Go
02:52
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On the surface
Somebody telling you to get over your problems is like
Super insensitive
But when you dig deeper you realize that
It ain’t really nowhere for all of that pain to go
For the moments you wish you had back that you would’ve did something different
It’s only one thing left to do
And it could be the hardest thing you ever do
Well alright,
Take a inventory look around,
you got a friend then get ready to get let down
I was raised got a visitor then get ya best towels,
Dingy cloths on my body as a stepchild but I had to
Let that go
Wrote a lot of trash songs just to get that flow now I profit through the speaker
But I remember someone I knew as a teacher that got his shot and amnesia but I had to
Let that go
It was hard though my feelings wasn’t working I forgot who was in charge of those to that point the mantra
Was to get it off the merit
Got invited to a party and got my ass embarrassed in my car trying to
Let that go
But it wouldn’t let me budge
Spun my loses into rope and wrapped em tight around the grudge
We all on a journey and sometimes they collide
Till the wheels fall off but to be grateful for the ride you gotta
Let it go
I’m talking to myself homie
I’m tryin’ to normalize the growth on me
Let it go
Let it go
Let it go
Let it go
Let it go
Aye yo I’m talking to myself homie
Just tryin’ to normalize the growth on me
Let it go
Let it go
Let it go
Let it go
Lately I ain’t gotta look around
The problem lives in every room in my own house
And even everywhere I fly no matter where I land
To the ends of the earth damnit there I am and I can’t
Let it go
That little boy smeared his bugger on you,
You was hot he probably coulda ate his cookin’ on you
Why you ain’t do shit your fist was outta service
Why is it the truth you kinda felt like you deserved it
Let it go
Another new school again
Another who’s who making up another rule again
Another friend turning on me
I’m a new fool again
Taking knives with me to school because fuck losing again dawg
Let it go
Funny how time flies
People think I act funny and to all whom all it applies
I don’t know how to play spades or none of them games
We both laugh but my reason is ya’ll all the same and need to
Let it go
I’m talking to myself homie
Just tryin’ to normalize the growth on me
Let it go
Let it go
Let it go
Let it go
Let it go
I’m talking to myself homie
Just tryin’ to normalize the growth on me
Let it go
Let it go
Let it go
Let it go
Clint you a monster boy
The search for zen continues
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8. |
Entitlement
02:37
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One of the biggest blocks to normalizing growth is entitlement
The following song eloquently covers this issue
We do hope you enjoy it on your continued search for zen
The speaker will be with you shortly
For now let it rock
Well alright
Don't nobody owe you shit
Easy to say before the homie gets rich
The bag drop and you ain't trying to get skipped
Saying congratulations from a shaky bottom lip
Let's talk about it now cause I don't want no problems with you
I ain't sayin' steak good without the toppings nigga
What I'm saying's when you hungry to be honest
When the ends don't meet that you are not cooking the condiments
You cannot be friends to somebody that wants your life
They want it all the story and all the rights
On throwback Thursdays they want all of the likes
The lights to your life stage they want all of the mics
They wan't people to know there is no you without them
That in a world full of sin they're your Jesus to defend
Say what's the ticket bruh cause I am not beginner
Let's get it out the way cause chances are I won't remember
What I owe homie
Speak now or forever hold your peace homie
Did you pass down something I couldn't reach homie
Show me something experience couldn't teach me homie
What's the ticket homie
What's the invoice for agreeing that you know me homie
And do it change if it's the new me or the old me homie
I'm just checking homie
Cause I don't do extra homies
Don't hide the hate under you just wanting the best for me
Tell the whole story
Don't be no bitch homie
Keep it tall it got hard and you quit on me
Your lady labeled me a box full of loser persona
We out late so she treatin' you like you cheatin' on her
Stressing I remember the moment I seen it on you
She mad and you broke life double teaming on ya
I guess them wheels fell off huh my nigga
Fat lady blowing coughing up a lung my nigga
Wish I would have known that two would become one my nigga
Remember when yea yea it was fun my nigga
But the road kept going on that hope I was holding
I kept us in my heart but I also kept growing
I changed like I promised I wouldn't you did too
We shared everything memories and empty venues
This a tricky one cause now people no longer ignore
And I'm feeling like you feeling your part deserves more
Aye what I owe you homie
Speak now or forever hold your peace homie
Did you pass down something I couldn't reach homie
Show me something experience couldn't teach me homie
What's the ticket homie
What's the invoice for agreeing that you know me homie
And do it change if it's the new me or the old me homie
I'm just checking homie
Cause I don't do extra homies
Don't hide the hate under you just wanting the best for me
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Nobody told me nobody’s ever telling
That at every level somebody’s always jealous
That relevance only come in the flavor present
That death is when recollection is credited
Upperclass men can fail in it
Fluid lookin’ but gel in it
Hard as jail with a tell image
Knowing better
Magnet since a male infant
Roach infested my testament
Teenage molested pregnant
I seen it took it as medicine
They used to call you crazy for wearing a mask back then
Now these days he he be lookin’ like Michael Jackson
Your opinion’s in the ring with no one to tag in
Do you believe in what you believe without someone to back it
My goals are complex but I’m a simple person
I hate people I’ve mastered the art of introversion
Somewhere on the planet plan reworking a better being emergent
The diversion version for every time I was certain
I thought Zebra was here to save me
JAMAL SMALLZ was supposed to save me
I thought Donnis was here to save me
Bobby Creek was supposed to save me
After him Khao should have saved me
I just knew that Luda was gonna save me
Killer Mike Cee Lo
Who got the job these days I think we both know
Nobody told me somebody’s always selling
Receiving receipts longer than CVS’
Shit go from calm to armor and armed protections
Dreams that’ll make you question your GPS
New trail if you get it be careful tailing these elephants
Shit I stepped in is evident open toed in my element
Smokin’ the devils lettuce and blowing it to the heavens
I’m legend let google tell it she givin’ me noodle naked
A dog but never been desperateat keeping the poodle petted yea
She told me aim it put it in her mouth and I can nail it
Sorry mama I been nasty since you had me
If you ain’t sharing get at me I’m wheeling it like it atrophied
Stand up nigga like lacking knees Tony just happens to be packing in back of me
See so you better be thinking poster board before a tac in me
Oh my God I be rapping G
Head shot leave you neck less wear that as fashion G
You couldn’t have told me Cali wasn’t saving me
I am we wasn’t here to save me
Obie and Swift seem like they would save me
TI was right there he could have saved me
King Crook I was thinking maybe
If he introduces me to Royce that he could save me
There I was making deals with God when in a puddle of my tears
He appeared for the job
My homie said Crooked we both dope
Why the homies from Long Beach who got money and power hate on us
I said maybe they scared he nodded his head as he took another puff of his Newport
Dipped in some angel dust
See he’d been going through it a minute to cool to admit it them hallucinogenics
Put my dude in a clinic he died for overdoing the limit I learned we don’t on time the future’s rented
Like living good ain’t for us
We endanger us in dangerous Los Angeles fighting with poverty clearly gettin’ my ass kicked
With my inglorious bastards we trapped in a brad Pitt I crafted my style and became a number one draft pick
Then I splashed on some Kurupt and Daz shit, oh that’s it
Better myself and I’mma get better opportunities
I set it off so beautifully niggas thought instead of being my competitor they better off including me
I deaded em with a rap I wrote I read it off a eulogy sticking dick in this industry prepared to go raw
Like I’m there in a pair of overalls wearing no draws go get the telescope dawg cause now I’m amongst the stars and my troubles is tumbling like them Jericho walls there it go ya’ll secret to success is getting clearer than clearasil no self help book’ll tell you more than your mirror will
It’s all on you so tell me how your spirit feel
Knowing you can write your destiny if your lyrics real
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10. |
Someday
03:13
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Well alright
One day I'mma stop thinkin' bout one day
I promise okay
Before it's too late
Just not today yo
One day I'mma learn it ain't just one way
And enjoy the suns ray
I promise okay
Just not today yo
Live from a delusional state, in which time move aside to let a nigga be great
And don't bother me with your reality I'm straight
Mixing my color play dough just pretend I'm eight
Get away from my door I can't come out to play
Unless we there yet cause I ain't trying to come out to wait
I don't need no affirmations so I don't act scared
You and I know I made a wrong turn back there
When I'm done whining I'm back to my role
You know to keep ebb and flows
Dude from the gym always in Datfeelin clothes
Guy across the street that nobody really knows
I don't think he smoke but he always speak so he cool though
My kids friends father that I heard do music
Seems like and intense dude that don't do excuses
The Uber eats driver but six feet in front of me
I'm scared of his saliva
Guy on my timeline I'm bout to unfollow
His profile's a talent show but this is not Apollo
And he is not poppin'
Somebody husband wishing that he had stock options
Quiet niggas be violent so leave him with his problems
One day I'mma stop thinkin' bout one day
I promise okay
Before it's too late
Just not today yo
One day I'mma learn it ain't just one way
And enjoy the suns ray
I promise okay
Just not today yo
What's more dangerous, a good hustling with coarse hands
Or a filthy rich bored man
If you happened in the path is that pure chance
The placebo of ego that go where cures can't
Maybe money ain't the rim I need to dunk on
Practice is pain until you learn to have fun alone
Business with no customers is not a sign of runnin' wrong
Chick Fil A Sunday's is so key it could become a song
Jammin' like before you know the words so you hum along
Come as you are they say God's reassuring
Till a climax is a porn director telling you you cum wrong
Pray you get a spouse with good head that make you come home
If only a dream right torch is olympic or the might of a fiends fight
What's left at the end is you get to pick your right
Or maybe never choose and you get to ignore twice
Fuck it it's your life
I couldn't find zen today no magic
What could I tell a pen today
L's come dawg depression might win today
But hope just might be a message from a friend away
Sing along with me
One day I'mma stop thinkin' bout one day
I promise okay
Before it's too late
Just not today yo
One day I'mma learn it ain't just one way
And enjoy the suns ray
I promise okay
Just not today yo
The search for zen continues
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MRK SX Detroit, Michigan
MRK SX has had his fair share of exposure, & has been co-signed by some of the most elite rap artists including Crooked I, Royce Da 5’9”, Killer Mike, Obie Trice, Swifty McVay & Kuniva from D-12, Ras Kass, Yukmouth, Arrested Development and more. Artist don’t just go around co-signing any unsigned artist, so what is it that makes MRK SX so special? Press play! ... more
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