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Be Thankful For Your Style

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Fire (2NE1) 03:44
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Grant Damon, track's in the oven. Anything I make, you know you're gonna love it. Store bought pasta? Yeah, I'm above it. Flour, eggs, water - yeah, Grant does it. Author, I wrote the book on ill, already did a song about my cooking skills. Time off, took a couple months to chill, now I'm classing it up, Hillary and Bill. Fireless, I have an electric stove, wired, I went to the Grand Central Joe, tireless now, I am ready to go, and it's pop-rap so I stole Flo-Rida's flow. How does he do it? Nobody knows. I write the music that nobody chose. Tell Ian Curtis 'cause I lost control. Lyrics all joyfully spring from my soul. Yeah, except hardly ever. this whole song took a lot of effort. Bars stretch forever and my lines are shit, running out of rhymes, should be time to quit. But it's up to CT with an hour left, brought nothing to read and my phone's half head. Really makes you think what President Taft said - "Help me, I'm stuck." Peerless, ain't nobody near me, write real life like Jhumpa Lahiri, Pulitzer Prizes too, but not really. Just wanted to say that she's brilliant, you feel me? Gotta write before I'm fenced in, switch up my life like I'm Kal Penn. In the White House with some old white men, play Nice Effort - "not that again!" Energy of a basement show, less street, more space video. You didn't ask me but now you know, see the future like that show with John cho. Freestyle off the dome? Hell no. Write it all down, but the payoff is low, can't do it as well as them, so... let's go. Just checked my iPod - Arcade Fire, Friendly Fires, Comets on Fire. It's almost September, Earth Wind & Fire. Call me Scott Stapp, I can take you higher.... actually, never call me that. You could call me Damon or you could call me Grant. Facebook.com/grantdamononthetrack - leave a wall post, I promise I'll holler back.
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Turn It Up (T.O.P.) 03:30
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Looking like a baller, even though I'm jobless always been the smartest, and my body is flawless maybe i'm a cylon, male lucy lawless school hasn't started so you might say that i'm lawless ego's on collagen, got a problem, call it in used to work with cops, i got night stick confidence write with my left hand, west coast origins east coast swag like shirts with a collar, then no new york - me and lydia lunch and them kicked out of clubs for pretending i'm a punk in them fuck arlene's, i never had fun in it going down to doc's, getting drunk with a bunch of friends danny meyer with the fast food chain it's afternoon, got the shack on the brain congrats to earl's - new york mag all the way so now i'm back on the right coast, left from the left i could say a la droit 'cause i started learning french that's all i've got, been slacking off on my french mixtape's maladroit, short and really not the best now i'm back at school, something like rivers big netflixer, coffee shop sitter need something to do besides destroying my liver year is starting soon so be careful what you wish for half project pat, half country grammar half woody allen, but all the way badder mood is up and down like a game of chutes and ladders turn it up now? burn it up, cotton mather growing up now, but badly, going from drinking to dressing natty, gotta press my khakis a lot of things that wouldn't pass back in cali turn up the douchebaggery? yeah, i'll do it gladly
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I Am The Best (2NE1) 03:27
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i am the best at lazy-ass k-pop rap best at being stressed, i'm never laid back bad at facebook, so i fell off the map all my friends, sorry I never called back instead i record tracks with cl and all that bored, but i don't need to be telling y'all that just went all the way to hell and all back if by that you mean new haven, it's not bad shout out to my unhip father fuck you to the la dodgers fuck you to the arizona d-backs, fuck you to the braves, and i mean that to my giants, that's my team, man it's called a slump, new york times, you've seen that it's a slumper, hyphy, bring it back park bom on the hooks, she could sing that i'm on the metro north, back and forth to new york words getting forced, verse too short can't stay away from the meta, of course why i gotta be mean to me? i'm hip as a fixie, single speed but with brakes, i'm hip but i'm safe kids, look both ways, shit, i'm so great rappin' rodney, fuck all of that this is back to school after college rap 'cause i'm jobless but not for long, and still awesome, and... nevermind, i wouldn't call it that i've been meeting people all of this week an opportunity to talk about me yeah, basically all about me like this mixtape, all about me am i paranoid, or is it in their eyes? I know he looks nice, but fuck that guy two minutes is enough of that guy who thought you'd meet self-involved people in law school? i got international swagger, that's what i say when i'm throwing back magner's that's right, i'm a guy drinking cider. you're all like, it doesn't really matter. so i run the bar like i'm ted danson always deliver, the guy who played hamm toy story and cheers in one simile? damn yeah, that was pretty bad so let's forget about that pretend this is kanye west on the track write my curses in sms when i rap grant is the best and the best is grant
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Knock Out (GD & T.O.P.) 03:24
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mama said knock you out, but I'm a nice guy So I try to make you feel good, white lies But there's only so much I can do, nice try So put your gloves on, it's gonna be a fight night Though the match might be a little one-sided Like meet the mat, you guys are gonna be so tight Isn't this swell, like what I'ma do to both eyes You'd never guess I've only been in like no fights But no lie I'm more a lover than a fighter And your mother was a fan way back when I should probably writer and your girlfriend's coming up this semester to pull an all-nighter And your exes sending text-es, you're unconscious, i'm on fire Too many rap songs about boxing metaphorically I could win that categorically, but I'd call it talking boringly Wanna win a real fight, like disfiguring you horribly Of course I only mean that metaphorically… So when I beat you up don't take it to heart I find it hard to stop any good deed that I start And you don't need an audience to tear it apart 'cause bitch, I'm the boss like Teddy Park I'm full of contradictions, I love Diplo, but I hate Major Lazer Bitch, I'm a knockout, look amazing in a blazer You're underseasoned, I've got a lot of flavor Or you're overseasoned, i'm intricately balanced ottolenghi's mee goreng, topped with fried shallots Like the game from college, when you get the giant mallet Dammit, it's a knockout, motherfucker, captain falcon
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Can't Nobody (2NE1) 03:28
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tiny pants, gingham shirt, french boat shoes, doesn't really work Part hipster part tool part nerd If I'm friends with your friends, forget what you heard GMD remix YG, this is fine art, tell Swizz Beats tell Jay-z, hell you tell me, to tell you the truth, um… Let me tell you all my problems, back to the couch Poked my head out, now it's back underground I was hot lava, back to magma now Plate tectonics and continents - wow Didn't do it right the first time around So I turned the gimmicks and silliness down K-pop album will cancel that out But can't nobody hold me down - ha I got a week up in CT before I start working on my JD Nobody wants to hear that in a song, but if someone's gonna do it, it might as well be me Nobody's gonna hear it all, like most of my songs it'll probably just be me This EP's egregious, Hold Steady's "Heaven is Whenever" or T3 I kinda thought last spring it was my time But in the spotlight I freeze up, ice nine So instead I got bitter - quinine And went underground like Chinatown rice wine Was it maybe a mistake, too much self-deprecation to fit on one mixtape yeah, but i fixed that now, i'm the only one who was holding me down Another monday basically wasted, week and a half until orientation 196 Mansfield, third floor, patience tomorrow complacence replaced by creation Write on the train, down to New York, verse so mundane, even i'm bored If anybody plays this, praise to the Lord Thank you BasedGod, and I'm damned by the Lord Right now if you looked this up, you might be like "what the fuck?" Can't do it as well as CL, but fuck it, turn this up
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We Belong Together (Big Bang feat. Park Bom) 03:56
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this is the life that you hope to live, don't you drinking rose by the seine, wearing boat shoes friends on a blanket spread with fresh bread and chevre, the brie's here too but it's old news Hour left till the sunset, just let time pass in france you do what you're supposed to my crew looks like a J Crew ad, Ray Bans Day has, like the laziest cadence New friends come by, fuck it, shake hands If the rose's gone, get the chardonnay then Spread another blanket, have you had the grapes yet Standing up to find out you're unexpectedly wasted Sitting down to fill up another cup with former strangers and conversations you're lost in on the way back I used to be proud of my lack of a passport, now I regret it Didn't want to be in the leisure class, so instead I was just sheltered Had my life all planned out exactly, Thomas Keller No ad hoc, no time off, now I finally know better Used to be ashamed of being given more than others I didn't stop taking, just didn't let myself love it That's just being wasteful, share it with your brothers and take it to the floor if you're gonna pay the cover so this is a celebration of being able to have things like education and this is exactly the type of hip-hop I hate, but I'm still gonna make it Take my old habits and break them, and make an effort to make things better, make this life a great vacation

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I really, really like the Korean record label YG Entertainment, probably more than I should. The two YG Family supergroups, Big Bang and 2NE1, put out brilliant, hip-hop-influenced, multilingual, global pop music. At the helm of most of the instantly catchy, dance floor-filling, Black-Eyed-Peas-but-not-annoying productions is Teddy Park (look for him 7 seconds into Chris Brown's video for "Look At Me Now"), a man who could probably destroy the U.S. pop charts if he wanted to.

I also really, really like making people listen to music I'm excited about. I also also really, really like rapping without having to produce my own tracks every once in a while. I moved to New Haven for law school this week and had time to kill before classes started, so a quick, short mixtape with YG beats was a perfect challenge and time-killer.

If I ever sign with a label and get to put together one of those dream collaboration wishlists, Big Bang's G-Dragon and T.O.P. and 2NE1's CL are at the top, and I'm going to try to get half my album produced by Teddy. Until then, I guess there's this...

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released August 25, 2011

Most songs written and produced by Teddy Park. Grant Damon on the bad rap.

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