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The Dean's List

by The Dean

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1.
Crystals 04:00
Chorus: I see crystals in your eyes And they keep me satisfied I see rubies in your smile They keep me satisfied NeimaN Verse: Met you in the universe It felt like paradise Energy amber, common interests Made us both unite Ignited a spark that shot flames Right in our hearts Climbed each other's window The soul is where it starts Like on cue, you smiled And rearranged my matter Make me call the phone company And get extra data Your pedigree is of Cherokee And I'm glad to have you One grin from you Turned a sad dog to a happy mastiff No longer masquerading Focused on communicating Your aura adorable I love your conversation Cram like a processor To hoard all of your information Presence exquisite To be around you is so amazing As long as the sky's blue I'll be feeling you (I'll be feeling you!) As long as the grass green I'm down to say I do I do! Chorus: I see crystals in your eyes And they keep me satisfied I see rubies in your smile They keep me satisfied Dommy Verse: Way back when I used to say Today really gon' be okay Was smokin weed in the 6 speed C FG Repeat 'til the seats in the whip decay I'm tryna hit the bay Beanie to the kicks is grey These gold slits on my wrists could stay But if I shift the play I'm right back to that nine-to-five shit For some kicks and some prison pay Hell naw Man I don't want it Pains in my stomach Tryna get blunted You out for money and bitches And all of these riches A sickness I swear I don't want it I do it for music They say I'm on cool shit That new dommy doo Livin' life with his crew They don't like what I do They can lose it all on this powder like cue stick Homie, that's true shit Props go to my fake fans Making music in skate vans Crew necks and some Ray-Bans This shit retarded no rain man Girl, my love urban like spray cans B-boys and some break dance Just cook me dinner don't break plans And I'll buy u diamonds and spray tans Bridge: I want you Just as raining needs the blues I want you Just as right as rain, the truth I need you (x6) And I Chorus: I see crystals in your eyes And they keep me satisfied I see rubies in your smile They keep me satisfied (Oohs)
2.
NeimaN Verse: Don't care if your eyebrows on fleek Don't care if you party every week I be at the crib smoking indo Looking out a window at cops on the creep Why they wanna kill me Why they wanna kill you Why they wanna kill us Life's suppose to be free Wonder why they wanna bill us We're distracted, detached, and divided (split) Malnourished and uneducated We need to be reunited Spark a fire, re-light the pilot and get high as a pilot (30,000) I feel a revolution coming on a And I'm getting excited Let them know we're alive (we're alive) Let them know we've arrived (we've arrived) Indigos with a halo waiting on the say so Don't make us ride Ride out (x3) Indigos with a halo waiting on the say so Don't make us ride Chorus: Boy I miss you Boy I want you Would you say you’ll come back Boy I want you Boy I miss you Would just say come back Baby baby Whoa whoa Yeah yeah Whoa whoa whoa Boy I miss you Boy I want you Baby baby Oh yeah Elias Verse: It still ain’t picture perfect Only works when the picture’s worth it Life ‘round here like a deer in the headlights Look at the east side Oh, what a pigsty Syringe on the sidewalk The natives are thirsty and starving I beg for your pardon when asking for change I ain’t gonna coin that term But I learned it from rage I know that I’m hurting my liver Life ain’t a burden when drinking a burning river In a white-washed world Turn a black hole Turn to a hopeless forgiver In the form of a Almost said a word That was said by a man Put his life on standby And planned to be put On his knees and his hands And the scars on his back And the need for attack I think his name was Nat, in fact Our minds are trapped In the tears of the past Hope the happiness lasts I’ve been looking for some trust in the world Get comfortable girl Just put your feet on the dash There are no answers For questions so heavy When people so petty Just wait for the bomb To just fall like confetti Elias from Erie, PA In my coffin half-empty or half-full You tell me Not wearing no colors for an XYZ Not waiting for a you-text-me Type of ‘proach With a roach Gettin’ ash in a motel sink If don’t give up the ship the motto Why does everyone just sit around And wait to hit the lotto Wrote and hid a message With a boat inside a bottle Binge that shit like The day after tomorrow So flow just breathe The truth ain’t fun enough to believe Everybody wanna look like a million bucks Two cents on a tummy tuck I’ve been missing days when they weren’t numbered Miss my youth and I miss that summer Chorus: Boy I miss you Boy I want you Would you say you’ll come back Boy I want you Boy I miss you Would just say come back Baby baby Whoa whoa Yeah yeah Whoa whoa whoa Boy I miss you Boy I want you Baby baby Oh yeah Dommy Verse: Let her sing now All the stages I bring down Lemon sage in the raw Good girl, gimme paw Winter bathe her in mink now Can't afford that Ball in bring the Ford back Charged up all on her self Can't get by on her wealth She the plug bring the chord back She draped in Gucci To the brim My mama told me To never sin Let this cheers go down What proof in this substance Move from them sub hits Let that bass go now Abusin’ these drugs And usin’ that cuff To bring me to space right now Cuz we interstellar it started from cellars And moved to the alley But now we in public she tryna be outy Can't read that I feel her like brail My hands out in front of The movements she trail See I ain't accustomed to this Like she workin’ customs She always be bustin’ And try rubbin’ something on his A student for loyalty Got cameras around her Like bringin’ In royalty The vanity spoil me Bridge: I wasn’t prepared I just miss you so much Why’d you have to go? Can’t you just come back? Please? I mean I know it’s nearly impossible But please. Please. I just need you once again. Outro Chorus: Baby Baby Oh I miss you Oh I want you Say you’ll come back Baby baby Oh I lost you Would you say you’ll come back Baby baby Oh I miss you Oh I want you Say you’ll come back Baby baby Oh I miss you Oh I want you Oh Yeah Baby baby Oh I miss you Oh I want you Say you’ll come back Baby baby Oh I miss you Oh I want you Say you’ll come back
3.
Chorus: All for you For you For you It’s all for you For you For you (x3) NeimaN Verse: Who got the fans hands in the air I tell you I'm an artist cause I just don't care A quiz and my woman said I'm narcissistic She don't care cause the bred gone rise like Bisquik Modest as a mouse but a king like a lion I'll be down to earth ’til the day I'm in Zion Wings on my back like I fell from Heaven Squad plotting moves like Ocean's 11 It take risks to be at the top spot Gamble your life and make sure the streak hot Don't crap out no submission and no tap-out Go hard at shows till you blackout The light started illuminating me Now the clique bound to shine You just wait and see Chorus: Cause it’s all for you For you For you It’s all for you For you For you It is all for you For you For you It’s all for you For you For you Dommy Verse: Said who’s high Put ya hands down Young man, this ain't fly This ain't Pretty Ricky shit Nothing you get jiggy with Nothing that my city spit This a blue sky Blank canvas New lines in these blank stanzas Premature pullin’ blank hammers Deep police scanners Three deep with some heat Put a price on they cleats Better keep cameras No sleep manners Through it all But the homie said it’s all for you Paint it blue Faintness of some grape too Black ’n’ mild I’mma mix it with that Sunzu Old thoughts from a young view Tryna keep expression All this talent, homie Peep progression Y’all can keep it in the sleepin’ session Too high for ya fake ass lies Tryna push these vibes Through ya speaker section Elias Verse: And eat this erection Glide in a ride with a beast inflection I seek the peace with freaks costice Leave the beach without a rinse of the feet Now me and Mr. Sandman are locked between a dream I was keen wide-eyed with a goal If Only ain't a name It's a dice when I roll Gamble on the chance To just handle the dope Then make a lot cash And go out of control or get comfortable Shaping the game like pottery of a Native American saying “How” Mothafucka’s flow is this proficient and how People really tuning in like CNN how When can I just run up on him Get my 15 minutes If you really want to get it Better get it right now I been waiting patient hasty for these vegan-ass rappers To really start grazing on my damn cash cow And that sound like Oh when life hands you lemons Debating hell and heaven And pissing off all the reverends Nothing compelling ‘bout your baggy life You’re wearing tight mo'fucka I deserve some damn braggin' rights And I sacrifice (x2) Chorus: Cause it’s all for you For you For you It’s all for you For you For you (x3) It’s for you baby (x8)
4.
Déjà Vu 02:21
Elias Verse: (It didn't last though) I wobble through a wonderland They comin’ for me wild now with grass (It's in the past though) Mind playing tricks on me If you got the magic right now Take a hit for me Live from the underground I swear my name was Krit’s story Piss poor whipping through a city making history I think we found a new era Eye on the sparrow terror forming While I’m coming with the clarity Nobody listens apparently Monkey see do be do be Repeatedly out a parrot beak Guess I'm squawk out the squad You squeak dissin, sneakin’ Freek-a-leekin' like every weekend And read between the lines of you crossing mine Ain't got time for the perfect crime Watch me Vietnam bomb Any King Kong wanna make a hit song Stronger than what we be on They be off and on and off beyond belief no relief There some grief in my tone of voice Cousin OD'd last week And that's void of choice Last thing on my mind was a pill And I do it for a thrill this is not a drill Chorus: I think I’ve seen this before Ask me, I’ll tell you I’m sure I think I’ve seen this before It’s Deja Vu, it’s Deja Vu (x2) Dommy Verse: See something ain't right You hate life You hate black You hate white And day light Toward the ground where ya face sits In the category of another racist Valume and bass hits Grab the turnicat Fine china catch a burn a bit You spoonin’ false love but it's permanent Ya veins chemists Test chemicals the brains blemished All ventricles a stay sentenced to this Life of addiction Pipe in ya mitten Streets dry you might catch ya self An orange prescription All them suboxins like Crack rock to the coca white Some K2 you ain't smokin’ right No pity Petty I see you as weak In ya crib for a week Disposin’ piss in ya sheets No rubbers fuck a michelin Ya sugar daddy feedin’ needles But we all know that ain't for no insulin Outro: Ooh, this prism it got me like I strive for the darkness in any light I do It’s Deja Vu
5.
Closet Raps 04:29
Chorus: Oh bastard you I live in peace once I master you In my closet writin’ raps for you Doing whatever comes after you (x2) Dommy Verse: Grape grow Keep the blunt in session Lake flow What dimension Closet raps a broke car I came far from that To all black with a nice suspension Notebooks mix tapes Crew life ‘bove the wrist placed Flannel gang was the start of it Back a cars rap Never on some starvin’ shit Everybody eatin’ Blowin’ weed Rap easy when you smokin’ tree Man that was me And to the day Sippin’ Henny Neim with the Chardonnay The cards a play It's hard to say Courvoisier Where the garden lay That's everyday Fuck the pay Fuck wit me? We makin’ way Shit Nothin’ to me risin’ out the ashes Such a sight to see like Kim K assets In caskets Lay ‘em out we makin’ classics Jurassic Nothin’ to me something Jumpin’ brackets NeimaN Verse: Sitting in my closet Just a common day Alleviate the weight Brewing on my brain Numb wounds that proceed To cause me pain Block out the negatives And create a wave Tsunami tracks that tower Shaq Bomb like Iraq Make elderlies do the cabbage patch And purchase some wax My soul is vinyl I zoom like Lionel cause I'm a star Ain't got no timbos my life in limbo Who raised the bar Corporate jag offs Pen let off assault Haters know I'm seasoned Yet they (Yet they) Yet they're throwing salt Got the recipe down to a tee Early days of writing Raps in my closet You will find me Elias Verse: It’s still looking like the same old city only now I spark flame come and get me The lake half full but it still so empty Riding downtown on a ten speed I take a right at the light Never been the type to be consumed with an issue That’s a bitch move But lately I've thinking ‘bout a time in my life Where the timing was right I’d abide by the light and take a shot at the mic Make you switch views The natives never seen shit this true They never had a plan they could stick to My goals off the rip Nothing but a west-side predator Indebted to a culture That ain’t his The come up was basic Writing raps here in the basement Sounds like it was makeshift Now there ain’t even peace to disturb There ain’t enough glue in the mixture I made something outta nothing You ain’t frontin’ lil cousin Repercussions are an insert That goes to homies out in Pittsburgh Play this at a Wharf on a Thursday night You heard it right Elias hit the burner twice And still nice mothafucka check him out I ain’t blessed up I be blessed out What to do with all this talent got me stressed out The game is mess now Nobody is listening to what matters most now! Left all my bullshit in the past Saved celebration to wait in the stash Brown told me I just need to rap But still big homie I ain’t figured out this bastard Chorus: Oh bastard you I live in peace once I master you In my closet writin’ raps for you Doing whatever comes after you (x2)
6.
Dommy Verse: She got on all my favorite fabrics Not a fashion addict But I could peel off them layers to have it Subtle she spoke Provoke an antidote I'm feelin’ reckless Our body's Tetris Picasso fleshes This vodka got me Damn you my favorite Flavor on my tongue tryna shun Cuz we flagrant What's not accepted I'm trumping groupies like Ya fired if they not elected They basic flaws defected The state and laws affected Cuz we ain't flashin’ vases Expensive cash and watches Music videos with bitches grabbin’ plastic crotches Naw, we novice A province of vets and prior bosses Always cuttin’ losses She stay in them goulashes She stay in them goulashes It’s raining outside (Fuck you Neim, haha) Chorus: We in ya speakerbox We in your low below We make ya speakers knock So let ya people know (x2) Bounce widdit widdit Bounce Bounce (x4) NeimaN Verse: Hair long arms big Like I'm doing crossfit Opposition in my crosshair Laura Croft shit Bass like an elbow to yo temple In a mosh pit Greenery so nasty You would think I'm smoking moss shit Someone call the doctor We got insurance now Only rock and country allowed In Erie insurance now Fuck the hate, fuck the racists Or anybody doubting Ready to Ironman the Klan Call me Robert Downey Causing vaginal secretion Better grab a Downey Keep the lair secret Creepy crabs tryna drown me Impossible I got gills for all you crustaceans Stay on track like locomotives Entering Union Station Nothing general Electric like I'm static shock Invest now The Dean accumulating massive stock The groupies gon’ be swarming Gotta protect the cock Delilah's selling contaminated pussy Up and down the block Elias Verse: As I enter front and center I need plenty of ‘em pouring up for proper measure I need weed so loud A contact high could wake up Hellen Keller Tryna Storm a cellar Where the finest grapes are formed under pressure Eating Haussen Feffer I'm the maniac Look at how they chain react Switch the logo on they fitted cap When I ain't play with that Lay some pavement on your track Write my name in wet cement Let that shit dry out but you can't step to me a-fucking-gain I come through say fuck your friends I swear they all playing pretend I also need a place to go Where this shit seems to never end Stir the damn pot boy if you saucin’ Night of the living corn balls is a upon us And if you flossin’ I'm Bernie Sanders with Caucasus Elias got the people to reconsider the options Like fuck the prophet Stop it. Chorus: We in ya speakerbox We in your low below We make ya speakers knock So let ya people know (x2) Bounce widdit widdit Bounce Bounce (x4)

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Blvnt Records Presents: The Dean's List.

Who are "The Dean"? We are The Dedicated, Educated, Agitated Nobles our of our city. And we're not the only ones.

What is this? Something old, and something new. Something red and something blue. It's love, it's pain, and it's unapologetically raw. This is simply what happens when you gather a bunch of creatives who are surrounded by oppression and sadness. This is the light for all who can't see where the music's gone anymore.

This is a love letter.

- The Dean

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released July 1, 2016

Recorded, Mixed and Mastered in "The Art Trap," Erie, PA

Naji Adamson: executive producer, mix engineer, vox, drums, keys, bass
Elias Kerr: producer, lyrics, vox, guitar, bass
Dominic Ferrare: producer, lyrics, vox, bass
Marcus Neiman Atkinson Jr: lyrics, vox


Additional Vox:
Amina Violet
Darah Appling
Luis Pontilo
Giovanna Stewart


Artwork by Sophie Meiers: www.facebook.com/sophiezofie/


Special Thanks to:
Blvnt Records (www.blvntrecords.com)
Basement Transmissions (www.basementtransmissions.com)
Naji's Moooooom (luh you <3)
Bob Rigg

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