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What Pressure
02:43
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Niggas can’t tell me shit about how to move this ink pen, don’t get me started, fuck it where do I begin. Cause I reign superior, destroy competitors, challengers or runners-up, etc., etc. My catalog is full of gold, yeah I done broke the mold, Imma keep dropping I don’t care how much the shit sold. But truth be told, stay getting mine when I’m on the grind, 10 years, 10 projects I think I’m doing fine. And the way I deliver these bars it should be a crime, roll something up, I’m trying to steal the moon out the sky. Cause when it comes to this shit, I got a endless supply, minding my business so my business is a enterprise. God blessed me with this gift, when I script out these lines, I was born good can’t tell planned or it’s improvised. So when you catch me out here, just know you can get it live, cause I don’t sympathize with Wack hoes and wimpy guys.
Give me pressure, what pressure? Don’t exist cause I’m too tight. Pressure bust pipes, naw nigga I’m just too nice. Give me pressure, what pressure? Don’t exist cause I’m too right. Pressure bust pipes, naw nigga I’m just too nice. Give me pressure, what pressure? Don’t exist cause I’m too tight. Pressure bust pipes, naw nigga I’m just too nice/ Give me pressure, what pressure? Don’t exist cause I’m too right. Pressure bust pipes, naw nigga I’m just too nice.
Betta call the authorities when ILL Gordon on the loose, but you probably gone need a morgue by time they get to you. Serial killer, lyrically, what I intend to be, cooking bars like chemistry in penitentiaries. Creating gas they use in the chamber…essentially, and if that’s what I’m know for, I’ll bask in the infamy. I’m known for always keeping it a hundred like a century, my hand wave and pull strings, conductor of a symphony. Propose to this rap music, even though the bitch ugly, Sonning rappers now I’m married with children like Al Bundy. Its my shit then I run it, its your shit then I want it, trying to get this money all together like I’m crowdfunding. Trying to stack it up till I’m sitting on a pile of it, social distance in this race, you niggas stay a mile from me. Couldn’t take the style from me, if I gave you the blueprint, like I gave you the stick and you still didn’t do shit.
Give me pressure, what pressure? Don’t exist cause I’m too tight. Pressure bust pipes, naw nigga I’m just too nice. Give me pressure, what pressure? Don’t exist cause I’m too right. Pressure bust pipes, naw nigga I’m just too nice. Give me pressure, what pressure? Don’t exist cause I’m too tight. Pressure bust pipes, naw nigga I’m just too nice. Give me pressure, what pressure? Don’t exist cause I’m too right. Pressure bust pipes, naw nigga I’m just too nice
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Welcome, welcome yall, welcome to class, take a seat, take a seat…this is Fly 101, I want you to go ahead take out your notebooks, get your pencils, get your inkpens…ya know get ready to take some notes, we got two of the flyest emcees, ILL Gordon and Andreaus Haley, they bout to show yall what this fly shit about.. lets go..
Allow me to retort, ILL Gordon is an unstoppable force and stay lit because I walk with a torch. About to leave shit scorched, gotta be on path to stay on course, heard I wasn’t nice double check that source. I’m at that point, to where I’m bout to really start caring less, gotta make room for all this flyness to manifest, you not impress. I do my thing regardless, the fly guy and I’m gone get you sucka like Antonio Vargas. I need every dime and I ain’t giving out bargains, trying to live stacked up like high rise apartments, my skyline is gorgeous. I don’t fit in and never try to force it and why should I, all my shit is flawless. Regardless, I wear it cause the shoe fits, can tell that I do this, putting rappers in the chokehold just making sure the noose fits. Came up from the dirt and I blossom like a tulip, this fly shit 101 these rappers need schooling.
Because I swear these rappers phony, talking crazy and they don’t even know me. They wish that they was me but can’t be so they try to clone me. I feel like pretty tony, what I need she gone get it for me and this the story, made for members only fly shit only. Because I swear these rappers phony, talking crazy and they don’t even know me. They wish that they was me but can’t be so they try to clone me. I feel like pretty tony, what I need she gone get it for me/and this the story, made for members only fly shit only.
Yesterday I just landed, out of mid air they couldn’t understand it. Yeah. Homie I’m that fly probably that high, aint no mistake about it fam, I am that guy. Andreaus Haley from Burley street, stay strong the world is weak, mogs be tweaking, I’m just speaking, ain’t reached my peak yet. Peep that, keep them shining like a star, grinding like a car with bogus break pads, gotta make cash. Shorty hella thick, so I had to slide, that’s a real bar I aint even have to rhyme. Took her thick ass to the crib as we sparked the lime, you know what happened next I aint even got to flex. Stay fresh, say less, used to shop at payless, get paid less, now I make check to break necks. Floetry, all you gotta do is say yes, after us two who you gone play next.
Because I swear these rappers phony, talking crazy and they don’t even know me/they wish that they was me but can’t be so they try to clone me/I feel like pretty tony, what I need she gone get it for me/and this the story, made for members only fly shit only/ Because I swear these rappers phony, talking crazy and they don’t even know me/they wish that they was me but can’t be so they try to clone me/I feel like pretty tony, what I need she gone get it for me/and this the story, made for members only fly shit only.
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Black Jack 21
02:32
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Who else you know that rhyme with such dominance, I’m all kinda lit, I had to acknowledge it. These rappers counterfeit, study the game just like a analyst and I can handle it. But I be giving out info like a panelist, so your best interest take it in like panhandling. Every time I win the votes always unanimous, ain’t no comparing us, fair enough, my demand is up. When you see me hit the panic button, see me with a camera focus,if rap was dope, I’d be coast to coasting. Never heard nothing like this, so enjoy the moment, while I just be chilling to the music, hear the horns blowing. Sitting hearing old jazz playing like I’m Jerry Sloaning, way I’m on it, is to accomplish shit, that ain’t on no cocky shit. Really motivation so I see how they can copy this, nigga play like they see the real like a oculus.
Cause I got what you need and you need what I got, I’m the illest on the planet, jo believe it or not. The way I rap that, hundred stacks is what I need, ain’t no black jack 21 no hitting me. Cause I got what you need and you need what I got, I’m the illest on the planet, jo believe it or not. The way I rap that, hundred stacks is what I need, ain’t no black jack 21 no hitting me.
Chiiilll, cause when I’m rhyming yeah you know it’s ILL, step in absorb the spotlight like chlorophyl. Niggas know the deal like I’m designing contracts, I’m way beyond that, focused on bringing bars back. To the forefront, I slice beef like some cold cuts, call me trail mix cause I go nuts. Roll blunts, the size of my index, a word describe me is relentless, I raise the bar like a bench press. So who’s next to step up and get your crew checked, leaving more the sweat on your shirt like a crewneck. Assume that some killer shit, is what I’m gone do next, stacking all my paper and accrue checks. My movements is always moving forward, cant see myself losing, abusing microphones is in my toolkit. Too slick, when dude spit you already know he got them verses, getting in my bag like I’m pick pocket purses.
Cause I got what you need and you need what I got, I’m the illest on the planet, jo believe it or not. The way I rap that, hundred stacks is what I need, ain’t no black jack 21 no hitting me. Cause I got what you need and you need what I got, I’m the illest on the planet, jo believe it or not. The way I rap that, hundred stacks is what I need, ain’t no black jack 21 no hitting me.
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OK
02:43
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Just gotta feel it, when it drops…
You hear me rhyming with perfect timing like OK, you see me shining with no designer like OK, you see me grinding and wanna hate but like OK, at first they doubted but now they see me like OK. You hear me rhyming with perfect timing like OK, you see me shining with no designer like OK, you see me grinding and wanna hate but like OK, at first they doubted but now they see me like OK.
The only thing I can do is stay on my grind and hustle, if it aint helping you move then don’t let it interrupt you. I’m trying to get in the game and get me a triple double, can’t keep this sickness contained, I’m balling in the bubble. I’m trying to stay in my lane and stay out the way of trouble, you try to catch all these flows gone need a bigger funnel. You trying to dig what I’m saying gone need a bigger shovel,never will you get the picture till you complete the puzzle. Hear your dogs barking loud guess I’ll go get the muzzle, always set the deck when I deal you better watch me shuffle. Don’t put me in a position where we might have to scuffle, that’s only giving me a stage for me to flex my muscle. Not to say that I don’t do it but you wont see me struggle, stuck between a rock and hard place like Barney Rubble. Double up on your bread and always chase your dreams, might lose it all on the way but gain back everything.
You hear me rhyming with perfect timing like OK, you see me shining with no designer like OK, you see me grinding and wanna hate but like OK, at first they doubted but now they see me like OK. You hear me rhyming with perfect timing like OK, you see me shining with no designer like OK, you see me grinding and wanna hate but like OK, at first they doubted but now they see me like OK.
They way they do it and how they do it cause it no relation, study my fly get a Phd up in aviation. Don’t matter where you wanna sit if every seat is taken, so I’m pulling up my rolling chair because I’m losing patience. Cause at the head of the table I can see all the hatred, before I eat with you snakes I’ll leave the whole table vacant. Fiends be looking through my window like “Gordo what you making?” ,only that dope that bust your ears and have your speakers banging. When I mix it all together you know it sounds amazing, just listen, pay attention, you can afford the payment. One of the illest to do it and that’s just no debating, scientists study my brain to see just how I made it. I guess it can’t be explain some of these things are sacred, the only thing they can say it sounds like the feel of greatness. Rappers faking, skills basic, they can’t complete the tasks, remember he who laugh first will never laugh last.
You hear me rhyming with perfect timing like OK, you see me shining with no designer like OK, you see me grinding and wanna hate but like OK, at first they doubted but now they see me like OK. You hear me rhyming with perfect timing like OK, you see me shining with no designer like OK, you see me grinding and wanna hate but like OK, at first they doubted but now they see me like OK.
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Understand That
02:38
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Yeah…you know. Everything is a constant grind man… You put something towards something everyday, you bound to get some progress, you bound to get to where you going, you just keep going in that direction but its really all about the grind man. The work you put in is the results you get out of it
Let me explain, say these rappers like to complain, when the truth is there’s a lot of struggle and pain. Lets be clear, it aint all about the fortune and fame and I appreciate the streams but that’s like rapping for change. Yeah I guess a penny earned is a penny that’s gained, and if you don’t like the rules then don’t play the game. How could I not, hood legend up in these streets, Billy the Kid Harris between these sheets, that’s how I play with these beats. The points I get is what I use to compete, and I be turning down deals so I can keep doing me. I’m playing for keeps and treating this time like the gold rush, over charging labels for what they did to the cold crush. That’s my thought process whenever I’m focused, two ways to get money, employee or the owner. So which would you rather be the loanee or the loaner, either way you gotta work until your times over.
Cause I stay on the constant grind, getting my name out and I ain’t looking for no handouts. Cause I do everything that I do and make my own route, the only way to be a standout. And if you ever thought of counting me out, well then you can’t count, you can tell I’m the man now. See what I’m saying now, earned everything and that’s a straight fact, I need you to understand that.
Gotta stay focused on you and whatever you doing, otherwise it aint worth pursuing. Cause what I know is you put in the work, it will probably work, this ain’t a fluke, I been raw since birth and got it all from the dirt. And I don’t need to rehearse, it comes natural like afros in the seventies, I’m working on a better me. I be on these royalties, carving out my legacy, giving you pieces of me like Ledsi. Truth is I am a different pedigree, a disservice to any rapper you compare to me. Less than exceptional, it really aint fair to me, cause I standout on my own, apparently. It is what it is, a constant grind, you either gotta keep it moving or get lost in the times. Keep doing what you doing like you wasting you time, I’m timeless any point in my life is my prime.
Cause I stay on the constant grind, getting my name out and I ain’t looking for no handouts. Cause I do everything that I do and make my own route, the only way to be a standout. And if you ever thought of counting me out, well then you can’t count, you can tell I’m the man now. See what I’m saying now, earned everything and that’s a straight fact, I need you to understand that.
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New Lense
02:52
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I stay tuned in to what I need to do..ya know. Seeing things differently
I can’t say I seen it all though but I seen enough for me to let these bars go. Did shows from London to Chicago and seen first hand how I made these bars work. You can’t tell me bout hard work, before I make deposits, put them in the bag first. They say pressure bust pipes but I’ll never burst, cause every singe time I write I write a better verse. Craft every letter put up in the verse, remember niggas telling me that it will never work. See the haters on their job, you gotta let em work, and they can try to ride the wave but don’t let em surf. No Hasselhoff, Baywatch or lifeguards, sink or swim is what they say when life gets hard. Gotta learn to adapt you wanna get far, and every challenge is experience to build off.
Cause when I’m tuned in, got me seeing things differently and got me looking through a new lense, seeing everything I need to see. Cause when I’m tuned in, got me seeing things differently and got me looking through a new lense, seeing everything I need to see.
I love life and I aint even lying but everyday lived is a day closer to dying. That’s why I cherish all my family every time I’m by em and those zips of OG every time I buy em. Appreciate the little things, that’s the science, so when you get the big things you wont live by em. Gotta watch your circle, niggas steal lighters but for me I can say I always been fire. Try to pay my family bills so I stay inspired and if you aint getting money then you can’t retire. Gotta stay focused and stay on your grind and make something every second of this borrowed time. Try to live righteous in the meantime cause you can’t get it back, it’s no rewind. Make passive income and get it streamlined in every single way because I need mine.
Cause when I’m tuned in, got me seeing things differently and got me looking through a new lense, seeing everything I need to see. Cause when I’m tuned in, got me seeing things differently and got me looking through a new lense, seeing everything I need to see.
Ya know, sometimes you gotta switch up your perspective, see things from a different view, give you a different look on life, straight up…I just stay grinding though, gotta stay focused in the midst of everything, keep your eye on the prize, keep it moving..yeah
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My Soapbox
02:16
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I mean I always feel like I’m illest nigga in the room. When it comes to these spitting, spitting bars, this rap shit, when I step in definitely feel like I’m the illest..
Let me get on my soapbox, let me talk my shit again, a Pulitzer finalist with this pen that I’m writing with. In any environment I’m exerting my dominance, I make it painfully obvious they anonymous. Promise this, always providing you with this kinda shit, raised in the era when it cool to be a lyricist. Not with all this sideways, cornball, goofy shit, shit be sounding like movie scripts to a porn flick. Its unnecessary, I’m flexing vocabulary, their career was built of sounding all bitch like Tyler Perry. Welcome them all to this slaughter fest like it voluntary and at least be Captain America shield ready. I break Leavy’s and burn bridges, explodes dams, in other words flow kill you simply is what I’m saying. Had to put it in those terms that you could understand, don’t matter cause the overflow will drown you where you stand, know what I’m saying.
Like straight up. Know what I’m saying like when I say shit like that, I can’t be convinced that I’m not the illest nigga out here, know what I’m saying, rappers say this and that but my bars are just better..
I be sharpening blades that cut through iron just like melted butter, it liquid gold when I melt these bars down together. Staying on my toes, never fold in any type of weather, master of Caligrahy the way that I’m designing letters. Stand by my artform, cause my design is better, lock on my target fully loaded like army weapons. They way that I bring the fire you’ll think it was Armageddon, turn the whole planet to a smoking section, so invested. My manifesto reads like a manual, so you can see the picture and the camera view. Do what you gotta do and always hold these niggas accountable, I’m chilling steaming green like callaloo. I’m a different animal kinda like the Loch Ness or megalodon, I flow deep and transform like Decepticons. Never miss when I shoot, have a perfected form, getting off flipping through these bars like Domonique Dawes.
Cause when its all said and done I feel like I perfected this flow. I aint tryin to sound like nobody else but the shit that I do, that shit is perfected, see what I’m saying, that’s just how it is….
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The Wake Up
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ILL Gordon Chicago, Illinois
Ill Gordon is known for his lyrical prowess and has always expressed creativity over gimmicks with consistency over the span of his career, both as a solo artist and as part of the group SUBSTANCEMUZIK. Born and raised on the south side of Chicago, Gordon became known for his fierce raps and keen punch lines all across the Midwest opening for Black Milk, Talib Kweli, The Lox & others. ... more
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