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PRESS START

by Bob Rok

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Fire flowers bloom in the grasses between sewer pipes Money hides in boxes every moment here is do or die Time ya jumping wrong and it might resemble suicide Gambling in cavers and there isn’t time for who am I Fungus in a gloved hand Race against a toadstool Slay a fucking dragon in a castle cause I’m old school Turtles toss hammers, ride clouds, and grow food In and out dreamlands searching for your own truth Brother wears jumpsuit Lady comes from royalty Throw on my Tanooki Suit The fucker gives me buoyancy True to every mission and I have no other loyalty Don't look away, don't get squashed Ghost hunt the manor where the concrete drops The birds have shells, some of which know better Snuff a bloodline of amphibious go-getters The messages are blunt and written like old letters A pissed off star chases me through the desert Careful of the weather as you head to other levels Tiny masked men spitting bullets like the devil My sticky tongued dinosaur eats prey alive It breathes underwater, spits fire and flies I wake up in the starting point if ever I should die If I don’t cross the finish line I’m running out of time Flag Please. Ak : We are not here to play I came to win And I’m all in Bob : Let us begin PRESS START Ak : We are not here to play I came to win I came to win And I’m all in Bob : Let us begin PRESS START Covert agent mercenary adjacent Trained with the Shinobi Sunday mornings half naked Sketching maps for Samus Aran in a Rogers Park basement The older the more careful The younger the more patient Zenith was so heavy Controllers were so basic Latchkey kids, eat generic cold cuts Guiding Sonic through the tropics Ass down toes up Never set to easy It was victory or teasing Where you’d stake your reputation On the outcome of an evening Pixelated homicide And button combo beatings M. Bison talking shit When he broke you like a ceiling Its hurt feelings Are you salty? Are you bleeding? Did you finish all your cleaning for some French Vanilla Edys? Pick a 1990s autumn full of tricks for trick or treating Where wild n’ crazy kids found some freedom in believing Milk could give you powers Magic spells just needed reading Approaching adolescence over strange new feelings Questions come to light Like Who are you really? 007 between Jackie Chan flicks Movie taught karate fought the awkward anguish You doubt your parents but the stereo trusted Cause Wu Tang clan aint nothing to fuck with Stack of VHS cause I never did shit Vicent Vega shoots dope in a cherry red whip Ak : We are not here to play I came to win I came to win And I’m all in Bob : Let us begin PRESS START Ak : We are not here to play I came to win I came to win And I’m all in Bob : Let us begin PRESS START
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Storefront glass bursts onto the city streets A country shouting loudly and it wonders if you’re listening Cautious and exhausted as it mumbles it’s soliloquy Buildings burn like cigarettes Your leader gassed the ministry No problem with elections It’s the options that you giving me. Why these rock stars turn cop cars to chimneys. Bobby wide awake while you sleeping with the enemy Power to the people till we're equal over everything Nothings ever banned like a hand with a wedding ring Choke a man to death and televise the evidence Oedipus on reddit like they should’ve practiced etiquette Proof is in the pudding and the puddings full of medicine Ya hopping off the fence I’m a menace to the menacing Fuck Joe Biden. What the fucks the point of settling? Build an institution and the senate would be trembling. I’m sick to death of centrists and everything they’re peddling. You people aren’t the answer. It's the question that’s unsettling. What is freedom worth if it never leads to better things? I’d rather kill your kings than keep voting for your presidents I’d rather clip it’s wings than add wings upon my residence Where brutality is legal the laws become irrelevant You want to start an era in a period of sentences? Beg for validation that you traded for your relevance Mimicking your masters cause their slavery was elegant It’s why you getting jacked In a room full of elephants My thoughts are very sobering You coming down from sedatives Knock before you enter and do not disturb the Mexican I swear to God you motherfucks are going to be the death of him I remember thinking words were building blocks for pyramids Bumping Hieroglyphics hoping some would take it serious Hoping against hope I don’t feel this way forever A bunch of manic episodes That sleep will string together I remember thinking words were building blocks for pyramids Bumping Hieroglyphics hoping some would take it serious Hoping against hope I don’t feel this way forever A bunch of manic episodes That sleep will string together The plot thickens we are trapped in a page In a hole in the wall like a rat in a cage History and violence are rehearsed like a play We’re played like card and then carted away Can we think can we act Can we collectively change? Is how we treat each other what we expect in exchange? It makes them nervous when the people find a purpose Gotta watch what you eat Gotta practice what you preach Gotta learn gotta teach No Justice, No peace You take away a life People take away the street It’s not about the mask or what’s hidden underneath It’s not about your party having parties at the beach I try to be the shepard with a flock of fucking sheep But who am I to lead? I’m exhausted as my feet Throwing caution to the wind Feeling winded when I speak I’m sickness I’m the symptom Quoting Milhouse in my sleep Oh Puppy Goo Goo fetch me a dream Running from a creature from the comfort of a Jeep Screaming in a camera like I’m Meryl fucking Streep Raindrops crash, still water in a glass I escape, I am great, I’m awake in a flash Look at that, I wanted what I have I turned the written word into grifted gift of gab I am not a writer I’m a thinker with a plan I blink the big picture and the simple understand But vanity persists posting pics on the Gram I’m a spic, sailing down the river Styx in a raft I am hip, I’m the shit, I am rich, I am sad Watch a country profit flip every kid it can grab I get pissed, I persist, swing and miss, God Damn I complicate the simple and I simplify the man Then I put it over music and release it to the fans I remember thinking words were building blocks for pyramids Bumping Hieroglyphics hoping some would take it serious Hoping against hope I don’t feel this way forever A bunch of manic episodes That sleep will string together
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People know I rap no one really listens Sitting in the kitchen spitting writtens to the fucking dishes. Staring at the silverware Polishing a spoon Whack cats act like they walked on the moon Real cats know what it takes to succeed Money ain’t the goal it’s the fruit from the seed Freedom and control form the truth that I seek Put away the plates like I do all week Soup bowls scratched like an overused word Everyone’s a genius Everyone’s a nerd Fucks like a porn star free of concern Cats need the talk like the bees and the birds Wait, Stop I’m not even done Cats can’t rap and they all want that love Cats can’t write and they all want praise Bob kill a track and verse all day Write, revise smoke weed and don’t die Dougie mix the beat Bobby fill it with dope lines You can have the mic when you witness the pork fly And with a little practice you’ll be awful in no time Do as I wish I’m a twig in the clay Say what I mean and I’m mean everyday I should get a haircut. I should lose some weight. I should taste the poison in my validation shake. I should stretch and mediate. I should eat more carrots. I should say I love you without feeling so embarrassed. I should call my parents. I should eat less pork. I should save the money that I leave in every store. I should start a business. I should finish verses. Over thinking lyrics like I spit that shit in cursive. I should go to therapy I should go to sleep. Avoiding every memory I buried somewhere deep. I should read more books and a lot less news. I should stay informed even though I fear the truth. . I should get my teeth cleaned. I should get my head checked. I should call my enemies and see if they are dead yet. Write, revise smoke weed and don’t die Dougie mix the beat Bobby fill it with dope lines You can have the mic when you witness the pork fly And with a little practice you’ll be awful in no time
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Mikey runs fast. Kind of like the Flash In and out of trouble Pretty good at being bad A firm belief nothing So nothing ever lasts Eating from the cans full of garbage in the back It's Graham's scrambled eggs and leftover ham A bite of chicken nugget at the bottom of the bag A scrappy little fucker with a target on his back Eastern cottontails share a patch of city grass Crawls into a gutter close his eyes and took a nap Dreaming of his parents and the places where there at His mom got caught his dad got trapped Haunted by the shadows of an ever looming hand His pictures on a box everybody want him dead It's nada till the noche when he knows you're home in bed Small beady eyes. Large pink ears Tendency to hide and a healthy sense of fear Mikey tells tales without making a peep Never worked a day nor waited to eat It's a trap it's a trap The perfect piece of cheese A punishment for gluttons Be careful where you eat I'm telling you right now You will never hear the snap It will break your fucking back It's a trap it's a trap It's a trap it's a trap The perfect piece of cheese A punishment for gluttons Be careful where you eat I'm telling you right now You will never hear the snap It will break your fucking back It's a trap it's a trap it's Can't touch this Seriously you might get sick Trema-todes and nema-todes fleas disease mites and tics I sleep. I hide. I bite. I dip. I eat. I fuck. I fight. I live. I'm hashtag rodents ride again We got here on a pirate ship Now hold your tongue You piles of shit You hypocrites you violent pricks A pound of flesh a mound of bricks The sound of of sober violence Scatter through your cities like a gathering storm I'm snacking off your trapping the hell is a door? Your wasteful sense of purpose feeds the alley and more I'm a buck. I'm a doe. I'm a mammal. I'm a foe. I've been known to start a plague. I will eat your FUCKING toes The steward of the sewers Roving mischief of crud Jack off all trades Master of None Cloaked in the assumption that I wouldn't be a problem Luckily for me cats turn greener than a goblin Well I am da foe creator of the content Comic book flow Illuminate the concept Weary of a gimmicks that they peddle to the prospects My genuine advice don't listen to what Bob says Heros fight the winners The remainder pull the dogsled It's a trap it's a trap The perfect piece of cheese A punishment for gluttons Be careful where you eat I'm telling you right now You will never hear the snap It will break your fucking back It's a trap it's a trap It's a trap it's a trap The perfect piece of cheese A punishment for gluttons Be careful where you eat I'm telling you right now You will never hear the snap It will break your fucking back It's a trap it's a trap it's It's a trap it's a trap The perfect piece of cheese A punishment for gluttons Be careful where you eat I'm telling you right now You will never hear the snap It will break your fucking back It's a trap it's a trap it'
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Cold thoughts It shivers sniffing bark I’m crouched behind a boulder Well hidden in the dark Tooth shaped daggers Instant Instinct and harm There are no fucking sorrys Am I eating or nah A bloody introduction Let me see what you got Your DNA on flowers Builds a trail where I stop I eat you by a river When the season alots I let the fungus finish Pay the keeper its cut I wish we could compete But I prey when you pray I’m pissing rappers off With irrelevant names It isn’t that your bad I’m just better than great I choke a woke rapper Take a date to the wake And I don’t need the money kid I save what you make I kill breaks Like cars with ill fates I spit bars And body this shit hard I’ll kill a big star like tacos In Wicker park
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King of the molehill captain of the shipwreck My whole life is a picnic overrun by insects Running with the bulls or napping with the cats I miss smoking weed in alleys and then shopping for a snack Coffee in a diner, headliners at The Aragon Tipping Daisy Cutters watching yuppies run a marathon Vinyl on a wood shelf pockets full of spider lunch Bobby Rok the type of guy to do the things you might’ve done Not your favorite emcee shit but I’m the brightest one If you think you better let me see it like ya lighter Bub My enemies all vanished when they started having kids I sing Spanish language ballads taking baggage out the fridge Charming as the Wolverine in comics books and movie screens You fucking lames are all the same your verses aren’t moving me Really really big words ity bity dumb thoughts Most cats quit when the glory and the fun stops Bobby grab a mic like a trigger make a gun pop Closet full of hoodies like a cookie full of gum drops I suck until I’m dope I fail until I don’t I measure time in podcasts my hair is never combed In no specific order I'm a danger to the throne I walked in off the street and took the sabre out the stone Please stay home Please stay home The world all but closed and there's nowhere left to go I do not have an idol so my life is rather peaceful I would never trust a system that would have me as an equal Please stay home Please stay home The world all but closed and there's nowhere left to go I do not have an idol so my life is rather peaceful I would never trust a system that would have me as an equal What up B-Rok? Gotta tell you this beat rocks Reminds me a little bit of Premier and some Pete Rock After you came by around five we got high on the treetops Rappers hit you with vibes till your eyes start to see spots Free Crops with the first thirty emcees to come and freestyle Don’t freak out when you realize we’ve been doing it since you schemed about it Be about it. Which means you can’t breathe without it. Can’t eat or sleep without a beat I dream about it. My teams rowdy! Fairweather fans in stands looks like rain seems cloudy Hooked on pain, weed brownies Caught empty seeds sprouting Soft emcees need Downey SOme advice on how to hold it down ANd someone in accounting It’s a numbers game but who’s counting? I am and so is Bob! We’re first to drop the bomb on you Blew your damn mind with a landmine We demand rhymes from all of you By the campfire with a vampire and a mad tire got a lot to lose Satire by a rap guy with a bad wire becoming spider food! Please stay home Please stay home The world all but closed and there's nowhere left to go I do not have an idol so my life is rather peaceful I would never trust a system that would have me as an equal Please stay home Please stay home The world all but closed and there's nowhere left to go I do not have an idol so my life is rather peaceful I would never trust a system that would have me as an equal
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My former bully tried selling me insurance It made me think of tigers performing at the circus. He should be in a jungle instead he’s at my service Like monsters drinking coffee in a chair behind the curtain It appears my worst fears are paid scale to be a burden Gladiators guard the tavern while I’m inside drinking Bourbon Everyone one of us in costume peddling a purpose Looking for our names in the news that makes us nervous While politicians promise they are robbing us in earnest Coming up with cures for the people that they’re hurting Stewing in the pot that a silver spoon is stirring The futures so bright and incredibly disturbing And I don’t have the answers I’m just trying to sell the wording See myself in others how the fuck am I still horny? Flirting with my forties Life's a string of Monday mornings Worried I sound corny as I shrug off every warning Bobby rocks chaps at the drop of a hat I stay cool under pressure cause you suckas are whack Bobby roks cats at the top of their game I make cool motherfuckers look angry and lame Okay? Revenge of the nerds Invasion of the geeks Five dudes run the planet from a mansion by the beach I used to fear death but now I fear living Cause every fucking day the wrong sides winning. Revenge of the nerds Invasion of the geek Five dudes run the planet from a mansion by the beach I used to fear death but now I fear living Cause every fucking day the wrong sides winning. I have labored in cocinas with the people you hate Not a rich kid playing poor catching every single break I was breaking down your tables for very little wage Life becomes a stage when your ass is getting played The further down you go the longer down you stay The less you getting paid the more you feel the shame Getting angry over nothing almost every single day Hear your single getting played while you're washing people’s plates Buying passes for the train at the currency exchange Serve the Scooby Doo gang veggie burgers in the shade Being told by trust funds I’m not cool enough to hang As they gentrified the place that they claimed to want to save Courting underpaid teachers teaching me their ways On how to live on nothing when there’s nothing left to gain The working class aint dying it’s just dying to be free Eating tacos and pozole getting drunk and smoking weed Revenge of the nerds Invasion of the geek Five dudes run the planet from a mansion by the beach I used to fear death but now I fear living Cause every fucking day the wrong sides winning. Revenge of the nerds Invasion of the geeks Five dudes run the world from a mansion by the beach I used to fear death but now I fear living Cause every fucking day the wrong sides winning. Revenge of the nerds Invasion of the geek Five dudes run the world from a mansion by the beach I used to fear death but now I fear living Cause every fucking day the wrong sides winning.
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Bob: Random Thoughts I wing it with the pigeon Flying through the mission Ruffled feathers in position Random thought The redemption is off Robert pllants an image Led Zeppelin mirage Random thought Sweat Tears and Love It’s in My DNA To bathe the canvas in blood Random Thoughts Clutch the crux in a tux A book of missed spells covered in dust Young D.R.U. Random thought: I’m only rapping cuz it’s cheaper than a therapist, Flow is gold I should be a medalist, no drug dealer soo scared ta pedal this, Random thought: I can b upended, cancelled /unfriended, Not for my beliefs but a random thought, Higher plane undetermined watt, I’m sniper that hesitated: didn’t think I had a shot, touched the pot only to realize I’m really hot, Both: Puttin my time in my rhyme, (Puttin the rhyme in the times,) The times in my mind, (The time in my mind,) Put in the lines it’s my time and my rhymes (Not for nought but random thoughts…) Young D.R.U.: Am I deep in thoughts or deep in shit? -The deeper I spits the weaker my quit… Bob: The whack settle for for scraps and back peddles We crack metal win fans and rap battles Random thought What is it that I want Wake up in a cold sweat Glowing in the dark Young D.R.U.: Fear is the night light it shine bright, But I fight no flight bars barks got bite, Bob: Random though a surgeon with the pen Mommy's little burn out turning verses into bread Young D.R.U.: Look at how he feeded what the ears needed: Fans repeated while the teens tweeted, Random thought: We just ran this track: Jackie Joyner kersey, Pad wanna shine like Young Dru Rehearse me!! Random thought Bobby minted by the Fitz Thanks for Pressing Start Don't kill Don't Trip Puttin my time in my rhyme, (Puttin the rhyme in the times,) The times in my mind, (The time in my mind,) Put in the lines it’s my time and my rhymes, (Not for nought but random thoughts…)
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Warming up to cold drinks Olives in the toothpick Everything he touch turns gold into a goose egg Hair like a Greek god Face like a toothache In-between ignored and when you dropping new shit Splinter in the sewer teaching turtles how to do things Dreaming of an afterlife early rise and exercise Meditate Nirvana my philosophy is never mind Naked in the pool I'm a graduate of better times Wordy superpowers and an hour left of sunlight Finishing my coffee and a little tree like Bonzai Razor tongued tornado dust Twist a word and paper cuts. I can spot the fakers like the maker of a trailer truck Cats are hot garbage that includes the famous ones The paper chase is lame as fuck And caked in flaky flavor buds And I don't need to say this but my follow is fucking dangerous Here's to making labor love Thank you from your favorite one This is a song about songs These records are my legacy I love them more than anything This is a sound about sound Giant rattled speakers and some jumping around This is a song about songs These records are my legacy I love them more than anything This is a sound about sound Giant rattled speakers and some jumping around Wonder Showzen Beat Kids Playing over Red Man My orchids bloom in orbit while you fill another bed pan Scribble in my parts under candlelight and harp The flow surrounds the Ark full of animal and art A large ass crowd will show you who the fuck you are The infamy of stars hidden in Chicago bars Lames play games learn to aim in the dark Rok the brain the shark you are taken apart There are jokers there are clown and the difference is clear With my only friend the pen I make pencils disappear While I pencil in the weird Who take pretzels with their beer I’m the fortune’s only heir Feed the tortoise to the hare I throw wrestlers in the air and then hit them with the chair Yeah, I’ve been writing perfect lines Since trees were full of Turpentine I've been drinking coffee cold I hockey check these choppy flows You foodie pics ya sloppy joes You motherfucks are cocky though This is a song about songs These records are my legacy I love them more than anything This is a sound about sound Giant rattled speakers and some jumping around This is a song about songs These records are my legacy I love them more than anything This is a sound about sound Giant rattled speakers and some jumping around Oh look at this… No t-shirt, Bandanna, Muddy boots. Hey Rambo, do me a favor, take off your boots at the door! Okay??? Okay? You’re gonna come in here. You’re gonna listen to Bob Rok’s music. Okay Okay You’re gonna play fucking nice Cause i’m not here to fuck around today Alright Not here to fuck around Oh, you got to use the bathroom? Oh your Majesties gotta use the bathroom, everybody. What the matter kid? What's the matter kid? You don’t know how to piss at home? Okay? This is a hip hop song. It’s not about your desires to pee The world is closed and people are very anxious about that. Because they’re having an existential crisis Can you appreciate that? I don’t think you can. You fucking Ma-luke!
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Dallas ate an omelette in the corner booth alone Paid his bill smoked a cigarette and paid to use the phone Said rudely as he left “My eggs were fucking cold” Rock a Dark denim jacket switchblade and a comb Headed to the crib, bare mattress and his shit He’s a rebel, he’s devil, he’s a clever little prick Running scams for this and that beer money and a lid Priors in New york, But OKC, is where he live Catch a movie, hit on cuties, smoke a doobie by the bridge A lost generation wanders through the matrix Underfed intellect, overtaxed paychecks Problem solving fist fights, promise kept bracelets Unkempt greasy hair young and abrasive Booze hounds howl Echoes fall against the moon A moment for the orchids, the gorgeous and the truth An opus from the hopeless resonates across the room Without proof there's so much he could prove The animal in man is the greater of the two He eats Cold cuts without closing the fridge Enjoys a lonely moment of emotional bliss Catch a glimpse of his face over an unkempt sink Then its shit, shower, shave I’ll be over at six He ain't gotta say much Cuz, she know what it is Families rise and fall like the needles in the pines. It hardly makes a sound to the eagles in the sky. Careful who you chase and anything you catch When the going gets tough there's no going back Dallas left the hospital with one less friend Angry and defeated by the burden of death A distorted soul trapped in a portion of map Sorted vocals fall flat watch the oracle snap It's the crypt that persists modern man and his lists Lit cigarette gripped at the base of his lips Gets sick in the sink finds the exit and dips Now he pissed and adrift out by like Francis and fifth Too exist is a trick that's enriched by a switch But the pain this inflicts is persistently shit Dallas grips the weapon in a trembling hand Gimme all the money He ain't asking again He took the money out the drawer Put the money in the bag Cop shop em twice in the head as he left Dallas died impressed A magnificent death Leave your message at the tone I will never call you back Families rise and fall like the needles in the pines. It hardly makes a sound to the eagles in the sky. Careful who you chase and anything you catch When the going gets tough there's no going back Families rise and fall like the needles in the pines. It hardly makes a sound to the eagles in the sky. Careful who you chase and anything you catch
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The shadows dances in the moonlight The shadows dances in the moonlight The shadows dances in the moonlight The shadows dances in the moonlight Manilla envelope Black and white headshot Target on his back like a map with a red dot Skipped town with an improvised plan Now it's motels, cigarettes and baskets of bread Take the money and run only then are you chased Feels the stress in the mirror The pursuit in his veins He carries premonition like a satchel of bricks Exhausted as he flees from a gathering mist Shadows from a Stetson covers the chin Footsteps in the corridor echoing strings Manic steps, panicked breathe Cat chase the mouse through the labyrinth Cloaked vessel Hovers like a black cloud Haunting movie music softly bleeding in the background Color drains like water from a trembling face The image seen in pupils is incredibly grave He takes a deep breath it's almost relief The room goes blank the parties deceased

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released December 3, 2021

Released By: Good Coffee Music
Mixing Engineers/ Recording Engineers - Azarias/Concept Studios & RP of GREENLIGHTS MUSIC
Producers - Distorted Square - SKRIBB - DJ MAR - GREENLIGHTS MUSIC - Dave & The Personas - Nate Dirty - EQ Beats
Vocal producer - Charles WIlliams - A.K
Mastering Engineer - Robert E.Q Diaz
Graphic Designer - Daniel Fiddler
Songwriter - Nicolas S. Garcia/ BOB ROK

Press Start Ft. A.K Prod. Josh Skribb
Storefront Glass Prod. GREENLIGHTS Music
Don’t Die Produced by David & The Personas
Hey Mikey! Prod. GREENLIGHTS MUSIC
Muy Feo Prod. DJ MAR
Spider Lunch Ft. RP Prod. DIstorted Square
Bully Ft. Charles WIlliams Prod.David & The Personas
Too Hot Ft. BADWOLFF + SKB ROK Prod. Distorted Square
Random Thoughts Ft. Young Dru Prod. E.Q Beats
Couple More Minutes Ft. D-Nick The Microphone Misfit Prod. Josh SKribb
Greasers For Life! Prod. Nate Dirty
Song About Songs Prod. Distorted Square
Dallas Prod. Distorted Square
Moonlight Prod. DJ MAR

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