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1.
Qubicity: I'll be here, until the satellites fall out the sky until the oceans all are gone and dry until the sun has cooled into a stone until we both find somewhere we call home and i know that you have got to go but can't you stay a minute? and i know that you have got this plan but can't you fit me in it? i'm better off!...since i've got you trapped inside my head your ever smiling face is always bye (by) but what you've said has killed me, til i thought i too would never stand but resurrection followed suit and wrenched me by the hand so pull me close, i know it hurts, the wounds are fresh and wet but trust me i've had scars and I know wounds just bleed to death looking backwards tunnel ends just fade away and cease but turn your head and see the one approaching bringing peace so when i'm blind in my own cave, with only walls to grope i'll remember still the strength you showed me called... Hook (Anneka Allman & Qubicity): Hold on, be strong Hold on, it won't be long Qil: Is it holding on if I’m in the air swimming inside a life jacket With yellow jackets attackin and stabbin with matches What’s happenin, do I smell like I’m wrapped in plastic Protecting all of my pollen from prying eyes and scrying hatchets Made of iron, made of acid, made of ash-creating habits Made of apprehensive pensives who think I’ll always be passive I’m past it, like lactic, my birthright is passion And I’m marking up my body with wrinkle lines and patches There’s a cause, a rip in the fabric I’m hawkin A dip in parabolic flights and plights I never knew that I was balkin I was coughin, I was all out, I was Walden with false doubt Devout to the things you answered for me every moment I called out Now I’m turnin my back to you to move the way you called out The you in you’s the youth in me and now it’s time we ball out So fall in, we’ll crawl out and reach beyond what’s called now And grip a cloud so lively you would think we had a fallout
2.
Qubicity: I'm ready - ready for action I'm slicker than Kim with the fashion Like a has-been, that is praying for buzz I'm hungry like a sumo looking for lunch Hear a beat in the street, give it a punch Kill it right there better call in the fuzz You with it? I’m with it let’s go out and get it Let’s show it up, Philly, and get it some love been sent from above everything you heard is given a shove from universe ether into my mind and projected to speakers so no one's beneath us but I will destroy you if you impede us I've been told that we need this to tell you the truth, I think I believe em, heaven-sent but I'm irrelevant until melding with, a message meant to help a bit, til then I'm felled I guess.. me and qdq are climbing up the ladder Ain't scared that we splatter if we hit the ground that dont matter Yeah I'm never coming in fourth QDQ's the top three awards and I'm coming back for much more so I run it back to be sure we got good fans, and good fam so this is all in lieu cuz we're all in, we're walled in so this is all for you Hook (Keys): I've been writin' I've been fightin' I've been schemin' I've been dreamin' all day I tell myself to hold on I've been workin' I've been hurtin' I've been pushin' I've been searchin' in the hope of some day I tell myself to hold on Sterling Duns: I came on the scene hopped on this thing bang aint in strange? aint it plain? brotha’s still getting short changed like some quarter water hallelujah bless em won’t you preachers? hood full of asylum seekers feelin like prayers won’t reach us Jesus piece Jesus please taste success aint it sweet Take a breath Cause it aint that deep I hate to fail this aint that week I'm in my prime fresh like prom r.i.p dad bless ya mom Ima make it to top And if i die, then its just my time I want QDQ up at my eulogy this aint nothing new to me Its a warzone out there, be clear bout to call in my super fleet and as the clock strikes i get more likes but really don’t matter cause my young bucks are heating up and we scheming for what s after That's why I paved the way for ya’ll bols slaved away for ya’ll bols gave away the pay for ya’ll bols now guess what, the world is yours? it’s in good hands, i trust fam now go ahead and do you cause with ya’ll leading, i do believe the future will be cool Hook (Keys) Qil: Fast, fast, falling to grass, grabbing for things that I never had Passin’ through bad, but askin what’s good like Nicki to Miley who never been hood Knew that I would, thought that I could, stood on the shoulders of giants who should have Given me dap and not taken me back to the place in my heart where I scream in the woods That is not good, and this no stupor, past revealing the future, Path unraveled at last, I am the suture sealing sepulchres And if you’re a looter, know your rabble is gold and I am consumer You only exhume me, I’m a pharaoh entombed in modern day humor Riddle me that though, put no spit on my castle, You’re askin where did the stash go, well prepare to be bedazzled My throne room awaits you, but only ‘cause I miss battle I’m at the height of my pane, and you’re cast across it like shadow And I’m heatin up and I’m steepin up and you creepin up like you rattle And you squeakin bruh but I speak enough so I’m leapin’ off of my saddle Been weak and tough, been eaten up so I see the bluff on you I’ll draw the venom from your veins til my name ring true Hook (Keys)
3.
Sterling Duns: I’m your neighborhood sanders Bernie on the dance floor while the after party’s bumping the after life gets planned for so I’m just in here chillin milling get these meals in my diet is so consistent bass and snare, o yea, and samples I owe Q like a landlord i’m landlocked Lesotho tween two Q’s, that’s QDQ your pupils, don’t they dare move keep you eyes glued to this image hardwork is the mission weight of the world like I’m benching so if you aint with it good riddance I built this up, how hot the mud you hooked on hip-hop I got the drug got a lion’s heart, I got the blood of some africans who got no love way back way back, so why they still treat a brother like kate blanchett lil fish, yo I’m tryna do great man shades up, maybe sitting by a lake man. vermont lake Cham plain, dang, so hot i change lanes, with no probs bring, bangers to your door knob, no prob, no lie go live man like we sitting on the courtside Q and Q pressing, aint stressing, duns lesson, I’m done giving blessing, no question, the defin-nition of unconscious champion freshman Rick Banks: Banks got heart like I'm Captain Planet I'm that bomb-made pomade, dapper danned it Not top of the dome, best believe I planned it Scanned it, panned it, flow is smooth like I sanded And imma take you to the woodshop It's no turnin back once I let that hammer drop You can't touch it, no fussin, naw it's nothin, once my lips start bussin, like Pringles man, you can't stop The hip hop starter kit Chips and whips Chicks and spliffs Hypochondriac flow, how sick is this? I insist you desist for you cease to exist If you don't catch my gist, you get kissed by my fist I'm policin the beats, don't get sought out, yeah Cause I'm Kelis in these streets, don't get caught out there Air you out like I'm Brady Cheat codes daily I'm a beast on the beats Gnarls Barkley: crazy Wooooooo One time for the Ricky Flare on the snare Rock a rhyme like it's tricky Don't you dare poke the bear Come at your neck like a hickey Trinity rhymes Three at a time like I'm Nicki I barrage your squad wit rhymes thats great Until your whole entourage is mine like Chase And I ménage with sinners and the saints The ares and aints They all for Banks They all give thanks You're welcome but I can't help em I just point and laugh like I'm Nelson Ha ha, I spit a take and see That a-ha, these haters got the wrong take on me So take a dose, feel better, please believe dat Cause it's a bitter pill and most of yall need that You ain't never gonna see another man like this Ricky Banks moves crowds like evangelists Qil: I'm grippin the gram, whippin and flickin my hands, stickin my scissors in fans, I'm rippin the bands, trippin and slippin and slitherin like I'm a snake in a pan It started with fam, departed with plans to demand a belief in the beast that I am And I'm hungry again, I never eat til I butter a jam and I'm covered in Pam Bam Bam Margera, this century is my era You makin all these errors, that's superbad like Cera I'll terminate ya like Sarah, no foolishness I dare ya Spit a verse so turnt leave ya mind all burnt have you lookin like Aloe Vera Verily I see clearly you see barely nearly I'd forgotten I'm a lot to be mishandled pop ya candles this is rotten Trottin like I'm outta manners my mantras have been remodeled No idols but spoken words and inflections I never bottled Ah, take it all in sip it up Deer Park, let it all flow no sap all bark Spit a little quicker so the fig get thicker, put it to the wicker til the light go dark Hole in my heart and the plug is a spark, Q on my chest like a redlight mark Scarlet like a widow ain't never been a ditto move a rhyme like wind that's word that's art Qubicity: Waving as I'm passing by Better hope I don't metastasize Otherwise I'm coming back for more It's QDQ - the foots in the door Got mops out, to clear the floors Cuz Qil and Duns gon bring the gore Had to go and get my booth all insured Cuz these two don't play boy Sick as a rash, and they split it in half I'm feeling bitter in fact, cuz they be killing my stash They pull a beat out the trash, and get me running it back And get me feeling the track, and get me breaking my back And got me taking a gasp get me on the attack, to put a pen on the pad And they be showing me that, we rival any in fact We gotta get a good laugh, before we kill off the whack You say that you're a monster? Well I'm the shrew underfoot that's waiting for the comet! no latch on the closet i'm a batch for deposit better yet - i'm cash and the profit I'm the gas and the rocket plus the match in your pocket plus the brass in a socket plus a dash of an artist steal the lass out your locket spitting fast like a faucet Like bop it you gon play us We drop hits but they don't pay us We rockin, van halen Stop it, no hating We got this, no waiting You're jogging, we're racing We're popping, like face zits We're topping you, face it
4.
Sterling Duns: Remember my adolescence grooving to Evanescence my immortal plight was unlike the toil of being pleasant and i was never present out of sight out of mind the only behind I looked at was the past I left behind and you were fine, that aint no lie but I was never gonna sweat ya but when it came time for summer I started to feel the pressure yea I'll text yea, but just once and once then turned to twice and twice turned to staying up texting every night couldn't get you out my mind but i had some work to do And every time you would call, I'd say "I'm working boo" but really, I was afraid to go to deep my thoughts creeped to heartbreak, for heaven's sake I started losing sleep And in my dreams I often imagine what couldve happen but i can't go down the road, the movement is now in action its all love, and forreal it always will be and I put that on my city Hook (Keys): I gave my money to Jennifer My heart to Jeanine Put my own needs ahead of hers That's why Becca had to leave Stacy's eyes are always on my mind Why is peace of mind so hard to find If this union makes us feel alive Then maybe I ain't livin' right Qubicity: It's time like these that i remember my past lives girls by whom I was defined, in mine and others' eyes Staring up the sky, and stars that dot it like I's Conversations through sighs, and telling beautiful lies Of how we want to stay this way as baes forever ever more 18 without care of what comes after or before And now you're reduced to a little box inside my drawer But the tunes you used to bump still bring me right back to your door Channel Orange for exploring AIC for the boredom And Yonce tastes of liquor And walk the moon is bitter Stop calling me a quitter Cuz I swear I'm always with her Put that jawn on shuffle and I'll find a song to fit her But I hold you as a piece of me, and not the reverse I'm more than just an item peeking out of your purse She asked you ever heard this song and thought of me, Aqeel? I said I never had before but now I always will Hook (Keys) Qil: I find a pretty peace of mind up in yo eyes too was shy before I showed ya my boo side Boo I been waterfallin over myself like I'm two ply I'm foldin so I know whatcha dealt And that's good good, it's time I started breathin for better, never been a bottomfeeder but I'm eatin the letters You handed me to read inside the depths of ya soul, you uplifted me with hands that I had always sought to hold See my lips had gone cold but now my heart's on voodoo, and my head is on fire what da heck did you do I'm coming back to life when I'm running atcha sight like the wind behind your words is a rest and a surge Tell me when ya feelin still and I will move ya if you press me, booboo you are the best like a pie's missin last piece And you give me goodness more than you will ever know, is it right? I'm hopin time'll show Hook (Keys)
5.
Qil: I can hear the church bells singing and a lonely clock ringing along, All along I was wrong, all along I was gone while you produced a wicked sense of couth in the wise and the young who turned to hateful prawns that pawned your vicious arms for the things they never knew. It started with a whisper then it turned into a coup and soon enough you grew up to prove what we can do, but I have lived my life in hopes that I would never you Cause a human sipping you could never win I got no proof But I got this picture of you inside a grave, you're deep in the dirt and you're barely worth the stone that we weighed You're reaching through earth in search of persons who may have stayed But all have swayed away from your grasp, at last we have escaped Alas, you are agape with blazes of our mistakes so take heed before you rise again, you are a self-consuming piece that we will not fit in Hook (Anneka Allman): No matter what they say I'll give myself away In hopes the world'll sway Some day, some day I'm looking through the grey At a life without pain I hope the world'll sway Some day, some day Qubicity: Don't know how to carry myself now that you're gone I guess I had you on my back so long that i got strong Does my life keep moving along? If there's nothing to fight for and no point in writing songs? I guess we're celebrating but I'm stuck in the mourning What am I to do when I get up every morning? Goodbye to the things that we have carried for life It's time all of the hate we faced got buried in spite the history, illness, the isms, the phobes The amber alerts that force their way to your phones I guess I'm just skeptical that we could let it all go We been fighting so long we only care for the foes But why'm I sitting here only worried bout me Got to worry bout we Let the world start to be For the lord around the corner that was born into horror I devote myself so that I can fade to the borders Hook (Anneka Allman) Sterling Duns The other day I was Sifting through some old albums Your someone I'll never forget But I'll live without ya The memories are deep Your touch so cold But your grip too weak I seen you turn the bravest hearts into cowards I seen your never ending thirst for power But your hour has come The reaper gets us all They say when you're reached ur purpose The reaper gets the call I came hear to hoop I ain't come in here to ball the mentality's different It requires a vision It requires precision It requires an image of yourself held up Simple, In its purest form My missions the same The burden unloaded You have no power I want u to know this You've torn apart nations Turned homes into wasteland But no more for ya boy Upwards, onwards to greatness
6.
Qubicity: Dearly departed, honored and forefathers: I'm furthering the genre for which you became a martyr I'm bartering my way to the top and I hardly started to whom it may concern, i'm bothering bored authors I ensure coppers don't want to see me with my CD me and three other brothers getting questioned bout a murdered beat I build my own casket with a synergy - I take the lessons I was taught and get to whittling I'm in your face like the slave drivers saliva mama i'm a big tymer, imma grab that sample like a bank robber I don't bother with the instagram followers the twitter based anonymous, or any anthropologists I got a lot to spit but I don't think I'll market it until I fall on my stick Yeah I walk soft but I think I'm sorta top heavy They ask me where am I from and I say that God sent me But when they ask me what it is that a do I wanna say that man I'm helping the youth Simply providing them with a point of view And show em that it's pretty cool to be you so at the end of my days i hope you're feeling my waves if I'm alive and awake then I'm not taking a break But I don't wallow in sorrow, when I lay down for the night All I think is that tomorrow I'll be spreading the light Hook (Keys): Closed eyes til tomorrow Snooze button always helps me think I'll be fly by tomorrow Or confidence got my whole mind playing tricks Get a load of this brother baby They'll know my name, we'll be better baby I hope success and the money save me I'm losing sleep just to chase these dreams Sterling Duns: Closed my eyes, woke up in the dream state REM, Arboretums Get planted, weekdays And weekends, are spent cultivating The patience I'm contemplating the occupation Of these other nations Don't stand in the way of truth Dont quiet the voice of reason Just make way for QDQ And bump it in every season I won't be here forever, but when I'm present its a blessing And Ima add a little flavor, my flow so salad dressing. Why the testing? And who giving the grades? Two many years as enslaved Brotha a just tryna get paid you'll never see a u haul Chasing a hurst And so I never charge the movement For just spitting a verse This is my calling Mama Wait til the cameras are gone then you can shed some tears The whole team is put on Say a prayer or two For those that look like me And wanting nothing more Than a star in the sky just to dream I got you lil homies I know it's hard to believe But I gotta get movement, role up the sleeves Much peace It's been a long road paved in good intentions The well wishes had me well wishing And I was allergic to hate like shell fishes Are those bells, listen? Are the tolling for me? Pieces, it's only right that I return to the sea When I'm complete Wade in the water While feeling the steam We rise like heat Hook (Keys) Keys: Lose my mind, I gotta shine by tomorrow Keeping on this grind with all this time that I borrowed The money and success make some gold out of sorrows Rising to the top turns a man to a hero
7.
Jon Snow 03:08
Qubicity: I've gone mad switched my name up to John Nash But don't you go and get Duns mad Cuz he'll pin you down like a thumbtack I heard what you spitting But kid the glaring omission Is that we're flipping omniscient You got a whip then you listening i'm feeling myself, black balls i'm chill with myself, jack frost i'm killing the 'delph, like frack laws but i'm spilling my wealth, so back off or taste the spit that'll hit your mouth like a septum that's ripped, out if i'm miffed then imma dip, out quick with the clique, now when i send this track to Qil he gon start spazzin gasping like he asthmatic so i pack this hit and then i'm gonna pass it I'm exposed like I'm in traffic flaccid Catch me laxin in the limelight, basking Blast raps that i be spitting out fast on a back track that got me sitting on plaques I spit so hot i go blue with it you overdoing it i just go through with it you be like, yo that boy too legit I be like yeah man i'm all you is times two aint that the truth we been winning, how bout you? man, and that's QDQ Sterling Duns: QDQ I'm in this you hating, just mind your business that hot beat yo let me hit this, good music is my prescription by the end you'll be addicted, don't worry about your image matter fact just smash your mirrors, overrated, watch me bake em. Let me get em real quick. And I'm killing it, filling it, banana peeling it, homie don't trip man don't slip can't get a grip get a hint We don't ever get tricked kicked flip, pro skating Tony Hawk-in I be out in the Balkans with Vulcans, home alone in the Zone McCalkin and Jordan, BALLIN That's Space J, that's way above Grade A, or the new Grade A We don't play, QDQ some bad kids like Bebe, Let me call my baby, straight to VM, whelp I'll holla in the PM But when you see him, ahem, please don't turn it to TMZ See, what had happened was, we were chillin, cuz We were rippin up, beats suddenly my flow done ripped a bus. Tore up from the floor up, nobody was injured an avenger, I'm an iron man Thor, Captain, enjoy the action, enjoy the rapping, just a young black man Tryna make it as American. Qil: Got a word to curb from that last clause, sike naw we been boss Birds prefer to spit first class so we run it past em like Em Frost Tryna think hard, don't get lost, we real smooth, we spin yarns Verse dutty winin' like vineyards, and y'all nimrods, we been saw it So tell me why we expend flaws all to watch the lesson get slept through Y'all know nothing, y'all Jon Snow, we stay learning, we make do With no applause for an amniotic sac full of black jewels, I'm a claptrap packed full of Jack's cubes I'll annihilate a space with a verbal embrace, poetic mercy for your well-being harpooned Livin' still like a cartoon, face placed on the back of a dairy farm carton And I could ask who are you? Take a sip and understand this flow ain't jargon Never bin, I'm a bargain, round a bend like a Lamborghini 'Neno chargin' And my name ain't Zartan, walk around with a clown face lookin' like Carlton Call it pride call it hubris, all I know is I could leave a young Holmes feelin' clueless Is it clear that I do this? stack overflow never been the live code to this My caution's truant, I'm an overhead wire hangin’ like mucus And I ain't no Brutus, but I'm thinkin' dot dot dot...the rap game stupid
8.
Grind 04:33
Sterling Duns: My youngins made me proud, they taught me more than teachers The musics in my soul It got to me more than some preachers I had to be patient, i use to sit up in the bleachers for coach to see us Now coach, im goin iso, Watch me heat up Ballin like i should, I Called it from the hood i came up now whats good I Wish my father and homie could ride With me I wear ur presence like a helmet So when im crashing parties being Haughty you tell be pleasant Be present Bless em Im on my presi campaign Check em, you cant this my game Letting My weapon of change Bring truth yo pen is my blade Before i fade to borders, q said lets blow up Qil with the program im not fearing no man, homie lets go up lets do what we were meant to Break bread some Kinfolk Them late night will be worth it When my weekdays become simple Its QDQ now and QDQ later In between its fulfilling dreams til my soul becomes greater Hook (Qubicity): I'm on that grind Qil: Yo yo we been through it like bleachers, steady minded like Jeters Seating ain't in my mental, we run the spot like we meters Ring ring, that's the sound of change, blowin' up long range Like we in the game, charge goin off with the flick of a wrist inside of a crane When we ball we wrecking ball, pall-bearin epileptic jaws, Drop em like we brought too much shine, croppin like a Monsanto cause It ain't hard, but it's hard work that we do, When we in the booth we sun dial and we leave a message for truth And we leave a number for you, and we leave it bumpin for youth Got little homies feelin woke at home wit no pillow for that tooth That's sugar in my soup, and that's boogers in my boots My nose is leakin out liquid gold and I'm tryna turn it to proof No whiskey in my content, just whiskers mixed with rhymin Found wisdom in my ramen, that's a lawsuit for good timing But this simple thing ain't common, so I'm cravin more for my eyelids Cause my irises are like islands and it's for the people I'm grindin!! Hook (Qubicity) Qubicity: Music for the people, music for the steeple Music rivaling the moves made by the Heatles 2 rings back to back '12, '13 but no '11 Now we up for three peat with no cramps or vendettas We better, be better than better Us fellas bout to swell and be the precedent setters No set ups or set backs, just fed up with dumb raps No severs no rough patch, we leverage some trust that We cultivated way back When we made a couple stray tracks I'd say that, we make all time great tracks and you can put that on the record Aqeel says we're coming for the rap crown and you can write it to the letter I still remember when Steling said yo Q and Q let's go and get em Music was that fall back Until I got that call back And duns said send me a couple more of them Qubi bomb tracks he saw that Vision where we all that QDQ is what we call that Together, we been on that Hook (Qubicity)

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QDQ reunites for their third album. Special thanks to all friends and family for their support throughout this artistic endeavor.

All lyrics written by their respective performers. All tracks produced by Qubicity.

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released November 6, 2015

Samples:

Strong:
A Meaningful Moment Through a Meaning(Less) Process - Stars of the Lid

Hold On:
Forever Lost - God Is An Astronaut

Caution:
Lilac Wine - Jeff Buckley
Limbo Limbo Limbo - Jhene Aiko
Static - Godspeed You! Black Emperor

Living Right:
Roxanne's Dance - Gerald Veasley
Confessions - BADBADNOTGOOD

Procession:
Seamless - Archive
Sometimes I Cry - Les McCann

'Til Tomorrow:
Sanctuary - Kow Otani
Drift - CHON

Jon Snow:
Mercy - Kanye West, Big Sean, Pusha T and 2 Chainz

Grind:
Fjogur Piano - Sigur Ros
The Grind - Hardwork Movement
Ain't No Mountain High Enough - Eric Marienthal

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Hiphop producer and vocalist based in Princeton, NJ and Philadelphia, PA.

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