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Thoughts From the Bottom

by QDQ: Qil x Duns x Qubicity

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1.
Another One 03:38
Qubicity: Yeah we back on another one! Still bumping, still stunting til we're number one We gotta keep surviving That's why we going in on the mic straight grinding Sterling Duns: Im back up in the magic lab Is that new, come on bro, you don’t have to ask Me and my crew, so fly so fresh to death when haters hate, all we do is throw em up an ampersand Annnnnnd what ya’ll really saying, 2nd round draft pick, So we aint really playing that 1st round game though, they league done slept on us but it means the opposition aint put the press on us I’m so focus I’m illin rhymes so potent they healing rhymes so cold, yep we chillin boy we done landed like pilgrims rock the mic like its plymouth hit the beat like its tennis We show up like arrows Then we like some gymnaist I improvise on the beat but I don’t I pen a verse down like i hit it with a rock bottom If we fail I don’t care cause we aint getting graded And I rather try and fail, then say we never tried to make it Qil: Yo, we bringing in the new space age I be on that space heater, flow be on that genophage, This is just my Genesis and I don't play no face games I never been a nemesis, I Sega from the first stage Set up in a bird cage but I be going cuckoo Snapping on a track, got me actin like a choo-choo I'm about that do you, and doing me is doing right My future make a star clap, ya mama say I'm sunlight Listen to that thun like "This could be my energy" Coming through them sound bytes, sparking up some chemistry Treated like a new dawn, clean up like I'm brawny Butter up the beat, pop a kernel I'm corny So Punxsutawney, my feels all doctored Step up to the plate the new age has been proctored If you ain't banging wit it you can go and get lobstered Cause everytime I hit it hit it like a young mobster Qubicity: I’m on a Dr Seuss planet with a blue spruce planted overhead, granted I can barely even stand it how I grind inside my mind and scribe a line thats hard as granite quiet signs shining in a blinding field of famine stun the stage, and leaving the lab cremated ripping page, and writing the flow sedated man i’m consecrated with consternation I’m elated in facing an adulation in creating these arrogant and ungulate rhymes grinding beef during delicate times, I’m getting mine sit in silence, the lines hit your sinus like all the rat pack snap backs its timeless the culprit with all his crusty rapport leading to necrosis of every muscle engorged except medulla and the ped that puts the pedal to floor back of the lac smirking with a ready retort the misadventures of a closed throat bandit duns said get it, so i got it, wrote and planned it don’t be doubting this is the fire and you just fanned it the flow so hard you can hardly stand it this the lyrical pinnacle, the sentences centerfold my flow so respectable, i’m beard and bespectacled i’m sounding like a master but i never reject a show sterling hopped up on my back he said i gotta let em know now the flagging forces out in force they redirecting you around the crash reports the last resort: catch up cuz we fast on foot writing on a track man its like we passed a book so rassling hooks is all we got left on the map now the trembling trinity is trending out of the background i swag so hard that i walk with a lame hitch made the track and killed it; two ways that i make hits
2.
Qubicity: Baptized in saliva, building the empire The entire city is watching like we on the wire Tryna eat this beat up like a chocolate from Godiva Tryna heat this beat and take this instrumental higher I'd be a liar if I said I didn't fall in love With the slap and the crack of sounds from up above Resounding out, pulled together with a simple touch The secret ingredient is never giving up i take a breath, hit the mic without a second thought I got Sterling and Aqil chilling in the spot Let the beat spin and instantly we catch the nod Never forget about that, cuz man thats all we got I love this beat, I love this beat it was love at first bite, and I'm still in heat I be on my knee, pulling out this ring A piece so real I couldnt leave it at a fling Hook (Ben Jang): I love this place, even in the dark times I love this place, even when it’s hard Sterling Duns: Coolness on this winter eve I sit back and shoot the breeze With Q, freeze any beat he concoct while i peak at the clock and get ready to have this party rock this that hardwork life work hard live right short days long nights for the love of the mic cool, so let me know if you need it bumpin my whole crew get it jumpin, and shut it down like its nothing Hands up hands up ands up if you feel it music its all business im neva catching no feelings but of course i fell in love had to put a ring on it now everything time a make a track it got a bling to it im loving the energies the vibes, the inner peace and im tryna see it all til im sleeping, 6 feet i hate to have regrets then lets pack then and be ghost like the foes in pacman
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Qubicity: Can’t even understand you, how could I command you? And to tell you the truth, I can barely even stand you Yet my day is filled with plans, of how I could land you Just hear me out, think of the power, me and you Here I meander, I’m just a pander in a pedantic sheet, a plan to meet is a cancer So I’m fighting but writing these thoughts until both my hands hurt Imagining our interplay that doesn’t end in a scamper I'm queasy from a passing thought of grabbing hold of you But from disgust or lust's the question I'm beholden to I'm growing colder too My second guessing's bolder too And on the verge of getting too much to shoulder I... Grew Spread open my wings and I... Flew And I gotta say that I love the view The caged bird sings to fill the void of its lost companion The one that follows suit and leaves the nest becomes the champion Hook (Keys and Debby Duns): You be the hammer, imma be the nail (I’ll be) Hold me down while you put the wind up in my sails (I’ll be) You be my Bonnie with a bunch of copper on our tail (I’ll be) This world may have set us up to fail, but we’ll fly so high Sterling Duns: and love is just another drug a high its no surprise that I’m addicted to your scent your touch i dont objectify, i just keep it in perspective that if this is really true we really gon have to test it I impress you but its temporary with fine dining mall shopping yea you looking fancy jamming in your newest jammies but is it fleeting eventually we’ll be needing to figure out our future the tudor rooms are always creaking Honestly speaking yea I use to flirt a lot but I give it up just to have you up in the uno spot and you must trust that I will never ever break this bond cause real talk, tick tick, boo you are the bomb So what’s the next move, lets stopping making chess moves you’re the queen, I’m a pawn, and that’s the best truth Sterling Duns, you sounding like a different dude same man, same plan, but I’m adding you, lets groove Hook (Keys and Debby Duns) Qil: I remember the days when I would've had a laugh at love, Thinking that hammer never drops with the sound of arrows above My head screaming and teeming with meanings of us convening On a wonderful city night alight with the brightness of your perfectly beaming Smile, Yeah I tried to dodge it for a while But a bullet never misses when lucid lips reach for the barrel And once the notion hit me, a pharaoh found denial, In delusions I was the king of me Til I bowed to your profile No scowl, I'm blessed to be seen deep inside your visions These are the things we live for, the places we've been missed in And though I'm wary of losing myself in lovely fictions The figments that you feed me make me stave off interdiction I've broken down resistance and rebuilt with no attritions My every breath insisting on gazes closing the distance My heart's upon a scale, your dimples say it's tipping So hold me close my darling, recoil's a happy ending
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Easy 04:29
Qubicity: I spit that Verisimilitude, The Clarity, inner truth Focus up on my crew You focus on doing you I'm saying deuce to the recluse And chilling in my room, tried to claim it was my booth but really my tomb I wanna see the world, even just a part of it Better yet I wanna say that I was part of it It seems like things are moving past at an alarming clip But imma fight back man I'm balling fists So goodbye to all the family, goodbye to all the exes Plus the friendships lost in time to the trenches I'll see you in my dreams but I'm living fully sentient My eyes can stay open in the dark without depression A couple months ago I thought i'd never learn my lesson Now I spit my soul on top of holy beats I'm blessing Steady flexing on the grind and never stressing Now that I realize that I'm a star no crescent Sterling Duns: no question its a blessing just to be here just to see, hear touch smell, taste success check the press the latest post not to boast but we the next And all my past dreams are headed past me broke hearts, broke ties without asking A cold world you own pearls when the pressure dont get to you fine linen aint nothing if it do fit to you and my credentials were off the charts Climbed charts, just to put the pieces together a widows heart broke when my father pass I have to ask is moving on 1st stage or maybe its the last either way that’s where I’m at and its eye opening im focusing peace love and unity thats all i am promoting then im focus man moving on, cause if not, id be a broken man Qubicity: if I said I was content with our goodbye itd be a lie And every night I see your face alive inside my cries I find that all signs say in time I'm left behind You left my universe and left my mind misaligned Sterling Duns: Misaligned need your tires rotated cause ive been driving through my thoughts hopped the curve, blast through the pavement been elated been sedated, had the painage move to patience and all the while, through the ages, had to wait think we'll make it Qubicity: Said I'm fine and had to fake it Thoughts collapsing meditating Been afraid when cerebrating Yearning at the celebrations Steady claiming imma reach that basis But moving backwards isn't even a stasis Sterling Duns: face it, you're only here until the hours up cowards jump at that reality, cowardly. courage trumps any and everything, let it ring, you chasing a life of quality or quantity through all them dollar dreams Qubicity: Reality is sour b if you filled with malicy Let it out and counter the influential fallacies I been touring all up and down the galleries And ain't nobody make it there if they steady bound to cheese Sterling Duns: and Ive been touring round the galaxy, stars aligned saying its time to take the stage, flip the page, spit the rhyme its time to take the stage , yo Q, you fittin to ride? Cause the present is the most pressing time to just be alive
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Sterling Duns: I stopped waiting, dreaming dont buy the bacon bread stale, croutons, for salad thinking Move past limitations hardwork was created and now we spit rhymes tryna send moms to jamaica its all good til it goes bad, front seat, mad dash if I don't make it out, than at least, I'm gon have a laugh We get words of wisdom, Don't let them fall on to deaf ears fresh fruit, hors d'oeuvres to go with the the first cheers So come on lets have toast to the moment And please live free yea we do condone it aint buying what they selling Lies I'm never owning Steeped in dreams, been reaping what I've been sowing The last to the table The first up out the cradle, If u ain't living true ur just a fable, that's just play so stay true to all that's true Q and if you do nothing else you better do you Hook (Keys): Love will see us through Would you trust in me, like I trust in you? And that going gets tough, but it’s not enough To stop us from dreaming Qil: I rise from a ripple on the lakeside Streams flowing from my sighs, growth takes strides I'm biting back the bitterness that my aches cried While fighting for deliverance from unpaid tithes I catch a glimpse of myself in the wake's eyes Slaking thirst with the waters of the low tides I tried to hide from the highs of a simple lie That every drop is separate somewhere in the inside But truth is we all drip from the same skies Our lives measured in whys directed inwardly I stare into the aberrant pools of irises Searching for something to call this life's energy A glimmer in shades of abysses and silences My hands plunge into the cold dark trembling My fingers wrap around a stone on the river bed Water falls as I push a heart into me Qubicity: A molehill is a mountain to a head laid on the ground so (if you) idolize your models, then their acts resemble clouds goliath on the courts and minds that toil in the lab your reverence flows red and it bleeds out until you scab grabbing and ripping through the package to find a slab that you can hold above the people on a cliff above the land strap it to your chest along with sandals for the sand split the sea and say: “I am he, a copied man” don’t become compliant, exhibit your defiance scale that monument and stand on shoulders of the giants growth is reliant on ideas so exotic from the empire burghers that they need to light the pyre wicker weave a spire of your idol prior to setting fire and inhaling the entirety of fumes getting higher and flying, you acquire sight for miles arranged attire composed of their ash inside the pile
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Duns: I be ballin be ballin davis bryant and harden steph curry from long range if I get in I’m scoring cause When its raining its pouring and I be running be touring I aint seen my home in weeks I’ve been sleep in corners of all the venues we packed my whole crew is so fresh QDQ in the building with hardwork on the map Aint seen it like this we got beats we got hits and my youngins up and coming they can’t even rent whips So what is next for these folks U Say we wack, u got jokes when you ride by on your bikes, you hear our fire burn spokes Too close so go and get your sugar cookies cookie getters rhymes sweet, post beats, we gon see the dentist such a menance. you know we dont follow rules Q the Phenom on the team, man I dont know how to lose I guess I’m spoiled, Dunsy you’re such a brat. Put the team on my back, philly back up on the map Qubicity: Breaking bread when we flexing Off the head we be blessing We done said we the next ones And we bled just to stress it All these styles I'm blending Matter fact man I'm blinding I'm Dez Bryant when he's crying imagine me when I'm grinding My flow is slimy like the ish you find in your sinus Spitting it quickly cuz you know the sickness is grimy Crews fixed on the crucifix, immaculate rhyming First hit of this beat and ladeedada I'm flying S/o to banks for the hook up I hit the kitchen to cook up a remixed flipped with a shook up Bumping harder than shook ones And you can follow the movement Peep your mama she groovin Get your popcorn like it's front row of the movies Cuz we here for the moment Live it up til its over And I'm here just to show you We rock Dakota to NOLA I give it and go and we just kicked in the door, its QDQ we spit that rowdy ravaging flow Qil: Yeo, I'm a force to be reckoned with Grind lookin' effortless While I'm pumpin pistons' you chickens lookin' so featherless In the stu', elephant Green go to kale with it If you ain't dealin' realness I call your pillars irrelevant I'm your-verse celibate, nah I ain't tryna mess with ya QDQ's indelicate, go hard on the regular Our lines cuttin' deep with a well-worn patina We the apple in your eyes looking like Macbook Retina We sweatin' on a track, run enough laps for two Ay we putting in work like a priest on a pew I mean we tryna save rap wit no catch-22 So we just try to stay prime, got no beef on the move Got this beat on the stoove Got'cha feet on the groove Put'cha posse down and turn them sheets into cubes Cause Sterling Duns & Qube so monu, mental I think my Shangri La is wit' them Rick Banks: Been out the game for a minute But I'm back again Verbal assassin when I get it strapped and then I pull the slide back on rap attack Mac Then let fly sixteen like clack clack clack clack Awww snap Mr Boom Bap done dusted off the mic Yall couldn't get this fly if you dusted off your kite Or ya key, this melody's electricity You can't stop me with Sterling, Qil, and Qubicity So get ya steeds and regulators, mount up The four horsemen of the apocalypse We on the come up Generations on the track so the legacy continues Qubi Q and Qillyeo, the future's in you But don't sleep, Duns and Banks ain't growing old You can get it however you want it like Soul to Soul So don't test, I'll leave you restin on ya feet Hardwork is still the move but my Shangrila's the beat
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Sterling Duns: I never called back, guess well call it even Went to sleep woke up west coast dreaming If i dnt make it to the west sude At least i made it out alive Sme made it to the charger, but aint make it out of dodge Hours up, soul snatched, yo chel the time. We got a show in bout 30 and my down south girly and i are hittinthe party spot early. Cool. I wonder if my father proud of me. Been a champ, got the plaques a couple degrees But it'll all be in vain bra If u let the money change ya Respect so, lets humbly except, I sent my regrets With flowers and a check Accept my apologies But i did it all just so we can shoot the breeze Hook (Keys): What is this for? We must explore So hop in my car, and see the world tonight There’s love in this world There’s peace in this war and all that I know: we’ll make it out alive Qubicity: Sometimes I wanna get up on the roof and scream 95 til the day i die and let it ring Cuz who'm i kidding, I never wont be living Man I cant picture fights with the grim reaper winning I don't believe it but it helps me reach a peace at night And knowing that in sleep I'll see our future reaching heights I never shoot the breeze unless I'm speaking bout my dreams And I think it's bout time that I started living out my schemes Been in waiting since I started sneaking out it seems Every moment ripples out within a cloudy stream But let it settle, and sift the silt to reach the pebble Reclaim the piece of mind that brings you back the holy treble The wisdom and the health so you achieve what you believe But in passing I might have to lose the family thats coming in at number three But I'm coming back, I’m coming back Right after we swim the seven seas Bridge (Keys and Duns): If we don't make it West Side... Then at least we made it out alive
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Why We Pray 03:54
Sterling Duns: streets aint safe brothas still bangin so im tryna save the same lanes that a young brother was raised in martyrdom, fashion models in borrowed dresses over them my last love was ivy league had to smarten up no dumb moves my young moves were probably my best my young crew got strung to seat of success i refused, was done soon as the greed was addressed i dont move, not one move, when police suspect Uh, another day, gets given, heres the takeaway put a brother in the background like he layaway You better learn how to backdown to the fadeaway Cause its afull house in prison cells no mary kate No bruh grinding until th sun up knowing it could all be gone if a youngin put his guns up a black Quaker no savior, but I’m on my Mr. Rustin So white friends are skeptical and black friends can barely trust him so thats why we pray Qubicity: Pumped through the atmosphere The fear, the lies, the cheese, the greed, the tears Incite a riot then they fly in, A couple thousand buy in Fueled the flames and made a profit off the fire Find a new figurehead to martyr Stage an interview between the children and the father A lot of, gravel is formed by the pounding of the gavel Barely underfoot when you're riding in the saddle The media just falsifies what's never meant to be lies The media just crucifies from enemy lines How far does this autolysis go? We're in the middle of both, between division of foes The deities facing off with the men from below Any others is choked, joining Garner in the garden of wrote Another bloke that's adapted by the molding of clay One day the people will emerge from the grey...and so we pray Qil: Set it off with civil articles, started with the plausible Made the black face seem inaudible Didn't think it possible Disbelief while crawling through the trenches of another social war obstacle The media's illogical Gullible to clauses used Against a people startled to Thinking we ain't valuable And thinking we are soluble Believing we ain't solvable Based upon the volume of a prejudice so horrible But we are invaluable And undissolved when we rise Inexhaustible and cautious to The uniformed lies Dying in ain't optional Wit signage and some martyrs who Took a bullet for the truth Chokehold for the youth Dreaming forth like oracles Giving news no choice to choose To take a minute for these views And right the rites wrong to you With this coup we pay our dues To the justice we pursue For the people We the people Dark storm on the move and so we pray
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Sterling Duns: This is me in the flesh This is all I have left I’ve gotta give it all til my very last breath Cause, heaven knows it aint a easy road So we pave the way and fade away and simply pray that the story grows I do it for my mama I do it for my fam I do it for my friends from west philly to Paris, France I do it for youngins who never seen another way Who don’t want fame and fourtune, but wanna see another day This for you I linked up with QDQ and now I feel we gotta ball We gotta crew true now we on the movement whos bent on global collaboration, no domination I’m contemplating no mistaken no hating we’ll make it If we all just believe it I’m standing on the precipice in the distance I see it the future looking so close So lets get there quick so we can kick it and have a toast To the journey Qubicity: Hopping off the bus We about to bust It's going down in your town Yeah we about it bruh See my name up in lights, right next to Qil and Dwight Hit the stage and amaze, and get it jumping right It's not about fame or recognition It's about getting a positive message to children That's why we on the grind till we reach the pavilion Yeah We tryna be the three that are the one in million We're touching seven billion They saying heaven's spilling Cuz we're stars from the sky, plucked out of countless trillions We're touching countless feelings Put pride inside every being The optometrists of optimists, I hope its what you're seeing Cuz as bad as it seems we'll make it out alive I'm here to tell you that I'll see you on the other side So put a hand in the sky (and) trace your trajectory we're sent to be the heaven-sent impressionist amphetamines Well start resting when we're resting in peace Qil: We are happy, and living with the richest sense of patience Life just seems to move as if it listens to our cadence With goodness in our graces We exist with no holes In our hearts, in our minds We are one body and soul No role but to play our part In the universe's symphony Connected by a string we pluck away At all the imagery Enclosed on every side by a beauty so timeless We embrace our many blessings With a wonderfully loud silence And whether we feel like giants Or microscopic islands We never get the impression that we are separate from the greatness that is love Love for one another, love for all the color we've discovered by being in tune with all the above We are, what a special thing to be, we're dazed by the fact and yet our eyes can still see, so when you look at me I hope you see me for the better, because our lives are bound by thread together.

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QDQ's first full-length tape together! This has been four months in the making and we're all extremely proud of the end result of this project. We hope you'll enjoy listening to it as much as we enjoyed making it, and we had a ball. Only real music's gonna last - thanks for supporting the movement!

Go ahead and download it - it's on us. Friends that choose to download will find a special treat included :)

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released January 30, 2015

Special thanks to the support from our friends and family, and to Debby Duns, Keys, Ben Jang, Rick Banks, and Derin Caglar for lending their beautiful voices and musicianship to this project.

Fully produced by Qubicity except where stated otherwise.

All lyrics written by their respective performers.

Samples:
ANOTHER ONE
Mandrill - "Symphonic Revolution"

LOVE THIS PLACE
A Perfect Circle - "Gravity"
Wildcat! Wildcat! - "Garden Grays"
Radiohead - "Reckoner"

HAMMER
The Jet Age of Tomorrow - "Telephones"

EASY
Miles Davis - "Footprints"
Ghost Loft - "Be Easy"

STOP US FROM DREAMING
The Contortionist - "The Source"
Kow Otani - "Lakeside"

FLEX ON EM PT. III
Janelle Monae - "Neon Gumbo"
Hardwork Movement - "Flex On Em Pt. 2"

SEE THE WORLD
John Legend - "Wanna Be Loved"
Craft Spells - "Your Tomb"

WHY WE PRAY
Lana Del Rey - "This Is What Makes Us Girls"
The Ocean - "Epipelagic"
30 Seconds to Mars - "The Kill (Bury Me)"

JOURNEY
Cloudkicker - "It's Inside Me, and I'm Inside It."

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

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