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Pursuance EP

by Soul Khan

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1.
Hold On 02:51
1: did i did i stutter when i declared war? if my skin doesn't fit in could i just wear yours? messiah flier than an entire air force whether wings or ones, whatever you care for your flow patterns are cro-magnon, you slow bastard i close casketed those that tried to close caption the gold standard of growth your homie soul mastered you up the creek with no paddle and trying to row backwards i've been wishing i could tylenol the pain a lot of you ain't followed through after obama fought for change yeah, i got soul, that's why i got it in my name i can stand on hot coals, y'all just wacka flocka flame see i ain't really built for your sensitive ears i've really ended careers, so if the message ain't clear i am here for good so get used to me or the next record you hear'll be your eulogy hook: now i don't suppose you think I ain't know you been watching my every step (hold on) but you won't decide when I have arrived I could still kill you in one breath (hold on) 2: ain't no party like a soul khan party wait, soul khan parties, eh, no not hardly got nothing to say to them blowjob barbies and cats that puff lah and think they know bob marley they blunt smokin, I'm blunt spoken i'm done joking you scooby doo ass muhfuckas is ruh-ro-ing as i become shogun i'm cut-throat as it gets until PYT approach for love potion like what's that commotion? that's her come motion she convulsing just off the way my tongue rollin fun's over, i was sickly and anemic but now when i am preachin, the gideons'll read it she's willing to receive it, the ceiling where her feet hit i'm chilling with a mean chick like dylan at the peach pit i've been raw since prince paul was stetsasonic so piss off, or get pissed on like reaganomics hook: so keep all your cosigns and keys to the goldmine the people are on my side (hold on) and i will move heaven and earth to protect them so you ain't gon leave this alive (hold on)
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hook: with a price like that, honey, i can't buy but i won't be mad just cause that ain't mine if it it's only cool for now then why'd i cop it i don't wanna spend my life in someone's pocket 1: i ain't got a lot but what i got means a lot to me something that i learned back when it was just my mom and me i take the crumbs and give the cake to my colony tap water, three meals a day in my pottery son, i never play the fool because my plate is full stopped eating fish but still listen to paid in full if that ain't relatable, this is how i play it cool the money you ain't made should never be what they make of you some say when you living kinda lean the end'll justify trying to live beyond your means but if you try to lean on them they're like, we not friends, so back up, son this shit is not a dream what kind of dude'll brag about his cash in a recession i'm seeing all my neighbors steal my cans for the redemption that's five cents a piece, i'm just relieved end of the day, that i'm blessed to eat hook: with a price like that, honey, i can't buy but i won't be mad just cause that ain't mine if it it's only cool for now then why'd i cop it? i don't wanna spend my life in someone's pocket 2: daddy was a rich boy then became a broke man yes y'all it was debt calls 'til the phone jammed mama was the breadwinner on it like an antenna when i started slacking she was dragging me with both hands slap me if i'm ever dropping hundreds on a style 'cause my grandmother ain't even have plumbing as a child but i'm up to ankle for stuff that i'm thankful if i never make it rain 'til the puddle is a pile got clothes in my dresser and a phone that connects to all the folks that i treasure whether home or wherever got a girl that i feel like i've known for forever 12 hour bus rides since the moment i met her but she it makes it worthwhile and my favorite songs make a long time quicker than the pivot of turnstile i ain't got time to sit and ponder my net worth, as long as my legs work, i'm moving hook: with a price like that, honey, i can't buy but i won't be mad just cause that ain't mine if it it's only cool for now then why'd i cop it? i dont wanna spend my life in someone's pocket
3.
hook: i should die today you walking away with everything i need in me girl i’m saying, everything here was once such sweet sweet love x2 1: it was a summer unlike any other, loving was hot and heavy plus she had crazy legs, so we was rocking steady i felt like akinyele mixed with arthur fonzarelli should have known better, soul, homie, you ain’t gotta tell me daydreaming in this meadow of steel i was a couple of levels above head over heels she had a physique that could weaken a celibate monk but her sweetheart demeanor was a delicate front no nevermind that we were both especially young so anything that i expected was ahead of the gun but one night, she wasn’t checking her phone i should have left it alone, but i knew she had that nose that tended to run i was stressing and panicking, had abandonment issues i was texting and calling, hollering like damn it, i miss you she said she’s deading it, i said you know the past that i’ve been through but she ain’t even wanna talk about it, so all i thought about it was hook: i should die today you walking away with everything i need in me girl i’m saying, everything here was once such sweet sweet love x2 2: now here’s the part of it i never really brought up before cause i ain’t wanna trouble my sister and mom anymore but since the beat is still rolling and i gotta record let’s address the messes i made soon as i walked out the door for starters, i was drunk daily stuck in a rut a paleontologist couldn’t dig me out of to unveil me soul was the titanic, no boat or a life jacket another week of this and my blood would become bailey’s like what the hell’s occurring? waking up in union square smelling like somebody else’s urine clothes moldy like i never knew they sell detergent overdramatic acting like i was in hell and burning or sometimes sitting on the train platform, letting my legs dangle thinking maybe i should jump down, getting my flesh mangled luckily hesitated and stopped my decline and reconnected with some friends who told me i would be fine, i told ‘em hook: i should die today you walking away with everything i need in me girl i’m saying, everything here was once such sweet sweet love x2
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they’re killing me tonight they are killing me tonight they are murdering, murdering murdering me tonight 1: we went from voltage to dosage like that's humane as the hourglass passes its last few grains we still add new names to death row that echo from holman to folsom, how can you claim that we're staying on the high ground when we take another life out without so much as raising up an eyebrow well maybe some of us but meanwhile the rest of y’all chill as we restrain a mother's child down strapped but disarmed, they’re jabbing his arms with catheters his family’s hearts are cracking apart as activists protest with candles and signs hoping this man will survive unless the capital calls for the miraculous this ain’t the kind of thing you need to stop and ask oprah it’s power that we can’t allow atop a man’s shoulder it’s about time i cried out and brought my hands closer remembering the final words of shaka sankofa hook: they’re killing me tonight they are killing me tonight they are murdering, murdering murdering me tonight mr. governor, we’ve discovered a body of evidence don’t cover us in that black mask and make us make us turn out the light 2: now even if they’re guilty beyond reasonable doubt it ain’t like killing em’ll ever even this shit out if you’d fallen where they’ve fallen, you might see another route instead of something more than murder when that needle’s coming out we’ve seen too many moments that are worth second looks the first breath he took, the first step he took a grave is a grave and a death is a death but y’all forget about it as soon they’re first getting booked see, i’m just stating the past ethics and same words from the family of matt shephard and james byrd i can’t imagine that sad sentence that they heard they showed a kinda mercy to killers they ain’t earned wrongly accused or proven and shut cases you wanna execute ‘em, remove me from your playlist their your neighbors, lord save us nah, fuck it you ain’t even try to save troy davis hook: they’re killing me tonight they are killing me tonight they are murdering, murdering murdering me tonight mr. governor, we’ve discovered a body of evidence don’t cover us in that black mask and make us make us turn out the light
5.
Ra's al Ghul 02:56
1: mentally i'm an assembly line, you’ll never see me fall like donny in ‘79 because i’m sharper than the bars of ebony try not to patronize me unless you mean the medici kind if you ain’t get the point of that, son, that was the point of that i wanna challenge y’all, i thought that was the point of rap you get anointed at the point they put your soil back who really got the power? the pound or the one it’s pointed at? but chill, too many moms had their youths come brought back reduced to their dogtag and boots and even men who walk with a god’s attributes can get dragged down to earth with a contract dispute there are plenty of followers these days, we’re lacking leaders the realest shit you gonna hear don’t ever pack arenas i got a craft to teach ya like i’m played by pat morita here to break the crooked fingers of the evil hands that feed us hook: we might have been in the same classroom but i could barely stay awake past noon they used to tell me i should change my tune i'mma keep coming back like i'm ra's al ghul strike me down and i'mma still come back strike me down, strike me down strike me down and i'mma still come back strike me down, strike me down 2: now, the words from my jaw are like a circular saw they cut deeper than my features to my personal flaws this is for the fellas with their babymamas learning lamaze looking for justice like augustus in his journal in oz i stand out on my street in my jeans and a old beater and wonder if we gon’ get our own hiroshima even when i’m lit as the tip of a cohiba i don’t get to sniffing or kick it with lolitas i’m too grownmannish raised out in cali but they’re asking how he don’t know spanish i’m chopin when i leave the stage, they’re gonna throw a rose at it and my crew’s someall stars like a sky with no planets if you remember what i said about the dirt around you then you should be so honored if i say a word about you they tell me, soul, lighten up and get the nerd up out you i tell ‘em you maybe you should fucking face the world around you hook: we might have been in the same classroom but i could barely stay awake past noon they used to tell me i should change my tune i'mma keep coming back like i'm ra's al ghul strike me down and i'mma still come back strike me down, strike me down strike me down and i'mma still come back strike me down, strike me down
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released December 6, 2011

raps and hooks written by soul khan
produced and mixed by audible doctor
recorded by j57 and soul khan

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Soul Khan Brooklyn, New York

Brooklyn based MC, member of Brown Bag Allstars.

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