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Metropolis

by Namir Blade

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1.
Award Speech 03:24
I was losing sleep about it. I used to think I couldn’t live without it. Back then I couldn’t give an outfit. She used to overlook me. I had the sisters acting out like whoopi. Even when I pushed a Hoopty/ I had the gift from God. I used to hide behind a fake facade. Leading role but I hate the part. Class act actor I used to hate applause But I had to cut corners like a Jamaican Bob. I rather do therapy than to take a loss. Prefer my sincerity over Oos and Aahs. So don’t go comparing me like you write the laws. Every time that they doubted I went and beat the odds. Now I’m booked and busy plus I brought the future with me And we all nice They hits ain’t working feels like they on strike. Please have mercy on me Before you go pick and choose Things aint surface baby. I ain’t the one you wanna lose I been tired for to long. I only wanna be with you, It feels so certain baby. What you wanna do. Cuz I been tired for too long. I only wanna be with you. So tell me what the vibe like. I know you feel like you ain’t got a place in my life Maybe when the time right. I know you living, I just want you in my highlights Tell my momma i love her, but baby this what I like lord knows I wanna dance, I want a chance. I’m not to shy to advance I got my own thing moving with a smooth motion. Center stage stirring up a big commotion.
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Mephisto 03:26 video
Riding round my city in a Honda Civic. Industry been moving shaky but we proper with it. I’m from where niggas sell a scrip without a doctor visit. And if they ever caught a body say the doctor did him. I got a drop of wisdom. People barely coexist I see in octavision. Victorian mansion with the tower in it. That’s how you overlook the opps when you in my position. What’s shaking baby? I got a lot of love to give so why you hatin baby?take a gander at all this money we making baby. We can dot you from miles away if you faking baby. That’s word to Tahm Soya. We’ll Probably find you, before you find a lawyer. Gift of gab with the jabs moving like Delahoya Bih come wipe me down. World gon marvel at me. I’m Kevin fighee now. No I don’t starve for nun we ain’t tryna hear that none sense. Down play my genius tryna label me conscious. Until I turn the yoga session into a mosh pit. They could run they mouth before I run out of options. Jesus on mainline, jumping off the porch niggas throwing up gang signs, the homies bout that action if I tell em it’s game time. Errbody got a method why the hell would I change mine. I wear my heart on my sleeve. I get conflicted sometimes, I need a reason to rhyme, I need a reason for something, these nighas dying for nothing. I gotta push to the limit, ain’t no question I’m gifted. My my granddaddy whipped a caddy, hung his arm out the window. I know my linkage proper, I keep it G to the core cuz we don’t wanna hear that wack shit anymore
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Pardon my French, don’t mind if I trip. Lot on my wrist, lot on my mind. Let’s go for a ride, look at the time, look at my face, can tell that I’m tired. Working all night, hotel to a flight, ordained as a knight, I’m high as a kite. Or TVA spike. I look at the bills, I’m dressed to get killed, I cry when I’m broke, I give if I got it. Pretend I’m a prophet, thumbing through profit. Get feral without it. How they got sleep? The finest from New Orleans to Tennessee Pearls from Ginevie. Under Armor but the overcoat is Grenadine. I keep the swiftest Taylor working like a big machine. This ain’t no critique, Why they hate on me? Everything that I touch is always instant repeat. Because I’m tryna eat. I’m with the chefs in the kitchen tasting the recipe. Oh yeah now y’all can eat. dirt off, skrrt off, pull up, hop out, what’s good, it me, I’m him. I got new flows, this a teaser. Synesthesia, when I sees ya. I be Chico, you be Rita. Heard the purr smooth, alopecia. My amiga, I know some bad tings but you a diva. See how they line up, but you a leader. I might Risk it all for my lil ya mean. That’s my baby and she stacked just like a banhmi. That shit crazy. And we only want the finer things. My lil Ya’mean. look at em go. I just been out on the road. I cannot stay in one place. Swerve on the jakes. Gave away all of my skates, look we legit. You used to sneak in the crib, then you moved out on your own. Look at the growth. That’s how you know. Want you to win, say it in passing, say it again.
4.
Ride 04:54
Pull up smooth. You got plans, we too cool. In the back, bumping screw, if you got it roll up two. I don’t match, that’s on you, made a pact, where you going where you at? ETA. That’s just that. I just got a ride today. It move like a basquiat, bucket or something. So caught up in spinning wheels. Cheap thrills, this a heat chill, front and center that’s a steep bill. Cut off auto payments ain’t no re-bill. Pipes screaming like it’s meek mill. No hands on em but the feet will. Hit the gas baby, don’t you swerve on em , don’t you crash. I ain’t into that. Nice widdit never finish last. Ice glinting, like some tinted glass. No five percent, But the 5 percenters still checking in. Tweeters sounding like Hear em knocking better let me in. Pull up in that, 1990 do you wanna ride? when can I slide to the pull up. Stay low key but the stock go bullish. Top notch thots, bet the block gon pull em. How you throw a set but ya mans ain’t in it. How you gon pop when your fans don’t get it, yah damn I’m livid I ain’t make shit if the fam can’t spend it. I ain’t got shit less my man dem winning new plans new vision. But I do know one thing tho, these seasons come and go, Saturday thru Sunday Monday. Monday thru Sunday yo. Maybe it love you one day. Maybe it crush yo soul. Till then just hop up in this hoopty, hit the gas and go. Pull up in that, 1990 do you wanna ride?
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Got some shit that you ain’t know yet Never walk alone here, never coast here If ya float here, won't be no route And if ya don’t care, won't be no you Keep it on the low for the one time Keep it to need to know, no I don’t mind Somewhere on a plane to a island Couldn’t be close right beside ya A g, or discreet, at the least, bitch A league past the deep where they sleep in I’m on one. I’m on two tho. charades and accolades who are you though? Im amazed they ain’t amazed but hatin’ the usual Pop Akira pill and watch me go so Tetsuo Might pull up on ya bish in a two door. Dark liquor Godzilla, marked killer. Dark villain, yall Krillin’s, fall for anything Crawl for any chain, dogs who let them in? Pausin’ every game Pause on everything, nothing move till I make it shake. I can’t take a break a lot of niggas hate, hoes mad. Cold facts, scope attached, silent blast Bring ya back I don’t know who the fuck that they think I am Does it seem like I’m worth a second thought to anybody. Could I maybe connect a little bit with anybody Bitch shut up don’t touch my shit, you know I’m not just anybody I collect my respect any way or time from anybody Anybody Anybody (Interlude) Black flag, one piece, moshpit, throw hands. back back,50 feet. black bag 50gs They don’t ask me who I know here, because I walk like i respect the code here. It’s just me and all my bros here. it can really get cut throat out here. Got some shit that you ain’t know yet Never walk alone here, never coast here If ya float here, won't be no route And if ya don’t care, won't be no you Let me warn you, we ain’t doing what you feel like we supposed to I’m commanded by my spirit when the force move. Can’t deny after surviving what I been through. Hope you never look at things the way that I do. Hope you never go and do the shit that I do I perfected all my processes and my moves I don’t speak for anything that all my guys do. If I ain’t winning them I’m probably beside you Keep it on the low for the one time Keep it to need to know, no I don’t mind Somewhere on a plane to a island Couldn’t be close right beside ya You don’t seem like you wanna love me. But you’re so lovely, I forget all of that. All of that I just spent the last minutes looking for my cell phone, it was my in pocket. Wait, that was just some high shit, that was just some my shit, me shit. We don’t get excited for weak shit, keep it. A g, or discreet, at the least, bitch A league past the deep where they sleep in and I need more from these kids, that Mikey TV shit is feeble to me. And they picking up a seat on the bench, cause they’re not in my league Ha, they not up to speed. I been the goat. Now i just float. I built a castle, I built a moat, I built a boat, now I just coast. A Honoroll, I’m on a roll. Even so, I don’t know if they even really ready for where this about to go (Drive)
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Drank sipper, iced out big dipper. Dark skin dark arts, dark dark nigga. All black Carhart, marked marked killer Step outside for target practice, mark mark, Pin em. If you be smoking why your Gars like starched demin.. eyes tired from always staring at the large picture, And I made the soundtrack, hans zimmer. I’ma prolly need a barge for the large figures. Wait, We in charge nigga. Big yacht palm tree R&R nigga Mononoke forrest stuffed in a cigar nigga 15s in my car nigga I done got that bump in my trunk I done got my thumb on the pulse. I deserve a pat on the back, because I’ve been a good sport at the most Bitch I got the bag to myself. I ain’t sharing with nobody else. Nigga you ain’t put in on this in on this. You ain’t put in on this, in on this. wait. (they said they want that old shit) i heard the world gonna end, they talk bout rumors of war I heard these niggas be plotting I heard police when they shot him. I heard they offering aid, I heard they siphon out their taxes so that you can get paid, Fuck em we balling out. I heard they need a messiah, I heard they need a supplier. 500 pounds of that fire. Gotta go and bomb saddam in case they nation wan try us Gotta poison half the population case shit get dire. Public service announcements Bailing out my accountant Mailing out a bomb thats strong enough to level a mountain My street aint got running water. They take our daughters, treat our sons just like they all moving targets and wonder why we all martyrs I heard you robbing the plug, you held that pack and it was light cause he ain’t show you no love Plus he fucked on your girl, you at his life with a slug. She did it all for a Buck, you did it all for her love. You used to manage a bank, but got laid off 2020. So now you robbing the banks, split the loot 50/50. Get it straight out the mud. Wide Body sitting on chrome. God Body with a new bae, Switch Rollies got a new face.
7.
BoA 01:51
New whip that’s an oldie. Old flex on some new shit. Last I checked this wasn’t a round table. We ain’t ask for your two cents. We ain’t tripping bout nun on nun. Blow em up, go dee dee with the button. Pressure on they neck top button. Huh, tell ya lil rap friends stop stuntin huh. This ain’t a set I got the whole team. I don’t party but the drinks on me. Don’t go crazy in the vip. You can get all this work for free. We outside. Don’t keep me waiting for you. Practice my patience for sho. Why should I stay in stasis. Waive my condition for you. Half truth I got it honest. Keepsakes can’t keep you around. Why should you keep a promise? Save all my love just for you.
8.
Hypercar 02:24
How many strippers can I fit into a sprinter van. I got it honest, I ain’t Martin but I been the man. I tell the homies put they feet up cause we been advanced. We just up against a bunch a niggas that we realer than. Cool stretch like a Canada Dry, Goose step, when they hand me the Wayne’s. Big drip, withmy hand on the wheel, big drift prolly bending the frame. East side, say it three times. Ain’t no peace sign, Issa war at your door. This a GTR, not a Nissan. Blink three times, and you covered in smoke. Crooked letter but we T’d of the smoke, ring a ling a GD at yo door. Ning Ning, it’s just me at yo throat. Bling bling, bitch it’s me on a boat. Whole team, but it’s me, I’m the coach. Whole ting can’t you see I’m the GOAT. I needa viva la bam me a moat. I needa viva la blurb bleablaah gablah thffff fuck. Bitch I’m top five x3 On my worst day, I go mach 5 x3 To all my ganstas, movers, hustlers, pimps , hoes, everybody — fuck that. I been going in since I was a little rugrat. Serving double Ls but don’t call this a comeback. Brotherhood packing steel I’m the one, I go Helios. Acrobatics from the top rope, ray mysterio. Bussing out the fabric automatic I’m Wandicimo. Shots to the head, blurry vision off the heezy hoe. Fuck you mean I ain’t about that life nigga, fuck you mean I ain’t about that work nigga. I had a dream that I was robbing a rap nigga come of them shoes that bling and that shirt nighas. This a stick up better put your fucking pen up. We don’t play well turn your favorite to a pinup. We don’t watch because the time we on is different.
9.
Pop out. I’m the only nigga popping that you talk bout. Smelling what I’m cooking bring the rock out. This a super car it never top out. Say dat, you do not fit in we want our space back. If you was the opps, you gotta stay that. this is a vendetta I need payback. Rock out, do not give a fuck bout what they talm bout You ain’t got no fetty to fit in? that's just a cop out You ain’t really locked down know some Gods inside the dog pound You ain’t bar’d up nigga I’m an alchy off the malt now Got Heli views from the pad With a shorty who from Dubai She undoing her hijab Couldn’t keep it under wraps Hittin’ like a hidden track Then i’m dippin’ to the ranch If I’m back its Candyman, hoe Our black father, rip T’Challa. I black dot em. my Black dollars, kpack cost em. Robbers be watching. Fed be watchin’ God be watchin’ Not my problem. God I got em. Got got got it! On my rocket! Blast off bitch Later I'll holla! Black ass martian Higher path I'm walkin! Killer and a scholar, straight from the bottom. Live by the sword so I won’t die a Martyr. I’m a real nigga so I pop my black color. I’m a real nigga where the fuck my parade Indigo nigga Blue dreams by the eighth! Niggas sit around talk shit all day, when you see these niggas out face to face, Motherfuck your Kumbaye. I might flick it out in public.I need all my bills in buckets. Tear em up letoya lucket. Came in humble , left out bussin. Came in dumpin, left with ducats Future foreign, it's transformin' Jumpman, Jumpman, up to somethin' From dat Tenn we keep it funk Aye mane be clear. Can’t stand you niggas trying hard to be weird. Might pull umping in a car from next year. Might pull up hop out, break all of your deniers I’ll bleed you niggas out for J and Namir Hope the we pay the judge and jury fore’ the verdict get clear Lose some keys and peel out in a getaway steez. Mu stand GT cross the border with ease, Fore’ I leave I’ma throw up the E
10.
This a mother fucking sound off. I might go outside and go and let a round off. We don’t make no estimations we just round off. These niggas hit, these niggas miss and that’s a ground ball. We just clown y’all. We don’t recognize the niggas thats around y’all. A bunch of fakes and they be praying on my downfall. My exes told me I ain’t nothing but a hound dog. And every time they try to press it’s just a stonewall. I hope you love my face, here for the long haul. Remember I couldn’t even get a phone call. Now my celly ringing off the hook when I hit land fall. had a talk with God she told me that she couldn’t stand y’all. I might hit Miami’s DA, get my mans off. I been working every weekend, I got plans dawg. How you hide from paper, I can’t even understand y’all. Keep a dagger on me and I wasn’t talking dance hall/ Chasing dimes, I’m racing time. My foot stuck, snake divine, I ssslthhh through the cook up. Master P, it’s me I got the hook up. Who you call, it’s screw you all. The team up. Married to the game, but signed a prenup. Pass the blunt I’m working on a re up, riding the wheel fall off the axel. Pray for peace I kill you at the chapel. Herd em out, then serve em out like cattle, word of mouth they heard he was a rascal. Purge em out he barely worth.. mchtt.. scary turf. Turbulence shake the castle. I done played for keeps. Thank god that my granny went and prayed for me. Thank god that I ain’t got latency. Thank god that my greats ain’t great as me Gee Slab Hear ye, Here ye Woo, Pardon my arrival. I been rolling up this weed giving advice to all your idols. They know my flow is midas I’m the reason that the people know that you invited. My presence ain’t a present. it’s a blessing from the highest. I never said a name and I escaped all them indictments. My cousin play with pigeons like he Tyson, You should really be excited. Niggas changing with the prices. But the real aint dead we going money and i like it, Look, Im a titan and a viking. keep a sticky and a trident. the book Im gone re write realignments interventions, gimme mine I’m on a mission. I aint never miss a game unless my trig been suspended. Hope you read between the lines, niggas lying or a mention. Not to mention I’m the only nigga in it, never switched it. Every minute i a privilege, if pull it out, you got dirty dance with this pistol, RIP to all your niggas. Dear lord, can you please forgive me For things I can’t change And things I don’t know. I force my hand because they giving me no option. Keep watching over me.
11.
If I was your man, I prolly go off the deep end. Perfect centerfold, but you could tear me to pieces. Location on me baby, when you go to my region. Picturesque we prolly falling off by the weekend
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I wanna return to water, that city in the sea. The tide has turned to maelstrom, that never bothered me. The salt doesn’t taste to bitter on my tongue, it was wrapped in silver when I screamed at you. The flowers I held were wilted, the sand underneath kept shifting, out. (Overnight overnight overnight) Over night. Over night. OVER NIGHT. over night. Things Gon change, Overnight. Over night over night. Things gon change. (overnight) Overnight.. Over night… Faux fur when the cold bite. Sparks fly when the gold strike. Niggas dying for a gold brick. Clock in then you code switch. Over night. Overnight. Clock in then you switch back. Niggas out here with the riff raft. 12 chirping on the dispatch. If you want it you can get that. If you want it you can get that (Over night) All this lava for a rough cut, new designer on me don’t you touch touch. Black Balto howling on an Alpine, yelling mush mush, we a rough bunch. Regret a lot but I don’t lose sleep. Words reach but don’t cut deep. I remember I was 16, I was worried that they wouldn’t get me. Pull up on you round 6p, with a 6 speed, moving risky. Keep a shawl on so they miss me when they try to go and 86 me. I was out in Brooklyn, tryna find myself. Out in Hollywood tryna catch a wave. Ducking dodging shade, never duck a comma never duck a fade. Heard it’s up today. All this pressure on me, make me suffocate, all these levels on me, gotta talk to god. Nary water wings had to flutter kick In the lake of fire pray I oxidize. This hit for the real ones, know the lil homies might kill sumn, tell em chill some, if we move in units we can build sumn. Overnight..
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15. Ring Off 03:38
Writing on this record I pray that it sticks, record label hold you down just assemble the hits. I always kept it legit, I try to be something the leeches could never predict. I want it all in my name dollars and cents. I can see how nighas sweat when I’m making em sprint. Every hour, and second, my game plan, I perfected. I cleared all of the wreckage, to see my dogs win. deep in the trenches before niggas was speaking prolific. The homie told me when you thorough, they speak to you different. I used to go to Sam Ash to peep my equipment, now I’m collecting everything that I speak to existence. From eating with women to sleeping with the fishes, I done seen a million niggas abandon the vision. Lose a bag and all the sudden they turning defeatist, get it back and all the sudden they turn to elitist. Whatever happened to giving back when you out here eating? Niggas love the code till they decide to leave it. I knew all the nighas with me was assembled thorough. Back when we ran the pack out from Murfreesboro. Switching lanes like we was driving in Grand Turismo. Grimy but cinematic like Tarantino. Talk to me nice when you when you speaking or eat a jalapeño. If I kept it a millie, would you think I’m out of line, would you say that you get me? Would you sub me in your raps, when it’s more than the city? If I was down and on my last would you drive out to get me? Am I capable of change if I’m buggin at 50? are you trying to be different or making a difference? I see they tryna get a hit out when they shit ain’t hitting. They steady tryna stir the pot when the water is missing. Ring off. If I don’t make another hit again I hope this Ring off. When my momma driving in her whip I hope this ring off. (Mumbling) I just need a dollar, what up kinfolk? What you know good? I got info. I Been way up, I been out cold. I been real good, Could be better tho. Fuck it nother episode. Funny how shit change, I ain’t good at letting go. I got love for you, case nobody let cha know. And my uncle telling me that I’m next to blow. Ring off. If I don’t make another hit again I hope this Ring off. When my momma driving in her whip I hope this ring off. If I can’t talk my shit again, I hope this shit just ring off
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Seen the lil homie walking down the street serving pack now. Rocking new Jordan’s I heard his momma doing crack now. I used to pray for a millions dollars I could pass round. Build up the projects and pray my karma coming back round. Kids used to pick on me, brush it off it ain’t a big deal. I miss my patna her his daughter getting big still. I got a homie who in the pen, he doing 25. I used think I never would make it to see 29. I was only 7 when first thought about suicide, now I’m 29 and I’m moving like it was do or die. I was only 5 when I first went to the Kingdom Hall. I used to hate the sermons, cuz l thought I could do it all. But I learned. That it just ain’t me baby. A nigga caught in the world. It ain’t just me baby. A nigga caught in the world. I’m lost in the world. I’m down on my mind. I’m looking for something, something. Where you get that new wave? I heard your new shit it was cool. So many full clips, plus a tool. We no exception, we the rule. Got new investments, this for you. This a residence, not a school. This is a Ferrari , not a mule. This is dedication not a fluke. I’m done with that cool shit. I’m speaking up, all of this pressure but I ain’t weak enough. All this depression, I ain’t geeked enough. I dun seen all the competition we heating up. They used to tell me I wun street enough, now they all telling me I ain’t deep enough.

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Imagine Sun Ra time-traveling to the techno-dystopia in Blade Runner, Marty McFly piloting the DeLorean through the cyberpunk cityscape in Akira. Now you’re in the headspace to digest Metropolis, the latest album of time-traveling dispatches from Nashville multi-instrumentalist, producer, and rapper Namir Blade. Inspired by and named after the 2001 anime Metropolis and its 1927 predecessor, these 16 tracks are chapters of a speculative memoir unstuck in time, a quest for joy as late-stage capitalism crumbles looking wearily to a near-future dominated by tech oligarchs. In his most vulnerable writing yet, Namir shirks wallowing in loneliness and algorithm-induced self-doubt by going to therapy, making art on his terms, and learning to cherish his hooptie.

Namir’s first entirely self-produced album and third on Mello Music Group, Metropolis was recorded in his living room and mixed at home. His digital and live instrumentation hybrids are as unbound as his subject matter. The ominous yet beautiful synths Vangelis used to score Harrison Ford chasing homicidal Tyrell Co. replicants (“Hypercar”), the cavernous drums and auto-tuned croons of 808s & Heartbreak-era Kanye (“BoA”), anime samples, rays of warm gospel and soul (“Memphisto”), and ethereal trap (“Monday Michuru”) coexist and ram into one another. Namir often switches the beat mid-track, the purposeful disorientation becoming more rewarding with each listen. With features from several Nashville artists who inspire him, he brings the future to us. The ride isn’t linear or always pleasant, but as Namir challenges himself and the listener, both get closer to finding their place in the unsettling now and uncertain tomorrow.

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released June 3, 2022

All songs produced, & mixed by Namir Blade
Mastered by Joe Hutchinson

Art by Samuel Silverman
Graphic Design by Austin Hart
Executive Produced by Namir Blade & Michael Tolle

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Namir Blade is a multi-instrumentalist, producer, and artist from Nashville Tennessee. He started experimenting with sounds at the age of six and further developing and refining his talents.q A window to look into the mind of a modern Afro-American. Surrealism, Afro-Futurism, Nerd culture, and Black culture ... more

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