Dynamic, stylish, clever hip-hop with agile notes of jazz and gospel and guests, by the American rapper and singer from Richmond, Virginia, heralding his forthcoming fifth album, Magic, Alive!, out on 6 June via City Slang. To explore and enjoy more by McKinley Dixon, whose last album was 2023’s Beloved! Paradise! Jazz!?, see also the other embedded links below.
Caught lackin once, now I’ll never move again alone
Made a couple dollars from fists filled with rock and broken home
Y’all finna see
Making it so I all my loves ones known
Doing it so that the gold could drape up on my collarbone
Can’t make my peace
Can’t make my peace
I’ll give
I’ll give
My soul
I’ll give my soul
Yeah, okay okay okay okay
To keep
[Verse 2: McKinley Dixon]
Sun been getting it’s revenge
Feel the heat, you hear it buzzing
How we raise him from the ground?
Type shit discussing with my cousin
Said I’ll put that shit on everything
Everything it wasn’t
The sunlight gon take us back one day
(We hoping that it doesn’t)
Well, I mean I guess if it don’t kill you make you harder
Bring ‘em back just for our heart
Shit, is seem like easy barter
Groovy nigga walking in, you can hear it in his saunter
Hear the melody, he don’t walk, he do his lil dance on water, boy
As the plot thickens, my niggas be clicking
Hard bottoms 3AM on the floor in the kitchen
Dance of the dead my heart and floor, you stuck?
I’ll do anything but let’s not wake Ms Jackson up, let’s get out of here
Can’t make my peace (can’t make my peace)
I’ll give (I’ll give)
Yeah
My soul (my soul)
To peace (To peace)
Can’t find my place (Can’t find my place)
I’ll give (I’ll give)
My soul (My soul)
Away
If it ain’t today then it’s too late
You got no room for playing cool
It is the school of give and take
Too many homies that we know no more, they passed away
Though time keeps moving forward, forwards feels like yesterday
My big bro told me every song you make is a picture of forever, dawg
And once you let it out and spread it round like aerosol
We speak your name up like you famous bro you never lost
You speakin through us we gon boot up to whatever cost, whatever cost
Saw in awe the concrete cracked and birthed a new host
I seen him swing his hand, he cut down a whole light post
Was happy when I seen him, his dance a beautiful sight
Now I take a step back, seen him in a different light, goddamn
What I done did? What have I promised him?
The chances are so slim
I can’t have brought back kid
Laughing now mumbles “Can’t believe that I was finished”
Looks to me, says “No time to waste boy, let’s get back in it, come on”
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