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check it out now... hello and how ya doing?
the most dopest emcee... the ghost tea is brewing, [as you would brew hot tea]
hot on the spot, whether you like it or not,
i'm making it pop, with flows i got, expose the plot,
a rolling rock... gathers no moss, i'm on course,
an old man that knows all, and holds the golden claw, [the golden claw is an item you can acquire in the video game, Skyrim]
control thoughts cuz bro i know the force, [the force, from Star Wars]
the g-h-o is holding court,
so gather around, get taught...
i fought for 'rights to get hype at night types' [ref. to Beastie Boys Fight for the Right to Party]
license to ill shows 5'8", just the right height, [another Beastie Boys ref. 'License to ill']
the fright night bite incite all type of change,
turn him into something strange at midnight is what they claim, [Fright Night was an 80s movie about vampires, and if they bite you, you turn into one, usually at night time]
the aim is too high, so try to realize,
the same ol' same ol' lies... multiply by pi... [multiplying anything into pi would result in a number that would technically never end]
split personalities all hide in one guy's mind... [Ref. to Split Personalities Connection to which Ghost Tea founded]
in splinterlab, i reside... [Splinterlab is a collaborative collection of musicians, to which Ghost Tea belongs]
second verse, worse than the first, still wreck it,
with just 28 days no time to double check it... [28 Days to complete the RPM Challenge, which is a challenge to create an album in just February]
might mess it up, so what, just respect it...
i'm exiting left, deep in the stars, keep trekking it, [ref. to Star Trek]
flexing this flow, around the globe like a yo-yo... [the Around the World is a yo-yo trick]
one-two, one-two... oh no! it's sounding so so/so...
get down with my vocals... the illest around...
i'm not into violence, but i'm killing it now...
fill in the sound... with applause for support,
welcome into my mind as the rhyme -distorts-
all aboard... hit record...
a terabyte of lyrics stored and counting... [many of ghost tea's rhymes are stored on numerous storage devices... i don't think it's really a terabyte's worth, but maybe]
it's bout time to go and make an album...
it's like i'm drowning... ghost tea is still housing things, [ref. to Ultramagnetic MC's 'Kool Keith Housing Things']
and quantitizing with swing,
keep it bouncing like blimp's beats, pounding insane, [Blimp is a brilliant producer/musician with whom Ghost Tea has collaborated with]
check it out as i release what's found in the brain...
EGO TRIPPIN' PART 3
it's the illest that you never heard... and that's word...
the greatest lyrics ever served on wack beats... reverbed...
got me on my left and right swerve... with youngg dev, [Youngg Dev is Ghost Tea's nephew and fellow hip hop emcee]
ghost tea's spirits free because t-one's dead... [t-one is another nickname for ghost tea's real life persona, Tony Mauro]
eat some bread... a starving artist, drooling and all...
doing it right, though i'm not the sharpest tool in the drawer... [not the smartest or brightest]
tell ya ma and pa... that i'm the freshest around...
the best in ya town, and that you ain't effin' around...
catch my lessons now... i'm student teachin' ya basics... [as KRS-One is the Teacha, ghost tea proclaims himself the Student Teacha]
been in this hip-hop matrix... [ref. to the movie Matrix] ever since 8-6... [ghost tea began listening to hip hop music in 1986]
studied the ancients got no patience for racists...
other emcees trace this... i'm the greatest just face it...
listen to the flow... cause this is how it goes...
it is kinda slow, ya either get it or don't...
i timed it so preciously... the beat, enticed me...
to write these bars, just 24 and no more... [this song has only 24 bars of lyrics]
now i'm going off course... lost on an island... [ref. to the TV show 'Lost' where they were stranded on a mysterious island]
thought after thought forced... start off with violins,
not sure if i should stay calm or start wilding...
the all sport emcee with art and with styling...
profiling... all the wack emcees...
i'm ego-trippin' part 3, it's not a lark it's OG, [ref. to Ultramagnetic song, Ego Trippin']
the love of the music is somehow a part of my genes... [as is ghost tea's father, brother and nephew, all are fans of music and musicians in their own right]
keep it brief, it's the end so i'll depart... aye yo... PEACE!
A.B. YA SEE?!
ghost tea, flowing free... mind's open deep,
on a rhyming spree, and got a rhymin' degree...
perfectly timed to the beat... o.c.d. [obsessive compulsive disorder]
perfectly aligning my sheets... m.c.a.... r.i.p.... [rest in peace to Beastie Boys member, Adam Yauch a.k.a. MCA]
i'm representing s.j.p. and g.f.c. [Smokin Joint Productions, a group founded by ghost tea's brother] [Graveyard Fillaz Click, a group founded by ghost tea and friend Flash]
o.j. with o.e. and s.p.'s with trees.... [Orange Juice in Olde English] [Split Personalities Connection, smoking marijuana]
the mic's a part of me...
mastered the art of emcee
and f.y.i.... it's spelled, e.m.c.e.e.... [For Your Information] [Emcee is a typical way to spell out MC in hip-hop]
making it sound easy... my prose flow freely... [ref to Beastie Boys songs Flowing Prose]
my cold got me sneezy... but deadline's in 3 weeks... [3 weeks remaining for the RPM Challenge]
r.p.m. 2-oh-1-3, i'm one deep... controlling one street...
eat healthy now... sunsweet... [Sunsweet typically make healthy foods, especially fruits]
from deep underneath, i rumble your feet...
or instead, i thunder clap right at your head piece...
not the best beat, but lyrics sweet as you can see..
completing the challenge, just gimmie an hour at least...
it has that epic feel... repping real... [Main sample in song taken from the song 'Epic' by Faith No More]
the freshest flows from out of left-field...
caught by surprise, stepped in ... ew... [shit]
i kept it new but never do... what they do... [ref. to The Roots song 'What They Do']
i try to keep it true... feelin' orange instead of blue.... [orange is the opposite of blue on a color wheel]
keep it calm and keep it cool, although i'm deep in stew...
i reap dudes, dead like me too... if the fee's due.. [ref. to TV Show, 'Dead Like Me' which focuses on grim reapers]
drive my new car, straight to d.q. [Dairy Queen]
for dilly bars and eat two... [Dilly Bars are a popular treat from Dairy Queen]
damn! my diet's screwed, so eat two more...
it's fubar... g.h.o.s.t... got a secret recipe for iced tea... [Fubar is 'Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition]
in two jars... mix in some ecstacy...
next, let's se... nah... forget it...
i kick flows from a to z, explicit...
from x to b, you missed it...
it's something new... k.o. you, like t.n.t. part 2, [Knock Out] [T.N.T. were tag team partners in Professional Wrestling]
in a v.w.... drink h-2-0 and brew...[Volkswagen] [Drinking Water and Beer]
l.u.l.z.... compelling to spell, you see... [LULZ is an internet form of LOL which is Laugh out Loud]
completing this challenge, just gimmie an hour at least...
THE 28 DAZE
28 Days... insane to say the least...
gotta make 10 songs, but first... make 10 beats...
then write lyrics... 300 and 30 bars worth [ghost tea's RPM Album contains 330 bars worth of lyrics]
ghost the spirit, a mix of tesla and farnsworth... [Nikola Tesla was a great inventor as was Philo Farnsworth, although one focused largely on electricity and the other helped invent television]
thank the god first... actually... thank my mom first..
dad too... they inspired me to make art-work...
but anyway, back to these 28 days...
to make an album that i'm doubtin' will make any waves,
but hey..
it's fun when it's done... yes...
but i've just begun so it's stress... still, bringing my best...
next...
i'm fresh and ready to bless any...
beat from front to back...
try not, to make it wack... with gak... [gak is a child's form of 'slime' that nickolodean markets]
splatter it... rhymes i rhyme, don't matter a bit...
but magically fit... i just set it and dip...
rap with a twist... and now i have to get lit
just have to focus cuz 28 days goes fast as shit...
28 Days, got me working so hard...
trying to raise my game... at the same time, the bar... [these 2 bars were inspired by MCOBigBen's song '28 days' from the RPM Challenge 2012]
ain't thinkin' of fame... maybe just some pain... in the jaw...
trying to stay up late... maybe cocaine and a straw?... umm..
naw...
i got my coffee, black... that's my crack...
no sugar, no half and half... And that's fact,
Leg shaking to beats, check the clock, wish time would stop,
Cramming like I got an exam tomorrow... or what!?
i know wassup... but this challenge keeps on, shoving me,
flowin' rough, cause these cold symptoms keep buggin' me, [ghost tea had a cold for almost a week during February, which limited his music production for the RPM challenge]
bustin' these, lyrics out, at warp speed... [warp speed is a fictional unit to measure speed in Star Trek]
rushin' but hear me out, been writing since i'm 14,
so of course keep, pushing forward...
don't forget to push record...
push it on and on and headin' toward
the finish line... i'm in this grind...
28 days, 10 songs... -n- givin' it my all in this rhyme...
THIRTY SOMETHING
the name's ghost tea, as if you didn't know it yet...
say it at least a hundred times so i don't forget... [ghost tea says his own name alot, almost on every song]
my toes know where to step... so they won't get wet...
i like dogs but i'm allergic, so i won't get pets... [ghost tea is allergic to dogs and cats]
which flows go next? i'm trying to piece it together...
replacing lines to find which kind go better...
like a rhyme-professor... droppin' high-level science... [ref to Beastie Boys 'Dropping Science']
a cowboys fan, hate 'skins, eagles and giants [NFL, all teams are in the same division]
AND mayans... it's 20-13... i'm living large... [Mayans had predicted the end of the world in 2012]
new year, new gear, a new different car...
my phone isn't charged, new cord, i forgot it... [ref. to iPhone 5, which has switched from the old style of charging cable to a new version]
work on beats for me, work at work for profit,
hope dot got it... and if not, hope itunes do... [Dot Got It is a popular website to find hip hop albums online... iTunes is the legal way to get possibly those same albums]
stuck in the past, but tryin' to appreciate the new school...
like i'm too cool?... nah, i be chillin' -n- laughin'
i'm just a 30 something that is still into rapping [ghost tea is 31 years old, and still enjoys rapping]
this beat is chill... i write lyrics that keep it real...
not a thug or a pimp, so probably won't get a deal... [ref. to the large amount of famous/promoted hip hop artists who have tendancies to glorify violence and sex]
i don't kill... except bugs that're in my path...
my rhymes combined from the times that were in my past...
put it on wax... actually put it on wav... [wax is a nickname for vinyl records... wav is a form of digital music file]
not timberlake, but my suit and tie, put it on straight [justin timberlake recently released a new song 'suit and tie' after a bit of a musical hiatus]
foot on the brake... because i'm tired of crashing... [was involved in 2 fender benders in 2012 (although both not ghost tea's fault)]
hip-hop is my passion... i'm wired for rappin'...
i'm higher than aspen... yea sometimes smoke...
just buds, no crack, heroin or lines of coke...
the rhymes i wrote... are sorta self reflectin...
3 o'clock check in -n- chill as soon as i step in... [most hotels have 3 o'clock check in]
time for restin', and rechargin' my whole soul...
building up knowledge, reading books by the boat load...
to spit better flows though, i feel it can happen
i'm just a 30 something that is still into rappin'
one more verse... and notice that i didn't curse...
sometimes do...used to a lot... it didn't work...
it isn't worth it to be actin' like what you're not...
likely to get ya knocked, dropped or even shot...
i'm givin' my props, for hip hop that came before me,
givin' respect to the fallen -n- spill a forty... [pouring out alcohol is a ritual to remember the dead, and 'spill some for your homies']
a different story bout my tastes they may be varied,
yea I'm married but (still got a crush on Katy perry) [Katy Perry is a popular and beautiful pop singer who came to fame with her song 'I Kissed a Girl']
I'm making very wise decisions with how I'm living,
Everyday growing, building, try to remain driven,
I ain't kidding... nowadays, keep eyes on stocks, [watch stocks on the stock market]
Getting into the plot's tangled, tied up in a knot,
Rhymes are what I got... Keep spitting em lately,
Relate to Bruno mars, sometimes I'm just as lazy, [Bruno Mars is a pop musician who has a song called 'The Lazy Song']
Nothing fades me, my foot, still will be tappin',
I'm just a 30 something that is still into rappin'
ON & ON &...
i kick the bragadocious,
doo doo with the mostest.. [doo-doo rhyming is a style of rhyming that is more free-association than actually composing a story]
the ghostest...
the flows just composed
as deep as oceans...
from 0-6 to 1-0...
was slow wit the music [ghost tea didn't make much music between 2006 and 2010 because his studio got flooded and also because he was involved with his wife getting a new house, getting married, and everything else in life]
in 1-3... i'm gung ho
and grow as i use it...
it's new shit...
a 30 something,
still...into rappin'... [ref. to previous song, thirty something]
i chill and i'm laughin'...
and happy with what's happenin'...
i'm tapped in... ready to rock,
bet me or not, dude i'm no beginner,
2 time football pool winner.. [at ghost tea's workplace, he won both the Fantasy Football pool as well as the Survival Football Pool in 2012]
you all are sinners... me too...
time for dinner... let's eat sea food...
searchin' for some, inner peace... too...
i keep cool on songs...
and sleep far too long..
new car, new calm
and keep it movin' on and on...
keepin' songs simple...
basic beat, basic tempo...
i got the ace, king, queen, jack,
but no ten tho... [in poker, almost an 'ace-high straight' or maybe a 'royal flush' which is the highest ranking hand]
i'm working out... kenpo...
p-90x, next, get hemp yo... [p-90-x is a workout routine that features 'kenpo' usage]
time for some sex? yep the head grow
i ex-plode...
...and then compose, something brilliant...
massive mind, militant...
keep on fillin it,
with premium, no spilling it...
the team and them are iggnorant...
still top billin' it, as long as i'm willing it...
put a lil' skill in it...
til i be the best...
study til my death, but
still get beat at chess...
foreal i peep what's left
concealin' secrets... yes..
the illest... keep in check,
it's the ghost in full effect
GOING BACK
i'm the g-h-o... the s the t...
my zodiac sign is the l-i-b... r and a... [born in early October, ghost tea is a Libra]
i'm on my way....
nickname's agliolio, it's hard to say.. [one nickname for Tony Mauro besides ghost tea is Ajay Agliolio]
startin' great... and i'm finishin' better...
hip hop is my life... i'm in this forever...
my wifey is jen, still glad that i met her...
we go together like cocoa and cold weather... [hot cocoa is preferred by many on cold, wintery days]
i rock from swatara down to penbrook...
west hanover to linglestown and then book... [Swatara, Penbrook, West Hanover and Linglestown are all locations in central PA that ghost tea has frequented a lot]
to downtown, uptown... across town...
stoppin' at the front desk to check the lost & found
it's the ghost... check his sound-cloud, it's the bomb,
dopest rapper rappin' on any... dot com..
i'm not armed... only shoot wit, and that's it...
no gun and clip... but keep a drum kit in the whip
the old school flows through my blood like crazy,
a kid of the 80's... slim but not shady... [ref. to Eminem a.k.a. Slim Shady]
keepin' it tasty... no one can replace me...
grinnin' a lot lately cuz life is great, b....
but wait and see... just trying to prove my groove,
don't wanna live life just stumblin' through
usin' my one's and twos... got you wonderin' who?
it's g-h- oohh - s - t... just read the news...
streakin' through, keep it swinging, plus lyric bringing...
clappin' rappin', not singing, keepin' heads ringing... [ref. to song from the movie 'Friday' by Dr. Dre 'Keep Their Heads Ringing]
like ding, dong, dingin'... got my spine tingeling...
a 'playin the wall' type, you won't find mingling... [a playing the wall type is anti-social]
married not single -n- i couldn't be happier...
shootin' my words, not a gun for clappin' ya...
different thoughts i brought, chasing right after ya,
cruising around town, just me and my dark passenger... [ref. to the show, Dexter, about a 'good' serial killer who refers to his dark side as his 'dark passenger']
you know who it is... ghost tea...
just a dope emcee, ya don't be-lieve in...
un-til you see him...
not a demon bastard... more like casper... [casper is a friendly ghost from the Archie brand of comic books]
from harrisburg to aspers... the microphone master... [Harrisburg and Aspers are places in central pa]
what i'm after is, disaster kits... just in case,
and a touch of bass... just hope my glasses don't break...
wait... [subtle ref. to the show 'Twilight Zone' an episode which featured a nerdy bookworm being the sole survivor of a nuclear disaster, and he finally has all the time he needs to read books but he accidentally breaks his glasses]
i can't fake what comes natural as grapes
i'm faster than the average'll take, to master his fate...
i'm the g-h-o... so many times said...
i think it's code red, when it's really just rye bread...
feels like time, bout to go to my bed... bust it...
far away but with my two fingers...ya head... crush it... [ref. to the sketch comedy tv show 'The State' which featured an old man who sat on the street and 'pretended' to crush people's heads across the street by using his fingers and the distance/perspective thing]
NO BRAKES
straight from the basement deep... the tasteless creep..
rockin' ancient beats, that i made unique... so take a seat...
and listen and absorb what i'm spittin'...
it sinks in after the second sittin, so get in...
dippin' into ya mental prison... open the locks, free... [trying to break your mind out of a life of close minded-ness]
injectin' my wisdom, i'm just hoping you're not weak...
i'm in my own top three... with myself, and me... [ref. to 'Me, Myself and I']
the emcee... who's selfish as hell and tell ya to leave, me be...
the creep, the weirdo... prolly don't belong here, but here i go... [ref. to the Radiohead song, 'Creep']
got no fear? no... and steer my flow...
to flow, with the beat, see i'm going straight for it...
gorgeous, just one long verse and no chorus...
like forest... i'm in the right place at the right time... [ref. to the movie 'Forrest Gump']
it's a tight space -n- it's night time but got the right mind
the mic's mine... it shines and glows when i hold it...
hittin' the on switch it... controllin' it, you know it...
i told you this... my flow is, ever- changing...
hard containing all the thoughts that're in my brain -n-
aimin' at training... the slow who don't know...
i'm out of my dome, write poems but don't compose...
i'm dope as some co-caine... blow, Blow, BLOW...
oh... 1-3... the emcee never did one show... [although prolific with rhymes, ghost tea has never preformed live]
i'm under snow... 6 feet deep, it's cold... no dough... [in winter/dead]
i row and row up the stream so slow... [ref. to the first song ghost tea ever wrote which contained 'rowing up the stream']
but keep it movin', [ref. to 'Keep It Moving... a.k.a. K.I.M. which is used a lot in Hip hop] kimming it... plus i'm winnin it..
sinnin' a bit... destruction seems imminent, isn't it?
i'm giving it, some time to heal, live and real... and then....
climb the hill, climb down and climb again...
the five foot 10...
i mean 9... ok, 8 but ain't pretend,
rhymin' great, but it's time to end...
OPEN MIC NIGHT AT IHOP
ghost tea... i'm just a spirit...
step up so you can hear it...
and then i'm dissappearin'
just to make it apparent...
i'm starin', not caring...
wearin em down, with my sound...
loud... blarin'...
now, i'm daring... anybody to try and get it,
cuz in a minute... i admit it... i'ma rip it...
time to kick it... welcome to the rhymin' district
hungry, i'm tryin' to find some bisquick
so i can flip it... [bisquick is a mix used to make pancakes, which you then 'flip']
ghost tea... i'm just invisible...
the individual, getting thru with a different tune...
living proof that even if you isn't cool,
in any game of win or lose, you can still win a few,
just listen to... the words that I say...
kinda cursed in a way...
not the first in the fray... [ghost wouldn't be the first to jump into a fight]
but now i burst in... horray...hurrah... it's me... the g the r...
-e-a-t, e-s-t...
ghost tea...alright... that's enough...
last verse of actin' up, the task is packin' up...
crackin' the straps, think it's fat enough? [talking about packing up a suitcase, opening the straps, but not sure if the suitcase is big enough for all the stuff that needs packed]
nah, i catch ya bluff cuz facts are rough...
about as tough as stackin' cups...
i'm fast as fuck... go-go ghost is activated... [ref. to Inspector Gadget, who said 'Go-Go.....' to activate various gadgets, like 'Go-Go Gadget Shoes]
know no jokes, just crack a statement,
make ya laugh, just have some patience...
laces out, as i face it...
kick it... shit i missed it... must be only half inflated... [laces out a ref. to the movie, Ace Ventura]
FINISH IT!
i started it and i'ma finish it...
from the crypt, ghost t's livin' again
but ain't killin' innocents...
or fillin em with iggnorant thoughts,
gotta make smart moves... true...
cause what they do... they do...
so you should just... do you...
and don't be playing the fool...
i didn't create em but i'm just statin' the rules...
i'm the ace in a full deck... [can be the highest card, or the lowest card in a full deck of cards]
getting ready to wreck...
any dude that... don't expect... then it's who's next?
a cool threat... that don't be fakin' no fronts,
as i'm makin' it thump, the 28th of the month...
is right around the corner... [RPM Deadline is February 28, the last day of the month]
read the bright sign.. outta order...
givin' props to ben in california [MCOBigBen]
-n- gary in the phillipinnes, [Blimp]
who's beats are ill as the illest dreams,
i'm just ghost tea, still obscene... [ghost tea said he was obscene in the song 'String Bologna']
but clean... it don't make sense...
on the fence... countin' facts...
i'm the world's best, balancing act... [referring to the fact he plays the middle a lot]
i started it and i'ma finish it...
r.p.m. challenge, i'm down into it...
little bit, by little bit...
...i'm just building... [started the RPM challenge slowly with making a lot of beat skeletons and slowly added more and more to them]
hittin the switch, and lightning spills in...
ghost tea's alive, hype and willin'... [ref. to the movie 'Frankenstein' in which Dr. Frankenstein proclaimed loudly "He's Alive" when he brought the monster to life via lightning]
the nicest feelin'... a pro on microphones,
beats are kinda weak, but flows as sweet as scones... [scones are pastries that are occasionally glazed or sprinkled with sugar of some kind]
ya see, i'm not a clone...
a fake, or a drone...
unique as a snow flake, that shakes ya dome...
8 below... ya nose grow, i'm late to go... [nose grow meaning you lie, via Pinocchiol (sp?]
i'm just trying to show you the basics yo...
how you take this tho... i dunno... whatever...
i told you better, around the globe, endeavour... [endeavour was a spacecraft that traveled around the globe in orbit]
...and never... say never... just get together...
thether, instead of, always bringin the bad weather...
it's better... to be chillin' out in the sun...
....2013, r.p.m....challenge is done....
