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High Rises, Low Falls

by TARiiiQ

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1.
Ladies and gentlemen, my name is Tariq Sorry I've been away for a little while To be honest, I just had to fall back in love with this shit Feels good to be back Like, Honestly, I've been talking this nonsense for so long but it's just really my honestly honest opinion I'm probably stomping these minions off of me, plottin Since 96, way bigger than what they offered me Awfully I've been treated City really depleted with talent and generosity Violence and animosity Intellectual property, diluted commodity In this token economy, glamorize mediocrity Promoters got the game by chain Holding monopolies, supporting if it come with the fame And reciprocity, Tariq ain't playing those games I'm an anomaly, gifted with all these scriptures Depicting epistemology, spitomology Spitting these writings like it's a prophecy You oughta see, connecting these words like an apostrophe Gotta keep on the low, till I improve on my own I'll show and prove I'm alone, till I've been holding my throne Astral traveling, battling demons, chattering Seeing what I'm unraveling, knowledge that's earth shattering Unearthed amethyst, word to my birth, talisman Life an absurd balance, we gambling Hurt to happiness, it's worth answering Y'all just tiptoe dancing it, heard in Your words stammering, seeing your hands clamouring Flow, with unheard valances Roll one up, take a tab to this black belt When I'm babbling out of my brain, I'm scattering The scatman, bringing it back, man Into the trap, with a backpack, and it's full of phat raps I'm Batman, in a city full of rats Everybody talk this shit like it's fact Everybody cop this shit, but it's wack Everybody toxic, somebody stop this Finna call robin before I start robbing Everybody watches, wallet, baseball cap I'm Christopher Wallace, say that it's cap Ra-tat-tat-tat Leave yo brain splat when I'm popping Ain't no stopping, ain't no option When I'm rocking, ain't no cops on the block they watchin They patrollin, they controllin they, provokin I can't hold it I'm unloading, I'm exploding Straight from the rage that I've spoken Straight from the page I've been quoting Straight from the paint Im bestowed with Rolling up all the trees Take it away with potion I'm smoking exotic weed And writing like it's an omen And help me express with ease Remember to live this moment I'm blessing y'all with the peace Remember to live this moment I'm tearing up to this beat This is my magnum opus I'm sorry I had to breathe Like this is my reigamortis Let's go
2.
UNSTOPPABLE. 03:16
Seen the potential is influential Since I was youtube ripping these instrumentals Now I'm plotting intercontinental no it's not coincidental No this drop is not a rental Shit i drop is quintessential when I pop its Incremental, head noddin' sub rockin' blasting through your mental. We take thisshit experimental they Dig in my catalog to break it down and disassemble Not the type to be described as a materialist Rather keep my head down materialize shit Not about the fame of validation rather designation Of pen and paper awakened this Hall of fame what I'm making it's all the same what they playin Adressing the of nation though blessed And I'm glad I made it Yeah said I'm blessed and I'm glad I made it a test to A path forsaken now see the numbers a test to the math that i'm acing I'm mad and amazing the master embrace it Amassing the razmatazzin magic Freebasin with masons When I mask off like I'm Jason Mass murdererous boom bap body bag to yo fucking station In another words I'll make it happen with this rappin As well as make it happen with business plans that I'm mapping yo Since 10th grade I was self made, self funded through high Grade dawg yo shits played Its tariiiq what u sayin?? put your hands in the motherfucking air Its tariiiq what u sayin?? put your hands in the motherfucking air Breaker breaker UH-OH breaker breaker Somebody call the coroner body bags in the station Breaker breaker UH-OH breaker breaker They sleepin need to wake up yo we got this shit to shake up (raw anger) Its madness when I channel Sadness disparity economic game been not fair to me Though it's clear to see who control and who compared with the seeds compare it With me I dare you to speak its damn heresy steppin to me what they gonna do to me They neuter me I go deutoronomy shit not new to me Breaker breaker, breaker breaker, diggin up the Illest samples to break up like Tomb Raider Man I'm coming so smooth with this I ain't even right no more I just do this shit I be the ultimate pen holder scrolls like YODA hit em like Wingardium Leviosa rolling in the testarossa La cosa da nostra she snortin coca off my scrotum (disgusting) said she gon suck on these nuts the way that I'll be spitting It be like what the FUUUUUCKKKK!! Skeet-skeet on your bitches teeth leave a sticker of TARiiiQ sayin check these Beats, I aint know it was your missus man I fucked your girl now you my biggest fan Fuck yo bitch, crash the whip come, park the shit, come back to the explosion just to spark the piff Im Tom cruise in mission impossible with more booze and liquor then shit im unstoppable
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PRESSURE. 03:28
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Spread the love, sippin' on potion, I'm takin' hella drugs Shroom caps, LS, bud, till truth that compelling us, yo Hell on earth, that's what I can see Reality conceived either through media or mockery And mediocrity, celebrated over elevatin' the mind, could be A form of they hypocrisy contradictin' Hippocrates' oath The sides isosceles, both politicize atrocities When human rights the problem invoked Who got the cleverest jokes? Gettin' the popular vote Oh yeah, they obviously "woke" Yo, Socrates, philosophies Fuck that, I'm Aristophanes In this meritocracy of sharin' this content for comedy Apocalypse comin', probably find me smokin' rock with the fiends Sayin' fuck the world like Tupac, y'all can't stop me from dreams Vision is painted, shirt has been stained with blood of my nation Blood, sweat, and tears, it gets deep The meek shall inherit the earth, who got the keys 'Cause look in the pages, swear they gon' see The 20s is the decade the goat was overshadowed by sheep Look in the pages, swear they gon' see The 20s is the decade the goat was overshadowed by sheep Selective memory of Memorex Cassettes of Das FX Slayed many men on many decks But remember I was mad depressed Selective memory Of the times when it was mad unrest I had expressed it off my chest Now mastered it, to that effect The rap game, Professor X Play this on the tape deck Slayed many men who play friends I saw your set, you train wrecked I'm ridin' on that apex You more like dick, ridin' for a paycheck That's why you got concave neck Through breakneck speeds We breakin' these leaves Inhaling the trees I paint what I bleed Put it all together, it's so magnifique Open up your eyes What does it mean to be free Fill us up with lies Peace to the we who believe Call me Big Poppa with the pen Probably again Mad shotta boy rollin' ganja up again Illest in mi casa, es tu casa You and imposters, peep the mobsters Dishin' rhyme like steak and lobster Possibly they plottin' on my downfall again Honesty they'll wallow, let it blow with the wind Won't let them in, Allah Gots to pray again Strong medicine for our lives And all y'all sins I got more fans in other cities than mine It's a pity, but give me more of a reason to shine 'Cause I'll be gettin' daps In these towns that I travel in Take it on tour, get paid for my babblin I've been talkin' to myself, they really all mi amigos Word around they thinking I be loco in mi barrios Spit it on Adagio or pick it up on Allegro If you ain't on my audio, then adios Blood, sweat, and tears, it gets deep The meek shall inherit the earth, who got the keys Look in the pages, swear they gon' see The 20s is the decade that gold was overshadowed by sheep Look in the pages, swear they gon' see The 20s is the decade that gold was overshadowed by sheep
5.
HIGH RISES. 03:00
Yo, what the fuck going on in this world today Everybody quick to talk, but I ain't seeing a change Shit ain't sweet in this penthouse suite All we hear is police gunshots and loud screams Yo, waguan this place to be I'm in the high rise now, but it's make-believe Low falls and it's plain to see Low falls staying under me Yo, check it Yo, what is wrong with this world today Everybody wanna talk, but they ain't got shit to say I guess that's why I keep the studio close And I keep my brain sharp with knowledge till the truth unfold Levitate into the sky like your boy can float I'm making money, but I still be broke My soul get choked Wallet getting thicker, but my strive depleted If I aint living this life with no rhyme or reason High rises and low falls coincide with mortgage rates and stock calls They trying to buy the building I reside in for half the price people buying, Creating a slum law Oh Lord, in this penthouse suite But it ain't that sweet when it's corrupt as can be Up high in my lowest dwellings They all hooked up on pipe dreams my neighbour's selling Yo, what is wrong with this world today Everybody quick to talk, but I ain't seeing a change Shit ain't sweet in this penthouse suite All we hear is police gunshots and loud screams Yo, I waguan in this place to be I'm in the high rise now, but it's made believe Low falls staying under me Low falls in this plain to see I keep boom-bapping, tomb-rapping Cause who's happening other than these true has-beens Sick like I'm hacking, sick like Wuhan I'm a dirty bastard, sick in my neurovascular Tempo subjecting my flow Perfecting my style, my mind is ten toes Down underground, you find the sub-pound Flow to the dome, that make the gun sound I am that shotta, boy finna prosper Boy finna pop ya See, it's all about authenticity inna city, nobody do my style like me In my sleep, take a backseat approach to these days I float away through notes I page like coastal plains Coast to coastin to oceans, going through motions Till the mind eroding, overflowing with emotion But in the cypher we vibing, it's revival Of community, yo, the streets is like survival I just try to preach, but these days it's tribal Feet slanging dope next to thise, thumpin bibles Lost our senses, we all became rivals But love is the answer, love is the motto Love is the answer, love is the motto Love is the answer, love is the motto
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Man, it's crazy how quick things can change But how much perspective you can get It's funny how hindsight is 20-20 Feel it Confessing on the microphone That's when all the lights go off Man, I was so fucking depressed I got my license took Cheap skate for cheap thrills Still homies take pills That's real, I stay chill Used to drown in liquor, thought I had gills R.I.P. to the man, damn, we lost you to that fade Used to tell me to hold true I was too young to demonstrate I know you in a better place I hope you levitate I hope you're still skating up above in heaven's gates You left the world that ain't deserving of your generosity stay above What society pave for us Knew the cost, but we paid too much I'm still here and it's hard to clutch Still sip beer like it's a crutch I miss my homie, that's real love It's still console me what you did for us You was right, people fake as fuck Learned that shit in the club DJ-ed in that scene Now switched it over to creative stuff Never understood when you explained to us But you was right about life and how it changed us I remember rap was a game for us Now I write about life, homie, wait for us We gon' light one up, homie, wait for us We gon' light one up, homie, wait for us We all judge from afar We're all guilty of it Take that guy on the street there He's a bum, he's on drugs We just look right past it And effectively dehumanize a fellow being With a story and a struggle like all of us And don't get me wrong, man It gets tough to keep trying and trying When they keep falling and falling This one's for y'all The misunderstood, the characters, the voiceless If we took the time to understand the perspective of others Instead of just assuming them through our own lens We'd all become wiser And that same logic applies to the entire world A lot of our issues come from a lack of understanding High rises, low falls But it ain't about the contrast It's about the facade I'm in this high rise But what's beneath me is a broken city Am I really removed from that Or am I just another neighbor? Always obsessed about the idea of real Alienated from the mass of appeal Used to kick it with the youngins after school Smoked weed and Eat shrooms But you became confused Back then you weren't as stable We enabled you to swim in deep waters We were warned about could take us Drowning in the deep But couldn't breathe in the shallow surface we live in The mental strain, could just break us Overlooked by the rest of the world And artists who never heard You ended on the streets where the wicked disperse Your kindness blind you from the mind-sick Parasites, he stab you in the back No conscience Hindsight, man, if only I'd been there Wish I was still there Wish that you would know that I still care Still idolize your character When I felt it disappear It's hard to find the real Your authenticity's still rare Authentic though it's augmented Decoding hieroglyphic scriptures In each of your sentences Your segmented speech made sense to me 'Cause like me on these beats The style you speak was free It's hard to trust people lately The only time you wasn't straight Was ridin' in fakie Pushin till the wood turn to dust 'Cause life a harder obstacle Than those stair sets you crush And though you may not live on Your spirit flows through me As I'm writing this song Though you may not live long Your spirit flows through me As I'm writing a song And as I'm riding along
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Smoke the pain away Turn the blunt into a vapour Let the ashes trail away I've been on my wave today Reverse the curse, I'm feeling hurt And I just go and fade away I'm stuck inside the surface level Heard the devil, hurt the vessel Chasing riches, heard the revels Taste in bitches, curved and bevelled Focus on my music now I keep it low, desert the treble It's a cycle, It's a spiral Generation in revival Sitting high up in the sky Amongst the lowest urban dwellers Crack rocks, gunshots Bumbaclot, you got the jackpot! I'm trying to make this paper dough But losing every inch of soul If I try to maintain In this surface level world Smoke the pain away Turn the blood into a vapour But let the ashes trail away I've been on my wave today Reverse the curse, I'm feeling hurt And I just go and fade away Got the carpal tunnel in my wrist The risk of writing all these scripts I've been enticing with lyrics I've been enlightened titan smitin' they cant Can't weather the storm I'm in Or measure the force I bring Ready to call it quits Winter is cold, the cold my friend Still on my tour till Cole my friend Roads is icy, gas is pricey Settled the score with broken men Still getting calls from the government Demanding money from me to spend it on tools That keep the sufferin' Irony of greed for the sustenance And I don't even agree somethin' sus-in-it (SUS) Egregious, my cerebral cortex Can't seem to control what's next Anytime I breath, man I might just flex, Cycle dun' repeat like it's a vortex The law says to be fair it's four steps To see clear is raw sex to your ears The Lord is my lone fear to Shaytan ain't round here! I bowflex for more gains in my sets The most stressed, the Rogaine dun' help yet I'm Kobain with more pain, no progress My cold veins from old flames, a thot yeah Pull two shots, they both blank, I confess It's no safe in my ends with unrest I can't sleep, till way past the sunset I'm hopeless, hopeless Smoke the pain away Turn the blunt into a vapour Let the ashes trail away I've been on my wave today Reverse the curse, I'm feeling hurt And I just go and fade away
9.
poison 03:25
High rises, low falls, you know what I'm saying? It's like 4am right now I swear sometimes I get lost with this hyper-focus, you know On and on and on and on and on Channeling thoughts, I focus every time I speak it Finding the reason, defining the lines, intertwined with the beats and My mind is a beacon, open the light to the blind that we reaching Eyes on the prize thats defining the meaning, the guise enterprise of the minds getting weakened Comatosin overdosing over words I've spoken Hack away a hundred times, trying to cause commotion Blessing on the microphone, I'm bumping, Flying Lotus high on potion, rambling my quotings just so they ain't notice it again I ain't noticing the trends, they promoting it again I've been living on my truth, sick of them preaching it again Sick of them breaching all my trust, it's been a few years till ain't erupt ya Two tears in a bucket, it sucks Honestly, my life is a mess and I can't get a rest No emotion other than the swollen pain in my chest Rather be depressed, at least then I would have some shit to write about It's a cold, cold world, that's some shit I'm right about Sleep is the cousin of death I try to rest my head, but the reaper left my DM unread So many words unsaid, maybe I'm better off leaving them inside until I'm.. How do we know whats real, if we ain't coping and heal Like if we don't talk this real How we gon' open, how we pose to fill I'm posed to kill, to posterboy of Keep it tucked up under steel But girl, you got me under spell You understand my troubles well Bodies speaking like we under telekinesis Society just tell us to keep it in, that's telling our weakness I phone her, to find out the truth So I lie for her, to lie with her My life unheard Lessons learned turn to blessings unfurled So absurd on the mic, how I've been flipping these words Speakers go burrrrr, stoppped caring if they really gon' hear Man I'm so underground, my tunnel vision is blurred My drive is slow, my mind is gone, it's been corrupted Used to have these blind dreams now, but I'm reluctant Poisoned by the evils of the internet Things that used to validate me, now just make me second guess I strive to be a better person, break the curses Multiple generations, pain and hurtin, don't deserve this You could try, scratch the surface, but could never match my purpose Master verses, amass the purses, mass diversion, that's for certain Lost in the realm between ideal self And staying stagnant because I see wealth I need help, to bring back passion But everlasting satisfaction of this rap shit ain't happening Sleep is the cousin of death I try to rest my head, but the reaper left my DM unread So many words unsaid Maybe I'm better off leaving them inside until I'm...wait Sleep is the cousin of death Maybe one more shot gon' get the pain out my chest Sleep is the cousin of death Just really fucking need me a rest High rises, low falls
10.
I'm smooth like butter way i utter all of these words So any meanings you discover just a bonus for you rap nerds Hah, and it's reality, and that hurts Still im grindin till my stock is risin like unvaxxed sperm I'm overtaxed with earnings, The sorest back I'm hurting And all this marijuana burnin, feelin like a burden On my lungs, and on my conscious Im overthinkin everythin this illness gettin chronic I've been losin money sacrificing for this music business Specially through booze and drinkin using women Find me when I'm overthinkin doubting everything I wrote since the beginning Never knew the limit somehow I still ain't lose the interest And they ain't heard of me yet, but that's alright though I'm a slow burn like raw blacks with a tight roll Life's short but I waste it in the studio Missing out on friends and places call my phone it's muted though But we up, we up, we up, we up I'll take the shirt off my back for this rap Market that for 25 a cap Put it on my merch store for no one to buy Shit's been live, where the fuck you at?? Credit card maxed, car payment maxed The only thing that isn't maxed, is my rhyme scheme cap And these masters I get sent back that's capped The syllables tact, all you critics is CAP Aight aight if you listenin' for this long Here's a tip for all y'all you could buy this song For a small price of $1.29 And provide me the same earnings as streaming it 400 times (it's real) It's cool though I keep it chillin, When I die my legacy will be worth many millions It's cool though I keep it chillin When I die my legacy will be worth many millions Preaching every line and sentence till I find repentance from my God And til the squad will find ascension through my penmanship My pen is, the apprentice in this rap game Since the dentist gave me a gold tooth and I copped a cladded chain Most of y'all been rapping for the metrics, never felt this pain Never felt the funk, the grooves inside your veins, you know I do that smooth shit I be confident my competence it's common sense I'm confident Until I seen accomplishments To this game moppin this, Mind beams marvelous I was hitting smooth on my tracks, Big poppa shit like Big Pun in 96 with lyrical concoction shit We rapping nonsense half the time, Yet you buying it Why you bothering I'm fathering You should have been swallowed in I'm squabbling you wobbling with hollow wind I'm conjuring Like I was in Hogwarts walking through the double door Hanging with that Dumbledore I don't know a bunch of dorks yo I came in with the flow Expecto patronum this weapon I'm holding exercising my poetic form Impending fall for the ill-informed I hit em with the shining light This the spark I might ignite Mike Tyson slicing rights
11.
Watch this space before it blow up Watch me talk my place before it show up Toxic trait, walk away before it glow up Watch me fuck up again, I might throw up I thought that I knew better Not that I would grow bitter Yeah, yeah, yeah, saw you in your new sweater Even got some new letters Yeah, yeah, yeah, and I ain't ready to settle Got too much i meddle in I'm too clever I thought we would grow together I guess I know I'm better, I know I'm better Swear I've been so blessed up on the stage Looking at they pretty faces knowing everything could change, uh-huh Higher consciousness, I know the consequence Might take a little time, but I got confidence Energy through these beats resurrected I gotta stay protected, they tryna take my nectar The fruits of my labor, nobody could save her She was in her own world, I thought I could make her Into something greater, be the reason why this flame will ignite But such is life, it's why I write, so I'm Back with a lighter and a microphone Jotting on the pen again until the fucking lights go off Lying in my bed, flying in around my head Contemplating all I heard, I'm a lion in his den Lions never lose their sleep, over the opinion of sheep I'd be lying if I said I ain't thought about relying On some meds not replying, though it's red I'm applying these instances to self-worth And that shit really prying out my head I'm an outlier instead, I'm fine to be then At least they know when I ain't tryna pretend I thought that I knew better Not that I would grow better I just copped a new sweater Even got some new leathers And I ain't ready to settle Got too much on i meddle in I'm too clever I thought we would grow, whatever I guess I ain't know I'm better I know I'm better I know I'm better I chose this life I chose these sacrifices Walking to the path of words of spoken art All that started with a broken heart And a bone to pick like Bonaparte, we've grown apart The paradox, we've grown a-part each other hearts Still remember Calls creating tears that flooded Noah's ark I tried to describe cause it's hard out here Windows smashed in the parking here If I'm speaking truth, shit is awful here Why y'all ain't talking here, Why y'all ain't talking here The way they talk is make-believe They make it up, it's Maybelline I may erupt, I make a scene But you could say I'm preaching me Built for a legacy to preach to my people Real MC to the steeple Taking each of their evil cerebrals No equal to my ether flow I'm breathing demons settle and even the score Until they ain't speaking no more Leaving them eager for more I take ahold, it's front line, front page Both mine, it's my time, shine Split psychology Write my path among the stars like it's cosmology Find myself a new dwellings I know I'ma do-better Spitomology That's why I'm this free today Weight on my shoulders, man, my knees'll break So today we celebrate I never thought that I would need a break But I did, I did, I did, I did I really did But I'm here now And this is just the beginning Thank you so much Thank you, thank you, thank you
12.
What's good, y'all been waitin', huh This what you all been waitin' for, ain't it The pictures I painted, I dun explained it Intricate flows, but you want the same shit?? If I ain't in they scope, I think the whole game racist Let's take it back to the slave ships Now those same masters usin' ours to chain us It's heinous, so fuck it, dawg, I made it I been killin' rappers under pavement on some Norman Bates shit I spent way too long hating Not enough time exercisin' greatness Still got too much ridin' on my plate It's never enough time for the rhymes I made Fuck you and fuck you too This clout chasin', friend fakin', I'm immune to I stay in the lab, this I'm not new to Respawned, I been comin' for domination like Mew-Two Nardwhar, the way I du duuuuu I checked out your YouTube That shit was doo-doo This game I pay dues to These lames I just chew through My mind like a Rubik's cube Complex bars sprayin' on the walls like it's Mac-a-roni Test me, I make ya nose bleed I'm slidin' through the city like Shinobi Y'all gon' need to muscle up and I ain't talkin' hypertrophy If this was golf, you'd hit a bogey If that's your girl, I hit a boney So much trouble, drummers, crodies And ice on these streets, we gon' need a Zamboni We losin' basic rights as human beings Where I live, the snowflakes remainin' every season At the same time, my people bleedin Hard to shake the guilt, they gettin' killed for no reason

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High Rises, Low Falls... but it aint about the contrast, its about the facade. I'm in this high rise now but what's beneath me is a broken city. Am I really removed from that? Or am I just another neighbour?

Debut LP from TARiiiQ. Unapologetically HIP-HOP. Sample-heavy, jazz and soul based, and lyrically driven. It all grows from the root that has been established here.

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released May 14, 2024

Mixed and Mastered by Jake Robertz & Tariq Bakir
with beats from Stoic, Cultxre, TARiiiQ, & B.Young.

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