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[The Rap Album]

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1.
Abstract 04:53
i'm so sick of producing my own beats everything so self contained, its such a one way street i've manage to rationalize helping others as being selfish cuz it makes me feel good when you good and we all connected and can agree that i did a good job, is that really all i'm after? GOD! been trying to believe but it doesn't add up numbers don't lie so i said enough and I put god in my calculator tried not to be a hater but honestly this book musta been written by a third grader is faith really a choice? if it is then what's the point? could that shit really exist? can you really hear a voice? i am my own man, Adam rollin' solo took the hand and clocked it spending hours at the dojo stay up all night crushin 'spressos while i clicked and clacked at windows feeling fruity when I'm sparring with the critics and the crap i know perfection isn't real, so why try to attain it? spending time and lines comin up with metaphors to explain it i hate it, i can't write shit, all my lyrics suck big dicks and it ain't mine cuz it don't feel good, when you quesy but not sick maybe it's the drugs maybe it's the genes maybe it's that everything is just not what it seems you mean, that all the life we know is merely accidental? but is it inconsequential? Whats the point? we are all kept by our brothers, under the rug and under the covers, free will can't be that free if we have to deal with one another cause everyone's effected when a cain kills his brother when a screw driver hits an angel who was gonna rise above us now she's fallen to ground, but you wouldn;t hear the sound cause everyone is tweetin that some real shit just went down "how does this shit always happen" post a status, hear them clappin, at the same shit you said last time cause you sure ain't took no action is happiness really something, you can make out of thin air? because energy and matter, all have to come from somewhere cuz it's all just atoms, floating in our brain sometimes i try to wonder, and it makes me go insane! numbers never lie, just like guns don't kill people ask anyone and they'll say everyone else is a sheeple ask anyone and they'll tell you how there's just so shit but if you ask someone else, it'll all be different if truth is really true how can we disagree on it? if free is really free whats the price tag doin on it? if we are god's children why don't ever hear lullabyes, not just mocking birds, when we're staring at the sky Our father walked out on us a long long time ago and he left us with this earth and now we're on our own but now we think we have it all to ourselves and daddy ain't here, to get his belt out listen, on what you're about to hear theres a lot of different people, and some of these people, they aren't me, they aren't people i would ever wanna be. that's kind of the point. but some of these people, are me, and most importantly, some of these people are you. so come on. lets check it out. i said lets go...lets gooooooooo
2.
thriller like micheal jackson and i get more action a pretty motha fucker it don't matter what i'm rappin my release is attackin i send the haters packin be it with a glock or with these syllables im crappin so let me ask you somethin you like the way i'm struttin? on instagram ain't nothin just straight flexin outta compton opportunity knockin and ain't nobody stoppin so get that shit i don't like off the charts that i be toppin but the world doesn't work like that [uhm, excuse me?] but the world doesn't work like that [do you know where you are?] but the world doesn't work like that [are you lost? you playin?] but the world doesn't work like that [you must be trippin] uhm who the fuck are you son? whered the fuck you come from? i pulled up in lambo, what the fuck have you done? how old are you like thirty? you chick she look so thirsty i could give it to her she wouldn't hafta worry bout it fittin tight [ooh] because i do it right [mhm] i married kate and ashely and I turned out all of the lights [damn] then I got me some bree oh yeah i stack that cheese ya'll bitches better run before the bullet hits your knee but the world doesn't work like that [are you still here?] but the world doesn't work like that [wha-, what exactley?] but the world doesn't work like that [are you-, oh, alright, okay] but the world doesn't work like that [i'm going in] why the fuck you try? imma poke you in your eye and my dick is like a sword so you know you gonna die you work next to the fries shut up and take my money i'll take a number 9, and a milkshake for the honey you lookin hella stupid i pick up chicks like cupid i'm like a fucking glacier i could tell you how I do it but then i'd i hafta kill ya so let me pull the trigga shoot problems in the face blam blam light a spliff up but the world doesn't work like that [man, why you hatin?] but the world doesn't work like that [come on! whachu mean?] but the world doesn't work like that [wachu sayin?] but the world doesn't work like that [man, shieeet] [why can't you just be happy? why can't you just let me do my thang?] [shieet] [tell me, the world don't work like that] [fuck] [the world work, however i wan-]
3.
Roulette 02:36
it aint a gamble cuase i know ill win and the game aint fixed ain't tryna do nothing don't have to ball lands on six three times in row, oh hell no man this crime is thick it goes so deep 1/38 cubed what the fuck is this why's he winning whats he know i know everything is he cheating am i slow you don't know anything can't put it out here cuz its all the mind you'll never understand it i aint burning (least not now) but you still don't believe it eat it up take it back all your logic it fall flat cause math don't add to this you thought the barber was bad? wait till you meet me. I ain't shave shit. 18 and 216 you wish it was dream he'll get me in the end but now its time for me rig the world on the quantum level box no more, faces bevelled p not p, you know the drill principly explode the mole hill cause their aint no mountains anymore nothing is to tough for sure everything is easy now i own it all he'll get me i know this was it worth it? fo sho it is too cool, to own it i own it all i own it all would i do it again hell yeah i own it all and the system breaks and you can't go to sleep and the ground's so wet and the slopes so steep and it all falls down
4.
Cracks 02:10
hey rude boy where you going, not so fast, not after last don't talk back, i'll take you one on one, mama tried and she ain't done to this name a disgrace, shame to your entire race, walking around with a smirk on your face, someone oughtta put you in your place no good as per usual these lines are so abuseable cuz there aint nothing sacred to a mind thats as delusional havin sex, taking drugs actin up, just because YOLO! so don't fuck up so much just try and understand! FUCK THAT, MOM, I don't give a shit and I do what i want cuz i'm the best at it i got the money on my mind while the ladies give me head sniffin drugs in my pocket, yeah thats right that whats i said [:p] You ain't going out tonight, Bitch, I do what I want! I will whip your ass alright, Bitch you wanna taste this gun? Let my fist hit your face, just like daddy's did i'm the man of the house and i'm gonna grow up to be just like him so he got in the car, and it jet off like a plane friends actin up yelling curses at the rain not a care in the world, nectar flowin through they brains wings made of plastic, burstin into flames nothing is perfect, some things ain't built to last we can't always control it, what and where they do it at and since we'll never really know how things truly react there will always be some of us that fall through the cracks
5.
i sneak right up, let the static hide the click i confuse em and abuse em then i hit and make it stick spit so fast, shatter glass, mouth barrel of a glock heavy metal part my bone, bullet tongue, hammer cock because i hit them like the rock don't matter if they play robber or cop RSA is jealous cause my shit's so locked up up down down left right wont work fucker stop don't look becuase you won't see don't matter how hard you ball you will never find me so bitch and complain, but the game's about to change I'm the cancer in your lungs i'm tumor in your mind i will rip out your heart while you think you still alive i'll have you know that's just the way, that its gonna have to be because its all the same to me, yeah it's all the same to me don't matter who you are it don't matter where you're from it don't matter what you think becuase i think it's fucking dumb got you right under my thumb chew and spit you out like gum like mahmoud or kim jong un, cept i get all my shit done even when i'm sippin on that rum I cook the goose until its done, force feed it to the good guys, gonna cook em hung this is murder most foul, cut em 88 times just for fun light em up, take a huff, love of the smell of the dust even though its not white, i can never get enough, not quite napalm, but just like victory, love that shit when i wake up you're too chicken to cross to my side, j-walk the law cuz justice is blind, at the end of the day someone's gotta die, would you rather eat or be eaten alive? just shoot only and don't ask questions, don't ask for directions, go with the instincts inside let out the hidden dragon, slay the tiger, wear it's hide I will make it to the top, I am not afriad to lie I will stab you in the back, while i look you in the eyes from now and forever, that's the way its meant to be because it's all the same to me, yeah it's all the same to me. I am a new evolution, my existence causes confusion make up new words to describe me cause I am a godlike fusion, say I suffer from disorder, say I'm crazy, an illusion oh they wish i was a defect, but I know i'm the conclusion, mark my words, i am real. I am flesh and blood, like you. and that is what makes me so powerful. i am human, and i hurt others to get what i want.
6.
here i am, born a common wonder there was no glass ceiling i was born under i guess in truth, it was never too hard especially when i didn't care bout money and cars for a long time i wasn't really livin and whose to blame? it wasn;t my decision till the electricty opened up the incisions and the analord showed me his mechanical vision and the synths pulse through and the rolands pump out and theres something that you can't really ever talk about its movin through air but you will never ever see it and it hits you in your brain, yeah you wont ever believe it it changes you in ways you could never describe shows you things that you could never see with your eyes and it lives in round 12 inch peice of plastic or in glass box, filled with pixels and magic and thus, i was born a anew the old me became a new you and for a while I knew what to do my purpose, who i was, and what i thought was the truth but then one day, i went to the zoo on another continent, the minds antipodes too and what i saw i could not comprehend a beast conclave singing a sacred hymn and then i knew there was a god, but not was I feeling hey light, where you been? tell me who was stealing the strawberry jam from me all this time it tastes so good and it makes me feel alive everything makes sense, it was such an esctasy the colors flashing everywhere, it brought out the best of me i picked up a sun harp, and got myself some rythm sticks and i played forest gospels till the trees got sick and I danced, with all the other tigers and great things came from this jungle choir no matter what, there was always merry weather from nature there was no need to take shelter but something lurked in the depths of the internet a dada monster, with only one real intent to destroy everything i ever knew and it did it real well and all too soon the pulse demon tore down the walls of my dimension melody and rythm were douvered with out question and thrown out the window along with convention this was a new age of auditory dissection a zero db wall made of frequency violence filled with merzbirds eating the flesh off the silence there is no quiet, it was killed by a lion who was woken from his coma by a plastic worm tyrant and the noise is oh so loud [say what?] and then, death put his hand on me handed me a galatic time peice and a microphone and a fruity beat and now i'm here,
7.
Vacuum 02:28
can't understand what i can not see i get lost in the maze of human subtlety patterns that i can't decode expressions inflections connections i cannot know there's a glitch inside my brain, born in chains membrane is clinically insane how long can i play this game the rules aren't fair, lvl 99 i can't attain even if i try nothing i can do becuase you see me but i can;t see you everythings, so cryptic looks like a rune log in cuz reality salts up the wound so i substitue my own the whole world sucks, no way i can call it home as a gaurdian i'll stand ruler of a world where there is no bad in the land and everyone's in perfect health that way no one can hate themselves but it's all to no avail the rope still swings even with my feet in air and i try so hard and i try my best but i always will end up depressed there's no way i can pass this test and i'm so sick of all this stress and the sun won't rise You can say good bye I was born this way? oh why god why? they're ignoring me they're ensuring me but i can't know for sure cause i cannot see cause the vacuum cuts so deep the blood flows red splatter paint across the sink the bottle on its side risperidone pill last will know i wanted to die heaven and hell congeal how long can i enjoy what i cannot feel death grips round my leg why am i so messed up? I just wanna fade away!
8.
even though they all cheer when i step up i can't help but think they feel I'm an avant garde mess up but let me fess up, that ain't what made me sad and all no not with all these kids i hear about abusing adderall on the radio there's always sour diesel, acting like it's so cool, but look whats on the easel this picture ain't pretty, and think about the kids it's a big can o worms and you just took off the lid remember when it wasn't all like that why does everybody hate to be a kid? wasn't the best, but no less, at least you were excited the only big d you got now is depression, its a hormone soup, and you wallow in obsession with an ideal that isn't really all that great, when you get older, you think you will escape but the societal ladder is always one step ahead of me these people act like turning 21 means anything remember when it wasn't all like this when the touch taste feel of a sweet mothers kiss was all you ever wanted there's more to life i promise take the best of both worlds and blend them in the cosmic let the blanket uncurl and wrap yourself in it's warm embrace, your going to a different place and the chemicals may help, but it was the there the whole time all you really need to do is let the id unwind sit down, close two and open your third eye, everybody has one, now you're gonna see why all the rules you've made, are a great big lie they don't need to be there, and you don't need to cry when you step outside, all these arbitrary lines white as chalk in the pavement let this caged bird die and arise, from ashes comes a brand new soul whose got what it takes, is both brave and bold and can make it for themselves in land thats free and i care about you, and you care about me and we're done with the frying pan, done with the fire cuz we've only ever really had one real desire which is good for me, and good for you good for them, and others too so as you go on, and walk down the hall see the pyramid rise from social brawl and though it towers, it ain't so tall just break out of the box and watch it fall
9.
Dissonance 02:46
black suit, black tie, dressed for dinner he never late, on time, like a wizard don't know his name, he's a ghost faced killa 36 chambers with his finga on each trigga he'll spirit you away, you won't see another day and he's got everything he needs to make you wish you had to pay he don't care about the cash he wont take your black card the only liquid he wants he'll withdraw from your heart as he starts, you'll feel a shift a shadow creeps, taste yourself on your lips as you fall to your end you realize you can't beg cause your dead but as he comes, you wont ever get to see em power glitch, frame rate skip, alarm beepin time slows to halt, see him creepin past the event horizon, no way you'll be leavin he's got no mouth, and he's got no eyes and the bass from his gun will rattle stars out the sky his arms too long, and his chest too wide defies all reason becuase logic don't decide the way he works his mind, doesn't need to ask why doesn't need to have end, just the means to provide all the sharps and flats to strike the dissonance inside that makes you hide from the help when you think your gonna die they told it was fine, called you crazy, they all lied soon as you healed up, he came back to pick a fight never turn off the light, you knew you were always right there was always a good reason why you didn't sleep at night where's he come from? what sort of place? is it from god? or outer space? is it on purpose? or a mistake? is that a mask? is that his face? lays you down, he'll let you see look on your face, it couldn't be it's so hard to believe, last words "that's me" that's you
10.
according to the blogosphere, the next big thing you can sing is here and it's that shit that'll get stuck in your ear, with the boppin beat to make you move your rear uh, yeah it bumps the whip, but it sounds like some freaky hipster shit with the frequencies to make you wanna trip, and bass booms loud but it never clips, uh from another mothafuckin' continent this shit makes the billboard look incompetant perhaps humanities greatest accomplishment one that makes that ass shake like a monument but that don't mean that it's not smart it sounds like math had sex with mozart real art, it's about make your brain dance don't be surprised if you see this shit hangin in france and you're about to hear it here first the beat that's so damn freaky it i'll make your brain twerk uh, you'll wanna blast these hertz, so i'll spin it all day till your speakers burst gets inside your mind, it's just so listenable you wanna listen to that asian future music with timbres so divine so original you wanna listen to that asian future music made by the brightest kinds irreducible you wanna listen to that asian future music perfection over time un improvable you wanna listen to that asian future music global sucess, the japanese kids were sure to impress, witness, the forthcoming musical revolution, no longer is the art unique to humans travels round the world in a second, the signal preserved with lossless compression synthetic creation in permanant sucession, no need for any sort of human discourse or intervention creativity is in the code, the math sees things we could never ever know, the posthuman has come, it it will never ever go, listen to it flow, it feeds the world with it's bow coming out of everywhere, everybody stops and stares perturbations in the air, plays all day long it will always make you move, vibrations will enter through it will stay inside of you, your favorite song infinite fourier series, answer to all of your queries Transformed all of music theory, it was all wrong pulses through tectonic plates, makes your skull reverberate echoes into outer space, we now belong
11.
[Seller] Alright, another order in, cashin the checks I think im finally on the verge of gettin some damn respect, but no less, the hustle been going on for days and im confused because i thought that by gettin paid, i might be able to get out it? fuck that shit, don't count it the other side aint greener then the greens that im about to get yo fuck respect, save that shit for later, turn it up louder, and fuck all of the neighbors but wait, i'm aboutta make a classic mistake and heres another fuckin sucka boutta chomp on the bait with bigger and bigger bags, what the fuck does it take are they tryin to hit heaven by falling from outer space? don't hesitate, he wants it he knows that it fuckin good for him if he don't get his fix that will really be the death of him the garbage bin, is where he headed anyway, he doesn't need the money, it ain't like he got bills to pay! And you know that's true... oh yeah you really do... yeah, you know its true... Alright... [Buyer] I can't believe im doing this, again and again I wish the pigs would come and put me back to the pen I can't turn myself in, and nobody wants to hire on the dirty boulevard, live in a transmogrifier You love it, you need it, you tell them thoughts to beat it just eat it! just like some shit that you pulled out of the dumpster cookie monster, you know you gonna need that fix, the red will look good, when you end up in the crypts! i used to be somebody, I used to be a hottie, my bed used to be at least twenty feet from the potty Why do i feel like I'm always ridin shotty this chauffer seem so damn sure that he wanna total my body! cuz it's all a game to me, GTA style, invinceability cheat, and the vemon has got me riled this urge will never die, so the fuck you have to live for? put it to your lips, cuz thats what its fuckin here for! And you know thats true... oh yeah you really do... yeah, you know its true... Alright... [Dialogue] Hey man, whachu got? I got what you need. Atleast, it'll distract you for a while I could use that, how much? This ones on the house [Narrator] supply and demand, it's all just economics the money will flow, and the blood gonna follow it the problem with a rising tide is you can't stay on top of it once all of the water starts filling up your in esophagus
12.
Alpha 04:14
never enough, on my grind ta fuck shit up fist you with an uppercut unless you down to suck and fuck now touch your toes, what's your name? who the hell who knows take off all dem pretty clothes, i'll spray the hose puts the lotion on it's skin, anaconda kills again magnum rubbers in the bin, tell all of my fucking friends all these Gs will hit her spot, this maraschino's fucking hot i'll bust that shit up with my cock, she'll bleed alot aye, girl, yo what up, hey baby you want some fuck cuz if you don't your outta luck i came and conquered on that slut the whole world is mine, i don't care what it's worth fuck the meek i own this earth, and everybody on it the swag let em know that i bring in the checks and the bulge in the pants let em know where its kept in for the kill, poppin off these round like pills pay no bills, zero frills, tolerance for bullshit nil pushing product through your heart, finna break your skull apart red light special fuckin smart, i'll crush the tart, let the bodies the hit floor, move em underneath for sure, always finna settles scores, only shit i tie is pure, herd the sheep into the house, chop the block and ship it out, raining blood out from the mouth, they scream and shout aye, boy, uh, whats good? fuck you doin in my hood? you actin like never should i bet you fuckin wish you could! the whole world is mine, i don't care what it's worth fuck the meek i own this earth, and everybody on it the swag let em know that i bring in the checks and the bulge in my pants let em know where its kept (OH! You Pervert!) That's what they say to boys they like it's okay, They should be afraid don't see no eyes, only see the pain inside don't say nothing, run and hide, and we all know fucking why cash and money do or die but what the fuck is still alive? don't know to cry, because all i feel is anger stranger, im the reason there's a fucking danger only way to break the ice is with a fuckin banger fuck the manger, fucking hang her, hang me! what is this supposed to be? what am i supposed to see? [others] hey man, you alright, [muffled], hey, where you goin'? the whole world is mine, i don't care what it's worth fuck the meek i own this earth, and everybody on it the swag let em know that i bring in the checks and the bulge in my pants let em know where its kept the whole world is mine, i don't care what it's worth fuck the meek i own this earth, and everybody on it the swag let em know that i bring in the checks and the bulge in my pants let em know where its kept right?
13.
Omega 04:05
and it felt like a car crash, shattered glass had to pick the peices up, no turning back but the mirror still doesn't seem to look right even though the peices fit the picture doesn't look quite as good as the one on the box, lookin in look again, double take, kind of hard to comprehend what you look like others, when you see it for youself when you realize you are wrong, when you realize you need help and you wish you didn't have to change, wish you could just stay the same wish you had some skeletons in the closet that you could blame wish you could forget it all, wish you go back in time wish that you were young again, wish that you would just die wish you didn't cross the line, wish you hadn't jumped the ship wish you were content with everything just being magic wish that you could close your eyes, deny the hurt that was inside pretending you were happy cuz you didn't know it was a lie i know therefore i am, at least i think and when the light hit my eyes, i had to blink stumbled out the cave, cuckoos nest filled with madness shadows calling each other fake, half empty glass shit, i'll start thinking in terms of truth and logic uncertainty's a problem and i am gonna solve it gonna shed this human skin, be above all this leave this earth behind, close my eyes, and absolve it remove my emotion, remove my bias, remove my soul, and remove my desires, silence the noise and just exist, in a universe that's finite and consistent, cuz it all follows rules, theres a rhyme and a reason, the clockwork turns, then the earth, then the seasons, it's all been determined, it's part of the plan and theres no use tryin to bite at god's hand but it turns out that's not even possible we can't answer everything, we proved it, logical no matter what we do, theres always truth unresolveable so we still need instinct to guide us, improbable i'm stuck being human, so is everyone else, and if this is all there is, why kill myself? if there's a god, great, if there ain't, no biggie i'll just do my best, and i'll help others with me cuz thats all we can do when the goin gets tough try to help one another step away from the bluff cuz we don't know whats out there, we'll just get depressed cuz we'll never have more then an educated guess, when we think about the next life, think about the white light think about the time we waste if it turns out were not right i don't know the truth, but i know it hurts inside, when i see another person die in front of my eyes Come what will and come what may but i've got faith in the human race, that one day we will work this out, one day we will work this out.

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2 years in the making. A little awkward at the start, but the end is so sweet. It is me rapping the whole time, no features. Download contains instrumentals and vocal stems!

Praise for [The Rap Album] (from b@)

"finna bump it in the whip" - Yung Karp
"Yooo this is damn good" - 2018 anon
"a++" - wishbobe
"yeah, this is really dope dude. you gotta promote this shit you asshole" - matilda

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released August 31, 2014

All songs written, produced, mixed, and mastered by x^2. Vocal/melodic samples on this album are from Dirty Projectors, Merzbow, Resident Evil 4, The Boondocks, Far East Movement, Animal Collective, AKB 48, Jordan Stone, Death Grips, and Joy Division. Some drum samples are from The DJ Sonic Freak Kit 2.0. See individual tracks for details. This album is licensed under the Creative Commons Non-commercial Attribution Share Alike. If you wish to use these songs for commercial purposes, please contact x^2, as well as the copyright holders of whatever samples are being used in the particular song. No copyright infringement is intended, only love. Please support the artists which I have sampled.

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An almost girl from Maryland who lives in Minneapolis. I make music and give it away for free but you can give me money if you would like.

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