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Tradecraft

by Che Quartez

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1.
MICE 01:48
Money motivates the eyes Ideology gathers guys Compromise running not so nice Ego supreme entice Moves by MICE Moves by MICE What's your motive What moves you to the ocean Why you stab that back Heart broken How come dudes sip the potion Why do you lie Mouth open The catalysts to actions Consist of four factors Most of Dollars can sway mental posting Feed the greed Get get get coasting Luxuries finest open For biz Stealing your rib But it's all you did Mice knawing at the kid Ideas flaunted often You would take that coffin To get em across flossin Taking a stance Regardless if opposition advance You believe and rant The cause that deep never recant Dream it in sleep Lay down the stamp Stay true even if obstacles are steep No stopping your belief Won't turn over new leaf Ride that seat Until the ship leaks Now that's admirable But then the skeletons fill the closet Changing the flow of the faucet Compromise directs the emerging posit So every hidden discretion becomes a motivational weapon How to solve it Choosing moraly correct logic Spock it then talk it But hold the ego at bay Inflated self worth will decay Your ways or your plays People will stroke it To manipulate your focus On cause that are hopeless Keeping you from dopeness Your truest enemy is light motion Reflective surface frozen Flashed in your face provoking to movements Free will stolen??? Free will stolen???
2.
Don't complain Smash that brain With ideas of change Switch your stance Positive dance Advance the past Future fantastic Others won't have it Atomsmash it Crack the plastic It's magic How we can transform the tragic Once in pain Now flourish today Make moves Play games like coaches Eleven rings not boasting Meditate zen posing Making the most Of my hand Poker face motive Poise in strife Composure in life Sharp like knife Control your dice You can be shaped Be shapeless Time don't waste it Thoughts the basic Yes you can make it Got a dream Chase it Speak not take it Action trumps speech Knowledge so sweet The world is harsh Rock beats The world is yours Minds meet To excel where they fail Klingon yell Warriors prevail The earth spies You grin Just had a win Score for the sin Misery within Killing your kin Daily live-in Ignorance Mind not the clearest Fearing this and that Knowledge you lack Walk around strapped Ready for battle Flashing the gat To keep your rep intact In fact you go back You never knew that if you give no one will attack Spread love like winds Greatest dividend Share the wealth Donations in stealth Meditate daily Universe provides safety Want less Receive more More doors to explore Speak no ills Just be real Thou shall not kill Unless knocking over skills To enhance your path Just relax Ignorance will collapse I promise you that So hear these raps Feel the craft It can seem high hectic Like you want to end it Don't do it Your excellent Fabulous Crafted from gods everlastingness So keep striving for happy My mind roams free The body don't seem to be Illusion never losing Forever trapped in journeys of man Grand plan since days of quick sand Quick sand the bland I can't stand Never say that Say whatcha ya like Always tight Every time I write Pen to paper Thought to flow Neighbor to neighbor Just saver Challenge slayer Wielding mic stranger Connections resurrections
3.
Never back down regardless of the sound Never back down regardless of the town Never back down where ya at now Positive Energy Moves you all around Move fluidly Bruce Lee movie Be water fluently True to thee training Influencing Your every synaptic transaction Make ish happen Be the action on the fret board Forever soar Forever more not from Cyprus But the western corridor Rocking like an overlord Or my man Rico Doing wrestling lethal Where my people All equal Except in my cafe This brain feeling Happy (Hap Pay) Half play Half pay 85 have it there way So stay in your form Frameworks of metaphors atypical brainstorms Like Jupiter' surface Never feel worthless Your too great Move furthest Never back down regardless of the sound Never back down regardless of the town Never back down where ya at now Positive Energy Moves you all around
4.
Stay progressing Every engagement a lesson The smiles hiding deception All seeing eyes Analyzing all being lies Twisted despised Aiming at your peace Aiming at your wise Stay fried Keeps the pain away So numbness Becomes us Walking meatbags of drug lust Chasing vices Cycle loops of dumb stuff Stay with the gamble Lighting up with the scandal runs us Loose talk In fronts and backs No relax Just relapse Stayed on the tracks Till smashed with the craft That you studied last No way back Black hole of collapsing mass No preying to the heavens Just existing till the world ends Maybe it already has And this is a holographic projection Saying what i already said Programming repetitive Take a sedative To get a better perspective of A doomed model throwing up To get a better gig That's to bad Cause i like em meaty To bad they'll never meet me So stay the invisible emcee A symbol flashing on your TV Not really Ads are expensive So my verbal campaign is comprehensive Holistic Read the tweets You feel the existence Trapped in a hard drive So if you see him live Your a privileged guy Or lady The gods must be crazy For giving so much blessing And a decaying memory Of pre matrix parodies Traveled the land And nobody was scary Unreachable Just like sailing the seas In 1493
5.
Stay armed up Leaks bring the dram up Talking old mess Nobody gives an uck Keep present No resentment Gotta be a ghost My rap like zitti So I gots to boast Tell ya about the dope ness Brag ferocious Hold this That line the coldest Michigan ice storms the boldest Walk with the dead Who's soul the oldest Mold his psyche motives To frictionless lotion Out in the open Soak up the game important Be that magic man Triple double with plans Moves ahead Chopping it up with fans We all wear crowns Just got to stand That hate in your face Rubberband Reflecting the nega-tive Stance protective Be alert constant Pen in the pocket Document lock it in Rise Gain Maintain The manes tame Don't mean we can't hydroplane Breezing Cheesing Mean the ease in Composure Compose your Masterpiece Before life retreats Meets and greets Are sweet but dedicate to art You never feel defeat My rhymes are mining in the Klondike My rhymes are navy seal gun fights My rhymes are clandestine eyesight They say quartez only in the mind Psychology rap sublime Eating subs dirty Penning my lines No holding back communicado Back in the day smashed my grill Mushy face avocado Lessons built on commerce I hit the lotto Seen shades of grey No hope for tomorrow Honed my blade Spit lasers everyday Building spaceships i got played Complex patterns I didn't have my lantern Will was weak Birthing superhero belief U lose it all You still can stand tall Regardless of fall Your strength u can recall
6.
Yo Da Man 02:36
Do Or Do Not Move Or Move Not Options Are Endless Gotta to Stay Hot Do Or Do Not Move Or Move Not Options Are Endless Gotta to Stay Hot Move Or Move Not Do Or Do Not Options Are Endless Gotta Stay Hot Move Or Move Not Do Or Do Not Options Are Endless Gotta Stay Hot You got choices Hearing many voices Move with voiceless How the void is Calling your poison Poses channeling moses Do the right thinking view The mostes Many boasting But lacking the coaching Jumping moats and Wanting crowns But don't know the sound Profound Pro found Steering dirty your thirty You surely should know the path But lack so sad Study math To get back purely Its still early So cage the yearning Maybe it will work You won't know till sturdy Stance rocking hammer pants Vanilla Ice lamps was a joke Now so advanced Advancing the stats Through thought out plans Guides benevolent Rhymes magnificent Stop cautious Shunned the ridiculous profit Trained for prophet Penning manuscripts Opposite of old dominant Frameworks High level mental cages may work Bending crooks playbooks So I stay shook Free from Ill propaganda Lyrical commander Hand ya stanzas Of relentless positive grammar Once you get pass the hurdle Mask and heroes Greens the literal Incarnation of ideas of a zero Transformed into infinitely plural Urban or rural We all want to get past hurdles Desires minds murals Grasped with flesh and intent So stay better than your past Grow the future The present be the doer Nothing truer Every year I get newer Lessons from a Teacha The mic molds us Into preachers The sales the collection plate Riding the fate Of universes gates Do Or Do Not Move Or Move Not Options Are Endless Gotta to Stay Hot Do Or Do Not Move Or Move Not Options Are Endless Gotta to Stay Hot Move Or Move Not Do Or Do Not Options Are Endless Gotta Stay Hot Move Or Move Not Do Or Do Not Options Are Endless Gotta Stay Hot
7.
Cut Out 02:30
You have the power Get it Get it Grab it You have the power Get it Get it Grab it You have the power Get it Get it Grab it You have the power Get it Get it Grab it Inhale Exhale Its a new day You will prevail Over any challenge RE-AL Dodging pe-nal Set sail Fe-el The warmth of sun High after a good run They say dudes 85 Gots all our income We still the richest Strike pen to paper It was written Nas with the flows Never ghost written Only if we perish discipline But that's impossible Your mind to tough Everything is tolerable Lessons from drama Peaceful armor Armies of karma Completing the saga Riddick strength Minds of llamas Shooting for stars Ponder then conquer Quests and challenges We never far from The victories Shaping histories Every actor got a mystery Heroic and villainy Duel identities Battling for supremacy Do you become bats Or a twisted clown Shades of gray Going about 80 rounds Walk the path And the journey will astound You have the power Get it Get it Grab it You have the power Get it Get it Grab it You have the power Get it Get it Grab it You have the power Get it Get it Grab it High speed synapses Thoughts collapsing On the brink of madness Walking the ledge sadness With no mathematics Could make bread But no happiness Chasing pleasures badness Gluttonous gateway ravenous Pass by classic ish Thinking wrong is right Down is up Doing evil Like riding a bike Downtown twisted sight The plight of constant fights Battling reflections Demanding attention Reflective metals Shows status collection Loading the venom To spit at birds For wet wild conventions Do the biz Then split like twins In the belly Run around telling Bout conquests built on felonies Like its sound of the melody Truth be told Moves not that bold Just a damaged soul Lacking control You have the power Get it Get it Grab it You have the power Get it Get it Grab it You have the power Get it Get it Grab it You have the power Get it Get it Grab it
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The MICE were captured by the BLACK BAG FLOW while eating a RIB (NEVER BACK DOWN), always up and ready to AVOID THE DECEPTION. SCHOOLED IN TRADECRAFT by YO DA MAN they CUT OUT because THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH (TEMPEST).

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released March 11, 2014

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Che Quartez Lansing, Michigan

Space Captain and sometimes I rap.

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