Keep Holding On

Beat by Chris Jones

Produced by Adam Pfeffer, Mike J. Brown and Joe “Conscious” Vacca

Lyrics and vocals by Joe “Conscious” Vacca

Featuring chorus vocals sung by Teresa Perry

Recorded at The Forge Studios

Verse

Society has set standards that are much too high

They’re like unattainable stars in the sky

Making and creating these unfulfilled dreams

The regret kills my pride and self esteem

Every single goal that I don’t achieve

Is another reason not to believe in me

I feel like a worthless waste of space

My faith states gays are an utter disgrace

And no matter how hard I try

I’m ultimately still being defined by

My features or characteristics

I think this world’s filled with a bunch of frickin’ hypocrites

Caught up concerned with mistakes I’ve made

Quick to pass judgment upon me and say

What I’m allowed or can’t do

Despite they’re the fools

Doing the exact same crap too

Don’t anybody really have a clue

So I’m through

Listening conditioning myself in a position

To fit their vision

And prove I’m pleasing enough of love from all of you

Chorus

Though I know

It’s hard to get far

Stay strong

Keep holding on

Verse

Why does it matter what sex I preference

Let me be a positive role model to reference

The harsh reality

Is homosexuality

Cannot be helped or fixed

You got to take the perspective of what if it’s your kid

Would you not love them anymore

Object neglect don’t protect the precious blessed child you bore

That’s some deep seeded evil at the core

It shouldn’t matter that I like guys

We definitely do need to realize

What goes on behind closed doors is none of anyone’s business

Doesn’t prevent you from finding happiness or bliss

So stop trying to cock block mine

True love is impossible to find

No matter if you got syphilis

Or you’re indigenous to being underprivileged

Superstitious and suspicious of the vicious maliciousness

Of the insidious over religious and prestigious

Absolutely no human being is perfect

Everybody deserves it and is worth it

Give another a hug

Help a mother or brother out when things get tough

Now that’s what’s up ...

Can I get a hell yeah

Chorus

Though I know

It’s hard to get far

Stay strong

Keep holding on

Verse

Y’all don’t even know the half of it

I never asked for this

It’s no like I chose to be gay

I must’ve just of been born that way

Had absolutely no control

A homosexual ghost stole my soul

I trust that my guts and instincts

Could care less what the majority thinks

Revolutionarily carve your own path

Attack and don’t look back

Pave a new original new way

Don’t let other people dictate your fate

Or listen to what they have to say

Most are consumed with envy and hate

The reliable undeniable truth

Is that the power lies within you

Confidence will come too

By weathering the same love struggle we all have to go through

When at times you’re tired and things get rough

You’ve fallen but can’t get up

Grab a hold of my musical hand tight

I promise everything’s going to be alight

Have a little faith and pray

Tomorrow’s going to come and it’s just got to be a brighter day

Chorus

Even though I know

It’s hard to get far

You got to stay strong

Keep holding on…

Stay strong

Hold on…

You got to keep holding on

Queers Forever

Beat by Brandon West

Produced by Mike J. Brown and Joe “Conscious” Vacca

Lyrics and vocals by Joe “Conscious” Vacca

Recorded at The Forge Studios

Verse

Can you tell me what the fuck is up

With hating on gay love

Today it seems gays

Are modern day slaves

Still no marriage equality

‘Cause of Christian conservatives probably

Oh yo wait I say shut your face

Isn’t there a separation of church and state

It shouldn’t even be legally up for a debate

Taking away the right

Do you believe you might

Dissuade or save

Someone becoming gay

When will you learn you just don’t turn that way

Chorus

Queers are everywhere and’ll be here forever

Why don’t gays and straights unite to fight together

It’ll help make this world a better place

Also a safe haven for any religion or race

Eradicate hate

Don’t discriminate

Aren’t all people

Created equal

Yes it’s true you ignorant fools

Even us fags deserve marriage the right to say I do too

Verse

Done being burned

I hate having to wait my turn

Love’s a universal term

That I yearn to earn

And hope that someday

Hate may fade away

So sexuality scales shade gray

Chorus

Queers are everywhere and’ll be here forever

Why don’t gays and straights unite to fight together

It’ll help make this world a better place

Also a safe haven for any religion or race

Eradicate hate

Don’t discriminate

Aren’t all people

Created equal

Yes it’s true you ignorant fools

Even us fags deserve marriage the right to say I do too

Verse

DC had its first ever gay pride

Don’t ask don’t tell finally died

New York and a hand full of states

Have already paved the way

It’s pretty evident

When our president’s setting precedents 

Showing his support

 A constitutional ruling may actually come down from the supreme court

Isn’t love a god given natural right

Worth waiting for so I keep my hole tight

Might claw kick you in the balls or bite

I ain’t no pussy sissy bitchy queen too afraid to fight

Why can’t you listen

To my interesting, gesturing opinion

I’m not fibbing

If you keep fucking me without me given permission

And think sexuality’s a voluntary decision

Boy naive assumption has gotten you imprisoned  

Seriously you’re clearly lacking common sense knowledge and wisdom

Chorus

Queers are everywhere and’ll be here forever

Why don’t gays and straights unite to fight together

It’ll help make this world a better place

Also a safe haven for any religion or race

Eradicate hate

Don’t discriminate

Aren’t all people

Created equal

Yes it’s true you ignorant fools

Even us fags deserve marriage the right to say I do too

Verse

This is a pivotal election

Tell me who’s interests are protecting

Choosing the Mormon over the half black’s

Taking two steps back

Stock market’ll crash

A world economy collapse

As we fall for the same old traps

Proving the fact

We’re masochistic saps

Running over hurdles in circles

Like dogs chasing tail

If acceptance’s graded I’d have to say we failed

Chorus

Queers are everywhere and’ll be here forever

Why don’t gays and straights unite to fight together

It’ll help make this world a better place

Also a safe haven for any religion or race

Eradicate hate

Don’t discriminate

Aren’t all people

Created equal

Yes it’s true you ignorant fools

Even us fags deserve marriage the right to say I do too

Uncensored Concentrated Depth

Beat by Phineas Maphet

Produced by Adam Pfeffer, Mike J. Brown and Joe “Conscious” Vacca

Lyrics and vocals by Joe “Conscious” Vacca

Recorded at The Forge Studios

Verse

People are ambivalent to criticism

Consumed by utter embolism

Bitterness and cynicism

We achieve fruition

When you believe it’s you who makes the decision

To seek knowledge instead of accepting limits

Falling for fake and false promises gimmicks and tricks

While you use the excuse censorship protects the kids

The unfortunate harsh reality is

Guns bombs and knives take lives

Deceptive overprotective parents try to hide their child’s eyes

Constantly compromise and tell white lies

Which will be their demise

‘Cause they can’t see the truth

Words become weaponous tools

Letting them hurt you fool

When they’re used to spew skewed views

Abuse or confuse and screw the rules

What’s historically true could all be a ruse

Messages got mixed up through telephoned news

Astute youths will turn to prudes

When they’re consumed with booze

Cruel dudes who feud to exude buffoon goons

Too cool for school

Will lose out on a solid education

Have no chance to advance or enhance a reformation

Translating misinformation

Don’t align adjacent

Keeping their minds vacant

Quiet and complacent

Totally incapable of solving an equation

Favoring blaming and debating

What I’m saying

Is the correlation

Making and perpetuating hating

Violence and discriminating

Quit bitching fiction and complaining

By exaggerating you’re creating the fraying

Fading and decaying

I’m done sitting silent and waiting

Can’t we rise to the occasion

Use our brains and start elevating

Chorus

I’m a bit concerned

That we’ll never learn

To take our turn

We all get burned

But you shouldn’t give up

On dreams or love

Please understand

We’re just man

Reap what you sow

But there’s no control

So go with the flow

No one knows

What the future holds

Are we inept

To comprehend intellect and depth

Verse

I’m feeling conceiving human beings

Ever seeing logic and reasoning’s

Fleeing and fleeting

People are bleeding

For love a hug

But not from sluts or shmucks

Deception’s infecting

Plaguing our perception

Exemption’s a manmade invention

Erections like intentions

Paving the gold roads to hell

But oh well I thought you could tell

We’re too scared of wisdom

We won’t listen

Lacking the vision life’s mission’s

All about ambition

The desire to inspire

Keep reaching higher

Helping others aspire

To not fuel the fire

Embrace imperfection

Greet failure as a blessing

This incessant testing is festering

Messing with the lessons

Taught in adolescence

I still feel a presence

Mustn’t confess then

Every time I look in the mirror

I see things clearer

But my reflection seems to be getting inferior

Too old and hairier

Colder and scarier

I’m daring ya

To pray for a day

Enlightenment can find the way

To the forefront

I’m done hun

With everyone else’s opinions

Good riddens

Fuck focusing on what’s forbidden

And the prison system

Where they’re exhaustingly persistent

On us being trained

To stay and maintain the same

Don’t change

Remain restrained tame and conditioned

It’s sickening disciplining victims

Aren’t we all originally born with sin

Why won’t anyone admit

This bullshit that won’t quit

Is leaving me forced to legitimately spit this

Chorus

I’m a bit concerned

That we’ll never learn

To take our turn

We all get burned

But you shouldn’t give up

On dreams or love

Please understand

We’re just man

Reap what you sow

But there’s no control

So go with the flow

No one knows

What the future holds

Are we inept

To comprehend intellect and depth

Verse

You know I’ve come to learn that with words

It’s all how you use them

Really they’re just a bunch of letters put together

I’m sorry for all you kids and hypocrites

But this is some real shit

And I refuse to censor my lyrics

So you’ll actually get to listen to and here this

I mean really

You shouldn’t fear swears

They do emote the truth

Your Loss

Beat by Brandon West

Produced by Mike J. Brown and Joe “Conscious” Vacca

Lyrics and vocals by Joe “Conscious” Vacca

Recorded at The Forge Studios

Intro

Oooohhhhh it’s your loss your loss your loss

Oooohhhhh it’s your loss your loss your loss

Verse

Cant withstand

Man’s damn demand

To lend non fans

A helping hand

Pour more pieces of my heart out for free

Amateurs go pro ‘cause they’re mastered down digitally

Messing with inflection then they’re leveling tone

Auto tuning humans into monotone drones

I’m constantly told

The ultimate goal’s

To fit that certain perfect mold

Transform your image

Into a marketable gimmick

Throw out your morals and ethics

Doesn't pay being empathetic

Speak up rebel

It’ll lead u to hell

My main memories

Are of bullies and enemies

The way they behaved

Portrayed paved and made

The polite nice guy I am today

The road they chose

Show how not to go

Be bold cope and hope

To finally succeed in reaching my goal

Put an album out that’s dope

So the whole globe knows me

An average Joe ain’t no OG

Backed by neat beats

Banging but discreet

Letting lyrics lead

Pains and dismays me that we

Perhaps have to part

Two broken hearts

Each on a journey to learn the arts

Chorus

Bring back that old school style

I’ll make it worth your while

To take a little time

And listen to my rhymes

‘Cause each damn line

From beginning to end

Will woo u to redo the experience again and again

Take a little trip down memory lane

Before the game changed

And music became

All about obtaining fortune and fame

Where’d the soul go

It got sold for dough

Lost rhythm and flow

Hip hop’s hit its new low

Please stop teasing

Appeasing to greed and

Not appealing to feelings

Penning more sing along songs with meaning

And if you’re not jiving

With my vibe then

It’s your loss your loss your loss

Ohhhh its your loss your loss your loss

Verse

I’m simply a genuine

Non a feminine gentleman

Critically literally one of the few who

Pitifully still applies chivalry

Foreplay’s great for romancing

Miss intimate slow dancing

It’s guido suave an Italian stallion

Who’s passionate and valiant

Likes to dress up

No need for jeans tees or Uggs

Goal oriented and driven

Not naive but forgiving

Believes in reprieves and second chances

Quarreling over making mistakes enhances

Chances your relationships

Hit blips and slips

I love to collabo

Though wishes and dreams aren’t defacto

Don’t be silly

Peeps are prone to fallibility

Rather be defined by how we rise

Like tides

Lots of lows and highs

That can never forever stabilize

I've realized

That the horizon line

Recedes as we approach

 Some guys vibe and connect better together while others just don’t

Projects fail

Or often get derailed

Due to lacking passion action and effort

Haven’t modern artists turned generically stepford

Hicks got stuck in the sticks or abyss

Quick to dismiss

Thinking ignorance is bliss

Another superficial bitch

Faking facades of glamour and glitz

Then beg and plead to achieve happiness

Don’t need shticks

‘Cause God’s given me this gift

To fix music’s shift or rift

Equipped with insatiable relateable debatable fables

Hailed timeless classics like Cain and Able tales

Chorus

Bring back that old school style

I’ll make it worth your while

To take a little time

And listen to my rhymes

‘Cause each damn line

From beginning to end

Will woo u to redo the experience again and again

Take a little trip down memory lane

Before the game changed

And music became

All about obtaining fortune and fame

Where’d the soul go

It got sold for dough

Lost rhythm and flow

Hip hop’s hit its new low

Please stop teasing

Appeasing to greed and

Not appealing to feelings

Penning more sing along songs with meaning

And if you’re not jiving

With my vibe then

It’s your loss your loss your loss

Ohhhh it’s your loss your loss your loss

Ohhhh it’s your loss your loss your loss

Your loss

Your loss

Why Oh Why

Beat by Brandon West

Produced by Mike J. Brown and Joe “Conscious” Vacca

Lyrics and vocals by Joe “Conscious” Vacca

Featuring chorus vocals sung by Jaden “Troll Doll” Perry

Recorded at The Forge Studios

Chorus

Why oh why … why oh why

Why oh why do they lie it’ll be alright

Why oh why’s there so much pain and strife

Why oh why oh why I guess that just must be life

Verse

Every day I awake with a headache

It’s the same ole shit but it’s a different day

Can’t catch a break

From all these liars and fakes

Damn it … I just can’t stand it

To be evilly skeevy needy and greedy

Believe me is easy

Misery always loves company

It ain’t even funny

How some be only hungry for money

Instead of spreading the wealth

Doesn’t everybody need a little help

Now and then

Thank the lord for my family and friends

When the chips were down I was about to bow out

They let me vent gave me the strength to bout

Taught to hold my head high and proud

Live the gay lifestyle right out loud

Fuck dark clouds and self-doubt

Being well-endowed with a mouth

Gives me the choice to use my voice and shout

Chorus

Why oh why … why oh why … oh why

Why oh why do they lie it’ll be alright

Why oh why’s there so much pain and strife

Why oh why oh why I guess that just must be life

Verse

Tired of ignorant feeble people

Still living medieval

Adults telling kids

That’s the way it is

Having a degree’s very necessary

There are careers in law war or hair

But pursuing music dear

Won’t get u anywhere

Only a few peeps succeed

This world’s ruled by greed

And dough don’t grow on trees

Paying bills means

No time for pipe dreams

It’s wants vs. needs

Chorus

Why oh why … why oh why … oh why

Why oh why do they lie it’ll be alright

Why oh why’s there so much pain and strife

Why oh why oh why I guess that just must be life

Why oh why … why oh why … oh why

Why oh why do they lie it’ll be alright

Why oh why’s there so much pain and strife

Why oh why oh why I guess that just must be life

Verse

Our government’s repugnant

Bunch of posing pretenders

With hidden agendas

Lying conniving to gain power

Use abuse and seduce us to cower

A double headed monster

Dividing to conquer and prosper

Masking attacking

Distracting us from asking

Are elections rigged

Will the economy be fixed

What if it can’t be

Are human pollution solutions just fantasy

Verse

Why oh why … why

Why oh why do they lie it’ll be alright

Why oh why’s there so much pain and strife

Why oh why oh why I guess that just must be life

High Ride

Beat by Chris Jones

Produced by Adam Pfeffer, Mike J. Brown and Joe “Conscious” Vacca

Lyrics and vocals by Joe “Conscious” Vacca

Recorded at The Forge Studios

Verse

I know you wanna

Come take a toke of some marijuana

Heard it referred as herb ganja green grass nug or bud

Lifting everybody up

And creates great hippy dippy love

There’s nothing like a free hug

Let’s just get waaaaay … baked

Stoned zooted or high

While taking a hot box ride

A lil good ole fashion fun in the sun

Alll the windows down just cruising around

Jamming out to empirical spiritual hip hop that’s lyrical deep and profound

Talking about real hot topics

Inspirational yet conscious

On a whole higher level raising the bar

While my style’s setting standards and pars

Don’t mind being a muse

If it gets rap back on track to its activist roots

Inject and infuse shitty abuse ive gone thu and use it

To make more suitable beautiful music

Giving a voice to the oppressed

Like Mary Jane does best

Spices life up and zests

An electric epic eclectic

Reflective perspective

Not too cheesy  or preachy let u be the judge

State truths you decide what’s fair and just

Chorus

Come take a high ride with me

We’ll smoke some weed

Have your body grove and move to the beat

You’ll be clapping and tapping your feet

Have u feeling so sweet … baby

Come take a high ride with JC

Verse

There’s so many medicinal purposes

Pot suppresses wretched vices and urges

Bet it reduces effects

Of Anorexia Tourette’s

Parkinson’s posttraumatic stress

Didn’t even mention

How MJ’s a blessing for depression

Not a cure fix or answer

Though dope does provide relief from cancer

Eczema arthritis even epilepsy

Migraine pain ain’t getting the better of me

If I can’t sleep I reach for tree

Hemp also has industrial uses

Environmentally friendly instead of abusive

Includes fuel biodegradable paper and plastics

Textiles too which is fanfuckintastic

Could prove to be of use making the economy elastic

To realize that dream we’d need to legalize and tax it    

A drastic decision

Potentially emptying our overcrowded prisons

Smoking may make people feeble

But not evil

It isn’t worse than coffee cigarettes or booze

Overworking eating too much food

No real reason or excuse

Why you refuse

To acknowledge your faulty logic

Most try it by college

Chorus

Come take a high ride with me

We’ll smoke some weed

Have your body groove and move to the beat

You’ll be clapping and tapping your feet

Have u feeling so sweet … baby

Come take a high ride with JC

Verse

Research has hurt chronic’s image

Biasing more laws for sure outdated and vintage

No study indicates cheeba’s deadly

It’s 2012 decriminalize it federally already

Besides guys

Im writing intellectual incredible delectable and unforgettable songs

Getting lit and blitzed taking rips off spliffs bowls blunts and bongs

Stupid Robots

Beat by Phineas Maphet

Produced by Adam Pfeffer, Mike J. Brown and Joe “Conscious” Vacca

Lyrics and vocals by Joe “Conscious” Vacca

Recorded at The Forge Studios

Verse

Seems like life is a catch twenty two

Though you’re good at what you do

They refuse to promote you

Rather tell you you’re through

Than give you a raise

So quick to bash and blame with very little praise

At first they say you need education

Then experience becomes the required regulation

No one gives you a shot

‘Cause you’re insignificant an easily replaceable speck or dot

Simply unacknowledged

Like some young dumb scum who never ever graduated college

Now-a-days apparently we all need

A doctorate or at least a master’s degree

To have any kind of financial success

Unless you wisely invest

Or were blessed

To be born scorned as the wealthy’s spawn

Chorus

If we all stay stupid robots

With no hearts or smarts

Just doing what we’re told

We won’t even know

That we are controlled

Ignorance and fear stole our souls

The world’s gone cold

The whole globe’s been bought and sold

Damn the devil’s got ahold

Will we explode

Or like the dot com phenomenon implode and fold

Verse

Becoming a casualty

To virtual reality

Cyberspace is degrading dating

Quality true factual information

While machines keep replacing our jobs

Turning once skilled workers into poor unemployed slobs

I’m sorry technology bothers me

But there’s no honesty or modesty

These peeps tease

Hide behind tv and computer screens

Usually in need of masturbation relief

They’ll exaggerate like fiends

Or get obscene and mean

Misrepresenting themselves as what you want them to be

The internet’s a modern day catalog of dicks and tits bliss

Silly artificially personified epic vast masses of fakeness

Really just puffed up profiles and pics

Chorus

If we all stay stupid robots

With no hearts or smarts

Just doing what we’re told

We won’t even know

That we are controlled

Ignorance and fear stole our souls

The world’s gone cold

The whole globe’s been bought and sold

Damn the devil’s got ahold

Will we explode

Or like the dot com phenomenon implode and fold

Verse

We keep forgetting

Bad debiting and crediting

Is what created this economic mess

Wall street seems to have made lots of bad bets

But then again big banks got bailed out

Creating a dark cloud

A shroud of doubt

On how do we even bout corporate elite

Doesn’t mighty always defeat the meek

The poor starve and bleed

While corps have more rights than me

Underfunding schools miseducating the youth

Spending lewd amounts of crude dough on troops

Globalize armed forces

To fight for limited natural resources

Which I dread and fear

Means nuclear warfare

Can mankind find father time

To rewind

Undue and fix damaged we’ve caused

‘Cause mother nature bouts back with huge brute force

Chorus

If we all stay stupid robots

With no hearts or smarts

Just doing what we’re told

We won’t even know

That we are controlled

Ignorance and fear stole our souls

The world’s gone cold

The whole globe’s been bought and sold

Damn the devil’s got ahold

Will we explode

Or like the dot com phenomenon implode and fold

Battles & Wars

Beat by Phineas Maphet

Produced by Adam Pfeffer, Mike J. Brown and Joe “Conscious” Vacca

Lyrics and vocals by Joe “Conscious” Vacca

Featuring chorus vocals sung by Michael Cruz

Recorded at The Forge Studios

Intro

Why do we choose to ignore

Tolerate the pain we’ve endured

So many more battles and wars

The future has in store

Tell me what is it you’re fighting for

Verse

I was christened into structured religion

Without giving permission

Stuck living in this ancient antiquated system

Where it’s implied that guys can demoralize women

Cause they’re insignificant

Simply not equivalent

Taught to always compromise and idolize the shallow

Subliminally brainwashed to disguise lie and hide in the shadows

I refuse to agree

We ought to believe

The church’s pitiful political mentality

That actually makes me a casualty                 

To depression from oppression then regret and guilt

My impression’s it’s a blessing we’re built

So man can’t understand

God’s duplicitous mischievous to bliss plan

Chorus

Faith is a battle faith is a war

There’s never enough so we always want more

Love is a battle love is a war

Confused by the abuse we choose to endure

Life is a battle life is a war

I’m not really sure what all this fighting’s for

Verse

Love comes in so many forms

And can easily be spawned

If you remember relationships are between two people

The time and energy put into them can’t be feeble

Or they’ll break and fade

Like a shadow in the shade

Turning what was once love to hate

Which I got to say’s a waste

Lame and quite a shame

Slightly insane

To think the brain could ever feel

If true love is real

Ain’t no bladder matter either

Emotions are an ocean of commotion only meant for the heart

Opening up’s a good start

And definitely smart

But another piece of advice that’s wise and might help

Is you should never forget to first help yourself

Chorus

Faith is a battle faith is a war

There’s never enough so we always want more

Love is a battle love is a war

Confused by the abuse we choose to endure

Life is a battle life is a war

I’m not really sure what all this fighting’s for

Verse

Certainly hard finding equilibrium and balance

Man’s efforts thus far have been valiant

But life seems to mainly be

About dichotomy and the spectrums between

To get to know true happiness experience extreme sorrow

Don’t let your past effect the endless possibilities for tomorrow

Try not to harshly judge

Let a silly little lingering grudge

Make you defeatedly eat too much fudge

Anything in moderation’s okay

Follow through with what you say

Can you actually walk the talk

Shouldn’t sit there silent and gawk

Some things are constant

Like change and conflict

The sun may fade but it raises for a new day and we can’t stop it

Chorus

Faith is a battle faith is a war

There’s never enough so we always want more

Love is a battle love is a war

Confused by the abuse we choose to endure

Life is a battle life is a war

I’m not really sure what all this fighting’s for