"Where is da Love?"

I'm a pisces 
Eye love hard!
Sometimes that's my downfall
Loyal to a fault
Iown know
That's just da ground I stand on
I'm dumb nice but dead wrong!

For I've made TONS of MISTAKES
But met em' head on!
Try to put us in a box
We diversified in it like crayons

Da bullshit?!!!
Is what I'm not on
At this point in my life
I'm just blessed to be among da living

Rather da alternative

Where others on da other side got cold visions
I'm not perfect!
At times I feel worthless
Then I recognize my own Legend
That alone, keeps giving me purpose

Soul been torn, twisted,
It's not a diversion
My past is my past
But now?!
A different person

Where is da love?
Is it wit another person?
Strugglin wit adverse choices in thee excursion
Life not fair!, who said it ever was
There's no guarantees in love
Choose wisely, pick one!
And be strong  in your quest for this son
What we put out, we get back
And then some!
Stay grounded!
Remember where you came from

It ain't fun

If you make it to the top
And alone at every stop
Then really
What have you got?
Whatever you do, stay true 2 you

Pray for better dayz in a desolate world
Full of deceit, lies, murder, n anguish
Spit it in any language, spanglish!
Mita mami
You get da picture
That's over ya head
Light bulb!
But eye remain da main fixture

It's da

Path that we on
That will determine our outcome
A generated algorithm where emotion is lonesome
Was once a prince n became a King
Who would be nothing without his Queen
Grand scheme of things
Love holds no boundaries in this fallacy

Shine 

"Stand On Your Blessings"

Simply missing you is wearing me thin, you became more then a friend 

Battlefield (feels) intergalactic

Straight Killers

Surrounded by aliens with no sympathy or compassion

Working hard like it's five of me

Currently currency, not like da "Jacksons"

Careful not to get electrocuted from thee electric current static

Streaming thru my veins with unlimited passion

This current interaction, led to this token of love

Extraordinary organic organism spazzin on da solar system

Ridin on da edge of da cliff

Hips sway, givin me fits

Niggaz flows is a myth

Mind is legit!

Mine is a gift!

Mixed wit a curse

A long long time ago

My soul rose n left da earth

Purpose?

I'm still in search!

I'm just freestylin' off of da top

Watchin you cum nice!

Off of da top!

Dis is my medicine bag

Vocals spaz on any beat dat I grab

Foreplay foregone in da lab

Green lantern

Psychological patterns aligned without meaning

Steamin'!

Passively dreamin'

An artist with no canvas

Only traces of genius

Dis L got me leaning

But upright in a crouched circular fetus

My words reach out to da regions

Paul Bethany

A force with my Legion

Cum hard on tracks laying my semen

Datz over da top! 

Stallone status

Apparatus da baddest

Most live life with no conscience of action

But every action, has a reaction

Anytime any situation, can flip like a mattress

But just know, light is at da end of da tavern

Lands are baron!

Dreams are wasted if they not protected

Byron, what are we Leftwich?

After I'm gone, they'll understand my message

Overall acceptance doesn't matter, as long as you stand on your blessings

Shine

Johnny P's Caddy ((freestyle))

Shawn Stare · Shawn Stare- Johnny P's Caddy ((freestyle))

Yo'! this life that I'm livin'

Loyalty, the price of admission

Severed division

As a people we are never committed 

They tried to straight-jacket my flow

Rap me up in it!

But I escaped, found my existence

Shine

Stay lifting deez bars, like I came back from da yard

Dying is easy, livin' is hard

If you bless wit some heart, better put up ya guard

Dead brethrens, see da souls that are scarred

Kindred spirits ajar

Demons on a nightly basis I spar

Serving you lyrics, a benevolent figure

Triggered that's marred

My faith is strong but my hope is lost in da throngs

In da Congo wit Kongs

Still a King, take a puff off da bong

Spent a decade writing my wrongs

This for my day ones fuckin' wit Shawn

Who told me never give up, put in dat work

Ya dreams will come soon enough yo', put GOD first!

Niggaz wit or without money

Don't know which one presumably worse

I'm surrounded by jerks, no self in they worth

Benjamin Buttons, livin' life in reverse

When it's all said n done, we all gettin' reprimanded back to da earth

Like anything else, this shit come wit some perks

Guess that's what they mean, when they say this gift come wit a curse

I'm on a diligent search 

To rescue myself immersed in sewage dat covered my light

Take flight, soar, render my purpose

Help, revive others breathe above surface

In a cesspool polluted wit grimey insurgents 

Stay calm if your nervous!

Never showing ya hand

Ya integrity n morals something on which you should stand

Never break for any woman or man

Shawn Stare

I will devour ya Klan

Nat Turner

Go decapitate all of ya fam

Reprovision for my ancestors lives taken n all of they land

No segregation

Holocaust was equally damned

Hellfire cast on helpless spirits, straits that were dire

Lord strike me if I'm a liar

Nothing's changed, not even things we try to acquire

Assholes wit paper n power at da root of da tower

They send signals, distorting our prowess

Fuck hours!, been reclusive for years

Buried a host of my peers

Mr. Shakur

Eye shedded so many tears

Everything ain't what it appears

Meet situations head-on to conquer your fears

This world is just weird

Unless you been in them shoes

How can you judge what he or she do?

It's love over hate, look what they spew

Real time don't coincide wit da way social media moves

Take responsibility for da stuff you employ

The same shit make you sad is what you enjoy

It's all just a ploy

Some remain deadly n coy

Underneath eye see resident evil occupying ya host

A little Alicia, but way more clever wit deez Keyz that I stroke

Don't lose me, follow the smoke

Every word that I wrote is meant to provoke

Thought Woke people with a measure of scope

The ones who fill ballet boxes wit votes

Praying things change, knowing it won't

Angst builds, tensions fly!, sparkin' da tides

A solution, mandatory! if we wanna survive

If not

Prepare our blood to darken the sky

The ending is nye

We at da forefront of da line

By Shawn Stare

"Respectfully Me"

Eye pray for love, joy, peace n happiness
For a while ya boi was hapless
Against a wall, Shawn was backed in
Fightin' off deez demons around, dat stay attackin'
Dark dimensions suspended my air
Yeah!, I was gaspin'

My world was darker than tar paved on da asphalt
Light penetrated my shades, opened my eyes took da frames off
Grindin' like a million foreigners wit no days off
Wanna know what love is but hesitant in da trade off
It's a cut-throat business, can't trust deez chickens
Like Bernie, they'll steal ya gwap snatch ya heart
Laugh about da shit wit dey constituents about what dey Madoff

Hoping hard work you put in, eventually pays off
B.I.G was right, niggaz prey on ya downfall
But like Jay said, bounce back like round ball
I was outnumbered like a meeting at a town hall
Stayed ghost, off da surface in my cubbyhole like groundhogs

I'm burstin' outta my shell wit a mean vengeance
I speak clear so you hear, ain't shit cryptic!
I'm about upliftin'!
Even tho cats only wanna see ya demise
And fuck dat fake bitch!, eye pay her no mind
No longer exist to my kind like her damn Cinco de Ma
My birth was aligned
Catapulted to outer regions, away from you leeches
Twilight stars wit deez bars I will Shine

Better disperse when this pen in my palm
I'm calm!
Still humble on da low, never let my emotions show
I learned movin' forward, had to let da past go
But it's a constant struggle, tryna run da right play out da huddle
Stay on course, tryna manifest positive thoughts
Remember what my grandparents instilled in me n how they were
da source of what eye was taught

Eye pray I keep they vision alive
Took a step back, God sat me down wit my pride
To see deez snakes for what they are, not let em' slither inside
Back up in da ride hands on da wheel wit my will n my drive
Bare honesty, no mask or disguise
Destination unknown
Eye just pray for love, joy, peace & happiness for everyone who sits on dat throne
Jesus Christ!, I'm da light in a poem
While He da bulb at my feet, shinin' my path
Away from defeat

It's hell in deez streets!

If we ever spoke n had a Bond like James yo'!, I kept it discrete
Straight to da point, short n sweet
Respectfully me!

"Respectfully Me" by Ra Shine McKoy aka Shawn Stare

"Da Essence 2"

Here comes da resurrection
God body y'all, effervescent!
Dis is more den music
Dis is more den lyrics
Light up da darkness, raise ya spirit

Yeah, I hear da critics!

But by design, it's all systematic
I bark wit my mind instead of pullin' out da ratchet
Tappin' keys on da board layin' foundations
Datz a mild statement
Strum notes like a jazz tune from Miles Davis

Check da canvas, that's a cool paintin'
Eye see da world different
Let's have a conversation like Damon, you can Wayan
Seance sparks when my brush comes off da easel
Connect wit my people
I'm in a circle, they all circled round me tho, in they essence

They wanna know what happened?
Why is brothaz still killin' each other?, what's up wit all da MaDness?
Why is love lackin'?
They say all they see is da flipside dat it spells backwards
Carbon copies copycats actin'
I said Word!, COPY DAT captain.....

Most givin' up, lost they passion
At times da good in mankind, can be seen in flashes
One of my woman peers interrupted
Like Winona Ryder
Problem is, it's not enough providers
Some brothaz go left after runnin' right inside us
Jump in
Head first like a scuba diver
Try comin' round more like a Uber driver

Ra
Yes Queen!

You said you's a scriber, so let em' know potna!

Tell em' use they head, ya know da one dat matters

My man said hold on now, true! but some get badgered
A bad rap for da ones dat stagger
Caught in a web of lies, ok spidey?
And dat tongue MIGHTY!.....
Cartridges loaded wit sharp flyin' daggers
System built for us to fail, limitations wit long statures
Always lookin' above, it's a rough climb up dat ladder

Eye feel you!, I get da stigma in da chit~chatter

She said, not to mention all my sisters gettin' battered
Society know, they show us what they wanna show
They never pro~ject da "Real on da reel" when dat film begins n gets splattered
Do a CT scan, you see da internal images of a muse of true factors
See how da wind blow, da current in da Winslow
Eye thought Family Mattered!

Souls sold in a max cell behind bars where deez bars are crafted
Pay attention!, close ya mouth fool quit da yappin'
Catch da dialect & visual in between all da rappin'
They said da root of all evol still Grant & Jackson
We view they gums flappin' ironically, but don't see no action
Screams from my vital organs poor on da screen
Folks may think da grass green ova der wit da other team
Oddly tho!, you find da playin' field not even
Are you kiddin' fam?
Not even!
Eye searched n I surfed vast regions
You gotta work at anything dawg that's worth keepin'

Shine!
What up being?

Tell deez heathens wise up cause it's a wrap once you stop breathin'
Take a lesson from da dead y'all if you readin'
Cut out da selfishness & obsession
I know y'all feel me even if you roll wit prosthetic's
Sick n tired of bein' sick n tired, need a medic
Live life wit a purpose, n never regret it

And Shawn
What up! T. Reddick?

Can't hold onto da past, it ill sync you like a golf putt if you let it
You'll never move forward in ya story, and find ya true settin'
Time heals all wounds as da plot thickens
Eye know what old girl did to ya left you hurt, depressed n cryin'
But get busy livin'! or get busy dyin'
You know eye know about dat boi, I ain't lyin'
I told you b4, do somethin' wit ya damn rhymin'
Share ya gift wit da universe, ya verse in ya work could save
someone else
Touch others polar cap heart as they watch da ice melt

Whelp!

Dat remains to be seen, but eye feel you my dude!
Things change, and loyalty is rare now it's not like it was wit me n you
It's more about da "Art of War" bro, Sun Tzu
Dis what da planetary stars in our atmosphere has come to?
Yup!
And niggaz ignorant & knuckle-headed
If you goin' thru a tough time & ask for help
They figure it's a pity party poppin' off wit self
How you know nigga?!, grasp dat mirror analyze ya self
Not knowin' how it felt, just to put ya pride to da side n display all dat ugly shit on da shelf

Nigga!, you's a elf!!!
Droppin' opinions on other minions below da belt
When we occupy da same dominion in da same solar system wit coarse dimensions in retrospect in itself

Dis wasn't always I you don't know what earth situation dealt

Can eye get a witness?
Amen!

And F-YOU! under breath if my name is ever mentioned
My pen game seriously a serial killer, So Sadistic!
Wrist workout so much, it's strong enough to not feel da kick back when deez shots dispensin'
Oh, eye see now!, it's Operation "Gone Fishin"
Well dis Sting Mission gonna Sting da competition n da opposition n dat dummy next to you dat wanna put his/her 2 sense in

((2pac voice))
And don't worry where eye bees at, I'm in position

Cause if I pull da pin before I drop a single sentence
It'll clear this whole area n flatline___________ ya disposition
Smh, I'm dead yo! people kill me!
But on da low like Nas niggaz feel me!
Da essence!.........

"Da Essence 2" by Ra Shine McKoy aka Shawn Stare