Drafty Ruff

by Dave Melv

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Trying to bring back the feeling of dirty demos with that ruff and gritty sound with this one. The beat is a gumbo mix of some great jazzy noise laid over some hard hitting drums, and the vocals were recorded one-take with a crappy mic and mixed to sound even crappier. The mix-down was done to accommodate those who still listen to music in the car with some banging drums with deep and low bass to make the speakers shake. This is my rendition of what Hip Hop should sound like, sometimes at least. I guess the links in the bio, or some shit like that…..

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I stay off the grid with my beats showing mark
Bring it on sun and get strung outta tune like a broken harp
Mad doc in the lab with a pen and pad surgical low end bypass
Pumping mad operation open heart
Dropping kids at the door like when mom and dads go and park
Planting paragraphs real life sentence when the growing start
White cat shining out with light switches that glow in dark
I'm lit like that cuz I'm the chosen spark
Don't fancy vanilla ice maybe a little just the frozen part
Got a mucha on my wall but don't brag bout owning art
Don't shoplift credit never paid dues with a stolen card
Witty rhymes deluxe creative with the golden smarts
You never would've guessed I got it like that
Fresh old school grenade how I bomb a hype track
Black and white wrap I make it plain to see
Whooping rainbows full of sound when I bang the beats
One of one sun I keep it shining nice and hot
Pull a cloud out the sky and leave a silver lining right on top
And I might not stop forevers on my side
Race the course of time squashing letters on the drive

Mad like marching hares summing down the final basie count
Soaked in unsound thoughts like walls in the crazy house
Confined to my reason and rhyme
Penned behind the lines sleeping nights with the enemy
Until my mic come break me out
Floating overseas and rock the boat with the wavy bounce
Don't do sugar coats squaring blocks on my daily rounds
Not ashamed to keep my eyes locked in on the prize
Like I'm talking to a busty chic in a see through lacy blouse
Cutting edge and bulldozer the knife
If you wasn't wrong all the time you might get closer to right
So caught up in the journey don't even see the finish
Choking with this beat give it time to breath a minute

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released April 20, 2022
Dave on the rhymes & beat

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By hip hop, for hip hop Yokohama, Japan

As the name says- this is by hip hop, for hip hop! With many hip hop cats gathering sporadically to bring dope beats & fly rhymes, this music will take you back to when you still thought hip hop was good.

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