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1. |
numb
04:26
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Fuck these feelings we just bury 'em until anxiety
Creep up on 'em in the darkness toying with our psyche
I think we need a change of scenery it's time to sight see
Direct my people do the right thing I feel like Spike Lee
But what the fuck is right and wrong what is good and bad
I just sing a song from this pen and pad
Where do we belong we on a troubled path
Need a future bag
Rap in present this the gift of gab
Ghost of Christmas past got me thinking bout the things I had
It's stories I can tell 'cause I was bearing witness
Funny how we male but we never can address our feelings
Letter to myself everything is written
In this third dimension
Hope the earth work out ain't talking planet fitness
Raise the bar
Feeling alive I pick up my people yeah this is a dead lift
That genie inside of the bottle do dirt for the devil they sent us a death wish
Just points on a checklist
It's looking like Tetris
Our blocks be falling
So we get reckless
It's looking like breakfast
Our mamas be mourning the toast leave us breathless
I know I did wrong but he see my soul
Institutionalized I ain't even know
Like the frog in the pot
We ain't know it was hot put us inside the water and cooked us slow
This a crockpot got me hotboxed
I'm off two shots this a free throw
Life is on the line niggas getting foul
But I see the signs it's a long road
Look in my red eyes I'm high on a late night
The truth be in plain sight I'm shaking like turbulence ready to take flight
So much suppression the lack of some capital got us in states of depression
I'm anxious they drawing they weapons to paint us as villains I'm numb to it all ain't no Question
Different day same old shit
Write my bars hit my licks
Check my phone what I miss
Awww shit
'Notha body in a ditch
'Notha soul to reminisce fuck the world life's a bitch
I'm feeling numb
Don't hit my phone right now
I just wanna be alone right now
I'm feeling numb
Don't hit my phone right now
I just wanna be alone right now
Been conditioned to brush it off and just keep it pushing
Institutionalized by trauma the proof is in the pudding
Smoking on these trees but indeed we beating around the bushes
Putting feelings off fuck walking that mile we pussyfooting
I'm at a point in my art where I'm just numb to the praise
Just wanna see this translate so we can really get paid
Ran circles 'round niggas now they bent out of shape
These squares don't really know what it take so they hit the breaks
I press the gas
I'm ready to pass
I'm ready to dash who ready to catch me
Examine my life and study my plight I'm realizing they wanna test me
I'm feeling like Gretzky
I'm sliding on thin ice
Made a right
Down to the culdesac
It's dead ends
Bury us like artifacts
My art is facts
I wish the case wasn't that 'cause
I'm really feeling empty with thoughts
Tell me the cost
We pay just to cover our faults
Cover our lost
We all really like to cry in the dark
The way we was taught
To never let 'em see us falling a part
So we numb
Different day same old shit
Write my bars hit my licks
Check my phone what I miss
Awww shit
'Notha body in a ditch
'Notha soul to reminisce fuck the world life's a bitch
I'm feeling numb
Don't hit my phone right now
I just wanna be alone right now
I'm feeling numb
Don't hit my phone right now
I just wanna be alone right now
All our straps is automatic
All our stress is post traumatic
All our straps is automatic
All our stress is post traumatic
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2. |
stupid
02:31
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I'm going stupid I'm going stupid
I'm out my mind I'm bout to lose it I'm bout to lose it
I'm in my bag I gotta do it I gotta do it
I hit the gas I'm getting to it I'm getting to it
I'm going stupid I'm going stupid
I'm out my mind I'm bout to lose it I'm bout to lose it
I'm in my bag I gotta do it I gotta do it
I hit the gas I'm getting to it I'm getting to it
Okay okay
Okay okay
I talk my shit
I stack my chip that Frito Lay
I'm in the game but I don't play
No I don't play
No direction come my way
Just come my way
What you mad for
What you sad for
105 on the dashboard
Fuck the task force
Baby girl think I'm groovy
She wanna do me
Hit the scene let's make a movie
Let's make a movie
Okay okay
I'm going stupid I'm going stupid
I'm out my mind I'm bout to lose it I'm bout to lose it
I'm in my bag I gotta do it I gotta do it
I hit the gas I'm getting to it I'm getting to it
I'm going stupid I'm going stupid
I'm out my mind I'm bout to lose it I'm bout to lose it
I'm in my bag I gotta do it I gotta do it
I hit the gas I'm getting to it I'm getting to it
Okay okay
Okay okay
No this ship is not for sale
Don't ride my wave
We in the cut like a barber come catch this fade
Write these emotions all in Braille now feel my pain
Wait
Ain't no limit to my grind I'm bout it bout it
Everything I touch a masterpiece you better never doubt it
I got brothers in the system man them prisons hella crowded
So I'm jugging they need money on they books
Going stupid got 'em shook
I'm going stupid I'm going stupid
I'm out my mind I'm bout to lose it I'm bout to lose it
I'm in my bag I gotta do it I gotta do it
I hit the gas I'm getting to it I'm getting to it
I'm going stupid I'm going stupid
I'm out my mind I'm bout to lose it I'm bout to lose it
I'm in my bag I gotta do it I gotta do it
I hit the gas I'm getting to it I'm getting to it
Live my life
Look into my mind tell me what do ya find
I done did my time I'm institutionalized
This is how we feel we going stupid tonight
Live my life
Look into my mind tell me what do ya find
I done did my time I'm institutionalized
This is how we feel we going stupid tonight
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3. |
hood millennials
03:00
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Big dog big fish
All we ever try to be is hood rich
Pop a bottle pop a bean you know it's lit
Spread these hundreds 'cross the face now take this pic
Ok we Drowning all our problems until we pass out
Beefing over dollar bills so they slaughter cash cow
Baby girl think I'm fronting watch me blow her back out
Rushing to the bag from here to Moscow
Shorty off the molly fucking with no condom
Life of the party death before dishonor
She gon' blow like TNT my phone on DND
I can't show em all this game this ain't TNT
You know I be
In the cut
Henny in the cup
Only few to trust
What the fuck
You can't fuck with us
We be in a rush
On the go
You know how it go
Never break the code yeah
Tell 'em it's slow yeah
Tell 'em it's slow
Pray to God but we not religious
Granny say go to church but we in the trenches
Can't no preacher ever reach us about how we feeling
Forced us to wear these masks now it's mass killings
I be chillin
What it do
You know how i do
You know how i groove
Get her wet up inside the whip that's a carpool
Show respect when a nigga flex I got shit to prove
Catch this rec if you wanna step we ain't got no rules
For the money i need all the smoke
Big worm
Roll a eiffy so we all can smoke
Let it burn
Saw my OGs put in all the work
My turn
We was thirsty just to do some dirt
Had to learn
Bitch we extra
Never test us
Do my dance with no effort
Living reckless
Living like it's no tomorrow
Our time is borrowed
Roll that blunt and pour that bottle
Until we spiral
Yurr aye
Know the deal this is how we feel
Ironic that we fed up but we need a mill
Ghetto boy up in college I was doing me
Got student debt but my niggas in debt to the streets
Fuck Sallie Mae from the back that's just where I'm at
When I get rich off this rap still won't pay her back
Told my brothers check they pack
Yeah they lacing thrax
Homie died from a blunt he ain't coming back
Yeah they gone
This the life of a 20 something
Never having nothing
Different strokes all up in the pussy call me Phillip Drummond
Need it bad
Yea she Superbad
Want some McLoving
Hit the gas hundred on dash
We just keep running
We conditioned
Oh lord we conditioned
Black man in America no time to process feelings
Living close to the edge no care watch him cock and then squeeze
Jet from the scene black bodies all from that magazine
So many issues
RIPs on they news feed but they don't miss you
Clout chasing ya dead soul like they was with you
Can't get a grip on this life so we just grip the pistol
My nigga sipping on activist calling me an activist
Xanies and Percocets be numbing all of the damages
We be drowning in bottles just to run from the challenges
Ass titties and music as I take in this cannibus
Aw shit
For the money i need all the smoke
Big worm
Roll a eiffy so we all can smoke
Let it burn
Saw my OGs put in all the work
My turn
We was thirsty just to do some dirt
Had to learn
Bitch we extra
Never test us
Do my dance with no effort
Living reckless
Living like it's no tomorrow
Our time is borrowed
Roll that blunt and pour that bottle
Until we spiral
Yurr aye
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4. |
tin man
03:27
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Fuck the love where the cash at
Venmo or the cash app
Flow so sick come to my shows in a hazmat
Bag back
We be dropping bombs like it’s Baghdad
Big facts
Keep da napalm in da knapsack
Put out Sinsinnati had some niggas on the fence
Ain’t compete with a artist from my city ever since
Hold my dick
Talk my shit
Middle fingers in my pics
Just in case a hater scrolling
They can feel just how it is
Uh, really I been out the way
Now we getting active, tell them niggas we outside today
Road trips with Brotha Blu and B.A.N.K.$. they think we from the AFuck the love where the cash at
Venmo or the Cash App
Flow so sick come to my shows in a hazmat
Bag back we be dropping bombs like it's Baghdad
Big facts
Keep the napalm in da knapsack
Put out Sinsinnati had some niggas on the fence
Ain't compete with a rapper from my city ever since
Hold my dick
Talk my shit
Middle fingers in my pics
Just in case a hater scrolling they can feel just how it is
Really I been out the way
Now we getting active tell them niggas we outside today
Road trips with Brotha Blu and B.A.N.K.$. they think we from the A
Up and down Edgewood networking making plays
I'm just tryna make a way
Hurting but I mask the pain
I just keep improving
I been pushing through my saddest days
Heart turned cold a long time ago I need some space
Yellow brick road getting lonely though I need to pray
I been on my grind ain't got no time for them clubs yeah
People want yo' shine so it's only few I trust yeah
Guard my energy no empathy I show no love yeah
Yeah I got no love
Lessons turn to blessings turn my Ls into Dubs yeah
Do this for my son place nobody else above him
I just been on ten I'm tryna win I show no love yeah
Yeah I got no love
Had a talk with one my niggas
He been tripping in his feelings
He be latched on to the block and he can never keep his distance
This is all he ever witnessed so he never wanna leave
When his dogs act like pussies that's his pet peeve
This what happens when a young man get a broken heart
Grip his pistol while he sleeping as he crying in the dark
'Cause the streets don't love him
And his bitch don't love him
Mom and daddy don't love him
'Merica ain't never loved him
So he thinking why the fuck I'm keeping peace up on this block
Any second I could speak and be a victim of a cop
Wanna nail me in a coffin so I keep the hammer strapped fool
Couple car tools lay you flat just to jack you
Feel this in my arteries
This life it's been a part of me
Conditioned by environment anxiety been harming me
Heart begins to harden
Need to step back like I'm Harden
Thought I'd find love in this rap but it only made me heartless
I be tryna keep my poise
But my spirit so annoyed
How they silencing a black man to this white noise
I was heartless to some women hope that karma I avoid
Was getting cash didn't check for y'all just bounced to the void
Yeah I don't do apologies I rather just decline
Flipping intellectual properties a realer state of mind
Feel inclined to tell y'all how I feel
Fuck how you feel
Too many times I highlighted folks that never kept it real
I been on my grind ain't got no time for them clubs yeah
People want yo' shine so it's only few I trust yeah
Guard my energy no empathy I show no love yeah
Yeah I got no love
Lessons turn to blessings turn my Ls into Dubs yeah
Do this for my son place nobody else above him
I just been on ten I'm tryna win I show no love yeah
Yeah I got no love
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5. |
blame us
03:50
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Time and money tell me how you spend it
Everybody want it 'til they get it
Fast cars jewelry and the women
Want this life until we really live it
Most my people come up from the trenches
Never had much in they condition
You can't really blame us nah you can't really blame us nah
Look inside the mind of a menace
Wouldn't show love if this was tennis
Hate in his soul got him limping
Broken pockets grabbing ammunition
Hope the money erase all the pain
Upped his coins now his mood changed
Late nights swerving thru the lanes
In a bucket thinking of a Range
Ten toes gripping every block
Ten hoes working 'round the clock
Ten fold rising like a stock
Ten four hear it from the cops
Copy that cop another pack
Run it back to back to back to back to back
Same shit just a different day
Tryna get it each and every way
Time and money tell me how you spend it
Everybody want it 'til they get it
Fast cars jewelry and the women
Want this life until we really live it
Most my people come up from the trenches
Never had much in they condition
You can't really blame us nah you can't really blame us nah
Time and money tell me how you spend it
Everybody want it 'til they get it
Fast cars jewelry and the women
Want this life until we really live it
Most my people come up from the trenches
Never had much in they condition
You can't really blame us nah you can't really blame us nah
Look inside the mind of a artist
Thinking of a luxury apartment
Bullseye tryna hit the target
Life disconnected I can't call it
Wake up write another verse
Scratch then replace hope it work
Came up out the mud from the dirt
Everything I write is down to earth
Running this imaginary race
Remind me of my peoples down on Chase
Serving rocks tryna beat a case
I'm serving raps tryna be a great
Late nights grinding in the booth
Ain't have no money for the stu
Fuck it put the mic in my room
Mad villain motherfuckers doomed
Treat 'em like the food on my plate
Niggas threw dirt on my name
Cleaned it off ain't leave a stain
Cleaned it off ain't leave a stain
I take ya hip hop license
Just 'cause you gotta sixteen don't mean you can drive it
I'm 'bout to suit and tie it
Business professional
This is correctional sentencing
Call this shit your indictment
Lock you up bars holy struck with the touch Midas
And they side with a brother like Joseph Biden
Yeah they side with a brother
Dip and diving
See 'em scrutinizing
When I spit lines is sick get the flu if you try to bite it
In the booth I'm the truth they can never fight it
Talk in peace don't you speak you got laryngitis
Time and money tell me how you spend it
Everybody want it 'til they get it
Fast cars jewelry and the women
Want this life until we really live it
Most my people come up from the trenches
Never had much in they condition
You can't really blame us nah you can't really blame us nah
Time and money tell me how you spend it
Everybody want it 'til they get it
Fast cars jewelry and the women
Want this life until we really live it
Most my people come up from the trenches
Never had much in they condition
You can't really blame us nah you can't really blame us nah
Look inside the mind of a nigga
Society like to paint a picture
Reckless beings with no real ambition
Tryna keep my niggas at a distance
Same cycles hoping that it change
Rap sell packs who's the blame
Systemic racists or the game
Pipeline to prison or the fame
Growing up I saw both sides
Tell me how the truth coincide
It's mathematic how we all divide
Subtract us then they adding to they pie
American dreams turned into night terrors in the blink of an eye
Vision clouded tryna reach for the sky
Instead we landed in a pile of lies
Gimme space gotta levitate
Need a peace of mind need to meditate
Want a piece of mine I'm a set 'em straight
Elevate my mind need to medicate
Bodies dropping
When the pistols popping
Running out of options
Put 'em in a coffin
Been a pallbearer one too many times
So I write these lines just to keep from falling
Tell me who to blame
We can blame the game
We can blame the cops
We can blame the pain
Blame it on the block
Blame it on our age
Blame it on the rocks
Blame it on our race
But nothing happens when you placing the blame
The hardest truth is realizing that you gotta change
Nigga
Time and money tell me how you spend it
Everybody want it til they get it
Can you really blame us, can you really blame us
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6. |
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La da da la da da da da da
La da da la da da da da da
La da da la da da da da da
Reporting live from the depths of brain
Running like a faucet got me sinking I’m feeling drained
Tryna navigate but nigga I been stuck in my ways
Tryna feel something but my heart been fading away
Just hit my brother on the JPay
In a cell by himself is how he spend his b day
Daughter only three she thirteen on his release date
Writing all these lines in the stu how I release pain
I’m tryna seek change okay
Watch me pack out shows every single night
Yeah I need a thousand gigs nigga that’s a terabyte
I got hard drive
Locked in my archives
Handcuffed to my dreams
The more I do the more it ain’t what it seems
‘Cause I’ve been feeling some comfort in validation
Internet praise will have you feeling complacent
Find the right angle these lines standing adjacent
To goals that I set when I locked myself in the basement
To hit the pavement
I’m in my element like CO2
More to do more to prove I’m tryna see it through
The more traction that I gain I feel it’s more to lose
I wipe my feet and hit the streets they feel my every
They feel my every move
Feel every move that I make and hear every word that I speak
I move at ultra light speed
You ain’t seen nothing like me
Nah it ain’t nothing like
That’s why I must do what I do ‘cause this is way bigger than me
But it ain’t better than me
Ain’t nothing better than me
I hope you betting on me
Damn right I’m betting on me
If you plan on stepping on me
I hope you bring yo’ homie
And bring an extra homie
‘Cause my niggas extra on me
And as much as we preach for the peace
I can’t let you get a piece
When we play we play for keeps
All we find is all we keep
Capiche
Shit shackles on my brain
I been moving silent through pain tryna break away from these chains
Every dog be having it’s day and I’m tryna get off the leash
Break the lease
Some people never was key
Lived in my head rent free
I feel I mirror my brother that’s locked in prison
We both inside of a system that’s tryna keep us conditioned
Prisoner of my art I’m rapping a life sentence
So locked inside my vision can’t see who I’m killing
They killed my big cousin on thanksgiving
Saw (bleep) battle with feelings
And lately we ain’t been clicking
I watch her heal from a distance
Feelings can go numb when emotions been in a prison
Institutionalized when your brain get convicted
The hood can feel like a prison
These schools can feel like a prison
Everyday a routine we graded by our decisions
Cell block or the block or sell your soul for an image
See me sail in the distance
Who’s to blame for these feelings
I’m feeling attacked
These layers get packed I’m peeling it back
I just wanna rap
Sit back and relax and count all my racks
But these tracks can put you in a valley
Writing all these lines how the fuck I let these bars trap me
‘Putting‘
no because
La da da la da da da da da
La da da la da da da da da
La da da la da da da da da
Reporting live from the depths of brain
Running like a faucet got me sinking I'm feeling drained
Tryna navigate but nigga I been stuck in my ways
Tryna feel something but my heart been fading away
Just hit my brother on the JPay
In a cell by himself is how he spend his b day
Daughter only three she thirteen on his release date
Writing all these lines in the stu how I release pain
I'm tryna seek change okay
Watch me pack out shows every single night
Yeah I need a thousand gigs nigga that's a terabyte
I got hard drive
Locked in my archives
Handcuffed to my dreams
The more I do the more it ain't what it seems
'Cause I've been feeling some comfort in validation
Internet praise will have you feeling complacent
Find the right angle these lines standing adjacent
To goals that I set when I locked myself in the basement
To hit the pavement
I'm in my element like CO2
More to do more to prove I'm tryna see it through
The more traction that I gain I feel it's more to lose
I wipe my feet and hit the streets they feel my every
They feel my every move
Feel every move that I make and hear every word that I speak
I move at ultra light speed
You ain't seen nothing like me
Nah it ain't nothing like
That's why I must do what I do 'cause this is way bigger than me
But it ain't better than me
Ain't nothing better than me
I hope you betting on me
Damn right I'm betting on me
If you plan on stepping on me
I hope you bring yo' homie
And bring an extra homie
'Cause my niggas extra on me
And as much as we preach for the peace
I can't let you get a piece
When we play we play for keeps
All we find is all we keep
Capiche
Shit shackles on my brain
I been moving silent through pain tryna break away from these chains
Every dog be having it's day and I'm tryna get off the leash
Break the lease
Some people never was key
Lived in my head rent free
I feel I mirror my brother that's locked in prison
We both inside of a system that's tryna keep us conditioned
Prisoner of my art I'm rapping a life sentence
So locked inside my vision can't see who I'm killing
They killed my big cousin on thanksgiving
Saw (bleep) battle with feelings
And lately we ain't been clicking
I watch her heal from a distance
Feelings can go numb when emotions been in a prison
Institutionalized when your brain get convicted
The hood can feel like a prison
These schools can feel like a prison
Everyday a routine we graded by our decisions
Cell block or the block or sell your soul for an image
See me sail in the distance
Who's to blame for these feelings
I'm feeling attacked
These layers get packed I'm peeling it back
I just wanna rap
Sit back and relax and count all my racks
But these tracks can put you in a valley
Writing all these lines how the fuck I let these bars trap me
Rappers in the city be so bitter 'bout a nigga's luck
Putting artists down how 'bout you try to lift that nigga up
No I'm not a conscious rapper no I'm not an activist
Don't lock me in a box just because my voice is passionate
Just let me be me
Let me be me
Just let me be me
This is how we feel
Let me be me
Just let me be me
This is how we feel
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7. |
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Feeling lost in the darkness
In and out of love and it feel like I’m fallin
I been trippin
Keeping my distance
Tryin hard not to break down
So much on my plate don’t know how much i can take now
Everyone forgetting about me
Don’t know who to trust with all these vultures around me
But i
Stand on my two
Even when theres no one to talk to
Imma keep on pushing w/o you
To get free
Verse 1:
Black woman
First mother
Birth mother
We all know it
But some ignore it
And take cover
Behind a mask of hatred they got for black woman
I gotta say it bc i came from a black woman
A black woman i love pushed out my son
At that moment saw divine intervention come from above
But then i think about breonna Taylor
No one could save her
Crooked cops robbed her of motherhood and doing good
When HER career was bout saving lives
Irony evil and wicked the way it severe ties
Keep y’all some mace or a strap when y’all gotta go outside
I Know some pervert ass niggas left them with silent cries
Not advertised But still you rise
Rapped for rapsody on her tour
She said my pen was sharp and told me i gotta stay the course
She said i had a gift as she looked in my eyes
Inspiration from a black woman is all that we need sometimes
I swear to god
Chorus
Verse 2:
Nigga, don’t try to say you inspired by us
Always leaning on our shoulder just to leave us in the dust
Don’t call me strong that ain’t no compliment
Being strong is why we’re disregarded and we’re suffering
But Don’t get it twisted i know how powerful i can be
I know my grandmothers is watching and they so proud of me
A force to be afraid of society bring it outta me
Angry black woman cuz nigga i got the right to be
But i ain’t really angry I’m tired
Tired of negotiating wages when I’m tryna get hired 
Tired of feeling all this pain with no place to go higher
I just need my voice amplified
Gimme a bullhorn and worldwide intercom
I’ll let the whole entire world know bout my power
Want us to be y’all therapist but tell me who gon be ours?
We go missing for hours, days, weeks and months at a time
No one can find
I been feeling confined
Now I , just wanna be free
Chorus
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Khari Cincinnati, Ohio
Born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio, Khari always had a passion for telling stories and making music. Having being brought up on 90s Hip-Hop by his father and classic old school jams by his grandparents, Khari developed a knack for lyricism and soul. Khari strives to connect and inspire audiences through his creative lyrics, unique flow, and vivid story telling. ... more
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