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The Comeback Story - EP

by DJ brimLo & Bavu Blakes

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DJ brimLo
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DJ brimLo "Yesterday" feels so good on the ears... feels like home, thank you for that Favorite track: Yesterday (feat. Reggie Coby & TempestB).
GhettoManga
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GhettoManga Big fan of Bavu Blakes!

This is a nice lil record for the collection! Favorite track: Tick Tock (feat. TempestB).
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Brian Bremen Bavu Blakes is the real deal! Favorite track: Comeback.
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1.
Verse 1 - Bavu Blakes Notice how time stand When you running from an automatic weapon and it’s real Or maybe you have no idea But I can make it happen with this right here Leave you laying on the street Underneath beef Can’t blame neither Meek Mill nor Chief Keef They say guys don’t kill people, people do But people can’t do what a street sweeper do The president say terrorism is a thread But terrorist haven’t hit this number yet Been a decade and change out in Iraq But right here in the states way more bodies stack I got a nuke bomb in my living room The irony’s killing me killing you Most unfortunate element in hip-hop Not a click clack but a tick tock Chorus - TempestB Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock Time is still ticking Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock Time is winding down Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock Time is still ticking Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock Don’t let your time run out Verse 2 - DJ brimLo Every Jay better cuff their Beyonce Keep her on your arm Out of Harms way Every day in the hood it’s an arms race Cause of if I show up with this by your mom’s place Since I got it, they gotta go get it As if the second amendment Ain’t got no limits Now if you want to come get me Remake the wedding scene on New Jack City Cause of what’s sitting in my living room Coming soon Impending doom Cloud over town shaped just like a mushroom Doesn’t take much to touch you Feel the gloom Lethal degrees heat these communities With AKs and Uzis as WMDs AKA a nuke bomb in my living room The irony’s killing me killing you Chorus - TempestB Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock Time is still ticking Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock Time is winding down Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock Time is still ticking Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock Don’t let your time run out Verse 3 - Bavu Blakes I don’t use drugs But I got the bomb So bulletproof all vans and soccer moms Neither school kids nor teachers get left out Blood shed wets everybody It’s a death count Let’s count bodies Ten times 50 In just one city Bust it get Busy If not an automatic then a semi When I blow up I take my whole hood with me Can’t forget the burbs The movies the mall Til all y’all appalled and hold y’all applause Violence is All-American, it’s been pop Not a click clack, but a tick tock Bridge - TempestB Tick tock, tick tock Time is still ticking Tick tock, tick tock Don’t let your time run out Chorus - TempestB Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock Time is still ticking Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock Time is winding down Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock Time is still ticking Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock Don’t let your time run out
2.
Chorus - C.J. Edwards I tried to warn you Keep this up You’ll end up dead Dead to us I know your tough But if you don’t give it up You’ll end up dead Dead to us Verse 1 - Bavu Blakes Caffeine Nicotine TV screen Everything in between Diabetes Heart disease Alcohol Shopping mall Attitude Bad mood Tattoos Fast food Music loud On loud Wrong crowd Shots rang out Ambulance Fat chance Last dance 
Lap dance Like drapes Hang and blow Got probation Made parole Forget how to know What’s a goal Get the part Play the role Full participation Unsafe Where’s the safe Another case Safe to say it ain’t pretty Hardly ever left the hood or left the city Freedom at last unlikely baby Here’s my address, write me maybe Still having, how long’s the rope Left feeling far too wrong for hope Right to depression Left into drugs You turn to nig*** Exit bit**** and th*** Bridge - C.J. Edwards You see this road you’re traveling on I’ve seen many Many go down That same, same road And let me tell you where it leads Nowhere It’s just a dead end Chorus - C.J. Edwards I tried to warn you It’s not enough See you’ll end up dead Or dead to us I know your tough But if you don’t give it up I’ll say you’ll end up dead Or dead to us
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Verse 1 - Bavu Blakes I’ve been here for years A lot of my peers they go tattoos for peers But I preserved, look at me now look here Here’s a little story, but not Paul Revere One of the bad brothers that you know so well Getting over on folks didn’t go so well Now I gotta go away, not to no hotel To a cold cold cell my only way to prevail Is to comeback Chorus - Bavu Blakes Comeback Everybody loves a comeback Everybody loves a comeback Everybody loves a comeback Everybody loves a comeback Everybody loves a comeback Everybody loves a comeback Everybody loves a comeback
Everybody loves A Verse 2 - Bavu Blakes So I did my time I’d by lying if I said my sentence as fine I was dying inside in need of a lifeline To pull me out of the prison I built in my own mine From the blocks to cell blocks Only option I had was thinking out of the box When I get out of the box I cannot come back Everybody I see come back said that Every last book I read that My philosophies a map of where my head’s at Ain’t nobody bout to pay me to think So dead that I don’t have a plan b, plan a said act Fact of the matter is that I never had no job I gotta use what I got and I do have god I’m not really religious but I do have faith And that’s exactly what’s gone take For me to make me a comeback Chorus - Bavu Blakes Comeback Everybody loves a comeback Everybody loves a comeback Everybody loves a comeback Everybody loves a comeback Everybody loves a comeback Everybody loves a comeback Everybody loves a comeback
Everybody loves A Bridge - Bavu Blakes From the, forth quarter Or the, ninth inning Of the, shot at the buzzer With a, nice ending It’s a comeback From the, forth quarter Or the, ninth inning Of the, shot at the buzzer With a, nice ending It’s a comeback Verse 3 - Bavu Blakes Immigrant in my city Enemy of the state Any chance I get to get back straight Man Imma take Say nothing is given Forgive me while I create I know some of y’all relate Up early cause I can’t be late Weight of the world on my shoulders Go forward I can’t wait Preciate each day I wake up to face fate Maybe I’ll start a business Maybe I’ll learn a trade Wouldn’t trade it for nothing Took my cards and I played It’s a comeback Chorus - Bavu Blakes Comeback Everybody loves a comeback Everybody loves a comeback Everybody loves a comeback Everybody loves a comeback Everybody loves a comeback Everybody loves a comeback Everybody loves a comeback
Everybody loves A
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Chorus - Reggie Coby So young and dumb You couldn’t tell me nothing Waiting for a sign Somebody tell me something My momma use to tell me But what does she know anyway Turns out she was right How I miss yesterday Verse 1 - Reggie Coby She tried to tell me but I wouldn’t listen Those traditions don’t pertain to me Because see I’m different She make me sit in the kitchen while she cooking And watch her, I used to hate it But now I know how she made She would say that one day This gone be something that you need Didn’t believe her til I had someone to feed Deep huh The things you remember when you get older I still hear her voice Like she standing on my shoulder But these days my momma probably think I’m crazy Cause How I’m living now Ain’t exactly the way she raised me I bet sometimes she look at me like Wow, this can’t be my son The same one I had as a baby So take your time young man Don’t be in no rush Cause sometimes life still sucks When you a grown up And then you find yourself reminiscent Missing them conversations With your momma In the Kitchen Verse 2 - Bavu Blakes Man I wish I had an intervention She and I multiplied but then we did division Never separated I just up and left Scared to death of being daddy I doubted myself Could’ve been the man of the house but instead I ran Couldn’t handle my business She on the other hand Screaming be responsible now You’re getting older I still hear her voice like she standing on my shoulder How was I supposed to know what to do If I was never shown Been an adult since middle school But was never grown Criminalized by the system I could never shake Desperate for new direction Steps I would never take Traumatized by when I was shot and left for dead Paralyzed in my mind Living inside my head They say he was my spitting image as a little kid I never did mind his momma I wonder if he did Chorus - TempestB Acting young and dumb Couldn’t tell you nothing Looking for the signs I tried to tell you something My child I tried to warn you What do I know anyway O’ baby boy How I miss yesterday
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Verse 1 - Bavu Blakes Concentrate with your mind I got this little illustration Trace it line by line Compliments are fine But compensations is finer Money second to time Let’s think in seconds in time How much can you give Be honest, now don’t be lying The people we say we love They need donations in time Cover our eyes to it The blind’s leading the blind Open our hearts to it And what do you see More love for you and me Throughout the community now Just imagine you having your first child Picture the way they smile when you show up Chorus - Eric Levels Do more than just show love, Ya Got to give love You Got to give up the love Do more than just show love, Ya Got to give love You got to give up the love Come on and just throw ‘em up, Ya Got to give love You got to give up the love Come on and just throw ‘em up, Ya Got to give love You got to give up the love It’s more than a show Verse 2 - Bavu Blakes Tell ‘em you love ‘em and hug ‘em just to show some Love bug remember it’s not an emotion Love is a verb, to pay a debt, a burden Universal, country ghetto suburban And overseas we need it just the same We got so much to gain By linking up the chain The fence the enemy is defenseless Let it commence the energy is relentless Chorus - Eric Levels Do more than just show love, Ya Got to give love You Got to give up the love Do more than just show love, Ya Got to give love You got to give up the love Come on and just throw ‘em up, Ya Got to give love You got to give up the love Come on and just throw ‘em up, Ya Got to give love You got to give up the love It’s more than a show Verse 3 - Bavu Blakes Got to be present Diggin down in the trenches The distance between you and a breakthrough’s inches Work on ya wishlist don’t expect cinches And remember every Christmas has grinches It’s obvious who gets it When people come around they Get into it get involved like James Brown say Perfect attendance, No excuses sho’ nuff That’s what I wanna be when I grow up Chorus - Eric Levels Do more than just show love, Ya Got to give love You Got to give up the love Do more than just show love, Ya Got to give love You got to give up the love Come on and just throw ‘em up, Ya Got to give love You got to give up the love Come on and just throw ‘em up, Ya Got to give love You got to give up the love It’s more than a show Verse 4 - Bavu Blakes Can depression be fixed with a bottle of wine Can a hungry guy eat a peace sign Can a smiley face replace a hot meal You heard the saying real recognize real Can a dap and a half hug pay rent Can 50 cent get you off the pavement Do any of these questions make sense Or are they just statements Not again, C’mon Chorus - Eric Levels Do more than just show love You got to give love You got to give up the love Do more than just show love You got to give love You got to give up the love Come on and just throw ‘em up You got to give love You got to give up the love Come on and just throw ‘em up You got to give love You got to give up the love It’s more than a show

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When DJ brimLo and Bavu Blakes are in the studio together Hip-Hop excellence has been assembled, two turntables and a microphone. DJ brimLo trades his microphone for the role of the maestro on this project while Bavu provides us the narrative of “The Comeback Story.” A good story starts with catastrophic tragedy, and that is the tone of “Tick Tock.” The fall is scored in the ballad of “Dead to Us.” The vocal stylings of CJ Edwards solidify the emotional foundation. As we arrive on our title track, “Comeback” the dynamic duo really flex their muscles. Our wordsmith is in full stride as we all know “everybody loves a comeback,” he petitions to us on the Hip-Hop anthem. Staying true a good narrative, the feeling of overcoming is followed by a lament for a time before the self-destruction. Reggie Coby sets the tone of “Yesterday” with a properly penned hook and a swift sixteen. In a true call and response fashion, TempestB closes the tune with the complimenting counter-chorus. As a victory lap we get a repeat of the “BIG Bright Future” three piece ensemble of Bavu Blakes, DJ brimLo and Eric Levels on the closing song, “Get Love.” Carefully broken into five significant segments, this EP effectively takes listeners through the emotional trek of a return to one’s better self.

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released May 26, 2017

©2017 BRIMLO RECORDING
Album Mastered by DJ brimLo at The Muzique Phaktory
Cover Photo by Marke Design
Graphic Design by DJ brimLo

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