88 Bars (Behind The Scenes) (Deluxe Edition Bonus Track)

(album: New Normal - 2019)

One time for your mind, one time
One time for your mind, one time
One time for ya, One time for ya
One time for your mind, one time

You can tell a Whole lot by what a persons not saying
Read between the lines notice what they're leaving out
My body language lets you know just what I be about
Look me in the eyes you can see I'm not playing because
This is not a game, And I am not the same
Man who is standing in my place cos a lot has changed
Looking at the time thinking how it got away
Still I got a way with words to paint a summers day
When the air smelled sweeter and the light felt different
The sky looking brighter through the eyes of an infant
Inner revolution spinning up on my disc-man
We'll soon see a change in the water; A state of disorder
Fast forward to the not too distant
I'm living out crystal clear images I been spitting
They call me kid Solo, it's clear that I'm not kidding
Trying to break up out of a box I do not fit in
Fuck Australian Hip-Hop, this is stadium Hip-Hop
That climbed up out of the subterranean Hip-Hop
Living on stolen land illegal alien Hip-Hop
All shades of the gradient, Homo Sapien Hip-Hop

Theres a whole lot going on behind the scenes
We're locking people up just for trying to be free
While these fucking politicians keep on lying through their teeth
Man I swear we ought to riot in the streets

Let me tell you

Theres a whole lot going on behind the scenes
More than meets the eye don't believe everything you see
Cos we're living in a time, when our vision is as blind as it's ever been
Everybody hiding behind a screen

Theres a whole lot going on behind the scenes
Having trouble maintaining sobriety
Drugs, alcohol, depression, anxiety
I've been lying to everybody shit I even tried to lie to me
And just from looking at me you could never tell
That my heads spinning, ears ringing from the decibels
Trying to out run the demons caught up with the Jezebels
With the team rolling deeper than Adele but if you know me well
Well then you know that I'm a show and tell
Ever since I was a teen been sharing my notes to self
Gotta suffer for your art and it's hard to measure up
Keeping calm under pressure when I'm feeling overwhelmed
See I've come a long way from the front row of the Hoods
But somewhere along the way got overtook
The fans read me like an open book
But still I'm over looked, under rated, over worked and under booked

Theres a whole lot going on behind the scenes
Lot of jealousy and sibling rivalry
Got me looking at my brothers thinking how they stole my thunder
I got love but this game will make you turn on one another

Theres a whole lot going on behind the scenes
The wins and the losses and everything in between
Thats why I keep it humble, rolling with the Elefants up in the jungle
Hear the rumble, the last of a dying breed
Word to Adit, Word to Cole, Word to Urthy, Word to Gary
Word to Snarl, Word to Dale, Caitlin, Owen, Ash and Sally
Cos I know they got my back, yeah them people be family
And they back me even though I'll probably never win a Grammy

Theres a whole lot going on behind the scenes
But everything ain't always what it seems
See they spinning tall tales, skipping minor details
That they signed to major labels in a corporate machine
But not me, I keep it mean, keep it honest, keep it hungry
Keep it indy, keep it raw and always keep it a hunjie
Sometimes we make it beautiful, sometimes we make it ugly
But we always make it truthful and that's why the people love me
All along I been strong had to learn how to be stronger
I held it all together couldn't take it any longer
I told you last album that I didn't want to wait
It's my time, high time I put some food up on the plate
And life is just a series of forks in the road
And when you try to put a square through a circle then it's flaws will show
I guess by now yo I really ought to know
Watched her walking down the aisle, guess I didn't get to walk her home

Whole lot going on behind the scenes
I put it in my rhymes trying to put my mind at ease
On my late night hype when I'm writing to these beats
'Could you keep it down please, some of us are trying to sleep'
So I hit the front door and I head to the dispensary
To see the group professor hoping that he got the remedy
Over what he prescribe I describe what is said to me
It's cheaper than the money I been spending on my therapy

Theres a whole lot going on behind the scenes
I needed time to grow even needed time to grieve
Don't think I don't appreciate the irony
Of showing you my diary hoping that you respect my privacy
So there you have it, didn't catch it you better rewind that shit
My style got the rap addicts in a mild panic
New Normal bout to drop be a certified classic
Believe it's going down like the fucking Titanic, hold up