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AM Grinding

by Focused

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1.
Focused Verse #1 Slow stance stop short on the deal Bad instinct should have listen to the feels Deep in my gut wasn’t legit But I had to make move never stop quit Focused independent shinning pre internet hustler mag hiding Greasy grimy Tedious timing 40 years shaping honing Grinding Started to shine duster got stached Had to relax draw back from the task Rick Moranis ain’t found shit Combing the dessert Drudic chicks They went to plad sir No longer plastered Vibrational patterns Lyrics matters Disastor after disastor Getting my directions from the Hexagon in Saturn Live news sucicide views Goose for the gander fueling fools Life lessons Right expression Embrace the passion Failure as a blessing Music medicine fuel adrenaline Feeling in my viens never give in Scatter thoughts whisping in the wind Grasp words captured with a pen Hook #1 Focused This the shit legit seal of a approval Tried test proven For the group well spoken woven in time frabric static vibrational lines Lea Keeley We are all asleep and it's time to wake up Slowly creeping out of the dark Focused Relaunch stratosphere in the eye Stap on fools lets go for a ride Hope approach moving for a prize Some may die atmosphere of the sky Lea Keeley Find a light let it shine on your soul It will be alright you just got to let go Focused Verse #2 Hit the scene with a full head of steam Reckless straight pursuing a dream fused fractions perplexed patterns Fueling purpose passion into action Never listened attitude fuck it Did it my own way perhaps destructive Mixing words was a puzzle Fighting these has been my stuggle Never trust government Just entertainment Like the muppets Fraggle rock Or being John Malkovich Alcoholic rages Adrenaline caged in Bad habits time wasted Additive pace but I escaped it Sex, drugs or sleep deprivation But I bouch back work smarter Longevity Vince Carter Some times too much time wasted Sit back and look at my hands of amazement That one could be so destructive Use the other to help a Next man be productive Hook #2 Focused This the shit legit seal of a approval Tried test proven For the group Lea Keeley We are all asleep and it's time to wake up Slowly creeping out of the dark well spoken woven in time frabric static vibrational lines Relaunch stratosphere in the eye Stap on fools lets go for a ride Hope approach moving for a prize Some may die atmosphere of the sky Lea Keeley Find a light let it shine on your soul It will be alright you just got to let go Lea Keeley Verse #3 We are all asleep and it's time to wake up Slowly creeping out of the dark Find a light let it shine on your soul It will be alright you just got to let go We are all just sleeping Got to slowly creep out of the dark We got to find the light ya It will be alright Time to wake up Slowly creep out of the darkness We got to find the light awhoo We got to let go We got to let go
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The Papers 04:48
The Papers Focused Verse #1 Aspartame disaster brain JC take the wheel I got this mayn Frozen funds flashed out the treasury Billions disappear never to be scene It’s best you don’t know their business Whipping out witness Clintons approving triggers Run drugs Atlanta Endorse prison systems Promote crime to the youth in Rap music Ferocious felines fighting for the top breed Bread and circus validate the needs Slaughter in 3D and VR screens Fake news now your questioning what you believe Face swap edit political speeches Eloquent thinkers have past deleted Dig up dirt focus on a weakness Criminal money washed into legit business Hook #1 The Papers The Papers rolls it up Vapors Smoke it in the sky past so you later The Papers The Papers rolls it up Vapors Smoke it in the sky past so you later Alligator In a file Crocodile Verse #2 Plastered postered naked exposers Sexpose with Obama and Oprah Haven’t been laid in the last decade Give me a sexbot that cooks and cleans Panama Papers list Politians Kill the reporter leaving no witness Suicide note hanging rope choke Coked out leaders about to be exposed Cat out the bag been hiding out for days Julian Assange sold out to the feds Assinnate the mind procrastinate in terror Impress everyone squeaky clean no errors Clean up your past sweep it under the rug Cover up documents funding terrorist and guns Looked up facts and now your an expert Verbal virus global pressure Twitter attack asking for answers Just follow the cash and find disaster Fumbling politics as the ultimate distraction Conjour up the public into taking war action Willaim Randoplh hearst made up stories Practiced rehearsed to sell newspapers J Endgar Hoover like to dress up like an ugly Whore and keep sexual tabs for favours Hook #2 The Paper The Paper rolls it up Vapors Smoke it in the sky past so you later The Paper The Paper rolls it up Vapors Smoke it in the sky past so you later Alligator In a file Crocodile Verse#3 Penatrate the system Perceive but don’t listen Wishes for the truth Achieving new victims Vision believe tweaking Twin peaks pin point your speeches Edit copy delete them Emotions invested in headlines deceiving Hard drive lost Destroying past written Books burning and deleting opinions Burn museums artifacts within them Alexandria, Bagdad and blow up all historical artifacts Blow up Oklahoma city building 7 ashes into yesterdays questions Rewrite his story in digital form Making changings to make the public conform End of free thought Handing over control Like a shaq missed free throw Hook #3 The Paper The Paper rolls it up Vapors Smoke it in the sky past so you later The Paper The Paper rolls it up Vapors Smoke it in the sky past so you later See ya later alligator In a file crocodile
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Fear 02:48
Focused Verse #1 0:40 Run hide buried Alive Government kills when exposing the lies Suppose I pose with a tool to my head Suicide note just another one dead Fully equipped with a brain full of Knowlegde Murder Mystery that know one is solving Go to the police and they using extortion Hold it against you like you had an abortion Keep em stupid keep em dumb Taking pictures with the murder weapon Lil gangsters starving for attention Spend all your money no room for investment Flame out or take it as a lesson Still alive you bet it’s a blessing Caressing death flirting with arrest Locked up for a life sentence 6 feet deep now back from the dead Poisoned the water viens full of lead Verbal attack sensory overload Emotions run deep about to explode Proposing deals to make your ass famous Cop a feel just so you can make it Then I blow up leave the beef a side Striving for peace the past comes alive Pastors preachers end of the world Rapture capture little boys and girls Reload my pistol another priest dead Clear my dead now I’m fiscally spent Fist full of sess minimal stress Fuck all your fame I’ve come to collect Focused virbal virus through your vents Vent all my rage like a PTS vet.
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Focused verse #1 Ambitions so strong Atomic bomb naypalm vietman No stick Telfon telethon Getting cash at the Cure Cancer and Herpes fund with a Roy Riffe Ray Gun Just having fun Squirt on the shirt Give a little juggle make it work Memories cause it’s all what your heard Focused Feel great about the past present future self driver ubers running overe elders and students Bold with all flavours and stronger than ever Controlling the rages frustration in faces As we talk on these wires observing behaviours See you later towers smoke into vapers Piece of the pie a Paradise sky Lucy loving lollies in the single swipe cashless app and a never ending vice self serving hype Class of her own and she going to set the price Verse #2 1:44 Pulverize nobel prize Unique eyes with a drive Full flight masked In disguise disgusting Disfigured disjointed And out of line Left field blue steel Weird stares long looks Lears to a career Steer clear of any danger Of what’s poisoned yours ears and behaviours Praised poised of being so stupid adhere obey completeld wasted like as cupid Conceal all your feelings A drive a jolt to the ceiling An uncontrollable feeling No longer can conceal it The world needs to hear this Rick Micvicar your beleiving No talent wasted keg stand is a weakness Reeking the Havock and Remarkable stories Pain and glory Meditated absorbing knowledge is boirng sitting in the mountains with abolinal snowmen Verse #3 I remember the day I felt alive So long ago I have strived to get back to that high Not realizing that I am a part of this drive Dry those eyes cloudy skies pulverize Heals those wounds aches and breaking hearts Fuck the gasoline start if off in a spark So you leave me unattended? Just a little vagrant Getting into trouble making uneducated guesses but I get over it emotions wind deep off of my shoulders the weight has dropped every week elevate the weight right off my chest put drama to rest invest in the prize of living life best Come close to carressing death Realizing it's just a ride and let go of the stress Investment in health and put the drama to rest Spitting like a lama right onto your chest Invisions ingraved a mirage see simulation from a far all an illusion contusion confussion locked into the brain locked words are misusing spell bound confusion the matrix of movements
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True Story Fools Glory Focused Hook #1 :16 When Emotions get the best of me I Need to chill and assess the scene I telling to let all that bullshit go Before I loose all my control Verse #1 :30 starting riots in my head thinking violence Anger always been a part of my struggle That I’m fighting These thoughts I wrestle Ready to bubble Burst explode topple Imagination runs wild I suffer Loose my shit fly off the handles Burn bridges urges to cause rakus catiously walking into disastors Malice Malicious thoughts Negative talk full hatred Arguments taking off Times ticking mind racing foolish tendancies takingtpride rage and jealousy on all expeneses vaction and my Mind is racing Can’t keep up the pacing Vibration off the tracks and i'm derailing And then the tension build X2 Hook #2 When Emotions get the best of me I Need to chill and assess the scene I telling to let all that bullshit go Before I loose all my control Verse #2 2:07 Lost love blocking all emotions closed in never let my feelings showing trapped in frustration mixed with fuel aggression passion into action ready for ready for madness Looking for love in all the wrong places Fake valiadation call girls, hookers, Strippers and brooke bitches Rock bottom sex addicted Anything to dip my dick in Hook #3 When Emotions get the best of me I Need to chill and assess the scene I telling to let all that bullshit go Before I loose all my control
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Take it to the Lab Verse #1 0:02 Fresh off the beat right into the pen These warm feelings bring memories again Something so strong brings truth within Rights through my vein down into my hand Crisp wind balances my sins Thoughts on paper flows into the wind Moving vibrations in the middle of the night Toss and turn these thoughts in my sight Hook #1 0:24 Whether it’s freestyle or the first drift Grab those feelings and take it to the lab Hone your skills Create a new path Work your talents Take it to the Lab Verse #2 0:45 I promise this When I showed up in Venice On pure biss told myself that i'm the music biz Going to make it my own way Debt World slave riddin Get out the beats flows rhymes rhytms Positive reassurances Keep this mind and I'm drivin Ground work Paris, Amsterdam, London, Milan, Rome, Venice, Munich, Berlin, Vienna, Budapest, Prauge and Italy do it again Pu my work travelling across Canada USA did it for it it for hip hop and all those Rappers pay homage Public enemy, LL Cool J, Eminem DMX and Dr. Dre All day Hook #2 Whether it’s freestyle or the first drift Grab those feelings and take it to the lab Hone your skills Create a new path Work your talents Take it to the Lab Verse #3 Experimental moving matrix Ride the waves vibrations of escaping Locked into a path past tracing Patiently waiting for moments of advancement Drift flow past patients Shaping bends from the glass Water pushed air pockets Push sounds stone carvings Elongate a prolonged past state Fast buck take praise for yesterdays bane Point a finger to up above and escape It’s in your hands heart and hate How much you want to put it in Expand empower and be great Demand devour and give praise To your friends family and all human beings Hook #3 Whether it’s freestyle or the first drift Grab those feelings and take it to the lab Hone your skills Create a new path Work your talents Take it to the Lab
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Challenge Accepted Focused Verse #1 Move on the Grove vibrations displaced Am I in the right galaxy? Or the right place? Running at the speed of sound Embracing Escape light weight float galaxies fragments to space Mastoid disease ran in my family great uncles died age 8 and 18 fast foward 7 year old me almost casualty tragedy So much pressure on my brain That I could have been dececied Ear swelled to double its size Dodged a bullet lucky to be alive The music was in sight As I look the sky to see who survived Hook #1 Death and Birth Build and Destruction Always on the move Music is motion Steady flowing stay Focused Heavy on the Dosage Not too far from the light I’m carrying luggage Had to blow in the sky my shows interupting Challenge Accepted Verse #2 watching Challenger Space Shuttle explode on Tv in a downtown Toronto Hospital Family and friends conjuring hope 7 years old Ear Ruptured about to explode Pressurizing liquid on the skull Two weeks wearing medical gowns Iv needles keeping me from running around Temperature rising waking up far from home Tubes in my ear to prevent the disease spreading After that I had trouble listening hearing Headaces blockage attention lost Fell into trouble as I driftd off School was like a bubble Shock waves from the space shuttle Hook #2 Death and Birth Build and Destruction Always on the move Music is motion Steady flowing stay Focused Heavy on Dosage Not too far from the light I’m carrying luggage Had to blow in the sky my shows interupting Challenge Accepted Verse #3 Living life cut off from progression of struggle Without pushes limits man was dust puddles Fighting for a push passion for the gain Approximation of wins can't be determin by claims Must be tested tried driven insane Loss of investment arrested living in vain Exploited and annotated hoisted fame I’ll kill you Mcbain Bring the pain Go reckless on Mcbain cures for the sedatives worse for the weathers insinerated astronausts death dancers of the challengers Challenge Accepted

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Exploring themes of adversity and self development, Toronto alternative hip-hop artist Focused ak.a Alex Malacarne releases his 3rd full
length studio album titled 'AM Grinding' Embracing his Italian immigrant roots; Focused's 'AM Grinding' is titled as a double entendre that pays homage to the legacy of his Great
Grandfather's knife grinding business, AM.
Grinding, and his own unrelenting blue collar work ethic with his art.

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released December 4, 2020

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Focused Toronto, Ontario

Toronto alternative hip-hop artist
Focused ak.a Alex Malacarne releases his 3rd full
length stud o album titled 'AM Grinding'
Embracing his Italian immigrant roots; Focused's
'AM Grinding' is t tled as a double entendre that
pays homage to the legacy of his Great
Grandfather's knife grinding business, AM.
Grinding, and his own unrelenting blue collar work
ethic with his art.
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