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OMNI

by Tek & Iota

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1.
Labyrinth 03:00
[Hook] Caught in the depths Maintain all of my steps Know it Set coordinates in Train aim before I begin, you know the ledge, like Caught in the ruse Any day I’m short on a fuse, you know the moves, like I [Verse] Link it left to right, I link it When left to write I didn’t Fortify or find new entrance I’m on the fence and I was mortified when balance shifted Was on defense, I saw the grins, I saw the talons lifted I sought to distance I was walkin home id lean Fallin forward to beat All the fog of it forgone Couldn’t toggle the screen I’m knowin I’m still short of a breath And any day I’m sure to regress harder to guess like [Break] [Hook 2] Caught in the depths Maintain all of my steps Don’t know the half about it Maintain I’m shorted by deck Demonstrated starting with debt, holden to threats Warning you too who trapped Caught in the crypt Maintain all of my steps
2.
[Verse 1] I hit the track propelling I came up off the thruster late, impact with something The traction coming, I felt already I came up off of Native Tongues and Makavelli I came up off of dirty south and Soulaquari- I made my route encrusted it, entrusted it All roads fed into the bar code, ok Al-most fled into the dark, I docked, I didn’t Talk, listen Had to dust a bit Had to conservate it, I’m at the precipice I came up off of do your shit don’t bitch about it I came up off of money tight don’t fuck around with I came up after truants I cannot hack the Rubik’s I came up out the rubrics that you cut up out of I can’t amount to record you could trust in, I could maintain- I could maintain through the clutches of it [Verse 2] Bargain I been buckled to the fact it’s like I came up off Cartesian ways of looking bout it Targeted I tussle with the tact about it I came off of Kubrick, off of Asimov, induct it Mainstay my old soul's injunction Maintain I don’t hold your namesake in same stakes Debunk all that, uncharted, claim staking shit One tried that painstaking lunge toward that, ain’t take it Fuck that, the cortisol you pump at I quartered off my history, you couldn’t snuff at Who took the hit? you took affront at Wouldn’t rebuff that, I let you contemplate it I hit my register different, I hitch to my notations I switch to monochrome, I slit my time and patience Swish the Molotov Sift through minor cases, sit through all your talk I came up off of black boy impediment I came up off of You don’t know yourself so let me annotate it
3.
[Verse 1: Tek] Slipping off the disc like Saturn on the fritz, rocking patterns out of synchrony I dropped the planet outta clutch Walk in to that dust to dust from daylight to the dusk with me I am bits strung together Like iotas on the pattern Locking only when it mattered on it I tried to focus on the matter, talking to myself The cells had broken up and scattered from me One-night untethered to poles That’s exactly when the sediments shown I tried to check It’s like [Bridge: Phyllis Ophelia] You’re in a dream that I remember From my fever from my temper Lost and found Star came out Cut through the clouds Shone in our mouths Dripped down Pierced the ground [Verse 2: Strangelove] Captive of the after effects I was gasping as if it was my last breath Last respects at the scene of the crash test Your picking all the pieces up to read em in past tense When you walk in the shallow end of the water There will be no more current for you to follow Follow form or form a line under fortunes eyes in the morning Or that formula that formed you will get torn up by tomorrow For all of your hollow headed bravado Probably swallowed it in silent decision As time as my witness When you falter and burden all of your pillars There can be no alternative burn your bridges [Bridge: Phyllis Ophelia] [Outro: Tek] When I return I come to Lock into posture, steady the birds eye view Doctrines doctored, somebody chopped it Scorchin the portrait, somebody torched it, I say How long I’ve been coma? Howlin karma come and get me Planet done had left me, Id've left me in a moment I stay hot, neurally brown out, shots nearly drowned out Soon I pop, don’t hear a sound, nobody had stopped I stay looped, doin the count, when the down time wind out Roots lose truth too, and the fine line lined out And the loose screws who knew, woulda found out by now
4.
Heckler 02:55
[Intro] I can’t get that Lemme catch that I can’t get that feelin for Lemme catch that I can’t get that feelin for nothing Lemme catch that, lemme catch that [Bridge] Fly by night heckler Drive by conjecture What’s the bullshit you boosted? Could you die down now, test it, don’t talk now I came consistent Mark mine, yall can't contest it I just walk round, harken to blessings Lemme catch that, lemme catch that [Verse] 16 when I caught that… dope Switch schemes and abort that Pristine on contact with pistons Never weaned off those, you harp that Tone that it’s hard to get a cross No shit, hardly get ya phased I never altered principle I stay at odds against the cross Slumped over, fucked over Appraise you, once over Half catch you, half look over Chuck back at you, cut your motor Sense odor Buckled to backwards babble, I missed it, listen I can’t give that recognition I can’t get that… look [Hook] I came up soft in ya woman I can’t get high from ya blunt and I came to all of your functions I’m good on this shit I cannot talk to you uh I can’t indulge what you uh I stay insulted by what the fuck Were you fuck were you, listen I came up soft in ya ish I can’t get high from ya lift and I came to all of your sessions I’m good on this shit, listen I cannot talk to you fuckers I can’t indulge what you conjured I stay insulted by what the fuck were you thinkin?
5.
[Verse 1: Tek] Fuck what you think about me Bet I been thinking worse I tried to single out me I tried to kill it out me Put the flame upon it I put combustion in percussion put my name up on it [Break: Bilal Ndongo] Hey, hey That's not for sale [Verse 1: Tek] Now I claim somethin I could cave under, I could slip Or I could shape out of, I could stay smothered under bliss Or I could Listen to my records on repeat Reminisce on when my wreckage was complete Not a rapper in your section could compete I tried to cultivate it, lot had culminated tween the peaks I tried to hone that, refine and mold that You bit your shit, you better own that Now don’t atone that, my blood had dissipated Two of em booked for nothing, and they bungee corded I couldn’t cut it [Verse 2: Amani Fela] Probably not a human Hardly do he profit off the truth and Karma he refuse for deuce chakras for some smooches Loose ends tend to follow never lose him The conditioned sit in sorrow as the rules bend (bend bend bend) Who's turn to reign supreme? Who's earned the right to preach bout life and what it seems like? On the inside and out Not he who bouts perfect scene Not he who moves with the serpent through his dreams Fervently urgency pulses through his veins Words he speak burst up into flames He never had a name Only had a label His memories act as tornadoes sucking him in The raw thought of his loss feel like puncturing skin Temptation governing and its troubling him But fuck it he pretend to paint as the most comfortable Holding onto anything that will love him most [Bridge: Sau] [Outro: Tek] Double back on, double back on Vindications been dictated What I help you through? Not a damn thing On the drink I called all desperate From the brink you hauled my ass up And I clipped your shit with intention And I blink, act shocked you messed up
6.
Umbra 01:38
[Verse] Pull up to the… pussy Full up off the juice I got tensions overdue See my intentions is to crush And I got I got timing like Iraq Diamond in the back and I got Glories out the hellhole I got stories I could segue Tell me- Tell me what you… want Tell me what you need I could tell you what you wanna hear Until you don’t believe it I could tell your something different Could tell your something special I could tell you what’s expected Tell you- tell you something different I just really need a job Really need the spark I just tend to keep this distance I just leak this after dark, I’m talking [Hook] I don’t need to I don’t even need to talk about it Really need to I just really need the spark See I really need to I don’t even need to talk about it I don’t even talk about it I just need that I just need that Really need to I just really need the spark Say I really need to talk about it I don’t give a fuck about you
7.
[Verse: Tek] Cut throat, when I’m Cut don’t bleed And I cut no deals with a fuck tryna convo I pluck that seed I cut that short I sort through diction All sorts of predictions No source but I swore What I seen at a distance Better heed omniscience I don’t need your help, don’t front that Which dreams I confiscated now? Pick strings I oscillated out Lift things off hope I drop things too complicated, I Botch things on contact on contract I broke myself Put a screen on contacts Don’t contact Never lean on Tek I doubt that Force it When I keep that space Warship When I speak your way Portion off of my portion A distortion don’t forge this mistake Skyline Is it mine? Give it time Rewind Til aligned with the glow I put in time in the flow I put in time in the hole and you know When pulse slowin And the mulch showin And the heart poundin I’m all surrounded I doused in Double dosage Troubled Double down To the voltage Number Dont get too close atone watch ya tone I don’t comfort Pokin holes in the blunders, when it thunders I take my toll I take my [Bridge: Phyllis Ophelia] If there's a horror in your head I can tease it out We go out drinking with the dead, we're pouring out
8.
[Intro] Drops in the bucket I could… Sensed it since an instant No regressions… [Hook] Have you thoughts on the circles you been trekking? Talking all the time All the time, I’ve been, lookin Dropped in it, I played hard to get it All the time All the time, took a lot to get it Pressure cooker Are you crackin under? All the time All the time I’ve been crackin, look it Shot propellers, taped all together All the time All the time Look [Bridge] Drops in the bucket I could lend a few and (all the time, all the time) Sensed it since an instant No regressions Overlooking all the codefendants Shouldering it Stay backed against it All the time Back to gating I came back to get it All the time Backed against it I came back to get it All the time Back to gating I came back to get it All the time backed against it I came back to get it [Hook 2] Shock stricken, same plot thinnin All the time All the time it be thinnin out and Broke as a joke with the wallet hanging Outta line Outta line when the pocket thicken Contradictions laid hard convictions All the time All the time I’ve stickin to it Yak sick up same pack I’m sippin All the time All the time

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"OMNI" is a project between Iota (producer) & Tek (rapper). About a year in the works, it is a concentrated dose of the two artists. The production from Îota serves as a vessel for Tek's exploration of the multifaceted persona. Like any Budo Kiba release, the project is sprinkled with contributions from other artists; co-production from Edo Lee, Tru Type and vocal additions by Amani Fela, Strangelove and Phyllis Ophelia."

Instrumental features:

-Ben Kruse: Bass on Quartered, Guitar on Scatter
-Ajax Abernathy: Rhodes keyboard on Scatter
-Adrian Lee Hayman: Saxophone & Organ on Labyrinth, Guitar & Bass on Triptych

Mixed and Mastered by Ajax Abernathy

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released March 15, 2017

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