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Intro (I Got This)

from Spare Thoughts by Tom Swifty & Tha TruthTella

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Some of the lyrics on this one go back a decade or more. I kept what was good and fixed the rest. It's just a warm-up to help you get with my style.

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HOOK: 
Name: Tom Swifty 
Age: none of ya business 
Occupation: witness 
Religion: musician (x4) 

VERSE: 
Well, I been flipping rhymes for grips of time and just can't seem to quit it now 
This just a warm-up to help you get with my style 
Always wanted to make movies, but this was cheaper--sue me! 
Solo now, been in a few crews, been cuffed and treated rudely 
By po-pos with the doors closed and the .44s sticking out the window 
Smokin indo and I don't know when I'll see the sun again, so 
A fistful of dollars all I got until tomorrow 
When I borrow cups of sorrow, feelin vengeful. 
I'm Tom Swifty, so my quotes are always nifty 
Call and get me out of bed, I'll slap these rappers till they all silly. 
Ah, really? No, on the contrilly, battle-rappin's fun, but I think I'm done... 
Or maybe not... feel me? 
Flex! One of the questions that needs to be in session 
Is how to liberate our minds before the next election 
This tension is getting hotter and higher in suspension 
To cut it, we'd need a blade sharper than my mind and then some. 
Seven years old, ready to roll, ten years later, started to rock it 
Leaving these cats with the mental equivalent of jock-itch 
I got this, son, don't even try to act so ominous 
I posit that I'm peerless, that's a promise. 
Nonsense is all I hear and falseness is always clear 
When bosses be calling here to try and get my respect. 
Stop this, they call me weird for caustically domineering, 
I'm sent from heaven, never been here--keep it a secret. 
Shhh... just keep that shit to yourself for now 
I get ya twisted like the liquor on ya shelf--blowe! 
Just so ya know, I drop that top flow, 
That on-time flow, hey ma, look at me shine flow, 
Some call it divine flow, I just spit what I know, 
That sorta kinda borderline insanity in my flow. 
Lie low, I'm bout to spray y'all, son, 
The five-o clock my flow with a radar gun. 

HOOK

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from Spare Thoughts, released September 13, 2019

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Tom Swifty New York, New York

Born in Springfield, Illinois, and raised in the southern Midwest of Missouri, Ezra Stead became Tom Swifty in Minneapolis when he began rapping live and recording quality tracks over ten years ago. Before that, they were... not so quality. Back in Minneapolis after 10 years in NYC, Swifty's latest albums prove that he's never been better. ... more

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