Enter The Circle, by Shahmen

Enter The Circle

by Shahmen

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1.	Dirt 03:08	lyrics	buy track
[VERSE 1] I was born by the beach Water around my bones First heartbeat became the 808 tone Speech came later, gets greater as I grow Peace to the haters and a prayer for my foes Love to my family and my family keeps grow’n’ Death to the vanity cause damn it, we gold Turn into rust and then into dust Carved in ebony with an elephant tusk All the world’s a stage, see the rows of names Everyone’s a child playing out the game I know I’m just the same Desire is the flame High on fire and I’m tired of my ways Open up the blinds, hanging in my eyes Windows are closed, open up to life See a tree grow, tree grows in size See a body rot, I’m reminded of my time Stories I ain’t told still hidden in my mind Watch it unfold like treasure that I find See a tree grow, tree grows in size See a body rot, I’m reminded of my time [VERSE 2] Now I live in these beats No matter where I roam Wander down the streets ’till I make it back home Sand from the beach still stuck between my toes My hands and my feet building buildings of stone Face to the sky with a breeze through my hair Friends that are gone, I’ll find you right here I don’t look to dirt when I know you’re in the air Not another fool who thinks life should be fair God’s a referee with a whistle in his mouth He blows every time there’s a foul or time-out Stuck in the trap well it’s time we climbed out Bustin’ off my gat towards the diamonds in my mouth Found hip-hop in the temple of my room Every day I build while the symbol turn to runes Standing on the brick that used to be a tomb Pouring out a drop from the bottle of my booze [CHORUS] Used to be dirt, grew into a plant Once was an animal, now I’m just a man Dreams still intangible, heart up in my hands This will be the light for the darkness in my head Used to be dirt, grew into a plant Once was an animal, now I’m just a man Dreams still intangible, heart up in my hands This will be the life for the darkness in my head
2.	Shell Dweller (ft. Unorthadox) 03:24	lyrics	buy track
Verse 1: BLESS] This is for the prophets See through your eyes in a glance That could ride through their life just to write and dance Dirty world but my soul’s clean, feeling great Even though we know all our foes will meet the same fate That’s all physical, this ain’t got a name Its the same story, but watch the authors change Right now dog, that’s all it ever be This moment never ends, this hell is heavenly This spinning never stops, I heard about death And why you tripping dog, that shit is all a myth Even when we leave, we just coming back This body’s just a shell so its bound to crack The spirit inside, you couldn’t hold back And let me see you try, but you got no chance And let me see you try, but you got no chance And let me see you try [Verse 2: Unorthadox] Where do we go? What if all my plans will flop, I don’t know That is why we have to stop and just flow Be on it until the casket drops Grab ahold of my soul and crack the master lock Where does it go? But if I really open the door, I don’t know But that is what I’m hoping to show So give some spare change, for the dead broke Pull it out my pocket, stop, motion, let go [Verse 3: BLESS] So there I was again staring at the sky Sky stare back like why you so high Man you so soar, dog you so low Hanging on the hedge in the middle of my flow Flow’s where I live at, that’s where I dwell Damn its my prison its my very own cell Wake up every day like my personal hell Couldn’t get better yeah I’m swimming through the well [Verse 4: Unorthadox] This one’s for the one power we pioneer off the tip of this iceberg Is hazardous to be on but if you get it that might work For kingdom come skip the next shell and inherit the earth At times I sing songs like a Phoenix biting the dirt Rather bite the head off a serpent but it’s bless over curse So im writing these verses trying to fit it into the right words although it’s beyond (the silence surfaces) That I still heard (flying in nervousness) Cause I still heard there’s a light that’s inside of men That can turn a leviathan of sorrow into a brighter tomorrow So if your eyes is hollow I cannot follow But I will swallow to provide a bottle of fire water and now we got to arigato Now that i finally found this motto A breath of life is bound to blow let the baraka flow I should go out the grove Or better yet inside out At the end of the road grass is where begins my route Low on cash, crow-wolf pack, bet I’ll swing on doubt With truth up in the eyes like a barrel in thine mouth If a wolf was a crow he’d probably been flying south If a crow was a wolf he was taught how to bring hide out and die out
3.	Abacus 02:31	lyrics	buy track
[Verse 1: Bless] Somewhere the sun sets out on my silhouette Drum-sets pound to the sound in my filament Deep to the ground every town I be killing it Pound over ounce I was built for the real in this Bring ’em back to life with a knife made of healer spit Fly through my mind it is time that you feeling this I ain’t gotta lie this is life on the realest shit Wake up everyday and get blazed ’till the ceiling lifts Now I’m on my grind and the factory is dealing shit ‘Bout to stash cash in the bag on some illegal shit But I ain’t got a dime I can hide from the evilness Every rack I stack take me back to where the demons live [Verse 2: Bless] So smoke a sack with the geniuses Open up and ask where the past be leading us Try and do the math, and you add what the meaning is All I do is laugh while the past be leaving us Sharp on my math as an abacus Try and slide the wrong way wind up being smashed to dust We goin’ raise like we Lazarus Blaze through the game and watch the fame chase after us Four finger ring reads “KING” can you imagine us Sitting at the castle where the cats can’t hassle us Vision the pattern that are living, us Break ’em down to tatters build ’em back and watch ’em give it up You know we goin’ get it, punk Live 22 years just to find the kid in us All them other years I was clear, I was growing up Killing off my fears as I steered through the going rough Veered through the years as my peers started blowing up Knew I’d be there and gone passed from the soul in us Treasure turns to trash from the gold in us But all will turn to ash if I pass what I’m holding from [Chorus] This is for the one, raising out the drum This is for it all, everything is God This is for my life, shining through the night This is for the dice, on everything I write
4.	Mark 02:06	lyrics	buy track
Skin the color of bark Clothes smelling like trees Dig in my earth, find my roots and weeds My truth bleeds right back in the arm No scar, but I left my mark My friend got clean and O.D.’ed, life is just that dark But life is just that bright That when the sunset shines I seen the graff he writes I’m back tonight, with a sack to light In honor of the past I write I’m wide open, with no glass of wine Stuck in a barrel, I’ll get better with time While you measure how the pleasure declines I’m stackin’ cheddar while the bread just rise With my eyes and my ears glued here on my grind, cutty Creepin’ on a come up No sleepin’ till the sun’s up Tellin’ secrets to the drum thumps Pledge allegiance to the blood pump Until I leak my last liter, here’s my one love And all these angels got their guns up But no fear when my teeth and my tongue touch I am here, and I speak for the young bloods Who’ve seen the flood, and they drug all the anchors up And set sail through the world, in the name of trust Hard work, and the crux that it made in us I’m ’bout to bust, all my veins full of gold dust That 1985 California gold rush, in the spine plus the flesh that it holds up I’m out for mines and my wolves got it sewn up One crow, one eagle on my shoulders And my eyes hold the light that approaches
5.	Van Gogh's Crows 02:31	lyrics	buy track
Do you cry out in your weakness, or carry it like Jesus? Or just wonder where the peace is? The heart’s beautiful; the brain’s where the beast lives All these names on a train, and I’m trying to put my piece in I paid for days, till my pain is raised This spirit in my lyrics’ phrase And when it plays let the fire blaze And remember to the higher plane I came Dark dark days, come and go fill my heart Light fades, come and go fill that Ark I pain, just to go and spill this truth Now when truth was reality and lost in the challenge You see, what was out the window And you was pretending, and I had an info And we was just listening, all with my kin-folk Hear me here-ly, here where the cliff’s low Van Gogh’s crows, over wheat-fields of gold Forget everything you know Read a secret, hid it right under-nose Go ahead and seek everything you want Everything you want, you already got This is just a secret I’m mixing in the pot Everything you want, you already got This be the secret mixed in the pot Everything you want, want You already got, got Everything you want, want You already got, got Everything you want, want You already got, got Everything you want, want You already got, got The more digging this grave The more I’m digging my life The more I’m digging this pain The more I’m digging the mic The more I’m looking for life The more I’m looking for light The more I’m mixing between The more I carve with this mic Yeah B.L.S… and S.N.S B.L.S… and S.N.S We be blessed, yes, yes
6.	1981985 Pt. 1 (ft. Unorthadox) 02:09	lyrics	buy track
[BLESS] He was born in ’81 We was born in ’85 Waiting for the world to turn and finally put this fate in line [Unorthadox] Make it mine, straightened spine Pave the way for the blind to escape the lies Danger lies ahead but faceless inside And I came to rise [BLESS] You can see the pain applied over all this pain of mine Dripping off the canvas, of a Los Angeleno tribe [Unorthadox] And I ain’t afraid to die but I’m tired of this killing And I’m feelin’ like I only just came to life so that’s why I’m spilling Stop staring at me with angry eyes, I got a surprise for you children Beneath your harness a baby cries and it’s love for a feeling, it’s love [BLESS] And I never seen the ceiling So I’ma keep billing Spilling out the venom Filling out the rhythms Sitting at the house on the couch with a vision ‘Bout to break a million [Unorthadox] Used to be a coward with a sour taste for vengeance But now I use my power to plow proudly and for graceful living [BLESS] Face the prison all your memories are hid up in [Unorthadox] And paint some vivid imagery where your feelings went [BLESS] See the other side of what this rhyme really meant [Unorthadox] I could have died but survived with a thicker skin [BLESS] Look in my eyes, find a dime that I couldn’t grip [Unorthadox] Opened your mind up to beyond where the lyrics end [BLESS] Staring in the mirror at my fear, I know where it is Now I got it checked as I step through the peril-less [Unorthadox] Respecting the elements Many times got here, god dropped dropped his life lines I found out I had to balance it Countless possibilities instead of what it never is To balance out the damage of this savage inheritance [BLESS] Somehow the young and the worried Crossed mountains and valleys And found where the fountain was buried The mouth from my clout from the early Nothing but an ounce bag of doubt that I’m burning Mapping out routes in the counts of the journeys Stashed in the house writing thousands of flows That are murdering Wolves start howling, crows start circling [Unorthadox] Depart from the nervousness Burnt to lisp, as my clockwork ticks Einstein didn’t come up with a bomb but a fix At times I might find violence hard to resist But I mustn’t forget poisoning, I was probably sick Learnt to live with cross road decisions or an abyss It doesn’t only depend on attention, how it gon’ click Took the first brick, start building my house on a cliff So I can stare at the depth yet make a watch tower of it
7.	World Of Wils Pt. 1 01:13	lyrics	buy track
Shahmen The illest seven letter word since OutKast Came up out the bottom and you know I ain’t leaving fast Don’t shed a tear, right here, no fear You should pull up at a chair we should probably swig beers It’s Shahmen The illest seven letter word since OutKast Be the last and the first to pass No fear right here I’ll be staring out the window when the day looks clearer

about

Music producer SENSE (Daniel Tiuri Wils, 1985) was born as the son of a Shaman and initiated into mystical traditions like Sufism from an early age. Through psychedelic-induced experiences as a child, he connected with his own personal deities and psychological archetypes – like the wolf – which would later become the foundation for the imagery and symbolism found in Shahmen recordings. His grandmother’s esoteric collection of books introduced him to the teachings of George Gurdjieff, Irina Tweedie, and Inayat Khan, who speak to us in the instrumental interludes and give context to the lyrics of emcee BLESS.

Rapper BLESS (Brandon Lee Stratton, 1985) traveled from Los Angeles to Amsterdam to record an album with SENSE. The two Strangers became close friends and recorded countless freestyles and demos together, during sporadic but intense recording sessions in SENSE’s houseboat recording studio. Here BLESS wrote and recorded the words for Shahmen’s “Enter The Circle” and “All In The Circle” using imagery from Native American folktales and cult films like The Crow (with actor Brandon Lee). His gangster rap-like delivery, deep voice, and incredible flow complement SENSE’s mystical sounds and banging drum tracks perfectly.

Their single “Mark” has millions of plays on streaming services like Youtube and Spotify, which earned Shahmen a solid place in hip-hop history, and gave birth to fanatic cult-following around the world.

credits

released April 30, 2010

Vocals: B. L.. Stratton, R. Coenen
Composer: Daniel Tiuri Wils
Producer: Daniel Tiuri Wils
Executive Producer: Daniel Tiuri Wils
Mixing: Daniel Tiuri Wils
Mastering: Shawn Hatfield
Artwork: Bioniq, The Binh
Creative Director: Daniel Tiuri Wils
Recorded at SENSE's woonboot

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