Paradox Chapter Two, by Karim Rushdy

Paradox Chapter Two

by Karim Rushdy

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1.	Killin Us (feat. Khaj, Raya Noire & Skye Marie) 04:03	lyrics	buy track
Chorus, Karim Rushdy I hope the next generation isn't giving up Cause this image that we eat yo its killin us This media we breathe yo its killin us This life that we live it is frivolous Verse1, Karim Rushdy they tell me what i write's not in the hype spot makes me think that i might not share what my life's got plus i don't wanna rap about cheese cause the mice flock and if i rap about truth, the price drops I think we just wanna live our lives well But were blinded by a night spell Cause as the ice melts in this nice hell we forget that life isn't twice dealt...well Chorus Verse 2, Khaj I don't know if I'm insane or not, it's just a claim Cause whenever I close my eyes I put a gun to my brain I want to pull the trigger and end this stressing game I'm being held down by my own painful chains I keep thinking everyday what's wrong with me Wishing I was evolving from my opportunities Still a teenager so don't have responsibilities The more I think about it the more it's killing me I'm having fun and I'll work later wrong order Being trapped with my own thoughts is the worst torture But now I gotta move on and get things sorted I have to start thinking about what's important I'm living life off of broken promises Time to be supernatural like a Martian I'm gonna start acting and do less of talking I need to make up and cause less problems ain't it obvious I'm plausible it's impossible that the possibilities of me succeeding are more than comical I just can't wait till the day I can say that I made it no more playing cause now I'm spiritually aching I wanna be saying the world became better because I came in Verse 3, Raya Noire We got that everlasting flame you can't diminish us But bad decisions that we make yeah they could finish us I'm always on the defence wanna learn to live with trust But I feel betrayed when the pain inflicted's frivolous Family's the roots and when the branches are Broken up these broken promises they give to us Life becomes more meaningless But we can't give up Listen up Cause we got the capabilities The fire in us you ain't never seen Our potential is clear to see We got that fire in our soul Bridge, Skye Marie You could call us eagles we be flyin so high Soaring with strength to the depths of the sky You could call us lions we be roarin no fear There’s no place on this earth that our voices can’t hear no You could call us dragons breathing fire of wisdom Stop negativity and listen We have the power to fix what once was broken It’s not by chance that we were the ones chosen Now is the time the age is golden Outro, Karim Rushdy Now I know this next generation won’t be giving up Cause they got fire their eyes like a lion does And they be soaring like some eagles sayin’ bye to us And now I watch my little sister from a distance flying higher up, hi Emily!
2.	Reach Out (feat. Sarah Taborn & Besiler) [Remix] 03:22	lyrics	buy track
Chorus, Sarah Taborn I am O my God But a tiny seed Reachin’ out. Shine Your light on me. Verse 1, Karim Rushdy i remember those times that i got cheated out but now i'm a changed man and moving fast like the cheetah's mouth My mistakes they look small like snakes look from the eagle’s snout ..i'm a leader now i'll give you something you can blast through your speakers now ill give you something lasts ill send the beacon out and when you hear it, don't fear it – believe it loud “we are not robots” we are the people now you’re better than the gossip that you tweet about nobility is yours, be it now so breathe in, breathe out and begin to reach out Chorus Verse 2, Karim Rushdy Bridge, Karim Rushdy: this is my cognizant hypothesis what you believe could be opposite I believe in God and in His providence I have confidence all these broken promises in the metropolis are so bottomless living this anonymous life without consequence makes the populous so homogenous yet racism is still dominant from the cowboy boots to the moccasins fake tolerance is so prominent its an accomplishment to be honest with your consciousness and just honour it. the prophecies are fulfilled because Baha’u’llah is upon us now Chorus Verse 3, Besiler
3.	Less Is More (feat. Skye Marie) [Prod. By Dreamlife] 04:40	lyrics	buy track
Verse 1 life was a wild horse but now i found stirrups cause baby Mira, you make me feel like some lazy syrup i just wanna hold your nearer cause the feeling is love when you make the clouds up above clear up and you already know i love your mamma too she’s got that beautiful smile, And ain’t no harm with two what i mean is maybe soon you’ll have a baby brother you can help change his dipes and when it’s right you can chase each other - under the shade of lovers a.k.a mom and dad really love each other and baby girl, you're being born into a world full of hate but being insecure is not a fact that you should face so i’ll be there everyday to remind you on your way that you’re strong and you’re noble as i kiss you on your face and you should know that as your mother held my neck through labour i realized we were just another couple God favoured God saved us, and not just on paper cause literally the gift of life is what God gave us so from the womb to the tomb we should give God praises. Chorus, Skye Marie i’ve held you close for so many nights and i’ll hold you for so many more this world has got so many flashing lights but baby less is more Verse 2 can you believe the headlines? feels like it’s either death or oppressed minds or right, you can't read or understand this yet i forget sometimes. one of my many flaws i’ll do my best to let you how i’m imperfect but not on purpose, i’ve been working on self-improvement but not just for myself i've clued in to a greater Cause with laws for a selfless movement so many nights holding you close in my deepest thoughts the way your momma loves you it’s like reason stops and the way your daddy loves you, well he'll love till his breathing stops. and far beyond. when i see you with my eyes, you're that baby that we're dealing with frantically but when i see you with my soul, you a gift from God because you, you made us family. Comment-- This is beautiful.- Grandma :) Chorus Verse 3 and when i tuck you in, i think of how this whole world is gonna wanna suck you in. to its ugly empty loveless whirlwind. so you need to be the girl in the eye of tempest with the toughest skin. guiding others through the tunnels of life already with your smile you radiate bundles of light in fact you’re hard to miss like when there’s lightning and there’s thunder at night so when those lights flash with that temptation and give you a temporary sense of elevation just know that those are truly dark forces turning fresh meadows into charred orchards that's why i’m reinforcing that less is more if you wanna be free the whole universe was made with two letters B and E if the cornerstone of happiness is sacrifice then including you and your mom, everyday i’m happy twice
4.	Have Hope (feat. Ashraf & Sarah Jane Kim) [Prod. By Apollo V] 04:00	lyrics	buy track
Chorus, Sarah Jane Kim They’re tryin’ to tell me it’s over so leave it alone But still I’m singin’ that: ‘everybody have some hope’ They be singin’ that no, no no no. I be singin’ that ya, ya ya ya. Verse 1, Ashraf Rushdy A generation of biologists, studying their cells/ Micro-processed micro world, micro heavens and hells/ Tech wizards with souls trapped in inches of glass/ Science becomes magic, and the future is past/ future becomes past/ "I can do everything on my phone" when everything is collapsed/ To browsing profiles and downloading apps/ Masks are not enough to describe what we wear/ At least a mask is looking at you with its motionless stare/ I'm not anti-technology, I just actually care/ Life purpose, civilization, who's actually there/ Around me and present in the spaces of life/ Co-workers, neighbors, friends, strangers, kids and my wife/ That's why I'm writing this verse-pen as a knife/ I see you head down, slow walk, silent as night/ I see the walking dead out in the broad daylight/ And when I happen to see the eyes of a human being/ We smile - fellow survivors of the assault of machines/ On organic connections, on our hopes and our dreams/ I give out in that moment, all the love that I can/ Who knows when this survivor will meet another hu-man/ Sometimes I too, look into the looking glass/ My whole family is here, friends, co-workers and strangers/ Pictures of my children, it's where my hopes and dreams free from danger and hidden are hidden from danger/ Images of a life, nearly almost complete/ Strange that if I don't like you I can just hit delete/ Hours have passed, clashing in a clan with my friends/ And I've spoken to fam around the globe, and bought some odds and some ends/ Sent some messages for work, updated my task-tracking app/ Took a look at my calendar, plotted my course on a map/ Somehow my wife is asleep/ I'll take a picture to keep/ The memory of my love/ in my glass soul three millimeters deep/ Chorus Verse 2, Karim Rushdy Even with these feathers we damaged in the search for celebrity status We can still fly because heaven will never be famished Some say the life they were given is the hell that they're handed And like some type of hellish advantage its spell will never be vanished And if there's no hope then yolo Let every treatment of pain be symptomatic and superficially bandaged But life is like an orchestra man we couldn't breathe with its harmonies and melody banished but like a splendidly lavish infidelity palace we can never see past it if we're surrendering that quick they say the remedy's plastic but in fact it's organic so when it burns it re-emerges - wrapped in its ashes like a spiritual passage confirmed through scientific advancements the collective consciousness of every single continent is compassion as if delivered through magic, the future is ours when we convert the present tempest into past tense - bars
5.	5 Minutes (feat. JC & James Hopkins) [Prod. By JC] 03:26	lyrics	buy track
Verse 1 imagine the equivalent of God streaming a live image but instead of subscribe to channel He said confide in this it takes less than 5 minutes to dive in it would you take the plunge? or would you buy gimmicks? and what if all the lies finished with you and your pride diminished now think back would you give back all the time given? to a wasted space that was made from hate if only we could face the grace of God then maybe we could trace what we find in it Like.. I've heard that love lives where the mind isn't but my mind was divinely given. made out of love so i guess i see with divided vision. one for this world and the other for above where i'm livin i just wanna be heard but rarely do i listen trying to live a spiritual lifestyle is like my mind’s eye trying to undergo nuclei fission. that's why with the soul there's a fine a line between less than five minutes and lifetime...it's timed different Chorus Verse 2 life is like a mystery. when you begin ta/ solve the puzzle, you can see in the, enigma/ they say the lion is the king, but how'd he do in three winters?/ look into a polar bear’s eyes, hakunamatata man I see Simba!/ i’m deep in the perfect paradox pictured in reverse then painted with these fingers a.k.a. i’m writing rhymes while intoxicated by the finest wine - the love of God just to help you unbelieve stigma and so i reach into, the conundrum of life and pull you out. if you let heaven speak for five minutes you'll feel peace in the centre of your soul. and you can decipher the despair and bleak life of these pied pipers and speak sweet streams from spiritually free vistas if time is of the essence then the essence needs remixes a.ka. please let it be switched up
6.	Get Yourself Up (feat. Sarah Taborn) 02:38	lyrics	buy track
Chorus, Sarah Taborn, Karim Rushdy You knock yourself down, but you get yourself up ya That’s how it is ya - life’s rough Verse 1 hold up now wait a minute how much truth can you take with this? cause if i just wanted to get paid for makin this then i don’t think i put enough bass in this there is no dub step wobble drop all i got is my beat box bobble hop this is no auto tune, musical lollipop i am rough and raw man you can call me lava soft Chorus Verse 2 all eyes tryna catch a glimpse of a lifestyle only one percent are living in so find somebody you can love and give a kiss cause the rat race in this world is irrelevant there’s an elephant in the room is the truth hitting you pictures in your living of plastic love that visits you but it's all lies and everybody’s living doom but it’s positivity in your satellite receiver dish cause these kids are spiritually feverish they need to wish to be freed from this evilness upside down value system now we really need a switch ain’t no time for these whack clones like attack drones tryna find a blast zone i bring a message of love that you left ...welcome back home where your backbone doesn't snap quick stay true to you it's not magic but it's tragic when we can't see past this image that's portrayed when in fact it’s not true. there is a new vibe this its new groove and if you let it then it flows into you Chorus Truth.
7.	Brave Up 03:14	lyrics	buy track
Verse 1 You can’t embrace all lust And try to fake all love Because it’s way too tough You can’t erase all us Now who gave us trust? Was it the paint or paint brush? Or will we never know The canvas that we're handed is chained up Some try to leave the way up But they go down and stay stuck There’s evil whisperers in shadows tryna turn our brains to mush But we bleed the same blood And when we die we're same dust So how could hate invade us If we unite and brave up...bruh. Chorus Well they can try invade us, but my people brave up And they can try to break us, but my people brave up Wave, wave - because we bleed the same blood Wave, wave - cause when we die we’re same dust. Verse 2 Unfolding pages of the history books Is like unraveling some mysteries it’s filled with these lies - take a look Forgive my anger because sometimes it gets to me I was taught not the truth so efficiently They said we brought the fur trade And equality for all lives But they simply stole land and colonized through genocide Still we bleed the same blood And when we die we're same dust So how could hate invade us If we unite and brave up...bruh. Chorus Bridge I used to wish upon a shooting star But now I live my wish because the future's IN who we are not who we long to be, i’m not a wise man preaching i’m just a guy speaking honestly like a foolish decision, a fear filled heart makes the mind lose precision so no more someday somehow.... my people brave up right now Chorus
8.	We Can Fly (feat. CCC) [Prod. By JC] 04:43	lyrics	buy track
Verse1, Karim Rushdy Why don't you tell me how I made you mad And didn't listen now you're feeling sad Why don't you tell ‘bout what isn't good I got a feeling you're misunderstood I wanna listen to your every word I know my actions have been absurd I wanna tell you I'm a changed man I got a vision with a game plan It’s hard to move forward when your soul’s shook They used to call me the closed book But those dark emotions are my old look I opened up for you take a close look And this is not a hollow promise... This is a blessing that will fall upon us Who knew the call would be so melodic? There's inner peace to be found... ‘cause God is honest. Chorus With two wings we can fly Verse 2, Karim Rushdy uhn, and it should feel right like somebody who holds you close, real tight you know it’s more than something that just seems nice love never holds you back, but fear might i took a look into my future all i could find was us so even though times are tough right now my baby, let’s stay love birds; flyin up I'm tired of that feeling where you're kind of stuck with an emotional time bomb and your time is up i’m ready for the day when i can hold you and say yah we're old and grey but didn’t we rise above? now can you hear that? that’s the sound of every atom surrendering to the melody And can you feel that? that's the feeling of never ending replenishing energy Chorus Verse 3, CCC 이 길은 혼자선 걷지 못해 이젠 알았어 Now i realized that i couldn't walk this way alone 난 완벽히 다른 형태의 염감을 찾았어 I found totally different kind of inspiration 내가 여태 알던게 날 가두겠지 What I understood before will keep me stuck 주변엔 목에 다 씌울 Frame이 가득했지 My neck was locked down with prejudices 전부 떠맡는 것 그 책임감 아래 압사 당하는것- Like I tried take over the whole thing but I now I know it's gonna kill me. 입술을 깨물고 할 말을 참아야 만하는 것 And I used to hold my words which should be spoken. 웃지않는 것 이유 역시 묻지 않을 것 I used to hide my smile. And wasn't curious about this world. 삶의 평범한 잣대로 선을 긋지만 그건 We used to divide our lives saying it's so-called common sense, 전혀 아름답지 않은 거야 꺾여버릴 상징 But it's never beautiful and my wings will be broken. 귀에 얹은 손 바닥은 혐오와 몰상식 If we cover our ears with hands, it results in disgust and senselessness 우린 알아야 돼 날개는 크거나 또 작지 We should know - each wing can be big or small 둘을 같게 하는건 오직 대화의 방식 But if you want to make the size of man's and woman's wings equal, you need to listen. 신이 주신 길에 우린 손을 쌓아 영혼은 We get our hands together on the road which is given by God. 하나가 되고 또 작은 기적을 낳아 마치 Then your souls will be one and you can make little miracle (give birth to little miracle) 형과 그녀가 이미 그런것 처럼 Like what you and your wife already did. 나와 내 Muse가 이제 그럴것 처럼 And, like what me & my muse will do. Mira is Karim & Julie's daughter.
9.	Oasis (feat. José María Fierro) [prod. by Apollo V] 03:04	lyrics	buy track
Chorus he been tryna tell us this forever man but nobody wanna listen to the weather man dig deep down, these are the basics let God lead you straight to your oasis Verse1, Karim Rushdy infiltrated by a billionaire’s will that’s ill-fated how can we sit back and watch sins kill sacred another non- rehabilitated jail bird that’s still rapist like contractor man who builds basements that feel makeshift i reveal blatant truths hidden by veiled fakeness the curtain call falls on us all so these apathetic methods we're reppin? feels basic but we'll make it we'll make it we’ll make it if we break the hate matrix and look beyond colours shapes and faces - the secret of humanity is in spirituality the soul is placeless - so if we put in work to rearrange this arrangement - imagine where the soul will take us find beauty in the absence of facelifts...elemental homeostasis oasis Chorus Verse 2, Karim Rushdy i paid to be camouflaged i chose to be part of the mirage to blend in you gotta have no flaws but that’s so odd when God made a collage deep down you got a need to free so why ridin with these trapped kids? tweedly dee and twiddle dum on the speakers so you’re tweeting your feet and you’re twiddling thumbs are little fiddles that speaks so put your hands to together if you’re feeling this beat but more importantly the lyrics that help you be fresh and free so you can live a better life until you’re dead and deceased so if you’re ready to reach then you should let in the breeze and let it confirm the turn 180 degrees it won’t happen right away but like maybe this week there’s no time for vacillation when east is what you're facin find beauty in spiritual levitation - oasis. Chorus Verse3, José María Fierro Ooh I found the oasis To exist in a place that is placeless, nameless Just to find what grace is You gotta let God lead you to your oasis Yo I've always been a little parched Always looking for a drink and so I followed the stars And then I walked along the path that led me closer to art An oasis, a place with the freedom of heart I dove deep into the ocean of knowledge Where lowly thoughts are abolished And one is able to polish The gems inside of them And with my mind all astonished I set about to demolish All of the things that weren't honest In my environment And the result was a tranquil mind Where I was free to roam around and seek a blissful time Drink deep of the water that was large and spacious So glad that I found the oasis Outro, Karim Rushdy And I never hesitate in my mind I am so fortified till I die I gotta have the love of God in my life And if you feel different at all that’s fine But if you wanna come along for this ride And break free from the chains inside Then open up your spiritual eyes And feel love for all mankind My oasis.
10.	First Counsel (Guitar by Nabil Moghaddam) 04:01	lyrics	buy track
Chorus “O SON OF SPIRIT! My first counsel is this: Possess a pure, kindly and radiant heart, that thine may be a sovereignty ancient, imperishable and everlasting.” - Baha’i Writings Verse 1 don’t label me without a human eye that’s prejudice with a new disguise I’m not surprised with these head lines when they locked up Baha'is like juveniles it’s like real life is the parody: perpetuating disparity but buried ‘neath this plastic life is a sacrificing of verities this foundation is how basic? like tying your shoes with brown laces but somehow these hounds take it foul beasts in foul places the struggle is real livin this life makin this money then spending it twice lookin in mirrors reflections of ice Baha’u’llah send me Your Heavenly might Chorus Verse 2 now enable me with your open eyes to show my radiant heart with no disguise there's eleven letters between U and I but it’s just a lie if we can't UnIte that darkness is so present together we shine so fluorescent perfect is what we're both less than this is my hope message for every young girl trapped by a twisted man that justifies his lust behind his love for his cash and every young boy who got no one to look up to man i feel for you but ain’t no need for fear in you just stand beside truth and you'll see those answers find you and if they don't then that's cool cause i know soon that you'll get through just keep the words that you say the same as what you actually do and just keep raisin’ that roof cause I know God will guide you so keep your heart pure, and keep you heart kind let your heart be radiant and you'll shine for all time Chorus

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released February 22, 2017

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Karim Rushdy Stratford, Ontario

I draw the inspiration for my rap songs from my life experiences and from the Holy Writings of the Baha'i Faith. I have a blend of many cultures in my blood, and I've lived in many different countries. This has taught me patience and to always listen.