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(Hook)
Checka checka wait checka I can't breathe
I can't breathe
I can't breathe
Checka checka wait checka I can't sleep
I can't dream
I can't breathe

(Verse 1)
Checka checka wait checka let me breathe
I resonate till I'm one with the seven seas
I let my chest vibrate depressive tendencies get suppressed
Checka uhh Let me breathe I'm like
Chill man let me chill I'm easy going trynna cop a mellow groove
Hop the max without paying I got water in my shoes I lay and wallow in my blues
Ever since I was born under water while rocking a head wrap I've been following the truth
Meaning I'm walking behind myself flip the TV off I stop swallowing the news
Ever since my blue and white bike got stolen
I been bumping Resurrection 'till the early morning
Pin point the very source that inspired me I wrote my first rap on the head wrap that I was born in
I'm barely a rapper but theres barely a rapper that could rap his head around the styles that I'm exploring
And that's word to my mom
If she ever heard my song but

(Hook)
Checka checka wait checka I can't breathe
I can't breathe
I can't breathe
Checka checka wait checka I can't sleep
I can't dream
I can't breathe

(Verse 2)
You don't matter
Nobody cares about you
There I go again talking to myself
Nobody cares what I do
I pinky promise
Still I'm trynna cop a mellow groove
Juke through the rhythm like a running back
I showed a bum named Greg selling crack some of my songs
He called a buddy over and told me to run it back
Thats the first night I got to Portland
My shoes weren't even soggy yet
Now I walk the wasteland with nothing as far as plans, I got nothing in my hands light saber tucked into my waist band
I'm Mace Windu how I lace the music with tasteful nuances that could shape your mood
And that's word to my niece I pray the world gets better just so she could find peace but

(Hook)
Checka checka wait checka I can't breathe
I can't breathe
I can't breathe
Checka checka wait checka I can't breathe
I suffocate on what I can't be
Crawling through the deepest crevice of creativity reaching for a peak that I can't see

(Verse 3)
Search through hard soil
Disperse sick verses 'till my heart spoils
I won't conform to the social norm
I just approach a mic and perch like a gargoyle
There's three of me watching out for a hunchback
I sound like Dori trying to talk to a humpback
That means I'm too deep nobody will listen
My styles more like free jazz than it is to typical rap
My styles more like free jazz than it is to typical rap
I could sense it ever since the day Sybil Trelawney foresaw my fate
The prophecy cracked tell Voldemort I'm on my way
Wipe away any wizard when I wave my wand
Decapitate uruk-hai when I raise my sword
Carry light into the darkness when I praise the Lord
I hop up onto any track with my inhaler because

(Hook)
Checka checka wait checka I can't breathe
I can't breathe
I can't breathe

(Bass solo)

Check checka wait checka
Let me breathe I resonate 'till I'm one with the seven seas
Let my chest vibrate depressive tendencies get suppressed
Checka uhh
I can't breathe

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from Painted On the Wall, released July 23, 2017

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David Barber Portland, Oregon

David Barber is a hip hop artist and jazz musician from southern Oregon. Now based in Portland Oregon

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