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Sellout (feat. Mike Mictlan)

from Forgotten Forever by Ceschi

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8. Sellouts (feat. Mike Mictlan)
produced & mixed by Sebastian Hochstein
vocals recorded by Keller McDivitt at Dungeon Beach Studios, Brooklyn, NY

Mike Mictlan and I met at the SXSW 2012 festival after 1 of seemingly 800 Doomtree performances there last year. We started chatting it up quite a bit after that online & when I'd swing through Minneapolis on tour. We bonded over our mutual respect of "Of Mexican Descent", stories about LA & just generally both being latino hip hop punks. Sometime in 2012 we decided that we wanted to do a song together. I sent Mike a number of beats for a while and nothing inspired him. Luckily I had this banger from Sebastian (aka Jaq) that finally motivated some writing. When Mike came to the east coast for a show at Brooklyn's Knitting Factory in Feb. 2013 we ended up spending an evening recording at Louis Logic's friends' Dungeon Beach Studios in BK. This rap grind anthem was born. P.S. Doozers are those little construction worker characters from Fragile Rock

lyrics

Mike Mictlan :
i wont follow trends and models
hollow heads or bottled feelings
i don't envy friends with ends and
prolly never will stop rapping
i can't see myself in mirrors
i can call it like i see it
i just keep my eyes on prizes
sizing up my plate and eating
i can move a crowd no problem
i can sell a thousand albums
i can do that in my sleep
while you're sleeping
I'm on tour
i don’t have to holler
i can hold a conversation
i start trippin bout my daughter
every time I get wasted
i ain't got it like you got it
my pockets are fulla holes
my wallet is growing thinner
the dollars won't even hold
i don't get it in i push it harder
got it in and push the dagger
yin or yang wang on em like
(dang)
And I been wrong than a mothafucka
Been strong as a mothafucka
Soon as I fall down get up and wipe the blood off this ugly little
Mug of mine it ain’t pretty
But gotdamn
I been faced with a time & place
I ain't bout to bop the diddy. 

hook by Mike / Ceschi :

Yo What the hell is a sell out ?
What the shit?
I'm tryna sell out a show in your town and get the fuck out 
Oh yeahh

And what I am is all about
being true to myself
saying what I want to say
beyond the bullshit and doubt

Yo What the hell is a sell out ?
no one gave me a thing
it's been a minute on the road
better kill me to quit

With the venom in my mouth
What it izz
It's something like a
big bad wolf coming for you pigs

Ceschi:
Just cuz I don't do this job at a desk
With Regular hours
I'm still demanding your respect
Only wear a suit and tie
to weddings and funerals
Still Working harder than a doozer
for this fucking music though

I don't even need a 6 figure pay check
Just give us a minute
And listen to me and my friends

Seen crack cookies cooking I was 14
Seen the fucking money and sexual fantasies
Could have bought a couple of houses with that green
Don't mean I gotta talk about it every time I sing

temporary frills that America cherishes
don't mean shit to us
So they try make us uncool
or label us cultural terrorists
There it is

So Hang us like heretics
cuz your scared of us
Tearing this system down to its
Barren bits

bury us,
But these words live on above the dirt
not gonna stop even though my bones hurt

hook by Mike / Ceschi :

Yo What the hell is a sell out ?
What the shit?
I'm tryna sell out a show in your town and get the fuck out 
Oh yeahh

And what I am is all about
being true to myself
saying what I want to say
beyond the bullshit and doubt

Yo What the hell is a sell out ?
no one gave me a thing
it's been a minute on the road
better kill me to quit

With the venom in my mouth
What it izz
It's something like a
big bad wolf coming for you pigs

Ceschi:
Nonstop
Non pop
Anti boss
Self taught
And  i wont stop
Til the bomb drops
Put em up
Hard knock
Body rock
Nothing can tame me
This world can barely contain me
and

Mike Mictlan:
"Baby Youuuu better work it out"
Rap is a Terrordome
1 man in - put em up
1 man out
Bust a deal, & face the wheel
Get em up
Hand to mouth
And I watch the strongest lose
While I watch the weakest win
Gotta Muthafucka payin dues
While I peep em sneak em in
Whut am I supposed to do?

Ceschi:
Should I sell myself to the highest bidder?
Never hiding I'm striving to defy all strife
Man I'll be grinding
Its Simple

Mike Mictlan:
Better watch the birdie fool
Bet I break a minute clockin
But I bring the sweat and flashin 
What it izz what tha fuck you lackin
Passion passion mashin 
On any and everything 

Ceschi:
When I'm smashing these fascists it'll be all action no relaxing when I'm rapping

Mike Mictlan:
With a head fulla heart get em
And a mouth fulla brains gotcha
What I gotta give 

Ceschi:
Gonna be an incredible thing
Final fight
Put em in the ring

credits

from Forgotten Forever, released January 1, 2022
feat. Mike Mictlan produced by Sebastian Hochstein aka Jaq

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