Running Backwards

SO if you’re reading this…

From the bottom of my heart, thank you. I’ve been working on this project for the last 2 years and for you to even take the time out of your day to come listen to some songs I made is absolutely incredible to me. Making music and sharing my feelings to anyone that wants to listen means the world to me so I hope you enjoy the EP and download the project when it releases on May 6th 2022.

- August

Shining

Hey

Hey

Okay

Okay

Okay

Yo

Stacking up my chips

Gotta get it get rich 

I’m stacking up my chips

Fat Boy 

Black Boy

Black Boy I’m

Stacking up my chips

Gotta get it get rich 

I’m stacking up my chips

Fat Boy 

Black Boy

Black Boy 

Yeah I’m from the Lake

So I gotta stay wet

Hit the interstate 

Just to see another check

605 to the 5 to the 101

Everything the light touch is mine

So I need another one

(Shining)

Don’t know what I gave up so I’m

(Shining)

Pigs do a nigga greasy cause he

(Shining)

Bitch nigga took Nipsey cause he

(Shining)

Often I contemplate

Momma said we the new slaves

‘Cept this time we brought the chains

Wonder if I heat up would that make the climate change I’m

Stacking up my chips

Gotta get it get rich 

I’m stacking up my chips

Fat Boy 

Black Boy

Black Boy I’m

Stacking up my chips

Gotta get it get rich 

I’m stacking up my chips

Fat Boy 

Black Boy

Black Boy 

Wheat like spaghetti

Need that wap and that green like I’m Fetty

Don’t lay no tracks down until I am ready

Step on that Nas like I’m watching my weight and my belly

Ill-matic you roll in the madness

When I was broke I would fuck on a mattress

Twin, fucking a queen on a queen was my dream

Until I realized that wanted was C.R.E.A.M

Need a hot 16 call me Robert Kelly 

Need a mansion for my team and my tight knit family

State to State

Patty let that baker bake

Never had a Patek 

Fuck a salad

Lord I’m stacking

Stacking up my chips

Gotta get it get rich 

I’m stacking up my chips

Fat Boy 

Black Boy

Black Boy I’m

Stacking up my chips

Gotta get it get rich 

I’m stacking up my chips

Fat Boy 

Black Boy

Black Boy 

Weekends & B-Days III

Over the games

Over the schemes

Just take off of your shift

They don’t need you anyway 

I’m over the games

Over the schemes

Just take off of your shift

They don’t need you any

If you let my I’ma give you time

Ain’t no rushing working down your spine

Repercussions you ain’t gotta worry

Put your phone on silent lemme ease your mind

Those other niggas leave em be yeah

If they mattered why you here with me

Done fighting for your attention wanna piece of ya

Lay you on your back and hit repeat 

Won’t you

Slide thru

Said you like it when I’m aggressive

So ain’t no telling what I 

Might do

Beat it like a car in Street Fighter 

Asking if you like it you say

I do

Can’t no other nigga  do it better

Can’t no other nigga get you what

You already know

Take em back to part 1 

Want you on the kitchen and the floor

Bathroom and more

Lonely on a Wednesday Night I’ma

Keep it Frank need that ocean what you think

And I ain’t tryna play no games with you baby

Got your overnight packed

Tell your roommate be a min for you back

(Breathe girl just breathe girl)

(Just breathe girl just breathe girl just)

Over the games (I’m over)

Over the schemes

Just take off of your shift

They don’t need you anyway (No No)

I’m over the games

Over the schemes

Just take off of your shift

They don’t need you any

If you let my I’ma give you time

Ain’t no rushing working down your spine

Repercussions you ain’t gotta worry

Put your phone on silent lemme ease your mind

Those other niggas leave em be yeah

If they mattered why you here with me

Done fighting for your attention wanna piece of ya

Lay you on your back and hit repeat 

Won’t you

(She is very gorgeous to me)

I wanna treat you like you’ve never been 

Wanna stay in

Do the things you like and try some new experiences

Damn it’s good so good

And we keep lying to each other

While we laying next to one another

Over the games (I’m over)

Over the schemes

Just take off of your shift

They don’t need you anyway (No No)

I’m over the games

Over the schemes

Just take off of your shift

They don’t need you any

If you let my I’ma give you time

Ain’t no rushing working down your spine

Repercussions you ain’t gotta worry

Put your phone on silent lemme ease your mind

Those other niggas leave em be yeah

If they mattered why you here with me

Done fighting for your attention wanna piece of ya

Lay you on your back and hit repeat 

Won’t you

(Repeat Repeat Repeat

Repeat Repeat Repeat

Repeat Repeat Repeat

Yeah)

Needed U (feat. Kubla Kahn)

I needed you yeah

I needed you yeah

I needed you yeah

Aye Aye Aye

I needed you yeah

I needed you yeah

I needed you yeah

Aye Aye Aye

Time is money you a penny pincher

Know you got a heavy case load

Spending all your time with some waste mans

Now you got exactly what you paid for

Heard you cutting ties with the cableman

So tired of the same show

Wonder why fire bitches can't connect with niggas

They the reason that we moving slow

Relationships over a cell

If they feeling trapped then they posting they bail

In love with the status and dating an athlete

She live for the gram and her life is the cap

Shun a nigga if he ain't ballin

Or rapping like his name was Dame Dolla

My reaction is always the same

Never hate I just fall back and peep game

A nigga just minding his business

Counting these digits

You independent

Not on my wish list

I'm on the fringe shit

I ain't just doing no friend shit

You acting to friendly

And you tryna bend me

And no I ain't tryna defend ya

But lemme say this

I needed you

I needed you

I needed you

Aye Aye Aye

I needed you

I needed you

I needed you

Aye Aye Aye

Running on my timeline

Scrolling on my timeline

Roaming all the time

All the time

I needed you

I needed you

I needed you

Aye Aye Aye

This shit ain't working

If I fall hope my pride hits the surface

First you dub me now you say you need me

Cold as ever now you spinning your words

Bitch you know I'm anemic

Talking bout rough patch

But these creases can't iron out

Shared a wrinkle in time now I'm smooth on you

Past tense baby girl yeah I needed you

Don't tell me how much you need me

Infatuated with the dolla signs

Ball players cause you two nickels

Now these niggas never pick up

Got a doll face looking crazy like Angelica Pickles

And now I see different

Can never be number 2

Wrote that in ink cause the pen silky

Say I move different but you never with me

So how would you know ho

I needed you

I needed you

I ain't got time to waste

I ain't got time to waste

I ain't got time to waste

Waste

Waste

I ain't got time to waste

I ain't got time to waste

I ain't got time to waste

I ain't got

I needed you

I needed you

I needed you

I needed you

Aye Aye Aye

I needed you

I needed you

I needed you

Aye Aye Aye

I needed you

I didn't know

I needed you

I needed you

I didn't know

I needed you

Highs N Lows

It's about highs and lows (lows)

Take it as far as it goes (goes)

Dive in don't clog your nose (nose)

It's about highs

Everybody getting high

It's about highs and lows (lows)

Take it as far as it goes (goes)

Dive in don't clog your nose (nose)

It's about highs

Everybody getting high

Lately I've been feeling low

Even in my chains and my gold

Ironic when I finally got some ice

Was the moment I felt cold

Finally got the job of my dreams

And I'm six months deep

Wondering what the fuck am I working for

Haven't even talked to my bros

How I really feel

Shit is really real

Feeling like I'm about to jump off the deep end

Same reason why I'm chasing skirts on the weekend

Fucking up yeah I know it

Even though I got just what I wanted

I call my mom ask her what is this life

She said it's an ocean

You gotta keep going

Fasho

You hit the point where you can't see the shore

And I cannot tell you which way you should go

But trust in your gut and know that it's enough

And when shit get rocky remember that

It's about highs and lows (lows)

Take it as far as it goes (goes)

Dive in don't clog your nose (nose)

It's about highs

Everybody getting high

It's about highs and lows (lows)

Take it as far as it goes (goes)

Dive in don't clog your nose (nose)

It's about highs

Everybody getting high

Time is the most precious thing

So why would we waste it

You play with my heart like it's Jenga

I pick up the pieces

I'm keeping my chin up

I keep it so playa

It's funny I'm dropping these pounds

And you still couldn't tell me why you couldn't wait up

I cannot save ya

What can I say

Guess i'm on to another tide

You know blood stains deep

Especially when you hang me out to dry

Guess I should've took my dad advice

He said you can't clean a street with some bleach

So why even try

I don't know

The same reason why I don't dip toes in the cold water

I just jump in it

Never look back with no floaties on

Funny wrote that other song for you

But what am I to do

Cause I'm back to my day to day

Crazy more things change more stay the same

In every way

When you're done weathering the storm

Realize you're in the same old place

Better grab your floaties

Capsized down bad feel like I don't know me

Mama said on days when you get too lonely

Remember that

It's about highs and lows (lows)

Take it as far as it goes (goes)

Dive in don't clog your nose (nose)

It's about highs

Everybody getting high

Fade Away

(I ain’t even got no money

That money you be seeing me with on Instagrams

That be fake money man 

That be prop money 

Man this is not my money 

I do not have nothing

This is a sick negro

This is a sick negro)

Everyday tho

At your place so much 

To drop D off silent like Django 

Still unchained and not a change in our arrangement

If I up and started seeing other women you would trip

You too fine for me to ever believe you only fucking with my

Dickerson Charles, who really in charge

Don’t even care just take off your draws

You like when I go down the border 

It’s hard to believe you were ever standoff

Fish in a barrel, shooting the shit

Easy than a mothafucker like you my nig

Easing that mfing week I done did

Like Easter Sunday and this here was the lent

Now it’s back to bullshit

Lack enthusement

Job abusing

Feeling useless

Thank God I got the music

Treating that mothafucking stage like a pulpit

Zombies, we walking through life always hungry

For something, anything that numbs us

But never could satiate

Man oh man how that pussy takes pain away

Or else I might fade away

I’m losing me everyday 

And I don’t wanna don’t wanna

Fade Away

Or else I might fade away

I’m losing me everyday 

And I don’t wanna don’t wanna

Fade Away

Or else I might fade away (La di da di da, disappear and nothing stops)

I’m losing me everyday  (La di da di da, fade away to nothing nothing nothing)

And I don’t wanna don’t wanna  (La di da di da, disappear and nothing stops)

Fade Away (La di da di da, disappear to nothing nothing nothing)

Fade

Big dividends

I feel it coming, but I owe 100 bands to Uncle Sam

Cuz I chose Oregon to get my papers

Guess freedom isn’t in the plans

I’ll make it work tho

‘Member I was writing songs up in my dorm’s basement

Lately I’ve been yearning for that feeling I got complacent

Due to the admiration I was facing from my peers

Said I got the juice and it went to my head

Got cloudy like my piss

When the cheers simmer down like the 90s 

I’m quickly reminded no idea what the next move is

So I’m out here pinning for attention, some validation

Feeling like a child

Want them to love me 

Most my life I felt ugly and I need you to smile

To feel good about myself

Eat the grave, fuck about my health

I need you to say that you want no one else

And it’s me,  and it’s me,  and it’s me, and it’s me, and it’s me

Cuz I need you to see that I’m good enough

Look at myself and it ain’t enough

Cuz most these days it’s hard  getting up

I need you to need me

Or else I might fade away

Fade Away

Fade Away

I’m losing me everyday 

And I don’t wanna don’t wanna

Fade Away

Fade Away

I’m losing me everyday 

And I don’t wanna don’t wanna

Fade Away (La di da di da, disappear and nothing stops)

Fade Away(La di da di da, fade away to nothing nothing nothing)

I’m losing me everyday   

And I don’t wanna don’t wanna  (La di da di da, disappear and nothing stops)

Fade Away 

Fade Away (La di da di da, disappear to nothing nothing nothing)

Fade

Everyday tho 

Everyday tho 

Everyday tho 

Everyday tho 

Everyday tho 

Everyday tho 

Everyday tho

Feels like I’ll fade away

Everyday tho 

Everyday tho 

Everyday tho 

Everyday tho 

Everyday tho 

Everyday tho 

Everyday tho

Feels like I’ll fade away

Everyday tho 

Everyday tho 

Everyday tho 

Everyday tho 

(And I don’t wanna don’t wanna)

Everyday tho 

Everyday tho 

Everyday tho

Feels like I’ll fade away

Everyday tho 

Everyday tho 

Everyday tho 

Everyday tho 

And I don’t wanna don’t wanna

Everyday tho 

Everyday tho 

Everyday tho

Feels like I’ll fade away

(You went through multiple stages of grief after losing that  relationship huh

You ate and then turned that shit into straight muscle 

You know what you look like?

You look like the mufucka that plankton hired at the fry cook games

Hold on bro hold on

You look like somebody gonna say “Get angry”

And you gon say “AAaaaahhhh”

Y’all ain’t see the episode bro”

Norf

Me and both my niggas kick it in the Norf side

Looking for a vibe on a Friday night 

Shit ain't that right

Me and both my niggas kick it in the Norf side

Looking for a vibe on a Friday night 

My homie live in Bixby right there off Atlantic

He said He wanna move I can understand it

We always coolin' in his whip

One night somebody hit a lick

Now the inside of that bitch looking Danny Phantom

They even copped the J's in the trunk

I call that a running alphabet

Cuz he don't like to take no L's 

He gon K'O'em next time he see that nigga

It's gon be different

The only thing to keep his mind off it 

Is the prospect of some bitches so

Me and both my niggas kick it in the Norf side

Looking for a vibe on a Friday night 

Shit, ain't that right

Me and both my niggas kick it in the Norf side

Looking for a vibe on a Friday night 

Shit, ain't that right

Me and both my niggas kick it in the Norf side

Looking for a vibe on a Friday night 

Shit, ain't that right

Me and both my niggas kick it in the Norf side

Looking for a vibe on a Friday night 

My other homie likes get high

It's his addiction

If life's a marathon this nigga sprintin'

I never like to guzzle or gas to hit my cruising altitude

He known to lean like Aaliyah jet

I fear how his story concludes

But he my nigga

We both come from stereotypical homes of baby mothers 

Go figure

He used to skate to escape his home condition 

Now we can't wait to hit the club and grind up on bitches 

And it's just

Me and both my niggas kick it in the Norf side

Looking for a vibe on a Friday night 

Shit ain't that right

Me and both my niggas kick it in the Norf side

Looking for a vibe on a Friday night 

Shit ain't that right

Me and both my niggas kick it in the Norf side

Looking for a vibe on a Friday night 

Shit ain't that right

Me and both my niggas kick it in the Norf side

Looking for a vibe on a Friday night 

Shit ain't that right

Ain’t Shit

I meet this lil shorty on a friday night

At the bar with my niggas I had just turn mike

Minus 2, I was new to the scenery of a bar club

My demeanor was all love

I usually don’t miss the racket like pro level tennis matches

But that night was different

Closest friends was outta town

Had no assistance

I was out with my young guns that gave me incentive

To take my mouthpiece off silent

And who should I find oh it’s you 

Dress same shade as Rosé no surprises that you started wining on me

And at that moment you turn me Salvador Dali

Guide fingers upon your body like a canvas
I think I should prolly get your number

Cause time is running ain’t it

Persistence of that memory had us anticipating

That first link up, thinking I’m prone to over thinking

So when you hit me to come over that was so relieving

Now we in your bed maxing relaxing it’s all cool

Talking about your dreams of attending a law school

Really got to know who you are fore I made a move

 But them prior drinks had my dick on snooze so I got something to prove next time damn it

My buzz, your rose buzz but you were understanding

After a sun cycle you came thru just like I planned 

My how turn tables can leave scratches on delicate places 

Through the bravado there was a moment I could recall

Where you put your hand on my face so gently

Touched my soul asked how a man so handsome could lay with me

Spoke life into a man so empty 

You never knew I almost cried when you told me that

And for your kindness I never thought I would pay you back 

With bitterness and resentment

Long winded texts turning asthathic unti you breathing with none of my assistance

Cuz this nigga ain’t shit

Cuz this nigga is dumb

Cuz you saw right through a nigga nothing to left but to run

Cuz if you turn me down now once you’ve seen who I am 

Then I wouldn’t deserve none of that love from the jump

Kill for it begun

Left you down in the dumps

Saw you at a law school really proud you become
Who you wanna become

Keep moving forward ain’t no reason ever look back

I just thought that you should know that 

Hope I do better 

Hope I do better 

I swear I’ll do better

Swear I’ll do better

Hope I do better 

Hope I do better 

Swear I’ll do better (I know I’ll do better)

Hope I do better 

I swear I’ll be better

Swear I’ll be better

Hope I do better 

Hope I do better 

I swear I’ll do better

Hope I do better 

Swear I’ll do better

Pray I’ll do better 

Hope I do better 

Hope I do better 

Okay August I’m starting to go outta my mind

SLiDe

Ugh

Ugh

I got it

Can I slide on a beat one time

Music like a loud pack I just need to unwind

Two times got that match if you need you can slide

You can meet me in the back 

Need that real I supply

Tell me if you ready bae

 All these blessings be falling like is confetti yeah

And my niggas hardbody like we some heavyweights

We keep it light tho so you can see how we lead the way

Yeah how we lead the way

Hopped of the bunk bed and made it to the first stop

“Pursuit” was a broken leg, “Halo” was an ankle knot

Still running with them boys like fit bits and apple watch

And if I’m falling off I had to go to heaven fore this album drop nigga

 To see my uncles and grannies

They say they whisper in the wind but we don’t be understanding

I hear my momma keep praying so much her knees is eroding

So when I finally make it she won’t need her no more shit

You can quit your job momma fuck the lottery

Cuz when you start betting on your son there ain’t no stopping me

I know you tend to wonder if this rap shit worth it

Sun is a star you should know cause you birth him

Got this down to a science nah but it’s working

I can see it in their eyes performing in person

I can remember the times all the open jacksons rapping

Rough around the edges becoming the total package 

Can I slide on a beat one time

Music like a loud pack I just need to unwind

Two times got that match if you need you can slide

You can meet me in the back 

Need that real I supply

Tell me if you ready bae

 All these blessings be falling like is confetti yeah

And my niggas hardbody like we some heavyweights

We keep it light tho so you can see how we lead the way

Yeah how we lead the way

Cold nigga made it through hot water call me Todoroki

Big steppa big letterman

“Member riding through Bixby in a mini van

Memories of Mr Reid teaching me to be a man

You can miss me with that disrespect but you can meet these hands

And never let a nigga do you greasy when you making your own chicken

The recipe to fortune is to follow your ambition

Cuz the belly of the beast lies greed it was written by Nasir

No use in crying gotta elevate to God tiers

Cuz when you make it to that club they try your ideas

But really nothing is original

Let em break you down to show you different Theseus’ boat

And I ain’t tryna wax poetic eta cuh

They say a nigga rapping like he fucking with Erica

They say I got that gas like the Germanic Indica

So meet me in the back wait

Beat was like an ash tray

Way we maneuver we root for black cause we FUBU

Remember back when I rocked them hand me down polos and shoes

Washing them ziplock baggies just rinse em out and reuse em

Though we had us a lil money “Any day we could lose it” momma said

 So when I make it happen, I’ll give it right back

Help my Pops to fix his first car cause it’s like that

Give my brothers and sisters the world cause it’s like that 

All I know’s I’m on the right track

So can I slide on a beat one time

Music like a loud pack I just need to unwind

Two times got that match if you need you can slide

You can meet me in the back 

Need that real I supply

Tell me if you ready bae

 All these blessings be falling like is confetti yeah

And my niggas hardbody like we some heavyweights

We keep it light tho so you can see how we lead the way

Yeah how we lead the way

So that was Running Backwards….

I just wanna say thank you one more time for pulling up and listening to my joint. As a token of my thanks, I’ve left an unreleased track that was supposed to be on the album below for you to listen to.

Full transparency it’s 10:32 pm on April 11th when I’m typing this and I will be shooting the music video for “Needed U” tomorrow. Right now I don’t know when the video will be done so if it’s done by the listening party then there will be a private link below too. If not oh well.

Lastly, I’ve submitted the EP to a couple blog sites & news sources to get reviewed but they either haven’t gotten back to me or passed on reviewing it. So instead of taking that as a negative and let that stop me, I want to put my career in the hands of people who actually cared enough to pull up to Koreatown on Sunday afternoon to hear my art. So if you like my stuff, buy the EP when it drops. Share my music with your friends. Put my songs on one of your favorite playlists. Use my music in an IG story or Tik Tok. Come watch me perform live. Blow a bag on some merchandise. Long story short, spread the word about my art and I promise I’ll keep making music that you can be proud of.

Until May 6th,

Stay Blessed

— August.