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The Vivian Maier EP

by Alex Ludovico

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1.
Not Dying 02:24
Used to hoop on basketball courts/borrowed my older brothers shorts/till them cops pulled up/and asked us questions bout some report/I can’t stay in this place/I need that sweet escape/don’t wanna get hit by strays/the news showing my face/I gotta get out of here/Yeah with words I got a gift/dog fire hydrant piss/the world leave my mark on it/And they would love nothin more/than to erase us/can’t sit here in stasis/and act all complacent Cause I'm not dying before I make it (6x) Accept my struggle/it’s the darkest before it is dawn/so I gotta keep keepin on/ (2x) Voices in my head/Say I'm dead never gone make it/your blood on that curb Paul Westerberg/easy replacement/5 bands is all they ask/just to kill a man/City full Of Ted Bundy’s Son of Sam's/so I’m here am with open hands/serenity now please/just wanna find peace/and hope family understand me when I’m gone see/Cause what I’m gone see/is what this life has/store knowledge man I promise/Damn I'm not coming back/ Cause I'm not dying before I make it (6x) What happens to your dreams/when you lying on the street/Feel your blood leak/Momma gnashing her teeth/no idea what that could be/refuse to let it be me/I can’t hold it in/I promise y'allI gotta leave Accept my struggle/it’s the darkest before it is dawn/so I gotta keep keepin on/ (2x) Cause I'm not dying before I make it (6x)
2.
All the pictures on my wall fading/Memories I never save em/cause who cares who cares/Life is always changing/all the pictures on my wall fading/ Barely remember high school/Mostly forgot Atlanta/Floating through clouds just like a phantom/Hoping that they all be passing/86 was 32 years ago/Summer baby misbehaving/Momma said I had that glow/Reading at like 2/Guess my brain was next level/It was just too much to deal with/18 started popping pills then/Graduated to blow/I blame a white girl for that/Next came the heroin/No needles I don't do tracks/Got off of that/Then I made it to LA/but these demons in my brain/they also rode the plane/that's actually riding spirit/yes death I do not fear it/don’t believe in God/but if you real please hear this/accept my cynicism/I’ve never felt you once/in the deepest of the dumps/occasionally I see light/but I’m never coming up/suffocate on the weight/of my supposed fate/my mental camera no longer snapping/I let it break/And let it rust away/ All the pictures on my wall fading/Memories I never save em/cause who cares who cares/Life is always changing/all the pictures on my wall fading/ I’m going to rehab nigga/shit/I said that like 12 times/I aint got the bread for that/and that shit is for white guys/black people just deal with it/or so I was taught/can’t take back all them mistakes/or memories I lost/I just wanna be better/I’m the only thing that’s blocking me/I have the monopoly/Upon my brains property/but stuck on go/why every time it goes wrong/I just want some blow/trying to drown my problems in the snow/another girl left/that makes 4 since I been in LA/I got a million excuses/for why they wouldn’t stay/but fuck them/this whiskey tells me that I’m awesome/I know the lifestyle that I’ve lead/my relationships it’s costing/do I wanna change/I’m not entirely sure/but I know that I am tired/of this life that I’ve endured/There's entire chunks of my life/I do not remember/Blocked it off cause the pain is way too much to enter/Nigga All the pictures on my wall fading/Memories I never save em/cause who cares who cares/Life is always changing/all the pictures on my wall fading/
3.
LEGENDS NEVER DIE/THEY JUST GET WAY TOO HIGH (4x) Jimi Hendrix choked to death in his sleep/about 4 more them xanys/that’s gone be me/the world remembers every way/he laid his fingers on the frets/plucked the strings and made em sing/so it’s me they gone forget/is it genius if nobody hear it/the tree don’t make no sound if no ones around that’s what I’m fearing/don’t wanna waste these lyrics/dropping my thoughts so gear up/I’ll give it all away so you can hear em/don’t want em locked away in storage all tore up/because I give in LEGENDS NEVER DIE/THEY JUST GET WAY TOO HIGH (4x) Ms. Winehouse drank herself to death/she was so lonely/she gained the world and lost herself/I see that fate upon me/a handle of whiskey every 3 days/Groundhog day a replay/not instant I don’t miss it/how quickly we wash away/all our life we been told shoot for the stars/but the crosshairs are not there/the aim is off/most us land on hard times/no matter how hard we grind/could be gold but we so dulled/I hope the world will see our shine/ LEGENDS NEVER DIE/THEY JUST GET WAY TOO HIGH (4x)

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Dedicated to every unsung hero and every genius that died before we found out about them.....

Vivian Maier was an American street photographer. Maier worked for about forty years as a nanny, mostly in Chicago's North Shore, pursuing photography during her spare time. She took more than 150,000 photographs during her lifetime, primarily of the people and architecture of Chicago, New York City, and Los Angeles, although she also traveled and photographed worldwide.

During her lifetime, Maier's photographs were unknown and unpublished; many of her negatives were never printed. Maier's photographs were first published on the Internet in July 2008, by Slattery, but the work received little response. In October 2009, Maloof linked his blog to a selection of Maier's photographs on the image-sharing website Flickr, and the results went viral, with thousands of people expressing interest. Maier's work subsequently attracted critical acclaim, and since then, Maier's photographs have been exhibited around the world.

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released February 25, 2019

Track 1 produced by The Lost Boy
Track 2 produced by Elias X
Track 3 produced by Gum$

All Lyrics: Kyle Lawrence Hargrove

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Alex Ludovico Gary, Indiana

Drugs, sex, and hip-hop. Alex Ludovico, born in Gary, IN and created in Chicago, is the living embodiment of that credo. This is rap for a new generation: diverse, irreverent, real without pretention yet honest and humorous. This is music for the soundtrack of life, sometimes serious, sometimes fun, always memorable. ... more

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