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MACRONESIA
01:48
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Intro:
I’d rather not sulk in my regret
I think i got the whole island in my hands
Verse:
2 AM I’m in downtown. Lack of sleep
Hella motivated from heartbreak and love
Got a new muse, she fully understands who I be
Was incarcerated hardened by cold shoulders
I’ve lost all sense of my being. Im soul searching
Left behind all I know just to find purpose
Island boy, building bridges. Pedestal be burning
Pika pika, stay authentic. Straight up
Who else deserve it but ya mans?
I’ve been swimming in cause. I’ve been drowning in my hurt
Art disturbs the comforted and comforts the disturbed
Pot was stirred life was turned on its head
I was cursed with imposter syndrome, thought I was dead inside
I was revived by the real Jed inside
He still there. Never left, the music still felt right
12 years in this bitch the internet was my vice
From GHURA housing, who woulda thought that I could live this life?
No one can tell me shit. I ain't deluded either
Project’s to still inspire got the fire me
Guam on my mind, not defined by my peers
To change the game, to rock the boat, you need to learn how to steer
Kinda weird how i'm here, but it's also not a coincidence
I’ve lost battles, friends, hope and found it all again
It’s like Im back at square one
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DEDEDO FREESTYLE
Yes I’m a, “Dededope Soldier”
From the North repping
Remember, getting overlooked
Now the boy got all the leverage
Mr. Brown be the beverage
I’m caffeinated, get the message,
No debating, Mom restless
working a dead end job
Everything earned now we getting M’s oh my
Fuck who did it first bitch I’ma go in regardless
Don’t get me started. little Manila with the realest,
I was brought up with em Chauds man
Drip was from the flea market
Got it from mud for real, on some boss shit
No bloodlines, grandma and gramps fresh off da boat
We worked our way up, now we gottem’ all set
Shit
Shout out the camp, straight up, no other way
Killed the scene for 10 years and now ya rolling in ya graves
Just a youngin’ on the come up, like we all were at one point
Was snoozing on me now I’m appointed as Local hip-hop’s whatever
I don’t need no need no titles, the heavyweight champ of
Bing Bong! Joe Byron; on the mic I got Midas Touch
Might just call it quits, go ghost, for now I’m vibin’ much
Snoozix on the mic again, album mode we excited
Ugh.
TAGALU
Chorus:
Yeah ima chaud tagalu
A product of American Dreams
I even got the foresight to look beyond what it seems
I rep my region and I put it on my chest
No expect nothing less
from this island boy
Verse:
Aye born in 96, GMH, April, Im an Aries
Dad was scared to marry
My momma immigrated young
Im a second generation Guam
Boy, hoping he could make it
Just to get him some
Sh*t primu
Northside Ghura housing, It be crowded
Lower and the middle class getting rowdy
The public school kid who bout the hip-hop
Now we here huh?
Built on fear, food stamps and some tears huh?
Fam saving money every year huh?
Scott slippers to some gucci, life is weird huh?
No fam ties, just a vision and some mad rhymes
Never handed anything, but scaling up a landslide
(wooo)
Shout out my OG’s, I’ll keep the torch the lit
From Island Trybe to Sick Minds, we born again
A student of the culture and the scene,
I think I’m more than the memes, ima
Real island boy with some worldwide dreams
Dreams. Made from Pain, Loss and grief
Weeds, burnin up to level out,
Just so I don’t overthink
Outrigger sailing hoping we don’t sink
Chorus:
Yeah ima chaud tagalu
A product of American Dreams
I even got the foresight to look beyond what it seems
I rep my region and I put it on my chest
No expect nothing less
from this island boy (Yerrr)
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Chorus:
Hard to put up with all this heartache (Put up put up)
Put up, move out of harms way (I know I know)
Can’t have it our way (I know, I know )
Best that we part ways, for now
For now, for now, for now (3x)
Verse 1: (STRAIGHTUPJED)
I was hoping that we was solid, sa lech
The Burnout the loving mileage, mind set
The loving Just the same as before for for for
Now for me and you to work, gotta validate the worth
I’ll tell ya where it hurts. Tell me where I went wrong
I could own up to it first. Tell ya what make me tick,
Then bring it back down back to earth
I know I’m under your nerves and you know you under mine
I just want peace, but you don’t want my piece of mind though
Mind though
My loving be hard find though, find though
Life goes and comes back around
Merry go it fall on the ground, at least we leveled out, out
Verse 2: (Dane Amar)
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4. |
ALL-ISLAND
02:21
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Chorus:
I got some ops
Tryna get the of best me
I am the goat from islands
Talking bout me
In ya head rent free
I am the one, come and try me
Verse 1:
This a tribe, this a bloodline, rooted in the waters
From the bottom up. Micro? we macro
Stacks flowing, never stopping always going up
It’s the brand no?
This aint a test, I’m just blowing up
Success, wasn’t overnight, I kept showing up
Always getting high, cause the L’s had me low enough
Low on funds, always making plays, always roll the dice
Snakes looking in my eyes, but the Score we running up
Cheee, got an arsenal of songs, but im straight chilling
Straight feeling myself, aye feeling myself
Have the cup full, but I had to fill it myself
Young snooze working hard for generational wealth
Always move in silence I gotta goo stealth
Fake flexin’s stale, I ain't blind you fake fucks
I could read in Braille
Chorus*
Verse 2:
I be all island, all them eyes on this
Get em all excited with a sauce like this
No cappy, she call me Island Boy and Daddy
King sht, roamin with my reigns. Above average
Hahhhh
Putting islands on the map
Guam boy, neighbors cooking in the trap
Pipe dreams, turned to damn we living that
Living that. Type beat, type dream
Type to git it like that
Iso-lated, I be blessed up
Shout out the islands yeah we next up,
Got some bars for my pars,
I from where there’s sunshine,
But i'm burning with the stars
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Chorus:
I’m too focused for this for this night life sht
Night life shifts In the booth, lifetime splits
Blitzed In the stu, white lines sniffs
You be looking some bite sized wins,
While we larger than life boy
Verse 1: (STRAIGHTUPJED)
Crux going kux, man he built different
Always locked in man we off limits
Always isolated like we Kyries
Uncle drawing up the plays
Delusional? We might be
Aye Fuck em lames, who be shiesty
Icy we ain’t tweaking (uh), sipping on our iced tea,
Pure leaf, fresh, demon hours on the IG
We don’t share much, cause these losers wanna try me
Woo in my bag, and it’s filled up
To the brim baby, we gon' stack em till the bills stuck
If my name in your mouth, it’s cuz you still suck
I’m just being Giannis, dunking on em built from the bucks
Franchise player, we don’t want later want now
I ain’t waiting on no damn free agents
Work ethic, Get the bread
It’s embedded 'till we make it
This is the route, wrong turns help us make the right plays
Chorus:
Verse 2: (Oni-Wan)
Life moves fast in the trap better act right
I recall rolling w goons like it was last night
Whisper in your ear like the devil you hear what you like
You acting like we beefing bitch this ain’t a food fight
I get the mood right I know you stay pressed
Stay flexing for the TL while I was flexing for the press
You been scared since the jump I am the king you’re the jest
Smarter than Einstein never failing these tests
Smoking on zaza, Squeezing her tatas
Consensual of course cause I’m buying her Prada
You st st st stutter I’m on the front covers
Never evicted I’m in your heads I’m a problem
ABT been in my blood cross island cant dodge me
Southern boy through and through from the Vill grew out the concrete
Stay gold live forever yall couldn’t stop me
Taking everything you got even took the top seat
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6. |
EDIBLE
01:41
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Edible, anotha edible
Fentynal? Got no medical
Center of attention. Aetna bested me this time,
Effect of following the dream of stranded
Intentional vinyl crack
The sound of my music left me with burdens of camelbacks,
Camouflage. Urban, out to fit in
Erthang but the bag i'm Florida Orange trippin
The weed my Scottie Pippen
The number 2, i'm coughing up stats Im busy living
Stacking up the accolades Im Aggravated murder
On this sauce By Scott Lafleur I'm rolling on the floor
Laughing bout the come up
Wondering how the fuck we came up?
Looking for angel numbers the devil told me to pay up
I told him im at peace, 'cause my life is some sort of beta
But some how it not made up
The simulation breaker,
Acid trippin in LA, make me go LMAO
HA! It don’t make sense
3 stars and the sun and the son of Guåhan
Who won? As long as i'm at bat, like on some wuhan
Or Robert Pattison sht
Im sticking to guns need some goo gone
Fuck it yo im too gone
I’ll make her pussy wettah than a dewgong
I’ll make a man of you, Asian btch and she not mulan
A filipina, oh yeah sino
tatay mo, what she yelling,
Bending over backwards
While im chillin on the couch
Im Kareem abdul ja barring out in my sleep
I keep the faith, when I fckn leap
From the jump, I was G to the OA to the T
A GOAT to the tee
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Chorus:
Morning, morning, morning
Caffeinated, and I’m zooted in the cut (Ayeee)
More blunts, more bass, it’s important
They say I overdo it but I’m doing nothing much
Doing nothing much.
Verse 1: STRAIGHTUPJED
I just wanna lock in, make music
Use to party in my early 20’s, but I knew the limit
To the nonsense, had focus on the boss sht
Had no options. Momma was a single parent
Used to watch her work her ass off
Now im getting M’s, watch a native blast off
(Yuh)
Used to overlook the boy, why the switch (up)
Wake and bake, it da high life cuh
Yerrr
Up in tam, with the camp straight up we on the brand
Got the whole place bumping, cuh we can,
Blueprint, see the plans, blue faces got em bands
Lemme see em fuggin hands in the air, hands in the air boi
Hands in the air, hands in the air girl
Cash, the affairs deal with the choke points
I'm incomparable ya’ll ain’t got no choice, but to quit
Verse 2: Brycecole
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8. |
UP LATE
02:26
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Chorus:
I was up late, thinking bout the next move
Ion keep tabs on nobodies. What da best do?
Bedroom to the major leagues, we progressed too
Invested to turn back woo, feeling blessed!
Verse 1:
New flex, living life with some newer meaning
All the other rappers come and go and now they tweaking
Over geeking, over nothing like they got a seat,
The ops hidden up in plain sight
Snakes slither in the night, stick hitting where it hurts
I was charging em for perc
Now I’m charging for my verses
Yeah I grew up from the dirt
Straight up murking my anxiety
The pot is smoked and stirred
On the verge of another breakthrough
We done earned all em' M’s
Whip is new, not the friends
You got something bad to say?
You a fan. You a fan of the work.
I know nothing but my worth
What is life? I’m the term
Giving all the my blood, sweat, love and tears
Skrtt
Chorus
Verse 2:
Feeling blessed, crutch kinging, on the throne
I don’t gloat, If you goated real mofuggahs know
This ain’t no newwww information
It’s cuh you used to da fake shit
I swear it oozing with dated sauce
Got enough for all of ya’ll
All the salt, ya thrown at me bad for the cholesterol
I could feel the energy, envy living inside of ya’ll
I say that it love, I’m biting bullets, from all ya shots
Bulletproof tested, I Hope ya’ll learning ya lesson ya'll
Eating boy, I’m eating you a busser at my restaurant
Bussin, always bussin lotta plates stacked eat it all
Lotta people butt hurt, wishing I could heal em all
I just put work,
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9. |
RITE NOW (feat. YxngTy)
02:31
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Chorus;
Last year had my back against the wall, now the stock up
People fucking with the vision now don’t know the cost of
Success, Im a Don with finesse
I want all of my M’s right now, right now
Verse 1: (STRAIGHTUPJED)
If time is our biggest asset, It game time now
Everything earned, I just had to drive to find out
Wrong turns, lead me right back right on course
People tell me that goated. Im like, "of course"
Eating baby, I’m the main the course
Ima light the blunt, where the torch at
Burning hella packs of the backwoods
Scheming demon time, we run the score up
Ladies at the front door who pulled up
Ion need distractions, but ima need some head to get ahead
I just keep it straight up cuz i'm JED, thats the M/O
I grew up in the ghetto side of town, but I earned my stripes
Since the jump, young snooze always nice like woah!
(Chorus)
Verse 2: (YxngTy)
Last year had my back against the wall
Not i'm steady standing tall right now right now right now
I don't need no distraction, hold it down for the faction
Cue the lights ( cue the lights ), camera action
I get the action with a passion
I get to blasting, you the past tense
I'm a pastor, the way im preaching
I get this bread every weekend, I think i'm peaking
I know they peepin'.
Island boy , Yxngtyon the beat wylin
You know we go hard cause we coming from the islands
Whippin' in the kitchen like i'm cooking egg salad
Hopped up on the beat and started pushing like a dolly
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10. |
END THOUGH
02:41
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Verse 1:
Gelato rolled up
Got a bottle of the Jack pour up
That be life when this rap sht all that you love,
Everything around you nothing but numb.
Late nights losing sleep up in HQ
I’ve been clean for while. I’ve been great too
How you been huh?
Been feeling better bout myself as of late
Faith got me through the trouble
There be bags I need to chase
And at the end of the tunnel
There’s a light (uhh)
told my demons let the bygones be bygones.
I’ve hurt people that I never should’ve hurt
Even if i didn’t mean it, still raised some concern
In my heart
I don’t wanna cause pain,
I wanna heal with my art
They got they stories
But I’d rather let em talk
Cause they ain’t been in my shoes
Then ain’t seen what I’ve seen
They ain’t been on my grind
And they think they know me like damn
You don’t know me you just knew who I was.
Had a lot of self growth In these past few months.
Had to cut some people off, cause they lost my trust.
Fake friends, fake moves, even worst? Fake love.
People like to disappear
When they got what they want.
Only wanting you to win,
So they’d feel like they a part of ya come up.
“Yeah I’ve been a day one”
Shut up.
Chorus:
No I don’t want stress no more
Ain’t no one impress no more
Fuck clout I’ve been down that road
I was hurting on the low,
Now I’m Cooling up in Zen Mode
On the green, cause I stopped all the benzos
I was almost taken out like a bento
Yeah i took this life granted now I’m laughing looking back
At all bad shit I’ve done it was whack,
but hope its cool in the end though
Verse 2:
For the first time I ain’t got no drama
All the sht for the birds, all that’s on my mind
be the mental health and commas
I got too much on the line, to not put me first
Tell me what I owe again? I don’t know
All of dis entitlement, It ain’t cool
I got the juice, I got the sauce
Tell what ya value isn’t once more
I got too much to worry about I got goals
Too much I’m burning the clock, I be cold in my heart
If my sanity gone, at the cost of couple of streams
Then at least my ass finished the song (fuck)
It's all good, you know me man it's all love,
But do you really know me?
Do you really know me?
Chorus:
No I don’t want stress no more
Ain’t no one impress no more
Fuck clout I’ve been down that road
I was hurting on the low,
Now I’m Cooling up in Zen Mode
On the green, cause I stopped all the benzos
I was almost taken out like a bento
Yeah i took this life granted now I’m laughing looking back
At all bad shit I’ve done it was whack,
but hope its cool in the end though
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STRAIGHTUPJED Los Angeles, California
JED is a Guam based songwriter, producer AND singer.
In 2021, JED was credited as a
songwriter for TWICE’s new album: Formula of Love: O+T=<3.
JED has opened up for E-40, MadeinTYO, PnB Rock and Jhené Aiko. Along with being the highest streamed artist on Guam, JED opened up Straight Up Studios, a recording/production studio based in Guam.
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