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illest
Hip-Hop/Rap
illest was released on May 11, 2025 by BCBF Records as a part of the album reflected shades
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Release DateMay 11, 2025
LabelBCBF Records
LanguageEnglish
Melodicness
Acousticness
Valence
Danceability
Energy
BPM

Music Video

Music Video

Lyrics

I write your legend on a subway wall
With gun-powder chalk in a midnight drawl
I'd hack a skyline just to paint your tag
In static arcs that make the wealthy gag
Pistol in roses, deliver the bloom
Toast in alleys lit by neon gloom
You kept me breathing through the concrete rot
So I keep a bullet whether named or not
If cops press questions I just hum a tune
And paint them riddles in a cyan rune
Your birthday gift was a stolen bank
Wrapped in silence with a gas-mask thank
Our love's a ledger etched in silent sums
The world goes broke each time the payday comes
I'd trade my life for twenty seconds clear
'Cause the illest ride and we persevere
We toast to the illest, the ones who remain
Our blood is the ink that rewrites the pain
We carve every promise in gun-metal trust
And dance through the ashes that whisper of us
We toast to the illest, the ones who remain
Our blood is the ink that rewrites the pain
We carve every promise in gun-metal trust
And dance through the ashes that whisper of us
I hold my gratitude like tempered steel
Forged in hush where the faithful kneel
Your pulse stayed steady when the world went black
So I split the night just to bring it back
I calculate loyalty in scalpel lines
Erasing threats before the blade declines
Famine eyed you, I fed it lead
Now hunger sleeps in a gutter bed
I map your burdens on a silent grid
Subtract the danger others keep half-hid
Affection spoken in a killing art
Cuts truer veins than a poet's heart
Take these verses heavy, weighed in dust
They bear an oath unbroken, iron-just
When fear encroaches I close the gate
The illest stand beyond the reach of fate
We toast to the illest, the ones who remain
Our blood is the ink that rewrites the pain
We carve every promise in gun-metal trust
And dance through the ashes that whisper of us
We toast to the illest, the ones who remain
Our blood is the ink that rewrites the pain
We carve every promise in gun-metal trust
And dance through the ashes that whisper of us
You breathe a warning, I draw the line
I bend the skyline, you call it mine
You need a shadow, I kill the light
I spark a riot to cloak the night
Your pulse stutters, I slow the clock
Time trips over the gifts we stock
You whisper danger, I mute the sound
Streets go silent, no witness found
You face the barrel, I shift the aim
I ricochet it in God's own name
You bleed a secret, I stitch it shut
I weld the lock on the data gut
You break the glass, I count the shards
I sell the glimmer to lesser guards
You mark the target, I set the blaze
I write our initials in smoke-lit haze
You doubt the morning, I steal the sun
I flood the sky till the night's undone
You start to falter, I lend my spine
Twin silhouettes in a single line
You swear allegiance, I seal the pact
Our crew immortal—record the fact
Bonds forged silent, cut through the dread
Forever illest—keep riding ahead
We toast to the illest, the ones who remain
Our blood is the ink that rewrites the pain
We carve every promise in gun-metal trust
And dance through the ashes that whisper of us
We toast to the illest, the ones who remain
Our blood is the ink that rewrites the pain
We carve every promise in gun-metal trust
And dance through the ashes that whisper of us
To the illest we whisper, to the living we vow
May the world keep its distance, we live in the now
Where the ink of our blood meets the edge of the blade
Our love writes in silence the history we've made
Written by: Yannick "Keemoo" MARIE-ELEONCY
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