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HARD PLACE
Hip-Hop/Rap
HARD PLACE was released on May 5, 2026 by The 4th Kind as a part of the album PURPLE HEART
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Release DateMay 5, 2026
LabelThe 4th Kind
LanguageEnglish
Melodicness
Acousticness
Valence
Danceability
Energy
BPM82

Music Video

Music Video

Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS
16RAHEEM
16RAHEEM
Rap
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Ibraheem Jamaal Azam
Ibraheem Jamaal Azam
Songwriter
Skyler Kieler
Skyler Kieler
Songwriter
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Kulture
Kulture
Producer
Ro Moore
Ro Moore
Mastering Engineer

Lyrics

One, one, one, one six, one yeah
Stuck in a hard place
Tryna let my guard down but I still been broken up I keep a heart brace
I put my pain into this music not a bar wasted
It's for the love not for the color of the yard space
But I'm stuck up inna hard place
I gotta get it for my moms sake
See I been sliding on the tar lately
High speed but not a car chase
I'm tryna tell you bout these dark days
So much trauma caused my dark ways
Sacrificing for myself but why I fall short
But for others I go harder up on yall court
I think it's thought provoking
But when it's truth then nobody wanna hear you like you speaking having halitosis
I been elevating deeper few had saw the focus
But the ones who growing with me really got to notice
Uh, stay the plot
I been trippin lately tryna get it daily but I'm hot
Feel the world up on my shoulders but I'm strong this ain't a lot
Know it's dropping if I crack like Ronald Reagan's stock
Saw a paper rolled it, saw another paper jot
These a couple ways that I can put the pain into a box
Know I gotta pray so everyday I'm making my salat
Hope for better ways I say Salam Alaikum to the akhs
Know tommorow never promised it's a lotta ways to drop
Ticking time bomb writing songs every day I rot slow
Wasting all my love and energy up on the wrong souls
Fighting all my demons but I'm realer this a crossroads
I had to let it be
Overnight I'm working like tryna be celebrity
Feel like Julius Erving I was hooping in another league
Then we merge together it was better cuz I had a ring
But I lost it all I realized I need another team
Uh, this shit ain't what it seem
Doing what I wanted as a kid this shit ain't but a dream
Late nights trippin' toss and turning like the novarine-shake
How I'm feeling under pressure like a submarine
I done cooked this up but It's still fucked up boa this shit some to see
Stuck I ain't feel no luck but I knew the rut grew up to conquer these
Gotta keep my value know they tryna buy my company
I can't give my peace away no cap this ain't monopoly
I see they leeching come to me want me bail out for free
Ian taking shots I'm dropping bars ain't got no alc in me
I stay at home with all my people we the casamigos
I gotta reason we up late creating alchemy
This shit get messy tryna kick it like a soccer team
Me I always thrive when keeping goals like Gianluigi
Can't break me off for free
I'm too solid for the gimmicks fuck the industry
All I did was stay alive in 2023
God said it's not my time he gave the prophecy
I been told em 2020 I'm a dyin' breed
Planted in me from my OG was a lion seed
Drop an album trace my life so I record the steps
I was tripping it was stronger than the cordyceps
She don't know bout all this pain but mama know me best
Keep a smile with the fam but I been so depressed
Yeah
Lord please save me from my self
Been impatient, I been ignorant I pray you grant me health
Know what made me was them days I spent in mazes
I done learned from my mistake but I can't trip this is how they raised us
Was so elated when my prose went from surgical to immersible
Poetic and proverbial
Purple Visions premonitions put to pages, made to paintings
So it's crazy for to care bout who ain't heard a you
All I ever did was really show em you could do it too
Let my guard down in music where I'm bulletproof
Drum like a heartbeat
I know my flaws deep
I know she saw me
Know we all king and queens
And she my heart we both too scarred so we can't make it work
I keep it real most of these rappers rather fabricate
I take the jumper I know most would prolly fake it first
You would give up if you seen the way these tables turn, yeah
Burn pages let the sages burn, yeah, one
Lemme just hear that last one
Written by: Ibraheem Jamaal Azam, Skyler Kieler
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