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Written by Izzy Man, Daniel Hype Lopez, Jimmytheloch
Performed by Izzy Man, Daniel Hype Lopez, Jimmytheloch, and Erica Summerlin
Composed, produced, and mixed by Izzy Man
All lyrics, arrangements, and recordings are original works by the artists.
2011
www.izzyman.com
www.izzymanmusic.com
www.twitter.com/izzymusic
www.youtube.com/izzymantv
www.facebook.com/izzymusic
www.dynastystyle.com
www.infinitehypedesign.com
www.youtube.com/hyzymusic
www.youtube.com/dynastystyle
www.jimmytheloch.com
www.youtube.com/jimmytheloch
Artwork Notes:
"There is something about the personal connotations that come with artistic endeavors that always draw me closer to an artist. This work is a rush, a smudge, a gesture. It is simple and as clear a window into the experience of "without air" as I
could express. I work in styles of collage and juxtaposing images with words, and I feel like this best represents
the nature of art in our digitized society today. What does it feel like to be without air? What kind of reality
is that? Izzy makes you hear it. I want to try to make you see it."
-Kristen Tomanocy
contact Kristen for art and poetry at kristen.tomanocy@gmail.com
Song Notes:
Ever watch Sin City, the part of the story where the dude falls into the tar pit and he’s sinking and giving up life? That scene pretty much sums up exactly what I wanted to depict in this beat and through the words. The beat began in February 2010 during my little love crush on using 808s and soft pads. After watching Sin City for the umpteenth time, I went back to the board and added the synth accordion to emphasize fast air movements to compliment the slower air swell of the pads. The first part that I fell in love with in this song was the steady rock of the toms, which were influenced by Kanye’s “Love Lockdown” from his album“Heartbreaks and 808s”. I wrote my verse first, which was tricky handling the quicker pacing (learning from the speed master Jimmytheloch) and then Jimmy laid his verse down, completely killing the song (in a good way.) During the 2010 Intangible Collective “Where There’s Smoke There’s Fire” spring tour on a stop in Oneonta, Erica and D Hype laid their verses and hooks down in a day, making these two one-take champs in my book. Completely under pressure with no space for re-records, they went in, lacing the verse with ill words and smooth vibes. The song stayed the same until more than a year later, where I felt compelled to lay down a piano breakdown, around August of 2011. The different flows of each rapper, coupled with Erica’s smooth vocals, became the smooth, symphonic sound that it needed to be.
Performed by Izzy Man, Daniel Hype Lopez, Jimmytheloch, and Erica Summerlin
Composed, produced, and mixed by Izzy Man
All lyrics, arrangements, and recordings are original works by the artists.
2011
www.izzyman.com
www.izzymanmusic.com
www.twitter.com/izzymusic
www.youtube.com/izzymantv
www.facebook.com/izzymusic
www.dynastystyle.com
www.infinitehypedesign.com
www.youtube.com/hyzymusic
www.youtube.com/dynastystyle
www.jimmytheloch.com
www.youtube.com/jimmytheloch
Artwork Notes:
"There is something about the personal connotations that come with artistic endeavors that always draw me closer to an artist. This work is a rush, a smudge, a gesture. It is simple and as clear a window into the experience of "without air" as I
could express. I work in styles of collage and juxtaposing images with words, and I feel like this best represents
the nature of art in our digitized society today. What does it feel like to be without air? What kind of reality
is that? Izzy makes you hear it. I want to try to make you see it."
-Kristen Tomanocy
contact Kristen for art and poetry at kristen.tomanocy@gmail.com
Song Notes:
Ever watch Sin City, the part of the story where the dude falls into the tar pit and he’s sinking and giving up life? That scene pretty much sums up exactly what I wanted to depict in this beat and through the words. The beat began in February 2010 during my little love crush on using 808s and soft pads. After watching Sin City for the umpteenth time, I went back to the board and added the synth accordion to emphasize fast air movements to compliment the slower air swell of the pads. The first part that I fell in love with in this song was the steady rock of the toms, which were influenced by Kanye’s “Love Lockdown” from his album“Heartbreaks and 808s”. I wrote my verse first, which was tricky handling the quicker pacing (learning from the speed master Jimmytheloch) and then Jimmy laid his verse down, completely killing the song (in a good way.) During the 2010 Intangible Collective “Where There’s Smoke There’s Fire” spring tour on a stop in Oneonta, Erica and D Hype laid their verses and hooks down in a day, making these two one-take champs in my book. Completely under pressure with no space for re-records, they went in, lacing the verse with ill words and smooth vibes. The song stayed the same until more than a year later, where I felt compelled to lay down a piano breakdown, around August of 2011. The different flows of each rapper, coupled with Erica’s smooth vocals, became the smooth, symphonic sound that it needed to be.
lyrics
(Erica & Izzy)
I need to catch my breath and then
Feeling the night inside again
Taking my chest,
I know that the best is out there
We need to take the time to breathe
Only takes a second for life to leave
You need to know there’s nowhere to go
Without air
(Izzy)
Wake up
To the same pillow, willow to the sun
Put the mask back onto your countenance
We amount to this
Making mountains out of sounds so we bounce to this
Where’s the next ounce
Energy
Energize
I realize everyday is a fight
Every night
Is another image that I am living in
Breathe in liquid filament
The window filling in
Break out your hammer, smash your glass
Hold your own breath again
You got nothing to win
We pull back the hit
Accident?
Man, I’m up in the wind
I never intended to flex tendon and bone
But play me like Nintendo and I’ll send you back home
All alone
Breathe slow, We know
Ain’t no easy way to sail
We wait, don’t hold your soul in a cage
Release it
And then we
Exhale, hale, hale
Look at your life in a flash
You see the life that you had
You can’t prevent your own crash
Don’t sleep
Until you find the fight that makes you ignite
You can’t
Without oxygen
Box you in
Like a flame
Flicker down
Into indigo
We could never know
How to rise to the top
If we never go
Where the bottom is
We fall there
Never know how to breathe
If we
Never be
Without air
(Jimmytheloch)
Think Before you start raising all hell
Don’t break through the guard rail
Emotional rollercoaster making your arms flail
Just sit at the bottom of the lake as air escapes
Too late for an ambulance
Clutching on fate to resuscitate
Our lips lock lungs inflate so near fatal
She thrusts palms into chests
A paramedic slash angel
Untangling my mangled frame like cat's cradle
Lights shine through the mist and midnight haze causing that rainbow
I feel so high when I’m breathing clouds
What’re the odds that I’d even out
Leave the scene renowned I’m a demon now
But really feeling proud plant seeds of doubt
See my feet drag when i walk on the brink
Who should I thank for the oxygen tank?
Tighten the mask now gone in a flash
Wishing I could return to the dawn of the crash
Gasp for breath see death and laugh just
Fight through traffic such a maverick
Leave the tavern more drunk than average
Lose your balance til your reach the palace
Chuckle with madness unhinging trailers
Skin peels like bananas speech is frantic but we've been spared
Even flames can't exist without air
(Erica & D Hype)
I need to catch my breath and then
Feeling the night inside again
Taking my chest,
I know that the best is out there
We need to take the time to breathe
Only takes a second for life to leave
You need to know there’s nowhere to go
Without air
(D Hype)
Crooked lean
Air I fiend
Falling to my own needs
Pressure building
Lungs collapse
Ever so slowly
If this is my dying breath then I’m out like an OG
Out of gas outer mass
Praying for me slowly
Looking back, it’s a fact
Time was never granted
Forward with assumptions
Merrily enchanted
Gotta take some risk on the board, so I chance it
Give and go while collecting on advances
Taught me never trust no body
They’ll always disappoint you
But everybody’s somebody
Looking for a point to express
Benevolent content, I conjoin to
Stickin to our thoughts cuz we fought just to stay true
Give me space to breathe cuz I’m dying for some air
It’s got me seeing stars, yet my vision’s so clear
20/20 news like the truth was laid bare
guiding light Polaris in the northern hemisphere
(Erica)
Without air
Without air
Without air
Without air
I need to catch my breath and then
Feeling the night inside again
Taking my chest,
I know that the best is out there
We need to take the time to breathe
Only takes a second for life to leave
You need to know there’s nowhere to go
Without air
(Izzy)
Wake up
To the same pillow, willow to the sun
Put the mask back onto your countenance
We amount to this
Making mountains out of sounds so we bounce to this
Where’s the next ounce
Energy
Energize
I realize everyday is a fight
Every night
Is another image that I am living in
Breathe in liquid filament
The window filling in
Break out your hammer, smash your glass
Hold your own breath again
You got nothing to win
We pull back the hit
Accident?
Man, I’m up in the wind
I never intended to flex tendon and bone
But play me like Nintendo and I’ll send you back home
All alone
Breathe slow, We know
Ain’t no easy way to sail
We wait, don’t hold your soul in a cage
Release it
And then we
Exhale, hale, hale
Look at your life in a flash
You see the life that you had
You can’t prevent your own crash
Don’t sleep
Until you find the fight that makes you ignite
You can’t
Without oxygen
Box you in
Like a flame
Flicker down
Into indigo
We could never know
How to rise to the top
If we never go
Where the bottom is
We fall there
Never know how to breathe
If we
Never be
Without air
(Jimmytheloch)
Think Before you start raising all hell
Don’t break through the guard rail
Emotional rollercoaster making your arms flail
Just sit at the bottom of the lake as air escapes
Too late for an ambulance
Clutching on fate to resuscitate
Our lips lock lungs inflate so near fatal
She thrusts palms into chests
A paramedic slash angel
Untangling my mangled frame like cat's cradle
Lights shine through the mist and midnight haze causing that rainbow
I feel so high when I’m breathing clouds
What’re the odds that I’d even out
Leave the scene renowned I’m a demon now
But really feeling proud plant seeds of doubt
See my feet drag when i walk on the brink
Who should I thank for the oxygen tank?
Tighten the mask now gone in a flash
Wishing I could return to the dawn of the crash
Gasp for breath see death and laugh just
Fight through traffic such a maverick
Leave the tavern more drunk than average
Lose your balance til your reach the palace
Chuckle with madness unhinging trailers
Skin peels like bananas speech is frantic but we've been spared
Even flames can't exist without air
(Erica & D Hype)
I need to catch my breath and then
Feeling the night inside again
Taking my chest,
I know that the best is out there
We need to take the time to breathe
Only takes a second for life to leave
You need to know there’s nowhere to go
Without air
(D Hype)
Crooked lean
Air I fiend
Falling to my own needs
Pressure building
Lungs collapse
Ever so slowly
If this is my dying breath then I’m out like an OG
Out of gas outer mass
Praying for me slowly
Looking back, it’s a fact
Time was never granted
Forward with assumptions
Merrily enchanted
Gotta take some risk on the board, so I chance it
Give and go while collecting on advances
Taught me never trust no body
They’ll always disappoint you
But everybody’s somebody
Looking for a point to express
Benevolent content, I conjoin to
Stickin to our thoughts cuz we fought just to stay true
Give me space to breathe cuz I’m dying for some air
It’s got me seeing stars, yet my vision’s so clear
20/20 news like the truth was laid bare
guiding light Polaris in the northern hemisphere
(Erica)
Without air
Without air
Without air
Without air
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released 11 November 2011
Izzy Man, Erica Summerlin, D Hype, Jimmytheloch
Izzy Man, Erica Summerlin, D Hype, Jimmytheloch
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IZZY is part Intangible Collective/Cosmonauts/HYZY/I&I/DynastyStyle, and all around bacon connoisseur.He's performed since
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2005 from Texas State to Pampanga in the Philippines. He is a poet, writer, performer, music producer, rapper, musician, artist, dancer, and stuffs. He's had music featured on the Blacksmith Community Mixtape by Talib Kweli and Mick Boogie.
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