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Trade Craft (produced by Gravy)

from Then til Now by Jus Time

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This was one of those half done sat there forever type of tracks I was sitting on that would've never been finished if I hadn't set my mind to getting the project done.. I came up with the title after watching an episode of "The Americans" , a really dope show about Russian spies in America in the 80's.. Tradecraft is a term that refers to ways that spies communicate messages to each through non-verbal mundane movements, such as whatever side of the porch their flower pot is on means determines if somebody lives or dies.. It also refers to some of the trickery and misinformation that is utilized to keep the enemy off balance, which I think is constantly used on American citizens everyday of out lives.

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Tradecraft

I'm shooting from the hip hoppin over the fence
Where the grass a little greener I was needin a spliff
You ain't ready for the fire probably burn in the flames
Tryin to do a backflip never worried with aim
They shootin with flare nobody came
Chicken gang lame plain da-da-da-dipped in the wings
We winnin the game from the minute it started
Couldn't interrupt my sentence with a governors pardon
They gassin ya lines I'm chokin ya flow
Full of hot air that's when I'm poking a hole
Bout to leave'em on the road so bloody and cold
You know I got my own commandments they written in stone
Life can be hard never take it for granite
Never dumb it down kept it smarter than Alec
I ain't fuckin w coke never catch me red handed
Or crossing over pop like a Pepsi challenge

Hook

Don't know why they do or say that
Logic is strange and they betray facts
Lead us astray they stay trapped
But if u in the know u know its tradecraft

Verse 2
They over did it tryin to out do
Boxin bullets here is round two
You in the sound booth with no soundproof
Jury is out so y'all scurry about and found true
Im Poking fun with a Smoking gun hard evidence
No doubt Set and start presedence Par excellence
Scars and messages established our residence
This city gave me gifts I gotta re-present
To yall thats re giftin you Trading in scalps and you Indian given
Thats off of the top eatin up ya weak writtens
shittin on ya home in the teepee business
Even meek kittens tiger uppercut ya team viscous
so keep wishin that bleak mission
see the kids and their Heroes are the movie villains
Guess the Messages kinda Cryptic like Tookie Williams

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from Then til Now, released September 25, 2014
Produced by Gravy
Recorded and Mixed by Matt Sawicki

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Jus Time St. Louis, Missouri

1/4 of The Treez
1/3 of The 12 to 6 Movement

I started writing after discovering the songs and poems of my father after he passed.
Inspired by 90’s NY Hip Hop
Encouraged by Aaron Marx aka Cooleyhigh

Every line has to have an angle or meaning.

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