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Revolutionary But Gorgeous

by Saïd & Hobbes Duende

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1.
Pandemic hit the ends like its aids again Say goodbye to your loved ones better make amends Way these white folks talking They gonna make us slaves again Yeah they gonna make us slaves again Helicopters in the sky, following marches Either they call us assailants or they calling us targets Pray my sins away today incase tomorrow is promised Walking road talking code But I'm living Islamic Threats on my life Through text messages twice Stressing my wife I wonder how much my head collecting a price If prayer is the weapon of choice of the believer Then what's God saying when I'm loading these millimetres Imagine rapping with truth stuck in my jaw Nigga walk tall until you ducking the law I wasn't even old enough to be cuffed in a car But here we are Now it's bars I could be giving you scars 3 round burst gotta 3 peat the rifle Teach the yutes a better way So they don't repeat the cycle America taught us violence so we be just like you your religion capitalism we streets disciples You ever see a body jolt once a shell hit it And you know that nigga dead because he smell different But the crime rate down We don't believe the lies you tell niggas Even if it's true interrogation lights melt niggas Feeling like Nip without the gang affiliation It's a strange initiation Fight for change is living dangerous I used to make a name Snatching chains and taking bracelets Escorted through the front But aint a stranger to the basement nigga I'm on the block because I have a voice Violent by nature, I aint have a choice Pop the pistol southpaw, never miss an opp They aint testifying I aint sitting in a prison box But they got our skin weaponized Every breath is ammunition in their eyes Its terrorism with a green card You know its over if I see y'all Knocking at my door, MAGA hat the oppressor Talking to detectives Quran on my dresser Rolling up ICE speaking spanish to test us Immigration department of corrections collect us Misquoted in interviews where I'm giving truth In the open ravishing women Ricky Rude I can never cry when an officer die Blow my nose on your flag and toss it aside Glock by my side cock it and rise Parabellum cross your T and dot up your eyes You talking to I in your most garbage of rhymes You wanna battle Bring your people to watch your demise Here's some facts handsome and vicious Your girl pree the gram, romancing my pictures Cancerous scriptures, rancid delicious Try to bite what I write My hands is your dinner Crippled the last nigga they sent to harm me At 17 I beat an attempted hommy You won a prize, free trip to the coroner Revolutionary but gorgeous Be on the lookout revolutionary but gorgeous Hobbes and Said revolutionary but gorgeous
2.
I never sold no dope but I robbed niggas that did Yo I don't even rap just recall the vividest shit Nigga you'd be violent too seeing bullets riddle you crib Explaining to your moms that's just the shit that you live I lost more friends than I care to recount Police beat a nigga in school and carried him out My first interactions with authority figures Were purely horrific had me cuffed before Puberty bore me a visit I surely exhibit Every sign of a delinquent But with this rhyming I'm distinguished God designed me as a linguist Forming diamonds out of ingots Never blinded by the trinkets I was plotting on this barber Couldn't wait to take his chain Nigga I aint knocking you out You'll be awake to feel this pain You Taking me in vain That 3rd times a charm I'm like Beetlejuice I can't wait til you say my name Nigga Run the jewels bitch Ali shuffle in these V3s Sugar Foot Said niggas know me Ali shuffle in these V3s Sugar Foot Said niggas know me Ali shuffle in these V3s Sugar Foot Said niggas know me Ali shuffle in these V3s Box a nigga head off rest in peace to Sweat Pea There's a balance to life Still don't play the middle Choose a side wise not a game it's a riddle though Might get caught in the Nets Kerry Kittles But remember ever bone must be buried Cause we brittle though As long as you flow could be a little bo But principles and codes let me know I had a little hope Now I sit by the fire place reflecting on the that little coat I wore on the corner with a bit of coke Helped me cope through the winters when I paid the bills Collectors dont care about a cent I had to pay it still Every win was victory for basic thrills Bought my first whip before I could vote Or take a pill With prescribed consent from my mother though Motha fuckas was ducking shots straight from the muzzle Was in trouble if you fucked with me Nothin subtle I'm above you never bluffin Never stutter with the shuffle like I'm Ali Ali shuffle in these V3s Sugar Foot Said niggas know me Ali shuffle in these V3s Sugar Foot Said niggas know me Ali shuffle in these V3s Sugar Foot Said niggas know me Ali shuffle in these V3s Box a nigga head off rest in peace to Sweat Pea Only time I wanna be like Tupac was to shoot cops Produce Glocks like a magician On some John wick shit Yo we picking up the beef raising the stakes Think Canada is sweet must of made a mistake Nigga Toronto eat food plus I was raised in the states Banana clip blood baths yo they bathing an ape I love to network introduce a razor to face Carving out shapes thats a box cutter you taste Shawn Michaels with the super kicks In cyphers I'm a lunatic Rifles just blew a kiss sight you with my crucifix Yeezy V3 like alien feet I take the life of anybody that compare you to me Yo my knuckle game legendary Before fights I used to train in the cemetery Beatyourass dot com my fist is the home page You ever see a large calibre at close range
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I have a temper That I have to temper I came out in a sad September Adapt to tension Cause I react to pressure Trying to do it for my future So the past remember I'm bout action This ain't a protest Keep my pistol with before I give it to coat check Kill one of those cops that left Garner with no breath Niggas know a lot of shit But they don't know death Heat up the concrete with these cold 1s Can't vote Democrat cause I sold guns Coke in the air won't make my nose numb Survivors remorse I know what I grow from I know the suburbs and I know the jungle Through it all Allah showed me struggle They might show you love but trust me no one loves you That's why you gotta keep a distance when they go to hug you Closer I get to success The more hopeless I feel When I get to being whole The more broken I feel I got friends that I aint spoke to in years Say the seen me on the telly I just hope that they cheered Yeah yeah Closer I get to success The more hopeless I feel When I get to being whole The more broken I feel I got friends that I aint spoke to in years Say the seen me on the telly I just hope that they cheered Yeah yeah Growing up with Bill Bellamy Lessons on infidelity Pessimist to the melody That love birds sing I want both things Loyalty and lust Without the questioning trust That's enough to make my heart beat bust No one ever helped me with basics Of healthy relations Just left me with tapings That tempted me crazy What's the science on it I been crying on it Settle down Nah my mom told me take more time Yeah Umi told me take 4 wives No woman would be worth my time No woman no cry But our sisters got strength we couldn't dream to possess Ugh so why we only see em for sex You know society be leaving em stressed Like rape can be avoided if we teach em to dress Men ain't talking to brothers Brothas ain't talking to men What you gonna say when your daughter Can't trust her friend Closer I get to success The more hopeless I feel When I get to being whole The more broken I feel I got friends that I aint spoke to in years Say the seen me on the telly I just hope that they cheered Yeah yeah Closer I get to success The more hopeless I feel When I get to being whole The more broken I feel I got friends that I aint spoke to in years Say the seen me on the telly I just hope that they cheered Yeah yeah
4.
For the thugs that walk gunshots off with a limp And blow the powder off the hand like they getting off lint When it hits I pray every shot is a near miss Or I record before I die so you get to hear this And if I lose a leg I want a gun holding me up So I can have a double barrel while I'm holding you up If voting's enough why it won't change sooner George Bush to Donald Trump Jr They know what they doing keep family in power Money loves vanity Living in the hands of the cowards The sky aint the limit It's just the beginning Why you think they trying to colonise the moon And Tax you for visits my nigga stay with it America built wealth off incest and nepotism Separation of Church and state like an exorcism Wretched rhythms got em stepping into they death Yo our exodus Is gonna put the whole planet in debt The try to imitate our flesh and limit our success You can't match us in life can't pass us in death I look like sex muscles developed for conflict I could grace a magazine cover Or campaign for office God made the strongest pain is my author Only faded by barbers Play me in a stadium Hot as a uranium cartridge Hannibal of Carthage Every woman's dream and every haters target For the thugs who hide bills in the Nike shoe boxes Selling poison to their people its only a few options Don't ever think a different way of life is beyond you A prison sentence no matter how long Gonna haunt you Get a weapon incase them paigons intend to wrong you Disinfecting the place them niggas think they belong to Racist Judge and Black youth get paired often Give us our age in a cell with a clear conscious Capitalism cool til its time for fair options Used to be a felony now marijunana sharecropping Tears dropping for human warehousing Family allowed the visit But they disappear often 13th amendment is confederate vengeance Native born immigrants, servitude indentured You get life in detention They getting a pension Bankrupt schools won't ever pay attention Jesus was born in September so was I They crucified thugs so you know we coincide Why you think you cross your heart and hope to die God love us hood niggas why we so despised For the thugs that found Islam Let the sunnah guide you Always give Salaams don't let it divide you Sulafi or Wahabi Sunni or Shi'a If you God body or on the corner slinging bean pies If you give me the greeting I'ma give it back And pray a bullet that I sent is never coming back
5.
Young smart nigga shit Child of some immigrants Barely dodge prison Showing niggas what the business is If you want it jump Prize fighter penmanship Culture Black Gold sand coloured skin I'm in Legend in my city cause I did it for kids and them If I show my face west of Texas it's for dividends Gotta pay the speaker fee just to hear me vent Super villain on the streets feds wanna take a pic Born knowledge equality on the math so we stay legit 5 Pillars plus a pistol for my incidents 10 Toes down pop a 5th in the air Down for whatever as long as I'm not missing my prayers We throw up gang signs for the listen impaired Wire tap the iPhone so they listen in pairs Scrolling through my texts just a list of affairs Survival of the fittest nigga, I know this shit isn't fair We sing a song And special for you So special, so special, so special We tell a story Of what god will do for you Making Wudu with the Fiji water Fendi prayer rug from Neiman Marcus Sneaker shopping for the sleekest options Annuit coeptis inside of my denim pockets Wack niggas never overstand their logic I rhyme Islamic with the power cosmic Only time I face defeat is staring at my sneaker closet Make Salah request some peace to prophets Grab the piece have a feast in my beef and broccolis Millimetres popping hustlers trying to see a decent profit 9 To 5ing seem preposterous 99 Around my neck Astaghfru'Allah lets keep it rocking I got 17 shots doper than Medellin pots Every queen hot And I'm looking for Nefertiti ah My pedigree top Giving the best to divas ah Let her eat cock Bring a friend I'll keep it rock If her man come Get backed down with the chrome The Gorgeous Revolutionary the background of her phone We sing a song And special for you So special, so special, so special We tell a story Of what god will do for you
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2004 03:00
Get on my soapbox I give a sermon to the block My play cousin shh had it burning in the pot I was protection when he was nervous of the opps I mean I'm like a 5'8 version of The Rock He wore air max 95s infrareds Never carried guns he was only into gettin bread I had a pistol with a beam and some lead Jordan 8 lows I was 17 splitting heads Facts I praise Allah the fullest Put a gun to my head squeeze I'll still dodge the bullet Getting paid for all the shit my wrist was writing My fists is frightening Knuckles smell like boogers and gingivitis Dumping shells a couple fell Central booking we got indicted Stuck in jail fucking hell Nigga I didn't like it The difference is you sniffing and I'm saying lines If God made me in his image What I make in mine Beat attempted murder back in 04 Jumping borders Like a nigga on a world tour (Facts) Did the work Made the road sore Niggas know my rep But they don't know yours Beat attempted murder back in 04 Jumping borders Like a nigga on a world tour (Facts) Did the work Made the road sore Niggas know my rep But they don't know yours Lord God I ask forgiveness For all these wratchets spitting Target acquisition Made all these bastard children I know what's gon come to light So in the dark I practice hitting Reflexes sharpened For the hardest bad positions Until the lion learn to write You know how the story goes We walked the glory roads You were in glory holes Ugh Tour de force in my Jordan 4s I'ma foreign force with a gorgeous broad I went from poor as poor Smorgasbords from the corner store To fish with swords from imported shores Rap conscious but I'm certified You ain't earn respect but you deserve to die Might not hurt your bank but I'ma hurt your pride Dick heads think they hard until they circumcised Smelling like Gunpowder and Burberry Mal intent sent paigons to the infirmary Beat attempted murder back in 04 Jumping borders Like a nigga on a world tour (Facts) Did the work Made the road sore Niggas know my rep But they don't know yours Beat attempted murder back in 04 Jumping borders Like a nigga on a world tour (Facts) Did the work Made the road sore Niggas know my rep But they don't know yours Beat attempted murder back in 04
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Duende 00:45
8.
Hijrah 03:05
Jesus gave sight to the blind This an impossible view You can't walk in my shoes Call this therapy Victim of poverty Prosperity gospel Niggas be sticking to robbery Cost of living colossal Yo these christians they bother me Talking about the father They be giving me problems Cause I call em on they gossip I service my community Got these jakes chasing me Check your contacts That's how conversations be Got the late text Excited fatherhood facing me Complicated pregnancy My baby lost the baby Joke about taking lives Til the almighty taking mine Now I gotta wait in line Don't look at me my face is fine Saying lines same time Questioning faith I find Is this my fault from crimes When I was spraying 9s Forgiveness worth it If I stay the bitter person Missing my mom And all of this shit emerging Clinching my palms Give salaams To the jinn and serpents Self sabotage I'm going against my purpose Full speed into a wall Going against inertia Tough to finish these rhymes My fucking heart is hurting I been fighting all my life I just wanna exist These handcuffs hurt officer I'm gonna resist I ain't begging you to keep your knee From under my ribs If it's you or me You ain't going home to none of your kids I'd rather be a martyr Than face a bunch of charges I'll lead a revolution Fuck your racist son and daughter 14 Nights of nightmares I ain't sleeping a wink I bit my tongue in dream Spitting blood in the sink Seen my girl die giving birth to my child She alive when I wake It still hurt me to smile I'm thankful for my past Cause It show me what my purpose is 2020 Put a nigga back up on some murder shit Performing ain't practical Covid forming is tactical Crackas call me radical While they storming the capital They got the right idea You know my fight right here You my oppressor when I want freedom The same man that killed Nipsey Want us to free him I'll be honest I quit counting the bars Cause as long as when you hear it It gon sound like it's raw Give it a round of applause Broke hope floats And you can keep your head up Or you can drown in the sauce Ugh my last album my first album in a decade It raised my salary Without a single record played Here on my own accord I put my life on the line I need a bonus score Solid as a stone in sword Ugh I got receipts can you show me yours? Nah I don't smoke give my opponents more Hold up I got these racists in a telescope The neighbours think I'm selling dope They don't know if a nigga famous or living well and broke I guess I made it to these jealous folks I guess I made it to these jealous folks
9.
Yeah, yo Ayo I pray you see success in spite of your short comings And that you get acquitted arriving for court summons I hope your kids always have some food in their stomachs And if I sent you a bullet know that you had it coming My path was nothing like yours Growing up dignity I had to fight for Growing up them kids was teasing we was type poor A suicide attempt Mom up in the psych-ward Still looking forward never question the past Things I seen wish I had my retina detached Back stabbers got their names etched in my back It ain't all pain them niggas schooled me to the game And I thank them for that You can have the last word I'ma have the last punch Let the sound of my name burn a hole through your tongue I don't have the patience to argue with a pagan If you die from hating I hope your grave spacious And through it all Through it all Through it all Yeah nigga I'm still here I'm still here And through it all Through it all Through it all Yeah nigga I'm still here I'm still here I'm 10 toes down We holding automatics In the coldest fabrics Bullet holes in cabbage so dramatic Barrel smoking aromatic Before you get knowledge of self Got to know the savage Still doing savage shit Busting in heaux and splashing We all trying to eat even though I'm fasting Before action happen We planning for post traumatic Seeing signs but coasting past it Redesign the flows I'm crafting To speak a line where evil reside Kind of close to madness I need atonement Speeding through these fleeting moments I just be turning up my speakers zoning Seeing omens Keep food in my trunk trying to feed the homeless You see rappers I only see opponents Targets I aim caught in the rain Catch the whole cartridge I flame You call me Saïd but that's just a part of my name 7 shootings in one night 3 down the block Who you call when police officers squeeze off the shots That winter wind make evidence Freeze in the spots They can track you down Even if you leave from your spot Your lawyer ain't confident You can see it in the box When the prosecutor Say you and me need to talk So I pray you see success in spite of your short comings And that you get acquitted arriving for court summons I hope your kids always have some food in their stomachs And if I sent you a bullet just know that you had it coming And through it all Through it all Through it all Yeah nigga I'm still here I'm still here And through it all Through it all Through it all Yeah nigga I'm still here I'm still here I'm 10 toes down
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Inshallah 04:29
You know everything is inshallah Everything is gods will Even if you dont even agree with it Cause there's gonna be things Where you look back at That you prayed for that you got now You get me? Yeah I tap into my deepest pain To keep me sane The reaper hangs Like freezing rain I'm seeing things Biting my fingers Like they teething rings One verse equal to a ki of cain God is great speak his name Beefing with heathens Aint no reason I'ma be arraigned Millimeters bang Leaking brains auf wiedersehen All the wounds that we sustained Made us uniquely brave Every level the rules change Can you complete the game Racist policies detain And bodies being drained My girl seeing me through this Last thing that bothers me is paying I need to stop delaying She gotta see a ring Because I owe her my life Honesty and name Inshallah God forgive me Lost my mommy in 19 And a baby in 2020 Question the plan Like what does he want from me Growing sick of quoting scriptures Going against my own religion Showing symptoms No conviction Show me wisdom I know I'm slipping First time in my life I'm scared of fasting Gotta confront my terrible actions Air mattress to Paris fashion Retail therapy cover madness Can't imagine All the things I use to be distracted I'm supposed to be growing But emotionally broken So I'm caught in systems Of narcissism Missing altruism My conscience caught in prison Of my faults and schisms Couldn't believe my eyes When I walk in the room oh I felt the calmest of wounds ugh Allah could you I mean damn Why you put my momma on tubes The very next year you killed my daughter in a womb Still I prayed Salah Though I I couldn't talk and I couldn't walk The time I just watched it move They protesting with no change ugh Shoot rubber bullets with no aim nah You don't know pain My dad don't know blame He asked me why I don't call I don't know Greg Fuck I don't know Greg Inshallah You know the first thing I wanted to do when I found out I was gonna be a father Was talk to my mom And I hadn't spoke to my mom for almost two years before she died And so like that let me know how damaged I was and how much you know I needed to heal And it wasn't until I lost my baby did I realise how much I wanted to be a dad Like I knew I was excited but it wasn't until I lost the opportunity Did it really hit me And I remember when I phoned my father and I was telling him like what was happening This nigga was like I'm glad I'm not in your shoes So when I say I don't know why I don't phone him Because I already know everything he's gonna say before hand So I don't even bother with the phone conversation you get me But everything is Inshallah man I'm just trying to move trying to heal And I dont I don't pretend to overstand all the plans but sometimes man it can't be that

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The first full-length collaboration between Pittsburgh/Toronto rapper/songwriter Saïd and Pittsburgh/NY producer Hobbes Duende

REVOLUTIONARY BUT GORGEOUS

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released September 16, 2022

Produced by Hobbes Duende
Written/Performed by Saïd

Love to Jasiri X & the whole 1Hood family for fostering the community & providing the resources to make this collaboration possible
Featuring Asun Eastwood, Treble NLS, Keisha Marie, & Brea Deanda
Recorded by Lemar French & Treble NLS
Mixed by Soy Sos for Tuff Sound Recordings
Mastered by Chris Strollo for Strollo Sound
Cover Art/Design by thelone swami
Photography by JM the Poet

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