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Expensive Wine Tasting | Nik Bates

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From Its A Beautiful Thing. Lyrically, Expensive Wine Tasting is free flowing and stream of consciousness styled than the rest of the tracks. The airy and elegant beat provides just enough space to tell the story of understanding the paradise you live in. The second part, Miss Softee is a production that is stylized very similarly to the following track Ice Cream thanks to the bells and warped guitar sample, but stripped down. VERSE 1, Expensive Wine Tasting]. Memories in the ash tray. Engine revving, we...

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Yeah Right! | Nik Bates

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From Its A Beautiful Thing. Inspired directly by the Girl Skateboards video Yeah Right! From 2003, the sample includes snippets of the Owen Wilson scene where Wilson hits a backside bluntslide down a handrail. The song includes tons of references to adolescent pop culture and skateboarding over a minimalist soul sample production. Tryna kill some time up on these slow beats. Holdin’ ‘em for weeks like a Togepi. My hard drive is where I hold heat. Gettin’ cold feet, nope that ain’t the old me. The rumor h...

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It's A Beautiful Thing | Nik Bates

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Its A Beautiful Thing. Its A Beautiful Thing (Intro). T-Hawk Ft. Jay Fila. A collection of sample-based tracks over a wide variety of hip-hop styles. Released September 30, 2014. All songs arranged, produced, written, recorded, mixed and engineered by Nik Bates. T-Hawk written and recorded by Nik Bates and Julian Filamor. Assisted by: Andres Murillo, Ryo Miyauchi. Design: The Rising $on. Website: The Rising $on. Feeds for this album. San Diego, California. Its A Beautiful Thing. So let it ride out. So pu...

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Ice Cream | Nik Bates

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From Its A Beautiful Thing. Wish You Were Here on the Dark Side, it’s gettin’ hotter. Take your daughter and throw her into some Roger Waters. Expose her to psychadelics, she’ll wanna call her father. Some Animals jump out The Wall, and some Midnight Marauders. Could take your wallet, and your Silkk, so go an meet the Shocker. Feelin harmonic, the chronic could help us mix our chakras. Sip the tonic, bubonic, because I’m sick and coughin’. Pier 39 with the chips and lobster. Art thou feeling it now?

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It's A Beautiful Thing | Nik Bates

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Its A Beautiful Thing. Its A Beautiful Thing (Intro). T-Hawk Ft. Jay Fila. A collection of sample-based tracks over a wide variety of hip-hop styles. Released September 30, 2014. All songs arranged, produced, written, recorded, mixed and engineered by Nik Bates. T-Hawk written and recorded by Nik Bates and Julian Filamor. Assisted by: Andres Murillo, Ryo Miyauchi. Design: The Rising $on. Website: The Rising $on. Feeds for this album. San Diego, California. Its A Beautiful Thing. So let it ride out. So pu...

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Highlarious | Nik Bates

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From Its A Beautiful Thing. The purpose of Highlarious is to be a lyrical exercise in flow, with nonsensical brags and references. The second part, Switch Worlds, is a reflection about how a number of my favorite wrestlers I watched while growing up have either passed away, effectively switching worlds or have dealt with the effects of time. The Act 2 Interlude is a reference to Kanye Wests Coachella 2011 performance. VERSE 1, Highlarious]. Hot as an otter pop. At the top we chillin’! Copping enough bota...

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It's A Beautiful Thing (Intro) | Nik Bates

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Its A Beautiful Thing (Intro). From Its A Beautiful Thing. An ethereal track to set the mood. The production is also the most conventional out of all the tracks. Living life in a time lapse. Visit Christ if you vibe that. Or, your spirit lies where your minds at. Getting live with the dime sack. We making sure that you gon’ feel it in your chest. So let it ride out. And if the pacin’ of the words, make you feel a bit perplexed. Then you ain’t knowing what the rhyme ‘bout. It’s a beautiful thing. It’s a b...

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Tropical Seeds | Nik Bates

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From Its A Beautiful Thing. A booming beat with a phased sample, the track is an underwater ode to tropical seeds. A tribute to popular horticulture, the song symbolizes a type of brotherhood built around sharing time with your friends and close ones. Sip the 40 Oz. Ask the homie if he know me. If he don’t, then it’s all G. Leave him sleep on he, please, we. You forgot that I was bout it, huh? Go and ease the silence up, I’m wilin’ like a bachelor. And shouts to all my Travelers. Where the Febreeze at?

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Sheeps & Wolves | Nik Bates

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From Its A Beautiful Thing. The sheep typically live in fear of the wolves who run their lives, but are unaware of the fact that they outnumber the wolves. The only true digestible and conceptual song, the song questions institutions of power. The darkest production on the track, and the oldest beat. The Drake and Josh sample at the end eases the tension. Cut, that’s a wrap. The shit he spit ain’t hard to believe and that’s a fact. Just hoping karma coming to me, because the dreams. Take me to your leader.