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A Tandem of Giants

by The Silversmiths

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    Agent Orange took a one way flight from his streetsweeper courtesy of SPTA (Speeding Passenger Train Airways) and still didn't let that stop
    him from producing an album full of bangers for the grumpy old men of rap. YOUCANHITMENOWBUTIJUSTWON'TSTOP even dusted off his microphone for some tracks, AND constructed a beat so fierce the goddess AthenA felt compelled to tear it to shreds. Go ahead, try to deny the magnitude of boots left by their lonesome.

    Follow the Silversmiths (JON?DOE and Sankofa) as they time travel from 1999's White Collar Criminals debut all the way to now, where they're old and stuff.+

    Need namedrops? JON?DOE has worked with KRS-ONE, Casual (dopest member of Hiero), Son Doobie (Funkdoobiest ahoy!) and even The Hitman (no, not the one you're thinking of who Dre signed and forgot between taking HGH and whatever else he was doing). Sankofa has worked with CunninLynguists, Kashal-Tee, Nick Sweepah, Noah23, and a whole bunch of other people his advanced age has caused him to forget.

    Shucks, you might even find that purchasing the whole kit and caboodle gets you some goodies.

    +stuff means "Scoreolympics!"

    This message has been brought to you by *EARMUFFS*, reminding you ODB was for the children but his cuss words weren't.
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Back At Last 04:06
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Come On 03:10
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McLovin It 03:41
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Lessons 04:04
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Hard Eight 02:37
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Heeeey, where you going to lady? You gotta womb? Well make room and get to holding my babies Stick with me, before you know it, you’ll be rolling Mercedes Besides, you’ve got that flavor I’ve been so into lately I might be intimating that I’m into mating with you Let’s keep it strictly pillow talk, no debating issues I’ll take you to openings, my novel new accessory Now everyone who wants a piece can grovel to me endlessly Ain’t no denying you’re my girl, I’ll give you diamonds and pearls You know I always played it straight, now you’re supplying the curls Plus I find it kind of cute how you defying the world Although I’d rather see your stripper dance, I’m eyeing your twirls Give me some time to unfurl the proper plan to approach you Play the game nice and slow, this do-si-do we go through Ferocious overtures over a glass of whatever you like I know you said no, but let’s try it tonight It’s you and me baby, I’ll forget about the other ones Sloppy, they so sweet and poppy, copy, but they bubblegum And you the “the:” original article with the trouble funk Double trunk subtle pumps, I’m lovin’ me some gutter junk It’s like the sense of authenticity minus having to live with it The fact is I just civilize the savage, and gradually diminish it won’t discriminate, I’ll even flip it to Dominicans, laid out Cause mami’s looking like she wants to play house And what’s wrong with helping yourself to the help? My engine’s idling Get it purring by stirring up my sense of entitlement Covert with the subversive racism, mention my right to “them” At a part with my friends, pass you around, gentlemen, I’ll begin Exotic party favor with the double sided number action Let’s see how bad you want it when I start to numb the passion I’m the superconductor, overseeing a bullet train Go head and smile while you take a passenger with pain See first I’ll take what I want, next I’ll take it to task Just take your pretty little spirit and I break it in half Then take you to the front row seats and the Lakers and Cavs Even LeBron and Kobe wanna know me, making me laugh See, I don’t play the game to win, I play to own it And if you’re not working for me, you’re my opponent I franchise forbidden fruit, use it to sell my gin and juice Now in food fights rancid fruit flies with a little bruise So take a look at my girlfriend The latest one I had to have, she’s just another fad I been digging through her cupboards, mother hubbard with a grubbing dad And daddy only love her while the money comes, I’m up that Now she’s getting old, once the coke but now it’s huffing highs So I’m siphoning profit’s my prophecy is suck them dry sitting in my penthouse checking quarterly stats An empire built upon the roundness of that ass First you get the money, then you get the power The puudy and respect are afterthoughts to what’s devoured Got these cowards ducking like Howard, I up and deflowered They princess, then I charge them interest by the hour
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On My Own 03:55
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Without You 03:47
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Tried 02:34
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Jazzerseismic (free) 04:08
It’s the return of the mellow man, me is all I sell to fans Step into the lab and you can see what I’m developin’ It’s freedom and intelligence, believing in this fellow, when I shine the light, they gon’ remember like an elephant You’ll never be yourself again, once you hear the call We make it relevant by bringing it to y’all The music is the medicine that gets you past the fall Go tell a friend and get to tearing down the walls We gon’ rebuild it one brick at a time And don’t worry bout the storm, it’s just a trick of the mind The enemy’s befriending we to kill from behind But I done seen that scheme like a picketer’s sign And it’s a wicked design, don’t let him get you with the hate Stick you with the thorns while the petal’s on the plate It’s already getting late, we better settle on a date And the time’s right now man, forever never waits… San and JON equivalent to rhyming kings Speaking each mind, and sometimes it stings Life, it brings advice so we try to listen close Heeding the muse maybe script a note Prescription dope flipping a conniption fit Dropped off the cliff into this abyss And isn’t it a wonder that they didn’t slip a bit Within a blissful lift from the abysmal drifts regroup Three piece suit with a fist to lift On the way back to that chrysalis And if it hits, so be, and if not-the same Gave up thoughts of colossal fame I’ve got a pretty docile aim and it suits me fine you can keep all the suits that shine Perusing the pursuit maligned, nooses tying Enjoy the brags and boasts, what’s the use of lying extreme as a dried out creek bed each step closer to speech makes regret, egress hit the reset button, thinking of Seacrest heard your girl took a little nibble of the beef pet and I'm not talking a gyro-Greek fest somewhere between Victor Page and T-Rex fun, fair and lean, strip away summer, refresh So won’t you tell me where the hell you think you’re really going to And why you’re never using the directions that we’re showing you Reach into your soul and you can see that what you hold is truth Party time’s through we’re here to sober you Standing like them soldiers do, ready to die For the cause of the righteous, we battle the lies Staying conscious on the mic, you better open your eyes There’s a line in the sand now pick a side

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Charles Bronson faked his own death just so rabid fans and Playboy bunnies would leave him alone long enough to listen to this classic rap album in its entirety.

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released April 16, 2011

Raps: JON?DOE and Sankofa
Beats: Agent Orange
Guest vocals: AthenA, AO, and Denz
Mixdown/mastering: The Moth
artwork: Eric Stine

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The Silversmiths Fort Wayne, Indiana

The sometimes grumpy, always dope, old men of rap.

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