Two Steps from Disaster - e-dubble

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They see me, They see you
We stay two steps from disaster my words
Stay free, stay true
And we don't look back we packed enough rations
For me, and you...
If they need our help then they can come get it
But we, are cool
And we never get bored surviving this story like

Two tone rebel - peddle through til' armageddon
Arm n' hammer habits cuz' they'll beat you if you let em'
2nd gets the minutes but the 1st amendment's better
Yeah that gun can really talk but he sucks at writing letters
Incommunicado - heart colder than old gazpacho
I'm sippin' on that hard and I'm living for a motto
Looking for a reason to appreciate the breathing
But I'm only coming up with all the women in Ibiza
Not a bad one-
Goddamnit I need a bad one
One that hits me twice a day then hits me with an and one
Futuristic in fluorescent vicky secrets
With a penchant for the purple looking good with that cohiba
Yeah- we blowing pine trees thinking bout' the landscape
While the world is burning cuz' they turning from the handshakes
Diplomatic deflation- no more pageants or facelifts
We be losing our minds- no more homeostasis
No more cities that work - Work
No more leaders to lead - Lead
No more coagulation
They just leave us to bleed
They just leave us to wonder what the fuck we're doing wrong
They just needed to keep us underneath their fucking thumb
So no more thumbelina
And no more stumbling either
Handle emergencies - with or without the FEMA
So adios - syncratic
Idiosyncrasies
They want us all the same, but we think differently

So cut a tree down, and make a life boat
You're gonna need it when they cut the fucking tight rope
They look anemic when they fienin for the white vote
Fuck a voter card I burn it up inside my pipe bro
I let the smoke clear, then watch the sunrise
They vacay hallucinatin' with them fungi's
But fuck that we work
Two tones is first
I'm Black Pais til' my ass gets murked
We keep it moving til' the death
Reach another depth
They take away our rights
Then we hit em' with the left
I ain't speaking on the parties
I ain't really got authority
Independent's how I'm leaning
Cause they scheme with their reporting
Politicking for pennies'
Congress be trippin' plenty
Smoking that campaign
Legalize it already
Fuck reppin that Akin, I separate him like bacon
Got 6 degrees in my corner that turkey's ready for basting
I meet him I grab a broomstick cause told Biggie told me to do it
Legitimizing with justice that puppet's lucky I'm foolish, huh
That two tone's got a ring to it
Grayscales they bail cause' of the chin music
I ain't playing around I've fuckin' been truant
They no shows, no class, they fuckin' live stupid
I broadcast like that little Ted Koppel guy
Fillet chicks but dammit I'm done with waffle fries

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Evan Sewell Wallace, best known by his stage name e-dubble (often stylized E-DUBBLE or shortened to e-dub) (November 1, 1982 - February 13, 2017) was an American rapper from Philadelphia. He was best known for his Freestyle Friday series in which he released a new song each Friday throughout all of 2010, with one final release in 2012. He was the founder of Black Paisley Records. He died aged 34 on February 13, 2017.

Over the course of his career, e-dubble released four albums; Straight Outta St. Mary's (2006), Hip-Hop is Good (2009), Reset EP (2012) and Two Tone Rebel (2016).

[h2]Early life[/h2]
Wallace grew up outside of Philadelphia, the youngest child of a principal and a schoolteacher. In the 1990s, Wallace and his friends fell under the spell of hip-hop cast by Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre; his music would later be known for its common celebrations of this love of hip-hop. He played center on the Wissahickon High basketball team, but dreamed of being a rapper. In an interview with the Baltimore magazine, Wallace cited Eminem's breakout success in the late 90's as a major inspiration to him, saying "Eminem showed that a white rapper could have a career. It was about skills, whether or not you could do it."

[h2]Background[/h2]
After graduating from St. Mary’s College of Maryland with a degree in political science, e-dubble moved to Baltimore to live with his friends and collaborators. Together they formed the hip-hop band Young English, and played their first show in July 2008. The group went on to purchase a renovated warehouse, dubbed “The Hampden Mansion,” where e-dubble would later go on to write, record, and produce his debut album Hip-Hop is Good. He went on to produce his Freestyle Friday series, a weekly series of free songs.

[h2]Career[/h2]
In 2009, e-dubble released his debut album, "Hip Hop is Good". The next year, in August 2010, e-dubble created his YouTube channel. He quickly began releasing freestyles on every Friday creating the series "Freestyle Fridays", in which he sampled other songs (such as Tighten Up and MMMBop) and rapped over the instrumentals. He also occasionally collaborated with his band, Young English, to make the tracks. The series ran throughout 2010 and a final track was released in 2012. The series was noted for its effective use of samples, lyrics and e-dubble's spoken word outros, in which he communicated with fans. He followed this up in 2012 with his next album, "Reset EP". He released his final album in 2016 with "Two Tone Rebel". His most popular songs include "Be a King", "Let Me Oh" and "What it Do".

[h2]Death[/h2]
On 21 January 2017, 23 days before his death, e-dubble posted a photo on his Instagram of a swollen hand, with the caption "I don't recommend throwing up half of your body's blood. Or having your hand swell up like Martin Short in 'Pure Luck' or needing 10 blood transfusions. But I'm gonna be aight. Thanks for the love". One of his business partners, Danny, later tweeted on 27 January: "Keep our friend e-dubble in your thoughts! He is at the Hahnemann Hospital fighting a serious infection", suggesting the infection was not getting better. As e-dubble became unusually inactive on the internet, rumors began to circulate that he had died, and were eventually confirmed on Twitter by many of his close associates as well as eventually the Black Paisley Records website. E-Dubble passed away on February 13, 2017.

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