Corner Store Chronicles MR ILYAS

MR ILYAS

2. Track: Corner Store Chronicles   Description: Vivid, character-driven storytelling over a smooth, jazz-loop boom-bap beat. The MC acts as a narrative eye, observing the dreams and truths of everyday people in a local corner store—the microcosm of the "space between."   Tags: #Storytelling #BoomBap #JazzRap #SoulSample #Narrative #CharacterStudy #Underground #Lyrical #ConceptualHipHop #BoomBap #Storytelling #UndergroundHipHop #Soulful #Introspective #EP #Lyrical #TheSpaceBetween

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00:00Behind a bulletproof glass, with a faraway gaze

00:12Mr. Patel counts the hours, stuck in the days

00:15Between the lottery tickets and the blunt wraps

00:17He's mapping kingdoms from a worn-out world map

00:20The chai he sips is a sweet steaming dream

00:22Of a daily morning by a silent slow scream

00:24With a bell on the door, brings the pavement's cold truth

00:27Another fix, another debt to miss you

00:29He wipes the counter down, an habitual dance

00:32Caught in the circumstance, never given a chance

00:35Just a temporary tenant, in a fluorescent lit scene

00:38Living the space in between

00:40An habitual dance

00:45Yo

00:50F.B.J. people

00:55On the milk crate throne, sipping something dark and brown

01:12Is old man Henderson, who's seen this whole town

01:14Changed from a village to a concrete maze

01:17He speaks of riddles of the good old days

01:19Points a shaky finger at the new high-rise

01:22Says, I remember one of them stars on the night skies

01:24His truth is a memory, faded and worn

01:27A history lesson, tattered and torn

01:29He sees the ghost of a playground in the parking lot

01:31Asphalt streams all the legends

01:33He's particularly built a living archive

01:35Of what this block has been

01:37Living the space in between

01:39And the nature will dance

01:43And the nature will dance

01:44And the nature will dance

01:46And the nature will dance

01:49And the nature will dance

01:51And the nature will dance

01:59And the nature will dance

02:01When the door swings wide, a burst of loud noise

02:06When the door swings wide, a burst of loud noise

02:12Three young boys full of futures and poise

02:14They pool their dollars for a bag of hot chips

02:17Talking about beats, rhymes, and sponsorship trips

02:19One's a producer, the next one's a star

02:22They're building empires in the back of a car

02:24The pen in their pocket, a Moleskine divine

02:27Filled with verses that they swear will shine

02:29But the pavement waits with a lesson to teach

02:32A crooked hard line just a block down the street

02:34For now, they're all potential, a beautiful scene

02:37Living the space in between

02:39The bell rings, a symphony, the floor of a stage

02:42Life a paragraph on a well-thought page

02:44From the pristine dream to the crooked design

02:47This cornerstone chronicle, this life of mine

02:50Then the picture will dance

02:55Go!

02:59If you take people

03:05If you take people

03:10And the picture will dance

03:15If you take people

03:20In the sun

03:24In the sun

03:24The bell rings, a symphony, the floor, the stage

03:32Each life a paragraph on a well-thought page

03:34From the pristine dream to the crooked design

03:37This cornerstone chronicle

03:39This life of mine

03:41And the picture will dance

03:56And the picture will dance

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