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I PROMISE NEVER TO MAKE APE AGAIN

by Ape Kiss

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1.
ps4 02:00
They said that I been out of work For a minute That's commission pay I'm missing Fuck the system if you still kickin They hold the reticle on men, women, and children Give me what I'm owed to fill in my position Still the codependent Why still at most a mention? Still in the cost defensive Still hit the gross I'm clenching 'Course I hit the fence I've felt like porcelain, In sections, In distraught, A living threat, And I was told that what we're owed is what we get Well that's a fucking fib They told me "Favel where you been?" I said I'm fucking living "But I ain't seen you in a minute " Said I'm fucking living I said I'm done giving it in I wanna come to terms So Imma kill the river, in my end, I sit to watch the burn I learned to let the rhythm love me in it's pocket first Before I hit the skids I drop the optics with the mocking birds I shoot to cop the burbs I shoot to knock the world off it's fucking axis Favel got the earth like Atlas So it's my fault that we're spinnin here I blow the fucking top revered Been holding down the decade since the door was kicked in Up the ante with the gold we mix in Throw a 4 if you know what this is Down below Hit the floor On the roll we grifftin On the roll we grifftin All love All love In the corners til the coroner come and drag me away Come and tear me off the page I never thought I'd find another home again It's been a while since I've felt like home again Felt the pressure closing on me Imma probably go in Exhibition crossing copy Take me off of the list Throw a 4 if you know what this is Down below Hit the floor We grifftin On a roll We grifftin On a roll We grifftin On a roll we grifftin
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3.
bangmyway 02:01
Ninth grade I had a friend that struck by lightning He'd been living by the razor Didn't wake up for a couple days Story for the ages Got on call a little, minutes with the group Years later Drug charges what they gave him Genuine ass dude Now I ain't seen him in a few I know I ain't been keeping up with No idea what's he doing That's how fast that life can change before you get a chance to breathe I met the most Beautiful people in the roughest times I'd ever seen Everything that happens for reason I lost people that I used to call my family to convenience let me tell you I can't lead no sheep to preset when they beat the fucking flock into submission on the defense I lived to see the outcome That stretched across the city in my sleep I still long to see my friends that I ain't seen since 2019 The bridge beneath my teeth has let my tongue decide to rot from which it sits upon the bottom of my jaw before it drags across the record drawn The pen to split my soul in quarters til the end of dawn To break apart the stars above the earth that rest beside the fall With no idea what it means to take the patterns off The old was laid to self assure the end of time protect us all I stood before the final gate to strike the tender raw skin of thee Fear of God, tell me never lead us wrong Until the final day when I can best the strong Decay I will when all remains is capsules, stand the living tall
4.
flea 03:12
Exit right Feux link Chain around the feet Has demise Come to take me over Ever slowly? How to pick apart the stars and sanctify the holy ground Where to start Imma split the rift I've seen my soul bleed I haven't felt I've been home in a while I haven't felt I've found home in a good time Fence around the neck My periscope at disadvantage Imma dance around the standards Censored in a second Underdeveloped Well, at least that's what Cobain had called it Across the market I was never first of any product Security to me was privilege, worth at any cost I dove across the boards until I was a walking victim complex I saved face regardless How was it fair to be successful in so many parts when I could never set departments? You had me question how the fuck was I considered artist I never felt acceptance I never felt reciprocated, all I felt was desperate Well, was it my appearance? Was I enough or was I nothing? Too afraid to fall in love again Was it a competition Am I up to snuff Or am I missing something am I someone am I worth it? Never thought I could deserve it Still the wake it carries on Into the trenches, in the dirt I spill my feelings to the earth She held me in her arms I never felt this type of nourishment She told me "never worry, don't run" She could never get enough of me I'd never have to travel far again She would sing to me divine She used to sing to me so beautifully the day that I arrived Rib of the English man Drip from the finger If you're Trying to kill me That's a One in a million chance Drape from the dawn that towers over after red line Drawn from the red line Pardon the red light Folded over hands in the laps and in the pockets there's no options for the flashes in the pan With edges in your breaths You let your maker know your name and where you land What you make of many men They tell of circumstance I swear The rain don't know me Rain don't know my name All that matters is you know my name And the way you hold my face It feels so different from the way I hold my aim We cut across the open plain I swear the rain don't know me Rain don't know my name All that matters is you wanted me to stay And the way you touched my face when I had to get the strength to walk away I'm so happy that you called my name
5.
graba 02:13
The landshark still stays with me About a couple miles left, turning 8 to 3 Got my license plate stuck to my back Imma never trust another brush crawler again Don't gotta tell me I learned my lesson up in cullowhee "Cut the business from your friends if you're tryna keep em. if you know what's good for you..." I already burnt the bridges with the forest, was a bitch move to ignore it, an apologist of sorts that my decision I had sorted, sorta break through in the forefront Inserted self indulgence in a situation I wasn't a part of, have it drag me through the stardust, I am sorry, To my cousins I am sorry for it I am flawed To the pressure I am pulled I applaud applied prosthetic I try for the hypnotic I can never always do what I am told Veins got rings Fingers wrap the digit to the root On this I am no better than you I am equal to you I am Pleased with the view Well I am Reason to shoot The air raids that shake the tap water violent ever struck the pilot, Break apart the branches 'fore the suicidal skydiving Rip me apart and if you please to strike me down I say to grip a tighter round and aim directly for the heart I tell you Shoot em down the rifle, boot the ninth inning It's saloon style drilling "Well who's line is it anyway?" Temple to the scope and blow the bulb like I'm Hemingway Let it get the best of me Guess the rest is history Lest there's something else to say (Suspense is killing me) The scar tissue comes with weight I think about it when I'm praying Dear Yahweh Don't take em from me yet I'm not erasing. I am horrid. I'm a slave, I am a part of you they made me in your image what's the difference from the text betwixt the pages? Raised me from a patron saint Chased me just to raise the stakes Brace to watch me suffocate and kill me when the love's abrasive Tell me that it's all illusion Tell me all intentions useless Tell me what this tensions doing Let me go to spread the news of
6.
dead2 01:53
Why the pigs scraping by Some remain Some dying Off the range Alt terrain Riding out the park with brain Part refrain Pausing all the time I wait to start again I heard someone say "Why's it only humid when it rain?" "Tell me, Why's it only human if they choose to let it bang?" If the shoes ain't got no stains in em, Don't expect no change in em , Raised in em, Told me how to beat the fucking chase I'm just idle in position tryna switch around the place with em Star carcass leak cosmic through the universe Fingers in the juices still deducing truly who's the worst No leads Step be looking stupid no exception tell me how the fuck you flexing When you seated in the nose bleeds Rendering the proceeds Pardon my objection I elect to change direction of the flow towards me If the floor won't see it Imma make em see the vision I'm the RZA Full time ship captain/director I be on that swill shit baby This that real shit Dilla and the villain done raised me I be on that kill shit baby I been waiting for a minute see Gorillaz done changed me Josh be on that drill shit lately Off that 80/180 See the ceiling keep raising Breakin' Tell me if the flavors more fragrant got the ape piss taking over radio stations
7.
bont 01:39
Whole second me and Trey have been chummy Imma live forever off of Ape Piss money Break neck speed runner bugging Imma be damned if I don't turn into something Chief green, nose been running Out the door pulled over, free still gunning Soccer box hole been dug in Spent a little while waiting for the right moment Dark arts student, drug uses, parking garage enthusiasts moving units, but you still ain't doing shit "Favel got the bragging rights God, he's doing numbers over night" More productive than you've been in your life and I'm a lazy motherfucker still kicking rocks underneath bridges Doing business with the best in the industry Uncle Crime is top ten alive And if you disagree Run for you life you better hide quick, I'm listening "Southern cut burns on your mom's forearms When I come to the ballpark, dogs bite hard" Got your man in the corner thinking loud "Why bother, I'mma never hit the level where Ape Piss started" On that 9 Milli bros, Bobby Digital's, Medicine Show's, Veteran shit Flip-mo energy Unsettling, no pedigree Sold to The girls with the golf ball holes in their earlobes, "Body like a back road" skin toned Love bone
8.
Skin graft on the ugly ass packed heat Grand palladium spread all across the backseat Tell me talk is free, if the gas cheap, Imma hit the homestretch crashing into last week I ain't slipping no one getting past me Shut the fucking house out And bow to the last beat Come around late that's the fine line I side step the sand pits and trigger all the land mines Total with the strap make em act right Light hit the bridge til the shit go collapse like Damn I'm supposed to be the leader of the pack right Superstar surely in the past I'm attacked fight Vibraphone tones in the shit too foreboding In the ridden with the stick he's forbidden from it Force alone don't make it easy on him Scholar of the cheaters in the classrooms He's a goner Look at him now Look at him now Look at him now Look at him now Five holes in the jeans to adidas Let the butterfly come in to his own Still breathing Two feet under water while the rest of me is seeing satellites I'm the greatest ever made it in rotation It's a gift to be alive It's a gift to see tomorrow It's a gift to see the sun rise over the horizon It's a gift to speak the soul life keeping us from dying I'm so glad to be alive in the space and time that I am Look at him now Look at him now Look at him now
9.
june 01:58
I brush the metal that Pedaled penny disheveled I shuttle shovel beheadings To many men I'm above em The others dust em and crush em The utter poured from the motherboard That's sweeter than reward from the Matterhorn In the Florida mud Gas em and pass em up in another fashion The couple bragging were lagging in past tense Were you acting like that? Stone goalie you lacking access to match it that's cap You don't know me You wanted to now it's high noon Liar in the court of the room You a disciple Follow me you vile You like doing what I'm doing? Idle online to the slight few that despise you Shoot Slow the roll for a second I'm losing breathe and I'm gutted Gunning I'm sputtering stupid Brother they spun into nothing Just move your eyes for a minute Your digits picking at sickening shit The back door for a visit and let the stench in separate That's a part time leverage Kill the rich Gore spit I'm solid snake in this bitch Skinwalker shit talker taking brains, sustain posture Remain A stained fossil Take the reign of Kane Hodder You a lame, I swear to God And when I'm big you use my name for a follow Walk up on you when they call me tomorrow I'll blow your cranium hollow Nothing to gain in the grotto Came in the game as a martyr Different terrain in the model Damian Martin and Shano steak in the rain in the automotive I broke the code solely meeting mode with the quota I'm going cold with the ala mode shit I didn't want it though
10.
rest 02:15
All part of the vision Most Start at the rivets, Stuck, Come. Far in the mission. I started sticking it up. Run I broke the knees of standing guard at the crack of gate  They kicked the rust apart and set the charge upon the scrape I feel like I'm on a holiday, shit, The storm is creeping up They often caught the rot in they wrist I got, Credit in shot, with no need keeping it hostile So Imma hit your mom up for some hot food if I got to The girls love me, think I'm funny as shit Am I a dummy am I one of the kids? Or am I part of the business? Started from the nothing, wasn't one of one of the ribs If this is what life is, It's how I wanted to live? I fucking hopped out The back of the bitch Hold my shit, we're gonna try for a minute  Forced to hold in the brigg When I find him Imma cut me a clip Hit the rip We never stuck in the pit I split my soul for a second The tone arm That rode on the back of the black dog Watched over Landmark And drove through the catalogues The scene's star child That's sent through the chat log Came out the end as a new being, back off Born Martyr with the world in your palms Card reader spoke the soul With no idea what was wrong with him Forefather of the future in the walls Open forum always shooting for the fall Unimportant torment Need excuse to rip apart the arms that hold me dormant  Cross the beam I see the whole before us sit distorted I wish I woke and caught the overture in time for mourning  I wish I woke to hold my own I split my soul for a second  No attention needed I pick my feet up Camp is closing over me I Deceive the re-up Note beside philosophy, I,  Don't wanna read none No wonder we trust these  Freedom With clean guns It's too tough like
11.
Favel: Throw em they null in the pot Nobody told me to stop Throw em they null in the pot Nobody told me to stop Throw em they null in the pot Nobody told me to stop Throw em they null in the pot Nobody told me to stop Nobody told me to stop Nobody told me to Throw em they null in the pot Dead in the water Dead on the rocks Rendered exhausted Heavy depend on the plot Pulley they hold me to rot Belly up under the sun Tossing the guts in the mud Wanna play god Said he can't handle no gun Bag full of bammer and runtz Not gonna do what you want Not gonna do what you want Land of the fun Land of the people to come Hand of the feeder that's gone Stamina peak for the moment Going up stream for the moment Can't even see for the moment Too hard to breathe in the ocean Throw em before I keep choking Told em I needed to leave in the morning Throw em they null in the pot Nobody told me to stop Throw em they null in the pot Nobody told me to stop Throw em they null in the pot Nobody told me to stop Throw em they null in the pot Nobody told me to stop Throw em they null in the pot Nobody told me to stop PERCO: Nobody told me stop I got that mop like a janitor Breaking my wrist in the pot like I’m Neph or I’m pap Break a few 30s, I feel like the rock Bitch try to tell me the shit that I'm not Me and 3mad do this shit like co op We cropping the top Ain’t no way that we could flop I’m holding the wok and I'm holding the reign Obtaining the plain slimthiggy this shit got me feelin okay Gotta give me that bread I ain’t gettin' no grains All you rappers is strained I ain’t gotta explain Favel: Holding the flame Better than having your foot in the grave Run me a fade Hard to evade Give me a break Give me a reason to say what I say
12.
home 02:27
I ain't feeling like I been home in a second Poking discretion I feel like I'm naked holding a weapon Too afraid to the let the dogs in They ain't the same to start I said they ain't the same I started with I gained the ones I spark it with Erased they dead departed I can feel em in my heart still I ain't feeling like I been home in a minute See the same that used to hold me close had told me they regret it Guess I'm no longer of interest In your game of soulless intent Now the closest that we get is when I hit you in my mentions I ain't feeling like you been wanting to speak to me I know that you could hit my line eventually it's easy I been waiting for you daily For some months I'm feeling lately You don't even wanna see me I understand completely I ain't feeling like you been home in a minute Seems the older that I'm growing that the more I'm losing friendships The faster earth is turning Seems the farther that my friends get The more we grow the more it seems we're growing independent I don't think that I've seen you in about a year We never even talk it's been a long time Without you here I ain't feeling like we been talking as much as how we used to do some couple months ago I guess it's what you want I guess I'm just expendable I guess I'm just a fucking nothing I guess we're not compatible I guess that we're just fucking done then I ain't feeling like you knew who I was It's been a year and change I hope you pulled your wrists from the cuffs I hope you found the place you're looking for I hope you're better off than I originally saw you As Remember there was never us I ain't feeling just as welcomed as I used to be No open arms across the whole community
13.
aux4nyc 02:30
Frances Beaty too far away I still go back You ain't ruined it yet Time waster I remember waiting for a text back 5 days on read Worst night for a while I stayed up when you wanna text back That backfired I crossed lines that shit shot from both sides I hung dry from the fence post so come cry with the rentals Some people come close to you on the down low, that's how shit goes Some people in your life just for a lesson only for a second That's how, Depending on when you let em go, Separate self, individual I don't even Fuck with em like that anymore I don't even Fuck with em slow my roll I let you go I ain't even talking to em lately on a different level Lately I been feeling better couple months I think I reveled I came out the woods With a arm across the chest Strapped the covers to the ground and laid conception into rest I successfully have stomached through the pure disintegration insecure depleted stations I had set up in my head Let it seep into the ocean from the grove from which it sits And Imma keep momentum rolling till I'm dying or I'm dead bitch I thank the Lord for what she gave me I'm blessed I swear my loyalty in weight for all my family and friends I hope that some day I'm forgiven for the things that I've said For the things that I've did The people I've gone against I found the closure in composure Imma sprint to the finish And when they claim we going nowhere People getting diminished They told me Favel was a throwaway You speaking to a legend Look me in the eyes And start to think about the consequences All throughout my life I was an NPC My ETA Was below three So that must mean I won't amount to anything When they see I'm gunning for em Jumping out a HD screen I ran my fingers through the crops and took a gamble when I lost I knew we started popping off that ape shit was making profit doesn't matter what it cost to make superior the product Doesn't matter where we fall it's all we bouncing back it's always that I thank the Lord I hope she tell me what's next I hope she brings upon the fortune to my family and friends I hope I never have to go back to the things that I did To all the people I miss I hope she's letting you live I found exposure in the solar Chosen nowhere to give only hope that when the smoke is overhead I don't miss it Never focus on the broken in the tow in the distance Sit alone across the road in the business You'll find your home in a minute

about

The first full length tape from Charlotte hip hop quartet, Ape Kiss (Piss).

Tracks 1-7 and tracks 8-13 recorded
April - July 2022

Track 7 recorded
July 2021 and May 2022

A note from Favel:
"To everybody who's been here since day one, everybody who's been here through these recording sessions, to the people in our video, to the people that help pack the house out at our shows:
I can never thank you enough for all that you've done.
Ape Piss is a family and we wouldn't be anywhere without you.
You've done so much for us and words cannot express how grateful we are for your contributions.

To my brothers in arms, Josh and Trey:
Thank you for being part of this experience. As more and more time passes, the more we refine our craft, and this tape is a shining example of all the hard work we've put into what we do. Especially you Josh, you work your ass off and every single time you absolutely kill whatever the final product is, and I couldn't be happier to stand by you in this family we call Ape Piss.
We did it."

Special thanks to
P3RCO, DJ Crackwire, 3MAD, Brad Thomson, Joey Schieding, Dominic Caudill, Luke Gustafson, FILOSOFI, RX Nephew, the whole of Best Friends chat, and anybody we may have missed


Until next time....

credits

released August 3, 2022

All tracks produced by Guuumaqu

Track 1, tracks 3-10, and tracks 12-13 written by Favel
Track 2 written by Favel and RX Nephew
Track 11 written by Favel and P3RCO

Drums on track 6 by Trap Michael Lawrence

Tracklist sequencing by Favel, Guuumaqu, and Trap Michael Lawrence

All tracks mastered by Guuumaqu

Artwork by Luke Gustafson

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Ape Kiss Charlotte, North Carolina

Experimental hip hop quartet from Charlotte, NC

Ape Kiss (Piss) is
Guuumaqu
Favel
Newport Tracy
Hill Wall

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