EVIDENCE

[Shadow Hunter]

"The Cold Weather"

"The Cold Weather"
[Intro]
It's everyone's interest and the weather, here it is...
THIS IS THE COLD WEATHER
SO GET YOUR CLOAK AND UMBRELLA

[Hook:]
(THIS IS) The cold weather
Coats and umbrellas
(THIS IS) The cold weather
Cats and dogs, coats and umbrellas

[Verse 1:]
Umbrellas up to the sky
Cats and dogs, those people who call
I hit back before it's twice
As of late these mics don't reach too far
So I kill each bar like it's flashing lights
Tailor made records, my mind name lives on
Cold weather code letters: TMR
It's hard to be stopped when you got a meaning like this
I got a plot that's meanin' to kids
I'm part of the rest
I watch Rap City get upset
Kick a hole in my flatscreen
Scream and not check
Then back to the scene of the west
They call me Mister
Don't make tunes for strippers
I'm one of the best

[Hook:]
(THIS IS) The cold weather
Coats and umbrellas
(That's what I mean by now, I'm on my way home)
(THIS IS) The cold weather
Cats and dogs, coats and umbrellas
[DJ Scratching]
Exhale, that was halftime

[Verse 2:]
(THIS IS) The word worth of thousand pictures
You gotta mock us in tryna get a thousand bitches
That's how we drop it, to feel regret
I try to fill it in baguettes
Stuck on the painting when I picture in the silhouette
I be the best
I be great
I can waste my words or I can say free Tibet
Or maybe not think so global, but more local
Like the Lakers better rip anything what's next
Witty with the words, they never liked it
So beat me down, but couldn't get the best of Michael
From next town I came back a new recital
I shoot slugs from my brain just like a rifle
They show love, but that's a part of tour
I play the part and maybe that's the art of war
Or maybe why I started for, started from
Either one

[Hook:]
(THIS IS) The cold weather
Coats and umbrellas
(Umbrellas up to the sky)
(THIS IS) The cold weather
Cats and dogs, coats and umbrellas
[DJ Scratching till end]

[Outro]
Hi, I'm like an hour away from like an L.A
And it's snowing in California...

 

[Shadow Hunter]

"The Liner Notes"
(feat. Aloe Blacc)

"The Liner Notes"
(feat. Aloe Blacc)
Why do you have an umbrella?
Because the weather man said that you have to have one at all times
Because it's going to rain cats and dogs

[Verse:]
Uh, welcome back, yeah
One liner flow
See it in my liner notes
The kind of ideas make it seem like the thoughts took 365 nights
I picture the high life
Poolside, made my own terms from lonely nights
[?]
They say old soul with kids energy
Steals off of my torso with enemies
By any means, I've seen what it's worth
A curse, snakes and centipedes is venomous
Seems the only safe place is Venice Beach
Try to wrong my rights, try to right my wrongs
Try to write my songs
Shine lights but the night is gone
Daybreak becomes the encore
Can't tell the day to stay because I'm on tour
A young kid pumpin' De La Soul
Spit live, you could say loco
16 not a day, no flow
I grew up with nervous skaters
Some headed for greatness
Others served as waiters
Some nameless, others were stars and straps
Ain't famous
Steel that ain't stainless
Hi haters, peace signs, see ya later
Lyin' for no reason
Quit tryin', it's greasy
Easy target, walked up in Florida gators
Origin lost angels, support Lakers
Four finger discount, [?] my fortress
Fortress of my get down, live from Belgium stages
LA made him, LA grazed him, then LA saved him
It's back to the beach bitch where Miss Taylor raised him
My momma opposite of Sarah Palin
With no gat, from Russia lookin' back like, quit playin'
Ev is here, stayin'

[Outro:]
I do believe the idiom "raining cats and dogs"
Stems from the Norse mythology
Cats were believed to represent the wind
Snd dogs represented rain
Different animals represented different weather
A national phenomenom

 

[Shadow Hunter]

"Strangers"

"Strangers"


[Verse 1]
If it’s one thing I’ve learned that I’ve written down on paper
It’s never leave some weed on the table with a stranger
Shit, I can barely even trust my friends
Maybe with my lady, not trees of the mends
I mean really why even should I try and test it socially
Catch them in the act and end up having to approach them
Entertain the story while it’s testing on my patience
Why the f*ck you think I spent this money on surveillance
While I’m on the other side of Earth without assistance
Pitchin’ in the night singin’ "Evy goes the distance"
At home the same shit is goin’ on, I don’t miss it
It’s a nice place to live, but I wouldn’t wanna visit
Never steppin’ out the car or on the stage without a purpose
Ghost-ride the whip like I’m ghost writing verses
Afraid to come and go so I take fame in little doses
Director of these photos so the aim remains focused
Hold still right there, hold still

[Verse 2]
I ain’t holier than now or tryna even act superior
Half the shit I rap about I’m speaking from experience
I’m livin’ at the beach, about as west as the Earth goes
People get deceived, seein’ gangsters dressed in surf clothes
From earth where they birthin’ those flows to set the world off
On a wet park bench drinkin’ OJ and Smirnoff
I seen it through my own three and speak it how I heard it
Never tell it how it wasn’t, I only pin that harder
I been tourin’ constantly, so there’s wear and tear value
That merits all the lows to terrace highs and travel
Document this madness till the day I come unraveled
And retreat to the Matterhorn, baskin’ in the castle
On some Dennis Leary Asshole, f*ck you pay me shit
I’ve come too far to get jacked and and give away the vics
So right about now I think it’s ‘bout that time
That I’ma let Rev kill while I chill on the rhyme
What the f*ck

[Verse 3]
I ain’t speakin’ on my businesses in public when concerning deals
Steppin’ on stage like it’s light-bulbs or turning wheels
In spite a couple nights of a thousand that I didn’t kill
I still kept it peelin’ out and steppin’ up for Reverend Real
Messages across the board are still remaining pinned up
The opposite of dilated eyes that I begin with
Nothin’ is original
Even under cloudy days sun is still shining
Just rerouted and out of phase
Lately when I walk I’ve been trying to hold my posture straight
Hold my chin up then feel the love from across the way
California love from Diego to across the bay
All across the map to every single solitary state
All across the baggage claim, all across the gate
Some callin’ it freight how I’m carrying weight
Some callin’ it fate while some others remain torn
Some callin’ it rain cause that’s when I brainstorm

 

[Shadow Hunter]

"The Red Carpet"
(feat. Raekwon & Ras Kass)

"The Red Carpet"
(feat. Raekwon & Ras Kass)
[Verse 1: Evidence]
I set it off in the sunny distance, no days existed
My patience led the way until the greatest love listened to me
I used to play the witness, wait in the trenches
It's like the 6th man, sits on different benches
It's hard squeezing life in a sentence
And if I do, roll carpet with the red tint
My entrance is what's between
When I exit, it's Evidence left on the scene
Alchemist cut the record down to the bone
And with a record like this I take the world by storm
Sky blessed, the land of the brave
Understand where I stand, my hand is made
From BR Double-O KLYN, the planet
Family landed, managed to raise the man that I became
Panic on my first campaign
But when the words fell to place, I was certain to reign
I hit the purple, then step in the circle and start flexin'
Weatherman invented, now storms change directions
Portions of my proceeds is feeding my homies now
I always shared pretty good for an only child
I was the baby boy, I could do no wrong
Now the role's reversed, I'm putting people on
They on welfare, you got healthcare
They used to have their priorities elsewhere
I took rims and tires and traded them
For a ticket to an island, that's where
I wrote this rhyming
Where I first saw my vision
Driven by a better living, a place to raise kids in
So I think like I rule the world
On the brink of something bigger, building schools
For boys and girls
The thought of home gets me out of my bed
I said you got the tools?
Get them shits up out of the shed. C'mon!

[Verse 2: Raekwon]
I'm like the indispit of rhyming
The Jack Dempsey emcee
All my shit customed out
[?] eventually
Money is made, fly blades
A woman with brains, will help a black nigga reign
My lifestyle's a prowler
A rich loaner, owner
Used to pump at coffees shops
Had my bitch who sell with me rolling up
Fly ass and still classy
Asking questions like "Why you wait on that glass?
Why would you splash me? "
Yo, it's only nigga shit
I'm a teach you like how I was taught too
Hold the phone, Ward 2
Seeing all kinds of grey fossils
Colossal juice, pick the house, act fly
I got you. No need to walk backwards
Fuck with the taxes
I speak credibility, the story to masses
Yo, a diplomatic winner, Nik boots
A scully good denim jean on and one rental

[Verse 3: Rass Kass]
They say you only live once, I disagree
You only live twice: your life enable your seed
So I lead on whacks and feed em the deeds
So when I die they got a foundation on my publishing B
Plus the words that I speak, here's my family jewels
It ain't all blood diamonds, but like experienced fools
And I be rhyming cool, but my philosophy's deep
Like a Dear John letter, so read em and weep
And the wolf smells blood: you can feed em to me
But I'm a Lycan underworld, you can meet in the street
Draw heat, but what happened to peace?
He got a Dirty Sanchez, like what happened to Screech
Jesus, diarrhea's - I mean holy shit
Christ on a cracker, that's just how we spit
Communion: had the wine, make the sign of the cross
And I will live in the past, chalk it up as a loss
Went from "please listen to my demo! "
To stretch limo
To the penn in a cell watching Eminem on Jimmy Kimmel
But I can't go out like Timbo slice
Like Geena Korrano, a cyborg determinate
Mano a mano, still Ronald McDonald
Over one billion served
But it's up to me to get what I deserve
So I handle my biz and hustle harder than the norm
The early bird gets the worm, but the hawk gets the bird...

 

[Shadow Hunter]

"It Wasn't Me

"It Wasn't Me
[Intro:]
Uh, about to tell you who I are
Came a long way and I still got so far to go
Tee off with this trademark flow
And after tonight
I'm a let the whole world know
My name is Evidence

[Hook:]
You ain't got no
Evidence, evidence, evidence, evidence

[Verse 1:]
If this is crime scene cinema
All the weak shops closed
Is it back to charging motherfuckers 4 for an O?
I don't know
I keep a rotary phone
So I remember all the numbers of my homies who gone
Proof is in the pudding
I'm pressed up and labeled "evidence"
But never chasing fame, dragons, chicks, or dead presidents
Dreams, but never snatch chains of any measurements
Because of my name, for every fuckin' crime they find the relevance
Choices in my life that I want to correct
I got voices in my head that I want to forget
Uh and I don't live with regret
But I've been living with a chick while other chicks try to text
It wasn't me

[Hook:]
You ain't got no
Evidence (There's no proof without the)
Evidence (Who wants truth without the)
Evidence, evidence

[Verse 2:]
Yeah, my first album only had underground appearances
So what's the outcome?
I'm still an underground lyricist
And fame don't even capture what my interest is
I'm halfway to famous, halfway away from infamous
My naked eyes are like my memory chips
Everything digested comes up when I spit
I say so be it
Without a whistle, call it how I see it (Yeah)
Whether in my boundaries or in another region
I'm speeding on the highway with my girl shotty
Keep a plant in my car, like Good Friday
Keep my world Godly
I stay grounded like my lobby
Tag a bucket on the wall but never tatted on my body
My music and my graf are livin' separate lifes
One gets me paid, the other's payin' the price
Either way they'll say I'm spraying at night
But how the fuck, when I'm touring overseas on a flight
It wasn't me

[Hook]

[Verse 3:]
The flow's connected like I knew people
Director of photography, I shoot people
Named by Will.I.Am
Maybe made a milli, maybe I don't give a damn (True)
I thought of evident
I mispronounced it, Evidence
Fast forward, here we are, standing in the present tense
I never thought about fame
I just thought about if KRS would know my name
But since then it's like so much has changed
Body baggin' the shows, they say I'm killing the stage
It wasn't me

[Hook]

 

[Shadow Hunter]

"I Don't Need Love"

"I Don't Need Love"
[Intro:]
D-O-N-T, N-E-E-D, L-O-V-E (E-V!)
It's EV, yeah, back on my shit
c'mon..

[sample from Boogie Down Productions's "Love's Gonna Getcha]
"You know, that's why, man..
I be tellin you all the time, man y'know..
LOVE, that word 'love' is a very serious thing
And if you DON'T watch out...I'll tell you that.."

Michael Connelly reminded me with Echo Park
of days of hoppin on the metro, when they let those spark
Back when I collected retro art, and since then
many are dearly departed, God bless they heart
God bless they hearts, harder living in pain
Where the sun and the rain became one in the same
I took it as a lesson I was still learnin
I'm still with the will of the '84 torch burnin
I been through heartbreaks to break-ups to make-ups to broke again
Not (Back Again), my soul on the rope again
Took the jacket off and saw blood on my sleeves
When you wear your heart there, this the puddle it leaves (I don't need love!)
It's the rebuttal of thieves
and chicks or crooks like you, so what'll it be?
She steal your heart, now she runnin the streets
Don't need the pain, man, troublin' me

[Chorus]
I don't need love ("I'll tell you that...")
I don't- .. ("I'll tell you that...")
I don't need love ("I'll tell you that...")
...need love ("I'll tell you that...")
...need love ("I'll tell you that...")
I don't need love ("I'll tell you that...")
I don't need love ("I'll tell you that...")
I don't need love ("I'll tell you that...")
...need love

While Kanye was chasin (Spaceships) all over the nation
I was at the gravesite, face on the pavement
Left "College Dropout", first flight racin
from Scranton, Pennsylvania on a prop plane prayin
Heart 'bout to pop out my chest in Pittsburgh
Paranoid in first class, heard a voice [whisper] (Real talk)
Just touched back in LAX
and my phone starts buzzin to a thousand texts
Out the gate and runnin like I'm motorless
(I Still Love You) explained if you don't know the rest
"...I wouldn't be able to spend as much time with my son" - [Jana Taylor, Evidence's mom]
I would say that's when love became an issue
Anybody treated me good, that's when I diss you
A certain chick who, caught the bad end of the stick
and through thin and thick I still miss you (I do)
I've trashed every girl I've had since (What can I say?)
Warm heart cold, mind is absent, imagine (My God)
I don't need love anymore, I need pressure
Pain, my veins feelin so electric
Blue in the skin, choosin my sin
'Til the same sins doin' me in, I don't need love

[sample from Boogie Down Productions's "Love's Gonna Getcha]
"You know, that's why, man..
I be tellin you all the time, man y'know..
LOVE, that word 'love' is a very serious thing
And if you DON'T watch out...I'll tell you that.."

(It's Dilated forever, y'all can keep the rest)

[Chorus]

 

[Shadow Hunter]

"You"

"You"

You...

Yeah, microphone check 1, 2, yo
Who's the one that's been running the race? Me!
Who's the one that's been running in place? You
And who's the one you tried to find, so tough
But the whole time, was sitting right in front of your face.

I'm on another level, I mean another label
Players don't die, we try our luck at other tables
And when I lose, I learn, I'm still winning major
I jump forward and back, into the missing stages
A perfect day to make a perfect entrance
A perfect sentence? I can't perfect,
But I just keep pushing pencils, no fake trace stencils
And do it all by hand so they have respect.
I know the feeling when you're dealing with accomplishments
Wishing they would diss you, instead they give you compliments
That's what made you who you are, not what you became
Part of being a star is getting burned in flames
Kind of I'll, the mind's a trip
20/20 when we broke, but blind when rich
I just see it as a sign, but kept rhyming instead
And keep lighting up these pads like Simon Says

What! Who's the one that's been running the race? Me
Who's the one that's been running in place? You
And who's the one you tried to find, so tough
But the whole time, was sitting right in front of your face

One's a lonely number, two's the first loser
So how the fuck can you win? Become a drug abuser
Slapping these beats, I'm no snoozer
6 million ways to die: go ahead and choose one
We from the same block, but all we getting is the same guap
I think one of us needs to shine
Only room for one, one of us needs to go
Sink a boat and only one'll survive
Caution at the wheel, Westside when I drive slow
First sign of tidal waves, when you see the tide low
Wanted for murder and theft, they said I'm liable
I shot the sheriff but didn't steal his rifle
I can't define what's real and what's imagination
Since I signed that deal before my graduation
I went from running track and feel the tracks
With feel the Grammy's with Ye before Late Registration

Who's the one that's been running the race? Me
Who's the one that's been running in place? You
And who's the one you tried to find, so tough
But the whole time, was sitting right in front of your face.

Fast-forward, no kids, one card, no Rollie
One crib, trips to Chile with Kush in the Philly
Every turn starts with one step: that's on me
One foot in front of the other like "come on feet!"
One life, one love, bat a G for one glove
For Mike, rest in peace, shot a bullet from one slug
I keep it pushing as one does, you only get one shot
One glance, one chance at one buzz
One never knows of hopes and dreams
The farther we fly, the closer it seems
Back to the one square, all I need in this life is one snare
One mic direct, fly tonight, one Airs
One of a kind, still one to my grind
One time for your motherfuckin' mind
When I flow, let the rain soon comes
See you might win some, but you just lost, lost...

Who's the one that's been running the race? Me
Who's the one that's been running in place? You
And who's the one you tried to find, so tough
But the whole time, was sitting right in front of your face.

 

[Shadow Hunter]

"God Bless That Man (Interlude)"


"God Bless That Man (Interlude)"


[phone rings two times]

From out the fiery depths of a blazing inferno
Jumping out of live helicopters juggling hand grenades
with bullet necklaces
One man, and the sticky
Follow darkness clouds
Fusion drop a building
Comes a man, ready to save the nation
He ain't here, leave a message for him
He never calls back cause he's busy on the job, saving people
God bless that man, out

 

[Shadow Hunter]

"Fame"
(feat. Roc Marciano & Prodigy)

"Fame"
(feat. Roc Marciano & Prodigy)

[Intro: Evidence]
I came in the game, one shot away from fame ("Fame!")
Uh, and never changed my lane
I came in the game, one shot away from fame
fame, fame, fame, fame, fame

[Evidence]
I pop up in my lane
Watch how I do the same to the same knock
So whatchu sayin? It ain't a game
Big Ben tell the same time that the watch tell on my frame
...Went from doin what it's doin
To movin units like an ancient ruin who's influenced
...The note was sent to me
(Castles Made of Sand) fall in the sea eventually
I'm on some hard to kick the winner route
Everytime that I'm late, there's more to pen about
I mean write about, thinkin 'bout movin out
You ain't caught the kid live, then you losin out
One thing I learn, you can't rule 'em out
Keep the fame, I take the subduer route
or Slick Rick the Ruler route
Politics and bullshit, somethin I can do without

[Chorus: Evidence]
I came in the game, one shot away from fame ("Fame!")
Uh, and never changed my lane
I came in the game, one shot away from fame
fame, fame, fame...
I came in the game, one shot away from fame ("Fame!")
Uh, and never changed my lane
I came in the game, one shot away from fame
fame, fame, fame, fame...

[Roc Marciano]
Fame, flush 'caine down the drain
Laid down game, stayed out the cage
Trey pounds that bang, Greyhounds are taken out of state
Feds are stakin out at my estate
Steakhouse we eat, couches is suede
Hounds is house-trained, ounces is shaved
Base trials is hanged, thousands are made
Praise is downplayed, the powder is weighed (c'mon)
Cowards is slayed, pals bought flowers to graves
Pigs searches for houses to raid (whoa!)
Clouded days, power's just hours away
I'm so close, why now would I wait? (why?)
The time is now and it's ours to waste
Victory sweet, devour the taste
Full-length minks is down by the waist
Jewels niggaz receive is crowns for the ways
Marc'

[Chorus]

[Prodigy]
Ye-yeah, uh, yo..
Enter the game, I was 14
Little-ass nigga with a dream to be seen on the screen
40s' and mad weed, meth tabs and acid
I carried my guns in school and skipped classes
Fuckin girls backstage in the auditorium
While you was hittin the books, I was hittin shorty up
Lost in my own world, young-minded hoodlum
Plottin on the fame, yeah I'ma make a name for myself
and my team, Mobb Deep is the gang
Fit'ta bang on ya head if you blockin the way
to the light at the end of this black-ass tunnel
Man I'm addicted to trouble, man I'm a whole 'nother level with drama
Check the doppler, it's gon' rain shanks
Dark clouds follow me everyday..
Man I could NEVER get enough of this celebrity power
I could NEVER get enough for the fame

[Chorus]

 

[Shadow Hunter]

"James Hendrix"
(with The Alchemist as "Step Brothers")

"James Hendrix"
(with The Alchemist as "Step Brothers")
[Intro]
"What if uh, C-A-T really spelled 'dog'?"
"Uhh.. that's heavy!"

[Chorus: Evidence]
Uh, I'm commission-driven, so pay up
I ain't fuckin up these Dunks or these lay-ups
..And if you see me wearin make-up
The same day you saw Jimi Hendrix wake up
So those that give a fuck, I apoligize
Know my heart is here, never compromised
Those in attendance, I wanna thank ya
And wish this night all night, throw in the anchor

"AS WE PROCEED..." - [Puff Daddy]

[The Alchemist]
...No introduction
Metal tips through hard hats, I'm into construction
Tip the bucket, rhythm rugged, I'm into corrupt shit
Big budget stay dipped like a Chicken McNugget
(F'real) Excellence is what you should expect
Runnin without a breath (what) I'm comin out of left (yeah)
Uncut like dope without a step
No (Brother) without the (Step), no show without the bread
My words surf crowds, go over your head
Took a rhythm, push 'em over the ledge
I'm criminal, my feet wet (uh), I'm drippin with technique sweat
(Sweatin my Technique) No more than a minute to make the beat stretch
Pardon the way that I speak French, gunnin from out a deep trench
(AH!) Write my name on a street bench in cursive
Permanent ink my verses, beatdown person
Finish I'll bring down curtains
Navigatin my Surburban Expedition, Excursion
No lit to grab, I'm the original version
Money duffle bag'll fit a person, punch the clock put the work in
Earth spin on my finger like Julius Erving

[Chorus]

[Evidence]
I shine (I shine) I glow, motherfucker
Never doubt one second of Evidence
State-wide, world-wide, consecutive elegance
No weak shit since the first song on Weatherman
It's called "I Know" (I know!), total control, pressure made
Bling diamonds in the rough, mix created from coal (whoa)
My rhyme is a sign and letters are tolls
No pen, dip my hand in the ink and let it go
(Letyourselfgo) Touch a lot of reefer
No I don't spit no bullshit raps on wax, I touch a lot of people
I touch a lot of needles, no I don't leak open my veins
I got the psyche of created evil
Believe you me, cousin is pain
Got a brother name karma, father insane (HA!)
Related to sin and sin's met Cain
Raising cats and dogs when Allah says rain
("AS WE PROCEED..." - [Puff Daddy])
No game, it's Mos Def (Mathematics)
Life is tragic, addin it up is more dramatic
Except StepBrothers back at it
For the very first time, center stage it's automatic

[Chorus]

"AS WE PROCEED..." - [Puff Daddy]

"In Olde England, they had hangroofs on their houses
and the cats and dogs once leaped on the roof
When it rained, the roofs got slippery
And the cats and dogs would slide off of the roofs
Therefore, it was raining cats and dogs"