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The first new release from "Prodigal Son: The Anthology", Shoes is one of 3 new tracks on the diverse anthology. In Shoes, Tim'm returns to his Hip Hop intelligentsia roots of Deep Dickollective (DDC) by offering an appeal to those who want to judge people before they've "walked a mile in their shoes". The track was produced by Tim'm's long-time Hip Hop compadre Calqlus/Beau Clemmons, mixed by Eddy Royce, and the video shot in Cincinnati's eclectic Northside neighborhood which became home to the Hip Hop indie icon in November of last year. Tim'm is a native of Cincinnati.

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Shoes
Written and Performed by Tim’m T. West

1st verse:

This ain’t’ no oppression olympics
But you tryin’ it
Trying to minimize what I been thru
I ain’t feelin it
You want a final answer
For a trick question
I ain’t got no smith and wesson
No smoking guns, just some life lessons
Born with an intuition many moons before me
Got that generational knowledge in my bloodstream
Cross many rivers by spirit of breath before me
So you bore me
You’re very toxic it annoys me
I employ most rappers to do better
Upgrade the grade, flip the logic, get them letters
Sharpen the cheddar ‘til it bites
And put a lil mo time in on that scratch pad, that keyboard
And actually pick up a pen and write
So what’s that gay stuff up my sleeve?
A rainbow library
A very educated, petty, subtle read
Just tryin’ to titillate that brain space
Take you down a neurological wormhole
Without a very straight face
Cuz joy is how it fight the nightmares
The weight of pain that debilitates
And it feels like nobody cares
My wordplay’s a tango between ballet
And a break dancer
I’m still here
my final answer

Hook:
Cuz you ain’t walked a mile
In my shoes
So you can’t judge my life
Sing my blues
I really don’t have the time
To prove
(no point to you
This is
My Truth)


2nd verse:

Never claimed to be the best rapper
But I holds my own
Got 10 rap projects behind me
6 of those alone
Never paper chased or entered the rat race
To compromise my values
The Boom bap the back drop, and poetry my muse
My albums go probably aluminium
So ain’t got a thing to lose
A few times I almost lost it all
So value the right to choose:
my life, the way I write, my destiny, even my plight
And all the miles that I walk, as much as you stalk
Don’t make you right
Demean me cuz I gay
(well what’s the meaning of your angst
What’s that picture that you paint
I’m that eisel you can’t break
So you’ll never see me aim
To walk in another’s lane
I cover my ears with all your nonsense
Blah blah blah blah lame
Like Prince I’ll be unbothered
Singing baby I’m a star
Since you’ve walked a mile in my shoes
Then tell me who you are
[pause]
Since you’ve walked a mile in my shoes
Then tell me who you are

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from Prodigal Son: The Anthology, released October 5, 2018
Produced by Beau Clemmons/Calqlus. Mixed and mastered by Eddy Royce (Cincinnati). Written and performed by Tim'm West
Album: Prodigal Son (exclusively). (2018, Cincinnati)

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