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    For All Debts Public and Private is the new LP from rapper Defcee and producer, BoatHouse.

    Features include Kipp Stone, Mother Nature, SolarFive, greenSLLime, and Armand Hammer.

    Photos by Alexander Richter

    Design and Layout by Mr. Krum

    Limited to 500 copies.

    Digitally releasing 4/19

    *Vinyl is in production with United Record Press and expected to land November 2022.

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lyrics

Look, ma! No hands! Turnin money to water. The
High Priests of Credit pourin my blood on the altar.
Runway out my wallet cleared another departure.
interrupting arguments, mother shushing my father.
Thought I was making more than living check-to-check, but debt is debt.
At the gas pump, prayin I didn’t spend the rent.
My signature in Etch-a-Sketch, it was shaken down.
Scramble to cover leaks with putty before the rain’s aground.
Strict diets of spending limits and budget cuts,
Skipped a meal when I was broke, now I can’t stomach lunch.
I’ve seen people I love burned to a blunted husk,
Their will is always tested, but they never study much.
Dollars late. Years short, apocalypses fear wrought.
Veered off, into dark corners where the tears caught.
Escape was just the price of what the beer cost.
Non-responsive askin what I’m here for.

HOOK:
Was I living or surviving?
Shuffled through the days, pretending that I was tryin,
Moved through the cold, while my mood hit the lows,
Mind on my money, I was losin em both.

I went hungry til the starving stopped.
Bill collectors ringin, and I would tell em their calls had dropped.
No market for this music, I was told to pop,
by people who would tell me, “Keep workin,” and hoped it flopped.
Write to prove em wrong, fight to lose the charm.
Armchair A&Rs askin if I could move along,
and treated gatekeeping like they were crossing guards.
Narcissism meant that my mistakes never taught me at all.
I would fail, then learn to fall with grace.
I’d talk to the squad, harm across my face.
They kept one finger on the alarm in case
I found only one way to have my flaws erased.
Too shook to die at my own hand, but I used
To think I wouldn’t live to be a grown man.
Studyin the difference between breathing and survivin
while learnin about how patient I can be from inside it.

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from For All Debts Public and Private, released April 19, 2022
produced by BoatHouse

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