Lil Ugly Mane’s “Uneven Compromise” is a microcosm of his career that was defined by a complete disregard for the conventions of the music/rap industry.

The long-form track was released as an EP with a… Read More Part I

[Chorus]

Corrupted by the darkness, now you fall into an endless sleep

Corrupted by the darkness, now you fall into an endless sleep

Corrupted by the darkness, now you fall into an endless sleep

Corrupted by the darkness, now you fall into an endless sleep

[Verse 1: Lil Ugly Mane]

Enter my chamber you never will leave

Festering bodies will cover the streets

Satanic prophecies, Christian hypocrisy

Bury me deep in the filth and disease

Open my mind and then hammer it closed

Into the darkness I'm strangled and choked

Tracing the patterns and numbers in smoke

Blood on my dagger from enemies throats

Crucify ghosts in a frozen abyss

Ocean of planets in total eclipse

Nowhere I wander wherever I drift

Using a razor to open my wrists

My body is vacant, my soul is enslaved

To a hatred as ancient as Canaanites

Ladder of Jacob, the devil awakened

In hell I created, I pray tonight

[Chorus]

Corrupted by the darkness, now you fall into an endless sleep

Corrupted by the darkness, now you fall into an endless sleep

Corrupted by the darkness, now you fall into an endless sleep

Corrupted by the darkness, now you fall into an endless sleep

[Verse 2: Lil Ugly Mane]

Same wolf from that folklore

Drinking blood right out of that goat horn

I'm post-mortem, these boys want war

I transport 'em, right to Hell

In a trance when I write the spell

Leave the blood on my hands cause I like the smell

In the death business, you the clientele

Motherfuckers can't win cause I'm trying to fail

Flesh is the fabric that covers my robes

Blood is the matter that built up my throne

Nothing but shadows, I'm waiting alone

Deep in my coffin, I call it my home

Cowering and broken

I'm a victim of my evil deeds

But I don't need your sympathy

I'm comfortable in misery

[Chorus]

Corrupted by the darkness, now you fall into an endless sleep

Corrupted by the darkness, now you fall into an endless sleep

Corrupted by the darkness, now you fall into an endless sleep

Corrupted by the darkness, now you fall into an endless sleep

Corrupted by the darkness, now you fall into an endless sleep

Corrupted by the darkness, now you fall into an endless sleep

Corrupted by the darkness, now you fall into an endless sleep

Corrupted by the darkness, now you fall into an endless sleep

Corrupted by the darkness, now you fall into an endless sleep

Corrupted by the darkness, now you fall into an endless sleep

Corrupted by the darkness, now you fall into an endless sleep

Corrupted by the darkness, now you fall into an endless sleep

Corrupted by the darkness, now you fall into an endless sleep

Corrupted by the darkness, now you fall into an endless sleep

Part II

[Interlude: KRS]

"Sure he's a gangsta on the corner, that's exactly what we wanted

Does he have some sort of social responsibility?

Should he change his style?"

[Verse: Ralph Smart]

"We are just the painting, we are the canvas, we are the artwork

When we look at in the broader scheme of things

When we realize that we are not our bodies

That the building in front of you is nothing more than energy, just slowed down

When we also realize that we are not seeing everything as it is

Nothing is what it seems at all, a lot of the times this is liberating."

[Refrain: Milk Dee, Gang Starr, & Common]

Labels, labels

Feel no guilt

Takin' yah money

The reason, the reason that my people say they tired of rap

Labels, labels

Feel no guilt

Takin' yah money

The reason, the reason that my people say they tired of rap

Labels, labels

Feel no guilt

Takin' yah money

The reason, the reason that my people say they tired of rap

Labels, labels

Feel no guilt

Takin' yah money

The reason, the reason that my people say they tired of rap

Labels, labels

Feel no guilt

Takin' yah money

The reason, the reason that my people say they tired of rap

Labels, labels

Feel no guilt

Takin' yah money

The reason, the reason that my people say they tired of rap

Part III

[Verse: Lil Ugly Mane]

Aye yo, I saw my man the other day he say he need a handout

Said he had some live and some boy but it ran out

His partner had a number, but connections didn't pan out

And every other road he dialed was looking like the same route

Told him he could blame it on the cocaine drought

Since the boys got arraigned and all the names came out

Now I don't know nobody dealing, sitting on the steps

By the library building, busted him a short

Then I asked about his children, told me he ain't seen 'em

Since they momma tried to kill him, laughed and told the homie

"I forgot about that shit, she caught you in the crib

Rollin' off in a fat bitch, tried to pull the heater

But you hid under the mattress and jumped out the window

Butt naked, it was classic" I paused

Cuz my homie wasn't laughing with me

So I tried to switch the topic up casually

He exhaled smoke and threw his hat in the street

Said, "Playa, I don't understand what happened to me

Remember how I used to live extravagantly

White Jays, scuff free, with immaculate steez

Stacked Gs, cop keys like they was practically free

Now I'm scrambling these streets in this raggedy tee"

I was puzzled by his feelings of inadequacy

Then I saw the track mark when he pulled back on his sleeve

Yeah, my homie got a habit it seems

Sad, cuz I kinda wanna dap him and leave

But I been down the same road so I put it on front street

Then he stepped back like he wanted to punch me

Told him, sit down, it's been a minute since we hung out

Apologized for bringing up the fact that he was strung out

Caught me off guard, and I know that life's hard

But I really hate to see the homie in the graveyard

Cuz all I wanna do is see my people live large

I always try to see my people better than they are

He told me he would clean up, said it was a promise

Looked me in my eyes to imply that he was honest

But I know that I would lie too, back when I was on it

So even when I nodded I was feeling broken hearted

He the homie though, regardless, so I know I gotta trust him

Told him I won't bring it up in any more discussions

Then I hit him with some ones, probably bout a dozen

He told me he was staying with his auntie and his cousin

But I saw the bitch later and she told me that he wasn't

Told me if she saw him she would snitch him to the government

Said he on some foul shit, she ain't even love him

I was bugging, I know he on the needle

How she talking hopeless, told me that he was evil, he didn't have emotions

Said they found his babies with their throats slit, and he the culprit

I'm like, oh shit, step back, how she go against blood like that?

That's the homie from the way back

Looking at the stars, "what the fuck could make you say that?

Naw love, I can't even play that"

It's hard to light a smoke when you trying to breathe

Cuz deep down I know she ain't lying to me

Cuz deep down I know she ain't lying to me

Cuz deep down I know she ain't lying to me

[Chorus: Lil Ugly Mane]

Ayo, your homeboys change sometimes

Ayo, the thoughts rearrange in their brains sometimes

It's too hard dealing with the pain sometimes

But you gotta let go, you can't save their lives

Your homeboys change sometimes

The thoughts rearrange in their brains sometimes

It's too hard dealing with the pain sometimes

But you gotta let go, you can't save their lives

Part IV

[Interlude]

"What are you doing?"

"I don't know"

[Instrumental]