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by Gentleman Contender

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back w a new perspective a new direction, i left the country, got introspective & reflected been a second since i dropped a record i'm back & i slept w the tides & addressed what's inside & confessed that it's likely i let it define me it's all that i know songs are all that i know so i sing it like [finish that cup till it's okay/ dominican rum in that OJ, thinking i'm one w the ocean for the moment man i'm golden] like the sand that gets swept w the tides time keeps the narrative in motion the moment's alive till it's gone and it's not you can't stop the story *everybody's got a story/ question is how you gon tell it/ question is who you gon share it with/ like who won't be scared of it/ cuz we're all looking for those ppl that really care enough to give a fuck about the details/ and might hold within them the ink or the pen that could help write the details* as the sun undressed the heat felt like i heard the sun breathe next to me a confession of an unseen recipe where the hi hats bypass eardrums straight to the soul/ so i left and addressed the beat synth emulating that sunbeam ecstasy with a cadence like the waves that caress the beach add the tight rap typecast me to the role/ so i took what i made and i let that shit play w my eyes closed alright open up there's a world out here to see and babygirl it's a world out a here w me if you're for it so come close come close let me tell you a *
2.
Tinnitus 04:39
* if you find/ your warmth no longer mine/ i will forget you/ but if each day/ your embers burn to flame/ my fire is renewed * all i'm tryna say is that world ain't a stage in fact more like a canvas how you gonna paint it? last time that you came asked if i had what's inside me to change "same song always sad it's a lil played out" i just always thought that she would stay down [it's] like i'm treading over different ways now just to say how heart fucking gave out bled on a records worth of lyrics & i'm feeling like a broken one you are the only one that i hear when the noise fades out voice echo still rings in my head like back when i used to hear you sing to yourself still loud this world ain't a stage it's more like a playlist made up of fading tracks always dissipating fast so it's strange your sustain still stays in tact * you were a concert/ i still hear you sing/ i wandered too close now my ears hear it ringing *
3.
Swarm 01:42
spinning vinyl for the feeling go & kick your shoes off i ain't tryna see you leave yet you could smoke a newport i ain't judging it's whatever fogging up the room along w judgment and the weather incidentally i'm cool w kicking back when we together i don't smoke that often i don't usually call you if i could sing it better wouldn't have to rap at all you see i'm lost between the syllables and bulletholes from shots you fired off can't find a metaphor perpetuating thought that's all up in my head [metaphor]: insects swarming when you throwing rocks all at their shit at a loss w half this shit caught in a battle with making cool sounds & sounding cool in my raps and shit * i'm still young but i'm growing up slow enough & it's swarming me *
4.
check the clock in the AM wake up & face the music make it honest fake just ain't amusing usually/ usually you can see that ice coffee & a beat pad barista said she like my tats but in that way that you knew that she had one she turned her back saw the ink it was black: a lighthouse said she wanna see even when it ain't bright out said she wanna feel just a little bit guided/ oh ya i know how that goes i went home and i wrote this showed the emotion like a flag is mapping the wind so if i blow i hope it cartographs the passion i give put the cap back, back on the 5th and she said come relax with me chill but i asked for this shit, right? gotta be somebody's light show we ain't hanging out not cuz i don't try though/ feeling washed out, drowned in the studio i don't know where the time go promise i've been thinking bout every little thing that i'm missing out on this song's to remind you * but it's getting hard & lonely/ inspiration's dark & low and i ain't even done recording so/ when you go/ could you please leave a light on * (WELL$): downtime working on my rhyme scheme hasn't been conducive usually you say talking to me's useless my music can't heal your bruises but/ i don't really think it's really like that kick, kick snare & a hi hat you say i don't give a fuck too many feeling for me to bypass/ so tell me where my heart go shorty got pull but i'm tired of playing marco i loved you whole-heartedly so why was it hard for me to get partial in return/ [they] say a loving heart never learns its mistakes/ but i'm burnin with the burden of the choice you make at what point do you break you sayin that i'm fake just to further mistake/ where we at now you hate we at now you miss being normal i could never miss those pat-downs so i am never home these flights i've taken alone despite the time that i'm gone i hope that you leave a light on *
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lalo reprise 00:55
* Leave A Light On *
6.
* i don't know what to say to you baby/ i might change your life you might change my life/ we might say goodbye, you might stay the night/ so what do you say baby/ why not? * it's nothing conventional nothing resistible tomorrow's close so it's all systems go simple it's just you & me, spark the interest though feels like there's space in between like staccato notes/ i mean you might change my life right then again you might not but 3 o'clock on this rooftop that's an awfully late time slot for you to be eye-locked w me alone, he's not around feet like 100 feet off of the ground seems like it ain't all that small of a town from here looking out, so turn around this some shit you wanna pass up? & you're looking too good w that backdrop so fuck it why not? * caught the sunrise on the balcony just me but it was gold seething from the dust in the sky it was alchemy but i had to see it alone [go] everything's bright till the lights fade faded all night till it's daybreak breaking off ties as you walk away heels in your hand never thought to stay tired of this heart so i'm using yours steady as the snare on the 2s and 4s is the beat, cuz that's what i like write songs to rewrite the endings in my life please don't repent me turn around & stay
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Motel 03:16
this for my women infatuated w low end sit at home on a saturday like i'm snowed in working hard just to isolate all my close friends still in chapel hill i could really go get a show & get the whole fuckin city to go and show up hold up fans got me poppin off like a soda cap when you shake the shit ask when i'll make it big chance 50/50 dude stats what i major in, true half what i rap ain't accessible ain't gotta tell you it's weed money painkillers change ain't acceptable still make the beats make you crank up the decibels wait i could flex a lil too got a couple rhymes i could flex a lil too but i missed the point [of] getting checks if it comes at the cost of integrity pray that ain't never me pray that ain't never me too * in case i don't make it/ there's a motel still waiting * i can't tell you that i'm credible that's something you earn can't prove to you it's genuine that's something you'll learn turn back to my early shit love songs and movie scripts worried that i'm losing it hurrying to screw the missing screws up on this record but it's true that if the record flops i might not get a shot to do again might get some love if i go with some proven shit why catch a buzz just to lose it quick though so it's the rise of the artsy twentysomething saw that water rise up to the ceiling when my home got flooded drove me up to chapel hill and still there's mold on the back of the paintings where i stay now ain't no way to forget where you came from & the second that you think that it'll never change you're at a motel watching tv as the levees break a decade late i figured out in life you never run nah despite the shit you lose you try and find a better one * so in case we don't make it/ there's a motel still waiting/ to wash yourself clean & find what it means/ to dry it off & try it all again *

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released January 30, 2015

Executive Producer: Leroy Shingu
Mixed/Mastered: Jay Gallagher
Backup Vox (Tinnitus): Brittany Salaam
Saxophone (Leave a Light On/Paradise Aesthetic): Julian "Jules" Jacobson
Chief of Visuals: Chris Barron

special thx to:
Deb Randolph, Tom Bousquet, Ryan Ro Carlos & Thrill City, Gabe & Runaway Clothes, Carter & Glass Reflex, Bradley Saacks & the DTH, Mike Mikey Pat Alec & Immaculate Taste, CC Jimmy Shanim Daz Star Matt Zoe & the whole street team, Will Futch, Jamie Zink, Ace & G Yamazawa, Viking Breakdance

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