Gift Of Gab - Lightyears

Gift Of Gab - Escape 2 Mars (2009)
Gift of Gab, best known as the technically adept MC of the vaunted Blackalicious, knew that after waiting over five years for a follow-up solo release that he would have to really take this one far. Like other planet kind of far. Escape 2 Mars signifies the next groundbreaking voyage in the career of an MC who is nothing short of iconic. Cornerstone Recording Arts Society is set to release Escape 2 Mars November 10, 2009 on CD, Vinyl and worldwide digital download.
Production on Escape was placed mainly in the hands of the Bay Area's talented DNAEBEATS, with a few tracks also helmed by Headnodic, from Gab's most recent star collabo project The Mighty Underdogs and Crown City Rockers. Del the Funky Homosapien and Brother Ali, another two undeniably iconic MCs, are featured on "Dreamin'", one of the record's stand out cuts. Gab also recruited some of the talent from the Quannum Collective he helped pioneer, including Joyo Velarde, Lateef The Truthspeaker, and Honeycut's vocalist Bart Davenport.
His hopes of keeping things close to home set the stage for the album's inspiration. "People are gonna think this is about Martians, but it's not," Gab explains. "It's more so about taking care of the planet we're on. We might have to escape to Mars or somewhere else if we keep taking the planet we live on for granted."
"I'm not trying to preach to anyone," he continues. "I just think it's important for us to raise the level of consciousness and consideration of these things." On songs like Electric Waterfalls and the title track, lyrically he journey's into these topics directly. Musically speaking, it was also a space age inspiration that led him to break some new personal ground. "Some of the more electronic feeling songs were new territory me. I didn't really connect with much of that until we went out and did some shows with Bass Nectar and I saw the culture shifting in front of me and thought it was a great thing."
Known for one of live hip Hop's most engaging shows and mind-blowing delivery, Gift of Gab will tour the country heavily in support of Escape 2 Mars this Fall and into Winter and Spring. Expect him in your city's favorite club and major festivals alike, soon.

Lyrics:
Somewhere else, on the other side of nowhere, there's another place in space.
Beyond what you know as time.

[Chorus:]
Shine your light now, Travel lightyears. Find your light now. Travel lightyears.

The epitome of energy enhanced centering.
Mentally beginning at the end. Remembering entering the gates of the temples of infinity.
Riveting innate sensibilities, epiphanies levitating thoughts from the earth to begin to see,
When the trees underneath my feet then begin to shrink. Eye level birds eye view where the buildings be.
Tendency to find my alignment. It renders me helpless. Submit to the force that is lifting me.
Instantly, the planet looks small but my senses free fall, should I say rise.
Seems I'm in too deep, whole life flash by my eyes in like twenty-three seconds.

[Repeat Chorus:]

As I pass mars, mass stars, planets all ajar in the solar system.
See me float farther out of the galaxy. I realize there are more. How far does it go.
I wonder if there are no endings, beginnings. Yesterday is just tomorrow.
Seen another sun, another earth, another mars. So far into space, wonder will I see the father,
Learn the mysteries that were written by the author. If it doesn't end, where's it from, where'd it start though.
Does it have direction or is all of this is all for nothing just a bunch of molecules who have lost our way.
To my left thought I saw a flying saucer.

[Repeat Chorus:]

Spotted a door floating in the distance it started getting more close.
Felt as though I was about to have a metamorphosis. Cold lavender colours, everything was more, plus
Seven discs on the door spinning in a whirl, plus opened up my minds eye,
Told me that a world was dwelling deep within way vaster than this world was.
Flesh is temporary, just a dream, just a surface. Everyone's connected to one aim and one purpose.
Empty out your thoughts, tame the lions in the circus.
Opened up the door just to see what was inside, woke up in my room, it was all in my mind.
It's all in the mind

[Repeat Chorus:]

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[MonkayMan]

the whole album is great. But Escape 2 Mars and Light Years... i can listen to over and over : )

[itzFundamental]

fuckin lyrics are sooooo dope! gab came hard

[Bammeaxel]

@lilwaffles714 Uh yeah, and God gave us the fruit of knowledge, the fruit of consciousness, the consciousness of good and evil, via the serpent... Do we need to say more? Take it easy if you thought you detain more knowledge than the "uneducated", everybody' s free, that' s life, man.

[Ken4Twenty]

@lilwaffles714

Jesus is my homeboy!

[wwrh99]

this song is orgasmiccc.............how is there 3 people that dislike this

[MrSouthz]

Sounds a bit like Busta :)

[lilwaffles714]

If you died tonight would you go to heaven? JESUS died for our sins and by accepting him you can be saved message me for more info.

[Vest233424]

@MonkayMan you forgot Gift of Gab- Electric waterfall

[Vest233424]

Dope!!

[Sirjamesalot11]

I love that it can have that funked out club feel without being cheesy because his lyrics and vocal flow are so dope. Boots pulls it off pretty well with the Coup, but some of the songs are just like man, this is total chick-shit. J5's newest album was too cheese and club, but this is nothing but a gift from gab.

[doesntlikeu]

WE GOT THE GIFT OF GAB MOTHERFUCKER

[Thedarkheritage1]

Gab put down some true knowlegde

in a book with the best emcees all

tellin the methods of emceeing. callled ..

..:;H :: .O:: .;W ::.. ::..T:O ..:: ..R:; .A..::P...

top notch

book if u into real hiphop!