Tensei, the Chicago based duo, seamlessly blend House, Salsa, Soul & Electro' with the Golden Era introspective flows of ADaD & the sultry hooks of Crl Crrll to achieve a Hip Hop, Soul, Dance fusion reminiscent of classic Outkast & Camp Lo.
ADaD is a Chicago based rapper whose lyrics strive to maintain the Golden Era tradition by concentrating on the honest, broken truths of humanity.
Crl Crrll is a Denver bred singer/rapper/beat-maker who’s licensed music with Red Bull Sound Select, Red Bull Music Academy and Pabst Blue Ribbon. Crl Crrll has also performed with Anderson .Paak, Sango, Washed Out, Broods, Xiavier, Tokimonsta, and Jamie XX.
lyrics
Aww main
i ain’t dreamed
Since when I drifted
Lost my lookback
Met the mission
Lucid lingo
I been below
Broke and black sheep
Contradicted
Lose ya grip
Confused a bit
A stu a dent
Reaching for the rudiment
But Ain’t no mistakes in the cosmos
Some folks just get bruised a bit
And I did that
And pre haps
It be that
The see napse
Want my bones broke what is this
Hold up
Why is it so hard
To grow up
When it’s in yo heart
To Glow up
U didn’t get so far
To slow up
Don’t do that boy
And I’m leaving
Believing
That I’m being
In my season
Hook
But i been down
Coulda been lost forever
But im getting better
Back up in the clouds, now
x2
We don’t need you
Aint no love for you out here
You aint worth your dreams
Times is gone
One thing is clear
Here in the dark space
Aint no hope but take this fear
You need some mo pain
So you aint focused
yo whole year
You just older
get smaller
Down is up
Errything is sideways
I’m trying to crush you
From the inside
Where I can do what
Ever my way
You should forfeit
Shut the doors up
U can trust me
Don’t believe you
Life is hard luck
Aint no short cuts
Close the curtains
We don’t need you
I hear voices
Give me choices
It been too long
That I made bad ones
Im so true grit
On my new shit
Made my mind up
im important
Right direction
No excuses
Truth is power
lies is useless
I leave my ego
Behind the back door
To find a fair way
To move me forward
And I don’t know how
But here I go now
Forget the old me
Cuz im the new him
And he got big dreams
A head of thick steam
Ten toes in
And full of focus
Yeah
And pre haps
It be that
I needed
to see that
You might get bones broke
Bruised a bit
But I’m leaving
Believing
That I’m being
In my season
Hook
But i been down
Coulda been lost forever
But im getting better
Back up in the clouds, now
x2
credits
from Speak Your Truth,
track released May 19, 2020
The Last Dance
Feat. ADaD
Written by Demetrius Barry
Produced/Composed by Tensei
supported by 18 fans who also own “Last Dance - Feat. ADaD and Crl Crrll”
Like so many others, this came like a bolt out of the blue and, even though it's well before payday, I had to have this astonishing album on vinyl to prove it exists. The feel of the tunes makes me feel like the Impressions do, Curtis Mayfield, the big spaces and instinctive horns and stuff drifting in and out. Great grooves and I can see lots of ghosts nodding along to this with big smiles on their faces. At last! Anthony Cottrell