"Because once upon a time there was a yesterday" - Quasimoto

"Today is the shadow of tomorrow
Today is the present future of yesterday
Yesterday is the shadow of today
The darkness of the past is yesterday" - Quasimoto

Not much to post lyric-wise in regards to the new year. Instead of posting Skills' annual New Year "Rap-up" I figured I'd try to freak it a little differently.

I am not big on resolutions in terms of specific goals, but I do have a few guiding principles I would like to live under.  In general I want to be more nimble, in thought and in physical frame.

"Its not a trick, nigga, it's a trap

Survival of the fit, is what they aiming at

And niggas aint fit, fat as hell!

Fat in mind, body fat as well" - Lupe Fiasco

Life has been seeming to go by so fast lately and I want to be swifter to get with it, in all ways. This made me think of three hip-hop related things.

I thought of somehting Big Pun said as an ad-lib during the chorus on "It's So Hard" from Yeeeeah Baby. 

"I just lost 100 pounds. I'm tryin to live, I ain't going nowhere."

Granted I am not dealing with morbid obesity as did Pun however, it does not take long, and life moves fast.

While I don't believe in hard and fast goals, I am however at the point where I am sick of having this conversation with myself and am in a no excuses mode. The alternative is not an option.

Which made me think of "Plan B" by Tanya Morgan.

Later, my mind went on to the reality of the Universe. Eb and flow, negative and positive balance. But mostly living for the now, in this moment. Which then brought me to two songs, "Shadows of Tomorrow" by Madvillain featuring Quasimoto and Madlib and Regrets by Jay-Z.

Music has always guided the way for me. This year will be no different

[Lord Quasimoto]
Today is the shadow of tomorrow
Today is the present future of yesterday
Yesterday is the shadow of today
The darkness of the past is yesterday
And the light of the past is yesterday
The days of yesterday are all numbered in sum
In the world once
Because once upon a time there was a yesterday
Yesterday belongs to the dead
Because the dead belongs to the past
The past is yesterday
Today is the preview of tomorrow but for me
Only for my better and happier point of view
My point of view is the thought of a better or try
Reality is today of eternity
The eternity of yesterday is dead
Yesterday is as one
The eternity of one is the eternity of the past
The past is once upon a time
Once upon a time is past
The past is yesterday today
The past is yesterday today
While we're searchin for tomorrow

[Madlib]
The light of the past is the light which was
The wisdom of the past is the light of the past
The light of the future is the light which is to be
The wisdom of the future is the light of the future see
Yesterday belongs to the dead
Tomorrow belongs to the living
The past is certified as a finished product
Anything which has ended is finished
That which is perfect is finished
The perfect man is no exception to the rule
The perfect man of the past is made according to the rule of the past
The rule of the past is a law of injustice and hypocrisy
The revelation of the meaning of the law is revealed through the law itself
The wisdom of the past is the light of the past
The light which is to be the wisdom of the future
The light of the future casts the shadows of tomorrow

Sun Ra
Sun Ra

Lord Quas
Madlib

Couldn't find lyrics for this. Dope song, under exposed group.