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The Entrance
01:27
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3 periods, 3periods thats all you got ..its what you've been training for...
no matter where you heads at right now, its time to realize you control the match
it doesnt matter what they did in the past or how much better their record is
what does matter is never settling and pushing physical boundaries
and realize that you are a machine...
its your job to control the pase ,
if you got the decision thats not good enough, you should of got the major
if you got the major you should of got the tech
if you got the tech, you should of got the pin
Verse-
I throw that book back up and over my shoulder
Start walking to locker room cuz classes are over
My minds racing with nerves and you know don't ever slow up
Thinking stupid thoughts like "hope opponents don't show up"
I'm so tense... somehow I put it all behind me
into the locker room I go and all my team mates surround me
Trying joke around just to ease the tention around me
And then my coach walks in right before it goes down
See...
He goes through the line up, telling who to warm up
like If we do or don't get the toss whos gonna bump
and Who the stud in each weight class and how we match up
Its like enough already else i'm already bout to throw up
For real....man I'm just gotta wrestle my match
Questioning why I'm nervous "really how can you ask?"
But they don't live it like me man they don't understand
Mono y mono you know hand to hand
I never underestimate or overlook my opponent
No one can stop me i'ma take this match and i'm gonna own it
Until our coach sends us out I just wait for the moment
The lights dim my team enters and them doors come open
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1st Verse-
Warming up and I'm ready to
Just counting down the clock from the match before,
Until your up, (clock ticking)
And its about that time
The referee calls us both to the center, on the line
Gentleman, if you could please shake hands
Down in my stance as all my nerves silence noise in the stands
And all I'm thinking in my head to make me overcome the fear
is keeping it focused stay explosive wrestle tough and make it clear
That I'm a champion.... man I'm built to win
And all you others might as well just keep practicing
extra workouts round the clock
always training non stop
top notch
everything you trying to get I got
High crotch, low single leg whatever the shot
I'm coming in at every angle and I'm not gonna stop
Try and block ...
And I'm a show you the meaning
Of being a a take down artist
That'll keep you from breathing
Chorus-
This is what its all about
you feel the rumble from the roar of the crowd
Step in the circle your heart pounding now
Your like a warrior now take em down
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3. |
Winning Matches
02:38
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Yeah, i walk these hall ways like I run this place
With all these tournaments I'm winning man i'm right on pace
I got another 1st place
wrapped up in my case
Your face to face with operating on a deadily chase
it pays be like me boy.... i'm all in control
i'm beating records so ahead i'm almost 10 steps forward
you best get 10 steps back
in fact, you aint that bad
you aint no threat you wanna test lets see out on that mat?
click clack
I'm winning matches i dominate practice
which i dont really have to anymore i'm just laughing
at my competition passing i leave em and ass whipping
and thats if it last through the first periods maximum
so believe it or not ripley theres no way you can stop me
cuz i hit takedowns so phenomenally
I run this is the sport man my confidence flying
Now I'm talking big names like Jason Bryant
Chorus
Raise My Hand
Raise My Hand
Raise My Hand
Raise My Hand
Another first place wrapped up in the bag
Now would somebody tell the referee to raise my hand
Raise My Hand
Raise My Hand
Raise My Hand
Raise My Hand
Do all you screaming people up in the stands understand
From the whistle to the finish I'ma kill it man
I'm Winning Matches
I'm just winning man...
Its all I do
Raise My Hands Up In The Air
My Records Cimbing
People in the stands all stop in stare
There goes the
Raise My Hand
Raise My Hand
Raise My Hand
Raise My Hand
Verse
And if you've done it before then you would know
The best feeling in the world is putting on that show
so let me show ya how i do it when i do what i do
I start manuevering they can't even keep up with me dude
you know i take em down for two but then i let em escape
they play it off like i got lucky like they made a mistake
thats when i flip the switch on put em right in their place
They go from angry, frustrated and right before they all break
they try a move in desperation like i can't see that coming
So i just take em down again and let em up for the fun of it
nothing personal but this why i train and I'm loving it
Making your parents go silent from just watching you suffering
They say that i'm a bad sport...but i disagree
Taking it easy on opponents isn't how i succeed
you see my standards are so high that i won't even achieve
Thats why push it every match until I can't even breath
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Verse 1
Let me take you on a journey where the baddestperform
Into the oldest sport known since history was born
From the leaf to the togas or the modern uniform
This survival of the fittest and its in the purest form
This is real athletics and the way that they should be
With no timeouts, no subs no teams
No points from judge discrepancies
No fouls, no pads, just you and me
Aww no more talk just walk the walk
Cuz words cant and wont change once you start
So step up to the line, set, on your mark
Explosive energy will soon embark
Now come on get it banging shots are fueling the spark
I'm never backing gotta be moving forward low with a stalk
Keep with banging soon with the pressure referee make the call
This the realest 7 minutes now you gotta make em hate em all
Chorus 1
The training (Youve Got to low voice)
The aching
Bones breaking
Just break em
All night
All day
You gotta break em till they drop
The pressure is building
Dont slip up
Clocks ticking
Sweat dripping
No Giving
You gotta break em till they drop
Verse 2
Al-ways stay-ing mo-ti-va-ted
drill-ing, lif-ting runn-ing train-ing
No ex-cus-es no ex-plain-ing
Fo-cus on the goal and take it
Now all you outsiders conversate but never understand
How this sport is so consuming there aint another thing to plan
They say its too much sacrifice like its the only thing I have
But to truly read these cards you gotta play with your own hand
So for 15 years I guess Ive played the pretty well
With some triple royal flushes and a record that I held
But my winnings have no value till the final hand is dealt
Cuz a champion never stops until they hear the final bell
When you master your potential, all distractions have to leave
Did you think I went to college just to master my degree?
This success of that I speak can only ever be achieved
Like the battles on the mat, you gotta break em at the seems
Chorus
Verse 3
Motion , head snap, high crotch, Reshot
Heavy on the head, pass it by, d-d-dont stop
Break em this is war so bring everything youve got
Establishing a pase thats impossible to block
I know these Cauliflower ears just aint a bumps or bruise
Cuz the Intensity increases every moment you improve
When you see the possibility potentially and do
then you would automatically understand me and get the clue
Gotta set the preparations handle pressure to succeed
cuz A threat to my ambition has the same mentality
now your Inside the warrior are your seeing what we see
That until my hand gets raised you remain my enemy
and If ya stepping up in my circle theres a possibility
Im a doing what Im doing I deliver injury
Dont close your eyes, Ill catch you dozing on your feet
With the Quickest lowest single only pausing on this beat
the Clocks Ticking and tocking u gotta stop the heavy breathing
with Everything youve ever worked for do you understand the meaning
Gotta break em, all the pressure, all the people that believing
Gotta finish as the strongest we never fall to be the weakest
Now one thing that i know the momnent i opened the door
is Go hard or go for broke and if the moment is so
Do whatever you gotta do but just dont choke
cuz their aint nothing worse than knowing that you mentally broke
Chorus
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5. |
The Realest Sport
04:22
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6 in the morning out my bed and I aint even hardly slept
Sprint laps start my day off and I'm hating every single step
So I find the motivation getting pissed off at myself
No more losses no more takedowns aint no running out of breath
Obsessed for perfection racing up one direction
I'm aiming the top spot and giving it every measure
Making you feel the pressure, testing your every vessel
Tempted to wanna give up, forgetting every reason that you wrestle
But you don't quit… and you know why
Cuz on the mat it's only those who live or die
Just the old times way before
Where we could wrestle make a wager over war!!
Chorus
This is all the reason And this is why I train
There aint no seasons off, I'm out here bleeding man
You gotta get it done, you gotta break em all
You gotta take and make sure every time you hit the wall
This is all the reason And this is why I train
There aint no seasons off, I'm out here bleeding man
And all of them other sports you better recognize
That this the realest sport, now let me tell you why
2nd (TP)
Now let me talk about the technical side
The moves that I design in quickness every time I combine
Competitive edge over anybody that's willing to try
Like I'm a Hawkeye flying over you pigeons up in the sky
Low single blasting the pressure I'm breaking you every minute
They aint worried about the score they just worried if they can finish
Let me teach you all the meaning, overcoming the pressure
Defending the title or any undefeated record
Now if you can't understand… what's the reason
That the wrestling community people keep on believing
In a sport that takes the most sacrifice and drive
When there's barely any spectators watching why do we try
Why? Why do we try? Or care so much all the time?
Cuz we the only people out there that's keeping this thing alive
It's the last form of athletics teaching the kids drive
We'll out work anybody and I'll put it on the line
(TP)
This is all the reason and this is why I train
There aint no seasons off, I'm out here bleeding man
You gotta get it done, you gotta break em all
You gotta take and make sure every time you hit the wall
This is all the reason and this is why I train
There aint no seasons off, I'm out here bleeding man
And all of them other sports you better recognize
That this the realest sport, now let me tell you why
3RD (Esco)
It's hard for me to put into words just how I feel
When I step up on the mat man the feelings so surreal
When you stand in front of another man and take him onto war
You bust him up he bang you back tell me what you fighting for?
Throwing blows in the room man they got me so frustrated
And I'm training like a madman I love it but I hate it
That's why I stay friends off the mat got be your enemies in the room
Never stop never quit tell yourself that this is it
Push yourself to the limit and then push a little more
The top of the podium is calling you remember what you working for
I've been cut open broken nose broken ribs and broken bones
Still I stand the hardest man walking (walking)
(TP)
This is all the reason And this is why I train
There aint no seasons off, I'm out here bleeding man
You gotta get it done, you gotta break em all
You gotta take and make sure every time you hit the wall
This is all the reason And this is why I train
There aint no seasons off, I'm out here bleeding man
And al of them other sports you better recognize
That this the realest sport, now let me tell you why
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I can vividly remember the state of mind i was in
everytime i started tripping my tolerance giving in
most certainly times of pain seem stand out to me more
But all of these moments that I ever speak of no one thats normal would ever explore
Not just the typical day to day or physical struggles of being sore
I'm talking about something more
praying to the lord
That you can maybe break a sweat and force the water out your pores
Just make it through the practice without falling on the floor
seperated from society we sacrifice the norm,
So exausted ..
Feel like this is all I can take
Calculating how much weight that I can float through the day
Just see if theres a chance that I can get something to drink
And Even thanksgiving I measure how much foods on my plate
and Another reason this is the realest
always was and gonna be is
No matter how many programs they drop to try and beat us
if you don't Iike all of you bastards move along
This aint no fun and games like basketball
Chorus
Waking up at 4am
For another workout so I hit the gym
While inside I feel like dying
These days of cutting weight
Are raining down on my parade
Barley any food left on my plate
But I don't break
I won't break
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7. |
Don't Stop (feat. Legon)
04:32
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Verse 1
Walking through the halls while i'm looking at these plaques
On the wall all these athletes gazing through the past
Thinking how their pictures faded they can never get it back
The past gone so fast that nobody ever last
Then I walk into the room with the aroma of the mats
Thinking to myself I enevitably crash
Done cutting weight yeah I'm done with my fast
But there something about the feeling you dont know how to react
So you tell yourself ....your not done giving up
Get your self in shape...while your still young enough
Missing 3 a days like it was never rough enough
Something about this rough and rugged sport this is what I love
Sacrificed everything now your telling me I'm done
But I never met my goals.... that last match I should won
Know my body aint the same I'm having trouble hanging on
To my youth ...but I gotta carry on
But coaching aint the same as competing I know that
This tranisition in my life is definate blow back
So back to finding some other goals I wont slack
But until that moment happens I'm keeping this door cracked
Chorus
Don't Stop Don't Ya Stop
(Repeat)
How you ever gonna live this down
You won't give up but don't know how
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TP & Esco Grand Rapids, Michigan
TP & Esco launched their music group while in college at The Citadel 2003. TP (Travis Piccard) is from Michigan, Esco (Michael Arias) is from Oklahoma. All official albums and releases are available at any digital retailers online and all streaming platforms. ... more
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