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Canswers

by Chadio

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    Brought to you by Saskatoon Folk Rap Records, Audio Recon, and Imaginations Treetrunk. Side A features longtime collaborator and Treetrunk mainstay, Azrael. Side B has two songs. Mastered by Guha. Artwork by Chadio.

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So run and tell because I bet that y'all ain't fuckin' wit hotter than oven mitts its nuthin to say suck a dick you're in a state that maybe makes it hard to wonder if I spare you no detail for the love of it its un-descript and see no point in writing 'less its something sick while waiting for an alien to take me back to mothership I'm sippin' a Fentimans, daily regimens vegetable teriyaki for lunch and countin' some Benjamins since '88 I been aching to take the the cake because life is just what you make of it, going for mine since'86. And never share my recipe or baking tips or talk about another man cuz gossip ain't my favourite dish so just don't come at me with none of that we'll make it taste delish not gonna stop til I'm on a beach with my favourite bitch and all the homies there with one for each it ain't a sitch always been saying it life is just what you make of it baby so take it with you since how I been feeling lately's a little less than desired some assembly's required still you're never ready when it happens like a fire drill cause time is moving fast and I'm just tryna stay inspired. Keeping wacky hours so no wonder that I'm wired and its hard for me to trust I'm over-sleep and under-tired used to be involved in stuff but now i turn my back towards... you probly know the rep so what you askin' for? So when there's nothing that's left I've come to accept thats it's just the way that it is it's no waiting and holding breath cuz it's been so long I been in it though never wanted to win it Treetrunk and we're taking titles still kick it vital and vivid. Wanted to rep for my city since I heard "Really Livin" and I'll keep doing that shit until I'm dead and that's a given, some disguise I'll justify the ends is still the means that gets an underline don't wonder why I'll never spill the beans. Sometimes I feel like my noggin's the only thing I got probably cause I got a big head and plus I just think a lot smoking was my vice in life, never did I drink a lot always wanted shit to be gucci, lately it isn't not. No longer fuckin' with nothing no more that isn't spot on and that's my word I keep giving until the gift is gone, so you can sit and wonder what it is, the shit I'm on but think you probly know already, blessings from, the highest up so if you wanna count your lucky stars then cash 'em in but the ticket won't get you fuckin' far time is flying by and you're just always wasting that and I'm a camel travellin' 'til the straw breaks my back. Patient to practice on, trainin' like a decathlon and mad pain, inside my bad brain so I'm leaving babylon, and I aint about to tell you why I ghosted but the feelings coming back ever since I been diagnosed. Can't tell you why this uncertainty's taking over just feeling it more than ever, ever since sober, been kinda cold frozen in no position just stick to living in polar caps, about to show you who I am not what you know me as. Now the thoughts are constant what if maybe all along, you might been right about everything and I'm always wrong anyways the better days are comin' round the bend but if it doesn't then I guess my bed I'll lay until I'm dead. Probably not cause no negatives how I'm living always thinking if I really had no problems I'd be chillin. All I ever tried to do is be a friend, now every letter comes back with return to sender on it maybe I should act in a way that reflects my promise I feel like life is a posse cut and I'm never on it and if I was then my verse'd maybe get lost or something no need to stop production what we need is talk discussion starve myself when I'm writing a form of discipline, put you up on the shit I'm on, how I get it in. Rewards for practices even though I been blacklisted, nothing to do but just water my plants and cactuses. I'm 'bout to get up on my shit and be an old man, I need to take my own advice and let it go, my health is coming back a bit but you can bet its slow, spending all this time to break the code and never know. Azrael: I guess we'll never know, I guess we'll never no. My heart is spread open like a centrefold/ Manifold ways it takes shape like origami folds/ To a stallion from a foal/ a kodiak from a cub/ It's better to let it settle and don't react off the cuff/ Occam's Razor if only that's what it was/ In northern Quebec with aurora borealis above/ My records document all the battles I've won and I've lost/ And I don't mean like it's someone I've fought/ An underrdogg/ a jobber/ going above and beyond/ Life is a melody medley/ I just hum along/ like there's nothing wrong/ What we puffin on Chad/ this bud is a strong strain/ Steer it like a coxswain/ By any measure the pleasure isn't treasure/ it's absence is not pain/ Always aim for the long range/ About to show you who I am not what you know me as/ Those who've froze the past like a photograph/ I'm over that/ Didn't lay a vocal track for a couple years because I had to confront the rearing of an ugly head/ A devil on the shoulder and an angel on the other tryna whisper what they will but in one eardrum I'm deaf/ Different pieces of a same whole that's subdivided cuz the mind felt separated from the blood and flesh/ Showing mad appreciation for the last of the duration/ When my time's over Imma die a sudden death//
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Suicide Is A Human Right You lose ya life, cause suicide is a human right Suicide is a human right Suicide is a human right Yo Still to let you in on the layer I'm craftin' stuff I think I'll keep doing this shit until I've had enough privileged kids in this business who've never had it rough nobody told you your rapping sucks and its wack as fuck if you believe in god then you should probly pray to that keeping it real is just stating facts while I'm making tracks the oppositions no competition and make me laugh the type of shit that makes me ask what the fuck do you take me as? It's Wednesday morning September autumn I'm writin' stuff I'm posted at the desk with a pen and just rolled the nicest blunt some people claiming East Vancouver but never from the city that I live in still putting in work that's never fronted its unofficial still wont call myself the second son cause what I said's enough its done and you're left with a head that's spun remember that we had conversations on Saturday but I put all my focus on music and different tracks that played it's safe to say my priorities isn't people and fuck anybody I don't consider an equal yeah I got issues and stuff, last to deny it and just accept it but the older I get, more I get reckless, piffs rolled, most my life was felt like its spent up inside a fish bowl I skipped some details but you probly get the gist though fuck you up and coming rappers up with hammers plus you must be tripping or at least high as fuck off that bammer dust with all this forceable writing, no inspiration its hard to say that I like it not lacking imagination so I save a little piece of my heart, for the confrontation been taking my time with everything sorry to keep you waiting some kids, live their life where opportunities are handed all my work is never light I'm done with scrutiny and baggage. Take your brothers hand if you need help to be a man I'm talking spelling bees no felonies you're selling me a gram don't try to understand it cause it's magic like rituals done by witches you're sacrificed in a casket so, I check a shorties inner light from how she afterglows, I've mastered flows and I'm practical, it's Chadio. So introverted it works and I murder verses if first or second or third with the word I put it down perfect still a hermit on the surface todays creations are worthless never claimed to be a wordsmith little bird so keep on chirpin' Suicide Is A Human Right (x3) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Free Focus Check 1, 2 on to this mic I'm holding kid always dope and still kick if it's inappropriate and bet I'm always stressed cursed and never blessed in Surrey now til death no doubt about it second guess playing chess while you work on solving the Rubix cube bad at keeping in touch and I'm sorry to those I do it to some other bullshit that I seem to always take to work and if you think you ain't a pig then eat a plate of bacon first just how we go about it holding up society, sobriety's normal lately it lie to me, meditating at home and I'm sitting silently but when they come man though ain't no taking me quietly life's a thrill when, you develop your skills and turn it to something tangible get it to pay your bills and daily I'm learning until the lessons done love and respect and don't think I'm better than anyone so maybe need a little something else to add to this I've heard it all and don't really care if your rapping's sick it doesnt matter my answer but if you ask me if I'll tell you "yeah" and that probly makes you a masochist so if you think you're gonna sink my battleship, you should probly fuck off with a pitter-patter my books are open moving on to different chapters my castheadworks been different since witnessed natural patterns within my patio lanterns to guide the light for some maybe I'll hold it for you up until my life is done and only then I can maybe feel that I'm right for once pack your bowls, spark your doobies and light your blunts so until the time is up homie I'm punching clocks plus the music that your'e putting out is nothing hot so have an answer when I ask you what your rapping for, you'll always be the opening act on the rapping tour.
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about

When I dropped the 5s Up EP in 2015 I was pretty sure that would be the last thing I put out as a rapper. I had been feeling pretty detached from the local rap scene for sometime and felt that I didnt have anything meaningful left to say in my music. I changed my Facebook name from Chadio Treetrunk to Chad Pee and thought that would be it.

Late 2017 I was diagnosed with stage three rectal cancer. The following year they had me doing a bunch of radiation and various chemotherapy treatments to try and shrink the tumour and, during this time I somehow found the energy and inspiration to write some new songs. On January 2, 2019 I had my surgery to remove the tumour, and it was successful. I originally had 5 songs written over some really old beats of Guha's that he had made for Cle (of Castheadwork). Those beats were good but they were hella low quality so Guha made a bunch of new beats for the songs and we shrunk the project down to fit on a 7" record.

Then I decided to shoot big and ask some of my all time favorite Canadian beat makers if they would be interested in sorting us out with some remixes.

Big up to Saskatoon Folk Rap Records & Audio Recon for helping turn this project into a reality.

Thank you to everyone that has been rocking wth us, I promise there is lots more on the way.

-C

credits

released September 3, 2020

Words & Cover Art - Chadio (C. Washburn)
Sounds, Mixing & Mastering - Aalo Guha (C. Guha)


"Canswers (snow version)" features words by Azrael (D. Sebela)
"Canswers" remixed by mcenroe (R. Bailey)
"Suicide Is A Human Right" remixed by The Dirty Sample (J. Thorp)
"Free Focus" remixed by Big Moves (B. Higgins) and features words by Cee!!!!!!!! (B. Sibley)

Saskatoon Folk Rap Records
Audio Recon
Imaginations Treetrunk
2020

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