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Teflon Vest

Teflon Vest is an American Rapper, singer, producer, actor and writer, born in Los Angeles CA Jan 1, 1981 to parents with a background in theater and film. Teflon Vest has been rapping and producing since middle school. Starting out with a Casio keyboard and a dual tape deck producing beats for local friends. This grew into a passion co founding the group Darkside Ridahs in highschool, and Kingpins. Teflon Vest found a new home with Uproar and has since then been featured on and produced more than 300 songs. Teflon Vest has resided in locations like Los Angeles CA, Philadelphia PA, and Western Australia. Teflon Vest has worked on film and commercials as well.His first movie was confessions of a hustler in 2000. He has been on the Tyra Bank Show and Many MTV Shows as well as films. ​ He has worked with artist such as Layzie Bone producing 3 of the tracks on his album The New Revolution in 2006, and featuring him in his latest Album "Prestine Facade". In 2007 Teflon Vest was a producer and artist on the "D3 Mixtape The movement" . He has also produced songs for and had features on artist albums such as D'zyl 5k1, Cuda, Sonnie Babble and Uproar Records. Teflon Vest took a musical hiatus from 2009 to 2015 due to personal relationships. He started working on music again in 2015. "All My Imperfections" His first studio Album was released August 12, 2016 including the single They Got Love for you. The music video for "They Got Love For You" was shot in Los Angeles, Malibu and Cerritos, CA. Over the course of the next two months, he released two more music videos. "Clear em' out" from his official mixtape "Glance Destiny" in 2016 and "Be Up On That Remix" from his sophomore studio album and and released the music video "Featuring Drake" among others. After releasing the album "They Didn't make it", he has been pressing forward with a new album slate for release at the end of 2018.

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This one, this one for my fallen brothas
And we aint even in a, we aint in a regular war zone
This is supposed to be the place we call home
You know
But we still in a hostile environment

(In the back ground)
Cell phone -No a gun
Wallet -a gun
Hair Brush -It's a gun
Keys -A knife
Move it's ya life
Submit - It's ya life
Fight it ya life
Breath - No freeze
I got my hands - now get on ya knees
I got my palms to the sky - Get on ya knees
I got my hands up but I can't breath
Palms to the sky or triggers we squeeze


Because I'm gifted young and black, I'm under attack in fact
Each day a look at my society take me way back
To before Martin and Malcolm and separate fountains
Now I'm allowed to dine in Denny's but when I am out then
i got a target on my back and I aint talkin' bout a gang thang
Talkin' bout law enforcement, modern day slavery
Wy whip aint stolen, registration all valid, windows aint tinted, tail lights aint out then
Why i'm bein' stopped, my hands stay visible
No record but i'm still bein' treated like a criminal
I look like a suspect? You looking like the uni-bomber
You aint goin' face to face with ya karma
Cause what goes around is like a boomerang
Lynch ready for a neck one of these times you will hang
It aint a threat, I'm just teachin' yall the facts
Supposed to serve and protect, why don't they just teach yall how to act?

I often feel alone
No one's got my back and i can't hide
(I got my hands up, got my, got my hands up)
I often feel alone
Like no one's got my back I got my hands high
(I got my hands up, got my, got my hands up)
What can I do

We gettin' massacred relentless
as god is my witness, Im feelin' so vengeful, I can not forgive this
My momma is tellin'  me that it is written that if I can't forgive i'm casted the same sentence
I know they gonna hate me but it's true
This the modern day holocaust and I am the Jew
Wanna take our firearms then they round us up
It ill be the last time you see me if they get me in that truck
And my light skin dude you can have the same fate
Cause your afro heritage is the source of they hate
So don't think you got a pass cause we all alike
The Terrance Howards to all of the Wesley Snipes
In that ride you just a nigga, a perp in a vehicle
ones a nightmare, imagine if it's 3 of you
I'm  gettin' stopped with my nephew and he's 12 then
He already got his hands up and I didn't have to tell him

I often feel alone
No one's got my back and i can't hide
(I got my hands up, got my, got my hands up)
I often feel alone
Like no one's got my back I got my hands high
(I got my hands up, got my, got my hands up)
What can I do

I am Mike Brown, I am Felando, I am Walter Scott plastered on every channel
Media love the frenzy, the ratings they make revenue 
But tell the whole story
Is what the news, they will never do
So you gotta do your research, your head on a swivel
Documented police reports to the candlelight vigils
And brother your money don't make you except
Cause you nothin' but a chimp to a high percentage
Of the force, of course all of them aint malice
But for a lot deception is they got damn prowess
We can retaliate with violence, or Martin Luther silence
Or pack our bags up to the motherland islands
But I'm still tryin' cause my voice is my shield
And my heart is my weapon and it's so hard to kill
Yet and still I still feel like I'm marked cause my hair a lil kinky and my skin a lil dark

I often feel alone
No one's got my back and i can't hide
(I got my hands up, got my, got my hands up)
I often feel alone
Like no one's got my back I got my hands high
(I got my hands up, got my, got my hands up)
What can I do

(I got my hands up, got my, got my hands up)
(I got my hands up, got my, got my hands up)



Cell phone -No a gun
Wallet -a gun
Hair Brush -Its a gun
Keys -A knife
Move its ya life
Submit - Its ya life
Fight it ya life
Breath - No freeze
I got my hands - now get on ya knees
I got my palms to the sky - Get on ya knees
I got my hands up but I can't breath
Palms to the sky or triggers we squeeze

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