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E SENS - The Anecdote (cover)

5THANGS About E Sens’ Album ‘The Anecdote’

5THANGS you probably did not know about 2015’s #1 album ‘The Anecdote’.

Based on a new series ‘5THANGS’: sharing 5 hidden facts about artists and their album. Brought to you by HIPHOPPLAYA.

5 Facts about 2015’s best album ‘The Anecdote’:

  1. The album cover symbolizes E Sens’ handkerchief soaked in his sweat and tears.
  2. 10.18.14 is the date Gaeko’s track ‘No make up (feat. Zion.T, HA:TFELT) won first place on Melon Chart (one of Korea’s music charts).
  3. In the limited edition of the album, there is a skit of E Sens’ family conversation after the track ‘The Anecdote.’ One can hear the late E Sens’ father’s voice.
  4. The second half verses of the last track ‘Unknown Verses’ are all lyrics from E Sens’ mixtape ‘New Blood, Rapper Vol. 1.’
  5. The kind of music E Sens wanted for ‘The Anecdote’ was music that was minimal and light like sushi.

Source: HIPHOPPLAYA

E SENS - The Anecdote (cover)

E SENS – Writer’s Block

 

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Verse 1)
I watch the news expressionlessly
I turn them off in the middle and look at the text I just got
“Hey, where are you going today?”
“Dunno, gotta work, are you out having fun?”

Because of needless worries, I search through
the unfinished ones I wrote yesterday but the lyrics all suck
There was a reason why I threw them away, shall I just go out?
Is there still some of the beer left I bought the other time?

Nope. It seems like I had about a fifth round
at my place the day before yesterday or something
My place is full of dust because I don’t clean up
There are only me and one dog lying around

Trying to at least do something, I took out a pen
but kept drawing nothing but dozens of lines with it
I can’t concentrate, I put on some clothes matching the weather
and call a taxi, the destination is my studio

Hook)
I got the writer’s block so come to my block
I got the writer’s block so come to my block
I got the writer’s block so come to my block
I got the writer’s block so come to my block

I got the writer’s block so come to my block
I got the writer’s block so come to my block
I got the writer’s block so come to my block
I got the writer’s block

Verse 2)
My workplaces are my place and my studio
I don’t know if it’s a good thing that I’ve gotten used
to the way there. I need some kind of a new sensation,
well, so that I can write something. I see these streets every time

This is what I say
but my playlist has been the same for months
Nas and Jay Hova and Biggie, M.E.T.H.O.D Man
And a bit of something new in there. It’s playing on repeat every day

At night in Korea, my jaw drops at stories
about New York where I haven’t been to
Had CEOs seen it, they’d have laughed,
but so what? I still find those((This probably refers to “stories about New York”)) the most dope

Unnecessarily insisting on the impossible like a little child,
that is me, they say. But I didn’t like anything I’ve heard
by Korean rappers lately. I just gotta do it myself
Back to basic, everything starts from this basement ..

Hook)

Verse 3)
I sit there doing nothing for a few hours
Beer cans I emptied earlier and smoked cigarettes
Dawn comes and now I even hold back sleep
Nevertheless, this is way better than having two jobs

My head hurts but I don’t let go until the end
and I don’t feel like going home
There is something I couldn’t get out yet
If I only find that, I can distinguish myself from the fakes

They who have completely forgotten how to sing
have learned how to make deals. Saying that is
how to stay here for a long time, they teach me
My first motive was that it’s((rap, music)) the thing I do best

There was nothing but that
Now all that’s left for this process((= making music))
is my hope that I can do it and I move a bit
everyday. I’m still in my studio

Hook)

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E SENS – A-G-E

 

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Verse 1)
I don’t have many friends. And I don’t need many
When they’re just gonna leave you, why go out of your way to find any?
If they’re not guys who betray you, they’re pets of this system
Real recognize real, that’s a repulsive phrase

I’m labeled ‘maladjusted’. That’s [according to].
your standards. No matter who in this country, it is those
without any complaint that are fakes or frauds
while those who earn good money are cheaters. I am rather

the kind of person who applauds them
You don’t even see the difference between
those bastards who find solace in other people’s fall and me
You just see it as pointless grumbling

Everyone went to primary, middle, and high school just the same
When you talk stuff about less prestigious universities, that subject of conversation
already makes it seem like you’re slaves. Your body and soul
have been tied up by this country unknowingly to you. You have no idea, right?

Verse 2)
Tightly jammed in the morning bus, wearing the same clothes
going to school, maybe that’s when people get the habit. Anyway, everyone
is trying to get the one who stands out
Yet they don’t want to be told that they’re ordinary

So what they find is merely the trend?
They hold up their thumbs for the most tacky things
This scene, that scene, more than half of the leaders are copycats
They got their position after copying copycats

Pushing things properly is my job and hobby
You ask me how I’m so great? You’ve already lost
I’m sick of that sight
Acting mysterious with stuff you secretly got from somewhere

Yeah, is it virtuous to cover it up and let you off despite having seen everything?
Exposing others’ love life behind their back, chatting and giggling at it
That’s being a loser, well, is there any other meaning to it?
Watch closely who will lose their temper and will be busy talking [back].

Bridge)
Yeah, haha, hey you fuckheads, what do you know, huh?
Yeah, you’re not a victim but the culprit((This might be wrong as the Bridge is not in the lyrics and this line cannot be heard clearly.))
Underground? The fuck you doing, shit
Fucking copycats

Verse 3)
More important than money is how you earn it?
The correct order is to look poor first and then nitpick
The life that those babble about who observe from their desks
is that the one who endures it gets blessed, shit, that’s not right

They will never know
100 techniques to success? It’s nothing but shit though?
I don’t even pay attention to that, yo
Don’t sit around listening to those words, it’s a waste of time

I don’t believe the words of the Buddhist monk on TV
I want to know where the offerings go to
Are words like these a taboo?
To believers who come at me with lethal gazes I hold up my middle finger

He said to love your enemy too, so show me your love
Embrace me as well, come to my concerts too
I’m a twisted guy, anyone can see that
I’m so straight, the people around me are all worrying about me