The Anti​-​Mannequin Movement

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EXCLUSIVE HIGH-QUALITY DIGITAL BOOKLET COMES WITH EACH FREE ALBUM DOWNLOAD - Designed personally by ESQ.


THE ANTI-MANNEQUIN MOVEMENT - ABOUT:
With creative input by some of today's hottest Grammy Nominated artists, producers and writers, hip-hop/alternative artist ESQ brings a project masterfully fit to be an LP yet released like mixtape. 'The Anti-Mannequin Movement' is a cumulation of the many styles and genres that have influenced ESQ's drive to create a lane all in his own. Having been compared to the likes of Andre 3000, Janelle Monae, Kanye West, Lupe Fiasco, Kid n' Play, and James Brown, The Anti-Mannequin Movement will be a sure non-stop ride into a creative universe formulated and guided by ESQ himself.

Visit the website for more info: www.theonlyesq.com

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released 11 January 2012
Executive Producers: ESQ, Gregory Lattimore & Mike Deas

Management: Infinite Entertainment, LLC - P.O. Box 554 New York, NY 10029

Booklet Design and Art Direction: ESQ
Photography: Hoang Le, Michael Miller, & ESQ
© 2012 Bowtye Music / Infinite Entertainment, LLC / All Rights Reserved

WWW.THEONLYESQ.COM | CONTACT @ THEONLYESQ.COM

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ESQ. is a multifaceted hiphop artist, producer, and dancer whose poised sense of style of charisma contrasts his ... more electrifying performances and genre-bending sound. Often reminisced to Andre 3000, Janelle Monae, Kanye West, and James Brown, ESQ's approach to music stands out in the sea of mainstream music. less

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Track Name: Release Me
“Release Me” Lyrics [Written by ESQ]

Verse:
Someone save me
I think I’m lost again
my mind is stranded abandoned
chained by the mannequins
I don’t know where this is
or where this is begins
or where it ends
I’m incarcerated within a sin
I move in circles and hurdles handled by others will
I see the truth but in fear of death I deny it still
I live in boxes on boxes trapped with a gun to kill
the will from within to make me hollow like the rest of them
I’m the boy with no purpose who makes the streets his focus
I’m the girl with no focus who leaves her body open
I’m the man barely floating from a job where he chocking
and the woman he chocking, staying no to provoke him
I’m the parent whose need for getting bleeds from the children
a hopeless child who thinks dreams are a joke that their missing
I lost my way okay but that’s the last it's happening
I broke the molds
I’m plastic free
release me from the mannequins

Chorus:
This is the end
the end of the mannequins
(let me go --- release me)

Verse:
Blind from the lies
deaf to the hate
I smell the bull cause their ain’t a mask on my face
If this is a competition
I don’t wanna race
playing with the walking dead
running in the wrong race
hollow minds paper chasing just to fill the space
to seal their emptiness with paper-cuts and dead weight
prostituted from the cash of the devil’s plate
to infect the radio and zombify the human race
what does it mean to be a mediocre king
with followers injected with a mediocre dream
deflecting your projections on their inner worth it seams
for your cancerous direction burning deep inside their veins - let’s
get with the change
melting the molds
plastic or not - the truth will unfold
yeah you were washed - time and again
but now you’re off the clock
I release you from the mannequins

Chorus:

Bridge: (MLK - We Shall Overcome)
Track Name: On Me
“On Me” Lyrics [Written by ESQ]

Verse:
Stuck in a room full of boxes
boxed from the top wrapped tight from the world
cause they said I was different
put a chain on my neck and they called it bling
just to hold me down
cause I’m too fly
keep your swag baby I ain’t gotta try
Hoodi with a lock with a bowtye fly
so I slipped the lock and I passed right by

You made a mistake trying to hold me down
in a box from a ditch but I’m set free now
-Check yourself while I wreck your system
-rock the mic while I wreck this system
I cut the noose, I chukkin’ up the dueces
loose in the world to exhaust its uses
-Check yourself while I wreck your system
-rock the mic while I wreck this system

Chorus:
Imma get outta here [On me - on me]
I put that on everything [I put that on everything]
you thought it would change me
by keeping me caged see
but imma get outta here [On me - on me]

Verse:
You thought I wouldn’t last if you left me
in a cage K9‘ing barking to distract the fact that I’m free
you’d rather me be a dog and wag my tail
and live a hell of the lie
to make me normal
noose around the neck to control my goal (oh)
dragged through the mud so I'd feel real low so
I’d never see the truth to continue my hustle

You made a mistake trying to hold me down
in a box from a ditch but I’m set free now
-Check yourself while I wreck your system
-rock the mic while I wreck this system
I cut the noose, I chukkin’ up the dueces
loose in the world to exhaust its uses
-Check yourself while I wreck your system
-rock the mic while I wreck this system

Chorus:
Imma get outta here [On me - on me]
I put that on everything [I put that on everything]
you thought it would change me
by keeping me caged see
but imma get outta here [On me - on me]
Track Name: Can't Stop Me Now (feat. Eric Bellinger)
“Can’t Stop Me Now” Lyrics [Written by ESQ & Eric Bellinger]

Verse:
Hey you
remember that day
when you told me that I’d never ever get my way
you were just teasing
trying to find a reason
to tell me I was nothing
nothing to believe in
now I
will never let the fear
take me while I’m here
and now that I’m here
you’re never gonna
stop the rhythm of my flow
trying to jock my swag
and now you gotta go

I came into this world as a hustler
Nah you can’t stop me
sliding past the haters like a game of monopoly
yes, I’m unstoppable
your failure is probable
and if you’re not rolling with me
sorry but you gotta go

Chorus:
Same folks holding me down
trying to stop me - trying to stop
I see it everyday I be looking around
now that they watch me
they see they can’t stop me
see I
will never let it get up under my skin
I just do my thang constantly
never gone stop me - never gone stop
they can just watch me
never gone stop me

Can’t stop me now
no you can’t stop it - stop it
no you ain’t never gonna stop it

Can’t stop me now
no you can’t stop it - stop it
no you ain’t never gonna stop it

Can’t stop me now
who said they were ever gonna stop me
nah, they ain’t never gonna stop me

Can’t stop me now
who said they were ever gonna stop me
no matter what they ain’t gonna stop me now

Verse:
I got a dream
and baby Imma grab it
reach up in the sky and never let the dogs have it
yeah they wanna break me and take my dreams to fly higher
I dance on them slowly
and add it to the fire
I - I know that I got it - I live it
forget the obstacles I’m gonna
my sound is hemispheric
my swag’s vampiric
everybody’s gonna bite
cause they all wanna feel it

I came into this world as a hustler
Nah you can’t stop me
sliding past the haters like a game of monopoly
yes, I’m unstoppable
your failure is probable
and if you’re not rolling with me
sorry but you gotta go

Chorus:
Same folks holding me down
trying to stop me - trying to stop
I see it everyday I be looking around
now that they watch me
they see they can’t stop me
see I
will never let it get up under my skin
I just do my thang constantly
never gone stop me - never gone stop
they can just watch me
never gone stop me

Can’t stop me now
no you can’t stop it - stop it
no you ain’t never gonna stop it

Can’t stop me now
no you can’t stop it - stop it
no you ain’t never gonna stop it
Track Name: I Don't Know
“I Don’t Know” Lyrics [Written by ESQ & Da Internz]

Verse:
Just got a job bout a week ago
thank God cause the income’s getting low
and my car tags expired bout a week ago
riding dirty ‘round the cops gotta drive slow
yeah I met a cutie bout a week ago
she was at the same job I got a week ago
in my mind she fine as the kind
that you wine and you dine
now this is how the story goes

She was bad
a dima
she said her name was Rhonda
a beauty from behind was
a beauty like bahamas
I told her I’ll come over
come over
come over
I used my brother’s rover
she hoped right in the shoulder
Kelly in the holder
the holder
the holder
she thought that I was older
but little did she know

Chorus:
I gotta fake it
until I make it
tell me when will I make it
I don’t know

Verse:
Been riding around for an hour now
you know a little chit-chat pow-wow
she asked where the shoes really crocodile
I said, “huh, you couldn’t tell they were crocodile?!”
even though they couldn’t fit they fit my whole style
gotta keep the lie going - freestyle
cause in my mind she was fine as the kind
that you wine and you dine
here we go now

Keep it smooth - Sinatra
my game was on and proper
I’m broke - no bother
got money from my fahja (father)
I spent it like a baller
a baller
a baller
I told her I would spoil her
but really couldn’t afford her
she talkin’ I ignored her
I ignored her
Ignored her
this story ain’t in order
cause I just made it all up

Chorus:
I gotta fake it
until I make it
tell me when will I make it
I don’t know

Bridge:
Let’s make a toast to all my fakers - future makers
throw your glass up - your hands up - your glass up - your hands up
Let’s make a toast to all my fakers - future makers
throw your glass up - your hands up - your glass up - your hands up

Chorus:
I gotta fake it
until I make it
tell me when will I make it
I don’t know
Track Name: Lead The Blind
"Lead The Blind" Lyrics [Written & Produced by ESQ]

Within this circus I’m focused on what my purpose is
To redefine the definition of what cool is
And I can do that cause I’m chairman of the Cool kids
Autobot certified, Voltron force is
Strong enough to move the masses ask Yoda
And if you think I can’t, I’d be happy to say I told ya
Though I’m Skywalking on stages, I was born to be a soldia’
To release the mental prisons you mannequins think you’re ova
You call me strange? But you’re a mannequin.
Stuck in every mold they manufacture to put you in
And with your brain butchering’ you step into oblivion
And hate on the free just to make you feel good
See I’m a new type of hipsta’, strutting with my fist up
Sick of hearing trash, so I’m gonna clean it all up
Call me Chuck Norris cause I’m round-housin’ the bar up
Far up, so all the real stars get to shine up

I always dreamed about it, but now I’m feeling this
I’m sorry to the haters cause I never took them serious
Delirious minds trying hard to make me furious
They hatin’ on my Batman swag cause it’s mysterious
I never been one - to stop my hustle for one
See you can call it a fault, but in the ending I won son
My funk is futuristic and the haters can’t believe it
So I’m here to lead the blind so that they all become believers cause
We in that new school we rockin’ it with hella’ sense
We're like some elephants stompin’ on your ignorance
We keep it fly like NASA intelligence
Satellites blazing, zoom in, can you picture this?
And if you can’t that’s okay there’s an app for that
You say you got it already, baby clap to that
I got a habit for rockin’ in every habitat
Hands in the air for the Mack with a knack for that

In my peaceful dream a heard a sign
It told me to relax my anxiety and unwind
Success is for the patient waiting cause this is a line
And in time you will emerge as king baby shine
I want it just as bad as the air. My ethics I declare
You can keep your soul selling and searching now I declare
I’ve been working like a slave for this thing that I seen
As a child while the other kids hatin’ I’m prepping up for tomorrow
I awakened with a passion
Stayed on my grind in the midst of others laughing
Now they at my shows as the main ones clapping and asking
For love so I hand them a napkin to show them compassion
You can keep your jewels and your chains
You can keep your maybaches and the Ranges
I’m only here for the ruckus and the change
I inject on the brains deranged by the fame.

©2011 Bowtye Music
Track Name: Like You (feat. Eric Copeland)
“Like You” Lyrics [Written by ESQ & Eric Copeland]

Verse:
She passes up a ten
she’s more than just a dime hotter
when she speaks her mind
refined she’s my Coretta Scott
rough around the edge with swag like Jada Pinkett got
with me cause she wanna
not looking for a donor
She knows who she is
and baby thats the sexy part
divine inner beauty
I call it my Da Vinci art
sculpted to perfection her reflection
has no counterpart
Mona lisa smile
complex she is the type of
woman that’ll make a brutha’ talk like a baby talks
walk like a baby walks
heart open up the vaults and
steal a spot
hold it hostage
a crime scene
and with no rejection
she’s steals my affection cause

Chorus:
Nothing in this world more complex yet simple like you
Deeper than you see her self sense her reflection is true
Triggered by the heart of a true queen
embodies what it means to the daughter of the king
I seen a lot of girls but there is none with inner beauty like you

Verse:
She taught me how to give
how to love
with the whole me
thoughts making love
cause her mind gives me ecstasy
she has a cadence in thinking
that makes her talk in rhythm
speaking like a lullaby
entranced when I listen she
has her own flaws but they add to her playlist
she uses them to elevate her own path to greatness
educated class with a style of a vixen
doesn't need to speak and yet her presence steals attention
she got me bound and now I’m talking like a baby talks
walking like a baby walks
and now she assaults my
fear of past women
healed wounds now forgiven
now it better livin’
given she made me better cause

Chorus:
Nothing in this world more complex yet simple like you
Deeper than you see her self sense her reflection is true
Triggered by the heart of a true queen
embodies what it means to the daughter of king
I seen a lot of girls but there is none with inner beauty like you
Track Name: Can't Help It (feat. Jermaine Marqwan & Kam)
“Can’t Help It” Lyrics [Written by ESQ, Jermaine Marqwan & Kam]

Verse:
They say “Life’s a trip”
well you’re watching your steps
two-stepping while they’re out here trippin’
sea full of doubt but no more skinny dipping
gripping on the edge of life but the fear got you slipping
but use fear as a weapon
to fight yourself and your reflection
the lesson’s blessing addressing the fact
that as much as I believe
you will never succeed until you can see the real you
you lost your drive cause people said that
you should park your life and never get back
and while you don’t know where the keys to the car is at
hot-wire this world and catch up with your setbacks
and that’s that - you can fly now
spread your wings out
they’re untied now
fly above the clouds
wave to the earth
smile on your face - for your rebirth
don’t let them pluck your feathers you’re too blessed
and they try baby girl don’t stress it
you’re not Nikki Minaj, but you’re the bestest
it’s engraved in stone - you can’t help it

Chorus:
I can’t it - if I wanted to
I wouldn't help it - even if I could
I can’t it - if I wanted to
I can’t it - no

Verse:
They can’t change me
It’s too hard now
I’m a star now baby too far out
I’m so cosmos
I stay in dark blue
you’re out of space
far too
girl twinkle little you
take my hand I’ll show what a winner do
you can run world girl no tennis shoes
watch the feeling run deep no kiddie pool
and watch the bad habits break like they’re out of school
she your confidence rise and watch your fears fall
spray the new you on the haters watch them peel off
then hold a conference meeting - they’ll meet a real boss
see the image in the mirror so precious
and the pain you remember ain’t reflected
and if it’s anti-us - we’re anti-it
I’m just stuck in my ways - I can’t help it

Chorus:

Verse:
Man I aim high
and I hate the moon
cause every night when I look up I see the moon
oh you again - you still look the same
and you’re so close when I see you
call you dunking range
and I’m always at the rim just dunking thangs
when I’m not dunking - then I’m Tim Dunking things
and Jim is a nice guy - but I got stupid range
It’s like I can’t help it
I was born with game
and talent goes so far - so I work things
I work on things and work on things
and work on things - honestly everything
my future says “Greatest”
So Imma run things
no track star - no QB
yes GM - killa Kam me
and I just started
what a great beginning
if I was a chef - I just got in the kitchen
don’t even grab a tool
don’t even grab a coat
it’s just my first stage
what a way to go
and you gone wanna see it
the future looks lovely
I’ve already see it
it’s amazing trust me

Chorus:
Track Name: Get Down
"Get Down" Lyrics [Written & Produced by ESQ]

Verse:
I woke up with my game face on
fresher than the air
it's weekend so
I ready to prepare
for the nighttime stroll
in my whip laid back trying to find a cool spot to ROCK it (just like that)
I came in here to dance so that's what I'm doin
take it old school do the wop man grooving
ladies on the floor getting down and they losing
self to the music - (that's how we do it) (HEY)

forget your problems and leave em on your bed
put your hands in the air and get live instead
code red on the floor cause the old you is dead
getting down real live brand new like a thoroughbred
forget your problems and leave em on your bed
put your hands in the air and get live instead
code red on the floor cause the old you is dead
getting down real live brand new like a thoroughbred

Chorus:
Everybody in the place to be (YEAH)
Everybody in the place to be (YEAH)
Everybody in the place to be (YEAH)
Everybody come on and let me see you
Get down [4x]
Everybody get down
Get down [4x]

VERSE
I like it here I'm feeling good cause
even though i'm 'round the haters there's a lot love (uh)
we all here to act a fool and get a piece
of the peace in the air full of vibe there's never enough
time baby, to unwind baby
and if your standing on the wall then you beyond crazy
and if your serious then get serious
and let it go on the dance floor (go on and break it down)

HOOK
forget your problems and leave em on your bed
put your hands in the air and get live instead
code red on the floor cause the old you is dead
getting down real live brand new like a thoroughbred
forget your problems and leave em on your bed
put your hands in the air and get live instead
code red on the floor cause the old you is dead
getting down real live brand new like a thoroughbred

CHORUS

©2011 Bowtye Music
Track Name: Survivor (feat. Chief WaKiL)
“Survivor” Lyrics [Written by ESQ & Chief WaKiL]

Hook:
They tell that I wouldn’t survive this long
but I’m still alive (uh oh)

Verse:
Ive been beat up and bruised
Used and abused
Soul worn down and tossed like old shoes
When my mind lost hope and my body stopped breathing
My heart stepped in and it beat in believing
There was more to life than this season
I tread through the storm with wounds that need healing
Backpack packed with pain that’s still bleeding
Death grip squeeze I got to proceed I

I live through constant struggles but it will not be my end
Living fearfully - Im not
turning back where I began
abused beaten broken and
spirit’s feels its dying but
as long as Im living
I pick myself back up
I cant let my fear - be my downfall
So I use it as fuel to make my doubt fall
I choose to stay alive
a champ in disguise
like a legend on the rise
I will survive

Hook:
They tell that I wouldn’t survive this long
but I’m still alive (uh oh) [2x]

Chorus:
You thought you’d kill me
only made me stronger
surprised to survive a little longer [2x]

Verse:
Another day another fear I fight with
the lie in my mind says I won’t survive it
but I’m like Ali
a champ who I be
tell the devil better not catch you by me
but I just gotta realize it
but you don’t understand all the B.S I get
life is like a 90s bout vs Tyson
any second I can down - I might as well give up
Negative - scratch that - get up
look up at the giant that you face right now - and hit him
POW - even he don’t go down
keeping going even though it’s been four rounds
cause everything don’t happen when you want it to
as long as your alive - strive for the “W”
and that’s word from the “W”
cause you’re a winner still living through the things that troubled you

Hook:
They tell that I wouldn’t survive this long
but I’m still alive (uh oh) [2x]

Chorus:
You thought you’d kill me
only made me stronger
surprised to survive a little longer [2x]

I’m a survivor - I’m a survivor
I’m a survivor - I’m a survivor

Say, I’m a survivor - I’m a survivor
I’m a survivor - I’m a survivor

Verse:
It hard to weight the constant struggles that your dwelling in
thin change of living thought it all so you give in
and give up the one percent of faith you were leaning on
weak from storm cause it last to long but
keep walking forward
cause your a champion
when they knock you down - you get up
and you attack again
and keep running believing you'll see the sun again
dodge till you find an in - TKO it for the win
there’s a reason why your journey like this
you’ll see it in the end it’ll all make sense
kings and queens will see a legend in the midst
who looked fear in the eye and resist to enlist
in the war on the side of the folks who never try
rather die and deny their chance to survive
you keep strong
you gotta carry through the pain you’ll arise
you’ll survive it alive

Hook:
They tell that I wouldn’t survive this long
but I’m still alive (uh oh) [2x]

Chorus:
You thought you’d kill me
only made me stronger
surprised to survive a little longer [2x]

I’m a survivor - I’m a survivor
I’m a survivor - I’m a survivor

Say, I’m a survivor - I’m a survivor
I’m a survivor - I’m a survivor