Quelle Chris - Alive Ain't Always Living

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🗓️ 23 May 2022

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Quelle Chris - "Alive Ain't Always Living" from the 2022 album Deathfame on Mello Music Group.

Fresh off co-composing part of the score for the Oscar-winning film Judas and The Black Messiah, rapper Quelle Chris returned last week with his latest full-length, DEATHFAME.

The Detroit-based artist (real name: Gavin Tennille) describes the genre-defying new LP like "an incredible lost tape found at a flea market." Guests include Navy Blue, Pink Siifu, and Quelle's longtime collaborator Chris Keys co-produces a few of the album's tracks.

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0:00.0	I'm so grateful, so grateful to be alive
0:19.5	But alive ain't always living
0:21.4	Sometimes niggas just survive, day-to-day
0:24.4	Play to play to peace and fries
0:27.4	Or the state will leave some size
0:29.4	Sometimes low and sometimes high
0:31.4	I'm so thankful for these people by my side
0:35.4	But I know why I don't run
0:37.4	Trying to be why I don't ride
0:39.4	And take quadro
0:41.4	If they did it, it's me or mine
0:43.4	You could keep the feast and run
0:45.4	I just won't walk you so long
0:48.4	Oh yes, so it happens
0:50.4	Go for the role that I've always for doctor
0:54.4	Present the elegance of pain, the posture
0:57.4	The passion, the rebirth, the passing
1:00.4	The green earth, the massive
1:02.4	Open these palms apart
1:04.4	Let the stars align
1:06.4	Had a work hard to see the God and me
1:08.4	But I know it's time
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