Today we must thank Mick Jenkins, for he has given us maybe the most focused and lyrically splendid album of the year. The Healing Component is jam-packed with awe-inspiring turns of phrase and dazzling wordplay, all of which serve and strengthen the album's greater message of compassion and self-love.
The Healing Component is the rap game Phantom Tollbooth. Click through the gallery to explore each track's finest lyrical moments.
The Healing Component
"The Healing Component"
"And for those still looking at me sideways you gotta stop sleeping on the profile
Jawline let 'em know that I can take a punch
Still gotta beat 'em to the punch though
Started drinking water at the party, I ain't even gonna front
Seen him put something in the punch bowls"
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"Baby you should grab some glasses
Check you a new perspective
Get a new directive
Fuck fucking up a check, is a new collective"
Spread Love
"Spread Love"
"I started using lead to harness gold
It's way easier to smile, let your local hatin' ass nigga know"
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"And they be asking, 'what do love got to do with the point?'
It’s the soothe in your water, it’s the truth in your joint"
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"Breathe, stretch, shake, let it all go like Ma$e with me
I brought the water in a mason jar
I'm trynna build, that's masonry in the literal sense
Some people got a literal fence around they heart
Mine's on my sleeve and I'm out here sleeveless"
Daniels Bloom
"Daniels Bloom"
"They say it ain't no love here
But I do see blood, tears, and sweat
Moët, we pour it up and got the best that we'll soon forget"
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"Don't let the struggle make your heart harder
Sip the truth, spit the truth
That's the smart water
I'm talking gospel, Jay Hova, no Shawn Carter"
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"Love is stronger than pride
But also love is a muscle
You gotta build from inside"
Strange Love
"Strange Love"
"Going deep so the pressure is massive
Really tryna be a saint, but I ain't drew breeze [Brees]
I've never been that passive
Always been this pensive"
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"What's the basis? All these racist motherfuckers out here raping the culture
On the lowest of keys, they sew in hate for ourselves then probate
To kill and appropriate, they vultures"
Drowning
"Drowning" feat. BADBADNOTGOOD
"Dial tone on my hotline, it don't bling much
Sing songs like Tubman
Young Steven Morris, I ain't seen much"
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"Niggas bark loud, talking revolution, when the waves come they turn feline
I been turning tricks In the coldest part of the deepest water like a sea lion"
As Seen In Bethsaida
"As Seen In Bethsaida" feat. theMIND
"Y'all be talking bullshit, even on the pulpit"
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"I know the mental
The self hate is really just incidental
Exposure is instrumental
In shedding that skin
Almost like it come with black skin"
Communicate
"Communicate" feat. Ravyn Lenae
"Yeah black man and that's everything it denotes
She want a nigga that can sing
But she only ever wanna hear the C-notes"
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"John Smoltz couldn't throw shade at you girl"
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"Gotta have a little cocaine in you girl you addicting
Nurse Joy can you fill my prescriptions?"
Plugged
"Plugged"
"Forest Gump the culture, how you not gonna have gumption to love yourself?"
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"Never doubt, a hater's life is probably stressful
Learn from lessons, elevate your level
Nigga, burn through sessions assessin' myself
And my worth and my God and my devil"
1000 Xans
"1000 Xans" feat. theMIND
"In some circles misconceptions make 'em think my inspiration herbal, it's not
I mean sometimes it is
I mean sometimes I'm tweaking and laughing until I hurt ribs
And then sometimes I'm speaking of passion and my purpose
Forever creeping until I'm peaking through valleys and skies
That's the heavens, I mean I'm trying to get high"
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"What you drinking, don't forget you gotta eat good
Cause food is a whole ass drug
I mean Ronald is an old ass plug
And he chopping rocks for cheap to keep your whole ass stuck"
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"Treat the water like a cabernet cheese"
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"it's getting harder to breathe
The black Neo of this Matrix
Directing homeostasis
But still all my homies bleed"
Prosperty
"Prosperity" feat. theMIND
"Milly rocking through the pressure
Middle fingers to the pessimistic
Niggas latching cause they simply missed the message, listen"
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"I never been no type of man to hide his shit beneath the dirt
Crack a smile beneath the hurt"
Fall Through
"Fall Through"
"Had to fall on his knees for a second
Stop, dropped and rolled in the middle of this fire
And the smoke, had to go and breathe for a second
Plus I needed direction, a fork in every road at like three intersections
Pray for discernment, I'm seeking his blessing
This ain't no sermon but vermin ain't never want to see they reflection"
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"At this hater conjunction I'm an apostrophe, above them all"
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"But trust I fall, you can trust I'll tell you just how I trip
Before I ever power trip, brought the light like a power strip
Fuck a Powerade, we bringing water
On some straight 'Black Power' shit
Shift the culture watch the power shift
Fist raised, nigga proud as shit"
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"Nigga crooked but my pen straight I've been straight
Concentrating on these compositions"
Love, Robert Horry
"Love, Robert Horry" feat. J-Stock
"Photos of my life through these allegories
Shots from the corner like I'm Robert Horry"
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"Yeah we fly, throw a piece sign, I mean well
The cream rise, I need the wheat high"
Angles
"Angles" (feat. Noname & Xavier Omär)
"Man y'all don't hear me, if you've never been alone how you know yourself?
If you ain't up underwater how you grow yourself?
You should love you so much that you'll Marylin Manson and blow yourself
It's some things you gotta learn that only you can show yourself"
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"Getting introspective, it can only go right like you ain't got no left
Like a wack-ass point guard"
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"am absolutely, positively happy
Exponential, gratitude for rapping
Aptitude for passing dude's exceptions" - Noname
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"Y'all in the club while I'm sitting in the attic
Thinking about the plastic, a trip to Malibu
Spend a couple racks on racks say hallelu-" - Noname
Fucked up Outro
"Fucked up Outro" (feat. Michael Anthony)
"If Drake ain't holding down Quentin Miller why the fuck would I ever give any credit to you?"
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"Check my demeanor
Still waters run deep as a serve from Serena
Balls in my court and we serving subpoenas
Don't miss this jet ho
Don't miss this view
Straight truth, no tricks, no presto
It's drink more water, don't trip off petrol"
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"Break bread with me
Better yet, bake bread with me
We be so worried about how much we need the dough
We tend to forget the little things we need to know
Like how to knead the dough"