Reks
Corey Isiah Christie (born August 24, 1977), better known as REKS, is an American rapper. REKS emerged from Lawrence, Massachusetts' underground rap scene. His debut album Along Came The Chosen was released in 2001 released under Brick Records. Reks has released eight additional albums and has appeared on numerous other albums and mixtapes. He has worked on numerous projects with Statik Selektah
Early career
Reks was a breakdancer in his teens and was part of a local B-boy crew called Funk Town Connection. By the time he entered college at University of Massachusetts Amherst, Reks had built a reputation for himself in the local Boston rap scene, but then eventually quit school to begin recording for Brick Records. A few 12" singles, "I Could Have Done More" and "Fearless," arrived first in early 2001, before Brick issued his debut LP, Along Came the Chosen, later that year. This earned Reks nominations for Hip-Hop Album and Artist of the Year by the Boston Music Awards. Reks worked with DJ Premier, Styles P, Alchemist, Hi-Tek, and many others on his 2011 album Rhythmatic Eternal King Supreme.
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ALBUMS
- Eyes Watching God released: 2014
- Revolution Cocktail released: 2013
- Rebelutionary released: 2012
- Straight, No Chaser released: 2012
- Rhythmatic Eternal King Supreme released: 2011
- In Between the Lines, Volume 2 released: 2010
- Grey Hairs released: 2008
- Rekless released: 2004
- Along Came the Chosen released: 2001
Revolution Cocktail
Released 2013- Revolution Is Here
- The Molotov
- Flags
- Mighty Mouse Trap Rap (M.M.T.R.)
- Run DMC
- Judas
- Trust Us
- Due Diligence
- Only Lonely
- Unbreakable Me
- Ahead of My Time
- Golden
- Forrest Gump
- Fools Gold
- I Remember
- Winners & Survivors
- Showoff Forever
- Poster Child
- Melancholy
- Friends With Benefits/Dial Tone
- Caged Bird
- Forever Era
In Between the Lines, Volume 2
Released 2010- Once Again
- Legacy
- Represent 2010 Freestyle
- This or That
- My Words
- What It Is
- Successful Girl
- Feel It Baby
- Different Breed
- Pray for U (Homicide Note)
- Egos
- Money & Power
- Eff U
- Get Rowdy
- No Hooks (Uppercuts)
- In My Lane
- Getting Ugly
- Eat or Starve
- 6 am
- Setting It Off
- Window Pane
- The Etc.
- Night Sky
- Hooked on Whateva
- Lighters
- Hindu Kush (Ghost)
- Rapanomics
- Strays
- Brainstorm
- My Dark Skin (Willie Lynch Theory)
Grey Hairs
Released 2008- Grey Hairs
- The One
- Say Goodnight
- How Can It Be
- Stages
- All in One (5 Mics) (feat. Lil' Fame)
- Next 2 Me
- Money on the Ave (feat. Skyzoo)
- Black Cream (The Negro Epidemic) (feat. Big Shug)
- Love Sweet Misery
- Rise
- Telescopes (feat. John Hope & Lucky Dice)
- Day 2
- Premonition (feat. Termanology & Consequence)
- My Life (feat. Paula Campbell)
- Cry Baby
- Long While
- Big Dreamers (Lawtown remix) (feat. Termanology & Krumbsnatcha)
- Isiah
- Pray for Me
Rekless
Released 2004- Intro
- Crush You
- Soul Bwoy
- Interlude
- Man Am I
- One
- C U Again
- Put Ur Work in Dog
- Beastly (feat. Alias & Sunny Black of O.V.M.)
- Interlude2
- Back to the Essence
- I Could Be the Next
- Blindfold
- Interlude3
- Rise to the Occasion
- Fall Down
- Wherever We Go
- Ready for War
- Secure the Building
- Interlude4
- Baby Boy (feat. B.Knox)
- Melodies in the Dark
Along Came the Chosen
Released 2001- Meet Corey Christie
- You Ain't Never Heard of Me
- To Whom It May Concern
- Fearless
- My City
- Beantown to Cali (feat. Rasco & L Da Headtoucha)
- Soul of Black Folk
- Final Four (feat. Esoteric, J-live, Shabaam Sahdeeq, Pacewon, Young Zee, Danja Mowf & Lonnie B)
- Skills 101
- Enemy Killa
- Till Death Do Us (feat. Kiki Breevlife)
- Skills 201 (feat. Ed OG, Lucky Dice & B.Knox)
- Easy
- Work (feat. Lucky Dice, B. Knox & Rip Shop)
- Science of Life II (feat. Alias of OVM)
- Frozen Moments (feat. Lucky Dice & B. Knox)
- What You Need (feat. Balistik 82)
- Dead Poets Society
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Rebelutionary
by: ReksMy eye seen it coming, seduction
Discussing who to trust in the clutch and
Nobody worthy in the world we know
Burning them ashes past fingertips
The final drips in a glass I sip
The inhibition of class is split
The have and have not, the have not rot
The haves benefit 'til we drop
Picking crops of cotton and then forgotten
On blocks with sounds of gun shots
Alarm clocks, how does it stop?
Limited option, liberty or death
Branded the flesh like he was cattle
We're ? just figment of imagination babble
This generation lacks
True knowledge of how the past has trapped you
With psychological lassos over Adam's apples
Soldiers blast through fitted caps
To wear them glory flags do not democracy make
Militant asshole I rap so my mind's free
And read to feed my seeds
Believe the lesson was heard, the third eye sees
Fuck what you heard, forget what you knew
Its time to unlearn, system reboot
Telling you the truth, or is it lies
Claiming its the truth, but are they lies?
Keep letting them folks lie to me
Dying to be, a part of their cult
Or say fuck 'em all, stand and revolt
Leader? the Pope says you have a better chance at the
pearly gates
For a minimal fee, he's cleaning a dirty slate
For worthy angst, Picasso paints a white Jesus
Black is evil I guess, that's how elite sees us
Can't hail Ceasars, need somebody for us non-believers
See I ain't racist
But Apollo Creed and Mr. T is
Just not enough heroes, to make us not feel like zeros
My school ain't have no Langston Hughes murals
No Medgar Evers paragraphs
No conversations on the Willie Lynch theory in my
history class
Ya'll could laugh, at Honeymooners and the Happy Days
Shit is not amusing, no black neighbors
If moved in, the house value depreciate
Show ratings decline
Gotta un-see, be not blind...
[Hook x2: Reks]
All the power hungry money control the atlas
Fighting for space before time elapses
Comfort zone collapses, a home captured
To say we care is ass backwards
Selfish in nature, just pure facts kid
This last verse is for my sons to heed
Cause when my son's in need
Upon a bleeding heart they love to feed
Kick you when you down, witnesses they're up in here
So I apologize to you now for being sons of man
Evil incarnate monsters stand, without a code of ethics
The road is set with traps, to leave us desperate
A call for help is never met with effort
Minus a motive, violence explodes with the force of
atomic
Focused on Hiroshima, we voted for peace and got a
piece of they're land
Divide us foes, we are damned
If we do, if we don't, we not American fam
Into this world I brought you, see what I taught you
Decide, either lion or lamb
[Hook x2:Reks]