“Internalizing signs and observing every alignment” A Note From Aly: Trip is essentially a journal entry that documents a pivotal year of my life, during which I decided to put my professional life on hold and pursue music full-time for a year. It follows my thought process through making that decision, and the realities that the choice came with. Coming from a South Asian household, doing music full time has never been an acceptable career path for me, so the day I decided that I would be taking a year to spend on music I was internally torn. Part of me felt disappointed that I would be letting my family down through this decision. Another part of me felt called to do so and was totally convinced of the necessity of the decision. During that year, I went through my highest highs and lowest lows. Some days were incredible, and once I even got an incredibly supportive and affirming phone call from one of my musical idols at 1:30 AM. Other days were not, and I’ve spent my fair share of days in the fetal position after particularly tough conversations with family members. I also was driving Postmates delivery 6-11 hours a day, 6 days a week over the course of the year. Those experiences strengthened my resolve to ship my music even more. Additional Perks For The Collector: ⁃Airdrop of my “Collector Key” NFT, which gives access to the NFT-Gated Collectors chat in my discord which will receive updates on the aforementioned project as we get closer to its announcement and release -Video chat with me if you’d like ⁃My endless gratitude and love Credits: Produced by: Lackhoney Written by: Lackhoney Mixed + Mastered by: Lackhoney A Fun Fact: The voice in the intro of the song is a voicemail, my roommate, Knowledge left me saying: “Ay low key it’s not important but I wanted to leave a message so you could save it so I could be on the album.” This one isn’t for the album, but he made it on my Catalog Genesis, which is probably even cooler. Lyrics: [Intro: Knowledge’s Voicemail] Ay low key it’s not important, Ay low key it’s not important but I wanted to leave a message so you could save it so I could Save it, Save it, [Verse 1: Lackhoney] Shabbat shalom okay uh, Hallelujah, my neighbor, My skin looks brown as fuck I’m khaki-colored, Jake from State Farm, I ain’t really half a singer but I autotune okay, uh, I learned the skills I got because belief was in my nature, Try to play me like a fool I fool around and turn the table, Playing pool with my boo and a dude tried scooting I pulled out the 'K,' let spray up, How’s your day? Uh, I asked a question, God hit me to chiropract’ on these tracks then let them pay us, aha, let them pay us, Song on song on song inside recording three a day, Attracting more bills from inside a booth than matinees, And still wondering how I had a doubt that it would end okay, NLE Choppa done came to me as a surprise omen from universe telling me it would be alright, Internalizing signs and observing every alignment, Mama said to ride the waves and then snowball them into tidal, Till I’m stacked up like the legend that done made Tidal, Nipsey songs and Deepak Chopra that done been my Bible, I’m Santiago wearing brown face, One way on my highway, Blessings coming our way, Communing with Yahweh, All that doubt I had in past only bring up my flaws Audiobooks, driving delivery, policing my thoughts, and playing my cards, Moving with hope and praying to God, Going from rented room to studio all covered with plaques, In eighth grade they [the white kids in my class] told me, I just want to be black, Now I’m going on a trip, [Refrain: Lackhoney] The trip that’s on my mental I been holding in my mind, And I got some tension in me that’s been harder to define up in these songs, Up in these songs, Up in these songs, [Verse 2: Lackhoney] I’m getting signs from God, He sent Russ just to gas me up, I know he’s on my side, I see demons that’s out here lurking let them throw their fire, All I really came here to do is live my highest life, Graduated a top 15 school my friends got their jobs, I was more down to follow my heart now my dad pissed as fuck, Told me to go get some— alright, Ok, I’m up in here on the same damn mic, doing songs every night and it’s all independent, I’m only going outside just to drive every night, put my pride to the side and I swear Imma get it, I could take a shot to the ego, I ain’t tryna cut my spirit though, I ain’t tryna live off fear though, I ain’t tryna shed no tears unless I’m working and I’m aggravated, Okay the lesson that I learned from driving Postmates as my job was that I got to go so hard so I can dip off and retire, Okay that shit is not for me but I’m making the sacrifices I need to make to do whatever it is that I want to do, That is make my music with my crew, That’s the truth, Yeah, that’s the truth, That’s a good couple [bars], That’s the truth, [Refrain: Lackhoney] The trip that’s on my mental I been holding in my mind, And I got some tension in me that’s been harder to define up in these songs, Up in these songs, Up in these songs,