Catch the Throne: Game of Thrones Hip-Hop Mixtape

HBO released a Game of Thrones themed mixtape featuring popular hip-hop artists such as Big Boi, Wale, Common, Daddy Yankee and Snow tha Product.

Stream the whole album for free here:

Tracklist

01. Big Boi – Mother of Dragons
02. Magazeen – Iron Throne
03. Bodega Bamz – Win or Die
04. Kilo Kish – Magical Reality
05. Daddy Yankee – Born to Rule
06. Dominik Omega – Arya’s Prayer
07. Dee Goodz – The Parallel
08. Snow tha Product – Fire
09. Common – Interlude/The Ladder
10. Wale – King Slayer

My favorite track is Arya’s Prayer by Dominik Omega who is actually a legit fan of George RR Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire books. You can tell from the lyrics that the dude knows what he’s talking about. Also, check out a video for his previous Game of Thrones Hip-Hop remix here.

Dominik Omega – Arya’s Prayer

Lyrics (via Rap Genius)

[Intro]
He has to pay the iron price
They’ll never respect you while he lives

[Verse 1]
Livin’ life on the run is a sad short story
Bitter with my troubles for the daily kill Jory
Middle child of five, but I’m wilder and smarter
Quick like a snake and calm as still water
After Joffery made a martyr of my Father
I had to flee the city, but my heart grew harder
Gotta get to Winterfell, Yoren knows the deal
Cats soft like Lommy, all they wanna do is yield
For real, see everyone wagon needs a wheel
And at ten I stay sharp, like castle forged steel
The Lannisters are looking and the Gold Cloaks came
They wanna gut a boy but Ari’s not the name
So he sent them back and he came back in the night
I put the axe in the wagon because a man can’t fight
Green boys outnumbered, saw a few boys fall
They took all of us ‘cept Lommy back to Black Harren’s hall

[Hook]
Watch it all come around as I lay on the ground
Joffrey, Cersei, Ilyn Payne, the Hound
They all think I’m lost but I know where I’m found
I’m the blood in the North when it all comes down
My word is my bond and my bond is my word
Valar Dohaeris, all men must serve
See as a raven flies and time slips by
Valar Morghulis, all men must die

[Verse 2]
Harren the Black’s legacy, the tallest of them all
Now I’m blasted out ruin in my prison Harrenal
Death in every black tower, pain in every rotten steeple
Ain’t no room for hope and it smells of dead people, evil
Man Arry or Weasel, the ghost in these walls when I speak names lethal
Pawn in the game all the same, I’m a catalyst
Before the Bishop peoples and I mingle with the savages
Old lord lion tracks my family in the field
Ask me if I believe anyone can be killed, for real
I get three that’s the deal, not too far from my first
Soon I’ll know how it feels
Thought I was caught between my lord and m’lord
But I show no fear, it cuts deeper than swords
You damn right had I led a different life
If I had been maybe a child of Pyke
I’d gladly pay the iron price

[Hook]

[Verse 3]
All over the realm ran with cutthroats and pages
Haven’t seen the basics in this world with our Grace’s, patience
Just like I remain nameless
I think I’ve found my calling with the man who stays faceless
Nice to think that my hands will stay stainless
But a girl keeps secrets survival game shameless
The Tickler was cruel, Amory an ignoramus
I named both names and a man was gracious
A man needs a name and a man pays his debts
And a man owes three and a girl has a request
A girl wants the old lion, but the man must digress
So a girl names a man, as a man’s last test
The girl un-names the man, with some help to get away
If a man does this thing then the girl must obey
The man gives the girl a point as a girl decides to say
“The god of death will have his due, but we say not today”

[Hook]