After releasing his debut album For The People LP, Mondega was compared to Eminem as well as KRS-1. While the album gained traction and respect amongst local DJs, promoters and listeners internationally, Mondega was busy cooking up his next project. His new mix tape album Food, Clothing & Love, is set to release in Spring ’11. The album offers Mondega’s realistic definitions of survival, love, lust and dreams through a young ambitious man’s point of view. Listen to the track Transition for a sneak peek of his next album.

Here’s a few more tracks from Mondega: Stand My Ground and Listen to My Song .

Transition by Mondega

Lyrics for Transition by Mondega

Yo it’s one thirty in the morning,
I just received a text from a girl I used to see
Apparently, she been thinking about me.
But I was busy laughing, taking cheesy pictures
With the K-Stones shoutin’ Mondega For The People’s in the building!
I‘m just saying, why the fuck she trying to call me for?
Maybe she is tired of getting fucked by another party goer
I don’t roll with hoes, I just line ‘em up like dominos.
Tell the finest one and multiply the numbers at my shows
I’m not a player, I’m thinking about business…
I’m thinking about “Montagnard” permanently imprinted.
I’m loyal to my people like I’m loyal to my script,
As I take another flight from here to Los Angeles!
Let me take a couple shots, so I can dougie with this honey
I hit the club to party, I ain’t trying to budget money
The club owners, they love me, any drink I want, I’m good
Everybody’s dressed up, but I’m just chilling in my hood.
Real talk, it’s my city, I’m the hottest since Petey
My exe’s best friends are starting to fall in love with me
I think outside the box and the perspective that they carry
Some people call it ego, but I call how I see it
Cause I tell ‘her I don’t want ‘her, then she ask me how my day went
On her way to class while I print my boarding pass
Smiling at the girl across, hoping she don’t have a man
Maybe she would understand, over mocha lattes and teddy grams.
Gift shop date, then we got to separate…
If we run into each other again then maybe it’s meant to be
But if not, then I’ll just get my luggage and keep it movin’
Cause my future’s too important to delay a flight for you..
You and you… in the blue dress you bought charlotte rouse
Let’s hit San Gabriel and grab a massage, just me and you
Fly back to South Raleigh and roll one up with my crew
I just hope you appreciate the time I got to spend with you..