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The Floodgates
03:10
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This is that Ice-T, Ice Cube, put you in a foul mood
You against the world forever when the sounds move
The getting it done what they’re never getting around to
The breaking down their heros, leaving them in a clown suit
The pedestal smashing anthem pumping the volume
Bigger they are, the better chances for a tall tomb
Pine boxes extending them with an accordian
But then again, I rarely go to war my friend
I am the form of formidable wrath, more to bend
Mordecai forming a forge inside his source of zen
I hit them with that, causing foes to wither away
Lost amongst the dust, a monster with his prey
Conjuring decay inside the mouth of Trojan horses
Too busy sharpening my blade to ever pose for portraits
The arsonist with art to spray I am my own endorsement
Keep your paid partnership, I came to scorch them
I don’t need extrinsic motivators to stay sharp
The rhyming beast who flies beneath the hypest radar
So you can keep your props, Jesus pieces, Yeezy drops
Tear away your cheap facade
walk to me with knees that knock
Tapping at the pearly gates early Saint Peter’s napping
So keep toying with the thought that beef with me could happen
It’s downhill from here, no need to feel scared
I leave your body of work rolling in that wheelchair
No breaks, Kurtis Blow never existed
Donate every part you paid to this clique
By and large, I’m known for bringing you the fire bars
Bump this in your whip, soon you’re piloting a flying car
Lungs exude the mist that’s taking all your oxygen
All of the gossip but soon to call the cops again
The Nostradmus apocalypse, I am loss of limb
Colossal mausoleum filler villain, dropping in
I don’t jostle for position, I am me
So many irons in the fire, made the fire flee
There is no rivalry, I made a world to live inside
So sick of fools who never lived get the mission right
I’m leaving no survivors, just a song with focused virus
Breaking bad and broke the midas, when my flow provideth
Vocalizing prose of guidance to the folk who find remains
Who reconvene in hideaways upon the higher planes
Each rhyme arranged to hit specific targets, note them well
Some roll the dice with hope yet never had a soul to sell
Patrol the edges of shadows inside of camouflage
Abandon all the plans you had, and stack a grand of gauze
From here to Panama, hear the panic and San applause
Clear enhancement of present danger, blaze them and ramble off
Prepare the burial plot, thickened with the drone’s buzz
I’m leaving microphones crushed until my bones rust
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untitled 1
01:12
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JON?DOE:
Escape into the cosmos osmosis rocketships
Swan dive into the black hole, Cock the pits
Fingerfuck a fig newton's fagrfignugen
Hitlerjugen groovin at a bar with Rick Rubin
Saying who wants what? Whenever JON busts
Sacrifice Gretel's brother- make ya put your Hans up
Crush the hulk- Giant as Andre in a dulo
Sicker shit than wipe and finding sangre in your culo
You know,, the Sassenach who became the Kwisatz Haderach
Shady in the streets of Shadar Logoth with a dagger cocked
Aftermath of an afterthought- check tha pen mark
Bloody fingers reaching in the tank where they swim sharks
Just a bit of grimdark sins ark covenant
Nothing scary as when free men heart government
Lost sense of self burn the house that God bet on
Serpent as the me that though shall not tread on
Vaqueros usando pantalones de su madre
Shut the shoji, sweating to the oldies on a spa day
Engaged in a menage, double fisting my own schism
I masturbate, ejaculate over the rhythm
Then lay there basking in doubt and self pity
Will nobody embark on this joust through hell with me?
Sancho on his mule to my Man of la Mancha
Bastard of Bolton spittin stanzas Stark as Sansa
We don’t come to rock mics, we mutilate them
Inhuman cadence strutting up inside of suit of razors
The two to blaze abrasively, take some paces fast
Before the remains of your DNA and traits are smashed
Sankofa:
I want people to succeed, you’re insecure they’ll overtake you
Leave you behind, as they’re racing by to break through
Stewing inside of the hate, steadily marinating
Tearing at the walls, the very ones you barricade in
A barracuda with a taste for the weaker flesh
And from your pedestal it’s kind of hard to reconnect
Cheating death is your finest art it just cost your soul
Accosted lost inside a caustic coffin, lost control
The frost corrodes the circuitry as tempers start to shorten
Impossible to rise and shine inside the darkest morning
Reciting tropes inside a lion’s throat, the parchment morbid
Conniving folks stroll with eyes exposed to mark the forfeit
Sawdust caught inside the flashlight as sargents storm in
Far from normal, the shark is circling, his heart immortal
To carve an ornament the taxidermist dorsal fin
Smash and grab, dashing past the last to stack some sort of win
I’m writing raps on paper hidden in frozen envelopes
Patrick Ewing, set to ruin rappers, trauma dose
Far from human, I barbeque them with arson phrases
Char your reputation ‘til your city’s carbon dated
The martial artist marksman embarking into the darkest corners
Phar Lap to sarlacc, my tarnished heart’s enormous
I’m the slaughter reaper, onomatopoeia
Leaving heads nodding at your wake like water skiers, got to re up
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Monkey Claws
04:20
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Reminded of the times I loved what they were putting out
And then the cliff arrived, precipitous, it took it down
I told myself to hold the L and learn the lesson well
A testament the test of time, I hope to stretch and swell
A toast to those who started the fire within my soul
Began the head nod, and pressed on, delivered gold
Divvied up my time between bumping the varieties
Way before the high speed and piracies arrived to breach
My life degree from living where I have, changing up
Strange enough I found my home in Fort Wayne, so raise a cup
Portray the life I’ve observed, lead and heard about
Weighing smiles against henchmen with a furtive frown
Spurn the clowns, unburdened by a need to pretend
I’d keep my circle small than seek a demon’s befriend
My words are my adhesive, my receipts are then penned
Register my voice on beats that keep me peaceably zen
Until then, I’mma keep on this see saw
Rocking back and forth my rapping forges beyond the weak pawns
In Tetons from hee haw, I’mma keep on this see saw
I try to stay approachable for cats that seek to reach me
This isn’t chasing bucks, we’re making stuff completely
The foundation based on mutual respect
My pharmaceutical is musical you can bet
I use allusion with an A in front it just to run a bit
It’s fun to riff, but sometimes I wonder if
Someone can follow breadcrumbs that I laid
Before the acid rain cascade takes them away
It’s kind of grim, but that’s the state of mind I’m in
No time for being passive, give the wax a final spin
From violin to vinyl, I am chomping at the bit
Seance within a crypt, feeling lost, begin to slip
If this is it, thank you. I was here
And if I’m gone, my voice still is living in your ear
The older that I get, the more insomnia creeps
I keep thinking about the things I can’t control in my sleep
Until then, I’mma keep on this see saw
Rocking back and forth my rapping forges beyond the weak pawns
In Tetons from hee haw,
Until then, I’mma keep on this see saw
Nostalgia’s cadence is my drug of choice
An amalgamation of the monkey’s claws upon my back plus a rugged voice
So when I hear something less than fresh, I take offense
And lack of effort will never be straight to make amends
The bond I hold is sacred it’s like I took an oath
To cripple players running games with a crooked coach
The Himalayas what I’m aiming with with flavor lore
I’ve made progress with thoughts and stay to make some more
I play a role called me, it keeps my life simple
No Paladin of alibis that under lights shrivel
Don’t have time to bend to whims, it’s too submissive
Can’t even find a standard pose that I can use in pictures
So I resort to smiling with my crooked grin
Even if it’s honest, I hate the way it looks again
I treat compliments like bullets and start dodging them
Even though I should say thank you and move on again
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I see these walls trying to buddy up, closing in
Stuck inside the gutter of this bloody rut with frozen limbs
Approachable claustrophobia topical slowly staggers
In a treadmill of wet cement, indented, growing backwards
I never seem to make it further than my dreams can ever show
Severed toes festering, half stepping, breath bereft of hope
Left a note for the future version of myself inside of a time capsule
Disguised as a box of asbestos, left my mind frazzled
Kind of fragile in the days of the cliches where the beast preys
Too big for britches when is he’s rocking in those pee jays
sleep deprived, depraved, the fight inside with slicing blades
Twice awakened to the sounds of tires trying to find a place
My hideaway surrounded by choppers mosquito buzzing buzzards
Accepting lowest offers, noone prospers, a land that suffers
Safety in numbers but the timer’s clicking backwards faster
That amazing split got traded with a pick for half cadavers
I’m not paranoid, I’m careful, watching plans unfold beneath me
Biding time, carving crevices in old graffiti
Regarded nemesis lightly might be my soul is leaking
My heart is venomous, nightly psyche a fold that’s seeping
Nurses reading charts, possibly written in Arabic
Sick is the narrative depicted, pick a slick comparison
Offering awful offertories, the tithe impossible
Imperative the gospel of groveling, still inoperable
A domino effect that’s wrecking everything I ever touched
Jagged cans of laughter the passage where festered effort was
Screaming death to rust my battle cry from this bleeding throat
Leaking hope at every turn, I’m squirming and the sheet is soaked
Indeed, it’s so, I reconvene the demons of my past and seek a vote
Walk amongst my frozen ghosts and note it’s three below
From grief alone the tears spilled race to meet the floor
Fear builds a platter of my heart to feed this beast of war
A ceaseless march rendering hearts to powder, skies are cloudy
Salvador Dali upon my Rolex, time is drowning
Finding fountains of youth, pursuit evaporated
Santa Claus, claws digging deep into a sack of sadists
My funeral procession marching on with black cicadas
They leave the shell of me behind on trees in cracking statements
No affidavits or statements of praise, just laughs and hatred
The trap I made it myself, paint it with fascination
Raising my casket with a chipped glass to capture favors
Cutting lips, leaving suffering, within a fractured angel
Assassins gather round and trade their anecdotes
Panic grows, feeding on my manic nature, and it shows
Tried to take my shot, the camera froze, I disappear
Soul the coldest upholding crying with my frigid tears
No bridge in here, just an island asylum I’m hiding in
I’m fighting this fire like it’s life and limb
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untitled 2
01:20
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Napalm Throne
03:16
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Deaf from gunfire, promised them the hereafter
Infidels and tinsel sell sincere the fear factor
Between utterances you can see their sneers captured
Regret the only thing I hold inside this clear chapter
I stay calm, sitting upon a throne of napalm
Watching the world burn around me, it won’t take long
I levitate above the fray my acid rain falls
Quenching thirsts turn to agony's insane squalls
A bag of grief that sloshes, tubing needle to the vein
A blurry vision of the fight, I see it through the flames
A circus prison has arrived, it might behoove to claim
Started as a world at war but only two remain
It's Romulus and Remus, maybe it is Cain and Abel
Sacrificing everything they ever loved to claim the faithful
The fall from grace, blade perched upon the altar waits
A shade worse than apocalypse they brawl with rage
Conveyor belts shift the dead as they are hauled away
Twitching on the belt, incinerators call the maimed
No holiday or respite victory's the only way
The fallen cascade into trenches, open graves
Deaf from gunfire, promised them the hereafter
Infidels and tinsel sell sincere the fear factor
Between utterances you can see their sneers captured
Regret the only thing I hold inside this clear chapter
Twisted metal lock swinging from a broken cage
The joker plays his house of cards so proud with poker face
Hope decays becoming festered in the jaws of life
Atrocity lobotomized piranhas gnaw the plights
A numbing essence cloaking everything I once believed
A feel the flames start to lick my feet from underneath
I'm not above I am in it cause I made it all
The 8th day I sat and wondered why the fatal call
From cradle to the grave engraved with all the names they gave me
Every holy palace in my homage drove me crazy
The bloviating staking claims on my behalf in here
It took more than snakes and apples to craft an atmosphere
The verse and chapter divisive, makers of new ways
The third days the hoorays the rock and rollers crusades
A new drug for the mute to crave and watch the bruises spread
A kingdom awaiting suicide, the righteous choosing death
Deaf from gunfire, promised them the hereafter
Infidels and tinsel sell sincere the fear factor
Between utterances you can see their sneers captured
Regret the only thing I hold inside this clear chapter
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Sankofa Fort Wayne
My rhymes kick in like a turbobooster.
Fort Wayne.
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