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unplugged player 2
02:25
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the Equatorial heat beats down
the smog of colonialism is strong
the brand is long frown the impact still astounds
the mindset is Monrovia or Freetown it's going down
the little click of the empty clip’s my favorite sound
internalize this your livelihoods a legal fiction
your personality's propaganda your lifestyle's an addiction
carry a big stick talk shit like there was no friction
between your life actually and all these contradictions
suppress good days to preserve the continuity
no plot holes. If you play the lotto take the annuity
that lump sum’ll drop on son like a warner brother
cuz we’re all little brother with the unplugged player 2
What do we do?
nah man I’m asking. what do we do?
If we win they win too, if they win we lose.
Ain’t shit rhetorical man what do we do?
If we win they win too, if they win we lose.
Cognitive dissonance. Am I a cog or a dissident
Cognitive dissonance. Am I a cog or a dissident
Cognitive dissonance. Am I a cog or a dissident
Cognitive dissonance. Am I a cog or a dissident
my history’s revised doesn't matter I’m alive
An Ice pick to the eye is a blessing in disguise
millennial with gen x characteristics
concerned with selling out but can’t risk it.
I wanna be artistic
tend towards sadistic but I can take if I have to
bum rush the bastille and now my rents not past due
bougie revolutionary carry us for eternity
carry us to modernity and beyond with murdering
abdullah huxtable combustible its up to you
yuks the crew reactionary rappers I don’t fuck with you
you looking contra and my mantra is more sandinista
So we clash fundamentally fidel : batista
kangaroo court for all those that oppress you
suspend their passports or give em the ceaușescu.
and suspend their bodies somewhere public
which is everywhere now
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Generational indicators
We dumb it down but this shits got layers
Bad bitch with a vocal fry
Culture war until the day we die
Die die die
between synonymous places : options minimal
Every decision made amounts to less than trivial
long division long subtraction multiplied
A billion times over maximize deprive
Turn farms winzip but we work it out this time
And our policies’ll correlate with sharp drops in crime
And every thing you own is now also mine
Ideological to the core stand on the party line
And if you disagree its cool but not relevant
Confiscate your mansion ride in on an elephant
Plant my flag in your fountain and then take a piss in it
Partition suburbia so millions can live in it
Rebellion is easy the hard part is absorption
I ask for not a single grain above my allotted portion
Symbolism’s easy the hard part is believing it
When every single moment is worst than the one preceding it
What’s solidarity anyway from 6 plus feet away
Or if a 6 meter rise washes away what we made
Been plugging fingers in the leaks too long it’s time to rebuild
Plus Steve Bannon makes a grip every time I watch Seinfeld
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Post decompress sesh breathless I'm on Netflix
30 years old still on Netflix
Cuz I gotta watch cheers fully
Reminder of how life should be
A Time capsule we'll never capture
Sacrificial flesh for the worship of self
Generational indicators
Low key evil like general Colin Powell
Condolezza rice do a genocide and still be alive
If your Talking to the press? fuck it just lie.
This story’s mad boring when millions of people just die
That shits statistical dude free your mind with a listicle
16 ways to crush your spirit
25 4 minute tracks? I didn’t hear it
Drop 20,000 lbs of munitions so I can feel it
They call it self deportation I call it A Nakba
No jobs apartheid Allahu akbar
2020 might be just what we asked for
we’re the innocent contractors on the Death Star
i wasn’t even supposed to be here how do I mesh more
With fabric of society take it easy and just try to be
A calm happy productive worker berserker
generational indicators
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arab man did nothing
02:27
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arab man did nothing wrong
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prison camp
01:41
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This ain’t an airport it’s a prison camp
Passport stamped but flagged on the scan
Pat down seize dab pen
Zip tie Dullah elevated security
It feels like this corridor goes on for eternity
Sit down shut up are you high right now?
Boy do I ever get nervous. No thanks for your service.
I know my rights are only a rhetorical device
I deny the legitimacy of your entire agency
Like Homeland security? That shit’s a euphemism b
We don’t believe you need more history
Like We don’t believe you you need more vassals
need more tassels and stripes and emblems
Usps the only feds I fuck with remotely
Sir Exactly how long you gonna hold me?
Till you talk. Eye roll emoji and say nothing
These days you gotta watch for what uniforms you be trusting
No charges, held for 3 hours on false pretense
Missed my damn flight and now I’m rebooking at my expense
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oh the indignity of a shoestring
boiled shoe leather or synthetic fiber
the secret to getting liver
invisible divider in the bread aisle
a grinder but still unwilling or unable to be a buyer
a cabal controls your dinner plate whether paper or china
arches burned in the hotcakes as a reminder
and I'm tryna break habits but the habits break me
Convenience and destitution diminish my ch'i
Just breathe personal responsibility is a joke
when the choice is candy, Coca-Cola or smokes
Engineered to be addictive manipulate lamebrain
* okey doke the whole lot with bogus health claims
And hope the long term effects have no affect on your life
And toke to keep anxiety about it to a minimum
resurface tomorrow totally recontexualized
monkey on the back harmabe cant get rid of him
passive disinterest the definition of my era
in all aspects from gif loops to terror
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ethical binge
02:06
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more selassie than jah
technical african rhythmically superior to y'all
colonial resistance never did christmas at all
in 3rd grade lobbied for ramadan decorations on the wall
did it again every fall
No strongman we got rich men with mad privacy
The power’s faceless, ahk, no sisi. No Time machine.
no borders pre 67 It’s demons in all directions.
Peace is forbidden. Just a calm between genocides.
And the name remains anglicized.
No ethical consumption, my paycheck is pollution
But you’re a goldfish in a bag talking bipartisan solutions
Lies, damn lies, then stats in that order
These spreadsheets are deadly deployed across borders
Clear it all outnothing good it’s all bad
rigid abrupt unfeeling but I’m your comrade
Civil wars in the comments. Your logics distorted
I swear you’ll be the first one airbrushed out the portrait
No big L Libertarians in a financial crisis
Nothing even matters fuck around join isis
satire
I binge watched my life on a boring Friday night
I was left unimpressed. but the aesthetic was tight
I bing watched my life on a Friday night
I was left unimpressed but the aesthetic was tight
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Persistent vegetative state vegetables on plate
2 blinks for yes and 1 blink for fuck you
torture a duck and charge many bucks
dispatch trucks to deliver you fresh food
run gluten's name through the mud seemingly to excite celiacs
and charge triple
but most cats eating burgers and dying because this money
will never trickle
I eat a hypocrites diet of funyons, water and various nuts and seeds.
i'm in cafeterias down to barter but nobody got greens
and everybody seems mean in a bad mood
devour bad food learned it from their dads who
learned it from a cereal ad who
learned it from a book that has since been disproven
bygones came by and shifted rewind back by
first left dumbfounded blamed it on the bad eyes
they live still. can't be in the street not belabored.
propaganda on walls floors and ceilings of neighbors.
tapered off interest's the definition of my era
in all aspects from gif loops to terror
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My lineage is the one when Theo and cockroach were rapping Shakespeare
Crossed with bin laden nightmares 2001 like I was there
2 months later fender bender good old boys get hot
Calling us towelheads but dad had a Caesar cut
Refinery blew up I choose to believe it was sabotage
no casualties you're shitting me that was an inside job
Like magic bullet zionists or deals with the mob
Not a nation you won’t rob just go ask Baghdad bob
Run up on you and I take your shit
Now my neck like Reykjavik
Anyone clocking more than 5 zeros could not earn it
Lesson I never learned it draft card I’ll burn it
treasury, disburse it. Endless blood and treasure
In this venture offers nil coffers low forever
We were promised warm weather and the end of history
Didn’t really occur to me that was to be taken literally
But maybe we misunderstood the simile
A new world order assumes order
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Threat level zero extreme o weirdo
Real life illegal on the mic I’m regal
Online I’m offline at startup for real yo
Low or no profile my avi’s an egg bro
I am not dangerous violence is power
concentrated end the earth in an hour
casually pepper spray everything cops
can’t argue an idea without agreeing on up
memes like means-testing really go viral
the shift is ridiculous bullshit recital
like death tax and pro-life we fight with their words.
define your own battle no war on their terms.
Living your life on a diet of worms
95 theses or red luftballoons
99 bombs in an old west saloon
Fine is not fine I’m colonizing moon
Tell me again what I’m like yo Y’all sound delightful
y’all don’t recycle to pwn libs you’re spiteful
target of ridicule rightfully so
when Boris rocked you it was totally dope
Open hand slap for all y’all are not cool
Soft indented chins from a shallow gene pool
And your pride is misplaced. You’re so full of hate
And I’m full of hate too directed at you
Reciprocate fully political bully
And physically too when we all laugh at you
Y’all ruined that scene in the matrix forever
In a stunning display of revisionist rhetoric
And that was my favorite fucking movie dawg
Written by two trans women about living 2 lives
And y’all dorks turned it into something about your wrist size
Ay They got a coalition ay
Incels nazis mra
Militia nuts and kkk
Think they own the USA
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