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Equilibrium Mixtape

by Strife

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This is how I spit it raw Got the critics Going aw naw he didn’t It’s all about bling and ice In this push button paradise Paper over problems Until terror strikes Traded freedom for convenience Leaders left us bleeding Go into debt and be them Buy everything now on credit Gig workers living lives they can’t edit Amazon is schizophrenic Trample on rights for bread it’s Manufactured monopoly Catch up on Facebook As it destroys democracy We can’t live like this, 2.5 kids and shit Isolated in our own bubbles So fragmented from one another They turned us into numbers Got caught in slumber Lost in the spectacle Sedated by chemicals, Endless tv turned us all into vegetables This is what happens when you put the rich on pedestals Liberate your mind It’s about time We came in from the cold Assigned these toxic roles We climb out of the hole It ain’t all about the dough Break free from the capitalist mold Inflation getting higher Make it hard on the buyer Prices catch fire And rise faster than income For far too long we been dumb Praying for better outcomes But settling for breadcrumbs The cost of living through the roof Unemployment spikes cause a cashless society rules Machines making workers obsolete, Corporate downsizing, we murder the beast Is it sane to submit to an insane situation Wage enslavement is mass derangement Global supply chains sick of waiting In the system our faith is shaken, There’s no purpose in consumption Without their phones, most folks couldn’t function So question your assumptions We’re even giving babies computers Training them to be the next consumers Our arrogance will be our undoing Liberate your mind It’s about time We came in from the cold Assigned these toxic roles We climb out of the hole It ain’t all about the dough Break free from the capitalist mold They jail or kills off the strongest and brightest Leaving conformists to inherit the kingdom of midas When everything you touch turns to gold Beware, golden apples will choke your throat Sand through the hourglass Who fell through the cracks, The tired the poor the huddle mass The rich turn their backs and wash their hands Capitalist supply meets impractical demands Turn the whole world into sacrificial lambs Claiming they care, they don’t give a damn The working poor slave under bosses command fast food poison, clothes that are second hand This fucked up world like sinking in quicksand Most too distracted to understand We’re inherited a technological wasteland
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If not us, then who If not now, then when If not here, then where Their American dreams are our nightmares Bring nature to heel, We try to rule her, Our arrogance will be our undoing We haven’t got a clue, Invested in disconnection Consumption will consume you What are we left with? A life that’s ruthless the truth is Food riots in the streets Price you pay for leaving us Hanging by the skin of our teeth Emancipate Our desires through mutual aid- We live by a law that’s higher than the The corporate state The foundation is rotten it’s slipping away One day will see it crumble under its own weight I can’t wait for the day The poor will have the final say Remember Ferguson, Before they murder us Choke on the tear gas Flash bangs get chucked back Hoodies up, pull down the gasmask Live rounds, militarized police, m-wraps in the streets, curfews, checkpoints, this is a state of emergency Put on a uniform, check your humanity at the door, Don’t believe me ask Eric Garner and Ezell Ford, Michael Brown, Oscar Grant Hands up, or Cuffed, Shot in the back If not us, then who If not now, then when If not here, then where Their American dreams are our nightmares Can’t say we never saw it coming The systems as flawed as the people who run it Science fiction doubled as prophecy Twisted Predictions turned public policy Phillip k. dick stared into the void The paranoid we’re proven clairvoyant Invented AI, leaped the great divide Sowed the seeds of our own demise Electric sheep still count them androids Skynet was never destroyed Now drones reap metallic death from a crimson sky Electoral coups, military spies Cyborgs feel no pity or remorse When they go to war Or replace the sheriff Ask yourselves What if these machines achieve Self-Awareness What if we become aware Of what selfishness achieved Cameras everywhere Eyes & Ears on every street Kill what makes us human We may as well be machines
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Back to nature The only savior Meet your maker And return the favor It’s Strange times to be alive, Brought to the cusp Of the divide only to learn The other is us, Our legacy intertwined Struggle makes us one Drawn into each other’s lives Shared plight, like when stars and planets align Why I rap, why I write To be the juxtaposition A sea change is the crux of my vision Flip scripts like Shakespeare Bend minds like surrealist painters Speak truth to power til it remains clear In our final hour, Not going through the motions Not rocking the boat on the lonely ocean I’m Sinking tha fucker til I get you open We’re out of control, we know Letting go of ego A billion choices reveal Our potential as equals We must create And cross pollinate Until minds Fluctuate Unite the human race And communicate Our ever-changing State of grace Cosmic dance Of fate and chance Free will & circumstance Back to nature The only savior Meet your maker And return the favor Nothing is static and fixed In a simple twist of fate Change is the only constant Our revolution is an evolutionary process, A cycle of progress that cannot be stopped Continual quest for root causes It cannot be sold. It cannot be bought Its social, economic, technological Artistic, musical, philosophical But None of these are possible Without the revolution of the self. Intertwining your struggle with someone else It’s the parts, it’s the whole, it’s holistic In reality, it’s a total synthesis, A feedback loop that’s intricate A grand confluence of forces, Our plans, words, and actions Will help steer the courses, Back to nature The only savior Meet your maker And return the favor Nothing is static and fixed In a simple twist of fate Change is the only constant
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To each their own to reach our goals Turn this shit up till the speaker blows Decrypt the cypher, crack the code Evolve our ways Through solidarity and mutual aid Sharing the feasts, that communities made Dues have been paid, unite the human race Do graffiti, put up stickers, tags, and stencils Reclaim public space Chuck the teevee out the window Throw block parties with your friends and kinfolk No one has superiority We been broke Throw seeds in the ground Be your own authority Trash the banks, defend minorities Smash atms, Fuck shit up with hammers Cause some mayhem And rip down some cameras Talk to your neighbors, Give gifts, share skills, don’t be a hater, Start a commune, be a creator Ain’t all about the paper, plant a garden, Raise your children to be writers and artists Never cut their losses but cut their carbon Please Cut their carbon please they should cut their carbon Live like you’ll die tomorrow Die like you’ll live forever Living on time that’s borrowed It’s the final measure Cash left us bleeding Crash an investors meeting, More than protestors pleading We need Direct action, Without leaders backing Start a riot and attack them You can’t stop this, it’s potent Shoplift, Take what you need from those who own it Dumpster dive, give food to the homeless, Worker’s cooperatives, we build from below Find new ways to live, on less traveled roads Squat foreclosed homes Keep the landlords on their toes Tree-sit, drive spikes into oaks Reclaim your self-worth No compromise in defense of the earth Take a bat to petty tyrants and racists Barn raise a pirate radio station Demand the basics Spread the underground across the airwaves Copwatch to keep the law in their place Organize for better conditions and fair pay Run yuppie scum out on a rail Your town is not their playground Your Life is not for sale
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I blaze the future, your frozen like statues Hold a mirror to medusa engrave minds like tattoos Overturn idols and smash taboos everyday life’s a battle, You know I stay stoned where there’s fire there’s smoke that’s true When I’m alone, I go and just crash through Navigate this bitch, higher than the o-zone Recalibrate my kaleidoscope then blaze a bone, Things arise and cease, Decline and grow, We are fossil fuels in the making, don’t you know Small axe don’t make me fly off the handle You’re frail and fragile, Afraid of your own shadow Stale and stagnant I slay your ignorance Time is the master, death is imminent Mind is what matters, ideas are infinite So we demand everything for everyone Don’t fall in line, Fall in love, Real change won’t come from above We’re golden, we’re stardust Get back to the garden Fate is what you make Draw the arrow, Hit the target Go out with a bang like a Haley’s comet Divided we’re conquered United we’re strongest It’s not too late To evolve our ways Beyond control & hate A place where no one dominates Conquers your mind-state Eclipse your blind faith Overcome petty division, Through cross pollinating wisdom Now you ready to listen So we demand everything for everyone Don’t fall in line, Fall in love, Real change won’t come from above Trace the patterns Bridge divides before the casket Unplugged from the matrix Escaped the labyrinth, Ducked the agents minotaur straight jackets Escaped the gallows, with innovative tactics Stepped from the shadows buried the hatchet Verbal acrobatics lasting hits Strife A fascinating catalyst Laughing last like Lazarus, An alchemist, Blending elements, Of savagery and eloquence
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Born Free 02:22
We are born free Into a world of control Divorced from the whole Of course, we revolt It’s in our blood, It’s in our bones, We change & evolve, You’re not alone Life’s a struggle Our true natures communal On a moving train you can’t be neutral They stole your rights, where’s your scruples Capitalisms a lie, the outcome is brutal Robbing the man next to you I remain skeptical Eventually your silence won’t be protecting you Give respect to get respect fool, Our movements irrepressible Sign on the dotted line, have u lost your damn mind? forgotten the last time their cash climbed... Your freedom flatlined Robbing you blind is their pastime Severed from the source, we try to take control And plunge farther down the rabbit hole, Gain the world and lose your hold, Your grip on reality Stuck in Stockholm syndrome Locked in a siege mentality With a Jeckle and Hyde split personality Business tycoons are the biggest thieves It’s true, companies love misery, Trade civil liberties for dehumanizing efficiency White collar goons walk free While we get outlined in chalk on the street Left to rot by an officer over some rotten beef Don’t drop to your knees, time to plot & scheme Swinging from two extremes like a sword of Damocles Mutually assured destruction self-fulfilling prophecy In a schizophrenic society Built on class conflict and social hierarchies Why did they lie to me about rioting in the streets We’re drowning like Narcissus in our iPhone screens Billions of showers, no one’s hands are clean Swallow enough pills to put the whole damn world to sleep
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Fight like hell for the living Free thought, free will, free spirit Versus Fixed outcomes and received wisdom Curse the efficiency of rigged systems The rich cash in with Clockwork precision Want control of every facet of our lives living While they sedate some Kill the rest We represent free untamed wilderness What some kill inside themselves To Gain success Spark the dro, light the cess I’m your cultural architect Specializing in catharsis Don’t ignore the effects of structural violence Our hands are tied Who tied them We are the perfect crime The effects of our actions Won’t be felt in our lifetimes Actions today Could Sever our children’s life line Reached the apex, Connect the dots Eclipse the plateau, Respect the chaos Don’t try to break us We’ll be off your radar We’ll flip and explode Go hard until the graveyard Blow the whistle on the system, Not your brothers and sisters Don’t take part in 21st century lynching White supremacist private prisons Forgot that community is shared difference, Not enforced sameness Well go an eye for an eye til annihilation But extinction is not by trial basis No Chance fluctuation These are man-made changes Resource extraction Leads to devastation Hand-wringing and denial leads to Deforestation Resource concentration, Leads to confrontation, and conflagration Risk it all, taking big chances Win by any means Not running the race backwards For too long Been bound to serve as slaves to the law Under owners’ control The state serving the wealthy since Hammurabi’s code Now the world’s policeman has gone rogue Americas got the earth in an illegal choke-hold Market seeks exponential growth Globes Heating up but somehow our blood runs cold
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Fuck MAGA fascists Knock bullies on their asses Fox news lies claims election was stolen Goons on the right are emboldened No such thing as illegal voting They’re all wolves in sheep’s clothing Authoritarians set off explosions Pass the blame down the chain of command Attack on the capitol reframed as taking a stand Just following orders of Trump’s insane demands January 6th Their plans will make you sick The insurrection Was the work of right wing radicals With extreme views Sore that their team will battle and lose Or be replaced with diversity White supremacists hate certainly Masquerading as non-conformist rage Coming through the front door with Resentment and a gauge Fuck MAGA fascists Knock bullies on their asses Seizing power through electoral coups Q anon and their followers are bound to lose Believe in that bull, you belong in a zoo Reality denial Fantasies are wild And quite elaborate Fear leads to psychos shooting up and stabbing shit In the name of the establishment In the name of white male Christian pride If your none of the above, you're fixing to die The system wages social war it’s all out genocide Black folks killed by police how many have died White folks it’s time to choose your side The poor and disenfranchised are dropping like flies Read the papers you decide But run the numbers This racist system will get bucked when it’s led under the spell of Tucker Carlson Defending black lives ain’t partisan We expose the charlatans Fuck MAGA fascists Knock bullies on their asses Rebranding slavery as freedom Proud boys, 3 percenters, oath-keepers, Leave most speechless, But their hatred is beneath us They hide their fascism behind nationalist pride But I’m not a patriot looking to die, I’m an anarchist atheist, always asking why I embrace a world free of nation-states We’re tired of your division, Militia members putting faith in a dying system Like trying to get a hole in one by firing a mortar Inhumanity distorts ya, They spark civil war to Close the borders Stop the steal is a subterfuge Step on a landmine Never wonder what’s under you Baseless assertions of electoral fraud The youth will bury you next to your god
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Global warming Man-made pollution Greenhouse gases What’s the solution Leave the masses Out of wealth redistribution Divides are drastic Pesticides and plastics What’s the Impact Of fossil fuel consumption Fattened livestock and quadrupled meat production, Shocking government corruption and indifference Blame the debt traps of the global finance system For carbon dioxide emissions and starvation Unfortunately, environmental degradation Disproportionately affects poor populations Holes in the ozone layer, UV radiation Drought, heat waves, desertification Melting glaciers ocean acidification Extreme weather events These disasters never end On planet earth, it’s code red Can’t expand infinite on a finite planet Endless growth like a cancer we take for granted We steal from the earth to survive What happens when demand outstrips supply Wealth is an illusion, can’t take it when you die. What good is money if there’s no one left to buy? Climate crisis They try to keep us quiet But rising food prices leads to food riots As species die-off, The wealthy hide the high cost They control and categorize and lie lots Patent genes copyright life And profit from our plight It’s fight or flight We are a dying breed The last of the mortals To live free on this earthly coil Cursed to return to the soil Each birth is a portal To another world Junkies for oil conquered the ether Now the seas will boil and the earths the heater Our dominion over the globe is counterfeit We are a part of nature not apart from it If we don’t halt this division through mutual aid and resistance we face extinction We’re on the brink man It’s evolution or extinction We’re on the brink man It’s evolution or extinction
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I was wounded early, Soon I learned the wounds made me Didn’t want to be robbed at a job They labeled me lazy Forced me to fit in Until I almost went crazy Detention hall, Pigs tried to taze me Penitentiary walls But I wouldn’t let it phase me, Taught us no pain, no gain So we learned to slumber sound And act real tame Assembly-line style, numbered, given a name Told we’d be cut off if we didn’t remain Loyal to dirty games, structures we didn’t create Lived lives so sedate, just wanted to find a mate Rarely tried to create or transform, they said it was too late Don’t betray the norm, or smash the pearly gates Of our segre-gated communities They tell us we were born and bred To serve and obey ‘til the day we’re dead But my conscience is not for sale or rent To the godly, the greedy, or the government Keep it real We elevate for respect Back around my way Had that good OG Kush connect, Moving pounds in North Cackalack, Before I caught my first case Seven felonies back-to-back On my 19th birthday Judge through the book at my face Spent 3 years in a cage Undercover pinned the Scarlet letter to my name for Pushing weight duty-free Then I moved to Cascadia Where Washington has got the legal weed The THC is TNT, Medicinally or recreationally Now the pigs can’t shake the streets cause everyone’s smoking The realest OGs puff in the open with no fear getting choked for holding Bullshit charges for something that grows all over Light it up, let the bud flow, the weed is potent They tell us we were born and bred To serve and obey ‘til the day we’re dead But my brain is not for sale or rent To the godly, the greedy, or the government The suns zenith on the Horizon, Running through city streets No thoughts of screeching sirens The lunatics have taken over the asylum, Boundless energy we bathed in the fountain of youth, Before countless enemies stole years from my crew Before we learned the straight and narrow was a full circle Snakes choking on their tail, Auro Boris got murdered Finally figured out what their afraid of, The differences that made us Who we we’re, some kept the flame alive, Some got lost in the herd, others ran and hide, me I kept my word
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Gunsmoke 03:01
Wake up and smell the gunsmoke When the wars brought home Cyborgs will kick down Your front door, Take you with blunt force, Tell me who they gone come for The Steel trap has been sprung The iron fist comes out of the velvet glove Fascism is capitalism's bastard son, Now the most passionate ones Fall to the assassin’s gun Ain’t playing cops and robbers On my honor, I’ll be on the front lines Like John Connor, hot-wiring a chopper This ain’t calm waters Demand the Impossible Be Methodical, Be Practical No Gods, No Masters No more state and capital Markets are fictions States are prisons We need total abolition of the whole damned system No mercy for masters Knock the fascists off their asses They use counter insurgency tactics We need counter repression logistics The systems too broke to ever fix it The problems are systemic, Crime will never be diminished Until we realize the true menace Suits and ties wish to end us It’s time for splendid vengeance I’m holding the whole court in contempt… From corrupt laws, we’re exempt Double standard of living except They take more than their given and then Judges deliver sentences in double digits Lock us up for thoughts and grudges, Yes, I plead guilty to obstruction of injustice My associates and I have the numbers Molotovs hit drones to wake you from your slumber
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On the road, here and back Like Kerouac Long as bloods in my veins I can’t be tamed Seen past the masquerade Now I know it’s all bull I’m uncontrollable That’s my fate Free will to the last of days Until we realize diversity That’s our strength Blend classic raps, with 40’s and acid tabs Scratching the wax From the bass that pumps in the trunk of the lac To fat blunts we puff puff pass It’s all related, It’s not complicated Take the raw data Extract the essence Blend it with the cross-faders To Leave a lasting impression Across a broad spectrum The right answers always a question! Keep fighting, never stop until freedom is won Better to be pissed off than to be pissed on Would you rather live a little or live a lot Death is certain, life is not So give it all you fuckin’ got My philosophy Authority is obsolete We are not machines We need to set each other free Stability left you ill at ease If nothing changes, may as well be six feet deep Need a world of passion filled with dreams Potential bursting at the seams Call it how it is Not how it appears to be Envision a world of equality, Not a pyramid scheme Act collectively And speak it into being Vexed by the complexity Is Free-will our destiny? I got the recipe To shift your trajectory Dwell in possibility Know thyself To live fearlessly Resist tyranny Live fearlessly Keep fighting, never stop until freedom is won Better to be pissed off than to be pissed on Would you rather live a little or live a lot Death is certain, life is not So give it all you fuckin’ got Our ways maladapted Set off a chain reaction led to collapse of the system A glitch in the matrix, more than a lapse or schism, The main feature not just a facet of capitalism A universal aspect, A hidden pattern That’s the same forwards and backwards Like a strange attractor Like stars that implode in a black hole their reach expands The tides on beaches wash away castles in the sand The truth slips through the palms of our hands Our enemies mastered our plans, Forced a retreat, when we should’ve advanced Ruled by classist racists, Claiming ownership off all places Makes me want to bash in their faces Curb stomp a Nazi Burn a Klansman in his robes with my posse
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The future is born in struggle We Are one piece of the puzzle Hate to burst your bubble, When greed’s your driving principle What are we evolving towards? Are we moving backwards or forwards? Who charted the course? Throw the captains of industry overboard. Is this the human or the rat race? Have we learned to spark change Or returned to the dark age? Has technology liberated us Or expanded the bars of our cages? You be the judge. Jury executioner But you can’t remember what the solutions were There’s no sustainable economy on a dead earth Get it right, motherfucker Earth First Life is too short To do as you’re told We’ll build power from below And overthrow you control In greed we trusted, Power accumulated corrupted us Centralized control in this giant clusterfuck If you scratch the surface What’s a capitalists purpose Just to hoard surplus, Give a fuck if they hurt us We’ve inherited this disease Things are not what they’re appearing to be, Economics is the science of greed It’s a pyramid scheme, Disconnected from the outcomes, we’re lost Unintended consequence of pandoras box Cracked the atom Dropped the bomb Humans replaced god, Invented heaven From whole cloth To construct a hell on earth For the have-nots Life is too short To do as you’re told We’ll build power from below And overthrow you control And Surveillance, The owners, the jailers, they are us They, the eternal myth and paradox, Jailers stay jailers unless they unlock the cages The owners, prove crime is contagious Do they have the wisdom to admit mistakes? Let the rich take a bow from the world stage By hording everything they dug their own grave Had their chance, they hold us back From choosing our own fate, a new path Not one we’ve been getting beaten On since the good old days A place where we can boldly admit mistakes Make way for equilibrium with the earth and her ways And live to grow sage
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Don’t hunt the witch Eat the rich, They’re out of touch with reality Eyes stitched shut for salaries Treat people like problems callowly Politicians solve them shallowly Close schools, build prison mentality The root of crime is inequality, Law and order logic been faulty, Empires bout to be falling you’ll see, Racing to a terribly dreadful endeavor, Where bosses cleverly sever your life-line, Don’t pull levers you might find, Your kite-lines been knotted, When you ask for more, than you’re allotted, Die like plants left unpotted, Forgot what the plot is, The long-forgotten motto, Of cats caught in the wage slave lotto, Shots rang out in staccato, Oppressed people should stick together, Take a raincoat for inclement weather, And kill your oppressor, Before the age of tyrants Drown your rage in fire hydrants, They rely on our tired silence Claim we’re burdens on the state, They hate us, But we didn’t invent rat races, We just learned how to play this, So feds don’t find where we hide our aces, And why we play the game so frigging faceless Know what needs to be done I do it Know what needs to be said, I’ll say it The truth pursued stands naked But is often overlooked Power corrupts, that’s what’s up Powerful pulling strings like Gepetto Building condos and ghettos Developers embezzle Pigs aim the heavy metal Made to unsettle, those too poor to let go Of what they peddle, they get wrestled, Used as a vessel, Cashflow nestled, Profiteers got scores to settle throughout the years, Against black, brown, red, and yellow men they fear, white power Legacy that tears, the social fabric apart, replacing it with gears, Crushing hearts, Recruit us as the eyes and ears, Throwing darts, at maps on frontiers Conquered by the insincere Who’d commandeer our ride, Until organs burst inside The centripetal force, Makes it hard to change courses, Got us in a corporate stables trained like horses, Unaware of hidden forces that spy on our lives How can we stand up for our rights without spines, You crack a beer and ask what about mine? Fuck that, what about ours, collectively, Total liberation, cause freedom beckons me
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Life is raw, life is war, life is a Rorschach test Strife brings constant flux and metamorphosis The truth hits you like a ton of bricks (Blaow!) Not scared of dying Cause I ain’t been scared to live Deaths out of our control So why be afraid of that shit? No regrets, I put that on everything Thrown to the wolves found my place in the pack Now I howl at the moon dressed in pitch black My crews been through hell and back Now we’re firebrands, leaving impacts Snatch the final word from the jaws of death Cause Nothing dies, it changes form instead Energy recycled, matters reborn These are the times, to pass the torch Ride the storm Along the razor’s edge In its rawest form, freedom’s dangerous Like a thief in the night, We learned the art of lock-pick Before pigs strangle us Shatter illusions with a hard brick Call it catharsis, spark that piff, Tear down the borders in a sentence Glimpse eternity in a single instant Dimethyl Tryptamine Ascension Clockwork universe ending. Watch me bring it Swing the pendulum Blow your doors Of perception off the hinges Knowledge indispensable Reveal we’re all kindred, We demand the incredible And express the inexpressible What you deem impossible, Tomorrows will seem inevitable We hustle Hand-to-hand, Check to check Struggle sun rise to sun set Survive through tears, Blood, & sweat, kid We’re all connected More similar than separate No snitching, no exception It’s A prisoner’s dilemma No ego, no hubris, no lies As I pursue an evolution of minds Revolution in our time, before our species declines Rise above what divides us Read the signs, see that fear and greed are suicidal We combine forces for survival Mutual aid and self-reliance End the reign of wealthy tyrants We are our own saviors, Total liberation In our nature No turning back I spark transformation Now is all you have In a split-second it’s taken, Each breath could be your last We fear change like we fear death But I have no fears left We hustle Hand-to-hand, Check to check Struggle sun rise to sun set Survive through tears, Blood, & sweat, kid We’re all connected More similar than separate No snitching, no exception It’s A prisoner’s dilemma Now is all we have Done asking permission Past trusting tradition We’re Free thinkers Cowards build walls The fearless build bridges All I know is that I know nothing I remain driven No easy answers Or received wisdom We were all created in the big bangs image Gods a metaphor for our combined existences See life for what it really is Then seek conspirators It’s second nature, there’s no one right way to live No leaders or saviors the skies got no answers to give We’re unified tribes embracing the random Found freedom on the edge, improvising with friends Sick of waiting in the hall, now we know the ledges Read the writing on the wall, respect the unexpected
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Rebel Fist 03:24
Raise a rebel fist Stay forever pissed Strike proportionate Before you’re too poor to live The less fortunate Will spark metamorphosis An escape artist, Until the day I’m a carcass, Paid ta count your losses My ways remain lawless Revenge is catharsis My blade is the sharpest Sew seeds, Reap harvests Keep my scope on target Leaders broke they promise Rich thieves gave us no options Bring a blow-torch to his office A four-four to his fortress What’s the source of his profits Evolve or be left a hostage Force the boss to pay for this hardship Slave for a mortgage or stay on the margins Caught in paid bondage or waste away jobless, They’ll call the poor monstrous Check the context, Every action has a consequence It’s pure carnage Thrown through the gauntlet Of modern-day economics Commoners need courage and confidence, Mob with enough heat to break thermometers Get autonomous, before they start bombing us Put fingers around the esophagus of monopolists Raise a rebel fist Stay forever pissed Strike proportionate Before you’re too poor to live The less fortunate Will spark metamorphosis Right wing politicians are money launderers Trafficking power and policy for corporate sponsorship Financial goliaths take service sector hostages All of them trapped in a skyscraper sarcophagus Will a rising tide save the living If glaciers melt before the titanic starts sinking Liberty bell stopped ringing a long time ago, Pavlovian conditioning nursery rhymes for soap Whitewash the world Triumph of the swill The truth hurts but ignorance kills Separate the fake from the real Leaders are frauds Heroes are flawed misdirection We’re outlaws and There’s no such thing as perfection History is written by the very rich The poor get blamed for everything Treating the symptoms When the disease is systemic Ignoring the victims Reformists rule out vengeance But What you gone do When the boys in blue Roll through Like they own you, like they own you We won’t be passive now We will stand our ground Never let the bastards grind us down
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As I reach for my piece to gather My thoughts Take to the streets, rally peeps for the cause No justice, no peace all is not lost No freedom, no sleep, win at all costs America first Is Americas worst These fools send democracy off in a hearse Claim to be real Americans Beware of this their arrogant Sociopathic with semiautomatics Claiming to save the republic Tragedies make you wonder, Insanity uncovered Say US was stolen from it’s rightful owners Reclaiming old glory they might be goners Fascism came to America wrapped in a flag carrying a bible Singing the national anthem on American idol Senile idiots yearn for a right wing revival Leave the poor violent, weary, and suicidal Trapped in Cycles of predation and survival Trump sews fear and confusion, he lowered the standards Follow the cult leader with delusions of grandeur Fascist parades with tanks and military banners You hide your head in the sand like ostriches Democracy hostage Autocracy fostered Arguments filled with leaps of logic Fragile old conservatives Sew doubt in the electoral process We must stop them we have no options As I reach for my piece to gather My thoughts Take to the streets, rally peeps for the cause No justice, no peace all is not lost No freedom, no sleep, win at all costs Rightwing flunkies go to war Seeking pardons and silence All the while encouraging MAGA violence Portray your enemies as soft on crime But what about conservatives who crossed the line Then blamed Antifa Instead of their own people The results were more than lethal Fox News should be run off the air They preaching hatred of difference from their armchairs While good people starve and die Homeless vets committing suicide Remorse for what they’ve seen and done Told to look out for number one Their lives become undone Too many live on the streets, a societal fail The only shelter supplied to the poor are the jails As I reach for my piece to gather My thoughts Take to the streets, rally peeps for the cause No justice, no peace all is not lost No freedom, no sleep, win at all costs Military spies ain’t new kid They break hearts like cupid Dumb us down until we’re all stupid Social medias the proof, shit… Know what we’re going to do before we do it Weasel their way into social movements to end them Report to fusion centers, take the rules them bend them Crush resistance like a looming juggernaut Preemptive strike, cut the legs out from under us Take to the ring, punch out a fascist Knock the bullies on their asses Get your back off the ropes Get your back off the wall We don’t have it all together But together we could have it all

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This album explodes out of the vacuum left by spineless politicians and slick talking CEO's preying for golden parachutes.

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released March 1, 2023

Majority of beats by: Rey Holliday and an assortment of other artists from the underground

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1. Heated dissension; conflict or clash.
2. A struggle, fight, or battle.
3. Contention or competition between rivals.
4. Contest, controversy, combat, warfare.
4. An omnipresent force that punctuates the evolutionary process.
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