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Streaming Consciousness 2​.​0 (Disc 1 of 2)

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Intro 01:55
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Respect to all revolutionary/Front soldiers-none bolder the ones, throwing/ the boulders back at the scum-bags Rollin with guns loaded/ -the drunks, pouring the rum, all in the punchbowl that the/ blind, mullets having fights, flurries and fuss over-/ -the suns, solar is un-polar there's none colder/ -you bi-polar I'm tri-polar my minds, solder-/ is high, over required, load and it might, blow if it/ does, all, y'all will be in for a light, show/ I'm walking a tight, rope in a storm, both of my eyes closed-/ hypnotized, clones of the war, form as a cyclone-/ civilized, motions of thought, ought to remind, y'all/ forget the horse, slaughtering all, Trojans inside-/ is the bigger cause, set before us-/ -a metaphor, for the wicked force, never sourced, and they've endorsed-/ paid, hit-men on every shore-/ there's never been a bigger threat, than a military militantly misinformed-/ -the devils pitch, fork, led them on-/ - and they gon kill us all, if we let Em get that, strong-/ yeah they gon ship us all, into prison death camps, on-/ the border or they'll have us sitting in a trench with a gun-/ or in a mental home, medically stunned-/ and every morning have a medic place the methadone, under the tongue-/ -it's either that or life on the run, confiding in none-/ there's no, place, for a liberated mind in the slum-/ coz if we letting Em think, a message could slip-/ and spread in the mix, and they could realize that everything's, fixed-/ -And maybe they'd be wanting everything, fixed-/ -and maybe want a better view instead of these, bricks-/ and want a better life and not to spend their brief trip-/ working like a slave to end up on a pension scheme, gipped-/ -that's why they feed us the amphetamine drip-/ -thats why they pump the city full of ecstasy and trips-/ -there getting to the kids, presenting them a fix-/ Temporarily the world can seem, better than it is-/ why the heroin is pure quality-/ Bush, came back, from Afghanistan, with a pocket full of poppyseeds-/ honestly - you wanna hustle do it properly-/ -the CIA, call it boosting the economy-/ -the pigs ain't helping the people with every guy they bust-/ -they just helping the dealers to push the prices up-/ -are you gon let Em roll the dice on us-/ -You're either Gunna let Em do us like that, or you decide enough-/ -a rifle clutched, ain't a sign of power-/ -the fact is that a healthy mind is far superior to firepower-/ -that's what illumination is to tune your station in and/ view the vein of silver in lew of a rude awakening-/ -For what a brutal statement you awaken to/ To realise you ain't just who you are you're more like what they made of you-/ -I don't know if the books they gave at school were fake or true/ -Just trying to separate the real, from the pay per view-/ -I know my mother worked her heart out just to make it through/ And make it so I never had to starve or ever scrape for food-/ -I know the love from a parent is unconditional/ And in the midst of all this will never be something fictional-/ -I know that money is nothing it's like a ritual/ But family and friends well their value is unequivocal-/ -I never knew a thing about my father past his name/ -Still I feel connected to the islands that I can't explain-/ -Sometimes I wish that I could start again-/ That I had a chance to take, part and learn the other path that marked my fate-/ -But then I think about him raising up my little sisters/ Langi and Luisa big, brother sends, love and kisses-/ And how my younger brothers make him proud-/ -Like the real, father figure he ain't know how to be when I came around-/ -And now I see that's how it evens out-/ And what I thought I wanted has a greater meaning now-/ For me to be without a family could seed and flower-/ -And that's my blood, irrespective of the depth of any sea surrounding us/ And he who doubted us, disempowered us-/ -Learn to recognise the ways of the beast, or it devours us-/ -And those who chase impressive stones, will be left alone-/ In their deathly throws, crying for the love they'll never own-// --You are now, streaming con-sciousness-/ --From grey, matter to the grave, and beyond the abyss-/ -Forever roaming trying to find, where the truth is hidden-/ -That's why I opened up my mind, so that you could visit-/ Tickets - you are now, streaming con-sciousness-/ --From brain, pattern to the page, to a compact disc-/ -We bring the heart back, we bring the smart back-/ -We bring the art back, back to where it started at, Consciousness.//
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Where every move is being watched and they monitor/ Every corner every street, every block or kilometre radius/ Honest Australian's living under constant surveilance-/ Terrorist threats, evidence kept, under containment-/ Government agents move in at big, brothers arrangement-/ 90% of the earth, live in utter enslavement-/ Stuck in the matrix trapped in this system of forced labour/ Perpetual debt, hereditary death, court papers-/ Law, makers deep in the pockets of those-/ Deep in the pockets and those, feeding them profit control, we as the/ Populus whole, media dumbing us down, see they don't/ Want us to grow, take away our rights and we're not gunna know-/ And we watching 'em go - the literacy level/ Topples and falls, but they're too busy scrubbing fucking graffiti/ Off of the walls - trying to take the spark away-/ Watching the light fade, these will be our darkest days-// They got the lives of the masses, controlled by a few cowards-/ We stand together, we'll never lose power I ain't never gunna-/ Welcome the New World City, Welcome the New World City-/ Coz we can't ever let 'em take us alive-/ Like sleeper agents gotta activate that anger inside, say we ain't never gunna-/ Welcome the New World City, Welcome the New World City-/ Where human beings we are treated as livestock-/ -Hearded by cowboys, caged, beaten deprived, of/ All, but the bare minimum sweat, shop, conditioning/ -18 hour shifts, and rest, at rare interims-/ -There ain't no getting ahead-/ Getting the better of debt, this system is designed especially yes-/ They know your every step, believe this-/ Currency is stored, electronically via RFID, chips/ And if you should speak, ill of them you'll meet your demise-/ Yeah they gon' point the bone, at you and leave you to die-/ Freeze all your fi-nances delete all your files, your known, data/ You'll get thrown, out in the street as persona non grata/ While they bomb part of, the world, that your kids'll never know-/ They ain't never heard a thing about 'em on the telly show-/ -This plan is centuries in the making but set in stone-/ Never, no, not unless we let it go, while-//
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Radio DJs, quick on those, replays-/ But they ain't, saying a thing, what you call that?-/ Air, air, air, conditioning - air, air, air, conditioning-/ On your TV, saying buy the CD-/ Record execs, keep the people in check-/ Keep an all, seeing eye on things, what they call that?-/ Air, air, air, conditioning - air, air, air, conditioning-/ -- Turn off the motherfuckin radio-/ -Corrupt the data cut the cables 'til the station close-/ Coz, video killed the radio, star-/ Radio, kill the single when they take it so, far-/ --Hear 'em blast, round the clock-/ Same 5, singles, half, hour block, and I/ Don't know if Rihanna is a tool of the Illuminati-/ --But if I hear her song again I'm gunna shoot somebody-/ --Guess that's the way that it goes-/ The corporation run the station now the DJ's, are hoes-/ --They do whatever say whatever they're told-/ -Cue that Katy Perry song again it never gets old-/ --This is more than I can bear-/ -No requests, they gon' tell you what you wanna hear-/ -The disc, jockey is a corporate in a chair-/ -Pumping out another form of poison the air, yeah-// 3, 2-/-1, back, after that, de-layed, commercial break-/ You're chilling with your boy, DJ (Insert-a-name)-/ -And when I'm in the building gotta bring the heat, cousin-/ -You know I got my finger hot on that repeat, button-/ --You need a new fix, of the same agenda-/ -Well take a seat and tune in, any day to get it-/ --Now here's a few, hits, that you may remember/ Taken from the preapproved list, that the label sent us-/ -Either these lame presenters are some great pretenders or they're/ Crazy and to make an effort even making sense of what they/ Say effectively conveys the message that the nation cares and/ We consider them as being entertaining well I'm thinkin'/ Fuck that - boycott, the beaurocrats-/ Call out, the hypocrits, whore's acts, and hy-notists-/ -The main, stream is looking viral and decayed-/ So we staying independent like some pirates on the waves, coz-// CHORUS So don't, let, that (don't, let, that), don't let that air, condi-tioning-/ Make you cool, don't get played, for a, fool-/ x2
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Equality, what does it mean-/ Well I've been taught that we were all created equal but what I see is a different thing-/ -The way it seems to the public/ Is everybody is equal it's just that some are more, equal than others/ Me and my brothers we have always felt we equal each other/ Take one of us out the picture it don't equal that number-/ -Now we spread across the map, some are working and saving cash-/ -And some are in and out of debt, slaving to pay it back-/ But when we get together all that shit goes out the window-/ We're just some rowdy kinfolk kickin' back it's plain and simple-/ -And there ain't no one better-/ -To chill and have a session with our spirits on a level pitch and there ain't no one better-/ -I guess it's how we all were thrown together-/ -And formed a bond that can't be broken coz we've grown together-/ -Through encouraging each other we've developed ourselves-/ And through equality we never got ahead of ourselves-// Equality is a relative term-/ -Before we entered the world, we had a predetermined destiny served-/ -By the environment our parents were living in/ Every element in it directly effected the health of the infant-/ -If you were lucky enough to be a Westener living/ In a society with more than we should ever be given/ You would expect a child born in better health and conditon/ Than that of a baby descended into treacherous conditions-/ -But when that western baby enters the system/ They get given injections to prevent infections from killing them/ Not to mention vaccinations that expressly inhibit/ The natural immunities growing and developing in 'em-/ -And when you weigh up all the evidence is it/ Intelligent to raise your children up in sterile conditions/ I guess the message that we're meant to find-/ Is that the nature of equality will always give the oppressed, the strength to rise-// Equality is a mountain to climb-/ It is the equal emphasis on health in the body and soundness of mind-/ They'd like you to believe we live in equality/ -But tell that to an orphan of the conflict, in Libya living in poverty/ Munition companies are hitting the lottery/ And you think that anyone is giving him an apology never-/ -He can't escape from the terror-/ --While your in Perth, bitching 'bout the stain, that ya got in ya Dolce sweater-/ -And sweatshop, kids, sewed that leather-/ And you wear it and it makes you feel, so much better-/ -You claim to want equality but acting sinful/ -When you go and drop a couple thousand dollars on a status symbol-/ -Equality is not the hammer of a banging pistol-/ -And liberation never came from an advancing missile-/ As revolution is the product of a need for change/ Equality will come when people realise they've been enslaved-//
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Napalm 02:42
I smell a murder like-/ Iraq, Iran, Israel, Lebanon-/ -I smell a murder like, I smell a homicide-/ Timor, Afghanistan, Cambodia Thailand, I smell a murder like, I smell the genocide-/ I smell the smoking barrel-/ -Totalitarian takeover is waged, cloak and dagger-/ This planets ownership is open slather-/ -Divided up between the few with the influence to control the masses-/ Manipulation mind molding tactics, MK Ultra/ Program, exploiting hapless subjects to forms of madness-/ Liquid acid political propaganda/ Shock, therapy subliminal images shown at random-/ Illegal candor, satanic ties, demon worship-/ Deliberately releasing vermine riddled disease a popu-/ Lation cull is taking place-/ Cocaine is laced in the community control and distribute like 10-80 baits-/ -And from creating AIDS - to pumping cancer patients-/ Full of radiation til they fade away-/ There is no black and white, only shades of grey/ This regime, has foundations layed, on the basis that people remain afraid-/ Pakistan, Syria, India, Vietnam, I smell a murder like-/ I smell a homicide-/ Libya, Yemen, Somalia, Egypt, I smell a murder like-/ I smell the genocide-/ I smell the agent Orange-/ -Major conflicts, prolonged and encouraged, control the disruption/ -Soldiers are rushed in, misinformed, given false-/ Visions of a bigger cause, told not to trust, any/ One, viewing every Muslim as an insurgent-/ You're on you flight, home, searching for a man in a turban/ Because damn it your certain that you saw him planning to murder/ Every man and make it his passage to 72, virgins/ -A myth, burned, in our consciousness-/ Like, Palestinian civilians skin when hit with white, phosphorus-/ -You put your faith in the United Nations/ They some vile rapists human rights, violators globalisation/ Mind, statesmen, playing lion, tamers, trying, make this/ Planet kinda like a giant slave ship-/ And if you ain't, in the group that's envolved-/ You gon' be down, in the hold, fuckin' moving the oars/ There ain't no future involved/ In how they doing us all, we gotta take 'em to war!!!//
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Chemtrails 03:58
So you better not, breathe, when they come through, some spew dust, fumes/ So hard to tell apart, they won't even tell us we can't-/ Breathe - they flood your windpipes-/ They want y'all dead right, that ain't no jet, flight, trai-l so don't-/ Breathe, look look, we out, playing we out-breaking/ And they're so fast, when they blow, past, that we won't-/ See, but your end it is at hand-/ -And people if you see those white, lines, go and get 'em on your cam, let it Breathe-// -These maggots don't, learn or care-/ They mile, high, with that birds eye stare-/ -Dropping chemicals that hurt my air, no this ain't lies, dude-/ If you develop emphasyma maybe they're liable-/ Better brace yourself, you know these money hungry businesses'll/ Take your wealth, trying to keep it on the quiet gotta/ Save yourself, they engineering all our dietary basics hell-/ -What they gunna do, next-/ They'll have you grabbing your chest, coughing from that man, made-/ Pathogen test, just a day in they work-/ They wanna see us under the dirt, so they can relax-/ Look up Agenda 21, what I'm saying is fact-/ They've made, blue-prints of prison zones-/ -Destroy the soil, get your shopping from their mar-ket or starve, we can't get our own-/ -This a heavy load, mentally you never know-/ When you see those white, lines, people just remember don't-/ Breathe, 1 and to the 2, 2 and to the 3, 3 and to the 4, tell 'em not to BREATHE/ Chemtrails in the sky tonight-/ -I ain't telling you to drop into pa-nic/ Rock a oxygen, tank and a han-kerchief around your head to/ Breathe - Just saying keep a stock of organic/ Pro-duce, stash enough for your family, and tell 'em they can/ Breathe, when cancer attacks, you ain't assured to travel through/ That - but the greatest plan of attack-/ Lay off the shitty feed that we're buyngs-/ Coz weak immunities, feeble and blind-ing is the breed that they try and keep-/ -They use, bullets in the Middle East to make them run-/ -We pay, private prisons every inmate is a sum-/ They neglect, all races, even oppress, caucasians-/ Coz Zion ain't, big enough for ex-tra placements-/ They would want, us hooked up, to respirators/ Spending our last cent, trying to cover medical payments-/ I ain't trying to get, scared, but I'm pre-pared-/ -Face, the truth, nobody's trying to save, the youth, we can't-/ Breathe, 1 and to the 2, 2 and to the 3, 3 and to the 4, tell 'em not to BREATHE/ Chemtrails in the sky tonight-/ -They can create peace, instead they'd degrade, me-/ As quick as the beep of an EKG-/ Catch a breath, 'fore you catch your death, coughing up, black and red-/ Heavy metal on the chest, this ain't the A-Team-/ - And I ain't spray, things, nah this ain't a day dream-/ They can call it climate control, or cloud-bating/ But I ain't buying - any cover up these primates trying-/ -They just look at us as primates dying-/ -So you in-hale the breeze, but it's so tox-ic your/ Entrails, diseased, and it don't, stop, til we're/ Dead in the streets, now a doctor with a stethoscope's/ Telling me to quit the dope, look what we motherfucking BREATHE-// United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED/Unsaid)
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CHORUS -Can't, believe, what they spun, to me, it's like we liv-ing in one big lie-/ -Satan be, catching up, to me, he sees all, out of one big eye-/ -Sick society has lost, it's soul, lost it's way, nearly lost our minds-/ -But we ain't, taking shit from y'all, we woke up, and we ain't gon' hide, no, more-// --These cowards trying to take my soul-/ --This shit is starting to take it's toll-/ They've got a hand around the globe and wanna take control-/ -Have everybody cookie cuttered out and playing roles-/ -You see the symbol on American dollars-/ The same, paper that they're using to enslave us for profit-/ -Taking our homes, and they tax from our pockets/ Taking their tax out our pockets face it the banks are the robbers/ This is reality, most of what is labelled the truth-/ It is a fallacy, total domination of you-/ And your, family - is what they're taking us to-/ New, world, order, globalization platoons-/ Agents of doom, are on their way to your door-/ -Nuclear war, everybody layed on the floor, dead-/ -Another casualty, same as before-/ But now, we can see the demons that are playing in your, head-// --So did Adam Weishaupt start-/ The brotherhood, that would vie to try and blind our, hearts-/ --Or was it just a resurfacing/ Of an order kept, secret by leaders of our corrupt, churches-/ -See Weishaupt, had a vision of a hidden few-/ Borne to destabilize the governments and religious groups-/ -Their goal was mind control, suppressing the working class-/ Keep the truth, strictly for the people who had earned their pass-/ -He built a clientele of influential characters-/ -Built a power structure where the quintessential stature was/ Illumation, he had them flocking to the area-/ Infiltrated free-mason lodges in Bavaria-/. --But what is even scarier/ They tried to shut the system down but found they couldn't bury it-/ -A year later came the French revolution/ When they tore a nation down, and rebuilt the constitution-/ -The 17, 89, French, dec-laration/ Of human rights, testifies, to their web of the lies-/ -Proof that the order survived-/ The page, bears, two masonic pillars underneath the all seeing eye, why?-// In 1776 America was federated/ Same year the illuminati resurgence was demonstrated/ -And for the years it was officially active/ Benjamin Franklin was a diplomat, sitting in Paris/ Living it lavish and to top it off-/ -He was inaugarated as Grand, Master of the masonic lodge-/ Learnt their systems of control, took the information back and re-layed it/ And started to assimilate American freemasons-/ -Now these are bleak, statements-/ -That every conflict of the last couple of centuries essentially was cre-ated-/ -To build an order to control the earth-/ -To point the cannon at 'em having handing over turf, if you're scared-/ Go to church - and let the lord decide the sacrament/ While pastors worship Satan as they sodomizing catholic kids-/ -I think that there's a higher force that guide our happenings/ But there ain't no one representing god inside the Vatican-/ -So trace it back, and you might get, far-/ Past, the Priory of Sion and the Knights Templar-/ -But if you're going down the rabbit hole, don't get cocky-/ And be another vic, X'd out, by Illuminati-//
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What the hell have they done, to us-/ Channeling their hate, 'til it comes through us-/ -We would never discover petty difference in one another/ If they didn't put 'em right in our face, so I'm asking-// What the hell have they done, to us-/ Waiting for the day, that they come for us-/ -We would never be driven by the petty fears within us/ If they didn't come and make it that way-// ---What have we, done-/ Reaping every last, crumb from the planet that we, want-/ --Now the damage has been, done-/ -The smog is thick, now and we can't even see the sun-/ --Where the hell did we go, wrong-/ -Jeopardise our life on this rock that we float, on-/ -While we're fighting a nation of no, one-/ Terrorism is a new cold, war that can go, on-/ Indefinite, Libya Iraq, ain't seperate-/ Knock it all, down, rebuild, resettle it-/ -But they don't care about their whereabouts it's evident-/ They just get the presidents, more dead, presidents/ Create laws, impose sanctions and set, prescedents-/ Take oil, for souls, tallying dead, residents-/ -Boil, their blood, dry, and claimed terrorists-/ -Soil, got sucked, dry, then they exited-/ Bush, found, guilty of war, crimes that's irrelevant/ No government can counter the power that he inherited/ Never be extrodited convicted or jailed, benefits/ Of walking out the president's suite with the same, memberships-/ -CFR, TC, think i'm dropping names-/ There the biggest gangs, in the whole, motherfucking game-/ -Killing and torture is justice in their corrupted brains-/ Millions are slaughtered and shoveled into their unmarked graves-// Welcome to the/West Bank, reporters enter with their vests strapped-/ -The settlers would never step inside the death, trap-/ --This is ain't a blood or crip set-/ This an unabridged, genocidal government, threat-/ -They try stopp-in us, we fire roc-kets up-/ -They crop, dust, the block, with white, phos-phorus-/ -They try knock, us off, we throw, molotovs-/ -And handmade, grenades, to take, off ya top-/ -Off-icer knock-ing the door, off, of the/ Hin-ges kick it in now I'm on the floor, shocked, in a/ Choke, hold, lock, and I don't, know, what-/ -I did, to be hauled, up in my own, home, locked-/ In handcuffs - they say I'm a terrorist-/ They say this ain't my country and I don't deserve a claim in the benefits-/ They say I'm an immigrant, they say this nation would be better/ Without us they treat us like we ain't even citizens-/ I think that they're hypocrits-/ -They're trying to take my family's land from me on the basis of religious significance-/ --But in the knowledge we got similar ties-/ -They won't acknowledge me or give me my rights-/ They keep on spinning the lies, they don't acknowledge what we did to survive-/ You know the media don't listen they won't give us no time-/ The bull-dozers come around we throwing rocks from the crowd-/ Then foot, soldiers coming back to lock the neighbourhood down-/ Ain't no one saving us now, the Gaza strip is like a prison and/ They're basically already putting names in the ground-/ They built a wall around the city that they're carving us out-/ Blocking United Nations aid and now they're starving us out-/ -The children grow around the killing and the weekly threats-/ -Their will to live is non-existent their belief is dead-/ -And all the promises of martyrdom can seem the best-/ Option when you're watching people die and can't perceive and end-/ --Sleep with a rifle underneath the bed-/ --If you don't wanna be the one that's leaving next-/ --If you don't wanna be the one that meets your death/ Evicted from your land and see it being repossessed-//
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--We invented the drug, game-/ Control the biggest syndicate remaining active today-/ On every corner you can see us moving pallets of weight-/ We shipping keys in sea containers international freight-/ I got a planet full of addicts in the palm of my hand-/ And I could crush 'em into dust and sell the powder in grams-/ I'm even dealing to your children I don't care if it's evil/ You think I got to where I'm at today by caring 'bout people-/ --You're nothing but potential junkies to me-/ And all your savings down the drain it's just a number to me-/ My face is up in every country ain't no running from me-/ -If cases come I payed the judges so they cover for me-/ -So through your pain well you've provided something beautiful-/ And your last prescription I'ma write it at your funeral/ -And so I'll end it there, signing off as usual-/ -Ian Read, CEO of Pfizer Pharmaceuticals....Real dope boys-// Where the real dope boyyyys-/ They ain't fuckin' with the dope, no morrrrrre-/ --Capsules in all capitals-/ --Cash and it's all capital-/ They're the real dope boyyyys-/ And they ain't fuckin' with the coke, no morrrrrre-/ --Capsules in all capitals-/ --Cash and it's all capital-/ -The real dope boys in the building-/ And they don't wear no Chuck, Taylors they aint crips or the bloods they the/ CEOs of Johnson and Johnson, Purdue pharma moving/ Oxycontin to the population and watching them dropping-/ -They got that Munchausens telling the world that were sick-/ -Saying they got the remedy in injection or drip-/ -Or just a pill in your drink, so take a little sip-/ -drink the kool aid, motherfucker finish it-/ -And you gone have to accept it/ Imagine how sad and dejected you would be without your anti depressants, shiiit/ -They give you Ritalin to help you through the week/ -Then they gone put you on some ceraquel to help you go to sleep-/ And you hardly ever eat, your stomach lining stripped-/ From the chemicals you take, every fucking chance you get-/ And they laughing all the way to the bank-/ Big, pharma the largest cartels, operating today I'm just stating the facts, and the// dope boys, in the building//
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Hip-/ hop is a feeling of emanating warmth-/ -the veins that course, pumping life into my otherwise decaying corpse-/ Hip hop is pain reversed and hate rethought-/ -hip hop is crashing burning rising from the ashes and remaining strong-/ -hip hop is gracious in the face of flaws-/ -a path for lost, angels to escape the fate befalling satan's war-/ -from Hades horseman and their flaming swords-/ -hip hop is never bowing down before a foreign occupation force-/ -And knowledge is a right for all-/ Hip, hop is true illumination to the disinformation of Michael Moore-/ -Hip hop is soul rejuvenation through the tables raw-/ -Music taking form just bang the tape and sonic waves are born-/ -hip hop is truth when I create a song-/ -Thats why I talk about a future darker than a West Australian swan-/ -Superpowers aggressively pursuing Lebensraum but/ Hip, hop, ain't a corporation it's the people's song-// HOOK --this is real life shit-/ --they got the streets on lock-/ --they traumatize our kids-/ --then blame it on, hip hop-/ -they didn't wanna let, hip hop in-/ -Now they ain't making this move-ment, stop-/ --So i'ma talk about what hip hop is?-/ --while you be talking bout what hip hop's not-// Hip-/Hop, is in a drum machine-/ -Hip hop is in the drummers beat, that you chopped, and created something sweet-/ -Hip, hop is in the blood of kings-/ Hip, hop is in that chunky ring, but hip hop don't need a fucking thing-/ -Hip, hop is in the Gaza streets-/ Hip, hop is in the galley of a Barracuda class, submarine-/ -Hip, hop is in a young marine's-/ Playlist, bumping Grave-diggaz right before he let's the muzzle sing-/ -They say that hip, hop encouraged him,we say-/ -Hip, hop, doesn't predate the sins, of his government-/ -Did hip hop, make 'em hustlers-/ -Maybe it did, but tell me who, gave the smugglers the planes and the ships?-/ -Did hip, hop, make him skate on his kid-/ -Beat on his girl coz Ice Cube, called a lady a bitch-/ -You blame the music wrong, learned from his dad-/ -He was stationed in Bagh-dad in '03, raping women in his uniform-//
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I've never seen, such a beautiful thing-/ Lookin' into the crowd, a full house, while I'm doin' my thing-/ I've never seen such a wonderful sight, like/ Lookin' out, over the ocean on a summery night, ayo/ It's Cortext, up on the mic-/ Breaking new boundries, like the Wright, brothers to flight-/ And I, got nothing but the love in my life-/ And feel famous I'll never change up or go, under the knife-/ I'm one of a kind, I never wanted nothing but mine-/ I started with nothing and heard that I had nothing but time-/ So I, got on the grind, made something of mine-/ And now my soul's on glow, brother cover your eyes-/ I wasn't surprised, I watched the demise-/ Of many of the most, confident guys, who had their shot at the prize-/ But it wasn't a matter of getting the confidence vote-/ But a matter of giving back, when they got what they hoped-/ I'm wanting to o-pen doors never switchin' on my scene-/ You giving the kids, crack, we giving 'em ice cream-/ You giving them pipe dreams, we giving them hope-/ We ain't trying to give them a ride, we give them a rope-/ To find there own, path in the rock, to climb to the top-/ Hip hop, is the rope, ladder that our fore-fathers have dropped-/ But ain't no safety net provided to stop-/ Death, it's certain survival is not, like it or not-/ I'ma do it for us all, family, friends-/ All my brothers in the struggle know the love will never end-/ Yeah I do it for us all, my mum and my grandma-/ And my fam, in the islands, gotta send love-/ -For us all, trying to put, on-/ Throw the D's up, gotta put my neighbourhood on yiah-/ -Y'all made me this strong-/ Coz you gave me this love, ain't no breaking this bond-// All my fam, in the D, yeah you know what it is-/ That's the friends that were there, when you grow from a kid-/ We've come so far, pissed up in pubs and parks-/ From a scratched up bike, to a busted car-/ From a chicken scratch pad with some busted up bars-/ To a beat like this, don't it fuckin' sound large-/ DS Fam, we the underground squad-/ We some fuckin' hound dogs, and we comin' out, chargin'-/ The gates, like a battering ram, and with a damaging/ Attack plan, handling the battle at hand-/ And we gon', tackle the land, like a travelling band-/ And milk, it for what it's worth, like a mammory gland-/ But still, chillin' in the turf, Scotsdale to Morgan-/ Or McKail to York or Armadale to Clarkson-/ Westside of the map, best times that i've had-/ In my life and they're written here, right in the sand-// And to the /Family I never met, to those I've never had the/ Pleasure yet, our time will come, better bet on that-/ -And dad, your blood is mine coz I was spawned from that-/ So why's it feeling kinda foreign when I call you that-/ -I know your good at heart, and where your core is at/ But now I'm 23 I've lived a life and you missed all of that-/ -I think we spoke, on the phone, brief in '03/ I would have just, started penning flowed speech, on note, sheets-/ -And now we're making magic, without no lame intentions-/ -I'm trying to make a difference, so if you maybe hear this/ Track then check the net or pick a phone up and dial-/ -Even if for nothing but to let me know you're alive-/ -Coz through the torment and trials, broken promises and/ All the denials, to spending all them nights alone in the wild-/ I'm holding a smile, envisaging visions of where I'm going-/ -Crystally clear and knowing the minute the curtains open//
19.
Last night, I had a dream-/ Of fires blazing through my head-/ When my reflection turned to me-/ This is what was said-/ I had a dream I said, bout who he said-/ Bout that voice in my head, that's the devil he said-/ I don't know but this was on another level I said-/ Well then go on and pull up a chair and tell it he said-/ It was me in my bed, temple beading in sweat-/ --Tossing side to side, from the screams I said-/ --Visions of the streets, run red-/ Way more vivid than an image out of any magazine, I said-/ That's deep he said, well then peep it I said-/ -A demon then appeared in front of me, I swear-/ Nothing like a movie told me to believe, or expect-/ Coz the devil looked, just like me, I SAID/ -Got a lot of questions running through my mind, I bet-/ You know everything that I've been trying to find, I said-/ --Why's all this blood up in my eyes, I said-/ Why we stuck inside a struggle to survive, I said-/ Tell me why, these threats, tell me why we've felt-/ So much tragedy inhabiting the lives, we've led-/ --But why you want 'em to be blind, I said-/ Why you gotta keep that evil on their mind, I said-/ -Well that's the balance I provide, he said-/ --Positive and negative collide, he said-/ --I might have showed you where the knife's been, kept/ Whether or not you use it only you decide, he said-/ --You better swallow all that pride, he said-/ Look into the mirror from the other side, he said-/ -What your saying is effectively your vacant of the strength for re-/ Arranging your trajectory in life, he said-/ --I thought you'd have a bit of fight, he said-/ -Slavery's embedded in your mind, I guess-/ ---Well then your destiny is mine, he said-/ -And you ain't got nothing left to do but die, he said-/ That's a lie, I said, well then prove it he said-/ --Think you've got the balls, start a movement he said-/ Talking all, kinds of righteous in your music you said-/ That you want to make a change well go and do it he said-/ I will, I said, I'ma do what I said-/ -And after you can tell 'em that you knew what I said-/ --I've seen a million of you, he said-/ --Thinkin' they could make a difference too he said/ -What Michael and Malcolm X already knew, he said-/ -What Marley Ghandi and Pac were trying to do, he said/ From Diana Kennedy Martin Mandela Lennon Guevara/ There ain't nobody I haven't gotten to, he said-/ Well regardless I said, I'ma march to my death-/ -Like the martyred fore, fathers in the path that I, step-/ -And I drive, out the devil with a grin on my face-/ As I did the light, fades and I, wake, it was all a dream-// --But I ain't dreaming no, more-/ --Focus in the moment and I'm feeling so, sure-/ -I ain't got time for sleeping no more-/ -When a life is so short, kinda feel like 'it was all a dream'-/x2 Time to wake up world

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Cortext Perth, Australia

Cortext has been putting pen to page for over a decade, developing and honing his unique style and performance. Taking roots in South West WA, he boasts a prolific resume that includes 4 studio albums and countless online releases, and has shared the stage with the likes of Cypress Hill, Immortal Technique and Atmosphere. He brings to the game a message of positive change and a hunger for more ... more

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