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Scrolls of Doom
03:29
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The shadows of the Orange Menace
deadened the sky
So we gathered our collectives in a
quest for the light
Didn't know quite where to start
besides addressing the fires
So we all collected all the maps that
showed the relevant spikes
They called these
“Scrolls of Doom”
But they really only show
what is known as truth
To your community
so you gotta show them too
Or get told the scrolls folds
hold moldy fumes
And couldn't quite possibly be the
horrors you say
Maybe you're having a reaction due to
spores in your veins
You can't read behind the skulls into
deplorables' brains
So why not assume their issues
are all valid complaints
Good faith rationalizing
who they validly hate
Fits conventional talking points
so it has to be safe
"Oh, so borders are racist now?"
they dumbassly proclaim
While the bosses count more profits
on the back of their rage
Put away those scrolls of doom
Don't be swallowed up by gloom
We're all headed for our tombs
Soon as we exit the womb.
This is fine.
Perhaps even ideal
It's been a little while since I
paid a lighting bill
But the fires of the end times
are lighting up my novel
So I'm deep inside of fantasies
and can't really be bothered
I got a good job
a pretty good relationship
No time to read complaints about
the fascists that you hate and shit
I get it, every politician's evil
that's the takeaway?
Sick of seeing same headlines
New Years Eve to Labor Day
So nay I say, I'm not gonna
open your fucking scrolls of doom
My plate's too over stacked
and all that info is gruel
Getting all into my entrée
to sour the taste
Would you kindly pull that fucking paper
outta my face?
I don't wanna see your memes, your links
your graphs or C-Span videos
Not hearing no podcast
that isn't bout making dough
Cuz when I get the gold then
I'll make the rules,
And then the lazy gonna
have to shape the fuck up
cuz my taxes ain't gon save 'em, yo!
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Be Brave
01:16
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You mighta been misled by other sound bytes
This is what a Drenny beat sounds like
Meta's setting the fires that keep the town bright
Royal families running for shelter, I got the Crown iced
Frown tight, if you mad i got the hounds hyped
Middle fingers up, status quo gone upside down, right?
You seen them ads, you can be a lord too
Just pull the guillotine string and justice shall reward you
I love the smell of open billionaire neck
In the morning, means seizing is part of a balanced breakfast
And i'll cool the planet for my next trick
Winter forever cuz the groundhog had a deathwish
Recording all the album concepts on my checklist
Bandcamp Fridays are for sacrament acceptance
2020's almost over, we gon prevail
Be brave, stay safe friends and love yourselves
-Meta.
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3. |
Wall of Words
03:30
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I'm hella judgemental.
Let's make it simple.
Tryna evolve
everyday's what i'm into.
I will not martyr my future to
hoist up my past on a pedestal
Mighta did things that i'd never do
Now we got folks tryna
fall on their batleths
Cuz they can't imagine a
human reaction
Outside of their patterns,
they'd rather dismiss than
Address when an asshole treats
people like shit
It gets deeper and
deeper than this
People say,
"that's who i'll be when I'm rich"
Then get hella trigg'd
when their hero's stock dips
But you still work OT and
your hero still rich.
Fuck is you trippin' for?
that ain't gon never be you, I mean
Never forever and
ever be you
So stop fantasizing about
stepping your shoes
On the necks of the desperate and used.
Listen and hear me and
read what i say
I come with receipts
when i'm stating a claim
You can be more than
the status quo's followers
If we engage you
you getting a wall of words
Responding too fast?
that mean you ain't listen
Just waiting to get to your
turn to keep tripping, so
If you ain't hearing me,
fuck am i screaming for?
I'm on a schedule
this ain't Wikipedia, yo.
I'm hella judgemental,
let's make it plain
Tell me your mythos
i'll call it insane
I won't entertain
or see it your way
When targeting outgroups
Is all your ingangganggangganggangganggang
On the block or
congressional halls
Corporate boardrooms or
boutiques at the mall
I'm tryna build bridges
you tryna halt
I know that
Jericho's Wall gonna fall
And if I were you trust i
wouldn't be under that
Run and find distance
or cover to buffer that
Oncoming crash
you don't wanna get smothered or
Flattened the wages of
walls is you're crushed in fact
Why not let's just make a
table that's longer?
We got the leftovers
they steadily rotting
Empty apartments
folk perish in cold,
Cuz some demons wanna build
temples of gold
Listen and hear me and
read what i say
I come with receipts
when i'm stating a claim
You can be more than
the status quo's followers
If we engage you
you getting a wall of words
Responding too fast?
that mean you ain't listen
Just waiting to get to your
turn to keep tripping, so
If you ain't hearing me,
fuck am i screaming for?
I'm on a schedule
this ain't Wikipedia
I'm hella judgemental
all robe, no cap
Gavel come down on you
clowns with a crack
The mirror can get it too
that's seven years of bad luck
that I'm finna do?
I dunno, this shit instinctual
Paragraphs how i try
put all my think in you
That's how i love how i
Flirt how i seize the tools
Used for producing
Nutritional servings
Put 'em on plates
put 'em in persons
Stack all these words
like bricks for my shelter
and cover them all with a roof.
I'm tryna match y'all with verbs
and actions for drastic times
egg 'em all on with the truth.
All I can do
is call like I see
Open your sails
cuz you're stranded at sea
Wartime propaganda
this ain't about peace
When seventy million would
see me deceased.
At least.
Listen and hear me and
read what i say
I come with receipts
when i'm stating a claim
You can be more than
the status quo's followers
If we engage you
you getting a wall of words
Responding too fast?
that mean you ain't listen
Just waiting to get to your
turn to keep tripping, so
If you ain't hearing me,
fuck am i screaming for?
I'm on a schedule
this ain't Wikipedia
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4. |
Find a Way
03:32
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Thought the winning streak would
never subside
Now you left with only
traumatized pride
Wouldn't dare to meet the
mirror's two eyes
When the stakes were so high,
and you still couldn't cut it
Thought this fight would have the
easiest prize
Feast on arrogance,
dessert's humble pie
In the pit of your stomach
they having riots
And nobody is safe
from cleansing fire
What's next?
What next steps?
Otherside's boots were
designed for necks
You cannot catastrophize enough
for these tests
When the fate of of the world's
still ours to protect
All our tactics
cast to four winds
We keep fighting bout
what's important
They want excuses to put
us in the morgue
So we cannot afford,
to do their job for them
find a way to survive,
and find a way to exist
find a way to survive,
then find a way to resist
the People need you alive
so strategize for your life
cuz being willing to die
just isn't good enough
find a way to survive,
and find a way to exist
find a way to survive,
then find a way to resist
the People need you to thrive
so keep your eyes on the prize
cuz only staying alive
still isn't good enough
Feels like a suspect win
All hail our new suspect friends
They insist now all is different
Well except the one that keeps
saying nothing's gonna change.
He's only right if we
wait on the top
To keep coming to the aid
of the bottom
We must keep pushing til we've
captured the pot
Let us sow what we've reaped
shoo the pigs from our plots
Diversity of arsenals
pack em and loadup, all you got
Ballots or the bullets or
maybe even the Molotovs
Act like I'm hysterical
while we watching another George
Apathy's the only weapon
formed that never won a war
You think these beasts
evaporate if ignored?
You think unbotheredness
redoubles your score?
Every morning's a new
world to explore
We can be so much more
i only need you to
find a way to survive,
and find a way to exist
find a way to survive,
then find a way to resist
the People need you alive
so strategize for your life
cuz being willing to die
just isn't good enough
find a way to survive,
and find a way to exist
find a way to survive,
then find a way to resist
the People need you to thrive
so keep your eyes on the prize
cuz only staying alive
still isn't good enough
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Khemmeta San Francisco, California
Khemmeta's music strives to speak for those who cannot speak for themselves, or are shouted down when they do. His upcoming EP "When I Get To It" produced by Stephonathan (1/3 of both Pride City Purpose & Chedda Guap Boyz) is silly, nerdy, romantic, anti-nihilistic and defiant. He can't wait for you to get to it this [December]. ... more
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