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Krust and Saul Williams - Coded Language
Say what you will, call it hackneyed or whatever, but I've got it on the Media Player right now (quietly, the baby's sleeping) and it's proving damn hard not jump and dance around the room going "Urgh! Fuck! Ya!"
Whereas,
breakbeats have been the missing link connecting the
diasporic community to its drum woven past.
Whereas the quantised drum has allowed the whirling
mathematicians to calculate the ever changing distance between rock and stardom.
Whereas the velocity of the spinning vinyl, cross-faded, spun backwards, and re-released at the same given moment of recorded history , yet at a different moment in time's continuum has allowed history to catch up with the present.
We do hereby declare reality unkempt by the changing standards of dialogue.
Statements, such as, 'keep it real', especially when punctuating or anticipating modes of ultra-violence inflicted psychologically or physically or depicting an unchanging rule of events will hence forth be seen as retro-active and not representative of the individually determined IS.
Furthermore, as determined by the collective consciousness of this state of being and the lessened distance between thought patterns and their secular manifestations, the role of men as listening receptacles is to be increased
by a number no less than 70 percent of the current enlisted as vocal aggressors.
Motherfuckers better realize,
now is the time to self-actualize
We have found evidence that hip hop's standard 85 rpm when increased by a number as least half the rate of it's standard or decreased at three-quarters of it's speed may be a determining factor in heightening consciousness.
Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of theunchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth.
Equate rhyme with reason, Sun with season
Our cyclical relationship to phenomenon has encouraged scholars to erase the centers of periods, thus symbolizing the non-linear character of cause and effect.
Reject
mediocrity!
Your current frequencies of understanding outweigh that
which as been given for you to understand. The current standard is the equivalent of an adolescent restricted to the diet of an infant. The rapidly changing body would acquire dysfunctional and deformative symptoms and could not properly mature on a diet of apple sauce and crushed pears.
Light years are interchangeable with years of living in
darkness. The role of darkness is not to be seen as, or equated with, Ignorance, but with the unknown, and the mysteries of the unseen.
Thus, in the name of:
ROBESON, GOD'S SON, HURSTON, AHKENATON, HATHSHEPUT, BLACKFOOT, HELEN, LENNON, KHALO, KALI, THE THREE MARIAS, TARA, LILITHE, LOURDE, WHITMAN, BALDWIN, GINSBERG, KAUFMAN, LUMUMBA, GHANDI, GIBRAN, SHABAZZ, SIDDHARTHA,
MEDUSA, GUEVARA, GUARDSIEFF, RAND, WRIGHT, BANNEKER, TUBMAN, HAMER, HOLIDAY, DAVIS, COLTRANE, MORRISON, JOPLIN, DUBOIS, CLARKE, SHAKESPEARE, RACHMNINOV, ELLINGTON, CARTER, GAYE, HATHOWAY, HENDRIX, KUTL, DICKERSON, RIPPERTON, MARY, ISIS, THERESA, PLATH, RUMI, FELLINI, MICHAUX, NOSTRADAMUS, NEFERTITI,LA ROCK, SHIVA, GANESHA, YEMAJA, OSHUN, OBATALA, OGUN, KENNEDY, KING, FOUR LITTLE GIRLS, HIROSHIMA, NAGASAKI, KELLER, BIKO, PERONE, MAGDALINE, MARLEY, COSBY, SHAKUR, THOSE STILL AFLAMED, AND THE COUNTLESS UNNAMED
We claim the present as the pre-sent, as the hereafter.
We are unraveling our navels so that we may ingest the sun.
We are not afraid of the darkness, we trust that the moon shall guide us.
We are determining the future at this very moment.
We now know that the heart is the philosophers' stone
Our music is our alchemy
We stand as the manifested equivalent of 3 buckets of water and a hand full of minerals, thus realizing that those very buckets turned upside down
supply the percussive factor of forever.
If you must count to keep the beat then count.
Find you mantra and awaken your subconscious.
Curve you circles counterclockwise
Use your cipher to decipher, Coded Language, man made laws.
Climb waterfalls and trees, commune with nature, snakes and
bees. Let your children name themselves and claim themselves as the new day for today we are determined to be the channelers of these changing frequencies
into songs, paintings, writings, dance, drama,
photography, carpentry,crafts,
love, and
love.
We enlist every instrument: Acoustic, electronic.
Every so-called race, gender, and sexual preference.
Every per-son as beings of sound to acknowledge their
responsibility to uplift the consciousness of the entire fucking World.
Any utterance will be un-aimed, will be disclaimed -
two rappers
slain
Any utterance will be un-aimed, will be disclaimed -
two rappers
slain
Fuuuu-UCK! This should be Barbelith's theme song. This should be required listening in colleges across the land. This should be on every mix tape and mix CD EVAR!! This song should have a day of it's own declared by the UN on which we could, as a planet, collectively put this on our car and home stereos and just crank it up and dance it all out. Saul Williams voice and delivery are nothing short of brilliance encoded on plastic. His ever-increasing frenzy is perfectly timed and surpasses every limit you set for him in the back of your head. But doubt not. The Force is strong with this one. Krust's programming is near-flawless. The beats, I've noted, pull my heart into synchronization with them. I am under this song's power, and it lends me strength. My Berserker-Poet archtype is awakened. Approach me not, if you approach lightly.
Too bad the rest of the album is poo. |
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