1. |
Whole Backpack
03:32
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CHORUS:
Whole Backpack/
Red, black, green knapsack
VERSE 1:
Yo/ whole backpack
Red, black, green knapsack
COINTELPRO tracked that
Since 16 he had rap
Won’t displace by people, place, and period
Shift forms a myriad
Code switch chameleon
Kept appearances: polite in po-light/
Monolith or spectrum pans out you know right
Had to see to do on ready, fire, aim
Dehumanized more than alibi/ FMRI tame
Written under your bandwagon/
Stand in sound canonical/ plant cabbage
Heavy weight baggage can manage type cat/
Grandfather a state champ boxer at that
Limitless/ cats don’t have an inch on us
A psychonaut/ I grip the mic or not respect indigenous
Land foot on/ wildest dream
Ancestors built from soot up so we stood up
CHORUS:
Whole Backpack/
Red, black, green knapsack
Whole Backpack/
Red, black, green knapsack
VERSE 2:
Uh Another hip hop rhythm spin/ his diction
Wonder what pot he was simmer in
Connect to inner rhythm/ no evading this
Stationary/ light patterned shifts and laid in it
North Star reflect water/ wade in it
Ambulance late/ home I was made in it
Mixed scrutinized/ measurement marble sized
Blacker than the one drop seem through his father’s eyes
Loving vs. Virginia still a splinter/
Benefits and burdens/ losers and winners
Hip hop not some pedigree/
I construct complex leverings and shift melodies
Indelible antecedent to the well meaning
I meld dreaming with singing/
Close eyes heart seeing
Part breathing: rise/ bread leavening
Siphoning a set of things/
Whatever you’re measuring
CHORUS:
Whole Backpack/
Red, black, green knapsack
Whole Backpack/
Red, black, green knapsack
VERSE 3:
ESHR sketch/ gesture drawer
Cat can’t flex at all
Fly high with a wrist flip
Just me/ not stepping with my stance at ya
Gift shop/ I’m wrapping the chancellor
Emancipatory methodology
Harnessed epistemology
Tuned to harmony
Only tautology if taught to me?
Pair of intersecting docks
Socketed in what the problem is/
Wound untended trauma soma was harming him
Alarmism/ Black cats drop heard wisdom
Whirlwind shifts/ just a way they try to lynch us
Epiphenomenon of pieces in motion/
Like an engine: us
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2. |
Broken Camel
03:39
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VERSE 1:
Young, gifted, and Black
The syndicates back
We Finna spit facts
We need to relax
Intergenerational trauma bridge tolerance
Modernist/ spawned Neoliberal apologist
Black power the motto is/ they follow us
Inside innovators like Frida Kahlo is
Against the wall somethings got to give
Movement checks pulse signs vital/
For all of us
Show up out loud like Apollo is
Circumnavigate hate to pull the God out of us
To fill hollowness/ Racial capitalist state:
I’m a hip hop ontologist
CHORUS:
Told to give it all
Til there’s nothing left
Flip the script/ step
Pour from my excess
Indivisible/ Sum not whole when they ain’t counted us
Accummulated burden/ all shift to account for this
All the capital infused/
Rhythm amount to this
Straw broke camel
Ain’t about to give youth
Ain’t about to give youth
VERSE 2:
Our ancestors built on like a bone
That healt wrong/ cat’s broke
But feeling/ hopes revealing an open ceiling
Tangerine slice peeling
Mind’s eye materialing
When I was 15
Used to count rhythmic stitchings
Feet pressed pause start lifting
shifting/ her hips swing
Hip hop fixings not fixed things
Rhythmic counterfeit
Reproduced resistance
Reinvented litmus
Water breathed viscous
White litmus I’m tired
Dealing with bullshit mission
Script flipped quick
CHORUS:
Told to give it all
Til there’s nothing left
Flip the script/ step
Pour from my excess
Indivisible/ Sum not whole
when they ain’t counted us
Accummulated burden/ all shift to account for this
All the capital infused/
Rhythm amount to this
Straw broke camel
Ain’t about to give youth
Ain’t about to give youth
VERSE 3:
Got a saturated flow
And it’s made to GO
Hip hop stenographer
Jogging Arbury on the way home
Black excellence is met with this
White supremacy colluded with
Infiltrated institutionally
Too Hoover reminiscent
More than really
Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee
Assumptions got him bugging
Check rock discovered through
Through muddled hovering
Blue line shuddling
See schools shuttering
Double troubling
Hip hop has begun again
Navigate cultural cap
Exacted flow
Masterful
Put the city on the map and go
Exacted reactive
Shattering random/ candle lit
Interdependent system overlap
Conscious vivesect
CHORUS:
Told to give it all
Til there’s nothing left
Flip the script/ step
Pour from my excess
Indivisible/ Sum not whole when they ain’t counted us
Accummulated burden/ all shift to account for this
All the capital infused/
Rhythm amount to this
Straw broke camel
Ain’t about to give youth
Ain’t about to give youth
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CHORUS:
Verse, scratch, verse, graf
Reverse, scratch verse
VERSE 1:
Mitigate/ inner hate
Let it ventilate
When a mental break accelerates
Angst resets to blanked slate
Share narratives across barrios
Reverse: deconstruct/ threat type stereo
Familial scenarios/ searching for material
Programmed fear of you/ automatic fury calls
Involved mundane miracles/ mirror through line
Many channels/ gambled hands filled
Potted self til a man held
Tightened strings/ tuned to doom
Loomed to you/ ventriloquist got rubrics cube
Qued to mood/ shoed past pitfalls
Potentiated projections/ intersect in vivesections
Elected into a micro-aggressed collective
Measuring fleeting gestures/ sequestered as conjectures/
Obsequiousness festered into the evil of two lesser
CHORUS:
Reverse, scratch, verse, graf
Reverse, scratch, verse, graf
She expressed
They expressed
Reverse, scratch, verse, graf
Reverse, scratch, verse, graf
She versed
They versed
Reverse, scratch, verse, graf
Reverse, scratch, verse, graf
She expressed/ they expressed
She versed
VERSE 2:
Dream sequence proceeds beneath the rush
Not okay like Texas Board of Ed/
Deleting us
Texas McGraw/ fugitive obsequious
Racial neutrality means you didn’t speak with us
Systemic substituting/ I’m parachuting
Racism is brooding
Systems of reality glued in
I’m hip hop and this is music
Another Black and Brown sentence
In the school to prison nexus
Sections of history amended like anti-CRT henchman
(If you can do it)
Chi-town transcends tremendous menace
If you can do it / and keep it fluid
And two shoe it/ I’ll give you a tulip
The same meaningless conversation is sparked
And though MLK day is still marked
On the calendar/ struggle’s below the surface
We’ve all configured these answers that are perfect
CHORUS:
Reverse, scratch, verse, graf
Reverse, scratch, verse, graf
She expressed
They expressed
Reverse, scratch, verse, graf
Reverse, scratch, verse, graf
She versed
They versed
Reverse, scratch, verse, graf
Reverse, scratch, verse, graf
She expressed/ they expressed
She versed
VERSE 3:
Vississitudes leveraged/
Solicit a dimension
Best left to a reverend
(Reverse, scratch, verse, graf)
Still unequal and separate
Facilitated oppression
And education is the method
(Reverse, scratch, verse, graf)
CHORUS:
Reverse, scratch, verse, graf
Reverse, scratch, verse, graf
She expressed
They expressed
Reverse, scratch, verse, graf
Reverse, scratch, verse, graf
She versed
They versed
Reverse, scratch, verse, graf
Reverse, scratch, verse, graf
She expressed/ they expressed
They versed
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4. |
The # 1 Enemy
03:32
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VERSE 1
Remember when they thought it was scientific to measure our heads again?/ from marble counting to SAT routing - oppressive this method is/
Tried to put us in the middle/ to pawn our peace as racial capitalism/
From civil disobedience to systemic radicalism/
Tried to keep us from the light and we had to grow wisdom shade of violet/
use to sit on the back of the bus so whites to the front of the riot/
policed and ignored/ in addition to racist 5 0/ like Bettina Love - liberation means more than survival/
the movement checks pulses for signs vital/ white moderate - will they join us this time? how would I...no
Inflicted sickness/ we already know what COVID is kid/ still no plan to address racism in this countries vision/ more than a blind spot or a detour I should mention/ They traded in their white sheets for a badge to get protection/
Just a racist henchman/ learning this is the classroom I’m guessing/ white teachers preach anti-Black self hate and testing/
Unlearn while liberating with light is twice as hard/
“You asking me about freedom?” thinking im a Midnight maraud
(Er?) ‘Merica has looted
CHORUS:
In the mist of COVID - premeditated white supremacy/
500 years and being black still means your the enemy/
Protest! Look around - whose standing next to me/
When a Black man mentally ahead 5 centuries/
white accomplices to the front instead of me/
From being led to BAM BAM put some led in me
VERSE 2
America looted Black, Brown, Yellow, and Red for centuries/
“it’s elementary - they want us all gone eventually”/
Black and brown youth lead the movement and it’s still separate pathways/
“A few geniuses from the rubbish” type homoeconomicus math stays/
We Black: come in vast shades/
Shore watch the crashed waves/
Life at a fast pace/
Peace through war these past days
Ain’t nothing new/ you and me can’t talk
I don’t associate with folks Harriet Tubman would have shot
Rebel leaders labeled dissidents/
For dreams to shift reality lived in/
Uptop rocking/
Transformation forgotten
CHORUS:
In the mist of COVID - premeditated white supremacy/
500 years and being black still means your the enemy/
Protest! Look around - whose standing next to me/
When a Black man mentally ahead 5 centuries/
White accomplices to the front instead of me/
From being led to BAM BAM put some led in me
BRIDGE VERSE
Yo here we go
Drop a hop scotch/ butter in the pot with it/
Often rhythm rocking type starter kit
Careful for folks who tried to martyr him/
Alarmism bargaining chips
Only represented tranactionally/ yo weave
Cultural capital rationally/
Notice how they said they mastered mcs?
Rock it off the type known to rhyme/
Drop passionately/
They faster than me/
Rhythmic causality to duality/
It’s a nice use of pot pourri
Violates materialistic fallacy/
Check pattern they said was random/
Pre get your hand out of my pocket/
I clock in like early COVID shift in stock tips
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Overlap crosshairs on Black bodies/ if
Too clear and organized their react violently
Yo/ don’t be too inspiring: kiln firing
New firm in town hiring/ I ain’t dialing
Styling poetically/ for itself kinetically
Soil sow/ let it seed
Many pathways meet meta-sync
Black box of patterned plastic sabbatical/
Meets slashed package/ and fast rapping
Racial capital trapping, freedom fighter tracking
Positionality mapping/ resource matching
Hip hop lyricist/ rhyme schemes myriad
Make sure their hearing this
Black principles mirror this
Habari gani/ communal interwovenness
How ancestral lineage is tied to what voting is
I hope with openness/ differentiate prototypically
Excavate history/ unpack intricacy
Frames of imagery/ embrace symmetry
Different phased mentally/ brother is endeavoring
Excavation of his own identity in his own skin/
Meant to be
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6. |
Deconstruct Antiquity
02:54
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CHORUS:
Of the truth in me/
Light falls ruthlessly
VERSE 1:
Orbital ventriloquy
Words formed ethereally
Sculptured materially
At pier pondered unseasoned scenery
Lightness of skies machinery
Time escapes with thievery
If it’s consecutive relatives
Then what’s graffitiing?
Counterintelligence programmed
For certain melanin’s/ adrenaline again
Rather sell a brother to the pen
Then let Black and Brown seeds settle in
If it weren’t for your meddling irreverence
Leverage lassoed reticence/
With a dash of tabasco and severance
CHORUS:
Hip hop soliloquy
Deconstruct antiquity
Dark from light epiphany
Shadows cast indifferently
Of the truth in me/
Light falls ruthlessly
VERSE 2:
Found leviathan/
Leave him in piles then
Phoenix filing/
Vivisect survival in
Compartmentalizing tiling/
Reviling what they’re mired in
A complex about his complex
In his smile when
CHORUS:
Hip hop soliloquy/
Deconstruct antiquity
Dark from light epiphany/
Shadows cast indifferently
Of the truth in me/
Light falls ruthlessly
VERSE 3:
Riot went a violet in rifle surprising revival/
Segregated infrastructure intersects Chicago’s vital
Lines like Secobarbital/ Fred Hampton’s martyrdom
Not a single apologist from the government/
Now with a smarter drone
With a silo-shelled hologram/ hauled within
Howling song: dawning slit/
No solving it
Self-started kit/ Mind gardening
Tool sharpening/ tried harkening
Back to the alarming/ pardoning behind bargaining
Harvesting without targeted/
Un-futured suturing/ of the truth in me
The light falls ruthlessly
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7. |
Big Pond
03:46
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VERSE 1
Hip hop post revision
Narrative future beginning
Belittled spinner
Saw the big picture to them
Pieces weren’t fitting
Seek to enlist you
Tricked, masked, and camoflauged
Used to play bad at pogs
In college the napped
Abstract vagabond
Can’t stand the ground you’re
Standing on/ Man of gods
Moratorium on meritocracy
I weave in cypher/ raise discourse
Higher like Socrates/ get off
The wheel/ can’t mold clay
Hegemonic pottery/ fertile
Learning ground/ No lobotomy
Beyond molded
CHORUS
Vetted for bets/ settling threats
Used to call me concept
Peddled to settled like chess
Melanin blessed/ unfettered in nets
Like he ain’t measuring death
Caught his breath/ dreamt of Malcolm X
Interrupted institutionalized so called
Non-partisan artifice/ either remain
A narcissist/ or unplug and run
All the risk/ pictured addiction
As a mindless subscription to
An unknown mission/ audition
Of sadistic vision/ refracted
Through space time
Are they certain the skirmish
Was finished? I’m Gladwell
Said the big pond ain’t the litmus
VERSE 2
Uprock bottle rockets and comets
Vocab locks in like a comic
Emcees make comments/ decomposed sonnets
Writing back in the office/ soliloquies
Of warring entity/ whole not sum like symphony
Dripping in epiphany/ infantry
Assembly lined and automated
Seated on train operated by
Fractle doppelgänger
Lineage linear/ racial paradigm
Unphased/ who is unnamed?
Still in the crosshairs of the mundane
CHORUS
Vetted for bets/ settling threats
Used to call me concept
Peddled to settled like chess
Melanin blessed/ unfettered in nets
Like he ain’t measuring death
Caught his breath/ dreamt of Malcolm X
Interrupted institutionalized so called
Non-partisan artiface/ either remain
A narcissist/ or unplug and run
All the risk/ pictured addiction
As a mindless subscription to
An unknown mission/ audition
Of sadistic vision/ refracted
Through space time
Are they certain the skirmish
Was finished?
VERSE 2
Vetted for bets/ settling threats
Used to call me concept
Peddled to settled like chess
Melanin blessed/ unfettered in nets
Like he ain’t measuring death
Caught his breath/ dreamt of Malcolm X
Interrupted institutionalized so called
Non-partisan artiface/ either remain
A narcissist/ or unplug and run
All the risk/ pictured addiction
As a mindless subscription to
An unknown mission/ audition
Of sadistic vision/ refracted
Through space time
Are they certain the skirmish
Was finished?
CHORUS
Vetted for bets/ settling threats
Used to call me concept
Peddled to settled like chess
Melanin blessed/ unfettered in nets
Like he ain’t measuring death
Caught his breath/ dreamt of Malcolm X
Interrupted institutionalized so called
Non-partisan artiface/ either remain
A narcissist/ or unplug and run
All the risk/ pictured addiction
As a mindless subscription to
An unknown mission/ audition
Of sadistic vision/ refracted
Through space time
Are they certain the skirmish
Was finished?
VERSE 3
Experiential visions/ in front of mirror
Rendered invisible/ tossed to own drum
Epistemic step in ecstatic lyrics
Mural of many miracles
How are we to deconstruct
What he has thunk?
If I uppercut this subtle
Racist fuck/ I may get cuffed
Still spiraling/ used to pop
Prescription solution recycling
It will ruin the environment
Realize you were piloting
A depersonalized campaign
OUTRO
Were they certain the skirmish
Was finished?
I’m Gladwell/ said the big pond
Ain’t the litmus/ minuscule individuals
Taught to internalize oppress
Unlearn, untuck
Accentuate new mental gate
Share narrative/ liberation loaded
Beloved communities/ buried seeds
Open/ rise up unapologeticly
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8. |
Patient Poem
03:56
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Eshr Sketch
Organic flow
VERSE 1
Hip hop epistemological/
deontological/ non-apologist
Cultural capital weaving is logical
I’m on top of flow / states
Dream scheming ate
Technocrats in a stew earlier/ plates
Multiple/ lauded consultant
Of disaggregated prioritization gains
Petitition to redress / met with snipers
Our preacher’s tessellate
Imma show these cats what assumptions is/ systems of reality bum rush the undiscovering/
CHORUS
Numbering folders/ burglar furtherer
Expected merger / certain leaves
Island deserter / heard furniture
Mental modes/ shift sway
Ggntle load/ all guess set
Dismayed from adjacent note/ a stasis
sown/ I may ergo an off the chassis bone/ shift
grace sense hold
A patient poem / until I may unfold
VERSE 2
roll em up/ wonder
Is these rap cats bold enough?
War or peace / and we ask
How is you holding up?
silhouetting dialectic/
ideology of measurement
Soliloquy of deep culture and
Ancient medicine/ denizen
Decoy / deliberate detour/
I share the sentiments/ irreverent
meteor / President I’ll impeach your
CHORUS
Numbering folders/ burglar furtherer
Expected merger / certain leaves
Island deserter / heard furniture
Mental modes/ shift sway
Gentle load/ all guess set
Dismayed from adjacent note/ a stasis
sown/ I may ergo an off the chassis bone/ shift
grace sense hold
A patient poem / until I may unfold
Verse 3
Folded mental gate
Spring fourth accentuated
To what’s relegated and
Envelops natives / in this hellish brain dead
Society/ Impiety is a lie you see
And the stars in the sky in me are dying free
/ with or without this news anchor
Adjacent to Morduch’s banker
Use us to divide them/
The language we are mired in/
Leaves us more or less tribal then
Irons hot to the highest bid
So it’s the poor on trial then
1 percent getting higher when
At the base / spiraling
Put violet in rifle then
shift
grace sense hold
A patient poem / until I may unfold
shift
grace sense hold
A patient poem / until I may unfold
Numbering folders/ burglar furtherer
Expected merger / certain leaves
Island deserter / heard furniture
ESHR sketch
patient poem / until I may unfold
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9. |
Why No Mask?
03:27
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CHORUS
Obliterate prescribed rhyme
Tic tac toe / rewrite for freedom
No expost Black though
Shift levers/ should I appreciate?
Make sure you
Got the right / problem
Before you alleviate
Status quo representational
Shift forms and twist norms with six arms
spit strong/ a poetic mission
just us in on/ democracy been flawed
Tried to out hound us/ around us
Water swimming in / Black power: yes
Tremendousness / It’s systematic
How these cats will try to limit us
Flipping this /
They thought I was this timid kid
Spit clearest images/
Reconnecting our villages
Decolonize / recognize
Who the real pillagers
From chaos to hits coder/
Since this old sir
Mirror in line measuring /
In the doorway
Light source gathering
Pattern rings like Saturn
Clamoring/ waves centripetal
And the moon with a hand
In it / Tacit in the assumption of system
bumping/ no fixing elicited listlessness
Cats mission to diminish
Black Übermensch
They knew they’d miss
Wanted humanness
Without the dudu dish
Stop shooting us/
Beat Rhythm / clock pattern
maddened/ abstract cloud
Glacial ocean/ borrowed pattern
Authoritarian regime: suppression
More than a hand in it
Being pulled / couldn’t hammer it
Patterns round / conglomerate
Wheel throw til self / hold
Schematic / Molotov: pottering
Light from dark seemed modern/
CHORUS 2
Shoulder / while she past
Erlenmeyer flask
Shirk this vile trap
Berserk like
Why no mask?
VERSE 2
Tried to trap light / Pull the God
Out of him/ storm settle several
Droughted vegetables /design new line
Telephone/ push button
To set the flow/ dialed in
To hyper contextual/ Da balm
Hits hair follicles/ ready
For theater / Apollo show/
Immo flow/ remarkable timing
Natural alignment / sow
You’re the guy / who sauntered by
Seeded sow / no alibi
Rise / no shallow tide and
Scintillating / on some I shall not hide
reworking / subversive sure means shirking
Eorthiest furthering’s/ hurdling
Pages of history
With her nurturing/ wake
To some sir murmuring/ spiritually
Stirred certainties/ inner city
Emerging theme/ laissez faire
Absurdity/ eye like
From curve you see/ highlight
The heard verbal scenes/ fly
Merged circle / speak fertile
Paternal hegemony/ obliterate
CHORUS !
Obliterate prescribed rhyme
Tic tac toe / rewrite for freedom
No expost Black though
Shift levers/ should I appreciate?
Make sure you
Got the right / problem
Before you alleviate
CHORUS 2
Shoulder / while she past
Erlenmeyer flask
Shirk this vile trap
Berserk like
Why no mask?
Flip levers/ should I appreciate?
Make sure you
Got the right / problem
Before you alleviate
Shoulder / while she past
Erlenmeyer flask
Shirk this vile trap
Berserk like
Why no mask?
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Organic Flow Chicago, Illinois
Known for their innovative style, Organic Flow create cultural dialogue through their music. They are known in the Chicagoland area for their process of respectfully combining elements of jazz and hip hop music. The band is a quartet composed of Zane Ranney (drums), Michael Cantafio (guitar), Liam Bird (MC) and Dave Gilman (bass), but also calls on many feature members and guest artists. ... more
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