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Are You Ready?
02:31
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Are you ready for a kicking rhyme?
Alright Are you ready for a wicked time?
Think that you can hold it steady for the whole nine?
Man I think your ready for some Basslines?
Are you gonna cop in your earhole?
Are you gonna let the beat be your vehicle?
Cool gonna come with me so we can see it all?
Admin I think they're ready let the beat fall
Drop the starting blocks were off pull out the chocks
and hit the runway gonna travel faster than gunplay untamed
no stopping it philosophical confidence
You ready for copping the consequence?
Good that's what I like hear yell it out nice and clear
watch it don't bite you ear like Mike Tyson's here
slicing and dicing up the recipe c'mon and try some
would you like some?
I thought so let the kick drum enter your torso
abandon your thoughts I see you're feeling it moreso
It's sorta like Zen friend the pad and the pen then
you know I'm gonna ask you again…
Uhuh You know I'm feeling that were on the same vibe tribe
imbibing what I prescribe'll keep you alive
think you'll survive entering overdrive?
the bottom line you getting ready for the high dive?
Alright
It's pathetic how I gotta go and get it when I hear the edit
setting it off so I can be the one who said it
taking over I let it its getting better every time I think you better call a medic get it?
yep I knew you'd understand my plan man damn I'm always ready to jam man
like hand to hand its combat but on that enjoyable tip Split
are You gonna come and help me make it fit?
You're so agreeable hanging for the unseeable future
you and me like a voluntary suture inseparable
wanna come and do some irreparable damage with me?
What's it gonna be?
Alright I'm taking that as verbal contract
ain't no backing out now and ain't no coming back
committed I'm gonna hit it like this its what you wanted
admit it now are you with it?
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Beat the Blues
03:42
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The rhythm is the only ruse to beat these blues
seeking to suffocate my good mood (Now That's True)
My daily intake of splendiferous riffs
that's what it is that stop me splitting in two (It's how I do)
and now it's Taking over totally remote control
stopping me splattering the ladder out of that hole
That keeps me (down d-down)
I'm climbing right back out
making the music what my life's about
First World Blues First World Blues
Fresh water and Food Shelter and Shoes It's how we do
and yet we sink to the bottom through substance abuse
We're calling that the blues? man like we got an excuse
Still sometimes the dying world wants to swallow you whole
or even worse day-to-day a way of chewing your soul
hard not to feel the weight of information civilization
shifting from station to station til there ain't no relation
and the hate we keep facing just for being ourselves
negative consideration just for freeing ourselves
we'd be better off to bury that and leave it behind
but even if you try there still might be a trace in ya mind
that pumps up the blood pressure still seeking to stress ya
you knowing this already straight from the secret professor
The thought undresser yessir it's the eardrum blesser
hit ya like a rock knock you like the block called Bessa
The rhythm is the only ruse to beat these blues
seeking to suffocate my good mood (Now That's True)
My daily intake of splendiferous riffs
that's what it is that stop me splitting in two (It's how I do)
and now it's Taking over totally remote control
stopping me splattering the ladder out of that hole
That keeps me (down d-down)
I'm climbing right back out
making the music what my life's about
I'm married to the music we got lots of kids
it's never overpopulation man it is what it is
my Spine is the baseline if you hear me Shriek back
or holla back without it I'm Scott free like Back in Black
even the hackisack rappers are jacking some decent beats
arthur martha whatever vandel-a dancing in the streets
the way to ease tension family extension
bound-to-be wrenching happiness from the pedestrian Henchmen
In the sound waves traveling air pressure that gets ya
at funky intervals for temporal lobe texture
bet the jaggedy swing thing released in the shuffle
stops me shuffling off this mortal coil just to hustle
the rhythm the rebel crank up the levels and yell
get the flip side rewind give me heaven from hell
although it's only momentarily all shall be forgiven
music is my life RIGHT that's why I keep living
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3. |
The Raven
03:40
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It's no surprise as the crow flies the road flows by
creepiest GPS now and I'm so high
Highways are mere lines for those who fear time
cleared time Never heed time I never need time
Leave it Holier than shotty shells through a speed sign
inter-dimensional meantime a clean Scene…time
to pull-it-the-trigger-the bullet-ya-missed
ever hesitant to persist in Desert wilderness
You know that I control both Art and Science
only the oldest souls can roll with that type of alliance
My entire existence is defiance
blacker than the dark night but I'm the spark in the sun fire's attire
my departure signifies the fall of empires
I'm the guardian of Gallows invisible in shadows
companion to gods; thought and memory
Migard’s messenger bringing back sworn reports of the enemy
I brought the first Morn with the weapon of Thorn
Bird land began before man ever was born
I dropped a pebble from my beak and created the land
on which you stand my feathers blackened forever the Fire-brand
If the Banner fits the Wind then I'll give you the Day
but if the Flag drops lifeless I'll give you away
My alarm cry echoes out on-an-on-an-on
Black-Blacker than the hair of King Solomon
Black-Blacker than the hair of King Solomon
The respected ancestor known for feeding the prophets
protecting All-Saints Fates Communicating with Haints
Traveling through various changes of State
Unraveling sunsets to check the message in the picture they paint
Ain't it just like the way I'm ripping life from the Earth
how I guide the murderers to their speck of the Dirt
With the fertile bird mind I'm dropping wisdom from Trees
Every time I drop Ish I'm distributing seeds
I'm the Vahana double-parked on the Wishing Tree
In the name of Bhusunda I existed all through History
Some call me Kutka I shaped the Terrain
both loved and hated for the way I'm making the Rain
Calling Land-Ho never my role - like to flow
Aerial acrobatics keep on keeping me low
so I can mix it up with other Predators so Ill
Still if it's Road-Kill you know I gotta take my fill
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I need it
03:45
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I Need a…beat
to beat the space-in-between my ears
into subliminal submission Fishing mission in gear,
now listen listening hear -It’s taking all-of-my-concentration now
Space in a Space I’m spacing out Chasing a place I taste it HOW
Bloodhound taking a scent across town I need it
Canine brain off chain and off again - I need it
Rocking a force like Socrates NOT keeping it under lock and key
Not stopping me I need it veni-vidi vici property
This thirst is the worst I’m cursing the works
the hurt that keeps me murdering words
As herds circle the earth I’m turfing’
like I got an extra pair of legs
as I deflect the dregs that fester
from the nest of rotten eggs who thought they got me pegged
Nah Incorrectamundo on the Bass Profundu
Get at me presto, come bless the Allegedly Allegro,
Cause I said so - Man you don’t have to even listen
to this evil mission wishing I could shift this fevered bliss
I need it
Said I would if I could but I can’t and so I won’t
Ring the alarm I’m calmed Heavily armed inside my throat
and my Jones feel it deep down in my bones and so I’m owned
But I’m the only owner going home without a homing clone
Moan and bitch and spit and whine unleash the beat its clobbering time
designed to find a resonant frequency so you can speak with me
tweak the tea like you’re Lewis Carroll, down the hole in a barrel
Til the whole world is wearing new apparel -then we drop the saddle
Satellite, set the world alight explode like Gelignite
and tell em the the truth not sell em right? now watch this fella fight
for daily doses show who’s the most ferocious and explosive
hoping beyond hope that I’m exploding over overdoses
Tell him he’s dreaming see and we are too a rolling stoner
back in black and black and blue
back to back I’ll be 9 paces back attacking you
(with no)
Finders fee reminding me this piracy is blinding me
diamond like a diamond D
I NEED IT
Hungry like a junky stalking all five William Burroughs
In my need I’m feverish this fever Ish totally thorough
no tomorrow only right now in this instant
gimme Vincent
Van Gogh Sandy Yellow glow and I’m like Damn bro can’t convince it
this damn flow needs to exit from this head before it wrecks it
Only way to checks it capturing the magic time to Hex it
Scarlett witch its Dr Strange astral seeking my remains
to pull me back again dissolve dimensions like I'm acid rain
this passive pain it makes me active radio I mean I’m clean
this beat pulls dirt upon me like a earth machine I fiend
to find myself inside it desire to harness it and ride it
like a nightmare steed I’m johnny blaze and now my head on fire
I’m a burning skull all my thoughts reduced to charcoal
singularity the drive inside that drives the final goal
and now I’m in it and I’m on it I’m below it I’m upon it
I’m inside it and I’m finding I can write my final sonnet
but alas the rhythm box its got me locked it is a demon
and I must concede that what I need’s the formula repeating
Its a blessing and curse man its the best and its the worst
Its a thirst and I can’t ever cease this fiending cause I need it
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Chris Bass Adelaide, Australia
Performing literally 100s of gigs both in Adelaide & interstate from the early 1990s and appearing in over 30 releases as
musician, lyricist or producer, Chris Bass should need no introduction.
First hip-hop crew 9th Circle 1992.
Bands: Capital F, Bliss, Chimera#9, Crisp, Loaded Zilla and more.
2003 - Defenders -DJ Snair & Flak released "Self Defence" in 2004. Now solo MC w. collaborators.
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