When war games hit that stage of a gluon’s rageRead More »
There’s a military boot on the new doc’s page
We were playing in the beginning, but grew up strange
Making radar and missiles, and new bombs blazed
And we kept grinding the lensed sights for the next sniper
Best believe son it’ll pay to design fighters
All the gains of science analyzed by the
Man provide plans for sarin and cyanide
And our hands are blighted by crying
Eyes when dying lands are slammed if our grants expand the fire brighter
And there’s no jury there’s no sublime righter
This is our fight
And these minds is all ours so protect your pia mater
Try to feed and water good, seed trust, flee dishonour
Gotta be clean being Apollo ‘stead of Vietnam and
Lay the armour down and be the one to stand up
And lead us on the trail of Spock
We’ll elevate these motley progeny
To a future in a safer spot, an irrigated plot
Homicide a way forgot
Success is a lack of military options
Failure’s not
Become a lover of a great and cosmic goal
We cannot condone these terror plots
So here we go it’s our shot
Feel frail or not
This is the only world and humanity that we got
Tag: music
Pirin – 5. Cowbell symphony
Cowbells make beautiful music. I can’t get enough. I passed by a dozen cows on my way from Sinanishka Porta to Banderishka Porta, whose bells were amplified by the little valley they were grazing in. A glockenspiel melody! An Austrian I met a week later (Lotte – see ‘Cast list‘) said that cowbell music was one of her favourite things.Read More »
nas
Nas is widely acknowledged as one of the best storytelling rappers of all time.
Who else has the creativity to tell a story backwards (Rewind)? He’s written a letter to his friend in jail with updates from the outside (One Love). He’s outlined the history of East Coast rap (Last Real N**** Alive). Even when he’s just doing braggy rhymes, he sets the scene and presses ‘play’ and we watch the action unfold like we’re actually there (N.Y. State of Mind). He gave a history lesson about European imperialism on a Für Elise sample (I Can). And who else has even thought of rapping in first person from the point of view of an inanimate object (I Gave You Power)?
Apart from his pack-leading storytelling, I’m here for the sophisticated multi-syllabic rhymes. His lyrics have been called ‘dazzlingly lucid’, ‘dense’ and ‘intricate’. They’re always moving forward. Pauses are rare.
And let’s not forget the producers: there are a lot of good beats on his tracks. It’s impossible not to bop along.
rapid fire
Smash the patriarchy
how to lose a disc – song parody
Parody of The Fray’s ‘How to Save a Life’. Sing along: original | instrumental
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