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Imitations Ft. Open Mike Eagle

from The Dead Can Rap by TheDeadCanRap

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lyrics

I’m stretched out like the ropes on a chuck wagon
Young storyteller flying on luck dragons
I ain’t tough acting but it’s tough acting
It’s hard to read through the lines with enough passion
I come from BBoy fashion and bus passes
I look around all confused like what the fuck happened
The moons hollow it’s a real boondoggle
Selling old kombucha in a new bottle
I draw circles dressed in all purple
Mos def like a four foot tall turtle
I use it to pole vault over tall hurdles
In 95 I first met my aunt Mirtle
As a teenager in Seattle’s Green Acres
My memories move like a screensaver
My brains dark and my hearts in a spin cycle
I’m ready to pop like bullets within rifles
I wrote a spiritual manual and biz bible
Buy in bulk twelve tees and ten vinyls
And that thats an order
Those are marching orders
You gotta march to do that
Where’s my nanotech pilots, vermillion violets
With wind chimes hanging on the ends of your eyelids
Making time to enjoy the silence
Endorse the violence, listen to Primus
Fantasy football footfall to hybrids
Driving five hours but I’m undecided
My destination hydron collided
So divided and narrowly sighted
Now we’re carbon heavy maybe it’s time to cycle
And here I am between two blokes named Michael
We may have lost the battle but we won the title
Archetypal and I love all my rivals
In arrivals at Gatwick airport
With too many bags and I’m travelling barefoot
Dealing with these idiots at every square foot
Death tolls roll in the billions output
Cheap Imitations and designations
Relegate, devastate I hate innovations
Wasted time on dodgy annotations
And now it’s even too late for action stations
Gentrification forced inflation
Dishing out free sex therapy consultations
Aviation can be such a bitch
Let’s all rise up and eat the rich...
We always waxing opinion paper
Dead Can Rap opinionated
Obit in Op-ed exasperated
No feet to facts but they syncopated
Put it on tracks but we don’t debate it
Slick with rhetoric
Jive diabetic
Intellect synthetic
Tweet pathetic
Twitter loads slower than my porn site
So I don’t tweet but I freak right
Like a white house leak
Never air tight
Like bluetooth beats
Never pair right
The rich out for delf
Cuz world is fortnight
Dim the porch light
Strike at waist height
Like adidas vs nike
This ain’t a fair fight
Culture war like so many before
Revolution raw and loveless
But this one here mostly bloodless
Historically it’s been far more reckless
Check Robespierre and Mao in comparison
The right’s reaction embarrassing
They overreact like we the latter ones
Gives them an excuse to splatter some
They got one tactic fear + guns
Our strategy’s elastic
3/4 to 4/4
Or poly-time 5/7 we rise
Clips on 2 if we got some
We got em on the run
For one reason
Cuz we always on the 1

credits

from The Dead Can Rap, track released October 6, 2020
Written and produced by Remi Rough, Mike Ladd and Mike Eagle

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Paris based Hip Hop legend/ArtRap pioneer, Mike Ladd & internationally acclaimed abstract artist, London based Remi Rough - explore the realities/confusions of 21st century life. TDCR on subject matter from post apocalyptic nightmares, zombie cultures, corrupt politics, esoteric spiritually to global financial conundrums from the perspective of Rappers/Artists/ Fathers. ... more

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