Rebellion Politik Lyrics
Original Assumption
Desdamona Verse 1:
Along the rails lay broken whispers
Bars severed into fragments
Blasted and shattered by the passing trains of thought
Without any inkling that they ever existed
There are no brakes to end the erasure of these
Urban story condemned building histories
Patterns unlike any other known to mankind
This pronunciation is cryptic to those who don’t speak it… speak it
Brihanu Chorus:
Scene’s so intense the time is changing
Blowing in the wind I’m like the gage and
Trying to get my aim but not sustaining
It feels like a hurricane is raging
Time keeps moving but I’m not aging
Mic in my hand, I rock the stage and
Praising the sun just like the pagans
Stays in the sun I’m like the raisin
Brihanu Verse 1:
What is freedom? Is it the ability to move within the vicinity of a facility?
A false reality, the façade of a totalitarian democracy
Or is it how you rock with me mentally?
Back and forth to the cadence of my voice
You know, the complex schism of beats, rhymes and rhythm
Desdamona Verse 2:
Revolution revolve around the revolver
Bending backwards to oblivion, soldiers call her
Back into the switch the evolver
Stand to fight for rights and signs of life
She rise fly heights you’ve never seen
Bright eyes might blind the fight in me
Trying times, fine rhymes call my destiny
Stride right, high life got the best of me
Brihanu Verse 2:
What is freedom? Is it the perceived option to choose between two preconceived concoctions
Of a two party dictatorship, based on maintaining a deranged relationship
With no explanation of our benefits
Or is it how you venture into the scenery of this rythmatic entity
Eventually taking hold of your brain chemistry
Brihanu Verse 3:
One time, you mesmerized
Combine minds, we epitomize the sunshine
Keep it rolling and flowing, back like stolen a moment
Act the holding of currents in that nautical ship
My audible clip split like particle shit
The record might skip, you better get hip to the movement
Cause it’s soothing, grooving humans with no delusions
Brihanu Verse 4:
What is freedom? Is it an abstract concept to a degree?
Something you can be partially?
Or is it the sum total of your independent parts?
Like book smarts and body art
All or nothing, life’s original assumption
Buried under an indoctrination of consumption
Or is it a trigonometric function?
Is that why you’re cosigning to the complex schism
Of beats rhymes and rhythm?
Desdamona Verse 3:
Calling all freedom writers, Calling all freedom writers
To not only rewrite history, but dismantle the mystery
This is a new train of thought, don’t lose your ticket
Mama is the pilot and the scenery is about to change
You might feel some turbulence so buckle your seatbelts
It’s going to be a bumpy ride, but it’s smooth on the other side
Chorus
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Rebellion Politik
Chorus:
Rebellion Politik, the opposite of what you know as politics
Where corporate capital makes the government break their promise
It’s a new day where people create the policy
And the economy trickles up to eradicate the poverty
So get up, stand up, these are our demands, what
We want our money back so politicians get your hands up
Equal distribution of the land and the profits
An end to all war and a socialized democracy
Verse 1:
I’m writing inciting the clash of the titans
The premise is frightening, my nemesis fighting
Inciting the right wing with media hype
But Chuck D was right, don’t believe the hype
Perceiving the issues, misleading officials
With thieving intentions and heat seeking missiles
Invisible agents ain’t packing a pistol
Subliminal goals to deal your souls
For global control corporations bankroll
Political whores patrolling the shores
They lure us in stores to keep us all poor
Ignoring the cure for what’s at the core
Explore the floor of the third world poor
Creating the wars for mineral ore
Come on y’all we gotta fight back with…
Chorus
Verse 2:
Right now I’m speaking as the voice of the masses
Defeated, mistreated, believe it you beat us robbed us and gassed us
We’ve been passed up, locked up, exploited and downsized
But we will uprise, no compromise, this is the fire next time
My mind is still inclined to form a rhythmatic rhyme
But I got enzymes in my blood that let me break it down each time
So I can’t digest all that bullshit that you feed me
You think hip-hop is antisocial, you ain’t read the graffiti
Cause you ignored us like the writing on an Indian treaty
We from the seedy needy streets of each American city
Where it’s gritty and grimy, public school hallways are never shiny
Police be eyeing me cause public policy criminalized me
And kept us in poverty like a third world resident
Nobody’s exempt, not even the brother of the president
Rebellion politik is rebellion scholarship
The science of survival in a repressive environment
Chorus
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Manifest
Verse 1:
The ingrained psychology of a philosophy so simple
Where the principle is a symbol to show you we're invincible
And if we're not convincing you, cause that's what we were sent to do
We'll take a religious view and make it more effective
Then embed it in a sermon so you know that god said it
Cause god said it
If we embed it in a sermon, then you'll know that god said it
So the message becomes repetitive, seduce you like a sedative
You hear it in school, in the media and in your church edifice
We're the civilized here to save the savages
Their culture is ravenous, they're a lesser people
Not equal to receive the gifts bestowed on god's righteous leaders
Let's teach them they're inferior and should despise themselves
And if they don't conform to us, they've destined themselves for hell
If they rebel we have no choice but to take them by force
It's what we're destined for, so you know it's god's law
And if need be it's a justification for war
By any means necessary, destroy all our adversaries
And spread our doctrine to the edge of the Earth
Cause the world is ours, it was manifested by birth
Can't you see we're the most respectable, intellectual,
Our culture is superior, you mortals are forgettable
We want your land and your resources for the nourishment of our society
But don't fight it and don't test we
Just realize this is your manifest destiny
Chorus:
This is your destiny, let destiny manifest (repeat 3x)
And god bless
Verse 2:
First written by a Democrat, John O'Sullivan
It was used to justify taking Texas from the Mexicans
Not to mention slaughtering every Native American
But why stop there, let's just snatch the whole Caribbean
Haiti to Puerto Rico and the Dominican
El Salvador, Peru and down to Colombians
Where they pick coca beans, but let's expand overseas
To the Philippines and slaughter the Vietnamese
Niggas please, let's catch half of Africa and make them plow the pasture
Cause the expansion needs to happen faster
And I'll chop off your foot if you forget to call me master
There's oil is Uzbekistan, so we control Afghanistan
Build pipelines and ship it south of Pakistan
It's manifested, the world is ours for the taking
Forsaking every ounce of decency, call it the great awakening
Manifest Destiny is a doctrine of oppression
Cleaned and dressed up for national protection
It's not historical or metaphorical because it happens today
It's the driving force behind our foreign policy
It happens from Nicaragua all the way to Falujah
Every time a president says hallelujah
We support it, hand over hearts, singing the anthem
We support it at Starbucks, throwing a tantrum
Like "I need my fucking latte, Ethiopian blend"
We support it cause sweatshops make all the latest trends
We support it with the diamonds on our necks and our fingers
We support it overseas thinking they should speak English
When we turn a blind eye to economic injustice
Then invade your borders, turn around and say "trust us"
But don't fight it and don't test we
Just realize, this is your manifest destiny
Chorus: (Repeat 2x)
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The Basics
Brihanu Verse 1:
My mind bends when I write rhymes
Transcend space time like I got a flux capacitor in my spine
So I rap at 88 miles per hour
With the power to devour any coward stepping to me
Got a recipe for sesame MC’s stir-fried to perfection
It’s a delicacy, my rhymes practice celibacy
You can’t fuck with me cause I rap sickly
Let me quickly demonstrate how I elevate as I penetrate the bass line
Procreate, write a new rhyme, make y’all react like an enzyme
Electromagnetic like a photon, spin around your head like electrons
Causing neurons to disintegrate, when I radiate you meditate
Let your mind ventilate
Come with me let’s vacate this dimension
Did I mention the ascension when I flip it in triplicate
Infinite sentiments complement throughout the continent
Bring it back, let your foot tap
Catch a contact from the black brainiac with the maniac flows
Keep your eyes closed and you might overdose
When I flip hypnotic prose at your souls
Prime Meridian style, straight up and down
The sounds too profound when I compound, let’s calm down
Chorus:
Come on y’all back to the basics
Cutting and breaking taking it back to the basics
Throw on your Kangols and lace your Asics
We rhyming brothers, taking it back to the basics
Repeat
RDM Verse 1:
Never mind that we got to rewind that, Hip-Hop
Find that feeling in the middle of the rhyme
Digie getting into the venue to send crews to the basics, Digie bodacious
Flows spacious get it live when I see the b-boys fat laces, hands up high
Give me the energy when I rhyme, so I can throw it back at you
First with a passion, first with the cash man, first with the rap man
Asking you, do you want to ride like a passenger?
Junkyard bump hard bogaurd like a running back
None of that whackness, Abstract Pack this representing lovely
Better practice, if you think of stepping up we’ll leave you backwards
Digie y’all, RDM no arguing, let’s go
Diggs Verse 1:
The word play is nice, tongue slices like Pentjak Silat
Unorthodox context plus the impact is not what the people expect
Cause every chamber's like chess, the mic check tests load breath stress depth
To the nondescript I'm a fundamentalist,
Who hits with the force of Dalton and Schmidt
Swing batter
The patterns and schemes cleaner than Irish Spring lather
A multi-tasking mad hatter with a swagger reminiscent of Ricky Walters
My aura is Gibraltar or pure iron ore, whichever is softer
At peace like a Mennonite when I write, but then with the mic
My life reflects the tribulations of a Cenobite
With such sites to show you, suffer the pain
The more you fear the more we overload you
With blind fits of rage on stage we get emotional
The greatest MC write a passage if any
Now it's odd how weaker minds immortalize the vibe of melancholyness for pennies
It's probably just envy, but nevermind the haters
All that "greater than less than" just helps when its time to work the next plan
So when it comes to pseudo-rhyme sayers, poets and essayists
Let's say it's the fame to blame for ignoring the basics
Above all, remember this before you spit, if it's not true love you
shouldn't deal with it.
Chorus: 2x
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The Conflict Pt. 1 (History)
Verse1:
The wrath of a path that’s destined toward extinction
Two warring factions that blast without thinking
One wants a home the other wants survival
A tribal rival that predates the Bible
Conflict, the philosophy of atrocity
Where Israel’s become the epitome of hypocrisy
An occupying force, endorse religious divisions
And turned the Gaza Strip into a virtual prison
So turn on your TV and see the effects of conflict
Quassam rockets and suicide bomb threats
The response from Israeli defenses beyond relentless
A catastrophic attack on the heads of the defenseless
Innocent civilians, women and children
Bombs on homes and mosques and school buildings
Cut the electricity, cut off the water
Shot on sight if you come near the border
It’s a slaughter, the murders and tortures with horror
Marauders of the Haganah met with Jihadis and Infitadas in Gaza
Daughters screaming “Inshallah” backed by U.S. dollars
It’s enough to make you holla for the apocalypse to Allah
Verse 2:
Let’s take a step back and figure out how’d we get to this
And witness this crisis with historical emphasis
Palestine, a place of conflict for millenniums
A land between the Mediterranean and Mesopotamia
Conquered by the Philistines and Babylonians
Persians, Egyptians, Greeks and Romans
The romance would never last, homelands would collapse
Religious wars happen fast, movements of the mass
The city of Jerusalem considered a holy land
By Hebrews, Christians and the Muslims
A holy war led by Abu Bakar
Then the Crusades for Jesus Christ the superstar
All the while Jews were persecuted uprooted and muted
This is the origin of the Zionist movement
A way to unify and give their life improvement
But the struggle continues in the search for a homeland
Modern day Palestine, home to millions of Arabs
A secular land with people of all religions
That coexist despite all their ethnic divisions
But the Zionists will stop at nothing to gain their territory
Here’s where the story gets gory for the Zionist glory
Verse 3:
At first Zionism was about liberation
A place for the Jewish Diaspora to call a nation
But then came a superiority complex
Thinking they were better than the Arab farmers
Zionist racism with British imperialism
Set the stage for a cataclysmic schism
World War I, the struggle begins again
England double deals with Zionists and the Palestinians
But they were truly the ultimate liars
Their only goal was to expand their empire
But little did they know, they didn’t have a clue
That Palestine was a bite that they couldn’t chew
Soon the British bastards came to discover
That the Arabs and Jews would fight them and each other
(The Arabs and Jews would fight them and each other)
It’s ironic to hear, with today’s theatrics
That Israelis were the first to use terrorist tactics
Bombing British targets and praising martyrs
The situation’s ugly and there’s no progress
The conflict continues through World War II
And the Nazi Holocaust killed six millions Jews
This gave rise to sympathy for the Zionist movement
And the creation of Israel, it made the blueprint
In 1948 it was made official, the UN sanctioned the state of Israel
Dismissal of the Palestinians was abysmal
They lost most of the land and this is critical
The split of the land was pure frustration
They got less than 50%, they were two-thirds the population
But what comes next sets today’s context
Israeli expansion and occupational conquest
(Here’s the conflict)
England moved out and Israel took over
Plundering land like European explorers
Palestinians flee with little possessions
Israeli expansion turns to ethnic cleansing
The future of the region becomes ominous
Palestinians pushed to the West Bank and Gaza Strip
Conflict, Conflict, Conflict, Conflict
It’s the conflict
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Catharsis
Chorus:
There she was, a silhouette in the darkness
A soul captivated by a world for the heartless
An empty vessel adrift in the water for days
A maze of infinite passages, she couldn’t find her way
Verse 1:
A genius as a child, she was the artistic quiet type
She’d lay awake at night, eyes open, praying for daylight
To erase the demons that haunted from the nether regions
Or to muffle the screaming of her mother being fucked or beaten
By age 12 the hell became a pain she couldn’t expel
I remember the night I took her diary from the shelf
As I delved through the pages her anguish became contagious
The stages of stress and depression coursed through my spirit
As I read how she faded
She said “god if you ever existed how could this world be afflicted
By this miserable condition
I prayed for you daily to take me out of this place
My mother hates the sight of my face
Is it because I remind her of her youth once full of grace
Or is it that she can’t stand to see me embrace the fact that her life’s become a waste
Can anyone hear me?
I’m scared, I’m not prepared for what’s waiting for me but it has to be better than here
If I fall will anyone catch me?
I remember walking on the train tracks that night
Off in the distance was a faint light
And the brief vibration of my destiny waiting
Why did I step to the side and feel the wind collide with my eyelids
It felt like I could fly and I didn’t want to die
But now I do”
She looked intense as she slept
Empty bottles on the floor from the medicine cabinet
As I lifted her head, I felt her pillow was wet
I caressed her cheek
Her eyes began to peek but before she could speak
I said “Be still child, this is your final instance of pain
I’ve been watching you for a while
This world was not meant for you to stay”
Then I held her hand as we walked into the darkness
On the path to eternity, it was her catharsis
Chorus
Verse 2:
He always felt different, a person of color
But when he walked through the crowded room nobody called him brother
He felt the eyes penetrate his entire being
As if he were some object of spectacle only to exist for the seeing
But he was used to this feeling so he embraced it
He’d laugh as he danced alone though his soul felt naked
Escaped, with a hit or a tab or a sniff or a drink or a spliff
Or a walk along the cliff or the edge or the ledge or the bridge
No joke kid, this is how he lived
Or at least pretended to
I remember that night as he stared down at his destiny
Could he feel my presence as he stood to the left of me?
He spoke softly as his mind drift away
He said “God if you ever existed why did you make me this way?
Why am I responsible to tell them it’s ok to be gay?
Is this the journey of your son to change the mind of a people?
If they’re his followers, tell me why they’re so evil
Perhaps I can show them more through death than through life
Maybe they’ll understand my pain on the other side of the night
Can anyone hear me?”
His eyes opened wide as we fell toward the earth
He stayed silent, almost defiant as I recited this verse
“Be still child, this is your final instance of pain
I’ve been watching you for a while
This world was not meant for you to stay”
Then I held his hand as we walked into the darkness
On the path to eternity, it was his catharsis
Chorus: Repeat 2x
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Alternative Energy Remixed
Chorus:
J to the U-N-K-Y-A-R-D to the E-M-P-I-R-E
The apex, stay fresh, rip up the party
Plug it in, come feel that energy
Repeat
Verse 1:
It’s the energy altering your entire brain chemistry
Alternative styles by the piles, bombing your infantry
Graphic imagery creates symmetry in your mentality
Disclosing fallacies, recalibrating reality
When I rhyme it’s like the sun beaming off solar panels
To scramble polar channels with electromagnetic antennae
Regenerate your mind state with rhymes I regurgitate
Activate neurons to stimulate the brain to elevate
I rhyme to the beat of a different drummer
Air masses clash, bringing the thunder
And the heat of two summers
It’s a wonder, climate changing the temperature rising
Not surprising, cause my eyes see what’s climbing the horizon
The energy’s overflowing, exploding like supernovas
Your head nodding to my flow, arms waving at the shoulders
Show what you about, we rock without a doubt
Got your hands in the air with everybody screaming out
Chorus: 1x
Verse 2:
At a Junkyard show the energy is bananas
So you see the anarchists faces covered in bandanas
You see the police ready to jam us up in the slammers
So all my street photographers keep clicking the cameras
Take a panoramic picture of this dynamic mixture
Hitting gigantic issues with a pandemic scripture
You want to smash the system, then keep swinging the hammers
I spit grammar to the planners that canvas the city frantic
They say freedom or death, so I spit freedom each breath
And address a protest until there’s no breath left
We overloaded with energy so there’s plenty to focus
Witness the opus of the dopest, keep your DNA encoded
Twist you like the strands on the bands of a double helix
Eclipse weakness with the Alternative Energy Remix
So show what you about, we rock without a doubt
Got your hands in the air with everybody screaming out
Chorus: 2x