DJ Spinna (디제이 스핀나)는 미국 출신의 전설적인 힙합 프로듀서이자 디제이로 올뮤직의 표현을 빌리지자면, 그의 출중한 감각과 실력에 비해서 그동안 철저하게 언더그라운드만 고집해온 아티스트로 남아있다. 11살 때 처음 턴테이블을 잡기 시작해 힙합, 훵크, 소울을 댄스튠으로 결합하는 탁월한 디제잉으로 주목을 끌기 시작했으며, De La Soul, Mary J. Blige, Stevie Wonder, Eminem 등과 같은 팝스타와 함께 작업을 했으며, Jigmastas와 Polyrhythm Addicts라는 걸출한 언더그라운드팀을 거쳐 여타 엠씨들의 프로듀싱과 솔로 활동을 해왔다. .... ....
[Apani] Time zone travellin, unravelin The secrets of mysteries that follow humans for centuries Theories appear crisp and clear to me as air Magically through meditative focus, mechanically I'm there The dreams stay in connection, then awake To the main theme in a carefully constructed scene Which began with a bright beam of light Become a satellite seen as a flash in the sky Through the eyes of a writer, who shall remain anonymous Lust for higher learnin, surgin, burnin, yearnin Inspired by spirits of great grand descendants Get rich off the dark skin signin over freedom on documents Marked with X's, illiterate, stiffed up languages Slave masters metaphorically ripped out they larynxes Yet they beat drums and sang songs Now I keep it movin along in the same form and context Since the torch has been cast to the next generation My main motivation is to be a cipher nation 360 degrees all around, above, and below Is the planet where I hold jurisdiction, yo Kweli I know you fed with this whole situation I know you reflect on revolution Can only be one conclusion, one action conduces Changes - some civilizations have been in war for scores Blood shed on history pages and in the end What side wins? Old has been replaced by the new When all is said and done, stand out amongst the few As examples of what one can do It's a true story, cried at the end when Denzel died in Glory Knock on wood when I'm gon' be, launch me into the galaxy I'll be a solitary star in the constellation Transferrin information into the minds of young prodigies lookin up Wishin all my energy until the day they become Entities parallel to me, the universe's Cycle of Destiny What exists is more than we see, more than we see...
Forget the years you been alive, we livin in the same age Tell me where your mind is at, we livin in the same age
Tell me what's on your mind, we livin in the same age [x3]
[Kweli, vaguely] yo, yo, outrageous, courageous, advantageous.. [Kweli] Once again on mission, driven by ill thoughts that we envision Got a lotta ambition, now we got a pot to piss in Cats seem to be quick to whip they shit out, and they missin While I aim straight, it's a new era, you feel the transition? Man listen, you know the libras, how they just balance it out Through the ages, droppin wisdom like sages While the whole world go through phases Peep how the rhyme is vintage like a wine Gets better with age and time Niggas think they free - who need to change When you can enslave the mind? like true conquerors They call the explorers brave Say they collectin when I say they rob graves It's complex, you know what, I be ? Apani Do this ego trippin, like De La, on Nikki Giovanni So I try to put that behind me but it got me In an ill position like the Kama Sutra The past kicks my ass back to the future, it reminds me Not the losers, but the winners tell the story Ignore the truth, take out the gory details and get the glory My grandfather died when I was a shorty He fought for our country It couldn't be his 'cause to this day, they still don't want me My great grandmother put arsenic in the master's tea After she came from hearin a speech by Marcus Garvey Not separate or equal, so fuck Ferguson and Plessy Folks of slaves, bringin it like Nat Turner and Denmark Vesey The Age of the Industry, the plantation system was dead Let em work, they can make enough to eat And keep a roof over they head You still a mothafuckin slave ! Doesn't matter if you near-white or little light Or blacker than a thousand midnights We right in the new age with new slaves, we need to bless the stage 'Cause the audience' brains affected by devils like cage Call us brave, but the system got our peoples actin depraved Forget the years you been alive, we livin in the same age Yo tell me where ya mind is at, we livin in the same age Take that wit'chu to your grave, grow up before you show up [x3]
[Apani] Time is relative, we livin in the same age
[Thirstin Howl] I hit harder than Foreman Landing both both gloves to a low blow With no cup Leave you Speech-less like when Arrested Development broke up Carry a crow bar for egos that won't budge Crack skulls through helmets With the penetration of a screw nailed in Return like I was sending self addressed postage Throw bricks the size of the Stonehenge Before battles, we pour blood And toast, death to wicked infants Found on the sorceress' doorsteps Slaughter lamb And boar's head Every MC's cause of boredness And mind bondage Bronchitis, lung failure Language unfam-i-liar Art through a flooded air brush ??? leave craft Sentences joined with words holding hands It's a tight squeeze From where your head will be landing In exact time flight leaves
[Eminem] Who's arm is this? I must have cut it off of the pharmacist Who refused to renew my seventh presciption of darvecet I'm the old man who lives upstairs and starves his pets And never leaves his house 'cause he thinks his car's possessed I hate my life That's why I degrade my wife Grabbed a paper plate to make a sandwich And just ate the knife My mother's screaming 'please heal him, take him straight to Christ' Meet you on the street and slap you just to break the ice Made a bomb threat with a fake device Strip you naked twice, pistol whip you and force you to take advice And if you catch me bobbin' my head to some bullshit spittin' I was probably just tryin to shake the lice Bugs fallin' out of my head I'm wishin' I was dead While I'm crawlin out of my bed Found it red and my rash is returning I feel the sensation of burning Occurring, usually during pain for release in my urine Screamin' at my shadow 'please quit followin' me' These pills keep screamin' 'please quit swollin' me' The devil keeps screamin' 'please get down on one knee' Took the drugs before the cops ever found them on me
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