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Awake (2010)

by Zack de la Rouda

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Crazy (free) 04:55
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Animal (free) 03:00
we be trapped in a human zoo if you read more d. morris you'd see too they just feed more greed for us, who eats food? we are fiend-whores, sleep more than QE2 we ain't awake to the deeds we do, the dudes we doom with kids wearing BDUs TV tube defeats thinking, we leak drool we're left numb, dumbstuck with the greasy gruel the truth is we ain't even people, shoot i'm a beast, so are you, are we free or fools? we've completely fused our freak gene pool with machines. what a dumb thing to do. robots ain't got nothing different we're just got cogs and gears in the system and y'all don't want to hear what i'm spitting but that's all right y'all feeling the rhythm, dance. (i change shapes just to hide in this place but i'm still animal. nobody knows it but me, when i slip, yeah, i'm still an animal.) it's so sick how we stick with the dominance we're so thick we insist we are commoners we won't admit we could fix what is wrong with us we exist amidst broke promises y'all should be so pissed cause they conquered us y'all just sit smoke drink watching monitors i been thinking we'd escape from this holocaust i been thinking if we can't maybe all is lost i been worried for a while cause these people lie and be deceitful, why they gotta be so violent and evil? how we gonna beat colonizers if we're weak, though? tiger's gonna eat us i could be a hero, i could be a quake i could be asleep or i could awake fight like a snake, run away like an antelope i change shapes like a goddamn animal we're animals, raised by demons, touched by angels praised by heathens, caught by slaves, shamed for speaking i change shapes but i can't help being an animal you are too. this here: the human zoo no fear, we'll pull through them gold fields for my own tooth. we were free but we been caged force-fed grains, domesticated we're in pain. and don't you hate it? we gotta face it. we're all crazy. we ain't fight back? we ain't leave? man, what are we, beasts or fiends? an animal. thats all i am. not a god. not a goddamn businessman.
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Re:Rappers (free) 01:35
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Comrades (free) 01:32
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Fire Flies (free) 03:45
this is what i'm giving. musical existence. crucially resistant to the movement of the lizards. i'm insistent on living different we can make the fire fly far if we spitting it what's wrong's wrong but i'm still confident. we must trust qigong. it feels promising. so i am cognizant of how i'm holding consciousness i'm wanting you to cop it i'm the opposite of stolid with it i got my heart in the cause like i was marcus always working hard, call me a dog the way i'm barking they ain't orders when i'm talking marking god up like a product power comes in pieces, but you best believe it's getting solid i'm honestly making good with my karma even though i will admit i still admonish other artists hits it's because i'm really fond of living on this blue comet and we all are subconsciously starving it by the way we live we take away our kids' right to be alive in a place that ain't wasted i'm not hating you if y'all don't wanna fight with me i'm just saying dude, then we all might die quickly. how could we survive the near third world war if we thinking that a gear is what the third world's for? how could we unite against the first tier's poor course if we can't derive something healing from the earth's force? if we can't flow with fluid motion holding focus like moses how could we hope to lead our people like the chosen? the hocus-pocus ain't bogus if i could open your dome i would try help you see that you always have known this i'm getting really sick of the slacking that i'm feeling in me while my peers and me wait to attack it these memes are eating us, breed in us like a maggot, we need to achieve our freedom completely or it won't last, man and that don't mean it's coming clean or easy, it is feasible but it won't be so neat as they would all have you think this ain't some overnight oversight over life but it's totally rife and gonna grow and mobilize we are past the brink. let's use both our eyes to try to see something new we could use we ain't gotta buy shoes, food or our booze, dude we ain't gotta sign off our loot to them fools, too i'm trying to remind you - we're being ruled through a sick process this corpracracy is just the tip of the ice that we're locked in, see i ain't right on a lot but you gotta be shocked by the facts that i'm dropping in lines watch 200 species depleted by our greediness needlessly daily nobody's seeing it better let 'em know but we ain't beaten, we're eating our only to key to being people, plus your peoples are capable, need to let 'em grow keep on breathing the vapors of THC cause the studies say it leads to creativity - let it go! i know they're evil from power but we ain't weak you got prowess and i promise that you gotta just let it show stay living, man you don't need a written plan see the big picture and the niche that you're fitting in what i'm figuring is happening shifting we're in a rush tryna get to position to push but pushing's what we're doing when we're walking talking to onlookers when we shook 'em with our conversation say, "be just non-complacent wake up the cats that you can be patient but urgent i am urging the surge to be emergent and i'm certain that is look i see 'em hurting mad memes on the radio that's what i'm saying bro don't be scared be driven like mercedes this culture is insane and it makes us fucking crazy but we are not freeing our souls, we're saving babies and maybe it won't happe and everything will crumble babylon collapse and zion become rubble maybe i'll be capped or escape into the jungle but know whatever happens i'm a soldier in the struggle and i'm fighting no guns if obama wanna git me but i work with qi gung and it's helping out plenty they can send their new robotic sentries fuck it i'll be fighting for the rest of the century i breathe bliss i ain't tryna lie that's what i mean when i say i make fire fly
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Stand Wit Me (free) 03:47
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How It Goes (free) 01:56
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Impossible (free) 00:55
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(Not A) Sleepyhead (free) 02:55
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When the War Ends (free) 02:20
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Will You Be There? (free) 03:51
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every great day i awake to a gracious taste of (your love) and i'm grateful to be laying facing you in this place when it's late or (early in the morning) no storms are forming in my thoughts today, i'm okay just gimmie (your love) and i'll stay with you and face fools with you and break rules with you this is to say you're all i ever wanted. now i've gone off drunk sans booze, truth: you and your love is a drug i use you are also a fusion of what i do and what i want you're a goddess do you got it? so you could flaunt it make 'em all gaga yeah, you know you hot shit but you ain't gotta be toxic you ain't like any other chick that i've met you're a queen, i been stopping to think in my head you're awesome to me we got a good thing going and i want it to be your love that i'm feeling i am serious, walking on air most the year now, really this is eerie shit you got thoughts that i can't form your love like water in a sandstorm takes me through that's a fact and i may be insane but i'm saying that i can't wait to wake with you.
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Breathing Love (free) 02:55
Living blocked off is tough hope's long gone cause it costs too much lost all strength in stopping stuff when I fought my way to the top of the bluff and it turned out to be nothing billions of slaves in a race to be dubbed king still some soldiers are coming through are you with me? all we got is our trust in truth so will we suddenly choose to break free from the cage that is smothering crews and motherly move to brace against the rubble and prove to all our cousins there's another way of making our food? or will we lose? looking at you, checking for clues, are you headed out to Mecca or you're wrecked on booze? don't be messing with my head, I got enough of a noose you're awake now, brother, and i'm talking to you I don't care what they say I know what to do they try to pull me away but they don't know the truth my heart's crippled by the pain that I keep all closed in but I keep open and I keep breathing love I breathe in love meet defeat, I been beaten up but getting free, joining people tryna flee the cuffs, I study jeet kune do, judo, wing chun I get prepared for the transfer got two fists on my arms where my hands were i'm food for the dudes who been starved by the cancer I scar with my bars, but it's art, i'm a dancer I got the problem, and the escape plan. why we aint free? cause of civilization so I set sights on Leviathan no more fear, no more lying, no more hiding, don't be silent, breathe in air. you're alive so smile but, there's bad shit coming Babylon memes means madness running rampant if you can't do something, y'all, breathe love, do nothing at all.
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cut a line for the year of the ox by the year of the dragon they'll be fearing the flocks i mirror the lot - my main medicine is the fox say, y'all prepare to attack when the shepherd gets dropped check it out now how i'm seeing miracles magic flowing over the globe in a spherical pattern try to catch it and package it, call it rap and spit the fire fast past all the lines that be wired-tapped system crashing and i'm hearing it happen no slacking, brother, i be tryna steer you to action you get it? higher's where i'm tryna take you cats who be tired, gonna blast all the liars and at last find a brighter path the turtle clan call me "yells" for a reason i'll hurt a man's ears and his self for believing in false memes and spreading 'em clean just like a sauce, G, where i'm from, two in the teeth for tryna floss, see, i be strong-willed but look at what it cost me, cain's mark on my forehead like a cross, people staring at me, talking to my mans, say he crazy maybe that's why i am making noise - cause you ain't be. so you hate me for carrying the weight you're ashamed to acknowledge your ability to take from me i just hate money, cities and the fake stunting. the palace guards make me really wanna break something, but i been holding my hate for the summer of rage and breathing love with my lungs and my face now i'm stepping towards the destiny based in our plan, hands high, we gon' chant as we bust down the place: babylon crumble babylon fall miracles done when we break these walls babylon fire babylon learn miracles done, we make babylon burn mother earth rumble mother earth call miracles done when we break these laws mother earth fire mother earth turn miracles done, we make babylon burn babylon crumble babylon fall miracles done when we break these walls babylon fire babylon learn miracles done, we make babylon burn check it out now how i'm seeing miracles mad heads fighting for some freedom from the killing fields wack rappers vying for the mass appeal and silly deals they don't feel this? fuck 'em. they ain't even real. so i eat 'em but i'm hungry for another meal taking on troy revealing my achilles heel they put your boy in the mire and i'm still here still spitting facts with the fire and the spirit you got a rock, you don't pay for an axe you got a glock, you can try it but i may be too fast you can flow but your tracks lack facts ain't saying shit, i been saying they wack i'm saying, it's zack, filthy rich and bladel who's crack, recognize truth before you laying on back asleep we need you, don't be tapping out, please you gotta help with the miracle feats so i'll cut a line for the year of the ox by the year of the dragon they'll be fearing the flocks i mirror the lot - my main medicine is the fox say, y'all prepare to attack when the shepherd gets dropped
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yo, we be stuck again lately, brother, say, "c'est la vida" so i'm shucking off the crazy stuff, impeding defeatists, been trying quitting using dumb stuff i don't really need, and making each of my guns into the steel of a heater. i be straight scheming how to freeze all these demons y'all waiting on a hero, i say let the free people lead us, feel me - all your fear appears when you think that they'll beat us if they fit to hit ya, flip 'em, mixing piff with qigong and aikido we'll greet the sinners grinning, saying how it's nice to meet you, vying for an aisle to ride up inside your mind and reach you, slide in sly and silent, defiling babylonic memes i'll be reciting fire rhymes till y'all up on the creed dip and let the cities bleed, sip the river, sit and breathe, eat to be alive - necessities with simple needs listen, heed, epiphany is imminent. you with me? i'm seeing millions of fists christening victory the snakes are venomous, let's see if they can mess with us invest in the men in us, offensive defense set to bust, all of us are dying; let's be fighters for the dust we got grave grievances and feats of strength like it was festivus the so-called masters are all caught up in the travesty of ego, masses watching just sit back and let the havoc wreak, so i focus faster as the bastards use their backwards speech go harder as a martyr, got a garden, don't you hassle me they placidly saying, "it's exactly how it has to be. complacency's great. we don't see the system crashing, B. relax, Z, actually, this too shall pass in peace. just grab your chains and follow me back to the pasture, please." i'm asking, "chief, whose news are you following? some voodoo or does it have a basis in some knowledge? see, i was in school, i got polluted like a scholar should be now i want the truth, not a looser noose to collar-cook me." i got the proof in my pack if you tryna read some sages wrote pages way back in time, outlining policies, lately we been erasing all the senses from us commonly, bound to end up all bent out of shape just like our bodies be going out to all the cats who slave for college fees - what are we, humans or some wannabe commodities? i don't follow trends that depend upon demolishing our planet and i'm thinking THAT's what we should be abolishing let's make a pact - i won't crush my soul and package it, or be so sociopathic i just big-up how bad i spit, if that's what rap is, fuck myself like i was wacking it, i'm sick of sitting in this rotten cheese like a maggot, dig? the big picture is sicker at the core it seems impossible we'll rally now and kick it out the door we're in some stormy seas, but i'm meeting the force cause somewhere deep inside my head i remember seeing shores so hands on deck men, we'll soon arrive for war, everybody let's prepare for what we got in store release the sheets cause we bout to jibe to port and take a deep breath cause it provides you with support back on the attack, viva la vida, we want our freedom, motherfuckers, take us straight to your leaders. we'll take the reigns from 'em, break 'em till they fall into pieces, and tell our children to never this shit be repeated. viva la vida y muerte al babylon, bitches, it ain't changed since the days of the preachings of jesus. believe it. this an honest word. we risk the end of the world.

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This is my second album. These songs were made late 2009 / early 2010.

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released June 1, 2010

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Zack de la Rouda Portland, Maine

i write songs and rap about weird stuff like love self-actualization civilization depression anarchism and taoism i like to eat from the garbage even though it's kinda hard to find organic stuff there i spend a lot of time alone somehow i am still releasing music ... more

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