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NARRATOR:
“Brave New World” is a study of the world as it may be unless we are extremely careful. It depicts a society in which Man has replaced Nature with science, morality with drugs, individuality with total conformity. It is a hideous prospect, yet we seem to be determined to follow this path of self-destruction.

When I sing these songs;
I mean, when I spit these poems;
I mean, when I take this time on this stage
to talk over these beats speaking crazy thoughts,
try to follow me, cause honestly, my rhymes can help
your mind think. I'm like a drug: I advise you to try Z.
Our life's looking like “Brave New World”
but I'd like to make it more like “Island” or “Into The Wild,” finally.

NARRATOR: The choice, after all, is always in our own hands.

The choice is always in our own hands.
We can't ignore that. We can't hold back.
It's Zack with Catacomb kid, listen up here -
about to turn these girls and boys
into grown men and women.
Let's focus on the moment that we're in.
Everything we're holding onto
is gonna fade within a minute like smoke.
Life is not a joke, don't choke on it.
It's not a blunt, don't blow it.
Your ego is not a rowboat so don't stroke on it.
Don't worry, I am always honest.
My audience is open-minded so I won't be modest;
that real talk, y'all, you know I'm on it,
and y'all should get behind it.
I used to drop bombs like “Fight Music”
but I really wanna teach so I write prudent now
like a Rhodes scholar - not a globe trotter -
that local land-based living, I been sold on it.
“Rewild Or Die,” yeah, that was the album.
Now I'm going “Into The Wild”
to find that wild life I been about
and bring it out, and give it out,
cause education is the only way
we're ever gonna see our freedom found.
It's all good; now that we've acknowledged the problem
as Babylon we can bring it down, or walk away,
and I ain't gonna say which.
I mean, I would, but I ain't got a stake in it.
I'm just gonna stay living and maintain.
Yeah, I'm gonna raise children and stay sane,
cause I've had enough of the struggle.
I gotta get out the big house;
I wanna wander around, wander around,
and y'all can come if you wanna get out before the walls start tumbling down.

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from Into The Wild EP prod. Catacombkid (2013), released April 20, 2013

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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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