(This page is dedicated to Sara.)
Tool and Die
From: Play More Music
Goddamn this is madness it's the fourth consecutive week I've had this reoccuring nightmare of a woman who tries to walk her child to daycare they pass a liquor store see an average looking kid running out the door in a moment frozen they watch as he reveals a handgun terror in her voice no sound he unloads a round her son goes down then I wake up screaming but am I dreaming cause it's just another day so many killings repeated until people have no feeling when every two years guns take more American lives than the whole Vietnam war Six teens and children die every day in gun homicides and the NRA lobby fool pay athletes to tell kids to stay in school whoever said that must be joking go tell that to the kids in Oakland, DC, Detroit and Newark and you wonder why kids don't do their homework the school is a war zone teachers and students alike are afraid to leave home hallways are an innocent tomb the principal's office a grieving room this is a malignant cancer guards and metal detectors won't be the answer hundreds of thousands of students say they carry guns to school daily growing up with fear and panic
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It's Genocide - America has the most homicides - Society devouring it's own young - Take away the guns we need gun control
How can we stop the violence when everywhere we look is the image of gun death the Rodney King explosion is just one result of inner city erosion take away all hope and kids will turn to robbery and dealing dope you don't care about elections what urban youth want is protection from a life of war could be the Iraqi war or war in the Fillmore there is no more tragic sight than a heavily armed youth with no respect for life. The leading cause of death in African American males under thirty five at the funeral the friends will cry but on the street they tool and die and Hollywood has done more than anyone to glamorise the gun movies, music and TV. It's genocide... can't you see... Got to take the profit out of crime, stop glamorising death on prime time. Cities are the only places where kids are waging arms races in suburbs and rural areas. Across the country kids are carrying three more hours and another teenage youth will have committed suicide while his mother's crying gun advocates are on TV lying to the public about how people are the ones who kill and guns don't until we have gun control we can't stop these ten year olds from going in their father's closet where the gun was left unlocked and loaded. Where does it end? When everyone's got their own piece, dividend
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Take away the guns we need gun control
Driving down Guerrero cut off a psycho kid looked like Sendero Luminoso, words were froze so I don't start talking shit and acting macho you could get popped in a minute this is the wild, wild west and we're in it and my kids don't want to play when they have to worry about ducking sprays or two drunks having an argument in front of our apartment when I hear that sound I yell everyone get inside and get down
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By: Consolidated
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Guerrillas in the Mist
From: Play More Music
Welcome to the hate that Gates made new definition in scope of the term police state Pinochet coup American style ricochet hit another innocent child crowd of marchers stacked up against a weak police line calling for backup turn our anger into love when we defend ourselves when Bush comes to shove one last word to the cops the end of the club that's where the buck stops you can turn in your badge, uniform and gun or get with the people or get ready to get done diplomatic channels have been exhausted people sick and tired of paying the cost we all say we want the violence to cease but no justice motherfucker and no peace
Paris:
P-Dog back to break em off something and never fronting when the rhyme keep coming not lotto but I'm in to win and never lose never singing but swinging and bringing nothing but bad news and I'm madder than a motherfucker won't slip and the record won't skip better get hip fitting to pop but I ain't pop how many cops gotta drop when the gat wrecks shop P-Dog coming up on another level no hope for the black folk fuck a devil it ain't nothing but a scandalous ass trap to keep motherfuckers broke and smoking crack so I'm gripping on a clip and fixed to move another nigger on the trigger with nothing to lose you better duck when the gat bucks bitch cause the funk is on, young Mark give me some of that...
Pass the matches...
Ain't nothing changed still anti pig anti drug dealing and anti house nigger but being broke is slavery and if your skin is brown they only want you to stay down see the community needs work black power means more than a t-shirt all I'm trying to do is be sure that the young black youth stay true to the format and see the plan to kill the man and understand it ain't shit for life to end look at the Oak town murder rate we need more than a panel to set it straight so next time somebody asks why motherfuckers sit still while the black keep dying I'm gonna do Elihu and make you see you can't bull shit around with the people's faith and that's why we hate ourselves sleeping with the enemy you're bound to catch hell they ain't never been down with our side so fuck Schlitz Oly and St Ives you better hear the word when I warn you now it seems like the whole world's Arizona, one for Rodney and Latasha and Twana, William Bennett, check your list for guerrillas in the Mist
White supremacy ain't never been a friend to me you better check it when I wreck it cause it's getting deep and get ready for the funk when the pot boil with a dry rag kerosene and motor oil now the Aryan is scary and I'm running up fat Tom better duck when he tries his cause I'm gonna see that he suck on a tech 9 with 15 to his dome will be fine well maybe I just tar and feather you and castrate you cause I hate a devil too rape your women up and then I'll rape your mind think about it it's an eye for an eye and now it's fitting that I'm spitting on America a black man with a plan and I'm scaring you it ain't a threat but a promise out to each in LA, Forsythe and Howard Beach, duck down when the clip from the tech pops you can't fuck with the sound when the needle drop so don't speak when the Panther wreck the house you can't win when the truth is spoken out a real case of a brother you love to hate can't be roughed up or hushed or set straight you better know me on a Mike McGee tip or grab another clip for Guerrillas in the Mist.
By: Consolidated
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Crackhouse
From: Play More Music
Crack MC:
They say they can't convict though they're known to be strict mistook my people for the ones to be hit starting' crimes of passion flames and ash and murder passing hand to hand car to car they done gone too far stop where you are the cops are at war with the B to the L to the A to the C to the K we ain't selling no rocks today I'm breaking glass for the black mans plight gonna burn and loot as proof to the whites they can't take advantage we can do damage thought they could manage our sense of the real so now the king was the god damned defendant cops with the klan bent were just in their bust they can beat you to the fullest extent of the lengths of their clubs peace and love in god we trust don't fuss with the negro pros at dissecting the plotting that many years ago made niggas pick cotton and shamed us aimed us out of our orbit but never explored it to sue the red, white and blue. Voluntary manslaughter killed the father raped the daughter bust this to the youth and trust this to be truth that we're choking on a culture that circles like vultures putting slaves in their graves as unemployed left overs yeah gangs have sprung from the work that you who worship the cursed red, white and blue have done to the kid in your bid to get ahead now rocks gonna roll for green black and red riot they gonna buy it now this black generation done been to patient thelma and louise this whole damn nation and let's just all act up they used logic for the projects like they housing cattle bush's point of light done ignited my battle 'cause my people getting burned and there's nowhere to turn there's a gun to your head, gee, when do you learn?
riot
Welcome to the Crackhouse
Twelve years of Bush and Reagan no opportunity cuts and social spending poverty line poor and homeless sinking calling out the army and blaming the victim every inner city is a crackhouse and every American TV on even if it's a blackout no health care, jobs or housing visualise plebacide 2000 there's no logic reason or rhyme just black on black on brown on yellow crime Aids in the house you can't escape with no condoms for kids no sex education government withhold potential drugs so you drive to the crackhouse and buy it from street thugs no hope for the hopeless no power for the powerless total confusion look at life through an hourglass violence is never an answer it's a question what does it take to get media attention are people really ready for truth now that the chickens have all come home to roost and the leadership purchased patients are quiet but it's too late for empty rhetoric it's a riot
Welcome to the Crackhouse
We need crack in LA
Crack MC:
I'm sorry Rodney, but I just can't stop. I'm the C to the R to the A to the C to the K double up raps is haps I say spray the whole damn block my rock is dominating got a base head lock on this spaced out nation project glass pipe's been the best thing tried got us tight boxed in rollers on all sides feeding black paranoia that can throw you around a bit USA can't say they ain't down with it leading the attack of the killer Caucasians now they trying to persuade us sweep it under the rug getting action from Jesse Jackson about being upset but bet he ain't living on drugs he's just simping and pimping as a politician shooting off his mouth but the fire is missing cause he's turning his back on the blacks going crazy telling us to vote that's a quote like we're lazy instead of oppressed by a stressed population that maimed and then blacks with no reparations got no education thought the nation was dumb kept us poor and ignored till we pick up a gun and defend our lives like the men so wise that we are band together as a gang and then swang do your thang in the middle of the night while I try to teach the devil about wrong and right cause it's beyond his comprehension so some schooling's attempted the usual lies that you hear are preempted been shot in the back for the fact that there wack believe not a word that you've heard about that cause crack is being sold like candy go call barney and andy tell them that maybery's under siege the CRACK MC done hooked opie!
riot
Welcome to the Crackhouse
By: Consolidated and Crack MC
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You Suck
From: Play More Music
The Yeastie Girls:
I know you're really proud cause you think you're well hung but I think it's time you learn how to use your tounge you say you want things to be even and you want things to be fair but you're afraid to get your teeth caught in my pubic hair if you're lying there expecting me to suck your dick you're going to have to give more than just a token lick well you may not like it but you better learn how cause it's your turn now
now you suck suck it hard go down baby you suck lick it hard and move your tongue around
If you're worried about babies you can lower your risk by giving me that special cunnilingus kiss it's on your face that I'm gonna sit you can wiggle you can jiggle your tongue on my clit don't worry about making me have an orgasm just take your time and do it with enthusiasm I can tell it's making you scared just thinking of it but you better learn to love it
now you suck... [follow previous instructions]
When you hear safe sex you snicker under your breath we got to take cover we're flirting with death AIDS is our problem we've got to talk break out your dental dam and your latex sock I'm your latex lover wrapped like a gift got my microwave plastic wrap heating up my clit dinner's on get busy with my booty got a couple of flavours sweet licorice and fruity I know you're said luscious pussy with a cover I'm aching too we can't taste each other there's no slacking off with an unprotected stroke this ain't no joke
Sisters...you've got the power use it!
[woman:] You brought a condom, right?
[man:] HUH?
[woman:] I'm unprotected
[man:] Ain't you on the pill?
[woman:] Oh, that was great and everything, but you know I think it's your turn to go down on me
[man:] I'm tired, I'm tired
[woman:] What do you mean you're tired? come on baby come on
[man:] no, no that's awful ... that taste terrible
[woman:] you ass hole you shit
Well I know you think it's a real drag to suck my cunt when I'm on the rag quit making up stories yeah give me a break cause I really don't believe that you've got a headache you tell me it's gross to suck my yeast infection how do you think I feel when I gag on your erection uuh your wasting your tongue with lame excuses and lies get your face between my thighs
Now you suck... [Very good]
By: Consolidated and the Yeastie Girls
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Accept Me for what I Am
From: Play More Music
We've known each other since we were ten years old couldn't feel the cold growing up in Texas football going to see the dicks and the big boys our identities ran parallel for thirteen years then the changes came I can't explain brought confusion, challenge and fear many things they taught us worked for you but not for me so much pain unanswered questions high school's all about sex and violence I was the antithesis and the target the reason for kids to be hateful and violent because I am Gay this was hard for you the other kids put a pressure on you to move away from me ostracise me I hope that you wouldn't patronise me why can't they accept me just for what I am I am not the elephant man they act as though this is some choice I made you say that I'm unnatural my sex is against your religion then how's it a bigger sin than trying to make some woman suck your kiss eighteen years old in a far away city but I'm not alone I've got convictions love and life but you've got to be strong I wrote you a letter and never expected it to be returned hatred is something that will never leave but from ignorance you've got to learn if we want equality we've got to open our eyes hate is rationalised it cannot be justified
Struggle
By: Consolidated
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Dog + Pony Show
From: Business of Punishment
well well well here we go again hoarding much gilders no dollars no yen papa just signed a fat deal both babies need new shoes and what about mark and phil i'm not complaining just explaining to the people that the public grind can be draining when i got in it i was poor not samuel becket but i'm still waiting for good dough just want to bust some loops now some c.e.o got me jumping through hoops i used to be mr. niceguy now i'll have my lawyer put your dick in a vice guy i'm over this rock'n roll circus this will be the last time a label tries to jerk us 'cause we can get worked on nettwerk but i'll be damned if i ever get played again sam
first you get a call from a.&r. licking my ass saying i'll make you a star then i'm hearing about band label unity i'm thinking fuck that shit stick the money into my community you talk about the trust you want to build though when you change your mind get behind me with a dildo twelfth hour stalled negotiation no economic sodomy without representation when it's over have fun but as soon as the record is done get your ass on the road to rape and pillage like vikings sacking all the villages don't care about your nervous breakdowns so long as the bus doesn't break down the product manager doesn't care just says get in your little suits and get your asses up there
i live in the rain forest don't preach to no chorus activists adore us some press got it in for us you know my style got a wife and childs i'm not down with the mob or the pedophiles for over five years i've been your hypocrite we were distributed by a major then so who gives a shit hip hop suits industrial boots don't care what you wear we're all prostitutes whining dining now sign the fucking bottom line
well well well what the fuck do we have here gouge your eyes out like kurosawa's king lear in the end i don't give a fuck that to you i'm just a write off or a quick buck after i'm gone you'll still have your job and no you can't have the fucking back catalog i'm still smoking blunts on the corner with the college promo guy from warner's if you're going to be a ho, sorry, it's a dog and pony show
By: Consolidated
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Today is my Birthday
From: Business of Punishment
I quit my job today but i quit giving up a long time ago being an activist doesn't pay still gotta pay the rent and utilities somehow but i don't know i was reading the op-ed page today a conservative priest just ripped me for advocating safe sex for teenagers he said this is god's punishment we'll feel sorry for her tradegy but she got what she deserves i don't want your sympathy i don't need your platitudes this father's no different from my own father so my friends and my family why should i listen to you you never listen to me everyday i ask the same questions everyday i wonder what you'd think if you were me call me if you have time it's strange to see my old friends when they're out at night maybe I'll take some time to travel right now I'm just trying to keep things level but sometimes i lose it
today is my birthday I'm gonna be twenty and i'm hiv positive i contracted it a year ago you all have to understand that it's part of our reality and the person next to you could be hiv positive your lover could be hiv positive and they don't know you have to be careful
every time i see my reflection i start crying but i refuse to let you tell me my life is just dying my will is strong but time has double meaning and it cuts like a knife at the time i was diagnosed i'd only had three lovers in my life why should i answer to you you never answer to me everyday i ask the same questions every day i make big decisions i'll deal with the consequences of my reality i'm only telling you because noone ever told me in the meantime i stay healthy my only regret is i'll never have a baby i used to catch myself saying maybe - maybe.
By: Consolidated
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Butyric Acid
From: Business of Punishment
Thanks to Linus Nordberg for typing this text.
i want to talk about media distortion
ad campaign telling lies about abortion
standing there call yourself a good christian
break your fucking sign because you're causing me friction
ignorant group operations rescue
if you treat women then they might even kill you
randall terry says they're soldiers of god
if you ask me i'd say they're smoking much prod
a little advice for the medical students
(they're) teaching cowardice not medical prudence
lobbying pressure from the a.m.a. cracker
don't treat women and you call yourself a doctor
standing in line fucking slime with no sense
two can play at that start clinic defense
yelling over me showing patients no respect
break for the lane get (an) elbow in your neck
if you don't want a nazi in your house don't let one
don't know a fundamentalist 'til you've met one
if you've memorized your civil rights don't forget one
if you don't want an abortion don't get one
marching with your cross and your dead fetus picture
don't let me see you or i'll jam it up your sphincter
you're lucky that i find violence so heinous
but my wife and her friends'll put a foot in your anus
confused sad woman kill apologizing
sad fucking bible you still memorizing
had to make a choice between god and her sisters
you imitate your oppressor so you dissed her
even though you told me you had the procedure
just 'cause you're rich and you're white that freed you
from the consequence of a child out of wedlock
from the family shame at the congregation potluck
crazy pregnant woman citing her religion
the baby's going to die without cesarian section
i won't support scientific intervention
give her the freedom to deal with her actions
if you don't want a nazi ...
ru486 yes i am sir
anything to empower women that's for damn sure
know what it means when they're bombing all the clinics
who's going to say get off the fence to the cynics
harassing g.y.n. with a death threat
say that you're doing god's work well yeah bet
respect women and give her some room
believe in her rights stay out of her womb
if you want to see women stop termination
give her a future and a real education
do you think women want to kill their own babies
if got your own twisted baggage then maybe
if you don't want a nazi ...
By: Consolidated
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