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People Never Heard This is for the people who are never heard. It's a voice for the voiceless, a toast for the toastless smoke for the smokeless for those on the train but are coachless for those who do the farming but are foodless we this .. believe this. This is for the people who are never heard We've got so much more to say and no one gets to hear tip toein through this life drivin by fear This is for the people who are never heard This is for those with chains on their feet we scared to move we scared of defeat this is for those who go non stop nuturing their children, harassed by the cops it's like fuck the many and serve the few in this world of vertical madness what are we to do? Is there time served for the people never heard remembering the coming years like they're already gone when desperation conquers reason it's a treason to behold on ourself without knowing, we're filling a mold contemplating survival something so old. This is for the people who are never heard. We're everything we'll never be stifled from our true potential, we could be so much more but this fear culture reigns on us and it ain't accidental. We scared of each other, steady keeping us from our basic essentials but if i am you and you are me and we share knowledge to becoming we, pulling strength from one another than we wouldnt need managers or masters, these fuckers sucking on us like cancers we are never heard, cause they never asked us they wouldn't like the answer it's a hush hush, been silenced for years we ain't livin through our fears so fuck your careers This is for the people who are never heard We've got so much more to say and no one gets to hear tip toein through this life drivin by fear This is for the people who are never heard Making me feel funny like a bad remix and these tricks are for kids this is my bid for another society Living horizantly, what it be, wanna be constantly thinking how we can do better cause we all have ideas on how shit can work better. together. but it's like a lost love letter so much good intention but it's never delivered a misconnection,options never considered so i'm saying it now cause a broken people we can't be This is for the people who are never heard.
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Smile 02:37
SMILE This smile, that smile Which is the one? Real smile, cracked smile coming undone A breaking grin from within isn't enough can't hold up smile never sung Obligated and coralled to buy smiles that don't fit they don't sit.. right Which smile is this? Which smile is this? Crack a smile even if it's fake Crack a smile even if it break Plastic exterior Fake styles Fake smiles your shit is lame like corporate music pushed on us its all the same Hollow on the inside Shallow on the downside Empty. Which smile is this? We had plenty fake happiness disillusioned contentment Lie to me, i'll believe Lie to ourselves, never see Reflection in the mirror never coming clear Disillusioned contentment in a world of fear Which smile is this? This smile ,That smile Which is the one? Real smile, cracked smile coming undone A breaking grin from within isn't enough can't hold up smile never sung We stand next to reality everyday never make eye contact just look away Until you wanna buy back the dreams that you sold just look away and dream about gold These produced smiles are buried with profit and waste strangled with products never intended to work or function strickly for consumption If i was a better consumer would it make my smile more real and inspired Instead of empty anxiety taking pills to see Which smile is this? the smile looks so sweet but stabs in the side it's cold on the inside Which smile is this? Fake happiness leading to resentment a smile with a twist disillusioned contentment Which smile is this?
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The Love We Keep The love we keep inside Does it fade? does it die? Does it keep workin overtime Screamin just to stay alive. That love we keep That love we keep inside That love we keep The love for one another the care, compassion for anothers despair a sympathetic reaction I'm tryin to pretend that i dont care, but i do The hearts' the size of our fist through em up, its true It's hard to resist that love that tears us apart and brings us together so im asking you ehh.. Is it enough? Will it bring me to the end? and is it enough? Is there more coming round the bend? When my batteries empty does my alternator kick in? Like a good friend bringing us back to the beginning, filling with inspiration of more living soo.. The love we keep inside does it fade? Does it grow? Does it multiply to let you know that you're not alone and its boomeranging home cause its about the people not the political party, let's go! Baby girl in the back saying, Now we on a roll! We all step up! You heard it before NO bosses! and now we in control We need real mutual aid, let's go! That love we keep inside does it fade? Does it grow? That love we keep That love we keep inside That love we keep That love we keep inside
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My girls' got pressure One trip. I can't make. A mistake. Pressure. One trip. We can't make. A mistake. Pressure. One trip. We can't make. A mistake. Pressure. Pressure. Pressure. My girl was fired for being pregnant I don't know where her fuckin head went She thinkin the owner give a fuck about life When he'd rather take her in the back racehorse stylee Blat ! Blat ! Piled in the stack she be Like she sixty Like how we treat our old you had your day now truth's been told you been used and abused but no more confused Fired for being pregnant Watch out! you could be next We all disposable heros and these killers come correct? there's a 2 week lapse and you can't pay your rent cause your paycheck says 150 my daycare 160 One trip. I can't make. A mistake. Pressure. One trip. We can't make. A mistake. Pressure. One trip. We can't make. A mistake. Pressure. Pressure. Pressure. [Repeat} Pressure in this cooker like we're pieces of rice struggling for this life like we all are to different degrees they got us beggin on our knees Beggin boss man please Beggin for some obvious Get off top of us No hierarchy Hold us down Box us in and there's no more sound Hillary or Obama cant save us now like they ever could cause They fillin their position They feelin their role this role we seen before and i think we can have a classless society Horizontally Dismantle the power stack Distribute our wealth back sooo get up get up its a stick up stick up cause they got us begging on our knees Beggin boss man please Beggin for that obvious Get off top of us No hierarchy Hold us down Box us in and theres no more sound Hillary can't save us now One trip. I can't make. A mistake. Pressure. One trip. We can't make. A mistake. Pressure. One trip. We can't make. A mistake. Pressure. Pressure. Pressure.
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Bang Bang Silver Dollar Bang Bang! silver dolllar Chang chang Without this i still move Makin somethin Outta nutta Aint new This new Makin moves Makin moves Bang Bang! Who holds the piggy bank who collects? Who holds the piggy bank who's in debt? Who holds the piggy bank who deals it out? Who calls the shots?Who cleans them pots? Ya wonder, I betcha, i know, it kept ya Got you in a chokehold CEO's, Bankas, Politicians Gangstas Elbow to the throat and no passing go No go No go cause they own you and they own the land sand and the sea too They some loan shark monsters with a big crew Credit card killer a pusher a dealer You don't know their name but they own this game They hold the banks Got it on lock cause they own the tanks They own the T.V. They talkin that makin us believe that we need the Man they some sleazy corporate sponsored marketing adventure manipulating we The pork the protector of the bank investors Why can't we see they some hanibel lecter cannibel shit Dalmer aint got nuthin all the flesh they get. killers..serial bankers.. who benefits? follow the money trail and we'll find answers or it's another trail of tears forever where's the money come from? where's does it go? makes me skepital of the things i touch and know like how'd they get the money? where'd the get the dough? Who worked finger to the bone ? who had to die? to get the bankers bills staked so high believe that there's a connection.. a corralation, so's here's my interception for conversation we need some reflection on Who holds the piggy bank? who collects? Who holds the piggy bank? who's in debt? Who holds the piggy bank? who deals it out? Who calls the shots?Who cleans them pots? Ya wonder, I betcha, I know, It held ya Ransom for your work check Cleared check Bounced check How much is your amount check Check check Check into cash. Bank of italia City bank Bank of america J.P. Morgan Chase Fat bankers telling me to tighten my belt thats like alcoholics telling me to get some help But i want to move on to a world without hunger Death from hunger Fighting one another for land and power American dollar,euro,yen,pound I've been around, all the stories I've found and seen I said, you know what i mean when push comes to love we can shovel alot Lookin out for each other sometimes it's all we got.. They ain't lookin out for we They lookin out for them Our needs are never meet so why do we pretend They sold us out It's in their interest their bankable income giving us no rest keeping us all pressed bent over the rent.. pressure While I'm waiting on the automated telephone line It got me feeling quite the lesser and they some carlo hesser they can do what they want and keep us wondering why are luck, don't amount to fuck no matter how hard we try I never trusted mr. bank it's true only dealing with em cause i have to If i had an option i'd divorce em but this economic freedom not suppose to It's a double standard from way back getting pressing on my our last nerve siadic Ok listen mr. bank if i could no thanks you can keep your statements and fuck your payments cause they makin multi billion dollar profits and zero taxes paid multi million dollar refunds and the rest of us are slaved Wall street bailouts are makin more than before Bail skeet wailout some dicks galore so lets Smash the banks of marble Kick the bosses out the door share the vaults silver that we all have worked for Bang Bang! silver dolllar Chang chang Without this i still move Makin somethin Outta nutta Aint new This new Makin moves Makin moves Bang Bang! Piggy Piggy Bang Bang!
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Antagonista A Vita Feelin like your gettin ripped off everyday You gotta watch that hustle in a critical way When it's big business beastuality baby It'll eat you up and roll you over slap your mother and eat your brother all in the name of some war, power, profit They say It's just natural you can't stop it But yes we can, it's like, just say no we can change what we know popular revolts from below cause it don't feel good and it don't feel right got you stayin up late night putting stress in your life assassini thiefs like them I can't be so i made a decision, we can make a choice Antagonista a Vita Antagonista a Vita ..Life.
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Eliminate The Position Say it's lonely at the top then get rid of it, rid of it People sipping garbage are sick of it, sick of it Never learned to share it's a give and take not a rake and make They're profitting off some misery and torture investing in this shit and saying that it's order We're pieces of cattle written up in their business plan They're holding the saddle and we thrown in the pan It's like "change" 'yes we can' I can't buy that bit cause they still want cheap hands to clean their shit so we'll always be underpaid and overworked and that's our condition until we decide to eliminate that position
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Mix Tapes And Cotton Mixtape Mixtapes and cotton Mixtape Mixtapes and cotton We got mixtape mixtapes and cotton Growing up in america with a burning cross god bless you little lady feeling all is lost fear splattered on your face at any cost. but we got mixtapes and cotton I grew up on tapes and cotton and a lot in between not to be forgotten burning crosses ice cream so, no way we stoppin drowning dog you've seen. So you stabbed my dog, covered your face burned some wood such cowardly disgrace but you the man that's what you said take off the mask and come ahead cause we can deal with you yeah,we can deal with you we can deal with a redneck with a pit and we can deal with some boy down the road talking shit but when the police start the fires institutional burn flamed by policies now that's a concern a deadly weapon tenth degree burn like somethin you learned anger misdirected misdirected from the start anger misdirected eating up your heart
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Sick 02:56
SICK So So Sick Sick and Tired So So Sick Owned and Managed So So Sick Sick and Tired So So Sick Sick of being owned Sick of being managed Owned and managed they creating an advantage and it's ohh so savage pillage, cabbaged pickled,ravished owned and managed it's like my brains in a bandage sitting here chewing on my manwich sandwich owned and managed Gotta go and look for a new job and i hate that shit Go try and sell yourself and talk to some pricks beg for jobs that you don't really want Are you a team player? take the team player test Watch these videos and put our name on your chest Customer service, got you alright. It's all taking and no givin We in the rat race reachin for the ribbon We're owned and defined It's an ultimate design This heirarchal structure keeps my owner just fine When it comes to "risk" they say they're a team player, when it comes to "profit" they're a private investor WTF, get it straight, hypocrite, fuckin fake That's why i'm for the self emancipation of the working class and their structure i blast cause i think people should have control over what they are affected and what they do or what they produce let me tell you, otherwise it no use, but this is the story of the working poor no matter where in the world you are it's been like this for generations no matter how they spin it We at the end of the line exploited forever for the dime ..billions I don't wanna exploit and I don't wanna be exploited so it's left me feeling just a little disjointed and i'm So So Sick Sick and Tired So So Sick Owned and Managed So So Sick Sick and Tired So So Sick Good boss, bad boss Better boss, worse boss We no longer serve the boss no longer one man making all the profit their position is obsolete We can share the pains and the gains that come off it no longer need them to be complete. When we standing on our feet learning how to grow learning how to let go when we work what we own and we own what we work We can change our path repeat history past or talking that same.. repeat Press play and rewind but i wanna go forward.. evolve cause i got no time and it's a possibility this collectivity tonight in your neighborhood in the trailer park, we sitting up thinking it's half past dark. We realized, we decide self managed we can remove the bandage Equality in the workplace yes we can organize ourselves better than the man So So Sick Sick and Tired So So Sick Owned and Managed So So Sick Sick and Tired So So Sick
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When Yesterday Is Finished When yesterday is finished and tommorows door is closed Tommorows door is closed, tomorrows door is closed When yesterday is finished finished finished.. When this life is over was it worth it? Could we really live the way we wanted? We work it, we deserve it or were we trapped in a design wage slaves in a class system Chained to nine to five economically driven Leaving us with no time for whats important to you we living for other peoples schemes, regimes and coups Who's playin who? Smells like some lies, rotten flesh too When yesterday is finished and tomorrows door is closed Tomorrows door is closed, tomorrows door is closed When yesterday is finished finished finished.. I'm saying, when it's done and dusted could we live life or just lust it ? When we sitting in the dark waiting for our eyes to adjust, can we see more clearly? Can we see more just? Don't want to wait for this We all creating a purpose I'm more than scratching the surface Can we admit it to ourselves or are we scared to ask at work we treated like old product shelf expiring fast soo.. Our lives before their profit and Our lives before their wealth cause When yesterday is finished and tomorrows door is closed Tomorrows door is closed, tomorrows door is closed When yesterday is finished finished finished.. Could you break free? Did you get down on one knee? Did you feel that you were blessed? and this was destiny or Did you think that this was it and that was just fine Absolutley who knows it was always on your mind. We stuck in the hustle stay busy watching the clock Waiting heaven to dissolve our troubles, We hoping alot This life goes so quick you blink times away and without it we can't stay sooo..IMAGINE When yesterday is finished and tomorrows door is closed Tomorrows door is closed, tomorrows door is closed When yesterday is finished finished finished..

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Class conscious electro rap from San Francisco to Berlin via Milano.

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