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Rebel Without Applause

from UNCON003: Headspace by TH!NK

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What's an encore, if all your songs bore and your fans forget what they put you on for? What's a reaction, if it's a lie kid? They turn on the applause sign and the crowd obliges. What's a good review if you bought it? What's an award if you didn't earn the plaudits? I stay the rebel without applause kid, if don't know – get to know – from the top it's...The rebel circulating on a lower level - word to Satan and friends. Converse with devils, adverse to medals, allergic to praise or commendation. Content in making a mense, state my two pence, breaking some pens, consume the contents. Drink ink, sink in the blood of Bics, drowning in the mud of script. All about some other shit – straight out of the Mother Ship. After some bevee and a heavy luncheon, me and crew get really wild – word to Terry Nutkins. And as for you lack of encouragement, it's encouraging, I don't heed the judgment of a bumpkin. So far I've probably had less compliments, than the world has continents or the word “incompetent” has consonants. But I consider each one caught an accomplishment and I know I'm making a start. But along with them, it ain't always applause or positive acknowledgment (have you seen who they're following?). With a flawed sense, false logic, felled consciousness - their condemnation don't dent my confidence. The consequence of using common sense is that I don't take it to heart or tryn break it apart. I'll just keep making the spark to light the dynamite that ignites the rhyme to illuminate in the dark. It ain't up to me to claim what i'm making is art - I'm just swimming hard, escaping the sharks. In rife, ridden waters, avoid the clutches of pin-striped Jaws' - fuck signing that clause kid. May have been born yesterday, but I stayed up all night studying the game with a cautiousness and as an approach I've adopted this more times than Brad and Angelina have adopted kids. You know what it is!

Stay the rebel without applause.
No need for praise, plaudits or awards.
No need for fake, fawning encores.
Just to stay raw, rugged, real to the core.

Yes! The rhythm, the rebel, circulating on a lower level with disheveled, dead-broke blokes who flow to get rotation like the peddles. I peddle dead sea scroll notation over samples. An outsider, traversing the chosen channels pagans and ancient shaman's traveled. You don't wanna see me aiming that bro, bust some semen on you couch, call it naval ammo. And so, you should jump ship or jump back and if they hardly applauding this, I unload gun clips, makes guns clap, that's what I call a target audience. Don't mean to get too demographic dude but anyone who's middle-management can play my phallic flute. What attitude? I ain't acting rude, that's just how I react to a complete lack of gratitude. How you don't accept the fact that the dude ain't your typical, the only pigeonhole you'll find me in is marked “original”. At your shows, I find dudes snoring, your rhyme's too boring. Text is standard format like Times New Roman. It cannot be under-stated how under-appreciated the speaker's name is. So I'm sharping blades of wit to lacerate all the fucking fakers with my cadence kid. Those tryna bring the light, (Zippo!) they a bust clipper. I ignite, inspire fires - they just flicker. I just shimmer like sun's reflection in the river. A shiver down the spine of time can't get much quicker. Hit ya like that first sip of liquor taken by the drifter, with a thirst just to disappear. We shifting gears, lifting ears to a new level this year. The devil you know, is better than the rebel you fear.

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from UNCON003: Headspace, released September 16, 2013
Produced by TH!NK

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