Mic Check
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To tha young r to tha e tha b to tha e tha I
Never gibe up just live up
Fed upon America
We be spittin? it up
Rippin? it up
For an even amount in each cup
To my brothers burning bare feet on black top
Whose curled ?neath tha shadows
From tha gaze of tha cops
Whose huntin? for 9 to 5?s through factory locks
Is now hunted on this modern day auction block

Flexin? and mahin?
With compley text
Fast and in a fashion
That snap back necks
Quicker than a fed cash tha company checks
Come with tha fire only Marley could catch
This be tha flame in tha cellar beware
Nameless cold millions gaspin? for air
Those naked and wageless
Now scream within cages
They make you pull your shit
Just to get your share

With this mic device
I spit nonfiction
Who got tha power
This be my question
Tha mass of tha few
In this torn nation?
Tha priest tha book or tha congregation?
Tha politricks who rob
and hold down your zone?
Or those who give tha thieves
tha key to their homes?
Tha pig who?s free to murder one
Shucklak
Or survivors who make a move
and murder one back?

Born Of A Broken Man
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My fear hunts me down
Capturing my memories
The frontier of loss
They try to escape across the street where
Jesus stripped bare
And raped the spirit he was supposed to nurture
In the name of my in the name of my

Born of a broken man But not a broken man Born of a broken man Never a
broken man

Like autumn leaves
His sense fell from him
An empty glass of himself
Shattered somewhere within
His thoughts like a hundred moths
Trapped in a lampshade
Somewhere within
Their wings banging an burning
On through endless nights
Forever awake he lies shaking and starving
Praying for someone to turn off the light

Born of a broken man But not a broken man Born of a broken man Never a
broken man

Born As Ghosts
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The hills find peace
Locked armed guard posts
Safe from the scrams
Of the children born as ghosts
Gates guns and alarms
Shape the calm of the dawn
Peering down into the basin
Where death lives on
Where young run foaming at the mouth with hate
Where burning batons beat the freezing who shake
Unter the toxic sunsets they dine and toast
Their walls deny the terror faced by the children
Born as ghosts

Born as ghosts

One book and forty ghosts
Stuffed in a room
The school as a tomb
Where home is a wasteland
Taste the razor wire
And thought is locked in the womb
The tales that tear at the myth of the dream
A suffering that shocks the lives off the screen

Born as ghosts

Maria
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Tha sun ablaze as Maria?s foot
Touches tha surface of sand
On northern land
As human contraband
Some rico from Jalisco
Passed her name to tha boss
She stuffed ten to a truckbed
She clutches her cross
Here comes tha exhaust
And it rips through her lungs
She?s off fast to tha pasture
Like cattle she?ll cross
Degree 106
Sweat and vomit are thrown
And she prays and suffocates
Upon tha memories of home
Of Yanqui guns for blood debts on tha loans
Of smoldering fields rape rubble and bones
Of graves hidden trapped up in visions of war
Of nothing no one nobody no more
These are her mountains and skies and she radiates
And through history?s rivers of blood she regenerates
And like tha sun disappears only to reappear
She?s etenally here
Her time is near
Never conquered but here

To tear away at tha mask

And now she got a quota
Tha neele and thread crucifixion
Sold and shipped across tha new line of Mason Dixon
Rippin? through denim
Tha point an inch from her vein
Tha foreman approach
His steps now pound in her brain
His presence it terrifies
And eclipses her days
No minutes to rest
No moment to pray
And with a whisper
He whips her
Her soul chained to his will
"My job is to kill if you forget to take your pill"
Her arms jerks Tha sisters gather round her and scream
As if in a dream
Eyes on tha crimson stream
Numb as her wrists spit shots of blood to tha floor
Of nothing no one nobody no more
These are her mountains and skies and she radiates
And through history?s rivers of blood she regenerates
And like tha sun disappears only to reappear
She?s etenally here
Her time is near
Never conquered but here

Voice of the Voiceless
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Through steel walls
Your voice blastin? on
True rebel my brother Mumia
I reflect upon
You be tha spark
That set all tha prairie fires on
Make tha masses a mastodon path
To trample tha fascists on
At fifteen exposed
Philly?s finest killing machine
With boots and mad guns
They tried to pacify you young
Cause and effect
Smell tha smoke and tha breeze
My panther my brother
We are at war until you?re free

You?ll never silence tha voice of tha voiceless

You see tha powerful got nervous
Cause he rrefused to be their servant
?Cause he spit truth
That shook heads
And burned like black churches
Prose and verse
A million poor in hearses
Watch tha decision of Dred Scott
As it reserves
So long as tha rope
Is tight around Mumia?s neck
Let there be no rich white life
We bound to respect
Cause and effect
Can?t ya smell tha smoke in tha breeze
My panther my brother we are at war until you?re free

You?ll never silence tha voice of tha voiceless

And Orwell?s hell a terror era coming through
But this little brother?s watching you too

New Millenium Homes
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Hungry people don?t stay hungry for long
They get hope from fire and smoke as they reach for tha dawn
Tha spirit of Jackson
Now screams through tha ruins
Through factory chains
And tha ghost of tha union
Tha forgotten remains
Disappear to their new homes
Tha knife tha thrust
Tha life burns to tha raw bone
Tha blood on tha floor of tha tear is still dryin?
Cover tha spread sheets
Tha Dow Jones skyin?
Tha cell block live stock
Tha bodies they buyin?
Old south order
New norhtern horizon

Violence is in all hands
Embrace it if need be
Livin? been warfare
I press it to CD

A fire in tha master?s house is set

Check tha high tech terror
Of tha new order athletes
Peering into tha eyes of tha child already on trial
These animals rippin? families apart
Get ?em on file
Convictions fit tha stock profile
All tha while films of dogs
Ripping through homes
Ripping skin from bones
Yes tha new millennium homes
Privatizing through private eyes
An era rising
Of tha old south order
New northern horizon

Violence is in all hands
Embrace it if need be
Livin? been warfare
I press it to CD

A fire in tha master?s house is set

Ashes In The Fall
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A mass of hands press on the market window
Ghosts of progress
Dressed in slow death
Feeding on hunger
And glaring through the promise
Upon the food that rots slowly in the aisle
A mass of nameless at the oasis
That hides the graves beneath the masters's hill
Are buried for drinking
The river's water
While shackled to the line
At the empty well

This is the new sound
Just like the old sound
Just like the noose wound
Over the new ground

Listen to the fascist sing
"Take hope here
War is elsewhere
You were chosen
This is god's land
Soon we'll be free
Of blot and mixture
Seeds planted by our
Forefather's hand"

A mass of promises
Begin to rupture
Like the pockets
Of the new world kings
Like swollen stomaches
In Appachachia
It's the priests that fuck you
As they whisper holy things
A mass of tears have transformed to stones now
Sharpened on suffering
And woven into slings
Hope lies in the rubble of this rich fortress
Taking today what tomorrow never brings

This is the new sound
Just like the old sound
Just like the noose wound
Over the new ground

Ain't it funny how the factory doors close
Round the time that the school doors colse
Round the time that the doors of the jail cells
Open up to greet you like the reaper

Ain't it funny how the factory doors close
Round the time that the school doors colse
Round the time that the doors of the jail cells
Open up to greet you like the reaper

This is the new sound
Just like the old sound
Just like the noose wound
Over the new ground

Like ashes in the fall

War Within A Breath
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Every official that comes in
Cripples us leaves us maimed
Silent and tamed
And with our flesh and bones
He builds his homes

Southern fist
Rise through tha jungle mist
Clenched to smash power so cancerous
A black flag and a red star
A rising sun loomin? over Los Angeles
Cause for Raza livin in LaLa
Is like Gaza on to tha dawn of Intifada
Reach for tha lessons tha masked pass on
And seize tha metropolis
It's you that it's built on

Everything can change on a new years day
As everything changed on new years day

Everything can change on a new years day
As everything changed on new years day

War within a breath
It's land or death

Their existence is a crime
Their seat their robe their tie
Their land deeds
Their hired guns
They're tha crime

Thots heard underground round tha rapture
Tha world's eye captured
At last in a Mexican pasture
Tha masked screaming land or death
Within a breath
A war from tha depth of time
Who shot four puppet governors in a in a line
Who shook all tha world bankers
Who think they can rhyme
Shot tha landlords who knew it was mine
Yes a war from tha depth of time

Everything can change on a new years day
As everything changed on new years day

Everything can change on a new years day
As everything changed on new years day

War within a breath
It's land or death

In a Nameless Time

1. The Mysterium

Awakening this curse was the last of all my fears.
If I could turn back time to free me from this crime.
A nameless time.
It started back in time when something stole my mind
And led me through aeons to place and time unknown.
I lived their life, lost in their time, without my face.

Take me back home from these cryptic walls.
I wait for a sign from my own reality, I wait here
In a nameless time.

A certain time passed by, I returned to my life
With memories hard to find, a secret in my mind.
I found it out, I've learned about the place I've been.

Take me away to these cryptic walls.
I wait for a sign from this old reality, it calls me
From a nameless time.
Take me back to these cryptic walls,
To this desert place and this strange reality, it calls me
From a nameless time.

2. The Expedition

I broke up to find this place, find those from the elder race.
In this unknown desert land I was digging in the sand.
Found these ruins, blocks of stone, older than the Egypt ones.
Climbed in caves unspeakable, far down in the planets depths.

There were these enchanted books, pages that I've known too well,
Written by the aliens 'bout the way their study's been.
They transformed through space and time in all kind of living minds
Learning this way everything how through times the culture's been.

And I imagined how it's been like travelling through a nameless
Time. And I remembered how I felt when I was
In a nameless time, in a nameless time...
In a nameless time, in a nameless time...

Take me home from these cryptic vaults.
I wait for a sign from my own reality, I wait here
In a nameless time.

3. Finding Out

Although the most I knew I needed a final proof
If I'd been one of them. And then these pages came:
My written words! So I'd been here in one of them...

Take me back home from these cryptic vaults.
'Cause I've been alive in a strange reality,

Release me from this nameless time.
Take me home from these cryptic vaults.
I'm cursed for all time in this strange reality.
Release me from this nameless time...
In no time.
In no time.

Alive But Dead

As I walk the streets I feel no pain.
There is no love or hate. Can't see no certain state I'm in.
And a fog has laid itself on my heart
Like this misty morning as this cloudy day begins.

Still I wonder should I be afraid
About what's happening and how long has it been - don't know.
Why did come this shadow in my head
Like I have lost my soul, like I'm alive but dead.

As I walk the streets I feel no fear.
Although I notice that there is no feeling anymore.
And I tried to send my mind back to the times
When I was able to live something to the core.

Dark, dark as the grave. My heart is dead.
I'm just a slave to what they've said.
Still I'm alive but I feel dead.

Dark, dark as the grave. My heart is dead.
I'm just a slave to when you call.
Still I'm alive but I must be dead.

Alive but dead
Alive but dead

Darkness, there's darkness everywhere
You gotta help me out of here.
I don't want to stay alive without the capability to feel!

Dark, dark as the grave. My heart is dead.
I'm just a slave to this decay.
Still I'm alive but I feel dead.

Alive but dead
Alive but dead
Can't fill my head
Alive but dead

Dark, dark as the grave. My heart is dead.
I'm just a slave to my disease.
Still I'm alive but I must be dead.

Alive but dead
Alive but dead
Can't feel my head
Alive but dead