Downset

Come with the bloody moon and the chaos
Gog and Magog triple six reigns over spirits lost
Satanic nations and thrones reign and slay
But solid is super-souls love and righteous pathways

Asking me why I ain't down with the bloodshed
Wicked fool we approve of lies as eternal truth
Worship the mark of the beast demonic feast
Seven the seals sacred faith no need to pack steal

No "Geed-up" rap anywhere up and on me
Strictly KRS, Public Enemy, Bob Marley
Mad ups to MLK and the infinite Ghandi
Doom to the demons that dominate all around me

Deep in the soul fool
You know you ain't right running around with your eyes shut tight
I know what it's like to not want to see the sunrise
So shattered the pictures on fire, the winter never lies

But that chemical won't always keep the empty space full
Bludgeon corrode desecrate the body temple
Half the fools we know yes they sick style sprung
Deeper and further from ourselves I have always watched us run

From the family perspective yes I've watched the dope wreck shit
Deep "Veteranos, Tequatos" fool this childhood knows
Deep in the soul
Fool you know you ain't right going around with them eyes shut tight

Further away from ourselves, further away from the truth
You can throw the set in the sky
But the eternal majestic Mount Zion you can't deny
A gat, a clip, a hollow-tip with your name on it

Loving to trip but one day you'll get caught up and slip
So cheap a death but my brother so precious is life
Speaking the language of fratricidal sights
You do like "Cain" did "Abel" you love to watch your brother's blood
Flow fool tell me no, spirit so cold! Denial

Sex kills, sex kills
Sex kills, sex kills
Sex kills, sex kills
Sex kills, sex kills

Sex kills, sex kills
Sex kills, sex kills
Sex kills, sex kills
Sex kills

We will look into the eyes of the other and lie
And say that we love them
Then strip the innocence given and create
Destruction we will never truly comprehend

The ultimate act of sharing is reduced
To the ultimate act of taking
Seconds of trembling flesh is not worth
Years of inner suffering

Taken away, taken away
Sex kills
Taken away, taken away
Sex kills

Do my eyes betray what I feel and see?
Exploitation leads to the abandoned seed
This is no sexual liberation
We have accepted desecration

And when they've taken and taken, and taken, and taken
Beyond hope and healing, left alone with your feelings
Your mourning will have no mercy
It will steal from so much more than your body

Taken away, taken away
Sex kills
Taken away, taken away
Sex kills

I would rather seek the peace of the self then play
The games that force the scars of lifelong insecurity
Frightening desires for dominant position
When all we should be doing is loving

Taken away, taken away
Sex kills
Taken away, taken away
Sex kills

Sex is a weapon
Sex can kill
Sex is a weapon
Sex can kill

The minute is hard and it walks an unfit honest mile alone
The truth laid out to wait rest well and die cold
I know the method, lips drawn wide to turn and sway
To smile behind the biting tongue
Each of us danced well in lies the hand, the handle and the sword

Lies, there are those of us who will embrace lies
And yet if it comforts us we will do what lies do
When I confess there is no truth demons remain
Sleepless again in love with blood starved souls
Forgotten without sounds between birth and death
Lies will whisper deepest disintegration before the living

Lies fashioned with the images of angelic faces
It grows into a stillness and we will respond lies
Can I speak of deepest deaths unseen?
Pearl teardrops will fall from the faces of undeserved suffering
Forcing permanent days unmoving, forcing permanent days unmoving

Slicing clean but not as deep and what it equals scars will tell
Pain runs hard, hate runs clean and on the floor your whittlings fell
Because this monster begets the monster, myself and the thorn of fear
That the selfsame well from which my laughter comes
Would also bleed with my tears

Say come killer! You know it is sickness
You can't deny it sickness
Yes greed is sickness! Greed is sickness
I am not a lower form of human life
All none son nagging sense of nobodies
Deep disappointment slave among abundance
Who lives it knows it as I flow the theme
These conditions extreme deepest evil unseen
I'm putting up with what is unjust
But truth lifts with a swiftness just like dust
Are we givin' the realm to reach our highest ability
That's the question see word up 'cause I don't see it be
I am not a lower form of human life! Kill greed! Say come killer
They taken the food from the mouths of the ones that need to be the most fed
They taken the food from the mouths of the ones that been left for dead
They taken the food from the mouths of the ones that have been treated as human debris
They taken the food from the mouths of the ones who will embrace divinity
Poverty is the worst form of violence! I am not a lower form of human life

Try to understand who I am
My pops is an intelligent black man
My mom's locked up in S I B I brand, damn
It's like they're handing me planned positional placement

Inheritance parents mistaken left my soul aching
Hurting painful let downs are burning fire inside
Fire inside's is what I got right
Unjustified lies, life died so I picked up a mic
Microphone the danger curse

This earth's done got them tears dripping
Lifetime of decline got me blind to the real sign
Running around helpless, selfish
Direction less spiritual savior get me flexin' that will to live

Horrifying, horrifying

Shot one, shot one
Tell them how your soul fell
Closet bigotry insecurity
I see from the ones closest to me
I see this disease

Complexion sways your mental direction
Privilege culture subliminal racist
Stereotypical walk and mythical lies must go
Prejudging human beings that you are seeing
Millions of 'Mark Fuhrmans' within my midst
But flesh does not determine what is within

Blood on my hands
Could also be blood of my hands

Mi espirto ya esta cansado de cadensa
Psychologicas de porbesa
Ahorra me quito mis manos de mis ojos
Ey miro la relidad

Ey porque acceptamos
Positions sub-servillente sin preguntas
No tenemos que viver asi
De nacimento nos ensenan que creer
Que los blancos son mejor que los morenous

Ey se emponen a acceptar
La dominacion de hombres sobre mujeres
Estos tradiciones tienen que acabar siempore

My spirit is already tired
Of the psychological cadence of poverty
Now I take my hands from my eyes
And look at reality

And why do we accept
Subservient positions without question?
We don't have to live like this
From birth they teach us to believe
That the whites are better than blacks

And they persist in accepting
The domination of men over women
These traditions must be finished
Forever and ever
Sangre de mis manos

Todos somos ninos de dios ey ningun
Gobierno puede negar lo
Ni dinero ni politica puede
Ebfrentar la verda que es eternal

Postivo advance social aqui no es enivetable
Pero que queremos en est dia?
La verda 'o' una vida de menttiras

All of us are children of God
And no government can deny it
Neither money nor politics can confront
The truth that is eternal

Positive social advance
Isn't inevitable here
But what do we want in this day?
The truth or a life of lies?
Sangre de mis manos

Twelve was the age that set me off with the graff style
While zapp bumping, gang banging was hype with the juvenile
Graff grabbed my mind which led to expression and thought
Seventh and Hill, I used to bus kill with snap and skill

Fake bus passes with all city access
Insides and outsides going up was a must
Paying much dues from the Valle to Los
One-Times is on the sweat and they jacking for piece-books

Pocket full of Fatcaps, so what's up and where you at
Tag-banging toys hit me up like what you write ese
But I'm not about beef just the burners and sketches
And respect is gained from the flavor of you phlexin'

Not by capping a piece and dissing tags for attention
Serious world-wide aerosolic expression
So focus the mind, hit some surface and stop trippin'
Pocket full of Fatcaps, so what's up and where you at

Graffin' up in L.A., you can't act stupid and play
Striking up in the wrong hood could mean your last day
Most every set has a block and every block has a mad set
With sick evil fools who love to see blood-hit pavement

L.A. area hip-hop under threats of existing
B-Boy culture in violence, peace as purpose is drifting
So tag-banger afraid to be a real gangster
Get schooled on some roots and get that mission together

Graffiti writer ghetto culture provider
Fascist activist don't want me to exist
Propagated media hype
Stereo-type you try to make me look like the one with the gat and knife

Lies after lies, classist racist and mythical
But even Suburbia child is down with ghetto cultural
Fears got three strikes, Skate gets all the love I got
Under the influence of the hardcore that can't be stopped

Say come killer! You know it is sickness
You can't deny it sickness
Yes greed is sickness! Greed is sickness
I am not a lower form of human life
All none son nagging sense of nobodies
Deep disappointment slave among abundance
Who lives it knows it as I flow the theme
These conditions extreme deepest evil unseen
I'm putting up with what is unjust
But truth lifts with a swiftness just like dust
Are we givin' the realm to reach our highest ability
That's the question see word up 'cause I don't see it be
I am not a lower form of human life! Kill greed! Say come killer
They taken the food from the mouths of the ones that need to be the most fed
They taken the food from the mouths of the ones that been left for dead
They taken the food from the mouths of the ones that have been treated as human debris
They taken the food from the mouths of the ones who will embrace divinity
Poverty is the worst form of violence! I am not a lower form of human life

There is a God and I bow and you will hate me for it!
Duty to humble my soul to a speck of dust and you'll hate me for it!
Ageless understanding of love from the heavens and you'll hate me for it!
Serenities balance is my innermost peace and you will hate for it!
Your world is against the spirits! This is day is against the spirits!
I gladly detach my soul from the lies that sicken this day.
Disregarding the metric wickedness that decays my inner space.
There is something inside myself that can't become this "sickness."
Reminded once more that the quest for the top is coldness!
I will love God of "Zion" with all my heart and you will hate me for it!
Intentions will be so helples and you will hate me for it!
I will love through resurrecting eyes and you will hate me for it!
Self exultation is the opiate of the masses.
Your world is against the spirits! This day is against the spirits!

Birth to this emptiness, conception in lovelessness
Spiritless hands show no caress
There was no embrace from tear-stained faces
Environment bottomless compassion was motionless

Weary eyes will only see the depths of captivity
Here in this perpetual misery
Hate's piercing sound disfigures the soul
In the stream of my tears, I lay in their mold

Do you got any love in your heart?
Unfeeling, unfeeling, unfeeling
I touched my innermost self with its healing
Threw myself down at the feet of its mercy

The stone of my heart met its defeat
Love emptied me filling me with serenity
It's a light that want to embrace me
I was not of love still it accepted me whole

And where there was nothing left
There is lovin' the soul
Love is not weakness
Love is power

Love is truth
Love is endless
Love is your forgiveness
Love is your sacrifice

Love is your faith
Love is your trust
Love is your hope

It's immoral to encourage others to accept injustice you do not endure,
Such superficial optimism a deepness not so pure,
Anesthetic presence with an undefined concern,
With images so glorified but still where is our cure.
Give! Where's your fire?
Movements definition unclear amid definite crises,
Retreating carelessly with persuasions that seem to never end,
And must immarilty become so monumental before we see?
Give! Where's your fire?
Out my face! Out my face!
Pseudo-intellectual moderate steppin' to dis,
And you say that my concerns don't burn with validity,
Trying to check me got nothing to prove "be",
On with the privilege shit-talking blood of my people your mocking,
If it came down to dying I would see that ass running,
Say full belly-buster you willing to suffer and put your ass on the line and fool help me gets mine!
Give! Where's your fire?

All are guilty of judgment
And seeing what we only want to see
And the dangers of false pedestals
Is illusive self-moral supremacy

So quick to magnify the faults
Inside of one another
Then the flames of out own darkness can ignite
And we become what we fear

Cast your judgment!
Hurl a stone!
Cast your judgment!
Hurl a stone!

Does criticism crush or heal the heads that we oppose
Because the brothers we see living
Are the ones we should love the most
By tearing down another living soul we cannot build
Arrogance is of no value and what will it fulfill

Cast your judgment!
Hurl a stone!
Cast your judgment!
Hurl a stone!

Cast your judgment!
Hurl a stone!
Cast your judgment!
Hurl a stone!

Let's not fool ourselves
Our hearts are solid steel and cold-blooded
With most intentions to humiliate
And to applaud our hearts of darkness

And when we make honest truthful steps
Towards compassionate healing
We will have no time to criticize
Because we will find ourselves the most sickening

You know it!
You know it!

Cast your judgment!
Hurl a stone!
Cast your judgment!
Hurl a stone!

Cast your judgment!
Hurl a stone!
Cast your judgment!
Hurl a stone!

Ya best come correct
Step correct
818 on the map psychological mind trap
Step to a fool and I'll bet he's got a gat

Paranoia principle has got us strippin'
So three dot lifestyle has got us running hell of miles
It's all that we know, it's all that we do
Seen and done, so many homicides we thinking it's right fool
My brothers down to slay me daily Cyco sickness within us
Damn, it's getting rough

I will survive, I will survive y'all, I must survive
Life on the line I said keep on breathing
Ya best come correct, what's up dog?

Don't numb yourself because this is a hell
Wicked one, wicked one out for self
Not only in L.A. but it's jumping off worldwide
From L.A. to Belfast to genocide at wayside

And if killing my brother means survival
Then I'll take this bullet with all of the love of my soul
You can call me a punk but I ain't givin' up
Solid givin' my life see
Whatever the cost may be? Juice, Coke, Yeska, Heroin, Doses
Making fools snap now I got to live around that

I will survive, I will survive y'all, I must survive
Life on the line I said keep on breathing
The worst kind of man kills his brother, God help us

Anger! Hostility towards the opposition! 187 L.A. trademark,
don't come to the killing fields if you ain't got no fucking
heart, cuz WILLIE, IRA and DARYL will get you - got you -
fucked up and dead will be the way you walk. Damn right, I
hate L.A. swine with a passion GEE cuzz my pops was killed by
the fucking L.A.P.D. Yes they killed my daddy! Yup they killed
my daddy! And if I don't blast 'em back , you know they gonna
fucking kill me, do me like they did NATASHA, back turned from
a gat hollow tip to the dome they got ya. April 29, L.A. swine
not guilty, fools down for the payback on Florence and Norman-
dy. Anger! Coming straight from the L.A. concrete, true blue
motherfucker about for generations deep. But who's the real
motherfucker though, and what does that fake know about mot-
herfucking South Central? Fool! What you know about a set or a
sign , you fake motherfucker? Never ever seen a nine. But if I
catch you slippin' punk, I'm gonna fade ya cuzz set ain't down
with that getto perpetraitor. Anger! April 29, Florence to
Normandy! Jack for my human rights and ya catch a PUU PUU!

What's up? Death on this kid who believes the mic
Blood on the soul so what that inside be like
A cross carrier with journeys upon self I
Efforts to ashes and hands to the sky

Child of light, child of light
Make solid the climb and let's see
Some new heights right, right
So am I trying to find life in what's been dead?
Yes, so recheck the mind set

Empower, can't slip
Can't slip, can't be slippin'
Empower, come alive
Come alive, come alive
Empower, positive

What up with self? What up with self?
Can't give up no love unless I deal with my own hell dig
It's all about wrecking the age of self defeat
Dignity worth of all human personality

We must believe on our trust potential
Our life has the true meaning and value of now
Our only hope today lies in our ability
To lift ourselves from this ever rising hell

Empower, can't slip
Can't slip, can't be slippin'
Empower, come alive
Come alive, come alive
Empower, positive, positive
Call with your power

Empower, empower
Take your life back
Take your life back
Take your life back for
Empower, positive, positive
Positive, give me life to live
Empower

["Intro" contains an excerpt from a King speech which appears]
[courtesy of Intellectual Properties Managment, Atlanta, Georgia,]
[as exclusive licensor of the estate of Martin Luther King Jr.]

They got you dying of thirst. don't even try to front, fool,
Like you ain't on checkunder layers of vanity, uncertainties
Got your soul wrecked style? veil chained mask strapped tight
Hide cries from inside; behind, vain lies chew the shattered
Glass sex, hate, envy, greed living in suffocation misery-
Bleeds so-called alternative imagery defenition of false me.
There's more to identify than bodily misery. they got you
Dying of thirst, living in suffocation. illusion is all up in
You. alternative must be more than this. biological? chemical?
Science says I'm pure physical. lower me to equality of dust
With no destiny, molecular structure. if this is all that i


Be, then humans weren't killed in the holocaust, they were
Just machines. reject void supplement, man=rag equivalence.
Humanity is more than a complex form of existence. human
Capacity a third of it's brain. no reliance on science - I cry
Soul defiance! dying of thirst, I'm more than a mathematical
Equation. I am more than a chemical combination. my existence
Cannot be reduced to scientific theory!

Brown and black blood to the concrete, exposed to the systema-
Tic terrors and atrocities. generations of blood-soaked fami-
Lies, economic prison and self-hate is my birth-right, see?
Fratricide, homicide, suicide, genocide, they wanna kill the
Niggasand wetbacks silently. fueled by hate, fear and forced
Self-denail, black kill black! brown kill brown! l.a. style!
They breed the killer! born in the middle of ghetto-like
Battlefield, denied human rights and the wounds won't heal.
Our mothers shout a suffocating painfull cry as they watch
More generations of black and brown die. dignity defined by
Sacrificial death, to die for the blood is all I have left.
The system at hand must see one thing clearer: the city of
L.a.'s the black and brown killers! blood to the concrete,


Systematic terror! historical facts will prove the system
Guilty; hypocrisy existed when there should have been equali-
Ty. mental enslavement to loss of self-confidence, self defen-
Ce ends in death of intelligence. drown in abyss of insuffi-
Cient education; prosperity cannot exist through moderation.
Forced on the culture, death in the bloodline, father to son
The mind will be confined! 818, yes they breed the killer!
213, yes they breed the killer! 310 yes, they breed the kil-
Ler! the system at hand must see one thing clearer: the city
Of l.a. is breeding black and brown killers!

Step up to this! witness anger from this raised up fist. the
Hood is jacked up bad, and more pain will come to exist. well,
Whose fault is it, and who's to blame? well, I'm pointing my
Fingers at the ones who set up this game. this is what you've
Given us and that is what you've taken. jail won't cure your
Given disease; you are straight mistaken. child to child,
Blood stain on the flag, down on the solo creep fool and it's
About to blast! it's gonna be on fool! 'causez it's about to
Blast! mind control and it's fading fast! huh world 'causez it's
About to blast! children crying and bullets crack! yup 'causez
It's about to blast! and it's aiming at you, so what are you
Gonna do? give it to 'em! inner city erosion, political racial
Explosion. mental repression fuels that murder rate's explosi-
On. from canons straight to the bloods and crips, I say they
Got you on lockdown with birds and a 20 dip. the system fuels
That anger - the killing goes on strong from 818 to 213 -
Bloodshed from your timebomb. you making a move on me? fool,
You better move fast, dying in the killing fields and it's


About to blast! it's about to blast! boom. another dead young-
Ster on my block. look in his face, politician, when a gun
Blast makes his body drop. your system killed him; mediocracy
Handed to him, statistical product. you and the concrete made
Hime useless. incarceration institution; 5 x 7 corruption;
Kill his mind is how you do him. realize as they de humanize
Our lives that they construct a raging humanity with fury in
Their eyes. welfare, the opportunity that disables the appli-
Cation of the generate crutch. clear the way for defective
Maturity which leads to psychopathic institutional conduct.
Lies, rape, intimidation, sovereign infliction of all. social-
Ly declared obscene application of reconstructive formula,
Fool! I've had enough of the blood rainfall on me! 818 - 213 -
310 about to blast from that time bomb! boom.

Gentle you were in your first presence
Hazel to brown eyes embraced innocence
We dressed each other in colors of intrigue
First words to each other sang comfort's melody

Childlike was your first gracious allurement
Her offering hands touched mine in content
Laughter filled the air illuminated portraits
Silence was the moment that gave dawn to this kiss

Elation shined off our vivid souls, in waves of euphoria
Emotions were thrown. sunshine's fire in embodied eyes, so
Full of truth and when we held! we held tight.

Lifeless! I say you left me, I say you left me lifeless
Lifeless! I say you left me, I say you left me lifeless
Lifeless! I say you left me, I say you left me lifeless
Lifeless! I say you left me, I say you left me lifeless

I felt her image sorrowed face nods to the ground
Grey clouds suffering was her sound
She screamed deep, but desire claimed her collapse
Gone to nothing then her frigid mask

Her own remorse, her lifeless companion, tongue stained
In duplicity's song, gentle hands stifle, I perishing suffering
This isn't her! this could never be her

Diminishing, forsaken all, I
Offering entirety, left empty to cry
She cried with me! Danced with me and kissed me
She was filthy in lies, gentle, always

Lifeless! I say you left me, I say you left me lifeless
Lifeless! I say you left me, I say you left me lifeless
Lifeless! I say you left me, I say you left me lifeless
Lifeless! I say you left me, I say you left me lifeless

Watch me rise

I say you left me, I say you left me, I say you left me lifeless
I say you left me, I say you left me, I say you left me lifeless
Lifeless! Lifeless! Lifeless! Lifeless! I say you left me