A6: Hang on These Words (3:16)
(Which is why, I’ll tell you right now, the reason I can talk this way, and the reason why you can listen this way, and the reason this thing works is because it’s all based on one word, I could say it. I’ll send you home right now. We’re all done. & that one word that gives the whole mood of the evening. Everything develops on that, and this, believe me, is the Open Sesame. This is thee magic key. & I can dare you, if you don’t believe me, try it. & that magic key is the one word…YOU PUT IT ON A PEDESTAL!)
How many times must you hang on these words?
The MATH/The Master At The Helm/The Maniac’s Approach To Hiphop/I Must Act To Help/Well skip acrostic/I go across it and t’s get crossed/I burn my office cos no matter what material I set aflame at least I start it/& I starred in the ending while backs go bending I’m sick of trending which merely shows clothes expose nothing/Throw pose for bluffing/Which you gonna be the turkey or the stuffing? Lucky me, I tweak ‘n’ seek a new technique to reach into the souls in need of lobotomy/Oh gee! Oh my stars! Cover nose, block yr mouth, don’t catch SARS/Stay locked up but don’t stop the disease cos I’m breathing it in ‘n’ building immunities cos I’m living in the sickness/It spurs me on/Flick off the tick find a fiend to feed on/Beyond that, there’s just one prescription/I scrawl it out quick but I got clear diction/Slick, listen
(Our lives changed punk rock)
Listen don’t be sold on the product/Our CD-R’s are the raw antibiotic/Exotic? Not really but the form is symbolic/From solid to gas the medium can’t be charted/Or alacarted the whole structure has been flipped/Like a bang-diddy-bang in ‘75 that’s why NSFTM does this dip/With the impermanence it comes alive/Not sterilized, yes it will die/The cassette wear out/The CD skip/The paper packaging will rip/But that’s precisely why it is/Why it even does exist/Cos the language sticks/Sticks/Sticks/Sticks
How many times must you hang on these words?
(Every time that you say these words/We don’t think that you have heard)
Math: Kick a verse, snatching up the purse, I pass the mic to her
J-Bandana: Shake the money maker/Take yr piggy bank or/Take it from the banker/Give it to yr neighbor/How many times must you hang on these words?
(Our band could be punk rock. Our band could be hip hop/You don’t stop the punk rock/First you punk rock the hip/Then you punk rock the hop/Then you hip rock the hop it don’t stop)