30) Bells (1:33) [Math: all hip hop]
[Referent: Sounds of North American Frogs; Donny Hathaway “Magnificent Sanctuary Band”, Sly “Sing a Simple Song”; Frodus 7”]
lyrics
(Its voice sounds like someone’s running his fingers over the teeth of a comb)
Trickity-lickity-hickory dock/Ding dong! Yr mama don’t wear no socks/Ding dong! I was there when she took them off/So slide-slippery-slide ‘n’ play thee psych rock/Digging for keys like Mario 2/When black mask comes to life you going to pull thru? Up Against The Wall you fall to new schedules/Censor the ***** tearing up levels/The paradigm subverter the kind you never heard of stymies you/Find me another MC with an extreme need to plant a seed speed off ‘n’ never repeat the weak, the bad, the ugly ‘n’ cheap feats rappers previously left incomplete/Ding dong! The bell tolls for thee/You’ll see me ringing it like an angel gets his wings/It’s a Wonderful Life but if you live lively/There’s no time to sleep for me I’ll Stay Awake ‘n’ catch dreams/Call me the BFG – Bizarre Freak’s Glee/The type of sick brother that you’d want to quarantine/Hop to the hip in the leper colony ‘n’ the fringe we’re in is about as mainstream as the smallest tributary/Should we flip the new scheme? For bread we don’t fiend
Should I make it more clear? No Sunbeam
It’s not just a Northern Virginia thing/Play it loud let yr tinnitus ring (dang)
Subvert the dominant paradigm (Scratch the 7 inch wax)
The British-Somali poet draws upon everything from leftfield folk to minimalist spoken-word, bound together by simple-yet-cutting wordplay. Bandcamp New & Notable Apr 28, 2021