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Strange Solitude

by MENES the Pharaoh & Kozak

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Mastodon 03:01
RIPPIN WRECKIN SHOP, WHEN THE RECORDZ ON JUST BOOGIE WOOGIE, YA'LL HERD LIKE SOME MASTODON ITS 78, MAYBE... 63, YA'LL SEE ME ON THE TV WONDERING WITH STEVIE WHATS GOIN ON IN THIS WORLD. I CANT SEE! AND EVEN IF I COULD, ITS IMPOSSIBLE LOGICALLY I SAID GOOD POINT STU, BARBRA W..... WHAT ABOUT YOU NO RESPONSE AS IF I WAS SICK AND HAD THE FLU COMIN THRU! CAUSE THATS WHAT IM SUPPOSED TO DO PICK UP JAZZ FLUTES AND CLUCK YOUR WITCH IN HER COOCH UNDERSTAND ME YO! YA'LL BETTER GIVE ME A GRAMMY CAUSE I SAID NOTHING, NYOU STILL KNOW IMGONNA HIT YOUR BITCH WITH THE JAMMY NINJAZ IN PAJAMAZ COMIN ATCHU WITH A HAMMER WHILE IM STANDING PROFILE DUET BESIDE DIANA STEAMING HOT JUICES DRIP TO FLOORS OF THE CABANA I SEE HER TITTY POP OUT, RIGHT INFRONT OF THE CAMERA TAKE A WALK WITH JAMIE SUMMERZ WHILE IM FUNKIN DONNA SUMMERZ GRACE SLICK IN THE BACK SEAT WITH HER DRUMMER TIME TO CHASE THE WHITE RABBIT, GOIN DOWN A SATIN HOLE WHEN WE GET THERE, ASK FOR ALICE, AND THATS ALL I KNOW I BELIEVE IT TO BE TRUE, BECAUSE I BELIEVE IN YOU. AND YOU IN ME, YOUR LISTENING TO ME RIGHT NOW, DONT YOU SEE? OR RATHER DONT YOU LISTEN, DONT YOU HERE? IM STANDING RIGHT INFRONT OF YOU DONT YOU PERCEIVE IT CLEAR? LIKE ALL OF MY PEOPLE WHEN IM SPINNING THERE RECORDZ. IM JAMMIN RIGHT THERE WITH THEM IM IN THERE PRESENCE MAXING LIKE A STATUE, STAND ON GOLD LIKE ST.MATHEW MY BARS STACKED ONEANOTHER LIKE STONE IN A CASTLE
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IN MY THOUGHTS I TRAVEL FAR FROM OUR GALAXY MUCH FURTHER THEN ANY EYE CAN SEE AND AS FAR AS I CAN SEE... THERES NO NEED FOR ME TO EVER COME BACK RHYTHMIC SCIMITAR .. OLD BONES AND RUST. THE PHYRIC SCRIMISHARR. LOST VICTORIES IS DUST OPEN BOOK AND BENT SPINES, MOLDED COVERZ COVERING OUR MINDS.. BLEEDING SMELLS THE BLIND BANDANA OVER HIS EYES TEND TO.. TEND TO THE MEEK BEFORE HE OPEN HIS MOUTH TO SPEAK HE PRAYS... ONE HAND TO THE SKY, ONE HAND TO THE DIRT ON THIS MULTI-COLORED DAY RAIN,BLOOD,SNOW, ANDHATE CHOSE UNWISELY HE WOULD SAY .... BUT I... AM... A MAN... WITHOUT... VISION , WHOS TO REALLY TAKE... WHAT HE SAYS SERIOUS, WERE YOU EVER CURIOUS OF WHAT REALLY RUNS THROUGH HIS CIRCUITS NEAR THE SAME DYNAMICS BUT VERY SLIGHTLY ALTERED AND THEN YOU TRULY START TO GET NERVOUS HE SEEMS... TO SENSE, FAR BEYOND MOVEMENT AS IF HE CAN HEAR YOUR FEARSS.. HE SEEMS ... TO SENSE FAR BEYOND MOVEMENT AS IF HE CAN TASTE YOUR LEERS STARING AT A PRINCE BATHED IN BLOOD OF THE SOILS HIS STAFF UNCOILS AND HIS GARMETS PROVE ROYAL RISING SHADOWS OUT HIS BACK, BROKEN WINGS OF DAMNED SOULS FLESH RIPS.... FOLLOWED BY A LARGE HOLE FIRE EMITS... FROM LIVEN PITS AND PILLARS OF OLD CRASH THROUGH CLOUDS AND STARS THE SIRE WHO SITS, INFRONT OF YOUR EYES TENDS NOT TO DEAL WITH MORTAL MEN EMPIRES HAVE FELL, AND MANY WORLDS ALONE IN THE DARKNESS OF HATE AND LUST HE HAS COME, TO CLAIM ANOTHER ,JUST ANOTHER, YOUR THE SAME AS US
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IM YOUR LOCAL DRUG DEALAH IM YOUR HABIT HEALAH. BLACK DALIA SMOKE IN THE ATMOSPHERE BREEDAH IM THE ONE WHO BRING THE WHITE TO YOUR NOSE. IM THE ONE WHO PUTS THE COMFORT IN YOUR SHEETS, COVERING YOUR CLOTHES ---| IM THE ONE... WHO WILL... DO IT WITH YOU. IM THE RAWEST PURE UNCUT STRAIGHT EDGE IM TRUE IM UH.. KINDA LIKE THE DOLLAR BILL YOU FOLD UP IM WORTH A WHOLE BUNCH, SOMETHING YOU WILL NEVER EVER TOUCH CUT ME UP A LITTLE, MAKE SURE IM PRIME AND I SWEAR I'LL FINISH IT, BEFORE I DO THIS NEXT LINE HANGIN UNDER CANOPYS, HAND SLAP SLARERIES SPREADING YOUR ANATOMY, IF YOU SHORT ON CELERY ITS IN HIS DIGESTIVE SYSTEM SUN WE CAN FIND IT! AND WE CAN USE THIS TIME TO PRACTICE EMBALMING I SWEAR I DIDNT DO IT! I WAS THE ONE, WHO ALWAYS WAS THE TRUEST IM SERIOUS, I MEAN, IM SORRY, BUT I HAVE NOTHING NOT THE MONEY NOR THE PRODUCT, I GOT PROPER FUCKED, BY SOMEONE WHO LOOK LIKE BRICKTOP. FORE HE FINISHED HIS SENTANCE, I HIT HIM WITH A TRICKSHOT PULLED OUT THE FLINTLOCK, USED IT LIKE A CROOKED COP WIPED OFF ALL MY PRINTZ, PUT THE GUN IN HIS HAND, AND MADE IT LOOK LIKE IT WAS HIM JORDO HANDING MENES SLEDGEHAMMER AR BIGS SHOP BUT WHAT I DID BRING WAS THE LAW MY MAN, I CANT LIE BUT I DONT HAVE ANYTHING, NOT THE MONEY OR THE IM YOUR VOCAL HOPE STEALAH MICROPHONE CONEALAH LIVE IN THE THEATER OPERA AT MY LEISURE COMIN THRU RECIVIERS LIKE VIETNAM BLEEDERZ WHITE NOISE IN THE BACKGROUND OF YOUR SEISURES WAKING UP WITH AMNESIA, AND A CPL LESS PAIRS OF ADIDAS SUN, I NEED THAT, LIKE VITAMIN D AND WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT ROCKIN MICS.. THATS THE ONLY LIFE FOR ME! SAILIN ACROSS THE SEVEN SEAS, WHEN STEPPIN ON SEVEN EMCEES WHOS STYLE SOUNDZ PHAT, BUT LIKE THE CRAP FROM MCD'S AND WITHOUT A SMILE OR SAYIN PLEASE I LAY YOU DOWN FLAT, WATCH THE FAT SIMMER, OFF YOUR BACK PORK RIND GRIND, HORSE RADISH SWINE I DINE WITH FINE WOMAN, ALL THE WHILE, I RHYME THEY LOOKIN IN MY EYES, LIKE I HAVE SOMETHING TO OFFER ALL I HAVE IS A CLOSED COFFIN, EASY RIDER DENNIS HOPPER I SWEAR I DIDNT DO IT, I NEVER CHALLENGED YOU TO RHYME YES YOU DID, AND THATS EVEN WORSE THEN WASTING MY TIME HOLD ON A SECOND? I THOUGHT YOU WAS DRUG DEALAH YES I PEDDLE MY WARES THROUGH EVERY ADICT USER AND BELIEVER WELL WAIT A MINUTE BROTHER, DONT TREAT ME LIKE ANOTHER WELL YOU IS, AND YOU ABOUT TO DIE, IN A GUTTA LORD FORGIVE ME FOR I HAVE SINNED, YES YOU HAVE, NOW ATONE. I WILL SEND YOU WITH A REQUIM
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The Notion 02:02
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Temple Grove 02:21
IVE BEEN IN TEMPLES, AND HOLIER PLACES THEN THAT I'VE SEEN SPIRITS RISE FROM STATUES, AND WHEN SOMEONE APPEARS GO RIGHT BACK I SAW CHILDREN UPON CHILDREN, PRAYING TO AN UNSEEN GOD AND NOT ONE PRAYER WAS ANSWERED. NOT ONE, BUT THEY DID NOT CALL HIM A FRAUD THEY, CAME BACK THE NEXT DAY. AND ASKED FOR THE SAME THING, OR MAYBE SOMETHING DIFFERENT BUT IT REALLY MADE NO DIFFERENCE. I DONT THINK IN THE END, THEY WERE REALLY ASKING FOR ANYTHING BECAUSE HAPINESS CAN NOT BE SUMMED UP IN ONE WISH. MOST LIKLEY. AS KIDS DO. THEY PRAYED FOR THERE MOTHERS, ASKING GOOD HEALTH OF THERE FATHER. NO GREED INSIDE OF THE BARTER GOLD COMPASS ON THE CHARTER WORD THATS PURENESS, AND IF YOU ASKED THOSE SAME PARENTS THEY ASKED FOR RICHESS, NOT WISDOM AND CHERISH. ITS CARELESS. LIKE HAVING 5 PEOPLE ON A MOTORCYLCE BUT YOU DO, WHATCHU GOTTA DO, INSIDE OF THIS LIFE CYCLE LAUGHING WHILE IM RHYMING. BUT CRYING ON THE INSIDE. DRINKING TERRIBLE TONIC. WONDERING, IF THE TEMPLES I SAW. HOUSED THE SAME PROBLEMZ I SERIOUSLY DOUBT IT, BECAUSE WHAT I LACK IS OUTLOOK WHAT IM SAYIN IS YOU CANT GET IT RIGHT NOW, GO SOME OTHER PLACE AND LOOK I WAS IN AN ANCIENT BEDLAM, WANDERING LIKE THE STEPS OF HEAVEN BUT IT WAS REALLY VARANASSI, AND I WAS WITH BABU AND THE UNKNOWN DUAL SIDED MICROPHONES RECORDING VOCAL TONES. OF HAPPY SONGS IN SAD TIMES. TEACH YOUR CHILDREN RIGHT, THEY CATCH BAD VIBES KINDA LIKE CATS OR DOGS WHEN TORNADOZ IS COMING, A CHILD HAS WAY MORE POWER THEN YOU YES THEY CAN SUMMON. ULTIMATE ENERGY, WE ARE NOT TAUGHT TO HARNESS IT. OR THAT REACHING THE GENIUS OF MADNESS IS AN ACCOMPLISHMENT I SWEAR TO YOU. ITS SO FUCKED UP THAT I GOT TO SAY IT. CHILDREN WHO LIVE IN POVERTY, ARE BETTER OF THEN THE ONES WHO FAKE FITS. THE TRUE WORLD APPEARS FAST AND VIBRANT. WHEN YOUR SIBLING DIES OF A DISEASE WERE EASILY PRESCRIBING. ITS SICKENING, LIKE REMOVING INCENSE FROM BUDDAHS GRIP WHEN I GO BACK, I'LL NEVER COME BACK TO THIS CRYPT. I WILL BE SENT IN THE RIVER BURNING WHILE IM DEAD. ASHES IN THE WIND WHILE YOU SHIVER. I NO LONGER LIVE FOREVER
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Solitude 02:01
YO I LIVE IN MY SOLITUDE, IN A SOLID ROOM WITH 4 CORNERZ, LIKE A RUBIX CUBE I STAND WITHIN MY CYPHER, FIRM WITHIN THE SQUARE AND WHEN I NEED REST, TAKE STEPS, HIBERNATION OF A BEAR COOLIN LIKE A MUTANT WHO JUST LEFT THE CRYO FREEZE, BUT I GOT THINGZ TO DO MAN, FIRST I MUST PYRO TREES GET LIFTED... PYROTEKNIC MYSTIK GIFTED, LIKE GOOD KIDZ ON CHRISTMAS NEVER DID I LISTEN, IN MY OWN MIND I WAS DOIN WHAT I HAD TO DO, AND DOIN JUST FINE RIPPIN WRECKIN SHOP, WHEN THE RECORDZ ON JUST BOOGIE WOOGIE, YA HERD LIKE SOME MASTODONS IM ANCIENT AS CAVEMEN, LIVE INSIDE OF A DASE MAN ITS HARD TO USE REACREATIONALLY, IM A SLAVE DAMN AND LITTLE DID I KNOW, IN THE MIDDLE OF MY DOME SITS A PLACE WHERE I SIT, SIMPLY ALL ALONE THERES NOTHINGNESS AND EVERYTHING, AND ANYTHING AND ALL OF THIS, AND ONLY IN THIS PLACE DO I ACTUALLY EXIST THE PERMANENCE IS OMINOUS , AND OBVIOUS OBLIVION BUT DAMNIT DOES IT FEEL GOOD THAT I CAN ACTUALLY LIVE AGAIN! AND THATS FOREVER, THE PLACE I'LL GO WHEN I LEAVE, WHEN IM SEVERED, FROM MY WISDOM AND MY SEED I'LL PASS ALONG EVERYTHING, EXCEPT THIS ONE ROOM WITH MANY CONNECTING JUNCTIONS LIKE KING TUTS TOMB DONT DO WATCHU WANT, BUT DO WHAT YOU WILL RELAX IN THE PRISM, THIS IS THE PLACE YOU BUILD BECAUSE EVERYTHING FALLS. AND EVERYTHING ENDS BUT ANYTHING CAN BE REBUILT MY FRIENDZ
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IT WAS A STRANGE SCENE... WITH GREY BEAMS AND HEAVY CALIBERS COMING DOWN THE STREET, WALKIN ROUTE 7 COULDA TOOK THE SHORT WAY BUT HEARD VOICES FROM HEAVEN CALLIN ME KA-TET KA-SHUME AND KA-DIHN A SACRIFICE MADE FOR THE WRITER WE ALL MUST DIE FOR THE TOWER OY WITH LOUD CRIES AND SUNKEN CHEST I SEE BLOOD BELLOW, FROM BELLIES AND COLLAPSED LUNGS ONLY BECKONED FROM THE YOUNG IT WAS BAD HIPS THAT SAVED MY LIFE AND TOOK YOURS ANOTHER WRITER WRITING THE STORY , CONSIDERED A CHORE WITH WILD EYES AND SPINNING HEARTS, I LEFT THE PLACE WHERE A SINGULAR ROSE GREW IN EVERY SINGLE SPACE A PERPENDICULAR HUM, FOLLOW FROM THE CLOUDS ON THE PATH OF THE TURTLE, FROM THE BEAR TO THE NOW.. FUTURISTIC LUCRATIVE, DIMENSION JUMPING, WALK-IN BOMBADIER EYES WITH GUNSLINGER POPKINS WE ALL DIE! WE ALL MUST FADE AWAY BUT MY ONE OF MANY HAS BROKEN, IN THE SAME WAY ITS STUPID TO SAY, BUT I KNEW THIS DAY WAS COMING MY BESTFRIEND AND MY SUN WALTER O DIM THE WEED EATAHZ SPITTIN OIL BLACK IN SALOONS RAISING BEGGAZ FROM THE DEAD FLOODING BEDS LIKE MONSOONS WALK THROUGH LIKE BLUE PORTALS IN THE CAVE OF VOICES YOUR WORST FEARS COME ALIVE AND MAKE BAD CHOICES PEARL HANDLES THAT YOU CAN READ ON A GOOD DAY WHEN YOUR STRONG WITH THE TOUCH , FORGET THE PAST OF DEATH THE OLD ONES, MEN OF RUST, AND LITTLE INTELLECT WITHOUT MANY DAYS OF RETROSPECT ... YOU FORGET LESSONS TAUGHT IN MELTING POTS IMAGINE THAT... AMMUNITION BEING PRECIOUS TO OVER ZEALOUS EXPIRE ENTIRE TOWNS, BUT ITS ALWAYS ONE MAN WHO CAN TAKE THE CROWN OR THE LIFEBLOOD OF AN OLDEN KING IT WAS MY KA-TET, AND NOW ITS ONLY I WHO SING THE SONG OF SUSSANAH,TO MY EYES THE TEARS IT BRINGS
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yo MY.. REASONS TO BE.. UNREASONABLY HEATHENISTIC CYANIDE EASY TO SEE MY POURS POUR HATE WITH A VILLAINOUS THEME MY DOOR STAYS SHUT PERMENANT I LET YOU FREEZE PERMEATE ON THAT THOUGHT MARINATE IN PERMAFROST REVERSE CONFFESIONS I BURST COMPLEXIONS AND LEAVE FACES LOOKIN LIKE BURNT INFECTIONS OR MORE OF MY OFFERINGS, COFFERS OVERFLOWING WATERZ OF LIFE, BUT MOST OF US TOWING, BEHINDE A ROWBOAT THATS MORE FOREBODING THEN CEREBUS, GHIDRA AND HYDRA COMBINING EVEREST, FUJI, LUCANIA COLLIDING EXPLODING, IMPLODING, NOTHING IS SURVIVING THE HEART IS COLD, THE CORE IS MOLTEN DOWN, THE RIVERZ OF HELL, IS WHERE WERE GOING A DEVILISH MIRACLE THAT IM EVEN FLOATING IN MY IRON CLAD VESSEL I AM ALONE IN MY ROBES OF WOE MAKE WAY TO MY THROAN
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Act One 01:56
BECAUSE YOU DIDNT UNDERSTAND BECAUSE I THOUGHT I WAS THE MAN BECAUSE WHEN WE SPOKE TO EACHOTHER, NEITHER OF US GAVE A DAMN AND I WONDER, WONDERED WHY, BUT I WAS ALWAYS SO HIGH. AND I, COULDNT COUNT THE DAYZ AS THEY PASSED BY HOVER LIKE OZONE, GET INTO YOUR ENDZONE PLAY THE FIELD WELL, NEVER RUSTY LIKE A TROMBONE CONTIMPLATED KILLIN YOU. NAH THATS A LIE, BUT YOU DO IT SO WELL STILL TO THIS DAY WHEN I THINK OF YOU MY PANTZ SWELL YEA THATS SWELL FOR YOU THERE FEELAZ BUT FOR ME IT MAKE ME MIGHTY MIGHTY JELOUS WHILE IM HOLDIN KING MIDAZ'S TRIDENT FEELIN VIOLENT LOOKING IN YOUR EYES SEEING IF YOU READY TO DIE KID THATS WHATS UP BECAUSE, I WONDERED TO MYSELF WHAT THE FUCK, THERES NOTHING IN THE WORLD THAT MAKE ME AAACT LIKE THIS! AND IM FLIPPIN LIKE ACT 1 ON THEATRICS SCRIPT FIND ME RIGHT... AFTER THIS, -> AND I MIGHT TELL YOU TO GO DIE... ON INFECTED MATRESSES BECAUSE I CANT CONTROL WHAT I THINK OR WHAT I SAY AND ON ANY GIVEN DAY, IM LIABLE TO GO LIKE JFK LOOK OUT YO WINDOW, WATCH FOR THE SNIPER ALL YOU SEE IS MENES, SHIMMYING LIKE THE PIED PIPER FRUIT GET RIPER, BUT EVENTUALLY IT ROT. AND THATS WHY I SMILE, WHEN I THINK ABOUT YOUR BOX. GOD DAMN
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Strange Solitude
MENES the Pharaoh & Kozak

In a time of the Wanderlust and Seismic activity ; there was a vagabond who would not see the same way we do. It was not that he was blind, in fact he could “see” more than most, it was simply a different form of vision. An iron blade was drawn across his face daily as a reminder of what was lost, and what was to be gained. In no simple words it was defined as an inner-sight that would prove to make him more dangerous than a cybernetik bamboo grove full of bombardier koalas. His Ka-tet was a broken machine, and his sleep was dark and arid. Bellowing an age old curse, he could hear ALL, but you never hear him.


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released March 22, 2023

Emcee : MENES the Pharaoh
Producer : Kozak
Master : ClymaX
Artwork : Gimiks Born

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