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 На чётвёртом и по сей день последнем альбоме Downset так же тяжелы, как и прежде, так же рубят парвду-матку, давая своей ярости более конструктивный выход, чем традиционно бегая по родному кварталу и постреливая в мирное население, которому также не повезло жить в бедных кварталах Лос-Анджелеса. Вот только с возрастом, кажется, Downset едва ли стали поспокойнее: они так же тяжелы, так же забойны, так же драматичны, как были десяток лет назад на первом альбоме. Может быть, это потому, что проблемы, на которые Downset хотят обратить наше внимание, остались теми же: вездесущее насилие гетто, расизм, погибшие друзья, городские бунты... Так что мы имеем здесь ещё одну обойму тру-рэпкоровых вещей, прогресса, после экспериментов с мелодичными элементами, не заметно, разве что материал сыгран более солидно, чем на дебютнике. Особо хочу отметить полную драматизма “Jumpin Off”, хлопающую басом и свистящую гитарой совершенно в духе RATM, под которую так и тянет промокнуть платочком глаза и спросить себя: "а что-то делает сейчас Том Морелло?" В общем, солидный и тяжёловесный, но несколько монотонный Downset, что не так уж и плохо, если материал содержит такие вещи, как “Jumpin Off”, нежно-железную “Smiles-Cries”, корноподобную “Universal” и тракторную “The Rush”! |
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Fuck your territory
I'm moving through
All Crews
Listen! Reverse the theme and the title, Jah bless and comfort my enemies & rivals
Who's the trespasser and what you after? Nothing that can't be replaced by my master
Warning! Before your eyes seeds are forming, remember your true mercies you great one's of glory
Avenge my soul, add on to what is before me, to enter the palace reason must speak, yeah!
Fuck your territory
I'm moving through
All Crews
Fuck your territory!!!
2. Forever
Forever we ride dedicated
All day, I got that gift it don't quit and when you hear the cuts kitchen stop hating and think of this
Embrace endless infinity, this never left me, technique mastery
It's always on
Forever we ride dedicated
Playing for keeps without a question , Tanach, Quaran, math thoughts, science sessions
Doing my best to keep Judas out my section, when your banging it out as a team ain't no questions
So what'cha knowing about this immortality now? The simple stillness, you know I feel this!
Kingdom children revealing the realness, like the heights of the pyramids, long time in
It's always on
Forever we ride dedicated
Forever dedicated
3. Stay In The Game
Ya best believe I'm breaking through at the sound of the hour
with so much on my mind alone on the tower
with visions of questing, the crafting of best things,
leading every thought to the light and its blessings
Hoping like a child in the midst of this battle,
you know he's never given me more than I can handle
Remaining in the line of fire and supplication,
easing on the bed of duration!
You got to want in! Stay in the game
I get hyped when I think of the challenges and all that awaits me
Spirits are high in this future I'm facing
Rekindle the flames so many try to put out,
miraculous Zion permission no doubt,
A question of minus an answer of plus,
slam dunk to the hoop, achievement a must!
Pivot and post through the lane I must bust
Off with the handcuffs ain't done enough!
You got to want in! Stay in the game
David Goliath underdog diamond steadily rising,
uh Design 9ing, I bring rhyme lightning,
swift tightness word for word you know it's priceless
red light shining can't lose myself finding,
short of the mark and in my mindset
You got to want in! Stay in the game.
4. Black Glock
A black glock
A black glock my heart's pumping fast
They tried to strongarm my home homie who's done me right
If they would of hit him wrong it would have been on on sight
I ain't trying to act hard and I'm not about a heater
For sure my brother's keeper, you know it's getting deeper
What am I supposed to do when your back's up against the wall?
Be there to break your fall! Yeah!
A black glock my heart's pumping fast
We get fat props then lines get crossed
High stake stand offs, in a black truck I scened'em off
Feel the frost prayed for life that could be lost
Love over slugs, got my point across
What am I supposed to do when your back's up against the wall?
Be there to break your fall! Huh!
A black glock my heart's pumping fast
You better be ready
There's got to be a better way!
5. Jumpin' Off
Its' jumping off!!!
Revival of the corner stone I could never be alone
You promised me the comforter, my armour is the conqueror
The meek will surely inherit the earth, inspirational guardian Victoria's cure
Under the wing of the most high, unshakable faith with a champions stride
Tell that you want me to, tell me that you'll see it through
It's jumping off!!!
6. The Rush
Hit me, hit me with something real
Hit me cause I want to feel the rush
Cause I want to feel the rush!
Damn you see'em play styles out quick
Absolute, expressive and nothing short of it!
Magic passion remarkable massive attractive
Not manic and plastic!
I know you feel the same way I do
You want to feel the rush of something new
Hit me, hit me with something real
Hit me cause I want to feel the rush
A shadow of divine perfection
Royal majestic my g-dhood extension
Truly move me from source of pure energy ecstasy
I know you feel the same way I do
You want to feel the rush of something new
Hit me, hit me with something real
Hit me cause I want to feel the rush
7. Hectic
Who orders balance? Who orders chaos?
Who inverts pentagramic symbols in a black magic saonce?
Who dares distorting the infinite natural forces? Clockwork timeline, metamorphic courses
Do you need to be controlled? Do you know what freedom is? The mob the masses
The beast with many faces gives in, next when? Passions trap you in, think thin, action, connection
I feel an all wise protection in the sun and the wind my kin
Hectic, uh uh, it's getting hectic uh uh, it's getting out of control, out of control
You know you wouldn't say anything about it. You must not trouble yourself
Invisible powers got so much to tell! As long as you listen is the only reality
Without a word escape captivity
Hectic, uh uh, it's getting hectic uh uh, it's getting out of control, out of control
Out of control!!! Out of control!!!
Who is rebel son? Who is rebel daughter? Ceremonial circles of sorcery bring to my lips clean water
Ain't no stopping in this digital data massive metropolis, if you ain't on the team step-off of this
Serving up sounds to a hyped up populous, on to this audio opulence, sonic astonishment
Who keeps the key to the leash of this free beast? Believe me I seek deep to the complete
Hectic, uh uh, it's getting hectic uh uh, it's getting out of control, out of control
8. Make This Happen
We flip missions just like you flip'em
No gimmicks all in it, off limits authentic exhibition
Someone always trying to get a piece of the program
I'm always becoming advancing with a plan
Let them know! Working it out with an eye and eye flow
Let me go! Still got it with me wherever I go
Move move get out of my face step aside so we can make this happen!
Off the hook give me some breathing room to look
Not about to get took, plug me into a main channel input
Rebirth disciple nothing's final, you'll have to get close to me to know what I know
Let them know working it out with an eye and eye flow
Let me go! Still got it with me wherever I go
Move move get out of my face step aside so we can make this happen!
It's almost like they want to see you stay at the same place
That faint pace, make my way to the main gate
Accelerate the chase thought we couldn't shift shape?
One rob raised all day out the way!
Move move get out of my face step aside so we can make this happen!
9. What They Want
So you want to hear some rap shit? So you want to hear some rap shit?
Give'em what they want, give'em what they want, give'em what they want, give'em what they want.
When I think of rap shit! I think of blackness activist! Like that sista' Angela Davis!
Mohammed Ali knockouts are the greatest! Jackie Robinson, gospel and the nation
So what's the latest? Check the wack playlist. Don't hear city slick cypher science
Spittin' ghetto frustrations! Listen to this I want to hear Hip-Hop ethnic consciousness
Don't care if ya ballin' kid or catchin' cases. I ain't hating, ain't pumping fashion. Monopoly blatant.
Who's paying radio stations for hourly rotations?
So you want to hear some rap shit? So you want to hear some rap shit?
Give'em what they want, give'em what they want, give'em what they want, give'em what they want.
When I think of Hip-Hop I think of blackness and bee-bop, Billy Holiday, Chuck Dee and Scott La Rock!
City street blocks, outlined bodies with chalk, one-times swooping up like hawks
Graff crews bailing burners getting props, fat laced Pumas step to mark the spot
Asiatic ebony faces get shocked when they witness my pigment and penship shocked
No special effects, just developed text. This is a way of live live & direct!
So you want to hear some rap shit? So you want to hear some rap shit?
Give'em what they want, give'em what they want, give'em what they want, give'em what they want.
10. Smiles & Cries
Our father who art in heaven hallowed be thy name
Thy kingdom come thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven
Chicalinda, mujer pan preciosa, chicalinda, chicalinda
Child you're born with my mother's brown eyes
Your smile my refuge in dark skies
A constant reminder that I'm still alive
In the presence of angel why cry?
Smiles and cries on my way to heaven
You are the gold seed 4th downs the line
Your picture is kept close by my side
Ask me question got nothing to hide
My prayers for mercy and blue skies
Smiles and cries on my way to heaven
Chicalinda, mujer pan preciosa, chicalinda, chicalinda
You held him close 'til he passed away, my admiration for your loyalty will never dacay
Your precious blood is my blood! Your precious love is my love!
I'm holding it close every word that you say. The warmth of your heart is never far away
Smiles and cries on my way to heaven
Chicalinda, mujer pan preciosa, chicalinda, chicalinda
11. Universal
Universal a universal, bring it to all bring it to all
Universal just like the sun, moon, star, man, woman and child
All relative out loud cosmic found sound, compound blend
Part of me harmony, we will transcend
Tell me that you care as i reach you
Out there I know there's someone who does
Something so simple as me and you
Can change it from the way it was
Universal a universal, bring it to all bring it to all
Universal, don't you get it?
Like the rhythm of heartbeats vibes all connected
The fusion of elements blonde dreadlocked, melanin, black, brown, feminine, masculine amend
Tell me that you care as I reach you
Out there I know there's someone who does
Something so simple as me and you
Can change it from the way that it was
Universal a universal, bring it to all bring it to all
A Universal!