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Saul Williams
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Whereas, breakbeats have been the missing link connecting the diasporic
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community to its drum woven past
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Whereas the quantised drum has allowed the whirling mathematicians to
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calculate the ever changing distance between rock and stardom.
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Whereas the velocity of the spinning vinyl, cross-faded, spun backwards, and
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re-released at the same given moment of recorded history , yet at a
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different moment in time's continuum has allowed history to catch up with
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the present.
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We do hereby declare reality unkempt by the changing standards of dialogue.
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Statements, such as, "keep it real", especially when punctuating or
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anticipating modes of ultra-violence inflicted psychologically or physically
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or depicting an unchanging rule of events will hence forth be seen as
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retro-active and not representative of the individually determined is.
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Furthermore, as determined by the collective consciousness of this state of
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being and the lessened distance between thought patterns and their secular
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manifestations, the role of men as listening receptacles is to be increased
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by a number no less than 70 percent of the current enlisted as vocal
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aggressors.
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Motherfuckers better realize, now is the time to self-actualize
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We have found evidence that hip hops standard 85 rpm when increased by a
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number as least half the rate of it's standard or decreased at ¾ of it's
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speed may be a determining factor in heightening consciousness.
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Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the
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unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth.
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Equate rhyme with reason, Sun with season
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Our cyclical relationship to phenomenon has encouraged scholars to erase the
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centers of periods, thus symbolizing the non-linear character of cause and
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effect
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Reject mediocrity!
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Your current frequencies of understanding outweigh that which as been given
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for you to understand.
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The current standard is the equivalent of an adolescent restricted to the
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diet of an infant.
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The rapidly changing body would acquire dysfunctional and deformative
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symptoms and could not properly mature on a diet of apple sauce and crushed
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pears
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Light years are interchangeable with years of living in darkness.
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The role of darkness is not to be seen as, or equated with, Ignorance, but
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with the unknown, and the mysteries of the unseen.
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Thus, in the name of:
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ROBESON, GOD'S SON, HURSTON, AHKENATON, HATHSHEPUT, BLACKFOOT, HELEN,
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LENNON, KHALO, KALI, THE THREE MARIAS, TARA, LILITHE, LOURDE, WHITMAN,
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BALDWIN, GINSBERG, KAUFMAN, LUMUMBA, Gandhi, GIBRAN, SHABAZZ, SIDDHARTHA,
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MEDUSA, GUEVARA, GUARDSIEFF, RAND, WRIGHT, BANNEKER, TUBMAN, HAMER, HOLIDAY,
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DAVIS, COLTRANE, MORRISON, JOPLIN, DUBOIS, CLARKE, SHAKESPEARE, RACHMNINOV,
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ELLINGTON, CARTER, GAYE, HATHOWAY, HENDRIX, KUTL, DICKERSON, RIPPERTON,
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MARY, ISIS, THERESA, PLATH, RUMI, FELLINI, MICHAUX, NOSTRADAMUS, NEFERTITI,
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LA ROCK, SHIVA, GANESHA, YEMAJA, OSHUN, OBATALA, OGUN, KENNEDY, KING, FOUR
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LITTLE GIRLS, HIROSHIMA, NAGASAKI, KELLER, BIKO, PERONE, MARLEY, COSBY,
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SHAKUR, THOSE STILL AFLAMED, AND THE COUNTLESS UNNAMED
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We claim the present as the pre-sent, as the hereafter.
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We are unraveling our navels so that we may ingest the sun.
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We are not afraid of the darkness, we trust that the moon shall guide us.
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We are determining the future at this very moment.
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We now know that the heart is the philosophers' stone
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Our music is our alchemy
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We stand as the manifested equivalent of 3 buckets of water and a hand full
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of minerals, thus realizing that those very buckets turned upside down
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supply the percussion factor of forever.
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If you must count to keep the beat then count.
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Find you mantra and awaken your subconscious.
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Curve you circles counterclockwise
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Use your cipher to decipher, Coded Language, man made laws.
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Climb waterfalls and trees, commune with nature, snakes and bees.
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Let your children name themselves and claim themselves as the new day for
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today we are determined to be the channelers of these changing frequencies
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into songs, paintings, writings, dance, drama, photography, carpentry,
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crafts, love, and love.
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We enlist every instrument: Acoustic, electronic.
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Every so-called race, gender, and sexual preference.
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Every per-son as beings of sound to acknowledge their responsibility to
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uplift the consciousness of the entire fucking World.
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Any utterance will be un-aimed, will be disclaimed - two rappers slain
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Any utterance will be un-aimed, will be disclaimed - two rappers slain
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