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Tuesday 1 March 2022

Mind Notes Pt.108 'Still Be About It'




I still be about it
Still hang around it
Still rap about it
Still put my money
Where my mouth is
When it counted
So many beats in the bank
Who's counting
On a next trip
Movie clips
Cinematic daydreaming
Kubrick
Space scenes
It seems
Dreams and reality
Art imitates life
Wrong imitate right
Evil imitate light
So the good man fight
It's a trap
Growing up
Showing up nine to five
All these wars that we fight
We're just trying to stay alive
Mankind
Say it for the love of it
Say it two times
Never get enough of it
In the name of good music
We represent
In company of good folks
Make our beds


Still be about it
Still on the wagon
Hold tight
Still fighting
Youth slips away
Theres no fountain
Struggle through pitfalls
Climb the mountain
When the clock struck
Bank called
Letter was red
Beef start
Dust settle
One Brother lay dead
Landlords want the rent
Better pay up
Or no TV
No food
No bed
No roof on your head
Man are feeling dread
Because we're left for dead
Hand to mouth
Grass roots
Get the loot
But can we share things
Read more
We have to
Plan and prepare tings
Mankind
Say it for the love of it
Say it two times
Never get enough of it
In the name of good music
We represent
In company of good folks
Make our beds


PEACE LOVE & PEOPLE POWER!


Wednesday 23 February 2022

Mind Notes Pt.107 'Be Kind Mankind'




Be kind mankind
Lets save mankind
How many lives will it take
Who shall save the human race


In a world
Of sufferation
Them a
Distress the nations
With the
Tax and inflation
How can our peoples
Grow and live
In search
Of liberation
Face to face to face
With the gentrification
No justice
No justification
How can they watch us
Burn and die

Bye bye
Watch no politics
Watch no fakes
Watch no fake news
Watch no jakes
Watch no soldiers
Watch no hate
They poison the atmosphere
Dry up the lakes
Buy up the land
And they put up the gates
Drought and disease
They take and they take
But we never give up man
We must keep faith
We must keep faith


In a world
Of greed and envy
Dreaming of riches
Beemas and Bentleys
Pockets full
But their hearts are still empty
Man make money
Money don't make the man
Go for broke
So it's no gently gently
Badmind monkeys
Still run the country
Desperate times
And the jail times lengthy
Selling our souls
Just trying to get by

My my
Look at this madness
Look at this mess
Look at this mockery
Look at their cheques
Look at their egos
Off with their heads
They raise up the prices
Leave us in debt
Sell us these dreams
No way we can get
Shackle our minds
Make us work util we're dead
So we have to come together man
We must break bread
We must break bread


PEACE LOVE & PEOPLE POWER!

Tuesday 22 February 2022

Mind Notes Pt.106 'Hood Good Guy'




It's like
It's all recycled
Déjà vu
Spin it back another cycle
Again
All this hype over nothing
Nothing comes of nothing
I'm sick of all this nothing
It's like your not living
If you ain't showing off
But they ain't got no substance
Long them off
It's all a charade
Go take the costumes off
They ain't making no sense
Switch them off
It's like a false competition
Nobodies a winner
If no one's willing to listen
Still tripping
Fingers crossed
Impossible game
Odds stacked against us
Still vying for fame
It ain't the same
It's too mad out on the road
Grey hairs, wrinkles
Stories that we told
Feeling old
Sitting home, worry like my mother
Worry about my wife
And my sister and all my brothers...

So what's
Really real
Is the world really evil
Or are we just really ill
Man I feel
Just like a kid playing run outs
Make it home safe
Where these guys
Are pulling guns out
In this place
Where these guys
Are pulling knives out
It's too hard to be good
And sort our lives out
To hard to be honest
And get ahead now
So we die by the sword
Too many dead now
I always side stepped the pavement
Kept it on the humble
Not involved
I mind my parents
No warrants
Stay off the roads
Don't watch appearance
Can't have my mum
Reporting my disappearance
Forget it
Got fooled once
Can't fool me twice
Eyes in the back of my head
For men & mice
Roll the dice
Stack the odds
Learn, live or die
Nightmares and dreams
Of a hood Good guy
Wonder why
Still wondering why


People died for the privilege
For us to walk free
Through the village
Now it's finished
Because the money got us twisted
Can't see that were gifted
Different
Can't see that were drifting
Missing
Can't see that were caught up
Slipping
Can't see that the games all poison
The food's all poison
The air's all poison
It's poison
But we ain't really watching that
We ain't really worried
We just watching on the apple mac
We ain't really thinking
We ain't thinking
About the thinking cap
We ain't really bothered
We're just in it
For the joke and that
Worry about it later
That's the attitude
How long
Before we overstand the magnitude
How far will it go
Is this for real dude
It never ceases to amaze
The evil people do...

While good men do nothing
I wonder why we're standing by
Wonder why my people cry
Wonder why we're stuck
In this illusion of reality
But the rent's due
No time for philosophy
In these times
Of orchestrated poverty
Planned obsolescence
Equalities a novelty
One people under the sun
That concept's never lost on me
Still surrounded by zombies
So forget a FTSE 100
Man are on the road
They're making moves
They're making hundreds
Man are on the road
Making mistakes
And making blunders
Judge in the court
With a face like thunder
Crime and time
Which one's the enemy
Trying to figure who's a foe
Who's a friend to me
Trying to figure where to start
And when's the end for me
Still out here fishing
Merrily
Merrily


PEACE LOVE & PEOPLE POWER!

Tuesday 25 January 2022

Mind Notes Pt.105 'Composed In Murky Waters'




This ain't the same beat
That was playing
This ain't rap
I was saying
Never follow fashion
Obeying
Drop a beat with a jingle
Straight sleighing
Ain't safe
Where we're laying
In the manor more grief
Complaining
In the ends more thieves
Snakes waiting
Stomach turn
On some anticipation
I seen the machine
And I believe
In the MPC
Pledge allegiance to the beat
Disciples to the speaker box
Loyal to the game
Relentless
We never stop
I been where I been
And I still
Came back again
Where it's all happening
Still here paddling
Up stream struggling
Still here puzzling
Still


A red heart
A black peace sign
Pacifists ain't safe
In these times
Trying to keep a straight face
Keep a sharp mind
It's been a long grind
It's been a long time
Keen wit
Got a sharp edge
Listen clear
Always hear what my mother said
Ignore the voices
Trying to keep a level head
See the angles
Everybody's trying to get ahead
Eye spy
Hide and go seek
If only the meek
Could inherit all the earth
We'd all be eating proper dinners
Clean water
Free schools
Living free spirits
My my
Look at what's become of us
All because of some us are crazy
It's berserk
Devils dress in dark suits
Try telling me
We ain't all dying
For the loot


Never get wet feet
Just saying
But when the drought come
They outside
All praying
It's shame when it rains
It's another day in
No knock down ginger
We're not playing
Trying to find a way in
Came in through the back door
No one saw us coming
No one saw the homework
Hours putting work in
Living for the art and the craft
Still learning
If only we could get
Every penny, every cent
Give it all back
Where it should of went
You could forget about
Flags planted
Got to teach man
Not to take the earth for granted
What's the meaning of making it
If you ain't trying to give a bit
Living
While your brothers catch cold
Drivers
And the passengers
Miracles and massacres
The story unfolds


PEACE LOVE & PEOPLE POWER!

Monday 24 January 2022

Mind Notes Pt.104 'How They Left Us'




Smoke in the air
While the incense burns
And the worms turn
Out here 
Trying to earn
Elders say
We never learn
But knowledge is a mystery
Never seen
The sandy shores
Disconnect from history
Oligarchs and archetypes
Shadows in the dead of night
Ankle shackles on my ancestors
Reparations never came
The resentment festers

Look at how they left us
Look at what they left us

Down for the cause
No applause
Busy putting work in
Behind closed doors
Mad composers
Stuck in concrete towers
Get the coffee pot boiling
Make the most of hours
The artist
And the business man
Lost souls play their roles
P.R. plans
The puppets
And the puppeteers
These muppets
Should have known the real score here

Look at how they left us
Look at what they left us


Easy on the soy boy
Not the type to toy boy
Never been the hoi polloi
Forget the processing
And packaging
We need the food
Without the poisons in
The definition of real wealth
Should be the definition
Of happy
Of good health
Should be the recognition
Of virtue
Here to help
Appreciation of mother nature
Knowledge of self

Look at how they left us
Look at what they left us

Living in the upside down
Good is bad
Bad is good
Goodness knows
We've been around
Listen close and hear the sound
Gracious are the ones
Who value life
Over the golden pound
Tell my people let's get educated
When's the last time
You actually meditated
When's the last time
You took time and contemplated
Ever wonder why you're wide awake
But feeling jaded

Look at how they left us
Look at what they left us


PEACE LOVE & PEOPLE POWER!