1. |
The Movement
02:05
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The truth is useless without music.
Jazz Hop Revolution, let's do this:
What is a JazzHopRevolution?
Elocution to get you used to movin'
To smooth acoustic musical grooves
Proven to move you through the illusion of usual views
All aboard, last stop? Meta-fusion.
The next evolution of music is fused in
To let you choose when the music levels confusion
Get it? This is the blueprint...
Alright class, if you're gonna pass
You gotta listen up fast
Or you'll never learn lessons of the past, present and future
That's why a Jazz Hop Revolution got produced:
To juice ya.
Get used to the sound downtown, it's underground-found
You drown in so much bullshit you sit
Listening to culprits on pulpits pull tricks over your eyes
Like oversized wool-knits.
Surprised? Talk to these guys, disguised
Follow these wise-devised qualities ties
When you realize that it's too great
Growing up meant that you made mistakes
That changed your fate, too late to take a second
Look at what it was stressing
Make money, money, take money honey, wait!
Question great sex on a second date?
Let's break, catch an 8:30 sesh and escape.
What is a JazzHopRevolution?
Elocution to get you used to movin'
To smooth acoustic musical cues
Proven to groove you through the illusion of usual views
All aboard, last stop? Meta-fusion.
The next evolution of music is fused in
To let you choose when the music levels confusion, get it?
This is The Movement.
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2. |
The Myth
04:20
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Hype the masses, fight the fascists
For anyone who likes to ask, wipe your glasses
Hype the masses, fight the fascists
For anyone who writes the past, wipe your glasses
Hype the masses, fight the fascists
For anyone who types to cast, wipe your glasses
Imagine you had to fight to survive, but you got ass-kicked
And died, while the guys who ass-kicked got to decide
Why you're alive for your buddies to read it in class
To study or stay back for a grade to pass because somebody
Was afraid of asking a question that could come to threaten
The part of the lesson that was gettin em paid minimum wage,
I guess then you'd be a slave and behave accordingly
To the story that explained why glory could never be yours to see.
That's the story of history when there's still myths to be uncovered
And unsolved mysteries to be discovered and understood
Like how could you understand "good" if you're from the hood
In a land that feeds hands from a can of garbage
That would leave any man or small kid damn retarded?
That's a mystery to unravel
When you follow the false path of history everyone travels
And you don't ask questions to find answers to test
Cuz you can't even spell your chances in Hell, well
That's a mystery to unravel
When you follow the false path of history every gun battle.
And you don't ask questions to find answers
Because your chances in Hell are tampered with, can't you tell?
That's a mystery to unravel when you follow the false path of history
Everyone travels.
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3. |
Nature
03:15
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Human nature explained
Is nature sustained
When human nature sustained
Is nature explained.
Every organism of nature interconnected
Just like every element of the music we're making
Has an effect on individuals
Who can listen and dance, to the rhythm enhanced
By the lyrical wisdom advanced
Is it a miracle or is it just metaphysical?
We may never know, as long as the definitions are heavy
So lemme know if the musical feeling is mutual as much as intellectual
When it's measure for measure to measure the pleasure heard
When putting together words, spreading together to sound...
...whatever's clever.
The truth is you don't need many words to be heard
When music says the same thing and strings swing
You can sing with the birds.
Now I don't know about you
But I know when I close my eyes and visualize size
I'm about as low as my shoe
But when I can flow with my crew I get high
As a red-eye jet flies in a sunset sky
And you'll notice I do feed off the energy
By letting the synergy of percussion and bass
Replace memory til I can fell the chemistry alter me
Down to the last molecule,
Til I'm water cool.
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4. |
Fear
04:53
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Knock, knock, who's there?
Do you feel that funky feeling you call fear?
Is it what we're here to swallow or did it just follow you here?
Like weird monster that appeared in the rearview mirror
When you couldn't see clear, oh dear
Open up or it won't disappear for another year
Did you hear? It's fear! Really here not make-believe
He's in every way of the way you feel
And there isn't any way you can make me leave
I'm the reason people hate to see folks eat the whole piece of cake
And leave old plates of people's mistakes
To make a meal of their missed takes, and I'm outside
And about 5 times bigger than the size of house, why
How sly like cat waiting patient to pounce
And catch a mouse like a housefly
Now try calling for help, never mind I own the whole block
Call-in yourself, your home alone locked who's got the key?
Me. You're shocked this is robbery, ha.
You treat me like I wouldn't
Speak to me like I shouldn't
If I did, why should I believe you like I couldn't?
I don't know what you're so afraid of
I don't know where you stole your data
All I know is I never told you to stay up
Go home I'll call you later
Are you scared of dying?
Are you scared of flying?
Are you scared of trying and getting caught lying?
Why? Are you scared of crying?
Are you scared of getting hurt fighting because you hate the pain?
Are you scared of things that are made to change or that stay the same?
Is the fear of taking risks like speaking in public
Or teaching a subject you hate to kids like freaking on a drug trip?
Does it even have an effect? Is the subject making you feel upset
If it is good, it should
I wouldn't want you to read through subtext just yet.
You treat me like I wouldn't
Speak to me like I shouldn't
If I did, why should I believe you like I couldn't?
I don't know what you're so afraid of
I don't know where you stole your data
All I know is I never told you to stay up
Go home I'll call you later
Next time you can't see clear and you wonder why you're here
Every reason that you had disappears and leads back to fear
Fear of change, fear of being estranged, fear of feeling
Rearranged like you failed to fight the fear of succeeding
Take a look at what you're reading, it's like the number's planned
Fear, terror, greed, hate, that's all we can understand
Cuz you lost the year you learned you would never be young again
With time facing Alice chasing rabbits through Wonderland
Til you didn't know which was more real: Love or the absence of
What you knew could be true if you knew what the password was
But you never learn that in school, all you learn is trapped in rules
That's why mom and dad want to seem cool but they can't
Cuz they fear when you act a fool
They treat you like you shouldn't
Speak to you like you couldn't
Since you did, I've survived, believe me like I wouldn't?
I don't know what they're so afraid of
I don't know where they stole their data
All I know is I never told you to stay up go home I'll call you later
All I know isI never told you to stay up go home I'll call you later...
I never told you to stay up go home I'll call you later...
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5. |
Money
02:50
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Get the money, get the money, gotta get, gotta get the money
Get the money, get the money, gotta get, gotta get the money
Get the money, get the money, gotta get, gotta get the money
Got the money good don't forget how to spend the money
Get the money, get the money, gotta get, gotta get the money
Get the money, get the money, gotta get, gotta get the money
Get the money, get the money, gotta get, gotta get the money
Got the money good don't forget how to spend the money
First get a job doing what you hate, gotta get the money
Then you're better off losing what you make, gotta spend the money
On a home, pay rent, food, bills God I hate the money
Not enough to enjoy life gotta keep it coming
Save up, go to school, take a class gotta get the cash
Pay up, know the rules, do the task gotta make it fast
Pick the pace up, say what? Wanna make it last?
Doesn't matter even if you hate the teacher start at kissing ass
If you're not an athlete, or hit the streets using what you know
Sell blow, pimp hoes, make music, hustle & flow
You can tell the world you don't give a f*ck how to get the dough
When the po-po knock on the door they already know
That you have the right to remain silent drop an extra charge
If you don't eat you starve off the second job
Money won't get you off in the yard from behind bars
What the hell was you thinking little dog you was never hard
Get the money, get the money, gotta get, gotta get the money
Get the money, get the money, gotta get, gotta get the money
Get the money, get the money, gotta get, gotta get the money
Got the money good don't forget how to spend the money
You can spend the money on anything you want, what is it you love?
Sex, drugs, rock n' roll, how bout givin' up to your blood
Taking care of family can be insanity because
All of us in humanity have the vanity to judge one another
Under cover if you really love her let her go
Get the money on her own from a tree gotta let her grow
If she comes back better than before it oughta let you know
In the meantime, don't let it throw you off because we all
Get the money, get the money, gotta get, gotta get the money
Get the money, get the money, gotta get, gotta get the money
Get the money, get the money, gotta get, gotta get the money
Got the money good don't forget how to spend the money
If you're lucky and you got money, good, gotta get a honey
If you're ugly and you're not funny, bad, gotta spend the money
On shoes and a few jewels so you're not looking bummy
With enough left over to put food in the tummy
Get the money when you're hungry buy cheap even if it's not healthy
Every week lose sleep, still because you're not wealthy
If you can't feed yourself, well, hell, you can't feed anybody else G.
That's why you gotta get the money, gotta get, gotta get the money
Get the money, get the money, gotta get, gotta get the money
Get the money, get the money, gotta get, gotta get the money
Got the money good now don't forget.
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6. |
Life
03:42
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Wounds heal, scars may stay
I'm finally real this beautiful day
In resonance with what I feel I can say
The world is ready to heal, so let's play
The truth is my meal the season is May
I'ma mark this revolution with my seal
As we rise like flowers out of clay.
Coming are times more electric than an eel
Judgment Day is near but I'm here to stay
May I suggest that in life you follow your heart
Or in strife you'll just be blindly throwing darts
Like a knife this planet has left you cut
Like a G from an Oz.
You don't remember what's true
A society of one has left no clue to the answers that are deep within you.
Listen close and they'll seep through
Understanding means no more wondering
Done with overthinking you'll start to do
The fire just lit in the chimney so new.
Do you see purpose in getting to the mystical promised land of blue?
The same you search for in an invisible Heaven you thought ou knew?
Come reality undeniable like a blaze you are in a haze
Both just in need of someone to open the flu
Eye of your heart once unrestrained in tie to undo
You've got the gun to shoot the one and lay to waste that maze
Point...all but moot.
Wake up. Square up
And face this new phase phrased in a view.
Fear the greatest illusion of our time
Alone it's the biggest resolution for crime
Like a bone buried in the foundation of your mind
The finest lie to which our delusions and reasoning bind
Not one more harmful deception one may find
Remember, it's a hallucination and you're one of a kind
Just the impression of an unscalable wall one must climb
To come to the realization that it's but slime, mere temptation
To the imagination in a cosmos truly free of grie
Trust yourself, forget expectation and all will be fine.
Wounds heal, scars may stay
I'm finally real this beautiful day
In resonance with what I feel I can say
The world is ready to heal, so let's play
The truth is my meal the season is May
I'ma mark this revolution with my seal
As we rise like flowers out of clay.
Coming are times more electric than an eel
Judgment Day is near but we're here to stay
Problems the very angst of existence
Non-existent they become with patience
Leaving way for only new challenges as credence
Where frustration once reigned, fun now takes over the cadence
Trying times at worst educative, hence
All those who seek peace should hop the fence
New positive outlook recommended at every petulance
Status quo equating the Great One with malevolence
Take strength in difficulty and replace annoyance
You'll be left with nothing but reminiscence
As trepidation is ended as a lesson, by this sentence.
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7. |
Spirit
07:36
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Don't blink, just move
Bring everything all up within you
It's already in us, we're already in view
We're already in trust to always continue
Don't think, must groove
Close your eyes step out of your club shoes
Love is around you, in and above you
Nothing can ground you, no one can judge you
Let yourself go
Better yet let yourself go with the flow
Feel the beat from the ground through your toes
Travel up to your crown from way down below
Nothing has changed much since times were tribal
Struggle's the same just humankind survival
Trouble and pain's all part of the cycle
Love is a game we should all find delightful
Listen to the sound, step to the rhythm
Get down to the ground and sweat, cue the vision
Everything is one on a quest for true livin'
When you dance under the sun after the moon's risen
Map the indigenous knowledge of our wisdom
On tracks to be written and follow the star systems
Musical chambers were telling our ancestors
Human language developed from hand gestures
Just like the knowledge that frees human spirits
The upright symbolically speaks using the lyric
Much like the heart of the beat movin you near it
May teach musical secrets the sooner you hear it.
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8. |
Dance
03:47
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9. |
Da Truth
04:16
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Truth is within you when you can choose to find it
Youth will continue to chime in rhyming it's all in the timing
Sublime and open-minded, I'm blinded
Reminded of what's been forgotten shining like a diamond
With so many facets shaping who we are in alignment
With the stars from afar solar warming our jar of experimentation
Creation wearing an apron with observation adjacent
To thought placement lost in the population
Patience in blood, hate and war, what are we waiting for?
God is taking score, not to tell us who's winning
Sinning or thinning, underpinnings knowing truth is just the beginning
Wheels are spinning, thinking and feeling
Pen inkings are healing and linking congealing everything in revealing
What you knew was already was true but never knew to express
Who's to impress but the God of You in the flesh, yes
Help has arrived, recognize the prize
And keep your eyes on the skies, wise-guys,
Universalize.
Dive from the high-rise, die and come back life-size.
Fear's an illusion, steering confusion hearing the music
In time and space we're near to solutions
Boostin the climbing human race up the face of the mountain
Chasing eruptions spouting off the top gushing like a fountain
Good luck in counting measures
We're just as bound in structures and systems...
Tell 'em John, testify.
You hear that? You fear that?
Get near that. We're back.
I think that pretty much said it all.
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10. |
Da Phunk
03:12
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Jazz. Hop. Revolution
With a bit of W-funk infusion
Who got a problem with it?
Call in to Houston, we're defiant
Defining the genre's used
When you can label it whatever you want, it's music
I'll say it again black, this is the blueprint
Jazz Hop, never stupid
Got a little bit of W-funk amusement
If you gotta problem with it, call into Houston
We can define the lines and genre's usage
Can say what it is how you want to choose, kid
Just play it again, Jack.
This is the movement.
Transcend the illusion that everything
On the planet that exists isn't part of the same thing
A part of the same consciousness of experience
Coming into the world as far as the brain thinks
And every human being is part of the same dream
Where God is strange thing evolving and changing.
Man's end to confusion is the blueprint
Of universal law at the heart of the mainstream
Where right and wrong isn't always as plain seen
As a war being fought that's not entertaining
But still funner to watch than politicians explaining
How they understand the pain that all of these games bring
Jazz. Hop. Revolution
With a bit of W-funk infusion
If you got a problem with it?
Call in to Houston, we're defiant
Defining the genre's used
When you can label it whatever you want, it's music
I'll say it again black, this is the blueprint
Jazz Hop, never stupid
Got a little bit of W-funk amusement
If you gotta problem with it, call into Houston
We can define the lines and genre's usage
Can say what it is how you want to choose, kid
Just play it again, Jack.
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Rahman Jamaal Redwood City, California
In the year 6245, a cinematic experiment creates an alternate timeline through a creative vessel for the purpose of translating 5th dimensional reality to 21st century language. This is the encoded frequency of that experience.
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