Today, there’s a new Doseone surprise record, Wood Teeth; all produced by Height Keech. Last week when I recorded my demos on Height beats, I learned to my surprise and mild chagrin that my dibs on one of the hardest selections had expired in the year it took me to get my demos recorded (ZERO FAULT of the producer! That’s a risk we take when we take forever!!), and it was about to drop on the new Doseone surprise record that had been written just a week prior and was slated to drop as a special rebuke to America on the 4th of July.
I had recorded a demo on a beat with the working title NEEDLES. The verse I wrote is still going to be part of a song on the Height & Prowess record, but it won’t be on this beat! It kind of feels like I jacked the instrumental (oh the vinyl on Handsmade has instrumentals on the b-side, so cop THAT) for a mixtape verse, but backwards?
But yeah so here’s my verse - if you love the beat, buy the Dose & Height record! If you love the raps, tell me all about it please in the chat.
If you love both… you are just like me.
Lyrics! Somebody want lyrics!
blind me with the high beams from your lime green time machine, lying like a scion on a crime scene, vibing, know what i mean? (yeah yeah) unmatched vibrancy, primary colours on my screen was cyan magenta yellow & black our billowing flag means def, crying tears on a Halifax pier, I'm Barrett's Privateers word to Mega Ran, swear to science we're not even joking MCs are bleeding, broke and broken while the seasoned meat is smoking i gotcha opin in a Habs jersey, mad thirsty we're gonna have words, lord have mercy shout out my cats: Ernie, Waldo, and Gessie Guniour you got a messy room, spreading like a messy rumour festoon my tomb with balloons that spell congratulations or get well soon, or happy graduation that's amazing like Shad's nascence adjacent to Sudan of all places, and his song that samples Cannonball.
Maaan, this job's thankless! I'm always in the Office
like the Manfred Mann song from the man from Small Faces
my fall from grace is Apollo rocket to space, be not afraid I've got the patience of GOB, no Jason Bateman. wait…
“cyan, magenta, yellow, and black” are familiar to a lot of people from printers’ inks, but also they’re the pixel colours a CGA video card and monitor could display when I was first using a computer in the 80s.
“Barrett’s Privateers” is a Stan Rogers song and has nothing to do with Mega Ran, but Mega Ran has a close connection to Barrett the gun-armed revolutionary from Final Fantasy VII. Is there anything more American than a revolutionary with a gun for an arm?
“I Gotcha Opin” is a song by Black Moon off their 1992 debut album, Enta Da Stage, and in the video for the remix, Buckshot Shorty is wearing a Montreal Canadiens hockey jersey. The Canadiens are also called Les Habitants, or the Habs for short. I think I probably am about as into the NHL as Black Moon was, but it felt like it was just a tiny bit closer to my world, if that makes any sense?
The rapper Shadrach Kabango was born in Kenya, which is actually adjacent to SOUTH Sudan which I think I am just not realizing isn’t just the southern part of the nation of Sudan but another nation to the south of Sudan. Shit, no wonder this beat got yoinked off me!! And Shad had an EP with TLO back in 2012 called Melancholy and the Infinite Shadness and it has a song on it that samples Cannonball by The Breeders and it is amazing. OH! Also the reason I say “that’s amazing” about where Shad was born is in reference to a line from one of my favourite songs of his, “Stylin’.” There’s a lot going on here sorry.
At the time I wrote this, I was struggling a lot at my office job and would sometimes stay there “working” overnight (mostly just stressing about not being productive) and it was really taking me away from the rest of my life, so I was always at the office… and the theme song to the sitcom The Office (at least in the UK? I forget if it’s the same in the US) was Rod Stewart’s cover of Manfred Mann’s “Handbags & Glad Rags.” Rod Stewart had been also in a band called Small Faces. Oh my god I’m good at raps and ideas, except…
I stubbornly will not correct the fact that I said the wrong actor from Arrested Development here. Patience of GOB is funny, Jason Bateman rhymes good in there, the line is just me being wrong like when Method Man says “nuff respect due to the one six OOH / I mean OH, yo…”
Check out the flow.
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