This is a song initally exploring gender dysphoria and heteronormativity, comparing it to a mental prison. I then started expanding to looking at the political context of my emotions, and how much of my dysphoria is symptomatic of social conditioning. As the track builds, so does my anger. Eventually Gao joins in to point the finger at the root: capitalism, patriarchy and white supremacy.
This is the first single from my upcoming album, "DAMAG3", which will explore this topic and many more in detail.
lyrics
DAMAG3:
Tell me whatcha know about a mental prison
Locked up so tight, I got dementors in it
Life sentencing, the government wanna meddle in my mental business
People feel the need to preach God when they settling the devil’s business
How Interesting, maybe if you did a little introspection
You’d wanna join in on the insurrection
Led by a little girl with the biggest death wish
I been calling out for help, did ya get my message?
Did you get my texts, bitch?
Greg Abbott Killin little kids just cause they live in texas
Tell a bigot they can get to stepping
Give a fuck about the sovereignty of a nation that don’t give respect
To the people like me who go and give ‘em checks
So tell every politician that DAMAG3 sent ya and they neck is next bitch
Tell me whatcha know about
prison (PRISON) x3
Moon on the dark side, blocking the light of a
prism (PRISM) x 2
3 in the sacred alphabet, bitch I’m RZA
RZA (Risen) x2
Stuck in the wrong body, whatcha know about
prison (PRISON) x4
Orange jumpsuit, whatcha know about clothes ain’t fitting?
Oh you can’t get a good job? Go cry me a river
Hypocrisy
Finna get my Glock
Fire shots at the blind leaders
Kill a politician wish you would like A pine tree tho
Combine your mind with my Nina
I’m divine, so I define my righteous timing
Shoehorning my points like I’m a rhino
I can’t die tho, finna live forever like I’m wakanda
I tried it prior, put a bullet in my head I came back to life tho
Bitches know I respawn, bitches know I keep going
Sick of going back and forth paddling rappers like ping pong
I don’t bite bitch, I just smite ya
I just might, put a bunch of white inside your wife bitch
I don’t try shit, I just do it
Go ahead and tell Drake to move it
I’m the new Nike of music
Strap up for the revolution
Tell me whatcha know about
prison (PRISON) x3
Moon on the dark side, blocking the light of a
prism (PRISM) x 2
3 in the sacred alphabet, bitch I’m RZA
RZA (Risen) x2
Stuck in the wrong body, whatcha know about
prison (PRISON) x4
Orange jumpsuit, whatcha know about clothes ain’t fitting?
Oh you can’t get a good job? Go cry me a river
Gao:
Cut the fingers off the hand of the Government
Promised land but lost track of the covenant
Nobody bites the hand with a gun in it
The dream stays one if the plan has no blood in it
Capital punishment
Thugs in the throne room
Legacy in how you Pedalled drugs in the communes
Maybe you'd be spared if you responded to volume
Suppressor on the barrel for oppressors in the tower bitch
Death follows cowardice
I smell blood on the breath of the powerless
You motherfuckers sailed west and then settled in the ash of your victims
Eviction legitimized by lead and gunpowder
Head in the guillotine
Bleach on the porcelain
Weeds out the garden
Leech off the organs
Roots too deep and the needs too important
Just wait, we'll be free in the morning
credits
released October 14, 2022
Produced by VEXX and Gao the Arsonist
Mixed/Mastered by savesomeone
Playful, punchy solo debut from San Jose rapper Quintissential (Broken Aces, Dirty Old Men); veteran Cali beatsmith Eddou XL produces. Bandcamp New & Notable Aug 10, 2022
