Aesop Rock: A Compendium of Influence - Part 1 (Solo Albums & EPs)
A (mostly) complete guide to every reference made in Aesop Rock's lyrics—all movies, TV shows, video games, songs, books and more. Part 1 of 3, Solo Albums & EP's
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A quick consideration on the formatting:
I realized late in the process that Substack might not have been the best place to compile this project because the editor doesn’t seem to like over 55,000 words and thousands of hyperlinks in one place. When I try to load everything together, all it does is crash. Since my other writing is already here and I want to keep it that way, I’ve had to split this into 3 separate posts. I’d rather it all be in one place, but alas, as The Rolling Stones once said you can’t always get what you want.
This is Part of 1 of 3— Solo Albums & EPs
Part 2— Collabs, Singles, Features, and Other Rarities
Part 3— The Reference Index, Credits, and Other Bits
What is this?
I’ve spent the past handful of months intently listening to and studying every Aesop Rock song trying to find every reference and allusion he’s made throughout his entire discography. I listened to every original song on every Album, EP, and Collaboration. I also listened to every non-album single, feature, and other rarities I could find. If he rapped on a track, I listened to it and compiled it here (save for a couple of caveats).
Since Aesop Rock isn’t exactly known for being easy to interpret, this will never be the 100% perfect, complete, or exhaustive list of every reference/allusion he’s ever made. I’ve tried my best to be as thorough as possible, but there are most certainly things I missed and/or the other folks on Genius didn’t catch or annotate either.
I’ve opted to focus specifically on references to other art and forms of media: Movies, TV Shows, Video Games, Songs, Books, etc., and not necessarily EVERY reference/allusion to a person, place, or thing (i.e. Albert Einstein, The Wright Brothers, etc.)
If you think I missed something, know that this is a living document that I will update if something is brought to my attention, either feel free to comment on this post or DM me either on Substack or Reddit. That being said, I will also update this post as new songs come out.
The caveats:
I opted not to include freestyles and a couple of other extremely rare oddities. Although some were recorded and featured on releases from other artists (see here for the full list), I’m more concerned with the official and finished songs and features found on albums, EPs, or as singles. Although there might be references and allusions in the freestyles worth considering, I don’t exactly consider them “songs” on their own.
*DISCLAIMER*
Although this was a massive undertaking requiring many hours of my time to complete, this document is by no means an original work. Despite sections in which original commentary may be presented, this project still falls under the category of reference material and should only be considered as such. Due to the nature of the format, the bulk of the words contained within are not my own but rather sections of lyrics written by Aesop Rock presented verbatim and with their corresponding annotations. So all credit goes to him for the source material.
With that being said, I must stress that this was strictly a passion project with absolutely zero intent of financial gain so as not to infringe on the rights of the proper rightsholders of the music and lyrics. The information presented here is done so only in a factual, not-for-profit, and educational way.
If you appreciate the work of Aesop Rock and have the financial means to do so, PLEASE BUY HIS MUSIC TO SUPPORT HIM THE MOST DIRECTLY. Sure, streaming is cool and all, but you know what else is cool? Supporting your favorite artists so they can keep making more of the art you love. So please, if you can, buy his music from any of these places:
Bandcamp: either from his or from Rhymesayers
Rhymesayers.com: either digital or physical
From your local record store
Other online retailers (Quboz, iTunes, etc.)
I’ve also included streaming links for every album and song presented here, and also purchase links granted I could find one. I prioritized sources like Bandcamp and Quboz first and YouTube second.
On the lyrics
Most of the lyrics presented here were sourced from Genius.com.
Links to the lyrics are provided on every song. And in the occasional event where lyrics weren’t available, I went by ear. In those cases, it’s likely that I might have missed things—I only know what I know.
The bulk of the references presented here are either obvious or can be figured out with a quick internet search, i.e. Wookiee for Star Wars, or Spittle County for The Simpsons. And I don’t think it’s necessary to thank InsertUsernameHere specifically for pointing out who Mr. T is in 100 Feet Tall—a song clearly about Mr. T—just because they pointed out the obvious before anyone else.
Because of this, I’ve only included credits to other users who pointed out references I wouldn’t have been able to find my own, either from my own knowledge or with the help of the internet. All of those can be found in the Credits section at the end of Part 3, if you see your name on the list, thank you for your help! They will be noted through out like this [x] with a link to their Genius page.
I did find some things on my own, some obvious but not noted on Genius for whatever reason, and some hopefully a little more obscure. As for the more obvious ones, I did not add annotations on Genius as I don’t think they’re necessary as I stated in the previous paragraph. As for the other ones, I hope I uncovered something new for at least one of you.
Also, it should be noted that it would be impossible to prove every reference presented here, some are direct and undeniable but others might only be possible. Whether intentional or not on Aesop’s end, if an argument can be made for something being a reference, I’m assuming that it is one.
One last thing
My intention was to compile all of these things that already existed in disparate places into one cohesive and convenient document in hopes that another fan like myself might find value in it. So if you found value in this, all I can ask of you is to please share it with another Aesop Rock fan who might also enjoy it. And also to leave a like or comment on this post so that the almighty algorithmic overlords might bless a potential new fan with this post who might not have found Aesop otherwise.
Part 1— Solo Albums & EPs
Music for Earthworms
Released 1998 — Listen — Not available for purchase, limited CD-r only release (read more).
Abandon All Hope
Title: The Divine Comedy
Drunky peasants, honor the shifty Megatron presence
Transformers
Crooked rumors turn zoomers when rookies talkin'
Bad seeds blossom the Wookiee walk hawk and let a sucker drift
Star Wars
Fuck a badge, light a bonfire dancin' jig around the pig
Lord of the Flies:
("The boys, reduced to primal instincts, torture and kill a pig to be sacrificed to a being known to them as The Beast. The Beast turns out to be the evil within them." [1])
Wine and water chose me
Bored: lasso down Polaris, let the glow amuse me
Biblical- Water Into Wine
Ok, I lay me down to sleep, creepin' a slumber under red skies
Heads splittin', straight sippin' a drip of dead vibes
Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep
From ducks in my carnival to vipers in my garden
You flash identify by them genus, species and class
Biblical- Garden of Eden
So like sadly, my style spooks juveniles like Boo Radley
To Kill a Mockingbird
Radically weak assume the Colonel Kurtz in our platoon soon enough
Apocalypse Now
I live for the moment of truth when Big Willie rapper
Acknowledges failure and states
"Goddamn my shit is trash It's time to let go!" Tin man banging upon his chest to hear the echo
Will Smith- Big Willie Style, The Wizard of Oz
See we the people of the united, starving artistic
Militia keep movin' in order to form a more perfect union
Preamble to the Constitution of the United States of America
Rugged serpentine climb, pebble to rock
Let your pretty pink cloud nine expectations please you not
Sisyphus
I'm, Ae-*fucking*-sop Rock, mic bizarro
Bizzaro [2]
Abandon all hope y'all
The Divine Comedy
Wake Up Call (feat. Percee P)
Ayo Percee P it's time to wake these kids up
Percee P
I played a part of minesweeper, plunking sneakers in my sunken city
Minesweeper
When I was a boy I employed styles exhausted
By every lost child at present normally I drill pillars of normalcy
The City of Lost Children
Twenty Thousand League nappers and the swelling increases
Once the mortar hit the pestle your whole vessel fell to pieces
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
The Substance
Begging for death, concerns off with a zephyr tread and leg in a web
Caught triple-six couriers; beckon, they fled
Biblical- The Number of the Beast
All I need is the nourishment, the courage and the burn
To ascend from a number, to brave Blade Runner
Blade Runner
In the summer it rains buckets of hunger pains
In the winter it's the same, with an added climate change
The remaining two quadrants balance the polar values equally for mid-range
Yet the songs of thirst remain the same
Led Zeppelin- The Song Remains the Same
You could turn the whole cold reservoir to liquor
Hell, split the ocean on its seams if it boosts your esteem
Biblical- Crossing the Red Sea
Merit
Paladin tribe, break beat elitists, element five
The Fifth Element
Unto my game, defy the Siamese approaches
Whose delinquent dichotomy comps Emerald City in wondrous novelty
The Wizard of Oz
Drink drum, sip a snare to spit a rigid sequence, that's when freak sons
Fade to black just like these pretty pink lungs, slugger
Metallica- Fade to Black— Possible
And all I think about's the motion, exerted to color mavericks alerted
Herd a billion nervous lost child prodigies home to flourish
The City of Lost Children
I in turn apply policies which require intrinsic merit (Uh)
Try to wallow down these yellow bricks with yesterday's appendix on hold
The Wizard of Oz
Spot it like sky horizon, posed as barcodes
Load your fantasy, interject a bad dream candidly
Total Recall— Possible:
(Total Recall tells the story of a construction worker, Douglas Quaid who after seeing an advertisement on the train goes to Rekall, a company that sells 'realistic memory implants' to purchase his own memory of a Mars vacation. After selecting 'secret agent' and other preferences, something goes wrong during the procedure ultimately undoing previous mental tampering returning Quaid to his original self--also a secret agent. Upon discovery of his reawakening, the powers that be seek to return Quaid to his former modified self by convincing him that this has all been a bad dream.)
Forty thieves received the cue
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
Bizarre pattern with a bad vibe like Jafar to Aladdin
Aladdin
We slipped these boogie nights, sucked wattage from rookie lights, now you proud
Boogie Nights
This little light of mine shines at a hundred billion times
The magnitude of every star within an ample sky sample
This Little Light of Mine
89.9FM Nighttrain Promo
Title: WKCR 89.9FM, Night Train
What's up? This is Aesop Rock for WKCR, check it
I traded my title as bent pedestrian for passenger status to coast muted
Finding the night train mildly therapeutic
Night Train
Sick of it all, sick of the stalls, sick of the thick brick in the wall
Pink Floyd- Another Brick In The Wall
It's flight of the intruder and we all fall down
Ride of the Valkyries, Ring a Ring o' Roses
Mic sweltering measures like melting my rings together and you never
Seen I, Aesop Rock, flop for the love of eighty-nine point nine
I'm here to ride upon the night train
Yeah, WKCR, eighty-nine point nine, it's night train
WKCR 89.8FM, Night Train
Yeah, WKCR, eighty-nine point nine, it's night train
WKCR 89.8FM, Night Train
What's up to my man Apex, Kinetic, DJ Ely, Baz, My man Dub-L, my production, the mighty Ger, my Man Patrick, Blockhead, Mr. Roper, Omega One, my man hates one, Percee P, Andre
Dub-L, Blockhead, Omega One, Percee P, all others unknown
Live On 89.9FM Nighttrain
Title: WKCR 89.9FM, Night Train
Check it, in a box marked "divinity", I trap the trinity
Of honor, evolution, and serenity
Biblical- The Trinity
This archetype hyped oddities of style
Lost child prodigy intrigued
The City of Lost Children
Brick in the wall installments draw a fallen performance
Fifth element, critical endurance
Pink Floyd- Another Brick In The Wall, The Fifth Element
Kids wanna know the Aesop Rock...
The off the top, prototype, straight RoboCop
RoboCop
If you're Quasimodo and you're slo-mo to stop
Ya rock bells
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, LL Cool J- Rock the Bells
Verse from Wake Up Call:
I played a part of minesweeper, plunking sneakers in my sunken city
Minesweeper
When I was a boy I employed styles exhausted
By every lost child at present normally I drill pillars of normalcy
The City of Lost Children
Twenty Thousand League nappers and the swelling increases
Once the mortar hit the pestle your whole vessel fell to pieces
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
First verse from Shere Kahn:
My firm's radically piloted, dodging a fire swiftly
Yellow-brick stalker walking shifty
The Wizard of Oz
I'm but a prototype Metroid programmed to holocaust style
While you're sulking in the stages of denial
Metroid
Your petty soldiers stand fragile like Giacometti sculptures
Alberto Giacometti
I stay special agent 'til the sky falls
Reverse the curse 'til my fellow Lost Children disperse
The City of Lost Children
Yo Aesop Rock, gotta say what's up to
Niles, Big Ger, Blockhead, The Baby Show, Dub-L,
Peace to Apex, Kinetic, and Ely, and everyone that works up here letting us come up
Blockhead, Dub-L, all others unknown
Coward of the Year (feat. Percee P)
Also on The Controls- One Hundred, Released 1999, Listen
Load a back alley shaman liquid Tomb Raider with a most fertile assortment of spitting logics for the lab rats gone colossus in the spotlight
Tomb Raider
The New York MC population dancing uncontrollable expansion
Location
Shere Khan
Also on The Controls- One Hundred, Released 1999, Listen
Title: The Jungle Book
My firm's radically piloted, dodging a fire swiftly
Yellow-brick stalker walking shifty
The Wizard of Oz
I'm but a prototype Metroid programmed to holocaust style
While you're sulking in the stages of denial
Metroid
Your petty soldiers stand fragile like Giacometti sculptures
Alberto Giacometti
I stay special agent 'til the sky falls
Reverse the curse 'til my fellow Lost Children disperse
The City of Lost Children
Antisocial
Now slow-mo Quasimodos teeter on ringleader status
While I spit satellite photos while teetering on the stratus
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
Aesop Rock, prototype RoboCop
Jabberwocky rocking on the highest hilltop
RoboCop, Through the Looking-Glass
Swept off your meridian.
It’s operation Start With a Slummy Raped Your Milk and Honey
Biblical- The Promised Land (Milk and Honey)
Hit him with my ninety-nine metal plated mics upon the wall,
Take em' down, pass em'round, rock em' all.
99 Bottles of Beer
I’m forever building my City of Lost Children
The City of Lost Children
The magic-maker dragging devils to add triple sixes
Melt the triple glitches on your console,
I calibrate my mics prior to claimin' shit is rockable
Biblical- The Number of the Beast
Coordinates
I target the crux of all that's considered sin
The lost child venomous neck that spittles off my chin
The City of Lost Children
Close encounters of the first kind
Contact cursed minds
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Plastic Soldiers
The sound of silence vers' the sound of War
Simon & Garfunkel- The Sound of Silence
Crooked cynic tyrant
Your ignorant bias is my Goliath
Biblical- David and Goliath
My secrets unfold codes of conduct, raid
Blade runner, intimidating
Figment in the minds of the malignant
Your opinion: not significant,
Blade Runner
Troubled Waters
Bridge over troubled water drown, sound study intensive
My square drops to erase your lines like Tetris
Tetris
Plot twist foolhardy Icarus shifted in facets of my form
Icarus
One life polluted, concerned muffle moans
From the nine rings of Donnie's hell burn you in your slumber
The Divine Comedy
The evil-minded tried to triple six me but he missed me
Intervene; emcees appear as red blips on my color radar screen
Biblical- The Number of the Beast
Appleseed
Self-released 1999, re-issued 2021 on Rhymesayers Entertainment, Listen/Purchase
Appleseed Intro
Title: Appleseed
APPLESEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEED!
Appleseed
Black spot of Gotham, fragile
Castle and master passageway
Batman
Dryspell
This splendors, shimmy splinters all up in day-tripper visuals
The Beatles- Day Tripper
The broken spoke cyclers choking open Doctor Zaius born fetus
In a matchbox keylessly padlocked to the hammer base
Planet of the Apes
Same Space (The Tugboat Complex pt. 2)
Well sure my crown is formed of thorns
Yeah but my thorns are formed of sound
And I have found sounds what keeps me warm
When mornings born with frozen ground
Biblical- Crown of Thorns
Throw the rope down, pull me from where the buzzards cleared
The meat from the bones of you and your little bad-ass mad max musketeers
Mad Max
Friend it don’t take the wisest men in triplicate pacing to find
I don’t condone the blasphemy hatchery’s procreation
Biblical- Three Wise Men
The company of similars couldn't excite the motor
But hermit crab Aes home a-loner
Home Alone
Buckled, the troubles I've seen
Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen
On my left, one finger for each borough I can touch
On my right, one finger for each time that I wake up midsummer night
Location
Born for one task indeed
To spoil the citizen kane
Emote self this ugly duckling seed
Citizen Kane, The Ugly Duckling
Look I too am tired of draggin' the baggage over the seesaw seats
When the reapers turns mortals to Caspers
Casper the Friendly Ghost
Sick Friend
I choked when the caged bird sings it stings
Springs me up delirium to stitch the clipped wings
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Hold the Cup
And the saints come marching in
When the Saints Go Marching In
Goliath dipped in slipshod posture conceived evening
So I feed idea turn sun dial to bastards son adopt the reroute dreaming
Biblical- David and Goliath
So it goes
Slaughterhouse-Five
Take one down, pass it round among us
Liquor tip a drink, drink, drunk, drunk, and drunkest
99 Bottles of Beer
They'll be dodging more than cradles when the bough breaks
Note the eviction slip clipped to your little visions into cloud shapes
Rock-a-bye Baby
1,000 Deaths
Oooh child, raised as oddity, son of a circus side-show freak
Pertinent to the slide show, the wino's leak but I won't speak
The Five Stairsteps- O-o-h Child
And I'm reborn every time the wine metamorphs back to water, my god
Sweet Christ, crucify me with railroad spikes
Use my skull to bash them all in, gather sit and grin, weave
Biblical- Water Into Wine, Biblical- Crucifixion of Jesus
I mean I'm only one servant, making one hell of a diversion
And if the masses have agreed to split the sea then let it bleed
Biblical- Crossing the Red Sea, Biblical- The Sea Turns to Blood
I roam in a social coma
Jonesing for home alone days to sit and count my poems,
Home Alone
In honesty promise me twenty thousand sloppy leagues
And dive and finding my thriving ivy leaves climbing up the pit fall
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Told them the roof was on fire, when that structure burned to ashes
All y'all saw was Aesop Rock holding an empty book of matches
Rock Master Scott & the Dynamic Three- The Roof is On Fire
Blue in the Face
Squirming in terms in conditions of un-satisfact destiny magnet
Where the Ebenezer to Cratchit ratio tragic
A Christmas Carol and A Christmas Carol
Abide thy crass itinerary barely suitable for common slum cats
And the lemmings will follow you to the blood bath
White Wilderness
I don't mind y'all looking in
It's just watching Sin City steam slips under my skin
Sin City (Comic)— Possible
Mechanized idols inhabit malleable colonies
'Till the fire ant dropped the sweet leaf, grief
Black Sabbath- Sweet Leaf
That's better than colony
My own father's son is the holy ghost, suck that theology
Biblical- The Trinity, Biblical- Holy Spirit/Ghost
Odessa (ft. Doesone)
Where the shiftiest sources leak out the back door
For more and this is New York City
Location
Oh, now wait a minute
I notice there making mockeries of mad men
Tend not to bend in the honesty
My twenty thousand leagues ending grants sardonic fatigue
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
And I live beneath the scenic yeah, where the fossils pledged allegiance
Where the centipedes and serpents bigot on territorial disagreements
Pledge of Allegiance
Man I purposely spun straw to gold to lace each last stitch perfectly
Rumpelstiltskin
Float
Released 2000, Listen/Purchase
Float
I'm Bilbo Baggins with stilts tipping the Petri dish
The Lord of the Rings and/or The Hobbit
Divvy the servings and study the traits that deemed killer breed credible
That's a harp of a different color but the song remains identical
Led Zeppelin- The Song Remains the Same— Possible
Fire ant with a hunger pain gut be gone
Belong to something civil, saint, cuz this Rembrandt paints on
Rembrandt
I alone personify mankind's collective sulk
As a result of one angry Zeus fist blistering cult pulp in bulk
Zeus
Make it rain 'til the levy breaks
Led Zeppelin- When the Levee Breaks
Commencement (at the Obedience Academy)
It's down beneath your sappy sing-a-longs
Let's take it further down, we'll let Dante decide which ring I'm on
The Divine Comedy
Nova
Ender's Game:
("Could be a reference to Ender’s Game, a novella by Orson Scott Card, in which Ender yells Nova to signal his friends to defend themselves when some older boys attacked them during a practice session."[3])
Now I'm like point:
I guess I could spare a splash for a couple of heads
Counterpoint:
During my famine I never got broke your bread
Biblical- Breaking Bread
I'm tryin' to walk on top of sunshine
But it's ridiculous at times. That's why I'm touring with this warning
Katrina and the Waves- Walking On Sunshine
Ante up the slight cost of exhaustion
To salute the moon above paradise lost and you're a spectator, stringent
Paradise Lost
Big Bang
Every man's got a field to plow (I know that now)
But it's like, man I really can't afford the oxen
Fee fie et cetera
I smell the warm blood of the bill collector knockin'
Jack and the Beanstalk
Cabin fever meter peggin' ludicrous
Beautiful cartoon troopers
Swallow brutal futility with a teaspoon full of sugar
Mary Poppins (Julie Andres- A Spoonful of Sugar)
I'ma burn with this little light of mine
This Little Light of Mine
Alien to shallow alchemy
If you gon' metamorph the base-metal to precious
Might as well steal from the rich, bewitch the peasants
Robin Hood
I'm floating this homing pigeon out Hell’s Kitchen window
Left an S.O.S. infested bottle nestled in his grip so
Location
I was us up all night with a rusty hammer
Trying to build a fence around these magic beans
My dreams have gathered
Jack and the Beanstalk
Garbage
Wing of wax? Or wing of gold leaf? Choose one
Float or plummet twenty thousand cold leagues
Icarus, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Snake bite, breath too heavy to hold
Caught up in the wake of the red witch trying to swim it
Wake of the Red Witch
Honor and a loud thirst submersed in a trap
Little drummer boy vs. thunderclap
The Little Drummer Boy
And I'm a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas
Alfred Noyes- The Highwayman [4]
Pitching my back to Hell’s Kitchen
Location
I'll Be OK (ft. Slug)
I wanna lift every yellow brick
The Wizard of Oz
There's a storm outside my tenement
Beats upon my windows with Mother Nature's adrenaline
I guess that's why my homie Blockhead stays glued to the television
Blockhead
Breakfast With Blockhead
No references (instrumental)
Basic Cable
And I abide great idiot box power supply, fuzz vapor
Black out of New York, hey honey, get the generator
Location
I'm in a doom, doom generation, pacin', ancient electric secret
Never sleepin' to miss the AM oasis
The Doom Generation
Plug it in, turn it on, be my mother when she's gone, great
Wipe the spittle off my chinny-chin during the breaks
The Three Little Pigs
Deleted passions sacrificed to one electron monster
Crucify my little future to the monitor
Biblical- Crucifixion of Jesus
Stereo mastered often kill the freak seekers, eyes spiraling
Tangled in the star-spangled wiring
The Star-Spangled Banner
I can turn from toxicated visuals
And all the kings horses abort the loyalty to royalty
Fuck the fortress
Humpty Dumpty
Adamant students within the fine school of possessed graduate catalysts
Channel zero addict, immaculate
Public Enemy-She Watch Channel Zero?! [5]
Fascination
Shooken to Casper
Illustrate beautiful disaster
Flight of the mother ship lift to badger the male-factor
Casper the Friendly Ghost, Ride of the Valkyries
Marionette versus the threat of wire cutter function
Stereotypical Grinch bashing your pumpkin
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
One massive attack, hunted, confronted and gutted
Most pungent component cloned in outrageous bunches
Massive Attack— Possible
Plucking the petals but every rose had its thorn
Poison- Every Rose Has Its Thorn— Possible
I think I can, I think I can
The Little Engine That Could
And everything I touch magnificent
King Midas— Possible
Picking apart a drunken township
Sitting in the rain rusting the nails my crown's bound with
Biblical- Crown of Thorns
If I had an anchor I would lay it in the dirt and mark today
"The Day The Earth Stood Still" while I complete my search
The Day the Earth Stood Still
You honor delusions and falsified life comfort systems
As boy in the bubble huddled up to simple Simon subtle
Paul Simon- The Boy in the Bubble [6]
With a delectable style compiled of that which stands
To buff a child's yellow brick vision of slick living
The Wizard of Oz
Oxygen
Can't touch this
MC Hammer- U Can't Touch This
I'm twice born, once in 7-something
Once as the resurrection of honorable function
The Notorious B.I.G.- Respect [7], Biblical- Resurrection of Jesus
I'm a sovereignty columnist fathering doom document
Curséd version of a certain Virgin Mary womb occupant
Biblical- Virgin birth of Jesus
Paling in comparison to Matthias, Goliath
Lies the rickety frame of the wicked silence
Biblical- David and Goliath
Better land a two-hand grip on that spoonful-of-sugar medical chaser
Credible crazer antidote's terrible, taste her
Mary Poppins (Julie Andres- A Spoonful of Sugar)
‘Gimmie gimmie’, crooned the Old Yeller community cartoon
Old Yeller
Beanstalk with a fiend walk and my name is mud
But that’s got a ring to it, so my soil welcomes the flood
Jack and the Beanstalk
That stairway to heaven’s merely a legend so the peasants dream well
Led Zeppelin- Stairway to Heaven
Skip Town
My time is the day before the day the earth stood still
The Day the Earth Stood Still
This turning in my sleep is getting old and older still
I think I can, I think I can, I think I can
I think I will
The Little Engine That Could
6B Panorama
A hole in the wall bar kicking drunks to the gutter, it's closing time
Semisonic- Closing Time
Lunch With Blockhead
No references (instrumental)
Spare a Match
I was born where all the king's men couldn't mend a broken spirit
Humpty Dumpty
I was born where it don't matter if you stand, sit, or fall
To live and die as a brick brick brick in the wall
And I'm a brick brick brick brick brick in the wall
And I'm a brick brick brick brick brick in the wall
And I'm a brick in the wall, drop in the bucket, yes y'all
Pink Floyd- Another Brick In The Wall
And so the epic went and every cirrus hung
The bow breakers turned a cradle fatal, every spirit clung
Rock-a-bye Baby
Croon for the slick Icarus brain children busy splitting the giving tree
Building fresh canoes for freaks to cross the spill in
Icarus, The Giving Tree
Be wary when the stratosphere tints
I Scout like Atticus Finch
Inching up slow in the games of reconnaissance
To Kill a Mockingbird and To Kill a Mockingbird
Stick stone conglomerate activate massive
But the sky is falling, fuck you
Chicken Little
Attention Span (ft. Vast Aire)
Every little step we take breaks the dreams
Of a war pig itching to re-stitch the seams
Black Sabbath- War Pigs
He followed the precedent set by war pigs of a yesteryear
Black Sabbath- War Pigs
How to Be a Carpenter
My house ain't made of bricks and straw but never has it crumbled
The Three Little Pigs
How to make a vision sing while twigs cling to your pigeon wings
Fission militia, indent bent to split blood in Hell's Kitchen sink
Location
Prosperity
I've done it all, from pixie dust to cramming pins in voodoo dolls
And ninety-nine dreams linked on the shooting gallery wall
99 Bottles of Beer
Sprung by the sling of David
to pierce gutter bug batch prior to hatch
Biblical- David and Goliath
Blazing saddle remnants alive analyze pensive
Blazing Saddles
Well, did you touch that slugger?
Banging on the table with an old tin cup, thin luck
Tom Waits- Gun Street Girl [8]
Bring out your dead, I got a pile sky high
Monty Python and the Holy Grail [12](From Save Yourself)
No Splash
I love New York Saturdays
But Mondays last longer
Location
I got a mantle, and the mantle is a candle
And my candle is a flame that burns to symbolize the day Gretel met Hansel
Hansel and Gretel
I be the matador making your pretty little heels click
I be the Sword in the Stone of the contemporary eclipse
The Wizard of Oz, The Sword in the Stone
Drawbridge (ft. Doseone)
Who put the fun in dysfunctional?
I, prodigal son combustible,
Biblical- Parable of the Prodigal Son
Then the masses wanna lean on me like O Captain! My Captain!
Not considering maybe this orphan hosts morbid attachments...
O Captain! My Captain!
Dinner With Blockhead
No references (instrumental)
The Mayor and the Crook
By the way if that diamond ring don't shine
That's cause I bought it at the five-and-dime but don't neglect the sentiment
Hush, Little Baby
I'm fresh out of Geppetto's woodwork asylum
See the frame, wire-bound knuckles
Let a tug of the puppeteer steer my hustle
Pinocchio
I got this slicky sycamore handshake
That mimics digit splinter entry
Thereby filtering citizens Tin Man prior to axe descending
The Wizard of Oz
I'll burn the campus to impress him
Then rock like Medusa glances
Medusa
Home alone sipping beetle juice
Just to numb it, then shimmy the needles loose
Home Alone, Beetlejuice
I've patched the little leakage in the shell around my greed
In case Tommy Turbulence located The Matrix that impedes
The Matrix
Labor Days
Released 2001, Listen/Purchase
Labor
Who put the monkey wrench in well-oiled perfectionist emblem
Just to watch these monitors spit white noise through your office space
The Monkey Wrench Gang
I twist characters like Twist characters
Twist [9]
Tally up the alley cat aggression in this Doug E. Fresh infested
Mess of bass line lust and automatic b-boy Krylon can combust circuit
Doug E. Fresh
Working these war pig cyphers
with Ted Striker stability
And kamikaze chivalry
Black Sabbath- War Pigs, Airplane
Fantastic planet urchin putting work in
Searching for pertinent verse minus the murderous diversion
Fantastic Planet
This old Green Goblin web cutter butts up against
Crayola daydream landscape spitting bedlam. Dead 'em
Spiderman
I got an inkling this gon' be the one the children bicker over
It's that Warriors vs. Baseball Fury element
To glitch his motor sensory development
The Warriors [10]
I am a star, really
That Big Bang bastard's back with a one-way ticket to Beat Street
Beat Street
Daylight
Put one up for Shackle Me Not, clean logic procreation
I did not invent the wheel, I was the crooked spoke adjacent
Shackle Me Not
I pace my game for zero hour completion cretin, splash
Duke of early retirement picket dream
American Nightmare hogging the screen
Gene Chandler- The Duke of Earl [11], American Nightmare
I promise, tempest-tossed breed with a bleeding conscience
See, the creed accents responsive but my sports divorced the wattage
Emma Lazarus- The New Colossus [10]
I hock spores coursed by the morbid
Spreading of mad men, Alley gospel
Sinking your Lincoln-Log cabin and Charlie Chaplin waddle
Charlie Chaplin- The Tramp
Another thick installment of one night in Gotham
Without the wretched; Houston, we have a problem
Batman
Attached to the festive batch of city goblins
Who split holiday freaks on a box cut cinema high road bellow
Head gripped, watch red bricks turn yellow
The Wizard of Oz
Sort of similar to most backbones at camp Icarus
Where all fiddler crabs congregate and get pampered for bickering
Icarus
Life's not a bitch, life is a beautiful woman
You only call her a bitch 'cause she won't let you get that pussy
Maybe she didn't feel y'all shared any similar interests
Or maybe you're just an asshole who couldn't sweet talk the princess
Nas- Life's a Bitch
Stomach full of halo kibbles
Wings span cast black upon vigils
Here to Duck Hunt ticker tape vision and pick apart the pixels
Duck Hunt
Save Yourself
I branch out, arms flailing backwards
Whaling upon a tidy sound circuit, slightly foul Gershwin
George Gershwin
Stood innocent bystand, witness the die-hard fans turn Rip Van
In the poppy fields of N.Y.'s orchestrated brick gauntlet
Rip Van Winkle, The Wizard of Oz, Location
Now I'm thinking, "Who am I?" Jabberwocky Superfly,
Through the Looking-Glass, Super Fly
Kill 'em all, yield
Naw, man, it wasn't me it was Holden Caulfield, brother
I just read and pulled the trigger
The Catcher in the Rye
I don't flick needles like my sick friend
I don't march like Beetle Bailey through a quick trend
Beetle Bailey
Bring out your dead, we can put 'em in a pile
And burn 'em with the novels for the kiddies to admire
Monty Python and the Holy Grail [12]
The Orphanage, they ain't got nothin' to save
The Overground, man they ain't got nothin' to save
Def Jux, they ain't got nothin' to save
The Atoms Family, they ain't got nothin' to save
Weightless, they ain't got nothin' to save
Stronghold, man, they ain't got nothin' to save
Rhymesayers, baby, they ain't got nothin' to save
The Orphanage, The Overground, Definitive Jux, The Atoms Family, Weightless Recordings, Stronghold, Rhymesayers Entertainment
Flashflood
And so it goes...
Slaughterhouse-Five
Contestants get the New York home game with real life shoot 'em up-action
Thug, vagrant, yuppie and art freak game piece all included
Location
And not a creature stirred
A Visit from St. Nicholas
I drifted out the main spelunking unit with watered down
Sample of cancelled development, courtesy America
Land of the freebase, home of the triplicate grill character
The Star-Spangled Banner
I rock a crooked lid piece and sweat a bit to make my Wookiee ends meet
Star Wars
Passionate while they whine on some "Daddy's gonna kill Ralphie" shit
A Christmas Story
No rEgrets
No references
One Brick (ft. Illogic)
Killer cotton candy clouds and huckleberry justice league
The Justice League
Aight then, flinch for the great granddaddy payback
When Little Billy bought a tugboat
Now he thinks he's Captain Ahab
Moby-Dick
I ain't too good for tap water
Play taps out of order for a ballad, corpse a dead man walking
Taps
Platforms have been erected
Effigies built
Slogans coined, songs have been written
Rumors have been circulated
Autographs faked
George Orwell- 1984 [13]
The Tugboat Complex Pt. 3
What should we do with a thousand drunken sailors?
"Kill 'em all, locate their family address, release a mailer:"
Drunken Sailor
I spin gold
Rumpelstiltskin
I sat to breathe. Adam and Eve without the Apple seed's useless
Biblical- Adam and Eve
Now I stand to breath as not to disturb the plumage
And I know that sob story, it no longer turns my stomach
Hollering wolf in the form of one frustrated culprit
The Boy Who Cried Wolf
You choked a few comments to the wrong Vulcan who out of respect
and honor leaked your program
Star Trek
Coma
I've been a biplane dog fighter
Henson invention Trooper
Burst the result of Dragon Ball Z/Speed Racer gene splicing
Dragon Ball Z, Speed Racer
I flow ridiculous, indigenous to now
Who holds the fifth golden ticket?
Tour the wicked war phantom mansion beyond the pickets
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Who the fuck is Aes Rock?
I'm not a name to keep at arms length
Adjacent to little Linus quilt makeshift
Peanuts
Well he was maverick enough, but still scraped up
Taki 183 innovation for the kids
Taki 183
The reason they decorate the font of closing credits to boost onlooker amusement after fading hard to catch more Z's than Rip Van Winkles 12 step narcolepsy seminar
Rip Van Winkle
If the revolution ain't gon' be televised
Then fuck, I'll probably miss it
Gil Scott-Heron- The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
Omega 1, where you at?
Talkin' that...
Omega One
Battery
We them cats talking noise behind that New York trash heap
Where the stench of commuter briefcase replaces a bad sleep
Location
I'm a dinosaur with Jones Beach in my hourglass
Passing the time with serial killer coloring books and bags of marbles
Location
Prodigal Son with a prodigal wish to sew that prodigal stitch
And crucify bigot voodoo doll on two popsicle sticks
Biblical- Parable of the Prodigal Son
Biblical- Crucifixion of Jesus
Idols block survival crops the cycle stops for nothing
The Bible's carp revivalist winos flock by the hundreds
The Bible
And the vehicle is grandeur and it veered over the median
The second my halo ran outta helium
Demoted to thorn crown, damn talk about numbskull
Biblical- Crown of Thorns
Thank you James Anthony for the band-aids on my ego
Y'all are family for life
I'll take that bullet to preserve you
Blockhead
Boombox Apocalypse
Raw, I'mma give it to ya, no trivia
Raw like that Aesop rock iron-fisted bliss militia
Wu-Tang Clan- Da Mystery of Chessboxin' [14]
We could run that Orwell's '84 warp for the Room 101 detour
Until each client fidgets with his or her own worst fear specifics
1984
Spit the gimmick, sit and fidget wild
In five you'll be jumping through hoops like Coney Island freak show midgets
Location
Bent Life (ft. C-Rayz Walz)
No references
The Yes and the Y'all
Jiggy-jabberjaw vitamin idol and primal rages
When bible page verse tidal waves begun (Water won)
The Bible
It's like a bleeding comet bombing on your sequels
To the Riverside Park Tunnel people claim last life form standing
Location
Tear my own face off in the finale, stick around it's ill
Diabolic Prodigal Son spill grimace
Biblical- Parable of the Prodigal Son
Pete Piper picked peppers, and Run rocked rhymes
Aes Rock might've smoked one too many dimes in his time
Run-D.M.C.- Peter Piper
Struck twice in the same place by a moody Zeus fist slider
Zeus
Smackin the third clear out the park
Going gone (To infinity and beyond!)
Toy Story
I rocked for a flock of Chewbacca look-alikes in magic makers
Hermit crabs and New York city sewer alligators
Star Wars, Location
Keep your Honalee dreams out your homily
Peter, Paul and Mary- Puff, the Magic Dragon
I've seen friends bow to needles
I've seen needles bow to records
I've seen boughs break
I've seen God bow and make the clouds shake
Rock-a-bye Baby
I'm here to pull the three-prong on this prime directive wormhole of self-sacrifice
Add a hatchet slice for kicks
And so that God-awful Frankenstein scar on your style can someday be a story for my kids
Frankenstein
Life's hard, life's easy
Life's everything in between
Life's Peachy like James and the Giant
James and the Giant Peach
I'm balanced, personified phantom to the bone
Walkin like a Jabberwocky
Scalpin a pair of one-way tickets to shadowboxing
Through the Looking-Glass
You drop science like Don Herbert with liquor in him
Soundin' off like senior citizens sitting at Bingo parlor bickering
Watch Mr. Wizard
9-5'ers Anthem
Under a dusted angel harp string Big Brother is watching
My odometer like buzzard to fallen elk, talking stealth
1984
I'll take my seat atop the Brooklyn Bridge
With a Coke and a bag of chips
To watch a thousand lemmings plummet just because
The first one slipped
Location, White Wilderness
Fumble outta bed and stumble to the kitchen
Pour myself a cup of ambition and
Yawn and stretch and my life is a mess and
If I never make it home today, God bless
Dolly Parton- 9-5
Shovel
Beanstalk, chalking outlines before figures fly
Jack and the Beanstalk
Happy trail hitchhikers guide to spanning oblivion
Complete with a thankless 9-5 chapter
You can sign your life after the fact
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Wicked soldiers pickin with buddy system
Logistic motors like Noah's Ark ticket holders
Biblical- Noah's Ark
Sketching a glass partially empty till their hand cramps
With an iceman's chance in Dante's dreamland to stand where the fans lamp
The Divine Comedy
You make me chuckle child, it's Hell's Kitchen now, miss
Recognize your life is merely bait for bigger fish
Location
Daylight
Released 2002, Listen/Purchase
Daylight
On Labor Days, see above.
Nightlight
Put one up for shackle me not clean logic procreation?
I did invent the wheel, in a previous generation
Shackle Me Not
Fathom the splicing of major-league low-life
With anti-hero earthworm mentality – Godzilla!
Godzilla
American Nightmare lost in the monitor
American Nightmare
I'll hold the door open, so you can stagger through
Then send berserker-bred Jukies in after you
Definitive Jux
It's Gutter, and I spell it with the 'G' I stole from "Get the fuck up!"
Noise crutch stolen wretched refuse of my teeming dumb luck
Pharoahe Monch- Simon Says [15]
You won't be laughing when you're hosted
By the ghost of Christmas past
A Christmas Carol
Okay, link me to activism chain, activate wild-style Pluto orbit
Set a course, then push the button
Wild Style
I swallow spores born by the laws
Of a morbid glutton– Alley gospel
I can spot a duck battalion by the Charlie Chaplin waddle (gone)
Charlie Chaplin- The Tramp
Another thick installment of one night in Gotham
Like, "Houston, we have a problem: they're buffing the trains the same day the graffiti writers bomb 'em!"
Batman
Who split holiday freaks on box-cut cinema high road bellow?
Head gripped, watch red bricks turn yellow!
I'm tryin' to meet the wizard, but a tailgating tin-man holding a oil can won't let a hermit crab break in his new shell-toes
The Wizard of Oz
Life's not a bitch
life is a beyotch
Who keeps the villagers circling the marketplace
Out searching for the g-spot
Nas- Life's a Bitch
Nickel Plated Pockets (feat. Vast Aire)
Robert Crumb ugly dumb image
Barely sprung fairly numb grimace
Robert Crumb
Walk into the store with a pocket full of nickels
And a city full of World Trade Center victim candle vigils
Location
Freak of Fantasia leak laser major. Running bases
Neighborhood watch weasels pace in ugly acres more than often
Fantasia
(It goes)
Back of the class, throwing pencils at professors
It made the Barbarellas giggle
That's when life's pleasures were simple
Now it takes a dancing bear jumping through flaming hoops
To even make em buy the god-forsaken single!
Barbarella
Thou shalt not desecrate the soothing spiral
Offered by a classic cut to vinyl
Find that in the Bible!
The Bible
Now if you gotta rock a gas mask outside of your own apartment
You could pretty safely quote Shamar Life's ill, sometimes life might kill,
sometimes prayers dwindle
Walking to the store with a pocket full of nickels
Vordul Mega (birth name Shamar Gardner)
Cannibal Ox- Iron Galaxy
Walk into the store, same pocket, same nickels
In a city where every crack in the sidewalk's a symbol
Where there's crack in the basement
where there's krakens and slave ships
Where there's crack whores and corrupt pigs killing cats trying to crack cases
Cannibal Ox- Iron Galaxy
My boombox runs on a baboon heart transplant (This is hell!)
I got a poltergeist on a leash trained by Carol Anne herself
Poltergeist
Two Thousand something...
When technology ate itself glutton
Every move I make's from a robot Geppetto pressing a red button
Pinocchio
You're the kind of cat that rolls a pimped out Caddy
Dropped with rims and limousine tints bumpin Enya
Insert laughter here
Enya
Alchemy (feat. Blueprint)
Blueprint what's your approach?
Blueprint
For all my iron giant soldiers with a metal fist up shielding mother nature
From a fatal wrist cut, story, I respect you
The Iron Giant
Breathe even or lean squeamish, grip milestone like ring ring ring I just called to scream phoenix click dial tone
Cannibal Ox- Scream Phoenix
I dash like a jackrabbit that orbits revelation with a single pounce
To Edward Scissorhands your string of doubts and turn it out
Edward Scissorhands
This is that Mighty Casey homefield advantage to bend your blizzard
With a crocodile smile and five robot knuckles to your kisser
The Twilight Zone
Forest Crunk
No references (instrumental)
Bracket Basher
I got West Nile virus on my TV in the Bronx
Location
I got two hollow pockets and a sleepy hollow mosh pit
Tryin to blow the spot with wet matches and bottle rockets
While cop walkie talkies squawk outside my apartment obnoxious
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Wind blown mariner East River shark parry lunge carry funk endzone caliber
Location
Watch war face painted jukies dance blissfully around a bonfire and sacrifice live sanity
Pay a nickel for nose-bleed seats in a peanut gallery
Definitive Jux, Lord of the Flies [1] (from Abandon All Hope)
Roll into the city with one half of the cannibals (whose that?)
New joint bumpin out the whip speakers
Made the escape for a night of making tapes now it's back to the cockroaches and preachers
Cannibal Ox
My cipher demeanor left Jesus rubbin genie bottles
Til the following morning Colombo found a crown of thorns in urine puddles
You're in trouble!
Columbo, Biblical- Crown of Thorns
Are we having fun yet?
Zippy the Pinhead
Now I lay me down to sleep
I pray the lord my soul to keep
And if I should die before I wake
Give my ASR to El and bury me with my mistakes
Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep, El-P
Def Jux
My man Blockhead, El-Producto, Mr. Lif, Murs, RJD2
Definitive Jux, Blockhead, El-P, Mr. Lif, Murs, RJD2
...Bonus round
This is the hot tin roof stepper
Hold it down with centipede foundation
Cat On a Hot Tin Roof
Mr. Greed who burns rugged obstruction in bunches
Like little Jackie paper puffs the magic dragon in dutches
Peter, Paul and Mary- Puff, the Magic Dragon
If the slipper fits fire up Cinderella propeller and curtsy for the munchkins right before
Aesop Rock smashed the pumpkin
Cinderella, The Wizard of Oz
You're a little tea pot trying to eavesdrop on the mammoth route
Peaking out from the rosebush like (Uh-huh)
"Here is my handle (Ohh), here is my spout" (Ahh)
I'm a Little Teapot
Godzilla jukie used to be in love, now out for gigapussy
Sorry to offend but sometimes life bends in the middle (Sorry!)
Godzilla, Definitive Jux
Maintenance
It's James and the Giant Tugboat Complex and he's annoyed
James and the Giant Peach
No one's asking you to build an ark brother
Biblical- Noah's Ark
Plus this uncontrollable laugh
When those Amber Waves of Grain finally crash
America the Beautiful
Acid for the basics,
Ph-imbalance to burn the malice martyrs faceless
Then fabricate day trips
The Beatles- Day Tripper
I keep my ghoul spirit concealed
Until The Warriors return to the Coney Isle Wonder Wheel
The Warriors, Location
My mama told me there'd be days like this, days like this, days like this
Days like this... (Yes she did)
Van Morrison- Days Like This
Sunk with a "yes sir" chained to fatigued ankle leagues beneath the angle I'mma call home 'til the Rock meets the angels
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
One of Four (Thank You)
My name is Ian Mathias Bavitz and I was born in Long Island, New York
Seventy Six, before Graham and after Chris... OK
Location
In August of 2001 my seemingly splinter-proof brain bone scaffolding imploded
I kept it on the hush, but nearly tumbling
To the cold hard concrete on mere bodega trips
For cigarettes and soda, shook me to Casper
Casper the Friendly Ghost
JAIME, I killed the robots and I'm sorry
El-P
TONY, I know you know I'm crazy, cause you told me
Blockhead
KATHRYN, mother figure, older sister, concerned beyond limits
Kathryn Frazier [16]
RAIA, for the late night movie rentals and the company I needed
Joey Raia— Possible:
(Has worked with him on several albums but the earliest wasn't until 2011 with Hail Mary Mallon- Are You Gonna Eat That. Can neither prove nor deny an earlier connection)
Bazooka Tooth
Released 2003, Listen/Purchase
Bazooka Tooth
Piety for the fam, embargo piggybackers
Navigate sim-city backwards
Sim City
Zephyrs less detrimental expect to tone down terrordome for starter crews
Like jousting Pompeii with a garden hose
Public Enemy- Welcome to the Terrordome
If you wake up to the sound of helicopters bumping Wagner
It's Bodycast the Pilates class
Rumble in the Bronx back alley batting cage with bottle smash
Apocalypse Now (Ride of the Valkyries), Rumble in the Bronx
Drag them prophecies
Be them Celestine or Mothman to the bumper boat monster mash
The Celestine Prophecy, The Mothman Prophecies, Monster Mash
Official Max Fischer-Blume brake cable clipper (Def)
Picket train buffer, the riverboat, and the switcher (Jux)
Rushmore, Definitive Jux
Pipe-dream of that so fresh and so clean plumage
Outkast- So Fresh, So Clean
N.Y. Electric/ Hunter Interlude
Title: Location
Got rebel camps with siphons amped to cookie-cut the wattage
Electric ilk NY raised on b-movie sluts and gossip
Location
Paxil Rose, Axl broke and butchered
Last catapult standing in a land of coke and hookers
Axl Rose (Guns N' Roses)
King Kong potluck, no parking for rickshaw loads of sock puppets and sitcoms
Just Krylon pigs bred in a hot boxed wigwam
King Kong
Me? Oh I check the newest murals to see whose still bombing this fucker and um respect”
Find out what it means to me, New York
Aretha Franklin- Respect, Location
Walk blocks with electric ninjas who bark/bounce for trunked out whips
Like, "My company DeLorean's the shit"
Back to the Future
I ordered a hovercraft off the back page of an Archie comic
Built it in three days to float above snarky comments
Archie
My gills call the East River rock bottom home with three-eyed guppies and seahorse mutations
See, New York is ancient Rome. Basic. Basically stone. Faces
Location
My friend jumped off the Empire State Building while I hung with 10th grade head cases
Location
"Some of them will blossom famous", some of them will blossom baseheads
But they all rep rivets in the die-cast metal Voltron cadence, what?
Voltron
N, Y, Electric, Catalog, Burners, Pigs, Magnums, Crack, Bag lady, Roach bait, Pristine kicks, Thread and the iris of the needle
Location
Kill 'em all slow
I was on a serious tree bender with my hands up at a C-Rayz Walz show
C-Rayz Walz
Least common denominator raise truth like Charlie, Willy and Gramps raise roofs in a glass Wonkavator Monster Maker
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Bitter fucker, nothing is free
I'll spend my last dollar on me
Tom Waits- Filipino Box Spring Hog [17]
Put one up for the socially broke, choked and smoky New York piss hiss bleed Dolby, homey
Location
Easy
Downside-up in crippled acres
And still the fountainhead spittles sniglets
Quicker than quidditch seekers snatch golden snitches
The Fountainhead, Rich Hall- Supermarket Sniglets, Harry Potter
Curl a worm tongue tight, bitten behind the vamp chopper foaming
Lamb choppy sock puppet fear and loathing
The Lord of the Rings and/or The Hobbit, Lamb Chop's Play Along,
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
It's a pocketful of nickels, like Cool Hand Luke decapitating and
Parking meters when the pigs blew the whistles like windmills
Cool Hand Luke, Animal Farm
You blinded by the light you might just plummet through the cosmos
Meet Apollo sandman function before the whore hit the high note
Showtime at the Apollo (Howard "Sandman" Sims) [18]
I'll wake up for a second to help the betters count their blessings
But I cannot Cratchit crutch the Ebenezer limbs much longer
A Christmas Carol and A Christmas Carol
Now it's like, sufferin' succotash, bucko, ducks in the chuckle patch
10-4 on that, stinger operation, wingman double back
Looney Tunes
Fuck it, Let him roam the home of the mange ridden emaciated
Slave pain cave children game
Not all players heal the same!
Company Flow- Simple (from Limelighters) [19]
Learn it or don't learn shit
My radio is on regardless
I tune out pardons and tune in starlets
Carbon and pre-David/Goliath live Paleolithic bias
Who walks on all fours dragging the cadaver of King Midas
Biblical- David and Goliath, King Midas
Now it's Thor dwarf war hammers, Elvin bow and arrow aimers
Documentation of the rate at which narrow tapers
Thor
Call Ripley, Skippy
Ripley's Believe it Or Not
Motorhead dope fixture on some 'Go to bed, no dinner!
Hold your head, cold winter!'
Motörhead
I stay left
Along came a spider, sprung and alert, I stay def
Itsy Bitsy Spider
He makes records with his tongue in the dirt
Suffer the dirty earth crisis with a license to flirt
Buffer the mighty tighty sequins with a price on the merch
Earth Crisis
Covert Mr. Blizzard shoulder, he always acts all pissy
Plus your friend said I was an asshole when he met me
Mario
No bad moods aloud when you're in the public eye
Kill it, you are the weakest link, goodbye
The Weakest Link
DJ Cip One, Mu Tao, Murs, El-P, Mr. Lif, Def Jux
DJ Cip One, Camu Tao, Murs, El-P, Mr. Lif, Definitive Jux
No Jumper Cables
Burn train buffers
My fancy
Up jumps the boogie delivering eye jammies
The Sugarhill Gang- Rapper's Delight
Uprock, sidewalk cycles stuck at the bus stop
Wookie foot must not sleep
Under the invaders
Star Wars
To y'all I'm just a funny moniker with a couple of fresh records
And a bangin' hand style to put the jukies on the guest list
Definitive Jux
More to blush alizarin crimson
When the multi million
Tin men suck traditional rituals
Out the homes of starving children
The Wizard of Oz
Mars Attacks colorfulness
I piss raptors on motherships
Mars Attacks
Hazy days will stay purple
Cause Cips with a Z bargain
Like Crazy Eddie commercials
DJ Cip One, Crazy Eddie
Limo tint stretch DeLorean chrome sittin' on twenties
Back to the Future
Fucked up jeans back at the party spinning Kane meets Flight of the Valkryies in a heartbeat
Apocalypse Now (Ride of the Valkyries)
Saber tooth, catalog, city art, liturgy
Ranger Ricks endanger the clique maximum efficiency
Ranger Rick
And isn't that dope?
The line of blind winged Pygars and how they wallow planks into the Matmos
Barbarella and Barbarella
Binder bibles and a graphite prison violator
With Joshua for the war gamer systems
WarGames
Now the architects are rioting cause we built something different
I'm like how the fuck sure shot evolution not my business?
Beastie Boys- Sure Shot
My elephant television was on
Grape soda, Grape ape, Great space coaster, DnD, GI Joe, Transformer, Herculiod, ThunderCat, Voltron, Speed Racer, Space Ghost
The Great Grape Ape Show, Dungeons and Dragons, G.I. Joe, Transformers, The Herculoids, ThunderCats, Voltron, Speed Racer, Space Ghost
Kiss the flickering images with Carol Anne fingertips
C-4 to four chamber skips
Ohh shit...
Poltergeist
Started bendin' spoons and rippin' arrows outa ladyhawks
With a C3P unit tryin' to interpret the baby talk
Ladyhawke, Star Wars
Junkyard Dog. Hot tin roofs cradle kittens
with them sub par flaws
Cat On a Hot Tin Roof
Blockhead, Soulposition, El-P, Smash Brothers, Murs, Mr. Lif
Blockhead, Soulposition, El-P, S.A. Smash, Murs, Mr. Lif
Limelighters/Flunkadelic Interlude (feat. Camp Lo)
Pain cave uno
Smokin' a broken Blue Note
Company Flow- Simple [19]
Rose radio Lazarus via linear bark screaming
"I'm back to kill the video star and I'm double parked"
Biblical- Raising of Lazarus, The Buggles- Video Killed the Radio Star
Okay, the web spread from Brooklynites to born in barn kittens
Who's gimpy half step hid behind Noah's Ark systems
Inconspicuously clustered with the boas, sharks and pigeons
Location, Biblical- Noah's Ark
Like Zoo York won't clock them rusted crutches up mopping the ship deck
Texas hold 'em pocket ace investment
Location
16 D batteries, bag it up
See the halflings flee the Shire before he tore open the packaging
Do the Right Thing, The Lord of the Rings and/or The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings and/or The Hobbit
Plus, minus, in proper Panasonic alignment
Pseudo Pliskins O.D. on kick drums
Snake, escape that environment
Escape From New York
Super Fluke
A to Don Darko, bark O beautiful piranha gossip
Cobwebs on the Kafka, choked up on Watcher logic
Donnie Darko, America the Beautiful, Franz Kafka
Prowler fist up with a Bowser twist vs. America's kooky coward clips
Mario
Drugstore cowboy, hold floors and grudges
Drugstore Cowboy
Fuck the Judy piece while Elroy burgle space cakes from the cupboard
The Jetsons and The Jetsons
For the typecast ponies grazing through the weekend
Ring alarms with bassy kicks that flip whips on the Major Deegan
Location
Yo El, leave the keys to the DeLorean with Lauren at the office
I peak the 88 streak off with a fiery disposition
And basic serotonin deficient symptoms
El-P, Back to the Future
Brick house, huff, blew the roof
Please don't feed the bazooka tooth
Evolution super fluke
The Three Little Pigs
The rowers keep rowing
Pachyderm tranq dart blowgun pressed to the nape of the neck only spent 12 seconds frozen
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
Holler dirt merchant... echo out Brooklyn, where the women are beautiful and the vagrants piss crooked
Location
Now they want to mitigate the gusto, that's like asking the cast of Watership Down to fuck slow
Watership Down
Solidify. Widdle I Aes millipede uncivil. When Millie pulled the pistol that tore the Vanilla Sky across the middle
De La Soul- Millie Pulled a Pistol on Santa, Vanilla Sky
Hyena for the sci-fi, God barter "non" for hyphen
Promo charted phobia specific violence like a 50 foot Bob Barker deployed to incinerate New York, which in a way's more scary than thermonuclear war
Bob Barker, Location
Cook it Up (feat. Party Fun Action Committee)
Cook it up spooky salute
Look 'Zook'll hook it up to
Shoop the local Winnie Cooper loopy
The Wonder Years
"Just don't get all barnacley
Or get P.T. Barnumed in 3D THX sound stereo dismissal
Sorry hun, it's just the last few have been a fistful
P.T. Barnum
Or them barbies you'll vibe for a sexy second (lovely)
Give it a month Hyde heckles Jekyl and she makes Hitler look cuddly
Strange Case of Dr Jeckyl and Mr Hyde
But Jenny in the sky with emerald eyes
You're so different so delicious so the fish
I'd be willing to walk the limb with
The Beatles- Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
Nope, aggro-pimp, sinfully, finicky nova, bag it up no-diggity soldier
Magic touch fingertip donor
Blackstreet- No Diggity
I dream of Jeannie and fucking her obscenely
But Jenny could be Jeannie so easily if you'd let me
I Dream of Jeannie
Hell, the bad tact daddy-o Merlin-- 'e' for effort
Most of these high-post Fabio world motherfucks make my head hurt
Fabio
Freeze/Honeycomb Interlude
This is a never dug disco
Zoo York tycoon, memorandum bonanza banter clamp crunk out the fish bowl
4-Ever Fresh- Urban Sound Surgeon, Location
(Is it raw?) Please... does a priest need a ten-foot pole to baptize little Linus minus the lap ride and tease?
Peanuts
Dead straw to gold bar spin fiber
Lost and found in a smitten kitten's incisors
Rumpelstiltskin
They Aphrodite all over the burgle of a purple heart compartment
Marched a burgundy carpet alarmed and far to parched to bark it
Aphrodite
Lil' Abner, a real firecracker
Grows to throw 'bows with vehicular hijackers
To eavesdrop plots cops hired a wire tapper
That's a whipper snapper trapped beneath my grip on the fire ladder
Li'l Abner
Took drums over to deril' to once over the line tones punch toothy ticks
'til they find homes like three ruby clicks
The Wizard of Oz
The roof is on fire where Snoopy sits right now
You should have shot yourself in the foot when it was in your mouth
Rock Master Scott & the Dynamic Three- The Roof is On Fire, Peanuts
This is a never dug disco defamation of dog and pony grappled out chincey
Chipping Leo Da Vinci phonies pushing kill of hill bloated.
4-Ever Fresh- Urban Sound Surgeon, Leonardo da Vinci
Nobody got you
While biggest brother's watching bigger brother watching big brother watch you
1984
It's a day in the life of the carnie dog-faced boy escapist
Living large, watching Springer, smoking beedies wrapped in bacon
The Jerry Springer Show
At night his get busy disease leakage peaketh
Merk the he say/she say, BK Jesus turn peg legs to Adidas on the down stroke
Location
This is a never dug disco. Spread feelers. Tonka zonk Geppetto bred beezers
4-Ever Fresh- Urban Sound Surgeon, Pinocchio
He found the fucks indigenous to him and awfully feisty
He grew old awkward Grinch and settled into bonkers nicely
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
I alert vital spider works to cultivate grit, ship the bulk grade shit
Herbie the Love bug drugs pulsate whips
The Love Bug
Your flimsy frame marks hip-hop's second most tragic event
And will 'til Jam Master Jay's resurrection and second death
Jam Master Jay
We're Famous (feat. El-P)
Dig it, daddy dug his own tunnel under the gutters where the numbers bleed
Hunters froze up and exposed Rapunzel weeds
Rapunzel
Welcome to Bazooka Works, halogen halo eyesore
The revolution will not be apologized for
Gil Scott-Heron- The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
Fraggle rock your four figure watch
I clock ninety-nine cent wristbands
And still know the time when you record flops
Fraggle Rock
Baby, you ain't felt the collective? (Coooool)
Stop running bases with little bears under the wing of punchdrunk Buttermakers
Bad News Bears
Pockmark ninety Moses approach with a golden focal point
Come soak in it, résumé sturdy composer soldier bliss
Biblical- Moses
Welcome to mi casa, Monsters Inc, dropping bangers out the rocket ships
Your own private apocalypse
Monsters Inc.
Puff the magic komodo bitch
Rappers stuffed kimonos and shark fame at a perfect working unit
Look, I'm done
Peter, Paul and Mary- Puff, the Magic Dragon
Babies with Guns
Harvest all Brand-X Clark Kents to worm food
Superman
Bastard polter gasps when the pigeon with Lazarus billy-goat whiskers
He roasted sea-salt in the open blisters
Biblical- Raising of Lazarus
Bazooka Tooth zoo-keep the paper route with janky funds and favors
Cradled by twelve empty Zelda heart containers
The Legend of Zelda
I walk face-first through the sex, drugs and church
With wild things that make Maurice Sendak question his early works
Where the Wild Things Are
Running from a rabid ring-wraith click basilisk
The Lord of the Rings and/or The Hobbit
Twisty, fishy, contradicty, wild animal ship fleet
Off the sliding board dock of the Mr. Turtle pool mom bought
Biblical- Noah's Ark
Yellow backbone de-mechanism brought airborne shrapnel scraps to hassle captains
By the itchy index of an umbilically garbed fraggle baby
Fragile maybe, you think?
Fraggle Rock
I used to think I'd get hit by a bus or something Dumb and Dumber
Now the bus is slugs plugged by the newest kiddie thug wonder
Dumb and Dumber
Block, if you need me (Yeah?)
I had to bounce to D.C. (Yeah?)
To bullet-proof mom's flower garden before the war cheats me (Yeah?)
If I'm not back in a week tell the crew I said peace and lay low
Strays don't vacate slow
Blockhead
Aboard the battleship
Grey sky the day I got the phone call Jam Master Jay died
So no, I'll probably never write another Daylight
Because the stingers tend to cling more than the portable hay-rides
Jam Master Jay
It adds it up when a pioneer fall
In comparison to your ninety-nine bottle of beer wall
99 Bottles of Beer
The Greatest Pac-Man Victory in History
Title: Pac-Man
Lucy was In the Sky with Diamonds, five dollars to hold 'em
The summer Vanik beat Pac-Man, with acid behind his molars
The Beatles- Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds, Vanik Hacobian, Pac-Man
Back to back like Mad Hatter magic, rabid mastiff collaborative Splatter, bachelor fabric fatter, with cabbage patch lit
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Dark days, Ben and Louie-Louie, park blazed, chemically
Richard Berry- Louie Louie— Possible
Bent-up but eager to crash for that one, two, three repeater
Fugazi- Repeater
Good Morning Vietnam! Whose couch is this? Whose house is this?
Who are you down with bitch? I'm sorry, dog, I dreamt the foulest shit
Good Morning Vietnam
Twelve hour, solid gold entertainment, utter shit to self
From mothership to stealth, ADD pace be, Space Invader
This one's for the Labor Days, work for rent and rolling papers
Space Invaders
Only the illest beats leak absurdly out the boombox
The Daytripper anthem goes: wake, drop, walk to aquarium
The Beatles- Day Tripper
Whistle while you work, like a canary lung, "All work -And no play makes Jack a dull boy", to carry drugs
Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, The Shining
Late Show Dave Letterman, shitty diner lip-slide dutch
Low self-discipline leaders see dead lung self-destruct
Late Show with David Letterman
Your lizard king has spoken (all hail)
Jim Morrison of the Doors
Frijoles
Yeah NASA lets try this.
Uncommon NASA
Park your bets
Sharks or jets
West Side Story, West Side Story
Walk off with a thumbs up
And a stuffed Bullwinkle trinket
Pull twinkle out them awestruck baby sockets for a day
Yeah that's the ticket
The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends
That's Keebler signs Pikachu
And he's poking pinocchi-beezer
Where Big Brother watching ain't
Holler back Wally Cleaver
Pokémon, Pinocchio, 1984, Leave it to Beaver
That's Lazerface, Megalasaur, Scissor-tongue, Liftedly, Money-Murs, Ramble, Printmatic, Hangar, Blockhead and Ravipops
Apathy, Vast Aire, Mr. Lif, Murs, RJD2, Blueprint, Hangar 18, Blockhead, C-Ray Walz [20]
And the fam only begins with the last two bars he dropped
Add the chrome fangs I'll rewrite Heavy Metal Parking Lot
Heavy Metal Parking Lot
I only kick these fucking doors down to make sure the crew o.k
Like, food on the plate
Thread on the back
Kicks on the palette
I rock the bells without clown shoes, fried dough, tickets or mallets
LL Cool J- Rock the Bells
There must've been something up in that Long Island tap water
Location
Grew to mute Grinch north of Who-Ville and his frisky sissy poodle pack
Oozing that hollow 'who the mac?' act Aes threw back in junior rap
How the Grinch Stole Christmas, How the Grinch Stoles Christmas
Better dress them diversions like stripping nurses
Kid the cult is thick and media's the sacrificial virgin
Purging little man behind curtain opinions
This is perfect
The Wizard of Oz
Hodge-podge mahna mahna-Muppets available in rubber stamp form
The Muppets
Built an Einstein-Rosen bridge to '88 with Lincoln Logs and bobby pins
Probably when Oz's friends slept on the poppy stems
The Wizard of Oz
With a knee-jerk response to his budgetary woes
He's hooky out the institution's huckleberry mold
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
This is 6 flags Definitive Jux baby
We like, love it or leave it out your holler box now
Definitive Jux
11:35 / Ketamine U.S.A. Interlude (feat. Mr. Lif)
Outside the box, Lif you with me?
Alright, let's go
Mr. Lif
Now Benny was a New York City graff Graffiti kingpin
Five borough fame, guaranteed to itch pigskin
Raided near the Brooklyn Naval yard, juxed an undercover
When they asked him what he pled he said, "You're fuckin' up my colors!"
Locations
They call him Larry Luck
Blackjack, big spender
He was married once
Till he bet her ring finger
Seen leaving Las Vegas
With a pick up truck, diamond
Fourty large, and beautiful wife piece
Less than what he came with
Leaving Las Vegas
Hitched to the crib found nickels in the couch
Hitched back to the casino with in an hour
Said "I'm here to make a dollar out of fifteen cents"
And was immediately shot to his death over debts
2Pac- Keep Ya Head Up [21]
I got one Jack or Jill
Jill won't, Jack will
Jill didn't, then did it
Jack fell
Jack and Jill
I'm New York harbor
Tale of a sail, ripped sorta
Location
Kill the Messenger
My last supper starts with a vinaigrette over pickled Muppet hearts while sheep tuck deep in the wood chipper
For the shepherd was a milk carton and scissors
Biblical- The Last Supper, The Muppets
No whammies, Stop
Your triple six game never chose me
Trickery gets hokey
Pick up sticks and ponies
You've got mail, champ: blow me
Press Your Luck, Biblical- The Number of the Beast
Just trooper with a question mark machine needy
Pointed at the heavens like a Bee Gee on some where the hell's my freebee?
The Bee Gees
For the first time in a long line of dog fights
Little Lassie will not be returning home tonight
They’re saying someone everclear spiked the punchbowl of Christ but all I saw was six pits ripping throat box out her life
Lassie
Live lizard lung out a this ain’t Kansas cause
Where the lemmings run with scissors to the closest open jaws
Pause
The Wizard of Oz, White Wilderness
Open the fucking door Hal, it’s your valid mistake
I will not bow to a god that I can’t look in the face
2001: A Space Odyssey
It go C-4 tongue and a janky ankle
He still escort an Eeyore to the seafloor, thank you
Winnie the Pooh
Mars Attacks
Title: Mars Attacks
Mars attacks wit' electric gates
Not for sapien abduction (what's up then?!)
Mars Attacks
Billy took a laser to the mug piece; hollowed out the mandible
Channel headquarters, order the cannonballs (Mars attacksssss)
Mars Attacks
Dodge phaser, labor days are major A, sir
Cater the alien decomposer soldier platter like Caddy Shack eight
Caddy Shack
You lend a hand on board to mention magma (Blaze the place!)
Spread fire of your revival, there's wires in your Bible
The Bible
Obviously, ultra tech advanced when I point-counterpoint
Comparison of ET vs. little old freak me (She be on somethin')
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Fuck y'all, lets do this shit; My movement soothes any space invader practice
Stomped up to enemy like "Hey what now, bitch!?
Space Invaders
We on a pre-three prong ancient elephant tusk
Betamax fully, break bread
Biblical- Breaking Bread
You shruggin' it off, keep it electric, sure
But NY Electric's not about electric war
Location
In the corner of the cave reinventing the wheel and roll out funny
Sitting on them Barney Rubble twenties, subtle;
The Flintstones
And now I see that cabinets pills be old (Potent!)
Open the mirrors while I pulse with the voltage
Keeping me alive is the vibe with the Vulcan's hope!
Tangle the vine catapult (Catapult!)
Star Trek
Don't call it a sound-off, "Mars Attacks" be the malarkey downfall
Mars Attacks
Fast Cars, Danger, Fire and Knives
Released 2005, Listen/Purchase
Fast Cars
Who's that walking with a hole in his head?
Big bad Bazooka Tooth, I came to break bread
Biblical- Breaking Bread
Flood a little soldier blood over the ogre acres
On some holiday in Cambodia with motor-home appraisers
Dead Kennedys- Holiday in Cambodia
And my dog tags jingle by the monster island heart he built
Grew up with Jughead crown tilt and tardy slip
Archie
Hush little baby, timeout!
The black market mockingbirds can not sing a lick
But learn to peck your eyes out
Hush, Little Baby
Flush the Muppet hootenanny
Who could fancy, honor circuit when the circle's every duke is clammy?
The Muppets
Who's that walking with a hole in his head?
Bazooka Tooth, gemini, I came to break bread
Biblical- Breaking Bread
Fast cars, danger, fire and knives
I got her majesty Athena riding shotty wide-eyed
Athena
It's like never mind the bollocks
Fuck, like every other week these hipster tabloids
Jumping on and off my Sex Pistol's bullets
Sex Pistols- Never Mind the Bollocks
This is where the hunch back snake oil peddlers
Stuck under the burgundy sky of spaghetti westerns
Tend to bubble up, weathermen huddle up
Today, the son of one too many "yes sir's"
Kings his checkers, watch the double jump
The Weathermen
it's A-E-S-O-P-R-O-C-K, the peak twister
Defender of the son of Vaughn Bode's Cheech Wizard
Vaughn Bode
Who's that walking with a hole in his head?
Bazooka Tooth Krueger, I came to break bread
A Nightmare on Elm Street, Biblical- Breaking Bread
Number Nine
Title: Black Sheep- The Choice is Yours
(Could also be Roger Miller- Engine Engine Number 9 but due to another reference on Miss By A Mile, I believe this is also referring to The Choice is Yours. Also, not including the chorus because it’s not obviously Aesop Rock’s voice.)
Deliver us from evil
Litter bugged amoeba simmer on the brimstone
Grim tone, bring him home
Biblical- The Lord's Prayer
Yellow brick Zooka birthed the piss
I trust that every litigant will be his own worst pig
Thirst big, baby
The Wizard of Oz
If fizzy lifting drinks are par for saddling your horse
You might consider sawing Sea Biscuit off at the knees before
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Few chew sacred like them sewer cougars
Patient 'til the Lugar movers daytrip with them super cookers blazing
The Beatles- Day Tripper
Drunkards of the crystal palace suck assignment
Walk the diamonds in the soles of your chukkas back to the slaves who mined 'em
Paul Simon- Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes [22]
It's Raggedy Andy clan; fancy the pretty stitches
'til he learned the skinny on the fragility's physics
Like he snag a button eye on the fly by the barbs
Super glue the parts, now his students are alarmed
Raggedy Andy
No worries, it's snow flurries compared to what the sheriff wish:
Curfew the city that must not
Location
Bust warn shots at a run-of-mill Waldo on a doctor hunt
He will make the most wonderful sarcophagus occupant
Where's Waldo
If a quota needs some filling you're a whore
Sincerely yours, engine number nine conductor
All aboard!!
Black Sheep- The Choice is Yours
New York, stand up!
Location
Zodiaccupuncture
Nasa my horoscope is illing right now
Uncommon Nasa
Delicate freak show alert the frame
Bash all flags where the mag spin park
Corroded by the volts that jolt the cold vein
Boogie down kits to slip past the guard
Spin Magazine, Cannibal Ox- The Cold Vein
Intimate eyes loop all known alleys
Scoop the bounty like daddy hires Bazooka to murder Ralphie
A Christmas Story
One of these rebels could level the marked city
But the N.Y. uber alles governor's picky
Location
Boy meets vermin: the widescreen version
Boy Meets World
Headaches, nausea, vomiting, facial paralysis
These are a few of my favorite venomous side effects
The Sound of the Music
Spinal tap crabs to the clapper
Aesop Rock is the Cadillac of natural disaster
This Is Spinal Tap
Want a carnivore war? Bet
I'll be at the Bronx Zoo with a lock pick kit
Location
Now pardon me if part of me heart of an oddball, but damn
Kumba-fucking-ya, dog
Kumbaya
And it looks like war, quacks like war
So it's Occam's Razor and I'm swayze out the door
Ghost
Holy Smokes
Slowly cope but swore his lowly robot vole evoke
Would one day rise in sections to interrogate the Holy Ghost
I knew it!
Biblical- Holy Spirit/Ghost
Shucks fucker, enjoy the Alcatraz shower fun
And mommy's mad I'm cliche generation X agnostic front
Agnostic Front
Call me crazy, but I bet that wasn't God's demeanor
Sodom-meter peaking
Biblical- Sodom and Gomorroah
But Long Island was Jesus every weekend
Spoon-fed to appease traditional upbringing
Of a Middle Pennsylvania shit-hole where elders movement
Stressed the stellar therapeutic Bible cycle (How?)
Location, The Bible
One church with a bait and tackle store next door and not much MORE
So the two moved to New York, made babies raised on what they'd SAW
Location
Christmas morning smelled fresher than angel pussy
But immaculate conception came second to playful goodies
Biblical- Virgin birth of Jesus
Like laser-tag was way more spiritual than blood and body wafer bags
And manger staff as long as Santa ate the cookies Well...
Biblical- Eucharist, Biblical- Nativity of Jesus
Grandma was a saint, while he'd paint with snakes and bullies
Said If only you'd memorized your prayers like you did your Kool Gs!
Kool G Rap
'94: Moved out the crib and ain't seen a steeple since
What Knievel-evel seeps in a Christian leader's pitch
Evel Knievel
I'm more science than faith, I'm more karma than bread and booze
I'm not an asshole I'm just a little confused
Biblical- Eucharist
Winners Take All
Wake 'em with that blind military mechanism set to bludgeon
WHAT IS YOUR MAJOR MALFUNCTION!?
Full Metal Jacket
Rickety Rackety (feat El-P & Camu Tao)
Whatup Wiz?
DJ Big Wiz
I was buried to the neck in them all-star bloopers
Periscope down, hop Boss Hog cruiser
The Dukes of Hazzard
Porcelain or pewter authority will be over ruled
the second jukie uber alles news hit the sewers
Definitive Jux
No business. Insist lured with candy
To cure citizen x with that all-fours dancing
Corporals landing
Citizen X
Food, Clothes, Medicine
Frankie says, "Relax", 20 says he snaps, safe wager
Frankie Goes To Hollywood- Relax
Walk on glass, bang on doors
Talk all trash, hang on whores
Walk on cash, bank on wars
Like food, clothes, medicine, it's yours
It's yours, it's yours, it's yours
Nas- The World Is Yours
Pollywog, hug a spot lit with bigger lizards
In the land of hot milk and honey with stingers in it
Zinger!
Biblical- The Promised Land (Milk and Honey)
Collide your worker ants, with autobahn inertia dance
And curb them herbie love bug by the cursive final curtain clamp
Herbie the Love Bug
Facemelter
The little short circuit with the still born vibe
Till the villagers circled and determined "it is alive"
Frankenstein
Shipped to Bellevue eyes fuzzy talking funny
Like "eagle one to grey squirrel whats your twenty dunny?"
Location [23]
They'll duck it out and I will cease all wars
So if you babysit a Carol Anne be forewarned
Poltergeist
Smarter than the average bear, barter parts and gadgets
With battery op enthusiast pardon the barking badgers
Yogi Bear
Gattaca days, Attica paper scattered
Diagonal mahogany boggled the train savage
Gattaca, Location
King of applause (yay!) beats the garbage flood for ten(?)
Porn king of New York, alley punk perv scum
Location
Un- earth it and siphoned from DeLorean doors swivel up
With aviator radar blip for most glorious titty fuck
Back to the Future
Cool green over the frame under the clothes line
Whose crew choose fuel most, mine
Holy trinity, triple six, triple x, city barrack
Glutton for punishment super size me while you at it
Biblical- The Trinity, Biblical- The Number of the Beast, Super Size Me
Robot wars, machines hit the floor
And the simians syncopated a gigantic "encore"
Robot Wars
None Shall Pass
Released 2007, Listen/Purchase
Keep Off the Lawn
No references
None Shall Pass
Music Video | Lyrics
Title and lines in chorus:
Monty Python and the Holy Grail— Possible:
(Fight scene with the Black Knight)
What are we to Heart Huckabee, art fuckery suddenly
Not enough young in his lung for the water wings
I Heart Huckabees
Eye for an eye, by the bog life swamps and vines
They get a rise out of frogs and flies
Biblical- Eye for an Eye, Frogs and Flies [24]
Blood turns wine when it leak for police
Like, "That's not a riot; it's a feast, let's eat!"
Biblical- Water Into Wine
And I will remember your name and face
On the day you are judged by The Funhouse cast
And I will rejoice in your fall from grace
With a cane to the sky, like, "None shall pass"
Monty Python and the Holy Grail— Possible:
(Fight scene with the Black Knight)
Like, "Wait, let it snake up out of the centerfold
Let it break the walls of Jericho, ready go"
Biblical- Fall of Jericho
Sat where the old, cardboard city folk
Swap tales with heads, like every other penny throw
Cardboard City [25]
That's quite a bit of gusto he muster up
To make a dark horse rush, like, "Enough's enough!"
It must've struck a nerve so they huff and puff
'Til all the king's men fluster and clusterfuck
The Three Little Pigs, Humpty Dumpty
And it's a beautiful thing
To my people who keep an impressive wingspan
Even when the cubicle shrink
You got to pull up the intruder by the root of the weed
N.Y. Chew through the machine
Location
Catacomb Kids
I was a dark, dumb student, no hooky rookie
Day tripping on visions of chickens that looked like R. Crumb drew 'em
The Beatles- Day Tripper, Robert Crumb
They grew him in the royal dirt of Suffolk County's flooring
With the blood of an alcoholic clergyman in his forearms
Location
Long Island was porn stars and puppies pushing sniffles
Fit into the aforementioned or slip through the pinholes
Location
'Zook' slip through the pinholes, crispy the godsender
Who thunk over a quarter plunk to local Mortal Kom vender (What's this?)
Mortal Kombat
Broke the formal squad sensor, root down
Feelers out across the marsh before it was 'awesome cars'
Beastie Boys- Root Down
My calling card cavalry cook in a '85 Dodge Ares
Gas for Huntington and back barely
Location
The kid pilot his ring king dummies to King Kullen
Where he hollered 'fuck the world' from a parking lot in the suburbs
Ring King [26]
The lady of the lake off the answers
The mating of mistakes 'til they're de-planting cadavers
The Lady of the Lake
Damn doggy, good times, thanks
I wrote your name in wet cement by the Brooklyn Banks
Location
Like not a farmer among us had a harvest survive the winter
So dinner split a lima bean in triplets, pick a winner
Mickey and the Beanstalk [27]
I'm dumber than a Taz on a beach chair with a martini
Who's not as dumb as the tat with the same scenery
Looney Tunes
Okay show the squadrons back into their boxes
Like his Breakfast Club of hotheads show no progress to the doctors
The Breakfast Club
And I walk into the office, coughing awful ether often
Flaunt a parking meter fever, knuckle up for Love and Rockets
Love and Rockets
It was rain of the razor laser, day of the cloudy howdy
Flight of the shelter melter, you can bow without me
Ride of the Valkyries
Knock em out the box, Aes
Slick Rick- Children's Story
Bring Back Pluto
In the beginning it was Large Marge sent me, I'm bent
Empty the rent if you can double park the garbage barge gently
Pee-Wee's Big Adventure
Close your mouth, poke your snout over the cloaked aroma
Clouds, Solar boy elope with couch ogling older Polaroids
Motor mouth, chauffeur the golden molar toy
Gophers yoke a fish out of water, he grows lungs and multiplies
Boktai 2: Solar Boy Django
Maroon the traitors expecting acres of edelweiss
Who later learn it may actually be safer to play with knives
The Sound of Music
I show up late looking project grizzly
Two bowies, a third for throwing and accomplish dickweed
Project Grizzly
Fuck it, plug him, warpy got his goddamned groove back
Jet-setting on spec with a dead yeti on the roof rack
Yeti, Harry and the Hendersons [25]
Now tell me, what the fuck am I supposed to do?
Boogie Down Productions- Love's Gonna Get’cha [28]
Stare into the glowing eye of Cerberus and crow
Authoritative laminates will not repel the quarantined alone
Cerberus
Couples only roller rink with soul to kiss your chicken noodle
Before they wiggle mittens through the pillory to ridicule
Chicken Soup for the Soul
Babylon goggles, gawk for the galvatron coppers
Tugboat salvage all fossils
Biblical- Babylon
You'd think Charlie Brown was Weathermen
How I zig-zag around these yellow backs for peanuts
Peanuts, The Weathermen
Fumes
Hey, tequila to free the worm
Had his liver scuba suit up on the Sabbath
His personal pale rabbit
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Between tweaks, he sweeps at Home Depot and reads
Mostly biblical, but not cause he believed
But found the lexicon of Jesus-heavy literature fly
Feverishly sponged up the information high
The Bible
Drunk, put her on the business-end of his favorite couplet from Corinthians
Sunk into the comforts of a kid again
Biblical- Corinthians
Getaway Car (feat. Breeze Brewin and Cage)
Storms on the harbor like a harbinger of gore (Right)
Gore is my harbinger, pardon The Art of War (Right)
Sun Tzu- The Art of War
39 Thieves
Title: Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
Teething I'm marking a beast sheep
Like I walk in front of 39 thieves in a "v"
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
Wild blue yonder, blue in the face, angel
Blew into the bugles in lieu of the euthanasia
The U.S. Air Force- Wild Blue Yonder
Dope the gonzo I've always felt choked socially
Stole the golden fleece with the culture of total nobodies
Jason and the Argonauts
Next time think
39 thieves are quicker than 40 winks...
Raise your drinks
39 thieves are quicker than 40 winks
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
With the usual undesirables and the big brother cutters
On the day your name became "This Motherfucker?"
1984
The Harbor is Yours
Peg leg navigate him starboard to por
By the nautical starry night yelling "The harbor is yours!"
Vincent Van Gogh
Like "walk the plank" for whom the shark thank
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Crawled off the boat, collapsed in the sand
Prayers in the air, seashells in his hand
And nary a high tide so grand as the one that put
The lady of the lake on dry la-la-la-land
The Lady of the Lake
Citronella
Meanwhile, back at sea level, it was home by home zone for zone
Bloom County's homeless riot for home ownership
I hope you put gas in the motor-home and know the roads
Bloom County
I studied with the finest combs stuck under my thumb
As opposed to the loaded nose who pray Armageddon is numb
Biblical- Armageddon
Catch the Liberty Fire's catalog
Forty torched orchids and citronella for Algernon
Flowers for Algernon
Don and Vagabond alike repent
This shit should have been Beta burns Babylon, the end
Biblical- Babylon
And when the radio stars climbed up out of the floors
To murder the medium that shot 'em thirty years before
The Buggles- Video Killed the Radio Star
Chilling, gill in the slop and a million watch Gideon scribes
But once the arc honor pussy and bribes, the animals will divide
Biblical- Gideon
The mobile infantry is so postal
Coast into the quotient provoking the local Pistol Pete
Choking his liberty and justice quotas and cloaking his folk in smithereens
Pledge of Allegiance
Sole defenders of the longest night New York had never slept
Location
And there were jumping jacks and whistlers over Christmas
Like Rockets From The Crypt spilling the festive morning beverage of your preference
Rockets From the Crypt
Artificial Einstein-Rosen out the tenement
Ease into the Xanadu, let it hammer the tension out
Xanadu
U.F.O.'s and locusts sing the same old song
While the Weathermen get retarded as the day is long
The Weathermen
Gun for the Whole Family (feat. El-P)
It was a lazy day, it was amazing grace
It was a half-a-dozen claymores daisy-chained
Amazing Grace
It wasn't daisies and crazy
Eights, it was an ace of spades over a waiting game of slaves
And saints, and every trainee face-painted while his great
Escape grazed and ate
He'll never make it, when he aims he shakes
The Great Escape
And nada milk and honey there is only skulls and bunnies
That hop around drunk in the land of a hundred Mondays
Biblical- The Promised Land (Milk and Honey)
Five Fingers
Thanks, bathe in a bottle of your finest
Tackleberry sift through the piss looking for diamonds
Police Academy
Slow and low, do or die calm, suicide king in the tuck of the palm
Slow and low, do or die stuck, two to five cans in the tuck of the trunk
Beastie Boys- Slow and Low
And this is certified milk by the New York Department of Skullduggery
Shoplift quicker than your shutter speed, click!
Location
Hovering where the mother feed, gutter greed king
And a crummy motherfucker breed fuck with me
It go knock knock rummy at a bruckner speed
Location [29]
Yes a pig is a cop, but gotta fill up the flock
So when I rake in the bacon I hope the kiddies'll watch
House of Pain- Jump Around
No City
There is a hole in front of the shovel
Shovel in front of the brawn
Six billion gorillas for whom the graves yawn,
For Whom the Bell Tolls, Julius Caesar Act II Scene 2:
(The second half is in reference to Act II Scene 2 of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. “And graves have yawned and yielded up their dead.” is stated by Calphurnia, and translated means “The graves crack open and thrust out the dead”. [30])
And I was "Stop the Violence" more than I was Pontius Pilate
Cops and robbers riot by the five's obnoxious sirens
Stop the Violence Movement, Biblical- Pontius Pilate
Moms raised the babies through a very churchy 80's
Sunday mornings reinforce the waiting gates of Hades
Hades
And you observe and have the givetheth disproportionate
To the taketh away decide to maketh his day (do it)
Sudden Impact
Chinny chin-up and the city picked this
In a pent-up letter numbed the spitting stigma
The Three Little Pigs
Riders to the east, not a wild tribes
Thank you for the peace on earth and mercy miles high
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
Dark Heart News (feat. Rob Sonic)
Listen | Lyrics
Sideways eye on a sinister boundary
Panel of contemporaries killing me loudly
Killing Me Softly
99 models of fear on the wall timorous
Done running into to the car on the wrong cinder blocks
99 Bottles of Beer
Coffee (feat. John Darnielle)
Music Video | Lyrics
And the last shall be
First to immerse in the pass out heat
Biblical- Matthew 20:16 [31]
More in a cave with a torch on the wall
Than a window arrangement of porcelain dolls
Plato's Allegory of the Cave [32]
Dude, look, all that noise
Call that flight of the water boys
Meet and greet and they all slap five
Cheek to cheek when they colonize
Ride of the Valkyries
Play to the radius far and away
Orbit wide don't park in his space
One little martyr who talk in his face
Make one little Weathermen sharpen the blades
The Weathermen
And the last shall be
First to the curb with the mad cow meat
Biblical- Matthew 20:16 [31]
Call for the monster beats and Blockhead got
Animal drums like he's doctor teeth and
It goes red light green light 1 2 3
One large coffee, fuck you, peace
Blockhead, The Muppets, The Muppets
Pigs
Weathermen
The Weathermen
So when the piranhas honor New York
My daddy long legs dangled and mangled for sport
Location
If Noah had the benefit of hindsight on his ship
He could've snatched two unicorns and left behind the motherfucking...
Pigs!
Biblical- Noah's Ark, Shel Silverstein- The Unicorn [27]
Wide load... pigs!
Let's make a deal...
Let’s Make a Deal [27]
When all the wolves in woolly wigs
Have huffed, and puffed, and blew the bricks
The skulls of Brooklyn's cruelest pigs
Will rain on Fulton's newest kicks
The Three Little Pigs, Locations
Never that, Wilburs multiply quicker than tribbles
And hunt their truffles in fistfuls, but it was all bells and whistles
Charlotte's Web
Bougie this and Bougie that...
War pig or pussy cat...
Glitzy to the pork ribs, had to gold-leaf the booby traps
Black Sabbath- War Pigs
This little piggy went to the market with a target
And will subsequently know the armor-piercing forks of farmers
This Little Piggy
Final words for the finer birds taking notes:
I dig a chick in pig tails, "That's all Folks!"
Looney Tunes
Skelethon
Released 2012, Listen/Purchase
Leisureforce
Listen | Lyrics
Postcards from the pink bath paint leisure
As a cloaked horse through a stained-glass Saint Peter
Biblical- Saint Peter
Hack faith-healer, cheat death to the very end
Cherry wooden nickels on his specs for the ferrymen
River Styx/Charon
X-O, Zodiac a pentagram expo
Pet Sematary in electric fresco
Pet Sematary
Abaddon threshold, flash forged in a galley
With undead orcs pulling oars through the algae
Biblical- Abaddon
Final answer "not to be", "not to be" is right!
Next question - to build winged shoes or autophagy
Hamlet, Who Wants to be a Millionaire? [17]
Led a purple tongue and ratty Caballeros
Up over the black rainbow into the house of mirrors
Steve Caballero, Beyond the Black Rainbow [25]
To become a thousand zeroes, echoing a twisted alchemy
Freak flags, fluttering to circadian free jazz
Sleep apnea, scratching, "bring that beat back"
I doze off, clothes on, nose in the feedbag
Public Enemy- Bring That Beat Back
Shhh... Om nom, nom, blinds drawn
Compost thrown to the spine pile, bygones
Mangy, intimately spaced pylons
On a plot of inhospitable terrain, "Hi mom!"
Hi, Mom! [33]
Grace of a misled teen who prefers his scenes with a little Wilhelm scream
Wilhelm Scream
The ambush predator edition
Skill set of Will Tell aim and speed over short distance
William Tell
Part hatter-mad, part erratic habitat
Dark matter harnessing his heart attack-ack-ack-ack-ack
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Billy Joel- Movin' Out
ZZZ Top
Title: ZZ Top
Somebody in a cultivated moment of distress
Composed themselves enough to artfully carve "ZoSo" in his desk
Led Zeppelin- Led Zeppelin IV
Like Crocea Mors?
in a arcade drop claw
Gouging a valentine for Miss Othmar
Watch
Peanuts
Capital Zed, slowly maneuver the O
S is the most difficult to control
Finally O
Into the eye of Goliath you go
Led Zeppelin- Led Zeppelin IV, Biblical- David and Goliath
That levy crushin' percussion'll pull the monkey upright
Led Zeppelin- When the Levee Breaks
Twelve or ghetto blaster
Black or technicolor telecaster
Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin)
Somebody in a cultivated moment of distrust
Composed themselves enough to magic-marker “Zulu”
on these chucks
Universal Zulu Nation (Afrika Bambaata)
They was tryin to do the buckle font from ‘Renegades of Funk‘
In a 3d frame of exploding brick
And whiz-lines for the locally motion sick
Afrika Bambaata- Renegades of Funk
Silent agreement at hand
King of the hill for a queen of the damned
King of the Hill, Queen of the Damned
Oops
Capital “ZED” Radical “U” in the cut
Truly to beautiful “L"oser it up "U" and he done
Afrika Bambaata- Zulu Nation
Collateral damage a future alum that key to Shambhala
Planet rocking Bambaataa
Shambhala, Afrika Bambaata- Planet Rock
Somebody in a cultivated moment of resolve
Composed themselves enough to publicize "the Zeros" in this stall
The Zeros
Capital “zed”, terrible “e” in vermillion red
Gimme an “R", "O” and a slippery “s”
The Zeros
Over a web of the shittiest bands
That beat your heart out
Never bleeped your favorite parts out from a learned curve
Of bird fingers bursting out of germs burns
Urgently
The Zeros- Beat Your Heart Out, The Germs
Offered through the circuits of an earlier plot
I’ll see you at the bottom ZZZ top
ZZ Top
Cycles to Gehenna
Title: Biblical- Gehenna
Baseheads locally approach all spark plugs
Total disregard for a dying man's shark jump
Happy Days
Post-meridiem pretty tungsten attracts any once-pale horse painted gunmetal
black face masking,
Biblical- Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
2000 out the weekly under "Cycles to Gehenna" gets him floating over 20 buses
Fireproof and festive
Biblical- Gehenna
Knows no zen in the art of maintenance
Only as the orchestrated patron saint of changing lanes baby
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
The man-ape translates glam thru the visor
Goes in water lilies
Am-scrays Giger, and man-ray
Claude Monet, H. R. Giger, Man Ray
Via mechanical Dartmoor Frankensteined poorly
And sanctioned by a New Yank Yorkee
Frankenstein, Location
It was less of an act of hubris
More a lonely hearts club at the helm of a magic bullet
The Beatles- Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Zero Dark Thirty
Music Video | Lyrics
Unsigned hype, front line aeronauts flurry
Zero dark thirty
The Source [34]
Zero Friends minotaur-fugly stepchild
Evoke lunch jumped over plunging necklines
Up,
Zero Friends [34], Minotaur
Beside tongue-tied hungry enzymes
Devolved into mothmen munching textiles
Punisher, out past go-time
Back 10 fried worms chubbier
Brown grass both sides
Moth Man, Punisher, How to Eat Fried Worms
Boys room cherry bomb
Boy/goon very much runnin' with the devil in the mellotron
Van Halen- Runnin' With the Devil
Hello! Here’s where a tale of caution
Pounds coffin nails to bootlegs of Hawkwind
Hawkwind
Saw tooth, nevermind straw to gold
Spin hearts on sleeves into heads on poles
Rumpelstiltskin
Fryerstarter
Late after your Cinderella pulsate and crash I was rotating casts
Cinderella
Purple heart and second chin that beseech him to squeeze the carbs into the motherboard
You can chew the Eucharist in cruller form
Biblical- Eucharist
Silent night, holy night, invite the pious out the pagan
Silent Night
Hazelnut raiders of the lost, navigate consecutive pastries like stations of the cross
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Ruby '81
Frenzied and congested deck, part to let the others see
Biblical- Crossing the Red Sea
Crows 1 (feat. Kimya Dawson)
4 and 20 gory pantone black crows shredding innards
The silhouettes are fencing lefty scissors
Sing a Song of Sixpence
Buy the getty image, green-cheese moon
Dead-of-winter shit, graveyard tchk! tchk! Shifter shit
Dead of Winter
Brother was a face card
Crown like a heart-shaped tunnel of woven branches leaning in over his hydro-plaining pace car chase...
Camu Tao- King of Hearts
Perhaps a little dash of karma chameleons through the entropy for good/young
Could've used a good lung
Culture Club- Karma Chameleon
Crows 2
4 and 21 crows
None go south
For the supper when a punk goes out
Sing a Song of Sixpence
4 and 22
Cue the cut throat mouth
Chew together when a punk goes out
Sing a Song of Sixpence
Watch, if fortune is a bitch with venom and laser tits
Maybe sin‘ll make for sugar-flavored flesh
Kings taste terrible at best and rest in peace raw
The rest are recipes
Caw!
Camu Tao- King of Hearts
Racing Stripes
Rat brain, shovel green peas offa butterknife
Racoon hat, moon boots all summer-type
Ogden Nash- I Eat My Peas with Honey [27]
Felt pressure at the center of the dog show
Better off blending, sweater—off Waldo
Where's Waldo
You! Wanna see a genome mutate?
Cut a page boy ‘til it bring home a Cube tape
Ice Cube
Read he fled a panic room pissed
And been searching for animal chin since
Panic Room, The Search for Animal Chin
Bumpin' Johnny Rad, eye on the sauce pan
Current mop: 4 months shy on the off-chance
Might just reset this whole shit
Johnny Rad & the Jordanaires (Future Primitive)
I knew this kid Camu who in the lion's mouth
Made up a fail-safe way to get his life corralled
Camu Tao
Let's say he short on the rent
His land lord is upset
He disappears with shears yelling "I'm going George Jeff"
The Jeffersons
1,000 O' Clock
Blitzkrieg Bopper
Petitioned out of shit's creek proper
The only inaccessible blip on the streaming doppler
The Ramones- Blitzkrieg Bop
Outside tweakers are in love
Teeny Raquel Welch submarining through the blood, voyagers
Poisoned or maybe just a misfit toy or two
Depending on the beacon that your voyeurs choose
The Fantastic Voyage, Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer
All these tribes hoard breads and wines
These climates transform men to swine
The Odyssey:
(“Circe turns Odysseus' men into swine by seducing them and offering alcohol,” [35])
Vendetta-drunk leader squealing
"it's the real pig fever"
Sick people pinky swearing on concealed 6th fingers
The Princess Bride
That's idle handwork in the spirit of death dealers
Look at mommy's little Hercules
Custom Troy Hurtubise
Flourish in the blind spot of Spittle County 'Gore Police'
Or really any readily ebbing and flowing 'War and Peace'
Hercules, The Simpsons, Tokyo Gore Police, War and Peace
See my ‘Goodnight Irene' massacred flat in the key of tragedy
Whole diner like "I'll have what he's having"
Lead Belly- Goodnight, Irene, When Harry Met Sally
In '89 maybe 10 showed up at the wharf
As if guided by the trident of Poseidon to cavort
Poseidon
Homemade Mummy
I blank NY alone
We usher in the salts that call the husk home
Location
Gadzooks, punk's dead, last good gut wrenched
Antennae Sam Cooke, black book pushed
Cat skulls stacked to the black hole sunset
Olive on a toothpick, Dagwood Bumstead
Sam Cooke, Pushead, Soundgarden- Black Hole Sun, Blondie (Comic)
Tagged-hoof hatchery, matter amass naturally
Bad wolf, dash for the last rook casting
Blue ox, red plaid bass pro flannel king
Hasbro crown, sour apple Abba-Zabba tooth
Big Bad Wolf, Paul Bunyan
Grace
Ian why don't you say grace
"Dear God, thanks and if you loved me, vegetables would be extinct"
Now I'm looking down the barrel of a string-bean side like an exodus of biblical proportion redefined
Biblical- Book of Exodus, The Bible
Pointer finger plug a hole in the dam
Ma notice, "okay, gross, blowfish, dinner's over, go spit", pop call "bullshit"
Both of my brothers break in, like "he's on his Davie Hogan no mistakin'"
Stand By Me
Saturn Missiles
I'm all pincer, fevery hoodie-on hoodie-off
Sweat through his E.T. sheets to the worry dolls
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
That go "click click clack" in territorial syntax
Sitting on the porch with his lids pinned back
A Clockwork Orange
Pinball whiz in a thimble of Sims
I'm a symbol of whimsy abridged
The Who- Pinball Wizard, The Sims
Kiss Me, I'm Dead
Nursing a mystery, DayQuil
Led Zep staring daggers down page mill
Led Zeppelin
Came in the door and the floor is lava
Killjoy if your core more Norman Rockwell
Norman Rockwell
One black-heart Katamari massive
Packed in a fat category-5 rat nest
Katamari
Interlude presto change-o
If it move too quick (oh whey oh)
Right brain go write train Ramo
Mustache any old Monet, (no)
Yes
The Bangles- Walk Like an Egyptian, Beat Street [24], Claude Monet
Merrily merrily merrily merrily
In a cobweb tomb on a hotbed of heresy
Row, Row, Row Your Boat
Frogmen schooled by the god Ed Emberley
Pull dog sleds and exhume Dead Kennedys
Ed Emberley, Dead Kennedys
Fold wildlife out of Wolf Pack wrapping
Full moon, bad knee, wool hat, caffeine
TNT plunger in all-caps ACME
Blast off half of the whole damn mapscreen
Looney Tunes
No sling no spear
I'm a patchwork of 86'd springs and gears
Who been stung by an unlinked pinky swear
During his what-in-the-fuck-was-I-thinking years
Biblical- combo of David and Goliath, and Elhanan [24]
Tetra
I turn a staff to a snake and back, evade crack
Shake a 5150 in shades and a fake stache
Biblical- Moses [25]
Dirtbike made of 5 worse bikes, uphill
Tabletop frames on dutch tilt, crush kill
Crushkill Recordings [36]
Four eyes carb face, Bar-Kays iron on
Pork rinds orangeade, Jarred brains die alone
Bar-Kays
And surface from the cellar door like worms into the petrichor
Messenger, better yet a vessel for a Tetris score
Tetris
And I never lost tic tac toe to a live chicken
For the footage, I’m off cam dynamite fishin’
Location
3 wolf moon shirt, two shoes one sock
Wore the same hoodie everyday like Mumm-Ra
ThunderCats
Buh-dum-bum, follow the regenerated rebel flesh
Out of sorts, out of water, suicidal tetrafish
Doctor Who
I prefer to skip the pleasantries
Flip the diner table, dip in time for final jeopardy
Jeopardy!
Transcribe stories in patterns of pins dropping
Skinned boars and exaggerated limb-lopping
Slow Mozart, no I’ve never heard of knocking
Might’ve burst in on it, splits or skin popping
Princess Mononoke [28], Mozart
And ultimately unfulfilling, concurrently that rigid upper lip and grudge are crippling
The wonder twins of bitching
The All-New Super Friends Hour
The Ozone breakaway tux
Holds chicken wire ribs and paper mache guts
Breakin' [25]
And he don't get out much, but when he do it's Beatlemania
Do not be asleep at the feet of his feelers radius
The Beatles
Cozy in a moment of bliss
Snatch the food off your plate, snatch a goat off a bridge
No shit
Three Billy Goats Gruff
Gopher Guts
Title: Great Green Gobs of Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts:
(Some users on Genius pointed out that this is a line in Caddyshack but as it was a song prior to the movie, I'm going to say that not a strong enough argument can be made it's referencing the movie in particular.)
Uh, greasy grimy gopher guts
Poolside, 0 for 1, I don't forget spoons twice
Great Green Gobs of Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts
Move as a godless heathen: black gums, tooth gone, bootleg 'Yukon Cornelius'
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Got a little plot of land where authority isn't recognized
Contraband keeping the core of his Hyde Jekyll-ized
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
I have been a terrible communicator prone to isolation over sympathy for devils
The Rolling Stones- Sympathy for the Devil
Dokken Rules (feat. Rob Sonic)
Title: Dokken
Treble hook two birds, cheap thrills, free meal
Vacate Jellystone Park with your brie wheel
Yogi Bear
In swooped jukebox Fonzie, promptly
Bolts on his neck, one tubesock wonky
Happy Days, Frankenstein
BMX (feat. Blueprint & Rob Sonic)
You wanna know why? Because I'm
Beastie Boys- The New Style
Dead messengers buried in their Melvins shirts
Awoken as reanimated mummies from the sepulcher
Melvins
Holmes, sick to the fishbone comb
My yellow brick shtick ain't tip toe prone
The Wizard of Oz
She sells sea shells, he draws revenge
Plots on a chalkboard, watch what you walk toward
She Sells Seashells
Live free, die fat
Rock shot to a kill screen time lapse
Watch how the blitzkrieg climax
Spring clean hijack, bring me my axe
Mommie Dearest [37]
Cat Food EP
Released 2015, Listen/Purchase
Cat Food
I've got a brand new normal at a thirty in New York, plus
Years at the fire pulling portions out of corn husks
Location
He got the rad moves, catty alpha rat-proof (wait)
Twenty-sided die at the crap-shoot (wait)
The Backyardigans- Rad Moves, The Mountain Goats- Alpha Rats-Nest [38](no link)
And when your function fails I'm on an undisclosed island
Stroking exotic animals, open up rocket science
MHz- Rocket Science [39](no link)
Unfrozen part of his new J.O
Face of divine evil, heart of Camu Tao
Camu Tao- King of Hearts
Riding down the block, scooping Bobby in a boogie-down
Tony told me tell 'em "Hello, 7:30 noodle-town"
Rob Sonic, Blockhead
Uh, suckers never play me
Public Enemy- Rebel Without a Pause
Bug Zapper
The first step is a doozy, it’s roulette with a mood ring
The birth of an old slang, the death of a newspeak
Groundhog Day [40], 1984
A permanent post-game is littered with bridge trolls
Skirting the copay, divvy the death toll
Three Billy Goats Gruff
Resilient style kings, impossibly tantrum
Wandering wild things, opera-less phantoms
Where the Wild Things Are, The Phantom of the Opera
Meanwhile, makers of a hideous whatnot
Committed to a lowdown Sisyphus up-rock
Sisyphus
And I still row boats outta bottles without abandon
To shrink into the sunset bumping Pachelbel's Canon In D, motherfucker!
Pachelbel- Canon in D, Do the Right Thing
In moments of land war, a Lazarus species
Tattered and bruised up, the back in the cheap seats
Biblical- Raising of Lazarus
I’m good! House at the beach of expelled hubcaps
Black lawn, backyard melting into Lovecraft
H. P. Lovecraft
And underdogs with posters of a front-side Tony Alva
On the sticker laden walls above their uncle’s Bowie albums
Tony Alva, David Bowie
Keep rap homely:
Bear claw slippers, over-sized Billy Joel tee
Billy Joel
The Impossible Kid
Released 2016, Listen/Purchase
Mystery Fish
One eye on the breadcrumbs
Other eye on the Drencrom
Hansel and Gretel, A Clockwork Orange
Try soft wheels, sourdough and heroin
Eat with the chimera, fly with the seraphim
Chimera, Biblical- Seraphim
Still hear an ex in his head yelling, "kiss the ring"
From a fortune to Fisher King
The Fisher King
I said hello to Marshall every morn for 6
He yelled at me every time, that's amore, bitch
Dean Martin- That's Amore
It only took one tooth to crack the bug juice and chug
Turn a bum to a Sun Tzu it's bug
Sun Tzu
A cold meal with the ghosts of friends
A whole host of meds, a deal on a Tone Loc cassette
Tone Loc
Rings
Back in New York, five peeps and a dog
In a two-bedroom, doing menial jobs
Plus, rhymin' and stealin' and being a clod
Distractions free to maraud
Location, Beastie Boys- Rhymin & Stealin
Shapes falling out of the fringe
All heart, though we would've made cowardly kings
Camu Tao- King of Hearts
Aligning with the trials of the anti-Midas
Nap on the back lawn, look up in the sky, it's…
King Midas
Lotta Years
He asked me what I wanted, I ordered something daft
He said he liked the tattoo Alex drew me of the bats
Thanks;
Alex Pardee
You should have seen me in the 80s
I was bumping New Edition, dragging acne into Hades
New Edition, Hades
Dorks
I used to floss the albatross like Daddy Kane with the chain
I'm trying to jettison the ballast with the hazardous waste
Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Big Daddy Kane
The kid is comfortably numb, routine a tedious crutch
Steep in a self-imposed Stockholm and Lima in flux
Pink Floyd- Comfortably Numb
Each one separately convinced
They're sketching with Da Vinci's hands
Delusion turned the communication to prison camp
Leonardo Da Vinci
In a mess of obnoxious fantasy, posturing and pageantry
I ain't even mad, I'm impressed, shit it's baffling
Anchorman
Rabies
Talking Master P, memory foam everything
Jettison the rest and roulette us a new trajectory
Spinal Tap 11, tapping resin out the evergreen
Designated dark horse, headless independently
Master P, This Is Spinal Tap
Sidewalks end with ponds and frog eggs
Buried bones, and his very own blurry sasquatch vids
Where the Sidewalk Ends, Sasquatch
Additionally, dog isn't even his final form
Just a period, between greenhorn and Hyperion
Borderlands:
(In one of the Borderlands games, there are nicknames for different levels of experience. One of the early titles is greenhorn, and one of the last levels of the game is in a place called Hyperion. “Dog isn’t even his final form just a period between greenhorn and Hyperion.” [77])
Borderline ethereal, Noah's Ark room tone
Add a little up high down low too slow
Biblical- Noah's Ark
Still shuffle thru a stack of old photos
Taken before the varicose verified Chronos
Chronos
Supercell
On Dasher
Half-dead carolers deck a hall, wreck a whole advent calendar
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Deck the Halls
Maybe re-appropriate the energy
Holed up, passing the poultry to Hecate
Hecate
Search party falling forward unthwarted
Meet him at the crossroads drawn and quartered
Robert Johnson- Cross Road Blues
For a master of puppets, how sad are his cupboards
Non-dairy creamers, can of last supper
Metallica- Master of Puppets, Biblical- Last Supper
And a runneth over cup full of black tap water
Its a marvel of privacy over pack hunter
Biblical- Psalm 23:5
Blood Sandwich
Seen MILFs like apes on a monolithic bleacher
Into advocating war and peace in lieu of sport and leisure
2001: A Space Odyssey:
(“Apes on a monolithic bleacher” is a reference to 2001: A Space Odyssey, in which a large black monolith appears in the midst of proto-humans, referred to Arthur C. Clarke as “apes”, and guides them from being a tribal, bloodthirsty group to the beginnings of a more socially advanced, tool-using civilization. [17]), War and Peace, Motorcycle Sport and Leisure
Got a homie, little rodent, head and shoulders out his hovel
No baseball in the bubble, ruh-roh
Scooby-Doo
Man stands out by a hole
Pest pops up to patrol
Man plays live Whac-a-Mole
In a scene that would try every child as adults
Whac-a-Mole
Neubauten tee, plaid flannel-laden, adolescent art kid
Tony Hawk hair, Skinny Puppy denim
And a record player vomiting Alien Sex Fiend, Peel Sessions
In a Christian home for field testing
Einstrüzende Neubaten, Tony Hawk, Skinny Puppy, Alien Sex Fiend, John Peel
We were buried in the Village Voice, checking who was playing where
Pulled his head up out the paper, pushing out a single tear
Five words, like a beacon of light in the mist:
"Ministry live at the Ritz"
The Village Voice, Ministry, Location
It was "Christ Has Risen" to Chris, three loaves, two fish
Miracle of mechanized loops on two-inch
Biblical- Feeding the multiple
Bought a mag with an Al Jourgensen interview
Read a couple sentences, glanced at a pic or two or three
That's all—no fair trial
Simply, "You will not be going to the show, and that's final!"
Al Jourgensen of Ministry
Get Out of the Car
Been a bit since Mu died
Been a lot more loss in the wake
Camu Tao
Oh, shazbat! Not the "ever after" he wanted
From the "Once upon a time, dot, dot, dot"
Once upon a time, he was so much more than a punchline for his own potshots, ah
Mork and Mindy
If I zoom on out, I can finally admit
It's all been a blur since Mu got sick
Camu Tao
Whole life trying to quiet 'em down
Like a suicide king with a knife in his crown
Camu Tao- King of Hearts
Knowing ain't half the battle
That's a bullshit quip written by some asshole
G.I. Joe
Shrunk
My last name, a thousand vowels fading down a sinkhole to a susurrus
It couldn't just be "John Doe" or "Bingo"
Bingo
Telephone, uncovered by purveyors of the ouija
When checked against the CBGB women's room graffiti
Location
My medical history is a course at SUNY Buffalo
Charlatan psychiatry and troubleshooting undertow
Location
Awaiting panacea, channeling your inner Beowulf
In purgatory, just before you pay up to filet yourself and others
Beowulf
In the name of help, coal on a conveyor belt
Into ego death alone, no telephone from Gabriel
Biblical- Gabriel
I'm half a human, combin' over Home and Garden, stoned
Gold chains over turtleneck, cigars over cologne
Homes and Gardens
A thousand shitty paintings wrapped around a wounded animal
Woo him with the Schubert, he's a future human cannonball
Franz Schubert
That pretty penny turned the prickly into Benji
If you save up all your winnings, then you get to count your blessings
Benji
I finally crunched the budget up and punched the button
She called my name out and pushed me into an oven
Hansel and Gretel
Kirby
Back at the haunt, found God in the hamper
Briefs on her head playing Walking With a Panther
LL Cool J- Walking With a Panther
Good around misery and golden era samplers
Jeopardy and Wheel at the heels of her handlers
Jeopardy!, Wheel of Fortune
In a steel cage match with a maze of cables
Brazen, game-face based on Azazel
Biblical- Azazel
Mouser in training, nap on the toaster
Decorate her cubicle with dogs playing poker
C. M. Coolidge
TUFF
Dum-diggy, bump Biggie
Til the landlady holler, "Get a haircut, hippie"
Notorious B.I.G.
Purple tape, purple 'hawk, ape
A single flower through the permafrost
Pick himself and learn to walk, in furry pants
Raekwon- Only Built for Cuban Linx
Roll out ghost of Camu on the pegs
Might pedal by the police
Tuff with two F's
Camu Tao
The coke bottles tint film noir
Tripping out the milk bar
Poison horchata cup
Milf in the Zip Car
A Clockwork Orange
6 arms, 6 hand-styles like ships on scrimshaw
Part Def Jam part Dischord
Def Jam, Dischord
I read Nat Geo, craft and crack geodes
Lift party hats out of Craft Depot
National Geographic
Man, who could've guessed the future of abominable imagery
Would also share a birthday with Kenny G? None
Kenny G
The string cheese dinner kid speak Cheech wizard
For the gone like Gossamer under number 3 clippers
Vaughn Bode, Looney Tunes
I learned to rhyme in New York
I learned to breathe underwater
Location
Lazy Eye
My spirit animal comes with a pretzel bun
Troll of the treadmill
Record on the Kessel Run (allegedly)
Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope
Cineplex Jesus, curse at the curly fries
Mulling over Chuck D telling me, "Diversify"
Chuck D (Public Enemy)
I'm at the Supercuts soupin' up the wardrobe
Forecast looking like Ganesh on four phones
"Hello, hello, hello, hello"
Ganesh
Putting on the yoga lady, cutting off The Cable Guy
Whistle while you're waiting for your condition to stabilize
The Cable Guy
Irons and the niacin, iron Quiet Riot mask
Unabashed privacy expanding into simulcast
O.C.- Time's Up, Quiet Riot- Metal Health
In the end, you gotta wonder if it's even worth the effort
No stairways into Heaven, you can step into the Escher
Led Zeppelin- Stairway to Heaven, M.C. Escher
On my better days they mingle and walk off into the poppy
On my worst, the work is overshadowed by the monte
The Wizard of Oz
Defender
New Salem
Brave new voodoo
Wave a witch hammer in a haven
For the woo woo
Brave New World, Malleus Maleficarum
Loser in the sky with more diamonds
Than the carpet from The Shining
The Beatles- Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, The Shining
Fried while the pipes froze, life goes Lovecraft
Christ-pose, sitting on invisible hubcaps, up
H. P. Lovecraft
I could drive into a lake of fire Pay the piper COD
Aware the pot and kettle shop a little toxin equally at least
Pied Piper of Hamelin
Not sorry, but I never really was a leader
Found money in the speaker, bought lower Manhattan pizza
Location
Water Tower
Denizen of black earth, gutted and uncoupled from the patchwork
Buried by a 7 year cherub in the backyard
Epitaph and all
Biblical- Cherubim
The nuances of putrefying jelly hit the levee
When those feathers are a cancer in your bestie
Camu Tao
Memitim ascending, settling any high scores
40 meters up with the heart of a high dive horse
Biblical- Destroying angel
I'm born from the guts of stars and black tar pits
Iron Maiden denim paint the devil under grawlix
Iron Maiden
Crawls out a clawed coffin to huff and puff
Somewhere in between the dust and dust
The Three Little Pigs, Biblical- Genesis 2:7
Molecules
Spoilers, the non bon-voyage
Stock weaponry and soylents and whatever stop the voices
Soylent Green
Wrung stones unsung and alone
Known to run up in the unknown, "honey I'm home"
Shania Twain- Honey, I'm Home
I'm catatonic, fat, and outta rocket-fuel and ramen
Not a dollar, watching Rocky II in Donatello boxers
Rocky II, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
At some hot-as-hell motel in what's supposed to be his Shangri-La
More akin to angry mobs with anchor tats and mangey dogs in vacant lots
Shangri-La
New York in the rearview then peel
Out, 'til he found New York in the windshield
Location
Mend or pay his penance
You'd rather see him eat a bowl of mouse traps
Surf a thousand couches
Take a jagged little down the hatch
Chowderheads
Alanis Morissette- Jagged Little Pill
Syrup
ASR Schroeder split the rent with ghosts and bacterial cultures
Peanuts
Fridge full of black deli meat and dead air
Still prefer it to the overbearing lens flare
And death stare Plinko and an at risk eco
The Price is Right
Bushwick (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Released 2017, Listen/Purchase
All Tracks
No references (instrumental)
Music From The Game Freedom Finger
Released 2020, Listen/Purchase
Play Dead
It goes ooh and ah and you too late, we got a failure to communicate
In my rearview's a little planet Earth and my calendar is straight doomsday
Cool Hand Luke [41]
Warfare, I don't war fair, I like rocket fuel in my morning air
Apocalypse Now
KOWP
From the unrelenting filigree of digital Rome
I throw a signal fit to eclipse videodrome
Videodrome
I'm a 8-bit invader who vacate the cartridge
Upgrade, now I make waves in the lawless
Space Invaders
I rid stones of the most stuck swords
"Go Back" signage over the front door
The Sword in the Stone
I'm a backstreet butcher, bullshit wizard
Even in the summer, I'm a wolf in the winter, ayy
The Wizard of Oz
Drums on the Wheel
Do you read me? Do you read me? Do I need to reach through the TV?
Do I need to reach through the ouija? Houston, I may have gone too Houdini
Poltergeist, Harry Houdini
I been feeding back in these headphones, beating back a profound fear
Farewell to my breadcrumbs, is anybody even out there?
Hansel and Gretel
Street meat for some E.T. to come deep fry in old frites grease
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Tracks 4-10
No references (instrumental)
Spirit World Field Guide
Released 2020, Listen/Purchase
Hello from the Spirit World
No references
The Gates
I might bleed green
Star Trek
I know easy prey, I seen broken oaths
I go marching in, I'm all, "Oh-ee-oh"
The Wizard of Oz
Agent of all things deep-sixed
I feel like I was put here to keep the crypt
Tales From the Cryptkeeper
Troglodyte, I might split the blinds
I'm like Vincent Van with that instant rice
Vincent Van Gogh
Drumroll, I might piss straight, loose tooth in my spit shake
Every possible Futurama come trooping out of his pill case
Futurama
And I ricochet in my steel cage, one still heart and two hill's eyes
A few meal bars, a good field knife, I feel good, no field guide
The Hills Have Eyes
A little care package out of Where's Waldo in a rare beige
No fair at all, dyed hair and all
Where's Waldo
Touché from our killjoys who know humanoids are just hit points
Ain't cop that new heat, that newspeak's all pink noise
1984
Button Masher
Wonkavator up beyond the seraphim, terra beneath the keratin
Every bit precariously jerry-rigged
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Biblical- Seraphim
His helmet is a case of Bud, he factor in the paper cuts
Corrugated cockpit, I'm not exactly Major Tom
David Bowie
Buzzed Aldrin, I can't count backwards
Ten, one, someone get this buzzard to the Matmos
Barbarella
Ten thousand hours addressing open beaks
Exiting the atmosphere with no green to chroma key
Outliers
That's rounding Cygnus with a souvenir from Galaxy Quest
I know it sound like myth and magic, but the shrapnel commits
Galaxy Quest
There was a ghost who broke it all up into tiny numbers
And dated vector graphics and New York Times puzzles
New York Times
Who rose above the partly cloudy counting on a Galaga hack
His only carry-on's a napkin of math
Galaga
Dog at the Door
No references
Gauze
Knee-deep evil to plot through a fever, maid threw his Rod of Asclepius out
Asclepius
I bump Raising Hell, I make raisin bread
Raised on wolf's milk and Eraserhead
I'm all good
Run-D.M.C., Eraserhead
Let me guess, you tout the brave few
Then make Jesus take the wheel by day two
Carrie Underwood- Jesus Take the Wheel
Pizza Alley
Wherе shaman opt to zombify undocumented expats
High and writing Ayahuasca letters back to Melmac
A.L.F.
Talk rap albums over alpaca medallions
With metalheads who traffic magic flowers from the mountains
To the houses of the holy
Led Zeppelin- House of the Holy
The strays in the plaza look happier than my neighbors
They answer to Paddington Bear in waders
It's amazers
Paddington Bear
What ship, what shore?
I grew up writing riddles under bridges in New York
Location
Throw a couple logs on the fire
There's a chimney in San Blas where you can hear Baby Dayliner
Bouncing softly off the navy blue
Baby Dayliner
Ooh, it's a strange bouquet
Not today, Supay
Supay
Canopy going H.A.M. over camp in a feuding biome
Os Mutantes row-row-rowing the wrong way into the diode
Os Mutantes, Row, Row, Row, Your Boat
On a screen porch pimpled after dark with frogs and lizards
When high as hell, they might as well be Mothras and Godzillas
It's awesome
Mothra vs. Godzilla
We traded numbers and made off into the pond scum
Humming Muddy Waters
Motherfucker, I am on one
Muddy Waters
Earth, wind, fire, and papaya
We fly with the poison arrow
We dive with the arapaima
Earth, Wind & Fire
Crystal Sword
Ride the wild aurora, future bright as fried Gomorrah
Present tense an SOS in tidal water, final offer, sold
Biblical- Sodom and Gomorrah
He carry his own water as nary a known other
Burn sage in the alley with various ghostbusters
Ghostbusters
Sea of disembodied bones knocking on your rods and cones
Some resort to scuba gear, some return to hobbit holes
The Lord of the Rings and/or The Hobbit
Inspire a thousand Our Fathers, people start calling their priests
"We've never seen a man so vehemently drawn to the beast"
Biblical- The Lord's Prayer
Boot Soup
You can't eject the new soy bomb
Soy Bomb Incident
Brief announcement, I'm peeking out
If I feel surrounded, I might King Kong
King Kong
I'm east of Eden not holiday
And these feet a realized sovereign nation
East of Eden
A once and futurе goon, own the exit row
Burn the leeches off, throw the second stone
Biblical- John 8:7
Hit the road, an old misanthrope
Alone, tip me over and pour me out
I’m a Little Teapot
Spoon-gagged, amass the too trashy
Ragtag, rad to the last Boo Radley
To Kill a Mockingbird
Coveralls
Ayy
I could give a fuck if there's mold on my daily bread
I'm a foe to the fainting goat, I'm at home on the razor's edge
Biblical- The Lord's Prayer
Over the garden wall when your Rover was playing dead
Arm-in-arm with a melancholia, roses and baby's breath
Over the Garden Wall, Melancholia
Most of my visitors request that I be tied to a chair
I wear the skin of my detractors, maybe try not to stare
Silence of the Lambs
I buy a second seat for my extraordinary piss and moan
Feet up while the fleet assemble, keep the devil in the hole
Tom Waits- Way Down in the Hole [42]
With several yelling, "Sparta" you were yelling, "Marcia, Marcia, Marcia"
Only one'll read the chapter after larva, it's a good one
300, The Brady Bunch
I know you were expecting just a Jekyll
The others are in there also, his company doesn't end well
Yo
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Jumping Coffin
Still bullseyeing womp rats from the scenic route
Sugar in his coffee like a séance in the TV room
Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope
The cheek swab came back half-amazing
Half of what he make end up on his lab apron
Nas- It Ain't Hard To Tell
Ring around the revenant, let it in
Said he wasn't ready yet, he never left the Etch-a-Sketch
Ring a Ring o' Roses
Tall grass, asphalt, or salt flat
It's all jazz like an alphabet to Saul Bass
Saul Bass
Bratty to the basic anatomy of a death stare
Passing through the old Manhattan, ectoplasm everywhere
Location, Ghostbusters
I don't coexist, I don't exist
Even J.C. miss him with the loaves and fish
Biblical- Feeding the multiple
Holy Waterfall
No references
Flies
No references
Salt
Let me clear my throat
Pocketful of rocket fuel and pyramid stones
Beastie Boys- The New Style
Free snake tats, plays on train tracks
Dorm like a door to Hell, the doorbell plays Taps
Taps
Rats as big as cattle sent to Babylon convulsing
The home sweet home that sees you as bag of hostile protein
Biblical- Babylon
Fuck the police, I'm floating out with the Camazotz
Property of nada, runs on Trompe le Monde and Otter Pops
Camazotz, Pixies- Trompe le Monde
Chainsaw shave in the house of a thousand tonics
They're magic if you need a cure for lack of sour vomit
House of 1000 Corpses
Stole an ox on occasion
I go through wands too quickly to name 'em
Biblical- Exodus 22:1
Sleeper Car
Moving through the super-moon with goonies off a distant block
And fugitives from Dusit Zoo in pleasant moods until they're not
Goonies
Siam spy cam, try him in fire
I'm marigolds and Muay Thai into the eye of the tiger
Survivor- Eye of the Tiger (Rocky III)
I almost died on a scooter, I almost died on a boat
I figure fuck it, baby, come as you are and die as you go
Nirvana- Come as You Are
Bar band send it from John Denver to G-n-R
Midnight playing sardines to the sleeper car
John Denver, Guns N' Roses
Locals see a space garbage that fell from the interstellar
Trying to blend in with the smell of peppers, sweat and citronella - ella
Rihanna- Umbrella
Sore thumb in the hum of the helter-skelter
Rebels huffing through the temple run like Zelda's in the cellar
Temple Run, The Legend of Zelda
1 to 10
No references
Attaboy
I been floating down the River Styx
Skipper cap, sipping on what's missing from your mini-fridge
River Styx/Charon
Insulated slicker dripping, winter like, "It's Britney, bitch"
Crops wither, docks splinter into popsicle sticks
Britney Spears- Gimme More
Beyond the hissy fit, he ain't but a hound dog
I'm Bamm-Bamm, pianos fall on me and bounce off
Ain't Nothing But a Hound Dog, The Flintstones
Vampirella riding pillion through the eventide
Indecency that deck the halls, an eye in each Venetian blind
Vampirella, Deck the Halls
Shabby chic, overnight a fireball from magic camp
Inspired by a banzai fly into Manhattan clam
Location
I'm saying "fuck y'all", live and direct
I make a Judas shoot a flare up from the Isle of the Dead
Biblical- Judas, Isle of the Dead
Throw a fucking crab off a mountain top
Free free falling with the shuttle parts and flowerpots
Tom Petty- Free Falling, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy:
("The “flowerpots” is most likely a reference to a scene in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, in which a ship called the Heart of Gold, powered by a fanciful “Infinite Improbability Drive” which causes unlikely things (such as faster than light space travel) to happen within its field of effect, is flying over a planet. This engine of unlikely events causes a sperm whale and a bowl of petunias to appear high above the planet’s surface:
“And since this is not a naturally tenable position for a whale, this poor innocent creature had very little time to come to terms with its identity as a whale before it then had to come to terms with not being a whale any more,” the book says, and details the whale’s thought process. It then continues; “Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was ‘Oh no, not again.’” [43])
Eyes closed, ear to the road salt, all I hear is Mozart
Mozart
I'm in pajama bottoms listening to Chaka Khan
Eating matcha Pocky knocking posses out the polygon
Chaka Khan
Kodokushi
I go bah with the black sheep, rah rah, catch me a patsy
Spaz, unravel, and blaspheme
Baa, Baa, Black Sheep
Riddler to keep the gate
It's a groundhog D-Day, Jesus H
Oedipus and the Sphinx, Groundhog Day
Plus steak and frites, I take bloody as hell
If it burn black, point him at the honey and milk
Biblical- The Promised Land (Milk and Honey)
I ain't sitting while you sully the well
I turn up in a jiff, jackknife when I jump in the pit
Tartarus [44]
One hundred hands, one million eyes
Two bleeding gums, I will survive
Hecatoncheires [44], Gloria Gaynor- I Will Survive
Fixed and Dilated
Old heresy, headed for disembodiment
As rendered by an excerpt from the Lesser Key of Solomon, um
The Lesser Key of Solomon
Pitch it down a octave, I'm a take this opportunity
To piss and vomit lava while the neck is lazy susan-ing
The Exorcist
Crossroads bogey, I broker the deal first
I bag up a soul quick, I drag it between worlds, hold up
Robert Johnson- Cross Road Blues
Only ever had a last nerve, hold up
Spirit box talking out of turn, hold up
Everyone's a player at the purge, hold up
The Purge
1, 2, undo a divine act
They don't like it when I waltz in and turn wine back, hold up
Biblical- Water Into Wine
Orchestrate impious in compliance with the harvest moon
Crosses tend to somersault, bibles fly across the room
The Bible
Side Quest
I like skating to the store at night in autumn weather with a couple layers on
And maybe Wu playing over soft wheels on a mellow inclined plane
Wu-Tang Clan
Navigate a bit of fire and brim, nevermind whatever transpire within
I'm out the other side a golden beam of lost sunlight
Biblical- Fire and brimstone
See him off into the fog
Figure 8-ing in the moon
Never let him know the odds
It isn't part of how I move
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
Marble Cake
I'm broken, fuck a focus group, fuck your folk, and Toto too
The produce of a pencil-neck who never met a social cue
The Wizard of Oz
Polaroids around him like a visit from the Vantablack
Miniatures in Biggie shirts and minutes that he can't get back
Notorious B.I.G.
No displayed blazonry, unmistakably mutinous
The mood is disillusionment, shit, even Cindy Lou Who quit
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Bruised at the nucleus and drooling through the bells of war
Meet the neighbors when your resume is "skeleton-with-oar"
Wu-Tang Clan- Bells of War, River Styx/Charon
Nan under the bandages, examine 'til he vanishes
I don't feel a social pull to show the wolves where grandma lives
The Invisible Man, Little Red Riding Hood
The Four Winds
I look like a dick in my picture ID
But also the pic isn't me, huh
The Treachery of Images [45]
If he cultivate the grit that make a foal deface the brick
That make a bolt escape the fist
Zeus
He rows a big oar
He spins a grim yarn
River Styx/Charon
Garbology
Released 2021, Listen/Purchase
The Only Picture
No references
Jazz Hands
I'm not here to pull scarves out
Here to pick tumblers underwater with his arms bound
Harry Houdini
From in chains to the heart of where art thou
I'm out there down to throw grapnel at a guard tower
O Brother, Where Art Thou
Stock parts knocking on Mach 1 to Camp Lo
Amped up eyes glowing unknown pantones
Camp Lo
Drive 'til it feels like a Van Gogh
Lest I cheetah me some antelope
Vincent Van Gogh
Ring around the king of pain, bring acetaminophen
You either see the vision or dinner with demolition men
Boom
Ring a Ring o' Roses, Demolition Man
Flame to the fuse to the barrel
I step into the room, split an arrow with an arrow
Robin Hood
The first trick shot is just to show them that I dabble
I will not be aiming for the apple
William Tell
Get your whole roadmap Pac Man'd
Black mask snack on whatever's in the dash cam
Pac-Man
It's not an ad, hashtag, or a tap dance
Patsy, the revolution will not have jazz hands
Gil Scott-Heron- The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
Wolf Piss
Spin doc
Sweet dreams go Hitchcock
Alfred Hitchcock
Swoop in and get touchéd
Tune in to my blue phase
Pablo Picasso
Red phone on sleep mode
When eating eel rolls with my friend's ghost
Kurt Hayashi
Legerdemain
Not a cop in sight, not a watt of light in the fog
Silent night to God almighty just from lighting cigars
Silent Night
Not a creature is stirring to purging lightning from the eye on my palm
Wide as long as y'all can die and re-spawn
A Visit from St. Nicholas
Two pair of socks under reindeer mukluks
Aiming to keep ten pigs awake in the tundra
This Little Piggy
First archer to set the firestarter oxen free
Defending some forgotten block of uncommon geometry
Oxenfree:
("OxenFree is a game, and Firestarter is an achievement gained when you make everyone hate you in the game." [46])
Before they fixed the road, there used to be this bump to bump
I guess in '97, so and so did such and such
In Timbs on someone else's board
Tell the story, spread the lor
It's epic to a people who would rather push than teleport
True Mathematics [47]
Raiders of the roads and parking lots of greater Carcasonne
Canis lupis carcass on, take me to your garlic knots
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Wander Eden, not a meter predetermined
Turn a curb into an evening, that's the key to freezer burning
Biblical- Garden of Eden
Difficult
I'm more for the sordid, got nan for the normies
Cornered, my storm got plans for the Dorothies
The Wizard of Oz
My neck chop plays like blades on a frisbee
All tally-ho, had the whole place in a tizzy
Is you widdit?
Hard Ticket to Hawaii [48]
Troubleman-ish, I'm an apple with no tree
I'm ground swell crashing every castle at Jones Beach
Location
It's beautiful as Jolene hair in the sun
Or any adversary wrapped up in an area rug, oh, Jesus
Dolly Parton- Jolene
To anybody clocking to copy his every move
Catch a birdie from the window of a rocket to the moon
A Rocket to the Moon
I'm a fever dream, I seen trouble nobody knows
Still show his home county how a nova explodes
Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen, Location
All the Smartest People
No references
Oh Fudge
The fan's not helping
It's probably a job for Abraham Van Helsing
Dracula
More Cycles
It's not a drill, it's a village aping a grid beyond the silicon
Same religion as Ram, Flynn, or Tron
Tron, Tron, Tron
When every tree up in your Eden reek of dog piss
You don't need a reason to Knievel any drawbridge
Biblical- Garden of Eden, Evel Knievel
Dawn treader, green fog, Lincoln Log wrecker
Gloves all King Kong leather
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, King Kong
Plinko off a punk and jump a cycle out the ecosphere
He don't wear a cape, but if he did, no one would think it's weird
The Price is Right
I could hold a wheelie for a decade
Circle any borough like a bird around a headache
Location
Body and the spirit going separate ways
Send a message back from the other side of the end of days
All it say is, "Catch me if you can, P.S., the weather's great"
Catch Me if You Can
What the fuck is resting on the seventh day?
I'm seven days of levee-breaking rain, stay the hell away
Biblical- Genesis 2:2, Led Zeppelin- When the Levee Breaks
A second letter showed up, let's imagine we could open it together
"I will not be home forever, this is NYC untethered," yeah
Location
Flamingo Pink
Wicked forces in the wings descending on the simple things
Like taffy at the boardwalk under ribbons of flamingo pink
Which mutates into ovеrcrowded Plinko on a laser grid
Havens turn dangеrous, friendly faces, traitorous, ayy
The Price is Right
I'm way out, the way of the walk is a different discipline
It's difficult, ten thousand hours get you to guinea pig
Outliers
My pat on the back is a little Edward Scissorshands-y
Come and send it with the cleverest to never stick the landing
Edward Scissorhands
Tomb raider, screwface under the gauze
Y'all should giddy up or get your city covered in salt, yeah
Tomb Raider
We will not be keeping calm
We will turn barbarians to Carrie at the senior prom
Meet us in the creeping fog
Carrie
Let's get your body walloped into Braque or P. Picasso
You ain't the person you let your believers think they follow
Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso
All Day Breakfast (feat. Homeboy Sandman)
Sports and leisure
Motorcycle Sport and Leisure
I fashion me a hoodie from the head of a bushpig
Push the red button, I am back on my bullshit
Lord of the Flies
Raised on 1010 WINS, on the ones every ten mins
Big League Chew and stupid pet tricks
1010 WINS
Blow the house down easy peasy
It's the deacon of disaster pulling reefer out his beanie
The Three Little Pigs
Fizz
Through the valley with a howl and a hiss
Every step is like a house on a witch
Biblical- Psalm 23:4, The Wizard of Oz
Any Judas into sappin' how I'm zappin' get the trowel and brick
I'm all thought-crime, cowlick and fizz
Biblical- Judas
I avoid sunlight, Chuckie, and buckets without the fuzzy dice
Money pits, and sucker shit, and run-ins with the blood of Christ
Child's Play
Plan a caper on a napkin
Trading slang into the evening
Drive a tank around Manhattan
Location
Get accustomed to the irritated easily
I can not be trusted if motherfuckers is Tweedle Dee
Through the Looking Glass
Flesh a temple of doom
The whole rest go XO, red balloon
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Strangers like "gimme 2 of, dude what are you on?"
A single dose of Woo-hah in the Yukon
Busta Rhymes- Woo-Hah!! Got You All in Check
That is Not a Wizard
Title: The Wizard of Oz
I move reticent, never really an open book
I'm gone fishin' at thе risk of being overlooked
Gone Fishin'
Behind the curtain the Merlin is all jellyfish
I get to beckon the wrecking ball to your Lego brick
The Wizard of Oz
Cold lemonade and OG Golden Axe
I don't like to talk about the UFO Crash
Golden Axe
My margin riddled with bubble letters, and French girls
My special powers are animus and revenge-thirst
Titanic
The Sea
My swerve circle toughies
I learn em, and return to "good for abso-smurfly nothing"
The Smurfs
Golly you're a docile bunch, I'm ushering that posse out the poppy plants
This is my Jumanji not your Zombieland
The Wizard of Oz, Jumanji, Zombieland
Everything I wear got 3 wolves
There is no Aes, only Zuul, ey
Ghostbusters
People be cool, bee smoker puffing smoke
Here to breech the honeycomb, steal the honey, fuck the drones
Stung thrice, still rub his belly in the hammock
Between trees over the Atlantic, he's gigantic
Winnie the Pooh
Unbelievers get a peak at where my twisters tend to land 'em
And adopt dogs just to tell 'em they're not in Kansas
Damn
The Wizard of Oz
I tell my cat pretend like it's just us and the aurora
She said take me to New York if we both make it to tomorrow
Location
Abandoned Malls
Tripping through his daymare, marathoning monster flicks
Zombie in the stale air, logging his Hayashi pics
Kurt Hayashi
I bubble to the surface legendarily imperfect
Purging Slurpee from a head that turns incessantly in circles, it's concerning
The Exorcist
The same alleys we used to imagine Babylon
Feel like abandoned malls overgrown with Spanish moss
Biblical- Babylon
Commotion froze in time with no sign of your lamb of god
It's a land of the lost, scrambling for canned applause
Biblical- Lamb of God, Land of the Lost
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Mindful Solutionism
2.5 million years ago, a friend of mine
Made a tool from a stone and defended his tribe
Run-D.M.C.- Sucker M.C.'s
Manipulate electricity, no, it cannot be done
Yes it can, ain't a dam that can cancel the flood
Biblical- Noah's Ark
True to human curiosity, at the Tree of Knowledge
Pulling genies out of bottles, stealing from Leonardos
Biblical- Garden of Eden, Leonardo da Vinci
Plain train auto hauling space age cargo
Bizzaro technology, every day is tomorrow
Bizzaro [2] (from Abandon All Hope)
Telegraph, telephone, you can flirt with Doris
In Poughkeepsie from a cozy geodesic dome in Sydney
Location
Infinity Fill Goose Down
The brand reads, "Animal Farm"
A fugee on the lam running
With a lamb in my arms
Animal Farm
Trail of rabbits harboring
The farmer's brand of cigars
The cattle after
After that it's like a ramp to an ark
Watership Down [49], Noah's Ark
Out of radio silence
A bad miracle, panic in the paradigm
Attacking the familiar world
Evacuate
Nope
Black Phillip, free to bah what he bahs
From a growing blob of jail-broken oxen and hogs
The Witch, Baa, Baa, Black Sheep, Busy Bee- Making Cash Money
I know some pigs'll splinter off
I seen 'em mixing with the bosses
Sipping gin as if the trough is less prestigious than the office
It isn't
Animal Farm
Should you feel unsettled or some melting into madness
After entertaining more second chances than Velma's glasses
Scooby-Doo
Yeah
It was always all of a sudden
All's well 'til it's all of his palm on the button
I am always into somethin'
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth- The Basement [50]
Cut to helter-skelter in glorious technicolor
With bumper to bumper
Sending turtle shells at one another
Mario Kart
Merry "dawn of the mummy"
Heard a call in my slumber
Woke to a thousand years of sauce-of-the-month in a bunker
Yum
Dawn of the Mummy
You could be the lunker under pepper X
I feel like Professor Y
Why are all my friends depressed?
Conversations with Professor Y
Why's this party feel like when I walked back into Selmer's Pets
In precious tears like, "Why are all my tetra dead?
Yet again?"
Location
Land speed entirely contextual
Glacial pace, Grand Prix, Space Invader, camera B
Space Invaders
Living Curfew (feat. billy woods)
Golden hours like Mom tripping
"You come down here right this instant!"
Brian Eno- Golden Hours [51]
Sits on the front step, chips and a Sunkist
Dumb for a sun-kissed brick or Pikmin
Pikmin
I don't blame y'all, the force awakens
On Flatbush Avenue forest-bathing
Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens, Location
A mean Brian Eno mixtape, an ego lifeless
Adrift in the eye of the side quest
Brian Eno
Son this is whirlwind country
A world flushed from the brush pen of Kim Jung Gi swirling
Kim Jung Gi
Midnight, pushing obscene Katamari
Vs. little old me and what army? Huh...?
Katamari
Loser/weeper, in the wee hours, speaking to Mu in the ether
Camu Tao
I can bounce ideas off an angel or demon
Or any other brand of Cthulhu
I can rinse in the ambient wind
But I can't relate the intangibles to you
H. P. Lovecraft- The Call of Cthulhu
Pigeonometry
I seen this one Da Vinci exhibit
In which they reconstructed dozens of machines he invented
Leonardo da Vinci
From diagrams in his codex, open and beautifully scanned
Marvels of engineering, broke up by Vitruvian Man
Leonardo da Vinci
I think I drew like one more on a red-eye into Queens
I ain't even make a dozen, I been eyeing other things
Location
Kyanite Toothpick (feat. Hanni El Khatib)
Traffic beeping in the key of my penance
Even the wind in the willow ask "What's the frequency, Kenneth?"
The Wind in the Willows, R.E.M.- What's the Frequency, Kenneth?
Tune in, how's my driving?
Drivers start dialing, I drive like a man who dies trying
50 Cent- Get Rich or Die Tryin'
Drawstring eaters, no staff to memo
No cabs to flag, just you and the black echo
See if it says hello back
If it says hello first, hit 'em with the Cheshire Cat
Friedrich Nietzche [52], Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Get to the chopper, money, on your way adopt a puppy
I'm on that proper dummy, it's getting Tonka Truck-y
Predator
I'm on that Mobius, I'm on that Minor Threat
I'm on that find peace
You on that find meth
Minor Threat
You was on that glue trap, I was on that Busenitz
I was on that blueprint you was on that group think
Dennis Busenitz, Blueprint
I was on that "ooh child", I was on that noodle brick
I was on that Brooklyn bound, hooks around a nutriment
The Five Stairsteps- O-o-h Child, Location
You was on that 2-bit, I was on that Two Towers
Location
Outside of your own lackeys
You as common as a table for one in the Lonesome Valley
Lonesome Valley:
(Though this might be a stretch, there is a song Lonesome Valley that happens to be featured on the O Brother, Where Art Thou? Soundtrack which I believe to have also been referenced elsewhere, see Black Snow with Lloyd Chandler- O Death.)
I was on that Juice Crew, I was on that "Whose House"
Juice Crew, Run-D.M.C.- Run's House
I'm on that matador, I'm on that bull fight
You on that bullshit, I'm on that dirtbike
I'm on that 12 o'clock, you on that road rash
You on that credit line, I'm on that cold cash
12 O'Clock Boys [53], Road Rash [53]
100 Feet Tall
One time I met Mr. T in New York in the 80s
I was 7/8-ish, waiting for a table at Carnegie
With my family who did not always agree on what was wavy
But would shut up once a week because we loved our fucking A-Team
Mr. T, Locations, The A-Team
Pops seen him sitting there, beard and Mandinka hair
Whispered so that we could hear, "guys, Mr. T is here"
Mr. T is fucking real?, I mean I know he's real
It's just we only seen him on TV, he's like a superhero to us
Mr. T
I'd never seen a famous pеrson let alone Baracus
He bout to walk right by us, that's more than I could process
The A-Team
I seen enough gold to break the average neck in two
Feather hanging from the ear, gear that say don't mess with you
Stanley Turrentine- Don't Mess with Mister T
No fools, no suckas
Be good to your mother
Mr. T- Treat Your Mother Right
No dummies, no punks
I pity every last one
Mr. T
Mr. T's a hundred feet tall (He's five foot ten)
Arms like trucks, probably punch through a wall
Mr. T
Started rubbing his belly, then a quip for the pups
"It take a place like this to fill Mr. T up"
Mr. T
Get it? For those of you who don't know the establishment
They're famous in Manhattan for serving gigantic sandwiches
Location
He played it perfect to a nervous kid he met at his peak
We spent the meal like "holy Moses we just met Mr. T."
Mr. T
Close to 40 years have passed
My hair is gray, my belly's fat
Still when I hear his voice I'm 7/8-ish back on 7th Ave
Location
Then scouted by Stallone who sends the Rocky part
He bodies it, on Letterman he says he primarily still a bodyguard
Rocky III, Late Show with David Letterman
Huh, born protector, icon or community
Plus network television like a rocket to the moon of cheese
A Rocket to the Moon
Salt and Pepper Squid
I could might investigate a exodus
Biblical- Exodus
Aes gets a gold star, sophistry gets no cigar
Homies get to chauffeur the only rapper with no car
Sorry Mike
Michael McCloud [54]
Ford Exploder motor sounding outraged
Pedal-foot a carving knife through a blind mouse tail
Three Blind Mice
I have one brain cell
All it do is hum Bad Brains and document whoever sleigh bells raise hell
Bad Brains
Yea, perfect foul energy, every degree of D-up
My Kwik-E-Mart receipt is tall enough to ride the tea cups
The Simpsons
Time Moves Differently Here
Large milkshake, not the boys to the yard kind
More the boys to the drive-thru car line
Kelis- Milkshake
Tonight on Table Talk we go beyond the peri peri spice
Through 11 secret herbs, parsley, sage, rosemary thyme
Simon and Garfunkel- Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Thyme [55]
Aggressive Steven
Everything everywhere all at once, all the faucets are on
Let's draw the room so you can better picture all that befalls
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Bermuda (feat. Lealani)
Guns and roses turn to roses and roses
Country roads is overgrown with begonias
Come press your nose to the lotus
Guns N' Roses, John Denver- Country Roads
Those aromas make a toughie throw his toast in the ocean
I'm on the beach in my floaties like I don't know any Moses, ayo
Biblical- Crossing the Red Sea
From birthstone to first snow
To posies in the pockets of your church clothes
To fertilizing where the red fern grows
Ring a Ring o' Roses, Where the Red Fern Grows
Helicoptering from canopy to forest floor and garden
Forget the aggressive warning, it's more of a "Hello darling"
Conway Twitty- Hello Darlin’
Even Ares pull over to say "ay-ayo", don't say I said it
But god damn that vegetation is, dare I say it, disarming
Ares
I love to see a horde who swore to burn the steeple at night
Get floated noses-first like Mickey Mouse to seasonal pie
Mickey Mouse
By The River
Sitting by the Hudson river talking to a ghost
"I wish that we could rock a beat and smoke an L at Tone's
I miss the way you rhyme and how you never had a clone
Ain't a motherfucker living that could ever crack the code"
Location, Camu Tao, Blockhead
My heart is in the East River floating on a frisbee
That came in from the Long Island Sound to sojourn in the city
Locations
It's not the kinda water where you'd throw a Triple Lindy
If you get some on your skin they probably notify your siblings
Back to School
I wonder if my training from the school of TV magic
Would beget some makeshift watercraft that make off for Damascus
Biblical- Conversion of Paul the Apostle
All City Nerve Map
First uninvited tech I hear pingin'
Ring in a cameo from the hammerstone
Bam, the fantasy brandishing a banana phone
Raffi- Bananaphone
Fan the flame of animals with access to the roof like Michelangelo
About to free a statue from a cube
Michelangelo
Aes from before the first Star Wars
I survived action park, I survived lawn darts
Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope
Salsa bar all stars, buzzin' and bitchin'
I got a seat at the summit for any son of perdition, wasup
Biblical- Son of Perdition
The tension is extra extra, the meth'll induce a hubris
The hubris produce a weapon for any potential Judas
Biblical- Judas
Forward Compatibility Engine (feat. Rob Sonic)
When it woke one day in the spring
I said "Jane, stop this crazy thing"
The Jetsons
I guess around the"S" around the tentacles of Audrey
Started entertaining skeptics mighta second guess the calling
Little Shop of Horrors
I'm a student of the blooper as a part of the bit
It gets em whoopin' when I'm snoopy with a scarf in the wind
Peanuts
On Failure
Vincent Van Gogh, particularly Landscape With Snow
I was thinking about Van Gogh recently
I was never really a huge fan of his paintings
But I wouldn't say I actively disliked them either
It's just never been my thing
I found myself thinking about a specific Van Gogh painting
Which I've since learned is called "Landscape with Snow"
I looked it up to see if it still looked as I remembered
And it pretty much did
But this time, I decided I liked it … (Oh my god)
I can't explain why (You need to leave)
This all led me to Van Gogh's Wikipedia page
I wanted to find out if history considered him
Primarily a landscapе, portrait, or still-life painter
He did thеm all
I browsed the page and didn't really find my answer
But I did come across the following sentence
"Van Gogh was unsuccessful during his lifetime
And was considered a madman and a failure. "
(Damn)
Damn. I mean, I kinda knew that much about him
Wild life, wasn't famous until after he died, etc
But even considering all that, I kept going back to that sentence
Van Gogh started painting at 27
And only worked for about 9 years before committing suicide
And while that's not that long
He did make around 900 paintings and 1000 drawings
I guess I say all that to say this
As a guy who recently decided
He somewhat likes a single painting by Vincent Van Gogh
For reasons I can't quite describe
It does make me sad to see a man with mental health issues
And a passion for art summed up as an "unsuccessful madman failure"
Even if he was in fact financially unsuccessful, and kind of a madman
A failure? I dunno
I kinda like that Landscape with Snow, and I'm glad he painted it
Solid Gold
I pack light, prowling past Xanadu surveillance
With a can of paint, and cat who bring her daddy home cicadas
Xanadu
That's why whеther clawing through the woodlands
Or called to dеfend Brooklyn, I always be lookin'... out
Location
Runaways at home in every armpit
Since a moment after hell report a stolen Helm of Darkness
Helm of Darkness
No Auntie Em vignetted yelling hello from the heartsick
Only vendors from the belly selling necklaces of garlic
The Wizard of Oz
Barefoot, running with the butterflies and hummingbirds
First to gut a Philly on the covershot of Runner's World
Runner's World
I don't catch up at the Peach Pit
I'm at peace when the animated wheel of feet spin
90210
Vititus
Grandma Mary prayed the rosary
Name of the father, son, and homemade pierogi
Biblical- The Trinity
Whole thing of Oleo anointed by the Holy Ghost
In the kitchen cutting up potatoes for the Koshi
Biblical- Holy Spirit/Ghost
Back bedroom had a door to the cellar
It's more a hole bore to Gehenna
Biblical- Gehenna
Cheers, 2 foot of fresh powdered sugar on the mountain
We opted out for Morton Downey Jr
Morton Downey Jr.
Black Snow (feat. Nikki Jean)
Try to split a lentil into threes
Visualize a future with your tabby in a broth
Mickey and the Beanstalk [27] (from Catacomb Kids)
Throw a couple punches in the mirror
Punch up your approach, on some
"Are you talking to me" or a thumper out the coat?
Taxi Driver
O' death, O' death
Could ya please hold a moment, I am so in effect
In the red corner, black snow a notable threat
I'm in the blue corner, satin over solar event
Lloyd Chandler- O Death
Golden oval on the belt, granny floral on the trunks
Orange tiger on the robe, iron horseshoe in the glove
I ain't foreign to the dance, I been up against the ropes
And refs, granted never while I'm humming "Let it Snow"
Let it Snow! Let it Snow! Let it Snow!
And I step in the arena with a hundred one apes
Looking dead at the upheaval like it's summer at the cape
Gang Star- Step in the Arena, One Hundred and One Dalmatians
This ring is a beach house, for critical beat downs
And free snow cones between rounds
Ultramagnetic MCs- Critical Beat Down
It go, cash only, ashes ashes
Bet the farm, Aes get the dark cloud active
Ring a Ring o' Roses
For the folks in the back row
Stomping on the floor when the black snow Glass Joe
Punch-Out
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