RAVEN MACK is a mystic poet-philosopher-artist of the Greater Appalachian unorthodox tradition. He does have an amazing PATREON, but also *normal* ARTIST WEBSITE too.

Wednesday, January 20

"Nature Of The Threat" by Ras Kass

[mediafire/sharebee/sendspace/rapidshare]
Now that I'm working again and have freed my mind momentarily from impending financial doom (which, of course, is probably still impending, but a man can pretend can't he?), I've realized just what a waste of good quality freak out time my two months of mostly unemployment was. This is a fucked up world yet somehow a lot of people I know and respect actually seem to still be in 2010 caught up in that Democrat/Republican right/wrong political bullshit. Like caring about this Health Care railroad, which is actually a scam anyways, or whether some white guy in a suit got elected in Masschusetts or the rich white lady in a pantsuit did. So busy "eating dead birds, and trusting pharmacies over herbs." Man, what the fuck? I've been reading a lot about the IEDs in iraq and Afghanistan, and the pressure waves from the blast warp peoples' insides and their brain, causing neurological damage that actually gets worse with time. Apparently Kevlar vests increase this effect, although it does stop you from dying immediately from shrapnel wounds so often. But hundreds of thousands dudes are getting fucked in a way far worse than Vietnam was, and people can't figure it out fast enough to minimize the damage. And the crazy thing is it can be done by suicide bombers who just don't give a fuck and will die to blow some other motherfuckers up. Now we, as Americans, claim civilization and all, but we still are just trying to blow motherfuckers up too, we just find really complicated and technical ways to achieve the same ends, and somehow by being more complex with are death machines, we're superior in some way. But what do people care? I mean, people will text some bullshit about Haiti and probably drop half that money to some nonsense wireless company skimming off the top, but we feel better about ourselves. I'm not acting like people should be protesting, but we get so caught up in our little cybernonsense and it just placates us. Like a big fat robot tittie we suck on. Don't forget the Dept. of Defense originally created the internet, and it's not like they just create things, realize they have no potential, so sell them off to the public sector for the grand benefit of the world at large. If that was the case, I'd have some old machine guns right now. But I don't.
My point is, here I sit, rambling about inane stupid bullshit all the time, which is great I guess, but I ought to be educating motherfuckers about some trifling nonsense sometimes too. What happened to the Raven that didn't trust anything, and could see the patterns in the dates and names to know that there was probably something to the mathematics more than coincidence? Everybody gets all giddy because a smooth-talking, handsome mulatto dude takes over from the mumbling Southern bumpkin (a well-played gimmick by the millionaire educated in New England), and a year into drinking this new flavor of Kool-Aid, I'm just as thirsty as I ever was. And nobody seems to offer up water, just more stupid fucking Kool-Aid, every November. Grape is better than Cherry is better than Lemon-Lime is all the fucking same. I need some goddamned water, so I'm gonna start reading old paranoid history texts again. Not the internet, because of aforementioned Pale Horse tentacle of the beast connections, but straight up books with words all up in my face, sitting on the toilet, laying on the couch, outside at the picnic table because it's warm and the kids want to try and catch a couple of chickens. Fuck your causes and cares and political passions built upon lust for deceitful whore men. I'm sick of uptight people full of fear thinking they know what's right for everybody else and expecting the rest of us to agree with their television ready political choices of people to turn our collective car keys over to and hope they drive us to freedom, prosperity, and eternal safety. I'm gonna be cross-referencing Howard Zinn with some Adam Weishaupt all night, staring at the stars in the skies to clear myself every now. Actually I should probably just go out there now and throw some food into the pigs and listen to them snort around a little while. These robot machines are creating too much clutter when arranged all together inside the house like this. At least outside, even though the satellite signals and cell tower waves are everywhere, the density is not so thick as to choke the mind's stream of thought.

6 comments:

Mike Dikk said...

pretty smart move putting the mediafire etc tags up top so people google it and stumble upon, but don't worry, no one downloads ras kass records anyway.

Raven Mack said...

yeah I thought of that today and was very proud of myself
you can't even get Ras Kass's album anymore. you know why? The Man.

Ben said...

When I win the lottery, one of the first things I'm going to do is bail Ras out of whatever petty incarceration he's got at the time, and be like, "For real, try NOT to make a radio hit."

I'm gonna be like, the following words can not be included on any song:

(1) Gucci
(2) Nike
(3) Ridin' or Rider or Ryder
(4) Grey Goose

Yeah, maybe only five people will listen to it, but that's why motherfuckers win the lottery.

Raven Mack said...

well props to you because Ras Kass wouldn't even be circulating in my ears if it wasn't for you hyping it up... I even played this song for my 10 year old the other day on the way home from the store, though I did cut down the cut open the woman's belly in Jamaica part, plus a couple other spots. I wanted her to know that rap could be historical.

Ben said...

Therein lies the unfulfilled promise of Ras Kass. He came out early, trying to be educational (even if his facts might be up for debate) and on some next level shit. Some of Soul on Ice is garbage, but when it's good, it's great, truly deep shit.

And didn't anybody listen to it, either.

The next album was, for the most part, filled with shitty songs, tryin' to find that club banger mix by having people like Mack 10 do guest spots. You can still hear the smarts coming through sometimes, but it almost sounds like he's fighting it. It's sad.

I'm probably overthinking it, but that's what motherfuckers do on the internet, but I bet that dude is hella conflicted knowing that he's capable of some Hall of Fame type shit, but can't get a deal because he can't find the right mix of R&B singer, ballin' swagger, and a Timbaland beat.

Like I said, I'm sure I'm way overthinking it.

I know we talked about it before, but Aceyalone's "The Book of Human Language" is the same way. It killed hip hop for me because I thought it was more brilliant than anything that came after, but I think I'm the only dude who actually owns a copy.

Mike Porkchops said...

Ain't no soul in the world anymore... people don't care either. And unless you're gonna get involved with truly revolutionary shit, what's the point? I think you're onto something, feeding pigs building chicken coops and feeding your imagination with all this stupid shit. The loop of this world's always been stitched by assholes with ego-maniacal tendencies, so why play the game? Hmmmm, my mother's always said I've got no motivation....