music to get down to
to kiss another girl in the sun
for the first time to

to ring up your boyfriend
and tell him truth
and have you both grow
as ones and two

music to break down to
to make a mad dash
for your father's roof

with your head tucked
and your lucky tooth
roots and fruits:
uneasy truce


music to break through to
live fast die young is doodoo
fast enough can be my life
so when i die it'll be as light

i'm a tumbling ball
so excuse my room
i'ma find my condoms
and find my shoes

anything that's lost
is a footstep back
i will not make excuses
i will just adapt

change my diction
go pro-black
embrace friction
as foreplay
for synthesis

gifted is
impetus
not a crutch
and kissing is
privlege and
much
can be gained
when pragmatics
meet orgasms
and
bodies don't feel strange


music to sit through to

when a lost friend
says "i miss you too"
and said friend is the one that left
and who omits and never guesses

music to sit up to

your body of work
is getting so strong
cuz you know your worth

and you care for true
and those two things are not exclusive

music to stand up to

when them niggas try to touch you
with their smirks and grunts
and unused consciouses
covered by beats

unh rapping is the sweetest
but my home is now the overlord
the bonds and rape
and master's gaze
complicit city!


tell you more?!
denial! shame! men in charge!
bodyguards and also writers
no shit you don't mind this empire
your bodies aren't the ones on fire

THE MOVEMENT IS SELF-MUTILATING

("what do you want?")
i wanna be rad and radical
bad as fuck
goob boy and a good world
finding our touch

no fear,
just weird
no fear,
just weird!

("i know i'll be in the air")

("what do you want?")
i wanna be bad and badical
rad as fuck
goob boy in a good world
finding its touch

no fear,
just weird
no fear,
just weird!

("i know i'll be in the air")

i wanna party like i'm nineteen
and never feel anxious
like my dick is always awesome
and never ever dangerous

i wish you'd believe me

malcolm nina and baldwin told me
kanye j lo nicki showed me
if i continue to grow me
i will find
i'll be chosen

i wish you'd believe me

history's gonna turn its giant red eye toward you
and burn your fucking face off
history's gonna turn its tiny white eye towards you
and look right through, tearless

i wish you'd believe me

so rap if it's your friends or mine
i will slice your face with mines
carve two letters for kids to find
right before they cannibalize

i wish you'd believe me


i saw my water light up
in my hands
so i walked to the ocean to test my mettle