[Rhys Langston] Hypnotic trance, slam dance Igneous rock- Star pants Five-sided demands Pentagonal defense D flat major On a war path The sample line Marching to Zion Signed and rhyme On tracks designed A hero of one's and zero's Binds the keys Cuts strings Then sterile Colored playback Circle race music track Sour diesel oil change Puff puff pa** Smog check pa**ed: Liner notes with ink black 3000 miles swap residue Hue so dark Tone walks the blues Opaque Y chromosomes Find homes Mastering the mix of City grooves: Bruised headstock Cop corner—stop— Beat is dropped First measure clicks Spot the prison composition: Arrangement sans volition Sans volition Superstition plus addition [The] conductor ran up his tab Swapping drinks with his buddy Addiction Gave up his keys Just the white ones Besides a flat tire sustained, rung A stumble out the door Then drunken yelling “Johnny got his gun!” Intoxicated by sound Volume per drink To the nearest round Calculus Johnson EQ'd the bill And drove him home through town [Samples] "We need money, Red Beans, Benny Rooster, Pomani." "Vivaldi, Hendrix, Debussy, Sly Stone, Sex Pistols" "We need money" [Rhys Langston] Meanwhile 22 stops between homeless man and cop Lyrics in blues bar structure Black with a mic One dropped, popped Hit the floor feedback pause Pick it up And we're back No cut to commercial Bones of consumer, neck snap Wishbone milkbone milk toast Eviction of jazz Black residences Hip hop underground Rail road tracks Following north stardom Sold down rivers past Khartoum Paparazzi kept out by a border along the sun A Nova Scotian Nubia and an ocean translation New world cultural mirrors Appropriating the creations