| Dropped to no reception
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| Empty exhibition white walls silence deafening
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| Negative space stretching
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| The internet every couple seconds refreshing
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| The same couple mentions
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| Merch boxes in the closet
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| Out-of-sight-out-of-mind but paid outta pocket
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| Couple friends at ya show them other niggas got a mosh pit
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| Day job in the morning just the thought makes me nauseous
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| (Open Mike Eagle)
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| Don’t put me with the rottweilers
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| Walk me in with the show dogs
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| Fool, I’m Nikita Koloff
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| So committed I never break character
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| Forget the fucking marketplace
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| I’m an installation, now where’s my carpet space
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| Jerk this lever, click my media
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| Do my own cuts, wik-wik-Wikipedia
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| (Elucid)
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| 10 curated commandments
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| Lessons live from the Schomburg
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| Critic acclaim Hard earned
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| Full body knob turns
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| Enthralled blond birds
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| Hypnotized like Farnsworth
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| Milquetoast served by futurists in pom pom skirts
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| Fog Smoke and mirrors Give em something to talk about
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| Lukewarm rap wizard behind the curtain be fizzled out
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| Far from the source
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| The isolationist
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| Close Shave against the grain
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| Came full circle but what he saying?
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| (Busdriver)
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| Observe the piece to right of me
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| Completed in the late nineteen hundreds
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| It saw no praises from contemporaries
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| And generally had all the enlightened flummoxed
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| It cradled notions of art as crime
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| And developed wildly, set apart from time
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| But when buyers make decisions along the party lines
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| So harvest mine, they tarnish your shine
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| Hang like a varmints behind
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| (Woods)
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| Bottled mineral water live sampling bird calls
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| Back to the audience brass on the balls
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| Politiely inquired as to the loot
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| The Talented Mr. Smalls notwitstanding
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| Trailer to the video on Vimeo
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| Grandstanding
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| Instagrammed Wired covers got me backstage
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| Gladhanding
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| If you can sing a lil something might soften the landing
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| Have the fans American Bandstand dancing
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| (Elucid)
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| Murse ratchet
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| Flanked by wing dykes u can’t hack it
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| Bass akwards
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| Short of cult classic With kings Rations
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| Voted Most consistently average
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| Big budget mastering
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| Squandered passion
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| Pump action but still banging flaccid
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| NPR think pieces
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| Ex conscious rappers laid Out to pasture
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| Blowhard circle jerkers chatter
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| Broad strokes from hands of irrelevant self described masters
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| Fractured patterns
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| Crooked paths to look back and laugh at
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| (Open Mike Eagle)
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| Wish I could eat offa brownie points
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| Who’s the next messiah the spectacled crowd anoints
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| Put my dirty drawers in the glass cases
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| Make gasfaces at typos and backspaces
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| Get it right the first time
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| Micromanaging this class of interns
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| Hire docents to meet the required quotient
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| And keep your greasy fingers off my Kraftwerk
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| (Woods)
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| Sip cafe-au-lait kaffiyeh, hoodie and tims
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| Knightsbridge pied-a-terre, friends of friends
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| Split through prescription lens
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| Richard Wright in Paris status
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| Damn right I wear my sunglasses at night
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| Hobbesian Savage
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| Egg white omelet carmelized shallots
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| Stockholm Syndrome
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| Cote de Rhone cleanse the palate
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| Checking account check the balance
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| Shelltoes and rope gold all he told the stylist
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| Bitter like old-timers when they hear that looped soul behind us
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| (Busdriver)
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| Murky depictions of dead pigeons
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| Given red ribbons at the local gallery opening
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| I gasp at the earnings of a Cold Chillin'
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| Even though I’m supposed to be sold for millions
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| Cause I’m more Jesse Owens than Owen Wilson
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| Cold chilling
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| On a placinated cell wall Bell Palsy body language
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| My deadened gaze is a tell all
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| And I’m not art, until I’m seen here
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| Sentenced for killing every turn of phrase during my teen years |