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Stalin Bollywood

by Rhys Langston

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    From the Estate of the Lord Davis and Black Market Poetry Productions, in association with POW Recordings, come these limited-run cassette tapes of "Stalin Bollywood," Rhys Langston's noise-infused opus of invective.

    Cover illustration by Caetano Santos
    Design by Zoë Blair-Schlagenhauf

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    A magazine-style look book featuring the lyrics from Stalin Bollywood and full color glam photos by Emily Berkey (with design and text by Rhys Langston).

    Printed with 110lb paper stock on the front and back covers, illustrated by Caetano Santos and designed by Zoë Blair-Schlagenhauf.

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1.
Yo I’ma ask y’all like one time, maybe three more times stop, stop abstracting you know what I’m saying stop abstracting us on paper and shit stop redistricting lives you know what I’m saying like oh god ok, lemme tell y’all a short story alright alright ok yeah go shit hos on my dick ‘cuz I look like a drawing of the Prophet Muhammad get blasphemous and get hard quick yo these days it don’t take much to get indoctrinated becuz we post-aesthetic or maybe what, yea hos on my dick ‘cuz I look like a drawing of the Prophet Muhammad get blasphemous and get hard quick yo these days it don’t take much to get indoctrinated becuz we post-aesthetic or maybe what, yo this is the guest verse prefab bed and breakfast the feeling is post-verve instantly jack up my feature prices for a side of avocado toast with Thurgood Marshall shooting appellate dice in a back alley storefront algorithms with the art-washed itinerants catching a free show of leftist takedowns with after-discourse mints while the out-of-towner pressures seem upbeat see, one eighth dotted on the legal foyer vaping on the bidet while Egyptologists in the sheets shows that you that settler colonialism ain’t really so neat hos on my dick ‘cuz I look like a drawing of the Prophet Muhammad get blasphemous and get hard quick yo these days it don’t take much to get indoctrinated becuz we post-aesthetic or what like hos on my dick ‘cuz I look like a drawing of the Prophet Muhammad get blasphemous and get hard quick yo these days it don’t take much to get indoctrinated becuz we post-aesthetic or maybe copacetic or maybe we [???] hos on my dick ‘cuz I look like a drawing of the Prophet Muhammad!!!!
2.
rosary callous mouthed between the lips faith breaks a tacit armistice grain filter pedals with a right drift when everything but due diligence touches the fucking kids (x2) the pope is an unrepentant rapist (or least apologist, you know what I mean?) Sedevacantists doing the same shit Holy See in the hands of a fatalist the pope is an unrepentant rapist the president is a rapist the pope is a fucking rapist every president is a rapist every billionaire is a rapist your landlord is a rapist from the teleprompter direct ex cathedra global south minerals on forehead double feature marquee dead language gendarme cartesian halberd usher crooning in a malfeasance the hair of dog with alopecia and jaundice excommunicating over cocktails wringing a business relationship down to the T’s on a fundamentalist script says the deacon of foley clanging the pews for research Antonio Mcdyess book of prayers for draft of knee hurt 12th pick first round and the progress start to revert 12th pick first round and the progress start to revert opiate of the masses in a jigger go figure certainly drawn from well hock-spit reconfigured (x2) the pope is an unrepentant rapist (or least apologist, you know what I’m saying?) Sedevacantists doing the same shit Holy See in the hands of a fatalist the pope is an unrepentant rapist Sedevacantists doing the same shit the pope is a fucking rapist every president is a rapist every billionaire is a rapist your landlord is a rapist your boss is a fucking rapist your insurance is a rapist your gym teacher is a rapist your therapist is a rapist your CPA is a rapist your ISP is a rapist your favorite artist is a fucking rapist and you?
3.
don’t want a birthright as colonizer unoccupied as sympathizer I remove my two eyes and set ‘em in a two state solution to soak eye contact (eye contact) the Chickasaw shiksa fiddles on the roof of her mouth a yenta eats polenta in the global south I fumigate the mishegas on 20 inch Michelins on the Columbus route 10-East, sans yeast unleavened shouts out to the power of god bombing the comedy club in heaven when faces express like a true Levinas don’t want a birthright as colonizer unoccupied as sympathizer I remove my two eyes and set ‘em in a two state solution to soak eye contact testament to a circus tent the schmendricks levy service complaints for a dearth of challah well, holla to decades wandering the desert evicting into choice karma like a two state solution to soak eye contact baruch atah adonai pass the peace to the minister who got eyes low and lukewarm a Jerusalem blue holla to decades wandering the desert evicting into choice karma like a two state— ok, well watch for the growing few who substitute the war flutes into Klezmer music as instruments of foreign aid sustaining right to left Hebrew to center what is Jewish let it not fall in line to be hubris don’t want a birthright as colonizer unoccupied as sympathizer I remove my two eyes and set ‘em in a two state solution to soak eye contact (eye contact) don’t wanna be your colonizer unoccupied as sympathizer I remove my two eyes and set ‘em in a two state solution to soak eye contact (eye contact) holla to decades wandering the desert evicting into choice karma like a two state solution to soak eye contact eye contact eye contact eye contact
4.
it is what it is ain't what it used to be (x2)!!!! it is winter in outer space it is justice in the West dole farms in East Baltimore sex offenders in grade school it is doping in last place influencers in no coverage zones it is Black people in demilitarized areas white women in Billboard Top Urban 100s it is comedians in mourning it is morning in the Cupertino empire Coltan in Croatia it is Yugoslavia in newly published books memes in handwriting handwriting in memes real estate in imaginary places it is imagination in the Oval Office imagine, imagine imagination in the Oval Office imagine 1488 in Battlefield 5 it is god, country in an NDA hush money in special counsel character assassination under character limits it is public relations in 2019 2020, 2021, 22, 23 it is what it is ain't what it used to be (x4)!!!!
5.
I’m surrounded by dirty whiteboys cleaning up after dirty whiteboys washing dishes for these dirty whiteboys making house for these dirty whiteboys and I just can’t take it anymore (you fucking serious over here?) I can’t pin when it went all wrong (when it went all wrong?) is this the final curtain call? (I think it is bruv) or maybe I’ll just sink back ahh (oh yeah yeah, just fuck it all yeah?) dirty whiteboys cleaning up after dirty whiteboys washing dishes for these dirty whiteboys like a maid for these dirty whiteboys not a modicum of self-respect (yo, you really gonna fucking do that yeah?) inability to self-reflect (oh man these fucking dudes man, oh fuck yeah?) thought to co-inhabitants (yo, you really gonna fucking do that?) oh my god, this house is a wreck surrounded by dirty whiteboys picking up after dirty whiteboys the behest of the dirty whiteboys making house for these dirty whiteboys yo I swear every fucking time I bring some shit up they would just be like, they would just not even acknowledge it. like I’m fucking here telling you something that we can all see, I don’t understand. like what the fuck is going on? you know, it just made me feel crazy, ‘cuz like, you know, I would say it gently, like very uh uh uh uh, with reconciliation, and they just wouldn’t listen. and, you know, it was just some entitled shit man, it’s some really it’s some fucking entitled shit. ‘cuz I gotta worry about how the fuck I look, how the fuck I smell, how the fuck I present to act, to people, and they don’t even fucking worry, becuz, you know, they’re just like judged for their person. they’re not judged for anything else, you know what I’m saying? like me. it’s some fucking bullshit!!!! ________ how come every time I come home from work, I get to come home to dirty dishes? it’s like you guys don’t even respect the space around here. cockroaches? maggots crawling out of the trash can? it’s like we’re living in a pig sty. we’re living in a pig sty, man. this isn’t college. I get to come home here every day and I get to do dirty dishes. pull your weight!!!!
6.
ok, trying to get back to the motherfucking origins you know what I’m saying origins [???] Bill Picket radio major/minor labia straight male astrology dating app circadian bit the horns off the steer while I gorge upon the welfare heads up display Benjamin Carson, Sebastian Telfair alley oop for bio “descript” in character limits world run off tweets and nuclear code digits fallout got a beta test bunker with a morning breath white meat chicken breast as carbon footprint of the West top of the sedimentary layer global North / Friedrich Von Hayek economy what it is player rope-a-dope a major city mayor incentivize tax breaks for favorite arctic ice shave flavor what it is though Bill Picket radio major/minor labia straight male astrology dating app circadian bite the horns off the steer while I gorge upon the welfare heads up display Benjamin Carson, Sebastian Telfair Bill Picket radio major/minor labia straight male astrology dating app circadian bit the horns off the steer while I gorge upon the welfare heads up display Benjamin Carson, Sebastian Telfair I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I’m off the cuff I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I’m off the cuff I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I’m off the cuff I don’t know nothing Bill Picket radio major/minor labia straight male astrology dating app circadian bit the horns off the steer while I gorge upon the welfare heads up display Benjamin Carson, Sebastian Telfair Bill Picket radio major/minor labia straight male astrology dating app circadian bit the horns off the steer while I gorge upon the welfare heads up display Benjamin Carson, Sebastian Telfair I’m swinging blind trying to find a release Bill Picket radio major/minor labia straight male astrology dating app circadian bit the horns off the steer while I gorge upon the welfare heads up display Benjamin Carson, Sebastian Telfair Bill Picket radio major/minor labia straight male astrology dating app circadian bite the horns off the steer while I gorge upon the welfare heads up display Benjamin Carson, Sebastian Telfair alley oop for bio “descript” in character limits alley oop for bio “descript” in character limits world run off tweets and nuclear code digits world run off tweets and nuclear code digits
7.
king eternal 03:43
(written by Tunde Adebimpe and David Sitek for TV on The Radio) All men condemned by men to die Damned by blind bitch in hallowed halls Hear it, heed this call: Oh fucking eternal Infinity's hourglass will measure all measure all So, power Cover your balls 'Cause we swing kung fu Oh fucking eternal Oh fucking eternal Afraid of thunder children, so hide your ears Hope your fortress holds up for many many many years Shudder, it's a shame Lightning, call the game Send us up a baby boy Let the smoke carry his name If it's a girl let her shine We will be Oh fucking eternal The hour of man is nigh So gather up all supplies And stack 'em up high Stack 'em up high Faith, Nathan I could see it in your eyes Warmth, Nathan I can see it in your eyes Golden houses, silver brides Immortal erection, tongues untied Oh fucking eternal Oh fucking We will be
8.
[divine it]

about

Spanning modes of post-punk, new wave, shoegaze, and art rock alongside his signature rap styling, Stalin Bollywood shows Rhys Langston in a sardonic spree across genres. With the cohesion of their live feel, a quick listen of the eight and a half tracks might garner surprise at the fact that they were produced entirely on his laptop (with a few string instruments at hand).

Appearing a stylistic curveball, this project, in fact, is a logical progression for Langston's work. For in our golden age of shock value and controversy, with subtlety in rapid decay, he trades his usual triple entendres for several rounds of acerbic frankness. In 25 minutes of seriousness and hilarity he fires from the hip.

On one track he might call the pope "an unrepentant rapist," repudiate the neocolonial and imperialist privilege of an Israeli birthright, or aggressively decry doing dishes for dirty whiteboys. Whatever it is, the Black Jewish polemicist vehemently and poetically portrays civil discourse, indeed discourse as a whole, in a total breakdown. Still leery of wide brush strokes or simplification, the title “Stalin Bollywood” represents as much the terms of engagement as caution at intended effect.

Beyond black and white divides along ideology or linear understandings of modernity, the semi-nonsense name is to say we are trapped in well-produced, convincing, and gaslighting spectacles of brutality and subjugation, not wholly consenting to the history we uphold or futurism on which we are set. And what’s more, the very means of critique we have are compromised. If in our frustration, flagrancy is the only resort, are we truly prepared for catching the crossfire?

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released May 5, 2021

all tracks written, performed, produced (all instruments played) by Rhys Langston

except "king eternal" originally written by Kyp Malone, Tunde Adebimpe, and David Sitek for TV on The Radio

featuring additional vocals from Ded Hyatt and The Young Gentrifiers

mixed by Rhys Langston
mastered by Zeroh

cover illustration by Caetano Santos
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cover design by Zoë Blair-Schlagenhauf
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dedicated to Moziah Clark

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