Featuring alternative artwork and analog fuzz to provide as much warmth as you need, come these rarities from the Estate of the Lord Chocolate in collaboration with P.O.W. Recordings: cassette tapes of Rhys Langston's album and multimedia project "Language Arts Unit."
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"Language Arts Unit: A Rap Textbook" is an exploration of rap as theory and praxis, race as form and content, music as social mobilizer and opiate. In a winding, discursive prefatory note Rhys Langston (Podell) utilizes a biting, absurdist humor to seriously appraise the power of words, music, and all manner of extra-lingual connotations in the age of rapid-transit information technologies. As the written half of a multimedia project, what follows are the lyrics from his long play album, written as poems with the clever enjambment of his characteristically idiosyncratic wordplay.
incredibly Black and extremely eccentric!
Incredibly Black and extremely eccentric…
(but where, but where, but where, but where??)
incredibly Black and extremely eccentric
in Eugene, Oregon,
post-show brunch talking that Eugene Onegin,
so goes the heir apparent Pushkin,
sunlight, an envelope filter
before he cuts out
with his fortune
then continuing to prattle on,
onus is the next mea culpa college town
where they plant and nurture seedlings, outrage farm,
see even the parking ticket was organically sown
split the $50 difference from them usual citations:
footnotes, toenotes, Afro-centric in no sandals lately,
lathe-cut to disrupt,
Portland in the cut,
snapping photos, soundcheck,
self-loather emeritus
after performance de-centered from the whiteness,
bearable lightness watching Insecure with
the finest genuine women, platonic
couch surfers upstream
in a ’99 La Saber swimming
just the pale Black negative
Jason Mantzoukas,
Dutch Bros, 5-North,
roses and tulips,
grandest delusions, yo,
went to Bend, Oregon and
found the sound of silence
in audience movements
in Corvallis she reached for my what?
(no, stop, no)
onto the next few days, yo
up the border verily,
Blacked out bookings
amplified group therapy
incredibly Black and extremely eccentric!
(in Oregon)
Incredibly Black and eccentric!
Incredibly Black and extremely eccentric…
the definition of idiosyncratic; a beautiful, raw odyssey through depersonalization and free association against the canon and toward a new one Rhys Langston
