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.
shouts out to that young god Chaac
that made them clouds pop,
condensed our percentage into droplets
to fall on our flock,
cut out the beating heart and
laid it in the pyramid top
yeah, do that to lawmakers
so we can reap crops,
harvest redlined agribusiness,
on subsidized blocks, hot
swiping cards for a single use plastic,
acronyms fail to mention
yo, this water ain’t elastic
[CHORUS]
I was lead to the content of these pipes
(spread eagle, yeah, beleaguered)
I was lead to the content of these pipes
(spread eagle)
I was lead to the content of these pipes
(spread eagle, yeah, beleaguered)
I was lead to the content of these pipes
(spread eagle, yeah, beleaguered)
I was lead to the content of these pipes
environment, our own terror site
I was lead to the content of these pipes
(spread eagle, yeah, beleaguered)
I was lead to the content of these pipes,
became a victim to my own rights
by their own right
the definition of idiosyncratic; a beautiful, raw odyssey through depersonalization and free association against the canon and toward a new one Rhys Langston
