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.
Moziah:
well, you know, the KKK is making great strides. you know, I’m a fellow member myself, fellow chapter grandmaster dragon, 32nd degree, in Mississippi, hell, anyhoo. you know, I was thinking about the KKK, and we’re making some great strides. we’re now accepting Black members and Mexican members, still no Arabs, but you know we’re really trying to keep it going. if niggers wanna go back to Africa, well hell, go back to Africa. we liked Marcus Garvey. we, you know, we were his biggest supporter. you know, KKK, we’re doing alright. and on that note I gotta git—
[CHORUS]
thrust of the memos
thrust of the memos
thrust of the proceeding
thrust of the proceeding
thrust of the memos
(thrust, thrust, thrust)
thrust of the memos
thrust of the memos
thrust of the proceeding
thrust of the proceeding
thrust of the memos
(thrust, thrust, thrust)
my domestic terrorism
wears Swedish tennis player
Jesus necklace for intersection
my domestic terrorism
wears Swedish tennis player
Jesus necklace for intersection
my domestic terrorism
wears Swedish tennis player
Jesus necklace for intersection
my domestic terrorism
wears Swedish tennis player
Jesus necklace for intersection
my domestic terrorism
wears an AR-15,
hats to make America made in China
make itself a great maker again
my domestic terrorism
buys said bore arm half-off
last mental check-up station
my domestic terrorism
calls free trade’s origins in slavery
post-racial
my domestic terrorism
is syndicated, fiber-optic,
distributed through cable
[CHORUS]
caged in mylar
we float checkpoints
just joined at the ankle monitor
passing ports for verifications and photos,
toast ICE dangles still from the registry
the thrust of the memos
is an abstraction
for replete liberty
drunk driving doctrines,
an estranged line breaks
formation,
then divorced history
our domestic terrorism
wears a single band of tarnish,
unpolished family film
birthed sovereignty
and a warm embrace of mythos
it privatizes gains and socializes
televangelist separatist statecraft,
all-inclusive in the ethnostate flash
and hate bath
when in Rome
do as the subaltern do
and kneel fast
the definition of idiosyncratic; a beautiful, raw odyssey through depersonalization and free association against the canon and toward a new one Rhys Langston
