Coded Language

Saul Williams

Composição de: Saul / Kirk Thompson
Whereas, breakbeats have been the missing link connecting 
the diaspora community to its drum-woven past.
Whereas the quantised drum has allowed the whirling 
mathematicians to calculate the everchanging distance 
between rock and stardom.
Whereas the velocity of spinning vinyl, cross-faded, spun 
backwards, and re-released at the same given moment of 
recorded history, yet at a different moment in time's 
continuum, has allowed history to catch up with the 
present.
We do hereby declare reality unkept by the changing 
standards of dialogue.
Statements such as "keep it real", especially when 
punctuating or anticipating modes of ultra-violence 
inflicted psychologically or physically, or depicting an 
unchanging rule of events, will hence forth be seen as 
retro-active and not representative of the individually 
determined is.
Furthermore, as determined by the collective consciousness 
of this state of being and the lessened distance between 
thought patterns and their secular manifestations, the role
 of men as listening receptacles is to be increased by a 
number no less than 70 percent of the current enlisted as 
vocal aggressors.
Motherfuckers better realize, now is the time to 
self-actualize.
We have found evidence that hip hop's standard 85 rpm when 
increased by a number of at least half the rate of its 
standard or decreased to ¾ of its speed may be a 
determining factor in heightening consciousness.
Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face 
of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will 
parallel the truth.

Equate rhyme with reason
Sun with season
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Our cyclical relationship to phenomenon has encouraged 
scholars to erase the centers of periods, thus symbolizing 
the non-linear character of cause and effect.

Reject mediocrity!

Your current frequencies of understanding outweigh that 
which has been given for you to understand.
The current standard is the equivalent of an adolescent 
restricted to the diet of an infant. The rapidly changing 
body would acquire dysfunctional and deformative symptoms, 
and could not properly mature on a diet of applesauce and 
crushed pears.

Light years are interchangeable with years of living in 
darkness.
The role of darkness is not to be seen as, or equated with,
 ignorance, but with the unknown, and the mysteries of the 
unseen.

Thus, in the name of:
ROBESON, GOD'S SON, HURSTON, AKHENATON, HATSHEPSUT, 
BLACKFOOT, HELEN, LENNON, KAHLO, KALI, THE THREE MARIAS, 
TARA, LILITH, LORDE, WHITMAN, BALDWIN, GINSBERG, KAUFMAN, 
LUMUMBA, GANDHI, GIBRAN, SHABAZZ, SHABAZZ, SIDDHARTHA, 
MEDUSA, GUEVARA, GURDJIEFF, RAND, WRIGHT, BANNEKER, TUBMAN,
 HAMER, HOLIDAY, DAVIS, COLTRANE, MORRISON, JOPLIN, DUBOIS,
 CLARKE, SHAKESPEARE, RACHMANINOV, ELLINGTON, CARTER, GAYE,
 HATHAWAY, HENDRIX, KUTI, DICKERSON,
RIPERTON, MARY, ISIS, TERESA, HANSBERRY, TESLA, PLATH, 
RUMI, FELLINI,MICHAUX, NOSTRADAMUS, NEFERTITI, LA ROCK, 
SHIVA, GANESHA, YEMAJA, OSHUN, OBATALA, OGUN, KENNEDY, 
KING, FOUR LITTLE GIRLS, HIROSHIMA, NAGASAKI, KELLER, BIKO,
 PERON, MARLEY, MAGDALENE, COSBY, SHAKUR, THOSE WHO BURNED,
 THOSE STILL AFLAME, AND THE COUNTLESS UNNAMED.

We claim the present as the pre-sent, as the hereafter.
We are unraveling our navels so that we may ingest the sun.
We are not afraid of the darkness, we trust that the moon 
shall guide us.
We are determining the future at this very moment.
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We know that the heart is the philosophers' stone.
Our music is our alchemy.
We stand as the manifested equivalent of 3 buckets of water
 and a handful of minerals, thus realizing that those very 
buckets turned upside down supply the percussive factor of 
forever.
If you must count to keep the beat then count.
Find your mantra and awaken your subconscious.
Walk your circles counterclockwise.
Use your cipher to decipher coded language, manmade laws.
Climb waterfalls and trees; commune with nature, snakes and
 bees.
Let your children name themselves and claim themselves
as the new day for today
We are determined to be the channelers of these changing 
frequencies into songs, paintings, writings, dance, drama, 
photography, carpentry, crafts, love, and love.
We enlist every instrument: acoustic, electronic.
Every so-called gender, race, sexual preference.
Every per-son as beings of sound
to acknowledge their responsibility to uplift the 
consciousness
of the entire fucking world.
Any utterance unaimed, will be disclaimed, will be maimed -
 two rappers slain.
Any utterance unaimed, will be disclaimed, will be maimed -
 two rappers slain.
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