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Cynical and Messianic

from Lost Hours by Jake the Adversary

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Before I battle I’ma hand you the Miranda rules
Damn your crew’s quiet, never do shit like a panda do
I’m breaking any fandom that I pander to
And outweigh all the masters like Gargantua and Pantagruel
I’m pretty bad at mixes and my shit’s raw, I cop to that,
I shake hands with folks where a bitch got an autograph
I don’t read shit that makes kids yawn, or hollaback
At Pride and Prejudice, I’m more Pynchon and Palahniuk

I’m not a hipster and I’m not a cool fixture
Of the scene crowding in when we’re taking a group picture
Lose it like Alhazred scripture with mad mutters
Fuck writers with their own pics up on their back covers
I don’t give my viewership to aggregation outfits
That’ll turn a masterpiece into some aggravating soundclips
I’m grabbing crazy found shit, I’m gladder to have found it
That’s why I’m bump some music that I’m actually down with

Going big on Soundcloud shit ain’t on his habit list
I go over the edges like on greywater rapid trips
I’m hopping onto what you little kids don’t know with
Wooden delivery - popsicle stick joke flow
I’m telling you that me and you are night and day
And if you want to hang then we’ll be seeing who’s the spiderbait
In school I never listened but I scored like Hermione
And I’d have hidden gems without the dwarves undermining me

Saying that I’m arrogant, I’m showing all the right signs
Feeling like your feelings are superior to mine, fine
Really never kneeling to this myriad of wise guys
Period, getting too imperious for hindsight
Those who question me are peons
Rap Greg Bear I’ma make it big - Eon
Humdrum bumping for the netizens deon-
tologically running over Edisons - Elon, I’ve gotta be

I’m not a English grad student with a coterie
Of books - called poetic by people who don’t read poetry
It looks like I’m well-read but mostly that’s the fantasists
And weird fiction writers and books about time management
Put my next three tapes into a bucket while I off squads
Put the indie game into a dungeon like I’m Ross Scott
And now the top dog gets a dark payoff
Talk about the things you’ll never gonna release like Marc Laidlaw

I don’t live for pay, if what I do ain’t given plays
I’ll crash your dinner parties, fuck your lives up like Trip and Grace
Cater to the most dope equator of the whole show
And later he’s alone but he’s greater than supposed, though

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from Lost Hours, released March 12, 2019
Beat made by Black Ant.
Sample taken from the Reality Check podcast interview with Lawrence Miles.

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Jake the Adversary Accident, Maryland

Rap game Zorian Kazinski. Extropian. The Jake is a verb.

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