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How You Gon' Wait?

by Agents of Change

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1.
Destroy 03:40
No rest in the midwest, no peace in the middle east An empire of bases all around the globe, & it seems like the bombs never finna cease More kids dead, more money for bullets than books, Then treat you like shit because you couldn't read Worst of all is that they convinced you, you shouldn't dream Before you take that from me you'll have to throw me in a guillotine That's half the reason people let the bullets free & I don't blame 'em, but start aiming at the 1% it's killing me [We] need unite and fight against the real disease, Buzzkill, a real MC, revolutionary love and respect goes out to Fred Hampton, The dead Panther, who's rad answers for society's problems, Earned him a red matress // Chorus // Destroy what destroy what destroy what destroys you Take a look around yourself, ask yourself what have we become? When every magazine and music video got a skinny girl dancing in bikinis, whaaa? What happened to the discourse? Pitchfork - well I guess maybe we just dumb But I refuse to believe that everybody buys the bullshit just 'cuz it seems more fun We gonna drop knowledge, know that we're gonna do it in a way that will teach more young While the radio is gonna dumb ya down to increase their funds, and grease more palms We gotta stop all this, yeah, from the music biz the the seats of the gov He who has the gold, makes the rules, no debate there, how do you say? yeah the system is fucked // Chorus // Destroy what destroys you, unleash the beast that lives deep inside They poison the soil, the water, the air everything we need to survive Your choice is turmoil, for the kids or let everything rot, Destroy what destroy what destroys // Chorus
2.
There ain't no middle ground, everything is partisan The personal's political, you gotta have the hardest skin Sabotage the billboard, deface the magazine Dispel the illusion, they selling you a fantasy I'm telling you it's maddening, I'm about to pop off A clip at all these pop stars, probably I'll get locked up Yeah he's got a mouth on him, every fuckin' surface got a spot on it For an ad, oblivion is not far (not far) Brain death, brain matter, grey matter, splattered on the rocks, God What a waste, no matter, blame it on a hot dog Watch where you walk dog Standing on the lip of the volcano playing hop scotch Yeah this shit is perilous, America, The place where if you're Arab you're a terrorist Black, brown, and even poor folks with the fairest skin Are food for the carrion, yes the scene is very grim Basically you fucked unless you're very rich // Chorus // Robin Hood, John Brown Fight back, right now! Buzzkill on some John Brown shit, Ski masks & heaters goin' pow pow click How about now it's, simply time to get wicked Yeah this whole fucking system needs a round house kick Slavery is alive if you look for it But you ain't gonna find it for sure if you ignore it Y'all only see the twigs it's a big forest Behind all your new gear there's some kids warring There's some kids slaving, man this shit's crazy All these corporations they just wanna get paid see They don't really care if the land is trashed As long as rich people get their gadgets fast Make's a cracker wanna go grab his ratchet blast back & reload, ampersand stand back & laugh Buzz killer warpath can't hack my math Record labels scam, push hazard to a fragile mass // Chorus // Steal from the rich, give to the poor Break your chain, kill your master
3.
Hideous 02:26
Hideous, that's my description of a system That awards humanoids solely based on their lineage Insidious, the methods that's employed this system So vicious, money for the banks & not for the city kids Unreal images of prettiness My home girls gone smash it all to itty bits I pass them a hammer, & a spliff full of sticky shit The damage so glam, no question if they hit or miss Yes, we're in a predicament It's gonna be a challenge to reverse the conditioning A history of lies, yes I heard the equivalent Now grown up I've learned to subvert the official script Yup, but I'm one out of billions And most of us are acting like some god damn idiots The rich and powerful always acting mad villainous This lesson isn't one you're gonna find in the syllabus // Chorus // Hideous All I see, all I see is hideous Lanternicus, you heard of this merciless personage Disperse with the superfluous with a burst of my verse Eclipse your bright day, with a slight grey Type A with a circle, might play in the rain, write page after page A faster chapter crafter with a knack to cast a flame On shade where y'all cats might graze On the cud of complacency, I nudge you impatiently To come through and wake up please, I won't ask twice Speak softly, they can hear us, I've got bugs in my skin Unplugged from the thugs, but I shrug and I grin Tug of war of the worlds, my rugged torrent unfurls When I slung my no so subtle syllabic sword at your pearls Fuck the nicest of amenities, It seems our culture has a crisis of identity, I'm getting ready for the fight that is ahead of me, Getting read for the fight that is ahead of me This shit is fucking hideous // Chorus //
4.
Agency 03:21
I'm a deviant, kinda like my septum Y'all black & white, while I'm the fuckin' spectrum The rich take the cake, while leaving us some bread crumbs Heads up, it's time to take the bakery and then some Because elections, they ain't improving the conditions Of the people, I ain't waiting for the next one to work for change We finna get some, hell yeah! We need educate, organize and build connections Mainstream hip-hop is only pushing sex, drugs and violence Def Jam will probably leave you deaf, dumb, and blind To reality, don't forget that lesson No rubber bullets here, Lantern with the lead tongue And if you feeling down, with your head hung low And you can't fucking sleep 'cuz the bed bugs Well the news calls 'em riots, I call 'em insurrections Hey America, let's get sprung // Chorus // Free from our cages Free from our landlords Free from our bosses Free from our wages and chains Let's leave those for the days of the slaves 'Cuz we can all be agents of change! We about something, most of y'all ain't 'bout nothing Proof you ain't gotta dumb it down to keep the crowd jumping With them sounds pumping, all up in the clouds puffing Probably saying "fuck this crew" 'cuz you doubt substance I don't blame you, the Chi is where we love to hate Segregated as hell, cameras in every public place Warriors outnumber those damn blue piglets And I'm over here busting on some "Can you dig it?" I'm less like Eminem and more like Chomsky Except I drop my fucking communiques over bomb beats Yeah so let's get free, so let's get free // Chorus //
5.
I see the sun rise & set across the scraped sky Fear's in my future, yeah I guess it's time to face mine Sometimes all you need is the kick snare and bassline And all your insecurities will melt like the glaciers the daytime For every dope sneak that ever graced the blacktop There's been somebody slaving, the haves require have nots & all your favorite rappers has been the fuckin' mascots But you heard it first from us, this right here's the last stop My hope is to make this sentiment heard through spacetime Before your heart get's cold, still it breaks mine Collision is imminent, I advise you to brace minds For the years to come do not look sunny, yeah I heard it through the grape vine That was cleared to make way for the cash crops Cotton, rubber, sugar, coffee, I'm about to blast off For real, lick shots, my optimist's compromised Brown's about to change his first name to John & pop some guys Pow bang, bang, our problems will still burn inside Often it seems that our oppression has been internalized The earth screams, and slaves weep, I heard the cries Struggle/grind, while we all wait our turn to die It's funny, I heard money is the root of all evil But who made that, joe? yeah the truth is all people Have the potentiality for bad, and good, That's not even, news to you, but I think that it should be And damnit Kanye, why'd you stop with George Bush? The whole system's fucked, we need a large push In a new way, yeah oughta switch directions Local organizing mixed with insurrection To hopefully topple the pyramid scheme 'cuz honestly I'm getting sick of hearing kids scream & I have to speak, even if they kill or capture me I can't just wait for the next catastrophe How you gon' wait?
6.
Here's something that you might not be able to fully process with your primate brain Our mother earth is undergoing a pattern that is commonly referred to as climate change Now I'm afraid the problem is bigger than the elite's private planes, How can I explain other than first stating that god damnit motherlovers I'm ashamed This process is highly complex involving a myriad of factors #1 is our energy consumption that is steering us all towards imminent disaster To say this in laymen's terms, the time's slipping so stay concerned, stay concerned But understand that this race against the clock, as we go along the cascade effect will only get faster Who was that, that said you do not need a weatherman to tell which way that the wind gone blow? Well they were wrong, 'cuz the global scientific community says that that it's fo sho With a wanton disregard for our planet we destroy our spaceship Most of the old growth trees are gone clear cut, mass deforesation Now this speeds up the process, we begin to witness occurances such as glaciers melting Sorry that I'm faithless, keep praying, but I assure you that they'll be no saviors helping We must rise in defense of earth, so all my people commence with work, let's exert energy, To fight for the planet, 'cuz without that commitment there'll simply be no place for us left here // Chorus // Can you tell me who can flatten a mountain, then take a ancient forest & just mow it down? Well the psychopaths controlling the global machine of death seem to be the ones who hold the crown This development is nothing new, it happened to the people that were called the Anasazi They made a forest to a desert, then they crashed & burned like kamikazi There is another element of climate change that it seems many folks who oppose try to minimize Globally carbon output is in fact so great that it makes the oceans acidify This in turn disturbs methane pockets located pretty much right under the seabed When these bubbles escape, it invariably leads to the pace of this process increasing Overall, unburned methane is significantly worse for the atmosphere than carbon Don't forget about devastation wrought by industrial agriculture, yes modern farming See in order to mass produce food, they destroy ecologies with no hesitation Gone is the biodiversity & the soil's capacity for carbon sequestration Now this might be depressing, but that's why I'm stressing that the place is here & the time is now For deliberate action against belligerent fascists, yeah I think you should try this out & a word of advice, there's rarely a king who has been talked off throne We need to move now, we need to act, before we destroy our home // Chorus // Sick of being getting poisoned and raped, sitting on a cliffside, poised on the brink Covered up scars, anointed with ink, sings of the thrill of the jump, the joy of the fling At this point would you think "Girl don't do it!", but boy would you bring Out the guns if I told you this lovely lady was our mother earth and her illness is a product of the choices we make
7.
Life’s short, most too busy they’ll live it later But a sunrise ain’t the same hooked up to a respirator Un-plus the escalator, walk like you was made to Not for peace of mind, but just to prove you ain’t afraid to Even if you paid dues, even if you made news No matter if you pray to the father, God or Jesus Stay loose, & let the rythm unite us Stay true, to them visions we have inside us We might just learn that the tide does turn You will find the sublime in due time, concern Yourself with inner goals, not just at certain intervals Progression as individuals is integral, but… I know we’re all different But really we’re all the same It’s lame how division Comes between brothers, stop the charade I hate it how it’s mano e mano Everything’s just a sport But if I’ve learned anything it’s Life’s too damn short // Chorus // Too damn short So make the best of it, cuz ‘for you get a chance to question it your friends & fam are looking through your last will & testament Try not to waste ya time Depressed at all the steps you missed, Check ya wrist, You already let two minutes & thirty seconds slip Death is definite, Best to learn dat lesson quick Get a grip, Realize that every breath’s a gift Ya got a girl, fo sho man, caress your chick Hey, you got a gang, go on reprezent your clique! You gotta fight? Make sure that you connect the hits Graf-writer? Here’s a can, tag the edifice Your life’s done, your life’s done? what does the contestant win? Chorus

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released December 25, 2013

Drums/Percussion: Mike Murda
Bass/Programming: John E. Thunder
Guitar/Keys: Adam Weidner
Vocals: Brian Buzzkill
Turntables: DJ Sgnik

Tracks 1 and 6 feature Mike Napoli on additional guitar
Track 5 features Matt Taylor on trumpet

Recorded at Studio Chicago
Mixed by John Eichem
Produced by John Eichem and Agents of Change
Cover art by OhNo!Doom design collective (www.ohnodoom.com)
Copyleft 2013

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Agents of Change Chicago, Illinois

Formed in 2005, Agents of Change has charted a course of their own by blending hip-hop, politics, and a DIY punk ethos. The message behind the music has always been simple: educate yourself, challenge authority, demolish injustice and try to have some fun in the process. ... more

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