Just Buggin' Illuminati Special: 2012 Edition

JUST BUGGIN' ILLUMINATI SPECIAL 2012 EDITION

With the corporations unleashing ever more spirit-crushing mind-control music on the masses, (Azealia Banks, anyone?!), there's never been a more fitting time for conscious, intelligent truth music as an antidote. Here, Mark Devlin collates another array of artists whose lyrics deal with different aspects of all that's current and important in these incredible times - truth and consciousness, the global conspiracy, and the true nature of humanity.

Great, meaningful music and switched-on artists are still out there; you just have to know where to look!

The previous volumes in the series are still available on the Soundcloud page, (volume one 2011 is just short of 17,000 plays, so clearly there's a major appetite!) and the Good Vibrations series of music-related interviews with relevant characters is also worth checking. As before, the lyrics to as many tracks as it was possible to find are included.

STEVE WILKS: LIVING WITH THE DEVIL

IMANI HEKIMA: ROBOTS REBELLION

PUBLIC ENEMY: WTF

LOWKEY: TERRORIST

SINERGY CREW: THE FEAR FACTORY

IMANI HEKIMA: JUST BENEATH THE SKIN

RODNEY PARADOX: THE MATRIX

AKALA FEAT. LOWKEY: BEHIND MY PAINTED SMILE

SGB: WHEN WORDS FAIL MUSIC SPEAKS INTRO

PUBLIC ENEMY: TRUTH DECAY

CHRIS ONGARO: 2012

RAS KASS: JACK FROST II (WHITE CHRISTMAS)

JOHN LENNON: GIVE ME SOME TRUTH

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LYRICS:

IMANI HEKIMA: JUST BENEATH THE SKIN

Just beneath the skin
You will hardly know it’s in
Push a button if you want to know our names
Invented in the lab
To keep the low life under tabs
Something tells me that there is another aim

Just beneath the skin
Keep the masses disciplined
So the mob won’t stray too far out of line
Tamper with their choice
Artificial inner voice
Yet they tell it is harmless and benign

CHORUS
JUST BENEATH THE SKIN (REPEAT)

Just beneath the skin
Cleverly we’re taken in
Everybody wants the children free from harm
Before very long
Some will think it hardly wrong
If a chip is put inside their children’s arm

Just beneath the skin
Like a shot of heroin
In the interest of the world’s security
(They say) ‘We’re on high alert’
‘Come on people, it won’t hurt’
‘Be injected, give them your identity’

CHORUS

Just beneath the skin
It’s a game we may not win
In the first place, we can’t see we’re being played
If you’ve got a doubt
You should always check it out
Truth is hard to face but do not be afraid
Truth is hard to face but do not be afraid

CHORUS

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IMANI HEKIMA: THE ROBOTS' REBELLION

It’s the robots’ rebellion (twice)

For far too long we've been asleep
Remote controlled, our souls to keep
But humankind is waking up
This time no-one will put a stop

CHORUS: IT'S THE ROBOTS' REBELLION
WAKING UP BY THE MILLION
IT'S THE ROBOTS' REBELLION
WAKING UP BY THE MILLION

With trivia they dumb you down
This weapon hardly makes a sound
And that's the way they get your mind
Unless you recognise the time

CHORUS

Hypnotised mesmerised
System pressurised, advertised 'Pack of Lies'™
Glamourised to traumatise - will you realise?

For far too long under a spell
Looking for heaven, catching hell
Take back your mind and set it free
A robot's not the thing

CHORUS

This time no-one can put a stop
A thousand petals gonna drop
This time no-one can put a stop
This time no-one can put a stop, 'cos 'cos
'Cos it's The Robots' Rebellion
It's The Robots' Revolution
NOW!

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PUBLIC ENEMY: WTF?

(Chuck D verse)

I OCCUPY THIS STATE OF MIND
LIKE I'M BORN A SECOND TIME
THE MASSES ASK THE QUESTION WHY
THEM ASSES SPEND A LIFE BEHIND
ON THE MIC THE PIC
AGAINST THIS PRISON INDUSTRY
WHERE MOST OF THEM LOOK JUST LIKE ME
MF'-K THE TEA PARTY
MADE YOU PAY FOR EDUCATION
GOT NO MONEY GOT YOU WAITIN
TRICKS TO KEEP THE PEOPLE FOOLED
SOMETHING IN THE FOOD MY DUDE
ABOUT YOUR FUTURE WHERE YOU RANK
WHO YOU THINK AND WHO YOU THANK
BEHIND THE BANKS AND ALL THEM TANKS
NEW WHIRL ODOR ON THE BRINK
REVOLUTION STOP THE FEDS
COUNT THE HOMELESS UNDER FED
SUE THE PHARMACEUTICAL OFF THE MEDS
LEAVIN PEOPLE LEFT FOR DEAD
LOOK BACK 80 YEARS INSTEAD
SIMPLY BLAMED IT ON THE REDS
PAY CLOSE ATTENTION TO WHAT IS SAID
BUT WHILE YOU LISTEN WATCH YOUR HEADS.
YOU CHASE THE MONEY YOU CHASE THE FAME
THE HUMAN RACE IS WHAT THEYRE PLAYING
A GAME OF LIFE IS WHAT I'M SAYIN
SPLIT EM UP CALL THEM NAMES
AT THE AGE I AM IF I CAN'T TEACH
I SHOULDN'T OPEN MY MOUTH TO SPEAK
TALKING LOUD AND SAYIN NOTHING
AND FRONTIN LIKE THEY DOIN SOMETHING
FEEL THE PEOPLE
HEAL THE PEOPLE
POWER GOES OUT
TO THE PEOPLE
18-35 IS GROWN
CANT AFFORD TO LEAVE THE HOME
CAN'T AFFORD TO BUY A HOME
CAN'T AFFORD TO KEEP A HOME
BOARDED UP FORECLOSED CRIBS
BASED ON WHATCHA BANK DID
YET SEE THESE GUYS ADVERTISE TO THE POOR FOR CLOTHES
THE DOORS ARE CLOSED
THEY SLAM THE DOORS ON YOUR NOSE
WHO THE HELL IS TELLING YOU
WHAT THE HELLTHEY SELLING YOU
WHY THE HELL DO YOU BELEIVE
WHERE WE HEADED WHEN WE LEAVE

WTF?
WTF?
WTF?

(Flavor Flav's verse)

FROM BARACK OBAMA TO FLAVOR FLAV
WE BOTH BE A FIRST TILL WE GET TO OUR GRAVE
IM THE FIRST HYPE MAN IN MUSIC
HES THE FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT
HES THE FIRST BLACK RESIDENT
TO BE EVER COME PRESIDENT
FREE YOUR MIND YOUR ASS WILL FOLLOW
FLAVOR FLAV ALL THE WAY TO THE APOLLO
FREEPORT LI TO LA
THROW A FRITO OLAY OFF THE DOCK OF THE BAY
YOU WANNA KNOW WHY A KID GOES TO SCHOOL?
AND IN HIS BOOK-BAG HE CARRIES A TOOL
BECAUSE HES TRYNIG TO BE LIKE HIS IDOLS IN THE STREETS
GANG WARFARE TO THE RAW FARE
DONT EVEN TRY TO GO UP THERE
PENALTIES THAT YOU CANT BEAR
YOU LOSE YOUR SIGHT YOUR ASS CANT HEAR
IT WEIGHS SO MUCH IT'LL CRUSH YOUR LIFE
DONT PLAY WITH GOD HE GAVE YOU LIVE
THE LAST MAN STANDING HE HOPES TO BEHOLD
HIS WEIGHT IN STATURE HIS WEIGHT IN GOLD
WHAT GOES IN YOUR WASH COMES OUT IN YOUR RINSE
BACK DOWN SO TIGHT THAT YOU CALL IT CONDENSED
CANT STAND THE PRESSURE, CANT STAND THE PAIN
MY LIFE IS SO DRY I WISH IT WOULD RAIN
JUST LIKE THE TEMPTATIONS NOT JUST THE SINGING GROUP
IM HERE TO TELL YOU NOW SO DONT IGNORE THE SCOOP
I BEEN IN THIS RAP GAME FOR 25 YEARS
IF WE MADE THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME
WE DESERVE OUR CHAIRS
TO WHAT WE FOUGHT THE POWER TO WHO STOLE THE SOUL
BROTHERS GONNA WORK IT OUT
FROM THE GROUND WE HOLD
GOD SAYS TO MAN IMA LET YOU LIVE
GOD SAYS TO MAN IMA LET YOU LIVE
GOD SAYS TO MAN IMA GIVE YOU POWER
NOT FOR THE INTENT TO MISUSE YOUR POWER
IF YOU WANNA DANCE YOU GOT TO PLAY THE BANDS
PEOPLE DIE BY OTHER HANDS
THE INNOCENT, THE KU KLUX KLAN
IRAQ AND IRAN AN AFHGANISTAN
THEY GO TO WAR THEY DONT COME BACK
THE NOTE COMES HOME KILLED IN ATTACK
ALL THE MEDALS FROM FORT BRAGG
COLLECTED BY A WIDOW ALONG WITH THE FLAG
41 GUN SALUTE 4 JETS IN THE AIR
NOW THATS GOING OUT OF STYLE THE
CONTRIBUTION WAS FEAR
WHAT YOU REAP IS WHAT YOU SOW
A MAN GOT KILLED FOR WHAT HE KNOW
IF YOU WANNA BE A ----- AND GET A GOOD WIFE
STAY THE FUCK OFFA SKYPE AND DONT BELIEVE THE HYPE

WTF?
WTF?
WTF?

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PUBLIC ENEMY: TRUTH DECAY

(Chorus)
Truth decay brush up on your facts.
All you gotta do is check them stats
But what sense is a census
When they just miss us
But enlist us to fight for their justice
Truth decay brush up on your facts.
All you gotta do is check them stats
But what sense is a census
When they just miss us
But enlist us to fight for their justice

(chuckd first verse)
Truth is truth
No matter what i think
Knowledge is power
But it ain’t
If you cant occupy your own body & mind
See thru the blind
In this place full a lies
Television tellin lies
To your vision and face
Seems like more of us in prison
Than the workplace
Gettin gadgets
So it’s easy to forget
Economics
No money
Not a damn thing funny
Some diggin every minute of it
I’m hatin every second of it
Driven
Ever since i heard the lie about thanksgiving
While in still thankful through all that fibbin
The truth dies while lies make a living
History games
Playing stealing family names
Slave names turned into government names
Name of the game is to hide that game
And them lies living on with no shame ..no lie

(chorus)
Truth decay brush up on your facts.
All you gotta do is check them stats
But what sense is a census
When they just miss us
But enlist us to fight for their justice
Truth decay brush up on your facts.
All you gotta do is check them stats
But what sense is a census
When they just dismiss us
But enlist us to grow and pick their stuff

(chuck d second verse)
Truth is truth
No matter what i think
I ain’t drunk
Cause i don’t drink
Don’t smoke
Or
Laugh at the facts like stupid ass jokes
Or get lost in my own sauce, i check the source
I challenge information
Trace it to the boss
Refuse to accept the truth
When it be be lost
Lies in the key of new songs
You think it’s old news
How come the young don’t know
It ain’t new because you never knew
I tell them ,it’s only new to you
Opinion is what it is and its up to you
The challenge information
To see if it’s true
Never have so many been screwed by so few
You heard im using it for this song too
Damn crooks
Ask a question get some stupid ass looks
Truth don’t sell a lotta records or books
To hell with rapes to murder rates
To lyin on a mixtapes
I want the truth

(chorus)
Truth decay brush up on your facts.
All you gotta do is check them stats
But what sense is a census
When they just miss us
But enlist us to fight for their justice
Truth decay brush up on your facts.
All you gotta do is check them stats
But what sense is a census
When they forget us
We were here first
The term indigenous

*

LOWKEY: TERRORIST

[Intro]
So, We must ask ourselves, What is the dictionary definition of "Terrorism"?
The systematic use of terror especially as a means of coercion
But what is terror?

According to the dictionary I hold in my hand, Terror, is violent or destructive acts
Such as bombing committed by groups in order to intimidate a population,
Or government into granting their demands

So whats a terrorist?

[Hook]

They're calling me a terrorist
Like they don't know who the terror is
When they put it on me, I tell them this
I'm all about peace and love
They calling me a terrorist
Like they don't know who the terror is
Insulting my intelligence
Oh how these people judge..

[Verse 1]

It seems like the Rag-heads and Paki's are worrying your Dad
But your dad's favorite food is curry and kebab
It's funny, but it's sad how they make your mummy hurry with her bags
Rather read The Sun than study all the facts
Tell me, what's the bigger threat to human society
BAE Systems or home made IED's
Remote controlled drones, killing off human lives
Or man with home made bomb committing suicide
I know you were terrified when you saw the towers fall
It's all terror but some forms are more powerful
It seems nuts, how could there be such agony
When more Israeli's die from peanut allergies
It's like the definition didn't ever exist
I guess it's all just depending who your nemesis is
Irrelevant how eloquent the rhetoric peddler is
They're telling fibs, now tell us who the real terrorist is

[Hook]

They're calling me a terrorist
Like they don't know who the terror is
When they put it on me, I tell them this
I'm all about peace and love
They calling me a terrorist
Like they don't know who the terror is
Insulting my intelligence
Oh how these people judge..

[Verse 2]

Lumumba was democracy - Mossadegh was democracy
[ From: http://www.metrolyrics.com/terrorist-lyrics-lowkey.html ]
Allende was democracy - Hypocrisy it bothers me
Call you terrorists if you don't wanna be a colony
We used to bow down to a policy of robbery
Is terrorism my lyrics?
When more Vietnam vets kill themselves after the war than died in it?
This is very basic..
One nation in the world has over a thousand military bases
They say it's religion, when clearly it isn't
It's not just Muslims that oppose your imperialism
Is Hugo Chavez a Muslim? Nah.. I didn't think so
Is Castro a Muslim? Nah.. I didn't think so
It's like the definition didn't ever exist
I guess it's all just depending who your nemesis is
Irrelevant how eloquent the rhetoric peddler is
They're telling fibs, now tell us who the terrorist is

[Hook]

They're calling me a terrorist
Like they don't know who the terror is
When they put it on me, I tell them this
I'm all about peace and love
They calling me a terrorist
Like they don't know who the terror is
Insulting my intelligence
Oh how these people judge..

[Outro x2]

You think that I don't know,
But I know, I know, I know
You think that we don't know
But we know

You think that I don't know,
But I know, I know, I know
You think that we don't know
But we DO

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Was Building 7 terrorism?
Was nanothermite terrorism?
Diego Garcia was terrorism,
I am conscious the Contras was terrorism,
Phosphorous that burns hands - that is terrorism,
Irgun and Stern Gang that was terrorism,
What they did in Hiroshima was terrorism,
What they did in Fallujah was terrorism,
Mandela ANC - that was terrorism,
Jerry Adams IRA - that was terrorism,
Eric Prince black water - it was terrorism,
Oklahoma, McVeigh - that was terrorism,
Everyday USA - that is terrorism,
Everyday UK - that is terrorism,
Everyday...

*

RAS KASS: JACK FROST II (WHITE CHRISTMAS)

I'm dreaming of a white Christmas,
Just like the ones I used to know
I'm dreaming of a white Christmas,
Just like the ones I used to know

[Verse I]

Catch me at the North Pole, living with the Inuits
Seal-skin hoody, hunting Saint Nich-o-las
European holidays and niggas so ignorant
Got Prancer and Blitzen’s heads mounted in my kitchen, bitch (funny!)
My Uncle family, Jehova’s witnesses
As kid’s we thought they was crazy for not celebratin’ shit
Went to college, learned Christmas is ridiculous
Pagan holidays, ain’t no Christ in it
Cause a holiday, means a ‘holy’ day
And December 25th was the birth of the God Saturn
Ancient Romans would celebrate
The upper class worshipped Mithra
The God of the uncontrollable Sun
And that’s Christmas
In the western hemisphere
December 22nd is the shortest day and longest night, of the year
Rains for 3 days, hence the Sun died
The Sun resurrects December 25
So the S-U-N, is the Sun of God
In man-made religion, metaphorical Son of God
Named him Amen-Rê, named him Saturn, named him Mithra, named him Christ, the same pattern
Ancient astrology, the Egyptians wrote this
Scientifically put, it’s the Winter Solstice
And after the Catholic Church came to power
They absorbed festivals already popular
In the slave days, they gave us as gifts, fuck!
Bound us in metal chains and they whipped us
Went to church and smiled, right after they lynched us
You still a fucking slave if you celebrate Christ-mas!

[Chorus]
I'm dreaming of a white Christmas,
Just like the ones I used to know
I'm dreaming of a white Christmas,
Just like the ones I used to know

[Verse 2]

Snow in Bethlehem is rare as fuck
Ain’t no evergreens and reindeer, y’all is nuts
The history of Christmas is a mix of customs from pagans
Y’all clowns just decoratin' Satan
The Yule tree was first decorated in the 16th century
In Livonia in Germany
In northern Europe, the Druids during winter nights
Kept evergreens as a symbol of everlasting life
Vikings in Scandinavia went a little farther
Thought of the special plant of the Sun, got bolder
The Germanic tribes worshipped Amerigo - a flying white horse
Original Santa Clause, rode one of course
And the Dutch called him Sinterklaas
His sidekick, a demon named The Krampus
Bad children killer dawg
Sinterklaas myth, combined with Saint Nick
A 4th century Greek bishop who gave gifts
Said he liberated an Ethiopian from a slave ship
Who was so grateful he became his servant
It’s so racist, the boy he called Peter
The origin of the elves is so fiendish
Black Peter in English, Zwarte Piet in Swedish
Why do you need this, look it up if you don’t believe it
And even to this day in the Netherlands
They still dress up in blackface, now go to bed again

[Chorus]
I'm dreaming of a white Christmas,
Just like the ones I used to know
I'm dreaming of a white Christmas,
Just like the ones I used to know

[Verse 3]

Listen
I respect fact over faith
The Catholic Church paves its celebrations on pagan dates
Culturally, every European participates
Then after the pilgrims emigrate to the United States
All those European customs assimilate
Forcibly imposed on every other race
New York city was first colonized by the Dutch fam
It was called New Amsterdam
Now I see a lot of sinners in dementia
Worshipping 70ft trees in Rockefeller centre
Stupid if you ain’t Viking or a Druid
If you Christian and or black, you are fucking foolish
I’ve seen Miracle on 42nd Street, wasn’t no Asians or Latinos, you disrespected me
Mental genocide, it’s black lost
I’m just being real, this is fact from Jack Frost!

[Chorus + Ras Kass Outro]

We live in a country where 1% of the population controls 99% of the wealth. Where a black President kisses corporate American ass. Not one single criminal Wall Street banker spent the day in prison, but they’ll arrest 5,000 peaceful Occupy Wall Street protestors. We in the biggest recession since the Great Depression, but y’all throw your fucking money away, 5.3 billion on Black Friday
You not just a stupid consumer, that’s not capitalism, that’s a slave mentality

*

JOHN LENNON: GIVE ME SOME TRUTH

I'm sick and tired of hearing things
From uptight, short-sighted, narrow-minded hypocrites
All I want is the truth
Just gimme some truth

I've had enough of reading things
By neurotic, psychotic, pig-headed politicians
All I want is the truth
Just gimme some truth

No short-haired, yellow-bellied, son of Tricky Dicky
Is gonna mother hubbard soft soap me
With just a pocketful of hope
Money for dope
Money for rope

Woho!

No short-haired, yellow-bellied, son of Tricky Dicky
Is gonna mother hubbard soft soap me
With just a pocketful of hope
Money for dope
Money for rope

I'm sick to death of seeing things
From tight-lipped, condescending, mama's little chauvinists
All I want is the truth
Just gimme some truth now

I've had enough of watching scenes
Of schizophrenic, ego-centric, paranoiac, prima-donnas
All I want is the truth now
Just gimme some truth

No short-haired, yellow-bellied, son of Tricky Dicky
Is gonna mother hubbard soft soap me
With just a pocketful of hope
It's money for dope
Money for rope

Ah, I'm sick to death of hearing things
from uptight, short-sighted, narrow-minded hypocrites
All I want is the truth now
Just gimme some truth now

I've had enough of reading things
by neurotic, psychotic, pig-headed politicians
All I want is the truth now
Just gimme some truth now

All I want is the truth now
Just gimme some truth now
All I want is the truth
Just gimme some truth
All I want is the truth
Just gimme some truth