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Rap Opera
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O'hene Savant
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{Act 1} [The Birth] Welcome to Rap Opera, the mind of a guy that is not pop enough f*ck Wagner, the times too tough to be pessimistic so his time is up I today waver a quaver in A major The people say what they need is a saviour So take a fruit from the Asymme-tree Thelonious planted in his day as a seed The "bop" plant, pollinated by the "Be" Pac called it the rose that rose from concrete How do you define divine that finds street? "Hip bop," the color of my leaves Not turquoise, the color that I bleed More like blue, the color is not seen More like a Kora ora than a banjo Or like the Mona Lisa with a Afro Picasso of black folk But Picasso should see himself as the white O I write notes rhythmically not for timpani To accomplish what Bach did for symphonies One day it will all It will one day make sense 'til then let's enjoy 'til then let's enjoy 'til then let's enjoy? (Let us, let us, let us, let us, let us) There is much wackness Killing the craft There is just madness And it's just sad Now isn't it sad to see it come to this? Isn't it sad it had to come here now? [Killadelphia Part I] Fly away hip-hoppers, won't you fly away Fly away hip-boppers, won't you fly away Fly away hip-hoppers, won't you fly away Fly away hip-boppers, won't you fly away I can't find myself Lost in the middle of bland Don't nobody play nowadays, all these digital bands Ain't nobody musicians, no more lyrical cats How can we go forward, onward 'less we go back? Don't nobody wanna be original and everyone thinking they bad Rolling up on reinvented wheels, 'cause it got chrome don't mean it ain't jacked This that inner city culture molded next to that crack Those who couldn't play ball could find they solace in that Find they knowledge in rap While the cowards sit back And hide behind the familiar, scared to steer from the past Won't dare to veer from that path Year to year the same tracks Ear to ear I can't have 'cause the fear my peers defamed rap Now we Gotta get back to the music Gotta give back to the youth this product and factory movement Expire Just die and now we inspire Now we rise to give life to those who have been deprived of Vision and innovation Give 'em a new creation Welcome aboard my spaceship Where words become the clay and Sculptures of sound I make 'em Masterpieces This my master thesis One of my baddest creatures I held off on unleashing Peep it Ill harmonic soul symphonic chronic rhymes and it's kinda hypnotic God, it has got to be time that I spent writing rhymes in Ghana, tryna play Amadeus and Brahms cut to now it's time for Rap Opera This is renaissance music (Let me tell 'em what it is) Cyberspace music (Let me tell 'em what it is) Intellect music (Let me tell 'em what it is) This is African music (Let me tell 'em what it is) Ghetto child music (Can I tell 'em what it is? Will I tell 'em what it is?) All of our music (Gotta tell 'em what it is, better tell 'em what it is, let me tell 'em what it is, I wanna tell 'em what it is) [Roman Ridge] One day (one day) It's gonna get better (Yes it will) It's gotta get better (It's got to) One day it'll get better, better, uh huh One day (one day) It's gonna get better (better) 'cause it's gotta get better (uh huh) One day it'll get better (better) (It will) I say one day Maybe it'll be this Sunday Or it could even happen Monday Don't you know it could all change one day One day you could be in the worst state Next day you would swear it's your birthday Saturday you don't wanna be around now No frowns can be found on Thursday Yes sir If you're lookin' at the forecast and ya can't find a reason for laughs Just know that it can't rain always Never know what the very next door has Sure that storm felt like a marathon But it's more like a 100 yard dash I done been through the worst of the worst times Trust me but I still seen it all pass, all pass Don't you know that one day Music won't be a commodity Subject to the lies and robbery I see, can you join in this odyssey? I believe in the future one day Maybe not now yes someday In the days or years to come day It'll change, you'll see life's something Something, join me, say One day....(one day) It's gonna get better (better) It's gonna get better (better) It's gonna get better (better) One day (one day) It's gonna get better (I believe it) It's gonna get better, better (You believe it) I say better (better) I say one day (one day) It's gonna get better (better) You better believe it (believe) It's gonna get better (better) I say one day (one day) It's gonna get better (It will) You better believe it (believe) It's gonna get better (better) I say one day One day (one day) Oh yes one day (yes one day) One day it will get better (Yes it will) [Sweet Dreams] You know, sometimes you wanna fight it but in all actuality you need to let it go You need to just let it shut down and reboot I'm drifting, is my mind? (drifting, drifting) Drifting in mind (drifting, drifting) Drifting is my mind? (drifting, drifting) Drifting, would you mind? (drifting, drifting) Listen, this is why I'm drifting If we knew our inner mind riffing If we knew our inner science drifting then we'd listen when we start (drifting, drifting) Listen to your bio rhythms drift and get into your higher image This is where you find the light and living, people, this is my new religion I am drifting, do you mind? (drifting, drifting) Touching the divine (drifting, drifting) When I close my eyes (drifting, drifting) So much I can find (drifting, drifting) There's no meter I could sync with Pen to ink with Thoughts to think with That's relinquished Seem to S'ilad kind of genius Drifting It's a scratch I cure with itching Itching to see earth from the canyons Drifting With no aeroplane lifting, drifting High! You know I'm (drifting, drifting) I said I'm (drifting, drifting) I am (*guitar solo*) I'm drifting in mind (drifting, drifting) Drifting, is my mind? (drifting, drifting) Drifting, do you mind? (drifting, drifting) Me drifting out of time? (drifting, drifting) Drifting in my mind (drifting, drifting) Drifting, is my mind? (mind, mind, mind) Drifting, would you mind? (drifting, drifting) Me drifting out of time (drifting, drifting) No I'm not dying, drifting, drifting States feeling like I'm missing But I leave this land of the living Give me peace, you can't see I'm (drifting, drifting) Drifting in my mind Drifting, I resign Subconscious hills travel in my brain and that's why (drifting, drifting) Sifting through the clutter Chaos lives Buried in my thoughts Yes it is My collage of pain and Happiness Aggravation and my inner fears My inner beast Lives in here So let's have a feast, drink my tears Drifting into this unaware of the laws of the aware Come in here, dear Have no fear Share my atmosphere and hemisphere So many people have not returned from here Maybe there's too many lessons learned from here I'm telling the people with open ears Even the partially deaf I hope can hear When I'm asleep and I drift and I see what it is to be finally living I cannot believe it, I swear [Wake Up] 7am I'm reading 'bout, what Jesus 'bout 'bout Jesus' bout with the wicked ones who snuffed Jesus out They say for the cheese and clout I doubt Myself, my upbringing in question, who wrote these words? What men? I have some questions This is when I died and thus my resurrection Died to their lies, acquired the holy message When you learn Christ you choose love as a weapon Then you turn Christ and lose love as a lesson This is the message of he who is perfected in the name of He who died for our acceptance Accept it, reoccurs in legend, some in historical times, ours on records Welcome to a parallel universe You were tryna sing this song but never knew the words They would orchestrate it for choirs all through the church I was in the pew and knew that I had to search We are all here 'cause fear is what they serve, you will surely die but then's the rebirth Follow me Out of the monotony welcome into prophecy This is where your higher self finds its homogeny with the lower self and combines the cacophony A place where Friedrich Nietzsche meets Socrates Those who seek should seek until they find And when they find, they find a troubled mind It troubled mine until the day I aligned Myself with the harsh truth of being divine The desolate move few human beings'll find The difference between being a branch and a vine Sometimes I said to myself if I could just rewind to a simpler time I'd probably trade the design Nobody wants a living genius They want the death of me So when I die they can pillage my village of legacy Be it the Sadducees or the Pharisees that wanna trap me in the loop over sampled beats Or those that wanna stop the Piscean from swimming Turn my water to blood but I see 'em, I'm winning I figured out the formula, to not having a formula That being said, I'm only warming up This is for the pioneers, from Primo to Pete, yo, this high science here Avant garde East Coast, make 'em bob they heads Nigga, my ghetto libretto the reason why they here This Rap Opera Confutatis, maledictis, the birth of a classical linguist ingenious Seem less scene that's seen sorta like scenes in Scream borderline Stephen King, he's Behemoth I just drift (I just drift) Into the abyss where nothing really is (Nothing is, it's vacant) This is my voyage Boy, it's incredible, exceptional How I make illegible sketches to decibels Something they can never do all my records do The Matisse of the speech most memorable And so can we (so can we) (Switch this up and mix this up, maybe we can change this rearrange this all, all) Maybe rearrange this Painters of that lexicon The most epic mind compose blessed lines I got a cool mindset (mindset) And my concepts are timeless (timeless) Yes I drift through the new physics, it's quantum The problems of Bach I deliberately jot 'em Process is sovereign, some describe him as god of the column But of rhyming and so [Out The Loop] I I am free from the loops I am out of the loops Oops, now I am Bruce Who's Bruce? Bruce Lee This is chi, this is Jeet Kune Doe From Judo I am free From Kung Fu I am free Karate I am free From the metronome Liberty I know, I know, I know I know I gotta get out of the cage they gave me in order for me to grow I Need the liberty Jesus gave if I'm gonna make a miracle I'm gonna take down Jericho Co co co co co Co-sign me Please Freeze Now you all believe Siamese wonders Wonders in the daylight Siamese wonders Wonders in the daylight (in the day, in the light) Siamese wonders Wonders in the daylight (in the day, in the light) Siamese wonders Wonders in the daylight (in the day, in the light) Doesn't it resemble what you've seen in the past, is it a symbol? When the energies crash like a cymbal Is it the end of the song? Could be the intro Man, if life could only be this simple Tell it from the brothels to the temples I am sent to he who heeds minstrels It's my event so leave if you ain't into God's pencil or the seer's pen too You might say I'm changing the world, I meant to 'cause I'm the (day) And the (light) Fly like Morris (day) So give me a (light) Sike, I am the light, my tongue is that wick Everything I brung to rap was that sick Black magic, Rap Opera Rooted in Somalia, intertwined with Uganda and Ghana In the day and in the light In the day and in the light In the day and in the light In the day and in the light In the day and in the light In the day and in the light In the day and in the light In the day and in the light {Act 2} 2012 (x5) I Wanna welcome you to the era of Youtube Download my love, the love's mutual Better retweet this before Google mutes you I am O'hene, the cyberspace prophet 404 era of terror, can't stop it Why hack? I just hijack your server My apps attack Mac Pros with fervor Virus Pirates This is a movement you can't pirate Tell me if you like it Please don't unlike it It's unlikely that you won't type it, right? It's 2012 (x8) 2-0-1-2 Fall behind time, you don't want to This is the beginning and the fall of man Later on, you shall hear from my holog… Wait, I am glitching I am glitching Algorithms missing My numeric bloodstream leaks on the country Amadeus (dead) Now they say that they want me (2012) is the year of mass suicide Unplug from the matrix, you stupid tribe Digital nations, I came to where you would hide Hopefully you will comply It's now 2025, my legacy survived People live and they thrive on what I provide Took me from a mortal and made me immortal Two takes it takes on Cubase I'm through the portal To conservatories now where they learn my story And teach about the break-throughs of my ghetto glory How I forever altered the way of the allegory Became H20 the way that Bruce taught me True story, I'm a descendant of Miles Game couldn't dilute even though they tried to My last award was for moving human beings forward A recognition of what I did with phonetics Funny how thirteen years ago they ain't get it 'til said person said after he read it My hypothesis that leaked finally spreaded Bloggers, gossip sites started with Reddit Welcome to the future 2025 (*repeated*) I can't believe it, they made me into a legend, but I'm a Relic, they relish in my past This is what they did to me in history, it's sad How they've frozen me in time, now they caught up with the Older me Now that I'm the older me, they say that was a doper me Once again I'm seeing what nobody was supposed to see Supposedly even the people that are close to me Think I'm over the hill, something I never hoped to be Even I have doubts sometimes, a tough road for me Is this the way that Glenn Gould felt taping Songs at the r-radio station Or maybe Beethoven when he lost his hearing? [Gethsemane CGI] O'hene Savant I am O'hene Savant Came to the world to alter the method of rhyme I interject my method of classical rap What will it change? Every genre that's on the map After they raise you Then they disgrace you Then they figure out ways that they can try and replace you But I am Irreplaceable So, why even try? Damn, what, must I die? To achieve what I deserve, do I gotta expire? What if I leave? What will my eulogy read? Will it say I was a beast over beats or That somehow I schemed? Seems like I should flee I'm like a flea Be be all I can be? Maybe RIP Damn, this means I'm toast, no suicide note Nope You and I both know to do that's not O No way (There's no way I'd ever do such a terrible thing) Math key fade Math key fade Math key fade [Youlogy] Now we are gathered here today via satellite and wifi In the name of O'hene Savant, the blessed mic christ Just a man but a spirit nonetheless Who leaves behind a catalog and finally can come to rest He's survived by a tribe that extends beyond his offspring These are the Savants, who carry his message on sing- Songs of the meta-verse gnostics Was much more than an innovative rapper, was a prophet Today we shed no tears, we are happy for transition Our science is yet to explain this stage of a man's mission We conclude this memorial as you chime in On our message boards, do leave us with your comments Amen [Lost Holly Street Tapes (unreleased)] (After the storm) Then comes the rain These are the words of the prophet @Bslade I could never be slayed or confined to a grave Math key fade What that means you were played My exit was in the first Act Covered up by authorities Beguiled the majority I'm two steps ahead while they plotted it Plans of a posthumous O'hene Savant by their operatives Highly evolved software that manages To perform critical analysis of statuses And Twitter posts that mimic O's many characters An observation of mood plus characters Factoring in the law of averages Problem is when you talk about me, nothing is average And so I planted coded language In my opus transcript back-mask and anagrammic Unrecorded, knowing they would come record it With phonetic clone software, who ever woulda thought it? But I included numbers in my rap unsupported By their new OS, that's why OS distorted OS, that's what they call the virtual me O'hene Savant or operating system Only problem is they got tired of the glitchin' So they concocted a story ‘bout me being missin' Worldwide sympathy, O'hene was trendin' Three days later, my untimely death's invented Press was avoided and only given a sentence "O'hene is gone but not finished" (Well, we want everyone to know that we really have a lot to work with, I mean we have albums worth of unreleased material from raps to instrumentals, ya know, there's really a lot to look forward to with OS, so really, ya know, it-it's it's not over) Now they control my catalog, and even my Image My disciples are not even given my pictures The Savants secretly leak some of my scriptures But are squashed soon as they're seen by the resistance Forced to go underground, it's gettin' worse Banished to the worldwide web ‘stead of the meta-verse Simply ‘cause when the prophet is controlled That's when the profit is controlled I seen this before with 2Pac and this is old Sony recycled Michael with that album and it sold ‘cause fans are really fickle I'm tickled how sometimes labels trick you I'm not the first artist that died that's still with you The industry was ruined by humans and their humanity Human evolution is not congruent with amnesty We needed a change in our anatomy Macro chip disc was planted, these stopped all inaccuracies That includes sickness and even mood swings Souls are quantized only for routine Only those knowing of the prophecy of 'Knowing' Knows where it's obviously going [?tions] Questions I know Questions I know you got Questions I know Questions I know you got Questions I know Questions I know you got Questions I know Questions I know you got Questions How did we land ourselves in this drama? I would say we started off with the karma comma Hate our fate is found in the middle of it Those who spoke of love have suffered, killed by the public Men are suckers thus subject to be puppets And are suckered much by little or nothing Animal mode though we claim we are different Cattle with clothes, it's a shame how we livin' Groups (Groupthink, people acting like they sheep) Everybody's in a group (Please think, please) A clique or maybe a school (Academia trout) Like fish, we stay in a school (Never come out) Never asking questions I know you got questions Take my direction, heed my message Questions I know Questions I know you got Questions I know Questions I know you got Questions I know Questions I know you got Questions I know Questions I know you got Questions Here's a riddle, man, here's a frickin' riddle What was first the omelette or Chicken Little? The science fiction film or the new invention? The bad decision or was it the good intention? The composer or maybe the composition? My position if it isn't inquisition, listen Questions, I got questions Why is music different from other professions? How come I ain't dippin' in other directions? Yet you a musician, you come up with records In the night In the day you a professor Inspector, manager, manage your store and respect us Hook with a dot, check it Not the hook but would bring about questions I said I got Questions I know Questions I know you got Questions I know Questions I know you got Questions I know Questions I know you got Questions I know Questions I know you got Questions [Parousia] When I return only a few will notice The few who noticed the depths of this opus If you can soak this in as more than song You will be known as the chosen men after I'm gone My death is rife I have died in life Modified by Christ, embody I the light My resurrection's prophecy But I'm upstaged by theology mythology Follow me my thoughts, introduces salt To the earth, assaults at what's called a cult Two percent involves humans that's evolved Humans can't resolve music as an art Being sold and bought Souls are sold at hearts The music business is so cold and dark So focus on artist offerings More than marketing Or with all these things #@OHENESAVANT Go and grab that, you don't have plenty of time It's only a matter of time before they take your mind Programmers decide your thoughts and design If you live online, Tron must be your god Google must be Luke to you so YouTube's John A crucial time with the usual crimes They spread my message and are crucified That's because today we see the truth as lies And lies as truth, you gather through your eyes Humanity's stuck inside a loop rewinds From and to the point where we were all once gods
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