What’s That Sound

Lyrics

Fuck a sampler I rhyme to the rhythm of my punchlines beating your ear drum Creating sublime subliminal rhythms synchronized to how I feel son Livin' to the rhythm of time Life: the composition composed of minutes, seconds, decades, years, millenniums Alternating and creating the symphony played by the sound of the morning train Galloping to work The sound of a global choir of women givin' birth The sound of the child molesting priest breathing hard in the back of the Church The sound of the lost youth getting back at mother earth The sound of capitalistic blood thirst We stand around rapping over the sound of the police Rappin' over the sound of no justice no peace A troublesome couple sons rappin' Over urban jungle drums Stickin' to the bubble gum Rappin' over the thumping beat of an army of feet Invading their neighboring country forcing 'em to retreat Rappin' over the Sound of my girl's talkin' in her sleep And the sound of skulls getting crushed on concrete [Chorus] But what's sound?/ Sound is music! Now what's music?/ Music is life! And what's life?/ Life is death! Now what's death?/ Death is silence! But what's silence?/ Silence is sound! So what's sound?/ Sound is music! Then what's music?/ Music is life! And what's life?/ Life is death! This is to my sons in the streets on the run from police Headphones and car seats pumpin' these beats Yo the stage setting: we on a highway heading east Through the world's dead end streets We're like seven deep at the speed of a spreading virus Out of control like forest fires Rappin' thrue mike wires, rappin' over beats or rappin' over silence. It's all music anyway We rap over the sounds of cash registers Or without getting any pay Fuck a deejay I rhyme to the rhythm of my razor tongue cutting your ear wax Playin' the rhythm of decision over my heart beat and the noise of Air Max Runnin' from Jimi Hendrix machine gunnin', fear Makes it hard to hear my heart beating Deafened by the primate inside of me screaming There's more rhythms to listen to more melodies But when the day is over the harmony is off key. Loop that sample! Sshh, I'm vibin' to mother earth's menstrual cycle... [Chorus] But what's sound?/ Sound is music! Now what's music?/ Music is life! And what's life?/ Life is death! Now what's death?/ Death is silence! But what's silence?/ Silence is sound! So what's sound?/ Sound is music! Then what's music?/ Music is life! And what's life?/ Life is death! I looked right and left got swept away By the sound wave to which I'm a damn slave Runnin' through physically illegal environments Dissecting drum sets, fragments of sweaty recording sets The battle between destruction and construction, silence and noise Girl versus boy. Plastic card versus coin is occupying my mind while the silent Wind of truth is runnin' thrue body and soul The friction between needle and Wax is removing the cold And it's the source of life. Of this entire empire where the landscape is the soundscape Which is one with the mind state The state on the other side of the Babylonian valley I stand on the mountain of love with the fist in the air The air I'm breathin', the truth I'm retreavin', the chambers of my heart I'm revealin' Every scar and bruise is healin'... When me and Black Fist master the art of music stealin' Rap over the cry of the people with the slide of a needle Rockin' over two turntables over the rockin' of a cradle And the soft singin' of a mother's soothing voice Your drunk parents arguing makin' noise And your grandfather's whistling the Grim Reaper's whispering Slow ballads of death and he'll make sure that you're listening The rimshot to the gunshot, gunclap to the handclap Footstep to the footchain, fingersnap to the neck snap We got a text that will break all bounds Though these words ain't noting but sounds... [Chorus] But what's sound?/ Sound is music! Now what's music?/ Music is life! And what's life?/ Life is death! Now what's death?/ Death is silence! But what's silence?/ Silence is sound! So what's sound?/ Sound is music! Then what's music?/ Music is life! And what's life?/ Life is death! So what's death? / Death is