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Place, Japan

by LOVE&PEACE

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1.
A good sword is best kept in its sheath. We're all destined to learn. I consider it a blessing to teach. Wisdom in the form of a figure of speech. Only 6 songs, but this ep already bigger than me. I take it all in. Hard to celebrate such a loss, but we carry on for the fallen. When it gets quiet I can hear God calling. So sick of working I have to call in. One step at a time like I'm walking. Do you even have a reason to be talking? I watch the rubber neckers gawking. Crowds flocking with no concern for whom they may be blocking. Spectacular toxin. Do you really have an option? They ain't stopping. It ain't stopping. I ain't stopping. I ain't stopping till they put me in a coffin. Running out of time I need to do this more often. I'm an anxious guy I proceed with caution. Some people hide from love for fear their hearts will soften. Money can't buy a full orchard in blossom. Get some got some. Jetsom flotsam. Discarded questions quantum. I'm on one. One. I walk out into the light of the sun. I would love my enemies, but I have none. The audience can always tell if the artist had fun. Lights, camera, action. I am painting an abstraction. It's up to you to imagine. When fascism's back in fashion you may find good kids with bad guns. How far can you extend your compassion? Not everyone will make it out the tunnel. I got questions, but life ain't a puzzle. The search for peace is an everyday struggle. The last piece that's the trouble. Yo Not everyone will make it out the tunnel. They said he was dead, but you wouldn't believe his rebuttal. The search for peace is an everyday struggle. See your true reflection when your tears form a puddle. Breathing life into this art like bubbles. Make it all look weightless the way I juggle. Have you seeing double. Hustlers of the world. There is one mark you can not beat. Look in the mirror. The picture appears before me complete. Asked the centipede how he move all them feet. He said lets the wind guide him while he March to the beat. No weapons in the new land. They looking at me like "Who's man's?". I think we just see the world differently. My rhymes like random access memory. Never meant to be. Full control over my energy. I have no enemies, except for white supremacy. I mix the black paint endlessly.
2.
The world's coming to an end. So know I don't speak lightly when I call someone my friend. Just like that light at the end of the tunnel it's not a matter of how, but when. How have you been letting it all pass you by? So scared to fail you were too scared to try. Now when your children have to ask if they were only born to die. You lie. I've seen salvation decomposing in our very own sky. My momma looked me right in the eye, and said goodbye. I was still a baby when I fell out of the nest, and had to learn how to fly. I plummeted for years. Crawling through the streets. Could only float on my tears. Now a nigga so fly I float on beats like a butterfly. Sting like the sum of all fears. I perform magic, but the trick is just making you disappear. Like you were never even here. I look at a mirror like it's all in my head, but by that logic I'm already dead. It's just like I already said. I look at the future like it's all in my hands, must I wrap em round your throat just to make you understand. The creator has a master plan, and? The fuck that's supposed to mean to me? In this dilapidated scenery I can tell you ain't really appreciating the greenery. Couldn't be me. I'm seeing the trees for the leaves. Love me for me It's such a fucking privilege to talk about world War 3 as if it's something that's got nothing to do with you and me? Breaking news, we're at war. Who the fuck is we? Don't you ever lump me in with Bourgeoisie. Fuck you mean? You couldn't reckon with the futures I've seen without becoming schizophrenic. We'll reach the end of empathy before the end of this pandemic. Entropy is intrinsic. Creation is divine and endless. I've seen the light and I swore to defend it. I find the darkest spirits I meet are often my most kindred. Our existence was never intended. Once upon a stormy night, through dark clouds the moon descended. Fell suddenly and stopped like my neck in the noose suspended. The crowd had gathered to watch, but couldn't comprehend it. They never did. We never touched the ground again. In a flash we ascended. This realm of low vibration is not enough, you must transcend it. My favorite beginning was always the big finish, but it's not over yet! It's not over yet!
3.
What would you do if you found out that it was you who it fell to to give birth to the new you. Look at your reflection in my eyes like I never knew you. X2 I can't lie to myself. I need your help. Love is everywhere. Peace is somewhere else. Are you ready to escape? Endless sunny days are on the way. Go run and pray. I need every rushed project delayed, and every artist getting paid a fair wage. Prayers for all wage slave all the way from Japan to the States. I wish you good health and a full plate. You are, but a God of the world you create. Let's make it great. Oh wait not again. Ain't no way I could ever drop the pen. Need it more than oxygen when I'm popping into space see an old friend and talk again. Who let the hope in? Now my heart wide open. That shit is warping my soul. Slow erosion. How can I be like water when I'm floating. Play a smooth guitar and let none fret. Put my shades on and watch the sunset. Play a smooth guitar and let none fret. Put my shades on. Watch the sunset Loop the beat son I ain't done yet. To keep it one hundred I'm 24/7 9/11. One man, but almost a legion of undead. Are you having fun yet? I went to heaven in a dream and woke up like fuck that. I am subject to the truth that I speak, and other critiques. I always tried to stay dry when I played in the creek. Now I choose my words carefully like I'm at the precipice precariously placing my feet. It might look like I'm falling, but it's just the technique. Je suis LOVE&PEACE. Came to say bon nuit to the eternal ennui. Plastic love all around me. Baby I might say love again like Anri. Listen closely and keep your eyes on 3. Keep your hands to yourself. Fuck around and find out I'm the hand you were dealt. My next verse the first emotion that a computer ever felt. Doc told me take a chill pill before my processor melt. Took the meds for a while, but they never helped.
4.
Graffiti 05:13
It makes me want to cry even though I know it's not a big deal. That's just how I feel. Feels like the first thing that ever felt real. Heartbreak can be so hard to conceal. Almost as hard as it is for love to reveal itself to those hiding in its shadow. Gives me the same kind of pit in my stomach I feel when I'm smoking tobacco. Shallow observations of the macro. I couldn't see the forest for the trees The sun is my source of energy, and the wind is my source of direction. You will always have a home in my arms. Never Knows Best. Never learns its lesson. Hole in my chest is darker than my complexion. Black as my soul. Blue as the days we were bought and sold. Power, Dominance, illusions of control. Yo. I'm on the spectrum and I'm off the chain. I'm in my head feeling out of brain. Outer space is just another plane. My mind is its own kind of cloud, but you'll never even see past the membrane. Crazy world, but I never wanted to fit in, so it was a given when I went insane. I can feel the weight of 4 hours if I don't take my medicine. Cruel world like this will make a young nigga sick to his skeleton. They thought the remedy would be heavensent. I couldn't even act surprised when I saw that it was never sent. May my pen aim true and my rhymes remain relevant. I'm all ears if I could remember I'd be an elephant. Let me tell em like this. Weebs treat anime like crackers treat rap. They take what they want and they give nothing back. You know Sometimes I feel like Raharu trying to nurture the Jinyu in me. When I was a kid I felt more like Naoto. My head was empty. My N.O channel has summoned plenty. Maturity is a role to play, but it doesn't work if you pretend see? First time I felt the light of Atomsk I couldn't fathom it. Young lord of the dark flame mabase is my nazareth. When the trumpet blares the jazziest I be at my happiest. Queer happiness is its own kind of sacrilege. Haphazard faggot shit turned disastrous. I can't scale it back a bit. I have to spit the nastiest. You've never seen a prophet so god damn blasphemous. Y'all wanna call yourselves activists, but ain't willing to do the calculus to see how many mouths to hit. It doesn't take a genius, but if you don't believe me just look at what happened to Archimedes ( mm- mmm they did him dirty). Hit me, feed me, love me, need me. It's so fucking easy being greedy. If you really wanna free me, give me to the whole damn world like graffiti.
5.
No longer human. How can I paint a nature I've lost? The all consuming luminescence melts away the frost. Pain and confusion, but soft. What light through yonder window breaks, scatters, and decays? Revolution becomes a burden of the slave. We know who pays the cost. Fire walk with a blazing cross. I just work here, I ain't the boss. Shift blame till you shake it off. Well done. Let's have a round of applause (congratulations). Out of touch with humanity. They don't really teach self-love only vanity. In reality we so rarely get to be what we planned to be. Self actual. They can't stand to see. True love is insanity. Self understanding peace rules everything around me. This beat was made by DJ Kasper Hausen. Cast out your demons like I'm Daniel Johnston. It's hard not to wonder about the Elephant man's bones, and if he haunts them. Can we rest? May I approach the bench? Crime and Pun-Punishment. We're all innocent. Hey Look mom I'm making hits. Have fun you crazy kids. While you're still young try to savor it. Time flies you gotta find a way to keep pace with it. Praise be to the God in me. Sometimes he's hard to feed. Dog I barely sleep. I hardly eat. If love and love alone was all I needed I'd be free. Don't need to believe it when I read psalm 23. The calm before the poetry. Yo it's me. Now tell me now honestly what's wrong with you man. Cuz You acting like you no longer human. It's okay. Sometimes you lose yourself and have to make a new one. Don't be scared, we all play the fool son. Just refer back to rule 1. Do the right thing. Thunder and lighting aren't so frightening when you do the right thing. If you're sick of hiding from thunder and lightning. Just gotta do the right thing.
6.
Restrained myself to a mere 6 spells. This ain't no grimoire. Fell through 9 circles of hell jotting thoughts in my memoir. Saw Musk grafting Neuralink to a Chimchar. Little brain got confused. Fell out like a sim card. Jean Baudrillard's ghost wonders if it's just a simulacra of a simulation. I see Satan and say As-salamu alaykum. Western chakra interpretation. Y'all move like Oli London. Wanna be asians. This is music for the facing. Bullet shell casings hit the ground at your special occasion. Ikiru moment the face I was making. What about the times the rules were breaking me? How am I the one that has to take responsibility for a system that's just been trying to kill me? It's all I can do just to stay alive. A lifetime of dreams behind my eyes. I can keep it all inside. I don't have to try. I got half&half a mind. See through lies lies like no surprise, but it still makes me feel alone other-wise. Spread eagle across my bed blasting No Wonder I. No wonder I feel a thousand petals. I'm cruising up this mountain, you'd think my boulder was a pebble. The body keeps the score, but it's up to the mind to settle. Great vessel of the heart. My love makes metal art. Becoming things you can't tell apart. Heaven is the end, but hell is just the start. I'm smoking every Descartes. Keep spitting till the day I depart. I am the what they aren't. Ain't it funny? Whole industries die in the name of money. I'm writing in the name of what I meant to say. Perpetual ebb and flow of decay. I pray for the rats in times of plague. The divine is vague. What are you saying? Vicious cycle. Perform the ritual. Worship idol. Starships are meant to fly, but when they reach the sky we see that icarus style arrival. Round these parts everybody got a Bible and a rifle. It's all falling apart, but they maintain a constant state of denial. Cracks in my smile. I was spitting up bile. Gave a cracker an inch, but kept my eye on the mile. Pugna fati. Lies are real so are dreams. I wield an infra-red laser beam. Sci-fi scenes with lo-fi beats. A hologram of the real me through a cracked screen. It's another word between blue and green. Aoi. A poltergeist of pure energy. Power to me. Power to you. It's for me and who? Neohoodooist gift the true. How do you do the things you do? I say no surprise, they say "who knew?". Able-bodied Cain bodied addled brained Abel. Mind-body fable. Connection unstable. Your brain stem is nothing, but a cheap cable. I exist beyond the temporal spatial. The universe is merely my cradle. Cooking up villainous mac cheese. Used the big dipper as a ladle. I spit it faithfully. Ay young blood pray for me Smoking that shit like it's all I get left. Love is the answer. Life is the test. Smoking that shit like it's all I get left. Love is a trial I'm bout to confess. Ayo say it witcha breast. Smoking that shit till I kill me. I need the rest. Smoking that evil. I'm LowTierNeph. Love will put a crater in your chest. Only myself I can best. Caress the lava lamp and then shake it. Give you a world made of dirt. Who's gonna shape it? Damn this beat got me feeling wistful. Smoking that shit got me feeling blissful. Baby come back I fucking miss you. Nah I'm just playing. Open your heart see I'm right there with you. Fuck all that sad shit let's just get groovy space between us only place can move me. Closer to you, baby get closer to me. This is real love. Shit ain't a movie. He said I'm sweet I said he fruity. My bed a blender boy let's make a smoothie. Running down my lips ass too juicy. Running through my mind. That boy consume me. Do you really care or do you just wanna use me? Drown in doubt, then go smoke a doobie. Such a funny life. Let's get get goofy. My favorite artists are all gonna sue me. Smoking that shit so I can remember. Getting so high my world don't render. Peace ain't reckless surrender. Who turn the message back to the sender? I'mma write a play and call it no enter. Heaven is other people. Live gentler. Why you so worried bout other ppl gender? Stfu I already know the answer. U bigots begging to get dismembered. Savior complex within the defender. I know if I lose my temper the justice system would probably just condemn her. I'm not trying be the type of ally who think they Schindler. It's a cold world baby just hold me through the winter. Hold me tender. Never meant to make myself the center. Now my inner workings working in her. What's for dinner? Food. What type of food? The type you eat. It's just sweet enough for to me have my momma's jokes to repeat. I wish she could see me now, but it was never meant to be what it's gonna be. Is it gonna be alright? I'm worried darling to be just fine. I sit back, relax, and try to clear my mind, but my troubles and my past are close behind. If I say the future is now does that make it our time? Cuz all I need was never meant to be. So what's it gonna be? What's it gonna be? If it was never meant to be all I need, then what's it gonna be?

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This EP is first and foremost an expression of gratitude. I grew up watching anime and have always been deeply inspired by Japanese art. Now more than ever people are obsessed with Japanese art, but often this obsession is upon further interrogation shallow and otherizing. The meme Place, Japan has become an internet shorthand for someone who only appreciates a piece of art or anything else because it's Japanese. I wanted to make a project that shows you can still show love for Japanese art wholeheartedly for the actual substance and creativity of the work without being racist lol. I also wanted to demonstrate the parallels between western audiences and Japanese artists with non-black audiences and Black artists. Both of us have had our culture and personal expression traded as cultural commodity (racialized signifiers of counter-culture etc.) by audiences who sometimes don't meaningfully respect the artist's humanity, usually for the financial gain of larger business structures that extract capital from the artists and audiences. Still, it's clear to see that Black artists love Japanese artists and vice-versa, and this cultural exchange is a longstanding tradition of love and appreciation. I am simply seeking to engage in this exchange with as much love and passion as I can. This EP is inspired by some of my favorite artists of all time. My favorite band. My favorite Director. My favorite anime (Hint: it inspired the song count). I know that these artists and many more will continue to inspire me, and I hope that anyone who finds this project can be similarly inspired. Thank you for listening.

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released March 23, 2024

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Anonymous Anarcho-communist underground musician. Just getting started. If you know me, no you don't.

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