Waterworld is a 1995 post-apocalyptic science fiction film directed by Kevin Reynolds and co-written by Peter Rader and David Twohy. It was based on Rader's original 1986 screenplay and stars Kevin Costner, who also produced it. It was distributed by Universal Pictures. The film was the follow-up project to the previous collaboration between Kevin Costner and Kevin Reynolds, who worked together on Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves in 1991.
The setting of the film is the distant future. Although no exact date was given in the film itself, it has been suggested that it takes place in 2500. The polar ice caps have completely melted, and the sea level has risen many hundreds of meters, covering nearly all the land. The film illustrates this with an unusual variation on the Universal logo, which begins with the usual image of Earth, but shows the planet's water levels gradually rising and the polar ice caps melting until nearly all the land is submerged. The plot of the film centers on an otherwise nameless antihero, "The Mariner," a drifter who sails the Earth in his trimaran.
[Intro: child]
Yo Lo, everytime I turn on the radio, the video
It's a booty, it's a necklace, it's, it's...
[Chorus]
OneManArmy is who he is
WaterWorld is the name of the place he live
This hero came to set hip-hop free
From shady biz and all the wack MC's
[Verse 1]
Once upon a time lived a man named Lo
Everywhere he go he make the crowd say "Hoooohh"
Grown man flow for the boys and girls
Now let me tell you kids 'bout a place called WaterWorld
Shaped like a mitten, I rock the mic hittin
my block, recite copywritten rhymes I be spittin
Nobody knows the true identity
It's a Clark Kent thing, One Super-Man Army
Straight out the sound booth, Timberland boots
My necklace alone compares any wack crew
So now that you know who the good guy is
Every story got a villain, this one is shady biz
Kingpin, all about the dividends
Payin these wack MC's to talk to hip-hop citizens
With some powerful force they call rap
But the OneManArmy here to stop all that
Chop all that, maybe on the MPC
Literary, military on the M-I-C
OneMan, up against a whole +Army+
Fulla A&R;" ."s, wack MC's and R&B;
Industries, y'all nothin but snakes to me
Hip-hop, WaterWorld is the place to be
No place for shady biz and fake MC's
We 'bout to set y'all free, just wait and see
[Sample]
[Chorus x2]
[Verse 2]
Aight, you know the characters plus you know the plot
Only it's a few people who can save hip-hop
Lo came fly with Timbs, pass the pens
Up, up and away, here we go again
Some think the +Mission+ is +Impossible+
The truth is shady biz got a whole lotta dough
But OneManArmy got a verbal attack
And you never see me sign kryptonite contracts
OneManArmy is who he is
WaterWorld is the name of the place he live
[Chorus: whispered]
[Outro]
Shady biz you better watch your back
For those that know me
For those that know me
For those that know me
For those that know me, indeed I like to flow
Authentically raw wit it, see I augmented this industry
To submit to my will, all attempts to limit me
Can kneel, peel caps wit ill raps
Nothing convenes here till your camp gets smeared like pap
What you tryin' to tell me, skills never found me
Workin' for peanuts amongst jelly MC's, really ain't my steez
Peep game, I plot on different ways to make these styles
Ricochet through main frames
The day-to-day theme is turn these fake teams gangrene
My main vein's the only thing about me mainstream
You doubt me like the foes of Noah, embarkin' in this Ark
The soul controller, while fools caught up in this Del used to blow up
You're inundating wit the out-dated
See all of y'all fall when this cascade hits
Yo D, watch these watered-down clowns get drowned
And lounge sound broken down in Cuba tryin' to build ships off shit they bit
I spit that major play saliva
Taylor-made for cypher sole survivor
Pay the piper if you plan to go inside my covenant
Better come in two's, matta fact come a crew to get you back
Executives, we wet you wit the hymns that leave you and your man
Packin', attackin' wit verbal cataclysms
Leavin' the average rapper drenched and grab a trench
Guard against my El Nino lingo
A labyrinth of keen flows, concealed within the single
This is Waterworld
For those that know me, indeed I like to flow
Waterworld
For those that know me, indeed I like to flow
This is Waterworld
For those that know me, indeed I like to flow
Waterworld
For those that know me
My scripts consist of H20, hip hop and oxygen
I flip commission doctrines that make me Shake-Speare's pier
Upon this here tear I fear not
Killin' furious wit the superior onslaught
On top of this isle solo, like Gilligan wit a million styles
To throw yo' way wit capital A
We make waves, causin' tsunamis to your armies
Splashin' like the cracken on clash of the Titans, writin' calmly
Call me Aquarius, each full page a new age
I'm on a crusade to ranter your parade
See 'Core is more than three-quarters of what this rap world secure
So this is Chinese water torture for MC's to endure
As I restore this reservoir wit my repertoire of metaphors
Step into the 'Core, better have your life insured
For supernatural disasters, I'm quick to cast a flame
To your astral plane, it's bitch-made, get played like Canasta
Waterworld
For those that know me, indeed I like to flow
This is Waterworld
For those that know me, indeed I like to flow
Waterworld
For those that know me, indeed I like to flow
This is Waterworld
For those that know me
What's an MC without concepts
I speak easy comin' to offset your plumbing
Like leaky faucets, runnin' my dungeon wit aquatic contraptions
The fifth fold's a fish bowl, kick hard as contractions
Wit skitzo-memos closed-captioned
Your lip's sewed 'cuz hardest to your fraction try to test me
You wouldn't tip-toe through Moses parted Red Sea, it's bound to collapse
So now what makes you think the sound of these raps
Is something different, I'm even pitchin' the kitchen sink wit comin' with it
Liquefied rhymes rhyme wax
It's time for jack-fakers to vacate, they take up space
Like the Great Lakes, makin' a great case for me to hate
Paint a picture clear as Evian, raps on tap like Savior Glover
Undercover, peeps wonder, why he became the architect 'cuz none love us
We spark the shit that makes the blood cometh
Wash away your blockade plus your brigade
Tryin' to sandbag clever words together
The weather, the storm, porn's poured on cassette wit architect sweat
In the cores of us form when he pass Tech-12's
I delve deep in this abyss, inspect hell
Tell a fallen angel to eat a dick if he gets pissed 'cuz
This is Waterworld
For those that know me, indeed I like to flow
Waterworld
For those that know me, indeed I like to flow
This is Waterworld
For those that know me, indeed I like to flow
Waterworld
For those that know me, indeed I like to flow
Flow
Flow
Flow
[Instrumental]
Hurry, hurry, hurry, step right up and get your tickets
A waterride you won't soon forget
Experience of biblical proportions
Sorry, kid, you gotta be this high to ride this ride
[Tame One]
It might be seem dark having this drug related themepark
Till the fiends start to spark in between my recent remarks
With these thoughts, folks that's perfectly dry get kinda soaked
From this chemical dose, making you focus like microscopes
Out of all the stars, this the biggest dippidy side of mars
With the signifcant difference in liquid invented jars
My patronce is spacing, amazingly blazing this fragrent fragrence
My cadence got other dust patients lacin their statements
Waterworld, boys and girls relating to divices
If you're wet your cigarette double as flotation devices
Amazing jars of ours got powers that last for hours
We devour leak and keep the streets wetter than aftershowers
Peep the liquid lace, basketcase, toxic waste
After taste, wet up half the ??? then concentrate to conversate
Sliding, slipping this narcotic product field trip
Take your chance, bring your fam, but want 'em in advance
[Chorus]
Waterworld
One way ticket to drown in - Waterworld
Feet don't touch the ground in - Waterworld
Keep spiraling down thinking "Waterworld", "Waterworld"
Waterworld
Leak liters and pounds in - Waterworld
Deepsea underground in - Waterworld
Keep spiraling down thinking "Waterworld", "Waterworld"
[Cage]
My alarm clock telling me to suck his dick
I get up, see this bird in my bed like "I ain't fucked this chick"
No recollection of the club, just a plan to go
Usually wake up naked and bloody next to dead animals
Writing with a plague, liking with a phase, cyphing minute may
Would let my fist pound in your chest, might've been a blade
And the red guys are to follow when my arm release
So calm the beast like Khadafi when the US bombed his niece
Hell is almost here, life is fair, game sinners
High when I rip the plastic off the leak like airplane dinners
Don't wanna be in the ground, cremate me when I expire
Since I'm gonna burn in hell I should get used to the fire
Follow footprints of the dead that lead to the mourge
Gotta be dead or know the coronor to see us perform
You can't undo this, she was judas with teats
At every album mastering I'm thinking "posthumous release"
[Chorus]
[Tame One]
If a natural situation occures from getting high
Then put your head between your legs and kiss your dusted ass goodbye
The first, get you a cigarette to wet
And it's important that you listen to this angel dusted PCP endorsement
Tip the jar, dip the stove then remove the cot
This ain't weed, you ain't got no seads to stress like an adoption
Flame it up, blow it out, it tends to flare up
Be careful, I've done seen some people burn their facial hair up
[Cage]
Leak - The need is unstoppable, puff till my brain is inoperable
Ain't gonna quit cause I woke up in the hospital
The logical side of my brain should feel fear
But when I wake up every morning I'm like "Fuck! I'm still here"
I hacked a barcode into my arm, so
I could see how much I'm worth, this verse is paying my car, no
Habitual cynical at the pinnacle
Living through a pivital criminal giving you shit to listen to