Ian William Freeman, a.k.a. "The Machine," (born November 10, 1966) is a retired English mixed martial artist. He used to fight as a light heavyweight for Cage Rage. He was their final British Light Heavyweight champion. He was the first English person to fight in the UFC and holds a UFC record of 3-2-1.[citation needed] He was also the first person to beat former UFC heavyweight champion Frank Mir. Freeman also holds a notable victory over veteran Travis Fulton.
Ian Freeman came into martial arts from boxing, in which he'd trained for around 10 years. While working as a doorman, he ended up fighting with a man who was intoxicated and a friend mentioned that rather than punch him, he should have choked the man unconscious. Curious as to what he could learn, he started training in Goshin Jujitsu for around six to eight months before competing in an amateur Vale tudo competition. In his early days, he trained periodically with various instructors, including Marco Ruas and Renzo Gracie.
Freeman entered the professional circuit in 1999, considered an early ambassador for mixed martial arts and given the nickname, "the Iron Ambassador." In early 2000, UFC approached Ian to fight at UFC 24, where he lost to Scott Adams. He fought two more times in the UFC, winning both times. Later, Freeman's career hit a low point with four losses in a row, but he returned with a submission win in a rematch with Stanislav Nuschik.
Robin Hood was a heroic outlaw in English folklore. A highly skilled archer and swordsman, he is known for "robbing from the rich and giving to the poor", assisted by a group of fellow outlaws known as his "Merry Men". Traditionally, Robin Hood and his men are depicted wearing Lincoln green clothes. The origin of the legend is claimed by some to have stemmed from actual outlaws, or from ballads or tales of outlaws.
Robin Hood became a popular folk figure in the medieval period continuing through to modern literature, films and television. In the earliest sources, Robin Hood is a yeoman, but he was often later portrayed as an aristocrat wrongfully dispossessed of his lands and made into an outlaw by an unscrupulous sheriff.
In popular culture, Robin Hood and his band of "merry men" are usually portrayed as living in Sherwood Forest, in Nottinghamshire, where much of the action in the early ballads takes place. So does the very first recorded Robin Hood rhyme, four lines from the early 15th century, beginning: "Robyn hode in scherewode stod." However, the overall picture from the surviving early ballads and other early references suggest that Robin Hood may have been based in the Barnsdale area of what is now South Yorkshire (which borders Nottinghamshire).
Streams of decadence swing and enclose the vital flux
Epitaphs carved inside the mind of time, hibernated and waiting
In this livid day seconds flow without breath, without lymph
In need to receive this baptism alternated with suspended pieces of void
Dislocated projections, blind moments of lucidity, perceptions...
Never asked for eternity, is immortality my condemnation?
Earth. Chaos. Order is prefixed, stagnating illogicality
Trapped with feelings, means of self-control deprived of their basis
Dislocated projections, blind moments of lucidity, perceptions of existence
I knew what was behind the doors and I choose the labyrinth of paradoxes
Repentine creations of the grotesque, even and boiling grey
Non-abyss, non-infinite, a simple gurgling of motherly death
Born from the ashes of the wall of sleep, orgasm of the non-awakening
Dungeons of the night closed for asphyxiation
Enter the calm of morbid creation
Tools ready for decanonization
Reach the realm where fantasies are pushed on
Desires aimed with archaic pleasure
Luxury divided in need to control
No request for salvation
In the gallery of bloodbeauty
Winds of exalt, unable to breathe
Crescendo of enthralling hatred
Meet the masterpiece in the dead
Pose, eyes locked, you're turned into art
Deathscapes already seen
Victim of my raging passion
Come, come, edge of final art
Slaughter of mind and soul at last.
Syndrome to create
A tribute to violation
Body bound to scream in every nerve
Sanity lost for the mighty act
Nobody knows where the edge of knowledge marks
No one will ever enter the realm of subconsciousness
Just trying to show how intense is nakedness
And how futile can be complexity
Do really the blind leads the blind?
Unveiling from the nonsense voices
Too busy to give not worth meanings
To what seems to be the reaching key
Shut down words to hold back the pure
Inner screams from this living lure
Intense drama fills the hour
Pathetic rhymes just to show what's ours
Flowing pain painted as red
Realizing you're as good as dead!
Too busy to give not worth meanings
To what seems to be the reaching key
Shut down words to hold back the pure
Inner screams from this living lure
Collapse for superstition of truths
Terminal contradiction thought disease
Self-killing action in mind control
LP version only - Original verison by KISS
It's not the beauty maybe
...Just you're still hot
Want to live together
What they forgot
Join the will of tomorrow lady
Get out of today
It's time to kneel
On my way
They're trying to hide from me
The place you'll rise
And where you'll
Pull the trigger of my
Love gun... Deadly gun...
You can't forget me baby
Don't try to lie
You'll never leave me after
This try
This psycho love we let in
Will twist our souls
'Cause I know you can still
Get wet
They're trying to hide from me
The place you'll rise
In death you'll pull the trigger of my
Love gun... Deadly gun...
Put a man on the edge of time
He just looks like full of all things to come...
Put him in front of the highest question
Definitive answer is untamed instinct.
Take a further step
Towards the beginning
Cannot see the end for pain
And pleasure are knowledge.
A livid moment of universal panic
Has the smell of eternal frenzy.
Spellbound by blindness
Man murder technology
Is the ultimate saint
The only place where the stench of humanity can't rest
Is a mother's womb pregnant of a new age.
Final curtain left is man's damnation manifest
Circuits of time have (been) made bleed – tied to a nothingod machine
Consumed...deprived...by a forthcoming ecstasy
Refused...by hatred...will extract the moral to thee
Finally blinded by the acid rain the sky will weep
Cio' che ci delinea ai confini dell'era volgare
È l'orgoglio di una razza il cui (fattore) umano
Non vuol dimenticare...
Lo sconforto nella ragione
Non smettera' di guidarci
Dove la constatazione nell'oblio
Rimane l'unico lume a confortarci.
Embraced by time course,
A violent degrading turn.
Sleep through mortality,
Swallowed by the era of infamy.
Creeping towards the safest place
The rage that crawls inside of me
Has come to an exit point
A push of idolatry
Will cum from the heart and boil
Chorus:
Fitting, setting in a murder parade
Control no longer lies
Balance and dance one more play
Your fucks exalt my eyes
A contribution to social anatomy
You'll take under your crust
A scream of mercy-swallow now-
Will excite and make me fast!!!
Chorus
Climbing a wall of blood
Will secure and smash the guilt
A schizo pulse of burning flesh
Will drive you straight in the pit
Instead of blinding my love
Remove your insect cage
You judge wrong my act
...what about to copulate
With a dead mind pack
Salvation in a knife
The course will strife and hide
My conception to be free
A new sphere of emptiness roars
Beyond your spectre of fulfilment.
All the lies you taste don't succumb
Behind the sand of enthralment.
Your mind looses gravity again
'cause the last nightmare you can't hide
Brains left to squeeze
At the smell of upcoming suicide...
Chorus:
Evolution, strangled course.
Magniloquent sin – accept to be.
No form, no shape.
Symbol of a millennium plague
A cerebral disguise ruled
By a one-dimensional sun.
Forced to live since the dawn
Of those who use to run.
Ecstatic liberty just to hide...
Malevolence withers away.
Pathetic shelter back from where
You can live the lie of another day.
Chorus
Dissect my freedom with your moral chains,
Spit on my choice for there's no way out to see.
Infect my word 'cause your pain is my light,
Raising my flag of sin is how I make you die...
Burning high at the stake of humanity;
Enchant your victim with a blind reality;
To exalt my own nature is to bleed in depravity;
To die with my thoughts is brainless insanity.
Creeping on truth, never ask
For identity has to twist.
In the name of the holy masque
And of the sacred deceit...
A blinded past
Through centuries of forgotten truth
The perception's line seeks the river of doom
Unsilent reality reaches the earth beyond
As the gospel of apocalypse
The word will drive the inner strength
The beginning silence
Cracked by the balance's quake
Salvation foreseen
By him who sees towards space
And whose name sleeps no more
Chorus:
Take the hand of fire,
Hallucinating,
Temporary bound to emptiness
New essence of knowledge
Blood-divine, furybound!!!
The essence of wisdom
Filtered by the 2nd moon
Control comes from the
Ultimate sacred stone...
(take power from) the vibration of thoughts
Amplifier of pain
Hidden in a shadow of dust
Inner spectre of arrakis crumbles
As the storm of knowledge crawls
In siege and gravidates revenge
Chorus
Future lost in hellsand glory
Feeding on harkonnen's lust
Erasing of feelings
And being wet by the sacred truth
Walking moments of life through the way of time
The surrounding green tastes this immortal instant
To be the frame of melancholy read by parallel selves
Feeling golden winds opening the gate of our mortality
The enchanting vision is trapped in reflected glass?
Hear the silence in million voices
Oppressing breathing whirls into a void
The picture's becoming clearer,
The blast of clarity louder
No time to realize the apparition of the clearest moment
That ruthless reality awakes me as I am her worst nightmare
Living is again my inner fog path
Scanned by this sarcastic clock of bitterness
And recollections roar through the caverns of my mind
The picture's becoming clearer,
The blast of clarity louder
No time to realize the apparition of the clearest moment
That ruthless reality awakes me as I am her worst nightmare
Living is again my inner fog path
Scanned by this sarcastic clock of bitterness
And recollections roar through the caverns of my mind
Enjoy the last breath of this glimpsy gasp of eternity,
For a lullaby always comes to an end
Enter the submission of a birth giving slumber
Murderer of normality, killer of a blind sight
Blastlight from a dusty sky,
Kingdom of annihilation.
Graveless journey to planet zero,
Interior desecration.
Blow your believes, save your lies
...for there's no restoration.
Dying air, nuclear heart
Intimate deflagration.
Repent your uncommitted sins,
Die fast for your own pleasure.
Crumble down and breath the fire
Dimensions turned into void complete.
Chorus:
Screams are the only tongue
Under this ghastly entombed earth.
Rotten tolls for a hellish bell
Slowly steal your ticks.
Generate degeneration...
Suicidageddon takes control!!!
Tragic chants. mindless action.
Deliverance... consuming ambition.
Necrotic pulse. pounding coma.
World gasps for implosion.
Paint your minutes with red hope
'cause starvation has no stops.
Lie supreme, erase your sleep
Human sculptures sell on top
Delete your past, confusion's fast
Crumbling and pumping your veins.
Blowing death, searching breath
Everburning insanity...
Lying down at the edge of dawn,
A vast melting fire's blacking the sphere now.
Deadly ground asphyxiates the sight of man.
Brainless fury, embrace the shadows of the end!!
A masquerade of pain, plague rules once again...
Toxic lymph, blood like pitch,
Forged before judgement day...
Final dream, bleeding answer, earthfucking genocide.
Corrosion of ages. purity faded,
A milestone of destruction.
Forgotten season. end of reason,
The deepest essence revealed by sacred smoke.
Justice of being trapped in a cell called life.
Denial. devoid. purity. born to inject a wrong air
...generated from the every time call
You need to believe in and to face to...
Regret. switch off. I feed myself from my own pain
A dying space protects the alien eyes
Divinity was reborn from the suffocating rain
Insurance in blood, carved in the speed of emptiness
Don't want to believe in the shelter of a lie
Impossible to rise and live the wheel of time
Pronounce your sermon of mediocrity
And make me swallow the common sense of lucidity
Can't believe / need to erase instead of turning my back
My declaration comes from your lacking existence
My answer to this judgement forecast
Feeds a human death-machinery
Populate the inner meaning
May the indifference to holiness be the saviour...
May not a puppet be the disintegrator of thoughts
Species of dreamers
Dawn of the dyers
Forever exiled in a room
Full
They tried to hold the boundaries of love
Knowing the last word since the opening act.
Fury traction. Need to fulfil. This distance kills.
Raging from the unknown side, unknown desire
Sentence with life mask, my safety is far away... and dies
Fury traction. Need to fulfil. This distance kills.
Waking from what has been an imagination trial
I now do hear no lies.
Feed on the breathless sleep
What will daylight give me?
Chained pleasures demanded by interferences?
Fury traction. Need to fulfil. This distance kills.
I know the sight that eroded me
Is that (deadly) vital function gift
I feel you'll never know me
Spellbound needs to be obscured.
Getting senseless words. Swallow useless scenes.
Please let madness possess me
Cries. Bring me death before life could kill again
Memories. Wanted to live them forevermore
Thrills. Tell me you want to be scarred too
Pt. 1 – Fear / Anger
Yes...I'm here to envy your existence
Broken glass, puzzle of uncertainties made belief;
...I'm here, in front of the light of sanity,
To demonstrate the wish of a facing;
And I'm here, subjugated by the thrust
That makes my instinct movable
...and pleasantly na³ve my sin
Let me see the eyes of the one
Who's thirsty for life's shine,
The one who smells of wellbeing...
And you, that never leave the red
Buried with elegance...
Pt. 2 – The Act
Chorus:
Prey of my vice,
Tool of my fantasy,
Explosive device of my pleasure-
Final aim of my charisma
Let me enter the land of puerile light
That tastes of common life and enchantment...
Let me enter the backstage of the sweetest recital,
Where the applauses are a request for free life
The turmoil sweats from the pores of impatience,
Impossible to live in the shadow of anger,
Lack of ground...lack of value.
Repeat 2nd verse + chorus
Pt. 3 - Fulfilment / The Rest
Blinded by the extravagant desire of knowledge
Feel the last act that delivers you to the visible world...
I remove myself 'cause the breath of prosperity...
Frozen and hidden in dustsmiles
The naked voice rises so pale
With fear forward to loneliness
Yet so proud like wolves in their habitat
Removed the veil of endurance
Thorns scratch the skin
Warm are the curtains of innocence
Strong enough to obscure emptiness
But scathing is the story behind the audience
In search for prefabricated roles
With fear forward to loneliness
Yet so proud like wolves in their habitat
Removed the skin of endurance
Thorns has scratched the veil
Warm are the curtains of innocence
Strong enough to obscure emptiness
But scathing is the story behind the audience
In search for prefabricated roles
The eyes we cannot see
Are the truth we can't conceive
The borders of blindness suffocates the liquid
The eyes we cannot see
Are the truth we can?t conceive
Moans invoke the inner deathscape
Mutilated so gently. Fire of falseness
Wings of desperation react to the void
Embracing the lost paleness
As a man falls in his unknown
He stops his mortal time.
The state of slave-being is put to an end
And suffering grows sharper.
Yearning what we detest then begins:
The barriers of ignorance.
That which disgust and makes
The karmic wheel go on with violence
Almost seems to be the only way
To emerge and survive
Revealer reason is the sourest of judges
For the sentence has been determined
With no forewarning.
At the end of the day after I'm gone
The sweet figure of the end, it talks to me
Unveiling truths which I repress
At point coming back:
Gentle visions
Of hallucinating realities with no return.
Revelear reason is the sourest of judges
For the sentence has been determined
With no forewarning.
Not being able to find the key,
Contradiction destroys...just to rebuild
Losing the faculty of expression
Incommunicability, insanity overflows.
Return to persecution, annihilating impotence.
Is it accepting or erasing the right conclusion?
Sure of finding the truths in parallel planes
Lost in the paleness of a missing day, memories drift away
Flirting with dust of an ego, time no longer plays...
Horizons are freezing to me
Life injections are what I bleed.
Escaping from the definitive breath
Of an existence now can't rest.
All colors now blind my eyes
Will my next hours be denied...
Vicious lunacy, looks addressed to a heep of ashes.
Definitives goodbyes...soaked in moments turned
...to a blinding black out
Floating as a safety
The afterworld praises sanity...
Traces at my back show a double mirrored shape
And all that's left to touch is a blue cold frame
My senses so small, my future never to fall
Hiding from resting ...slave to nothing but all.
Screams without face that once were my race
Dying forever in a life that finally trace its place.
Turning to a safety
The afterworld is my sanity...
Still stinking of human, thoughts are oppressed.
Leads: MonTagnA
Summoned to the house of seance
To play the evil tarot cards
To find out what our fate will bring us
Before the war
Approaching now the hour of tiamat
Evil feeling in the air
The chosen wait impatiently
To find the rituals of power
Come out of the fire
Making the legacy known
Predicted by the past, takes its toll at last
Now know when it strikes
The endless fueding shows its fate
The people are all shocked with fright
They know the end is coming near
It's time to fight
The revolution holds on strong
The armies have all met their match
Entire world up in arms
Destruction sees the spirits of anger
Come up from the gallows
Conjured my demons appear
Summoned to my cast, prey this deadly mass
Takin' by the fire you fail
The world became a vast wasteland
Survivors turned to cannibals
Killing everything in sight
Warfare tonight
The armies are all closing in
The populations getting small
Feelings are so cold as ice
Survival names its price
Starting to burn
The rape and violence grows high
A kingdom will rise
To rule with contempt
They will surprise
Kill and repent
The weakness in armies
Won't die
Leads: MonTagnA
Leaving now the house of séance
Speculating destiny
Wonder if the cards were true
Will wait to find out
Melted in the cage twisted and torn
In a suicidal age like stones we are born.
Approaching the winter of the century
Vision slaughtered by the filtering sunset
Descending in the halls of the blind
Terminus dawning near
Withering, passive links
Agonizing in the age of nonsense mental inferno
Death and sleep, winged sisters in equal genes, so fast and silent
Blacking air, turning the day, wheezes are closing in
Our structures condemned
To enjoy emptiness
Circle of repression leads to
Inorganic sights of a dead screen
Downfall in the resounding echo of ages - enter oblivion
Eroding you'll see the fall of dignity
Suicidal flowers from a ghost bride. Never so real
Death and sleep, winged sisters in equal genes, so fast and silent
Blacking air, turning the day, circuits are blowing with plea
Melted in the cage. Twisted and torn.
In a suicidal age like stones we are born
Burning is the seed; the fall is your only need
Eroding you'll see the fall of your dignity
Suicidal flowers from a ghost bride. Now you hear
I've gotta take a little time
A little time to think things over
I better read between the lines
In case I need it when I'm older
Now this mountain I must climb
Feels like the world upon my shoulders
Through the clouds I see love shine
It keeps me warm as life grows colder
In my life there's been heartache and pain
I don't know if I can face it again
Can't stop now, I've traveled so far
To change this lonely life
I wanna know what love is
I want you to show me
I wanna feel what love is
I know you can show me
I'm gonna take a little time
A little time to look around me
I've got nowhere left to hide
It looks like love has finally found me
In my life there's been heartache and pain
I don't know if I can face it again
Can't stop now, I've traveled so far
To change this lonely life
I wanna know what love is
I want you to show me
I wanna feel what love is
I know you can show me
I wanna know what love is
I want you to show me
(And I wanna feel) I wanna feel what love is
(I know) I know you can show me
(Let's talk about love) I wanna know what love is
(Love that you feel inside) I want you to show me
(And I'm feeling so much love) I wanna feel what love is
(I know you just can't hide) I know you can show me
I wanna know what love is
(Let's talk about love) I want you to show me
(I wanna feel it) I wanna feel what love is (I wanna feel it, too)
(And I know, and I know) I know you can show me
I wanna know what love is (I wanna know)
I want you to show me (I wanna know, I wanna know, I wanna know)
I want to feel what love is (I wanna feel)
[Chorus x4: Frukwan (Maraj)]
Frukwaaaaan... (ah-ahhh...)
[Frukwan]
Yo, check it.
My body feels, set the wreck, disconnect, heads from neck
Crossin' bones, raid ya home, fuck you thugs and Al Capones
Go against me, G? Bring a fuckin' military, G
I drop bombs and shit, made to spit, plastered it, blastin' it
Rapid fire gladiator, who the fuck am I? Next door neighbor?
The illest pursuit, I'm after ya, crashin' ya, harassin' ya
Same brother in the store with ya, never thought that I was stalkin' ya
Scorpion, Kevorkian, same stable that your horse be in
Skip the dirt, enhance my work, cop my purse, defend my turf
[Chorus x4]
[Frukwan]
Yo, I bring chaos, mayhem, crash the wood, rip the hood
Niggaz can't rock half as good, phony ass go to Hollywood
My recipe's, destiny, fightin' for my ancestry
Stand down, admit defeat, catastrophe's, blasphemy
Now it's a game with toys and feedin' the young the poison
Frukwan, Black Moses, explode like guns and roses
Cultivate, amputate, alter states, decapitate
Box you in, lock you in, drain brothers from they oxygen
What you see, higher degrees, think about before you step to me
[Chorus x4]
[Frukwan]
Yo, the crate is deep, smokin' dust, guns that bust, start to rust
Melt the lead, heads are dread, don't give a fuck, what you said
Ain't no one protectin' ya, body bags is collectin' ya
Raid ya crib, crack ya ribs, hold ya whole fam hostages
Psycho with a rifle, poke your ass full of knife holes
Attica, massacre, yeah, it's funny when they laugh at ya
I road dirt in a black hearst, keep a nine in the black purse
Protector of the sector, the real, the resurrector
The warlord, the lord of all, bloodshed and pain
If anyone care to ask, Frukwan, be the name, yo.
[Intro: Frukwan]
Yeah, check it, yo
'Kwan Sun Star, peace to the Gods
Yo, check it, yo
[Chorus x2: Frukwan]
Caught up in the mixture of time and space
So you better think twice 'fore you loose your place
Cause first your here, then your gone
Some will carry on, I use a fourth back in the pack
[Frukwan]
Lovin' it, creep, blaze wild fires
Mentally complete, I never will retire
I amputate the rep, of you phony cadetes
Roll block and cage melons, I smash your melon
Off top enemy, force blunt dramas
Brothers know the penalty, disrespect the drama
If you ain't a MC, then don't present
By the way, you got a minute for a single fate
I stand root and sort, this be food for thought
And compare it to my stuff, and you still ain't sayin' nothin'
You want a thick link, I wear a barbed wire clink on my frame
Look inside my eyes, see my pain
I still struggle, cause ain't nothin' realer then that
Everything that I feel, touch, taste is black
Respect to the street hoodies, I drop boulders
For my up and coming wild young soldiers
[Chorus x2]
[Frukwan]
I spit a tea spoon of tricks, cardiac elixer
Quick to smell the fan, a funnel of a twister
Ching high spy's, black supplies
No matter what the plan, I'm the last to stand
Peep the text work of a expert, stalk the jungle
Black street mongle, lyrics yet to fumble
Arch nemesis, sinister guiness
Performin' on a crowd like a root canal
My metaphor preys on regul' laws like predators
Weak don't stand a chance, and spread terror like Manson
Pluck brothers from air ducts and such
Trigger the sea fort parts over the war
Brothers left stripped, I'm there garment, crack your valve
Yeah nigga, thats how I get down
So if you still want a piece, I got more to release
By the gallon, knockin niggas off balance, yo
[Chorus x2]
[Frukwan]
Critical my frame, all points the same
First line in defense, Frukwan's my name
The MC, fuck bein' a rapper
I master concept, thoughts and objects
The original Lex Luth', givin' brothers bumps and bruise
On brothers that feel they got nothin' to lose
Step to me, I let loose like a untamed bear
I grip and chew, never loosen my grip
Skinned tissue was aparant
I leave lyrical abrasions, and altercations
Any man under the meat, is lesser
Nigga what you think, don't mean a God damn thing under pressure
And I'mma see to it, and change the text
Open brothers up wide, put a hole in your chest
My click love to hurt, love to do work
Any thing I need done, I just say the word
From my caboose go deep, 36 with night vision
Recruit my troops, under hazardous condition
Incognito, throw them up like torpedos
And send them on they way, yo
[Chorus x4]
[Outro: Frukwan]
Yo, check it
Ya'll better straighten up and fly right, boy
With the possession, and the power, to control the entire globe
Through hip-hop, yo
I feed on compass like any music existed in history
[Frukwan]
Check it... yo.
Instead of beat a brother's head off for half the rent
Half percent, brothers need to all get bent
Whips and gold to hold to a master flow
Rollin' with the G.O., these deeds for Castro
Competition far from close, rip and roast
Flip ducks on the skillet, feel it?
1-0-5th, the hood, only if the weed was good
Roll it up, make it last like I'm puffin' the past
Gaze beyond, where I'm from, brothers don't bargain
Gods on the grid like Murtogh's and Riggs
If you don't give a fuck, then you know what's up
Cock D.O.D's, with or without the nuts
Steady riot, heavy flow, East crush a ghetto delux
Muthafucker, what? Bum rush ya
Codeine ice breath, flexin' my biceps
Fuck with me, put your ass forever to sleep
[Chorus: Frukwan]
What da fuck is wrong with you?
What da fuck you gonna do?
What da fuck is wrong with you?
I'll bust your ass and cap your crew
[Frukwan]
Ssssss.
Yo, blind fury, whatever the force, I'll shake it off
Evidence I weight, ghetto cap backs and broth
Grew up, a teaspoon, overdose off jams
Hot watch, plenty of beats, shots of miligrams
Stone roller, head up, a shot release
Stay gritty, Black Lordz runnin' the whole city
B-Ball and rampage when I rip the stage
Part the Red Sea with a pump and a gauge
Niggaz wanna tailgate, then chase the bait
Black spider, drop brothers like a low rider
Lashin' my whip, watch brothers abandon ship
What the fuck's so new, about the shit I do?
Chargin' cats to breeze, palm M.C.'s
Catch you with mines, niggaz doin' serious time
Pick up from where I left and cross the globe
Represent E.N.Y., until I die... what?!
[Chorus]
[Frukwan]
Yo, I spit the live shit, divide the jewels
Rave reviews, the nuts on my prosecute
[Lady Tigra]
Midwest be the place where I rest
No time for the stress, yeah I get sit on with the best
Talk shit, nigga, I hit's the chest
Yeah, I smoke Philly blunts, nigga, with the best, what?
Hard hittin', cigar splittin', now I'm driftin'
Hustle just for days, new ways to get paid
Them niggaz on the blunt, serve weight
Turnin' bricks, nigga, into cash in a day
Check it -- one man suicide, another man's brief
If you bow down, nigga, you will self defeat
Talk is cheap, nigga, show the actions that you speak
I know the game plan to a T, street choke
Niggaz can't survive on these streets
You can feel the words that I say through this beat
This hip hop music be the code for the streets
My Chi-Town niggaz represent for the streets, what?
[Intro: Frukwan]
Yo, yo, check it
Yo, for real, comin' atcha
Yo, it's like this, yo
[Chorus: Frukwan]
Never give up, never give up, never give up
Keep holdin' on, gotta stay strong, keep your head up hung
[Frukwan]
Yo, what you say to a brother when he straight up wrong?
If you feel you all that, then lets get it on
I got no time for the bullshit, I'm quick to snap
But if worse come to worse, I whip out the gat
Back down from no man, I'm a brother with heart
But I'd rather build first, mad swift with darts
Street brother, with knowledge of self at nineteen
Same jam, master a hundred twenty degrees
Been around for a minute, in a land of gold
Brooklyn, East New York where I started to flow
Coup Devilles, rag time bottles with bells
Feel me, phat Caddy's like Sam Cassell
Mad brothers, my block was a flock of black sheeps
Wasn't a house nigga, so we house the streets
Gettin' knocked by the cops, now and then we pop
Few shots in the air, let 'em know we was here
Time flew, but now I'm gettin better with age
Flip a new page, time to unleash my rage
[Chorus]
[Frukwan]
Yo, look in my eyes, tell me what you see in the dark
Want a move me out my seat like Rosa Parks
Mentally enslaved brothers never change they ways
Exploit the youth, now my vibes negative grips
Buyin' in to the fake graph maternity stamps
Cash it while I fuck it, yo i'll see you tomorrow
Black woman you a queen, but I doubt your strength
Watchin' the two fuckin', run around, half nude
Flashin' guns and clips, diamonds and phat rocks
African brothers died on them chopin' blocks
Don't despair, now you wanna cover your ear
Monkey see, monkey do, fuck wrong with you?
In fifty states, you cats can't carry the weight
Wanna mention, what ya'll need special attention
Never degraded my race, come face to face
Rappers more of a joke then a ray of hope
I ain't sittin' on my ass just to turn my cheek
Hip-hop be the art and I'm the masterpiece
You cats with fake images, watch your back
Practice what you preach, cause that shit is wack
[Chorus]
[Frukwan]
But what you mean you ain't down, you ain't rollin' with us
Cause you livin' mad large, and your crib is plush
Must've forgot, you the same little crab from the wood
Punk from the hood, frontin' like this shit all good
Movin' up in the world, even switch the gas
But you know to this day, I still whip that ass
Ain't nothin' change, nothin' but the time of the year
Still trot through the hood like Paul Revere
Vision my vise, my peeps is black and dilated
Brothers quick to cross the streets, intimidated
Ain't my fault, cause I got that New York walk
New York talk, blame it on society's fault
Brothers stay bebbed up, I'm prepared caliss
Ready to give my life because I'm doin' a bit
Bagged the eighth, figured it was worth the weight
Crack a bottle over the head of your fake role models
Bitin' the such of must, give up ways and plus
I be damned if I let the song self distruct
[Maraj provides background vocals]
[Hook: Frukwan]
Yo, what's the meaning of life?
Yo, somebody please tell me.
What's the meaning of life?
Yo, somebody gots to help me
Yo, what's the meaning of life?
Yo, somebody please tell me.
[Frukwan]
I look inside the mirror and look in myself, I'm hopin' for help
Everyday I'm hopin' for a brand new strife
The shores of North America, I'm bound to survive
Though I'm not the same, yo I carry a gift
Tricked and sold his cargo on the bowels of ships
But yo, I got my pride, tighten up my stand
Lookin' at the stars, the original man.
Never thought that it would ever come to this
Migrate really wasn't a time when life was great
I wanna go home to the Bering Straights
A place where I know where my kid's is safe
Thoughts of runnin' foul like a rampant disease
Yet, my skin tone really couldn't bring the ease
Gettin' weaker by the day, months and years
Thousands of years we reign, but now I shed a tear
[Chorus: Frukwan]
Yo, what's the meaning of life?
Yo, somebody please tell me.
What's the meaning of life?
Yo, somebody gots to help me
Yo, what's the meaning of life?
Yo, but do you know?
[Frukwan]
Inhale and exhale the breath of mist
Each and every day a new way to exist
Don't wanna use a gun, shoot drugs and dope
Don't wanna wear a cross, 'cuz it brings no hope
In the beginnin' as we know, started back in the land
Well defined, their complexion was just like mines
Come to find we was lead and upon direct
Now we cheat, steal and kill and lost all respect
How much pain would you take before you break the chain?
Most of us don't even care, we was planted with fear
We say the babies are the future, but what's the fuss?
Broken homes, growin' up, they act worse than us
Since we all been double-crossed, sins we wear with pride
Believe the lies, yet, still ain't open our eyes
Lookin' forward to the day that I fast and pray
These is questions that I always say
[Chorus]
[Frukwan]
Goin' through a struggle, yeah it's hard at first
Bein' put down, shunned, ragged, tagged and dragged
The inner strength leave the soul through a body of one
Can't be mad, yo, I'm glad, cuz I know where I'm from
Priceless, I'm like a treasure, I can't be touched
Made an image of myself from the grains of dust
Mold and shape the woman with the curves of a snake
Travel lightyears away and then return to base
Eliminatin' evil's more like a daily chore
Teachin' my ways, that's how I spend most of my days
Balance attack, never been scared to be black
Manifestin' only actual facts
Savin' the kids, spreadin' love, yo, that's how to life
Justice is my reward for the acts that I did
Think about all the things in time, seek and you'll find
Yo, I wanna go home, I got's to know
[Intro: Frukwan]
Mmm, mmm, peace queen, how you be?
You know, I've been acknowledgin'
Kind of adaptin' off the science
Know what I'm sayin?
It's different slaves and moves
Different ways you groove
You know I'm feelin' that
It's givin' me energy right now, to radiate
So I gotta represent for you queen
Know what I mean, for real
Just knowledge that, I'm peepin' the science, yo
[Frukwan]
Go head boo, see you do your thing
I ain't mad you be cussin', showin' off your thing
Semi grind like earth, deep routed from birth
Under sisters in condition, loose their position
You got off, sudden the boats, failin' the check
I don't mean to disrespect, overprotect
Extravagant wine, candle lights and refinement
Night cruise the block, your mother like a fox
I keep your box damn firm, any other preturn
And the pew recognize, together we build
Motivated yo, you keepin it real, it's off the wall
Shine life from the livin' God, how's that
My back bone, my protection
I give your loved one twenty and affection
Any other is chores, provide it for the cause
Yo baby, I'm yours
[Chorus x4: Frukwan]
Ain't nothin' like a strong woman by my guard
Liftin' my head when times is hard
[Frukwan]
Princess of Arabia, truth be lie
Comin' to you with a vision that I felt inside
They dig us for gold, but here to let you know
Heres a let down, teach a brother move slow
Don't need a woman to chase star struck brothers to fuck
Legal divorce, have his baby take him to court
Buildin' hatred and want to escape, or hesitate
Think twice, when only one rollin' the dice
If I was sick, you was rubbin' me down
Each and every conflict, you was holdin' your ground
I'm feelin' that, one in a mil', boo, for real
So many to choose, you saved me
Gotta give my life to you
Homin' abroad connect, never loosin' a threat
How a loser even come close to forget
Adolescent throw me a rope to clear
When your near, the bad thoughts disappear
[Chorus x4]
[Frukwan]
If love was a crime, penalty is death
But the love for my boo is all a brother got left
Baby gotta give me strong support, last resort
Anything I'm fortunate, I'm settin' it off
Only come once, take no shorts, this ain't a game
It's only one brother shapin', moldin' that frame
Brothers wanna disrespect, penalty is death
Thats enforced from the bomb we possess
If I ain't enlifted by your fur, diamond rings, Rolex
Seven day cruise, chillin' in the house and sex
Rather then that, devoted to fidelity, rhythm and melodies
Massage you curve, match my fur
The fact is the time we both go broke
And ain't got, and end up in a cardboard box
I wouldn't care boo, wouldn't give a fuck yo
Long as your there, got my back (Yeah) I got your back
[Chorus x8]
[Outro: Frukwan]
Yo, check it out, peace to the earth
The mother of civilization, word
I got your back, you know
You gotta dig deep within yourself
You know what I'm sayin?
And make sure and represent yourself as a treasure
Don't be so easy led to be open
Know what I'm sayin? For real
Make yourself worthy of being a prize, word
Know what I'm sayin? And keep it real
Know what I'm sayin? For real
I ain't playa hatin' or nothin', but yo
Whats right is right, whats wrong is wrong
[Chorus x2: Frukwan]
America, home of the brave, land of the free
I know they ain't talkin' 'bout me
The B-L-A-C-K's, we done forgotten the ways
[Frukwan]
Yo, check it out, yo.
I crawled through the mud, young black blood teachin' his peeps
It really don't matter how many I reach
As long as I drop, science and bombs, tricks of the trade
Obedient slave, look and beyond the page
Being born dark shaded, marked and hated
Caught on drugs, that's what America loves
Never forget, time and travel, 9 thousand mile swim
I'm addicted to Bacardi and gin
Playin' the games, stuck with a devilish name
Does it seem, to me, I gotta act the same
Who am I? My jet black, covers the sky
Seen brothers that's slayed for revealin' the lies
Speakin' the truth, my back ways invadin' my roots
Now it's time for brothers to tighten they boots
Sit back, look just for a minute and cry
Now I know what Biggie meant by being Born to Die
Feelin' the whips, locked in abandon ships
Strip children from they moms, and beat them to death
Yo, give me a second to catch my breath
All of this, yo, yo... I must be blessed
[Chorus x2]
[Frukwan]
Yo, check it.
Time travels, studyin' the wars of my rival
European life, wanna strip me for my title
Day one, I earned my wage, stole my age
Go far as back, have us livin' in caves
Savage life, we was wearin' diamond and ice
Get it right, 2 G. B.C., teach me what?
How to hate my own, help the plan
Forget the memories of the original man
Shapes, children build Sphinx, pyramids and saint
And according with the stars, can't deny me God
Let the Romans come stone it, like the snakes in yard
Signs so deep, they created false God
Bearin' violence, higher learning brain wash
So we countered with a million man march
Dark matter, crossbreedin' the race
Relocate, to a state, and they was lost in space
Studyin' mankind, I got nothing to hide
Probe my mind, seek and you're bound to find
[Chorus x2]
[Frukwan]
Yo... yo.
Rise and influence, scientific
My wisdom sparks like the length hieroglyphics
Manifest to the extremes of a main supreme
Circulated homicidal and predictive schemes
Actual fact, wrapped in an aerial attack
Choose my path, intensify my heat to blast
Rise above all laws and flaws
Universal savior, in a rendictive, cost ya'll
You walked thorugh Hell's Belly? Yup, to save the young
From the guns and the one that speak with folk tongue s
Studied the less', linguistic, materialistic
False belief, conceit, the mark of the beast
Only time we come together is when rest in peace
Stay blind, we break bread, book of the dead
Fill jails, we gang bang, we gang bang.
It's up to us to break the chain
[Chorus x2: Frukwan]
Yo, enough's enough
Yo yo, yo, I'm rough enough
Yo check it, yo, ain't done enough, betta believe dat
Yo, can't help enough, yo what the fuck?
[Frukwan]
Break fool, crack you for robs
Unless your crew's, adding on to the pot, never known to stop
I flip the vendetta, scores are armageddon
And Armaretta sour, when I posess the power
Spend time with my rhyme like I do with my wiz
While you brothers locked up, I be teachin ya kids
Cripled individuals, with critical errors
Grab a hand for the evil, then vert it to right
And triple darkness, I got to bring fourth the light
Sweat the architecht, and you bound to get crushed
Full contact nigga, this ain't two hand touch
Spot the ball, Frukwan ready to brawl
One for all, brother try to take what I got
Raid my spot, pull with that platinum ball
How you feel when your corn hold label your coat
I sink your boat, lyrically, I slash your throat
[Chorus x2]
[Frukwan]
For sure, bet you wake up, bang up the tunes
For you, the mic is in my twenty one gun salute
Got a Lex in my laranex, custom skins
Melon trims, honey wanna ride my 20 inch rims
It's the pole chain breaker, the dart freight raider
Detonator zero, peep the unsung hero
My torch never dim, true indeed
Still drop degrees, still a threat like a rare disease
Verbal in the black slit, Medina walk it barefoot
Leavin' steps of blood for brothers that I love
Astrogen, see the el capiten, may ask you when
Strip a couple aspirins, track record
Rough slaps thrown your writs
Brothers swim in kiddie pools while I dive off cliffs
The mad ill thinker, the heavy hitter
Back splitter, Medina track ripper
Attackin' the track quicker
[Chorus x2]
[Frukwan]
When impact react, with the chrome of steel
I peels to smoke the fields get ills for real, blaze the track
Labeled as a full time ready to pump rhyme sudden
I smoke from the oven, rap skill
Desert shield crash the wheel
You be lucky if I'm list, cause I aim to kill [sirens] (Yo, ahh!)
Fuck a road block, never a full stop
You wanna cock block, this nigga, your chance is slim
From the streets where the heat reach a hundred and ten
There we since, rise with the blunts and stunts
Fossils drop, are better then the graves of rock
Elements and stock, laid do it
In disguard, fourty five, put my big black Cuban cigar
Shade Allah, mothafuckin' change at the shift
For the few line hits that can fuck with this
[Chorus: Frukwan]
It gets deep, think that you can stand it?
It gets deep, would you rather be branded?
I know I don't, cause things ain't what they seem
And nowadays, know what I mean?
[Frukwan]
Yo, articulate metaphors, flows forever more
Energized in a mobile spaceport, antiquity
Man dies in his own eniquity
Cast the fluids to over heat
Shadow the boundries, but yet complete
My mental state escapes gravity
Charge the earth like a battery, one planet to settle
I nut in the Earth to raise the sea level
A mass tons of rocks melt the boil
Up rooted through trees who leaves drip oil
My science is logic, generate his face like tectonic plates
Engraved in a thousand foot wave
Ambriotic mitosis begin to rub
A live sea air particles in a clog of blood
Diluted in mix, stripped of his richest resources
Evident remain, we traced the courses
Symbolic air lights with no appetite or thirst
A walking curse, that happened in the earth, ahhh! yo, yo
[Chorus x2]
[Frukwan]
Abroad my peaks to release degrees of acid
Total the sun for every year that passes
I trigure land slides and tsunamis, remove the world armies
Blow steam through the canyon walls of Mohammad
Travel through spaces of comet, invade
Celestial bodies in the bloodstream against the coral seas
Invent medicine to heal wounds
Real tombs before the earth started to bloom
Makin' projects of illuminant objects buried deep in the closet
I exist to show the greatest story ever told
Dingilin' in complex where at the seat of raw meat and pigs feet
Never being released, psycological depression
Loss identity and dimension with no comprehensions
So I close my eyes and rest my head
And travel light years instead
Combine the force, a dark matter crashin'
Cause and effects that cause chain reactions
[Chorus x2]
[Frukwan]
My direction consists of perfection
Oppositions listen to the lessons
Taught and brought up by, by decievin'
Illusions casts for those that believe in
False subtracts that catch the weak change into wicked
I kick it to teach, being able to reach my beloveds
Born below those, Frukwan rose above it
Being able to gift it and uplift it
And able to blind and see tricks to untwist it
Back by a brother that absorbed his words
Shape and mold, the song only sung by the birds
My culture is natural, sactuated actually
Degrees brought about by you and me
Mind over matter shatters the evil
Heads are dead if you live thorugh the needle
Lords are nature, crate that await you
Arrival, the survival of the fittest makes more
Problem for solvin', identity revolvin'
Character support, yo that's involvement (What? Yo)
[Intro: Frukwan (Lady Tigra)]
Oh shit, I don't believe this shit, yo babe
(What's wrong honey?)
Yo babe, we gotta get the fuck out of here
Get the kids, get your shit (Where are we going?)
You hear that shit, it's on, shit is goin' down
(What is goin' down?) We gotta get the fuck out of here
I gotta protect mines (But we in this together)
Fuck that, I ain't tryin' to hear that, now lets go, lets go
Yo, yo
[Frukwan]
Top breeze, in fill smoke chokin' your lungs
Heart rate gozzle, like you was drunk
Panic spreadin' wide yo, it's gettin' dark outside
Walls of crime, ready to strike, ain't much time
Secondary flares, so get prepared for the heat
Gears and metal shells that be breakin' the streets
Concrete ready for war, yo, word to the mother
Fuck around, it's the real band of brothers
Out flank, position and rank, M1 tank
Diggin' the trench, look out for the land mines
Walk The Green Mile, and I snipe the crook
Fuck you bitch, givin' up my life for this
Cause and effects, dead souls won't regret
Live to learn, dues that I paid to earn
Civilize in response, yo I'm wrong to trust
Ain't no one alive that could fuck with us
[Chorus x2: Frukwan & Lady Tigra]
My brothers ready for war? (Yeah!)
Ready, knock down the doors? (Yeah!)
Time to find their heads on the floor? (Yeah!)
Can we keep it one for all? (Yeah!)
[Lady Tigra]
Ya'll niggas wanna test my skills
I aim squeeze and cock deals, set you on a burning chill
Get you shaking up the side, cause of the words you feel
Wanna sell out for the bucks, pluss the house on the hill
Got no time for the truth, so you packin' the steel
Got a bullet for your boss, 'fore them quiets reveal
[Frukwan]
Lookin' for scraps, bottom dead corpse for maps
Plenty more layin' flat, yeah I'm after that
Creepin' the fridge, so I lay await in the ditch
Flippin' the switch, throw your fuckin' ass to bits
All alone in the world that be cold as ice
Sacrifice, images is rushin' my site
Actin' strange, at times be forgettin' my name
Walkin' over skulls and brains, part remains
Blood is spilt, see it on my homeboy's kilt
Feelin' the guilt, wakin' up in cold sweats
Toasted, fuckin' with the rats and roaches
Make a brother cry when you see a man coverd with flies
No lies, no disguise, no alibis
Just lettin' off a smell that be worse then hell
Stick it with hits, bullets strip, this is it
So welcome to the bottomless pits
[Chorus x2]
[Frukwan]
Yo, airborne yo I bomb, word is bond
My spies penetrate, never fail they gather entail
Wanna lick a few silence, kid stop the violence
For the advance, ten inch guns releasin' gas
Move they grind, diminish, completely finish
Raise the flag of the gods, sun, moon, and the stars
Star trooper, black laws, enforced officers
Cougin' up, tossin' off metals of violence
Met at the scholars, feedin' off the greeds of dollars
Propaganda is random, rips and tantrums
Feel me, then drop the anthem, yo
[Intro: Frukwan]
Check it out... check it out.
Yo. yo... yo
[Chorus x2: Frukwan]
Little Johnny Walker Red, 2 to the head
Big shot, slingin' crack and rocks, found dead
Some say it was the cops
Mothers said it was our brothers on the block
[Frukwan]
Yo, makin' stacks of cash money, feel the drama drop
CREAM of the crop, I keep it hot
Feel the rhyme in it, dominant, fake ass talkin'
Muthafuckas fuck the wine, get ya mind open
So he wanna sail with the six pack?
Cork his thought, shit to muzzle, chase a trouble, pass, guzzle
It's lookin' bad, sellin' every fuckin' thing that he had
Osirus, weak ass computer virus
The vintage fighter, Johnny United
Claim to be the finest heavyweight, walkin' Empire State
Livin' lavish, but in exaggerate of lust
Funds way to the tongues, no excuse for bigger guns
Rendevous makin' moves, the physical endevour
Hypin' fright, kill and excite, my P. defender
Rended you in comp, like a hundred niggaz when they stomp
Muthafuckas get stomped, what?
[Chorus x2]
[Frukwan]
Yo, watch when brothers get ill, I knew that
Pain and repurcuss', bust, bust, no discuss
Rush in position to blaze, stard bustin'
Circumstance put you in a panic, hold ya cannon
Fox 5, got ya hangin' from the wire
Where the debris trunks, pieces of lead heat up ya body
In six to avenge what it is, when a brother gets shell shocked
Figure enemies paradox
The tense, relentless, never end this
The scandal was assault and bust the vault
Brothers that fought, at ease
Crash the 'ment, just to free up butts
Lookin' forward and to livin' it up
Five/six deep, followin' Jeeps and ordernents
Weapon supply, fugitive spies, subordinants
Smoke screen, three brothers done lost their lives
From the team, while gettin' get caught up in the government scheme
[Chorus x2]
[Frukwan]
Yo, brace the armor, face the cap slugs in your back
We escape, through the labryinth, hope
Battle is skilled decision, act of precision
The coke was depth bein' the only one left
Couldn't divide the rules skated with the jewels
Lay low with pesos, chronic and blow
Add a couple stunts, and his trail got cold
Headed straight for the block when he drove his Rolls
Seen and heard, yo, word, give me the four
Point blank at the tank, empty clip at the dour
Slow your roll, the pain was too immense to run
Knew that his time would come, top issue
Branded by a government official
The boys in blue, Paparazzi circled the block
Rounded up six cats whose phones were tapped
Still frontin', nobody knew nothin', yo!
Yo, check it, yo, Frukwan, Sun Star
A new category, a new chamber in hip-hop
Yo, it's called the wise category
You know what I'm sayin'?
Cause all I do is drop science, fuck the bullshit
So for you wack ass motherfuckers
Don't come in my house
Thinkin' you runnin' this shit
Players can't even get with
Hangin' with the lyrics I spit
Hit harder then I hit
I be the ill wild keeper, creep with such
Pack a punch, yum yum, bag chumps for lunch
Till the last forgade, the crime that pays
Canarse, New York be the home of the brave
Got slang and game, brother whats your rank
Wanna slip me a bitch, and I say no thanks
I don't fuck with skeez, don't waste my cheese
Catch me in the street, get in clubs for free
Frukwan be forever, my notes is thick
Sick just like a lunatic fuckin' with this
Got a million plus fans, bars and hooks
Claws that leave a gash, cash in the stash
Twin berettas, armoretta's laced in the sweater
Sculptin' my craft like Egyptian math
King of the king kings with the crips and right
Swing a double edged sword, disrupt your life, what
Yo, time or tell, thoughts is gold
Elevate certain heads if you gots to know
Born leader, brand the architect by fate
Since day one, represented the real duns nigga
Don't compare with the truth for there
Try to keep an MC from his destiny
What I do, how I live, do affect my kids
Knew that before hand, when I crossed the
Alias, a.k.a. all I see in the cruise
Diligents with the bumps and bruise
Give 'em daps, sippin' wine doesn't make me less
But I'm the villain in the eyes of depress, yo, fuck it, yo
You got mines and I got your back
Together we can bond and cominse attack
Think it's all about you, then your bound to fall
Remember, take a deep breath, cause you a guest in this house
Yo, double my line, quick to take
Brothers know they get jumped when they fake the funk
Brothers got scar remains, limited range
Perimeter preach feet scripts, and red cheese
Constant, never in one spot for long
Got connects, more then a federal depth
The scope is global reign, hover with the cane
Terror with the fright, lot of sleepless nights
Heard it before, sex more beach than whores
Blaze the trail, rip it like Jordan and Scott
One of the few brothers that got flow off top
I run you in brother, make you forced to stop
Thinkin' the trench pot, cause I'm scorchin' hot
Rugged then the rag times, scrapin' cans
The pressure rise water, made it hot as blast
Countin' sheeps yo, that was far from norm
Everybody wanna duck while I face the storm
Fuck it, I take it head up, my souls direct
Ain't a motherfuckin' body, I'll cook the chef