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The term mind games refers to three main categories:[citation needed]
'The struggle for prestige...in the imaginary' formed for Jacques Lacan one of the major fields of human interaction. Such 'competiveness...a lot of rivalry about' is perhaps most prevalent in Type A personalities, so that for example the wary salesman will know that 'selling to the highly driven person means facing some of the most challenging mind games you'll ever encounter..arrogance, impatience, or condescension'.
However, in all office politics 'envy, rivalry, power conflicts...discord and intrigues, are a matter of course'; and the 'passive aggressive...[who] took secret revenge, often quite unconsciously' may well be quite as dangerous a game-player as the 'driven...[who] might pull a few overly aggressive mind tricks'.
'Women use the term mind games to refer to the ways their partners undermine their confidence in their own perceptions'. Thus 'Jill may act upon Jack in many ways...He may invalidate her experience...invalidate not only the significance, modality, and content, but her very capacity to remember at all, and make her feel guilty for doing so into the bargain'. Such abusive mind games may extend to 'discounting (denial of the victim's reality), diverting...trivializing, undermining, threatening...and - most important - anger'.
Jedi Mind Tricks (JMT) is a hip hop duo with Vinnie Paz from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Jus Allah from Camden, New Jersey. The group was founded by two high school friends, rapper Vinnie Paz (Vincenzo Luvineri) and former producer/DJ Stoupe the Enemy of Mankind (Kevin Baldwin). In 1999 the New Jersey rapper Jus Allah (James Bostick) joined the group to record the second studio album by JMT, Violent by Design but left shortly after for reasons that remain unexplained. The track "The Rebuilding" (2006) marked his unofficial return to JMT since the split, but made a full fledged return aside Vinnie Paz for the sixth studio album, A History of Violence (2008). In September 2011, Vinnie Paz officially announced the departure of Stoupe the Enemy of Mankind from the group, because "his heart wasn't in making JMT records anymore".
DJ Kwestion is also a part of the group, mainly scratching choruses on the turntable. Kwestion (or Kwes) is also a part of the group Skratch Makaniks. Kwestion was a replacement for JMT's previous tour DJ, Drew Dollars, who is no longer affiliated with the group.
Army of the Pharaohs (AOTP or A.O.T.P.) is a hip hop supergroup originating from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, formed by Jedi Mind Tricks MC, Vinnie Paz in 1998.
The original incarnation of the group included five MCs: Vinnie Paz, Chief Kamachi, Esoteric, Virtuoso and Bahamadia, along with Jedi Mind Tricks producer Stoupe the Enemy of Mankind and producer/DJ 7L (of 7L and Esoteric fame). The group released their debut EP/single "The Five Perfect Exertions" b/w "War Ensemble" in 1998. Both tracks were later included on JMT's 2000 album Violent by Design; with "The Five Perfect Exertions" being remixed into "Exertions Remix", and both "Exertions" and "War Ensemble" shedding Chief Kamachi's appearance. The Army of the Pharaohs project was put on the back-burner while JMT's career took off.
The group wouldn't return until 2005 without Virtuoso and Bahamadia. The group was now composed of Paz, Kamachi, 7L & Esoteric, Outerspace, Apathy, Celph Titled, Reef the Lost Cauze, Des Devious, Faez One and King Syze. After years of anticipation, the group recorded their debut album, The Torture Papers. It was released in March 2006 on Babygrande Records. The album was produced by AOTP affiliates such as DC the MIDI Alien, Undefined, Beyonder, Loptimist, and German producer Shuko. The album featured the single "Tear It Down" b/w "Battle Cry", the former featuring a music video, and the latter was a posse cut featuring nine of the group's then ten members. The album debuted in the top 50 on Billboard's Top Independent Album chart, and hit #42 on the magazine's Heatseekers chart. An unofficial continuation of The Torture Papers soon began circulating around the internet called The Bonus Papers. It was composed of tracks not released on the album.
[Verse 1]
I'm the ape in the cage getting more amazing with age
AKs and grenades, matter fact I slay them with blades
They blatantly gays, f***s in berets in parades
And see my team is unbeatable, the stadium stage
I'm basically crazed, walking circles pacing for days
I'm basically dazed and lost inside a Satanist maze
You face the brigade, I hate you and I pray you get AIDS
I go hard on hard beats, y'all too lazy to shave
Too lazy to bathe and so y'all hate on the god
I'm sick of y'all eating off the same plate as the god
Y'all could never build or even conversate with the god
You shooting guns off, I would bomb a nation for God
(I'm a suicide bomber) y'all don't want no confrontation with God
Y'all are swine-eaters, that's abomination to God
So put some faith into God
The objective is to conquer fucking Satan with God
[Chorus]
I think we got a problem, take me out this fucking column
See all these phony actors, I don't like these phony rappers
F**k all the story telling, I don't like these phony fables
You n***s sound like cable, f**k you and your fucking label
I think we got a problem, Vinnie Paz a fucking problem
Maserati I'm a problem, Jus Allah's a fucking problem
Criticism from critics but we don't fucking care
All we hear is the drum beat and a fucking snare
[Verse 2]
All I got is too much hate, not enough love
Too many plates, not enough grub too many snakes in the grass
I gotta kill one cause the gun ain't got enough slugs
Body under the belt, not enough blood
Shotty under the shelf, not enough slugs
Yous a bitch you ain't gon do s**t suck a dick
Cause I been had your bitch in the lobby on drugs
I ain't no plug, I ain't no snitch
I ain't no blood, I ain't no crip
Motherfuckin hood where I be everyday
You don't like me come see me n***a I ain't no bitch
Far from the last man damn man
You could be the man what they said
So I focused on the damn plan
Face straight like adjusting a handstand
Used to be shy now I'm focused like a hand can
Demoz say hello to the sand man
Gun pop, good god where your man layin
See that bitch right there with the damn tan
Couple shots put the bitch in the damn van
Take her home put her in the zone
Dick like an L she gon put it to the dome
Wack DVDs all these n***s in the streets
Showing n***s where they live and their fridge and their chrome chrome
N***a please, do you really think I'm gonna show a m***g n***a
Where I live at
Jeopardize where my wife and my kids at
Come home find my young boy kidnapped
N***a hit that L that you had cause you motherfuckin crazy if you think I
Will
Pistol Gang to the day I hang
When I see my death I'm gonna keep it real
[Chorus]
I think we got a problem, take me out this fucking column
See all these phony actors, I don't like these phony rappers
F**k all the story telling, I don't like these phony fables
You n***s sound like cable, f**k you and your fucking label
I think we got a problem, Vinnie Paz a fucking problem
Maserati I'm a problem, Jus Allah's a fucking problem
Criticism from critics but we don't fucking care
All we hear is the drum beat and a fucking snare
[Verse 3]
You should make peace before we pull the peacemakers
I don't want the streets waking up the sleeping neighbours
I don't want police pacing up the streets later
But the killing has me feeling like a teenager
Sign your soul over, here's a blank piece of paper
I'll fill in the details, you can read it later
We should keep in contact, I may need a favour
It's not breach in contract, no releasing waivers
It's slavery and cheap labour, it's a decent bargain
It's monopoly, I'm landing on free parking
It's blood out here gotta keep my teeth sharpened
Gotta keep cream, gotta keep a green garden
You doing everything you can just to keep from starving
I'm Rastafarian and partying, usually with more than one darling