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Fire To The Prisons

by Evolve

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1.
CIA Dopeman 04:08
chameleon franchise, CIA Dopeman feeling like hope dies, MIA C-span Ritalin rope dries, ready for hangman held by the throat now, citizen dangling Lucky Charms enema, soap full of steroids nature is normal, we are the androids nothing is natural, there is no selection lonely and living, there is no protection eyeliner fog on, impossible everything skyline to malform, culture a parasite, identity nothing revolving the stereotype, eventual bluffing eyes like a sad song, guilt like a wheelbarrow trudging these tracks up, streets that all seem narrow the buildings are giants, the cars are like monsters the feeling I'm flying, my church is a dumpster I get beat like a bitch now, don't give a fuck tho because pain scales are relative and that is what's up yo my mission my music, removing the mask now definitive bore me, got questions to ask now mimic the shadow, shatter the bulb sun the world keep spinning in the shaft of machine gun chameleon franchise, CIA Dopeman feeling like hope dies, MIA C-span Ritalin rope dries, ready for hangman held by the throat now, citizen dangling Lucky Charms enema, soap full of steroids nature is normal, we are the androids nothing is natural, there is no selection lonely and living, there is no protection ankles tied, shackle both wrists but I'm free inside dreams fall apart like they plastic waste and I'm a mad hatter, proudly a public disgrace it's black, it's white, I can't pick a side every time you smoke crack an angel dies or maybe gets its wings I don't remember now and seeming like things are dismembered now fragment the body, ultimate cost burn like a comet, no gain or loss the future uncertain like a coin that's tossed I'm outside the barriers with boundary loss chameleon franchise, CIA Dopeman feeling like hope dies, MIA C-span Ritalin rope dries, ready for hangman held by the throat now, citizen dangling Lucky Charms enema, soap full of steroids nature is normal, we are the androids nothing is natural, there is no selection lonely and living, there is no protection
2.
Gremlinz 2 03:32
Gremlins 2, pissing in the streets like I was raised in a zoo kiss the grim reaper, hope that kiss ring true echo to my people, break my heart in two nobody to sponsor me, better learn to survive another devious offer from the king of the blind time's up, yeah better make up our mind or I guess we'll just suffer with the weak of mind smoke rings blasted in my nonsense eyes with the rich man living and the conquer divide open market bout to traffic a sign and yeah close in on my target the negotiable kind yeah to convince em all you need is dollar signs if you tossing out coins yeah they going to form a line it's the American way, same attitude will move heroin in the bay this is our neighborhood, pigs go home the man that shot Michael Brown need to get rocked in the dome this is our neighborhood, pigs go home the man that shot Michael Brown need to get rocked in the dome yeah man it's cool to care, or at least it's better than living in full despair I can not win or lose, and I be nowhere really slipping out that noose I am the real world baby, I am battered and bruised I am a material girl, all my outfits is cute I got no love for the intolerance and hate and no matter what you call it y'all a snitch is just a snake and we all human beings, why the fuck we got to judge each other all fucked up why can't we just love each other and I escape with my face, made escapade murder watch me shave with a straight blade careful there, hope my hand don't slip and ride the roller coaster now get ready for the dip tumble in the rocky water fucking sea sick but I'm not fumbling no no I lock it down quick this is our neighborhood, pigs go home the man that shot Michael Brown need to get rocked in the dome this is our neighborhood, pigs go home the man that shot Michael Brown need to get rocked in the dome and I get into it, if we was down south I would chop and screw it and I really don't want to be the man but I can break down bricks with my carpenter hands and yeah matter of fact call me Sam I am I got your green eggs motherfuck the 5-0 ham beef in the streets, police a major issue step into an automobile they can frisk you nobody allowed in the streets after dark and America is weak, we losing our hearts this is our neighborhood, pigs go home this is our neighborhood, pigs go home this is our neighborhood, pigs go home the man that shot Michael Brown need to get rocked in the dome
3.
Finish Line 03:13
step up to the finish line, awkward walk run away crash course, outline chalk bow down to the cash cow now happy days nothing but a re-run now outside 1984 reality, common causality following leaders yeah I'll never be outside there with a twisted vision where the smile is inverted to a pleasant prison burning the blocks down, massage my hate the other side the gateway, no debate USA waste away taste of fate enter into the galaxy beyond escape it's right here in front of my face smash it like the mirror, chalk erase body outline on the concrete wall burn down gasoline, bombed out mall blind sight situation, flashing screen asking for an answer from a meaningless dream credit scores crack whores elevate fiends liquidate bottom shelf meaningless schemes chopping it up like dope on the triple beam is it life if it's controlled by different teams? hell no it's a game man it's plainly seen the rules are broken backstroking to another scene
4.
restrict our vision, symbol of desire is a self made prison cell block except they made you choose so your conscious brain doesn't register the abuse I got a thorn rope wrapped around my lifeless arm Obama's porn-hope never really worked its charm I guess it's lucky I even lived this long the world the way it is back and forth ping-pong South African mines, rape pillage plunder colonial mind it might be your paradigm, it can't be mine the hollow men lead us in the land of the blind footsteps in the vacant halls, people with faces like painted dolls grim reaper now and my flesh a mask and I'm quite a bit deeper than the standard task pacified violence, chorus of gestapo by Molly Cyrus handguns brought to you by Mickey Mouse a glory hole shaped like Tinkerbell's mouth hand grenades are like apple pie the god that they worship the pyramid's eye bazookas shoot footballs out radiation farms where missiles sprout grammar school they tell me up is down and next thing that I know I'm underneath the ground survival upstairs now is the name of the game I got to stay aware yeah if I want to maintain balance on beam like a high rise gymnast medicine death is a prime time privilege turn on tune out, switch the broadcast our time right now, anthem of outcasts restrict our vision, symbol of desire is a self made prison cell block except they made you choose so your conscious brain doesn't register the abuse I got a thorn rope wrapped around my lifeless arm Obama's porn-hope never really worked its charm I guess it's lucky I even lived this long the world the way it is back and forth ping-pong can not tame the lion in me the United States government is lying to me got an AK pointed at what's spying on me got a right to pursue my own liberty yeah fuck the bullshit every step is free my mind is my most precious property heavy chains, slaves to wealth tell the church man go ahead and save yourself locked up, raped in the asshole Solid Rock Church got the cocaine cash flow take the mask off, expose the lies justice they speak of a clever disguise never really know til you got handcuffs on but when you know then you know from that moment it's on never going back, why would we anyway? card house crumble from structural decay restrict our vision, symbol of desire is a self made prison cell block except they made you choose so your conscious brain doesn't register the abuse I got a thorn rope wrapped around my lifeless arm Obama's porn-hope never really worked its charm I guess it's lucky I even lived this long the world the way it is back and forth ping-pong
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Wasteland 01:19
7.
Flood Gates 03:40
annihilate passed out purchase worthless amphetamine Starbucks proofs of purchase box tops caustic worship, guideline fail safe toxic cursive dead body whole sale cops are nervous, criminal conduct abuse of service expensive medicine dirt of urchin, kleptomania abandon searching ex-lax vomit all the city person, persecute worthless crack a furnace tethered in the end to the murder service penthouse graves purchase worthless who's the boss? gas guzzle domino what's the cost? heart of frost, toss up referee accosted cross agnostic prop, registered debt offender criminal thought...
8.
Beta Dub 02:35
never gave a fuss about no busta or no crust punksta that wanna rush us cuz they thought that we had $ome ducket$ or at least that we could touch em or at least they thought that we had some Robitu$$in or some dro, and they hate us cuz we never got no paper for the blow hell no, I can’t go, not again, all them pills, window pane windowsill got me drowning, I ain’t clowning, come and get me, call my peoples I can hear em through the peephole, heating needles, Hotel Cali musta thought it was the Eagles, street legal on the Seadoo, boi I see you don’t even need to speak dude, work alone will leak you Guns ‘N Roses, T2 Budnik with the Hammerpants, y’all Kickstarter MC’s, we kick stands and never asked for no handies, we spit in mics, y’all sniffing panties y’all getting mad, we getting candy, hitting Bambi with no cammies no wool, no clothes, no sheep, no sleep, it’s just you and me now what’s it gonna be? you either cooking beef or planting tree$ it ain’t no time for in between, tobacco use only (lol) no nicotine wipe me down Mr.Clean my loogie industrial strength, money in the matre$$ not fucking with banks my main investment is dank, and that’s a little off the top I keep the rest in the tank I’m a transvestite baddest b*tch, no p*$$y dripping wet... Mrs.Klaus with the goodies, got em hoppin off the chimney bald cap no hat for the jimmy Jesus freaks freak me weekly, no love for the coppers, call em JC Penny’s, JNCO jeans for my dawgs like Benji, we the dog catchers mall veterans, the devil’s in the details, big claims about retail
9.
Bambi 04:42
(what does it matter and can I relate? would I sell my own body for a slice of the cake?) hollow eyed judgment of those enlisted I want to just express there is no place for a misfit cook butter up, let poppy field grow cookie cutter blood along the chopping block flow high fashion guillotine, runway bludgeon fine art philistine, death my cousin liquor store fucked up rob my brother man but that is just a card that is dealt to another man culture of decay in psychotic proportion Obama was a whore giving hope an abortion it's just a joke put the laugh track on man supply noose, noose in standard form stringing em up high life a tightrope walk everything innocent in outline chalk and yeah they fast forward thru the part where Bambi dies and yeah I'm living proof, something that you realize truth yeah it's nothing more to say I'm just sick of abuse and I'm going to keep going anyway my flow is the proof and I ain't living no way unless I'm living to choose and all you people told me straighten up fuck you fools...
10.
No Networks 01:34
no networks, numb tubes that will feed us precinct profile, Desert Storm amoebas slam book shut, reality torn new world order, new world transform break it down, absurd the word we're on the street living a life, dead cat on the curb and yeah we mummify success in a deadly fashion fallen ancient Rome, passive satisfaction living like a rubber band snap elastic status quo living, mask of plastic Tucan Sam, crack rock jam cigarettes cool but marijuana is banned?
11.
Contraband 02:35
force fed Uncle Sam, gather up the contraband price is right, Vincent Price, Mickey Mouse afterlife shock multiply, eventual glass in eye trash compactor, bending the factor, suicidal men's chapter what did ya say? pair a dice? horseshoe legal vice on the steady grind, won't catch me at a 9 to 5 popcorn body bag, O.C. lollygag escort swallow day, venomous holiday makeshift aristocrat, open up diplomat jungle vine, finish line, industrialize Columbine collapse new architecture, get well soon lay it to rest in the mess, beneath barbwire tombs happiness is pain, flood the city like rain and when the world feels shitty my mind's the same way yeah the cops roll up, looking at me like I'm a bad bad bitch one day, more than consuming in the shopping mall, I break shit get naked freak these motherfuckers til they get it can't hang with the dark new slang then leave them behind like pirate code fire in my palms lights my way home til we get to the stars we rock on, going to break on till the dawn
12.
Bulldozer 03:59
I'm of the mind state we bulldoze sectors of civilization that claim to protect us but all they really do is keep the poor man down arrest one dealer but there's more uptown paradigm of suffering, the desert, the ground a sudden gust of wind, towers come toppling down say it once more, never a slave no more it's a stupid fucking game I'm not going to play no more Barney Fife, lie detected, 25 to life, succubus soul collected I'm going to sound it now, let my freedom ring because I always new the clarity my dreams could bring tarot deck, face down, hangman card you can't win a race that's rigged, that's some made up garbage and I do it because I truly care, sure life's a game but hey let's all play fair power structures redefine the rules they got the game rigged so that we will always lose Oxycontin is the system's noose and then the dope will flood the street because people like the abuse addicted to the dying flame the embers of my body now are my last remains and it's a flesh world tell me what admission costs and it's a cold world imagine that I die of frost ready set bite the hand that feeds a steady lesson learned living in the land of greed and politicians talk like they hit the pipe and buildings breath, steam escapes into an endless night yeah addicted to Lucky Charms and if society approved people would fuck they mom and is it really something that I both think and feel when I open up my eyes and I look for real I see the curtain lifted up, power mask removed and nothing is for certain living in the hour of doom uh huh yeah, just supply the vice and harvest rotten fruit off the vine say it was ripe and yeah it's silly really I know better than that the system that we're living in is just a crack house trap with corruption so large that it's off the map but this land is our land come on take it back travel way beyond the fact and civilized sand castle never built to last to break down, structure of the mind collapse come on break it down, yeah we got the apt synapse I'm of the mind state we bulldoze sectors of civilization that claim to protect us but all they really do is keep the poor man down arrest one dealer but there's more uptown paradigm of suffering, the desert, the ground a sudden gust of wind, towers come toppling down say it once more, never a slave no more it's a stupid fucking game I'm not going to play no more
13.
Shadow 02:05
life in the shadow of the empty promise cooking up a feast but I might just vomit living where children are held in bondage making a god out of shit and to shit pay homage bomb the monopoly that surround you break it all down let the flowers drown you not sad let me shed no tears can't decide neither here nor there bought, sold, silent killing mind numb fetish the brick brick building no nation, time to fall come on, break down every brick, every wall
14.
hell is divine, death is a privilege, the living are blind bent on our knees, sentenced to failure, indentured to greed nothing is left, halls of the banquet are rampant with theft lie here and wait, long are the corridors, dreams of escape did I stammer my speech? authorities hammer strikes out of my reach felony froze, cries of a gunshot becoming a rose bottom was reached, foggiest water left flowing beneath trip was in vain, as soon as I got here forgot why I came novelty wore off, just ask a priest what the average whore costs no immaculate hearts, coat hanger halos impaling our parts did I mention that's me? born in a cold world to feast on disease pray pray to my death when everything's fleeting and nothing is left leave it behind, death is a torchlight leading the blind leading the blind leading the blind leading the blind leading the blind...

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"Fire To The Prisons" was created between 2011& 2016 in Cincinnati, Portland, and LA.

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released March 31, 2017

Beats, Vocals, Lyrics, Editing, Effects, Art Concepts by Evolve
Vocals and Lyrics on "Beta Dub" by Beta Max
Additional Vocals and Lyrics on "Contraband" by Maddame Beezul
Cuts by DJ Apryl Reign
Mixed by Jordan Davis, Brian Moeller, Evolve
Mastered by Mavis Concave
Cover Art Design, Illustration, Lettering, & Photo by Brain Uhl
Disc Art Digital Design by Robert Inhuman

Evolve "Fire To The Prisons", the Cincinnati conscious hiphop album heavily laced with influences of magick and industrial noise, long-anticipated during several years of touring since 2011's "Reality Guerrilla". This is a superb Evolve release for those previously unfamiliar with the project, as well as friends who have followed closely throughout its many chapters since origins in 2002. Themes of dire urban tension, bridging the personal and political, and the pursuit of unmasking ominous forces ultimately responsible for these circumstances, continue with heightened clarity and craft in these 14 trax. Mixed largely by Jordan Davis (of Cincy industrial rock duo Relic) mastered by Mavis Concave (ex-Realicide) artwork by Brian Uhl (known for work with Clipping, Cloud Rat, etc.) and assistance from various other capable homies, really makes this a milestone in the evolution of... Evolve! CD comes with lyrix sheet and sticker by Gabby Gash (Gnat, DSA) and Bunk News, patches and shirts also available. March 2017 Realicide Youth Records

CD & previous Evolve releases available via mail @ www.realicide.com

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