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Torture

It’s torturous the way we skip around the rhythm
Make war with us if you trippin like we kidding
It's more of us than you peeping with your vision
Deny it or believe it
We connected, no defeating

Silently win
Violently grin
sock it to ya soul
through your tissue and skin
yeh maybe you the one thats housing us
but show me how you eaten without us
freaking out the circus like a cat that found out
you a square in here, and this our roundhouse
might look strange like the freak show announced
But we got no shame and we ain't gone kowtow
Permanent powwow never leaving the meeting
Connected at root so the leaves fleek and
skin so tuff it’s joining stuff
scaring you to death cause you don’t dig it enough
literate legitimately joined by ligaments
but the strangest thing remains your ignorance
can’t put it in the pass tense
it has no absence
it’s right here with us oozing like an abscess

It’s torturous the way we skip around the rhythm
Make war with us if you trippin like we kidding
It's more of us than you peeping with your vision
Deny it or believe it
We connected, no defeating

My offspring fly
Cause they talking about us
Double elevation
Building stories around us
may be hoping
that they joking
like a token
surrender
but they twist it all together
Put ya soul in a blender
like “they did dat ??
how they live like that ??”
see the hate so real
and make love combat
doing that
torture tango
psycho logical
checking all the baggage
and reaching beyond it
If they can defy convention
then i can too
look at me,
look at you
look at all of us
ancestors got our back if we just
wake us up
wake em up
they still swinging
the blue remains in everything they singing
a million variations on Afroblue
vibrating plantations liberated and true
either you loving the connection
or it’s torturing you

It’s torturous the way we skip around the rhythm
Make war with us if you trippin like we kidding
It's more of us than you peeping with your vision
Deny it or believe it
We connected, no defeating

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from iMaintain & LIVE at Joker's Pub, released May 26, 2020
Napoleon Maddox - vocals
Blanka - beat
Dan Barger - baritone saxophone
Brent Olds - bass

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ISWHAT?! Cincinnati, Ohio

ISWHAT?! is a long standing, eternal cypher of hiphop, headed by Napoleon Maddox. Since 1996, ISWHAT?!, based in Cincinnati, Ohio, is comprised of a international family of like-minded musicians and artists. This global musical concept allows ISWHAT?! to perform in many different configurations. Recently ISWHAT?! is touring the world with "Twice the First Time, Stories of Millie-Christine McKoy". ... more

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