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Barely People

from Light a Fire by illmef

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Disabled, Africans, nameless
Cherokee people
Gays, Muslims, unfairly treated
By very evil
Bust and slave minimum wage
That’s barely legal
They smash and push them down
Unfairly like they're barely people

Disabled, Africans, nameless
Cherokee people
Gay, Muslims, unfairly treated
By very evil
Slave to pres
Till they’re bleeding and nearly feeble
Considered remnants
Just tenants and barely people

Some say settlers, pious
This country’s first people
I call them peddlers, liars
This country’s worst people
Paved over graves
And put up a fucking church steeple
Killed for god and caused
A kind of worse evil
Referred to native sons
As the red savages
Reservations to stretch out
In vast lavishness
Casino trinkets
To redact damages
Jackets and blankets
Equipped with attached pathogens

A Million dynasties
Built on backs of slave chains
Break in the link
Bullets take back their slave names
Blood stained cotton
Sewn on back of the slave trade
For profit prisons
Provide really the same thing
A million men
Marched the streets of DC
After fathers
Stood for Dr. King’s speech
Race, hate, violence
Bodies buried to knee-deep
Pain from catacombs
Deemed to be make-believe

Disabled, Africans, nameless
Cherokee people
Gays, Muslims, unfairly treated
By very evil
Bust and slave minimum wage
That’s barely legal
They smash and push them down
Unfairly like they're barely people

Disabled, Africans, nameless
Cherokee people
Gay, Muslims, unfairly treated
By very evil
Slave to pres
Till they’re bleeding and nearly feeble
Considered remnants
Just tenants and barely people

Fuck ignorance, hoods and
Turned up noses
Flip the beak on the Jim Crows
And fire hoses
They hate garbed Americans
Cause they hide noses
Protest Allah
With mock speech and prayer poses
A race banned
From hate twenty punks made
Buried 3k
From planes aimed at the World Trade
5 9-11’s is how many
Killed in a year's rate
Lady Lib don’t catch heat
When she throws shade

Shade shines on
Front of the big parade
God hates ----
Crosses bear a big charade
Fear mongers prayers
Sold as mass crusade
Holy cloaks
Exposes like they lingerie
Cog. impaired
And the chair bound
Stuck in corners of classrooms
Never to share sound
Straight from daycare
To grandma’s chair now
Living dead in a coffin
Buried over the ground

Disabled, Africans, nameless
Cherokee people
Gays, Muslims, unfairly treated
By very evil
Bust and slave minimum wage
That’s barely legal
They smash and push them down
Unfairly like they're barely people

Disabled, Africans, nameless
Cherokee people
Gay, Muslims, unfairly treated
By very evil
Slave to pres
Till they’re bleeding and nearly feeble
Considered remnants
Just tenants and barely people

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from Light a Fire, released January 18, 2019

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illmef Detroit, Michigan

Underground on a shoestring, illmef lays cryptic samples over primitive percussion to showcase his greatest asset, words. Inspired by acts ranging from Pink Floyd to Run the Jewels, his sound dips into electronic and hip-hop. Thumping bass contrasts his complex, hyperbolic stanzas that challenge the listener. Each re-listen reveals another piercing layer of subtext and commentary. ... more

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