Kevlexicon – Knobs

Kevlexicon – Knobs
published May 26, 2015

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Mistari/Lyrics:

knobs
You gotta make it like a discipline, this life is like a riddle and, am fiddling with the knobs tryna figure it out

Vision external, lakini najua tuna-feel epidermal,
Lost some organs but kept my heart, that’s more important
Spit endorphins, swimmin thru my pain for lost frenz,
Backwards ahistorical lens, and half-assed investigations,
Handed down diagnosis: morality police that hold the keys to bein free,
Energy efficiency wasted on the bloat, so you can have an extra boat,
We drownin in poverty while u float,
Fly girls hop a plane, stewardess, got too many sistas used to this abusive shit and stress,
Hand up the dress, the other hand holds you down,
Walk-in heels, no clouds, head bumpin, glass ceilin,
It’s all economics, safety nets and no feelins, safe bets n inattention,
take the credit, but u never get a mention,
Literacy provided for u to imbibe the apartheid bullshit that they spit,
Reactionary militants on some killin shit,
…but we don’t fite the enemy, we kill ourselves.
that’s what gets me down.

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For more reading on the “drug war” and the usa prison system…

ACLU – Mass Incarceration facts
https://www.aclu.org/combating-mass-incarceration-facts-0

Democracy Now! – Michelle Alexander interview
http://www.democracynow.org/2015/3/4/michelle_alexander_roots_of_todays_crisis

Forbes – War on Drugs is a War on Minorities and the Poor

http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2011/06/28/the-war-on-drugs-is-a-war-on-minorities-and-the-poor/

Forbes – Drug War Driven Mass Incarceration
http://www.forbes.com/sites/billfrezza/2012/02/28/is-drug-war-driven-mass-incarceration-the-new-jim-crow/

The Economist – Lynching in the South
http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21644192-small-towns-find-it-hard-remember-victims-racial-violence-marking-murder

ACLU – War on Marijuana, Billions Wasted
https://www.aclu.org/billions-dollars-wasted-racially-biased-arrests

NYTimes – History of Lynchings
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/10/us/history-of-lynchings-in-the-south-documents-nearly-4000-names.html?_r=0

NYTimes – Lynchings as Racial Terrorism
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/11/opinion/lynching-as-racial-terrorism.html?_r=1

History is a Weapon – Lockdown America, Christian Parenti interview
http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/audiocparenti.html

The Economist – Conditions behind bars
http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21640359-prisons-profit-stopping-family-visits-screening-visitors