Ballad, ballad ….this is the ballad.
This is the ballad. Of the one-and-only Hoverboard Lucozade Bandit.
This is for David Cameron fucking that dead pig, Syria and tax credits. Never mind that hype bredrin, Corbyn's got a new bike helmet.
This is for Jezza’s geography teacher swag, this is for Yeezy still speaking crap. This is for the subway pizza rat, Master Splinter bring a piece a that.
This is for Netflix and chill, that’s just slang for a Bill Cosby sleeping pill. This is for Drake and Meek Mill, this is BSE, don’t ya know beef kills?
This is for Shia Leboeuf kid, Shee-a, Shy-a - I don’t know how to pronounce it. How dyou pronounce it? "Just do it!"
Don’t let your dreams be dreams, ken. But when you dream they're dreams, so how can they not be dreams then? Shia’s going too deep for me man.
This for my meme dem: Bad Luck Brian, Old Economy Steven. Peeps start greeting, sheep start bleeting. They'll get the "shhh" like Sean Connery speaking.
This is for the dead raccoon of Toronto. Goin' in pronto, goin' in honcho, goin' in bronco, goin' in’s my motto. Unless I’m goin' out or goin' unconcho.
Go 'til I'm gone though, just like the bandit. Ghost out the co-op. This is the ballad.
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This is for sophisticated trump: “The bad guys will always have guns”
...and apparently poorly-fitting rugs. Real presidential run - surely you’re shitting us?
Should we be sitting up? Should we be shooken up? Man on the tube is bug. If it ain’t down for truth and love, I’ll say it with him “you ain't no muslim bruv.”
Je suis Charlie, but I’m hardly. Ain't cold-hearted, or late to the party.
Don’t pick a side, coz both sides are barmy. I’m a pacifist, both sides have armies.
This is for Putin, Netanyahu. This is the shit I ain’t buying. This is for Merkel and Obama. “Why the fuck you lying?”
This is for Cecil the Lion and the importance of his death in defining, what we had suspected for time man - that all dentists are tyrants.
Oh yeah - and all humans are bastards. Make their moolah then vanish.
Raping, consuming, abusing the planet. Walk away singing “Hakuna Matata."
This is for Black Lives Matter. This is for Syria. This is for the modern ruins of Palmyra. This is for all political prisoners.
This for tagging on conscious bullshit, at the end of the rap kid. As a pay-off for the rest being jokes - This is the ballad.
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from BRAIN MATTER,
released February 29, 2016
Words and Music by TH!NK
The debut, solo LP from TH!NK. Funk, Jazz, Psychedelia and Golden Age Boom Bap combine to make a kaleidoscopic, multi-layered and entertaining palette for insightful lyrical acrobatics. TH!NK
