Dilated Peoples are a hip hop group who have achieved great fame in the underground hip hop community, although their only real mainstream success was the song This Way, a 2004 collaboration with Kanye West. DJ Babu (from the DJ crew Beat Junkies), Evidence, and Rakaa joined together in 1992 and released Third Degree and Work the Angles, which were quickly established as favorites in the underground scene and among rap critics. They eventually signed to Capitol Records and in 2000 released The Platform, to more critical acclaim. Their sophomore set Expansion Team was released in 2001, led by the Alchemist-produced single Worst Comes To Worst, which sampled from Mobb Deep's Survival Of The Fittest. Their third album, Neighborhood Watch, was released in 2004 and debuted at #55 on USA's Billboard 200 Albums Chart.
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Global Dynamics Lyrics
Dilated Peoples
Yeah...
No I wont call you master
Though to you I sold my
My microphone shines
I keep your children filled in
Colorful swirls are building
But not getting caught in a kind of killing
See paranoia will destroy ya
And I got a lot, maybe too much for ya
My veins are swelling, stress wracks my brain
The point where my head and neck connects is in flames
Weve come a long way since the first mainframe
And theres more going on than computer games
We got inter-net, world wide web sites
Which you might get caught in if you dont keep your head right
Organize and educate the youth
But most would pass up revolution to loot
Wont fight for your rights but youll die to look cute
Most would pass up revolution to loot
Ay yo it goes without saying whose delivery is nicest
So Ill say lady liberty represents isis
Execs dont think midas will touch science
(well fool? )
My mind got me on the verge of violence
Or stopping this whole rap wrote in silence
But going against the negative grain is my defiance
The enlightened titan might win
Ill see the symbols at libraries and schools
Lodges, churches and temples
It be fighting for peace
Got me mad enough to shoot
But most would pass up revolution to loot
Wont fight for your rights but youll die to look cute
Most would pass up revolution to loot
Ay yo times are critical, the screen reads unstable
My peeps are like release steam! but I seem unable
I trip on microchips and ponder transponders
And feel the radio waves and satellites upon us
Zoom on the earth, zoom on california
Zoom on los angeles, zoom on me warning ya
If they shoot a slug and strike me like a baddamyst ?
Understand that government and industrys the catalyst
A battle was lost but quiet war still wages
Police engage us, like potential bigamists
Page is the limitless ? , cages for sentences
Till this anti-material particle finishes
With this unworkable body, oh lord
Rough child ? figured how to get the rich and poor
Extra promisory notes still but they cant afford
Then collect on collateral, financed your war
Feeling like the last poets --
This is madness!
Breaking down the me machine (? ) related to a blackest
All ? , despite this movie liz-biz
Think for a minute kids, you know where egypt is
(2x)
I work for victory though
Im taught by history
And ignorance as a status symbol makes no sense to me
Things I ? ? ? I find shocking like raiden ?
Voyage to self-discovery but no its not maiden
Its just that its never been made in this form
This storm I will weather till the weather gets warm
I work for victory though
Im taught by history
And ignorance as a status symbol makes no sense to me
I speak especially to kids of the pyramids
Built with the symmetry
Raw gets the energy
Enemies throw me off the path that friendlies show me
I levitate and watch the demons gearing up below me
If you let out a bullet it may let out a virus
So ? paranoid, dilated our science
Kutmasta kurt, and you just dont stop
Two more men (? ) evidence, no you just dont stop
To the ill brother crew, no you just dont stop
Of mexican descent crew, you just dont stop
To the swollen members, no you just dont stop
Mad aceyalone, no you just dont stop
To the old world chaos, you just dont stop
To the liquid crew, and the barber shop
Its like that
Dilated propaganda
Our science
Worldwide with this
Global dynamics... (repeat to fade)