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(Verse 1-DJ Snack)
I be under the waves like my name was Sub-Mariner
Speakin' truths so profound I break the language barrier
Animals listen to me, cause I am a zen master
I move faster than your average plastered dad
If my verse is a pokemon you need a master ball to capture
The rhymes of the DJ Snack attacker

Move left move right or just stay in your seat
Just try to make peace, hear the words I speak
Breathe in, breathe out, chill out, don't drown
Breathin' underwater's easy enough if you know how
Remove your urge to die, only life can remain
As you feel blood rushin' from your heart to your veins
When you desire life instead of death then you become free
When you remove both of those desires, you got me


(bridge-OhShnaps)
And he shut out the rest of the world
And all of the boys and all the girls wondered what he thought to himself in his private little world
Couldn't discern the good from bad
Couldn't get along with mom and dad
And his grades they were bad
And his thoughts were pretty bleak but when he took the time to speak his words were pretty deep
And all he needs now is an audience to which he can preach
And become a canoe, he's floatin' up thought creek
With both paddles

(verse 2-Rolling River)
Flowers don't die, they go to Mars
Fruit flies have a lifetime of seven bars
Vegetables with a total of seven tastes
Stay away, for your own good
I'm growing things from cormorants to phone books
In my Japanese garden with one flowing brook
On my Cantonese game show, not one farthing is took
By the fat sweaty men who cook the books
Though they shot me many shifty looks
They left, and left the books crooked
That's why I'm here now, dead broke and nothing's cookin'
Fuck with them and you'll be shot dead lookin'
But look at me all you like, I'm past caring
Stuck in a coal mine with a singing canary

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The New Slang’s three original members (one of whom is no longer a rapper) created this song in late 2009. It was originally intended to be on the Threads mixtape, but when that project fell apart it was just placed awkwardly on the Ruler’s introductory mixtape and left there. Ohshnaps (who also produced the beat) and DJ Snack muse on their own lives, and Rolling River delivers a weird rambling verse full of cookbooks and cormorants.

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