Rapid Eye Movement Lyrics

[Intro]
Uh, ah, uh, ah, uh

[Hook: Pharoahe Monch]
It's not Latin or white or black music
It's that cooked up coke, c-crack music
Black Thought and Pharoahe, the rap duet
It's that lucid rapid eye

[Verse 1: Pharoahe Monch]
My think tank's like a piranha tank, think, multiple bites figure
Mega, reality, tera, giga
Grand Theft Auto, modern day Mickey and Mallory
Small, but I'm sick enough to walk into an art gallery
And piss on a Picasso, crack statues
Rub my balls on a Banksy shit on it and throw it at you
So when the beat intensifies
I become emotionally desensitized
Like, once I slapped a rapper with mace
Then I spit acid in his face, after he rinsed his eyes, no wait
I actually grew five times my size
Grabbed Ma$e by the thigh and slapped a rapper with him
Now that's practicing sacrilegious activism

Attack is for battle and practical rap with wisdom
Actually, it's pragmatic capitalism
For actors that crack under pressure and collapse when I get 'em

Monch is medicinal man-made medical marijuana
With a phase plasma rifle like I'm searchin' for Sarah Conner
And shorty's got brains, shorty not playin'
From 40 blocks, I'm a killer with 40-watt range

With an arrangement of bullets that I've arranged
Encrypted in scriptures specific individual names
That shall remain anonymous

Me and the ammunition's in a relationship that's monogamous
It's like I'm married to the silencer
Until I file for divorce and release my ex-calibers

Do art with your arteries, place that for my adversaries
Push your snapback cap back, cap your capillaries like
[Hook: Pharaohe Monch]
It's not Latin or white or black music
It's that cooked up coke, c-crack music
Black Thought and Pharoahe, the rap duet
It's that lucid rapid eye move

[Verse 2: Pharoahe Monch]
Vocally twice as magnifying as ever hearing Chewbacca scream
Through a megaphone with the significance of Dr. King

Philanthropic, cause I'm trying to see
Man united without referencing UK soccer teams

My philosophy prophecy
The opposite of Mephistopheles' eye inside an isosceles
Sent to Earth to warn of environmental atrocities
And nobody can copy me
, stop! It's not possible
But probable that it's only philosophical mockery, strange
Change copper to gold, switch properties, bang!
Stay on top of the globe, flip monopolies, aim
Take stock in the soul, spit properly


[Verse 3: Black Thought]
Take stock in the soul, spit properly
That extended clip on my hip sits awkwardly
I'm diabolical, follicle triggers that I cock and squeeze
Sending shots to ancient Greece to pop Socrates
I bear arms like button-downs without the sleeves
Manic depressive and possessive like apostrophes
My psychiatrist waive the doctor fees
When I wave the pistol and say listen, quit watchin' me so I can breathe
National Association for the Advancement
Of drugs for performance enhancement

And it's tough taking so many chances
But I've been a bad seed from the womb, they call me ovary cancer
And I got an ugly heart, although I'm totally handsome
And I take the love of your life and hold her for ransom
And my tactical cam that never stood for any national anthems
What's hood? I am the actual answer
And I'll prove it, black attire, rapid fire, rapid eye movement
I'm from a species that is higher, I am not human
Extraterrestrial alien, a monster
Killer of conscience, chillin' in a barrel of lobster

Ex-slave, sadomasochist, that gave the massa my ass to kiss
A dyin' breed, I'm the last of this
Black is as miraculous as Jesus of Nazareth
When I vocalize, the crowd rise like Lazarus
It's the Rhode Scholar, my coat collar piss off PETA
Your hoes holla, he's on top of the bars, meet a
Mr. Globe Trotter in my Adidas, pure cheetah
Hoppin' out of this exotic European 4 seater
Hollerin' cheeba cheeba like I'm Parkside
Killin' is the dark side, villain, I'm God, I'm Godzilla
Sometimes I'm Bob Dylan, put blood on these tracks, for real
So, God-willin' you'll feel what I'm spillin'
Yeah, I never quit, I'm still syndicatin' up
Me and Pharoahe Monch did it for the benefit of us
This is straight razor behavior, I never get enough
Get the picture, my militia gettin' ignorant as fuck

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Genius Annotation

The track proceeding the skit, “The Recollection Facility Pt. 2,” where Pharoahe was being told that he is currently unconscious, is followed up sequentially by this song’s concept.

Rapid Eye Movement, also known as the REM stage of sleep, is a stage during sleep where eyes move rapidly and where dreamers have the most potential to dream lucidly and imaginatively.

The metaphorical artistry in this song, in the context of the album concept, is that the song’s lyrics and instrumental are a very low-key while upbeat and intense instrumental that correlates with the human mind during this stage of sleep, in which the sleeping person appears inactive, yet their eyes are moving rapidly under their eyelids. This stage of sleep has been shown to be intensified if they suffer from post traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD. Lyrically, the artists go through fantastical imaginations to bring the concept full-circle.

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April 15, 2014
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