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Dystopian Daggerback

by Ickymack

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1.
Omens 03:12
Bone white omen in the indigo throat wide open, let it go til the wind explode kickin up dust with the iron rust tire crush souls, blow smoke with the windows low this the same cycle that we been in lookin for the answers, comin back to the beginnin comin back to where i'm sittin in the kitchen, dirty dishes and the distance lookin different See i get lost up in my thoughts because i burned the map and when i'm walkin, theres no stoppin, theres no turnin back movin onwards and i'm followin a burnin match and it's awful cuz my posture is a hurtin back and i'm walkin and my socks are wet and turnin black from the blood and from the mud and from the certain fact that i been buggin, lookin for something i deserve and lack but if i'm of it, benefit of that i been certain that no stress is gonna drown me no only gonna doubt me no open up the mouthpiece choke til the foam bubble fillin up a throat no one gonna ask me shit look into my past get sick flip around the mask and quick look at crooked teeth and acid spit levitating lies shot down getting hypnotized, clock sound different colored eyes that, despiting the size, they despise all rounds and you don't wanna be the one thats coming back be the one thats running from the hunting pack hypodermic needle in a hunnid stack chopping at the ego like a lumberjack keep it going chop chop open up the intermittent pop pop don't forget the cinnamon and nod off only got a little bit of rocks off not enough, fuck it i never tell em, anonymous god he trust open the cerebellum it's rotting up party bus offa the cliff and it's killing all of us hardened up hardened up hardened up pick up the pieces and put it back in look at the little bit you been lackin pick up the pen and jump back in pick up the razorblade and attackin ???? no stress is gonna drown me no only gonna doubt me no open up a mouthpiece choke choke choke choke
2.
(Ickymack) Every morning when I get up outta bed set up what I got then I take it to the head take it to the brain, all the way to the bottom I don't really gotta get it but I got it, but I said that I bled but the blood that I bleed ain't in vain all the same when I say that I bleed out a vein that I may never see so I stay sticking deep til the sleep creeps sheets start stay tickling lay back, way back not with a Maybach may slap tracks, may say that I made that say that I ain't that guy that I am high with a gram of the sand in my hand hi, put em out like the sandman can fuck that way better than the sandman can! laid out like a hit from Van Damme hand god damn man welcome to the fam! welcome to the crew this is what we do boil up, shoot pass out, puke wake up re-up boil up, shoot pass out, puke how that sound dude? sound good to me, should it be hard like the bark of a wooden tree? hard like a narc tryna push a key? hard as the dark when you couldn't sleep? just look at me ain't my life fun now? sittin in the sun, drool down with the tongue out? this real life, yeah this real love how any gonna tell me that they give a fuck while they give pills, whole family bugged out? don't trip, we got our stuff down just sit back and feel the rush now oh yeah, just don't run out.. (Trevaillé) What's gon happen when the well runs dry? Drinking tears from the devil's eye Won't hear angels sing, one sip we sinking deep fell from heaven, can we ever fly? (Trevaillé cont.) Take a little pause as I walk through the block every single face a shot to the heart seein dope fiends takin shots in the dark tryna find peace, but they already lost so they already caught by the fangs of the beast painful disease whole skeletons that be layin in the street like trip wire that'll bring to your knees one stop shop, anything that you need while the bulbs go out on your vanity more stress, no help from your family can't see the sun through the canopy how can it be? did we all lose our humanity? pain, pain, so much pain no way to try to stop what's happening dirt under nails, hurtin themselves numb to the heat cuz earth is a hell sold on a quilt needle, cheeba layin on the ground say deeper, deeper taking shots to the vein i seen hearts get erased they be markin the grave while they be rottin away but this conscious Tre too many sons get lost in the haze three blind mice gettin caught in a maze witnessed souls go off in a blaze and we all need to pray we fall in decay only angels fall when god is away (Trevaillé) What's gon happen when the well runs dry? Drinking tears from the devil's eye Won't hear angels sing, one sip we sinking deep fell from heaven, can we ever fly? (T) Please, please, listen to me seen you tricks when you lifting your sleeve seen your pain and it's a disease look to yourself to get a reprieve (I) Please, I see me I know what I'm doing man, don't you think that I know what I'm doin man, don't you drink? who the fuck are you tryna question me? I'm my own dude, got a destiny ain't no way you can pressure me (T) bless you b, that's just weak these words here gonna set you free unlock you 'fore you rest in peace give you love unquestioning I done seen all the scars that you got from your medicine help yourself before your heart gets jettisoned (I) I'm sick of all you motherfuckers telling me to "let us in" I thought you were my homie but I think I might forget a friend I don't need this, lemme get a point and get a pen and I won't ever get up in your meddling ever again (T) Standing at the door man, let me in don't gotta keep it locked, man let me in (I) I don't give a fuck if you give a damn! (T) Don't wanna see you damned so lets begin to intervent in a sense I know that you lost your innocence I'm here because I give a shit and Ima fight for you so militant (I) I know you right man, the world is heavy you know me best man, hurt and ready to give it up again, man, sure and steady slap hands then I head back to Turk and Levi
3.
Daggers 03:20
I'm not the one to wonder whether not you like what I said inciting hyperactive hyperbolic thoughts in my head between the sheets, screaming silently for sleep but instead visions of hypodermic needles dancing up in my head the blood that I shed the love I rejected the Nothing I felt the fucks I withheld greedy belief in myself see he been beaten and bruised, losing his prudency well the people that I've hurt have blurred into the people I've helped a selfish school of thought boxed me in and taught me a lot a product of postmortem grief and guzzlin shots so muzzle this motherfucker cuz I'm losin my top my gray matter may splatter half truths that I bought but see I know what I'm good at and I know what I like composing flows into good raps and I'm holdin em tight forty below when he show that that he cooler than ice blowin a cold chill, i got no chill till I prove that I'm right and it's like that It's like that off top It's like that but I just Cant Stop Putem in a seat back being bad let em know you mean that scream that out now how loud? I don't wanna believe that seen that scene that's draining blood and raining down now It takes two times to tell em bout whose rhymes compel em to choose lies buying up wolf tickets to sell em them truth spitters ain't loose lipped, soothing competitors while them fuckers spit out opinions like newspaper editors so who gon pick the better words? absurd and obscene I flirt with the fiends slanging sacks of birds and the bees and hurting my knees from praying to the earth and the trees the curse of the streets bleeding heart and hard concrete so pardon me you crying "life was hard on me" don't start on me believe the shit my hard-on seen in parts unseen part the seams in part is seems to start to follow all them auto erotic scenes it's like that even if i don't want it to be even if i can't possibly take it all in, i'm all in, cuz obviously i don't got a lock for the key nor a key for the lock it's like that off top it's like that but I just cant stop Putem in a seat back being bad let em know you mean that scream that out now how loud? I don't wanna believe that seen that scene that's draining blood and raining down now Raining down it's amazing how you could pace yourself you could stave off drought you could hate yourself you could lay cards down you could do too much you could straight fall out You could not wake up you could sleep all day you could live forever you could beat old age you could shoot to kill you could go for the throat or you could choose to win you could go for the hope you could leave it alone you could choose to engage you could beat on the weak or you could lose to the sage you could think of the future or you could think of the day you could sit in the pain or you could drink it away it's amazing how you could pace yourself you could stave off drought you could hate yourself you could lay cards down you could do too much you could straight fall out You could not wake up you could sleep all day you could live forever you could beat old age you could shoot to kill you could go for the throat or you could choose to win you could go for the hope you could leave it alone you could choose to engage you could beat on the weak or you could lose to the sage you could think of the future or you could think of the day you could sit in the pain or you could drink it away
4.
Be Like That 02:00
the sky is open and exposing all the hidden shit angels at the panels pounding out the sounds of mysticists angling the levers, pushing buttons on their instruments set it for destruction as the drowning in their cigarettes about an hour since i took it I aint feel it yet swear i seen a message and expression in the silhouettes sending secret messages i dare to read aloud and i’m allowed to put the pound on any wacky acting ignorant yuh don’t try to test it when they check in this direction startled and they start to gargle choke on this congestion i met an artist who admitted that the inner machinations of her mind were nothing more than misdirection yuh i put my forehead through a tv screen just to see if i could see to make the TV scream blood in the gutter when they asking for another some compassion mixed with passion mixed with gasoline and rubber the scene is trash in heaps and ash in streets and actually the mastery of mayhem makes the angels sigh and shudder don’t shut the shutters they aint stopping a brick got the cutter in the dungarees for stopping to frisk yuh the pill I’m popping, it aint stopping at this but it stop when death offer the kiss the kiss
5.
I look a lot up out the window clickin shots up out the mental i am not that sentimental bullet shot up out a pencil bullet shot up out a Benzo like detoxin offa benzo i tell em i never go back again... knock that thought up off the fence tho i'm roamin, a solo orangutan i'm movin that white after Labor Day i'm choppin that rock with a saber katana machete and spread it like mayonaise just playin i aint touched a brick in a minute but makin em shit em and fade away poppin the trunk and then buckin the spray to paint all in the game and they dumpin the gatorade i'm winnin, you aint fuckin heard me? shorty be ridin that kentucky derby jockey be jockin me, pop in that AUX she poppin that oxy, up again early bottle water for the shakes paranoia for the snakes i stay in the bed with my baby bib and candle for the cakes i'm up in the morning and reading the paper like Garfield what it do?! start feelin hella new t-shirt the color to shoot up a school probably the dude who be walkin around with a bit of the dog doo on his shoe but then i be shittin all up on the mic, like: dog, do you approve? naw dont be givin a fuck ima say what i wanna not givin a damn if you listen tho sittin around, used to ship marijuana and weighing it off in a kitche bowl used to pop pills in a honda but say it out loud, i'm playing a different role cuz when i be takin the stage and i say what i say the reaction is visceral I'M ON MY RAMAN NOODLE SHIT DROP AN EGG UP IN THAT BITCH PUT SOME HOT SAUCE IN IT POUR IT ALL UP ON MY,,, I'M ON MY RAMAN NOODLE SHIT DROP AN EGG UP IN THAT BITCH PUT SOME HOT SAUCE IN IT POUR IT ALL UP ON MY,,, my rap was atrophy, massive ass catastrophe used to smoke the sherm and do the worm like im an athelete now i Nat Sherman while a purge another masterpiece droppin hella curtains on em cuz we at capacity all them pretty ladies know me as a scuba diver and they mans think i'm obnoxious as a UBER driver the way i put these words together i'm the new McGuiver your shit is lackin son, can i see your supervisor? ickymack and i aint flexin wit them fake fact ickymack and i aint flexin wit them face tats ickymack tell the judge to bring the case back no charges son, we gon celebrate that!

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released October 2, 2020

Omens:
Produced, recorded, mixed, and mastered by Ickymack

Turk and Levi:
Produced by Skollie
Recorded, mixed, and mastered by Bayroo Burner
Additional writing and performance by Trevailé

Daggers:
Produced by Adhawk
Recorded, mixed, and mastered by Noah Frank

Be Like That:
Produced, mixed, and mastered by AJ Bahnken
Recorded by Ickymack

DddragGgeddD:
Recorded, mixed, and mastered by Noah Frank
Additional production by Ickymack

Album art by @scratching_an_itch

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