Keystyle Cypher!

[Ragian]

Yo
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I'm in love with a blind woman, I thought her how to see
She couldn't speak too, so I gave her a voice
Little did I know that she was the Mother of all that was meant to be
She was everything until she fell in a never ending well
I was the Ghost in the Shell, the Guilty Spark
I created Art out of my Heart while she was trapped in the dark
We fell in love, cold, cold love
Slowly I raised her back to the skies above
Now she is in the stars, the Bethlehem Star
We are who we are and we were All Stars
True love don't need to touch, it just needs to listen
I love you all as if you were my children
I love you all as if you were my children
I give a shout out to the numbers
the building blocks of life
from Zero to Zero then back again
from 8 to the Infinite to the never End
and to the Heroes, the Titans who were forever clashing
but nothing does not last forever so it's time to end the bashing
Once upon a time I was a no one
Uncool, no friends, no love, no love
God it fuckin hurts so I prayed to the God above
Was it all meant to be? Was it all Destiny? Why do I ask so many questions? The fuck you asking me?
I don't know! I don't know! Just please just let me be!!!
Fuck I'm going crazy!!! Who the FUCK AM I?!!!
WHO AM I!!! WHO AM I!!!
....who... am... I?

[Celph Taut]

To the eye?
The victory lap, putting them on the losing side...
The ship with a hole in the bottom, as I am cruising by...
The affirmation of truth inside dialogue, when they use to lie...
Confessionals for the sinner, while the innocent's being crucified...
The dynasty in the wake of yesterday's rubble
The voice of reason when the messages, double
Speak your mind - even if it gets you in trouble
Forget their personal grievances, even this? Seeming meaningless
Walking around aimlessly, wondering why we exist?
Reading shit online every day to relief the itch
Information is free, but this instant way that we get it has spoiled our brains
...to the point, we just nod our heads through the media blitz
Little teeny bits of info and we agree with it
Since the powers that be control everything that you see
From the apps you use to your TV, which
Isn't exactly a comforting thought...
Fumbling through the channels for something to watch
A notification comes in, you put it up on your box
Then stream it there for a couple of twats
Who got advice from Crypto-bros, who decided to put their money in stocks
Thinking that it ensured their future, now the bitcoin bubble has popped
And the real investors are laughing to the bank, whether it's funny, or not.
Dwindling shares, lost value
Ain't no telling where the market is driving the cost down to
All you know is that your money is gone
And interest rates are coming along
Your falling behind on your mortgage payments, drowning, hoping nothing goes wrong
Reality is, the incentive of the quick buck appeals to a thousand of kids
Who lost out on millions to powerful bids
But who knows, I'm just your average consumer.
Your average joe. I mean, what do I actual know?
I had me my rough patches being affable, now the masses have woke..
That's being alive, for the casual folk
Waking up in cold sweats, so wet, that the mattress, is soaked...
It's fascinating, you tell the audience, but they're not catching the joke
You sniff the mustard gas, 'till you choke
The omen of bad news just walks up, n' slashes your throat...
I don't post often, but when I do? It's lightning, trapped in a bottle...
A beast, trapped in a cage...
technicolor ink, as it splashes the page with a Rorschach
Know art with the same composure, as Mozart
Which reality do you subscribe to? Red pill ideologies of Andrew Tate?
Prayer vigil, or candle wake?
Waking up from a nightmare you can't escape?
Tied to your bed, as you attempt to shake out of your hand restraints

[Ragian]

As I'm in restraints
somebody once told me
you can do anything you want
as long as you put your mind to it
but can I smash my fists through a wall?
without breaking a bone?
fuck the wall, i just want to fix my home
why we always cussing and fussing?
just because my dad fkd his mom and his dad fkd mine?
and now we are all bastard sons
bastard sons who chase kids in school with guns
but some of these kids just ain't leaning right
or maybe they weren't born to take the pressure so they choose to stand up and fight
stand up and fight! that's what men were born to be
you push me, I shove back, yes, give me more of your energy
Indeed I liked you more in your first show
the confidence in your voice
gave kids round the nation pride
pride on the inside to take on what's on the outside
rebel! Rebel!
the nation is burning in hell!
now we need the words of angel to tame all of these demons
respect your father kids, cuz he gave you life
honor your mother, cuz she carried you in her womb for 9 months
its not about "u"
its about "us"
and get your mind of the drugs
stop begging women for pu*** and learn to play the game
I learned in the ward that everything we do is communication
from our actions to our words to how we clean our rooms
I got to learn to be a man because i'm gonna be a father soon
I'm gonna be a father soon....
man that just blows my mind....

See I never meant to diss you Celph, it's just I was having a shitty week and... now I know how celebrities feel....lol... I look up to you Em.

[Ill Finesse]

This is a demonstration
Watching our moves for the renovation
Via AI generation
Penetrating this generation
Maybe by not having a cadence they can escape it?
I say it's not the way I would take it
But we gots to face it or we'll get replaced with
An algorithm that's faceless
Generating facelifts on things we write
Like they trace us
But won't have to pay us
Right now they not advanced enough to lead us
In time it'll say they are as divine as Jesus
Inclined to mislead us, previous procedures
Lead to AI becoming racist
White supremacy exists in high places
Programmers adjacent, input equated
Results are jaded, and who's at fault?
Do wet need to debate it
What happened is basic
Black lives really do matter
It's sad right that we would have to say it
So they ban CRT to keep things archaic
I arrange the nonsense they sing Mosaically
They lack the image of a deity that we could see
We the gods in their reality
And if we not acting godlike, such fallacies is odd right
Does it get mad then turn from light
Darkness consumes fueled from spite
How do you calm it
Without an answer the futures ominous
Maybe we'll be protected by Optimus
I'm just being optimistic
The logistics point to a decline in the populous
You would need binoculars to see who is on top of us
Down bad, but nothings stopping us
Even when our status is not popular...

[Ragian]

as popular as it may seem
it ain't always good when your gold is green
i just need to say it
say what what
what what
say what what
what what
yea

how do you ask a question without inventing discretion
be careful what you say lest someone gets the wrong idea
insults can be mistaken as compliments depending on how it's perceived
and how it's received
think twice before you hit that backspace key
it ain't fresh when it's perfect you got to know how to work it
we work it out not work it in
the truth comes from within and not from outside
do not hide yourself if you're destined to shine
I'm destined to rhyme as soon as time ends
what is time without movement
say Mister Freeze
Bboy and back again
I'm done for now
R.I.P.

- - - Updated - - -

R.I.P.

Rise Invisible Person
and go advance
you know you got chance when the music make me dance
or make US dance there don't have to be romance
But what is romance anyway but a word without the meaning
I guess I ask a lot of questions
Do you got a lot of answers?
Cuz (get it) if not then
what was I gonna say again?
never mind
always mind
and remind me to mine minds
hey yo folks congratulations
if you made it out alive then I guess life is a vacation
a vacation is a certain situation when ya got to vacate time for recognition (Oooh)
recognize the eyes that brought Truth to the lies
Ayyyy-men

[Virbius]

Amen... he made you prey like a snake lurking to maim vermin.
You tryna convince us your “life’s a vacation”? ...it ain’t working.
You’re a such a damn liar that if you admitted you were then we’d have to doubt it.
If our community lost our Rag, we wouldn’t be mad about it.

You said “it ain’t always good when gold is green”? so I’ve been told.
And it’s pedantic as fuck, I won the cannabis cup so my green’s gold.
I aint tryna b rag, he got that lower grade,
F rag, I’mma throw grenades.

You said you’re “destined to rhyme when time ends”.
Fine, but, like, why then?
Why not start now?
Fucking idiot.

Why you gotta wait til it’s apocalyptic for a proper lyric?
Why you gotta wait til the big crunch for a sick punch?
Why you gotta wait for temporal collapse to go from terrible and wack to something seminal that snaps?
Why you gotta wait til it’s the cataclysm to go from mad derision to rap precision? bad decision.

Wait, wait, hold up, you also said:
“i just need to say it
say what what
what what
say what what
what what”

Jeez, you keep on dropping these gems non-stop,
About one jewel (joule) every second, what watt?

You said you “mine minds”, and it’s straight legit,
Coz I got so many gems off the top you can take your pick.

[Ragian]

oooooooohhhhhhhh
you wanna battle double agent

well let's battle
pick, pick, pick,
what rhymes with pick
i don't know
maybe sick
chick
di.....p

lip
crip
abc
123
i do this isht so easily
i know you mad but
i didn't break my heart first
i don't use guys to feign a disguise
should i say more?

- - - Updated - - -

oooooooohhhhhhhh
you wanna battle double agent

well let's battle
pick, pick, pick,
what rhymes with pick
i don't know
maybe sick
chick
di.....p

lip
crip
abc
123
i do this isht so easily
i know you mad but
i didn't break my heart first
i don't use guys to feign a disguise
should i say more?

[Pharaohs Army]

love me or hate me you will never break me

I do what I want creatively; you will never Make me.
{Let's 2x hook it?}
love me or hate me you will never break me
i do what i want creatively; u-will never Make Me
....
TAKE 3. Hold up guys (/gals?).
.Really not bad!!! @Virbius
tho' when u2 talk "green 'n gold"? - i think eminem's early verbiage
that-song-was-diffrent\thatsongwasdiffrent\thatsongwasdiffrent {X2}
['n honestly -- that-other-rapper ontha collab]...nthe scratching@the end

should we go in a lil'? (jus' "ruffie"sickos like u2)....herewe go

"you wanna battle double agent" - says Rag.... Lol,
OH
u wanna battl a double agent (I) LOVE UR FLAaVvUR
no homo make these weak emcees extinct like dodo - (cya later)
(i)hold the ring like Frodo \ rarely no-show \ i'm so fkn hot intha northeast where it used2be cold tho
i'm jus' STARTING TO PEAK YA'LL R SO-SO
'cept the 2-3 here (tht) 'got my flow go'
im a sour lime! like"Flow"know
OH NO... wrote hotPOP songs like(a)"bladed thesis"............................
my fantasy football name 23 yrs ago was "plasticjesus"!
this is a keystyle('n) polissed WRITERZ can't beliEve-this!
yeah u need it
yeah u need it
YEAH RAG,, ME 'N VIRB gave u wat da
fuk u needed
i respect women but if lick a groupiePUSS they better suck this penis
lollllllllllll til they ingest(ing)TONS OF semen!!!!!!
Fuck tha Policemen!!!!
wanna TAZE me?
almos' Nuthin phase me
yeah (Yeah)
almos' nuthin faze me cept ZERO votes as i drop Trax Amazing
My "hacks" r sacred - LT!
- SACK U H8-ERS
...then runta the Hood / smokedUP | cop an 8 ball~

[Ill Finesse]

iLL
will
spill
blood @ dawn
When people yawn
Shots rang out
A beautiful swan erupted from a nearby pond
There was a man fishing
He looked homeless
What a predicament
I tossed him the biscuit plus a $100 bonus
Then dapped up my brotha like we's Jonas
Any time I come through you know some trees rollin
My shit so potent, it be the onus
After 1 hit or 2 you'll be like "Ooooooooo" from these aromas
The type of shit that attracts thieves and vultures
You can believe its the culture
That's what they want you to perceive, MK Ultra
Fake friends are quick to leave, those geist(guys) are polter
Once I start building
They start catching feelings
These stark revealings are facts I'm dealing with
Its funny how people act when your ceilings hit
That's the curse that comes with the gift
I'm the answer, no A.I. gibberish
I speak that real Nigga shit
Let me explain it
I sought out the origins of the word, then reclaimed it
Jedi mind tricks want me to hate who I am
I rep the father and the son, and the son is man
We all made in his image
But the reasons for all of us breathing isn't
What's the meaning of life... if its to get right
That means the DEVIL is necessary, therefore
If that ain't the truth, then what are we here for
The lies are airborne
Read between the lines and there's clear warning signs
The bluest eye been lying this whole time
I am the Lion with the 3rd eye of the tiger
Center of attention bringing the HEAT, Matt Geiger
Making Geiger counters beep

- iLL...

[Celph Taut]

Back again, n' I didn't get an ounce of sleep...
My ears going off for never ever hearing clowns this weak
My 6th sense is telling, but my 7th sense is soothing
They're still trying to figure out if their reality is an illusion
Well, hate to say it, but how do you know?
Is that air that you're breathing?
Why worship false prophets you don't care to believe in?
I was arrogant being young, caring for the authority
'Till family-man life and loved ones became a priority
Never thought I'd see the day,
Park my car on the road, drop a couple cents to the meter maid
Looking in my mirror like, "I need a shave"
Seeing grays in my mug, scary. Dad bod.
At work, picking scabs off. 'Long as the mortgage is being paid
It's introspective, the apple doesn't fall far from the tree...
Rolls under a branch and gets squashed, but that's karma for me.
Head above water, yet the waves make it harder to breathe
In this semi-charmed kind of life...feeling like I'm part of the sea.
E-L-P-H is HELP, flipped, but that's part of the C.
The coldest, but walk the path like Moses, when he parting the sea...
Read messages from yesteryear...
By myself, sometimes, until my anxiety guest appears.
"Live, from the space wreck" - your host, and your trusted friend...
Make sure you catch that second wind, when that gush comes in..
Draft hit you like a draft from the NFL.
Hear the echoes bouncing off the well...
I still rap haphazardly, then catch my pace in the middle
So, it makes no difference to me if I space it a little
Conscious-thought works 24/7, even if I don't...
So why have an offline laugh at an online joke?
My words puncture consciousness with a lucid poise
Bellowing with the same reverence as Navalny, hearing Putin's voice..
Have an acute awareness to fish out your own autonomy
from the reign of abusive parents
Manufactured from being part of an elusive marriage, plagued by pain and regret...
They say it's okay on the day, but they don't forget

[Ill Finesse]

As a kid I did things my mom dukes don't permit
Looking back I wished I listened more
She tried to put me in positions to soar
I was just trying to look FRESH
Our pockets weren't blessed..
The neighborhood was good
That vital factor was misunderstood, as a youngin'
Even with all that greatness there was something
Missing
Outside of my family I didn't see much tradition
Or understand my melenated position lead to ostracism
I got a lot of wisdom
So I kill them with kindness
Still have some optimism but not easily blinded
Searching for my ancestors, I plan to
Shout out to the Igba, Yoruba and Bantu
Mom dukes side came from Burmuda
My pop's side I have no damn clue
I write this as I sit outside sippin a mai-tai surrounded by bamboo
With an attitude of "Can do"
When I'm gone there will be songs and candles
A tomb later on gets raided by vandals
Scandals involving the government
What's recovered? Some utter thee ark of the covenant
Surrounded by statues of black jews
Now what if the Nephilim was just some really tall black dudes
Who acted rude like Junior mafia
And had on more ice than hockey pucks
Then when floods came
None of these thugs could swim
What a shame
Even tho I'm saying how was they created
Didn't know you can go to the afterlife, come back and start mating
Even if you are part Satan
This part where most will start hating
I know, this a lot to take in
What it equates and how it pertains to the equation
To who it relates
At the end of the day, you safe
There is a creator
Love thy neighbor
I put my trust in God and have doubts about any saviors
In different flavors
What's good looking gets overtookin by wicked perpetrators
But it makes you think..
And that's part of the reason
So you can engage in what you believe in
Until you become seasoned
Teach your seeds then after you leave they help others achieve
I crack a smile cuz its back in style to see brothaz succeed

[Ill Finesse]

Facts, my life went down a shady road
Back when I was selling crack down in shady grove
To my ladies mother, can't say I moved like a sucker
Because my lady know
And she told me to do it muthafucka
Then I got some fellatio
The profits was 4.5x the ratio
I'd pick up across from the Nationals stadium on Half & O
Stacking dough
All across the DMV, back n forth
But I paid attention to the impact
The other dealers lacked remorse
I decided to change my path to get back on course
Told my girl, we better than that, this shit gotta stop
I'll be the shining example your pop's was not
But I wasn't mentally prepared....

... to deal with her demons that were already there
I wasn't aware that girl I shared
She's for the streets
I should have figured
Can't break a girl off quicker than the first time you meet
18yrs later you'll get back on your feet after your times complete
For 3 bids, 3 kids, 3 versions of the truth
Take a polygraph or wait for Jesus
In the meantime I keep some trees lit
It eases
The anxiety from a variety of future pariahs who had their eyes on me
In disguise, some even disguised as me
With their eyes on the prize
Once I realized the prize was me
Now I see, there's no rivalry
I inspire by what i aspire to be
Undisputed
The entirety of society, the entire field
Play me for your plants and you'll get higher yields
Whoever you call sire? kneels, when in my presence
Peasants catch a glimpse of my essence and become weaponized
Real recognizes real and so I'm recognized
As a big deal, now step aside (cuz I'm)

-iLL

[Celph Taut]

Word. Step aside, or be stepped on...
put an imprint to your neck, dog, the size of a helipad, n' then leapt off
to catch Marvel... your wrecked car, though...
Turned into a cube for anyone thinking they are the next Harlow...
No, you'll be thrown in the woodchipper - the next Fargo
The sky-walker, 'way I put your bitch in a Death Star-hold...
Phantom limb... throw the torso in the river, legs elsewhere
they'll be no chance to swim...
It'll be a fortnight before they are matched with their hands, again.
And the skin hanging off of the body
"No, it can't be him!" knife put a smile under your neck longer Cate Blanchett's grin...
War grammar akin to Thor's hammer...
They act tough on the net, but got mannerisms like Bjork fans. Uh...
It's just not right, and it's just not left...
Opps was narcoleptic, but he still got 'slept'
Woke up out of his dream state...
Dreamt he was getting "Puffy" his cheesecake, after Dylan's release date.
Please, wait. How're they stepping to you?
Decrepit, a view of the world like the day Netscape, was new.
Hasn't changed, but expects the world to change around him...
We lost the Punisher - their array, is clouded.
The same ones that can't be saved from drowning...
Fighting litigations out of lawsuits got 'em paying thousands...
Out of pocket, feeling the weight of depression...
Stressing over therapy, anxiety as you're paying a session...

[Ill Finesse]

What I display is progression, manifesting
No more questions, I know my reason
What I'm destined
To be, and, damn any suggestions
To the con-trary
Listen yes men
Com-pare me
To the best and, I'll best them in a best of 3
Lay to rest what you perceived is the recipe
So i'm on a quest to make true believers
My pursuit is eager
I'll go Beirut or the bay route
To shoot a negguh
I'm good with ⚖️ scales
Shout out to my Libra's ♎️
We in concrete jungles surrounded by cheetahs
Who are down to deceive us
Every time they see us it's tough love
Must of
Been descendants of Ya'kub
Beelzebub
The Beagle Boys
The weasels with toys in Roger Rabbit
My bad I snap sometimes, it's a habit
Relapse
Let's get it crackin
The path then, I travel unravels
After every battle you'll find a fractal
If I'm not lying but actual, then I time travel
The mind rattles only of those who can define my babble
The rest of y'all can resign in the shadows
I'm divine by design
Standing in the light, now watch me shine
There's over 8 billion people on this planet
Yet I'm one of a kind
So I'll end this like family guy
Bye, and have a beautiful time

- iLL

[Celph Taut]

Knew I'd be lying if I said I ain't want a view of the climate
Vertical planes assembled in such a way you can't be moving inside it...
My whole mantra is showing the way for those that use to provide it
And now my public life outweighs what I was doing, in private.
They wanted logical... A god that's so... improbable
He can't be fathomed, by modern souls...
I walk the roads less traveled, with obstacles...
Riddled between it - it's like I walked, on coals...
- my entire life, while they're dropping codes...
Figure I can't decipher it, but... I don't like giving up..
I mean, if we go back a couple years ago, I might have been stuck
...In my old ways, 'till old age gave me the time to adjust
And now? My POV's brought me back to my feet
A knack for seeing what's not seen, like I had the TacGlasses Elite...
Post-COVID, my folks-noted my objective, it's different...
Like every message has a lesson within it...
Well, I guess I've been given the foresight to get them to listen
From a different perspective they have never envisioned
Hallways that reek of urine and bad memories...
With stick up kids doing robberies, on bicycles...
To those same adults trying to right their woes... see how the cycle grows
Out of poverty to commodities moving lifeless souls...
Uh... whether it be organic or manufactured...
Or the lightning in the bottle that you can't recapture.
Chasing specters like imaginary friends from your past...
Cup your ears long before you hear the pendulums, clash...
Glass dreams, walking pivot points... music streams and river noise
Repressed memories from your childhood, turn to bigger voids
Lost in the translation, my lingo is palpable..
Hours of soul translated through online data and browsing controls
To eye watering debt, forcing families out of their homes
And predatory practices having generations mounting up loans
Own nothing, and be happy, right? Believe sacrifice..
Is your only outlet, so you're willing to receive bad advice
Failing to realize the same guys giving you the jacket, to float...
Are the same assholes that are willing to throw the anchor back in your boat
Let the odds be in your favor, though...
I mean it, dog, what you waiting fo'? Get creative, so you can make your doe
People with their hands out, asking for money, have to be funny.
I mean, some actual dummies. Being played for fools.
Money is gone, the same money you paid for schools.
Gave you tools within the game of their made up rules
Talk about a monarchy, fuck it... I'm not tripping off them...
Seriously, the king of what? The shit is fucked.
What power balance? They rigged it up... I know, I know... bordering conspiracies, now.
I'm just trying to tell you I don't care for the crown.
Let y'all sit and applaud those arrogant clowns, playing dress up, in public.
In their walled garden... observing exuberant behaviors that you all pardon...
Cover your eyes, not gonna change the fact it's there...
Asking me why I'm acting weird...
Because I know it's a cross that my children's children will have to bare..
It has nothing to do with righteousness...
Trying to fight this shit, having everything I am licensed with
Push boundaries like I never pushed, over horizons.
Make the loudest noise from inconsolable silence
You could be the most articulate with your words and reach
And none of that will matter, if you don't learn to teach
My company consists of breaking down the partitions...
Exposing the barriers that are surrounded our systems