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[00:00.00]Happiness('s Unit Of Measurement) (Prefuse 73 Remix) - Busdriver
[00:00.36]You burst on the scene
[00:02.07]Already a legend
[00:03.60]
[00:04.76]The unwashed phenomenon
[00:06.81]
[00:07.49]The original vagabond
[00:09.55]
[00:10.27]You strayed into my arms
[00:11.70]Yeah I told this one guy
[00:12.96]That my record's name is
[00:14.86]Called Fear of a Black Tangent
[00:16.30]
[00:17.11]And he was kind of offended
[00:18.30]And he was like
[00:19.42]What like I can't be down
[00:21.13]'Cause I'm not a black guy
[00:22.15]I was like no
[00:22.79]It's not really like that it's just
[00:24.87]Hit the switch
[00:25.71]The DJ plays the fine dish
[00:26.75]And adjusts the high-pitch level
[00:27.85]Hint to miss
[00:28.53]Hand your girl the wine list
[00:29.57]She smells of hibiscus pedals
[00:30.39]Whiff the grit
[00:31.34]I show up with my rhyme clique
[00:32.50]Not in designer fit dress codes
[00:33.57]Get a wince
[00:34.10]And they think we're timeless
[00:34.83]And starting singing along
[00:35.40]To our pirated down loads
[00:36.26]Admit the sh*t
[00:36.76]I've never really been that social
[00:37.73]Most the times I'm disheveled
[00:39.07]Is this it
[00:39.57]Since it's Fear of a Black Tangent
[00:40.58]Do I got to call white kids devils
[00:41.75]It's the pits
[00:42.20]Or do I got to say nature's ovaries are bleeding
[00:43.90]At a poetry reading
[00:44.52]The kids are pissed
[00:45.13]Because the thoughts of an underground
[00:46.25]Rap guy don't really go that way
[00:47.32]The kids are pissed
[00:47.92]I think the mainstream vs
[00:48.73]Independent argument is so passé
[00:49.99]Pick my disc
[00:50.58]Thanks to my 10 stack-high cd duper
[00:51.74]I'm an uneasy sleeper
[00:52.91]Get this
[00:53.31]But a pacified TV viewer
[00:54.26]Read about me in a weekly reader
[00:55.68]Fix the myth
[00:56.43]And he said I'm a hip-hop treaty breacher
[00:57.74]With my vivid tales
[00:58.35]I spend less time alienating my audience
[00:59.83]Then I do trying to solicit sales
[01:01.02]So lick the dick
[01:01.77]Because the scene is
[01:02.66]More than b**ches brew and stinky reefer
[01:04.05]It's a trip
[01:04.77]All the pee-wee leaguers kiss rings
[01:05.77]On our pinky fingers
[01:06.79]We spit the hits
[01:07.54]But why
[01:08.01]I am meaningless product on a crowded shelf
[01:09.82]A shout for help
[01:10.42]I simmer in my dilapidated glee
[01:11.80]Oh get an account
[01:12.47]With a popular hip-hop crew
[01:13.50]Pay the activation fee
[01:14.66]And buy a shirt a hat
[01:15.67]A pair of underwear
[01:16.27]'Cuz that's your favorite emcee
[01:17.50]And I'm a spacey shoegazer who stares at Pluto
[01:19.77]But I'll be a jiggy jigaboo
[01:21.03]Who goes through laser hair removal
[01:22.29]If it means that I can
[01:23.30]Pay my rent and other bills
[01:25.88]
[01:26.69]You burst on the scene
[01:28.10]Already a legend
[01:29.88]
[01:31.03]The unwashed phenomenon
[01:33.14]
[01:33.85]The original vagabond
[01:35.63]
[01:36.39]You strayed into my arms
[01:38.36]
[01:40.22]I've got a point system
[01:41.39]That determines my happiness
[01:43.04]It's unit of measurement is your interest
[01:44.91]In my crappy sh*t
[01:45.76]Because I'm not d**e
[01:46.51]I'm not fresh
[01:47.11]Ideas are overshot and undersung
[01:48.46]What a dumb verse that is
[01:49.90]I'm definitely not number one
[01:51.36]A verse drowning deep within my flooded lung
[01:54.06]
[01:57.05]A song dying deep in a pit of my blood and cum
[01:59.93]The kids don't want to listen
[02:01.00]They just want to have some f**king fun
[02:02.57]
[02:10.72]Fit the niche
[02:11.40]A hollywood entertainer will
[02:12.31]Take a xanax like a chewing gum
[02:13.72]Hit and miss
[02:14.39]They're in outlandish debt
[02:15.27]And their planned text is crude and dumb
[02:16.58]A business risk
[02:17.15]You know having a quality end
[02:18.07]Product should be the rule of thumb
[02:19.25]Fix the sh*t
[02:19.70]But it's obvious the culture's been raped
[02:20.86]It lies in a pool of cum
[02:22.02]Quit your shift
[02:22.57]So I'm up early working
[02:23.52]While you're squatting in pilates class
[02:24.91]Listening to Morning Becomes Eclectic
[02:26.22]And nodding to johnny cash
[02:27.66]A ni**a's pissed
[02:28.25]But I don't have the same reservations
[02:29.42]That a closet Nazi has
[02:30.49]But I'm as angst-ridden
[02:31.19]On Thanksgiving as you are
[02:32.26]When your favorite rapper
[02:33.05]Gets dissed on an opinion-based site
[02:34.14]You're a hippie
[02:34.69]Who don't know what chicken tastes like
[02:35.95]Telling me
[02:36.39]Who to pattern my career after
[02:37.55]And who I'm sounding like
[02:38.62]Hey why don't take your self-absorbed a**
[02:40.04]And hop on your mountain bike
[02:41.30]And go start a cipher
[02:42.13]At your parent's summer home
[02:43.09]On the veranda
[02:44.01]Because you bite about 20 styles per stanza
[02:46.00]But who cares
[02:46.52]Because I'm frustrated
[02:47.46]My records don't sell
[02:48.23]And I can't seem to book a decent gig
[02:49.62]And my indie label is understaffed
[02:50.95]And these midi cables won't connect the drum pads
[02:52.49]To the PA system
[02:53.12]And my deejay's missing
[02:53.85]And I'm barely able to feed my kid
[02:55.21]And I hate my pad I don't want to visit
[02:56.75]I need to put new brake pads on my Honda Civic
[02:58.52]I need an office visit
[02:59.38]From a known producer to do a remix
[03:00.73]But it's hard to recoup when he's paid
[03:01.99]And I'm starting to shoot my screenplay
[03:03.35]On Martin Luther King Day
[03:04.71]So I'm basically over budget
[03:06.03]And quite screwed
[03:07.43]
[03:17.72]I've got a point system
[03:18.82]That determines my happiness
[03:20.15]It's unit of measurement is your interest
[03:22.30]In my crappy sh*t
[03:23.23]Because I'm not d**e
[03:23.96]I'm not fresh
[03:24.54]Ideas are overshot and undersung
[03:25.81]What a dumb verse that is
[03:27.18]I'm definitely not number one
[03:28.75]A verse drowning deep within my flooded lung
[03:31.61]
[03:34.52]A song dying deep in a pit of my blood and cum
[03:37.26]The kids don't want to listen
[03:38.33]They just want to have some f**king fun
[03:39.72]
[03:51.08]You burst on the scene
[03:52.75]Already a legend
[03:54.58]
[03:55.61]The unwashed phenomenon
[03:57.85]
[03:58.39]The original vagabond
[04:00.48]
[04:01.23]You strayed into my arms