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Least Informed (KNife prod. by Mammoth)

from Stone Soup For The Soul by AllOne

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I met Kedrick (Dope KNife) when he was touring through Long Island with Contraverse and Miggs in the Summer of 2013 and they played St. James' Comiskey Park. We kept in touch and when Kedrick was working on his album "Iconoclast" he asked me to do a spoken word style poem for the project, from the concepts he gave me came this piece, which isn't entirely audible on the track, but it is all the more interesting for that. I recorded the vocals with my friend Alexa Dexa in her little studio "Raw Hide Records" in the basement of her father's animal hospital. I started performing this as an a capella piece and even placed 3rd with it in my first Slam contest in 2015. This piece was also published in a Bards' Annual anthology by Long Island poetry press "Local Gems Poetry Press".

lyrics

AllOne:
Caught up in the WEB
not "interact", but "internet"
no interest in intimacy
an intrinsic need to intervene
off-kilter.
Online- SINformation super-highway user
On lines in formations to get in a WAY HIGH Stupor
won't look in a Face or a Book
(save for a push on a computer).
Ignorance = Bliss
(well yeah, "Truth Hurts"!)
Entertained, Enter-tainted, Enter-TAMED.
But EXIT what?
an exodus of excellence.
we've outsourced integrity
we go out obsessively
but being outgoing is heresy?
out of touch with EVERYTHING
(but EVERY SCREEN)
Self-centered yet no sense of self is seen!
Celebrity is celebrated Godliness
(and "in God we trust"!)
Genuflecting generations generator.
SO MUCH POWER!
So little empowerment
now enriched solely by valueless
soulless shock-value-clips
Buzzkill nobody is "grounded"
found within the rock-bottom-of-the-barrel
getting rocks off in glass houses
Pitching. Sniffing.
Get stoned! Get Hammered! Get Smashed!
Be proud of it! GET GET GET!
Never give out a bit....
News Flash! Special announcement!
Our pronouns have been hi-jacked...
YOUtube. MEems. Imax Ipod.
On cue, I watched my highly idle, high idols.
"Hi, I'm dull!"
Hi-fi, Wi-fi, why find anything of interest?
No moral compass is within this GPS.
Despite the E-maelstrom of TechnOpression
Our Anti-Social-Network-Ethic
Machinery beats desperately against ribs
protesting its obsolesence.
No Murmurs! our hearts groan.
to jail-break-free of these smartphones
a detention behind Barcodes.
See a "screen" is just a filter.
So what's getting left back in that "net" trapped?
Disconnect
Reconnect
Intersect
Interact
Look into FACES
have a sincere organic communication
no synthetic INTERFACE could ever match.

credits

from Stone Soup For The Soul, released March 26, 2017
Lyrics written and performed by Dope KNife and Bruce "AllOne" Pandolfo
Produced by Mammoth

Listen to Dope KNife's full Iconoclast album:
dopeknife.bandcamp.com/album/iconoclast

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Left-field rapper, slam poet, singer/songwriter, and author Bruce Pandolfo from Long Island.
Creating to connect. Obsessively exploring and creating art as healing and growing.

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