Triggered (feat. Helixx C. Armageddon)

NIKKI GIOVANNI:

My theory is that the world divides into sort of like, Intelligent and dumb, weak and strong. Which is awful, I mean it's really awful for me to say things like that but there's so many stupid people.

JAMES BALDWIN:

It divides not so much between the stupid and the bright cuz most bright people I've encountered many, are wicked!

Helixx Armageddon:

There's trauma and then there's peace, and there's a little bridge you build between the body and relief, It's how I sleep under the cannon, running plays with the dragon crossing waves with the Kraken, believe me it's not all fiction, poetry in motion to galvanize the description of safe harbors, when even safe has its limits, hard to play possum when you're both the suDerer and witness.

There's a part of me I don't wanna see, it's in a place within the soul where my primitive monster grieves. Triggered by what I read or see, Dangers in the room but it's not you, IT'S ME!

JAMES BALDWIN:

You go through your life a long time, you think that, no one has ever suDered the way I've suDered.

My God, My God -and then you realize, that your suDering does not isolate you, your suDering is your bridge, that many people have suDered before you. Many people are suDering around you and always will, and all you can bring is hopefully.

RHYMEFEST:

I leaned on you under pressure,

Broke your heart in pieces and glued it all back together, That's the Japanese aArt of Kintsugi,

every time we hammered,

scars reveal the beauty

Imagine if,

passions built like a male masochist

Attracted to your beauty

but thrives under the nastiness,

I can never sit calm when the stress comes,

We go to war throwin F-bombs,

After the bombs fire,

I post bond and bond tighter,

We make love by the bond fire,

See that's my trauma bonding disease. Dangers in the room and ain't you, ITS ME!

JAMES BALDWIN:

Let it go, what the world does to you, is the world does it to you long enough and eDectively enough you begin to do it to yourself, you become a collaborator. An accomplice of your own murderers, because you believe the same things they do.

Helixx Armageddon:

There's no canaries in the coal mines, just a sense of fear in the passage ways of slow time, Scorched earth bare feet in the dirt,

That's when all my grace leaves and I'm an animal first. Viens dripping out rocket fuel, sweat pools swimming in trains without the ingenue, if you care about what the Ops would do, about to move the fourth wall, show you the obstacles,

Mirrors ask the questions advancing on the shadows but the shadows teach the lessons, inner alchemy's not guaranteed, dangers in the room but it's not you- ITS ME!

RHYMEFEST:

My resolution to workout just didn't workout,

I was goin vegan till the chicken brought the jerk out, I was smoking Herbo,

Till the heathens brought that Durk out,

ask yaself a question -

Is you better or you worse now?

(I don't know)

Feel like I lost the 1st 2nd and 3rd round,

Then traveled the world just vibin' on

how the Earth sound,

beautiful -

Wild and unusual

We was tryna rhyme

and our lives turned to a musical,

Entourage turned enemies

but imma turn this industry into to my ministry, never left the southside

I be in the streets,

Dangers in the room and it ain't you

ITS ME!

NIKKI GIOVANNI:

Personally, I'm just not interested in many things people are interested in, I'm not interested in a president or a congress I wouldn't care,

I just don't give a damn

because it's still somebody tryna run my life,

I'm not interested in movements and ideology Cuz I think that I would have a diDicult time

JAMES BALDWIN:

You would have a terrible time.

NIKKI GIOVANNI:

You know it wouldn't change one bit for me except maybe I'd have to go into exile!