The opening track, “Abundant Bank,” depicts the outlaw and out-of-place loner who will do whatever is necessary to provide for himself and his family. To evade capture, the wanted is now on the run, placed in the “Prowler Position.” Still, it is not the law that leads to repentance, but the self’s own “Enduring Witness.” Locked in “Raw Shank,” wits are sharpened and, in “Mighty Bomb Jack,” the self-imposed exile is breached. Through introspection, a new “Papyrus Code” emerges, the self is sanctified, and the ensuing “Pandemical Madness” solidifies an awareness: the existence of an individual and collective spark. Recognizing the divinity of self, authenticity is emboldened, and the “Highness Bow.” If we are a continuum of lives performed, then Persona is a story of performance from the highway to the throne.
lyrics
Raw Shank
Here’s a story from Raw Shank I call rank
You can’t come back check that and fall back
Fall back I
Proclaim off the top Joe stomp decepticons
While wily kit or kat start throwin’ a smoke bomb
These lines from the mind lion like Voltron
No lines like comic con Joey Bruno with no Juno
You know never call me but text I
Tote poetical mic check that prophetic it’s
What’s next the suplex unsuspected
Think I’m high risk but never miss who wanna
Dismiss the undisputed kid deep rooted
From the 80s these rap babies up and down just like he’s
Wavy the MPC plus words be
Absurdly this other-wordly my journey
Bum-stiggedy-bum no young guns concern me
Crew like one run done while we early
Love the flow but say he’s too wordy
Too nerdy chatterin’ battle in no mercy
Ladder match can’t match son like birds be
Born bury hatchet catch this not worthy
Heard he unexpectedly cop drop
The weaponry can’t see the big picture this
With telepathy open sesame mind especially
Run never hesitate but heavyweight the hesi be
So professorly and one indelibly
Once again back it’s the incredibly
It goes Raw Shank
Fibonacci’s son who never run but pullin’ rank
They know Raw Shank
Blowin’ up banks ‘til they’re gone
It goes Raw Shank
Fibonacci’s son who never run but pullin’ rank
They know Raw Shank
Lights bright on fight night it’s on
On your mark get set I left at incredible
Timin’ is impeccable ‘cause Joey is obsessional
With the legible never sly expendable
Who flyin’ higher bird on a wire try unforgettable
Stay susceptible though forces look impregnable
I teleport accordingly forts is indefensible
Knock ‘em out the box or off pedestals
Now I got a better view so get a clue that’s plentiful
Socrates with ease he’s professional
Universe is parallel still no flow is identical
What I’m sendin’ you reach through like a tentacle
Caught in like I bought in like I fought in bring in medical
Blow-up I show-up I mixed-up the chemical
Yes they steady skeptical the alchemy’s exceptional
Blow-up I cleaned-up I mixed-up the chemical
Once again back it’s the incredible
It goes Raw Shank
Fibonacci’s son who never run but pullin’ rank
They know Raw Shank
Blowin’ up banks ‘til they’re gone
It goes Raw Shank
Fibonacci’s son who never run but pullin’ rank
They know Raw Shank
Lights bright on fight night it’s on
This goes out for those that choose to use
Disrespectful views on Bruno know you owe
Truffaut this rap Alfred Hitchcock
Off the top even higher than I thought
When I looked would work like this is his carpentry
But served right and deserved like the karma be
Burn bright or blast through the blasphemy
Spurn the audacity would turn their backs to me
Back against the balcony or thankfully vitality
Or finish him fatality or sickness triviality
Get it more like actually or realer than reality
Or spread throughout the galaxy vocal criticality
Backup all the track can be hijack a crew and faculty
Yes and bless the pageantry the sanity’s a tapestry
No gimmicks but elaborately pray I
Once again back incredibly say why
Raw Shank
Fibonacci’s son who never run run run
Raw Shank
Blowin’ up banks ‘til they’re gone
It goes Raw Shank
Fibonacci’s son who never run but pullin’ rank
Raw Shank
Blowin’ up banks ‘til they’re gone
I’m gone
Persona
Break out with much clout fake out I take out
Anyone en route bomb threat get no doubt
credits
from Persona,
released February 21, 2022
4. Raw Shank
Run time: 4.13
Artist Name: Chris Cachia
Musicians: Chris Cachia & Charlie McEvoy
Producer: Charlie McEvoy
Mixed Producer: Charlie McEvoy
Published by: Self-Released
Engineer: Charlie McEvoy
Mixed Engineer: Charlie McEvoy
Mastered: Charlie McEvoy at In Tune Audio
Songwriter: Chris Cachia
Chris Cachia is a music-maker and word-shaper in the tradition of those Hip Hop emcees who focus on lyricism to address social issues, tell stories, and enact the power and pleasure of language.
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