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Ethics - When The Mask Comes Off

by Inck.

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1.
The way I see it, it can go either way, growing old, growing cold, waking up and realize at one day, that I’m the one to blame, that I became, every fucking thing I despise, see the hate in my eyes, when it pours it rains, feel the pain in my rhymes, every time I pick up a pencil, I seem to be crying, damn it’s a shame feeling so bad, but what is really sad, are the choices you made, for feeling this way, it’s in your head, it’s in your system, even though you shouldn’t listen, there ain’t a person who can help you cause you lack the wisdom, next the anger takes over, it’s over, you’re not living no more, like Vader possessed by the dark, you don’t shine anymore, you’re at war but lost the war cause you hate and spit venom, focussed on the dark side, wondering why you can’t kill ’em, that feeling, is eating you alive inside, what comes around goes around, now you’re plotting suicide, the evil eye misguided even though you can’t deny it, it didn’t bring you any peace cause if it did you wouldn’t want to rest in peace and release, all the tension and stress, with this pen I address and express but yes I confess it makes me depressed, the mess I created myself, I have to clean it myself, time to break it all down, the anger, the hate, this is the time to wreck the wreck, before it’s too late, The time to wreck the wreck before it’s too late, try to understand, I ain’t going away, this is all, this is all, this all, I ever wanted to be, the time to wreck the wreck before it’s too late, try to understand, I ain’t going away, cause this is it, this is it, this is it, before it’s too late, For years and years and years I’ve been fooling myself, never thought that I would be the one destroying myself, always on the lookout for devils, pushing the pedal to the medal, kept it moving while I cursed to the heavens, in different letters, fuck rhyming about the weather, had to talk about something more at the centre of the human condition, couldn’t sit back and just listen, was on a mission to uncover what went on in God’s kitchen, what a stupid decision, the reason for our existence, had to ask and I answered, despite all the books, didn’t find a cure for the cancer, so I can’t just or can I, move on and say goodbye, of course I can, let ’em die, fuck ’em all, time to fly, this is my time and for the very first time I feel inner peace, I want to live, don’t want to be deceased, I feel a motherfucking beast, an animal, handled ’em without a parental manual and a few companions, yeah my demons are hungry so they keep coming back, but this evening I feed ’em with positivity like I said, time to break it all down, the anger, the hate, this is the time to wreck the wreck before it’s too late, The time to wreck the wreck before it’s too late, try to understand, I ain’t going away, this is all, this is all, this all, I ever wanted to be, the time to wreck the wreck before it’s too late, try to understand, I ain’t going away, cause this is it, this is it, this is it, before it’s too late.
2.
This is all I know, this is who I am, try to be different, I’m a haunted man, this is all I know, I’m ready to explode, thanks to rap homie, only peacefully at war, this is all I know, this is who I am, try to be different, I’m a haunted man, this is all I know, I’m ready to explode, thanks to rap homie, only peacefully at war, I got to ventilate, so much shit is going on I’m afraid, if I don’t I will fucking explode, put the pin back in the grenade, before I penetrate your dome, can’t even blink, you’re gone, when you see me in the flesh, I’m rolling all alone, in my zone, most dangerous on my own, I’m far from grown, I’m a goner, isolate myself so I don’t want to know you, better prepare cause you’re gonna be hit with a flow so cold you’ll end up with ammonia, don’t come crying bitch I told you, why you’re looking surprised? Obvious you’re amazed, but it’s so dark in my head I live at night during the day, break of dawn is long gone, holding on is so wrong, actually pathetic, it’s over now, my life-song, lights on, so I can fight these demons head on and put their motherfucking head on a stick, tired of all his motherfucking bullshit, reason why I spit shit? Take this fist full of shit and stuff it in your asshole, make it fit, I admit I’m nothing but a mis- fit, how else could it be when your parents got divorced, mother died, tried suicide, your best friend killed himself, and your brother is playing innocent while claiming his addiction is fiction, shut the fuck up and let me explain my position, you can sense that I feel like dissing but this is more like shitting, be thankful that I have rap, can mutilate myself all by myself, and that I’m the only victim, This is all I know and, this is who I am, I try to be different, yeah, but I’m a haunted man, this is all I know so, I’m about to explode, but thanks to rap homie, I’m only peacefully at war, And every time I think I’m finished, but they just keep coming back, like the cancer cells I my mother’s body just to react, they move to attack, their plan of attack, to bring me back to black, but the boy unpacks a verbal attack, I’m not going back, I never prayed for the payback, if not provoked I don’t react, I feel a wreck yeah that’s a fact but do disturb and feel the wrath, I never hold back and now you know that, as you blow jack, there ain’t no point in going at me, Mighty come and find me, can feel the cracks, let’s reunite and stand beside me, going toe to toe with my demons, I can see ’em and feel ’em, already made a decision, they ain’t gonna know what hit ’em, thanks to this rhythm I’ll beat ’em, this here is creationism, call it egoism or heroism, tired of determinism, this is hyper realistic idealism, competition is none, already told ’em but they wouldn’t’ listen, I’m Neo, the fucking one, This is all I know and, this is who I am, I try to be different, yeah, but I’m a haunted man, this is all I know so, I’m about to explode, but thanks to rap homie, I’m only peacefully at war, I’m like a ticking time bomb, as fucked up as they make ‘em, careful don’t overdose if you believe that you can take him, so many thought that I would grow to be my mother’s evil seed, but look at me now, I’m the illest human being, I put it all in this song, I’ll put it all in writing, on my mother’s soul I’ll never stop fighting, this is who I am, this is what I’ll be, Mighty or Inck., I’m at war peacefully.
3.
Now let me slow it down for you, so you can understand every word I’m spitting and feel the exact same emotions I felt the night when this was written, you can feel that I’m slipping, but fuck it I’m still living, I’m still standing in the kitchen trying to paint a perfect picture, I’m still looking up to the sky wondering why, sometimes I’m still a wreck, because the nights are still dark, and even though He never answers I’m still writing letters to God, am I the same or am I fucking changed? Heeeuuuh, guess I wanted more, I chased the fame, switched my game, changed the name, determined to change the game, traded the desk for the stage, all about show, first mistake, I went against my nature, invested time in rapping liars, cause Ethics was prior, so where were the ethics in making Ethics? You’re a liar? Damn, all I ever wanted was being a ghostwriter, Refrein 3 o’clock, I’m wide awake, it’s time to take another brake, fuck writing another Break, now it’s dawn, I’m moving on, paved the way, not to make ’em pay, just to much at stake, I prayed for a better day, and like an angel it came, a spark in the dark, as if I was walking with God, defeated the odds, yeah I know, but now it’s time to go, go hard, and put my heart into it and do it, yeah from the start I knew it, only got to put my mind on it, fuck all who said I couldn’t do it, letter to heaven, letter to God, I wrote from the heart, from the start, all for me, not for you, from the beginning I knew what to do, letter by letter, wrote them letters, meditated in every letter, every night I tried to do better, peace of mind, my place in heaven, I fought the devils on a inner level, I drove ’em out, some epic battles, inner struggle, inner pain, good and evil, sun or rain, what you say? Didn’t get my name? Doesn’t matter, it’s all the same, why you think I do this for? The fortune and the fucking fame?
4.
Hope 03:00
Broken family, family drama, drama mama, mama karma, mama cheated daddy but mammy suffered badly from cancer, she knew the answer, chances she would survive, non-existent like the chance she would leave earth a beloved wife, a bumpy ride, medical bills were crazy, she tried to raise ’em, to control the fire, but she couldn’t she was tired, and so she decided to stop fighting, prayed for guidance in silence, to a higher presence, on her knees, begging to keep ’em safe in her absence, a painful picture of a tragic future in the making is what I’m painting but can you blame ’em or hate ’em, when they’re raising hell or going to jail? Only one answer: yes you can, every man creates his own hell, your mind can become a cell, I did never settle for second best, but I battled the battle after the battle, beaten down but got up, even with broken wings I try to fly, I’ll die before I give up, and don’t live up to my own expectations, I swear to God, every fucking day I m facing Satan, have to tell it to his face, not going, I’m not slowing down, I take that pain and turn it around, it’s countdown, 4,3,2,1, Inck.-show is about to go down, turning down the crown but I run this town tonight you fucking clown, So I hope, hope, for a better day, but I know, know this is my way, ain’t no way, I’m giving up, no not today, no way, so I hope, hope, for a better day, but I know, know this is my way, ain’t no way, I’m giving up, no not today, no way, so I hope, I’m in my zone, I feel alone, it’s on, I’m a gone, I’m a goner, in this state of mind I give a fuck about right or wrong, let me warn you, come on you, acknowledge the knowledge I used to demolish, my memories, history, this is more, but don’t petty me, When momma deceased, pain increased, a demon unleashed, yes I’m a beast, roamed the streets ‘till I met a priest, who told me to let go, to release, hatred and pain, was stuck in the game, promised myself, never again, never surrender, never retreat, but thanks to the beat, I will defeat, Ink on the paper, who can escape?, when Inck. is awake I can’t get away from, painting a picture, acts of a sicker, sicko mind, a thin line, life or fiction, there ain’t no friction, every line like an addiction, wondering what has happened with him? Rap’s a prison, try to go against him, It provides the insights, when I rhyme I feel fine, it’s alright, I ignite and aim for the stars, take a flight, see another bar, come to life in front of my eyes, so it’s no demise, I create life, all you rappers retire, Prometheus, I stole your fire!
5.
In Your Eyes 04:00
He, this song is for, no, she knows, You’re the only one, who can stay around, when I’m going down, back to black, you pull me, back, In your eyes I find, in your eyes I see, everything I need, you can hold me, please hold me down, This song is about me, this song is for you, this song is about us, together we came true, this ain’t new, true love is universal, but we are us, you’re part of my inner circle, that sacred place, where time can wait, though memories faint, the feeling of love will stay the same, to our dying days, and even after this life, in our afterlife, I want you to stand with me, never out of sight, day and night, cause I might get scarred when I feel my pain on a rainy day, please remain, never change, always be the same, you’re the reason that I gain, that I maintain, may sound lame, that I let go of the pain, instead of going insane, I sees the day, you’re the reason, the one who never stopped believing, I kept receiving, your love, support, all I’m asking for, need nothing more, my peace when war, you’re an angle, you’re an angel, you’re an angel I’m sure, everyday I wake up I think of you, wondering what did I do, to earn you, we ain’t two, we are one, you’re my one, You’re the only one, who can stay around, when I’m going down, back to black, you pull me, back, In your eyes I find, in your eyes I see, everything I need, you can hold me, please hold me down, Life can be easy looking into your eyes, eight years, you and me, still our love’s on the rise, no lies, you and me together, I love you for who you are, no matter the weather, I don’t know if we’ll be together forever, but for you there’s a place in my heart forever, actually it doesn’t matter, let us write our love letter, everyday we work hard, try to be better, I’ll be damned if I ever, let anybody hurt you cause you’re my treasure, yes I treasure us, being together, you’re the reason for this letter, you make me better, ask questions I’m afraid to answer, move true my mind, like a dancer, when thoughts involve cancer you know what to do, why do I love you? Cause you are you, this is for you, you’re a blessing, an angel, a gift, for you this confession, my heart on paper, words vaporize, when we look deep into each other’s eyes, so it’s no surprise you make me feel alive, give me the energy to feel the vibe, like a child your innocence is cute, maybe one day we’ll say I do, Nothing more to say, just know that I love you, we’re a perfect picture in so many ways, after so many years and tears you know my deepest fears, our souls are entangled in time, so you will always be mine, You’re the only one, who can stay around, when I’m going down, back to black, you pull me, back, In your eyes I find, in your eyes I see, everything I need, you can hold me, please hold me down.
6.
HipHop 101 04:26
He yo Inck.. What up Big Ice? I hear all these so-called rappers talking man, damn, they’re always talking man, always rapping about the same old shit, fake ass gangsters, with all their nursery rhymes, I think it’s time to school ’em man, really man, you’re ready? Hell yeah, The Mighty-way, 318-way, what would my mom say? She’d be proud, my pen and pad, followed my path, I take a last stand and laugh, with half-ass MCs, never last, like Everlast, I’m on their gangsta-actors-ass, all talk, even the walk, a walking catwalk, go and take a walk in Bangkok and reflect for a minute, you’re a gimmick, just admit it, a misfit, just an idiot, what you spit you never did it, your rhymes mean shit, a copy of an imitation, this here is an invitation, to come clean with your inner self, like myself I’m just myself, meet me in the flesh, I’m polite, I ain’t hard, never slapped bitches or fight, always playing my part, I’m not as cold as ice, I can’t kill people because I love life, and I can’t pull the trigger, certainly not use a knife, I can’t sell drugs, see the pain the feen’s eyes, so I give ’em a shoulder, don’t destroy but support life, I don’t destroy but support life, I hope you fake-ass-gangsta-MCs are listening, but Inck., it ain’t over, go get ’em, Come on just do it, you live in the ghetto, everyday again a struggle, I hope you don’t forget to bring the ammo, masturbating when I call you Pac or Biggie, what do you know about history?, I’ll call you 50, so what up 50, ready to cruise true the inner city while looking really thugy and bully, I’m shore by now you must love me, such a mean machine, the scene has never seen, the hardest rapper there will be or ever has been, like a Trojan horse I’m in, I’m under their skin, wait a second and behold a destruction from within, cause he scene has never seen a bigger scheme, I see the dream, I see the fantasy, OK for me, let it be known it’s fantasy, it ain’t reality, so tell me who you are, I’m me, myself, the kid with the scarred memoire, M.I.G.H.T.Y. aka Inck., or call me Mighty hoe akbar, Rhyming for yourself wasn’t enough, you wanted fame, the day you wanted to be the hardest it all changed, that that doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger, but you will loose yourself if you hold on longer, Rhyming for yourself wasn’t enough, you wanted fame, the day you wanted to be the hardest it all changed, that that doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger, but you will loose yourself if you hold on longer, What do you do, when all those motherfuckers are yelling, rebelling, and claiming they’re always committing felon-nies, get down on your knees, this ain’t police, this is hiphop 101, shut the fuck up, please, believe, I ain’t the bully who’s steeling money, think it’s funny? Well think again, cause I’m coming and I’m hungry, I’m here to challenge, all you fake MCs, drop the beat, let us take a peek into your life, so we can see, that you are a hustler, that nobody can touch you, you’re walking around with a gun, screaming I’ll buck you, you’re selling that coke, that xtc and that smoke, are you so hard that even your best homie thinks you’re cold, man I’m playing no more, today it’s all about show, instead of life, fantasy, all ego, no honesty, all lies, how can you sleep? You rhyme but ain’t a MC, a disgrace, how can you be, this shit here has history, better study history cause there’s more than a gangster scene, life on a beat, is what I hear and what I read, but when I’m hearing you speak, I hear lies and uncertainty, what kind of person would claim, to be a thug and insane, While he’s still living with mommy and gets his money from daddy, goes to church Sunday morning but comes out a devil, I’m warning, all of you motherfuckers claiming you’re hard and you’re not, all of you bitches I hope you die right on the spot, While the spotlight is on you and people see that you’re phony, you ain’t the devil, you’re holy and the same goes for your homies, go get your homies, by yourself you ain’t shit, a lot of noise, all lies man, you can suck my {peep}.
7.
Who would have known, yeah, that I would be the illest, you know you feel this, this gotta be the realest verse I ever wrote, you know I’m dope, put away that coke, and listen close to the murder he wrote, sniff a line and get out of line, I’m pure as fuck, I’ll fuck you up, cause I walked the earth, been true hell, faced my demons, served’em well, heard me dwell, break of dawn, tried to figure out where the fuck I was going, blowing hate, feeding on cancer, is there light? To afraid to answer, hiphop was the dark matter that kept my universe together, it made me better, thank God that I met her, cause I needed her after the beating, cried in her arms like every evening, but today I’m the illest being, I came back from pitch black to smack these rappers so bad, I bring it back, back to the basics, this is mystics in the matrix, Murder, murder, mur…, mur… Murder, murder, mur…, mur… There’s been a murder Second verse, let me first refer to the first it was bizarre, got out the dirt, back on my feed, now it feels like I’m leaving earth, every breath that I take and every move that I make, I’m feeling great, congratulations but this is only halfway, no graduation, half the rhyme, only half the line, lost my way cause I ignored the signs, by now wasted to much time, got to make this motherfucker mine, what’s going on in my mind, I’m rhyming all the time, every time I climb, that fucking ladder, with every letter, trying to do better, be sublime, shine is crazy, I enlight the night, yeah they can try me, I just might, might do what? There’s no one in sight, devils flee without putting up a fight, despite the fact some rappers are killing it, yeah they talk, are they walking it? Bitching and bragging like they’re G, but it’s nothing for me to live a fantasy, cause honestly, I’d rather be free and be me, spit me, basically spit reality, cause in the end you’ll see, all about reaching your destiny, they can hate me for being me, when feeling this energy, call 911, an emergency, he did it, but know it was far from easy, Murder, murder, mur…, mur… Murder, murder, mur…, mur… There’s been a murder
8.
Today i’m focussed on the present and past, the ink, the path, the struggle, I’ll find it, peace at last, books, knowledge, relative, I’m on it, the wise, the week, the strong, I seek, redemption, the tension, compassion, the vengeance, the love, the hate, to build, to break, to work, to fight, each day and night, to grow, to learn when to charge or to hide, the choices I made, consequences I take, a child, a man, hand in hand, books, loyalty, homie or enemy, darkness or light, the strength to fight, when it seems game over, When it seems game over, then I get a ink-letter inspiration, euh, that wants to make me take it over, sit back and learn man, I’ve been true a lot, but still I keep dreaming of that number one spot, yeah I’m fucked and I’m scarred till death, and there are moments that I see nothing but darkness and longing for death, take a breath and envision, I’m the king of my kingdom, the centre of my universe, creating verse after verse, all the drama it hurts, a soldier bleeding in the dirt, try to bite my tongue, cover the pain with wisdom, or put it all in a song, after that, close my book of rhymes, look outside the window and hope that the sun is shining, I know that I’m lying, to myself when I’m rhyming, you can’t blame me I’m trying, when I’m writing I’m crying, I feel helpless but this way, I feel in control, capture it all in a structure, far from creativity, I write for nobody but me, already told you no MC, but master of my own ceremony, at least I try, and I will ride, for my brother, my mother, 31840 I love ’em, My name is Michael, disciple, respect is vital, a must, a plus, if not, adjust, but money, greed, it leads the streets, but silence, nature, it leads to peace, reflecting, dissecting, authentic, or acting, fuck ’em, feed ’em, rats, don’t need ’em, homies, I see ’em, love, the feeling, my wounds are healing, I see the meaning.
9.
Damn, what a ride, from all the way down there, to up here, and I’m not going back, no, no I’m not going back, my thanks to those who know, this is my life, now go and live yours, Heeeee, what are you waiting for, life’s right out that door, look up to the sky, now close your eyes, feel that you’re a part of life, Almost like a reflex, reminisces about my past, with my pen and pad describing my path, from the past to the present, made every second present in these past few letters, in every letter, letter by letter, just follow the letters, and trace’em back, you’ll see what I mean it appears, it all has the same kind of origin and so it seems, that I’m not moving forward despite the use of all these words; but in reality, it helped me to clean up the dirt, it helped me to put out the trash homie, the past is past, feels like I’m standing at the crossroads, I’m not going back, I’ve felt a wreck but kept moving on, from Past to Present Tense, The Break Of Dawn, kept holding on, was growing strong, but I felt alone, nobody knew what was going on, nothing to see, wrote all my shit down on paper, later spit on CD, the peek into my soul, meant for friends and closest family, so try to see what it meant to me, yeah writing was some kind of remedy, the enemy of a part of me, the end of me, never thought I’d be, famous for the drive in me, I’m feeling free, a brand new me, ready? Yeah you’ll better be cause my being has new meaning, and I don’t stop for any other being, show you the meaning of determination, you’re facing extermination, cause I’ve been patiently waiting for the day that I could beat Satan, so when you’re down there fighting with Satan, tell him I said hi, and that we will meet each other again, till then I’m flying high, Heeeee, what are you waiting for, life’s right out that door, look up to the sky, now close your eyes, feel that you’re a part of life, I’m at the top of my game, feels like I’m invincible, understandable, give me a paper and pencil and I’ll assemble the essential and spit it on this instrumental, I’m influential, my influence is undeniable, you can feel the tension when I make your world tremble, dare to call yourself an animal? I’m an intellectual who reads you like a manual, eats you like a cannibal, like fire and water homie, we’re fucking incomparable, while I’m incredible, you’re expandable, so let us make an end of all the bitchen and the bullshit and make time for “Oh shit, oh shit, did you hear that shit? While it seems he doesn’t even has to try to spit”, while I’m on that try-to-spit, you’re on that try-me-bitch, yeah homie, I know it’s strange, but this is it, final verse, mask off, 3, 2, 1, blast off, I’ve shed the past off, but still I am the past y’all, listen to the Break of Dawn, that’s the place we’re coming from, never thought to see the sun, but no I’m ready, moving on, left the past in the present, I was lucky, rap a present, now you listen to my letters, know that everyday is a present, I wasn’t present when my mother released her last breath, but she was present every second making this record, the effort that I put in, am I getting under your skin, the hate that I’ve felt for my kin is no longer within, I’m in a different state of mind, pain heals, words to the wise, don’t believe? My life is the proof, analyse, no need for lies, look into my eyes and see the ice melted by fire, felt it but denied it for too long, I’m moving on, Damn, looking back I wanted to wreck the wreck before it’s too late, with the help of hiphop I was peacefully at war, always praying, hoping, that one day there would be peace, well, I found peace, and no, this ain’t just music, just put’em up, I’m living proof, Heeeee, what are you waiting for, life’s right out that door, look up to the sky, now close your eyes, feel that you’re a part of life.

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Geïnspireerd door Spinoza's meesterwerk Ethica, nam inck., het alter ego van Michaël De Donder, de EP 'Ethics. When The Mask Comes Off' op (2013). Gevormd als maatschappelijk werker en sociaal en cultureel antropoloog is het vetrekpunt van deze Engelstalige hiphop zijn observaties en filosofische beslommeringen. De nadruk ligt dan ook op de eerlijke, inhoudelijke en betekenisvolle lyrics waarvan inck. hoopt dat ze van waarde kunnen zijn in het leven van de luisteraar.

De EP bracht inck. naar diverse podia over heel Vlaanderen: Charlatan (Gent), hiphop-festival Rad Van Tong (De Casino, Sint-Niklaas), For Flavor Festival (Buggenhout), De Hossel (Factor te Brugge), Mekitburn Festival (Vilvoorde), Kinky Star (Gent), ... Bovendien bouwde inck. een stevige live reputatie op, met als gevolg de publieksprijs van Hiphopstand op zak en een tweede plaats tijdens de Zennetoer editie 2014-2015.

Vanuit het verlangen om iets 'authentiek' te brengen, wordt het volgende hoofdstuk momenteel voorbereid met een vierkoppige live band. Dit moet uitmonden in een nieuwe EP (2016) en een nog meer dynamische live performance.

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