ultralight bem

since 1989

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There really is something about 2004. I think it is special starting with these albums that will be 20 years this year. A lot of timeless pieces (covering my own awareness) to hip hop music and music production. It's top tier! Not only that, I think there are special events too that had happened during this year. Can't forget about 2004 NBA Champs - Detroit Pistons!

I'll go ahead and update some more once I get a chance to remember or maybe check some more items off '04

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GZA has always been a force of the universe. I remembered that point in my life I participated in a Math Rap Contest and won. Haha! (Shout out Jonas) Science sets off the line I relate to the most: birth, life, death, even when the art and creativity takes into a whole lot of forms. Makes me smile and it gives us a fraction of hope! Wu Tang IS for the children.

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Happy to see this old work on a friend's tattoo studio. Time is the fliest thing.

I am not a robot, add this to cart.

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Beastie Boys, always.

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Bummer

Selected last draft pick for a choice cut salmon

Room was out of the boom, the claps violently silent

Despite it, grabbed the mic that suddenly turned violet

So much grip from deep sleep, life and coma is in a riot

Like the author letting you see unseen things

Light the motor and catch what the wild brings

Come and take the quick wit, clever comebacks-equipped kit

King Fever of the Jungle humble strangle the struggle

Passed on breakfast, brunch, lunch

Just so we can see it through to supper

Rambo with a red band, square knot deadpan

Boy Scout clout ready to rumble 'til the 12th round

The light shines the brightest in the clutch

What a day to must my way in, I even get to toothbrush

Top of the ladder with the food chain belt on a hanger

Top of the food chain, dog eat dog - circle of life bummer

People never realize an extra day this year

Next time we know it, there'll be no next time to know it

Give your limited fucks wisely

It always get dicey like disco panic people in the grocery

Must be, some kind of sorcery on what's behind the mystery

Who pushed the button sending thousands into history

The beast is yet to find its peace in this piece

So do your part, capiche?

And cut the part where misery and regret all started

With what ifs, whiskey wishes and preach

Soak in the sun with both feet on the beach sand

And water meeting halfway like two lips on a first kiss

Summer kissing booth corner

I'd like to take it further but this plague is really such a hoarder

Get my bike and I'll see you on the quarantine border tomorrow

If not, then that's all I have

P.S.

Meet me every sunset on the west end

With under 37 degrees of warmth love

Bem

03.23.2020

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https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3FCnfudveIbpUjVtRJcCsN?si=sC1XskKoRKyWzuFNDgXK0g

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Illection

Blue flame Godzilla

That's how we do react to 'in positions' in Manila

True lives lies on the bribes that couldn't feed ya

Families burst into worst from all the nuclear

We've all seen the picture, featured

Presentation like election day payday

Platforms ends flat

Salted worms stays in May out of all days

In all ways, we pray today stands o-kay

Rectify the lies, you'll get no casket but a free grave

So they call it some fruit of the labor

Steady-working fakers for a price of a favor

Textbook alligator seeking water from the waiter

On the layers of the danger, it's there to see you later

Who needed saving when the saviors need to be saved

Pressure weigh heavy than a 54T plate

Steel frame, no brakes, no hands, 3rd eye wide awake

Quid pro quo always at status quo

Here in this game where pro players playing so-so and so

Measuring up to some degree of fame and power

That most cannot afford

Just man-made titles, labels and papers

To impress its own kind, kinda sort

It sure feels like errors forever

Never learning and stopping the terror

Resilient enough to eat vomitspit and push a fresh new order

Tax money slaughter, congested fast life is the daughter

It's past 4th quarter for these overtime repeat offenders

When will we ever really learn

Waiting for the hell to burn prequel to sequel Jason Bourne

Or Jesus Part 2 be born, end up dead and then return

Nerve up the gun plasma and shoot your way

In the karaoke of things

Whatever tomorrow brings, you give thanks and sing

By simply putting everything in perspective

It matters don't so don't tell me what you've accomplished

Work behind the scenes with your little light of imperfection

At the end of day, you mirror the truest reflection

Louder than witness protection location

Without a sound.

BEM, 2/12/2020

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No such thing as too much villainy.

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Ode To The G.O.A.T.

Nothing like a good old goat debate

Between Jordan, the sneaker brand

And MJ in his playing days

Odd question is

Does air need space when Black Jesus jumps

It's always cigars in the fadeaways

Greatest of all time seem fine

With wings worth cementing the old freethrow line

Take your time to digest this

Sky's never, ever the limit

Fake the baseline drive, D is tight

The other side just might.. make it

To the First-Team, All Posterized

Doesn't matter if it's 9, 23 or 45

Celebrating the greatness long as we survive

He was the dunk, that Kobe fadeaway

The Chicago statue I'd still plan to visit one day

Whether it's golf, baseball, sneaker displays

Defining Moments stays all day

Legendary Legacy

Sports game monopoly, trash talk faculty

Championship ring is a specialty

Like Mike, we would want to be

Running like there's no other reason

But to win each season

Don't get in the zone, he is the zone

No phone can snap a picture

Rewind twice, replay's ready for the highlight feature

Practice made it perfect, game-winners made it sure

Love for the game at its purest form

Went from game-changer to a standard norm

Is the g.o.a.t. debate still on?

We just want to thank this guy

Past the last buzzer horn

Bem Blacano, 10.11.2019

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Man in a suit and briefcase looking at his watch. I was way deep in Kanye West's Jesus Walks. Located in Gil Puyat, Makati 2011-2014.

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Save this video and show it to your kids/grandkids one day! I still have goosebumps watching it. The final 3 minutes of Kobe Bryant's legend

Saving it for the kids..

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Tiptoe

Reach for the

Cash stacked in the old shoe boxes

And the rubberband kept it

Tighter than a locked chest

Throw away the key

How to handle the gold quest

Love chambers all flow

36 doors left doorless

Pretty much the very same thing

You never heard

In the midst of being told what to do

I check every word a hundredfold

Lord, please tell it's not the devil

Trying to knock again

Burned his gloves

The very last time I shook his hand

And so I

Write the right words

On Parker pen and Panda 757's end

Never went out of the lines

'Cause the plan is to

Never even miss the lessons again

Listen, both ear's missing

And we can't hear who's hissing

Keep our eyes open

For the high was never blinking

Snakes on the grass

We act lesser than we think

Following links after links after links

The jump ends without the springs

Or put the red hat on it

And keep it rollin', rollin', rollin' rollin'

Get out of them fake lenses

Posers pose, I suppose it's overdosed

Coast to coast host running the poetry game

Tiptoed

Prima ninja ballerina stigma

Devouring hate all over

Wu Tang Forever

Liquid Swords cut colder

I told ya

That special technique

Hiding in plain sight like a simple trick

Quick wit tastes sweet

With Adam and Eve's sinful lick

Lit little light title

Tilted until it hit the tile

Let its tail tell lies

True tale flies

Minus the LTE WiFi

Forget about it

Enough of the tied tongue

Made you look twice as nice

On a different kind of slang

Dunk, fouled, slam!

Chunky boy toys the sound of the alarm

Warm is where I'm from

Harm will not come but

Karma loops out of the wrong song

See you soon

Time to leave the room

And as long as I live I believe

The Bap will always go Boom!

Bem Blacano, 1/25/2019

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Can I Write?

Stupid is what stupid does

Don't know what's behind all the fuss

Because

I write down the letters of who I try to be

And generally refuse conforming

Of what it is to see

Rebel without a cause

Pause to stand my ground

Against the force

No snitching of course

Omerta - coded like the Morse

Mouth-closed send the nose another dose of O2 to toast

Cheers! For fear was never near

Spray can in the hand go together

Like chicken wings and beer

Silence, the sign of violence

Same as the siren

When the bell rings, round 10

No restart or try again

Cardio up, run and make turns

No help is coming

Just like a smiling friend

Vandalize the advertised

With the wildest styles

Globally recognized

The 7th Letter goes miles and miles

From sewers to high rise

Billboards and train tracks

Cats with 9 lives

Come rub it for good luck

Under the influence

Over and above the law

Lowest key is the key

Right to the city drawer

Creates more mystery than history

And rewrite the wrongs

The strong survive the longest

Safe was never the soundest decision

To make it through

Will make you true and be made

Don't ask no more questions

And make sure to never leave a trace

- bem blacano, 1/16/2019

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Seasonal Snores

There's 3 in the late night audience

It's coffee, donut and a conscience

They listen to these healthy rhymes

In the sickest of times

Where everything's way out of the line

Ill - is what it's called

For all it's worth

It's just another deal

To get your money easily killed

Fashioning the easy money and fast life feeling lucky

Profit's the new prophets

Made the horns sound falsely

Tell me, is this what it's going to be?

Market the elite

Divide then delete

Check out and proceed

Bodybag of treats that blankets the true spirit

In here for the luxury we fancy

Animal part mostly - sadly

Flaunt the physical and visible

Reptile reputation loud and miserable

Praises to the most merciful

People still care about substance

So I abuse every chance

To dance with the minds

Meaning that we can someday both find

Mysteriously serious

The curious stays furious

Can't get enough attention here

And so we add more friends to use

Sarcastics - the only way

We can get through all these

Fantastic plastics

Very tropical, it's only logical

To go for the path less traveled

Less labels, less egos

No more high walls

But longer tables for the people

Beware as dishonesty

Immediately overlaps what we focus on

Let's get the focusing done

Even when all the lights are gone

No cameras, just action

Reactions - save it for the facebook home

It starts with the real home

A single unit can really make it different

Set aside differences or who's more legit

As if I care about it one bit

Ultra high in spirit

Too basic for all the deep shit

Take it back and protect the weak

Speak up for those

Who find themselves meek

We are not in this physical state

Why would we be afraid?

Everyday endurance

Is what we can definitely take

And until that bell rings

I'm going to be late

Told the devil to set hell

On a low-fire level

Open up the gates, I won't stay

I'll just say hello

Bem, 8-7-2018

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Always been a fan of penmanship. This picture is from Hip Hop's very own Grandmaster Caz. It was so clean it's easy to imply that the rhyme factory in his head is abundant. This is a treasure.

Photo courtesy of Google.