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The Businessman

from Odd Man Out by Markings

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Cover by Muxxi

(M. Reyes, N. Harker)

Produced by Oddeo
Recorded by DJ BuddaBlaze at Corner Sound Studios, Kahnawake
Mixed and mastered by Anthony Piazza for Bare Bones, LLC

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Golden standard, propaganda
On the road to riches, sold your fam out
Gotta know the business, so demanding
Lotta foreign interests, no companions
Understand a whole world of trouble awaits
Don't get Yella, like NWA
You can never reprimand a pack of mutts that they bit the hand
When ain't none of them ate
(hold up, wait, eh)
Starve the masses, cards of plastic
Fund the bankrupt, Goldman Sachs it
Have them all fucked, no prophylactic
The boldest tactic, no open pastures
It ain't just the grass that's greener
Or the magazine models you can bag are meaner
Or the Panacea bottles, Technomarines
With a power suit on, matching garbardine
(gotta get that)
Flyer than a jetpack, setting it off
All cut from a devilish cloth
(god I felt that)
We're the hidden hand
That'll pull the strings & act like we were never involved
You can bet it's on
Underneath a moon of the bluest hue
Where you can't tell who is who
The new improved, coolest dude
Through & through
Headbuster like a rubix cube
(not a setback)
Regal splendor,
Fill the kings' coffers with legal tender
Many been offered to be the vendors
Retreat, surrender
Increase contention: supreme agenda
So picture this: no crime is every truly victimless
Money's why we came here
Let me show you what the business is

Oh you finna get paid?
Make the sort of paper that you couldn't earn
If you worked forever and a day
Change the template,
Take that motivation so you put a term on its worth
Endeavour and obey
Join a hedge fund, no more of them breadcrumbs
We gon' help you see racks on racks and then some
Deposit all that, half for pension
Cashback advances when the checks come
All you gotta do is put your scrawl on the line
Cross t's, ensure you've dotted the eye
I know it's moving kinda fast
And the dubious have a knack for telling lies but trust me, bruh
All of us signed
The custie, the fiend and the cleaner
Luck of the greedy, believe us
Cuffing the needy to feed us
'nuff for a trip to Ibiza
Everyone convinced they can beat the system
Feel the need to mention their cheap position
Get the statement right so we keep consistent
Tryna shed some light so you seek its wisdom
See the rich have a deep connect
And redirect their green to get that interest
Keep it circulating
So they reap the best to each collect and sweep the debt
Got it? Capiche?
So next step up in the pyramid scheme
Is to get a regime to go and give up the dream
Get in between the men and machine
Keep the overhead low as possible, limit per diem
With the means of production out of their hands
Make it splash like a catamaran
No evidence, no witnesses
I'ma show you what the business is

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from Odd Man Out, released December 29, 2011

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