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Spooks and Sagacity

by Diffusive

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1.
A Scientific Left 01:18
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Bombs and wrecks and victims And consequentialism An odd perfectionist To mention this Regard utility Reading all this Darwin Even though I'm a Marxist And pardon the jargon Niggas all know I'm the darkest But still with morals to achieve That's what ethics means What the fuck is there to bring? But solutions to the problems Sob, listen and solve em Abortion, infanticide Authority on civil rights Morally to pay the price, there's Death and drowning children Effective altruism A mess is all I witness Deontology as a gimmick Possibly due to limits Of reasoning and cognition It's bleeding of superstition In dimensions Lack of knowledge and scientific thinking Facts abolished is a crime on par with treason A Scientific Left when all else is sinking When all else is sinking, when all else is sinking
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Value In Experience 02:04
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Meditate about why they're so serious Investigating value in experience These niggas write bars with a priori Or memoirs in the form of stories Boring Too much rhetoric Like Maury Povich Inject serotonin with smaller dosages Diffusive like osmosis is Humanity and flaws come in twos, yeah Just like chromatids Corroded like arteries Pardon me "This is how we do it" like RnB Vestigial bodies repeated so heartedly Importance is all in what seems odd to me Draw parallels Like parallelograms And a thought is a plot Just for every other man To expand what he got Like a fucking rubber band In a box with a fox, like my name is Sam I am But that thot gimme top Episode-induced and it's changed by position Making bad decisions Latent, sad and centrist Kantian intentions like I'm Hegel with the questions Stupid with it, treat perspective like it's fiction It's just Menace vs Villain Chomsky; Language acquisition Did I mention? No more conventions Keep it up, give it up like a pension
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Heraclitus 01:57
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My style like a car with no pedal A pad and a pencil have a nigga go mental Do it so experimental, embedded like genetics Nigga, call me Gregor Mendel I'm like a thought experiment Cough when I scoff like a nigga is too serious Rare scene weariness Bashar al-Assad like an Arab Spring Syrian Catch me running through the sun Binary opposition like the 0s and 1s And I'm done Swing my flow and reading Dostoevsky Flex on hoes, my girl just might undress me Rap at shows, they say "You perplex me" I lost my soul, but never felt too empty Mathematician like my name is Lotka With the brandy, never drinking Vodka They just like candy, cause them niggas is too sweet Shout out to, Kid Capri like I'm Biggie in Juicy Loosely, speak my name And don't ever complain Look at my mind in vain And think that I'm insane Oh, I am Doing what I can Oh I am Doing what I can Catch me running through the sun Binary opposition like the 0s and 1s And I'm done
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Diamat Bars 02:21
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Serial material, flexing golden Uncertain intuition like Texas Hold Em Juxtaposition of the thoughts and the spoken As if I need more tokens No? I bleed too much focus Did you notice? What kind of poem is this? Clear if contrived like pop culture references Only a culture vulture could be impressed with this Give the cold shoulder to a pessimist Kill, lethal Like some diesel or a .357 Smith & Wesson No conundrums for the regal Real like a feeble lack of freedom To the evil on that "Can I get to heaven?" What did he do? What did he do? Like pantyhose, their persona is see through I'm like an actor from Glee but less gleeful Elude, seclude, imbued With merit and money Marilyn Manson with limericks, it's funny How random is chance? That's irrelevant sonny Cancerous, answer this, progressivism And vexed decisions All leaders claiming just populism But my nigga you still got a fancy pot to piss in With pure optimism The market is just, too smooth Picking apart a thief, like I'm Zeus It's getting harder to grieve And I'm just falling asleep after counting the sheep I conclude "Workers of the world unite, you have nothing to lose but your chains"
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Black and White (For Luxemburg) 02:46
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Structural Approach 03:02
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Diffusion, like finances or quarks Approach a party like Benghazi without tramples or force But bring the chaos, no liaisons or amicable peace Fuck deconstruction, using reason as a seasoned critique Read about, semiotics and pragmatics in relation To topics used to communicate the innate anthropic views In a way, see I'm amused, there's a pattern of progression I'm eager to fight this second, and this pen is my weapon I looked at humans like I'm Marx and Saussure Saw evolutionary facets in material terms Held dialectic with some hoes and my mind made it work Reading some Chomsky, Dawkins, and Lev R Ginzburg Thought gets confusing Like what's worth losing? Focused on just improving So I'll be less human Yeah, I'll be less human The basis is just matter From quarks, fermions, atoms To carbon up to the man The same as others and The cortex as it's finest that self-defines It's brightness as it likes, though Not too different from a slug or a pig Just too cocky and too snobby to infer what it is My conclusion is illusions such as free will And consciousness are products of embodying Evolution as consequence Obvious Slow to make, took a quick break, to learn what to say Felt kinda dumb along the way, but the discourse, just enforced The truth displayed That's synthesis my nigga, an empiricist always changes Thought gets confusing Like what's worth losing? Focused on just improving So I'll be less human Yeah, I'll be less human Context, splitting it up Index, digging in what? Pivotal pinnacle of clutch With that "Big Money" like I'm Munch Or wanting big money like I'm human But surely that's stupid, Diffusive's like the ubermensch Just improving, improving, and proving and proving With deductive conclusions, inductions included, my nigga Just improving, improving, and proving and proving With deductive conclusions, inductions included, my nigga Thought gets confusing Like what's worth losing? Focused on just improving So I'll be less human Yeah, I'll be less human
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New Negritude 03:04
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Yeah, nigga where the trap be? Got a fifth, where the gat be? Nigga came with a rap sheet And a chain with some gucci Pan-Africanism What a wacky religion See hutu and tutsi Rap a bar too smoothly Avatar like the movies Get up and get em and Go raw like sushi I type code my nigga Like Java and C when I flow my nigga Write notes on a staff, allegro my nigga Adagio, make it slow my nigga Wow, wow my nigga Rhyme smart my nigga Read Engels and Hegel and Marx my nigga All different flavors of art my nigga Explaining the systems in parts my nigga Still dark, my nigga I'm overwhelmed by that I should have never learned to fail, why's that? The fuck is negritude? Bless connections, and those infected with weapons Entirely reminiscent of the questions to my younger self Would harder work or potions help? A father or some riches Or just pondering the vicious knells Too much complexity, the remedy is to think less Or be less, pshh That's a narrative of a parody depleted I'm lovin it just like Venus Or just like it's Mickey Dees I'm just asking to myself "What were the naysayers thinking?" I thought my batman mentality would save me from reality But was put in check with the effects of my apathy Stop for a minute, plot to the rhythm Writing thoughts to precision of the bop with some riddles And criticism is all that is entirely unique Tough poor decisions require just defeat In order to be seen Look, none of them are speakers, or intellectually sound Just believers with beliefs that are intellectual nonsense The term 'conscious' is obnoxious to refer to yourself as Yes, I'm just honest
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Seas Of Lemonade 03:20
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Look at me and see perfect While I look at her, I find purpose As I infer it's all worth it See all these emotions lurking, certain yeah Existentialist philosophy and some poppy seeds Pardon me, I'm just honestly oddly one with those common needs And I concede that humanity is apart of me And that dialectic, hard to mess with, quantity into quality That's monogamy Thought about paths emerged and looked closely Brought about laughs and said the words slowly Observations, acute impatience Computation I'm sophisticated Looking at my life with hope And all the words we spoke And all the things we know Make it easy to just flow But with her, my emotions Come out into focus I think I have a soul, I think have a soul, yeah Shoot through like the Mavericks with it Semicolon criticism passionate schism Attractive women with a knack for living Sea of lemonade, citric acid sickness Pick apart a feeling like Jacques Derrida Eyes so pretty, you just want her to stare at ya Life's so tricky, but leaving her's scarier And I'm too engaged, pizza stains on those dinner plates Stay humane, humanism needs no accolades Feel like Fourier, with hopes of seas of lemonade Hopes of seas of lemonade Hopes of seas of lemonade Looking at my life with hope And all the words we spoke And all the things we know Make it easy to just flow But with her, my emotions Come out into focus I think I have a soul, I think have a soul, yeah Looking at my life with hope And all the words we spoke And all the things we know Make it easy to just flow But with her, my emotions Come out into focus I think I have a soul, I think have a soul, yeah And I'm too engaged, pizza stains on those dinner plates Stay humane, humanism needs no accolades Feel like Fourier, with hopes of seas of lemonade Hopes of seas of lemonade Hopes of seas of lemonade
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Empirical Thoughts 02:58
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Bet, my niggas finna speak in ebonics A posteriori is the glory, fuck Austrian economics Bossier than a God is And just fostering a promise to destroy objectivism and revert back to logic And the math, evidence is in fact relevant to the map And measuring all the stats, but they lack All the tendencies, remedy is technology Strictly anti-praxeology, nobody stopping me Rise to the top, don't conform and no confusion The guy never stops, social reform to revolution And I like Hip Hop, but never fight with a glock I use my mind like a dull pencil, nigga what you thought? A pity we don't love artists like capitalists love the market And rationalists love to argue And hipsters love their parkas A pity we don't love artists like A pity we don't love artists A pity we don't love artists like capitalists love the market And rationalists love to argue And hipsters love their parkas A pity we don't love artists like A pity we don't love art We give riddance to the foolishness Diffusive is intuitive, ideas are eluding us It's business as usual Deductive and precise, low pressure, cookin rice Dude's weathered like "home slice" "I"m better I'm more concise" Socialism with the schisms Community-held agreements, Darwinistic pragmatism Oh, how do we reason? With relative naturalism The modernist Marxist, the wittiest and the darkest A pity we don't love artists like capitalists love the market And rationalists love to argue And hipsters love their parkas A pity we don't love artists like A pity we don't love artists A pity we don't love artists like capitalists love the market And rationalists love to argue And hipsters love their parkas A pity we don't love artists like A pity we don't love art He's back to being the brightest, I want to be fly and famous Pondering back to my hiatus, it was, too long Trying to be more creative, I wish motivation were contagious Because I've only written two songs If I wrote more and spoke less Ideas could be adopted, communication would profit I would get my hobby started The man feels invincible while streaming that's digital Is making me cash, raps about coding and math Raps about fascists at last Raps about limited paths Reading these quotes in a stash Bout how capital's broken in half "Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like Lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks" A pity we don't love artists like capitalists love the market And rationalists love to argue And hipsters love their parkas A pity we don't love artists like A pity we don't love artists A pity we don't love artists like capitalists love the market And rationalists love to argue And hipsters love their parkas A pity we don't love artists like A pity we don't love art
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Pass the Napkins 02:16
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I caught you picking up ideas And these niggas ain't heard Omit a photon and third Pass the napkins, I'm eating rappers I'm eating rappers so pass the napkins Pass the napkins, I'm eating rappers A master at rapping Invade with havoc and laughter A made African adapter "Move it" like Madagascar I'm cruising from thereinafter A dinosaur like a raptor So cold and so distant Like Alaska They thought the lyricism wasn't there Precision with it cause it's rare A true musician with the rhythm and my victims should beware When I spit that nasty shit like I got poor dental care They all need to listen up grab some chairs I'm the man, where's my title? Bout my bands like these white girls And then Right off the bat, they would all think that I'm psycho Sign me my own autographs cause I'm my own idol On a whole other level, grab compressors, increase the threshold I'm just compelled to let you recognize genius With rhymes so ill, I think these niggas all need kleenex But back to the thesis, I think there's a lack of uniqueness And surplus of weakness, and I'll just destroy em with keenness I caught you picking up ideas And these niggas ain't heard Omit a photon and third Pass the napkins, I'm eating rappers I'm eating rappers so pass the napkins Pass the napkins, I'm eating rappers Na, Na They like sodium They're all addicted to me I guess I'm opium I'm Luther King with the speech Just when I'm flowing Like "I have a dream" That one day All these pussies disappear And dissipate into fear These niggas is too sweet Like fructose syrup Obtuse, rubber goose Like fairly oddparents I'm acute and so profuse See that's very apparent Even before I declared it, it's ego bars With merit I caught you picking up ideas And these niggas ain't heard Omit a photon and third Pass the napkins, I'm eating rappers I'm eating rappers so pass the napkins Pass the napkins, I'm eating rappers
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Watch Got Clean 03:00
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Fuck do you mean? Elegant genes Wrist look silver Socks look green Ponder a bit about what you need The man got clever and the Watch got, clean If a nigga really want it, he can get it, I'm a menace and I'm pimping with a sentence like I'm Iceberg with nice words, linguistics get invented when I'm spitting rhymes Pretentious with lexicons and ascendance that's well beyond Exploding with coding and loading up when I flow, imposing on little souls and blowing up when I go like Hiroshima, Nagasaki with the bombings, wow Versace, Versace, Socket Secure 5 proxies, bro In Milwaukee with my posse fuck yo colleagues, you niggas sleep Stay woke, drink a coffee I might just kill em, a Batman villain Like Bane, I'm insane, I break backs for a living Chaos theory, looking at feedback loops My girl, rocking curls and high knee black boots Throwing off these other girls like a teeth gap do, looking at gems and pearls like I need that too Vanilla and chocolate swirl like I eat bamboo, doing it flawless Twirl, twist, and swing back loose Fuck do you mean? Elegant genes Wrist look silver Socks look green Ponder a bit about what you need The man got clever and the Watch got, clean

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A Milwaukee art rap album that attempts to draw attention to our current social conditions, and historical philosophical thought.

This album draws from various inspirations of philosophers, scientists, and political thinkers from various schools of thought such as anarchism, socialism, and existentialism. Spooks and Sagacity focuses on both the European written philosophical thought of thinkers such as that of Max Stirner (spooks) as well as African spoken philosophical thought, such as that of Henry Odera Oruka and African Sage Philosophy.

The instrumentation consists of a variety of different elements all created by Diffusive in order to convey messages surrounding ethics, a priori reasoning, dialectical materialism, war, structuralism, blackness, love, empiricism, pride, and consumerism, among other things.

Special Thanks to the thinkers that are still living today that helped to influence this album: Peter Singer, Cornel West, Noam Chomsky, Wole Soyinka, Richard Dawkins, Kevin Carson, Lev R. Ginzburg, and David Graeber.

Special Thanks to the thinkers that are no longer living that influenced this album: Robert Owen, Charles Fourier, Emma Goldman, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Rosa Luxemburg, Aimé Césaire, Léopold Sédar Senghor, Léon Damas, Immanuel Kant, David Hume, John Locke, Frantz Fanon, Jean-Paul Sartre, Max Stirner, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Heraclitus, and many others.

Special Thanks for the inspiration on track #8: Brandy Styles

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released October 12, 2018

Vocals & Lyrics: Diffusive (JJ Agara)
Production and Composition: Diffusive (JJ Agara)
Guitar on track #7: Elly Bird
Mixing & Mastering: JJ Agara & Nate Ruvin

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New Pavement Records is an independent record label and music collective, founded by JJ Agara and Nate Ruvin, which is based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The label features various genres of music including Art Rap, Trap, Dream Pop, Country, Jazz, and even Metal. ... more

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