LIPSTICK

By DEANZER

Released on January 6, 2013

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[1st verse]


I believe my past life sticks like lipstick


I believe I'm Hercules with more than one Achilles


Military firepower in my genes, i'm standing at ease


I'm hot red and trying to tease


But maybe the truth is


I'm more fragile than I envisage


I might be rapping about things that I've never seen


Wrapping my own guilt in plain polythene


But there's no denouncing that i feel like expounding


All this hurt cos the weight of the pain


Weighs more than these ounces


I'm not founded on your common human emotions

My personality split like i split like Moses


I spit reckless, like i'm suffering from convulsions


I'm heavily grounded on more than Earth wires


I'm heavenly charged, praying for God's answers


Beyond my common emotions is that I cannot love


You probably thinking im ducking cos i fear to fall


Beyond my wildest imagination i cannot recall


When my wildest passions had me taming my faults


This is my own therapy,i fear no fault i don't make a living off it


Life serves no penalty when im aiming for the peak


And if it alters your life, then i have overachieved


Don't expect me to be normal, cos im feeling abnormal


You think its an anomaly, but im feeding it formal

Consequences of feeding on formalin


Got my mind unconscious


My world is caving in


My life ain't perfect


If it was i be a pervert


Not snapping pics and painting fake fits


And asking strange chicks


If they could pose for fake shit


And get a collage of fake smiles and fake tits


My name is Ismail for God's sake


Im suppose to be a walking emblem of pious wit


[2nd verse]


You gotta flip back my back pages

I didn't grow up like ya'll


Trying to burn my own house down


Now that's a true statement


Figured no body behind me


Felt like a worthless human body


Only friends and somebody's


Made me feel like somebody


So I learned to fake that smile


And say I'm fine thank u


The truth was further than a mile


I was amazed how ya'll drove for that too


Maybe I shoulda remained


Maybe I shoulda neva left


Then I would have felt less pain


And turn my pain to the left


I got more left


But I feel the mood is set


And my good is felt


Spilling my own insecurities for yall to intercept


And if ya'll still can't see the equation


Then ya'll just too steep, reevaluate your gradient!


Savor this moment, u dining with a legend!


Whilst I'm feasting with vengeance!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

“Spilling my own insecurities for yall to intercept And if ya’ll still can’t see the equation Then ya’ll just too steep, reevaluate your gradient!”
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In a simple maths analogy, he depicts his art of rapping to a line on a graph. The line representing his life and insecurities which get to be seen at its intercept only if the level of steepness (gradient) is right. If you listen or read this with a condescending attitude (being steep) you wont see the equation unless you reevaluate you position (steepness,gradient)

“So I learned to fake that smile And say I’m fine thank u The truth was further than a mile I was amazed how ya’ll drove for that too”
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So in order to keep his profile as a normal kid growing up, he’d always put up a fake smile so no one knew what was really going on with him. He just wanted be that normal kid too. The truth was hidden and most people around never got to know that part of him. He’s still amazed how he got through all that unscathed.

“This is my own therapy,i fear no fault i don’t make a living off it”
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Some say he’s should put his energies towards other skills other than rapping but he feels he is not only rapping for others but for himself too. He has no problem if he never makes it big. Although he’ll ‘kill’ for it.

“Wrapping my own guilt in plain polythene”
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He’s rapping about his own weaknesses in his rap (guilt) and putting them out for others to listen to plainly.

“I’m heavenly charged, praying for God’s answers”
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But at the same time, he is praying constantly and vehemently for God to answer his prayers.

“My name is Ismail for God’s sake Im suppose to be a walking emblem of pious wit”
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His name (Ismail) is from the earliest prophets of Islam who’s popular story of offering himself for sacrifice as God willed is well known. He believes he isn’t in that mold but should be aiming to be of that character of piousness and wit.

“Beyond my wildest imagination i cannot recall When my wildest passions had me taming my faults”
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He puts a plea out that even though he seeks to find love, he never thinks thought of wild passion will serve as motivation to find love. His wildest passion might just heighten his weaknesses(faults).

“I’m not founded on your common human emotions My personality split like i split like Moses”
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He’s not like any other rapper, he lays it out real with his emotions laced. It’s almost like he has a dual personality that are a complete split different.

“Trying to burn my own house down Now that’s a true statement”
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He even tried burning his own house down but that didn’t work out.

“You gotta flip back my back pages I didn’t grow up like ya’ll”
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You need to look back at his past life. He had far from a normal childhood. Like reading a book.

“Beyond my common emotions is that I cannot love”
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Although he’s been praying for success, he also prays he’ll find the right woman someday.
His past encounters doesn’t allow him to show the feeling of love even if he wants to.

“You probably thinking im ducking cos i fear to fall”
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He realizes most people think he fears to fall in love but its much more complex than that.

“Savor this moment, u dining with a legend! Whilst I’m feasting with vengeance!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
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1.He hopes you’ve enjoyed the moment with him. He hopes you’ve enjoyed the rap (feast), (there was lot of it to go around lol). But he is never tired to feasting.
He uses the word savor to mean ‘relish’ and a slant rhyme to the word ‘saviour’ inline with point 2
2. He ends with a feast just as Jesus ends his stay on Earth with the last supper.

“Only friends and somebody’s Made me feel like somebody”
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Only home he had, was in school. His friends meant everything.

“I spit reckless, like i’m suffering from convulsions”
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He spits hard almost uncontrollably. Its like he has involuntarily convulsions.

“Figured no body behind me Felt like a worthless human body”
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He had a physical home but it was far from ‘home’.

“Don’t expect me to be normal, cos im feeling abnormal”
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He cant be normal to the public when within himself he knows he isn’t ordinary

“But there’s no denouncing that i feel like expounding”
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He cant help but continue to put his life as a sample in his raps for others to vibe to.

“I’m more fragile than I envisage”
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He feels more fragile than he really is. His self doubt is a constant bother to him.

“Not snapping pics and painting fake fits And asking strange chicks If they could pose for fake shit And get a collage of fake smiles and fake tits”
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He’s not going to ask strange girls out at parties to take pictures and make a collage so that people think thats his life when it isn’t the truth at all.

“Life serves no penalty when im aiming for the peak”
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In other words there is no harm in trying to do your best

“Maybe I shoulda remained Maybe I shoulda neva left Then I would have felt less pain And turn my pain to the left”
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Getting towards the end, his braggadocio ends and the usual self doubts starts to creep in.
He starts to think if he never went away, his life would have been in a better state than it is right now.

“Consequences of feeding on formalin”
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This perceived anomalies in his character might be because he has been listening and watching ‘poison’ which is the chemical substance Formalin.
Elderly people might just not understand why someone would turn down a big management job for chance to be a rap star.

“I’m heavily grounded on more than Earth wires”
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He stays grounded in his rap keeping it real almost like he was an electrical appliance grounded with a wire to take away the excess charge(Pride).

“I’m hot red and trying to tease”
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Referring to the lipstick again, his raps are too seductive, its teasing his listeners.

“All this hurt cos the weight of the pain Weighs more than these ounces”
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Rap allows him to relieve himself of the weight of the hurt in his life.

“I might be rapping about things that I’ve never seen”
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Deanzer stands for realness but he cant help it that sometimes he has to put himself in others shoes and rap about their lives from his own tinted glasses.

“I got more left But I feel the mood is set And my good is felt”
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He can still go on rapping (even after this very long verse lol) but he feels its enough. He’s happy with his therapy session and if any of his listeners also felt better than his done enough good.

“Military firepower in my genes, i’m standing at ease”
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He knows he was the power to spit like bullets from an artillery base because it’s his talent. And in military style he ready standing at ease.

“I believe my past life sticks like lipstick”
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He believes he cant get rid of the effects of his past. They have formed a part of his present self being and sticks to him like lipstick.

“Got my mind unconscious My world is caving in”
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His mind is going unconscious due to inhaling the poison.It clouds his reality and makes it seem sometimes his world is going to end soon.

“I believe I’m Hercules with more than one Achilles”
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He believes his word power is up there with Godly hence reference to Hercules although Hercules was a demigod. He also has more than one Achilles which is in reference to two things mainly:
1. It’s a common saying in English that a person or an objects weakness is its ‘Achilles heel. So as he likens himself to a god he knows he is not completely divine but a demi and therefore has some weaknesses (Achilles)
2. In reference to the movie Troy where the demigod Achilles is dipped into a pond by his stepmother whom he hates by the way but ends up being immortal from the upper part of his body( from his heel upwards). In the movie again, Achilles has one weak spot which is the heel from which he was held by his step mom which did not touch the river of the Gods thereby making that once again his weak spot his (Achilles). It is quite noticeable what Deanzer is pointing us to. Achilles the mythical demigod only weakness is his Achilles (heel). *All puns intended:)

“You think its an anomaly, but im feeding it formal”
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Some might think that is weird but he is saying it as it is.

“My life ain’t perfect If it was i be a pervert”
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He is stating that no one has the perfect life only people who were crazy. lol
https://www.facebook.com/notes/ing-ismail/lipstick-just-dont-tell-me-its-dope-now-listen/10152110649473399

“And if it alters your life, then i have overachieved”
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if he’s music changes your life in the smallest of ways whilst trying to live his dreams then he has done more than he has ever expected.

“But maybe the truth is”
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Maybe he isn’t like a demi god after all. His past makes him constantly doubt himself.