Released on January 8, 2002

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[Hook: DJ Dust]

Take the rhythm


[Verse 1]


[ManCHILD]

I like to keep her in my pocket when the fans watch

But I'm the one to pull her pigtails when we play out in the sandbox

And hands stop clapping when manCHILD's plans not to

Rock upon the rhythm when he rocks you

My shock values electrify and light your darkest secrets

Ride the beat, I'll walk beside it on foot if that's the way I feel it

And if that's the way I feel it, there's no chance that you'll convince me

Off the beaten path of substance plus you left the rhythm empty


[Freddie Bruno]

I excel on spreadsheets to freak the journalistic

Captivate the rhythm and ride with my linguistics

Performing with the loops let the sentence bring drama

Benihana avenger with the heart of shaman

A title God sound, astound the freedom fighter

I stay behind the scenes like medical underwriters

Highlight a parable grammar fluorescent to see

Split your brain up in sections as a lesson for three


[Playdough]

I state fact and playback to rate wack take back

Rhythm like an Indian giver, deliver inside of this metronome

Where poem hits doing splits

Inside my spirit where my vocal transmits

Rhythm's key so I'm setting her free, ninety degree

Pushing clockwise, keeping it quantized and off-wise

Over the beat we meet in deepspace

Place rhythm in the palm of my hand as contraband


[Listener]

Now, we are rappers rhyming rap-style rhymes

With our DJ's tracking beats to crack spines

With some blatant accusations pointed straight for your crew

Then you stutter to defend you are real, oh are you?


[Hook]


[Verse 2]


[Playdough]

Hey there rhythm, it's me again, tell me, how you been?

I guess the middleman could be this pen

I use to talk to and walk through they chalk you

Traced around your silhouette cause how ill it get

But watch the intellect resurrect, check God's purpose

Give me a hat confirming that you truly heard this

Yeah, there you go, I show improve just to move

Make the rocky path smooth while I'm taking back the groove


[ManCHILD]

Yo, yeah, yeah, yeah admittedly I'm jaded

But please don't blame it on my freestyle or my content or my cadence

Or my blatant disregard of the rhythm slash the drum sound

It's just the fact that I got a lot to say and it can't be dumbed down

I told you that I'm unsound, so deep I make the young drown

Dumbfound with one noun with Fred B and Harry Krum now

Unbound, I stand at the foot of the cross they intersected

Yo, I'll take the rhythm any way that I can get it


[Freddie Bruno]

I bring the PowerPoint while your Microsoft attempts

Are just some weak demonstrations that are over the fence

Your train of thought dissipates like smoke from incense

I'm doing wind sprints, using my voice as testamints

With the golden folklore onlookers would hope for

Prolific, Ziontific phonetic composer

Revise your whole score, write it out on dirt floor

Put the rhythm in my soul til it secretes my pore


[Sintax]

I've got a crown of white wisdom hidden below my ballcap

I'm pencil fight fencing just to take the rhythm back

But if emceeing is believing then Sintax just left you doubtless

Syncopated the rhythm to the pulse of God's verse


[Sev Statik]

And I'll take the reflection of music and use it to inspire men

Comply with the laws of physics and send this written around the globe

For those beings who live to be free

No holds barred, transform the sun, moon and stars


[Hook]


[Verse 3]


[Freddie Bruno]

Letters walk parallel with tracks and spit on

On the threshold of stress, push through with stiff arm

Maneuver the pen in slow motion on the canvas

Your raps ain't fat, the populous is still famished


[Playdough]

I'm hearing pleas from the treetops present in the beatbox

Sober like a detox room

I come to consume the volume take the rhythm as boon

Odiferous with the fume in full bloom, I assume


[ManCHILD]

Tie a ribbon around the rhythm; earmark it for the future

MC's lost their motivation like house pets are spayed and neutered

Play the tutor, make the most, stay the course, make decisions

Wake the sleeping, take a chance, shake the world, take the rhythm


[Sev Statik]

Many words of faith placed inside blew my prison bars

Divine intervention to easily discard

Fake knuckas perpetrating on wax, CD's, and tapes

So I take the rhythm to a new place and mold a new shape


[Hook]