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Plague: "Apocalypse Now (w/ 7Lock)" (including memoirs)

1/30/2014

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Artist(s):  Jeremiah Dirt, 7Lock 
Song:  Apocalypse Now 
Word Count: 517
Producer: Fingaz
Recorded: Abbot Sounds 
Album: Plague (Rescue rec.1999) 
Dirts favorite Line(s): I really dig the whole track. But some of the things 7lock says are just straight dope! ‘left me flesh on the earth, for me knew it was cursed’ and ‘I wish I was a born again man said the Babylon man as the plagues ate his arms and his hands’. 

Lyrics & Memories: Apocalypse Now

        Its quite obvious what the track is about (end days, armegeddon, Revelation, ect.). I always loved the way 7Lock ripped his verse. He used what he called his ‘Jamaican style’ where he spit it all with a ‘rudebwoy’ slur. This added to his gruffy vocal tones made for a verse that was intoxicatingly ununderstandable! So many people tripped off of it, “YO! What was he sayin anyway!?”

            GoldenChild was supposed to be on it too, but I couldn’t get my label to buy into the idea of spending the loot to get him on. Nowadays it’s a lot easier to just have some dope computer software and track these things yourself. But back in 96 the only way to do it was to pay bucks for a studio (which would have taken a lot added to the fact that GC lived in Florida). It was one of the major let downs of the album because he wrote a phat verse, and I really wanted him on it! In the beginning of the track I say some stuff that seems like I am giving a shot out to a ‘dead’ Goldenchild. Don’t worry he isn’t dead. But in a way I felt like the circumstances ‘killed’ his opportunity. So I gave that shot out in respect to the illness that he had written that would never be heard.

            The vocal sample in the beginning is from some TV show about disasters (recorded in the same ghetto way as the sample from Theophilus!). The piece towards the end is from a mythology record that says ‘I must be perpetually on my God, lest that movement which sweeps everything along, should hurry me along also’. I thought was a nice touch. The last sample is actually the ‘end’ of the album. A Rasta friend of mine once gave me a tape from one of his trips back home to Jamaica. It was ‘the Gospels in Patwois’ (Patwois is the slang and terminologies used in the Jamaican ghettos). The story clipped in the song (Mark 4:35:41) is when Jesus and the disciples are on the boat and a big storm comes and threatens all their lives. But “Jesus stayed asleep in de back a de boat”. And his followers scrambled to wake him up. So he went to the bow of the boat and commanded the winds and the seas to be still (“cease, Seckle”). And they did! And according to the taped story, Jesus ends by saying, “You still no believe that me run tings!”

            C’mon now! You gotta love that!

            My verse is literally me rhyming a ‘clip note’ version of the book of Revelation and its prophecies in order as they happen according to the book. 7Lock then comes in and adds by explaining how it might feel to be part of the rapture! I feel this track was a powerful ending to the album. It was a good finish. Sometimes I will listen to peoples stuff and they start out good but it fizzles at the end. I like to try to cap it where I will put any tracks that lack a bit in the middle but the ill ones at both ends. I dunno, just the way dirty dirt likes to do it!

            I feel the song moves through it’s ‘quitting point’ by the way Fingaz switched up the main loop halfway through my verse and then flipping back halfway through Lock’s.

If you listen to the sequencing of the whole track (I am peepin it as I write this) you can really respect the dope ear Fingaz had with music.

            This was another track that was a crowd pleaser when me and 7lock got to perform it. In 99 was probably one of the last times we both performed it though. But as of recently I been doin a few of the ‘oldies’ again. Bringin back the ol skool! I took this songs instrumental and chopped it up so that I could spit my verse when I am solo but I added this crazy gunfight and bombs exploding in the middle! I performed it at Cornerstone festival ’02 and it went off hot!

APOCALYPSE NOW 

(GoldenChild –verse not on album version)
IN  REVELATION  DEVILS  APPEAR  IN  HUMAN  FORM
TO  CONFORM  THE  LUKE  WARM, PROPHECY  SINCE  THE  VEIL  WAS  TORN
IT  ALL  BEGAN  WHEN  THE  SON  OF  MAN  WAS  BORN
IN  THE  FINAL  HOURS, YO  THE  GOLDEN  TRUMPET  BLOWS
DISAPPEARANCE  OF  CHRISTIANS  BLAMED  ON  U.F.O's
FROM  HELLISH  ASHES  THE  ANTI-CHRIST  AROSE
ASCENDIN'  TOWARDS  THE  SKY-QUIK  LIKE  THE  TWINKLIN'  OF  AN  EYE
TAKE  THE  MARK  AND  IN  THE  BEAST  YOU  WILL  CONFIDE
WICKED  BLOOD-BROTHERS  NOW  SWAP  D.N.A
LOOK  TOWARDS  THE  SKY  AS  THE  CLOUDS  TURN  GRAY
MANY  STAY  SILENT  WITHOUT  A  THING  TO  SAY
BETTA'  GET  READY  FOR  THE  SEVEN  YEAR  DELAY
ALLIES  ON  THE  FRONTLINE  BECOME  THE  DEVIL'S  PREY
ABOMINATION  OF  SIN  IS  WHAT  THEY  DISPLAY
WICKED  GENERALS  WITH  NOTHIN'  MORE  THAN  CROOKED  SMILES
SATAN'S  HENCHMEN  EXPANDIN'  ACROSS  FOR  MILES
I  SIT  BACK  AND  WATCH  AS  THEY  SINS  START  TO  COMPILE
YOU  BEST  LISTEN  TO  THE  WORDS'  APOCALYPSE  NOW
IN  THE  ENDTIMES  YOU  BETTA'  LEARN  TO  PREPARE
OPEN  UP  YOUR  HAND, INSERT  COMPUTER  SOFTWARE
SOCIETY'S  CLONES  LOOK  AT  ME  WITH  COLD  STARES

(Dirt)
ARMEGGEDEON  YOU  BETTER  RUN
SECOND  COMING  OF  CHRIST,  DEMISE  OF  THE  EVIL  ONE
BLOOD  SPLATTERS  THE  PAVEMENT
INIQUITIES  OF  FLESH  BECOME  THE  PEOPLES  ENSLAVEMENT
TELEVISED  PROPAGANDA
DEVILS  GIVING  OUT  GIFTS  LIKE  THEY  NAMES  WAS  SANTA
CULTS  THAT  BLASPHEME
"AVOID  GODLESS  TEACHING, SPREADING  LIKE  GANGRENE" (2 Timothy 2:17)
A  SERIES  OF  DISASTERS,  AFTER  SEALS  HAVE  BEEN  BROKEN 
CONQUEST  LEADING  SLAUGHTER,  DISEASE,  AND  FAMINE  (REVEL Revelation ATION 6:2-8)
FORCES  OF  DESTRUCTION,  HELD  BACK  BY  ANGELS
AT  THE  FOUR  CORNERS  OF  THE  EARTH (Revelation 7:1-2)
.......A  HUNDRED  AND  FORTY-FOUR  THOUSAND  CHOSEN (Revelation 7)
CAPTURED  BY  IGNORANCE,  BUT  MAKE  THE  TRANSITION
TRUMPETS  ARE  BLOWN,  HERE  COME  THE  JUDGMENTS (Revelation 8:6-13)
THOUGH  SEVERE,  ARE  ONLY  MEANT  TO  BRING  MEN  TO  THEIR  SENSES
(Revelation 9:20-21)
TURN  AWAY  FROM  IGNORANCE
AND  RUN  TOWARDS  REPENTANCE
FORCES  OF  EVIL  RELEASED  UPON  THE  LAND
LOCUST  FROM  THE  ABYSS  WITH  POWERS  OF  SCORPION (Revelation 9:3)
STINGS  THAT  CUASE  SPASM
PEOPLE  SEEKING  DEATH  BUT  IT  DOES  NOT  FIND  THEM (Revelation 9:6)
SEVEN  PLAGUES  STRIKE (REVELATION 15 AND 16)  BEFORE  THE  FALL OF BABYLON
FINAL  DESTRUCTION  OF  APOLLYON ("Devil" in  Hebrew)
WATCH  IT  GO  DOWN
YOU  TALK  ABOUT  LATER, I TALK  ABOUT  NOW

(7Lock)
BLOOD  DRIPPED  FROM  THE  SUN, ME  SAID  ME  SEE  WHITE  RIDER
ME  KNEW  THAT  BOY IT WAS  THE  HOLY  SON  OF  JEHOVAH
FOUR  WEEKS  THAT  I  HAD  PASSED  AND  I  WAS  SURE  DANG  COOL
CAUGHT  UP  IN  A  RAPTURE  AS  I  FLEW  THROUGH  THE  SKY  I  KNEW
ME  SEEN  THE  RAIN  FALL  DOWN  ME  HEARD  THE  BABYLONS  SHOUT
"PLEASE  HELP  ME  JESUS  'FORE  THE  LAKE  OF  FIRE  I  DO  DROWN"
ME  LEFT  MY  FLESH  ON  THE  EARTH  FOR  ME  KNEW  IT  WAS  CURSED
THE  BEAST  WAS  UNLEASHED  MAKING  RAINBOW  SHERBERT  OF  THE  EARTH
"I  WISH  I  WAS  A  BORN  AGAIN  MAN"  SAID  THE  BABYLON  MAN
AS  THE  PLAGUES  ATE  HIS  ARMS  AND  HIS  HANDS
YOU  DANG-DANG  FOOL,  YOU  SHOULD'VE  BEEN  LEARNED  MY  SCHOOL
AND  BOWED  DOWN  TO  THE  LAMB  WITH  THE  MOST  HIGH  RULE
I  HEARD  A  SEVENTH  TRUMPET  RISING,  RISING, RISING  ON  TOP  OF  
MT.ZION  WAS  MY  LORD  AND  HIS  CREW
A  SEVENTH  TRUMPET  RISING,  RISING,  RISING  ON  TOP  OF  MT. ZION  WAS
A  FACE  THAT  I  KNEW
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