Lost Reality, by Dual Core

Lost Reality

by Dual Core

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Jay-Radd Lost Reality is a triumph. It represents the point where Int80 and C64 solidified and mastered the simple concept: "Anybody can rap". Not to be confused with "Everybody can rap", but rather that excellent hip-hop sound can come from the most unlikely of sources. I may not know the Hacker Jargon, but I know greatness when I hear it. Favorite track: Fantastic Four (ft Wheelie Cyberman, Beefy, ytcracker).

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1.	For Real 04:08	lyrics	buy track
This one's for my MCs and real rap fans The true heart of hip hop that still clap hands Who go to the shows, feel the notes in their soul And listen to the wordplay enclosed in the flow Inscribe all the thoughts that they captured dreaming Spitting life into verses, giving words meaning The freestyle began, my intro to rap Making lines rhyme to the beat in a flash Other artists bragged to the bills in their stash But I had a student loan couldn't talk about the cash Plus they had rims they would roll in the street The first car I bought was almost older than me I wrote like a pro, and spit what I know Made a link with Six Four and I continued to grow Imagine the surprise when our eyes identified People shared our interests and listening with pride Nerdcore, geeksta, whatever you may call it Reveal the real meaning, adjective agnostic This one's for my b-boys and skilled graf writers The true heart of hip hop that still craft fire All sorts of reasons to demonstrate skills for Out on the dance floor or up on the billboard Love the graf writers for their piecing and tagging It gave me a reason to enjoy the train passing Felt the inspiration and took to my flatscreen Warez group logos I designed all in ASCII Wild font styles, change colors faded All the groups around, name an acronym I made it Tagged every item in the group that had passed through Memorized the characters, every single value And freestyle was old if I had to tell the truth Then I met Crazy Legs from the Rock Steady Crew He said: Hip hop is you, it's in what you do And it made me realize this is hip hop too This one's for my DJs above and underground The true heart of hip hop that handles the sound Writers' heads nod, b-boys dance around They fuel the MCs please don't cancel them now All wax or digital they've gotta create And somehow they're still out digging in the crates Bassline for mind, use the rhythm as voice Laptop or turntable, weapon of choice Beat juggle, flare, techniques so sick The scratches, the blends, and the fades on the mix Round out the package, finish it completed So much for you, so you see why they're needed Think about the songs that you save and import You'd have an incomplete playlist without Six Four It'd be a bit short, I mean you'd need a few more Because without the DJ there'd be no Dual Core
2.	Beginning of the End 05:02	lyrics	buy track
It's the beginning of the end It's the beginning of the end It's the beginning of the end It's the beginning of the end First things first you'll be seeing a trend Start with the background it leads to the end Another youth story it's about to unfold But this time, this one's closer to home Born with bad intentions or just malicious purpose Alone and growing up almost felt I was a burden You had a short fuse here I am a short circuit We all have flaws and I know nobody's perfect Trouble from the start, it shouldn't be a shocker Glued to computers ever since I was a toddler Tried to boot DOS on the blank screen then Remember me stuffing floppies in our old IBM You came home from work and reacted so quick Floor covered with five-and-a-quarter-inch disks Don't worry yet, the drives were never broken Wait until I started with the phone line and modem It's the beginning of the end It's the beginning of the end It's the beginning of the end It's the beginning of the end Now I'm online, tempted by the options But I'm a teenager with plenty other problems Chemical imbalance body going through the changes Life in the questionable unset stages My friends online they were hacking for fun And provided acceptance, at home I had none Inspired programmer who noticed a draw Viruses, spammers, I coded it all Began to make a name, everybody wants a copy Compress it, encrypt it, and save it to a floppy Slack space, swap, there were more crazy tricks I was serving up warez on a 486 Kept it all a secret, none if it pronounced Then the ISP called and suspended our account Couldn't give it up, had to bypass restrictions Yes there is a substance but it's different from addiction It's the beginning of the end It's the beginning of the end It's the beginning of the end It's the beginning of the end It's not looking good I just keep screwing up What am I doing? My life was a wreck, almost burned to the ground But the case was dismissed before the verdict was found A new person now, look I turned it around So if I made a change you can learn to be proud Cause you got me through to high school, it wasn't a breeze Six years in college and I finished my degrees Shifted to the right track, kicked it into gear Took the skills I developed and I made it a career Average Joe Citizen, my record is clear Benefits and wage, pay my taxes every year I'm sorry that the gray hair will never be undone But at least you can now just be happy for your son It's the beginning of the end It's the beginning of the end It's the beginning of the end It's the beginning of the end
3.	Unplug 05:14	lyrics	buy track
This one This one is for all of my programmers out there All of the developers who push through the extra hours to meet the deadline The security researchers who work the extra shifts on the pentest Those that can't get away and have nothing to get away to Signed the first line, it was just nine to five Quickly realized it became nine to nine Twenty-four-seven-three-sixty-five A process that separated me from my life Need to unplug but you're still online And you've gotta pay the bills every month on time Want all the hours? You can have them all, fine This is my life, so make it all mine It's a road to success, no shortcut for steps Instead, it's just another long day ahead But I've gotta do well, stand out, achieve First person in, last one to leave Time doesn't matter, nothing comes for free Scattered, I'm climbing that ladder to succeeed Factors that change, reacting with the speed Capture that flag, I'm running with the lead After the fact, they didn't get the message Pushing new changes in 11th hour sessions Eat in my cube, breathe in my cube Log a full day, fall asleep in my cube I'm a laborer, worker, nothing like royal Please, my desk lamp burns midnight oil Crush 11 hours and working 7 days Scratching for promotions, scraping for a raise Now you see what I'm talking about Trust me, I feel for you. We've all been there It's like, work is just more work And there's no end to it There's not even a break Bus ride home, I'm just another commoner Embraced every night by the glow of my monitors Can't keep a pet like a house cat or lap dog Only thing sitting on my couch is a laptop No family around, no cousins or brothers No girlfriends, no significant other Alone all the time even when I'm not supposed to be Alone in my apartment, shopping for groceries Alone out in public so nobody notice me Alone and closed out but I can talk about it openly Tried to meet people, it's so much guesswork Gym memberships, online social networks Community service, or drinks with the team The bars and the dance clubs just weren't my scene Nothing feels right, I don't know what it means So I'm back in the office in front of my screen Signed the first line, it was just nine to five Quickly realized it became nine to nine Twenty-four-seven-three-sixty-five A process that separated me from my life Need to unplug but you're still online And you've gotta pay the bills every month on time Want all the hours? You can have them all, fine This is my life, so make it all mine Down to a science, the point I've almost mastered it Such a vicious cycle, can you see the pattern yet No free minutes when I'm always working overtime No I go and try but my life is broke and polarized Work more and more, it's less time to socialize And that's just a gamble, so why try and roll the dice Either in the office or by myself at home at night Plus I stopped believing there's no reason keeping hope alive Now you see there's never time face to face Always spending hours writing queries for a database Or code for a feature, something last-minute Where does free time begin if work doesn't finish Running out of time making hours want to stay There's just 24 a day and I give them all away This is just temporary, that's what they all say Never gonna change, forever the same, always Unplug, unplug, you just need to unplug Unplug, unplug, all work and no play makes a dull boy Unplug, unplug, we just need to unplug Unplug, unplug, all work and no play makes a dull boy Signed the first line, it was just nine to five Quickly realized it became nine to nine Twenty-four-seven-three-sixty-five A process that separated me from my life Need to unplug but you're still online And you've gotta pay the bills every month on time Want all the hours? You can have them all, fine This is my life, so make it all mine Signed the first line, it was just nine to five Quickly realized it became nine to nine Twenty-four-seven-three-sixty-five A process that separated me from my life Need to unplug but you're still online And you've gotta pay the bills every month on time Want all the hours? You can have them all, fine This is my life, so make it all mine Signed the first line, it was just nine to five Quickly realized it became nine to nine Twenty-four-seven-three-sixty-five A process that separated me from my life All work and no play makes a dull boy Signed the first line, it was just nine to five Quickly realized it became nine to nine Twenty-four-seven-three-sixty-five A process that separated me from my life Need to unplug but you're still online And you've gotta pay the bills every month on time
4.	Hold On 04:06	lyrics	buy track
Hold on Hold on, we doing it better Always cool under pressure, keep it true to the letter Hold on, we do what we have to Overflow, NULL pointer, coming through to crash you It's a lightning strike that snipes without warning A reason that gets me out of bed in the morning It's alive, the push, motivation, and drive It's the hunger for more, it's the will to survive It's a passion, belief of achieving the impossible More than ethereal, something biological Breath in my lungs, every thought in my mind It's my pulse and my heart beat combined vital signs Hold on, til you get to the end Keep what you take, never break only bend Hold on, beat the game win a scrimage Never let go keep a hold to the finish Hold on, won't leave til it's final Flat line, come back, breathe for revival Hold on, til you have nothing left And you make your last step or you take your last breath Hold on, we doing it better Always cool under pressure, keep it true to the letter Hold on, we do what we have to Overflow, NULL pointer, coming through to crash you Hold on, we doing it better Always cool under pressure, keep it true to the letter Hold on, we do what we have to Overflow, NULL pointer, coming through to crash you This is energy, movement, a storm in the trees Motion, kinetics, typhoons overseas This Caps Lock, uppercase, shift on keys This Dual Core music has a grip on me This is light speed shining, it's blinding the sun This is six different trilogies combined into one The best of the best meets the best of the worst And together rock tracks to the end of the verse Hold on, til you get to the end Keep what you take, never break only bend Hold on, beat the game win a scrimage Never let go keep a hold to the finish Hold on, won't leave til it's final Flat line, come back, breathe for revival Hold on, til you have nothing left And you make your last step or you take your last breath Hold on, we doing it better Always cool under pressure, keep it true to the letter Hold on, we do what we have to Overflow, NULL pointer, coming through to crash you Hold on, we doing it better Always cool under pressure, keep it true to the letter Hold on, we do what we have to Overflow, NULL pointer, coming through to crash you Hold on Hold on Hold on Hold on I gotta hold on to this til it's no longer fun As long as it's on and continues to run Til the 404 comes back from the GET Til my packet gets sent with the FIN bit set Til there's no ears to hear and no mouth to flow Til the ping's unreachable, no route to host Til my spirit migrates and my soul flies south And hope that it stays til my session times out Hold on, til you get to the end Keep what you take, never break only bend Hold on, beat the game win a scrimage Never let go keep a hold to the finish Hold on, won't leave til it's final Flat line, come back, breathe for revival Hold on, til you have nothing left And you make your last step or you take your last breath Hold on, we doing it better Always cool under pressure, keep it true to the letter Hold on, we do what we have to Overflow, NULL pointer, coming through to crash you Hold on, we doing it better Always cool under pressure, keep it true to the letter Hold on, we do what we have to Overflow, NULL pointer, coming through to crash you Hold on, til you have nothing left Hold on, til you have nothing left And you make your last step or you take your last breath Hold on
5.	My GF is... 03:56	lyrics	buy track
[Verse 1: int eighty] Completely distracted by this girl riding by I never really look, but this one caught my eye Heart skipped a beat, and she was gone just as soon Shocked to see her there when I walked in the room Cut my conversation, reduced me to silence A girl like this sitting in Computer Science First day of class, the room was still filling Probably misread her schedule or had the wrong building My girlfriend's a hacker, yup it's all there Beautiful, funny, engineers software And knew all the answers, she's the class hero My chances with her had to be about zero When we got to talking, I couldn't believe She was so down to earth, still it felt like a dream She is too perfect, how can it be Thank her parents, her relatives, her whole family tree [Method Man Sample] Back when I was nothin', back when I was nothin' Made a brother feel like he was somethin' [Chorus] My girlfriend's a hacker, best hacker ever She's quick on her feet and her code is so clever Yes, she's a hacker, and brilliant as well Who knows what she cast, but I'm under her spell My girlfriend's a hacker, best hacker ever She's quick on her feet and her code is so clever Yes, she's a hacker, and brilliant as well Who knows what she cast, but I'm under her spell [Bridge] Did I tell you what happened the other night after 2600? Check this out [Verse 2: int eighty] So I gave a talk about cross-site scripting We're on the way home and she starts reminiscing She liked the presentation and loved the exploits She understood the concepts, so what's the next choice She loads up a site with a Javascript buffer Hacks into that, so she goes for another No application was safe in her head Next thing I know she's owned half of the web And I'm terrified, but she's laughing instead And wants to keep going 'til the other half's dead Then the next day we were on a fast walk Until she saw somebody on a laptop Two minutes passed and they're looking confused Accounts locked out, not letting them choose Started doing hacker stuff, it was unruly No not that, I mean like "Hackers" the movie [Bridge] She had all these like smiley faces all over the screen I'm like where did you get this? [Chorus] My girlfriend's a hacker, best hacker ever She's quick on her feet and her code is so clever Yes, she's a hacker, and brilliant as well Who knows what she cast, but I'm under her spell My girlfriend's a hacker, best hacker ever She's quick on her feet and her code is so clever Yes, she's a hacker, and brilliant as well Who knows what she cast, but I'm under her spell [Verse 3: int eighty] Completely amazing, we've really moved up Creative and generous, this is too much The birthday gift from her was no trade-off My very own custom Counter Strike aim-bot Perfect, accurate, and knowin' her well She hacked it, tested, and coded herself Head-shots galore every time that I play And wait til you hear about Valentines Day She posted a love note, hot like fever At the top of each site in my RSS reader A few winters back when it was zero degrees She camped out over night just to get a Wii Yes, it's the truth and we had a great time Next morning came, numbers 1 and 2 in line Kept one to play, and one on eBay My girlfriend's a hacker, what can I say [Chorus] My girlfriend's a hacker, best hacker ever She's quick on her feet and her code is so clever Yes, she's a hacker, and brilliant as well Who knows what she cast, but I'm under her spell My girlfriend's a hacker, best hacker ever She's quick on her feet and her code is so clever Yes, she's a hacker, and brilliant as well Who knows what she cast, but I'm under her spell [Method Man Sample] Back when I was nothin', back when I was nothin' Made a brother feel like he was somethin' I got a Love Jones for your body and your skin tone Five minutes alone, I'm already on the bone Plus I love the fact you got a mind of your own No need to shop around you got the good stuff at home Nothing make a man feel better than a woman Nothing make a man feel better than a woman Nothing make a man feel better than a woman Nothing make a man feel better than a woman
6.	Fantastic Four (ft Wheelie Cyberman, Beefy, ytcracker) 05:08	lyrics	buy track
[Wheelie Cyberman] Wheelililie Cyberman, yeah you know me QUOTE working from home UNQUOTE it's easy Turn a two-day weekend into three See we be within reach, TXT the MSG to Beefy [Beefy] Vibrations in my pocket it's my phone it says Hadouken It's the Autobeat commander he's just seeing what I'm doing Yo retail work politely, I'm hardly feeling mighty Thinking 'bout taking off early, log on and I mail yt [int eighty] Wait a minute (Wait a minute), there might have been a disconnect A man in the middle attack, I had to intercept And add a few words. My freestyle was so bad I burned down my notepad and opened up my vocab So that's where it's coming from, another album number one SYN bits released so we start a flood and let it run Skip the introduction to enter this discussion Hey it's int eighty, pardon the interruption [ytcracker] I don't even know where I belong anymore Because the people in this cipher got all sick with the flow So I digress, point to SPAMTEC on my chest Tap two mana and cast duress [Beefy] Success! Operation Good Times is a go Mission complete, don't even act like you don't even know So grab your playstation and meet me in the back Cause we're all about to have a kick back and that's that [Chorus: int eighty] It's the fantastic four on the microphone And we're bouncing these sounds up inside your dome So put us in your iPod, Zune, or iPhone Or in your car's tape deck driving home It's the fantastic four on the microphone And we're bouncing these sounds up inside your dome So put us in your iPod, Zune, or iPhone Or in your car's tape deck driving home [ytcracker] Damn junk mail filters catching not junk Beef, Wheelie, YT, 80 pounding that trunk Up in the cipher now who'd have thunk Spent 200 on a bottle just to get drunk [Wheelie Cyberman] Grab the bottle from YT and quickly pour it inside me The first sip of the night, it's like about time finally Then I feel like fighting, but we don't take it to the mall Take it Falco style talking Smash Brothers Brawl [int eighty] Skip the planning, my Sammus arm cannon starts fanning out the mansion The human enhancement of Gannon Impatient or inaccurate, they say wait a measure/way to measure The time delay entered to betray your datacenter [Beefy] But now I gotta cool down, chill out rock a dope crown Hit you up with headphones and take your ass to rhyme town I try to keep it peaceful get along and sing a song But if you're messing with my nerds I gotta show you that I'm strong [Chorus: int eighty] It's the fantastic four on the microphone And we're bouncing these sounds up inside your dome So put us in your iPod, Zune, or iPhone Or in your car's tape deck driving home It's the fantastic four on the microphone And we're bouncing these sounds up inside your dome So put us in your iPod, Zune, or iPhone Or in your car's tape deck driving home [Beefy] I've been known to kick back, I've been known to just chill I've been known to be the killer first act on the show's bill So let it be known I rip it like a cyclone Fear and atone, I ain't alone here on this microphone [int eighty, (Wheelie Cyberman)] No we're not drunk, (still swerving when I drive) (Coming northwest), midwest, Google Maps APIs Point A to Point B, roadtrip to shows Shift gears, pop the clutch, hit the gas, and then go [Wheelie Cyberman] Yeah I'm an excellent driver, you can call me Corey Haim Fifteen minutes to Wapner, no way That I'm missing it, definitely watching mid-day Definitely not working, hurting just to stay awake [ytcracker] Now we hopping on the train man, Wheelie Rain Man Tom Cruisin all up on that microphone Charlie Babbitt, know we gotta have it YTCracker, straight balling's a habit, grab it [Chorus: int eighty] It's the fantastic four on the microphone And we're bouncing these sounds up inside your dome So put us in your iPod, Zune, or iPhone Or in your car's tape deck driving home It's the fantastic four on the microphone And we're bouncing these sounds up inside your dome So put us in your iPod, Zune, or iPhone Or in your car's tape deck driving home It's the fantastic four on the microphone And we're bouncing these sounds up inside your dome So put us in your iPod, Zune, or iPhone Or in your car's tape deck driving home
7.	Random Bits 02:22	lyrics	buy track
Play that new beat that you made Check, Check Yes Okay This is a top hat podcast, fall flat all that Web 2.0 with the AJAX callback Kiddies look on all crazy-eyed Exploit framework AttackAPI Cross-site scripting, XSS The best bet yes, indulge ex-cess-es Mess-a-ges will get intercepted Session ID and login collected Skip the expression of simple entities Corruption to exploit system memory The process heap shifting the balance Overflow code resistance to malloc Memcpy yes my action is average Critical bug prioritize the task list Gripping the traction, crash the sector Skip to the action, choose a vector Call what they be, see what I see Skip the canary return to libc Memory release in your nice double free With my overwrite speed to control EIP You install rootkits? Never that, never that Did you exploit this? Get a patch, get a patch You install rootkits? Never that, never that Did you exploit this? Get a patch, get a patch
8.	Lost Reality (ft Ill Poetic) 04:23	lyrics	buy track
[Verse 1: int eighty] Behold the smoke and mirrors see I'm through with the illusion Minds losing any clue when the confusion's so abusive The scapegoats are flamed when these idiots blame I just disregard the ratings on my video games These are red herring flaws in the links that they claim Is it too much to ask for them to think with their brain And when net neutrality fails for the internet Expect your propaganda to receive the same censorship Battles we fought and the casualties lost Still they're blasting off bombs into traffic or cops So just think about reactions when the catalyst stops We see the same end if it's faster or not Cause it's so frustrating when these activists talk Like somewhere's a solution in a magical box Can't understand why I'm having these thoughts Battle back, shatter tracks when the reality's lost [Verse 2: Ill Poetic] Let me tell you on the low-low spot, that My reality is Photoshopped, and All these thugs are just photo ops So I try to hide my eyes like Robocop, now Yeah, I wear my sunglasses at night Trying to find some rum and some blunt ashes on sight The most beautifulest scenery I ever seen Is a jpeg on my computer screen, and I don't want a show I want my MTV and I don't want a song I want the MP3s and I don't want to know how to feel I just want the powder and the pills and I don't need to know my neighbor I got a simulation game where I can make a Cliche, I'm just trying to keep it real Long as I got some real feel I'm good [Verse 3: int eighty] Where do I start again, specified targeting Reactionary charlatan, vocabulary artisan While people kill others in assertion of martyrdom We nitpick politics and split by partisan What should I conclude, did you tell me the truth Was it a hoax for when I vote or when I step in the booth Is the middle class more than what celebrities do Will you represent the youth when the election is through I don't recognize the names at the top of the game But we complain all the same for a positive change So they let the chads hang while they're calling out claims There were more votes for the All-Star game Home of the bravest, every citizen's duty Spending less time on politics than watching a movie I want to leave the Earth as somewhere better to live Do you even know who your representative is
9.	Judgement Day 04:22	lyrics	buy track
This is future, reality, worse than a dream Giving new meaning to man versus machine I'm a hybrid, cold steel and human flesh team Tissue bonded with a complex theme Mission persistent, hide in the basement Cybernetic SkyNet high tech agent Plus human fascade that's attached to my chassis Trained in the tactics proven best practice Flip on the draw, reaction is fastest Marksman, I'm quick, 99% accurate Way above average, shifting the balances Advanced programming that learned to be compassionate Cyberdyne Systems, physically crashing it The future's not set, I'll be the first to add a twist Systematic killer, the opposite of pacifist Termination complete, please I'm just a catalyst Judgement Day: War for the masses Judgement Day: New weapon classes Defeat the opposition, Reese is the father Complete the objective, find Sarah Connor Judgement Day: War for the masses Judgement Day: New weapon classes Defeat the opposition, Reese is the father Complete the objective, finding Sarah Connor Defeated by my own kind on the grind tackled Frequent flyer miles required for time travel Continue the norm, continuum torn Created slash born in electrical storms Forget about logistics the thoughts are mind-blowing First item accomplished get some new clothing Of course no remorse and I'm certainly sly Mingle with the lingo that I learned on the fly Dual Core chips making faster decisions Tracking with the vision for the pattern recognition Reading in the total scenery, seen deceiving easily Perfect pitch quickly mimic a vocal frequency Change, rearrange, then I slip in a blade Face lift, shape shift, tricks of the trade Long gone if John Connor's still in the way Cause tomorrow you'll awaken to a different day Judgement Day: War for the masses Judgement Day: New weapon classes Defeat the opposition, Reese is the father Complete the objective, find Sarah Connor Judgement Day: War for the masses Judgement Day: New weapon classes Defeat the opposition, Reese is the father Complete the objective, finding Sarah Connor High tech opponents want to fight a fair battle now Hypersonic weapons blast a round shatter sound John Connor, search until I have him found Seek him out, scan around, look him up, track him down Pivotal, watch things spin within the mission The definition one person can make a difference Cold-hearted, cold steel, chilling it seems Professional assassin, a killing machine A huge knowledge base of the skills that I've trained Plus everything on Google stored up in my brain The ability to learn at a super high speed But I can't self-destruct, there's a suicide freeze Plus as a machine, it's likely that my life's long But somehow they beat us using small arms and pipe bombs Just the same we'll be coming your way We are terminators, today's your Judgement Day Judgement Day: War for the masses Judgement Day: New weapon classes Defeat the opposition, Reese is the father Complete the objective, find Sarah Connor Judgement Day: War for the masses Judgement Day: New weapon classes Defeat the opposition, Reese is the father Complete the objective, finding Sarah Connor
10.	Rock It 05:05	lyrics	buy track
It's the, universal, most high professional World famous plus ecumenical Time elemental, life in my ventrical Eyes on the prize sitting high on my pedestal Why would I ever go, it's too soon to leave Please it's too easy, it's my spoon to feed More Dual Core, I'm just half of the name We flipped a little bit now the value is changed Cool the touch like the screen on my iPhone Please don't get it twisted, beats release cyclones No complaints from the sounds out of my home Calculate the offset from counting my bytecode No doubt of my flow, it started the same Turning up the heat once we harnessed the flame The beat set it off like an alarm in my brain Doing Slashdot numbers, karma's insane This is the plane of the fundamental intellect A place where technology and audio can intersect Pro with the flow, please don't ever interject Holding control that will disconnect your internet Burn the inferno, the temperature's higher Riding the lightning splicing live wires Mortars will fly til they're scorching the sky Sort of like the Northern Lights on the Fourth of July It's too much fun A whole new album, I hear it's begun Came a long way from the Zeroes and Ones Opened up a socket, call a raw method Cannot compute, please just process it Checksum failed, you got the wrong method Exhibit Super Powers, just need a hot second The beat's in the speakers so we're gonna rock it And peak off the meters 'cause we gotta rock it Album out, rock it Stage show, rock it Everywhere we go people know we always rock it Welcome to the stage of incredible fame No it's not a phase, DNA in my veins Never finish second when I'm the time keeper Question marks, flags, and clicks on Minesweeper Bit much to swallow, trick the mind reader Although we all know and follow blind leaders We crack thermostats and crank the high fever Six Four beats just breathe in my speakers Try to set traps, they chew through the cables WiMax stats with Bluetooth enabled Linux Kill Bill, the Wu-Shu is fatal Exploit the beta reduce you to stable Version control with patches and the bandages Bleeding edge slowed to the point of inanimate Hostage impostors can't even manage it Negotiate peace to free Release Candidates The beat's in the speakers so we're gonna rock it And peak off the meters 'cause we gotta rock it Album out, rock it Stage show, rock it Everywhere we go people know we always rock it The beat's in the speakers so we're gonna rock it And peak off the meters 'cause we gotta rock it Album out, rock it Stage show, rock it Everywhere we go people know we always rock it Just no need for the opposite of positive All of it, peep my sixth sense of accomplishment Enter the Dragon expand across continents Shoot for the stars on a popular Trek Searching for feedback from Doppler Effect Read the line noise so we check for state Push the parity bit through my XOR gate They dropped the ball, we recovered the fumble Who placed the pieces and created the puzzle Who tied the nodes together into clusters Who mustered the strength to stand just like Custer Combat in orbit, blow the whole mission Death Star rays explode your solar system Punchline knockout spoken as it's written Twelve round bout that ends in no decision Sound waves spray and pervade through the bass drum A red hyper giant invading constellation XOR the register, prove I'm moving on it The kick-snare groove as smooth as supersonic Have a look around, both your eyes will open wide Object-oriented model alone is so contrived Back seat driver taking over overdrive It's time to buckle up 'cause we're going for a ride Control the open lands from the bishops to pawns Fracture and capture opponents all along While 1: repeat. Run it daily in cron Allow me to reintroduce the Genghis Khan All-star leaders from all the different teams Prussians, the Ottomans, plus the Byzantines Toxins composed from crushed vanilla bean Heads up: quick to meet the guillotine The beat's in the speakers so we're gonna rock it And peak off the meters 'cause we gotta rock it Album out, rock it Stage show, rock it Everywhere we go people know we always rock it The beat's in the speakers so we're gonna rock it And peak off the meters 'cause we gotta rock it Album out, rock it Stage show, rock it Everywhere we go people know we always rock it
11.	Dual Core 04:34	lyrics	buy track
Back once again it's the team from before Hit the ground running when we came through the door Keep the crowd going every time we perform Shout it out now if you really want more Let me take it back a few years describing the scene In Cleveland, Ohio we're at Notacon 3 A hotel party that was packing the floor It was me vom, anonymouse and Remington Forbes Hanging out talking, listening to tracks Someone was saying they heard I could rap I freestyled a little in school to match words Do they really want rap in a room full of nerds? So I.. Spit a rhyme that was more to my style Programming, hacking, and kernel compiles Finished with a line about a shift left bit set Kismet inject, driftnet shipwreck Cause I'm a nerd too, the doubt was destroyed Of course they're gonna like the same things I enjoy The room went crazy, the beats were exploding Pass the mic to Remy and the flow kept going Back once again it's the team from before Hit the ground running when we came through the door Keep the crowd going every time we perform Shout it out now if you really want more: Dual Core, Dual Core Came back from Notacon, learned to spit more Message in my inbox, mail from Six Four I've heard his production, was really impressed His beats, my rhymes, well you know the rest Bought a mic to record, writing tracks having fun A year after that we released Zero One Started booking shows for our songs and sound Had the whole crowd yelling out Hostage Down Shoutcast, Radio, iTunes, everything Awful Show, Game Dame, everybody mentioning The US and UK, songs hitting play A shout out from Gabe up at Penny Arcade Second album, late nights, moving through the hours Side by side we're producing Super Powers DEF CON release with the show for the cover Finally met Six Four and we delivered another, yup Back once again it's the team from before Hit the ground running when we came through the door Keep the crowd going every time we perform Shout it out now if you really want more: Dual Core, Dual Core Played a few shows, people loved the CDs Went to Germany, Columbus, and out to DC DEF CON's amazing and for all that I care What happened out in Vegas, didn't have to stay there Good times, great friends, nothing compares Thanks to Jackalope we got there, ready, prepared Come back home from the short summer tour To a mail in my inbox mail from Six Four New beats and melodies, base lines bouncing No time to lose gotta start the third album Writing day and night, while I'm coding as well Finished up, listen up, now you hear it yourself Many thanks to everyone who wrote a review To the listeners and each of our fans, we thank you Trust we love them all 'cause geeks are same vein It feels so surreal when they're shouting our name Back once again it's the team from before Hit the ground running when we came through the door Keep the crowd going every time we perform Shout it out now if you really want more: Dual Core, Dual Core
12.	Take It Forward 04:27	lyrics	buy track
The discussion, they've been thinking it for years A concussion, still ringing in my ears I was talking one night, by a casual chance When someone asked so polite to explain what I am Requested to clarify, staring eyes scared of mine Thinking that my paradise would leave his business paralyzed There am I, terrified his regard Yes, I am a hacker, even says it on my card Harbinger of chaos that would topple a monopoly Cookie cutter character with all the common properties The real question: Did I fit inside the mold How much did it cost for my soul when it was sold A hacker is a concept; a metaphor engineer With good and evil content for left and right hemispheres Black and white for a sub-committee panel Of course, you report Dual Core is dual channel My stereotype, do you really know who I am My stereotype, do I really show what I can My stereotype, your head is buried low in the sand And do I really have to flow to show you folks who I am Another conversation, they've been thinking it for years The overtones of which are still ringing in my ears I was talking one night, by a casual chance When someone asked so polite to explain what I am Is crime just a game, rush and mame, crush and slay When life comes to play, run away, shun the blame Some would say, something may not be right Yes I am a gamer, and I play it every night The signature of crazy, do I scream and shout in my house Immature and lazy, do I hide behind a cop-out The real question was: Is it this that I do best Are there any of us different, or are we just like all the rest A gamer is a shapeshifter driving from the backseat With hand-eye coordination better than an athlete Button presser which you control also Of course you report Dual Core is in the console My stereotype, do you really know who I am My stereotype, do I really show what I can My stereotype, your head is buried low in the sand And do I really have to flow to show you folks who I am How can I change your mind? How can I change your mind? How can I change your mind? You better think quick 'cause we're running out of time This one's an argument, been thinking it for years Anxiety from which is still ringing in my ears I was talking one night, by a casual chance When someone asked so polite to explain what I am The question is operative, cogniscent or positive With words being talkative or weapons for demoloshing Often since confidence is head strong Yes, I am a rapper, even says it on my songs The vision of a failure, a fool as it would seem Who would bet a whole career on a future built of dreams The real question: Is my grammar always mangled Do I end with prepositions, do my participles dangle A rapper is a person represented by a mouth And judged by the concepts and words they talk about Grab a mic making something out of nothing And if you don't like the sound then just hit the skip button My stereotype, do you really know who I am My stereotype, do I really show what I can My stereotype, your head is buried low in the sand And do I really have to flow to show you folks who I am How can I change your mind? How can I change your mind? How can I change your mind? You better think quick 'cause we're running out of time
13.	Take It Back (ft Stephanie KB) 04:58	lyrics	buy track
[Verse 1: int eighty] Tonight's the big night gotta show them that I'm strong Turn the music up, there's a party going on Got a few consoles, place a few bets Add a few friends and no telling what's next XBox, Wii, hiding all of the connectors Flatscreen, an overloaded surge protector I've been waiting too long, get this show on the road Turn it on, hit the power, then all systems go Load the game, go insane, throw grenades, over gates Blow away shoulder blades, know the name, open safes A few simple rules so get ready for a crash course Gotta know controls, every system any platform Cartridge or disc, you know it's fair game If you've got a bigger gun then we'll just compare aim Dual Core, Take it Back, now you know the name We just have a little fun and enjoy it the same [Chorus: int eighty] Sit back 'cause we're taking a ride The games in here so we're staying inside Got a few friends and we're playing tonight Have a good time and just take in stride Sit back 'cause we're taking a ride The games in here so we're staying inside Got a few friends and we're playing tonight And they ain't leaving til 6 in the morning [Chorus: Stephanie KB] My Playstation lets me play for fun My Nintendo Wii is gonna set me free XBox Live is a source of pride And this MP3 just lets my feelings breathe [Verse 2: int eighty] So who in here's ever felt unsettled Staying up late just to beat the next level Next boss, next quest, next fight, next guy Parents start yelling it's past your bedtime Threatening you're grounded, no buts can't try But you're feeling that push, that drive, that's why You got the new armor or cracked the new code You're winning in the race so you're conquering the globe Parents always told you gotta finish what begins And what about the time they told you quitters never win It's too late for logic, they don't want to listen in Cause that would be a weakness, a sign of giving in Now it's Mission 10 and if skipping it's a sin That's the gamer spirit that will always live within Remember how it was even through the thick and thin Then this song will make you smile or at least you'll give a grin [Chorus: int eighty] Sit back 'cause we're taking a ride The games in here so we're staying inside Got a few friends and we're playing tonight Have a good time and just take in stride Sit back 'cause we're taking a ride The games in here so we're staying inside Got a few friends and we're playing tonight And they ain't leaving til 6 in the morning [Chorus: Stephanie KB] My Playstation lets me play for fun My Nintendo Wii is gonna set me free XBox Live is a source of pride And this MP3 just lets my feelings breathe [Verse 3: int eighty] Back to the party where we're playing everything Every game that you bring, the whole thing is full swing Surprised by the clock how the hands seem to fly It's always fun times up until the sun rise Video games are the main entertainment But having friends around has just got to be my favorite Best of any effort for rescuing the Princess Nothing compared to just sharing your interests Plus the good times that the gaming always brings Side conversations and catching up on things Can't lose the memory deleting the file Some of these friends I haven't seen in a while We had to take it back and complete it in style Always good times so I'm keeping a smile Now the sun's up moving through the equator So we'll do it all again, better sooner than later [Chorus: int eighty] Sit back 'cause we're taking a ride The games in here so we're staying inside Got a few friends and we're playing tonight Have a good time and just take in stride Sit back 'cause we're taking a ride The games in here so we're staying inside Got a few friends and we're playing tonight And they ain't leaving til 6 in the morning [Chorus: Stephanie KB] My Playstation lets me play for fun My Nintendo Wii is gonna set me free XBox Live is a source of pride And this MP3 just lets my feelings breathe
14.	Player vs Player 04:08	lyrics	buy track
[Verse 1: "Mainstream rapper"] Uh, yeah, check it yo I got sixteen, you got no verse You should be home doing my homework Quit before your own turn That ain't a backpack, that's an old purse So just back off, take a bat to the back of your laptop You don't belong in rap; he's a PC, me, I'm a Mac And see, that's a fact This is real talk, your words are abstract You can't win, face it, this dude is living in his mom's basement Start moving, you losing Bookworm, should have studied improving That joke was amusing You're an oxymoron, dude is confusing [Verse 2: int eighty] If I'm a PC, then I'm Dual Core computing Since you're a Mac, then it's clear you're a Newton Ripping it, believing it, quick 'cause I notice things I'm gigabit ethernet, your style is token ring You fake smart, it's not AI Your boys are your backup, I got a RAID5 Castle invade, checkmate in Simon's Quest You wanna play a game, then do what Simon Says Get a new page, correct what you say I'll set a blue flame to your level 2 mage Well it's too late, you spray toothpaste I pack binaries, you pack suitcase Plus I got a girl, I never mac that My brain is fast track so I have the last laugh A memory leak, only he doesn't know Errors and warnings, time to debug your flow [Verse 3: "Mainstream rapper"] You funny, better run dummy Put you in the toilet and take your lunch money You a now and later, bounce you later Break you in half like your calculator They call me the aftershaver This dude ain't too sharp, gonna make me grab a razor You're a beginner, me I rhyme great King of the Midwest and the tri-state [Verse 4: int eighty] You're an irate, live bait, crime rate primate Zero out your time-wait, and kick you off MySpace Water molecules dehydrate How you gonna skyscrape when your height is 5-8? (Come here!) You failing like Sybase The only time you get big is right before you dilate Check your mail, new message My chromosome is XY, yours is two Xs [Verse 5: "Mainstream rapper"] I'm selling like crack, I gotta cook that Hold the mic right, that's why I took that Man you look bad, he got too many books for his bookbag I'm a mean dude, you don't wanna see me mean too, this means you Life ain't fair, no one said I'm nice I rep for my corner each and every night [Verse 6: int eighty] Wow, you run a corner in the dead of night? I run a whole island inside of Second Life Better price, better time True, your IQ's less than Kevin Federline's Never mind, no-one's home This guy tried to blue-box a cellular phone Shoot him down in a blue blaze of glory He thought I, Robot was based on true stories [Verse 7: "Mainstream rapper"] Look man, let me holler at you My 28" rims are even taller than you Uh, he can't see me Blind from the shine on my chain 3D [Verse 8: int eighty] You're confused, look I can see They took you off BitTorrent, no-one would seed you You like to talk rhyme a lot But your diamond rocks cannot outshine my fiber ops [Verse 9: "Mainstream rapper"] I'm too fly, call me Big Bird Get outta here with your big words, big nerd Look, I get paid in the streets I was made in the streets, so I'm blazin' the streets [Verse 10: int eighty] No need to ask, whether Dual Core's hot yet With more downloads than the whole Storm botnet If you blaze in the street, raising the heat Then why I face an emcee, you ain't amazing to me Talk about my words like a verbal jihad You're barely smart enough to call the Geek Squad You're not a rap competitor This guy guest-appeared on "To Catch a Predator" Why don't you have a seat over there? [Outro] You are nothing (nothing) Fatality-tality-tality-tality (Mortal Kombat death scream)
15.	Fantastic Four Remix (ft Wheelie Cyberman, Beefy, ytcracker) 08:44	lyrics	buy track
[Wheelie Cyberman] Wheelililie Cyberman, yeah you know me QUOTE working from home UNQUOTE it's easy Turn a two-day weekend into three See we be within reach, TXT the MSG to Beefy [Beefy] Vibrations in my pocket it's my phone it says Hadouken It's the Autobeat commander he's just seeing what I'm doing Yo retail work politely, I'm hardly feeling mighty Thinking 'bout taking off early, log on and I mail yt [int eighty] Wait a minute (Wait a minute), there might have been a disconnect A man in the middle attack, I had to intercept And add a few words. My freestyle was so bad I burned down my notepad and opened up my vocab So that's where it's coming from, another album number one SYN bits released so we start a flood and let it run Skip the introduction to enter this discussion Hey it's int eighty, pardon the interruption [ytcracker] I don't even know where I belong anymore Because the people in this cipher got all sick with the flow So I digress, point to SPAMTEC on my chest Tap two mana and cast duress [Beefy] Success! Operation Good Times is a go Mission complete, don't even act like you don't even know So grab your playstation and meet me in the back Cause we're all about to have a kick back and that's that [Chorus: int eighty] It's the fantastic four on the microphone And we're bouncing these sounds up inside your dome So put us in your iPod, Zune, or iPhone Or in your car's tape deck driving home It's the fantastic four on the microphone And we're bouncing these sounds up inside your dome So put us in your iPod, Zune, or iPhone Or in your car's tape deck driving home [ytcracker] Damn junk mail filters catching not junk Beef, Wheelie, YT, 80 pounding that trunk Up in the cipher now who'd have thunk Spent 200 on a bottle just to get drunk [Wheelie Cyberman] Grab the bottle from YT and quickly pour it inside me The first sip of the night, it's like about time finally Then I feel like fighting, but we don't take it to the mall Take it Falco style talking Smash Brothers Brawl [int eighty] Skip the planning, my Sammus arm cannon starts fanning out the mansion The human enhancement of Gannon Impatient or inaccurate, they say wait a measure/way to measure The time delay entered to betray your datacenter [Beefy] But now I gotta cool down, chill out rock a dope crown Hit you up with headphones and take your ass to rhyme town I try to keep it peaceful get along and sing a song But if you're messing with my nerds I gotta show you that I'm strong [Chorus: int eighty] It's the fantastic four on the microphone And we're bouncing these sounds up inside your dome So put us in your iPod, Zune, or iPhone Or in your car's tape deck driving home It's the fantastic four on the microphone And we're bouncing these sounds up inside your dome So put us in your iPod, Zune, or iPhone Or in your car's tape deck driving home [Beefy] I've been known to kick back, I've been known to just chill I've been known to be the killer first act on the show's bill So let it be known I rip it like a cyclone Fear and atone, I ain't alone here on this microphone [int eighty, (Wheelie Cyberman)] No we're not drunk, (still swerving when I drive) (Coming northwest), midwest, Google Maps APIs Point A to Point B, roadtrip to shows Shift gears, pop the clutch, hit the gas, and then go [Wheelie Cyberman] Yeah I'm an excellent driver, you can call me Corey Haim Fifteen minutes to Wapner, no way That I'm missing it, definitely watching mid-day Definitely not working, hurting just to stay awake [ytcracker] Now we hopping on the train man, Wheelie Rain Man Tom Cruisin all up on that microphone Charlie Babbitt, know we gotta have it YTCracker, straight balling's a habit, grab it [Chorus: int eighty] It's the fantastic four on the microphone And we're bouncing these sounds up inside your dome So put us in your iPod, Zune, or iPhone Or in your car's tape deck driving home It's the fantastic four on the microphone And we're bouncing these sounds up inside your dome So put us in your iPod, Zune, or iPhone Or in your car's tape deck driving home It's the fantastic four on the microphone And we're bouncing these sounds up inside your dome So put us in your iPod, Zune, or iPhone Or in your car's tape deck driving home