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Written and performed by The Cosmonauts
(Izzy Man, Zev, Bamboo MC, B-Nice, and Jimmytheloch)
Composed, produced, and mixed by Izzy Man
Sampled “Closed In Upon Me (Stage 2 Theme) from Altered Beast”
By Tohru Nakabayashi & Kazuhiko Nagai – All Rights Reserved
All lyrics, arrangements, and recordings are original works by the artists.
2011
www.intangiblecollective.com
www.izzyman.com
www.izzymanmusic.com
www.twitter.com/izzymusic
www.youtube.com/izzymantv
www.facebook.com/izzymusic
www.dynastystyle.com
zevnoah.bandcamp.com
www.jimmytheloch.com
www.youtube.com/jimmytheloch
Artwork Notes:
Art and design by Izzy Man. This cover was inspired by the game the sample is taken from, “Altered Beast”, the Sega Genesis game that started the 16 bit revolution. It does what NINTENDON’T. I took the most iconic images from the game and re-painted in Photoshop to give it a colorful and vibrant in-your-face attitude that captures the song, the game, and the whole attitude of the 90s. The cover is also based on the old classic covers for Sega Genesis cartridges with white graph on black background accents which brings nostalgic and retro flavors. The background flames and waves are what happens right before the transformation, and the MC beast in the front was taken from the original front cover from “Altered Beast.” The colors and symbols were all brought together to bring the visual B.E.A.S.T. as well as tie the crazy clashing colors into a cohesive piece, as a symphony should be.
Song Notes:
I had wanted to sample something from this game ever since I started producing beats in 2008. “Altered Beast” was the first video game I remember playing, and in fact my cousin Josh and I took almost 20 years to beat it; on his 18 year old Sega Genesis and original cartridge nonetheless; the game was PURE DIFFICULT. Just in case you don’t know what the game is about, in a nutshell you’re resurrected by Zeus to save his daughter Athena, and throughout the game you kick blue three-headed wolves in the face, which then unleash power orbs that you consume while stating “POWER UP” and after three orbs, you transform into a beast. With this fueling the idea for a song, I wanted to evoke a beat that awoke the “beast” in all of us. The first iteration was created on a 6-hour bus trip from Queens to Oneonta, on my way to school from Thanksgiving break. I showed the beat to Jimmy, where we wrote a whole 2 sixteen’s to the song. We decided this beat was too good to keep between the two of us, and extended it to the rest of the Cosmonauts (rap group extraordinaire including myself, Jimmytheloch, Bamboo MC, B Nice, and Zev) and as soon as I figured the craziness about to unfold, I revamped the beat, further unlocking the beast within. We decided to name it “Beat Elegance: A Sound Trigger”, so to unleash the beast, we must hear the “B.E.A.S.T.” Jimmy and I had our verses done; Zev followed, then Bam and B-Nice. The challenge was to further shift the song to fit each voice, flow, and style, further unlocking the potential to this track. It took a whole half a year to “conduct” this orchestra of sound and voice to make this piece. One of the reasons why the soundtrack to this game was so iconic to me was the fact that it was the first time a video game spoke to me. Since the limitations of technology were in place, “Rise from your grave” sounded like “WISE FWOM YO GWABE.” Either way, we wanted to create a song that would make your inner BEAST rise from your grave, if need be.
(Izzy Man, Zev, Bamboo MC, B-Nice, and Jimmytheloch)
Composed, produced, and mixed by Izzy Man
Sampled “Closed In Upon Me (Stage 2 Theme) from Altered Beast”
By Tohru Nakabayashi & Kazuhiko Nagai – All Rights Reserved
All lyrics, arrangements, and recordings are original works by the artists.
2011
www.intangiblecollective.com
www.izzyman.com
www.izzymanmusic.com
www.twitter.com/izzymusic
www.youtube.com/izzymantv
www.facebook.com/izzymusic
www.dynastystyle.com
zevnoah.bandcamp.com
www.jimmytheloch.com
www.youtube.com/jimmytheloch
Artwork Notes:
Art and design by Izzy Man. This cover was inspired by the game the sample is taken from, “Altered Beast”, the Sega Genesis game that started the 16 bit revolution. It does what NINTENDON’T. I took the most iconic images from the game and re-painted in Photoshop to give it a colorful and vibrant in-your-face attitude that captures the song, the game, and the whole attitude of the 90s. The cover is also based on the old classic covers for Sega Genesis cartridges with white graph on black background accents which brings nostalgic and retro flavors. The background flames and waves are what happens right before the transformation, and the MC beast in the front was taken from the original front cover from “Altered Beast.” The colors and symbols were all brought together to bring the visual B.E.A.S.T. as well as tie the crazy clashing colors into a cohesive piece, as a symphony should be.
Song Notes:
I had wanted to sample something from this game ever since I started producing beats in 2008. “Altered Beast” was the first video game I remember playing, and in fact my cousin Josh and I took almost 20 years to beat it; on his 18 year old Sega Genesis and original cartridge nonetheless; the game was PURE DIFFICULT. Just in case you don’t know what the game is about, in a nutshell you’re resurrected by Zeus to save his daughter Athena, and throughout the game you kick blue three-headed wolves in the face, which then unleash power orbs that you consume while stating “POWER UP” and after three orbs, you transform into a beast. With this fueling the idea for a song, I wanted to evoke a beat that awoke the “beast” in all of us. The first iteration was created on a 6-hour bus trip from Queens to Oneonta, on my way to school from Thanksgiving break. I showed the beat to Jimmy, where we wrote a whole 2 sixteen’s to the song. We decided this beat was too good to keep between the two of us, and extended it to the rest of the Cosmonauts (rap group extraordinaire including myself, Jimmytheloch, Bamboo MC, B Nice, and Zev) and as soon as I figured the craziness about to unfold, I revamped the beat, further unlocking the beast within. We decided to name it “Beat Elegance: A Sound Trigger”, so to unleash the beast, we must hear the “B.E.A.S.T.” Jimmy and I had our verses done; Zev followed, then Bam and B-Nice. The challenge was to further shift the song to fit each voice, flow, and style, further unlocking the potential to this track. It took a whole half a year to “conduct” this orchestra of sound and voice to make this piece. One of the reasons why the soundtrack to this game was so iconic to me was the fact that it was the first time a video game spoke to me. Since the limitations of technology were in place, “Rise from your grave” sounded like “WISE FWOM YO GWABE.” Either way, we wanted to create a song that would make your inner BEAST rise from your grave, if need be.
lyrics
(Izzy)
I begin this genesis
A menace to medicine
I'm a disease
Dig deep in the thought
We Blast process this
I can do what Nintendont
Zoom past you
You tailing in my green zone two
I got to be
Be the one to beat
I don't wanna be
Sleeping on it like you
There in the grave
Not a day
Goes by
I bring the dead alive
Unleash the beast that hides
Hold it down for the Far East side
We beastin on it
And we only getting started
Off with his head
Eyo We ain't even to the best part of it
Go
(Zev)
I self born
Mind shell torn
Time spell worn
Divine hell spawn
In a sense genesis Grendel street walker nemesis
Inner-beast mental deep talker penmanship
Killing you lames reptilian brain stem obsidian
Name sends a shivering straight through sciatica
Straight to the toes
Of men like when them frozen in Attica
Know we from the attic not the basement
Bomb the nation
Abomination breed ceiling ascendants
Peeling appendages
Screaming in languages
Rotting in anguish
Plotting entanglement
Tossed
Lost at sea
Might be our last world
But at least we're free
This is the cost of living in these
Lost turbulent times where we're losing humanity but at least beasts are
Free.
(Izzy)
Do you see the beast within you?
Smiling back, smiling back.
I can see the beast within you
Smiling back. Smiling back.
(Bamboo MC)
Verbal conflict, I let Intangibles spit
Anything beyond that I make the animals click
They tell me "Bam, you aint gotta put your hands on a b****
Cuz you got too much family to handle the s***
In a bikini bar like "I'll start a slam up in this"
Putting poetry from the kitchen on a national tip
Crazy brave like a Puerto Rican Nationalist
I tell it like it is, you’re asking for it
(B-Nice)
Yeah I'm an animal a mammal with unmistakable mandibles
Humanoid wizard whip up words that's understandable
Brain chip implantable barcode scannable
Prison self made cage bars exist tangible
Living in a cell with my laptop and my cell
People texting people Tweeting they all looking for a reason
Please don't feed the creatures just admire all their features
As we beast upon your kickers and we feast upon your tweeters.
(Bamboo MC)
I don’t drink like a man, I drink like a menace
Gimme a Jameson on the rocks and a Guinness
Strictly business
Heavens to Murgatroids
That aint no beef
That’s a burger, boy
This duck's all in the sauce and never heard of soy
Check my impeccable rap sheet
Plus your girl says she loves my freckles and gap teeth
You a gas leak that's why your lyrics don’t have heat
And everything that the cosmonauts spitting is mad beast
(B-Nice)
And guess who's coming next? Snapping like drums to necks
Izzy Man productions, you like it? Then he's the one to text
This is the genesis I'll show you what eugenics is
Population manipulation the beast venomous
It's an inscription like rebellion by Egyptians
Makes us beast back on them because chilling ain't efficient
We got lives to lead and a destiny an immensity of intensity
Quiet as kept, a lion that slept but I'm beastin’ if you mention B
(Izzy)
“B” to the “E” to the “A-S-T”
Yo fam, it's how I do
Intangible, DynastyStyle?
Eyo, we kill it too
Float like a fly
Sting like a bee
Just me
Izzy
Emcees
We bleed
Mmhmm
We rhyme this time in poetry
This ain't the remix, no mmm mmm
We need no more di ba? (Right?)
If you get to hear this, hah
You lucky man
Naka jempok ka (You got lucky)
I am a Macintosh
I’m spitting applesauce
You think you're rapping Linux
But you stuck on ms dos
C prompt, C prompt
Emulate the swagger CD-Rom
Man I'm Michael Haggar
Swinging wack emcees till the break of dawn
Done with the tricks
I’m mixing my sixteen
I spit in sixteen bit
Pause for the beat
My drum kit dream
Is like my team
We making hits
So catch your breath
You need it more
Beat elegance
Did I mention?
That I've been
Sent from dimension four
Sound the trigger
We never settle dust
Now all your base, are belong to us
(Jimmytheloch)
No nonsense Jimmytheloch’s got this
Leave an unconscious hippopotamus and the bottom of Lake Loch Ness
I gain strength laughing living a sinner’s fate
Liberate then eliminate and imitate in a trait jaded
Troll invaders as gold traders living with souls vacant
Vampire hunter raising the stakes Las Vegas
My eyes buggin out that's a grade A peepshow
Start flippin out like Marshawn Lynch in beast mode
Sit back just watch as I metamorph
Let it go spiritual blast set if off
Not adding it up never enough
Be sure to get a foot in the door before ya bumrush
Hit it by the hundred punching undead
I’m walking around with a bald head
Never know a true fortune when a palm’s read
Forget a cover I’m shining above it
Kick it forward
Drinking 40s in my toga
I been told I’m no good
Crack open a cold one
Fold a rolly golden token
Hoping not broken slot
Another daydream or hair brained scheme
Duking it out with Sasquatch
I play a violin to summon Leviathan
Mind control hidden in the Flintstones vitamins
I patrol the scariest barriers of this plight I’m in
I love people living and breathing in all types of skin
You can throw me into the heart of the viper’s pit
But ill still make you jump overboard like that iceberg did
Front and center stage I remain unfazed give a sick performance
That’ll make you rise from your grave
I begin this genesis
A menace to medicine
I'm a disease
Dig deep in the thought
We Blast process this
I can do what Nintendont
Zoom past you
You tailing in my green zone two
I got to be
Be the one to beat
I don't wanna be
Sleeping on it like you
There in the grave
Not a day
Goes by
I bring the dead alive
Unleash the beast that hides
Hold it down for the Far East side
We beastin on it
And we only getting started
Off with his head
Eyo We ain't even to the best part of it
Go
(Zev)
I self born
Mind shell torn
Time spell worn
Divine hell spawn
In a sense genesis Grendel street walker nemesis
Inner-beast mental deep talker penmanship
Killing you lames reptilian brain stem obsidian
Name sends a shivering straight through sciatica
Straight to the toes
Of men like when them frozen in Attica
Know we from the attic not the basement
Bomb the nation
Abomination breed ceiling ascendants
Peeling appendages
Screaming in languages
Rotting in anguish
Plotting entanglement
Tossed
Lost at sea
Might be our last world
But at least we're free
This is the cost of living in these
Lost turbulent times where we're losing humanity but at least beasts are
Free.
(Izzy)
Do you see the beast within you?
Smiling back, smiling back.
I can see the beast within you
Smiling back. Smiling back.
(Bamboo MC)
Verbal conflict, I let Intangibles spit
Anything beyond that I make the animals click
They tell me "Bam, you aint gotta put your hands on a b****
Cuz you got too much family to handle the s***
In a bikini bar like "I'll start a slam up in this"
Putting poetry from the kitchen on a national tip
Crazy brave like a Puerto Rican Nationalist
I tell it like it is, you’re asking for it
(B-Nice)
Yeah I'm an animal a mammal with unmistakable mandibles
Humanoid wizard whip up words that's understandable
Brain chip implantable barcode scannable
Prison self made cage bars exist tangible
Living in a cell with my laptop and my cell
People texting people Tweeting they all looking for a reason
Please don't feed the creatures just admire all their features
As we beast upon your kickers and we feast upon your tweeters.
(Bamboo MC)
I don’t drink like a man, I drink like a menace
Gimme a Jameson on the rocks and a Guinness
Strictly business
Heavens to Murgatroids
That aint no beef
That’s a burger, boy
This duck's all in the sauce and never heard of soy
Check my impeccable rap sheet
Plus your girl says she loves my freckles and gap teeth
You a gas leak that's why your lyrics don’t have heat
And everything that the cosmonauts spitting is mad beast
(B-Nice)
And guess who's coming next? Snapping like drums to necks
Izzy Man productions, you like it? Then he's the one to text
This is the genesis I'll show you what eugenics is
Population manipulation the beast venomous
It's an inscription like rebellion by Egyptians
Makes us beast back on them because chilling ain't efficient
We got lives to lead and a destiny an immensity of intensity
Quiet as kept, a lion that slept but I'm beastin’ if you mention B
(Izzy)
“B” to the “E” to the “A-S-T”
Yo fam, it's how I do
Intangible, DynastyStyle?
Eyo, we kill it too
Float like a fly
Sting like a bee
Just me
Izzy
Emcees
We bleed
Mmhmm
We rhyme this time in poetry
This ain't the remix, no mmm mmm
We need no more di ba? (Right?)
If you get to hear this, hah
You lucky man
Naka jempok ka (You got lucky)
I am a Macintosh
I’m spitting applesauce
You think you're rapping Linux
But you stuck on ms dos
C prompt, C prompt
Emulate the swagger CD-Rom
Man I'm Michael Haggar
Swinging wack emcees till the break of dawn
Done with the tricks
I’m mixing my sixteen
I spit in sixteen bit
Pause for the beat
My drum kit dream
Is like my team
We making hits
So catch your breath
You need it more
Beat elegance
Did I mention?
That I've been
Sent from dimension four
Sound the trigger
We never settle dust
Now all your base, are belong to us
(Jimmytheloch)
No nonsense Jimmytheloch’s got this
Leave an unconscious hippopotamus and the bottom of Lake Loch Ness
I gain strength laughing living a sinner’s fate
Liberate then eliminate and imitate in a trait jaded
Troll invaders as gold traders living with souls vacant
Vampire hunter raising the stakes Las Vegas
My eyes buggin out that's a grade A peepshow
Start flippin out like Marshawn Lynch in beast mode
Sit back just watch as I metamorph
Let it go spiritual blast set if off
Not adding it up never enough
Be sure to get a foot in the door before ya bumrush
Hit it by the hundred punching undead
I’m walking around with a bald head
Never know a true fortune when a palm’s read
Forget a cover I’m shining above it
Kick it forward
Drinking 40s in my toga
I been told I’m no good
Crack open a cold one
Fold a rolly golden token
Hoping not broken slot
Another daydream or hair brained scheme
Duking it out with Sasquatch
I play a violin to summon Leviathan
Mind control hidden in the Flintstones vitamins
I patrol the scariest barriers of this plight I’m in
I love people living and breathing in all types of skin
You can throw me into the heart of the viper’s pit
But ill still make you jump overboard like that iceberg did
Front and center stage I remain unfazed give a sick performance
That’ll make you rise from your grave
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released 11 November 2011
Izzy Man, The Cosmonauts, the Intangible Collective, Zev, Bamboo MC, B-Nice, Jimmytheloch, Tohru Nakabayashi, Kazuhiko Nagai
Izzy Man, The Cosmonauts, the Intangible Collective, Zev, Bamboo MC, B-Nice, Jimmytheloch, Tohru Nakabayashi, Kazuhiko Nagai
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IZZY is part Intangible Collective/Cosmonauts/HYZY/I&I/DynastyStyle, and all around bacon connoisseur.He's performed since
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2005 from Texas State to Pampanga in the Philippines. He is a poet, writer, performer, music producer, rapper, musician, artist, dancer, and stuffs. He's had music featured on the Blacksmith Community Mixtape by Talib Kweli and Mick Boogie.
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