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Memetics
Selfish genetics
Richard Dawkins
References up in the air like Hawk Inns 
Studying black holes in the wall like Hawkins
Peace up, A-Town down, as the Hawk wins
The meme, it would seem - Greek
Something imitates, seems bleak
Not Memphis, as we meant this…
Memeplex sent this…
Self-referential propagating
Readiness potential
Prop is waiting 
Proper conduct…
Shots were fired as - con - ducked
Copy the product in unison
Complexity helps to clue us in 
Memplexes dwarfing endless Texas
Klingons Worfing and the next is…
Driving apparatus 
PaRappa the Rapper had this…
Selfplex…
Button prompts act as self text
"Kick! Punch! It's all in the mind"
Thoughts as the Anattā Buddhist rewind
Meditation…
Before scrolling through misinformation

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I have a sis, and she knows Cicero…
Now, Cyssero used to be called The Virus
Some of it's true…
I'll leave the rest to you…
Nature's toolset…
Diving, deep ends - is the pool set?
Going viral is cool, yet…
Consensual hallucination 
Influencers know how to abuse the station
Social networking fictions 
Facts seldom set working conditions 
Inner working of the operating system…
Windows with a Mac - browser, Opera - waiting…
Missed them…
Dodging Neo's manipulating code 
Architecting Zion - stimulating abode
Repeating cycles - will it stick?
Plugged into machines - will it tick?
Referencing the human mind…
Looping endlessly within a bind 
4K, okay, copy Fidelity 
Investments…
Attention span test meant…
Copy - sell it free
Breaking down the immune system…
Death puckers up…
Kiss them

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Instrumental - Again and Again

Produced By - DRXMA

https://www.beatstars.com/proddrxma

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Photo by Martin Sanchez on Unsplash

Memetics (Why Did You Share That?)

F i n a l  S t o p

Wheel of Fortune on silent; fast forwarding ice breakers
Guessing consonant price takers
Maker's Mark: Park the bottle upside down
Town deserted for the desert
Foreshadowing: Impervious even if Simon says, "hurt"

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Conversing with the security guard, Frank, at the Bank of America
Comerica Park, like she can't have my number; see about - stadium
Palladium: abundant souls; channeling everyone sent
Spent currency to get as high as Curren$y
Recurrence: see the past repeating itself
Selfless, like dearly departed - rewind time; Uncharted
Charted for a path that's Naughty Dog

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Log spacetime manipulation—Bend Studio
So - pen is mightier than the sword, my lord
Award a shield, yield - writer's block
Pressing play on music when projects pause
Causality: AI-business-video games say hi...

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Wheel of Fortune on silent; fast forwarding ice breakers
Guessing consonant price takers
Maker's Mark: Park the bottle upside down
Town deserted for the desert
Foreshadowing: Impervious even if Simon says, "hurt"

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All grounded, radio edit: Stay Fly
By channeling - Tennessee - Three 6 Mafia
The Green Book of Gaddafi…ugh…
Not in alignment—the last line meant
Establish People's Committee - bypass duplicity
Seen federally and through this city
He channels presence without the holiday
Today, the voice of the ground floor
Explored - implicate - explicate order
Bordering classical and quantum realm
At the helm of slow and fast thinking

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Inking plots with Rorschach blots 
Personality: cryogenically frozen, like Dippn' Dots
Lots of thoughts not stored at a grocery store
Detour out the back—no cashier counteract
Tact when dealing with the diet
Fasting most of the day, you should try it

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Sitting at the center of the desert
Impervious even if Simon says, "hurt"

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Dirt - no, desert soils where diverse life forms
Swarms of tropical and polar echoing bipolar
Solar ray(s)-exposé-bedrock
Clock turning prehistoric—wait, no ahead like Expanse
Expands consciousness to Mars
Blood in the Desert, served at Martian bars

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Wheel of Fortune on silent; fast forwarding ice breakers
Guessing consonant price takers
Maker's Mark: Park the bottle upside down
Town deserted for the desert
Foreshadowing: Impervious even if Simon says, "hurt"

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Prod. Mudblood

https://www.beatstars.com/mudblood

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Photo by SIMON LEE on Unsplash

Blood in the Desert

Blood In The Desert (Prod. Mudblood)

Enought Ft Angelo

Written, Performed, Mixed, and Mastered by Jed Lapp.
Featuring Lydia Matamoros-Lapp.
Beat by Dredstudio, manipulated by Jed Lapp.
Scratching by Jed Lapp.

Lyrics:

Been 35 years at the HTC
Since moving to Portland with my family.
The Hemophilia Treatment Center
What it was called as long as I can remember.

Now to make it all inclusive
For all of us w rare bleeding disorders
At OHSU a huge supporter
Now called the hemostatis and thrombosis center.

I’m dealing with another bleed,
Gotta call my homies at the HTC
I get on the horn with Greg and Nancy,
They’re like, “come  on down”  lets see what we can see.

I arrive at the hospital, kinda paradoxical.
I can see old friends at OHSU hospital.
Yea, I’m in pain and I’m bleedin again.
But with Greg and Nancy a PT party.

Now with Greg and Nancy, andy and the trainees,
Ultrasound, xrays, and physical therapy.
They always  deliver exactly what we need.
They exceed to get us back on our feet.

Me and Lydia taken care of by the best.
When we have a bleed they always ace the test.
In the Northwest hard pressed to suggest
Anyone else that could equally impress.

Been 35 years at the HTC
Since moving to Portland with my family.
The Hemophilia Treatment Center
What it was called as long as I can remember.

Now to make it all inclusive
For all of us w rare bleeding disorders
At OHSU a huge supporter
Now called the hemostatis and thrombosis center.

A hemophilia bleed can be scary and vile.
like being ostracised or left out in the wild.
an internal bleed, stinks like a cigarette.
sweat, dead pet, a fart under a blanket.

but, like the fresh air of a blooming daisy,
it's like that at,
the h h h h h t t t t t t t c c.

Now back in the day, it used to be Dave,
The OG of the PTs, Hooray!
He got me through so many bleeds and on my way.
Goin to see him was like a holiday.

He did everything so I could play basketball.
Above all he tried to overhaul
My protective equipment so I could stay on the ball.
All in all the protocol, didn’t stop the fall.

He was always there to help in any way.
With physical therapy and brightening my day.
Just like Greg and Nancy in modern day.
I give em all props in my wordplay.

So as I wrap up this rhyme.
Wanna give a prime time chime.
To the HTC, they’ve been there big time.
Cuase of them me and Lydia are fine.
The HTC aging like a fine wine.

The HTC (feat. Lydia)

This beat is part of "Piano and Sax Beats (vol. 1)"

"lo-fi vibes" - (80 bpm) [Piano & Sax Beats vol. 1]

This beat is part of: "Piano and Sax Beats (vol. 1)"

"feels" - (80 bpm) [Piano & Sax Beats vol. 1]

Top album art picture of (from left to right): Brookes/Wookie, Kevin/Too Tall, Jed/Cozmo Jethro, Justin/Gunther. 
Bottom album art pictures taken of FRUSA members before the Redmond HS Prom: 
Picture on the bottom left (from left to right) of Anne/Belle, Sarah/Bear, Kristin/Tenderheart.
Picture on the bottom right (from left to right) of Justin/Gunther, Brookes/Wookie, Jed/Cozmo Jethro.

FRUSA member not pictured: Matt/T-Rex.

Written, Performed, Mixed, and Mastered by Cozmo Jethro.

Lyrics:
Freestyle Rexing USA, That was a our jamskating club name back in the day.

Freestyle Rexing USA
From Seattle to Portland
All day every day.

Back in the 90s. Jamskatin.
We’d slay in every way.

Hit the rinks 
up and down the west coast.
Winning rexing contests
More than most.

Here’s to our glory days.
Give us the praise.
We were the shit,
Back in the day.

FRUSA, Freestyle Rexing USA
FRUSA, Freestyle Rexing USA
FRUSA, Freestyle Rexing USA
Free Fr Free Fr Free Free Freee Freestyle Rexing USA. 

A bunch a tall guys 
over 6 foot 2.
Hot girls of FRUSA
We were the crew.

Jamskatin, breakskatin,
Rexin, and hexin.
Whatever you wanna call it.
It’s dancing while skatin. 

My 89 civic
And Wookie’s dope ride
Caravan to the rink,
Before it was world wide.
It was underground, electrified.

We all paired up
2 by 2,
The couples of FRUSA
Doin the do.

Wookie n Belle,
The darkskinned cuties.
When they’d rex together,
A thing of beauty.

Buxom blondes
Tenderheart and Bear,
Paired up with me and Gunther
Aww yeaaaa.

Add T-Rex and Too Tall.
To round us out.
No doubt when we traveled,
We had the clout.

FRUSA, Freestyle Rexing USA
FRUSA, Freestyle Rexing USA
FRUSA, Freestyle Rexing USA
Free Fr Free Fr Free Free Freee Freestyle Rexing USA.

Remember the day, we all traveled to Portland.
All stayed in one hotel room, dope man.
Bear snuggled up to Gunther that night.
25 years later, still married, that’s tight.

Defunct rinks that we skated at.
TLC and skate king were phat.
Loud with funk and hip hop.
Tacoma, Seattle, rex till we drop.

At the Redmond high school prom.
FRUSA rocked it and dropped a bomb.
We all danced the night away.
Wished it could always be that way.

Again we all piled into one hotel room.
The afterparty, biggidy boom.
Badabing, everything
Was on the upswing.

Rexing was our bond.
These were my friends,
Seemed like it could never end.
Rexing it did transcend.

Freestyle Rexing USA
A bunch of friends from back in the day.
We skated hard,  it was our way.
Now we're older and on our way.

Free fa free fa free free free free rex rex rex rex USA.

Freestyle Rexing USA

not like us ft. kendrick lamar (jersey club remix) by @sjayyofficial

spotify - https://open.spotify.com/album/1CcjvSimt3Rlkg38PAnY80?si=6wP5nl_HS6aIsDn1nf0eYQ

bandcamp - https://sjayy.bandcamp.com/track/not-like-us-ft-kendrick-lamar-official-jersey-club-remix

Memetics (Why Did You Share That?)

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