Richard Anonymous is a virtual Hip Hop act and creation of an unnamed Cape Town (South Africa) based musician / writer. 

Playing back to iconic Hip-Hop flavours and verse styles new album ‘Death Of the Author’ features a formidable line-up including Wordsworth, Landmarque, Herb Vila, Rez Proph, Ramshock, Edit Young, Ché Cherry and the masterful DJ Soosh. 

‘Death Of the Author’ paints a vivid, sonic landscape with poetic and graphic verses. 

LYRICS:

Noose on the neck and the gun in the mouth
That's how they got us living
Blindfolded, black veils, grills bled out
I got a mouthpiece

For sure I know it's got to be
But ain't the right picture
When I'm looking at the economy
So tell me what I'm really supposed to see
When I see the stacked odds and a voyage to the sea

Plus, the sky's rainy
My words don't obey me
Fighting on the daily
Bearing arms like Israelis

Riot act
I been attacked and fired at
Give me a place to rest
Like Nazareth
Where the quite at?

Only for a given time
Till I become the most contested
Said to be worth less that a dime
Give me a deadline on how long I gotta fight

Or what its gonna take
To survive another night
Steep heights
Became a passage and a right
So I write till its right
Till its burning in the candlelight

Wont you let me be?
I need these shackles off me
Wont you set me free?
From the waves that broke me
Let them flow to the ocean
Wont you set me free?

Godless, pack the carbon tight
Let it burn, in fact regardless
I'm still starving right
Turn the stone
Predetermined like the firmament
Singing sermons for the vermin

With the words I write
Hit the curb and set the burbs alight
Drink the worm
And smoke the herbicide

Lifting curtains on the service side
Ever certain when concerns arise
Clever verbalised
Sir they advised

Circa ninety-five returned alive
I'm with the vibe
When I turn around and serve it live
I'm certified

Kid, at thirty-five I wear a crown
Out jaws of jackals
Still bonded like tobacco
I break my back with the tactics of a pack mule

Painting portraits looking vacuous with the pastel
Straight out the capsule
In the vacuum like a phantom
No kicking back just relaxing In my sandals

Catch me running laps on the track
To break the shackles
Wont you let me be?
I need these shackles off me

Wont you set me free?
From the waves that broke me
Let them flow to the ocean
Wont you set me free?

Set me free
Wont you let me be?
I need these shackles off me
Oh, won't you set me free?

Let the waves that broke me
Flow to the ocean
Oh, won't you set me free?

Death Of the Author

Shackles

Stream

Richard Anonymous - Shackles (feat. Landmarque & Edit Young)

I Changed My Mind Sorry

Daniel Santos  @DanielSantosAnalysis  joins us to discuss 'death of the author', which is a method of engaging with art that does NOT involve any consideration for what the author intended for the work to mean. Though we started out there, we slowly moved into topics like AI, God, Objectivity and whether or not people really are seeing Jesus in their coffee, toast or potato chips. All 3 of us are still trying to feel our way through to finding the best ways to analyze works of art and had a fun time exploring the possibilities that a method like this can bring to the table. However, we'll still be doing our Dev History episodes on future podcasts about dope games. Please consider supporting us on Patreon if you have the means. Thanks for watching!

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