Antique Blowed Show

[Open Mike Eagle]

Found a book of rap verse in my suburban apartment

How much is that old style worth on the market?

Next to grandma’s ceramic urchins and starfish

She said my grandfather worked it from birth to a carcass

Look, there’s serpents and Martians perfectly carved in

Purchased for dirt at a Leimert Church auction

Cause it’s covered in birdshit and smells like an armpit

Sure the verses are tarnished just hit the surface with varnish

[Dumbfoundead]

This style is valued about…

Can we get an aisle price check on it now?

Since Wildstyle it’s gone up a bit

The Dow’s down and it’s not made in Mao’s town

Better buy the vowels now and the consonants on Christmas

Goin’ once

Goin’ twice

Goin’ three times

Style sold to the rapper in the long tee

Goin’ once

Goin’ twice

Goin’ three times

Style sold to the rapper on the blog links

Goin’ once

Goin’ twice

Goin’ three times

Style sold to the rapper wearing all pink

Goin’ once

Goin’ twice

Not for sale

Where you think you goin’ with the mic?

[Psychosiz]

My attic is as classic as a Nina Hartley feet apart scene

To rent to the youth who enter the booth

Vintage Taboo

They say it’s depreciated

Nay-sayin’

Inebriated

They just can’t appreciate when greatness isn’t bling related

So get you varnish out

Change the bulbs

Up the watts

They ain’t never seen a style polished out the box

It’s time

I don’t care what I can get for it

I care what I can do with it

It’s mine

[Open Mike Eagle]

Incredible audible elements

What is your bid?

Your attempt to style is a guttural wind

A pitiful verse with nothing but stuttering ends

You’re where urban development ends

Hard fella with delicate skin

Stealing bright pink pelican limb relics from ghetto museums

Goin’ once

Goin’ twice

Goin’ three times

Style sold to the rapper bitch in lip gloss

Goin’ once

Goin’ twice

Goin’ three times

Style sold to the rapper with the pimp talk

Goin’ once

Goin’ twice

Goin’ three times

Style sold to the rapper fistna’ crip walk

Goin’ once

Goin’ twice

Not for sale

Where you think you goin’ with the mic?

[Dumbfoundead]

What style is that?

Where can I purchase it?

That finger movement and nervous twitch

That Thirsty Fish wordplay that makes perfect sense

That Leimert intensity

Which comes with a certificate of authenticity

No Brian Austin Green

Blossom meets Dawson’s Creek

More like Slauson Street

Gotham geeks on awesome beats

The Blowed is not for sale

We ain’t go to Oxford, Yale

We’re from the school of hard knocks, cops and shotgun shells

[Psychosiz]

Goin’ once

Goin’ twice

SOLD

To the cat in the back four rows with the black cornrows

SOLD

To the ragtag Linux holder with the Mac bag backpack on his shoulder

SOLD

To the effeminate gentleman and the women friends who bid with him

We’ll open the bid again and when the bidding ends

We still won’t sell out

Goin’ once

Goin’ twice

Goin’ three times

Style sold to the Project Blowed enthusiast

Goin’ once

Goin’ twice

Goin’ three times

Style sold to the honor role student list

Goin’ once

Goin’ twice

Goin’ three times

Style sold for the solid gold crucifix

Goin’ once

Goin’ twice

Not for sale

Where you think you goin’ with the mic?

That was my favorite style as a youth

My bid is one aged bottle of island Vermouth

No, no, no

How uncouth

To waste such a style on someone as vile as you

I raise your childish brew a thousand proof

Howdy doo

I raise you two chickens and a goat

Oh, seventy-three virgins and a ticket to a Blowed show

Ay, I see you and I raise you three tickets to Paid Dues

My old rap magazines, Ego Trip and Blaze too

Weezy’s lean and a pair of Kanyeezees space boots

An L.A. to the Bay cruise and Pelé’s grass stained shoes

An 8-Track tape of Dave Mustaine singing Strange Fruit

A Jesus Will Save You chain made by Ma$e phase two

SOLD

To the gangsta dude in the Kangol kangaroo training suit

Wearing Gazelles from nineteen eighty-two

With a Dangerdoom facial view

He must be making major moves

With the girl in uncovered fanny and candy colored gator shoes

Amplifying her rehabbed Eve tats on her paid for boobs