Story Behind the Song
Dirts favorite Line(s): ‘heard hiphop calling so we’re answering’-(Messenger), ‘refrain from the wackness that you choose to embrace/ step back n let the bassline just lacerate your face’-(GoldenChild), ‘allow you to cry on my shoulder before dropping the avalanche’-(Epsilon), ‘severin many men from henchmen to gentlemen/ catchin them with the bait of fire pens’-(Dirt)
I had gotten this dope beat from Rabbi a long time before recording this album. I wanted to make sure I got it onto the album because Rab makes dope tracks and always has supported me. You wouldn’t believe the nice tracks he has sent me, but as of yet I haven’t gotten to get them out on anything. He has a unique ear. To me, he creates the perfect blends between old ‘breakbeat’ sounds with anything currently running in the culture. A glorious mix of old and new.
I went out to NY with the track but nothing solidly written for it. Once out there, though, the ideas started flowing. At first it was gonna be Eps, some cats he knew, and me. But his crew couldn’t run though so eventually Messenger and GC got up on it to make it complete. Messenger rocked his part last minute because he was on a flight out the day he decided to be on it. And I f I remember correctly, GC didn’t want to be on it but gave in when we all pressured him (he felt he was on the album enough already).
The final track is pretty dope considering that a lot of it was last minute typa stuff. The vocal sample in the beginning is from the old ‘Shadow’ radio show (‘the Shadow mystery hours’ they used to play back in the day).
At the end I started giving props. There was a ‘talkback’ button in the booth where the engineer could talk to the person in the recording room. When I started calling off names, GC hit the talkback button to give me some ideas (his voice goes into my headphones). The problem is that when the talkback button is pressed it makes the track go dead in my headphones, even though it’s still recording. So I thought he had turned the beat off in the middle of me talking. So I yelled at him asking why he turned the track off, he started laughing, let go of the talkback button, and the beat started playing again in my headphones. When I heard the beat come back in, and saw him cracking up, I realized that he didn’t actually stop the track, he had just hit the talkback button. So I tried to play around with that, and that’s what you get on the final version.
One of my favorites parts is the transition between Epsilon and me in the song. The way I come in with the chorus and he goes out with those dope sound effects!
For more song lyrics, stories, and interactive Dirt... check out www.intheholehegoes.com!
Lyrics
"DIVINE LINES "
(MESSENGER)
TRIUMPANT CHAMPIONS
HEARD HIP-HOP CALLIN' SO WERE ANSWERIN'
MY CREW COMES DANCIN IN
CRASH SOUNDMEN WITH HIP-HOP DAMAGIN'
THE 1ST GENERAL
OUT TO BEND YOUR MENTALS
WHISPER 'JESUS IS LORD' IN YOUR SUBLIMINALS
THE ORIGINAL
4 MAN SCRIPTURE THREAT
DELIVERANCE
BUSTIN' HOLES IN THE HINDERANCE WITH INSTRUMENTS
SO GRAB YA HEADPHONES, PUT 'EM CLOSE TO YOUR EARDRUMS
WE BRING GOOD MEDI-SON FOR YOUR SOUL LIKE TRUTH SYRUM
ON THE REAL
DISCUSS THESE
IMMAGRANTS FROM THE DUSTY
TRYIN' TO SWING SWORDS WITH THE LORD
BUT YOU'RE TOO RUSTY
SPIRITUALLY HUSTY, I'M HUNGRY
SO BRING THE MEAT ON
WE TURN THE HEAT ON
WITH HOLY FIRE, WE MELT MICS WE BREATHE ON
YOU NEED TO SPEED ON, CUZ WE PUT GOD AS THE DOPEST
RUN FOR COVER, 'CAUSE IT'S SHADOW OF THE LOCUST
MESSENGER, WITH CHAINS, BOOTS AND BAGGY DENIM
PRAISING MY SAVIOUR STRIKE ENEMIES LIKE SNAKE VENOM
(GOLDENCHILD)
I TAKE FREQUENT TRIPS TO THE PHARMACIST
DUE TO THE FACT I'M SO SIC'
I NEED PARAMEDIC, ANTIBIOTIC ADMINISTRATION
STOP WAITIN' IN ANTICIPATION
AND SEE WHAT HAPPENS FROM THE EFFECTS OF MY CREATION
STRAIN BRAINS WITH A DOUBLE DOSE PAIN OF MIGRAIN
THE SMACK YOU TALK , ABOUT MAKE AS MUCH SENSE AS SPARE CHANGE
COULD YOU MAINTANE THROUGH THE STRAIN
OF AN INDUSTRIES GROWING PAIN
REFRAIN FROM THE WACKNESS THAT YOU CHOOSE TO EMBRACE
STEP BACK N' LET THE BASSLINE JUST LACERATE YOUR FACE
(EPSILON)
YO, ARE YOU NERVOUS
'SHADOW OF THE LOCUST' SPOKEN IN REVERSE SO EVEN THE BACKWARDS HEARD OF US
THE OPPOSITE OF MURDERERS
DESIGNED TO REVIVE, DESIGANATED TO DRIVE WITH A DRUNKEN SPIRIT
INTOXICATED BY SELF?…NO LONGER NOW
HEAT ME THAT THESE AWESOME LYRICS, ANNOINTED ACTIVIST
CLENCHED FISTS, AND WRITE WITH AN ACTIVE FIST
MY SPIRIT'S INTERPRETED PROPHECIES, AND PAST TONGUES SPRAYED WITH A LISP
AY, YO, I'M GIFTED, UPLIFT THE PLANET ONE HANDED
BIBLICAL LORD'S COMMNADED, EARTHQUAKE, WARPATH
THE SENSEI? HE CAN'T STAND IT
COMPLETE MISSION IMPOSSIBLE
007, 2211, DIRT, MESSENGER, G.C., REMNANT
SON WE ALL BRETHEREN
E-P-S-I, RESPECT I
OR SUFFER THE CONSEQUENCES
A PLAGUE MADE A SHADE
'SHADOW OF THE LOCUST' , AND HEAT IN US
I SPIT SALIVA THAT'LL RHYME LIVA' THAN YOUR ENTIRE EMPIRE
CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED RECOGNITION, BUT ALL GLORY TO MY MESSIAH
ALLOW YA TO CRY ON MY SHOULDER PRIOR
TO DROPPIN THE AVALANCHE
OR BOULDERS FROM THE SOLAR, MASS REALITY SOLDIER
I THOUHT I TOLD YA!
(DIRT)
IT'S THE 4 HOUNDS OF HEAVEN
SEVERIN' MANY MEN, FROM HENCHMEN TO GENTLEMEN
CATCHIN 'EM WITH THE BAIT OF FIRE PENS
THE FISHERMEN
BRING A TORCH TO THE DUNGEONS
DEVILS ATTACK WITH WEAPONS-BUT WE DISARM THEM
SOUND AMPLIFY
BREAK BEATS WITH RABBI
WRITE INJURIES IN DUST
N' TAKE MICS FROM THE CORPSES
NAW SERIOUS
I THINK I GOT HIP-HOP VIRUS
SSSssssSSSSssss…N' IT MIGHT BE CONTAGIOUS
BUT DON'T MOVE AWAY FROM THIS
OR MISS OUT ON THE DOPEST
EMCEE'S GLORIOUS
WRITE LYRICS IN THE SPIRIT
THE WORLD ATTACK PATHETIC
WE LASH BACK WITH LIMMERICKS, AND DEADLY DYNAMICS
'CAUSE EVERYTIME, IS THE RIGHT TIME FOR DIVINE LINES
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