Name: Rebel Flags and Coke Rap
Duration: P00H02M05S
Description: "Rebel Flags and Coke Rap" appears on Chuckie Campbell's EP, Curious Incidents in Cancel Culture. The song attempts to deconstruct the danger in relativism and moral equivocation in an era of alternative facts.

Rebel Flags and Coke Rap

from Curious Incidents in Cancel Culture by Chuckie Campbell

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"Rebel Flags and Coke Rap" appears on Chuckie Campbell's EP, Curious Incidents in Cancel Culture. The song attempts to deconstruct the danger in relativism and moral equivocation in an era of alternative facts.

lyrics

Verse 1
Your hate is perfect.
Your crooked smiles, fake handshakes,
lies and doubt, you make it worth it, yeah --
I turn these dive bars to churches.

Something dark inside my heart
calls this art, but it’s not
It’s purpose.

I felt it coming in some distant dream --
the ignorant faces, damp and empty streets,
eroded trust that lies beneath;
I watched your fears grow eyes and teeth,
feast and feed upon your weak.

This ain’t deep.

This is rebel flags and coke rap --
Neo-nazis trolling 4-Chan,
They think the earth’s flat.

Nah.

Active shooters in your church pews,
while Fox News reports the alt-facts.

You point the finger but that’s dumb.
At times, I think this is so wack
I wish that I could make this up,

but it’s exactly what you want:
The shares and likes, designer drugs,
some simulated sense of

Love.

We’ve evolved from Twitter fingers,
lost our opposable thumbs.

The hum and crank of warm machines,
blinding light of brilliant screams,
claw and cling to ADHD waking dreams.

What’s it mean?

A scream’s expressive but fails to form a message.
Somehow, we’re more connected
but lack human connection.

The mind and heart are severed --
No facts, only aesthetics

These shadows dance in circles.
I wonder if they could hurt us.
What’s left? Fair to interpret?
Pussy hats and tiki torches?

I fear badges more than burkas,
faint voices chanting murder,
deep state, so deep fake,
it’s fake deep, hard to determine.

Where do we go from here?

What can we salvage?

credits

from Curious Incidents in Cancel Culture, released July 15, 2020
All songs written and performed by Chuckie Campbell for Sunsets and Silencers Music, Buffalo, NY.

Produced, and mixed at True Blue Recording by Willie Breeding in Nashville, TN.

Mastering by Paul Redel in Los Angeles, CA.

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Chuckie Campbell Buffalo, New York

Chuckie Campbell is an American hip hop artist who lives in Buffalo, NY. Campbell commonly performs with a live band (drums, keys, and a full horn section), to make for a dynamic, powerful, and eclectic approach to hip hop, filled with fluid instrumentation, lush musical arrangements, and heartfelt poetic nuance. ... more