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Chapbook + Download
64-page chapbook of lyrics and liner notes. Reads like a novel or textbook, only more brilliant!
**Now much tinier! 4x5" pocket edition is just as clever but way cheaper to ship to you.
Features a foreword written by Buck 65, several indices and appendices, and beautiful illustrations by Eisner-winning cartoonist Bryan Lee O'Malley (Scott Pilgrim, Lost At Sea) and Ignatz-winning cartoonist Hope Larson (Chiggers, Mercury, Grey Horses).
This version of the chapbook is bound using perfect binding,
which is like a real paperback.
Also includes immediate download of [numtracks]-track album in your choice of 320k mp3, FLAC, or just about any other format you could possibly desire.
Includes unlimited streaming of Humble & Brilliant
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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handmade bootleg, edition of 15
Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
now you don't have to carry your cumbersome MP3 player or turntable in the jeep when you want to blast tunes up and down the beach... I promised I would never make a cd but I missed the 90s too much and here we are.
Includes unlimited streaming of Humble & Brilliant
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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FINAL SPECIAL alternate jacket vinyl LP
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
30 vinyl copies of "Humble & Brilliant" were issued with a unique and super-limited jacket, designed, stenciled, and hand-lettered by Atticus Hamer.
The labels are the same as before, illustrated by Bryan Lee O'Malley and Hope Larson.
The new chapbooks are 5"x6" and very convenient for carrying around to read or start cooking fires.
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about
I am hoping one day to be recognized as the rapper with the most ever references to The Princess Bride.
This song is not about THE Holocaust; just imbued with the spirit of Andre the Giant as lovable, rhyming ex-wrestler Fezzik – set on magic fire in a wheelbarrow, scaring the hell out of the tyrannical Prince’s palace guard.
Even more than that, though, it’s about loving rap and being the greatest at it plus the best person ever because that is kind of my thing.
lyrics
Clear the way for the profits and wage. I'm like a dog in a cage; I gotta get my bite sharper, but my bark's in the way. Hark! The Chronicle Herald modern forgotten parables. You rush a Miracle Man, you get rotten miracles.
Martyrdom's terrible. I all but lost hope, until the giant got a posse and a Holocaust Cloak. You're falling off slow, falling down drunk, piling up. Gallons of gallant effort; haven't got the guile enough.
SONIC to eventual BOOM, Masonic Temple of Doom. The room-temperature, Human Loser, adventure-chooser. To whom it may concern: I make it burn, and that's a fact. Get off my back, asshole, don't hassle me on my Hasselback!
Cadillac grills, check out the niche I fill – I told you I was gonna get ill, and if you please, I will! Read my bill and weep, I know it's some steep but paradise don't come cheap!
Alllllriiiight?
Yes yes y'all, to the beat y'all! To the beat, y'all and you don't stop!
Yes yes y'all, to the beat y'all! To the double beat-beat that makes you freak!
Now, what you hear is no mistake – I undertake to overtake and motivate the young. I take no backtalk and no debate. Hats off to derby girls on rollerskates.
I hold your fate in my hands and I squeeze, I'm “overweight” and goddamit, I wheeze like Accordian Peas. I make a Hype City Soundtrack. How you like me now? I got it down pat!
Now, rap's what I call music. I ain't slept for twenty years, it's not my fault you did! Sure as my eyeballs' blue-ish and my beard's thick, I'd be proud of my future self when I was young if I could hear this, seen? Big up every massive, every crew! When we say, "Backburner wrecks every posse," then the response is "yes we do!"
Backburner wrecks every posse! “YES WE DO,” and that's the facts you grapple with. Even as a pacifist, I know you have to have your asses kicked and that's just it – I'm still outfoxing fox hunters.
My carry-on bag is just a little box of boxcutters.
Long hot summers spent on tour with my other friends, throwing shows and voting to overthrow the Conservative government. I must have been sick the day they asked everyone to answer the question of whether to mess with the Status of Women Canada. If that isn't bad management of the mandate the land handed 'em, dammit, son, then I'm not Jesse D: the most handsome man on planet Earth (and I am, for sure).
Yes yes y'all, to the beat y'all! To the beat, y'all and you don't stop!
Yes yes y'all, to the beat y'all! To the beat, come on and go off and go off
I'm a legend, but steppin' toughly ain't for me though. Getting threatened by seniors at the Buffy Sainte-Marie show? Max Rebo jizz-wailin', told you let the Wookiee win! My ship's sailing, it's all over like your hoodie print. Now what's with this hustle? You juggle a couple puppet tricks? I'm real, you just can't see me like Snuffleupagus.
Bust it, kids: muscle isn't everything, I muddle wits. You knuckleheads can muzzle it before the brewing trouble hits.
Nineteen seventy-nine, Rappers Delight dropped over pop culture in October, and so did I! Opened my eyes the way anything you feel could, so when I'm pushing forty, I'm a “p-push it real good!”
C'mon, we're grown-ups now, we're not children, it's time to get it together like Scott Pilgrim. Stop illin' 'cause I'm not feelin' Bob Dylan. What more can I say? ___ ______'!
God willin', I'm Godzilla – I'm killin' 'em. You're run of the mill and I'm one in a million. Humble & Brilliant, that's me in a nutshell. I'm not a DJ, just a rapper that cuts well.
Well, maybe that's an exaggeration, but I got a leg up on a rapper that lacks an imagination, plus I bask in the admiration of a handful of fans in all nations, and I plan to make a statement that stands to last for ages.
Yes yes y'all, to the beat y'all! To the beat, y'all and you don't stop!
Yes yes y'all, to the beat y'all! Drop the rhythm that'll make your body rock.
Dance!
credits
from
Humble & Brilliant,
released March 10, 2011
beat and raps by Jesse Dangerously
shouts by Audra, Christie, Meaghann, Lili & Kira-Lynn
license
all rights reserved
