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Black-eyed Peas
Baba Brinkman

Don’t call it a remix, nah, call it a re-enactment

I’ll teach you how to adapt, from amoebas to rappers

Just open The Origin of Species and read its chapters

And study up on the impact of people’s actions

On farm animals, ducks, cows, dogs

Pigeons, horses, and domestic crops

They had wild ancestors, but somehow they went soft

Kinda like underground rappers goin’ pop

It’s all good, right? One hand washes the other

We protect the cow, and the cow offers the udder

And that’s how we get a mouthful of butter

But in the wild, that cow is not gonna cut it

See, there’s nothing artificial about domestication

Ant colonies keep domestic aphids

It’s still selection, just with a different selecting agent

But you can’t always predict the best arrangement

For instance, humans domesticated black-eyed peas

In West Africa around 7,000 BC

And now they got millions of mouths to feed

While their wild cousins just watch from the weeds


Too many MCs not enough mics

How many MCs wannabe MCs

Too many MCs

You play it in your system every night

Too many MCs

How many MCs Wannabe MCs

Never be MCs

Every woman and man wanna MC

You play it in your system every night


There’s no intentional direction to the selection in nature

It just patiently collects all the best variations

And eventually species differentiate

But it’s open-ended, there’s no definite destination

And sometimes there’s none in domestication either

You’re just listenin’ to my raps trapped in your speakers

But if enough people just like you plant my seed

Shit, you might turn me into a black eyed pea

You’re like ancient breeders, rearranging the features

Of a species of sheep or increasing the sweetness

Of your peaches every season, when you choose to seed it

Or to feed it or to breed it or to weed it out and delete it


‘Cause you just don’t see it as needed, the preferences in question

Could be for bigger chicken breasts or whippets with a thinner mid-section

Or it could just be an inner predilection to pick the best in

Any mixed collection, that’s artificial selection

You’re a farmer, that’s how it is, you can’t opt out of it

You have no choice but to make choices, you’re helpless

It’s cause time itself is limited, it’s not selfish

It’s just the rap version of the Doctrine of Malthus


Too many MCs not enough mics

How many MCs wannabe MCs

Too many MCs

You play it in your system every night

Too many MCs

How many MCs Wannabe MCs

Never be MCs

Every woman and man wanna MC

You play it in your system every night


Okay, so maybe it isn’t all unconscious

Survival in rap is a non-random process

‘Cause those who get massive responses, influence

Those who aspire to get massive responses

So if you say I sound like an Eminem rip-off

Then I’ll probably get pissed off and start flipping you off

And grabbing my crotch and acting obnoxious

And screaming “Fuck that, dawg, that’s preposterous!”

That’s right, I’m serious, I deny my inheritance

I invented myself from scratch like I’m parentless

So don’t let yourself get caught up in mere appearances

This isn’t just “imitation modified by experience”

Nah, I could never be one of the black eyed peas

‘Cause I don’t imitate black guys, please

I imitate white guys who imitate black guys who lack IDs

‘Cause they’re imitations too, that’s my steez

I’m keepin’ it real, yeah, I’m innovating

My Darwinism keeps the bullshit disintegrating

You want authenticity? Well, this is it, baby

All it takes is ignorance of who you’re imitating


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