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Fight the American Celebrity Machine

by Coolzey

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1.
Close your computer Turn off the light Oh restless mover Think I know why Oh I really do I really do do Yeah I really do I really do do Oh I really do I really do do Oh I really do I really do do Well I know that I look good And I know that you like me But I'm still thinking about Someone I used to see Well I know that I look good And I know that you like me But I'm still thinking about Someone I used to see I used to see I used to see I used to see I used to see I used to see I used to see I used to be in love Well I know that I look good And I know that you like me But I'm still thinking about Someone I used to see Well I know that I look good And I know that you like me But I'm still thinking about Someone I used to see I used to see I used to see I used to see I used to see I used to see I used to see I used to be in love Close your computer Turn off the light Oh restless mover Think I know why Oh I really do I really do do Yeah I really do I really do do Oh I really do I really do do Oh I really do I really do do Well I know that I look good And I know that you like me But I'm still thinking about Someone I used to see Well I know that I look good And I know that you like me But I'm still thinking about Someone I used to see I used to see I used to see I used to see I used to see I used to see I used to see I used to be in love Well I know that I look good And I know that you like me But I'm still thinking about Someone I used to see Well I know that I look good And I know that you like me But I'm still thinking about Someone I used to see I used to see I used to see I used to see I used to see I used to see I used to see I used to be in love
2.
First you feel the tingle of awareness From the tips of your fingers to your cortex You go to touch your face Because you can't move your lips Then realize that someone else's behind Is attached to it Open up your eyes To the horror that lies in wait Stuck between strangers Seems to be the current state You can't control your fate Every move that they make Drags you along Like you're a part of a big snake Panic takes control of your mind When you find that you can No longer protest Decide where to go next Everything you do Is dependent on dudes That you can't even see or talk to Someone got you sewed up While you were sleeping They were creeping Didn't see it coming Now there's something that you're deep in Got no choice but to keep in line And you've got no voice But you scream inside But no one can hear you It's clear to see that Hell is the place you appear to be at First things first Forget your hunger and your thirst You better expect the worsed Because you're obviously cursed This is a situation that can not be reversed Until they lay your body in the back of a hearse You got to kiss the asses of the faceless masses That's all up in your face Turning your life into traffic To break free would take the Mightiest of miracles to manifest And until then you are just in a Human centipede Can't see who's ahead of me I only get what they left for me I can't say no Human centipede Got me on my knees I think it's gonna be the death of me Please let me go
3.
Love doesn’t often stay In May comes and goes end of summer You could have it either way Chill platonically or be lovers We took it all the way Passion was burning and we no longer could suffer But then you threw it all away All because you couldn’t bear to be another Heteronormative Cisgender Lover Never thought I’d see the day From Christianity we would recover But the children of today Are much smarter than you father mother Don’t treat your lover like a slave Let go your jealous ways There’s no need to hover Reprogram how you behave Please don’t turn the one you love into another Heteronormative Cisgender Lover Somebody save me from these radio pop songs Full of anguish and pain crying in the rain Talking about they got wronged They say please be true But that’s messed up Because everybody thinks of other lovers But imagine if they fessed up And really told the truth Hell no they’d rather pretend Husband and wife Love of my life Well that may be but jealousy drives most of them crazy So what do they do Insure attachment with a baby Yeah now you really got them locked in But as happens so often Desperation sets into the rot and Now their poor kid’s strapped in the middle Of a riddle that they can’t solve Collecting woes they’ll carry to the coffin Everyone outside of their family becomes the enemy It saddens me the way they use the word loyalty As if they’re in a street gang and jumped each other in Trying to tell a poly person that they’re living in sin This clique mentality is breeding ground for phobia If you don’t fit into their narrow worldview Nice knowing you Blowing you kisses of judgment Calling you promiscuous behind your back All of a sudden where the love went Can’t you understand that everybody’s on their own trip You see me I’m not trying to go out on the bro tip I’m not Narcissus chilling in a convent I like to get busy as long as their is consent Heteronormative Cisgender Lover I just want you to be you Darling please just tell me true I’ll always be there for you Unless you don’t want me to I don’t want to make you do Anything you don’t want to Only thing I ask of you Is be true to yourself Just let me know if I can help Every day i think of you Memories will get me through I’ll always be kind to you Won’t be cruel no I refuse
4.
Well I went down to the local show There were bands getting ready to play So I ordered a beer And I lit up a square Because you know I had had a long day I was standing in the corner Trying to decompress You know I wasn’t trying to socialize The next thing you know Somebody got up in my face And started filling me up with lies Now I’m not wise I’m just a hell of a guy So I just try to listen up with love But I reached my capacity For their audacity The push was coming to a shove So I excused myself And I stepped inside And I got another shot and a brew When I came back out he said Thanks for being rude And I said No problem dude Three cheers for everyone Hooray for you and you and you and Hooray for you and you Hooray for you and you and you and you and you and you and you and you and you and Hooray for you and you and you Hooray for you and you Hooray for you and you and you and you and Hooray for you and you and you and you and Now this one here He don’t like no queers Or people with another color of skin And this here dude Is always trying to screw Every woman that’ll talk to him And this here guy Won’t even look you in the eye Unless he’s got something to gain And this punk over here Keeps calling my main man Kane By his dead name And we all live together like a funny family Gossiping like golden girls And sipping on our tea I know you love the drama babe Or why else would I be Stuck inside this complicated Role play fantasy Hooray for you and you and you and Hooray for you and you Hooray for you and you and you and you and you and you and you and you and you and Hooray for you and you and you Hooray for you and you Hooray for you and you and you and you and Hooray for you and you and you and you and
5.
Stay hungry for more zones Skip home Fresh lip tones Text Bru on Obama flip phone Scallywag out here Raising the flag Like a freak pirate Reaching in my bag for the black ink Don’t think twice Think thrice Drink it to the ice then I’m crunching Echoes from the dungeon Barely escaped Had to chew my arm off Where my killer mixtape It’s the god Zoo Blazing in the loo Knock another rock out of my shoe Leaning off the Goose Call a temporary truce Just so we can try to eat Back on my feet Summer heat Trying to get the cream Make hay when the sun shine Save the bees Posted in the trees No routine To avoid the flying guillotine Devil’s on the creep They took my cousin in his sleep Gather my chi Drink the dragon drop Ginseng in my tea Watch a small fry Become another fall guy Get it on the side There’s no need to publicize Poisonous darts Can take you out or get you open Protect my neck From a snake bite Respect the gravesite Desecrate the gate You know that ain’t right I send a kite to my fam Avoid the scam rap Of the modern okey doke Muscles in a can I like my ice cream to come in many flavors Rainbow like a Lifesaver Now and later Respect the chamber that is fan fic folklore Get into the clone war Shut myself inside the study Natural oak doors closing Smell the smoke from the composing So don’t sleep I get to deep for dummies dozing Press record let’s explore the mind of a unicorn Pegasus a heavy mist On the tip of the sword Open doors with dynamite It’s time to write Or find a mic Samurai camouflage Ain’t a better man alive Franchise saliva Spit out the soap suds Clean out the suckers In the cypher with no buds The Cold Crush Krush Groove Ice T Ice Cube Drop like bird shit I’m fly with the flu Sly and smooth While your eyes glued to my moves Bald eagles in the sky soaring high With a better view Get a clue We been around For 3 million light years Yeah we’re in the building And we’re chilling We’re right here Spears and shields In the field with the bloodshed Armor made of iron With the twins in the bunkbed Once dead All I did was wake and bake So don’t mistake me for fake Because you can’t relate It’s the unicorn Warm weather See me in paradise To share the mic The size of elephant That fear Christ Lord have mercy Please don’t hurt me With all your might Bright lights flash At the end of the tunnel Saber toothed tigers Pterodactyls in the jungle The shadows seem large Make the sun look small The sand still scorching We stampede then fall Stars say it’s spring And if y’all got the green Rain dance sing songs Crown him the king Bring me grapes and a cape Got a date with the queen No Maybelline Laser beams Chasing the dream It’s so major league Yo it’s so major league Ain’t no beer guts Compare nuts Pistachios On a patio With a fatty rolled American This is for the natives Allow me to let the spirits in More friends than enemies Get gone with the wind Take me back to 93 again Would you like to try My Wu-Tang style my friend That old familiar flow you know Would you like to try my Wu-Tang style Way down upon the Swanee River So many rules Freestyles I can deliver Because I’m ruthless Rocking the mic until I’m toothless Old and dirty But this is something new That you can’t see Catching me screaming like a banshee Hyah Forget what you saw And what you heard Just watch the birdie from the top gun Son I make fun happen with my rhetoric Better get with the samurai rapping sorceress Barricaded in my fortress With words from nerds References that you’re sure to miss Over your head Dropping doo doo in your eye Have you ever seen a fly fly pelican fly So high Yeah I look like a dot up in the sky Superman I hit you dead in the bird’s eye Blowe So how you like me now Take me back to 93 again Would you like to try My Wu-Tang style my friend That old familiar flow you know Would you like to try my Wu-Tang style
6.
Heard you’re going somewhere new After all the things we’ve been through I don’t want to wait Promised you would take me with you I don’t want to wait Darling please take me with you I want to stay Ever since I let go of your hand My life has been gray Well you skipped work It’s 2PM And we are both still in bed The sheets are twisted perfectly And you’ve just fallen back to sleep You’re drooling on the pillow There’s a tattoo on your ass Clothes cover the floor And the plaster ceiling’s cracked A summer rain is falling Cooling of the summer heat Raindrops kiss the windowpane And outside it is green So take me back to Philly Back to LA I hope I can find a love again Like yours someday Have you ever been scrambling around Trying to get stuff done When the next thing you know You blew your chances with the perfect one Too late Watching it disintegrate like a sunset No way It just can’t be done yet And you have to much respect for them To mess with them All you can do is cheer them on And give your best to them But now you’re just one of the rest of them Just another big fan So all you can do is make a song Of your confession and You kind of want them to hear it But then again you kind of don’t So you sit choking on it Like a lump in your throat When you can’t hold back So you finally let it go And now that you’re exposed And their probably going to know You’re feeling guilty because You could have wrote a letter Or an email or a text But I guess I’m just Another Virgo mess Crying along in my room Cogito ergo doomed Darling please take me with you I want to stay Ever since I let go of your hand My life has been gray So take me back to Philly Back to LA I hope I can find a love again Like yours someday
7.
Well I met a man In a garbage can He looked at me and said Let’s start a band One that no one understands I’ll play the jug and you can play the can We’ll travel to the darkest place And play a show down in a lake We’ll travel up to rural Maine And play a show out in the rain And plant a flag in Saskatoon Underneath the bloody moon Let’s make sure we’re out of tune That’ll make those critters swoon Stay on the road From March to June Doors at dawn Show at high noon But let’s make sure we do it soon Because the end is nigh And then he died Well I left myself back on a shelf Way down by Mexico I was so tired that I expired But my hair it kept a-growing It wrapped me up in a cocoon My body decomposed I turned to dirt and it didn’t hurt And to this day I wonder why that I don’t want to fly Because I’m afraid that I will die I don’t want to fly No I don’t want to even try I don’t want to fly Just leave me here so I can cry I don’t want to fly I don’t know how and I don’t know why I met a frog in a hollow log And she told me that she was a god So I maxed out all my credit cards Cut them up and threw them in a ditch Put a tracking device underneath my car And started driving to DC Put my phone up to my face And started making live TV I told the world that my intent Was to hug the president An army of small drones was sent And they followed me wherever I went They declared a red alert Severe threat terrorist attack But all those drones followed my clone And that is how I snuck in back I don’t want to fly Because I’m afraid that I will die I don’t want to fly I don’t want to even try I don’t want to fly Just leave me here so I can cry I don’t want to fly Excuse me while I kiss the sky
8.
So you think that you figured it out That’s how I know I’m going to be Digging you out From your delusional comforter Perpetual sufferer Searching for humility Everything is killing me Face or the gut Now hurry up Which one will it be These are your only options So what’s popping Back again Brace yourself If you ever plan to face yourself But I doubt it’s going to happen Any time soon Stubborn little moon Hey wake up Yeah I’m talking to you Thinking about what you been through Is so much more Than anybody else’s chores Life is so unfair There there Couldn’t handle the abyss’s stare When it returned your gaze So you burned away And from the call of duty Then you turned away Saturated with gray days Slave wage Rereading the same page Can’t turn it Who glued my new leaves together Better burn it The whole book Yup Shook up your soda Popped the tab And you drenched yourself In the carbonation Feels like you’re facing life Chasing a dream But listen to your primal scream And see that the sun will shine a beam And you can climb it Like a beanstalk That nobody believed was going to grow And guess what bro Yo So you think that you figured it out That’s how I know I’m going to be Digging you out From your delusional comforter Perpetual sufferer Searching for humility Everything is killing me Face or the gut Now hurry up Which one will it be These are your only options So what’s popping Back again Hopping around on my precious peg leg I ain’t too proud to beg Is an understatement Don’t you hate when America is making you psycho Like Patrick Bateman And every time that you say Not today Satan Man please Don’t you know The brother’s got no problem waiting Goblin dating seems like the only thing to do Trying to find a demon lover To share your misery with you Crew is only who is only Down to sap your energy But it won’t perturb As long as they don’t disturb your reverie Daydreaming and sleepwalking Brain screaming just keep talking Telling yourself those sweet soothing lies But you are no exception Because everybody dies My my And if the world as you know it Is about to end And the solace of death Is your only friend Then I’ll raise my drink to cheers you And then I’ll say Here’s to kicking the comforter to the curb And facing fears too The smoke clears for a second You choke tears for a second Feeling the lucidity Finally gotten rid of the debris And you can see clear for a second Then it starts to fade aways But you tell yourself That you won’t forget Next thing you know You shrug it off and light a cigarette Oh I guess you haven’t figured yet Yeah it’s true I’m delusional too So hoody-hoo And fucking buckle my shoe So you think that you figured it out That’s how I know I’m going to be Digging you out From your delusional comforter Perpetual sufferer Searching for humility Everything is killing me Face or the gut Now hurry up Which one will it be These are your only options So what’s popping Back again They’re never going to know It’s only up to you to go forth Pick a path and so forth Build a snow fort Then maybe melt it with a blow torch Baby you can’t know more Than you already do You know everything you need to know You already knew Someone said stay true to me And when I asked who Gave you this advice They said why it was you The sky why is it blue Is something that I never wondered Until now As I’m writing these rhymes in my room I am aware Of the overwhelming presence of doom Sweeping off my hearth with a Wicca Wicca witch’s broom Keeping it clean so I can welcome The mean North wind With a grin Like I’m calling down the thunder With a Cheshire’s cat smile Blasting everlasting rays from within Putting a spin on your pedestrian style So you think that you figured it out That’s how I know I’m going to be Digging you out From your delusional comforter Perpetual sufferer Searching for humility Everything is killing me Face or the gut Now hurry up Which one will it be These are your only options So what’s popping Back again

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The 4th official full length release by Coolzey comes 10 years after the January 2010 debut 'The Honey'. A mix of lounge, hip-hop, synth pop, alternative music that ranges in unlikely marriages of styles from Frank Sinatra to Old Dirty Bastard and beyond. Featuring guest appearances from Joe Jack Talcum of the Dead Milkmen (on the ultimate sad/happy hip-pop offering 'I Don't Want To Fly')and Bru Lei (on the lounge-rap homage to Wu-Tang Clan 'My Wu-Tang Style'). Step into some kind of world.

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released January 10, 2020

Coolzey - Vocals, Keys, MPC-1000, Fasttracker II, Percussion
Mary Bozaan - Vocals on 1, 3, and 6
Wise/Weapon - Beat on 3, 5
Sureburt - Beat on 6
Fresh Kils - Beat on 2
Joe Jack Talcum - Vocals on 7
Bru Lei - Vocals on 5
Dana T - Guitar on 4

Mixed and produced by Dana T and Coolzey at Flat Black Studios
Additional mixing by Luke Tweedy on 3 and 6
Mastered by Todd Rittman at Shy Diamond in Chicago
Album art and design by Jamee Varda
Single art by Detrell Smith

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Coolzey Fairfield, Iowa

Golden era hip-hop roots planted in black Iowa dirt are the foundation. Growth tempered by alternative era rock influence. This along with a love for the juxtaposition of the dark, horrific nature of life paired with a slapstick and comedic view of the world allow for a wide, unpredictable arsenal ranging from soul-spilling indie bedroom rock to wise-cracking battle rap and on to radio pop. ... more

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