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Where Am I? ft. Mr. Lif

from Built to Last by Akrobatik

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about

Ak wakes up to uncertainty after being unconscious for an undefined period of time, and Mr. Lif appears to explain the unfathomable: Ak's consciousness has been uploaded to a computer while his body is bionically enhanced. teddy Roxpin provides the backdrop for this cinematic sci-fi journey.

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Gentlemen, we can rebuild him
We have the technology
I can't feel anything

[Verse 1: Akrobatik]
It started as the first steps towards a man’s endin’
An ended up being more like Johnny Depp in Transcendence
The numbness, how did I become this
Will anybody learn anything from this
We’ve all felt like a shell of a man
But imagine a man without a shell – that’s a livin’ hell
Virtual prison cell murdered my existence
Or is it preserving my existence
I can’t feel but this is colder than the worst December
I’m like that Captain America flick, the First Avenger
Mind’s intact, but yet and still it hurts to remember
Where’s my home? Did it burst into embers
What about my loved ones? Are they gone forever
Did we take our last road trip singin’ silly songs together
Who’s in charge here? Who do I talk to
What kind of time portal did I walk through
Somebody tell me where am I

[Cuts]
Where Ya at?
I black out and wake up to catastrophe

Where Am I?

[Verse 2: Mr. Lif]
Yo, Ak - You have questions a many. your mind's in a frenzy
Hold up for a moment - calm down, let me tell thee
You are you in the truest form
Just with no human form - nowadays, human ain't the norm
Your body would roast, the sun is too close
With new types of bacterias, our bodies fell host
It's 80 years beyond when you've last yawned
You missed the earth splitters and the winters with the nuclear dawns
Ak, it's me Lif - I stored your consciousness on a disk
I'm leader of a team of scientists
Considered unethical or ill-advised, but we're alive
Please Don't cry with virtual eyes
But visualize the new body you'll have soon
That we've built, powered by the light of 2 moons
With new alloys that I found in Beloize
A new planet that's arisen since earth became void
Free yourself from the who and how
Don't grasp at the past, your path begins now
Your question haunts me every now and again
As I look into the sky and see a mountain of flame
Where Am I

[Cuts]
Where Ya at?
I black out and wake up to catastrophe

Where Am I?

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from Built to Last, released May 28, 2014
Produced by Teddy Roxpin. Scratches by Paten Locke.

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Akrobatik is a hip-hop artist from Boston, MA. His talents have taken him on several tours in the US and to over 25 countries around the world. Akrobatik also teaches hip-hop history and practice at PHACharter School as well as at UMass-Boston as part of its Honors Program. He will release his third solo album, Built To Last, in winter 2014 ... more

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