Making a clear play on the Grandmaster Flash classic “The Message,” Your Old Droog, who’s quietly setting the underground ablaze, speaks on a time in his life where there was no message, where the chase was only for life’s evils. We’re new to Rast RFC but he sure makes a striking entrance, sliding in with a Ka-like voice, “I grab the rifle and I scream ‘Free Mumia’/I die for the cause, live life on the edge and America pushed me off.”
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