Rhyme Asylum - Poison Penmanship

[@ZandaElwood]

2024 and I still know the fkn words to this classic 💥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@nicosekano5942]

If You're Still Here In 2021 You're A True Rap Fiend.

[@mynona9020]

Yeah i am

[@mariokostner983]

2022

[@veritasaequitas1722]

Here baby.

[@43zzz63]

Les go

[@Slaikkarinaj]

It's a shame only Solitary Confinement is in Spotify and not this one too.

[@KRAKSKRAKSKRAKS]

This one track has more quotables than some emcees have in their entire discography, Possessed easily one of the best lyricists.

[@kaninesenses]

Probably the best of all time 🔥

[@KRAKSKRAKSKRAKS]

@@kaninesenses top 5 for me, along with psiklone as well

[@kLR_iNsTiNcT_]

@@KRAKSKRAKSKRAKS most definitely in my top 5, but man I'm not sure who's better Possessed or Psiklone?

[@KRAKSKRAKSKRAKS]

@@kLR_iNsTiNcT_ imo they're around the same level with the pen but I prefer Possessed tbh

[@kLR_iNsTiNcT_]

@@KRAKSKRAKSKRAKS hahah yeah same his delivery just hits that right spot. But definitely both got amazing Pen.

[@misheckbwalya5311]

This is what we call underground music Raise your hands✋ if you still here in 2024❤

[@jon-draco-cephus]

My boy Chris put me on these guys we was 15 he’s dead now thank you Chris and rip my good friend❤

[@HOLLOHAN]

RIP

[@RyanMills-bq2ge]

I know this is 9 months later lmao but that’s crazy reading your comment. My good good friend James showed me these guys like 13 or 14 years ago an he died too back in 2019. Crazy shit man. Rip my great friend!!

[@ProfoundBeats]

This album is now 10 years old! A classic. It was a pleasure to make at least 1 track with them.

[@kendallgibson1900]

First hip hop album to make me realise my love for true lyrics, wordplay, multis and changed the way I listened to all rap. If you was part of it, then thank you!

[@ProfoundBeats]

Not this one bro. I did the 'Axe Of Violence' beat on their 2nd album 'Solitary Confinement'. Another classic album.

[@zachgrady352]

@@ProfoundBeats Do you know what they're doing now?

[@ProfoundBeats]

Nothing as a group but Possessed and Skirmish are both working on solo projects. How far these are coming along I don't know at the moment.

[@jaketimmins1817]

@@ProfoundBeats Love that song! Listened to that album today on my way to work

[@benlister4801]

2020 - "Master degree burns after a heatstroke of genius" and "Everyone in my field of vision is just crops for the harvest" are still as fire now and they were then.

[@jordankelly2562]

Fuuuuck feild of vision ffs how didn't I hear that. Listened to this song like 1000 times still learning his bars his fucked

[@Smiddyack]

❤🎉

[@dannyhoughton7728]

"And I'm rubbing salt into bullet wounds just to make the slug dissolve" 💀 Ten years on this line still fries my brain

[@T.C.S123]

Incredible

[@four4four636]

I made this same comment five years and I got no love

[@ilfantasticobananajothesci3922]

@@four4four636 fu

[@GeraldGruenigMedia1]

@@four4four636 that's because you suck

[@everyneed3959]

I don’t get it

[@BrandonBuckingham]

been listening to this for a decade

[@akramibrahim1632]

Same🔥🔥

[@bigsmiles768]

Some of these lines were mad and ferocious when I first heard it. These days I still see kids who are playing some of these tracks on repeat, it surprised me that RA is still being heard by new generations. Proof that if you put raw passion into your art then it will last and inspire people after the fact.

[@andrewhenderson6544]

I've been listening to them for about 10+ years and I've never once saw them mentioned by someone. Truly a hidden gem.

[@SevenRayedGod]

Still the greatest bars ive ever heard on a track all time an im from NY grew up on biggie n nas

[@westong6819]

SevenRayedGod check out Canibus -Rip The Jacker (album) insane lyrical shit on there

[@brandonl8545]

These guys take heavy inspiration from Ny it makes sense, they've sampled jay Z, Nas, and probably more I missed

[@lukea8215]

Couldn't agree more. This shit is unbelievable

[@radarinfinite1032]

@ThePark 627 I have to disagree

[@alfyt3385]

ThePark 627 clearly haven’t heard old school jay Z

[@SM0KEYY360]

CNt believe I still listen to this song after many years. Thank you.

[@jondoe6275]

I honestly think this may be my favourite song ever. Even after listening to this song for years it still gives me goosebumps.

[@akramibrahim1632]

Haven't started to rap yet this is just the sound of my breathing

[@unavaliableuser1600]

When you breath turn from the mic

[@Goldlung1]

this line was pretty cleaver

[@gregharp5448]

a mental plane like enola gay..im slashin open throats of back stabbers with my shoulder blades....a forge a sword from a thunder bolt, and im rubbin salt into bullet wounds just to make the slug dissolve!! fuckin ill

[@gregharp5448]

im the angel of death, out pacin olympic swimmers with the titanics anchor chained to my legs

[@fedelupus]

Booom

[@AwokenGenius]

"I got master degree burns after a heat stroke of genius"

[@AwokenGenius]

GG

[@lewisrichardson4910]

+AwokenGenius awesome lyric

[@Ionita.Vlad.]

You can also read it as "Mass third degree burns..."

[@alfredevans215]

no because master(s) degree and genius are supposed to be linked

[@GFRyoutube]

so hard

[@fredericbourcier0]

"I got master degree burns / After a heatstroke of genius" Amazing.

[@ampedsixstring]

"I live in a glass house throwing meteorites" "I got master degree burns after a heatstroke of genius" "I'm slashing open throats of backstabbers with my shoulder blades" "I'm rubbing salt into bullet wounds just to make the slug dissolve" How does someone even come up with this stuff?!

[@garyoak4175]

HELL BORN SERAPHIM FOUR FACES WITH TORNED FEATHER WINGS SPAWNING FOUR DEFORMED NEPHILIMS

[@kaya9293]

"Stepped off the planet; yall just float away. Tormented by the growin pains of my ever evolvin brain."- *A CENOBYTE*

[@lungsworld9566]

With a lot of hard thought.

[@cosmo9238]

@@lungsworld9566 really ???

[@boundtoflesh1796]

One of my favorites from Possessed is "Yo I'm Satan's son in the essence, smugglin' weapons, statues of the virgin mary cry blood in my presence"

[@MorphingReality]

was trying to find this for the longest time but only remembered the sword of Damocles line, finally

[@MikeNolan59]

Surely I ain't the only 1 blasting this in 2016 🤔

[@Tobie223]

Imagine if they had progressed together into 2016 what kind of genius/out of this world shit we'd be listening to. even now in 2016 this track goes in hard.

[@christospheonix1567]

nah man, I be pumping this shit all the way from oz... this is beastly all the way from the depths of the ego type shit and I loooove it!

[@MikeNolan59]

+troy waddington yes boys I'm currently in Oz in Brissy, from UK but over here for a year, living the dream hey

[@jurgen6362]

also in AUS here

[@MaddieisMayhem]

Play this song every day 👌 pure perfection

[@ΜπαμπηςΚουκας]

Listening to this after 13 years. Same feeling. Where are these guys nowadays?

[@SupremeSolTv]

Who’s blasting this in 2018!?

[@christaylor1270]

SupremeSolTv I am all day love it

[@KDoubleUMusic]

Without a doubt this shit is timeless Possessed is phenomenal

[@haydenfromda251]

SupremeSolTv waiting on that album 😭

[@8JFJK8]

I remember bumping this shit in grade 9 on the bus to school. I was an angry little fuck. Im almost 23 now and its amazing looking back at how much things can change in 7 years. Only thing missing in my life is some new Rhyme Asylum.

[@KDoubleUMusic]

Jay James Still looking forward to that Possessed album 😎

[@Fony_turgeson]

Almost every line is a "quote" worthy of mast rap careers

[@lovestains5905]

Id bite my own finger off for just another song by these lyrical masterminds.

[@destroyingboundaries8247]

Rhyme Asylum the best to ever do it. Microphone gods. Literally every single song from start to finish.

[@Lol-op9ms]

Destroying Boundaries very true, one of the few artists I can say I don't hate any of their songs

[@skinnydubai3168]

Got master degree burns after a heat stroke of genius... 🤯 Best lyric I have ever heard, period.

[@kyotem]

Goddamn, 1M views. Our boys have finally reached it.

[@happylarry274]

I have listened to both their albums literally hundreds of times over the years, and still their genius wordplay catches me off guard, it suddenly clicks and I can make the link between certain words. It's as if I had never even heard the bars before, you've got to think deep to even make the connection. They were definitely the most intelligent rappers to walk the earth.

[@eloelo6944]

In UK yes but definitely not in the whole world. 10+ American rappers surpass them, and there are insane lyricists rapping in languages you don't even speak so you can't understand it.

[@happylarry274]

@@eloelo6944 nice could you recommend me a few please mate?

[@ICT_raps]

​@@eloelo6944good point, from all I've heard in the UK, RA got the best idiom and metaphor use in their bars

[@turul44]

@@eloelo6944 Who are they? I can think of some on parr like K-Rino, Canibus and Passionate MC. But I've never really heard anyone with their unique abstract concepts and technical writing style. Its hard to really compare because they're in their own kinda niche sub-genre. I cant think of anyone that you could class as 'surpassing' them but theres definitely a fair few i'd class in the same league. You're right about the rappers in different languages though, some of their bars are insane!

[@Twisterhere]

@@eloelo6944 Name one and give me a track

[@mrbuck8912]

Still here 2023

[@sickthoughtz]

I'm listening to this album for 12 years and it gets even better with time :D

[@changmangg2369]

Ages like fine wine

[@uzedabeast9521]

2024 we outheaaaa all the way back since 2015 ive been listening my Gzz lessshgo miss these vibes frfr

[@Toastskagen]

"My entourage plot on top of Scotland Yard, 'coz we above the law" Sickk

[@sebastianveseyholt8777]

Toastskagen you know bruv

[@CopiousAmountss]

Such intence word play, Possessed, Skirmish and Psiklone by far some of the best mc's london has every produced

[@rooted9287]

And every time I come back this song still blows my mind crazy

[@dy9amo127]

“I severed ties with heaven skies, and wage wars that make Armageddon resemble a training exercise”

[@kevthegoat8774]

This has now become my favourite song, this is the absolute peak of Hip-Hop.

[@independantUKbeats]

"I'm a hell born seraphim, four faces with torn feathered wings, spawning four deformed nehphilim." This is beyond sick.

[@danielcoates1103]

@Shukadev Manu what "the four nephilim" tho? Deformed nephilim makes more sense lyrically

[@danielcoates1103]

@Shukadev Manu bruh it's not. Seraphim torn feather wings. Deformed nephilim. Makes much more sense in the scheme than zest randomly refering to RA as nephilim

[@abadazadytgaming7200]

It sounds like spawning forward the four

[@sovris3688]

Spooky scary seraphim

[@robbiem8482]

It’s deformed mate he’s correct

[@benlister4801]

Masterclass by possessed. Still come back to this regularly. Lyricism redefined

[@SkillzAdam]

Frequently come back to this since it isn't on Spotify

[@garethjones3227]

This guy is a Master Wordsmith

[@elspookso8414]

You guys are head & shoulders above literally everyone. For the love of the gods, please, please, please brainstorm at least one more song for us. We're all waiting for it.

[@EnduroJSSwe]

"I'm a hell born seraphim, four faces with torn feathered wings, spawning forth the four deformed nehphilim."

[@mikeking7684]

Crazy scheme

[@DanSoloPlastering]

STILL banging in 2022 💯 🔥

[@B355Y]

"Everyone in my FIELD of vision is just CROPS for the HARVEST"

[@MaddieisMayhem]

"I got master-degree burns after a heat stroke of genius"

[@nellieugdangiii3920]

This will forever be the greatest track to have ever been created.

[@dylancameron382]

Play this track back to back to back its so sick

[@ben6345]

Obviously this track has some many quotable lines but “I haven’t started to rep yet, this is just the sound of me breathing” … is just just another level. … you’ve heard my ridiculous wordplay … but I’m not even rapping yet. Outstanding work from Possessed.

[@lukedurbano4064]

still bangs - 2022 - untouchable lyricism

[@chrisshiherlis95]

It's amazing how the best track is a solo. Possessed is on another level, hope he never loses this talent. Deeply missed in the underground.

[@LucidGhost3]

2021, still bumping Rhyme Asylum 💎💎

[@hazedup.3443]

this is surely THE hardest verse ever

[@NACYKABLYAT]

4 years later, yep.

[@xSoloSam]

"I don't bite the hand that feeds me I chew it off at the wrist"

[@chrishodgson4687]

So ahead of their time

[@e3np]

Surely I ain't the only one still blasting this in 2017?

[@NeitDzn]

no man, i also keep this in my music library, it never gets borin'

[@e3np]

never does. best fucking lyricists on the globe.

[@undergroundwatchman5058]

In America this would have shook the rap world up💯 some of u guys across the pond have serious lyrical ability and raw talent in so many facets of music.. respect

[@dariusmiller4694]

@@NathansWargames MF DOOM is from the UK

[@samuelhorsford439]

@@dariusmiller4694 but he lived in the U.S for most of his life until the U.S government didn't approve his visa request and banned him from coming here

[@jacobdykes8827]

@@dariusmiller4694 it doesn’t matter where you were born it matters where you were raised J Cole was born in Germany and nobody considers him German rapper also Tupac was born in New York and everyone considers him a West Coast rapper

[@ericbrum8655]

Agreed

[@ericbrum8655]

**most emotionally relatable lyrics and vibes in this. Friends pretended to know about them when I'd play it. I know all the lyrics

[@phurst3202]

"I'm slashing open throats of backstabbers with my shoulder-blade.." ..is that a metaphor in a metaphor? O.o

[@fizikz9647]

Indeed

[@kylef8703]

Peter Hurst I love that line

[@freestylerapking22]

Yes

[@joegorringe8801]

double entendre??

[@BioticsGaming]

"Third eye is blessed with second sight, a Cenobite, I survived the New Mexico desert testing sights"

[@samjebadurai192]

Lets take it to 1M this masterpiece deserves that and more...#resurrectrhymeasylum

[@geofforycopplebottom9798]

"Master degree burns after a heat stroke of genius" 👏🖤✨️

[@AdamBrowne-eg1eb]

Is simply the best bar ever written

[@BrandonBuckingham]

most insane bars

[@trippydrew8492]

That last bar still gets me just as hyped as it did when I first heard it.

[@kaya9293]

My favorite song!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! knowing every word is crucial for cool status.

[@britishwordplay4335]

You have great taste in music, this is classic shit :)

[@jackarmstrong8370]

2023 and it’s still FIRE 🔥 Big up all you who are still here 🐐

[@lexvtd]

10 years later, still listening.

[@charlesmorales5737]

After all these years this still hits

[@JaxMcAdams]

This whole album is insane but this song takes the damn cake...

[@iobeson2908]

this is the best lyrical song in the world..

[@westong6819]

hadesleftbicep bruh nah but it’s really good

[@westong6819]

Detriment Hip Hop arguable

[@westong6819]

Detriment Hip Hop I think Immortal Technique “Obnoxious” and “Just don’t give a fuck” have better punchlines than this, also pretty much any Company Flow song has incredible punchlines

[@westong6819]

Detriment Hip Hop I don’t think even that punchline, which is a very good one, beats “I’ll bite your motherfucking style, just to make it fresher” My favorite punchline of all time however is “And every word I utter for hip hop lovers will reflect forever like two mirrors facing each other”

[@westong6819]

Detriment Hip Hop also the El-P line: “Even when I say nothing it’s a beautiful use of negative space” possibly the greatest line ever said

[@rickysoto7819]

Many years later still bumping this!

[@thekomoxile5053]

Nevermind the punchlines . . . . the imagery on this track bleeds the blood of a real poet. Real fucking hip-hop

[@joshuaradford913]

thekomoxile "swear by the whites of my eyes that imagery I'm bringing is so vivid it gives sight to the blind"

[@ebenmaiopue4253]

These niggas describe shit that you can never think of doing

[@samuelhorsford439]

@@ebenmaiopue4253 so eloquent

[@antisocialsquadsa6304]

2023 and this is still the hardest dungeon rap verse

[@LiamJ96]

2023 stillllllll the greats

[@fourhorsemen7558]

2023 and I'm still listening to Rhyme Asylum! This track is still FIRE!

[@sabreTF]

The only downside listening to rhyme asylum tracks is the fact that you will never hear anything like them again.

[@OffaRunco]

Lyricism slept on. Rhyme asylum are top tier.

[@hashimiqbal237]

2017 and still blasting this shit. who else is

[@royalgeezer]

2022, still the best rap out

[@TheMerkzzz]

as soon as i heard ''i live in a glass house throwing meteorites'' i knew this was gona be one of the greatest rap songs ever written

[@haz-dog4411]

Man still smashing the R.A in 2022 🔥🔥🔥

[@DaleGreenAngler]

About time this got a million 👌👌👌 been on this shit from day 12 years and still a banger 💯💯

[@jakobhunt6175]

2022 and still so underrated 11 letters never get it confused 💚

[@mfgua]

Please get this album on spotify..!!

[@Jay-mi8cr]

Still here 2022 since 2019

[@heavyw420]

Out of this world how amazing this guys rhymes are. For those who forgot what true hip hop was, this is it. I download so much stuff its not funny, but I AM BUYING all these guys albums, best Ive ever heard. Straight Skill.

[@private9402]

Bring it back boys

[@Tom20282]

2018 and still jammin

[@AjayGhone]

Bruhhh this track aged like fine wine.

[@xUseTheForks]

Possessed is my favourite out of the group, he always kills it

[@nihaoshamamingzhu5884]

2022 and we want ARRRRRRR AYYYYYYYY

[@Kalikiano07]

who bumpin this in 2017

[@GraffitiMute1]

Conflict where are they now?

[@bossslimedude0199]

Conflict me bruh

[@nimrodroman624]

I am.you not alone

[@elspookso8414]

So glad I grabbed both their albums while they were available. I'll be bumping this shit at 60.

[@annihilationss8598]

2018 still bumpin this

[@ManneFanofOldschool]

I can honestly say that I've contributed with probably 600 of this songs hits, a masterpiece in lack of better words

[@z.u2905]

There it is; the greatest rap song anyone can ever make.

[@Electronaunt]

I'm american and this shit goes hard af. there lyrical game is on point

[@gamehot0]

"I'm slashin open throats of back stabbers with my shoulder blades." Damn that part gets me every time this song is one of the illest and sickest I've heard Rhyme Asylum kills

[@SkarM_x]

"A mental plane like Enola Gay." The plane that dropped the Atomic Bomb in WW2. Every line of every song off State of Lunacy is sick

[@carlsansome8215]

Possessed is on another level!! Mad imagery in their tunes 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@RareMusicProduction]

Still listening to this 2023 Real Hip Hop Never Dies

[@Chasmundo95]

and i rub in salt into bullet wounds to make the slug dissolve, sickest line

[@foxyguy13]

Ryan Collins They stole that from an old Eminem song.

[@iobeson2908]

you could write every single bar in this song and say the exact same thing! best rap song ive ever heard

[@Sayntzkilla1]

***** damn thats the best line, raw af bruh

[@travinnor]

lol read this as his spat it. banging song

[@georgeoconnell4512]

This tune is still one of the best tunes i have ever heard. Too many notable bars to mention. Pure fire in hip hop's rawest form. Madness!!

[@politicallycorrectindividu2867]

i've repped these dudes for years in germany!

[@VictorVonDoom909]

Respect from Southern California.

[@VictorVonDoom909]

Still 🔥🔥🔥👏👏💯💯💯