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Ico

by Savan DePaul

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Alex Dionisio Savan DePaul looks upon his come-up with clear insight. Very nice mixtape!
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1.
My mission unsuccessful I return to non-divine Gazing upon all worlds that God divides into molecules I tried to transcribe his speech But alas, even I am baffled Too much of a hassle says my subconscious To dodge more rain more powerful than the spray of a Thompson A daunting task it proves to be Now he’s unconvinced, an umbrella’s no use to me This is lunacy, it’s got to be Amelia Lanyard, write mankind’s apology Was self laudation worth damnation? I doubt it would justify anything else Well to hell with that heaven talk, let me walk I’m conceptualizing while I’m steadily dying Trying to progress to rhyming They say to appease the deity, I’ma give a sacrifice So here, take my sanity and rationality I got some reflection and criticism to do No concept of construction, time for self destruction No concept of construction, time for self destruction No concept of construction, time for self destruction No concept of construction, time for self destruction No concept of construction, time for self destruction No concept of construction, time for self destruction No concept of construction, time for self destruction No concept of construction, time for self destruction
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[Verse 1] DePaul, what do you do if you die by your lonesome? That’s a question I thought of It’s just something I brought up I’m too caught up in my own medulla oblongata While enemies practicing gun kata I just point to the martyr I point to the fathers But lately I've drifted and faltered I wonder, could Savan even make a father? I have to make these things happen, I have to make it farther [Hook] The aggression’s been so emphatic now It’s time to return to the attic now Find the instruments within the context And burn my scripts that stifle the progress The aggression’s been so emphatic now It’s time to return to the attic now Find the instruments within the context And burn my scripts that stifle the progress The aggression’s been so emphatic now It’s time to return to the attic now Find the instruments within the context And burn my scripts that stifle the progress The aggression’s been so emphatic now It’s time to return to the attic now Find the instruments within the context And burn my scripts that stifle the progress [Instrumental/Sound Bite] [Verse 2] Oh my old stomping grounds, I remember every single detail of it But even though it’s above me, I’m above it I had so many plans for EPs that scrapped in favor of Acid Rain and Scatterbrain plus the Attic tapes It’s best I stay to reflect upon my life now I’ve endured through a lot, and I’m quite proud Even stepped up your rhymes and developed your flow and you’re letting it show Impressive I know You’ve progressed a lot past these sessions Remember when you couldn’t produce a beat to save your own skin? Your past self you showed him Collaborations now various In battles you become nefarious, at times hilarious Even gotten Amma-rous with Aryans Danny H you carried him Rapped about aliens, the old self you buried him In cemeteries with octogenarians Damn this brings back memories Brings back a lot of memories
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Soliloquy 04:37
[Verse 1] My former home planet gone, spurring my journey A humble terrestrial rock birthed by panspermia Amongst vibrant flora In a starcluster labeled as Triangulum The living things flourished, undwindling and undiminishing Riddled in Ritalin, liberally living I miss those days of divine relaxation 'Cause bones are all that remains of our congregation Mass extinction and extermination Starrs illuminate a lifeless alien abode Upon making a home, I run along trailblazen roads To cold mountains where bodies litter dust-laden stone Hoping to find my people’s tracks hopefully made in snow But to no avail [Hook] On a journey to reunite with my species Please ponder my theses Pique these articles of speech please I'm serving a sermon concerning a certain usurping of a civilization Implicating a deity murking On a journey to reunite with my species Please ponder my theses Pique these articles of speech please I'm serving a sermon concerning a certain usurping of a civilization Implicating a deity murking [Verse 2] As my planet orbits a deceased dwarf star Reflect upon your statements saying that you're hard Now I survive by autocannibalism This cave here is my inanimate prison I burn the carapaces of invertebrates My stay here’s purposeless; these fumes strangle like tourniquets I must leave this planet or perish Along with apparently parried parents and other supremes No more of this barely lingering nation I must leave this already dead civilization... [Hook] On a journey to reunite with my species Please ponder my theses Pique these articles of speech please I'm serving a sermon concerning a certain usurping of a civilization Implicating a deity murking On a journey to reunite with my species Please ponder my theses Pique these articles of speech please I'm serving a sermon concerning a certain usurping of a civilization Implicating a deity murking [Verse 3] I depart, friends, as the planet splits apart and this part ends I dart away in mere parsecs The stargazer starts to starve for companions A cosmic exodus in an escape pod that I’ve championed Utter last survivor of them- I came to the realization My fears of being alone have received confirmation Never mind the obfuscation- I no longer have hope of seeing supremes replenished in my scope Lamenting my land, snuffed by a hail of missiles A lone voice in space, that's my lonely whistle Bellowing through a vacuum devoid of breath and birth No consolation for an endothermic heckled worm But to my credit, I still maintain a sane psyche Frayed? Might be I’m afraid my days might be numbered Frostbit instead of sunburnt Celestial castaway about to submerge under... But I have to succeed Can't let it get to me On a mission literally My soliloquy [Hook] On a journey to reunite with my species Please ponder my theses Pique these articles of speech please I'm serving a sermon concerning a certain usurping of a civilization Implicating a deity murking On a journey to reunite with my species Please ponder my theses Pique these articles of speech please I'm serving a sermon concerning a certain usurping of a civilization Implicating a deity murking
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Noxious 04:05
[Verse 1] Overkilling time in the instance I hang seconds by the linchpin I would have stayed secluded at home insistent For everyone around insisted, so I make my way to my place My home a barely spacious (barely spacious) One thousand dollar a month estate After I leave the institution, I edit some music While studying the arts of Vonnegut and DJ Whoo Kid I spend my time picking apart pretentious opinionated statements of racists Everything seems so wasted I spend my day looking around at all the others I'm spurning all these daydreaming snakes they’re calling brothers I spend my day surrounded by fools in palaces Ingesting fallacies Fools on phalluses Typical kid about my own chatter, have to babble Complete with Twitter gods and Snapchat tabernacles That's serious cause, I can’t afford a lemon Let me guess, daddy’s paying for your gas and spending My day hasn’t yet been tainted by [---] type entitlement I'm my being down to every strand of cytosin I breathe piousness, enlightenment, decisiveness So I spare at times like my friends and fight within Everyday I ramble in similar manner Oh, I’m such a noxious fool, this kid is a cancer [Hook] I am malignant, I am corrosive I am the utmost noxious of potions I am so toxic I am just caustic I am at the very least noxious I am malignant, I am corrosive I am the utmost noxious of potions I am just toxic I am so caustic I am at the very least noxious [Instrumental]
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[Verse 1: Savan DePaul] I spent years grappling the concept of eternity As a mere mortal, it burns me certainly I mustn’t fret with mortality and expiration So this is my dedication to shuffle off mortal coils I’ve been spoiled with the gift of cellular respiration And high levels of education Yet a sense of a nauseating paralysis engulfs A clamoring impulse for answers that have all been slammed up in a vault Oh, scandalous DePaul I’ve always thought of myself as divine I’ve always thought of myself as divine But I recall the name supreme organism The greatest oxymoron I ever crafted Powerful yet destined to collapse into ashes What’s a god to do when even he can't seem to exist? Life stripped from him like a thief in the mist Can’t save my own being, all seeing Couldn’t catch this in peripheral scope Thanks for killing my hope If I could front a demigod now, I’d be wringing his throat I’m pleading to lowly humans for solutions Before the natural executions Waiting for that answer has me stressed And if you're still listening, God bless [Verse 2: Alec Murray] I can see you down there, wondering if your breath of air will affect you Or the world around You feel insignificant I can hear and feel your words But they have no color or sweet sound Try to lift your spirits up, don’t let them fall to the ground I can hear your prayers when you feel to be empty Let me help you ever so gently Death is not an end, just a new beginning New set of clothes, a halo and a voice for singing You need to relax your being For our bodies are just vessels And our soul is what it carries For our soul can never truly die, just received by our Mother Mary
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[Verse 1] You, you’re capable of reaching every goal attainable But your lust for greed is inescapable Your insatiable ratio for fellatio means you straddle any male available That’s not debatable Wasting your life in accounts payable Eliciting for the catchy tunes to play it home on the radio Now you found as a mentor, don't clown me Allow me to make a cameo, I am irreplaceable Let’s examine your flaws, let’s examine your flows And start killing ‘em all Well, gosh, you need a dose of rhymes to cure your ailments I got you, this lesson, I got you Can consume, don’t worry a bit at all dude, I’ll watch you You say "your enemy, not true Kill you is something I’d rather not do Your neurons go ahead and shoot them You are not welcome amongst the true men, true men Is this the Truman Show? No it's a mental breakdown *End it all soon, your fam can visit the wake now* Don’t listen to them, you need not pay attention Schizoid traits I would like to mention *Follow my voice ’to the nearest intersection* [Hook] You, me, him and our self A complete staggering lack of mental health Embattled within salvaging and grappling your abdomen Various points of view scattering, scattering You, me, him and our self A complete staggering lack of mental health Embattled within salvaging and grappling your abdomen Various points of view scattering, scattering [Bridge/Verse 2] Hold strong, my boy, your psyche is slipping, dawg How does it feel to get constantly shitted on? Keep more lifers to come [?] What the hell is a soliloquy if there’s no C option? To be or not to be, fucking aye Either jump in the hungry flames or agitate Death's hunger pangs [Hook] You, me, him and our self A complete staggering lack of mental health Embattled within salvaging and grappling your abdomen Various points of view scattering, scattering You, me, him and our self A complete staggering lack of mental health Embattled within salvaging and grappling your abdomen Various points of view scattering, scattering
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[Verse 1] Name, Savan Christopher DePaul, formerly Olimar Age as of now was eight cycles ‘round the sun and now for some Stories about this awkward bastard Concerning the life and the skills he mastered At a young age, he led a life of solitude Silenced masked a wit that could split a molecule Being aspie will do that to you People will try to screw you Usurp your money, the trust and resources But he’d rather die ‘fore he’d forfeit All accounts not impaired Not aware of intelligence he got upstairs Once he realized it, he utilized it Annihilated those who scrutinized it Always wanted to kill a show and star in a video Which takes us to a little bit ago [Hook] No concept of construction, time for self destruction No concept of construction, time for self destruction No concept of construction, time for self destruction No concept of construction, time for self destruction No concept of construction, time for self destruction No concept of construction, time for self destruction No concept of construction, time for self destruction No concept of construction, time for self destruction No concept of construction, time for self destruction No concept of construction, time for self destruction [Verse 2] After Acid Rain’s release, some stupid stuff occurred Praise for the album came in shouts and mumble words Before that, he struggled musically Self doubt made him put The Attic and archaic tapes under scrutiny What was hot then is pure utter tripe today No sales and no shows coaxed him to hide away But he persisted someway, somehow No one sure how He managed to accomplish that but he’s a force now Scatterbrain got finished and approved back in September, fam A couple b-sides toward teenage tempers, fam Before this, even fooled by the weathermen Now, he could tell a wax candle to pull itself together, man He fully recognized his knack for iconoclastic abilities But now came the test of humility [Hook] No concept of construction, time for self destruction No concept of construction, time for self destruction No concept of construction, time for self destruction No concept of construction, time for self destruction No concept of construction, time for self destruction No concept of construction, time for self destruction
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Manic 02:53
[Verse 1] Don’t push me over the edge of the cliff The fall leaves my skeleton stiff Suffering tragedy does not scare me So I’ll drag you down with me, don’t dare me As you fall, I will note your deception According to my expert perception A state of psychosis has affected us all And out of spite you deliberately let us fall You verify that our minds have taken over Our psyches manifest into their own owners Coalescing into a phantasmic body Whose wrath now will probably end our days Our people in a daze and split like telophase A stone gaze cuts deeper than a machete blade And because of one’s refusal to heal time Our minds become gods and kill us some real time [Sample] [Verse 2] Our consciousness has formed an entity A physical being that’s now an enemy That’s our master for it lords over men Under its wicked talons, it is holding men No euthenics to heal this damage Unknown how mankind would manage Psychosis is deity Omnipotence is inescapable Of rebellion we are capable Whenever you visit our core place, bow Mental illness is so commonplace now And because of one’s refusal to heal time Our minds become gods and kill us some real time [Sample]
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Ideal to a mic for me I obviously killed something, would you like to see? A cedar box to rest in Remind I’m testing Let’s see if you get this So interesting, a bipedal organism Caught soaring into a war with scissors Heed my warning, mister Caution for this mode of wisdom Horribly injured in a spar with a scimitar A crippled star placed peacefully in a box Injected lethally In the midst of serene scenery Immediately when I say this, you peg me a sadist and guess I slaughtered a bird but not slaughtered the words Not so, so who martyred? You heard it was human Assume I’m stupid, but you’re the one listening to this music Now you know it’s one of our own Slain without chrome But now without dome Let’s describe the poor sap in detail Let’s derail, slow enough to be snail Its bones be frail Its skin’s been charred Looks have been scarred Poisoned in blood Configure the parts Yeah, eyes widen Now I become frightened The realization has struck like lightening It’s wearing headphones, neck to a speaker It’s you, nice to meet ya I bought you a nice casket, how’s it look from the inside? Yo, we start with the subject, a human being Intelligent in theory, boneheaded in action Stone heavy through chance and So ready for passion Wrote many a caption Broke many contraptions As you follow his journey through the cyberpunk We’ll see him fall victim to voracious carnivore funk Carnival punk with ample chunk and myopic flavor Sent up to the sky for a meeting with Ammutseba
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[Verse 1] Though I finally remember my infant days An old one ancient in his ways Took me on a ride into an alternate place My soul done stayed forever caught in its gaze His name, Ammutseba, and in his wake He left a glorious magenta-tinted haze Some called him Lovecraftean horror perversion I never thought of him as a deplorable person Partly because of his form Taking the outer visage of a gargantuan worm He ate in an endless amount The leftover supernovae and all the nebula clouds On his spine I would soar the cosmos And binary law until time got me bored Across the vast expanse we traverse numerous star-clusters now newly freed [Hook] I can see all thanks to he I am who I am, and we are who we be Grasping all within our reach [Verse 2] Feasting on pulsars and remnants of blackholes We ride across systems, taking the map home Attributing various space formations, so splendid To the detailed construction of the universe’s zenith Nuclear stardust replenishing Witnessing the planetary wonders of abiogenesis Through solar flares, radiation and hip dysplasia It was us against the worlds, me and Ammutseba
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Genghis Khan 01:51
Oh my god, I’ve scorched the earth I rest on But that don’t matter, therefore, I just press on Who the hell am I if not for loose screw held by lug nut? Not thug once but I’m consumed with bloodlust What propels me to pursue conflict? Every time I reference dropships, it only adds to the mosh pit I become an ignorant-soaked infidel obsessed with war I possess a malice infested core But a certain part of me targets weak parties and brings out the warlord animal man in me Rampantly I begin to spread like a scourge and wipeout clans singlehandedly What about the tragedy? It must be my hubris Or maybe insanity But all of you knew this I regret this, it’s all gone wrong Am I Savan? Or am I Genghis Khan?
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All may now enter for the courtship display Termination of April in accordance with May See these fascinating creatures in a flock Determined to show off all their features to the block While the animals conduct visual cues depending a swoon All in effort to get to the womb They gather in massive leks Cash in those massive checks In action for smashing, yes Emphatic to that effect Akin to peafowl slipping on sick shoes To be a six plume bird-of-paradise to repair a night Covert feathers crafted from caterpillar silk Dabbled in the milk of God and Mary in coalition Galliformes pledge to earth cross fingers And we all cluck away our little beaks in pride And I should know ‘Cause I’m one of them on this present night (On this) Present night The flock migrates to a grand hall To a father of all to whom we recently gave alms And now we admire our partner’s plumage of synthetic feathers Adorn and smother, thanks to mother
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Conclusion 01:51
Welcome to my subconscious Consequently the object of this song, the topic Is a twisted flesh complex Formulating polyrhythmic rhyme patterns to act toxic Explosions which foes were smacked with, constant I did not leave the base intact But I bled through raps My mouth turned into a furnace in fact So make a compact 'fore I fry you with cannons Go through my mind so you can understand it Don’t you see I’m damaged? I want you to learn from me, take data and cram it So consider this your last science project After this, you’re executed with a comet, with a comet (With the grace of a bow, I leave the premises) (I'm just a key player playing my part) DePaul, who do ya die for if you’re all by your lonesome? A question I thought of, something I brought up Trying not to get caught up in my own medulla oblongata While enemies practicing gun kata I refuse to worship a Carter Instead I point to the martyrs But lately, I’ve been drifting from the Father I’ve been a bit shaky, could Savan make a father? Iniquity imprisons me, I have to make it farther God, it’s quite clear to see that I revere the scene I only thank music for its role in the planet today So I salute you, this earthly stage on which you play
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SOLO MIXTAPE. SOLO PROJECT #7

The latest experimental hip hop tape by Savan DePaul. Recorded and engineered over a period of five months, Ico explores mainly psychological and religious topics. Produced mainly by Savan DePaul and Brainchild, with contributions from trog'low!

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released May 30, 2016

Produced by Savan DePaul (tracks 1, 2, 4, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13)
Produced by trog'low (tracks 7, 14)
Produced by Charles Breakfast (fka Brainchild) (tracks 3, 5, 6)
Track 9 beat: "Buddah Blessed It" by Supernatural, as prod. by Djinji Brown

All lyrics written by me, except for guest features.

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Savan DePaul // Ishtar Sr. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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tiergarten records // grimalkin records // sagan theory // magicicada // free spirits // party in the crossfire

for the creation of musical projects that take listeners on wild experimental journeys. every possible genre, ones this side of the galaxy and beyond, collide in one consciously charged package. revolutionary, sensuous, contemplative, vibrant.
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