"Meliur Basi Di Pondok Usang" Piko goes Pop!

Dulu, kiri-kanan, depan-belakang,
Wa tengok lu lepak,Dengkur, kroh-kroh-kroh leleh liur bawah pondok usang,
Wa tengok lu hoha-hoha, sembang sorak-borak bawah pokok cari makan,

Tapi sekarang ni dah melain,
Yelah, kiri-kanan, depan-belakang,
Wa tengok lu pacak lutut, tegang urat jaga roda, minta hitam putih,
Wa tengok lu tegak diri, depan pondok kutip kata,
Kata apa ya “Pakcik jangan marah ye, nanti kubur panggil tau”

Lu pakai kolar biru, kasut hitam kilat berkiwi, masuk shif 12 jam sehari…kasihan,
Wa tengok lu letih babe, entah kenapa? Mengapa?

2 juta ringgit melayu lesap kerana lu tak punya mata di belakang,
Eheh… bukan lu orang semua meleleh liur basi ke masa tu,
Dewa-dewi DEVA bikin acara mula,

Sekejap semalam bukan lu tengah mengasapkan nikotin,
Sambil teguk the tarik mamak,
Sambil pula fikirkan masalah keamanan di Palestin,
Tapi itu semalam… cerita lama,
Eheh… tapi apa cerita sekarang?
Bukankah dulu lu fight nak sangat tender, nak pagar tiap segi…
Varsiti ini kah dulu yang terbakar tempat tontonnya dek kerana lu,
Eheh… lu masih boleh tersengih-sengih,
Pelik..Horor! memang lu kuno!
Yelah kuno dengan kanun,

Wa lagi hairan tengok kat seberang laut nun jauh tu,
Pegh…kolar biru macam lu gak…
…dengan senapang patah,
…dengan pisau lipat,
…dengan Bulldog hitam,
Tapi lu still bangsa wa kan?
So malas nak caci-makilah encik-encik,
Mukhabarat selalu kata “Lets hire the Gurkha lagi baguih dari bangsa sendiri”

Maaf lah ye pakcik nama wa Wahid bukan Rashid,
That’s why wa bahasakan diri wa sebab wa Wahid,
Nah tak percaya juga, tengok kad ni,
Nah ambik ni!

Erm kenapa pakcik ni tak dengar ke?
Betul, memang betul pakcik ni dah lanjut,
Bekas askar pencen tak pun polis buangan,
Yang muda-muda mana? Anggurkah mereka?

POLICE AND THIEF WANT TO JAGA?
But then POLICE MATI PENCHURIK JAGA
One more time…
POLICE AND THIEF WANT TO JAGA?
But then JAGA TIDUR PENCHURIK JAGA…

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‘Meliur Basi di Pondok Usang’ was written on 6th February 2006 for Tun Syed Zahiruddin College, UNIVERSITI MALAYA Poem Competition. It was recited by PIKO as one of the contestants. The poem is about the frivolity of the guards on their jobs which leads to a big robbery happened in Universiti Malaya(UM) as the robbers escaped with the total amount of RM2 million. Outsiders who uses UM as a short cut from Kuala Lumpur to Petaling Jaya always get a hard time at the gates after the incident. This bullshit happens not only for the visitors with vehicles but also with all innocent jaywalkers (like me and you). The poem starts with the guards laziness days before the incident which also featured the previous PM quoted in a premier tabloid in regards of the Gurkha guards to be employed assisting our security industry for the fact that their army is well known in combat. The poem was the only poem came out without any love themes unlike other contestants. For the unique words arrangement and for the venom that it injects this poem was entitled the Grand Prize.

THRICE New Album " The Alchemy Index" Vol I & II

The Metallic Emocore kids which have evolved into Epic Rockers has released a new studio album entitled Alchemy Index Vol I & II Water and Fire on 10.16.2007. These are the 2 songs that I really love from the album Open Water and Night Diving. I know that they won't play fast metal riffs songs anymore, but this is THRICE for crying out loud, and they never dissapoint. I guessed this is what happen when you listens too much of Radiohead and Damien Rice...

Anyways, Dustin Kensrue the frontman and the main songwriter for the band is and will always be the best lyricist in my book. ONE.


Open Water


Night Diving

Nas latest single "Surviving the times"

What up peeps! to all Nas fans, Nas has released a new single called "Surviving the times". A song about how he soldiered through the tough times back then, and he is still standing until today as one of the BEST Lyricist ever. There is no official video for this single yet, but I uploaded it from YouTube so you can groove to it. One more classic made for the REALest by the ILLest. Enjoy! ONE.

Oh yeah, he is releasing a new album this coming December... so in the meantime listen to the single.

About NegaRakuS

L-R : Apocalypse Dawn, PikoRionexxes

One's a prolific Hip Hop MC/Lyricist the other's a charismatic front man for an Indie Garage band Marionexxes. This odd mash up is comely known as NegaRakuS. Street poets consist of MSK (Mekarnya Satu Kematian) a.k.a Apocalypse Dawn and Piko where their sole mission is to overthrow the misled masses by the forgotten art form, Spoken words.

Formed in April 2007, these Partners in Rhyme met in early 2006 at Troubaganger, a locally organized open mic night by Troubadours and Doppelganger Collective. That is where MSK showcased his wordplay and lyrical prowess. The dwindling state of Soulful and REAL Hip Hop shows in the city forced MSK to look for a venue to perform his work, and his materials were stripped to its core element which came down to an MC and the mic, no beats just words. That night he recited "Seasons of The Enders", "Our love" and "Right Where I Stand" which received overwhelming crowd approval. His style of Battle Rap delivery laced with profound and dark verses depicts the strife of urbanites in these dark ages ("Sekembali", "Kinesis Animated"), damning counterfeit doctrines and of all things decayed by false media mass fabrication, how human now has their own carbon copy, and they are all staged in a fiction conceded by lies ("Intepretasi malam ini, kerana besok kita mati", "Manusia dan Makna", "Discordance").

Each of his rhymes are war cries to the people to Live and to Believe not only just to Exist. MSK is a rebel philosopher where he stood as the last bastion of mere mortal existence. Just what life needs right now: SOUL and SUBSTANCE. Several Shows followed. MSK came front and center not as an MC but as a Poet. He Performed at Fiesta Malam Muzikal Universiti Malaya before an all Rock crowd, backed by a guitar and Djembe, Artport Art shows in Shah Alam, and Converse Buskers at Sunway Pyramid proving that he flows well no matter when he is conversing rhymes in his native tongue (Bahasa Melayu) or English.

Piko's reciting days goes way back to his primary school years. One who possesses the knack for flipping any script and reconstructing it word by word for a whole new meaning in the same verse, redefining terminology in a whole new perspective which force audiences to view the world the only way he knew best. His way. His first ever recital is at Istana Budaya Kuala Lumpur in 2000, saw him recited "KFC"(Kentucky ------' Chick), and "Diktator Kukuku Dibesi". These 2 poems etched a mark in the underground poetry scene and the performance poetry public, for this newcomer was about to stir the scene by his unorthodox style of recital and his secular leanings vocab. This was an early sign for the imminent damage ahead. Delivering his rhymes at its rawest and at his most stark, preferring "Street" Bahasa Melayu to DBP standards BM, Piko has left many literature enthusiasts cringed by his explicit content and witty Political undertones, challenging "purists" to pry their mind to a new approach in performance poetry. ("Squirting to the Rainbow").

Arguably one of his best work "Meliur Basi di Pondok Usang" a parodical yet venomous diss piece won the Grand Prize for Universiti Malaya's intercollege poetry writing contest. Numerous shows ensued for Piko, he's a frequent guest poet in any readings held in Universiti Malaya, Doppelganger Open Mic nights every month, notthatbalai Art Festival 2007, RANtai Art event 2006, Converse Buskers at Sunway Pyramid and he also presented his masterpieces before the Legendary Dato' A. Samad Said, honoring The Legend's contributions to Malay Literature scene on his 72nd birthday held at Pelita Hati's House of Art.

Year 2007 saw these 2 fiends on the mic united as a formidable force in the underground poetry scene. And when the mass proclaimed the rest is history, they too told it as it is, the rest is history...IN THE MAKING.

NegaRakuS stands firm against the grain, against the system, against the world, against all odds to forge a new truth. They embrace the dark side of love and life in their path of attainment and atonement, framing their journey by seizing the moment of everyday revolution and presenting at its most honest, embodying it soulfully with a cynical tease just to appease all rustic minds in the dying state of this superficial era.

NOW HAIL.