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• Member: DayWalker B.
• Title: Killah Instinct
• Premiered: 2008-07-13
• Categories:
  • Action
  • Character Profile
  • Other
• Song:
  • GZA feat. Ghostface Killah, RZA & Killah Priest 4th Chamber
• Anime:
  • Afro Samurai (TV)
• Comments: So I've been wanting to make an Afro Samurai AMV for a while now and was looking for songs that could match the anime. Eventually, GZA's stuff came to me as an obvious choice and I was surprised by the fact that this (rather popular) MC hadn't even been entered into the site catalogue of artists before. Especially GZA's metaphorical use of the sword as the tongue in his lyrics came in handy for me, so I went right ahead. However, I decided to use the song "4th Chamber", which seemed like a nice, fitting track for the kind of video I was going for (even though it also features 3 other rappers and not only GZA).
  Well, I spent approximately 37 hours on this video, including pre- and postproduction. In this AMV I was mainly aiming to match the mood and feel of the song while keeping up the beat sync as well. There are several bits of straight lyric sync too, which I thought would lend an interesting element to the whole thing. The long winded lyrics were quite a challenge in this respect. Other than that, this basically follows the overall progression/themes of the anime, but it's not really linear in terms of scene choice.
  
  Anyway, I hope you enjoy and leave some kind of feedback, if possible, after downloading.
  Thanks.
  
  Program(s) used: Sony Vegas 7.0d, VirtualDubMod, AviSynth 2.5, zarx264gui.
  
  MP4 Specs:
  Container: MPEG-4
  Video Track: 935 kbps / 592x320 @ 23.976 fps
  Codec: H.264/MPEG-4 AVC
  Audio Track: MPEG-4 AAC LC / 44100Hz, 161 kb/s, stereo
  Duration: 4:10.917
  File Size: 32.7 MB (33,580 KB / 34,386,768 bytes)
  
  Lyrics:
  
  GZA (and others) - 4th Chamber
  
  Intro: (cut)
  
  "...Come boy, choose life or death..."
  
  Verse One: Ghostface Killah
  
  The only man I hold wake for
  Is the sky-blue Bally kid, in eighty-three, rocked Taylor's
  My Memorex performed tape decks, my own phone sex,
  Watch out for Haiti bitches, I heard they throw hex
  Yo, Wu whole platoon is filled with rac-coons
  Corner sittin wine niggaz sippin Apple Boone, this ain't no white cartoon
  Cuz I be duckin crazy spades
  The kid hold white shit, like blacks rock ashy legs
  Why is the sky blue? Why is water wet?
  Why did Judas rat to Romans while Jesus slept? Stand up
  You're out of luck like two dogs stuck
  Iron Man be sippin rum out of Stanley Cups, unflammable
  Noriega, aimin knives which stay windy in Chicago
  spine-tingle, mind boggles
  Kangols in rainbow colors, promoters try to hold dough
  Give me mine before Po, wrap you up in so-and-so
  I ran the Dark Ages, Constantine and great Henry the Eighth
  Built with Ghengis Khan, the wreck suede wiley Don...
  
  Verse Two: Killah Priest
  
  I judge wisely, as if nothin ever surprise me
  Loungin between two pillars of ivory
  I'm lively, my dome piece is like buildin stones in Greece
  my poems are deep, from ancient thrones I speak
  I'm overwhelmed, as my mind roams the realm
  My eye's the vision, memory is the film
  Others act sub-tile, but they fragile above clouds
  They act wild and couldn't budge a crowd
  No matter how loud they get, though they growl and spit,
  Clutch they fists, and throw up signs like a Crip
  And throw all types of fits
  I leave em split, like ass cheeks and ragged pussy lips...
  
  Verse Three: The RZA
  
  Aiyyo, camouflage chameleon, ninjas scalin your buildin'
  No time to grab the gun, they already got your wife and children
  A hit was sent, from the President to rage your residence
  Because you had secret evidence, and documents
  On how they raped the continents, and it's the prominent
  dominant Islamic, Asiatic black hebrew
  The year two thousand and two, the battle's filled with the Wu
  Six million devils just died from the Bubonic Flu
  Or the Ebola Virus, under the reign of King Cyrus
  You can see the weakness of a man right through his iris
  Un-loyal snakes get thrown in boilin lakes
  of hot oil, it boils your skin, chickenheads gettin slim
  like Olive Oyl, only plant the seed deep inside fertile soil,
  Fortified with essential vitamin and mineral
  use the sky for a blanket, stuffin clouds inside my pillow
  Rollin with the Lands, the tribe's a hundred and forty four thousand chosen
  Protons, electrons always cause explosions...
  
  Verse Four: The Genius/GZA (Maximillion)
  
  The banks of G, all CREAM downs a vet
  Money feed good, opposites off the set
  It ain't hard to see, my seeds need God-degree
  I got mouths to feed, unnecessary beef is more cows to breed
  I'm on some tax free shit by any means
  Whether bound to hit scheme or some counterfeit CREAM
  I learned much from such with cons who run scams
  Veterans got the game spiced like hams
  And from that, sons are born and guns are drawn
  Clips are fully loaded, and then blood floods the lawn
  Disciplinary action was a fraction of strength,
  that made me truncate the limp on temp
  with the stump, treat his hips like air pumps
  RZA shaped the track, niggaz caught razor bumps
  Scarred, tryin to figure who invented
  this ????????, opium-scented, dark-tinted,
  Now watch me blow him out his shoes without clues
  Cuz I won't hesitate to detonate, I'm short fuse.
  _______________________________
  
  By the way, if you can't view the local .mp4, I'd suggest you getting VLC or KMPlayer. :)