Transcendence

Adil Omar

Note: lyrics from the rap song 'Transcendence'

Take a walk on the wild side
 Establish who the author is

The one in the mirror, regardless who the father is
 See it from a higher plane
 Then you can leave it for the higher dream
 And if you notice what the dust do
 The tension and the lesions and debris won’t combust you

You gotta let the ground shake
 You gotta let the ground quake
 Bigger cortex, full power scholar
 Traveler, explorer, sent to scour farther corners
 The Watcher, exposed to ancient secrets in a blip of time

Before I taught myself to speak, I had the gift of rhyme

Before impediments and stutters had my lips reclined
 I climbed through a tunnel with a vision of a mystic kind
 I pick up the pieces from the floor
 And though I’m standing here right now
 I know I’ve seen this all before

An excerpt from Transcendence appeared in The Aleph Review, Vol. 3 (2019)

Adil Omar is a recording artist, rapper, record producer and singer-songwriter from Islamabad, Pakistan. He released his debut album and filmTranscendence in 2018, while his second album Mastery, is slated for a 2020 release. He is also one half of the songwriting and production duo SNKM and is best known for his razor sharp lyricism, adventurous music production, off-the-wall concepts, wicked sense of humour and bold artistry.