DESCRIPTION:
Mathas -- Live Verse 1 of 3: Enforce Less?
From his sophomore album: ARMWRESTLING ATLAS
Out September 2013 through The Community Records

Music & Lyrics: Mathas
Video Produced by Blue Forest Media
Director/Editor: Dominic Pearce
Camera: A.J Coultier

MORE MATHAS:
http://thecommunity.com.au/mathas
http://www.facebook.com/MathasOfficial
http://mathas.bandcamp.com
http://soundcloud.com/mathas
http://twitter.com/Mathasasquatch

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LYRICS:
I've been living comfy in my beach police state,
where the road death toll duplicate at a fierce rate,
I've been working on my health, trying hard to change,
but the change aint a choice, it's a State Gov. PSA
Every action gets muffled by a law,
put in place to underscore the death that it caused,
but instead of banging heads together, shopping for a positive,
the brain stormers at the levers vote no tolerance.
Whip crack on a sack of weed in a sock,
cops wasting resource out head-knocking the block,
make any new lock and the kids'll be picking it off,
that's the nature of law enforcement,
a piggy bank of court costs.
Never ever smashed open, then openly gloat,
about a crackdown, outta town home they honed,
where the sulfur stank forever,
and a Government Ad made the neighbors get clever defending their pad.
Lock up a couple of big names in the "faculty"
maintaining their innocence,
same day that the magistrate takes aim at the populous,
distrusting the lot of em,
upspiking profit for bikies to make off of em.
So now a 50 is jail time, from all different life walks,
so all of my friends now are criminal eyesores.
No matter their net worth, no matter their life cause,
contributing life source to Australian pie charts and graphs for these underworld figures.
Black Market roll-call for hydroponic riggers.
Misjudging every attribute of compassionate humans with a tattoo of distrust on the outside of the vacuum.
Mine cash infiltrating television stations,
Aussie underbelly pedestal of Ned Kelly,
imbedded in the governing of every level meddled for the benefit of valuing a metal over anything.

My state is a boa constrictor,
beautiful specimen, abundant elements,
mining for the backbone, paradise mouth,
padded up floors so we cant fall down.
Paternalist napkin catching all the drips,
So they break out the bars, erupt and have a fit.

Since we've never felt trusted living in the west,
maybe we experiment a little and enforce.. less?
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WHO IS MATHAS?

Mathas has been around a long time in Western Australia. About 10 years.
2012 saw Mathas take out the WAMI for Best Hip Hop Artist and a nomination for Most Popular Single with his song "White Sugar". He has shared the stage with The RZA (US), Ghostpoet (UK), Shabazz Palaces (US), Busdriver (US) and Sage Francis (US) as well as supporting a large portion of Australian Hiphop's royalty on the Western legs of their National Tours including Urthboy, Seth Sentry, 360, Pez, Horrorshow and Mantra. In addition he has also made the crossover into the indie/rock landscape supporting Abbe May (AU), Hayley Beth (AU) and The Bible Bashers (AU) for each of their most recent releases.
As a founding member of Perth music and arts collective The Community, Mathas has been heavily involved in the underground hip-hop and electronic music scene since 2004. Mathas released his debut album 10 Pound Hairless Sasquatch in 2009 through Paper Chain and The Community Records. His sophomore album Armwrestling Atlas is set for release in September 2013.
"A true Perth talent" -- Drapht
"Mathas is my favourite Australian rapper -- in fact he is so good he doesn't sound Australian." -- Dave Cutbush (lifeisnoise.com, RTRfm 92.1)