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    Limited Quantities! Next Level soft tees. Designed by Aaron Hill of Bits and Rhymes.

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    limited Randomly colored vinyl! Coming around September 12. Only 100 will be pressed!
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    A special collaboration between Records Are Forever and RandomBeats! Super Limited scale Veritech jet model, in clamshell and signed by Mega Ran. Also includes sticker pack.

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about

Only a handful of survivors remains scattered across the planet two years after the final confrontation. The destruction has been overwhelming, leaving only vast, pockmarked desolation where great cities and beautiful forests once stood. The remaining Veritech fighter pilots routinely patrol the deserts to investigate anything out of the ordinary. As Rick Hunter flies over the remains of old warships, he notices that life begins again. Flowers are growing in the ruins.

In spite of the horror that follows such devastation, the spirit of man prevails. A new city has risen over the remains of the SDF-1. Where there had been only chaos, survivors have somehow managed to rebuild.

lyrics

It's been a few years since the battle for the planet
A lot of devastation every city every nation
We stuck with limitations even poison vegetation
We faced extermination but the human race survived
And to everyone's surprise we decided to rebuild
Put our strength to the test and combine every skill
But for people like me u see the mission never stops
Skull squadron on patrol and we always on the watch
I'm flying over deserts once populated cities
The epitome of life man the world was so pretty
Now its nothing but a wasteland the water isnt safe man
Life flourished on the planet now theres no trace fam
Separated from my squad had to make my own rounds
Restricted flyzone i see something on the ground
I had to take a closer look set my veritech down
I cant believe my eyes and tell the people what i found

Order out of chaos
It comes and it goes
Like the Phoenix in the flames
Death before growth
Rising from the ashes
Fires and the clashes
Natural disasters
The here after
Ain’t nothing more we can do
These are the reconstruction blues

I see Flowers blooming i cant believe my own eyes
The planets reconstructing itself what a surprise
The zentradi battleships destroyed the whole surface
In just a few minutes for one simple purpose
The SDF1 was something more than it really seemed
A protoculture factory, something from our worst dreams
The only power source that the aliens required
It landed on our planet like a chariot of fire
And unbeknownst to us we decided we decided we can fix it
Develop their technology and build our own ships wit
We had it all twisted and we sprung the first booby trap
And here comes the aliens we had to fight back
Now the robotech scrap from the planets greatest battle
Covers plains in the fields where the cattle used to graze
I feel lost in a maze, and every wrong turn is death
Big brother said be brave so ima listen with respect

Order out of chaos
It comes and it goes
Like the Phoenix in the flames
Death before growth
Rising from the ashes
Fires and the clashes
Natural disasters
The here after
Ain’t nothing more we can do
These are the reconstruction blues
Ain’t nothing more we can do
These are the reconstruction blues

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from PROTOCULTURE SEASON, released August 5, 2022
Written by Mega Ran and Penny The Great - twitter.com/megaran | instagram.com/pennythagreat
All Production by SlopFunkDust - www.instagram.com/slopfunkdust/
Mixed by Michael "Bag of Tricks Cat" Gamarano at HKS Studios, Phoenix, AZ www.instagram.com/bagoftrickscat
Mastered by The Jokerr at The Jokerr's Lair, Los Angeles, CA

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“Mega Ran's proven he can excel in storytelling, punchlines, poignancy, freestyling and, well, pretty much any other way you can measure an MC.”

— LA Weekly

An incredible impromptu "freestyle" MC, Ran's unique combination of fantasy and introspective hip-hop has found its way all over the world, into leading press outlets and most recently, into the Guinness Book Of World Records. ... more

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