Arform The Worlds Gone Crazy

In order to understand how I feel about this track, I feel it’s important that you understand me as a person.

My name is Tony, and as you can see, I am from Lauderdale. I got my love of breaking music down and knowing what it’s about from Philadelphia, though. When I used to live in Philadelphia, for the couple of years that I lived there, I was a part of a program where we broke down hip-hop songs. It just so happens that the hip-hop songs we broke down, especially the ones I remember the most, were “Hard Knock Life” by Jay-Z, “If I Ruled the World” by Nas, “Living in a World” by Trick Daddy, “I Seen a Man Die” by Scarface, and “Cell Therapy” by Goodie Mob. The last of which, I strongly feel like this song resembles with a similar message.

That set the groundwork for how I listened to music in the future. As one of my favorite rappers says, that part is so important.

I will be honest: I thought me breaking down this project was going to take two, maybe three days max. However, I soon found that there were no lyrics online, so I had to go back to the old-school way and listen over and over and over again while I wrote down the lyrics. This gave me an even bigger appreciation of how good not only the song is, but how the placement of each artist is on the song.

And though it’s short for each, you get a glimpse of how great each of these artists is, and it makes you want to go deeper into their catalogs. (Which I will be doing.)

I want to preface this by openly admitting that I am not a reporter. I am not a journalist. I’m just a dude who works too hard and likes to write. My highest education is college, a bachelor’s degree. I’m not here to critique someone’s art, as that’s not my goal. I’ll leave that to the reactors. What I’m here to do is talk about the art. I’m here to dissect their lyrics to find what they’re referencing. I’m here to tell you how the song made me feel. There will be GIFs in this review. This is my style, and it is what it is. Without further ado, let’s get into the music.

In this song by A Room Full of Mirrors, we are following the Ichiban Don, Daylyt, Roberto Horns, JOOSE, Earlee Riser, and iAMLYRIC in an Enemy of the State x Cell Therapy x Eagle Eye-type situation (music video). Let me explain the bars, though.

I will say that, out of all of these artists on this song that I mentioned, the only ones that I’m aware of are Daylyt and Lyric.

What I really love about this song is that it reminds me so much of the hip-hop I grew up listening to and loving. This reminds me of the first time I heard Goodie Mob.

“When the scene unfolds

Young girls thirteen years old

Expose themselves to any Tom, Dick, and Hank

Got mo’ stretch marks than these hoes

Hollin’ they got rank

See Sega ain’t in this new world order

Dem experimenting in Atlanta, Georgia

United Nations, overseas

Trained assassins to do search and seize”

This was one of the first instances where my music wasn’t happy-go-lucky. This was one of the first instances where they were rapping about something that I could see happening in my own community.

The Ichiban Don starts off after dropping an absolutely amazing hook. I love his voice. It reminds me of those soulful acts from Texas, Florida, Georgia, and Louisiana. I personally think that the strongest aspects of a song are how it starts and how it ends. You have to have your hardest bars to begin the song, and you have to have your hardest bars to end the song, and Ichiban does this perfectly. He begins:

“Cold world, ICE coming down on people

Feeling like Armageddon, ain’t no sequel.”

Ichiban, like most Americans, is seeing the effects that ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) is having on neighbors in the country. Specifically in LA, where President Trump wants to make LA an example due to his disagreements with Gavin Newsom. The Don continues:

“’Cause ain’t nobody equal

You see the math ain’t been math since the past, kid

Three-fifths of a human being only needin’ a fraction of some action

To make shit happen

40 acres, pack mules assed out

It’s heinous how they raped us, they tape us

Cameras record slaughters unjust

Though the victims ain’t done much, the police bum-rush.”

I will always be grateful for not just TDE artists, but I’m always grateful for the artists who can look into the past, see what has been done to us in the past, and not pussyfoot around the situation. More than that, they can take past instances and show how they’re still relevant today in big old 2026. America’s original sin is never leaving the scene until it’s been dealt with.

You get a couple of minutes bringing up the Three-Fifths Compromise. He’s talking about Union General William Tecumseh Sherman’s Special Field Order No. 15, issued in January 1865, which redistributed 400,000 acres of confiscated Confederate land along the South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida coasts into 40-acre plots for newly freed Black families.

It’s important that you realize that these are things we fought for. It is very important to also realize that these things were snatched away from us as well. The history of America and its antebellum style is deeply shown in this verse by Ichiban Don. Absolutely spazzed.

The second of this posse cut is someone I’m VERY familiar with, Daylyt, and he starts his verse just like I expect a Daylyt verse to start: with exquisite wordplay. I have to say, the way Daylyt said so much without saying a lot needs to be studied, and I’m the one who’s going to be studying it. It’ll be a brief description here, but I think I want to do a deeper dive on his verse in a following essay.

“I try to make my art official in a time

Where artificial art is not official.”

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know about artificial intelligence joining the music game, with people like Fenix Flexin, Timbaland, Tyga, and, as I write this, there are rumors of even The Doctor delving into AI. For this bar, in my opinion, Daylyt is saying that he is making his art in a way that AI cannot copy. It sounds like he feels like we’re coming close to a world where artificial art will be official, so for this time when people are against AI art, he’s making his work stand out amongst his peers. If I miss something, I miss something. It is what it is.

“Nobody got striped shirts or whistles

It’s no referees in this game

Blowers get clapped for dismissal.”

If I’m right, this is a tough-ass bar.

What I got is:

“There are no referees here, and if you blow the whistle (snitch), you get taken out of the game.”

“Phones workin’ overtime, they BOTs, but that’s the issue.”

There are botting farms everywhere. Not just for hip-hop platforms. There are bot offices, all this stuff out here just to push propaganda, and that is the issue. I’ve never resonated with a bar so hard.

“Ever met a fake persona defyin’ the veil?

The truth no longer exists, people lyin’, ain’t real.”

If you look at this, have you ever gotten into an argument with someone that you knew was a robot? You see behind the veil. The people who are lying aren’t even people. There’s no truth in anything anymore because these bot farms pushing propaganda are so pertinent that the truth gets drowned out with all the BS.

“It’s a guy in a hill, have eyes, an island of toddlers

They fabricated the Silk Road with zero survivors.”

And I’m stumped. Two bars I’ve been scratching at for so long, but I can’t anymore if I want this review to come out. I will sit with this more, but look how much we got out of, what, 10–12 bars? Immaculate, but expected from Daylyt.

Roberto Horns does not miss a beat, and though he is not as lyrically complex as Daylyt, with his subject matter, it wasn’t needed. He got in, did his thing, and got out.

“They stealin’ babies from they families

I been scared to leave the crib

I’m all paranoid and shit, man, you would swear I did a bid

I don’t care, I’ll catch a fair when I’m ’bout to square up with a pig

My people hungry, see they ribs

Spare me all the politics

’Cause both sides is to blamin’ shit

It’s a race to make us angriest

Immigrants is just the latest trick

Fuck ’em all, I’m polyamorous

I hate the fakes that make ’em shit

I know my rights, I’m takin’ ’em

Can’t believe this shit, no atheist

We gon’ make it work like Jadakiss.”

From the bar where we’re talking about babies being stolen to being able to physically see the ribs of those in his community because of how physically hungry they are. Being paranoid about coming outside because of everything that’s happening. This ICE shit got people in a bad way. It’s so bad, and he’s so paranoid, that he’s saying that you would think that he did major time, but it’s just this world. I love the fact that, even after feeling like this, he’ll still squabble with the police. He’s 100% right. Even in this country, for so long, the Republicans are wolves. They show their animosity toward you, while the Democrats are like foxes. They’ll sneak in toward you, but he still got that same animosity from them not getting anything done. After all that, just like my self-proclaimed best rapper of all time, Jadakiss, said, we gon’ make it. Another banger of a verse. Kudos to Roberto.

This is my first time hearing about JOOSE, but I promise it won’t be the last. JOOSE, isn’t it? Extremely talented individual, and I am happy to be able to listen to more of his music because of the way he attacked this verse here.

“I see babies who never love

See traffic jams and radio signal bugs

Families hit with slugs

Bombarded and broken up

Bombers that’s killin’ love

Bondin’ off trauma dumps and missiles fallin’ abrupt.”

This is an absolutely astonishing way to begin this verse. I’ve seen the same thing, and, as a matter of fact, I think he did this purposely. Maybe we’ll find out in the future, but what he is describing that he’s seeing is what Tupac warned about. Let me cook real quick. Tupac once said:

“I wonder why we take from our women

Why we rape our women, do we hate our women? (Why? Why?)

I think it’s time to kill for our women (Why? Why? Why? Why?)

Time to heal our women, be real to our women

And if we don’t, we’ll have a race of babies

That will hate the ladies that make the babies (Oh, yeah, baby).”

What I believe that JOOSE is mentioning is what’s happening right now. Those babies who never love. The music that you hear on the radio, it doesn’t talk about love like we used to. Don’t get me wrong, is a lot of the music auditorily pleasing? If you don’t listen to the content of what’s being said. Now, I might be completely off with what I’m describing with this verse, but God damn it, that’s what it sounds like to me. To finish it off, you have people out there who are determined to bomb somebody else’s relationship and end that love, only to create more trauma for this to happen to more people.

He continues:

“Father God, I see the problem you see in all of our lives

Steady prayin’ for peace but can’t reach the person inside

Screamin’ for change

We in a drought, just let it rain

Demons playin’ with heart while angels feelin’ the pain

They like to tell us that we crazy, now we goin’ insane

And ever since the end of 2020, shit ain’t the same.”

I’ve listened to the song this week probably over 50 times. Sitting down and reading what he said almost brought me to tears because I’ve been looking for a change, but the deepest part of me, for some reason, wasn’t changing. I’ve been praying for peace every day, but there’s a constant war inside of me. I talk about what needs to change in this country all the time. I donate money to the causes. I volunteer at these places. I do my part to make a change.

Even though there are a lot of others like me, those who do a hundred times more than what I do, it’s not enough. We’re in a drought. It can’t be done by the individual. It has to be done by the collective. And ever since they separated us in 2020, nothing has been the same. We used to have a gray area. The gray area has disappeared. Nuance doesn’t exist in the masses anymore. If you are A, then you are not B. If you don’t support A, you are against A.

“We play positions, turn to victims, now who really to blame?

I think the system in game, so fuck your vision and ways

(I think the world’s gone crazy.)”

JOOSE finishes fantastically, and I’m not sure who sang that last bar, but hell yeah.

If you’re still here reading this, kudos to you. Imma have a TLDR. I’ll post that on my X. Anyways, continuing.

“Pull your privilege down, the guilt showin’ again

Here for some peace, but you ain’t listenin’

Ain’t askin’ for freedom, really runnin’ amok

I should be tellin’ you to put your fuckin’ hands up

Why I gotta detour and take the high road?

They dumpin’ gas on the flames like they was pyros

Better thank God we nothin’ like you

When ain’t no way around it, only way is to fight through.”

If this verse here doesn’t reflect the Black experience in America to a tee, I don’t know what else does. Black folk tell you what they want, but they don’t hear us. We have peace. We already got freedom. However, we allow y’all to do all this disrespect, and we should really be beating y’all ass. We always got to take the high road, though, because what one of us does reflects all of us. Y’all better thank God that we are not as vicious as y’all. That we are not as nasty, controlling, narcissistic, and demeaning as y’all, because everything we could do back, it’s not like we don’t have a reason! But that’s not what we want.

Crazy, crazy, crazy, crazy.

Crazy x4 is how hard Earlee Riser went in on that verse. Immaculate bars, phenomenal storytelling, and you could feel not the hurt, not even anger. It’s like a feeling of irritation. It’s like if a mosquito bit yo ass. Y’all muthalovas make my ass itch. After such a long review, it’s one of my new favorite artists, iAMLYRIC.

Now, besides being auditorily pleasing, the first thing I noticed was the Anita Baker and Sister Souljah homage in her bars. Respect. I also thought there was a Boyz II Men and Case reference, but I might be reaching.

“I need a baker and his men to redirect they skills, they can

But try to pack the cake, they dead

Sister soldier, bitch, I’m older, bitch.”

I feel like she is saying the folk who carry burners should turn to something else because they can, because if they keep on the path they’re going, they’ll die. Now that this soldier is older, she sees the world differently.

“Resist or you’ll be led

Vendettas, they do spread

In the back of minds of righteous men

Once born from the light, now drenched in red

Sides that hate itself, don’t let it in.”

This is about, as a man, having your wits about you. Knowing what’s real, what’s not real. Knowing that it’s okay to follow, but knowing the right person to follow. Because you were born from light. As she is saying, you are a righteous man. But as soon as you took that red pill, telling you everything about you is hateful, don’t let that into you.

“Try your case, it’s gotta have speed, gone with the wind

Mockingbirds do fly

Operatin’, get me free, fuck you, pay me

Liberty or death.”

I feel like this might be in the same tone as the honorable Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. She’s saying, in this life, you’re going to be tried. Let it go with speed, and get it out of here. Gone with the wind. Mockingbirds do fly, so even though the mockingbird sings, the mockingbird also flies. In this operation, not only am I getting free, you’re going to pay me as well. And I’m willing to die for this.

Man, I think A Room Full of Mirrors went crazy on this song. This has been my song for the week. When I first listened to it, I thought it was good. Now that I’m on my 50th listen, I think it’s the best song that I’ve heard this year. The more that you listen to this song, the better each listen gets. If you’re still here, thank you very much for reading my very long review on this very not-long song. It’s much appreciated, and I can’t wait to review the next one.

With much love,

Lauderdale Tony

Yoooooooooo.