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{{Song | Name=Drop | Artist=Kenji & Artofficial | Cover=Album-Rapology 13.jpg | Release=Rapology 13 | Working title= | Recorded= | Released=1998 | Format=CD | Length=2:46 | Stems= | Time signature= | Tempo= | Key= | Samples= | References=Ted Kaczynski's 1995 book The Unabomber Manifesto: Industrial Society And Its Future
Jonathan Lynn's 1985 film Clue | Live debut= | Last played= | Writer=Mike Shinoda, Joe Hahn | Producer=Mike Shinoda, Joe Hahn | Label=The Urban Network | Misc=Template:Extra track listing

"Drop" is the tenth track of the second disc on Urban Network Magazine's hip-hop compilation Rapology 13. It is one of many short interludes by the same title found in the album. This song in particular was produced, recorded and performed by Mike Shinoda and Joe Hahn when they both were already in Xero.^[1]

Background

Rapology was a series of promotional / industry-only hip-hop compilation CDs issued by Urban Network Magazine^[2] from 1992 to 2001. Lee Cadena, Rap Editor at Urban Network and creator of the Rapology series, started an artist management and development company in 1998 called LCM which worked with Xero.^[3] At the time, Joe Hahn was working for the magazine as Cadena's assistant^[4]^[5] and used to write reviews for them.^[6] Mike (credited as Kenji) and Joe (credited as Artofficial) contributed to Rapology 13 with an original track named "Drop" and Mike Shinoda also created artwork for the album. According to Mike, he decided to stop using the name Kenji because too many people heard it as "Ken G".^[7]

In the lyrics, "Kaczynski" refers to Ted Kaczynski, better known as the Unabomber, an anarchist who killed three people and injured 23 others in a series of bombings where he hid bombs in packages sent via mail. Him "having a good point" probably refers to Kaczynski's views on society expressed in his lengthy essay, Industrial Society And Its Future, also known as "The Unabomber Manifesto".

The line "Or get murdered by Mr. Green in the alley with a lead pipe" is a reference to the 1985 film Clue.

Versions

Note: Only the date of the very first release of each version is listed.

Title	Album	Length	Recorded	Released	Notes
Drop	Rapology 13	2:46	1998	1998	Censored. Contains references to Ted Kaczynski's 1995 book "The Unabomber Manifesto: Industrial Society And Its Future", and Jonathan Lynn's 1985 film "Clue".

Personnel

Executive producer: Lee "The Crusher" Cadena
Art direction: Marisa Domizio
Cover illustration and graphic design: Mike Shinoda
Concept Mike Shinoda
Imaging center manager: Alden Keith Stubblefield
Mastering: Stu Jacobs, Mr. Master
Manufacturing: Disctronics

Lyrics

Album Version

Hi
We're back
Kenji, Artofficial
Rapology 13

Why do these people have to get in my way?
I'm losing more and more pity for idiots every day
Say what you want about my outlook, I'm pessimistic
But you're the one who watches Jerry Springer's guests with their shit schtick
Just the other day, I saw my neighbor on the show
Cause her crack-smoking kids were fucking a dog when she came home from work
And it was her bestiality videotapes and crack rock that gave them all the ideas in the first place
Not even worst case scenario, it's everywhere I turn
Rap records still coming out talking about how they got money to burn
And Joe can't get his turntables fixed
And this hunchback repair man with a hairlip is a fucking lunatic
When all we gotta do is fix the AC cord that blew out
And this dude's charging us seventy-two bucks to take the screws out (that's ridiculous)
I'm fed up and I'm doing all I can do to move to a deserted island
And make my own shit out of coconuts and bamboo

The world's nothing but a can full of idiots
The world's nothing but a basket full of stupids
The world's nothing but a bucket full of morons
I don't wanna talk to you so don't look at me
The world's nothing but a can full of idiots
The world's nothing but a basket full of stupids
The world's nothing but a bucket full of morons
I don't wanna talk to you so don't look at me

Now I'm starting to think that Kaczynski fella had a good point
My grandpa's popping Valium and Viagra, smoking joints
Cause the doctor said it would cure his anxiety attacks
But the reason he's so anxious is he's doing all that smack
And my cousin Pete the phone sex freak went to Vegas with one of the operators
And she drove off in his Mercedes
And he went around town alone and he gambled all his cheddar
Now he and Grandpa sit at home and shoot heroin together
But that's what happens in a world of hedonists and heretics
Teachers get paid less than cops and psychotherapists
Cause it's pretty damn important to give you a ticket for a headlight
So you can get home safe and visit Charles Manson's website
Or see the shrink to get your head right
Or get on the road and get hit by a slobbering drunk driver running a red light
Or get murdered by Mr. Green in the alley with a lead pipe
Or sing the chorus because it's alright

The world's nothing but a can full of idiots
The world's nothing but a basket full of stupids
The world's nothing but a bucket full of morons
I don't wanna talk to you so don't look at me
The world's nothing but a can full of idiots
The world's nothing but a basket full of stupids
The world's nothing but a bucket full of morons
I don't wanna talk to you so don't look at me

(Hey boy, what you sayin'?)