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The Rundown: Tech N9ne, Special Effects - The Midwest lyrical phenom Tech N9ne is back with his 15th release and unleashes a plethora of bars to prove why he's the real independent/ underground king. Check out the play-by-play of Special Effects now. — Michael Harris (@IceBlueVA)(Photo: Strange Music)

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'The Procedure (Intro)' - Tech's latest lyrical assault starts off taking a look inside the head of the Strange Music MC.(Photo: Vincent Sandoval/WireImage)

Photo By Photo: Vincent Sandoval/WireImage

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'Aw Yeah (InterVENTion)' - Tech N9ne officially pops things off on his 15th release having a conversation with God and questions a lot of things going on in the world, from racial inequality and police brutality to the Boko Haram kidnappings and the loss of his mother.  The candid conversation includes, "I gotta fight all of the night with cops, Crips, Bloods with sore fists / And them Nazis wanna hem Hadji up, it ain’t too many men godly / Hideous so many cities bust in, Ferguson to Libya, Benghazi / Human equality never been a level playing field / Man, it been wobbly."(Photo: Bryan Bedder/Getty Images)

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'Lacrimosa' - Tech lost his mother last year while on tour and relives the painful memories on this angelic production by Seven as he asks God why and rhymes, "My angel fades, then came more rage / And even though Strange still pays, something inside of me saying it ain't yo days."(Photo: Bryan Bedder/Getty Images)

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'Condolences (Skit)' - For this break in the album, Nina plays a few voice messages from his friends in the game like E-40 and Wendy Day, who checked in on him after his mother passed.  (Photo: JMA/Star Max/GC Images)

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'On the Bible,' Featuring T.I. and Zuse - Handling the bulk of the production on Special Effects, T.I. and Zeus get rowdy on this amped up gunplay production by Seven with Tech as they put it on everything that they'll spray the whole clip. Warning haters to stay out his realm, Nina hits with a barrage of lyrics like, "Totally tripping, tryna take my title, lift you right up in the sky with the Eiffel / If you psycho, you can do this, if he chooses to be foolish / The gun never loses, never give you the deuces."(Photos from Left: Joe Lester/Press Line Photos/Splash News, Bryan Bedder/Getty Images for Power 105.1)

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'Shroud,' Featuring Krizz Kaliko - Nina and Krizz Kaliko take their anger out on the po-po on this one as Tech goes wild with, "This is darkness accumulated / Over the years the heartless but fools I made it / Over to here on the TV / Cops kill a man ‘cause he’s trying to buy a BB gun / What’s gonna happen when they see me come? / Really run."(Photo: Joe Lester/Press Line Photos/WENN)

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'More Psycho Messages (Skit)'   - N9ne lets us into his personal drama by playing a few recordings of a woman bent on making the MC's life a living hell. (Photo: Seth McConnell/The Denver Post)

Photo By Photo: Seth McConnell/The Denver Post

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'Psycho B***h III,' Featuring Hopsin - Hopsin joins Tech on the third installment of his baby mama drama tales as the creeping gets too much for him and causes him to bomb with, "I'm outraged 'cause I've been lied to / If I happen to catch her with him she can die too / Used to be my boo, now she's sucking some guy's goo / Wanna divide two and dump 'em both in the bayou."(Photos from Left: WENN, Chris Loomis/Press Line Photos/Corbis)

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'Wither,' Featuring Corey Taylor - Tech vents out with Slipknot's Corey Taylor on this soulful rock ballad and releases a little anger as he asks, "Could it be how many times I've been ran over and jilted? / That makes me wanna totally detach from light and just kill s**t?"(Photos from left: WENN, Lisa Maree Williams/Getty Images)

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'Dead Alive (Skit)' - Tech has a few laughs at the expense of his homeboy Godemis, who left a few weird voice messages while he appeared to be on a roller coaster high.(Photo: Joe Lester/Press Line Photos/Splash News)

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'Hood Go Crazy,' Featuring 2 Chainz and B.o.B - 2 Chainz and B.o.B get the party rocking with the Kansas City representative as he turns up with, "So much liquor, I never spare that kitchen / Keep it so I usually have a pair that's kissing / And I'm lifted on purple hair, that's b******g / Now that's what I call a f*****g air technician."(Photos from left: Joe Lester/Press Line Photos/Splash News, Ethan Miller/Getty Images, Kevin Winter/Getty Images For 102.7 KIIS FM's Wango Tango)

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'Bass Ackwards,' Featuring Lil Wayne, Yo Gotti and Big Scoob - Strange Music's Big Scoob joins Tech, Yo Gotti and Lil Wayne as they serve up those fronting without the stripes or heart to back up that tough talk. Showing his skill by flipping some of the lyrics and syllables backwards, N9ne unloads on suckers with, "Now the barrel of my governor is hoo tot / Cause you the type that'll get your whole shew crot / Loud mouth n***a tripping thinking that he Putac."(Photos from left: WENN, Kevin Winter/Getty Images, Neilson Barnard/Getty Images)

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'No K,' Featuring E-40 and Krizz Kaliko - Tech N9ne, E-40 and Krizz Kaliko get the track bumping here as they deliver a new term for "no way" and "it's not OK." Getting his Webster on, Nina breaks it down, spitting, "Can I take yo blunt right to my lips? No K / Broke a** always begging me, that's No K / You don't understand then b***h, no way."(Photos from left: WENN, Kevin Winter/Getty Images for Coachella, Joe Lester/Press Line Photos/Corbis)

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'Countdown (Skit)' - The countdown begins as Marshall and Tech show how the Midwest was won.(Photo: Joe Lester/Press Line Photos/Splash News)

Photo By Photo: Joe Lester/Press Line Photos/Splash News

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'Speedom (Worldwide Choppers 2),' Featuring Eminem and Krizz Kaliko - The mic gets destroyed as Tech, Em and Kaliko spit fire at high speeds and leave rappers in the dust. Tech's lyrical mayhem includes, "I'm the fury, the final fight / I flip it on fraudulent fellas for feeling fright / I flick it on fire, finish him when the flow in flight / Feminine fakers fall, I'm floggin' a foe with a fife."(Photos from left: Splash News and Pictures, Theo Wargo/Getty Images, Anil Sharma / Retna Ltd.)

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'Give It All,' Featuring Audio Push and Krizz Kaliko - Seven slows it down on this bluesy, funked-up track as Nina and Audio Push show how deadly they are in the booth. Tech clears the lane when he drops, "Ain't nobody handle me, heated like a candle be / Kissing dirt, ya man'll be for trying to dismantle me / Music is my weapon, true, loud enough to deafen you / Never trip with Tech and crew, be careful who you stepping to."(Photos from left: Joe Lester/Press Line Photos/Splash News, Tim Mosenfelder/Getty Images, Daniel DeSlover/ZUMA Press/Corbis)

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'Yates,' Featuring Oobergeek - Tech and his brother Oobergeek rep for their last name as the indie tycoon talks about how he took over the game with no radio play, rhyming, "Pillowcase, over the head of the industry / Illustrate, with my mouth and murders my ministry / Seal the fate of my enemy, feel the weight of my energy."(Photo: Joe Lester/Press Line Photos/Splash News)

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'M.T.M.D. (Skit)'  - Nina drops a message for the mentally disturbed and tells them not to harm anyone or themselves and to hold on because their time to shine will soon come. (Photo: Raymond Boyd/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

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'A Certain Comfort,' Featuring Kate Ross - Tech "loads his gun with the intention of busting" as he delves into his personal life and how some family and friends only want to see his downfall. With Kate Ross handling the hook on this crossroads track, Tech N9ne shares, "Demons, there's so many I smell brimstone / Come in through family, I'm seeing all of the sin shown / Kin grown into enemies, then it be your friends gone / Ain't you very lonely, but a sanctuary when grim's home." (Photo: D Dipasupil/Getty Images)

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'Burn It Down,' Featuring Ryan Bradley - Tech continues to vent on those wanting to see his Strange Music empire fall and shuts down their momentum with, "Why would a good businessman sign a artist / And he really believes he rhymes the hardest / And spend a lot of money and time just to start it / And you think he don't want you to make it sounds ret-- / Uh, Trav ain't the target, I ain't the puppet / If you got negativity boy, you better tuck it."(Photo: Jerod Harris/WireImage)

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'Life Sentences,' Featuring Krizz Kaliko, Joey Cool and Gee Watts - Nina and his Strange Music crew look back on life and some of the choices they made as well as a few wrongs they'd make right. Speaking on taking his leap of faith, The Kansas spitter reveals, "Wish I woulda known to tell 'em all to start they own business / Make long digits instead of having a boss who talk at the wrong pitches."

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'Dyin' Flyin,'' Featuring Krizz Kaliko - Kriz Kaliko provides the soulful hook as Tech addresses his fans who think he's selling out but lets them know he's still the same but he can't go backwards.Being pulled in two different directions, he rhymes, "Now I'm flying high but dyin', my fans that were buying I / They're crying, 'Why does he have to get bigger and flow with artists from mainstream?' / Good music reaches all and he's creating a Strange scene."(Photo:  Anil Sharma / Retna Ltd.)

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'Worldly Angel' - Special Effects and this track in particular is dedicated to Tech N9ne's late mother as he deals with her sickness, her death and life after she was gone. Showing his softer side in this hymnal sounding ode, Tech shares, "I wanna ascend cause I'm feeling like I'm near shock / Mama gone I'm feeling like I want the rest of my years blocked / You got your ears locked? / I wanna fly away 'cause inside I have eternal tear drops."(Photo: Joe Lester/Press Line Photos/Splash News)

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'Roadkill,' Featuring Excision - Tecca Nina is back to slaying the competition with, "You better be careful with summoning my circle with evil intentions I dominate / Any competitor etcetera etcetera I'm coming out the victor cause I'm the great!"(Photos from left: Ray Tamarra/GC Images, Tim Mosenfelder/Getty Images)

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'Anti,' Featuring Krizz Kaliko and Band of Psychos - Tech N9ne and his Strange Music crew literally rock out and take the burner to everything negative and non-righteous. That includes fake revolutionaries looting and not really fighting for justice.Nine holds a mirror to the face of the "stupid" as he screams, "I'm watching the riots for Michael Brown and then see a crazy n***a say burn this b***h down / Why N****s? / You f**k up the O'Reillys and barbecue spots and then the beauty supply, n****s / Depreciation / For justice keep waiting / 'Cause you burnt up everything except the police station." (Photo: Anil Sharma / Retna Ltd.)

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'Young Dumb Full of Fun,' Featuring Ces Cru and Mackenzie O'Guin - Tech closes out Special Effects on a high note as he lays down his rider for how he and his squad like to party. Getting faded, he spits, "Ooooh yeah, cherry Kool-Aid / Mix it with some grain alcohol add lemon that's called that Fool-Aid / You made some s**t that'll prolly last you like a few days / But not when we come through. you know what we do, me and my crew rage..."(Photos from left: Vincent Sandoval/WireImage, Joey Foley/Getty Images)