Over 100 song lyrics across 8 albums.
The music and stories of a decade.

What made a straight A student on a clear path to public office want to become a rapper instead? What made him return to politics to run for Congress using hip hop? Who are the artists that influenced the champion of artists? Where do the ideas for his songs come from? What are they really about?

David Carus takes you on a journey across his entire career of making music. Starting with his first major work, the spoken word poem Ivy League Gangsta performed at Georgetown University, to recording the classic Central Coast hip hop album East of Eden with his brother Cal Paradox, to the groundbreaking Politician Rapper recordings and his time in New York City creating A Bigger Game, up to his later work with composer/producer EtherGun and forming the X-Ray Poetz, David Carus tells the stories behind it all.

X-Ray Vision - Behind The Music presents the ideas of one of the most daring, intelligent songwriters of our time. Whether you are a long-time fan or have never heard of David Carus, this book delivers unforgettable stories that piece together a picture of creativity like no other.

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X-RAY VISION - BEHIND THE MUSIC - THE COMPLETE RECORDINGS

Ivy League Gangsta

1. EAST OF EDEN
Intro
On The Origin Of Men
Make A Killin’
The Flowing Of Words
Laugh At You
Fittest Of The Fit
Keep Running Around
East of Eden

2. POLITICIAN RAPPER

Exorcist Stares
To Kill A Mockingbird
Revolution (music video)
A People’s History (music video)
I’m Just One Man (music video)
One Man Political Party
Politician Rapper
Hittin’ Pavement (music video)
Che Guevara (music video)
In Dubious Battle (music video)
Hail To Tha Thief
Big Brother
A People’s Future
Philosopher King

3. A BIGGER GAME
Seeds of Change
Look, Don’t Think
A Bigger Game
It’s A Beautiful Life
Conquer the World
Fairytale Minuet (Unreleased)
The Man on the Street
Emotional
A Little Smoke
Bumpin’ Music
Time Track
Live From The Center Of The Universe
Keep On Doin’ It
This Is Hip Hop

4. LAND OF ILLUSIONS (documentary film)
Battle the Earth
Robot
X-Ray Poetz (music video)
Artists Run This Planet (music video)
Rebel Force (John Rocket #2) (music video)
Kal-El (music video)
Tractor Beams
I Fly
Slave Ship Revolution (music video)
Osama Song (72 6-Packs) (music video)
Rocket Ride (John Rocket #1)
Cyclops Vision
Dollar a Year Man
Strange Weather on the 7 Train
American Loser (music video)

5. PHILOSOPHICAL WEAPONS
Philosophical Weapons
Terrorist
Arkham Amerika
One Way Out
X-Ray Nation
We Are Superior (music video)
Tin Foil Hat Party
Flushing
I Came Back
I Pack Ideas (music video)
Lettuce Fields Forever (music video)
Cops & Robbers
Artist In A Time Of War (music video)
God of America
Copy Machine (We Know Why You Lie) (music video)

6. ZOMBIE EVOLUTION

Super Mankind (music video)
Touch the Clouds
Artists vs. Criminals
I Stick My Neck Out
Hello World (We Are The Prodigal)
Love Agenda
Fake Girl
Space Low Rider
Atlas Mugged
Mystic Mountain
Devil at the Crossroads
Calculate
Superhero
Good-bye Sandy Hook

7. GOD KILLER
God Killer
Flow Power to All the World
More Powerful Than The President
Walk Like The Dog Of A King
Look Right Through the World
Incredible Life
When You’re Going On a Journey, You’re Taking a Trip
Against The Day
I’m Gravity
Pushing This Plow (Ka-Pow!)
Renaissance Man
Neverland
Letter To My Brother (Unreleased)

8. AMERICAN HEROEZ (Coming Soon)
Walt Whitman
The Wright Brothers
Henry David Thoreau
Charlie Chaplin
Walt Disney
Martin Luther King Jr.
Geronimo
Harriet Tubman
Ernest Hemingway
Harry Houdini
Stan Lee
Mark Twain