Tower Basement · Teal door · Free entry
Truth is a Trap House
A book, a listening party, and a set of recordings by Jessica Holter. Truth as a house you get lured into, where the product is fear and everybody leaves with something they did not come for.
Truth is a trap house,
built beneath mythical trees
guarded by weasels.
The Listening Party
Hosted by Emcee Skawla — every cut in one set: her songs, Brown Viking's title poem, and the Pete Prayer duets and solo cuts from his folder. The horrorcore remix is the explicit cut, adult language throughout. Every track is a free download for all Citizens — hit the Download button beside any song.
Water Drops — from The Water Radio Show
Radio drops and clues that expose more of the lore. New drops land in this player as they are filed.
Water Drops · now playing
The Water Radio Show — Official Intro
Emcee Skawla
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Read the transcript — Foolish Scholar (Water Drop 2)
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- Mostly, I stay busy — makin' songs, writin' lyrics, and stayin' out of other people's personal Be Eye Zee.
- I got light‑weight bullied about the genius of my father. Kids threw water on me and called my genius father “Foolish Scholar.”
- Yeah, kids can be mean. They did not faze me. Painful moments can serve you better than some of the best. Yes, yes. That one gave me my stage name. Emcee Skawla.
- I'd ignore once and think twice before answering to my given name… Esther Seafare.
- My mother, rest her soul, she used to testify into her phone, “Esther? She real smart, you know? Esther done been here before!” she'd say.
- Look — when you get bullied and rise up anyway? The props you give yourself can be a lot. I earned mine.
- I've always been mature.
- I knew the kids at Coffy Town School were just following their narratives — moving like NPCs, Non‑Playing Characters, not truly thinking, just echoing what they heard at home…
- They said my father was just a man with the nerve to think he could out‑hocus‑pocus Mother Nature.
- No time for haters.
- Forced to focus on my future.
- I can hardly wait for tomorrow.
- I mean, hey… I get so much better every day.
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Season 3 lyric video — “No time for haters”
Coffy Town Revolution cover art with Emcee Skawla lip-syncing the closing verse of the Water Drops.
Lyric
- No time for haters.
- Forced to focus on my future.
- I can hardly wait for tomorrow.
- I mean, hey… I get so much better every day.
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The Book
The title poem's world: a former crack house in Atlanta that a poet converted into a venue for her Open Truth Night — walls freshly papered with the faces of Sanchez, Brooks, Angelou, Lorde, Giovanni and Hughes, the scent of old misery still stuck like gum on the carpet.
Poetry and narrative collection — poems, haiku, one-act poems, letters, and essays
Characters & Recording Artists
Emcee Skawla
Host of the Listening Party · Coffy Town site agent
She keeps the teal door open and runs the room. Ask her about the book, the haiku, or where a track came from.
Visit Emcee SkawlaPete Prayer
Recording artist · Club Surrender
Gospel-cut horrorcore out of the basement. He sings with Skawla on 'Secondhand Wings' and 'Wasting Prayers on Demons', and holds his own set with 'Bury This Book' and 'Casting Satan'.
Brown Viking
Recording artist · reads the title poem
The voice on 'Truth is a Trap House — The Poem'. Mythical trees, weasels on guard, and a house where the product is fear.
Lady
Bathroom attendant extraordinaire · The Lady's Room
Goddess, healer, truth sayer. Towels for tips, butters and silky skin milk, and a mirror that reads: 'You have been here before.'
Visit Lady
Enter the Black Stone Maze
The Trap House tile sits inside the Maze — step on it and the walls quote the book back at you. Truth is a Trap House. Watch your step. Pay attention.
Play the Black Stone Maze