Lo Key Quintet - 'Brazil' (instrumental) - LKQ Summer Selections.
*Something i produced with DJ Flow over last summer, may it bring relaxtion to a stressful climate.
I grinded on a piece that I was about to do with Joshua Cruz for S.Y.C. (Show Your Color), unfortunately both of us were too late for the event; he was going to rock Common's 'Be' and I was going to spit this:
';Be Free.'
I wanna be free like my ancestors that passed away/
Free from closed doors, fear, oppression + hate/
Through actions we speak out/ hope for those that breathe doubt/
Through trials and tribulations, be light when it's bleak out/
But we tend to freak out, no, we forget to speak out/
We feed doubt when we should feed our needs/
Spend cash on alcohol, tobacco, ecstacy + weed/
All this freeloading overloading, that we forgot to feed the seed/
Things are so crazy/skies are getting so hazy/
My mom was 30 yesterday, now she's an old lady/
She's got lots to give/she kept me positive/
On top of it, despite my weak will she kept me from the opposite/
I've got to give-it up to her exactly/
She was the glue to bond the unity of my family/
Can't forget my father/sometimes he wouldn't bother/
To help me out/misunderstandings meant me getting slaughtered/
But still he fathered me/showed me how to be free/
Told me education equals freedom, through this university/
Those are my parents/i'm ever proud never embaressed/
They gave me freedom so that I wouldn't be so careless/
My goal is to free others so they can see their wrongs/
And right every one of them, and to pass this freedom on/
We have to know life backwards before we go forward to see/
Life isn't meant behind bars, it was meant to be free.
'..i'm not impressed/more or else/
by them girls in the t.v. and magazines/
'cuz honestly, i believe, that/
your beauty is way more than skin deep..'
Wednesday, March 7, 2007
Monday, March 5, 2007
Your Love Is Timeless.
Righteous Movement - 'Natural' - While You Wait...
*I saw + met the Righteous Movement crew at a downtown Davis bar/coffee shop, some fresh folks with fly music. opening for KRS-One next weekend, pretty dope!
Something random: A question I answered for Kimp's research paper on Cyphers:
8) Pretend you are a cypher session propagandist, what
would you tell people to get them to participate in a
cypher? Why should people who do not participate in
cyphers contribute to the art?
Cyphering is fun. Cyphering is a lyrical workout from the emcee frame of reference, and it will open you to a new world of improvisation, wordplay, ferocity, jokes, and most importantly, inspiration. Not everyone can make a rhyme up, so if you know how to do it, then join the cypher because it's a gift, and once you're able to freestyle effortlessly, who knows? One day you may end up freestyling next to Kanye West and impress him so much with your flyness that he'll sign you to his G.O.O.D. (Getting Out Our Dreams) music label! Or maybe you're writing a song one day and you get songwriter's block and you elect to freestyle your way, and come up with a song so catchy that you have Youtubes and MySpaces going nuts all over the internet! If you're absolutely whack at freestyling, or have never attempted it, don't be discouraged because the art is a result of happy accidentals, of trial-and-error not without it's share of successes: Once you know where your error lies in rhyming and succeed in correcting it out, it's all a matter of doing it often and making it your own. Participation in cyphers requires the audience's communal involvement to make it work and flow, and makes everyone more lively and feeling good, which is the whole point of hip hop in general!: To make you feel good, with positive messages and non-stop creative flow.
this poem is timeless... still my favorite.
'..so it's only logical/
that we do what's natural..'
*I saw + met the Righteous Movement crew at a downtown Davis bar/coffee shop, some fresh folks with fly music. opening for KRS-One next weekend, pretty dope!
Something random: A question I answered for Kimp's research paper on Cyphers:
8) Pretend you are a cypher session propagandist, what
would you tell people to get them to participate in a
cypher? Why should people who do not participate in
cyphers contribute to the art?
Cyphering is fun. Cyphering is a lyrical workout from the emcee frame of reference, and it will open you to a new world of improvisation, wordplay, ferocity, jokes, and most importantly, inspiration. Not everyone can make a rhyme up, so if you know how to do it, then join the cypher because it's a gift, and once you're able to freestyle effortlessly, who knows? One day you may end up freestyling next to Kanye West and impress him so much with your flyness that he'll sign you to his G.O.O.D. (Getting Out Our Dreams) music label! Or maybe you're writing a song one day and you get songwriter's block and you elect to freestyle your way, and come up with a song so catchy that you have Youtubes and MySpaces going nuts all over the internet! If you're absolutely whack at freestyling, or have never attempted it, don't be discouraged because the art is a result of happy accidentals, of trial-and-error not without it's share of successes: Once you know where your error lies in rhyming and succeed in correcting it out, it's all a matter of doing it often and making it your own. Participation in cyphers requires the audience's communal involvement to make it work and flow, and makes everyone more lively and feeling good, which is the whole point of hip hop in general!: To make you feel good, with positive messages and non-stop creative flow.
this poem is timeless... still my favorite.
'..so it's only logical/
that we do what's natural..'
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