it's the deepest connection between my soul and my heart.
If you got a pen and a pad, put your heart down
If you got a record and can grab, lay your scratch down
If you got a marker and a can, bomb whole damn town
But If you live for hip hop, don't ever put your hands down
Whenever people ask me what kind of music I listen to, I used to respond with a simple 'everything.' But it's not that simple. And when I thought about it, I came to the realization that I hate it when people say they listen to everything, because while you may listening to a lot of different things, there's no way you can really listen to everything because there's always gonna be a genre you probably don't like. So when I used to tell everybody that I listened to everything, that was in fact a lie because I don't listen to country very much (at all, really) or what my old flatmate used to call 'kill your mom' music.
I'm pretty sure you can tell, I listen to a lot of different genres - rap/hip-hop/r&b, jazz, rock, indie, blues, pop, soundtracks, gypsy(ish) - A LOT. So I tell people that I have a rather eclectic taste in music. But I grew up listening to hip-hop, r&b, & rap - that genre. After a while, I grew sick of it - all I heard was the same thing over and over again. Emcees stopped spitting rhymes that meant something & started rapping about money and hos and all that other shit. As the years went on, I got back into it, realizing that there WERE some rappers out there who spit wisdom in their lyrics. I just recently discovered Macklemore (thanks J.R. Celski, worrrrdddd) & swear, this guy is brilliant. Absolutely amazing. Look at these words, this is real.
I don't know if its the clothes the hos or the cars
that make people rap like they're trapped inside these bars
This shit ain't complicated man just be who you are
To busy searching for the light missing the fact that you're a star
Now whose got passion stand the hell up
Cause I want to hear somebody rapping whose got it inside their cuts
Now you can get intricate displaying your fancy cadences
But if you're not speaking the truth you might as well be saying shit
If you got a record and can grab, lay your scratch down
If you got a marker and a can, bomb whole damn town
But If you live for hip hop, don't ever put your hands down
Whenever people ask me what kind of music I listen to, I used to respond with a simple 'everything.' But it's not that simple. And when I thought about it, I came to the realization that I hate it when people say they listen to everything, because while you may listening to a lot of different things, there's no way you can really listen to everything because there's always gonna be a genre you probably don't like. So when I used to tell everybody that I listened to everything, that was in fact a lie because I don't listen to country very much (at all, really) or what my old flatmate used to call 'kill your mom' music.
I'm pretty sure you can tell, I listen to a lot of different genres - rap/hip-hop/r&b, jazz, rock, indie, blues, pop, soundtracks, gypsy(ish) - A LOT. So I tell people that I have a rather eclectic taste in music. But I grew up listening to hip-hop, r&b, & rap - that genre. After a while, I grew sick of it - all I heard was the same thing over and over again. Emcees stopped spitting rhymes that meant something & started rapping about money and hos and all that other shit. As the years went on, I got back into it, realizing that there WERE some rappers out there who spit wisdom in their lyrics. I just recently discovered Macklemore (thanks J.R. Celski, worrrrdddd) & swear, this guy is brilliant. Absolutely amazing. Look at these words, this is real.
I don't know if its the clothes the hos or the cars
that make people rap like they're trapped inside these bars
This shit ain't complicated man just be who you are
To busy searching for the light missing the fact that you're a star
Now whose got passion stand the hell up
Cause I want to hear somebody rapping whose got it inside their cuts
Now you can get intricate displaying your fancy cadences
But if you're not speaking the truth you might as well be saying shit
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