Final Test

18Dec09

So this may be my last post. It’s pretty clear to me now… I really don’t have what it takes to blog. But I’ll try to make this one a good one.

I wouldn’t say I chose my final project so much as it chose me. I’ve been helping my friends for some time with their lyrics, and they’ve been encouraging me to write my own. So for this project I decided to do my presentation in 32 bars. I failed… miserably.

For those who are interested, here they are.

Started in the BX,
So unforgettable.
playin dozens on the corner,
and becomeing trendsetters.
The hoods answer to disco,
As far as this go,
Jamaican club music greased them beats like crisco.
So they pulled the baseline,
dropped it with rhymes,
Some kid popped his shoulder
and they asked “one more time?
Artists with spraycans beat the streets,
so you can see
their genius with every wall you meet.
This hiphop, it was born in the NYC
and like kudzu down in Georgia, it spread so deadly.
G-funk in the west on round to the dirty south, check it out
Got that Mid-west flow like bullets from my mouth.
This movement rocked the world, it’s like a duty,
B-boys from Japan and France movin with beauty,
We can hit dominicana if you don’t approve B,
Just let the vibes of Reggaeton move your booty.

Not hard to have opinions on the state of gangsta rap,
here’s a fact, when it comes to play that game the deck is stacked.
It’s like 30 to one, they got guns, this ain’t bout fun.
They mean to make you take ya life back, without a refund.
Suits in black ties swarm like flies to shit
onto that gangsta spit
You know, it’s just incredible
almost inevitable, it took off just like a freight train.
record execs hypin it like a presidential campaign.
Insane – it’s street and they sure do flaunt it.
Some decry the death of hiphop when they don’t know jack about it.
Controvertial positions, sure as I mention
I think gangsta rap is needed just like a whole new dimension.
While hiphop has a history of hate in racial relations,
And on face or simple ignorance, some call it mental castration.
For those of presence of mind,
These lyrics represent lines,
Not to outward appearance, but inward significance held in these rhymes.

I’ll continue trying to perform, including going back to doing standup. I’ll also be starting b-boying next semester. No matter how hard I crashed and burned on this one, I still love hiphop more than anything.

Peace – Isham

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