
I don't think it's actually
insomnia that keeps me going in the middle of the night - prime time - it's just a part of life that I've come to accept and embrace. So anyways, I found a song that I used to play daily a few years back. It was on that Queensbridge album anchored by Oochie Wally. The song I'm talking about is "
Self-Conscience" with Prodigy and Nas. I remember being the driver one day and forcing the accompanying crew to listen to the whole song and let it soak in. I can hear my man Ceph's words now; "dam, son....that was kinda deep."
Speak your thoughts, put your all in it
Whatever's in your mind, spit it
Place your anger on the page, release tension on the tape
A stress verse, seem to be what they most thirst
Well you may not find the song's lyrics or perspective all that deep, but I did. It's just one of those things that I could connect with. It wasn't necessarily either of their best verses, but it spoke volumes about real life. The real life of cheebah-inspired poetry and the real life that is the concrete jungle. But of course, let's not get it twisted. Life is damn sure not only about mayhem and gloom. It's about vitality, growth, and redemption. Life is good and life is great. Living it for every second is what makes it worth...well...living, right? So anyways,
here's the track so you can check it our for yourself. I've always thought the angle was ill. Plus, I heard some shots were fired in front of Slade's tonight, so it just got me to thinking about rational shT even more because as much as there are people who rep the right way, there are those muthafuqas in the world whose sole existence seems to be to specifically fuq up a good thing. Plus, I've been meaning to find a picture of iminy Cricket from a few posst back.
...you keep me hype when I'm writin
Kept me on point in the night when it might go down
Keep me eyes wide in the daytime as well
Kept me focused on what's real and nuttin else
I find it healthy, to conversate with myself
I kick it with my delf (I kept you alive, all these years)
It's that inner voice you shoulda took head to and shT
5 comments:
"as much as there are people who rep the right way, there are those muthafuqas in the world whose sole existence seems to be to specifically fuq up a good thing."
chuuch, lol....
thanks for the compliment, although i can't say my next column will be anything like it. the next stuff will be a lot lighter to appeal to the general student population. i do like to mix it up every now and then.
it was a direct quote, ELA-challenged.
Insomnia is a PIB. What are you doing about it? TIA
~just curious
ok well maybe not real insomnia. i'm just a night owl and i like it that way. plus, your acronyms have me clueless right now. hence one of the drawbacks of being a night owl. i'm slo without the W .
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