Essential The Locker Room's Random Thoughts
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CinnaSlim
Queen of Swords
I wish I had friends to take pics of me
Ol’Otis
The Picasso of the Ghetto
this is why i will never swirl
This Jared Kushner dude looks like a smug American Psycho
SeveroDrgnfli
Ain't nobody tryin to get indicted.
I want to hear Destiny's Child cover Martha Reeves & The Vandellas' music. B would be a good stand in for Martha on Quicksand I think.
Being a rap fan has become annoying. The debate over what good lyrics are is silly because the technical shyt is cool and so is the simple shyt. Bars are about how you say them and speaking with conviction. Something concise and simple can be lyrical I think, drawn out rhyme schemes aren't indicative of lyrical quality.
One of the most well known and socially conscious lyrics in Hip Hop uses a basic rhyme scheme and set up.
Tupac says: I give a holler to my sisters on welfare/Tupac cares if don't nobody else care.
Talib Kweli say:
Fresher than Tony Rebel's vegetables at African street festivals where incredible women is plentiful.
Over the years I met a few none of them compare to you. Preparing you to make fruit bearable something terrible.
Let's see: you fruitful, beautiful, smart, loveable, huggable, doable like art, suitable to be part of my life.
Both are socially conscious lyrics about Black women, but one is concise and the other isn't. They're both great lyrics. I don't care who the better the MC is or who said it better. shyt is fire either way.
Mos Def VS the world.
Being a rap fan has become annoying. The debate over what good lyrics are is silly because the technical shyt is cool and so is the simple shyt. Bars are about how you say them and speaking with conviction. Something concise and simple can be lyrical I think, drawn out rhyme schemes aren't indicative of lyrical quality.
One of the most well known and socially conscious lyrics in Hip Hop uses a basic rhyme scheme and set up.
Tupac says: I give a holler to my sisters on welfare/Tupac cares if don't nobody else care.
Talib Kweli say:
Fresher than Tony Rebel's vegetables at African street festivals where incredible women is plentiful.
Over the years I met a few none of them compare to you. Preparing you to make fruit bearable something terrible.
Let's see: you fruitful, beautiful, smart, loveable, huggable, doable like art, suitable to be part of my life.
Both are socially conscious lyrics about Black women, but one is concise and the other isn't. They're both great lyrics. I don't care who the better the MC is or who said it better. shyt is fire either way.
Mos Def VS the world.
Ol’Otis
The Picasso of the Ghetto
So progressive
