inspired by House of Pain – Jump Around, boring run-of-the-mill rappers and a few shining examples.
lyrics
Look, I don't care how much you spit in front of me.
I won't think you're hard until you're punching me.
I keep my own counsel, keep myself company.
Still I keep finding at night they might run from me.
And I don't care if you don't like my attitude,
it's just that when you smile at people, people smile back at you.
It's not quantum physics, is it?
Man, I'm sure you've written lyrics that explicitly figure out this is cricket.
I'm clearly not up on the lingo – by jingo,
no chap-hop exponent would count me among his kinfolk.
But when I'm washing dishes and I hear a kick, hat, snare,
I'm zipped back there to where it lit that flare.
Now I suppose I'm acting the part of a rapper
but I know I'm more adept than all of these goons and slappers
and if I see another freestyle video
where he's rapping something written, I think I'm gonna blow.
What's so special about you? Go on, do tell me?
I've heard all those songs before and not even heard your LP.
Welsh, see, it's in my blood to create song
looking down my nose like I'm chugging on a bong.
I watched Canibus battling Dizaster,
thought “basically, this guy's just chattering much faster.”
If white people had wanted to rob the soul
and replace it with technicalities, we've just about won gold!
I've got a job and a roof over my head
and I know that I'm luckier than the end of a rabbit's leg.
It's much to do with outlook – look, how are you helping this progress
if all you do is shout and grumble loud 'cause you're a bit depressed?
You've got to take it all with a pinch of salt.
Maybe add a squeeze of lemon and a drink? I'm thinking: halt.
It's certainly not all doom and gloom
in this backroom you might think I assumed a tomb.
You've got MC's like Lowkey, Klumzy Tung, Respek BA.
Around the way, people like Q-Tip, Common, Kanye.
Hip hop to me's now nothing more than a tempo
but when you intellectualise it, just don't go forgetting them.
There's always been the glamour and the posturing and violence,
ostentacious diamonds, the cost of private islands,
but now I'm fairly sure and you can quote it as I've told ya -
Hip hop's not getting worse, fact is: we are getting older.
Stop right there – if you ask me?
All you've really done is make this thoroughly nasty
and no-one here wants to hear that.
Let's turn the clock a few years back.
Stop right there – if you ask me?
All you've really done is make hip hop nasty
and no-one here wants to hear that.
Let's turn the clock a few years back.
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Mike Dennis is a classically-trained
violinist and poet whose boyhood love of Run DMC, Beastie Boys and Gangstarr led him to create a unique kind of string-heavy hip hop music he refers to as Violinica.
You won't have seen an artist like this before....more
Killer West Coast hip-hop entirely produced by Georgia Anne Muldrow, with features from E-40, Del the Funky Homosapien & more. Bandcamp New & Notable Mar 4, 2024