So, between game reviews, book reviews, prepping featured artists through the month of April, launching The Dri Fish on illpoets.com, new Sound Committee topics, preparing to build a web template for a local shop I frequent as well as leethepoet.com, trying to line up some features to better market the dope ass illpoets.com CD, and oh yeah…work, I’ve been kinda mentally preoccupied. Got a lot planned for this year, just have to continue to use this month to organize how, when and where it’s done.
I’m finding it funny that I’m actually writing rhymes again. Not like on a regular basis, or consistently for that matter. Nonetheless, I am definitely writing structured rhymes. Every once in a while, them joints are actually hot. But rarely. See, I don’t really criticize my poems unless I force myself to write, as I believe that I said what was meant o be said how it needed to be said in that particular moment. However, I can’t ever remember having a moment like that when it came to writing rhymes.. It’s rare that I can have the attention span to write a solid eight to sixteen bars in one sitting, but I can write a two page poem if the mood hits me without even trying. Thing is, I’m hyper critical of my rhymes, so even dope rhymes never make it to paper because I don’t feel they’re worthy of being written. Truly, I’ve written a lot of dope lines that sound hot in my head, or sound hot when I said them, but to see them on paper—sometimes I’m like, “What the hell was I thinking?”
So, if I ever come out the mouth and say a rhyme was hot, and there are other people that can hear it, then either it’s ridiculously hot, or I havee no proper way of knowing when I’m wack lyrically speaking. So either way, the verse is probably ridiculous. Other thing is, I randomly freestyle in my head, so some material does sound hot as a freestyle, but to write it down…it just doesn’t need to go that far.
Heard Ludacris’ LP last night, or most of it, rather. Sounded pretty dope. The joint with Trick Daddy sounded like a Geto Boys song, hell, Trick sounded a little like Face from back in the day. The Austin Powers intro Luda blazed is pretty ridiculous, and the one about people asking for money was really well crafted. The dude has definitely grown artistically, as he actually has a rare social message thrown in the mix, a la the track with Trick. Trick Daddy…sounds like it’d be an alternative group or something.
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PS- I just had to pay $600+ for a front end brake job on my truck.
The Positive Side- the escrow refund I received a while back covered the cost
The Negative Side- I had to pay $600+ for a front end brake job on my truck.
SHeesh.