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    My Brother's Kidnapping



    Fear is fifty percent of my thought process..
    ..though I act hard
    Proof of nothing but lost progress..
    ..from his track marks
    My heroine is hooked on heroin..
    ..just part of his high start
    And no broken soul could compare to..
    ..the scars in my heart




    Today arrives another day of lies and fear
    My mother's eyes are filled with sighs due to his cheap highs and beer
    Silent tears from violent years of drug abuse can't be contended
    It's been five years as life nears closer to a time of the dreaded
    Left unattended, the events in which will take place are unknown
    He endures thoughts to atone his actions that distractions post pone
    Manipulation so blown out of proportion his sort is so zoned
    Plus the high has grown so tall that his actions are sort of condoned
    Should he crash a car or crash a bar, the certainty is a mystery
    He's in his own world, with no care, plus he's forgotten his history
    Pop a pill, stop and spill out the cocaine, get wreckless and spent
    Because if he wants a thrill from a drug then he'll go to any extent
    Spoiled him from the get go, his parents were royal for just giving
    Yet he'll steal cash from mother's purse while she cleans toilets for a living
    The drugs have a death grip, a vice you can hardly escape
    When using a conscious conscience is rarely formed or seen shaped
    He can't be great if he can't see straight, college seemed a waste
    4.0, graduated with honors only to disappear without a trace
    Obtained the habit in school, a bright pupil until it worsened
    He went from straight A's to using them to become another person
    One of the most intelligent & benevolent guys who never meant
    To fall under a circumstance so prevalent that we'll need something heaven sent
    He needs a second chance except he's yet to express true remorse
    He'll just snort a blue, or two, and his voice'll grow deeply coarse
    You see it gets hoarse, because the pill depresses his breathing
    Although he thinks he's deceiving us, his breathing patterns progress to heaving
    That's the sound when we all become an aid, afraid of what's to come
    Because abusing drugs is just a process where all your days of living comes to one
    It make us numb, the signs that have been placed before his eyes
    All the galore of lies couldn't hide our support and he knows this yet he stores his cries
    One day we get a call from a local gas station, i felt as cold as a ghost
    And low and behold, the attendant found my brother on the floor overdosed
    All of our daily fears collide into one nightmare of a moment
    It was only a matter of time before he got hooked onto a drug so potent
    He's rushed to the hospital, I can't even go, I couldn't stand the sight
    Drugs literally had a death grip on my brother so I couldn't hold his hand that night
    He dodged death, and his thought process changed for a time
    He texted me from the ER expressing how he wanted to make the climb
    He wanted to quit the life he was leading, look towards something better
    Then apologized to me for letting us down, I even saved the letter
    I prayed daily and nightly, that he'd resist any temptation
    But without the proper assistance drugs can break any focus or concentration
    Months go by, he's using here and there, not quite as frequent
    But still to the point he'd receive his paycheck on Friday, and on Satuday be spent
    I lent him money weekly, thousands of dollars on lunch for my brother
    Only to find out a year later that he was receiving lunch money from my mother
    Manipulating anyone he can to get some cash, a fiend in need of a cure
    My parents & my family couldn't be unsure, that eventually he'd be obscure
    If it wasn't drugs, it was alternatives, alcohol in excess
    He was at the beach one day drinking all day which came another consequence
    He was too drunk to drive, but his girlfriend threw him the keys
    Got all the way to our neighborhood but couldn't dodge the trees
    Yet again he cheated death, and even a DUI wasn't appointed
    And although he totalled the car, he kept drinking that night and seemed to enjoy it
    A few months later, it's getting worse, he's not just snorting pills
    He's shooting up anything he can find, soaring high and ignoring bills
    On a daily basis me and my mom fear what may happen, yet we can't stop it
    He's so negligent and wreckless that we'd find syringes in his pants' pockets
    He's in his twenties living at home, my mother won't turn her back on him
    We've turned to doctors and rehab & explained the effects that it had on him
    Nobody has a clear answer, and the solutions are in well doubt
    Because the only rehab they can admit him to is one where he can check himself out
    Three in the morning, I hear a strange breath by the bathroom door
    I call his name and get no answer, I just know his backs to the floor
    I knock and I scream his name, I'm in fear of an ugly death
    And still I get no answer, all I hear is a struggling breath
    I yell for my mom, she already knows. I could never be misconstrued
    I kick down the door, he's layin unconscious with a broken syringe & some blues
    My mother's distraught, her scream still pierces my right ear drum
    I'm trying to keep everybody calm, I know he's got a pulse though I can't hear one
    So here I am, i'm shaking in fear & left with no breath
    Standing there as witness to my own brother and mother's slow death
    I do what I can to keep in piece, I kept from breaking down in two
    Thank God my brother made it through that night, and my mother did too
    My brother was kidnapped by drugs, & I hate to say here
    That my family and I still live an everlasting, day to day fear


    Fear is fifty percent of my thought process..
    ..though I act hard
    Proof of nothing but lost progress..
    ..from his track marks
    My heroine is hooked on heroin..
    ..just part of his high start
    And no broken soul could compare to..
    ..the scars in my heart


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    Re: My Brother's Kidnapping

    This is pretty dope. I liked your word play, like:

    My heroine is hooked on heroin
    Although, "heroine" is a term used when describing a female. Men or heroes and women are heroines.

    Other dope wordplay:
    Should he crash a car or crash a bar
    That was just dope.

    You had many heartfelt lines that make the reader empathize with your story, like:
    Spoiled him from the get go, his parents were royal for just giving
    Yet he'll steal cash from mother's purse while she cleans toilets for a living
    That is just ill and puts the reader right there. At that point, I was into the zone reading the piece.

    As the story went along, there was less wordplay and the rhymes fell off a tad, but they were replaced with better content, which kept it nice. The piece seemed to be a little longer than I'd have wanted it. I think you could have gotten the point across with less words, but this was still dope.

    This is a breath of fresh air, which tends to happen when nice text cats cross over and don't know the norm, and just create. I see it in guys like you and Seyance, and even when Chrit first started to do topicals. Just do what you feel and don't get into the bullshit box topical cats will try to fit you in. Nice work.
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    God mutha'fuckin DAMN son this shit was long as hell but worth it all nah mean. this was a nice RAW READ... and i liked how it turned out man....now for my breakdonw to things...
    Fear is fifty percent of my thought process..
    ..though I act hard
    Proof of nothing but lost progress..
    ..from his track marks
    My heroine is hooked on heroin..
    ..just part of his high start
    And no broken soul could compare to..
    ..the scars in my heart
    nice start nah mean.... it was calm and it lead to something.... liked the fifty percent line.

    Today arrives another day of lies and fear
    This line here disappointed me.. the set up/wording was kind of jagged. i would have went the other route around nah mean from this cause you are saying today then your saying another day of lies and fear... ariive today yet you said another day... maybe if you used a simple comma to break the line is a big difference when it comes to reading it nah mean... cause if it isn't punctuated then i would just read over and over with no stops.

    "Today arrives, another day of lies and fear."
    My mother's eyes are filled with sighs due to his cheap highs and beer
    Silent tears from violent years of drug abuse can't be contended
    It's been five years as life nears closer to a time of the dreaded
    Left unattended, the events in which will take place are unknown
    He endures thoughts to atone his actions that distractions post pone
    Manipulation so blown out of proportion his sort is so zoned
    Plus the high has grown so tall that his actions are sort of condoned
    Should he crash a car or crash a bar, the certainty is a mystery
    He's in his own world, with no care, plus he's forgotten his history
    Pop a pill, stop and spill out the cocaine, get wreckless and spent
    Because if he wants a thrill from a drug then he'll go to any extent
    Spoiled him from the get go, his parents were royal for just giving
    Yet he'll steal cash from mother's purse while she cleans toilets for a living
    The drugs have a death grip, a vice you can hardly escape
    When using a conscious conscience is rarely formed or seen shaped
    He can't be great if he can't see straight, college seemed a waste
    4.0, graduated with honors only to disappear without a trace
    Obtained the habit in school, a bright pupil until it worsened
    He went from straight A's to using them to become another person
    One of the most intelligent & benevolent guys who never meant
    To fall under a circumstance so prevalent that we'll need something heaven sent
    This set a nice tone and vibe for the read man. it covered well for simple errors that are minor... nothing major and anything... some lines i havent seen done before i believe if not mistaken so this to me was somewhat of a fresh read man. loved the proned and drug line you did. niceness.

    You see it gets hoarse, because the pill depresses his breathing
    Although he thinks he's deceiving us, his breathing patterns progress to heaving
    That's the sound when we all become an aid, afraid of what's to come
    Because abusing drugs is just a process where all your days of living comes to one
    It make us numb, the signs that have been placed before his eyes
    All the galore of lies couldn't hide our support and he knows this yet he stores his cries
    One day we get a call from a local gas station, i felt as cold as a ghost
    And low and behold, the attendant found my brother on the floor overdosed
    All of our daily fears collide into one nightmare of a moment
    It was only a matter of time before he got hooked onto a drug so potent
    He's rushed to the hospital, I can't even go, I couldn't stand the sight
    Drugs literally had a death grip on my brother so I couldn't hold his hand that night
    He dodged death, and his thought process changed for a time
    He texted me from the ER expressing how he wanted to make the climb
    He wanted to quit the life he was leading, look towards something better
    Then apologized to me for letting us down, I even saved the letter
    I prayed daily and nightly, that he'd resist any temptation
    But without the proper assistance drugs can break any focus or concentration
    Months go by, he's using here and there, not quite as frequent
    But still to the point he'd receive his paycheck on Friday, and on Satuday be spent
    I lent him money weekly, thousands of dollars on lunch for my brother
    Only to find out a year later that he was receiving lunch money from my mother
    Manipulating anyone he can to get some cash, a fiend in need of a cure
    My parents & my family couldn't be unsure, that eventually he'd be obscure
    If it wasn't drugs, it was alternatives, alcohol in excess
    He was at the beach one day drinking all day which came another consequence
    He was too drunk to drive, but his girlfriend threw him the keys
    Got all the way to our neighborhood but couldn't dodge the trees
    Yet again he cheated death, and even a DUI wasn't appointed
    And although he totalled the car, he kept drinking that night and seemed to enjoy it
    A few months later, it's getting worse, he's not just snorting pills
    He's shooting up anything he can find, soaring high and ignoring bills
    On a daily basis me and my mom fear what may happen, yet we can't stop it
    He's so negligent and wreckless that we'd find syringes in his pants' pockets
    He's in his twenties living at home, my mother won't turn her back on him
    We've turned to doctors and rehab & explained the effects that it had on him
    Nobody has a clear answer, and the solutions are in well doubt
    Because the only rehab they can admit him to is one where he can check himself out
    Three in the morning, I hear a strange breath by the bathroom door
    I call his name and get no answer, I just know his backs to the floor
    I knock and I scream his name, I'm in fear of an ugly death
    And still I get no answer, all I hear is a struggling breath
    I yell for my mom, she already knows. I could never be misconstrued
    I kick down the door, he's layin unconscious with a broken syringe & some blues
    My mother's distraught, her scream still pierces my right ear drum
    I'm trying to keep everybody calm, I know he's got a pulse though I can't hear one
    Fuckin ill here. loved this whole particular part here dude. it showed well your wording and assertion of content being detailed man. you had great emotion and i felt like this was on some real shit here dude. You put me in a place where i could easily understand and i maintained a sick interest in this cause your read and storytelling was great dude.... nice shit here man...glad you still got what it takes dude and i see the difference in yoru writing i have read from you before dude... our collab will be dope i just have to start on it lmfao....


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    Re: My Brother's Kidnapping

    Nominates for HoF and Legends.


    I really loved this open mic. And I'm not goin' to break it down like the other two did. But I will let you know my full on opinion. This is by far the best Open Mic I've seen dropped in the year of 2009 so far. Like Chris Black said, "a breath of fresh air!" I personally loved the opening stanza and how you brought it over to finish the piece as well. I was drawn in from start to finish and have no qualms at all about this work of art. Wording was on a whole new level from what RB's seen lately and that's amazing. Emotion was very well put and we could tell you felt it as much as we do. Imagery, real fuckin' solid mate. Keep writing, this was great work. Much love brotha.

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    Wow, this was an amazing OM.

    Imagery and transitions in this piece were perfect, I could really picture exactly what you were describing and feel the tense fear just by reading through it.


    He dodged death, and his thought process changed for a time
    He texted me from the ER expressing how he wanted to make the climb
    He wanted to quit the life he was leading, look towards something better
    Then apologized to me for letting us down, I even saved the letter

    This shit really got at me and made me really connect with the point of the song, it really helps me understand your feelings.

    Great piece all the way through, I was going to pick out individual bars that were sick but there are too many to pick from so I'll just have to say mad props on this one.

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    Wow, really appreciate the feedback. Means a lot to me given the circumstances are true. Thanks for the nomination, Soule. That's what I was going for.

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    Dude that was insane, and it was really really deep i could feel how you felt i kinda went through tha same thing
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    Really sick drop... flow and structure where definitely good here... Also really good vocab... What i liked the most though was how you could almost feel the emotions as you read through the piece... partly do to some sick imagery and just the way you ordered the words... Really sick verse bro keep it up!


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    uppin this for my dude....this is not to get slept on man...
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    He dodged death, and his thought process changed for a time
    He texted me from the ER expressing how he wanted to make the climb
    He wanted to quit the life he was leading, look towards something better
    Then apologized to me for letting us down, I even saved the letter
    I prayed daily and nightly, that he'd resist any temptation
    But without the proper assistance drugs can break any focus or concentration
    Months go by, he's using here and there, not quite as frequent
    But still to the point he'd receive his paycheck on Friday, and on Satuday be spent


    The multi's you used were seamless and the storytelling was not far from perfect here....I was really liking how it seemed like he was gonna stop but in the end he wouldn't and y'all never turned your back on him...
    cause a person like me would've lost hope for him.....

    you wrote with tons of emotion here....dopeness.

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    Re: My Brother's Kidnapping

    http://www.rapbattles.com/forum/show...tz-394944.html
    here ya go token.. enjoy.. me, jonathon, & baron p mortuus...


    alright so.. feedback.. *reads*




    So here I am, i'm shaking in fear & left with no breath
    Standing there as witness to my own brother and mother's slow death
    I do what I can to keep in piece, I kept from breaking down in two
    Thank God my brother made it through that night, and my mother did too
    My brother was kidnapped by drugs, & I hate to say here
    That my family and I still live an everlasting, day to day fear


    ^^^god damn. that was really good.. I like the metaphorical meaning behind the mother dying.. that's really dope. the entire read had nice lines like this all over it.. it's a cliche' concept imo, but you managed to cover all bases on this thing. your flow was flawless imo.. nothing tripped at all for me except maybe that little chorus you had going, read off sort of awkward to me though the lines in it meant a great deal and were key to the read... definitely a one of a kind token, hadn't got around to reading this and I saw a lot of hype around it - now I see why! thanks for the read my dude.. enjoyed it. don't be a stranger and start writing more over in these parts!


    peace..

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    Really appreciate all of the feedback guys. Hoping to get some more.

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    Re: My Brother's Kidnapping

    Real nice piece, alot of parts that was real dope here, real harsh ending, which is always good creates alot of tension,

    'should he crash a car or crash a bar' - loved it!

    Overall, really good peice here,

    RTF if you can..
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    Thanks guys, i'll try to RTF asap. been pretty busy.

    peep this when you get the chance and drop ur vote.

    http://www.rapbattles.com/forum/show...ng-394229.html

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