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    Downbeat Conundrum

    Insanity voyaged in cannon-strong armed ships
    Accomplished the monstrous with gun cocked grips and targets
    My brain cells greeted openly calm, the harmless
    But were colonized and KO'd when the pox hit
    Given trojan horse blankets, plagued with madness
    Now my mind con-sists of pocked skins and alchoholics
    If only that...
    material cockpit hadn't come wit a compass
    I'd think free...
    no longer under pompous of another columbus
    Now I'm collecting the sweat, treated like an armpit
    Bong lit, exhaling smokes of morrow's fires, my lungs itch


    (Chorus 2x):
    I'm trying to adjust to conditions I'm stuck in
    Individually told lies, insisting it's all fair
    Painting a picture perfect lifestyle only imagination could
    Cause my instant focus is witnessed far from there


    How can I treat myself like a slavery victim
    When fully-starved and empty stomachs crave my position
    Take a minute to consider that they'd trade in a second
    Rather than wait for the aids and starvation to get 'em
    Would you mourn off the rhythm played by the system
    Or dance to it...on a daily strut to pay your tuition
    But what on earth can we do to pay for conditions
    Shake hands with slaves and let future pave over difference?
    Still we already drew lines of difference in futures given
    We left em poverty and instances of critical livin'
    We could buy tickets to the next stop where slavery gets off
    But gamble chips needed with material lust for the sweatshop
    The conundrum-like cycle i'm living spins with my hands force
    A mercury touching my brain blew my perspective off course
    Cut in two by butterknives while driving through forks in the road
    Halves in my mind chose the left and right paths...
    ...Look straight and see a trail the biased never chose

    Read between the lines...
    ...and see an emptyness to represent our universal soul.


    (Chorus 2x)
    Last edited by Stuff'd Aminol; February 12th, 2005 at 04:00 PM

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    How can I treat myself like a slavery victim
    When fully-starved and empty stomachs crave my position
    ^^this line here spoke for the content of this piece, this was very original and the use of vocabulary was immaculate yet the flow was still steady.. very depictable if u can understand what ur sayin, which i can.. so this was a very descriptive piece and u did what u set out to do, good job


    hit this up plz
    http://www.rapbattles.com/forum/showthread.php?t=170305
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    u used pretty good vocab on this piece.....^^^^^^i like what he said about u did what u set out to do.......nice and keeep ooon spittin................

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    Booked. We need to get together and conjure something up.


    Well, this was dope. Simply put man, the second verse was pure genius. I seriously have nothing to say besides this is what the OpenMics used to be like. Funny how a 12 year old kid can write better than 95% of this site. Peace.
    Last edited by spokenoh; February 12th, 2005 at 07:23 PM
    can I kick it?

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    upping for this, shit, this is getting slept on

    i'll hit up you om's if you drop some feedback (im a man of my word)
    Last edited by Stuff'd Aminol; February 13th, 2005 at 12:38 PM

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    This was dope, the concept was good you told it very well the imagery and emotion in the verses was so deep.
    The structure was nice, the vocab was hot the flow was nice but the emotion and description in the rhymes was dope.
    A great piece.

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    this was kinda...uh, how should i put it...wack
    Last edited by Worm Tongue; February 14th, 2005 at 10:35 PM
    You, are fucking gay.
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    ^your kinda, well gee-golly gosh how should I put it.........*beats you*

    Sometimes actions speak louder than words...




    But not in this case! Dope drop Bo, I personally thought this was a dope drop, and I liked the way you evolved your concept and you had good vocabulary in there too. Your not still twelve are you? LOL Damn, your schooling me daily. Dope drop.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Given Light
    ^your kinda, well gee-golly gosh how should I put it.........*beats you*

    Sometimes actions speak louder than words...




    But not in this case! Dope drop Bo, I personally thought this was a dope drop, and I liked the way you evolved your concept and you had good vocabulary in there too. Your not still twelve are you? LOL Damn, your schooling me daily. Dope drop.
    nah, i'm actually 14 in april, thanx for the feedback

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    wow... just... dope..

    first thing i noticed in this, was the rhyme scheme... it was sick... imagery was great, dope content

    "Cut in two by butterknives while driving through forks in the road
    Halves in my mind chose the left and right paths...
    ...Look straight and see a trail the biased never chose
    How can I treat myself like a slavery victim
    When fully-starved and empty stomachs crave my position
    Take a minute to consider that they'd trade in a second
    Rather than wait for the aids and starvation to get 'em
    Would you mourn off the rhythm played by the system
    Or dance to it...on a daily strut to pay your tuition
    But what on earth can we do to pay for conditions
    Shake hands with slaves and let future pave over difference?"

    ^

    these lines stood out.. real nice shit, i felt you had a creative approach to all the essential parts which made this piece great... flow was real smooth too..

    keep it up man..

    peace

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    Dope Drop... i like all of it, good flow, subject well developed etc.
    the only think i disliked about was the chorus... i don't think this was necessary (did you have to use it twice and not use it and the end of the poem) you should have just put in as normal lyrics at the end of the first verse. sorry to spend so long chat about insignificant detail. dope
    Last edited by idle; February 19th, 2005 at 01:01 PM

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    i'll hit up any links you leave just please give some more feedback
    Last edited by Stuff'd Aminol; February 18th, 2005 at 05:47 PM

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    BTW, jk bout your verse, it was pretty good but mainly the last verse, cause I could see the metaphor in your first as a way of comparing your current stress to colonization but i don't think that there was enough to give the reader exactly what your talking about, my favourite parts were probably the two last bars cause it was on some real poetic shit and the change you made from at the beginning when you were talkin bout your current porblems and the last verse when you come to conclude that your problems are nothing compaired to many other people's.
    You, are fucking gay.
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    upping... i edited my feedback into an earlier post

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