Something from Nothing: The Art of Rap Page #5

"There's needles

designed for this," you know, that...

Which is why

the turntables still to this day exist.

So they don't know

how to listen to it.

Yeah. And if you

don't know how to listen to it,

it doesn't make sense.

I mean, again,

my... my parents...

My mother's 80.

She don't know how

to listen to no hip-hop,

you know what I'm saying?

You have to know

the language.

You have to know,

"fresh, dope, fly."

So it's like,

"wait a minute.

Uh, oh, I get it."

Exactly.

"I get it."

When I do

and I say...

"Fresh..."

"Fresh adidas."

If I had have said,

"fresh sneakers,"

it wasn't as dope

as saying... you say...

"Fresh adidas."

It made you go,

"yo, I gotta get me a new pair."

For real.

Like you really had

to get a new pair,

'cause he got 'em,

and it was already fly, and... and you said

"fresh adidas

sneak across my bathroom floor,"

and then you escaped

from the police,

'cause they busting in

your sh*t at 6:
00 in the morning,

which is the time

they bust in on you.

That... and you...

That, you gotta know when the cops roll.

You gotta know when

the feds is on you.

Like you gotta know

all of that sh*t.

So they... so they

basically don't understand what we talking about.

Yeah. They don't

understand the streets.

Now, let me hit you

with this line drive

This rhyme's fly

This is how it went down

in the 9-5

That's right,

because I said it did

Don't sweat it, kid

Don't think I'm nice

I am,

give me credit, kid

I wreck niggas,

collect figures

Sh*t, I'm like

aretha franklin

All I want is

some respect, nigga

I drop facts when I rock raps

over hot tracks

That's why niggas be

on my dick like a jockstrap

Bring the best,

I'll get with 'em

Even deaf people be saying

"I heard that kid

got some sh*t with 'em

It's like if you

in the boxing ring,

I'm throwing

combinations at you. Mm-Hmm.

I'm not just straight

coming in there,

trying to throw

haymakers at you the whole fight.

I'm setting you up

for a wild right or a uppercut,

but you're being set up.

I never wrote

to no beats ever.

You know, we...

We had this, you know,

and all my rhymes

are written from that.

The way I write rhymes

is kind of crazy, too,

because I write

the story first, not even as a rhyme.

I just write the story

about what I wanted it...

Uh, you know,

I guess it's from school, you know.

And I write

the introduction.

I write the body.

I write the conclusion.

I always write

the conclusion first.

I always know where

my story's gonna end,

you know, before I even

start writing it.

I'm never gonna say like,

you know, I just...

I go in the studio and I

just drop it how it is.

I write it,

'cause I'll tell you,

a lot of mcs...

Mm-Hmm.

They say they don't

write they rhymes down,

and it sound like it.

No, it's true.

Yeah,

that's for real.

It sound like it.

You need to start

writing your sh*t down

and really putting

some concepts and building something else.

Everything... everybody just

can't come off the head

and freestyle

and make that sh*t hot.

What I do is

when I write,

I'll write it,

like even if I'm writing

in the studio

to a track, I'll write it.

Then I'll

spit a rough.

I'll spit it, and then

I take that track...

Yeah.

And I'll roll with it.

Live with it.

You know, usually,

unless that night

I was tremendous,

I'll redo it,

because the first time,

I might have

been reading it,

so now I'll go in,

and I can perform it,

because by rolling with it,

now I've memorized it,

I've locked it in, so you're

gonna get different vocal inflections,

'cause now I know it.

So I'm like, okay, now...

And I might say it

word for word,

or I might change

some stuff in it,

you know, but I go back in,

and the second time,

I don't need no paper.

I'm just going in,

busting it.

Yo, go work at wendy's.

Go somewhere else.

Don't rap.

You're whack.

Come on in

Come on in

You b*tch-ass niggas

As high as wu tang get

Allah allow us

pop this sh*t

Just like black shoe fit

If you can't wear it

Well, don't f***

with it, it

Check the continents

and all of that,

and ask them if

they know about this.

Rae, right here.

Chill.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

These are

serious questions.

Can we... can we close

the doors for the sound?

Anybody want to come in,

come on in.

Good?

We ain't done sh*t.

F*** you, the source.

Suck my source.

When a rapper refers

to somebody else as whack,

what constitutes

whackness?

You know, I mean,

it's definitely a word

that niggas take serious

when it comes to mcing,

because, you know,

we look for art.

We look for a nigga

to say something slick,

say something

with some meaning, say something with,

you know what I mean,

a lot of dignity behind that rhyme.

And if you ain't

coming with something

that we feel

reaches that perimeter where we want it to be,

it's like you

put a band-aid on it on some... say, "Nah",

come back later,"

you know what I'm saying?

Sh*t's whack.

Definitely, no doubt.

Let's keep it moving.

A true rapper knows that

his personality and status

is on the line

every time his pen hits that page.

He's gonna be judged

for knowledge, flavor, style, presentation,

as well as his gift

for wordplay.

Grandmaster casanova fly

is widely regarded

as the best

that ever did this sh*t.

Hold up.

Where's

my bombaclaat assistant?

Puerto rico, come on.

I ain't gonna burn

my fingers on now.

Ah, that's nasty.

That's nasty.

Roll up now, see.

You done...

You done set me back.

Normally I don't go

into a particular zone for particular projects.

It depends on

where I'm at in my head.

I'm most comfortable

when I'm relaxed,

because when I write,

I don't want to hear nothing,

I don't want to see

nothing, I don't want nobody talking to me,

I don't want the phone ringing,

I don't want

nothing else going on.

Everything, the rest

of the world gotta wait.

That's it.

I can't do this.

Nah.

Party people's

in the place to be

Just for you,

it's the ultramagnetic mcs

Say what, peter piper?

The hell with

childish rhymes

'Cause this jam

is just moving...

You hear rappers

saying words about you

that crosses the line,

so my thing is

to humiliate a rapper

so bad that he

don't want to really write against me.

"I just saw a rapper,

he ran...

"He ran from me

'cause I'm the police.

"He had... he had

a black hood that was fleece.

"Got so scared,

he sh*t a fece.

"Just one little

poodle piece.

"Pink ugg boots

on his ass

look like a drag queen

wearing a mask."

So I was like...

It was like... you know,

I wrote just

unorthodox on purpose

just to, you know...

Just to make the ear

think a little bit.

Your respect is built...

It's built in combat,

you know.

I mean, I... I haven't been

battling people in years,

but people still remember

when me and ll went at.

Yeah, yeah.

I mean...

And... and just

because I did it,

that's part of the reason

they respect you.

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