Kendrick Lamar : The King of the Coast

        K-Dot who now wants to be known by his real name, Kendrick Lamar is a rapper/songwriter from Compton, California and his parents from Chicago, Illinois. Kendrick got his name by his mother in in honour of singer Eddie Kendricks. In 1995, back when Death Row was still in the scene, Kendrick at the age of 8, had witnessed his idols Tupac Shakur and Dr. Dre, film the music video for their hit single "California Love", which would later prove to be a very significant moment in Kendrick's life. Kendrick had attended Centennial High School in Compton, where he was a straight A student.

         In 2003, Kendrick released his first mixtape titled "Youngest Head Nigga in Charge (Hub City Threat: Minor of the Year) under the name of K-Dot. The mixtape was good enough to get Kendrick a recording contract with Top Dawg Entertainment (TDE), which was a new indie record label based in Carson, California. Two years later, Kendrick released another twenty-six track mixtape titled "Training Day". Kendrick alongside his label mate Jay Rock and Ya Boy had been going on tours and opening for other veteran rappers such as Game. Kendrick under the moniker of K-Dot was also featured on Game's song "The Cypha" and "Cali Niggaz"

         Kendrick made a brief appearance in Jay Rock's commercial debut single titled "All My Life(In the Ghetto)". More fans in the West Coast hip-hop scene was getting to know Kendrick after a video was posted up on Charles Hamilton show, as Kendrick didn't hesitate to take the mic and do a freestyle verse on an instrumental version of Miilkbone's "Keep It Real", that later appeared on Kendrick's song "West Coast Wu-Tang".

        Kendrick was then co-signed with American hip hop superstar Lil' Wayne, so he then released another mixtape in 2009 titled "C4" which was his third mixtape and he started being more professional and producing more mastered beats instead. Soon after, Kendrick decided to drop his pseudonym (K-Dot) and go on with his birth name "Kendrick Lamar". By 2009, Kendrick had formed the supergroup "Black Hippy" consisting rappers/songwriters from Top Dogg Entertainment, all of them being based from California, Jay Rock, Kendrick Lamar, Schoolboy Q, and Ab-Soul.

        From 2010 till now Kendrick had started his proper rap career, September 4th 2010, Kendrick had released his album (O)verily (D)edicated mixtape cover art that was done by RedifineCreativity. He then released the visuals for "P&P 1.5", a song taken from from the OD mixtape, which featured Ab-Soul. By September 23rd, he had released the whole mixtape for free online, the project fared good enough to enter the United States Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Album charts and peaked at number 72.

        After the legendary hip hop producer Dr. Dre had watched Kendrick's "Ignorance is Bliss" music video on Youtube, that was the movement for Kendrick. Dr. Dre immediately wanted to work with Kendrick, and so they did on Dr. Dre's Detox album with Snoop Dogg. Kendrick's OD mixtape was the last mixtape he put out as he was moving on to producing an album. By January 2011, Kendrick had stated that he was 90% finished with his upcoming project. In early 2011, Kendrick was included in XXL's annual Top 10 Freshmen Class, and was featured on the cover alongside fellow up-and-coming rappers such as CyHi the Prynce, Meek Mill, Mac Miller, Yelawolf and Big K.R.I.T. and others. On April 11th 2011 Kendrick announced the title of his first independent album "Section.80" and that he would release the last song on the album the next day, which he did and it was called "HiiiPoWeR". He also wanted to promote the "HiiiPoWeR" movement. In July 2nd 2011, Kendrick finally released the whole album "Section.80" which managed to sell 5,300 digital copies in its first abbreviated week, without any television or radio coverage and received mostly positive news. In August 2011, while at a West Los Angeles concert, Kendrick with fellow West Coast rappers Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre and Game had crowned Kendrick the "New King of the West Coast". During the 2011 BET Hip Hop Awards, Kendrick appeared alongside fellow american rappers B.o.B, Tech N9ne, MGK, and Big K.R.I.T. , in a cypher.

         In March 2012, MTV announced that Top Dawg Entertainment closed a joint venture deal with Interscope Records and Aftermath Entertainment, marking the end of Kendrick's career as an independent artist. Kendrick premiered his commercial debut single "The Recipe", on Big Boy's Neighbourhood at "Power 106" on April 2, 2012. The first single was released for digital download the following day. Lady Gaga announced via twitter that she is going to do a song with Kendrick titled "PARTYNAUSEOUS", but it didn't happen due to timing and creative differences. The song was then re-titled "Bitch, Don't Kill My Vibe". Kendrick's major label debut studio album "good kid, m.A.A.d city" was released on October 22nd 2012, through Top Dawg Entertainment, Interscope Records and Aftermath Entertainment. The album met with critical acclaim and debuted at number two, selling 242,122 copies in its first week. Just nine months after its release "good kid, m.A.A.d city" was certified "Platinum" by the RIAA, with Kendrick receiving his first "Platinum" plaque for his album.

         From 2013 till now Kendrick has been with full of confidence, ready to take out whoever wanting to take the crown from him. He had been featured in Big Sean's "Control" track, and he made it clear on the track that he was the king of both the East and West and that he needed more competition as they were all not putting good tracks up, causing many rappers from both sides to be in rage. Several New York-based rappers such as Papoose, The Mad Rapper, Mickey Factz, JR Writer, Mysonne and Joell Ortiz, as well as fellow American rappers Meek Mill, Lupe Fiasco, Cassidy, Joe Budden, King L, Bizarre and B.o.B. among many others have all released a response/diss track within just a week. In November 2013, Kendrick was named GQ's "Rapper of the Year" and was featured on the cover of the magazine's "Men of the Year" issue. During the interview, Kendrick stated that he would start recording on his second major label studio album in January 2014. Following the issue's release TDE's CEO Anthony "Top Dawg" tiffith pulled Kendrick Lamar from performing at GQ's party that accompanies the issue, calling out writer Steve Marsh's profile, "Kendrick Lamar:  Rapper of the Year" for its "racial overtones".

         During the 56th Annual Grammy Awards (2014), Kendrick had been nominated for Best New Artist, Album of the Year and Best Rap Song. Kendrick failed to go home with a grammy and felt like The Recording Academy snubbed Kendrick Lamar. On September 23, 2014, Kendrick Lamar released a song titled "I" which was a short for (I Love Myself). The track was the first single from Kendrick's second studio album.

D.P.G.C (Dogg Pound Gangsta Crips) : Tha Dogg Pound

     

         The Dogg Pound Gangsta Crips was a group of West Coast rappers who were rapping during the early 90's, they were an extended family for a connection through the west during the early days of rap. The D.P.G.C's rappers were Tha Dogg Pound, Snoop Dogg, Nate Dogg, Big C-Style, Techniec, Bad Azz, Lil' 1/2 Dead, RBX, Lil' C-Style, Soopafly, Tha Eastsidaz, and others.

         Tha Dogg Pound is an American hip hop duo formed in the early 90's, it was with rappers Daz Dillinger and Kurupt Young Gotti. Before "The Chronic" debut album that was by Dr. Dre, Kurupt and Daz were still solo artists. In 1992, when Dr. Dre had released his album, Kurupt and Daz had been featured on a  few songs, because of the heavy chemistry between the both of them, Dre suggested to make them a duo, since then they both went on featuring in the "Doggystyle" and various features and soundtracks as Tha Dogg Pound.

        Between 1993-1994, The group assisted Hammer on his "The Funky Headhunter" album (such as the song "Sleepin' on a Master Plan" and others), along with Suge Knight and the Whole 9. In 1995, they released their debut album "Dogg Food" under Death Row Records. The album debuted #1 on the Billboard 200 and went on to reach 2x platinum status. It was quite a success. "Let's Play House" was the biggest hit, breaking into the top 50 of the Hot 100, while "New York, New York" was an MTV favourite; in the video for the latter, Kurupt, Daz, and Snoop stomped Godzilla-like around the Big Apple, taunting their East Coast rivals. In the October that followed, towards the end of the same year, Tupac Shakur had also been bailed out of jail by Death Row's Suge Knight in exchange for releasing his following four albums on Death Row Records. By 1996, the duo were featured on Tupac's debut album in Death Row Records called "All Eyez on Me", Kurupt was featured in "Got My Mind Made Up" and "Check Out Time" and Daz Dillinger producing the hit songs "2 of Amerikaz Most Wanted", "Ambitionz Az A Ridah", and "I Ain't Mad At Cha" and did a lot more for their label.

      After all the effect they did for Death Row, Kurupt left Death Row Records but still remained in Tha Dogg Pound. By 1999, Kurupt had released two solo albums "Kuruption!" and "Tha Streetz Iz a Mutha" that had Daz Dillinger and the rest of the DPG on them. However, in 1998 Daz was making noise of his own over at Death Row and released his only Death Row album "Retaliation, Revenge and Get Back" which went gold. Afterwards he made his own label called Mobstyle Muzik, in which he had his first taste of the independent scene. Poppa Snoop Presents Mobstyle Muzik Volume 1 was Mobstyle Muzik's first release which had failed and Daz then returned to Death Row. He later then started up DPG Recordz along with Christopher "Big C-Style" Bowden through Death Row Records. Daz eventually parted way with Death Row in late 1999 and released his first independent album "R.A.W." in 2000. That was followed by the D.P.G. album from Tha Dogg Pound entitled "Dillinger & Young Gotti".

      After Kurupt's and Dillinger's official departure from the Death Row Records, Suge Knight claimed ownership of the name "Tha Dogg Pound" and any tracks recorded prior to them leaving. So because they knew it was legal for Suge Knight to do that, they decided to call themselves "D.P.G." for the short form of "Dogg Pound Gangstaz". As they were moving forward in life for their career, Suge Knight in 2001 released an album under "Tha Dogg Pound" called 2002 which was most of the unreleased tracks by "Tha Dogg Pound" back when they were still in Death Row Records. Daz on an interview said that that album was bullshit and that during Suge Knights incarceration, he raided Death Row Records vaults to steal back as many tracks as he could.

     After all the problems going on with the owner of Death Row, Suge Knight. They suddenly had personal problems themselves as Kurupt had left them and signed back with Suge Knight in Death Row Records becoming the vice president for the label. Daz who was still with the whole DPGC were angry on the fact that Kurupt had betrayed them to join back with the Death Row. Immediately Kurupt and Daz started releasing diss albums and tracks out to each other from 2003 till late 2004. Daz came up with a single featuring Bad Azz titled "U Ain't Shit" and "I Don't Give a Fucc"which is sung over the beat to 50 Cent's "In Da Club". Kurupt on his side came up with his diss album called "Originals" which featured disses in almost every song on the album, most notably the bonus track "Eat A Dicc (Fucc Daz)"

     The fights went on till 2005 when Kurupt and Daz called truce. The struggling Death Row had problems promoting Kurupt's album "Against Tha Grain" and failed to do so. The duo started to feel remorse for each other, so Kurupt and Daz reunited again as "Tha Dogg Pound" and released a new album together entitled "Dillinger & Young Gotti II : The Saga Continuez". After "The Western Conference" in 2005 the duo agreed to revitalise the DPGC by working together on an album with Snoop Dogg, Soopafly, Nate Dogg, Warren G, RBX, Lady of Rage and Lil 1/2 Dead with Snoop taking over the producing and distributing tasks for it. "Tha Dogg Pound" then released a joint venture reunion comeback project the next year in 2006 called "Cali Iz Active" under Snoop Dogg's label Doggystyle Records. But fans were not feeling the same G-Funk genre they were getting from the West Coast way back, as "Cali Iz Active" wasn't that of a G-Funk beat and that disappointed the fans.

     In March 27, 2007, quite a lot of things were happening as the duo released an independently album called "Dogg Chit". By August, 2007 they also were in the process of signing with Cash Money Records, planning on releasing an album entitled "Westcoast Aftershocc" but it was postponed in favour of a separate album "100 Wayz". Early 2008, the duo had came out with a single featuring Pharrell called "Cheat" and following up with "They Don't Want It" featuring Soopafly, and "Get My Drink on & My Smoke On". Because of of the head of Koch Records, Aran Grunblatt the album "100 Wayz" was postponed from coming out on the same year. Instead they came up with another album which is entitled "That Was Then, This Is Now" which included a few singles from the songs that were supposed to be released in "100 Wayz"

    In May, 2010, they put out an compilation album "Keep On Ridin". On the same year "100 Wayz" was finally released in July.  Ever since then they have been telling the media on them making new albums and projects together especially the main album which would be "Dillinger & Young Gotti III : Get Paid" a collaboration album with Pete Rock, and a re-announcement of the album "Westcoast Aftershocc" for 2011. The duo then somehow split for awhile again to create their own supergroups. But together they made a group and named it "N'Matez" consisting of themselves, the Lady of Rage, and RBX. In December 2011, Tha Dogg Pound released a single entitled "Forever in a Day" featuring Snoop Dogg. Finally, the duo had last called to make an album with Dr. Dre for the first time. and marks the first time Dr. Dre collaborates with the duo together ever since Kurupt was in a few songs in Dre's album "2001", they album is going to be called "Alumni" that will be having Dre doing also a few beats, and even Snoop Dogg will be a part of the album. The first album that Dr Dre had done for the duo was "Dogg Food". On December 2, 2012 Tha Dogg Pound released a collaboration mixtape with Snoop Dogg titled "Thats My Work Vol. 1"

Lil' Kim

         Kimberly Denise Jones known by her stage name Lil' Kim, is an American rapper, singer-songwritter, record producer, model and actress. She was borne and raised in Brooklyn, New York just like the legendary "The Notorious B.I.G". Lil' Kim was also rapping during the same era as Biggie, they were part of a group called Junior Mafia which had Biggie, Bugsy, Lil' Cease, Lil' Kim herself and etc.  Lil' Kim was influenced into rapping by most of the lady emcees before her generation like The Lady of Rage, MC Lyte and Diana Ross who Lil' Kim was influenced with the most by her. Performing a freestyle rap for Biggie was what started up her career in 1995 with his group "Junior M.A.F.I.A" whose debut album "Conspiracy" generated three hit singles.
 
         Jones was born in Bed-Sty (Bedford-Stuyvesant) neighbourhood of the New York City borough Brooklyn, her parents Linwood Jones and Ruby Jones (now Ruby Jones-Mitchell) had separated and that left her with her dad to raise her alone from the age of 9. By the time she was in her mid teens, Jones's dad had kicked her out of the house and left to her to sleep at her friend's places or even on the streets. Jones had went to Sarah J. Hale Vocational High School for two and a half years, but her studies wasn't doing so good so she then moved to Brooklyn College Academy to finish her remaining year in a half of school. It was the same school that fellow rappers Nas and Foxy Brown also attended. In 1994, when Jones was only 19, she was already in the group "Junior M.A.F.I.A" who had released their first and only album "Conspiracy" on August 29 1995 and debuted at number 8 on the US Billboard 200 chart selling 69,000 copies in its first week of release.

        After being with the "Junior M.A.F.I.A" for a year, Jones began a solo career by making guest performances on R&B albums and recording her debut album "Hard Core", which was released in November 1996. After being successful on her career and having to be there and watch the person who gave her hope in her life be deceased by an unknown assailant that till now no one knows, She moved on doing many plastic surgeries and making worst and worst for her life. Her time eventually had to go out when the new generation of female rappers started coming out like Nicki Minaj, Iggy Azalea and etc. Jones had a bad experienced street life but she made good out of it like anyone can, don't give up.

       

The East Coast-West Coast hip-hop rivalry

     

       
        Hip hop started back in the 1970's on the streets on South Bronx. It was first only known by a few people in the United States, during the 80's the forefront for rap music was at New York City. Home to numerous stars like Run-DMC, LL Cool J, Rakim, Salt-n-Pepa and others. In the early 1990's hip hop was a way for the black community to speak out to the world. Hip hop gained appeal within the black community because of the authentic and relatable nature of the lyrical content. Over time, hip hop and gangsta rap became a tool for competing record labels and associated gangs.

        The Emergence of the West Coast in 1986, Crenshaw, Los Angeles based rapper Ice-T released the song "6 in the Mornin'". It is considered by many critics as the very first gangsta rap song. the rap scene in the west was started to generate alot of fans since then. A young drug dealer named Eric Wright saw the potential profits and fame of the hip hop lifestyle, so he began recording songs in parents garage. Wright, going by the name Eazy-E , befriended two local artist named Dr Dre and Ice Cube. Along with locals DJ Yella and the Arabian Prince aka MC Ren, the group then became N.W.A (Niggaz Wit Attitude) as i posted in my first post about the birth of Gangsta Rap.

       The West Coast were doing good in the early days and also till now. Tha D.P.G.C (Tha Dogg Pound Gangsta Crips) were the reason hip hop touched many hearts in the West Coast during the 90's. But as hip hop was rising for the West, it was also rising for the East! during the revival of the East Coast, in April 1994, a 20 year old , Queens, New York based emcee by the name of Nas released an debut album called Illmatic. Five of the albums 10 tracks reached single status. It featured simple, menacing beats and dark street narratives. The release was vital in flipping the spotlight back for the east coast. facilitating the so-called East Coast Renaissance. A few months later, another New York rapper recorded one of the classic albums. The 22 year old Notorious B.I.G released Ready to Die. This album helped put Bad Boy Records on the map, following up on the success of Craig Mack's famous "Flava in Ya Ear". The growing popularity of The Wu-Tang Clan and their debut album also helped the east re-soar in popularity.

       The rivalry all started back when Tim Dog in 1991, disgruntled by the record companies' rejections of East Coast artist and the growing popularity of West Coast hip hop, Bronx rapper Tim Dog decided to voice his anger on the notorious diss track "Fuck Compton". It was disses straight to the entire LA rap scene but mostly to the platinum hitting N.W.A West Coast rap group. The music video to the song contained violent gestures to a Eazy-E and Dr Dre look-a-likes, as well as the legendary DJ Quik.

       In 1993, fledgling A&R executive and record producer "Puff Daddy" Sean Combs founded the New York-centered hip-hop label, Bad Boy Records. The next year, the label's debut releases by Brooklyn, New York-based rapper "The Notorious B.I.G" (also known as Biggie Smalls) and Long Island, New York-based rapper Craig Mack became immediate critical and commercial successes and seemed to revitalise the East Coast hip hop scene by 1995. This is where the conflict happened when New York born and California, Los Angeles-based rapper Tupac Amaru Shakur who was also coming up around the time era with Biggie Smalls. Tupac had publicly accused Biggie Smalls, Andre Harrell, and Sean Combs of involvement in the robbery and shooting on November 30th 1994. Tupac was heading to Biggie's studio that was in Manhattan, when he was in the lobby of Quad Recording Studios, he got shot 5 times (including once in the back of the skull). Shortly after the shooting and Tupac also being in confusion on who shot him, Biggie Smalls released a B-side track called "Who Shot Ya?" from BIG's "Big Poppa" single release. Although Puff and Wallace denied having anything to do with the shooting and stated that "Who Shot Ya?" had been recorded before the shooting. Tupac and the majority of the hip hop community interpreted it as B.I.G's way of taunting him.

       In August 1995, Death Row CEO Suge Knight was at the Source Award, he then dissed Puff on always dancing on his artist's videos and so the East Coast wasn't pleased with that and boos were coming from the crowd. Tensions escalated when Knight later attended a party for producer Jermaine Dupri in Atlanta, Georgia. During the bash, a close friend of Knight's (Jake Robles) was fatally shot. Knight then accused Puff (also in attendance) of having something to do with the shooting. The same year, Knight posted the $1.4 million bail of the then-incarcerated Tupac, in exchange for his signing with Death Row Records. Shortly after the rappers release for five counts of sex abuse in October 1995, he proceeded to join Knight in furthering Death Row's feud with Bad Boy Records.

      After the release of "Who Shot Ya?" which Tupac interpreted as a diss song mocking his robbery/shooting. Tupac appeared on numerous tracks aiming threatening and/or antagonistic insults at Biggie, Bad Boy as a label, and anyone affiliated with them from late 1995 to 1996. This caused fans from both scenes to take sides. Although an official retaliation record was never released by the Brooklyn MC in response to Tupac's Slurs, certain lyrics from Biggie's catalog of songs were interpreted by listeners as subliminal shots aimed at Tupac, in particular the track "Long Kiss Goodnight", But Puff however denied this theory, affirming that if Biggie were to diss Tupac, he would have called him out by name.

       On September 13, 1996, Tupac Amaru Shakur died after being shot multiple times six days earlier in a drive by shooting in Las Vegas, Nevada. A two-part 2002 article by journalist Chuck Philips called "Who Killed Tupac Shakur?" reported that: "the shooting was carried out by a Compton gang called the Southside Crips to avenge the beating of one of its members by Tupac a few hours earlier. Orlando Anderson, the Crip whom Tupac had attacked, fired the fatal shots. Las Vegas police discounted Anderson as a suspect and interviewed him only once, briefly. He was later killed in an unrelated gang shooting." Philips's article also implicated East Coast rappers including Biggie and unnamed East Coast music figures and criminals. Six months after Tupac's death, on March 9, 1997, The Notorious B.I.G was killed in a drive by shooting by an unknown assailant in Los Angeles, California. To this day, both murders remain officially unsolved, though many believe Suge Knight to be involved in the death of Tupac and Wallace.

Rap is no different than Poetry : The Meaning

                          The meaning, 12 bars on whats actually up. We were pushed to split apart by the British people back then, we managed to fight that and get together..but why are we all moving away from each other again? to me fuck the ethnicity, nigga. Not everyone is the same so let them do their best while you do yours, you can't be forced to play basketball when you are a footballer. Not that basketballers go with basketballers and same goes to footballers. We should accept whatever a nigga can do so everyone will know how to do something different at the end. You wouldn't wanna be stuck in an island with 5 people knowing only 1 thing to do, now would you? So lets get together, unite each other. To me growing up was actually realising you gotta now go against everything you thought was right. When you reach 18 years of your life, you reincarnate but don't loose all your memories. So now its from older to younger. (Metaphorically)

               
                        Cops aren't heroes to us anymore. And i 100% tell you its not because we are doing illegal actions but just cops thinking they have the power to do anything. I don't even think most of the cops graduated from the course. Every human has a heart, you won't be able to go against all you've learned just like that, so why are the cops still wanting money out of us or if not at least something. Its either they didn't need to graduate to make it to that position or they are not teaching cops to be ma'fuckin' cops.


                        I don't think we can really change much with the rich and cruel people all up in the government business changing rules with money. So even if we have a person with good reasons to change this place, i don't think we actually can cause the government is now the every countries money are unbalanced on one end, and you know which end...

                   
                       This is the type of topics we spit about when we rap most of the times, honestly. And I know that you are too lazy to read the papers or most of the news on the net, so why not just listen to the way we express and still get to know alot about this sickening place you thought you knew.
                     

The Father of RAP : Snoop Dogg

           

                 To me, Snoop Doggy Dogg is the father of rap because of all the effort he has put in for Hip-Hop. Until now, still nobody has a flow like his, Unique and Funky style as his trademark. He is now a millionaire with his wife and 3 kids. He made a living from the streets in Long Beach, California as a Crips gang member.

                 Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr or also known by his stage name Snoop Doggy Dogg, changed to Snoop Lion when he headed to Jamaica in early 2013. He started a Rastafari Movement and changed his name, made a reggae album and then also made a documentary, both the documentary and the reggae album was called Reincarnated. But now he is still in the excavation site producing a new solo studio album under his rap moniker Snoop Dogg.

                Heading back to the early days,  when he first started his career and how. He started in 1992 as Dr. Dre discovered him and they collaborated in Dr Dre's first album The Chronic (1992). By 1993, Snoop Dogg had released his first album Doggystyle under Death Row Records and also got debuted #1 on both the Billboard 200 and Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs charts, selling almost a million copies in the first week, Doggystyle became certified 4x Platinum in 1994 with hit singles like "Gin & Juice". Moving on, he has also starred in motion pictures and hosted several television shows including, Doggy Fizzle Televizzle, Snoop Dogg's Father Hood and Dogg After Dark. Snoop Dogg was also part of a rap group called Tha Dogg Pound featuring Kurupt, Daz Dillinger and Snoop Dogg himself. This all came from D.P.G.C (Dogg Pound Gangsta Crips), a group of all the 90's to 99's rapper in the West Coast.

               Now let's get on to why i think he's the Father of Rap. Started as a rapper but he has acted, has his own supermarket in the LBC, made his own G-pen Herbal Vaporizor, Plants he's own weed probably, he and Dr Dre in 2001 during the concert "Up In Smoke" they fought for the rights to let the fans in the concert smoke Marijuana and they manage to do it. No one in the Rap industry to me has done this much of things for the rap industry itself. He made a movement but not like every rapper doing a movement and making people listen he did things. He is one of the people who brought the West Coast to where it is now.

Rap is no different than Poetry.

                  To me there is no difference in rapping and also people doing poetic slams. It can be two separate events but rap doesn't have to mean its all about gangsters, overload of money, getting hoes, etc. I love rapping, It became  a passion after knowing so much about most of the rapper's life stories or the way they rhyme things up.


                 So i then became a writer myself, it was hard but i got to it and now it feels like i don't wanna stop writing. the way you wanna think of how to rhyme the words. I have a sample to show you that there is no difference and my rap which already has a Hip-Hop beat with it doesn't have to be about any of those topics i stated above.

                                            "...Why did we even have to ignite?
                                                The world has come against us,
                                                    Accompanied by many races,
                                               Humans don't even know their places,
                                               The 5-0's motto is "Chase Us" ,
                                               Young or old let's change our paces,
                                                 I'm not just a man, owh yes i have a plan,
                                                To change the reason why money is grand,
                                                Wish me good luck for that, Amen.
                                                Owh wait...It's too late, I'm sorry,
                                                But even Superman can't stop the government,
                                                We'll have no choice but to join them.              "


                Thats what i think and write about when i rap cause it's true facts. You gotta start understanding what we mean in the raps rather than just listening to the beat. I'll be explaining what that passage above meant on my next post and if you wanna know more on the difference between poetry and rap then watch the video by TEDxAldeburgh on Hip-Hop or Shakespeare?