plank
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 | | 02/28/2008 10:35 PM |
| My turn lol i really like that just being you is always better
lets see as a kid i was always moving back and forth never was at the same school more than a year till about 8th grade but always loved rap i was that white kid that always tried to hang with the best at school rappin in the corner at lunch needless to say ive always loved rap hell back then everyone did though . lost a good friend one night on the strip at 19 when my friend was shot for reppin the wrong click yes i repped shyt to ya know hell nothin big but enough to make me realize my life aint right 9/11 came so i enlisted in the army and i beleive that completly changed my life but who knows if for better or worse i lost some good friends in iraq i still think about them all the time hell to be honest i cant stop thinking of them not that i want to just a no peace no sleep type of thing anyways im done talking about that but as far as hiphop when i got outta the army i reignited the old flames and still rap ive takin it alot further than ever and i believe music for me is an escape from my life and my emotions as well as an expresion of them so here i am an x soldier pushin 30 i work my dick in the dirt everyday im in the process of a divorce and also in a relationship with another chick ( long story ) i have two kids and to be honest being me isnt great im usually miserable i cant sleep i get headaches from panickattacks i try to pretend i dont have.... the only thing im really good at anymore is pretending im not miserable so maybe im not keeping it real who knows hell who cares as for you ....i envy you it sounds like your happy with yourself and thats always a good thing not to mention your tutorials are life saving and very much appreciated....plank | | | |
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beside
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| | 03/03/2008 12:37 PM |
| what you're saying is right nfx when i started rapping i always said to me to be real because then you rap about real things and real problems not an invented background story or things you never would do i have a lot enemys in rap game and they always rap about beating me up or even killing me!!! but when they see me or when i catch them alone, then they are scared chicks so i think its better to be yourself and not to build an image of what you're not because there is always someone who knows your true identity | | | |
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Aerosoul
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| | 03/19/2008 3:13 AM |
| | strange that everyone here agrees to nfx's posting.. everybody seems to think exactly the same way.. where are all those actors that I see when Im leaving my flat? strange, strange | | | |
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Smoothe Entertainment
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| | 03/26/2008 10:43 PM |
| | True ish Rite Here Haha | |
Life Iz A Question, Some People Spend There Livez Lookin For The Right Answe rWen There Iz None - My Own ish Rite Der
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2nd Man
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| | 04/14/2008 11:05 AM |
| What i think is amazing, is that this one blog out of the 5 is the most discussed one, the others barely get a look, but every1 has an opinion on this one.
i'd also like to relate every1 to the KRS-1 lecture at temple university (http://www.warbeats.com/Forums/tabid/59/view/topic/postid/40363/forumid/35/tpage/1/Default.aspx), he explains all about the psychy of hip-hop and the beginning of hip-hop
and strangely hip-hop is actually about being some1 your not, "detaching yourself from a history you didnt create" (not sure if thats his exact words). and it may seem like im disagreein with NFX, but im not.
hip-hop is an expression, "I Am", expressin who you truly are, regardless of where your from or your background. with hip-hop you ignore that, you ignore stereotypes, and you be who you beleive you are.
i really recommend watching the KRS1 lecture, the theory of unknowing is mind blowing | |
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NFX
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| | 04/15/2008 1:46 PM |
| Hip hop aint dead but it aint what it used to be either.
"detaching yourself from a history you didn't create" might also be expressed as "you have the power to manifest your own destiny"
You can be anything you want to be. And you should be what you want to be. The tough part is being able to get past what you think is expected of you and listening to that voice inside. because until you can follow that true voice you can not truly manifest whats in your heart.
Consider the scenario where 6 people gang up on an individual and beat them so bad the person dies. Individuually you could argue that of those 6, they all know killing is wrong and would not have gone so far if not in a group.
I've been situations with my boys where I did stuff I knew was wrong because I didn't want to punk out.
I see that same image being lived out daily by kids in the neighborhood. It's hard for young folks NOT to look up to an image they think is appealing and start leaning in that direction. If it's a negative image, God help them. Hip hop is littered with negative images IMO, but I'm also smart enough to know better.
Since I was a teen, I had this image of the man I wanted to become. That guy smoked weed, treated women as objects for physical needs only, worked as little as possible, saw nothing wrong in "minor crimes" etc... Thats what i saw as cool. And I almost got there.
But I'm also a thinker and when I did things and honestly thought about it, I knew I was doing wrong. At some point I decided it was wrong for me be something in my outer self that was not the same as my inner self.
It's still a struggle for me to be 100% the "real" me. I'm only human after all, but I noticed that the more I move in that direction the more positive things happen around me. And I realized that once you listen and follow that inner voice - some might even say God's voice - you will find things come easier and your life will be happier.
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Taylor B.
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| | 04/15/2008 4:03 PM |
| | ^ So true.. THAT IS REAL TALK. | |
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Tzuky
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| | 05/29/2008 6:13 AM |
| this "True - Fake" thing is going man.... NFX is right... i thin that in this world we have too much grown people that are thinkin like kids... when we talk about music... errbody is gangsta husla.. killa drug dilla... lol and its funny...... but lets face it... if a rapper is rich and rap about his money... people say that he is have nothing else to rap for... if he says his a gangsta... the people say he is not... thats.... i dont understand this whole thing myself... but im thinkin the good music is good... so i like the new artists and i really dont care if they are gangsters or no... the beats are good the music makes you move... so its aiight... i also like for example Immortal Technique and Jedi Mind Tricks... hard lyrics... inspired from the real life...... im tryin to say that the music these days is just to entertain you, not to make you feel or see somthink... thats what i think about tha rap music today... in real life... yeah if you are not true you practicly aint nobody... you ain the person you are coping and you aint yourself... so you aint ish... aint that right? but about tha music i really think that we just have to forget about that real-fake thing... the only thing that i hate about rap today is that some rappers and some producers are making music not they like it and feel it but how the radio and TV likes it... as DMX says "Stop Been Greedy" ....what i meen is... look at timbaland... i love his style and his music... but not today... in the past was different.. it was good... and now just aint nothning on my opinion...
Im talkin a lots of crap until i get to the point but i hope you all will understand what im tryin to say...
and one more think... as errbody hear says... aint nothin more important in real life than just to be yourself!!!
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Tzuky
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| | 05/29/2008 6:18 AM |
| | lol i my spellin sucks... lol "As errbody HEAR(here) says" lol at least it will be funny... please forgive me :) | | | |
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Lukas
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| | 07/07/2008 7:04 AM |
| im a young person and its complicated for me to do what i do without influences from outside. its complicated to me to tell who i am(i just can tell i never lied or told stories about me that are not true). and its funked up! im 15 years old and i really need a therapy lol i dont understand this world but words like you wrote here help to understand i think and thats what you make a "mentor" or things like that. making me write this here right now.
"no homo" like the gangstas would say ,just props. the first time ive seen a tutorial (yesterday) i knew its an intelligent person who talks there.
PROPS TO YOU NFX -to the person behind the computer
ps: thanks to the internet for making it able to say things like that haha | |
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Knowledge
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| | 07/08/2008 7:03 AM |
| what NFX said up there.. (i would quote it but i dont c the button)
is some real funkin talk! | | | |
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DJ Flow Caserio
(mala mia)
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| | 07/15/2008 1:55 PM |
| (Just a joke) Man I wear baggy clothes (I'm gangsta) In fact when I was 3 I had baggy diapers!!! (its just a joke people)
anyway now being serious here...
It just makes me sad to see kids and adults trying so hard to be something that they are not. and its sadder to see them trying so hard to imitate fake rappers and other fake people.
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C DubZ
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| | 10/10/2008 2:11 PM |
| | yo nfx this is a good message greatly appreciated so your half preacher half producer these days eh? | | | |
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Knowledge
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| | 11/23/2008 1:22 PM |
| | yeah... NFX = The Truth lol | | | |
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Emplex
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| | 11/25/2008 3:44 PM |
| New name eh? NFX AKA The Truth has entered the building haha, but mos def that is some REALLY REAL TALK goin on up there. Lookin at the big picture is what people miss out on most of the time an only look at the days they are currently living. | | | |
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