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You play old music
Well some of it's a bore
To me it's all irrelevant
Like Haight Street and love beads
Still you want to make a statement
But this nostalgia thing hangs on
Your friends all miss the point cause
They see where you've gone
They've seen that you've gone to...
You take too many trips down memory lane
You take too many trips down memory lane
You take another trip down memory lane
You go down there once too often and you're likely to remain
"old music" = Pink Floyd
if you want weird, "The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band" is more intelligent.
if you want trippy, PF can't touch "Massive Attack".
"Careful With That Axe, Eugene" ... please.
Good for running during the credits to a John [hack] Carpenter flick.
"Fat Old Sun" from "Atom Heart Mother" is nice in
a treacly, "Every Good Boy Deserves Favor"
sort of way ... too bad they couldn't keep their heads
straight long enough to make an entire album like that.
is that enough condescension for one post?
if you wanna get snide, mr. admin ...
a piece of advice.
don't bring a knife to a gun fight.
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Mars ILL - Try Again
(from the album Raw Material)
© copyright Uprok Records/Sphere of Hip Hop Records/Mars
~excerpted~ lyrics by Greg Evans
Hook:
We fly the pen like a pilot when it’s time to begin/
Fight to win with the power that makes the sky bend/
We got to end to make room for the Christ to begin/
If it ain’t dope enough then, yo, got to try again…
Verse 1:
I get you up like Vivarin, an unpredictable trend/
Many men remain content with where the needle has been/
In an elliptical spin of people dying in sin/
We realize to reap our talents lies in trying again/
So I don’t try to pretend that I’m phatter than him/
I just make heads come apart like a detachable limb/
And carry on like I’m collapsible overhead in your plane/
Holding titles for collateral, leaving cats with no name/
Line them up like cocaine and light them like propane/
While they’re profane, we rock from Florida to Spokane/
Washington, I’ve watched them rock to kicks, snares and rim shots/
They think their junk is tight when it’s loose like slip knots/
Yo, but I can’t trip, AK, cuz everybody can change/
They could flip their whole persona ala Shirley McClain/
But we aim for the heavenlies and try to tame the 7 seas/
Because when you claim the Trinity, you’d better shoot for the stars/
Battle scars and open wounds from open mics that I’ve closed/
Open minds and open doors for all my brothers in prose/
I send cerebral celebrations with my mic and my pen/
If you don’t get it, kid you guessed it, I’ma try it again…
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you won't here this on your radio either.
we're on the same team.
same page of the play book.
remember the baby/bath water deal.
hiphop is not the enemy ... greed and pride are.
the Gospel is being propagated through hiphop
with potentially more impact than was possible
through rockNroll because of the inherently
tighter social bond within the subculture.
nuff said.
Tamada takes Motegi GP
09.19.04
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thank you, nice peoples.
pardon my irritation.
i run into so much weirdness on the net,
i've adopted a strategy of letting heads
roll if a response seems to have an
attitude spin on it.
if the heads roll back grinning and speaking
english, it's prolly a pretty safe place to be.
later, taters.
http://p073.ezboard.com/bthesanctuary61937
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look, people, i don't appreciate having my time wasted.
i have not posted here before;
my post was made in good faith
and shows due honor to the prime mover of this site ...
therefore you have an obligation to make a good first impression.
since i have not been on this board for the last
ten years of my life, i also have no appreciation
for inside jokes and interpersonal drivel.
how about a little RESPECT?
or at least give me some hope that
i'm not dealing with either fifteen year olds;
or 45 year olds who are so toasted their
responses are indistinguishable from
those of fifteen year olds.
gimme something back or let the thread die.
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backstory:
Mars ILL is MC Greg Owens and DJ Nathan Corrona.
IMHO, Mars ILL is at the top of the hiphop food chain.
i mess around on their message board from time to time.
on a cut from their CD "Raw Material", Greg describes
the varying talent levels in hiphop this way:
"it's unbelievably creative, and it's run of the mill"
i took a flyer on the verse and dropped this post
at the Mars ILL site.
thought this group might care to read it.
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cubic
Joined: 03 Mar 2004
Posts: 171
Location: Concord, North Carolina
Posted: Sat Sep 18, 2004 2:53 pm
Post subject: "unbelievably creative"
... to borrow a phrase from The Gregness.
i'm not trying to be a pain,
but i have yet to hear in hiphop
anything worthy of that phrase.
as far as i'm concerned, Greg and
Nate are as good as it gets in hiphop ...
but "unbelievably creative"? ... not yet.
maybe Pro*Pain turns the corner.
maybe it doesn't.
anyway you slice it,
Greg and Nate have their work
cut out for them ... and i'll be as
eager as the next brother to see
the pages that are coming.
their best material is years away.
count on that.
as things stand,
i don't see anyone on the singer/songwriter horizon
who stands any taller than Terry Scott Taylor.
that boy just ain't real.
Taylor out-Dylans Dylan.
Taylor out-Morrisons Morrison.
Taylor out-Zappas Zappa.
he's done it longer than most b-boys have been breathing.
and he's still ripping the flipping lid off.
Daniel Amos
The Swirling Eddies
Solo stuff
The Lost Dogs ... blah blah blah.
i don't see anybody anywhere putting words to music
more creatively.
Don VanVliet is close.
EmmyLou Harris is close.
until hiphop breaks out of its stereotypes,
no emcee is gonna be steppin up to Terry.
but if there's somebody who is up to the job
of breaking stereotypes and plowing fallow ground,
it's the Mars ILL.
my prayers are with them.
"exciting times" as Tank would say.
"Tank, load the jump program" - Morpheus
[ripped off from Rahlo's IROC remix ... you go, bro]
i'm only cleanin up MCs, forget the kitchen - tina jones
http://marsill.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=7648#7648
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