Dirty

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I've been writing lyrics and recording my rhymes for about a year now. 90% of the time I use original beats, made by my friends and sometimes I use an instrumental. I try to be really diverse with the things I write, cover different topics, sometimes poetic and sometimes just blatant and straight forward. But I've found writing to be really therapeutic in dealing with my feelings and thoughts.

So I'll be posting some of my stuff in here... I think it's pretty obvious I didn't sign up to just promote my music, I came here after the music forum I was posting on basically became a ghost town and I have been contributing and plan to keep doing so. If a mod disagrees and thinks I signed up to spam, then so be it. I guess just remove any videos and whenever it's deemed I have been here long enough, I'll just post them again.

So with that, here's a song I wrote called 'Hollow.' Basically I had a 2.5 year relationship with a girl and it was really messy at a lot of different points. After we were broken up for awhile, she visited town for a mutual friends birthday and seeing her really brought a lot of different feelings to the surface. So the next few nights I wrote about it and made a song out of it. All three verses are different in that the theme of each verse kinda represents different stages of a breakup

Verse 1

When it ends, yes I still pretend we're meant to be
connecting dots, making plots of where my life should be
life is crazy, but maybe there's somethin better in this world for me to find
Is she the only one that really shines?
Probably not,
but my throat's stuck in knots,
cause she shines just like a ruby
the beauty in my broken movie
Wish that we could start fresh, but is it possible?
Forget about the past and the rest, lose the obstacles?
and everything that's trivial, we could live invisible and live in bliss
cause with this chick I felt invincible
Really feel me, how ya lose 2 years?
Try to pick up all the pieces, remain calm, and think clear?
I can't control it so I drink 10 beers
and send her up some drunk texts that were detailing my fears
of how I'd never be completed
and everything that's leading to the end was leaving
that chick was everything I ever needed


Chorus

I feel hollow
the emptiness is killing me so follow
me and all my feelings to this empty bottle
(X2)

Verse 2

Can we start again?
Our hearts will mend, I promise
and through the fog there is a calm beyond this
Can't we just be honest with ourselves?
Or are we jaundiced?
Strangers when we meet up in the streets
is this the way you really wanted it to be?
Can't we fight through the debris?
Or has it washed away?
It's black and white and I'm lost in grey
Can I fix it?
If not, I'm getting lifted cause it's too much to take
We break what we create most
Raise a toast in the glass with much ice
and I'm the jealous type
Maybe my fellas right,
it sounds trite
But as the calendar turns
I'm still burned, and bitter, broken, bruised
Standin guilty as the man accused
I'm confused at how it hurts so much
to watch your lust turn to love and then love reverts back to dust.

*CHORUS*

Verse 3

Was the lemon worth the squeeze?
Check the trees, cause I need some mary, scary how I freeze if I been drinkin
Thinkin, how do lovers make amends?
Can they still be friends without the benefits
and blend with all the rest of it?
Or is she caught in some pretentious ****?
and is she really gonna snub me in public?
Is she pretending it?
I never know, I put an end to my doubt
Grabbing pictures off my wall, now her face is blacked out
It's like the first days, they fade quicker
I only call her if I'm with her or I'm drinkin liquor
Walking lines of love and hate but never walk it straight
Because in time a perfect picture always seems to break
I watched it fade...

Dirty

This is a newer song I just recorded... I wanted to make something intense and more high tempo. I don't believe in stuff like autotune. I'm out for lyrical talent and rhyme scheme and all that good stuff. A DJ from london sent me some awesome beats, this one features a great Pulp Fiction sample.

Verse 1

goin in headfirst on the verse
you heard it here first the dirtiest is dirty curt
and im back, swinging with my battleaxe
buckle up your chinstraps
cause i blow upon impact
its only mics that i kidnap,
hold em hostage,
give a **** what the cost is,
im goin all out,
im goin off route like i lost the map
im writin raps in the back of the laundromat
here it is, it isnt simple is it,
temperature is hitting triple digits when i hit the mic admit it
you didnt see it comin, the real renegade desperado
whos image it doesnt fit with his bravado but freaks beats,
whose lyrics bring the heat to the brain,
here come the beast, hes unchained
i dont stop
lock me in a box, nice try,
heroes are remembered but legends they never die, thats why
call me unkillable, not your typical rapper who isnt lyrical,
i kill you with syllables, what?
didnt expect this,
never listen wreckless,
its like a demolition when i start to wreck **** up
hop on the bus, take yall to school
since you think you know me well cause we talked once back in highschool
long as im livin then im givin yall a taste,
nobody goes harder on a mixtape,
what!!

*Chorus*


verse 2


what, what what, im not afraid, if you are get to stepping
cause i use my pen and pencil as my lethal weapon
dont like the heat get out the kitchin
ales im sippin, scales im tippin, n mics im grippin
only got an attitude towards the autotune cause what the ****!?
you need to autotune your **** that means you auto suck
like it or not that's my position, recite my compositions
when the clickin of my pen is my ignition for the track,
it's a fact,
there aint a definitative definition for the way that i rap
cause im original, ahead of the times,
somethin special, not your typical recyclin the rhymes
when every song is too predictable their soundin the same,
too many rappers that im hearin tryin to be lil wayne,
devils raise hell, i raise Kane, i came to kickass, ya came to take names,
they call me superman but go no lois lane
aint got no kryptonite, mixin sprite with 100 proof,
im not the same, i change my jumpsuits in phonebooths
so try to hassle me ill put you in a headlock,
i blow a smoke ring then blow the speakers out your boombox
protect your neck, better yet protect your system,
im ready for attack the 520s got my back, yo its like that
you think im bluffin place your bets, battle anybody then erase em like an etch a sketch, what!

benjamin21open

you have a good talent in writing song dirty.
I like your songs, im just sad i cant play your video here.
I admire your poetic side of writing.

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someonecompletelyrandom

Awww YEAH! Finally another emcee up in this joint! I was bobbin the whole time man. nice lyricism in them lines too. I loved Hollow.
If you ever wanna collab, I'm down.

Dirty

I'd love to. I listened to your song in the Dylanist thread... Loved it. Most stuff I hear I don't really feel but I was diggin your stuff. Nobody in my area ever wants to collabo. Nobody here even likes rap, its sad. The only guys that rap don't have much skill and are really bad lyrically and flow wise. They sound like they've all been listening too much to Drake and Wayne. Glad to see another rapper around here.

I just recorded last weekend actually, my dude Nasty N8 is mixing everything and by this weekend I should have out a mixtape of 10-12 songs. I'm really happy with how most of them turned out. The first 10ish songs I made weren't real great looking back, most of them were just stoner rap stuff and my flow and lyrics were elementary, but i think these new tunes show my improvement. Before I release the mixtape though I was thinking about turning the vocals down on Say What! Opinion on that?

Here's two that I recorded this weekend too. These beats are original. (I'll post lyrics tomorrow)

All Scientific


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someonecompletelyrandom

That song in the Dylanist thread isn't really my best work., but thanks. Give me a heads up when your tape drops. The vocals on Say What could be turned down. I think it'd make for a better mix, they seem to distort a bit at the volume they're at.

I just dropped a tape not long ago, should be in here somewhere http://www.musicbanter.com/soundtrac...e-catalog.html

Unfortunetly the producer and I had major artistic differences so it's only 7 songs of varrying production quality. Most of it is actually in a different direction then I'd liked to have taken. I'm far more influenced by country, folk, and jazz music then what's on that tape... but it didn't turn out too bad.

As for these two songs, I'm digging em. Nice beats, I liked the samples you used. Your flow was on point, emotion was right for this type of track. Your style, even when your doing basic bragging, is very philosophical sounding. You've got a tone about your voice that sounds like your teaching. Of the two I prefer All Scientific because the hook pretty memorable. Good work.

Also, two Kobe references = win.

Dirty

I have a lot of different metaphors and references in my stuff. I'm a sports junkie at heart. My old stuff had a lot of filler, but on these newer ones, every rhyme means something. nothings there just for the hell of it.. the 520 references refer to the address where all my friends live: 520 Holmes Street. Some of it is more on a local level and other stuff is pretty obvious. If you listen to the Wu or Nas you'll defintely see some double meanings in some of my stuff referring to them "protect your neck", "bring the ruckus", "it aint hard to tell". And like half of my beats for this mixtape either feature a Nas sample or I used a Nas instrumental.

I'll give your tape a DL here tonight. Any music you wanna send me, feel free to hit my inbox. I've always been a music head, but never really had the patience or talent to learn guitar or keyboard or drums, or anything really. I just lucked out 2 years ago and lived with a kid who made beats and I thought I could make much better stuff than the amateur rap i was hearing on youtube and whatever. Some kind I kinda know has a band with a pop-punk/hardcore sound and he wants me to do something with his band. I kinda have that yelling type of rap voice, so im excited to try it out and see how it sounds, im always up for anything creative and out of the box.

Progalist

wow dude i am diggin this. did you record this stuff yourself?

Dirty

My dude said the entire mixtape would hopefully be done by Tuesday. He's juggling full time working and bein a full-time student so hopefully he can get some spare time these next few days and get everything done... but I decided I'm gonna turn the vocals down on some of these tracks before I put em all out there.. Just thinkin i'm comin in too hard off the intros and chorus.

Thanks dude, glad you're feelin this. and yeah, we do everything by ourselves. My dude Nasty has a keyboard and a portable Yamaha studio... For like the first 10 songs I made I was testing the waters out. We'd roll up some herb and he'd sit there and make beats on his keyboard and I'd just flow rhymes. Then I'd just throw on the headphones and record it, and he would master everything and edit it on his laptop. So it's just us two doing everything from our apartment, not like we get real studio time or anything like that. So considering it's all a do it yourself type thing I think the quality and all that sounds real nice.

All Scientific and Say What! and all these other songs I just recorded were beats from a dude in London. He somehow heard some of my original stuff on Youtube and just got at me and sent me some beats and i was blown away. Just really feelin that style with a lot of crisp samples. and we're both 90s hip hop heads, into the same artists and stuff, and when i heard the beats he was sendin me i just couldnt believe it. So i took some time and wrote to em, perfected em best I could, then drove the 5 hours to my boy Nasty's house and recorded them. Everything from these are completely from scratch and just done by us.

People don't get it though... I aint tryin to be signed or be rich with these. I'm just tryin to be nice on the mic, cause to me it sounds like everyone out there is following the same mold and I just wanna make rap music that I love to listen to and has a style to it. I don't feel the rappers that rhyme slow and use autotune and all that, im not about that. So I'm just tryin to go in hard on my music and try to do something different that doesn't sound like anyone else. People I know in real life just aren't grasping that concept that I'm not making music that I think everyones gonna like.

Anyways, here's the first song I ever recorded (featuring Nasty). I feel like you can really see the improvement I've made in the past year if you listen to this and then listen to a new song of mine. Cause before I was just reachin for rhymes and it was all stoner-rap stuff and i evolved since. But this is In Weed We Trust, first song we ever did. Kinda wanna go back to my old stuff and take the beats and just make new songs over em, just sounds so elementary and basic now.

cLumZe

Damn bro, i'm really feeling your ****