The following correspondence originally took place upon the Facebook wall of fellow emcee, Tru Leo, after he shared a captioned photo from here…
Tru Leo:
Hold Up! Lil’ Mama Will Never Match Up To Left Eye’s Legacy! http://bit.ly/XU4ohq
Rayn: Word! Lil’ Mama couldn’t hold a candle to her! Left-Eye will always remain my original inspiration to rhyme – even before Lauryn Hill, who actually contributed to it, later, by virtue of her skills on the Fugees album, “The Score.” And, it was Left-Eye’s verse on “Waterfalls,” alone, that actually did it for me! 🙂 I played that portion of the song so very many times that my damn “CrazySexyCool” album stopped working properly SOLELY on that part – skipping it’s way through, instead!
“I won’t support your lie no more. I won’t even try no more. If I have to die, oh Lord, that’s how I choose to live!
I won’t be compromised no more. I can’t be victimized no more. I just don’t sympathize no more, ‘cuz now I understand. You just want to use me. You say “love,” then abuse me. You never thought you’d lose me, but how quickly we forget – that nothing is for certain. You thought I’d stay here, hurting. Your guilt trip’s just not working – repressing me to death! ‘Cuz, now, I’m choosing life, yo! I’ll take the sacrifice, yo! If everything must go, then go! That’s how I choose to live!
No more compromises. I see past your disguises. Blinding me through mind-control. Stealing my eternal soul. Appealing through material to keep me as your slave – but, I’ll get out! Oh, I get out of all your boxes! I get out! Oh, you can’t hold me on these chains! I’ll get out! Oh, I want out of social bondage! Knowing my condition is the reason I must change!”
Steven C.: Please explain. You mean she doesn’t like hollywood as well
Steven C.: Does that mean she doesn’t like hollywood
Rayn: It’s not Hollywood she’s referring to, Steven. She’s deconstructing the mental, physical, spiritual and social bondage that comes with living in a corrupt and illegitimate system of control, run a small minority of “elites,” in a situation where most don’t recognize it as a such…
Rayn: Listen to it, again, while keeping that in mind. 🙂
As I scrolled through my Facebook news feed, I discovered the following artwork here, being shared by an acquaintance from here, and originally posted it to my own wall, along with commentary…
The following correspondence originally took place upon my Facebook wall…
Shinji M.: hey, how’s it going? thanks for tracking me down… i’m working on an EP right now… 🙂 if you have some time to kill, check me out in this video… it’s from a show i had in Singapore:
