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Originally posted by Pyrate
That's wot it is tho.
Words on the mic.
I mean, do you really think the Beatles had a trip in yellow sumbarine with cartoon fish??? IN REAL LIFE?????!!!!!!
Words. Don't take them too literally man. Words are powerful, and some people succumb to them and accept them as dire truth. It's a male instinct to 'front', exaggerate, show off. If a rappa says I fucked thi ho and threw caps at her man, it may well have happened, but maybe euphemistically. Maybe he just soaked Joe wit tha Super Soaker 200999786 and rudely grabbed his girl's ass while he was drying out. Y'know? Maybe he played a guy's chick then threatened the guy with a replica.
Or, more likely, he's just chattin shite.
You see, the thing with music is you can 'live' out a 'fantasy' or alternate life in your songs and your videos. I mean hell, when I rap I sometimes refer to myself as the Demon Of Mischief, or a pirate (my theme) sailing the seven seas plundering unwary ships with my co captain Davie Jones. I've always dreamed of being a pirate since my pickney days dem and now I'm expressing my dreams and making them come true to an extent in my music. Music lets you vent. It lets you 'do' things that law doesn't allow, but in a HARMLESS WAY.
Music isn't physical. Harmful occasionally, but not physical. If a guy says 'I fucked up a cop' then it dont mean he literally dragged a jay out his car and blew his head off.
I mean come on, think deeper man.
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Ok I'm thinking deeper. "Words are powerful, and some people succumb to them and accept them as dire truth." This is your quote, yet you say it's ok to use words in a "fantasy" role and it's automatically ok. Why use the words I'll put 6 bullets in your brain and your blood will flow like rain if you think or know that words are so powerful? I'm all for people saying what they feel and I listen to some pretty heavy stuff, but rap seems to take it to a totally new level. They talk about "being real" but then again all they do is front right? They have to be if they aren't really doing what they are rapping about. How can you be real and live a fantasy at the same time? Doesn't make much sense to me .. think deeper man..