ReclineOffOneLine: 2020

Saturday, December 19, 2020

(2020) Ka - Sins of Our Father

OneLine: Be James Evans or Rayful Edmond.

Monday, December 7, 2020

(1997) Mos Def - Travelin' Man

OneLine: This thing called rhyming no different than coal mining. We both on assignment to unearth a diamond.

Diamonds

"I took the hip-hop exam and I aced it. Matter a fact, the board of rap didn't know how to grade it." - Joell Ortiz, 125 Pt. 2

"My mother didn't give me what I want, what the fuck? Now I gotta glock, makin' motherfuckas duck." - Notorious B.I.G., Ready To Die

"25, three years of being self-taught. Laughing at the stuff my 22 year old self thought. Now I'm 28, and the only thing I know is, I don't really know shit. That's what I'ma roll with." - Junk Science, Really, Man

"I bomb atomically, Socrates' philosophies and hypotheses can't define how I be droppin these mockeries." - Inspectah Deck, Triumph

"The game is full of homo's backwards; mo' ho's than rappers." - Blu, Simply Amazin'

"Mom's spaghetti..." - Eminem, Lose Yourself

"Streetlights and deep nights,
cats tryin' to eat right,
riding no seat bikes,
with work to feed hypes,
so they can keep sweet Nike's,
they head and they feet right,
Desires of street life,
cars and weed types.
It's hard to breath nights,
days are thief like,
The beast roam the streets, the police is Greek-like.
Game at its peak,
we speak and believe hype.
Bang in the streets,
hats cocked left or deep right.
A steep life,
coming up where niggas is sheep-like.
Rappers and hoopers,
we strive to be like,
G's with three stripes,
seeds that need light,
cheese and weaves tight,
needs and be strife.
The corner, where struggle and greed fight.
We write songs about wrong cause it's hard to see right.
Look to the sky hope that it will bleed light.
Reality is'a bitch, and I heard that she bites. The Corner." - Common, The Corner