3.10.2008

are there any fucking lyricists left?

Of course if I say I'm audi 5000, I'm gonna think of some dumpinbulletholenet ass content the next day, which is what happened today. Last weekend, PSY/OPS came by and played me a song of our's he had mixed down that I'd completely forgotten about, and it was thick crazy lyrics, not to toot my own horn or anything, because I have terrible delivery like any white rapper. But lately when I've been writing shit, what I had done in that song I'd forgotten is the style I've been going for - very thick linguistics but with a build up of meaning. Lots of rappers have the crazy linguistics but suffer from Gift of Gabitis where it's just RAGALAGARAGA DEEDEEDEE RAGALAGARAGARAGALAGA forever, but goddamn... where does it go? Honestly, I don't even look to other rappers for inspiration to write lyrics anymore because as far as I know, there are no rappers even writing lyrics and shit.
At some fag board Mike posts at and I lurk at once in a while, a couple weeks ago someone posted the link to the stupid Da Drought 3 for Dummies blogpost somewhere or another, explaining all of Lil Wayne irreverence. Except none of that shit is irreverent. Most of it's common shit you should know if you weren't a retard, and the rest of it is just pop culture tidbits. Like is that brilliant lyricism? I mean, I'm not anti-pop culture, but at least twist the shit, bend it, make it have double meanings or something creative. With all apologies to Wayne's ghostwriting staff, Lil Wayne is not lyrical brilliance except for by accident in an idiot savant way. Except he's not a retarded southern kid raised by an overly religious grandmother who carved Revelations verses into soapstone; he's just a ghetto kid who all too often rhymes words with themselves like three lines in a row. That's not lyrical innovation either.
So what I'm asking is for you dumpinbulletholenet reader, is who the fuck is left who is a lyricist? I mean, as an old fool from the old college of rappitty raps, Rakim is the God. He twisted meanings and dropped left field metaphors with ease. Biggie had a good raw lyrical ability, but his aura was more delivery. And I've never really been sure why people worshipped Tupac, other than he died young and pretty. But I'm asking for you to come forth with songs that have the for-real lyricists going today. Not some dude who just throws together a thousand slang words in hyper pitter patters and shit, but people who twist bend camel clutch and figure four the motherfucking stupid ass language. Please, I have internet welfare, so just up a song to whatever file stealing service you frequent with your hi-fi steal it all mentality. Hopefully, someone will do this shit and I will come back and complain like an old man about it all. Or maybe I will learn about some shit that doesn't suck. I'm sick of putting John Prine acapellas on speeded pitch over top of David Banner instrumentals.