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In the beginning I was just a kid, listenin' to Slick Rick
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Maestro Fresh Wes, Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince
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Rewrite the lyrics and recite "˜em to my best friends
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But I was just a copycat and this was just a hobby that
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Would probably pass after I'd exhausted all my sloppy raps
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And got the laughs I was after, typical little bastard
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Privileged middle-class mischievous little rascal
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With a ticket to sit in the back row at a rap show
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I listened to Fat Joe, Method Man, and B. I. G.
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And imagined livin' as a V. I. P.
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Though I didn't have a plan, just a fantasy
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But I could still pass exams with ease and plant trees
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To get cash for books, tuition fees, and rap CDs
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And I had a chance to read classic Greek tragedies
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I've always been addicted to words
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So I just immersed myself in English Literature
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But I was immature, and these were fickle times
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Between classes I would listen to rhymes and find
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My lips whispering lines as if in the background
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Then at nineteen I wrote my first original rap down
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I go back to the Genesis Eden Garden
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When I was a teen in love with freestylin'
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That's when I learned techniques for rhymin'
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And started redesignin'
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I can still feel that prickle of initial excitement
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I figured, "It's official y'all; this is enlightenment!"
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I pictured myself cypherin' with the likes of Big Pun
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Whippin' punks into submission with a flip of the tongue
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I did it for fun; I was ambitious and irreverent
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I figured I was clever enough to get the better
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Of any competitor, "˜cause I was verbally first rate
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My early verses were based on discursive wordplay
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With no breaks, no separated parts, no bars, no hooks
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Just page after page past the margins of notebooks
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So far so good; I built my skills gradually
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And kept on track with the bachelor's degree
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Actually, I considered droppin' out to get respect
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But I figured more options would mean less regrets
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And besides, some rappers were comin' differently
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I discovered Blackalicious and Talib Kweli
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MCs who could rip the beat descriptively
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And then in my second season I had this epiphany
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"Rap is poetry!" and ever since I've represented it
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Openly through my position as an academic
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Get It?
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I go back to the Genesis Eden Garden
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When I was a teen in love with freestylin'
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That's when I learned techniques for rhymin'
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And started redesignin'
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Next semester I convinced my teachers
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That hip-hop lyrics would be my thesis research
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I thought I would be the first to study it in depth
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Reality check; the library index
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Already had a long list of hip-hop scholarship
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Steps that I followed in; David Foster Wallace and
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Tricia Rose and Brian Cross got acknowledgments
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And props; they taught me hip-hop history
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And I started to approach this culture realistically
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And the next step for me in this MC trajectory
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Was for me to freestyle obsessively
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On road trips I was a motor-mouth motorist
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I learned to flow sick on a solo tip
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Rockin' Dr. Dre beats "“ Xxplosive
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I was blowin' doors open; people started listenin'
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Hip-hop for me was a form of discipline
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Born Again on the discman, studyin' flows
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Whadaya know? When I was just twenty years old
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I hit the tracks runnin' my mouth like a bloody nose
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And took my first steps down this long dusty road
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Oh!
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I get lethargic and reminisce
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In the darkness return to the days
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When I learned to spit marvelous
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And give props to those who started this
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HipHop, I love being part of this
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