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    Posted: 27 March 2020 at 6:33pm
I've been in a hip-hop mood. I was looking through my rhymes to get the wheels turning and found this which I wrote in 2012 and never dropped anywhere lol.


I'm in a hole trapped, and I'm grasping for the top
Every time I get a grip the land collapses and I drop
Every time I hit the floor it takes me longer to rise
Cause taking falls doesn't always make you stronger inside
And fuckin' all of this time, my life is passing me by
Like I'm down here for years but just a flash in your eyes
Fuckin' tired of gripping because this wire keeps tripping you
Your confidence dying quick as the fire comes ripping through
The sky turning black it's like the Moon is a spotlight
Focused on my failures and the shit I ain't got right
The creatures of the night begin to circle and eye me
I'm jealous of my breath I watch it leave me and rise free
Starting to accept the fate of dying a beaten man
The Reaper speeding up because he knows there's a meeting planned
A consolation is no trouble's getting to follow me
I lie my body down and tell the world to swallow me
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Well to say this is an old piece from 8yrs ago and still comes off
as fresh, show it has a rimless quality going for it, the opening bar
sets the tone up real nice with its (no pun intended) depth literally,
and as we know all to well, life isn't great for everybody, the emotion
within was cool too, i could feel that trapped vibe that which was the
main concept through out, which was displayed rather well i'll add,
and it also had a real real Ripe rolling theme that made the piece as
a whole come off as quaint and endearing plus fluid, enjoyed this 1
for many reasons, thanks for the read....peace.
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before you can dare make an entrance".
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Thanks man, always a pleasure. By 'rolling theme' do you mean the type of flow? I find that if you make the 2nd line of a bar like a continuation of a sentence then it seems to speed up and gel the whole verse a lot more. Word choice for the first words of lines too it's hard to explain but I geek out for shit like that lol.
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Yeah flow and the contents/themes progression, you had a main
running theme concept, with little sprinkling of inner concepts that
kept it together..i hope that helps with what i mean by a rolling theme.
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