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King Jehu
Veteran Joined: 23 January 2004 Status: Offline Points: 6088 Crew: Renegades Text Rank: #4 Stats: 54-18-1 Form: WLWWWL |
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Posted: 18 September 2004 at 2:18pm |
My heart is ever so cold as metal or frozen, it's evident, yo
I have relevant prose and more than rhyming letters in rows My crew's better than most: I get them in motion The higher member of the Renegades met us and chose us Now heads roll, necks break, we're severing shoulders Only thing higher than our wins is our intelligence quotients We terrorize crews, leave chaos wherever we go Yet we have more class than a suited gentleman's clothes Yo, we'd battle Dre and 50, shatter Eminem's notion That we were never good enough to have fed him his flows and Metas and blows, we beat the newbies and the veteran foes And gay battlers with beads, boas, feathers and bows Meanwhile, poverty in the tenements grows, the president knows But he's just an idiot and his impediment shows Amphetamin lows, speed high and medicine doses Drug dealers might as well be selling those shredded explosives Who's next to be owned by Renegades? Our adrenaline's potent Breezing through like a breath of fresh air, a heaven sent rose Let it be known, we can be heroes, like the testament goes We've come to save you all, and rise above you with an eminent glow Americans, please make sure your laziness can let up, and vote You won't be given, driven to happiness, so set up a road Walk the way there and have a game face like you're fed up with jokes You wanna go find something better? Then just get up and go Many people have it bad, I speak with sentiment though But much of it may come from evil that's embedded in souls Together to cope, much of what's against us is dreaded, I know But we must fight for every right, be free forever, we hope Letters in folders, send them to our leaders, let 'em oppose us But this new movement will arise and work better if focused Fight for the oppressed, married to wife beaters and wedded to hoes And open every window if the gates to heaven are closed... Hope you liked it.... Poof! Edited by King Jehu |
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-Orion-
Veteran Joined: 08 April 2004 Location: DisturbinLondon Status: Offline Points: 9598 Crew: Renegades Text Rank: #1 Stats: 90-4-1 Form: WWWWNW |
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Already said I think this is one of the best bits from you we've seen. Flow is tight, the multis are fluent and really add to the flow an' the message is subtle but strong, it doesn't start as strong but from President knows and onwards it's just mad. Expression is great, so many quotables, shredded explosives, let up and vote, embedded in souls and the last two/three bars in their entirety. Hot shit! Peace |
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They just said that FUCKIN' with me They didn't mean it Nah . . . |
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Hindsight
Groupie Joined: 15 July 2004 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 57 |
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What Orion said. This really demonstrates a high level of lyrical
ability and knowledge of how to put a piece together. Once your writing
pieces that are this good your basically wasting your time on the net
anyway, as (imo) net emcees are just learning the basics as most of
them arent very good at all, and lots of them dont even spit in real
life (alot of them arent good enough). I mean no offence to heads on
here, but look at the quality thats about, its severely lacking n u've
got all these little english (or welsh in some cases) kids who are
pretending their american, rappin in fake accents, even listenin to
shitty u.s rap like Mase, Chingy etc.
Watch out for producers cos some will rip you off, a mate of mine just released a tune a few months ago, but the producer conned him out of about 35% of the royalties, as he owned both the track and my friends 64 bars (cos they were recorded on his equipment specifically for the beat) Consequently the track is owned by the producer and my mate became a "featuring" artist on the track (meaning he gets a much thinner slice), even tho it was originally a collaboration and hes the only mc on it and the whole thing lasts for 4 and a half minutes. Got quite abit of exposure from it but he could've done with the cash alot more. But yeah thats just a bit of advice init. Goodluck Peace |
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-Orion-
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I think the net isn't a waste of time if you're good/established, it's a great way to keep in loose practice and also to spread your work to wide audiences quickly and conveniently... I did an essay for an exam last year on the Internet and got full marks, so don't fuck with me. ...Loserish threats aside, I rate the net as a good medium for any artist. I do agree there's a lot of slack about but this site has a lot of talent and some good potential talent as well, and Jehu himself has improved since being here, as have I, Perfecto, and others around... and even once we've established skill, we've stayed. You yourself don't do much here, I'd like to see you battle a bit more etc... One last thing about accents: I just can't do UK accent in rap. Some people can make it sound right - I can't. I can see why you call it fake etc etc, but as long as I don't actually act American - which I don't, even though a good proportion of my bloodline are over there - I don't see anything fake about it IMO. |
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They just said that FUCKIN' with me They didn't mean it Nah . . . |
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Abstrakt
Standard Member Joined: 23 March 2004 Location: UK Status: Offline Points: 1702 Text Rank: Unranked Stats: 32-17-2 Form: LLNNWW |
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King Jehus lyrics are at a Higher Level than most..
Not many can amount to that level of skill. Its enevitable to start audios now, 'or waste to much talent you will. |
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Hindsight
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You make some good points Orion, the net can be useful to elevate, it
helped me back in the day when i was first writing lyrics, posting them
on a board and getting feedback. But for me, it just doesnt help
any more, and i find that putting alot of time and effort into the
whole textcee things can tend to stagnate your style and
creativity. Once you've reached the stage where you can say your
good i reckon its more beneficial to be tryin to make it and get
recognised in your ends, battlin freestylin and doin open mikes etc.
Gettin yourself and your shit out there so people get the opportunity
to connect with it, or feel your style or whatever, in real life
means more than on the net.
I mean some heads aint as serious as others but I'm lookin to actually be able to make money from uk hip hop at some stage. As for the accent thing, first of all, do you actually listen to any of the material that comes from the UK, cos if not then no wonder you spit in an american accent. If all u've ever heard is Biggie Nas jay z etc But you should be able to spit in your own voice bruv, without altering the accent. Would you really feel comfortable spitting in an american accent at a party or whatever in front of people you didnt know? Cos i would feel damn uncomfortable if i was watchin you. I have family in the usa as well, but that doesnt make me feel like rapping in an american accent. If you pull it off then fairplay to you, but 99.9999 percent of people i've seen doin it are so hilariously bad its almost painful, most of the time their diabolically shit mcs but the accent is just the icing on the cake. I dont want to sound like a condascending wank stain but i'm not really active on here as i'm out and about doing open mikes, ciphering rapping with other people etc and i've only seen a handful of remotely nice mc's on this site. Also, you can say the nets a good medium for all artists, but if the artists good, at the end of the day where is he hopefully gonna end up, as champ on multiple battle boards? or as good, skilled mc who understands the technicalities of mcing but actually perfroms in real life, in front of real peaople, makes real records and gets paid real money etc. I know which one i'd rather be. Safe Edited by Hindsight |
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-Orion-
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I've heard a lot of UK rap... that was the condescending part... and having family in the US and having US in your blood are two different things... and yeah I would be comfortable... The net is good at all levels, no matter what. Obviously main focus should change to elsewhere but it should always remain *A* focus of what you do... As for this site, I've seen your stuff and there are a lot of MCs/textcees here on your level or above, so I feel you were a bit too critical there. You're talented, but many are as talented as you or more so. Peace |
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They just said that FUCKIN' with me They didn't mean it Nah . . . |
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King Jehu
Veteran Joined: 23 January 2004 Status: Offline Points: 6088 Crew: Renegades Text Rank: #4 Stats: 54-18-1 Form: WLWWWL |
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Any comments on the Piece? All comments accepted, whether u thought it was wack or not...
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Cuba
Senior Moderator Legendary Assassin Joined: 14 June 2004 Location: England Status: Offline Points: 12327 Text Rank: Unranked Stats: 47-22-0 Form: WWWWLW |
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I actually think Renegades do a lot of bitchin...ya get feedback off the people that matter so y'all should stfu bout that ... At least ya get feed, Ive seen better people on other sites be ignored worse than this... In terms of the key, it was hot...I didnt like the start of it tho, yeh it flowed and had multis but I already knew Jehu could do that, could still appreciate the rhyme scheme and multis tho at that point coz they was dope, but I thought this bit was crazy: Metas and blows, we beat the newbies and the veteran foes Flow throughout was dope, you gah some of the smoothest multis Ive eva seen on the net and ya dont have huge bars and still manage to say a lotta stuff within ya rhyme.... PEace |
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King Jehu
Veteran Joined: 23 January 2004 Status: Offline Points: 6088 Crew: Renegades Text Rank: #4 Stats: 54-18-1 Form: WLWWWL |
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I was waiting for the feed from you... Thanks. I just wanted feedback cause I'm really proud of this piece.
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Thickest crap
Standard Member Joined: 23 March 2004 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 1207 Text Rank: Unranked Stats: 5-17-0 Form: Unknown |
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Well not matter what you like to do with yah skillz
If its being a top MC or just being yahself that was a tight complex spit.....Great word play nice mulits and reat flow. Love the Imagination "Meanwhile, poverty in the tenements grows, the president knows But he's just an idiot and his impediment shows Amphetamin lows, speed high and medicine doses Drug dealers might as well be selling those shredded explosives" great line you talk about yah crew and the shit in the world, good job on keeping the tpoic on a flow and not running all over the map. Thanks for the good read |
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Cuba
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Backing up my point, Jehu...posts a key has however many views, has a couple of comments... |
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LaWleSs
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thats because your wack ice c
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-Orion-
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Well it's Renegades and IceC. Whenever we talk about Renegades bein' hated on or only active ones or whatever whatever you're kinda a given with it. And Lawless now he's back as well I guess.
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They just said that FUCKIN' with me They didn't mean it Nah . . . |
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King Jehu
Veteran Joined: 23 January 2004 Status: Offline Points: 6088 Crew: Renegades Text Rank: #4 Stats: 54-18-1 Form: WLWWWL |
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To tell the truth, I make no distinction between Renegades and E.L.I.T.E...
and your verse was correct. You spoke the truth about being underrated, hated on and not given a second glance. I agree woith you 100%. it took us bitching about shit to actually get some feedback... I'd appreciate it if you muhfuckas told Ice what you thought of his spit. Link HERE |
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