The Unknown Lyric

Happy Thanksgiving people! I hope you’ve all eaten yourselves into submission, I am perfectly contented and I don’t have to eat again for the next week. We went up to Coco Beach to have Thanksgiving diner at my Uncle’s house, and it dawned on me as many times as I’ve been up to Coco Beach (Which has only been about 3 or 4 times), I have yet to actually see Coco Beach. I don’t even know how close or far away my uncle is from the coast…anyways, irrelevant tangent. I’m just dropping this in real quick to send out the standard cheesy greetings of the holiday/ season, cuz my schedule is about to lock up. I’ll be playing for our Christmas Pageant for the next three weeks from weds. thru Sun. and I probably wont have many opportunities to post.
I’m starting my Christmas shopping tomorrow, and I’m working on such a limited budget that I might actually finish my Christmas shopping tomorrow….don’t know why I’m adding this in, but its in so deal with it! Oh, while we are submersed in the extemporaneous, check out KRS-ONE’s book Ruminations, listen to James Moody’s LP Never Again, and don’t get a dog!
Holla!

Alright world, I finally did it! It took me almost 21 years, but its done now, I can move on with my life! I'm going a whole new direction now, this action has completely redefined me and I'll never be the same again. I have finally joined the ranks of the elite Americans who power the music industry in all its glory. I've just bought into the industrial super-machine that is Mainstream/ (Commercial???) Hip-Hop. I now personally own my own piece of America's most effective marketing tool! And it only cost me $9.99 (plus tax of course)! That's right, Tyler Jamaal Christopher-Amir Jordan has FINALLY BOUGHT A JAY-Z ALBUM!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's been a long time coming, 11 albums actually, but I did it! And I don't feel bad about it! Actually its something I've been meaning to do for a while... I've always felt Hov to a certain extent, enough to put my money on at least some of his material. I was flat out impressed by Hard Knock Life Vol. 2, as was most of Hip-Hop and Hiphoppas alike (cultural differences check the Temple of HipHop). That album and Dynasty were all I had heard from Jay as far as whole LP's go, and I'm not even going to mention the Dynasty album...
I just figured okay if he's leaving, I'll show my support before I fall too far behind.

It's not at all a bad album, all the verses are on point but I feel that or two of the hooks are un-inspired. "Justify My Thug" is an eyebrow raiser to say the least, DJ Quik produced (but its not the signature sound that I know personally) and the hook is ...... well check it out for yourself. Young Hov gets much props though for linkin with Rick Rubin (Co-founder with Simmons of Def Jam) on "99 problems" and takin it ol' school with LL's cadence from "My Rhyme Ain't Done" (Bigger and Deffer (1986?)) You can tell J had a special approach to this album, there are no other emcees to be found amongst the 14 track finale, and although its not a 5 mic, I think all fans will be pleased. I'm not a fan, but I'm on my way to becoming one, maybe not a big one, but a fan nonetheless.

okay, in other news, it looks like its going to be a good year for Hiphop in retrospect, I just picked up the new Jeru the Damaja album (Divine by Design 2003) and it's the perverted monk style at its finest to date, all I need now are some Gang Starr clique (Guru, Premier, Afu Ra, M.O.P. etc.) interaction and we're back to 94 baby! The hieroglyphics crew just dropped (West Coast Bay Area Holding it Down Na' mean????), Dead Prez is in the cut, the Diabolical B-I-Z-M-A-R-superstar-o-k? is finally releasing his weekend Warrior project, JAY DEE (DILLAS IN THE HOUSE YA'll) and MADLIB the BADKID (Who is hands down the sickest hiphop producer to dig through a crate and then put it down for jazz (check Yesterday's New Quintet! Ya'll ain't ready!!!!)) teamed up and did their thing on the JayLib Sound Champion album!!! You know what??? I'm tired of trying to put ya'll cats on! Go find out for your damn selves! The underground cultural movement's been in full effect!!! Ya'll wanna sleep? Then Goodnight! I hope you don't wake up, cuz it'll be too late when you do! If you're with me right now, then you're loving life, and you know we put life in the music! So let's keep doing this! If its one love, its mine, and it goes out to ya'll!!!! A Passionate Holla back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



-this is not a mediocre post!

Aight I wrote this Tuesday morning....but I'm just now posting it
Hello world! It’s about six in A. Meridian, and I just got out the shower, about twenty minutes before that, I just gotten home, and for the past nine hours before that, I was thoroughly immersed in my official last day at Atlanta Bread Company. After the last three days I’ve spent there, I have no desire whatsoever to return there before I perish and retire this Earth (not to bake anyway, the food’s still good, even if it’s expensive). It’s been nice for the most part, but the cipher is complete, time to start anew ya feel?
It’s been a long time since I’ve set foot on this page, I almost forgot it was mine (sorry for the neglect…), I had a whole list of post that I wanted to do, but never had the time to commit to text, more verses from my peeps I wanted to share, so many forgotten insights… I’m warning you now, I don’t know if this is going anywhere, I think I’m just relishing in the fact that I actually have the time to do this again. ( Unlike a certain 2nd cousin of mine, who never seems to want to update his website…). It’s all love, in the end it always is at least.
Jumping back, now I’m entrenched in my complex, I’m not working now, (and loving it!) but Christmas is right around the corner. If I don’t land a job within the next week and a half, everybody in my circle can look forward to some quite interesting home-made stocking stuffers, maybe a Christmas Quiche! LOL. Hopefully it won’t come to that, but if it does, everybody knows now the end of the year catch phrase is, “its all love!” Till the next mediocre post….(by the way. Welcome back!)

And without further ado, ladies and gentlemen, I present to you, Eternity 7. Courtesy of my main the Auspex a.ka. Primusz one of the finest. K-roc stalk the block with the nine rhyme milime-turets etc. (Ya'll 'll learn about it one day).


ETERNITY 7.

Whether it be blinding light or pitch darkness/ it all begins and ends in a place that's the farthest/ from our world/ blurred/ in between the molecules of xeon/ there exists Zion/ with the lion/ that points to what the living dead serves as peons/ driven to drowning sweat/ motivated by faith in debt/ Belief/ is a maine on our necks that shakes to the rhythem of life and death/ Time is only recieved in petty theft/ as we try to log on to Bliss 7.0, the best happiness yet/ connect and internet with pure, deep thought and get lost/ its a Dream/ lack of self control can come at a cost/ some find there way back; it seems/ those who dont ignore the signs/ and find their minds/ infected with Sin's schemes/ its bugged/ i guess thats how we end up with thugs/ but not for long/ Life is a recycling process/ that returns the spirit back to its eternal essence/ WE BELONG/ for existance is a struggle with the only option to succeed/ WE BE/ happy only to live long enough to suffer/ WE BE/ this twisted cycle ends with the destruction of numbers/ WE BE/ its Infinity/ the self reflection of a portion of Jah in the spirit of a human being/ WE BE/ like the nautilus/ as we search through the Sea of Eternity/


Two days back, my bredren asked if i knew what Happiness was/ obviously, i didnt know because/ i didnt think of it in the terms of slavery/ his answer was "IT IS TO BE FREE"/ and i feel captured/ unable to move in this animation of tangibility/ a million years of striving for Godliness and we still havent matured/ WE come from nothing; born as babies, grow to adults, revert back to children, and still return to nothing/ to me thats something/ a chance to hopefully carry over my experiences to another becoming/ If its true that Jehovah is the A and the O/ then it could be said that when we die, our experiences return back to His essence and He'll continue to grow/ its all like a cycle geared; driven with a chain thats continually oiled/ when fruit is spoiled/ at the same time its flower is bloomed/ which is groomed/ to be coiled about optical pupils; thats what i call sparkling eyes/ as i stare up at the night's skies/ looking at the stars to conjure up my preception of Heaven/ i realize/ whether it be blinding light or the pitch darkness/ I and I, the stars and sky/ it all begins and ends in Eternity 7// ETERNITY 7.


This is only half the experience, you gotta here my man narrate it!!!!! S.O.N.S. for shizzle! Holla back, if it hits you hit it up!

I don't consider it a morbid thought but, I don't want to die any time soon because I hate knowing that someone is going to have to tell my little brother that I won't be coming back. Don't ask, its just a tidbit.

Rap is to Hip-Hop, what being alive is to living. Let's go all the way people! Long live KRS-ONE, Rakim Allah, Black Thought, Pharoahe Monch, Common Sense, and the establishment of cultural institutions! Who needs the radio? Certainly not people wanting to hear music with any kind of substance. (*@%$# the radio!!! But that's just me being blunt....)It's been reduced to an endless melodious endorsement for indulgence into purely economic ideals of rampant unchecked capitalism! (Translation, once again &$*# commercial radio) What's worse, even "pirate radio stations" (The People's Radio, hah!) locally have just developed into un-edited versions of the corporate-backed aural behemoths!
O.K. I've vented! Actually its more of an expression of joy, I'm not so much angry at the radio stations, I'm just quite proud (almost sinfully so) of my alternative wealth of music. Of course, my collection has come at the cost of my former allegiance to the proliferation of pop-culture via the ever-expansive airwaves, but then again the ever-expansive airwaves became overburdened with the homogeneous mix of high-priced and over-endorsed emptiness....
O.K. for real I'm through! I don't know what that was all about, but I figure this is my site and I can let my thoughts wander at will if I want na'mean?
Listening to KRS is so uplifting and inspiring it should be a crime! The people have so much power, its a crime we don't exercise it at least in small increments. Any change we want, we can fuel, is it just that we're scared of taking charge because that means we'll have to take responsibility?
....Still searching to see if I should be searching for a direction on this site....if you're bearing with me, thank you, I can't promise your patience will be rewarded, but it is appreciated. HOLLA!

I'm a free man!!!!!!!!!!

...At least for the time being. No more ABC, No more Annie's, just time to practice, write, reconnect with lost peeps, etc. I'm not diving into another job search just yet, I think I'll take the week off and then re-enter the madness. I should make it, I still have two paychecks coming, and then my last stint at Atlanta. And since I left on good terms, they offered me my position back if everything else falls through. Blue collar work aside, I've been putting time in on my instruments. The studio session was fun, I have alot of work to do, I'm a long way from where I need to be. But it was enlightening, if possible, I want to go and just sit in sometime this week. I also had a rehearsal with the steel pan player today, and we're playing a piece from the professor who invited me to the school to play. It's a beautiful piece, readily classifiable as a standard by all measures. Not to mention the pan player's compositions ( absolutely .......)! Its actually scary to think that all of this music, all these ideas, can come from one person. Aight I'm off to capitalize on my free time. Holla!

# posted by Tyler @ 4:49 PM