polyphony.

i'm a sky scraper by nature.


that's black thought up there, and that's his line too. true heads will remember that line from lyricist lounge vol.1 stretch and bobbito freestyle, the very last track on disc 1. that's my motherfucking man, yo. not personally of course, the closest we've ever been to one another is passing each other on walnut st. but dude can rhyme man. it's funny, i remember getting hella discouraged when i read a story on him back in 1999 in the over/underground issue of the source. i think it was the october issue. he was talking about how "niggas can't even freestyle about some non rap shit, they couldn't spit a freestyle about the shit in this room" effectively saying that cats who lack freestyle game aren't true emcees.

i was like FUCK!

so of course, ever since 1999, i've been honing up on the freespits.

but whatever. i'm talking about him tonight because dude really gives his all at a performance, he's the epitome of what i wanna do when i take the mike. i remember the show at the trocadero in philly, he came on the stage in th e fucking dark and just blew everybody in the area away with this sick ass verse. i was like, "thought's the fucking man." period.

later on in the show he would go on to sing. i was blown. he's a real workhorse cat, like, he doesn't get respect off of a particularly dope line he dropped, or because he is on the radio and moving massive amount of units, it's basically off of the fierceness with which he spits, and the quality of his stage show. he works for his, probably more than ANYone else in this whole rap thing.

believe me, any accolades he recieves? he deserves.

i mean-


that is just the fucking sickness.

and that beard be healthy as SHIT!

lol...

peace.