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Friday, January 14, 2005

The 46th Letter

well, while i got fuck else to do i might as well chuck more shit up for y'all to check. would appreciate any comments, or straight disses if u got the balls. hehe.
this is a little somethin' i cooked up at the end of last year. basically, i needed to write a lyric in 46 letters...including spaces! it was some mind-bending shit, trust me. especially cos i wanted it to say everything that i was/am feeling about how to approach 2005. and how im gonna TKOver. this is how it read, it requires some explanation:

Do wot u got2DO2get where u want2B,05make mine

46 letters. blam. it has the obvious meaning of Doing wot u gotta do to get where u wanna be. I think thats self-explanatory but a good philosophy.
But if u take a step back and look at the lyric as a set of numbers and letters, u should b able to make out 2002 (2DO2) and 2005 (kinda: 2B,05). 2002 represents the year i started MCing proper (as resident at Pressure), while 2005 represents now. So the lyric essentially represents the 2 crucial points in my MC career. 'Do u wot u gotta do' represents everything ive dun since 2002, to get 'Where i want to be' now, in 2005.
Beyond 2005, in terms of literally after '2B,05' and in a real sense, 'Make Mine' refers to the TKOver. Im gonna make 2005 mine. It also means im gonna make my own way (outside of the santuary of Pressure) from here onwards.

So there u have it. Some deep shit. Suck on those eggs. Im not just a smoking machine, u know

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