STEEMIT'S JACKIN FOR BEATS: Showcase Week # 1 - @Verbal-D - Fabolous "Breathe" Part 5 (Original Song)
Shout out to @geechidan for this HipHop & Musical Art Challenge focused on bringing us and our gifts, talents, knowledge and skills together in our Steemit community. If you haven't checked out his music, or haven't followed him yet, go over there and show him support, recognition, appreciation and love. Salute to everyone in TheCut. Peace and Blessings.
I recommend headphones for this one, full lyrics are provided below so you can read or rap along. I appreciate you all for listening and reading my lyrics.
Verse 1:
You can only be successful as bad as you want to breathe
Hunger is deep within, motivation is what I feed
Refuse to drown now, if challenged, will not concede
I'll be steady flowing quotes, ready potent moments you read...
Oh yes the truth hurts, and I'm ready to bleed
Barely can breathe, still singing notes like air through a reed
We've been mental slaves long enough, let's dare to be freed
Trampled over tryna break us, 'til we lead the stampede...
I'm so tired of us suffocating, feels like our lungs are breaking
Trust is fading, still gotta rise up when all our young are shaking
An over-rush of raining, gushing pavements, flood encasement
Might not make it out like a Rorschach test, or dungeon, basement...
To lost souls, my spirit, for them it grieves
Fallen like fallen angels, or angel dust from a dealer's sleeve
I'm fighting currents, deterrents to my reprieve
Only Christ alone can save me, as soul is being bereaved...believe...
Song Lyrics Copyrighted By @Verbal-D
Link to Original Steemit's Jackin' For Beats Post By @Geechidan Here https://steemit.com/hiphop/@geechidan/the-cut-presents-steemit-s-jackin-for-beats-showcase-1 Feel free to support, fund, listen in and or participate within our Hip Hop community. All are welcome
If you missed my other previous Rap Challenge Entries hosted by @rondonson, Jackin' For Beat Entries hosted by @geechidan, Got16s Lyrical Contest Entries hosted by @voyceatlas, Hip Hop MC Challenge Entries hosted by @termitemusic, & What Would You Have Spit MC Challenge Entries hosted by @kenentertainment, Please click on the provided links below:
Rap Challenge Wk # 2: Role Model First, Emcee Second
Rap Challenge Wk # 4: Bringer Of Life
Rap Challenge Wk # 5: Deep, Lingering Pain
Rap Challenge Wk # 6: A Gorge Of Love In A Valley Of Hate
Rap Challenge Wk # 7: Steemit Hip Hop Community
Rap Challenge Wk # 8: Everybody Wants To Be An Original
Rap Challenge Wk # 14: The Great Design
Rap Challenge Wk # 15: How Can You Miss 'Em?
Rap Challenge Wk # 16: Due Diligence
Rap Challenge Wk # 17: It's Time To Grow
Rap Challenge Wk # 18: Mastermind
Rap Challenge Wk # 19: The Peacemaker Vs The Piecemaker
Got16s Lyrical Contest # 1: Passionate Poetics
Hip Hop MC Challenge # 1: Imprisoned In Your Mind?
Hip Hop MC Challenge # 5: Always Moving Forward
Hip Hop MC Challenge # 11: Give The Gift Of Music
What Would You Have Spit? MC Challenge Rd # 1: Wake Up The Hopeless
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Side thought: I can't help but pour my heart, mind, spirit and soul into all the music I share with you all. I love performing live, but like @geechidan says, when we're creating new content at such a high rate, it's hard to even remember the bars, which is why we have to improve on our speed reading the lyrics with conviction, delivery and better performance (as if we're not reading lyrics). When I have a whole song memorised after weeks and months of practicing, I am even more passionate and in the zone than what I have showcased here and in all my previous entries above.
Makes perfect sense, D... You "speed read" the above with persuasive conviction, dude... Nice!
Thanks bro it's easier when you perform that which you believe and it's what you made but it's not make believe :)
Wow, man! The cadence you've created here is like ONE with the beat, brother - that is rather remarkable! Love the lyrics too - one of my favorite lines is "Oh yes, the truth hurts, and I'm ready to bleed"...
Appreciate the love and you listening bro. Lyrics are my bread and butter, all the other aspects I took awhile to sharpen and learn but it is slowly but surely coming along. Thanks for pointing out your favorite line, that one was fun to map out.
Dope entry! Really solid bars all over so it's hard to choose favorites, the verse fits perfectly to the instrumental!! Keeping it alive!
Thank you very much bro, I love Hip Hop to the fullest just as we all do and I aim to do it justice every time. The Breathe Instrumental is so freshhhh it never gets old even though it's old you know what I mean? lol Let's keep Hip Hop alive indeed
I love hearing rappers whose cadence gives its own separate power to a song. I'm sure you have heard of him but you really remind me of Shai Linne. Give him a listen if you haven't!
Thank you for taking time out your day to listen bro, much gratitude for lending your ears on this new verse. I will check out Shai Linn right now and see if the reminder of him is a compliment or not lol
Cadence is definitely of the many important facets of high quality Hip Hop, I try and keep them all in mind while performing because many many years ago my stats on a scale of 1-10, 1 being terrible novice and 10 being flawless natural emcee, I was like a 2 across the board lol with maybe a 4.5 in lyricism. How the audience views me now is their opinion but I have definitely witnessed and worked on my own growth
I think you will like him! He’s a Christian rapper and he’s heavy on theology. He’s my favorite Christian rapper.
Nice bro! I definitely gotta check him out now. I also like Christian rappers Sevin, Gemstones, Bizzle, Th3 Saga, and my favourite of all time is Loso, who is a battle rapper. He is crazy skilled. I'll update you on something you have to watch, it is super lyrical and fresh. I'll make a post about it soon
Only heard one song from him and I really enjoyed it, thanks for the heads up bro
Excuse my language but that was Fu#(U#)@ dope SIR! Salute. I'll post your link in my roundup. I did a tag search last night so I apologize if I missed you. I'll going to be making my reviews pretty on video so I'll make sure I really take time to account for everyone next time. Otherwise, DOPE MAN. Resteemed.
Thank you very much for the big compliment coming from a fellow high level loud trebled grounded settled emcee. Appreciate the heads up and the update. It's all good. I look forward to your reviews on everybody's entries, we got some good verses circulating amongst us! Much love and blessings. High gratitude, low attitude, still humble