Saturday, May 9, 2009

Let me ask you

Let me ask you,
When you die do you want
To hear hip-hop or rock
As you enter the pearly gates?

It has to be hip-hop right?!
I mean I love my Led Zep, Fab Four, Doors,
Tool, and Nails as much as the next obsessed fan
With the tattoos to prove it yo.

I still know that when I enter the gates
I’d like to do so with a bounce in my step.
I want KRS booming bass so I can bob my head to the beat
Thinking about how this (after) party just got started.

I don’t need heart crushing Harrison ballads that will
Only serve to remind me of the one
That got away, NO! I want Nas telling me
Beware Illuminati and the New World Order

So I can laugh about the petty shit we tripped on
While on Earth. Hip-Hop makes life/death easier
Like custard cream filled donuts after a long Sunday
Sermon telling me I’m doomed to go to hell for playing

Mortal Kombat. I’m not saying that there wouldn’t be a
Metalica bar or a Depeche Mode cafeteria, Heaven could
Not be holy without some rock. But the lounge is Hip-hop. We enter in our finest
Club gear, DC’s white as my wings, Dickie’s creased, L.A. tilted brim (with the stickers).
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2 comments:

Lorigga said...

I like the transition between the last two paragraphs.

Where did the idea for this come from? I like it. Plus, I've never thought of the sounds I'd hear when transitioning into death. In fact, I wonder how / if sound would be experienced by an ethereal form.

Pastries after mass. My Family would have Tito's tacos...good times.

May 14, 2009 at 10:28 AM
Black Crow said...

Im so glad someone finally asked me! The idea came about from sheer ridiculousness and I decided to roll it with as an escape from school work. I was listening to hip-hop and really feeling the rhythm and beat. You know hip-hop man, sometimes it sounds like it was the only music meant to be heard, ya know? when in your that mood, that particular mood that rock could never satisfy. that Im entering the club mood, or for those of us that dont club, that entering the anime night mood, ya know excitement. I thought in an instant that death must be the most exciting thing ever and couldnt the experience be heightened with some epic hip hip beat? well I busted up laughing at the notion that one particular type of music could be preferred over another even in the after life. I even thought about how country would straight mean I was in hell! I didnt incorporate that into the poem, but it was the basis of why I thought the poem had so much potential for ridiculousness. I just thought, dying is the beginning of the after party, where things would always be better, wouldnt the music be better too? As for ethereal and the age old is there sound in space? I figure there must be something that we could pick up off of. I mean sound is so integral to the 8 density symbolism, and to my current experience, I refuse to believe that music ends when my body does!
The short answer is, its just a joke. Hope I made ya smile.

May 15, 2009 at 4:23 PM

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