The Story Behind "Turn Em" On THE KINETIK L.P.

Now continuing off the crazy intro, this song had to be the flagship song for the whole album. One of my pet peaves is when a rapper has a song with the same title as the album, or mixtape, and the song is wack and way different from the rest of the line up. The whole idea of the song is to project the seriousness in my style.

The 1st verse is "Ayo, one to checka, microphone wrecka, conductor, then between 6 and 8 you know my number" (as a reference to the number 7 which a very simbolic holy number) Then i continue with a threat "I wonder, how u gonna sleep when u cant slumber, knowing that a nigga like Ledge (a "aka" name for Akknowledge) can take u under, the pavement, when rap cats like u wont make it, ya basic, im way more advanced for u to try to dance (rock, mess) with a man standn right here at a Cheeba (in reference to a famous Kung Fu Actor Sonny Cheeba In "ShowGun Assassin) stance, and get ya body tossed in a pile like they do in Iran (in reference to the way rebels do with dead bodies of the enemys) Yeh" So then i begin to break it down with "So understand, im more than jus a man, u less then a mouse, ya "Trickn" ass is a bitch "(in reference to the "trickn if u gott it phrase and rappers who use it) "U dont know shit, about whut im talkn about so shut chya fuckn mouth and take ya faggot ass down south, in ATL where they allow that shit to happen at, rappers like you are shit pellets in my habitat"(in reference to the spike in homosexuality in people esp in that area of the u.s. next to L.A., and the rappers style as being homosexual) "Its pure animal instick, to form a crew (join a pack) when u nigga still soft like N'SYNC (in reference to the boyband in the early 2000's)

With such a crazy verse and this still being the 1st song on the L.P. I had to keep my idea and topic known. So it went "For all u rappers, thinkn that u fly's when u maggots" "For all u females, jockn on a nigga cas of record sells""For all u fellas, thinkn that u gods u aint hard nigga""and for u lable A&R's act like u stars man" "I turn em all back where they belong" i got from Prodigys "Genises

The Story Behind "U Kno This" On THE KINETIK L.P.

This song off the bat is insane to begin with. Just like many of my joints on here it started from Klass D's beat. In it u notice he incorportated a west coast old school gangsta style base line which really set the tone for the whole song. While startn to recordn the intro in the song i couldnt help laughn cas of what all of us was talkn bout the mainstream rap music and how silly it is. So i decided to write the whole verse in a different tone then i normally do my songs with. With a higher tone, it gave me the oppertunity to be smoother but still direct with my verse.

The 1st verse starts off with talkn to rappers with "So trust u dont know Knowledge, so dont get ya shit twisted like hooked-on-phonics" I used that as a direct refernece to how stupid some rappers punchlines can be and sarcastically down playing their whole approach to a song. Now talkn to the people that buy and play that type of garbage rap music with c'mon "Lets be honest, more than half of these rappers now-a-days is garbage, and yet u buy that shit, and ride to that shit, they minus well jus wife ya chic, and hype ya splif, smoke back and get high (with ya) shit, since (oviously) rhyme died and shit" which talks about basically you let them control you and now they run everything you do and you become a slave or a whore to a pimp. Continuing on with my sarcastic verse with "and maybe now a whole bunch of rap niggas can say they artist, and maybe then these rap cats can say that they the hardest". Flippn the tone and going back to my normal self with "but naw, cas emcees like me dont believe in hip-pop-cracy, its gotta be a spot where we can operate (as a reference to the hiphop spots where emcees can freely perform and network) Co Operate!? (as in work together with rappers us as serious emcees are against) naw ya shit we dont tolerate, we dominate, cas we dominent, and more prominent to leave you spent (tired, played out) with these rhymes that we kick". To go into comparing rappers to me as an emcee, i say "Our styles is more heaven sent, ya styles is more irrelevent". The becoming fustrated with toying with rappers i use my infamous deep tone with "To the motherfuckn matter at hand, and ill be damn if u boys try ta go against a man, with a mic in one hand, and a sword in another (in referece to me being known to walk around with a acuall sword in my hand) my brother, dont have me leave ya shit smotherd with the butter luvers (in reference to Onyx) ya punk suckas dont desearve to life....haha....and im jus telln it like it is man"

The hook was insane also. I came up with it on the fly cas i was gonna use the words in the 2nd verse but i wanted Klass to do it. It goes "These rappers talkn shit like...sayn that it hits like....braggn that they shits tight...when it aint even iight". When i was writting the song i had the idea of Monotone Jones to say the part "And U Know This" because of his chill but deep voice. Klass later got on the hook and echoes "And U Know This" after Jones. Which in way brought him into the mix with intencipation on his pressence on the song.

The secound verse was Klass D, which i must say the verse was actually longer than mines but he killed it. I always enjoyed Klass's sound and the way he presents himself on the track with such medaphores with a different approach. Must say insane.

The whole song wrapped up with the idea of me basically telling people you know this, u know whut your listen'n to and buying, dont act like its all them.

The Story Behind "Tell Me" On THE KINETIK L.P.

Now this joint right here is also one of my most favorites and from the feedback ive been getn since it droped, insane. This is track number 3 on the L.P. and after the lister listens to "Turn Em" which is track number 2, i had to bring my point in strong with a quick and straight to the point verses. The beat was the 1st beat i had ever received from the main prod. Klass D so i had time to understand what needed to be done with the hard hittn drum line he put on it.

The 1st verse was insane to me but i had to break it down to people who have never hurd of one of my best styles of rhyming, the whole song is very self explaintory and has a very powerful punch in all aspect. The idea of the song is simply, rappers cant tell me nothing cas ive done it and been past whut they talk about. It begins with " Now lets be honest, majority of these rap cats is garbage, spittn that nonsences, braggn about they gats and who the hardest, claim that they real (and then) selln they souls mass appeal, and wheels on they EX mic checkn that they got next" With the next part i had to get into detail on how serious i can lyrically slaughter rappers with " regardless, knowledge gon chop ya arm off with the microphone and damage ya collar bone, and kick ya fuckn ass home to rewrite, some of that shit u tried to recite on the mic, despite the fact, u tried to attack (me) on them wack tracks only proves i have the higher power, cas i tower and devower, over anybody trynna attempt to corrupt minds, my minds more powerful then 2 nuculear atoms combined, like i designed, the WMD baried deep beneath palistien, and jus like them u cant find my definition, trynna pin point my position is only gonna leave ya ass missn" which mean trynna find out all about me and your gonna lose yaself. Then hitting them again with religion with "straight beggn to your (false God) for forgiveness (which i will explain in another blog post) cas i aint the one to recieve ass kiss's so when i catch u its good riddens" as in when i catch you in my radar, im taking them down.

The hook simply states "U cant tell me nothin" like naw son, i cant tell me anything about hiphop when you make, listen to, and/or support the garbage music they call rap, or trap music.

The secound verse starts with "I never sleep cas sleep is the cousin of death, so ill only rest right after i exhale my last breath" which means ill never stop coming at rappers or slow down cas when u slow down from something one normally stops and changes direction. So ill only rest right after i exhale my last breath means i will only stop making music when i physically die (like in real life lol). Then after proving my seriousness with my music i go into offence attack mode with "U wanna test me, u better bring a whole army of niggas, yo im talkn guns planes and tanks and your athority figures, (the) first one up, will be the last one left standn, so he can run back and tell the rest exactly whut my demands is, my plans is to dominate, cas ya bullshit i dont tolerate, when u pussy ass niggas try to ovilate, ya shit if fake". The with "And going against me is like testn ya fate, trynna relate u get blasted like u enemy of state, imagin all these pure tactics (events) like when i become immortal ( forever in hiphop) and imigrate a whole clic of emcess to illuminate" (bring in a whole bunch of emcees to shead light on the new hiphop) And I then go into the battle of good verses evil and how the evil wants me with " Cas illuminati wants my mind soul and my body" as a phase Prodigy said "even Lucifer want a part of me" then proving i will never sell out with "but thats probly not gonna happen, so keep on rappn about ya drug trafficn ( which is all rappers talk about) then i proceed laugh and call them "Stupid Ass Nuggah" "U Cant Tell Me Nothing"

The Story Behind "Promise" On THE KINETIK L.P.

This joint was actually random. And what i mean by that is this, i was in search of a beat with a female sample since we didnt have a female vocalist. Klass put me on to one of his close producers by the same of Pro who did joints for Klass like "Hallows" and "At Night ft C4" jus to name a couple. After first hearing the beat i had no idea how i would come at it but it hit me as soon as i kept listen' to it.

So i started off with making the whole song about a promise to hiphop and talkn to hiphop as it as known as a female by many loyal emcees sorta like Common did on "I used to love her" The 1st verse went like "I know things seem strange now-a-days in this game, im still the same ol me, same ol, L-E-D-G-E (akknowledge) from the southside of da C-H-I-C-A to the G-O (which is my hometown) u kno how we go, i do it for the people (like Common always says) and nothing less then these average rap cats try ta cat on these tracks, tho its a plain and simple fact that, most of them wont last trynna chase this cash, they butt ass, trynna go against a emcee with a higher class, u know my steez (from Guru of GangStarr) and the style that i bring" Then i go into "i put more heart in everysingle rhymes that i wrote" more than the average rapper "so every bar and every measure makes the next mind to grow" Then i brought back a Common style line with "Not preachn to u but speakn u, Not pushn u (to do something) jus reachn u, to do better than the next man, cas sometimes a man jus gotta take a stand" against all the maddness. And "No i will never sell my soul for a couple grand" as in having a lable trynna sign me like Konvic Music tried to buy me, but that will be explained in detail in another blog.

With the verse i was kinda unsure about how to approach it but i kept with my Chicago mind like something has to go here. So not having a male vocalist i decided to harmonise with it and it actually turned out pretty good and fits the sound i was going for about how ill never give in or sell out and i promise.

The second verse went like "I kno u cant take it, listen to all this fake shit can make a nigga go ape shit (crazy), but ill never give in or even back down to these clowns spittn that wack shit ima hold it down". Then to prove im not in the music for fame i say "ya boy aint even in it for a crown (as in trynna be king or be the number 1) im goin for the throats of the niggas that say they in charge, so i can run em, and fuckn charge them with attempt, for thinkn they shits hot, these punk suckas must be bent. With this next part i tried to bring it home with "my generation is on some whole nother other shit, worried about the government when the real problem is these brother men, pumpn poisons to these fiens in these avenus i knew u already knew come on now this shit is past due" Then inspired with the whole idea of change i said "its been time for a change forget the dollars here" as in dont thinkn about the money and i brought the listers attention to the kids with "lil ones basen their whole lives off of whut they hear, so forget the he say she say, u can put this on replay and i guarantee it knock harder than whut the radio play"

This honestly has to be one of my favorite songs and i hope u all listen to it and enjoy it.

The Story Behind "The Intro" On THE KINETIK L.P.

Every great album has a abstract into. I remember when Busta used to drop his, Gangstarr and hell alot of Old School artist that i grew up who was my father figures in life did. So with this one i found on the infamous YouTube and when i first hurd it i feel in love. Next day in the studio i played it for Klass and jus the look on his face when he hurd it let me know this is a definite must. At the end of the kinda long first sample i decided to add the sample from prodigy to add intense to the next track on the list "Turn Em" which features the sample again. To me it blended perfectly. The theory behind having such a intro is to make the lister think to themselves "yo this is crazy...this takes me back to childhood" and put them back in their mind state of forgetting about the state of hiphop and people in general and take a trip back to open their minds. Its pure science lol

The Story Behind "U Gotta Know" Off THE KINETIK L.P.

One of the first tracks to be laid down for the album was a song called "U Gotta Kno" which features Monotone Jones on the hook. I originally didnt plan for him to even be on the track but during the outloud reheasals in front of Jones and Klass, Jones suggested he do it. This in fact turned out to be exactly better than i expected it to be.

The 1st verse talks about not letting the media lie to u, "better stick to whut u know thats whut i would do. Then i go into how people "form a crew, knowing that they targets, thats how cowards moves" stating things ive witness in the past about how rappers try to gain power with numbers when the base foundation is weak. I go into talkn to fellow emcess with "u got power dude, enough to move these fiens like the powder do" then into the backstabbers with " Its starts with "how r u, then they backstab u in a hour or two, yo, dont get me twisted i aint rhymen on no kid shit, ill show up to ya house and pull that shit down within an instant". Break into a phase where im too serious and almost snaped with "huh....give me a sec let me jus gain my composer" " Im tired of these niggas wanna go to war knowing damn well they aint solders". Like i always do i have to break down the level of seriousness within my art with " Im bolder and way more colder than ya average savage, place ya bets i kno more mathematics than a average arcitech" " I catch wreck when i spark the set, so respect or its off with ya neck and im gone with ya check, whut u expect" Then bringn the fact that i kno alot of emcees on the same mind frame with " See all my fellow emcees know, they'll show u where to go, its only up to u if u float, or sink like the titanic now think" and with the last final rhymes i end with "it aint worth life so be careful whut u write down in ink...cas u gotta know" which explains how serious i take peoples rhymes and how i hold them accountable for their words.

With the hook that Monotone Jones sang goes like " U Gotta Kno...O...U Gotta Kno..."U Gotta Gotta)...U Gotta Kno....". The sample incorporated with Guru of Gangstarr's "Demonic Chapters Shall Be Captured By Kings" from the classic song "Above The Clouds" ft Inspecta Deck sums up the actual idea of the song which by then is very self explanatory.

The next verse i decided i need to dedicated to all my fellow emcees that i have been around since I've been in Charlotte, where i worked with them or not, just say something to empower them to keep going during this never ending drought. Its starts with "To all my fellow emcees, on the g-r-i-n-d, hold ya head cas these rappers aint dead till the deceased, and we aint dead cas we dont bleed, its logically impossible for us to sit around and let these cats (rappers) roam with ease, my nigga please, get up off ya ass and start rhymen nigga, its only a matter of time before the sun stop shining, people blinded by the artificial dont know where to go, open these doors and start mafuckn bustn down shows, and let it (ya rhymes) flow till the bullshit (garbage rap music) dont spill (aint around) no more" Then i broke it down farther with "Teach these kids, cas if they aint with us, then who is" and on how to do so with they art with "Start a biz and tell these niggas yo, it is what it is" "and i be damn if i have to kill one (a kid) with a gun (because of all the unnecessary violence in order to protect my self, not outta rage) "Cas shit aint funny when they killn each other over money, and then they (people who love hip hop) lookn at us like where the fuckn dummys" after i said this i came to a feeln where i jus could finish the song and lettn people know at the end with" yo u gotta know"

I didnt want to say anything after that so in order to touch u more, i left the hooks in with Klass's beat touches u emotionally. At the end of the song i wanted the listener to go into deep thought about everything thats goin on and motivate them on how they can simply make a change in this world.