A Day In Music #6

Been listening to old school in Kanye West and new school in J. Cole the past two days. I love good rap and love when people say there's no good rappers anymore. Me listening to a ton of rap, big surprise huh?

"We are all here for a reason on a particular path

You don't need a curriculum to know that you are part of the math

Cats think I'm delirious, but I'm so damn serious

That's why I expose my soul to the globe, the world

I'm trying to make it better for these little boys and girls

I'm not just another individual, my spirit is a part of this

That's why I get spiritual, but I get my hymns from Him

So it's not me, it's He that's lyrical

I'm not a miracle, I'm a heaven-sent instrument

My rhythmatic regimen navigates melodic notes for your soul and your mental

That's why I'm instrumental

Vibrations is what I'm into

Yeah, I need my loot by rent day

But that is not what gives me the heart of Kunte Kinte

I'm tryina give us "us free" like Cinque

I can't stop, that's why I'm hot

Determination, dedication, motivation

I'm talking to you, my many inspirations

When I say I can't, let you or self down

If I were of the highest cliff, on the highest riff

And you slipped off the side and clinched on to your life in my grip

I would never, ever let you down

And when these words are found

Let it been known that God's penmanship has been signed with a language called love

That's why my breath is felt by the deaf

And why my words are heard and confined to the ears of the blind

I, too, dream in color and in rhyme

So I guess I'm one of a kind in a full house

Cuz whenever I open my heart, my soul, or my mouth

A touch of God reigns out"

~J. Ivy, from "Never Let Me Down"~

"But we know each other way too well to pretend, We went from friends to somethin' much more"

"Holla whenever, cause you always got a friend in me, And nothin' lasts forever, least we got these memories" 

~J. Cole, from "Nothing Lasts Forever"~

"I got a Hublot, I call it Tebow, I strap that bitch with a gator band, Y'all niggas ball halftime, y'all niggas like the Gator band"

~Jay-Z, from "Mr. Nice Watch"~

Kanye West feat GLC and Consequence- "Spaceship" from The College Dropout

Kanye West- "Jesus Walks" from The College Dropout

Kanye West feat. Jay-Z & J. Ivy- "Never Let Me Down" from The College Dropout

Kanye West feat. Talib Kweli & Common -"Get 'Em High" from The College Dropout

Kanye West- "The New Workout Plan" from The College Dropout

J. Cole- "Dollar and a Dream III" from Cole World: The Sideline Story

J. Cole- "Lights Please" from Cole World: The Sideline Story

J. Cole feat. Jay-Z- "Mr. Nice Watch" from Cole World: The Sideline Story

J. Cole- "Work Out" from Cole World: The Sideline Story

J. Cole- "Nothing Lasts Forever" from Cole World: The Sideline Story