From my experience with rap (listening to other people’s overly loud headphones whilst traveling on an inner-city public transit bus) rapping about personal experiences are generally what people relate to the best.  I have been heavily influenced in my life by the experiences in my life, so I figured that my rap should be influenced by those experiences as well.  Below is the rough draft of a new song I’m working on called “My Life Experiences have Heavily Influenced My Life.”  I’m still working on the title.  Let me know what you think!

“My Life Experiences have Heavily Influenced My Life”

Felix Addler  (Should I change my name when rapping?  Maybe MC FX-Ad-Lib?)

My life experiences have heavily influenced my life
One experience I don’t have is being stuck with a wife
Living in a rut
Painstaking my gut
Move out and live in a hut like I’m Congolese
I can’t make sense of these
Feelings I feel, words that I spill
Plucking out broccoli from between my golden grill
And wheres the chorus?
How am I supposed to perform this?

(Chorus)
My life experiences have heavily influenced my life
A life of strife, with fear of the knife
My life experiences have heavily influenced my life
My life of strife, without a wife

I need to get married
I need someone to carry and be carried
Someone to hold, someone to scold
Someone to physically abuse
Until I’m caught by police, then you’ll hear me in the news
I’ll be screaming, saying I didn’t do it
They’ll say tell it to the judge, so I’ll give up, screw it
Get sentenced ten to fifteen years
The jury will see right through my lies and tears
That’s what grinds my gears- I’ll never be a role model
Just another victim of the drugs and the bottle

(Chorus)

Thank God I’m not married, it’s gonna save my soul
I’m not ready to give my all, my whole
I need to prepare, I need to plot
I need not believe that I’m something that I’m not
I need to take this in steps, tend to my crops
Because if I try to hard I’ll be locked up by the cops
Cleaning floors with mops, my life will me a joke
Then I’ll end up in prison where I’ll die of a “stroke”

(Chorus)

So what do you think?  I know the chorus needs some work, but I’m sure you’ll appreciate the symbolism in the rest of the lyrics.  Hopefully I can take this in to Motown and get a sweet recording deal!