Word Is Bond Page #2

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you know, the hairs

on my head growing,

or I just, you know,

can feel my heart pumping.

My heart start beating

that adrenaline,

and as I'm rhyming, I just...

you know, I just feel it.

That's when I know that I got

something that's electric.

When rap came through

the neighborhood,

it took the hood by storm.

It was like, the next day,

everybody was rappers

and break-dancers and DJs.

I was...[laughs] I was using

the rap name Tony Tee.

Like, "I'm the T-O-N-Y,

the T-E-E.

Your hands can't hit

what your eyes can't see."

I thought I was,

you know, killing it,

and then I remember my man Swan

played Cold Crush for me.

Other MCs

can't deal with us

'Cause we are the four

known as the Cold Crush

Six-one and a half,

no good at math

Say rhymes to myself

when I'm taking a bath

Got true clientele,

finesse, and clout

And I don't get into nothing

that I can't get out

Yeah, I ripped

all my rhymes up,

started my whole life over.

I played the sax

coming up in school.

I took what I learned

from that...

reading music... and started

pouring it on the rhymes.

My first rhyme was,

"Mickey Mouse built a house.

He built it by the border.

A earthquake came

and rocked his crib,

and now it's in the water."

[Brother Ali] One of the

things that I really learned

from you... you know,

you would write a rhyme,

and then we would

come back to it later...

that you might forget

exactly how

these words are

supposed to land.

Whether we're writing on paper

or typing on a computer,

that the first space in a line

is always the one.

If you come in before the one,

those words go

on a line above,

and then that syllable

that hits on the one

is the first space

on a line.

And if you miss the one,

which has become

the style more...

so Chuck D was really big

on hitting the one.

"Back, caught you looking

for the same thing."

You know, and other people

might, you know,

come in before the one.

"Don't call it a comeback."

- So "come" is on the one.

- Mm-hmm.

And nowadays,

people miss the one most

so when you miss the one,

you put a dot there

to hold that place

to let you know.

But then underlining

where the snares are...

- Underlining the snares.

- That Rakim does something

similar, in the sense

that he knows

where all of the end words

are for the lines,

and so he would put dots

on the paper

where the end was gonna be,

and he would write

the last line first.

Measuring it out

almost like sheet music.

- Mm-hmm.

- So that, like you say,

if I come back

six months later

and look at this rhyme

and go, "Oh, you know,

this one isn't so bad.

It actually is good.

Let me try spitting it,"

I know exactly how to spit it.

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