Word Is Bond Page #3

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I don't have

to sit there and go,

"Aw, that didn't work.

Wait, maybe that wasn't right.

Hold up.

Let me stare at it."

You know, I could look

at it and immediately

jump right into spitting it.

I would put the dots

on the paper first

to show me, um,

how many bars I had,

where the 16th bar was.

As I start incorporating

different, um, styles

and-and trying to just...

complicate my rhyme

with so many, uh,

big words and syllables and...

you know what I mean?

Like, the-the-the wordplay

was so crazy.

After a while, I had to put

a dot on the paper

to know where to take a breath.

It's not easy

to rhythmically say things

that, in some cases,

make chronological order

and rhyme it

with precise timing.

Like, most people

can't do that.

I don't think people

had a respect...

the same respect

for rap lyrics as, like, say,

a Bob Dylan would get

for that genre of music,

simply because they don't

see us respecting it.

They don't see us

respecting our own sh*t.

You know what I'm saying?

We...'cause all we do

is criticize each other.

It's cooler in hip-hop.

Somehow it's like,

it's cool to criticize.

Yeah, it's cooler

in hip-hop to criticize.

It's not cool to give props.

I wanna give people

their f***ing props.

- That's what I want to do.

- Yeah.

I want... artists need

to hear that.

Why you wanna f***ing

take away from the art?

You know what I mean?

Like, this is an art form.

Lyricism should be an art form.

It should be lyrics first.

You got lyricists

scared to be lyricists.

Rappers are never

given the credit

with falling in love

with language.

These are kids...

most of the time

from urban environments...

that literally

fall in love

with language.

What we would call, um,

you know, bars and verses,

you know, in poetry,

they call them stanzas.

And it's participating

in the development

of the English language

directly.

- Absolutely.

- To this day,

even just hearing something

as silly and funny as,

"Put a quarter in your ass

'cause you played yourself,"

immediately teaches you

something about metaphor

and about comedy.

The contribution

is often overlooked

and I think,

sometimes, purposely.

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Rappers stepping to me,

they wanna get some

But I'm the Kane so, yo,

you know the outcome

Another victory,

they can't get with me

So pick a BC date

'cause you are history

[Big Daddy Kane] You know,

when you talk about an MC,

it could mean

several different things.

You can have someone

that just basically works

as an announcer,

or you can have someone

that's, like, a party rocker,

or you could have, like,

you know, your lyricist

who's spitting bars,

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