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Underground Hip Hop - Sandstorm
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Words, and Music - A glimpse at Sandstorm's Work The story behind this track is kinda the beginning of my experience in the life to where I'm at now, a time line of sorts, i wanted to address my outlook on failures, really the only definition of failure to me is giving up instead of trying, you can't give up on things in life, and if you don't accomplish what you dreamed of it can't be counted as failure unless you stopped believing in yourself and gave up before you died.... the first verse of the track is me from age 13-15, when i was feeling like i have nothing to live for except hustlin, making money and gettin girls, it adresses giving up my faith, cuz i was all alone, when nobody helped me. only a lil bit of an explanation on the hook, it's not really needed because you can prolly figure it out...but, here goes... it's much like a prayer but I'm not overly spiritual, I wanted to make it so anyone of any religion could relate, I am not Christian, though many of the people i know are so i wanted to make it completely generic so it could relate to anyone. just a quick trip through my every day life, hoping every morning i'll wake up, and at night when im sleeping hoping nobody dies, if i don't succeed in music and life, i know i hadn't failed, because failing is giving up, and i can't give up. the second verse drops on me at ages 15-18, getting tired of the game, thinkin there had to be more for me, with one eye open i watch the world, was indirectly a refference to being aware of the world's problems, but not completely noticing, by that time i had stopped really trying in school and only studied what i wanted to learn, I was writing a lot at that point and became increasing irritated by people, who couldn't understand me, i started to spend my time with people like me and began cuttin connections with people who reflected my earlier years and never grew out of it, though still participating in the hustling because i still felt it was all i could do, still the "If I die, then I die" mentality still seeing friends and fam dying, so how could i escape....thinking i couldn't believe i had survived. at 18 i was at the point where it was all past me, i figured a way out and took it, i was getting deep in music but writing the same depressing poetry i had been writing since 11 years old, the last line of the second verse is really the only mention of taking the first path away i could find, "not sure if I'll make it, but I'll take my time, Carpe Diem hear them say, an today is mine" and finally in the third verse it skips ahead to me at my current age, 24 and up, where everything i started with seems a million years behind me, it's all about music now, and nothing can take it away, I've grown from struggles and it made me a better man, I've seen so much and i can still stand tall and never look down on anyone, and even when people try to hold me back, i just push through, I'm not a pop star, and I'm not a rapper, I'm an emcee, I bring poetry an music together, i speak with a purpose, and a style that can't be found anywhere but in my heart, i feel the last line of this verse is the strongest throughout the whole track, "I was born and raised, to be great not grave, If I never see tomorrow then I failed today" somewhat of a play on words like Shakespear had used in Hamlet, pretty much summing up the track with that saying, i was born to live, not born to die, and if i do die, it will be on my terms, not because i lived in the gutter and never tried to get out. I got, so much, on my mind these days,havin troubles sleepin lately, so i burn up haze, life got me thinkin, that i must be crazy, quit waitin for my saviour, cuz nobody can save me, locked on the streets, sellin rock to the fiends, a rag to the side, with a gat in my jeans, duckin the cops, when i cruise the block, my only free ride, got flashin lights on top, never afraid, that i'll pass away, If i die, then i die, thas it, ok, aint nothin on my mind, cept gettin my paper, an gettin back to the chick, who keeps hittin my pager, another night, on the grind is on I keep livin in the moment, til the moment is gone, I put my head down, just short of sunrise, say this prayer to myself, then i close my eyes- i pray that i'll rise, tomorrow greetin my eyes, an hopin while I'm sleepin, no more friends gon die, if i don't succeed, it wont mean i failed, only failure is quittin, an i'd rather face hell- with one eye open, i watch the world, the other eye closed, slow talk to girls, sick of spittin game, to the girls who cant read, i was writing life stories at the age of 15, never thought i'd make it this far in life, i'm older an colder, with failing sight, cant see the way, i'm livin is ill, every single day prepared, to get myself killed, 18 writin wills, in the form of poems, always in the same city, tomorrow unknown, not sure if i'll wake, but i'll take my time, carpe diem hear them say, an today is mine- i pray that i'll rise, tomorrow greetin my eyes, an hopin while I'm sleepin, no more friends gon die, if i don't succeed, it wont mean i failed, only failure is quittin, an i'd rather face hell- late nights on the mic, got my life together, been thru rough times, an the worst of weather, but I'm a storm, my name says it all, survived this long, so i doubt i'll fall, my style unmatched, when i laugh on tracks, don't say I'm pop, don't say i rap, im an emcee ya'll, alla bout flows, all those opposed stay scratchin they domes, i roll with woes, slow strings in my soul, hold down the oke, one area code, sector XII juxtaposed, lo-cust and storm, we in control, an out the norm, i was born a raised, to be great not grave, if I never see tomorrow, then i failed today |
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