Some may say I lead a double life. Although I look calm on the outside most of the time, many would not  surmise I have my moments where I’m just sitting, and I bust out in hardcore rap. I have to say, one of my guiltiest pleasures is hardcore rapping.

I have had people tell me I look like the type of person that who would listen to country or soft rock. But I’m more of a rap type person.

I don’t mean rappers like T-Pain or Soulja boy or even Wiz Khalifa; I’m talking Busta Rhymes, Tupac and Outlandish.

I had phases of writing my own def jam poetry and rehearsing them over and over in my head, as if I was getting ready to perform them. Soon, those poems became raps. It was like poetry but with a faster beat.
I think real rap has so much meaning to it. The artists put so much meaning and symbolism into one verse. Their songs make you think. Outlandish’s song “Life is a Loom” never ceases to move me. It’s a nice change from a lot of the other meaningless, and often demeaning, songs out there.
Life is a loom
The threads are the days
God decides when to cut them
Even though the work ain’t done
(Life is a Loom)