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About my love affair with hip hop, or at least a snapshot of it from when I fell in love with her to about a few years ago.

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Body Rock

Verse 1:
Educated by Blue Scholars and supports the Common Market
Lover of the Elements, let my eloquence bomb and spark it
She was about the Love and the positive vibes
Progression holds the essence where my prerogative lies
I stride with focus, concentrated beyond the fool’s work
So I give respects and props to Grandfather DJ Kool Herc
I search for peacefulness without a disaster’s trace
So I factor the chaptered ‘pattering’ shattering like a Masta Ace
I have to chase this feeling, down through my arteries
To spark the star degrees to start the shining harmony that churns
My Soul Brother, the grains of the season fits
To this love brewing because she’s the Main Ingredient
You see well, like C. L., she was quite Smooth
I grooved to her vibrations that released the Soul Movement
Tunes bent as the Black Moon sent the facts
As she carried De La Soul and Wu Tang wax in her backpack

Verse 2:

Behold her Blueprints, as they carry through the Atmosphere
Some people thought she left but it’s clear that the magic is here
Distinguished from the image of those lost and pillaged
For Hip Hop exists in a Native Tongue Slum Village
Its finish, lies hidden from those willingly blinded
For we keep our heads high as we stay Criminal Minded
She chants, fierce war poems at the top of her lungs
Prepared to defend freedom creatively strapped with Native Guns
Busting holes into the night sky til it bleeds the sunlight
Greeting revolution rock a KRS ONE mic
As we tear down the walls to uneasiness may we,
Find that there is a Light that shines special for Jay Dee
But is it crazy that maybe we cast Shadows on the Sun
While People Under the Stairs stay rattling across the drums
Keep marching forward the motion is very beautiful
Microphone Fiend Queen, indubitably musical

Verse 3:

It’s amazing the way that she Rocks the Aesop
Her motion is passed the place where Grace stops
With steady expansion beyond beauty’s philosophy
Reflecting Eternally with a Talib Kweli-ty
My Resurrection, I now firmly hold a Common Sense
To this Love that shines like a Black Star with Mos Def-inite sentiments
Her excellence measured with warm cultural light beams
So I bask in her sunshine even in my night dreams
But it might seem that my flight streams along the consciousness
She gave me an open mind so that I could accomplish bliss
Conjured this in graffiti so that she could truly hear me
For I Quest like a Tribe to provide a Low End Theory
She keeps it moving, Soul & Body groovin’ to the truth
My mind manifests a Black Thought nestled in the Roots
I shoot stars with my pen strokes as the bars hit reality
She’s the Art of my Verse atop a starlit canopy

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from .​.​. atop a starlit canopy, released May 4, 2010

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Art of Verse Los Angeles, California

Born in the Philippines, raised in Alaska, and studied in Seattle; Art of Verse wields love and passion through Hip Hop music. Using his artistry, he aims to raise consciousness and awareness towards understanding each other's struggles in the name of solidarity.

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Currently residing in Los Angeles, CA.
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