"Can you weigh the heart of a rapper today?/
Bout as heavy as a stone/
Rocking the microphone/
Like Barney after Fred’s Fruity Pebbles/
Hip-hop’s been disheveled/
Taken down several levels/
Was once scholarly/ now
Preschoolers receive
Hip-Hop medals/
We’re no longer rebels/
We’d rather settle/ for rims and
Motorcycle pedals./
Vrom! Vrom!/
All hail/
The stale smell/
Of the gentrified ghetto:/
Hollywood! I hardly could/
Stand the radio/ what fallatio/
Now CDs turn to mp3's/
Fulfilling/
A wack emcee's dreams./
Myspace has become theirs/
I tried an internet SOS/
But nobody cared./
Now I’ma draw my lyrical gun/
Y’all wack emcee's are done!"
-Tha' !2th Mic(aka The illnovelist) on "I Got This" off his debut solo album.
Quick Spits:
-Belongs to rap group, Beyond the Crate, where he rhymes with fellow rapper Diablo.
-Has been rapping since he was 13.
-Is tired of wack emcees taking over the rap game.