tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-436978692949420221.post3320105985299640844..comments2010-04-09T06:57:02.364-07:00Comments on Bring Me The Robe: My Own Private Shaolin: Karaoke Night with ODBBen Nesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08742194046157696999noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-436978692949420221.post-63292876007673356312009-06-30T07:36:11.145-07:002009-06-30T07:36:11.145-07:00This may be my favorite blog entry of the year to ...This may be my favorite blog entry of the year to date. If I ever get my hands on a time machine, making this album happen is my number one goal. <br /><br />To A Rapper Dying Young<br />By I.O. Brooker, with heartfelt apologies to A.E. Housman<br /><br />The time you stole the Grammy stage<br />We cheered you in your righteous rage<br />Let others make their shameless bids<br />Wu-Tang was really for the kids<br /><br />To-day, the flow all MCs bust<br />We send you down, from dust to dust<br />Where you may match your manic rhymes<br />With those of men from stiller times<br /><br />Smart Dirty to depart this coil<br />Where fame does but so briefly boil<br />The flow of hip hop’s onetime king<br />Discarded under mounds of bling<br /><br />Eyes the Shady night has shut<br />Shall see no more records cut<br />Mics in The Source have no more worth<br />When one’s eyes are filled with earth<br /><br />Now you avoid indignity<br />The shameful fate of Young MC<br />And crews who cannot stay the game<br />As sadly they outlive their fame<br /><br />So set, before the players hate,<br />Your lips upon that mic of fate<br />And shimmy ya with all your might<br />The battle shall be yours tonight<br /><br />And ‘round those early laurelled dreads<br />‘Pac and Big and all the dead<br />Shall find upon that ebon down<br />The everlasting MC’s crownIra Brookerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00369958448191651449noreply@blogger.com