"The Grafitti Artist"

[namix]

"The Graffiti Artist"

be it a portrait or sketch, it wasnt hard to get his mother to boast
at breakfast, he was the type to literally paint his butter on toast
yet eventually the artist in him became a mid-summers day ghost
‘n sadly before he met his callin, his inner-youngster met growth
but he knew he still had it all! in a life, some shutters dont close
for he had a skill and a wall, it was time that he brush up on both

the naked wall called to him, in an instant, he’d jot a work plan
and after years of hearing the word CAN’T, he got his first can
he started at night…but embarked with a bright spark in his eye
that somehow allowed him to harness the light darkness denied
it was rationalization vs. his artist inside... armed with his pride
his brush offered a stroke of genius with the smartest of strides
‘God damn my hearts a bad guide!’ the kid scoffed with a smirk
cuz he finally followed the thing, and ended up lost in his work
he swiftly bathed the wall with paint, he smothered it with haste
‘n graciously gave it every shade, including the color in his face
it absorbed each drop like soil plains that been floodless fo years
he redefined the 3 primary colors…with blood, sweat, and tears
he fought thru the strife, paintin a name he thought up that night
wit that he didnt just personify the wall, he also brought it to life
tho his childhood curse was uplifted wit the word he had written
he wasnt content, with this person’s ambition it hurt to be driven
cuz he had perfect precision that could rival a surgeon’s incision
but the worst indecision when it came to his version of finished
yet people saw the worth he had given to the earth that we live in
nothin as influential emerged from a vision since birth of religion

it’d be a poster to me, but some bitched “its all over the street!”
kid plugged into his creative outlet ‘n shocked both the extremes
pussy politicians would push for prison…probably 20 years flat
to penalize a picture perfect paintin the public paused to peer at?
‘its pollution!’ parlor moms pose arguments, just to harp ‘n mock
‘n then pitch their partially-smoked parliaments in the parkin-lot
he aint purposely persuade packs of people to the particular game
they just found a wall, ‘n like an alliteration, all started the same
pummeled with persecution…the painters were going thru a test
they were in their right mind, but most people only use their left
so everything the artists posted was attacked ‘n called into focus
whats poetic justice? before the graffiti the walls went unnoticed
media told the masses: its peer pressure parents, scold their asses
they’d follow him off a bridge, the day he starts taggin overpasses
how trend setting was he? some people were swept off their feet!
he didnt just paint the town red… he painted it ready to read
cuz dammit it wasnt damage! why’d anyone brand him a bandit?
he could manage to see an artistic side on the back of a canvass
he cant even admit he did this, gets dismissed like sun-shines are
making a painting he cant claim, like a gift with an unsigned card
to this day hes a name that isnt reppin a face, but u bet its okay
…its easier to see someone’s soul without their flesh in the way
so the poet in him’ll keep going forever, and hopes eternities late
even though his intellectual property doesnt have a security gate

this story’s not false… but i can easily explain how i planned it
rap boards were the wall, i was the he, 'n the name was dynamix
vet to sensation, i wrote in present tense durin my text elevation
so my every piece would be an easy read for the next generation
my shit’ll live- in the future read one or two spits, it’ll prove this
cuz behind the new shit theres always a blue print on how to do it
someday a cat’ll say my ideas are old…he wasnt there at the start
‘n if he went backwards, what he calls an artifact was in fact a art
some tried to copy my paintings, i wont say vengeance is sweet
but the most important prints they traced, were left with my feet
we’re all graffiti artists! wit a made-up name to decoy a real sense
and with a creativity that’s priceless to the point you feel spent
i’ll be gone by day break, if im remembered i got ya’ll to thank
the name was dynamix,
…will it paint a picture or will you draw a blank?

[mcnicennasty]

excellent job namix as always wasn't this on RW's hall of fame

[mic boøth]

im pretty sure this should be the first piece of scryptology put into literature books

[Jubalon]

Oh my fuckin' God so goddamn OFF THA HOOOK! Damn, what a topical.. PROPSSSS!!

[N3M1K]

Originally Posted by mic bøoth

im pretty sure this should be the first piece of scryptology put into literature books

2nd.

off the chain, Dy still gots it.....Your gonna be a great light for PR namix.

thumbs up!

[Orishian Seeds]

It was really good untill the last verse...I mean the last verse was a streach I liked where the peice was going w/o the last part. It was a excellent read, props to being a topicalist who can write some dopeshit without relying too much on metaphors..

[Earf]

I remember this on b-boys. Niceness.

[namix]

Originally Posted by OrishianSeeds

It was really good untill the last verse...I mean the last verse was a streach I liked where the peice was going w/o the last part. It was a excellent read, props to being a topicalist who can write some dopeshit without relying too much on metaphors..

my friend, the last section encapsulates EXACTLY what this drop was about.. If you didn't like the last section, then it is hard for me to grasp the fact that you liked the verse as a whole up to that point.. line for line perhaps you liked a concept, but t'was the last section that finally tied those concepts into the main point I was trying to capture..

Everything prior to the last section was simply a series of lines which were designed to build metaphorical momentum for the 'revealing' of what this topical was actually about... A Grafitti Artist was my way of representing "this".. the first portion of the topical was to highlight attributes of a grafitti artist, the last section was to bring up the fact that we are not so different - from providing art without credit, to styles evolving and revolving..

In my opinion, if I had not included the last section, this would have been nothing more than a relatively well-written description of a hobby few can relate to. I feel it is the fact that I tied it into an entirely different past time by means of subtle foreshadowing that separated this from the typical topical you will glance at...While I appreciate the fact you liked everything up to the last section, if it weren't for the last section, none of the other sections would have been written..

All that being said, I appreciate the peep and the feedback.

Thanks to everyone else for checking this out too.. definately grateful. stay up..

[Orishian Seeds]

I understood the last part...I found it to be weak and a shameless ego stroke, and kind of pointless...

[namix]

Originally Posted by OrishianSeeds

I understood the last part...I found it to be weak and a shameless ego stroke, and kind of pointless...

dude, you don't understand the last part... because you are singling out the last part - and calling the last part pointless, whereas I am saying that it was the last part which was the spring board for the entire topical. If you understood the drop an think the last part was a weak, pointless, and shameless ego stroke -- then you should think the whole thing was a weak, pointless, and shameless ego stroke.

So please just hate the whole thing instead of reading into things you 'parently know nothing of

[Howard Winter]

you've made a mammouth wig splitter, shit was top to bottom illness

i read this on b-boys i think, but i never replied..

be easy cousin

[Quazi Kicks]

i dont know why your getting so pissed at him. the last part was pretty much an ego stroke.

maybe the first 2 bars were connecting had a point, as well as the second to last one, but everything else in that part was just egotistical.

still, this is one of the dopest pieces ever written.

[Baron Mynd]

Haha, I've told you my opinion on this piece before. Still dope as fuck now. I started writing to the 'Graffiti' topic for a topical verse elsewhere. It's far from finished, just the intro, if I remember - I'll post the whole thing when im done:


As dark would fall, we'd stand equipped, and start to scrawl our manuscripts ..
.. We started small, just random quips - Apartment walls our canvases!
We target all, the market stalls, our art was daubed -


That's as far as Ive got at this point. I#'ll edit in the whole thing when I have it done. Great piece Namix.

Peace!

[Amen Raw]

well, I really enjoyed reading this namix, some fucking illery at its best. I can rlate, I'm in santa fe new mexico and I appriciate the lines like

Originally Posted by Namix

"he cant even admit he did this, gets dismissed like sun-shines are
making a painting he cant claim, like a gift with an unsigned card

and

Originally Posted by Namix

pussy politicians would push for prison…probably 20 years flat
to penalize a picture perfect paintin the public paused to peer at?

I get up on a fairly regular basis an dI'm in the most active crew in my city and all we want is our art out there and they're crackin down on us fuckin hard. This piece was on point from Line 1 to the end. and all this talk about the last part being an ego stroke, well, so fuckin what? egotism has a lot to do with graffiti, just from a different base. if we weren't egotists and didn't want people to know what art was ours then we would choose "a" handle, we'd be paintin backdrops and different words all the time. so I thnk even the egotistical parts were top notch man, we need more poeple reading shit like this, maybe then people like us wouldn't be looked at like vandals, and we'd start getting respected as artists. keep it up homie

[namix]

Originally Posted by ?uazi

i dont know why your getting so pissed at him. the last part was pretty much an ego stroke.

maybe the first 2 bars were connecting had a point, as well as the second to last one, but everything else in that part was just egotistical.

still, this is one of the dopest pieces ever written.

im not pissed at him, im just saying that if he doesn't like the last part - then he doesnt like the verse... Its like he's saying that he was happy that a Team A out-scored Team B in every quarter, but was disappointed that Team B lost... All im getting at is the fact that the whole piece was written to draw that analogy - between graff and text...

Some can call it egotistical, I call it accurate! (some can call that statement egotistical, I call it enlightening) =)


Thanks for peepin this everyone else though

[Daubs]

oh my days.

Freal the concept was ill, you used some cleve rlines in there this is one of the best topicals ive ever read no doubt.

F'real this was sick mate.

CAN'T and can line was sick, most the metas on point and some trtue shit in there, props on this.

good stuff.

if you could hit this up, id appreciate it.
http://www.projectrhyme.com/forums/s...2196#post82196

[Jason123]

this amazed me the first time I read it.
and did again.

and I don't know why'd you call'd the last part an ego-stroke.

everyone piece of text is a fucking ego stroke.

[Pent uP]

i had never read that shit till the end and i must say

damn dude

very nice