"This is the next single(next single) moment in time. I clutch tightly until I be wrinkling mine.
Trying to live likely, and sprinkle my future with dimes.
This single goes out to those who are used to the climb.."
-RacecaR
I think music consumers, as much as the rest of us, are fairly intelligent and very aware of what they purchase.
Some might even enlightened to the ways in which their purchase affects the entire chain of the industry and all involved.
One facet of music buying back in the hey-days, was the entire consumption of your purchase i.e. the "sit down and listen in the basement, to what I just bought with my friends (the listening session)."
When you sit down to a good album, you are most likely not going to receive everything (conciously) in the very first sit. Add to that, the sophistication of the artist and the complexity of presentation.
In fact, I think, nowadays, the majority of albums and digital purchases do not include the printed lyrics, just the design and credits, if that.
With my past releases I am guilty as charged, due to my naive sense of privacy or just the plain lack of time as deadlines must be met and etc.
Well I think I will make a change to that in the future.
When I think back of past listening sessions with good friends, we would have the lyrics sitting outside of the record jacket, often passing them around the circle to share the gem of a line we just found. Without hesitation, we would share our different interpretations of the given text, which, in effect, seemed to heighten the connection with the artist and the music itself. Those were good times.
Why have we let those times pass? Yes, we live in a world where things become obsolete even before they're made, but we all still travel at lifespeed regardless.
So, after viewing the opening chorus, at the top of this post, from Modill's (Next Single featuring Diverse), taken from our first album Midnight Green on EV Productions..you're asking one question:
"What is RacecaR saying?"
I would have answered this, reoccurring question, all too easily at one time with a swift,"It's open to interpretation."
Easy cop-out eh?
We are all in the midst of an ever evolving change both within and without.
Maturity can only be fully treasured by the mature.
Cliche? Corny? Yes, but truth is often hard to swallow.
And so, I want to interpret these lines for you, so you know what I was thinking about. Of course the lines are always open for your own personal understanding, but having more than one viewpoint, can bring another degree to the table and we then are closer to that prized 360 degree view that we all seek in life.
Alright, let's do this.
"This is the next single(next single) moment in time. I clutch tightly until I be wrinkling mine."
-The opening is easily understood for it's literal definition. Clutching tightly though means you are holding on as if to not let go. "Wrinkling mine,"refers to the story, A Wrinkle In Time, in the sense that I wished my life to be equipped with a portal that I could use to find a different plane of existance where my dreams were alive. Escapism. I would later find out that, that idea does exist, but it requires much effort to complete.
"Trying to live likely, and sprinkle my future with dimes."
-"Trying to live likely" is important, in terms of growing up in Chicago. Shootings happens all too often, as they do all over the world. I use likely because, though I thought that I was considered socially awkward as a youth, I also felt that my choice to pursue and practice Hip-Hop, was a way to be different. I was right, and it kept me (and others I'm sure) out of the path of those average teen-aged troubles which can inhibit our youth from finding their way "outside of the box."
"Sprinkling my future with dimes" refers to money, but also the number ten. If perfection has a scale it is usually expressed in numbers, obviously one to ten (one being unsatisfactory and ten being the best). I intended the interpretation of both these concepts within this half a line. I'm certain some also see "dimes" as representative of attractive young ladies, as interpreted in the ever-growing Hip-Hop vernacular.
This single goes out to those who are used to the climb.."
- "This single" could be understood as this single moment or this single song.
"Those who are used to the climb" is another way of expressing the concept of everyone. We are all living with our respective troubles and stresses, so as we continue living, we "adapt to the climb."
Okay enough analysis. I'm going to get back to what I do best and that is to live and write fresh lyrics about it. I hope I could shed a bit of light on my guarded inner thoughts, and provoke the idea that musicians are as much writers as are novelists or poet leureates; which is a fact we all take for granted. the music industry really does package and over-simplify the art of expression.
More than meets the eye or ear. Definitely.
Peace and Respects,
12:51
p.s. Any further requests for the "translation" of any of my work, will be dually noted and, hopefully, fuliflled at lifespeed. Thanks again for your time!
