I know and I know. The "nonsense" is "I make dope beats and rhymes".. I think it isn't written very well. Same with High Voltage
Spit drips from the jaw of the witless witness Cryptic colloquialisms shift your mid rift Dog paddle through a bog of shadows and smog with my Thought catalog: analogue rap battle log Keep my distance, and fear resistance, hurt by persistence The twisted web of tangled lies Strangles my hope to waste and numbs the taste And I'm forced to face these hate crimes Against the state of being Feeling the weightlessness press me to the ceiling Reeling around rooms Riding a bubble of sound Tuned to the frequency making your Chest shake with every boom Involuntary muscle contraction Ignoring your neck’s breaking Musical gas fume euphoria The sound pounds to make the dead flush To hand you a head rush with read thoughts and said stuff
I find that there are some who preferably undermine his writing pre-Minutes To Midnight, and frankly I find it a tad bit unfair. After all, it's not hard to come up with the vocabulary displayed in his work spanning from the beginning of his music/rap career. To put things in perspective; a 14 - 15 year old can easily understand what was written within the rap verses of 'And One' save for one or two words; 'And One' barely features any words that may helm the need for the almighty dictionary. In other words, give me a break. It's a bad excuse to water down the opinions of others based upon your own assumption that Mike wasn't bright enough to come up with what was written in his time as Xero/Hybrid Theory. Agreeably, the band's earlier work may have showcased a rather skewed execution in terms of portraying a clear and concise message. However, the significance of his earlier rhymes is presented through the intermixed usage of passages, leaving the listener some food for thought if you will. It helped to create an identity that contributed in the creation of their unique sound. Whereas Mike implemented this style verbally before, it is now expressed through the psychedelic music itself on ATS.
I don't think that's necessarily what was meant by the dictionary remark. A lot of his earlier lyrics were more or less word salad, as he's admitted himself. I thought that's what was being referred to there.
If I had to chose what LP's 5th album would sound like, I would push for a hip hop record. That would be so dope. Not necessarily Fort Minor, but an album with all the songs being like WaK and WTCFM or like Dedicated and High Voltage.
Yeah I don't mean to look down upon any of his 15+ years of writing lyrics it's just sometimes you can't over do it. I don't think alot of fourteen years olds would know what colloquialism and euphoria would mean off of the top of their head. I just appreciate his 2005-2010 work more, especially the emotion has increased. He doesn't rap in a monotone voice like he did in Meteora.
I said this, you said this, and apparently nobody else has caught that Mike has said this. I started off writing rhymes the exact same way. He was pretty much trying to sound cool.
This. I was going to quote all of your responses but i'm too lazy. I can easily make a rap with big words to sound cool and it would make sense. Listen to his verses in WFTE. Simplistic, but they have some use of intelligent words.
So I guess Somewhere I Belong fits into your niche then? I kid. I kid. In all seriousness though, Reading My Eyes is the only track in whence I felt Mike overdid it. It's to the point of either creatively cool, or laughable I suppose. There is emotion embedded in every piece. The intensity in the connection made between a certain piece and the listener however, is subjective.
He actually makes a good point. His rapping on Meteora was fairly monotonous but now there are more inflections. However, he was also like that before Hybrid Theory, so I guess it just went down for Hybrid Theory and Meteora.