The Thoughts Of Just Another Brother: October 2013

Tuesday 1 October 2013

The Lost Freestyles:The Biblical Journey...

Like your Cain and I'm Abel

Let me tell you my fable

Forget smashing your skull with a rock

I will choke you with a cable

What you saying my bars are disgraceful?

What you saying my bars are distasteful?

Ok let me gain some composure

To show you that I am able

Lets start in the beginning

Listen I remember chilling

Chilling in a manger

Everybody crowding calling around me a Savior

Listen I was a baby these times

I cant remember these strangers

But as my mother recalls

As a baby there was no-one braver

She said one day you will grow to be a game changer

You will be able to change hearts

You will be able to cause laughs

You will be able to see the difference between good and bad people

To set these two types apart

Like Moses and The Red sea, the sea in front of thee, there for you to part

All you need to do is

Just hold up your head, take a breath, son, and walk your path....

The Lost Freestyles: The Dark Nights Part 2...

When he cleans up the streets by the morning are you gonna believe then?

The other said

"You know what F all the feds"

"Yeah they don't respect"

"Yeah, Yeah, I said it F the government"

"Yeah they don't respect"

"The feds wait and serve the government and politicians like A bunch Of Alfreds'"

The other said

"You know what I actually don't blame them"

"Like I don't actually blame the feds in the ends"

"Because its true what they say the government seek out to plant the seed"

"Plant the seed like Poison Ivy"

"Truthfully I know the government try and poison me"

"Sometimes it leads me to scream"

"Sometimes it leads me to speak"

"Do you remember when I robbed the doctor that time and told him to freeze"

"I know I changed my trail of thought"

"But truthfully I thought that ish was kinda fun-ny"

"The moment the donny dropped to his knees"

"We, told him to march like a penguin, we"

"We, told him to strip down to his boxers and hand over the p"

"He froze"

"Froze like a scarecrow in search of a hero"

"It was strange"

"But kept repeating he name Hugo"

"When we showed him the heat, we"

"We must have sent him cra-zy"

"He must have wished, he, had a night in"

"We must have turned him"

"He must be chilling like a villain in the hospital Night Wing"

"Out there and up there in Arkham Asylum"

About Alph

Alph Arley

Performance Poet and Spoken Word Artist/ R.A.P Workshop Facilitator. It's deeper than R.A.P!

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Hi my name is Alph Arley and I know that your certainly pleased to meat me, because I know that I am certainly pleased to you. I am a 90’s US Hip-Hop, 90’s U.K Garage and U.K Grime head, with a sneaker addiction which I had battled for 20 years.

I am a performance poet, as well as a spoken word artist who was born and raised in Stockwell, South London. I started writing poetry back in 2011, and started performing my poetry in 2012, whilst I was studying at university. When I am not playing Pokémon on my Nintendo DS, listening to Rap, watching Rap battles, watching cartoons, watching footie, watching anime or reading manga, I am thinking and writing. In my spare time I also facilitate and deliver poetry, spoken word and rap workshops which are called ‘The R.A.P Programme’ to young people. This is in order to help them to gain a greater, awareness as well as understanding about the importance their individual voices, as well as to help them to gain awareness, as well as help them to articulate their thoughts and emotions.

How I get started with poetry?

How it did I get started with poetry? I would say my poetic journey subconsciously started in 94. This was when I was about 3 years old. I grew up in a two bedroom flat, in a four flat building in Stockwell with Tupac, Biggie Smalls, Bone Thugs and Harmony, Puff Daddy, Mase, Dre Dre, LL Cool J, DJ Rob Base, Run DMC, Eve, Missy Elliot, Busta Rhymes, Wycleff Jean, Lauren Hill, Fugees, Eryka Badu CD’s being played on my Mum’s black Kenwood Hi-Fi, with two standing speakers.

I remember by the age of about 9 I had my own portable stereo in my bedroom and started to build my own Rap CD collection which included Eminem, Dre Dre, Ludacris, D12, 50 Cent and Snoop Dogg. Like, I remember getting printed Eminem lyrics on A4 paper, as a present from one of my Mum’s friends, after that there was no looking back. I actually started writing both grime and rap lyrics in secondary school, but those lyrics remained in the drafts of my 6230 phone. I admit, I struggled to spit in time with a beat and the lyrics did not make sense in the slightest. In 2011, whilst studying at university, I remember scrolling through my Blackberry, writing my thoughts in my note pad. I would say that my life experiences made it difficult for me to express my thoughts and emotions, which led me to become frustrated adolescent. I started writing my thoughts down and I found it helped me to come to terms with my experiences.

What does poetry mean to me?

That’s a dope question. I would say that poetry means everything to me, as it has not only helped me to come to terms with my life experiences, but it has also helped me to use my experiences to help others. I have read so many books from different poets, like Pablo Neruda, John Keats, Allen Ginsberg, Phillip Larkin, Sylvia Plath, Gertrude Stein, William Shakespeare, Benjamin Zephaniah, Linton Kwesi Johnson. Poems such as ‘Stackolee’ and ‘The Signifying Monkey’ , which are two of my favourites. I would say that it is important that everyone feels that they have a voice to express themselves as well as share with others, as growing up I noticed many around me felt that they did not have a voice. I feel that poetry is an art form which can give all the young homies on the block, that lady serving at the tills in Sainbury’s, Bossman in the local corner shop, a chance for them to express themselves, as well as voice.