Free Style Rappin' in the Stair Well

Now I hope I did not get you too excited with the title of that blog, unfortunately there shall be no freestyle rapping coming from Lacey (otherwise known as L-Dog.) Instead I would like to share with you a tidbit of the delightful things I hear just right outside my window.

Let me pre-face this entertaining diddy with the explanation that outside of my window there is another building and directly across from me, I am ever so fortunate to have to the stairwell to said building. (I sure hope you picked up the heavy sarcasm in that last statement.) Now why oh why would a stairwell bother me so much? Hmmmm well that is because no one actually uses it as a stairwell. Instead the late night drunken smokers use it to talk too loudly, and there are a pair of super awesome free-style rappers who occasionally make a celebrity appearance. In other words it is noisy.

But you know what they say, "when life gives you lemons make lemonade." So thankfully, sometimes I actually listen to what these mystery people are saying...and boy oh boy some of their conversations and/or raps are absolutely priceless. Just the other day as the one rapper was spittin' it hard (I assume that would be similar to the super awesome gangster slang they would use,) and stopped for a bit of a break the other gangsta homie said to him, "Yo man you need an energy drink? Just tell me and I will get you one." Then Gangster A must have agreed to wanting an energy drink, because Gangster B disappeared in what I assume was an attempt to fetch his fellow homie an energy drink (I am wondering if this was a special energy drink...maybe made to enhance rapping abilities, but I doubt it, and regardless I do not condone performance enhancing drugs.)

Today I overheard my favourite to-date free style rap from one of the gangtsers. It went a little something like this... (p.s. please excuse poor spelling I am going to write this as if it were being literally pronounced as he did this, so basically how I typed before Hooked On Phonics.)

"....I'm juss spittin my flow, thatz how i gunna roll, I am legend and can make two words rhyme that are spelled different, cause there different-ed, yeah en-ted (made mouth sounds here like pshhhs kshsh, pshshshspshs)...awww man %&$!."

Epic fail...couldn't even come up with a rhyme after that legendary claim. Well here let me help you out. I have a few words that rhyme and in fact sound pretty much the same and are spelled differently buddy.

too-to-two
their, there, they're
harbor-harbour
defence-defense
affect-effect
aunt-ant

Yeah, that's right buddy I just beat you with semantics, not your lame antics, but don't get frantic, just take a trip to the Atlantic.... Yeah Yeah Yeah....(insert more awesome mouth sounds...) Don't mess with me buddy you don't even know. That's right I owned a rhyming dictionary until I was 12.

So for future reference, nothing rhymes with orange, don't even go there.