ALL DAY I DREAM ABOUT SYLLABLES…

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When my homey T from StapleCrops jumped off the Hip-Hop Word Count website proclaiming his method for rating rap lyrics and he didn’t acknowledge DP Dot Com in the credits you could imagine I felt a kind of way. How the fuck can you act like that shit came to you when you know I’m the John ‘A Beautiful Mind’ Nash of this rap rating shit? I decided to say eff it and let that dude find his own way with that damn site

My dude went to Morehouse so I suppose that is how they break their students down to navigate the world. Jump on some shit if you think you can make a dollar out of it. I would never hate on anyone’s money if they came up with shit to help people think better, even if the idea was poached. I’m not saying that T stole my ideas because these notions were developed during a smoking session at his crib. What I am saying is that you can’t get that raw UnKut but from the main source.

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As an olive branch to appease my reticence TAHIR hit me on the celly and plugged me to this spot in SoHo selling leather Rod Lavers for twenty cent. Sonn didn’t text me days after the fact which is how some fugazi foolios get down. Dude sent the text from the checkout line. I found myself in the store the following day ready to copp two pair. For twenty cent apiece? That is better than eBay on a good day. Plus, these are the leather Rod Lavers and not the mesh joints. The mesh joints don’t last too long. You can never really, really clean them joints. The mesh upper has too many nooks and crannies. The all leather joints only need a slightly damp paper towel with a dab of Murphy’s oil soap and you are crispy all over again.

The Rod Laver isn’t a sneaker either. These shits are tennis shoes. I copped the white on whites. I can see myself getting married to C.S. in these. They are that crispy and their silhouette is so understated. You will notice how most sneakers have panels that overlay one another. This is great for when you have different colorways or materials so that the contrast pops off. The Rod Laver is simple, and therefore simply perfect. No bells, whistles or air bubbles. Just white on white, with a small suede strip across the toebox. I consider the Rod Lavers one of the tennis shoe jewels inside the Holy Grail along with the O.G. Air Tech Challenge and the Nike INDSTRUKT Air Resistance.

rod lavers

rod lavers

rod lavers

I stress the use of polysyllable words within rap music because the complexity of these words adds additional movement to rapper’s lyrics. It is akin to placing the squared or cubed designation beside a numeral. The polysyllabic word has a root word that lends the base meaning and a prefix or suffix attached that provides the additional movement to the root phrase.

In the seminal rap song ‘Microphone Fiend’ RAKIM not only blisters the track with dozens of polysyllabic verses he brings the song to a close by invoking mathematics. RAKIM isn’t simply happy to let the rhythm hit ’em so he pulls out a Euclidean algorithm.

For any entertainer I got a torture chamber
One on one and I’m the remainder

The REMAINDER bitches! Until you know what is good for you I suggest you fuck with DP Dot Com and the Hip-Hop Word Count.

11 Responses to “ALL DAY I DREAM ABOUT SYLLABLES…”

  1. Dart_Adams says:

    In the immortal words of Riley after taking a bite of “The Luther”:

    This is what crack must feel like © Riley Freeman

    *Falls into coma like sleep state while drooling*

    One.

  2. jdotnicholas says:

    Those Lavers are Fahrenheit 451.

  3. sangano says:

    i had those in high school and swore they had “Rod Layer” technology or something lol

  4. twerkolator says:

    i copped those black ones from the Adidas outlet a few months ago…shit’s is dope, but they would be better if they were ALL black…

    DP, can you cop me a pair if I can get a dub to you? you know i’m the rod laver champ!!!! holla at me….

  5. CeeZDieM says:

    “Demonstrated in the perforated Rod Lavers
    … In all quad flavors/ Laaaaaawd Save us”

    where is this store!!!! Its not the adidas boutique btw Houston and whatever, is it?

  6. Dell says:

    D…. what’s good with the store address? Don’t keep that a secret, I need those white one whites in my life bruh. lol

  7. 444 Broadway between Grand and Howard Street

  8. Nattiez says:

    preciate the addy. hopping over there. Twerk, you know i got you.

  9. Dell says:

    Headed there right now, good looking on the address! Best blog on the net no doubt

  10. Tahero says:

    ^^Billy X. Sunday: That’s prefix not *perfix*

    ^^^Twerkolator: Why can’t they make black soles? that itSh™ makes sense like breathing. There’s somebody at Trefoil’s doing that itSh™ on purpose. They know I want to wear all black perforateds to work & church.

  11. Hi there, just browsing for information for my Adidas site. Truly more information that you can imagine on the web. Not quite what i was looking for, but nice site. Take care.

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