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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.

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.

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.