DWR or Design within Rhyme - This music was constructed of some free loops and originally for the 2007 RPM Challlenge under the name "Design within Beats". I was at a friends house intoxicated and listening to our 07 RPM album and fell in love with this grove. That one synth sound made me melt in my chair. One weekend I woke up on a Saturday, listened to our "Samural L Jackson" song and turned on this beat and came up with 16 bars. The next day, I woke up, listened to "Jackson" and wrote another 16 bars. Since redvoid didn't want to rhyme on this, I came up with another 16 but you can tell it has a different flow from that magical "wake and rhyme" weekend. Check out all of the references! In order that they appear: Rakim, Nas, Beastie Boys, funky49, Ice-T, DMX, The Beatles, Busta Rhymes, Earth Wind & Fire, Fat Joe, Public Enemy, Sugar Hill Gang. Can you find all of the refs? This has one of my best hooks I wrote, IMO. "funky Skywalker, redvoid Kenobi"
lyrics
[funky49]
Check out the way I design, use my mind, come inside this time, you'll be surprised,
mesmerized, till you cry, red-void, yeah yeah yeah yeah, hellva guy
[redvoid]
Check out the way I design, use my mind, come inside this time, you'll be surprised,
mesmerized, till you cry, four-nine, yeah yeah yeah yeah, hellva guy
[funky49]
yo, i be on toppa this beat, unique to the hip hop freaks, think before you speak
brain force choose it, use it, before you lose it, don't bruise it, whos this?
microphone fiend in ya dreams, steam from engines, tight suspension
heavy on the throttle, never on the bottle, that's your lesson, now i'm testin'
what's the result, it's positive, four nine in rhyme time with the redvoid, we
beastie boys with beastly toys, hedonistic livin we enjoy
still never afraid to grab a pad and a pen, steal a sample now and again
morph - art with the science of defiance of this and that, i say amen
*hook
[funky49]
young enough to be doing it often, old enough to do it awesome
my beats hard, never gonna soften, all I know - how to do - is blossom
funky Skywalker, Redvoid Kenobi, they don't knooow, who we be
or how we party - never race in the street just PS3 Gran Tu-ris-mo see?
check out the way that I design the sound earning me a hip-hop crown
my stink green, your stink brown, I'm Steve Carlton on the pitcher's mound
new but classic like Nas and Ra' - I'm that Earth, Wind "Shinin' Sta'",
Oh-la-di, oh-la-dah, Dungeon Dragon goes Rawh Rawh
**checka break
[funky49]
four nine sweet like Disaronna and Coke down your throat, no joke, we going for broke, make it
rain on parades, tear up lame brains who stain the rap atmosphere, we have no fear,
keep our people near and spit vemon at back stabbers, back turners, puttin' us on the back burner,
they're crack burners, we slap spurners, we stack earners, assertive learners, you can't hurt us
ask about the time four nine rhyme for Chuck D, that's me getting pics took with Flavor Flav,
the way the day weighed, the enslaved prayed for traditions of spittin all day
and all night in sight of rap pinnacles, from mountains to rivers, stages coast to coast,
dont mean to brag, don't mean to boast, redvoid four nine damn rock the most
*hook
credits
from Starblazer,
released June 22, 2008
additional vocals provided by redvoid
funky49 is a rapper and science enthusiast living in Tampa, FL. He has presented at TEDx, Fermilab, and the National Academy
of Sciences. He was named a “Nerdcore Hip-Hop All Star” by Wired magazine. He has performed at the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum and geek-friendly concerts such as Nerdapalooza. His album Starblazer is available on iTunes, Amazon and CDBaby....more
