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Why am I the first voice on an album with a famous vocalist?
First, it amuses me. It also makes an 11-track album called 10 Umbrellas for Your Soul, and I like the pause that gives.
It’s quite common for rap albums to have skits and the like, and it’s rare (i.e., it’s never happened) that I’m turning over an album with my name on it to someone else’s voice. Some context to tie the thing together seems fair enough.
Plus – and maybe this is delusional – this is a spoken word/poetry album, and both he and I are interested in a Grammy nomination in the category. That category’s poetry tends toward a love of literary devices. That’s less Declaime’s style of lyricism and more mine. So kicking things off the traditional way might frame this album as spoken word easier for everyone.
Lastly, by working these words into my previous track “Turn Soul Over; End of Life 1,” the majority of songs on my debut album ended up in this project. I find that highly satisfying.
Lyrics
Have you opened your curtains?
Or checked the weather?
It’s a downpour of uncertain
With a forecast of forever
To prevent overexertion
And face it together
Please be upstanding for the poet of the mic
My man will declaim the condition
Make it plain through repetition
How the rain of attrition
Pipes down pain and perdition
Can’t attain your ignition?
Then retain my submission
I present to you the poet of the mic
He’s got ten umbrellas for your soul
So your stroll can slow its roll
Just like this song’s been doing gradually the whole time
Speaking of time
I yield the balance of mine
To the
Some press about it
Pending! (I hope.)
Declaime takes up my yielded balance in Poet of the Mic
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