Track 11 – Just Not True (F/ Brick Beats on the cuts)

shout to Deshaun on this one, we performed it! (sorry if i spelled your name wrong)

“i put my soul into my lyrics and fill my composition notebook with rhymes that other rappers are opposed to. on one of my older songs i mentioned how impressed women were with my music (“make the dames say ‘dang!’”-the words theme 2002) and they still are. i try to stay away from people that are stagnant. they should stay away from us, because we’re doing our part in renovating hip hop and keeping it fresh. if we were born earlier we probably would have been apart of hip hops earlier movement. no need to “cry over spilled milk” though, because even though we didnt make the classics of yesteryear, we believe we make todays classics. we’re the new generation using todays tools and reaping the new benefits. i usually record my rhymes in one run but on this occasion i didnt. i think we are similar to kings because we make the music you dream of. also, I have very interesting thoughts when I rap. if you dont agree with what im saying i am planning on burning your house down*. this music is for winners, and i am successful.”-vons verse for old people

Ilyas said this was an older track that I didnt like at first, but sometimes it takes longer for beats to hit you! I guess I’d said I didnt like it before but then ended up starting a song using it…bad memory. I dont even remember. This was one of the first songs we finished for the album as well, i want to say it was mid 2007 but it was probably later…we were still “kind of” working on the album and it was going slow but i had this over ambitious idea of this complicated ass hook. one of the early ideas for brooklynati was for us to do another song like “triangle offense” where we rap back and forth, but that didnt happen so I wanted to at least get it off on a chorus!

i did it alone at first and tried to hold off on doing the real version because I was being lazy…haha! I had to write down who went where and when and in what ear etc so it had a pattern to it (im saying that like I did music notation or something haha).

Ilyas also had another verse on this song, that I always accidentally start rapping when I listen to this. I liked the other one more but the one that ended up on the album is just as dope if not better. I think I was just used to the original verse from hearing it so much. Don’s verse is my favorite. Actually, if I’m not mistaken Don’s vocals are the same ones from the demo version of the song, so this may be the only thing from the demo that didnt get rerecorded.

overall this song was the 4 of us (brick included) proving ourselves to those that talk shit. its one thing to aim to impress the fans but another to shut up naysayers. im kind of stubborn about that sort of thing so my verse was meant to be overly cryptic. i dont want to impress someone thats already decided they dont fuck with us, but like the chorus says, whatever they say is just not true! this is apart of the lyrical onslaught part of the album haha…never 2ndary, this one, and morgan blu. rap-a-thon.

*I wont burn your house down. thats just trash talk.