Poetry Spotlight: MsQuoted

"Not Your Typical Black Girl Lost"
written by: MsQuoted (@shari_says)

Her face is the inner city back drop

Heels walked where rats stand at bus stops

Her hands been cuffed by hand cuffs, no cops

And her eyes seen so much her lenses have grim spots

Her body and mind is so............distant

And when it comes to trust she so [resistant]

Her heart been crushed and beating down by bulldozers

And every time she tries to walk away, shepullscloser

See this isn’t the typical story of a black girl lost

Because this is a story about a corporate Boss

Living in her corporate world in her uptown penthouse

Sitting behind her Italian desk watching HBO’s Cathouse

She worked hard to reach the top dealing with so much prejudice

But now she reaching for girls, wishing Craig had more lists

So she can have a Render-vous with one maybe two

To conceal the guilt of her abortions, one maybe few

Buried in her heart she thinks that’s what her mom shoulda done

Instead of leaving her at a Mc Donalds at the age of one

So Dad FEND for himself, his salary working on cars

He was the best father he could be, besides the nights at bars

So happy she never caught her daddy’s disease being an alcoholic

She wasn’t careful and got caught up being a shopaholic

Her eyes spends bigger than her Louie V wallet

And all her money washes down in her luxury faucet

So she is constantly at Chase bank chasing favors

You know addicts has multiple addictive behaviors

So she paying for escorts and not paying attention to her debt

Oblivious, she needs porn cause humans barely get her wet

But the best part is her best friend she met at Lincoln H.S. 9th period

Who been there throughout all her Lindsay/Britney periods

She helped her pay for college so she never had to touch a pole

Gave her places to live, never out in the cold

Nevertheless, she fucked her best friend’s husband, a female Brutus

Funny, cause her husband with the niceeeee caesar was named Julius

The one man she ever truly loved wasn’t even hers

Wasting nights trying to convince him to move to the Burbs

But all he did was m o v e money out her account until she was bankrupt

Her face filled with humility and abuse she can’t cover with make-up

Spending her nights under the tunnel laying with laymen

So calling her a black girl lost might be a ____________

.......................................................understatement

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Song Spotlight: I'm About My Business

The Background

As a well rounded emcee, you have be able to say witty things, have dope storytelling, and deep substance.. At the same note, you gotta be able to control the crowd and give people something to nod there heads too.

This is probably the second song I had recorded for the project.. This song was actually completed from about a month ago.. I wanted to do a record with a bit of a southern bounce to it, and the piano's from the Gucci Mane/Bangledesh instrumental drew me in.

The Verses

I took the Jay-Z concept and had to "dumb it down" a bit.. I wanted to maintain a high level of swag on the record and make the lyrics easy for people to understand (as most commercial tracks are). Don't get it twisted, there's still a lot of wittiness buried inside the verses. Some of my personal favorite lines include..

"Listen, Im sittin' so far up on cloud 9
That I dont even come back to earth on my down time"

"Platinum or gold, no silver or bronze
Henny or Ciroc, either way I'm gone
I step into the studio like 'Home Sweet Home'
I don't wanna talk unless your name's Microphone"

The Hook

I was brainstormin' on a hook that was catchy but still dope, and maintained the same feel of the record.. I was runnin' thru some ideas with my homegirl who sings, and we happened to be listenin' to Drake's verse on "Forever".. and she just kept saying "Nigga, Im about my business" off of Drake's verse.. So when I took it to the studio I used that line and had the engineer chop and screw my voice, which is so commonly used in southern hip hop culture.

You can check out the finished product @ reverbnation.com/pennyshaw

Comeback Season (Song Snippet)

It's COMEBACK SEASON.. and I don't mean the weather !!

Here's a little snippet for a 'possible song' off my mixtape.. The "comeback season" concept came from me losing everything I had done for my last project.. I've never been one to look back, so I started working on some new material.. This was the first rhyme I had wrote for my upcoming release