So much fakeness in this world its repulsive. I heard this clip about this guy describing a cypher with God. Firstly I'm heavy on Hip Hop and poetry itself. Freestyle poetry to be specific. But anyway I'm listening to this poet going on and on about this cypher with God. The clip is not profound, is not abstract, it does nothing to my mind that has been challenged with lines like what if God was a Her? This dude I'm standing with is utterly moved about hearing Moses and them kicking it in this cypher. But I understand why.
The concept made it deeper than it actually is. Springing in my mind's neurons is Talib when he said that 'coz people don't understand what you sayin', doesn't necessarily mean you deep. And that's how many "poets" make they stupidity deep. The act deep, talk deep but they not deep. They as fake as plastic. But their fakeness has became their new realness. Real nowadays is going to Clubhouse but make it for tomorrow's class at 8am. Real is smoking weed and telling the tales of its oh so glorious highness. Real is getting the biggest baddest booty boucing on your mandingo, very single night at different clubs and different beds. Real is hopping in a Polo and sucking the driver dry, of his wealth too.
This is the new real that is taught through the music, media and leaders like the Sushi King of today. This real is than taken to a deep level where your booty hunters act mature. Meaning they move from big to anything. "Its the beauty inside..." Your weed smokers start gettin dreads. "My Brethen..." Your bad gals change from Polos to Bentley. "Im not cheap..." They keep on evolving, keep getting deep until they reach the point they tell their stories in forms like "I was in a cypher with God". This is the new deep. The new real. The fake real.
However, the old real still exists. The real real. Real is smoking weed but not eating meat, real is the guy that hears whats happening at Clubhouse but registered The Law of Thermodynamics that's in front of him for his 9am class, real is the gal that gets in her own Polo. Real, real as clichè it might sound, is telling your wife you love her but not just for a body. When this real evolves you hear I love you and feel it. You hear "I'm a made figure" and your driven to be too. You hear "I'm beautiful" and feel it radiating everywhere. When this real evolves to its deepest form, you realise the only real there is, its you and what you do. You come to terms that the only real there is, is simply - God.
Not the clothes and cavallas, not the marks on your back and most importantly not the brain that conceives poems bout God in cyphers. Being deep is not explaining faith can move a mountain but having the faith to move one. Being deep is falling into the Bottomless Pit but resting on the Holy Ghost to keep you afloat. Being deep is realising there is no wall, no pen, no phone, no life. Being deep is realising you are dead in slumber while your eyes are wide open. The moment the scales of the world is removed from your eyes, only than will you be deep. And the deeper you get, the closer you realise that all that is real lies in you. Don't get it confused. I'm from the days when keep it real was the phrase. Only now do I realise how much truth that is. Marinate on that coz I just got a punchline from God. Hahahaa
(Written 23 January 2013)