Manchego Quince

(inspired by Quincy Jones' famous statements about wishing 2pac didn't dumb his lyrics down so much for that audience.)

submitted by: Jon...me...(still waiting for you lazy bums to PM me some concepts!!)

assignment: pick a verse/song from a famous rapper (can be 2pac or anyone else -- something that either seems dumbed-down to you or something you just want to pick for the fun of it) and re-imagine it, writing it your way. give it the "you" treatment.

here's a picture of Manchego Quince to inspire you:
http://images.jupiterimages.com/common/detail/56/79/23047956.jpg


IMPORTANT: everyone reading this is welcome...encouraged...BEGGED to start pelting my inbox with ideas/concepts/challenges for future Weekly Specials. thanks

Heesheeee,
Uhhhhh...blowticious,
Skeevee delicious,
Gimme coos coos love me good,
Uhh damn,
Hollis to Hollywood but is he good?,
I guess like the jeans...Uhh,
Flava like praleens,
Sick daddy iaaamean?,
Papa love it when he does it,
Niggas buzz it,
But tell me was it really just the flava that be clogging your ears,
The most safest behavior is to stay in the clear,
It's all for you...It's really all for you,
{Now what?}
Punch back,
Close your eyes try to munch that,
Oil up your ankles let your Tims tap,
Bite the flava it reacts to your gold caps,
Word to mama,
I tongue kiss a pirhana,
Electrocute a barracuda...I'm here to bring the drama,

R.I.P. Martin alexander (Marty Gra) Alston - my brother, my mentor , my friend-

OOOHH SHITTT
He's vicious
My steez malicious
Freak loops so good
uhhh Damn
did something you never could and kept it hood
sixteens for the fiends
Flavor like now and laters
spit steady know what i mean?
niro in ear holes
like college girls on stripper poles
But tell me was it really just the flava that be clogging your ears,
The most safest behavior is to stay in the clear,
It's all for you...It's really all for you,
{Now what?}
Punch back,
Close your eyes try to munch that,
Oil up your ankles let your Tims tap,
Bite the flava it reacts to your gold caps,
Word to mama,
I tongue kiss a pirhana,
Electrocute a barracuda...I'm here to bring the drama,

R.I.P. Martin alexander (Marty Gra) Alston - my brother, my mentor , my friend-

i think its cool how you (for the most part) kept the same cadence, rhyme schemes, AND theme...and just used different words to build the same structure. pretty dope challenge-within-the-challenge. that's what''s cool is everyone's gonna interpret these challenges their own way. i like that.

The first joint i thought of was his verse because i never understood it. Yet I know every word of it. You got to love LL and this is my favorite incoherent verse.

I thought it would be easy but it was harder then it looks.

thanks for the read
and the concept

R.I.P. Martin alexander (Marty Gra) Alston - my brother, my mentor , my friend-

Ha don't know how much better mine was. Last minute. This was harder than I thought...


Yo I'm live with it, low, middle, the high with it
And that's how I'ma live and die with it
Hold up and down your spine with it
Like Zimzallabim, Jack Johnson, yes my dog, right with them!
The most special, most ghetto, most method, most valuable
Rep my avenue like is the damn state capital
Coming shadows to mind, a better mark of rapeness
On slaves who high jacked the slave ships
The hackers who remapped the matrix
And built the road back to basics
And getcha all off that strain shit
You know this other cats run game with, it's tainted
Consider this the moment that changed it: NOW!
Jack john's stand strong never bow down
Back off or get clapped dog right about POW
For east to the west,up north to down south
We show you how to REALLY make moshpit bounce
Show you how the gritty make the ghetto wild out
First letters that I wrote when I sketch the script down
I'M LIVE WITH IT
low, middle, the high with it
And that's how I'ma live and die with it
I shine with it, rhyme with it, reveal and recognise with it
The ghetto know what time is it, when i spit it
Me 9-semi, an iron lion strike with it
See Dr. Know string a knot and make 'em ride with it



Check out real mix get it, I like the way ya rock wit it
that's why I stay live wit it, hip hops my life spit it
so that's why on the mic I just give it ALL I GOT lyrics that really hit the spot rep my neighborhood like it's the nations capital
coming shadows to mind, a better mark of rapeness
on slaves who high jacked the slave ships
the hackers who remapped the matrix
and built the road back to basics
and getcha all off the games hits
you know shit other cats chasin fame with
it's tainted
consider this the moment that saved it: RIGHT NOW
Black brothers stand strong never bow down
back off or get dropped jack so they need to back down
east to the west, up north to down south
we show ya how to really make a moshpit bounce
show ya how the gritty make the ghetto wild out
bullshit in the streets make ya wanna just shout
I'M FLIPPIN ON IT
Straight flippin out on it,so hot ya don't want it
and I just wanna get by on it
the ghetto know what time is it, when I spit it
me 9 semi an iron lion strike with it
see dr.No string a knot and make em ride wit it