Veronica Speaks

musichead describes my love for music.

I love the fantasy inducing creativity.

The masterful way we paint pictures in our heads.

It takes energy to create music. When it enters my ears, I am immediately mesmerized.

Listening to rap is a different experience for me. I am about do my best to explain.

Why wrap your head in the rap escape

First, rap reveals relationship between the intellectual mind and the creative side. I love headraps- raps that make me use my head.

Have you heard Lil Wayne’s wordplay, or Big Sean, or or or Juice WRLD (RIP)?!

Click their name to listen to their wordplay. These the type of lyrics you have to listen to more than once.

In my free time, I study rap. I really listen to hear what they’re saying. What messages are they sending?

How are they having fun? Do people take their rap lyrics too seriously?

I get excited about rap – even when it’s filled with violence. I am not an advocate for violence at all, but I understand rapping about violence is a way to release anger inside.

We are a rap born black community

Rap is a form of storytelling; we share our experiences when we wrap them into our story.

Our community suffers from a widespread disease of anger. This anger is even worse in impoverished black spaces, as in the West Side, South Side, Over East, and the suburbs of Chicago.

Why talk about Chicago?

Besides my immediate family being in Chicago, I truly believe we are the best city in the world.

It is no doubt that this angry disease exists in ALL black spaces, I want to talk about Chicago because I am here everyday.

Everyday I look outside to see how this anger (emotional instability) is showing itself through substance abuse, sex, violence, music, dance, mental illness, relationships, writing, loving, etc.

Majority of the people I know come from the trenches, we can relate to the pain in raps. I wouldn’t say rapping about violence is the issue, but our understanding of it is.

musichead song choice of the day:

Rap before Suge Knight

For instance, back in the day when emcees would perform their freestyles, they incorporated lyrical violence to throw shots at other emcees. It was NEVER meant to be literal.

Unfortunately, in today’s rap world, many people take rap lyrics literal and insight violence in our community. It’s rather sad to experience. I’ll dive deeper into this notion in a later article.

For now, I want to encourage rappers to take a step away from violence sometimes and express different topics of escape.

I don’t want to see rappers dead, I want to see them grow through this life.

Meek Milly dropped the rawest bar I ever heard when it comes the the black community and violence. By the way, Meek Mill is a lyrical genius too.

Kings killing Kings...we the KKK...

Think about that for a second. Much of our rap has to do with killing other black men. We are a destruction to our own community. Forget the white people for a second (To my white readers, I love you, and this is not about you right now).

No rat race, just the rap escape

No one can rush the same 24 hours that we all experience. The rat race is a toxic illusion pushed to support capitalism and community degradation. There is no race – where’s the finish line anyway? We all have to die someday.

Where we racing to? To death? That doesn’t sound right, does it?

I look forward to the days we realize that a moment can’t be rushed and the only time we have is now.

This opportunity comes once in a lifetime.

Lose yourself in the music…

Be musichead with me

I love music. It is – hands down- my favorite love language.

I’ve decided to play my hand in the rap game. Let’s see where it goes.

Come and join my musichead Rap Education discord! See you there.

With Peace,

Veronica Speaks