A lot of times, the way hip-hop is, and I’m not griping, but I just feel like I’m way way way ahead of my time. I know people think I’m wack. Like a lot of cats on the East Coast think I’m wack, and the reason is because you can’t comprehend what you don’t know. And if you don’t know, how can you comprehend it? You know what I mean? It goes over their heads like a flying saucer.
that is the really real my friends. ive been hearing all this shit comin out on the radio, and not alot of folx can do wut forty does. i hear rappers like lil wayne n kanye, n wut they do that people like is the similies n metaphors they use. but its jus that...who can come up with better metaphors...n its jus thrown in the rap to sound good. no story telling skills. kanye n wayne did a song a few yrs ago called barry bonds, pretty dope song but listening to wat they say it was like i was back in grammar class "my drank still pinker than the easter rabbit, stove on my waist turn beef to patties" this is where the teacher ask "similie or metaphor?" the lines r coo but there is relly no meaning behind it. forty has the metaphors n uses em for what they are n actually keeps em in line to what the mood or reason behind the song. theres reason behind it. forty is in a class of his own, hes one of the only rappers today, to really utilize rap for what its meant to be and keeping it at its roots. storytelling.