Making Hip Hop - Cyphers 2018

60 Minute Cyphers

Entry for MakingHipHop's Cypher Vol 1 - Beat by LesMoss. Theme: Outsider

LYRICS:
I really really really wanna be a rapper but I’m posh, white, and not funny
I don’t come from the streets, I haven’t got money
I never made it with a lady or hot honey
Asking for advice they just say “You should stop, sonny”

What do they want from me? To get an desk job?
“I need these reports before three” OK yes Bob.
I’d waste my day typing rhymes onto my desk top
Saved with names like ‘Q2 Accounts’ so I don’t get caught

Seems like the kinda routine that I’d get stressed from
Pushing pens without the paper’s bound to make ma head throb
I’d rather get lost in a world of my own creation
and display what I’ve made cos I crave appreciation

I wanna expand my fanbase, and cast my net wider
Soon I’ll be taking off like I’m a jet fighter
Maybe Try Korean Speed Rap with MC Sniper
cos then I know I made it as a real Outsider

Pen Pusher (Cypher Vol. 1 - "Outsider")

Entry for MakingHipHop's Cypher Vol 2 - Beat by @https://soundcloud.com/djking_69/som. Theme: Pizza Delivery

LYRICS:
Hello? Yes sir, what will it be?
 Stuffed crust pizza with herbs and cheese? 
Certainly, that’ll be thirty three dollars
Delivery? Yup, that works for me.

OK see you soon, thanks. Wha- Our guarantee?
"Pizza delivered in 30 minutes or it’s free!"
We’ll bring your food piping hot to your table
The bill is prepaid but please tip if you’re able.

That’s great then. Have a good day, Sir. 
What? No, I can’t describe the flavour.
You want advice on the best way to savour
The remains? Are you insane? They don’t pay me
Enough to justify putting up with this dumb stuff.
If you decide that you don’t like what you’ve ordered then it’s tough luck.

Holy fuck dude! Why are you still complaining?
Then I check his ticket: “5 minutes remaining”  

“Thanks for the free pizza! hahahaha"

30 Minutes Or Free (Cypher Vol. 2 - "Pizza Delivery")

Entry for MakingHipHop's Cypher Vol 3 - Beat by @https://soundcloud.com/mcgingy – Som. Theme: Photo Album

LYRICS:
This first snap is me aged four
See we write our heights on the door
Straight backs, flat feet was essential
But still I’d reach up on my tiptoes when my mama grabbed the pencil

This is a pic of my first day at school.
Dressed to impress, thinking maybe I’m cool?
I remember I was having the worst days in third grade
Only work I liked involved language, spelling or wordplay

Here I am writing. No I mean “writing”!
When I’m penning tight rhymes, it was exciting 

Look it’s a picture of me in the booth
Aim to spit flames when I’m raising the roof
Making the music I wanted to make
And I’m spending my days with the craziest dudes. 
My favouritest too, amazing but true
“You work at a desk? I’d hate to be you!”
I tasted the fruit from the tree in the garden of eden
Believe me, I savoured the truth

Out of all these pics,  here's one that's my favourite
Selling out a show, yeah I reckon that I’ve made it
but then I’m getting stressed at the limits of my progress,
I’m hopeless, and slowly I see my dreams are fading

This picture is me in an office.
I manage profits and losses and… I've got to stop this

Garden of Eden (Cypher Vol. 3 - "Photo Album")

Additional bars that fitted the theme and beat quite well, but couldn't fit into @https://soundcloud.com/noodleraps/first-period-cypher-vol-4-science

LYRICS:
I make music, give the flu to a greek letter,
This iota ro cos he knew I could be better
When I rap about rap, I guess I go meta
They all scream my name like Noodle he’s so mega

I think it’s evident I’m arrogant
I’m the type of guy that likes the taste of his own medicine
Backing up my claims with experimental evidence
I’m like Einstein I’m back in my element

All these other rappers acting fake like Silicon
Can’t wait til they Argon, I’mma Barium
But I’m better than great I’m Beryllium
I’m the best rapper in this group. Period.

You’re gassed that I’m noble where my prize at, 
I’m going global, they call me Pfizer
Flow’s so cold it froze into a snowball
Growing in size, they say the limit’s where the sky’s at

Second Period (Cypher Vol. 4.5 - "Science")

Entry for MakingHipHop's Cypher Vol 19: written, recorded, and mixed in 60 minutes. Beat by @https://soundcloud.com/razzybeats. Theme: Primal Instincts

LYRICS:
2 dudes move through with a screw loose
Who knew who’s who? Boo hoo, you do
3 expressions spreading venom with their message
But I’m never getting stressed because I’m guessing that it’s voodoo

Too soon? Screw you to the 5th power
Making faces at the taste cos it’s a bit sour
7 seconds till I’m getting in my element
11 bits of evidence indicative of cleverness

I realise that my desires they require me
To find a higher vibe, and not to sit and kick it quietly
I push it to the limit, I’m behaving kinda violently
But what can I say, I’m not surprised that it surprises me!

So fire me, and find out what kinda guy I might like to be
Why remind me of a time with higher piety
Sobriety. Still one thing that evades me. 
That I made it past 13 never ceases to amaze me  
Crazy

60 Minute Cypher Vol. 19 - Prime Time ("Primal Instincts")

Entry for MakingHipHop's Cypher Vol 20: written, recorded, and mixed in 60 minutes. Beat by Knave @https://youtu.be/8oTNbrZSFCk. Theme: No Theme

LYRICS:
Tryna write to a cypher with no theme
Is the time we find what Sispyhean means
A game with no team, a story with no book
A beat with no hook, a day with no dream

I’m sitting here wishing I’m spitting vividly lyrically 
Every minute I’ve written another killer bit literally
I’m seeking the release to speak of an inner me but
The position I sit in is giving limited imagery

I wait another week, I wanna write another cypher
I’m running out a steam like a defeated fire fighter
I was hoping that the beat was gonna show some inspiration
But this week’s theme? it puts the 'no' in innovation 

Tryna write to a cypher with no theme
Is the time we find what Sispyhean means
A game with no team, a story with no book
A beat with no hook, a day with no dream

60 Minute Cypher Vol. 20 - Sysiphus ("No Theme")

Entry for MakingHipHop's Cypher Vol 21: written, recorded, and mixed in 60 minutes. Beat by @https://soundcloud.com/mcgingy. Theme: Regret

LYRICS:
Never wanna get stressed in the first place
Hurts in the worst way, searching for mercy
Feel misplaced like a hearse at a birthday
Nerves get burst like the earth in an earthquake

Make a decision and stick with it
Take the path that you envisioned
Blaze the way with no gimmicks
Don’t listen to the limits that your setting on your own image

You’re not first person to go through this
You hope to grope for a rope but you know it’s clueless
Take a seat, I’ll be a teacher you can be my student
You can be my student

Of course the remorse is a course for improvement
Forcing your choice to ignore all the stupid
A useless wounded human losing fluid
Through music, a putrid root is proven to move to a tulip

60 Minute Cypher Vol. 21 - Tulip ("Regret")

Entry for MakingHipHop's Cypher Vol 22: written, recorded, and mixed in 60 minutes. Beat by @https://soundcloud.com/arbaz-khan-471882443. Theme: Accepted

LYRICS:
Accept it, I’m the best bit of reddit
It’s not stretch to suggest you gotta give me credit
This cypher died in a fire right as I left it
So you’ll never let me forget just how big my head is

Petravita’s getting wins left, right and centre
But remember back to back is something I invented
And Brandon I don’t mean to jeopardise our friendship
But you can claim my throne only after I relented

Check my history, it’s literally and visibly 
The biggest pile of rhymes you’ll see on this side of infinity
The best MC in the immediate vicinity
I find my kind of clever rhymes are better than you’ll ever be

But get this, i suggest this in jest, it’s
A fact that actually I been kinda stressed, it’s
A blessing that you let me get these feelings off my chest, this
Is the first time in my life that I’ve felt accepted

60 Minute Cypher Vol. 22 - Claim The Throne ("Accepted")

Entry for MakingHipHop's Cypher Vol 23: written, recorded, and mixed in 60 minutes. Beat by @https://soundcloud.com/starnutopizza. Theme: Broke

LYRICS:
So most of the days, I’m hoping to fake emotion
Frozen in place, it’s totally plain, I’m broken
Open to making a moment and taking it slow
But it blatantly shows I’m vacant with no way that I focus

It’s hopeless, and you know that I hate it
No way to make my day great when that’s the way my brain is
I face it, with a vague aim to embrace it
But today’s the day that I ain’t gonna make it

Slow way down, show grey clouds
No hope so don’t stay down
Go home to a place in the same town
No roads show the way to the playground

Change pace to evade any lame clown
I hate to waste space when the parades out
I hate the rain, I wait for it to change now
But every day, the pain makes the same sound

60 Minute Cypher Vol. 23 - Black Parade ("Broke")

My mum used to tell me "you're NOT funny and you're NOT clever". This is me desperately trying to prove her wrong.