Song: I Got Similes
Instrumental: Energy (Drake) 

Jay Howard explores Figurative Language and other poetic devices through puns and witty examples over Drakes Energy. See if you can discover them all.

Lyrics

I got similes /Got a lot of similes/ Coming off the roof(off the top) of my mouth like it's dentistry/gotta find a waaaayyy to make it interesting/ so i keep alliteration got it littered in my memory/so i keep alot of likes in my sentences like they into me/wordplay metaphor them boys are like some Kin to me/so putting lines together is playing words with friends for me/Even know the opposites the antonyms the enemies/but let's get to the root of it, she always been a consonant attracted to her consonantly/her a Synonyms a Symphony/Now Double that entendre, thats they sister we got chemistry/physically and mentally/ooh the way you interest me/scientific theories got kinetic kind of energy/No likes as if tell her what I metaphor/I got metaphors got a lot of metaphors/alphabet soup makes my vowel game edible/make em uh oh, man like I ate spaghetti o's/you can check the word-play Scrabble game incredible/ppl screaming copy but my style ain't even legible/Ya At a loss for words man like a game of telephone/cuz im Spittin fine art that's gourmet Delectables/Edible/ my food 4 thought sending out Banana graaaams/damn man, but I don't have the energy/

I Got Similes

The self titled poem "America is Me, America is NOT Me" from my first poetic chapbook entitled America is Me, America is NOT Me: The Poetry, Writings and Compilations. 


America is Me, America is NOT Me 
List Price: $7.99
6" x 9" (15.24 x 22.86 cm) 
Black & White on White paper, 56 pages
ISBN-13: 978-1544093611 
ISBN-10: 1544093616 
BISAC: Poetry / American / African American
America is Me, America is NOT Me is the first poetic chapbook from Javan Howard. He interprets life from his own experiences giving us a glimpse into a young black males perspective in America. His writings contains the ever present essence of Hip-Hop with honor to the techniques of poetry (wordplay, metaphors) while signifying and attempting to make sense of modern black culture.



America is Me
The hope, the promise
that withered on the backbones
of relatives that stitched
the (red) blood and blues
spewed from black dreams
on the stripes of the American flag.

America is Not Me
Our founding fathers
built a country on morals
That once deferred dreams through
Slavery and assassinations.
Gunning down black thoughts
Like runaways.

Yet still…

America is Me
The (new) hope, the promise
that lingers on the transgressions
of a new generation's belief
In politics and not the politics of color
Or (the) color of an American citizen
Change? Yes we can

Because…

America is Not me
As it currently stands, until
we no longer minimize the values
of our fellow American citizens.
Whose burdens are entangled
In the same star spangled banner
that we all pledge allegiance too.

For…

America is Me, America is NOT Me
Her thorns, ever so prickly, as I peel off the,
She love me, she loves me not petals
from America’s rose. The same rose
that once grew Tupac from concrete
yet gunned him down w/o justice
America is Me, America is NOT Me

America is Me, America is NOT Me

Jay Howard is back with some more seasonal love 2 as he covers Bryson Tiller's Canceled. Check out the lyrics below

Canceled (Bryson Tiller)

My heart in a desert ain’t looking for Savannah
I just know Miranda’s/where the feelings ain’t right still spread like propaganda/Question, answer/like if you got a man but I don’t wait for answers/believe in me dear I could be your Santa/Rudolph red bottoms oh you my lil prancer/Word to Tina Turner you could be My private dancer/if ya wanna go home- (with me) like Dorothy in Kansas/beating up the pussy Who's The Boss like Tony Danza/put your hands up and imma fuck you to this anthem/You got me out of line but could I put you in a stanza?/you caught me off the-rebound Enes Kanter/Knick we trail a blaze but all that Jazz getting canceled/A relationship I can’t do/Flaky love is dandruff/But Way that body fit girl, kid might throw a tantrum/body like some (poetry) still I rise Maya Angelou/

Bridge/Hook
Called and got no answer
Wrote this fuckin' anthem, alert you like it's amber (like amber)
Distress to my damsel
But she say I'm canceled


2nd Verse
You fucked- him 
and you didn’t tell me
Guess you think I’m Washington getting jelly 
Like Isaiah/player/still not a 
but I crush a lot/heart so big think her love
But love her not/if Wayne say, never put the pussy on a pedestal/But can I make it levitate/if you stay home be dinner date/we can get together clothes eliminate/the night is both our mistress- what the fuck we waiting for anyway/
 we know our shits maxed / I’m blowing your shit back/Fuck ya getting ya shit waxed 
You can leave the shit natural
Big Ass, Imma eat that pussy from the back do
Big Ass, I can see it coming from the front do
Body seri but the way keep it casual
Ya Booty in my palm but ya more than more handful
damn, dsitress to my damsel 
But I could never I can’t put my mistress on mantel

Still Canceled

J-Charmz of GRK takes on some Dreamville Freestyles dropping heat on Under The Sun & Sacrifices.

Dreamville Freestyles

Jay Howard is back to end black history month sampling the inequalities of the world and the struggle of being black in America.

Listen as Jay takes aim at Kendrick Lamar’s Sherane aka Master Splinter’s Daughter

Black Man Down (Sherane Freestyle)

Digging in the crates of unreleased music. 

Jay Howard Shares Wade Wilson a project for The Poet Will Not Be Televised Red #ColorChallenge

A Dale Novella Beat

Wade Wilson

As we get ready for Seasonal Love III releasing later this summer Jay Howard takes on some more beats to process love in its many seasons, first up, The Blame Season with an adaptation of Detroit's  Big Sean All Your Fault.