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Saba uses the opening track to his debut album Bucket List Project to demonstrate his rhyming prowess. The fast-rapped opening verse is packed with assonance and consonance; additionally, nearly every word or phrase within the rhyme scheme uses exactly 3 syllables and dactyl meter.
“Turn a obstacle...
[Verse]
Turn a obstacle obsolete, turn a cheek, poverty
Heritage, cotton seed, I could be lotta things
Lottery winner, this album autobiography
I feel like Socrates, hypothesis: opposites attract
Squares around the block again
Turn a obstacle obsolete
I believe I can fly, "R Kelly," awkwardly
Ain't really popular, prolly 'cause they all doubted
But I was up while they slept
While they said I wouldn't amount to much, I was hit
I knew that if I ain’t older, I
Turn a obstacle obsolete
Up the street where they bang, I ain't hang
Out the jam, wop da bam
I'll pretend all our friends still alive
Still apply for the fall, cap and gown, for the fail
Furthermore, first of all, curtain call, shirt and tie
I'm a pallbearer, turn a obstacle course to a parquet
Weigh out a horse in a carriage, that wasn't in your inheritance
Splittin' parts as we jumpin' off of the porch again
Portuguese, we don't speak shit but poetry, hopelessly hope
The Lord'll see when our dreams get torn apart
On the tar, left the kid, on your mark
Joan of Arc, genocide, second time, Noah's Ark
Now you're dead, no one saw
[Chorus]
When I'm dead, and I'm gone
Would you smile 'cause you know
Where I've been and gone?
When you're dead and you're gone
Would I smile 'cause I know where you've been?
When I'm dead, and I'm gone
Would you smile 'cause you know
Where I've been, and gone?
When you're dead, and you're gone
Would I smile?
[Outro: Will Fountain]
My name's Will Fountain
Three things off my bucket list:
One, I wanna have a meal from In-N-Out, 'cause I live nowhere near one
Two, I wanna go one on one against D. Rose
And three, I wanna f**k Kylie Jenner
In Loving Memory was written by Saba.
Saba released In Loving Memory on Thu Oct 27 2016.