Saved conversations with good friends: Part 3

your rhyme divides time, in rewind they're blind lines of divine signs confined to a lifetime to shine and where others whine yours all align.

17:57

That's a sweet rhyme, Rhyme master Dan

Did you just coin that little phrase, right here and now

18:00
sure did

18:02
freestylings what your made for man, why are you packing boxes again and again. I haven't seen a black man spit lyrics quicker than your lips like you’re sick with magnetic oil in your system

18:04
You just get slicker and slicker, even quicker than my sister whens she onto her liquor.

18:04
and Flippen her off wouldn't even matter then, When we get in the minivan we'll make orangutans sound like a electric toothbrush or a moth
Omgoodness, I just started writing and those words came to my head, should have fed my head, with a more eloquent thread. Mum said, that dirt wouldn't taste so good, and look where it's got me, I should have listened to her I should

18:11
If I show you the finger, let it linger, just enough to sting ya, do you think ya could fight back and hit me like whitney, her cocaine and a rolled up 50?

18:21
I'd slide to 85 when she made her first album, they say I'm from the same fountain, when they found me they were astounded. Sounds like I'd take your rhyme for a ride, but I'm a gracious sort... and for that I'll be glorified

You'll be found dead in the middle of little italy and little did we know you didn't you diddly SQUAT

18:26
Atleast it's not little Siccily, where you'll find your body rot

Saved conversations with good friends: Part 2

08:08Dylan

hey man, i really like your poem. I want to work with you a bit more on it tho, to make it easier to hear as spoken word poetry

08:10Andrew

retry?

08:11Dylan

yeah that one

08:11Andrew

cheers

08:12Dylan

hey whats your email?

is it still hotmail?

08:13Andrew

andrewmackereth@gmail.com

08:13Dylan

sweet

i knew you'd have a cooler email address by now. You should update it on facebook

08:14Andrew

oh true

08:15Dylan

sent you an email

08:15Andrew

cool man

remember to check out my blog

08:15Dylan

far out man, my whole internet visit is just for you!!!

08:17Andrew

haha

sorry i lost you for a second there because i was changing my settings

08:19Dylan

what how did you lose me?

did you go off line?

i didn't notice, i was T X T ing

08:20Andrew

apparently

cool bro

08:21Dylan

lol sorry man. Oh and I'm just reading your blog now so give me some time

08:22Andrew

okay man

08:35Dylan

okay just read it I will write a reply shortly. Does Megan read your blog? ANd can you txt that verse to me again, it didn't actually come through properly

09:00Andrew

sorry man just had a shower

i gave her the drawing i did last night with the address written down the bottom

09:01Dylan

oh man, i'm glad you apologised

haha smooth mate

09:01Andrew

yeah. i didn't tell anyone about my blog at first.

but i

now want people to read it

09:04Dylan

fully man, i put a comment on Jody

09:04Andrew

yeah i just read it

thanks bro

i told zac and jon about it

09:06Dylan

good man

09:08Andrew

yeah

it is more coherent when written down though

09:11Dylan

yeah true, but you could even print that out and read it aye

09:14Andrew

yeah i could do

might share it with the youth one week

09:15Dylan

that would be a good idea. I can tell it's very real to you as well, your not just putting it on to make some good literature.

You feel you focus on yourself far too much, and you're getting at that again in this... i don't know, it's just cool

09:16Andrew

it was important to me that it was written for maximum effect

but yeah it is me struggling with that same thing again and trying to articulate it

because it was a very challenging experience for me. and i wanted to preserve it.

i wanted other people to understand what i meant when they read it rather than just reading it and thinking it was another one of my 'cool stories'.

09:21Dylan

its sounds like you handled it quite well. Or atleast you didn't have much of a chance too, this girl sounds awesomely in your face

09:22Andrew

haha yeah that chance was taken away from me

09:22Dylan

very funny

09:23Andrew

i loved it. God was pretty insistent that i talk to her.

09:23Dylan

Hey, just a random question about last night... were able to read along with the rap well enough last night... like both of them

09:23Andrew

yeah it was up on the screen and fairly easy to read

it was cool

i'd quite like a copy of the lyrics

i tried writing some urban poetry before and failed

09:27Dylan

Well that's good to hear you could read it... cos Wade who was on the computer said it was hard, and he was the one changing the slides, and he'd never heard the song before.

And Matt Payne just txt me saying that he couldn't keep up with me lol

Yeah i'll get the lyrics out to you if you want... I'll have to find the copywrite thing on character maps :P

09:28Andrew

oh don't worry bro i'll take care of that.

i'd just twink it out if you put it on

09:30Dylan

haha how can you do that on the cyber copy... i actually won't send it to you now aye

09:30Andrew

that's fair.

09:31Dylan

na i'll send you all the stuff I have written down... not the first song i did last night.... I'll probs post that up on youtube instead.

oh actually i don't have my flashdisk with me right at the minute so I'll have to do that another time

09:32Andrew

you'll get like 2 billion hits and youtube will break down

09:32Dylan

yeah i really doubt that huh

but thanks for the false hoope

i can give you the words to shadows as well

09:34Andrew

awesome

mymusical taste is so far expanded from what it used to be

09:35Dylan

cha-HOO

09:35Andrew

i can listen to mr dyligence and to the devil wears prada in the same day

and enjoy both immensely

09:35Dylan

You know from when I spoke at church earlier this year, my view on hip-hop has changed SOOO much

lol you're crack up

09:36Andrew

thanks bro

how so? has your view changed?

for the better

i remember talking to you at the beginning of the year

09:41Dylan

Cos as you may know, i originally got hooked into hip hop in about 2007, and was listening to Flava and Mai like most of 2008 right. So when we went to Fiji, that's what i was into, and I was singing it with Jimmy over there. And I felt after the trip that I hadn't been a very good influence to Jimmy. I kind of assumed he would be at a good place with God, and that singing those songs, it was just like me... they don't mean much. But then you remember we had the convo with him about hot celebs and so on. I guess after listening to that stuff, it was like garbage in - garbage out. I listen to lyrics...

incredibly, so even tho i thought the music wasn't affecting me, it was.

09:45Dylan

Anyways, this year I overted back to Life FM, and I've left the secular hip-hop behind me. But when Phil introduced me to all these christian rap artists I saw a new side of it... a side of rap that could be uplifting, empowering and thought-provoking. And I guess that's why I've got to where I am, getting passionate about this music. Cos I still love the genre, I love to dance to a beat you know, but I also love our Lord, and the message of hope, grace and love that He gives. This is the best way I can express it at this point in my life!!

09:45Andrew

amen

i'm glad you've come to this point man

09:47Dylan

Me too.

I didn't think things were going badly with God 2008, but man I've grown alot since then aye

09:47Andrew

you've grown amazingly this year and it has been cool to see it

09:48Dylan

It hasn't all been uphill tho, I'm still as weak as ever, but you know I'm glad I have these songs and have them with me forever... because I'm sure they will remind me when i'm falling away to turn back to Jesus' face.

09:50Dylan

You've grown into a mighty river as well mate. It's crazy, I guess this is what happens when you leave school behind and you slowly meet the real world. You assume your position in life, you decide who you want to be

09:50Andrew

na of course it isn't all uphill

rivers don't flow uphill easily

you have to work at it

09:51Dylan

rivers don't flow uphill easily - andrew is clever

09:51Andrew

but your sons should help

songs bro

09:51Dylan

LOL, i was like WHAT??!!

bro I'm saving this convo, i hope that's alright

09:53Andrew

funny how much you grow when you realise you can't do it yourself

i think being brutally honest with people (and with God) about myself has helped a lot

getting me to do that is kinda like making a river flow uphill

it is against my natural inclination

but God's spirit flows uphill

09:56Andrew

i'm going to take and use that by the way

09:56Dylan

it's kind of like what Mark was talking about, those times when God speaks to you that you need to take a risk... when it goes against everything that you've been working to create for yourself.

Absolutely man, I'm glad i called you a river