The Muruku Murmurations

In November 2019, I had the opportunity to participate in BALOH! with the Urbanscapes Festival at Kwai Chai Hong in the heart of Kula Lumpur where my dad used to grew up. I went head to head with MC Stiff in a poetry debate. Topic:  College VS Life Foundation Would you rather be thrown into the deep end? Have the risk of drowning or learning how to swim Would you trust a lifeguard without training A doctor with no paper Would you trust a lacky with subjective truth? Or a professor, mentor and teacher Higher learning is the higher ground Having a foundation that you can depend on. Test of Life You have to understand, Quantification of your qualification Comes from structured education Having consistency in efficacy Pre-testing in safe zones Trumps trial and error in a real fire Pressures of well designs simulations Instead of free reign experimentations Guidance My cikgu says to learn how to do it right the first time My mother says that experience is gathered over time My sensei ...

For my third lesson with Kudos, he got me working with flow. I learned how to identify the pattern of the flow, break it down to the syllables and then trying to write my own rap to utilise that flow. After writing, you realise very quickly what works and what doesn't in respects to the flow of your tongue, the types of sound transitions and also what your mouth can and cannot do. You are looking back / Everything is turning to whack What you have has now been hijacked / without time for you to react You are left with a small backpack / Heart beat steady like a boom bap Seconds later panic attacks / Breathing breaks that is not intact Acid in your tract / Heart racing mad down a speed trap Brain and body losing contact / Chaos rising, fading to black. - Swit Marie 1430H 1st November 2018 Kudos Crib

Kudos continuing his education on writing raps. This assignment was on rhyme schemes.  Working with the ABBA scheme and working it on to the same Pete Rock beat. Welcome back you legend, I will be working more on raps with ya! Look at your pact / back at what you did / Where you fit / up in the stack / In the rack / in your kit / I the beat / in the week / In the pit / of what you pack / Don't you talk smack / save yourself some wit / Or have a broom stick / to whack your back / And now you retract / pick up that bit / Leave tat for tit / you gotta talk with tact / Where you lack / there is where you sit / In the grit / of the ship where you shuffle your deck / It's a shipwreck / in this skit / When a kid wins the bid / and takes away your snack / Crazy little Jack / Found a trick / To kick Morty' s Rick / in the sack / Tell me who the heck / would benefit / Of this sick / kinda gag But in fact / we all pick / and react /at the weak / Like we ar...

After writing a multi, Kudos got me to write 16 bars using Pete Rock's Smooth Sailing beat. We were talking about how we are really grumpy people when we are sick and I tried writing about it. It's okay to be a sick grumpy boy It's a frumpy ploy in a way It's a new day for you to be coy Drinking latte soy from an empty tray Don't be gray like Ruski Tolstoy Be a legendary Geroi (hero) this very day All you wanna say with happy joy Is that you're a free boy and you're a okay Go away with the hay fever can't stay coz it's not the month of May Go out and play, tossing frisbee ahoy Not pirated toys for Saturday In bed you stay feeding hungry Koi Sickboi ready to annoy Instagram today But it's okay to be sick grumpy boy Because I enjoy to love you anyway. - Swit Marie 6th October 2018 TTDI

I was challenge by my buddy Kudos to write a multi which is a rhyme scheme where you rhyme multiple syllables repeatedly in the bars. I tried my best but there is definitely no flow for it right now. I will pick this back up again in future and try to make it rap-able. Hi there Mr. Nice Guy I heard your dream is to get televised and diversify Revise how you classify what you feel inside with diligence Every effort you apply suffice and disqualify all the doubts that occupy your confidence You spend your days wrapping your head around raps with intelligence Keep trying with endurance till it becomes a concise paradise to edify and glorify Masterpieces that testify qualifies you access to be a certified legendary alumni. A little story about you and I I spy on you like an agent of the FBI My My My My minds full of landmine Is my current favourite lullaby on Spotify Enticing vape flavours from your device splice through my alveoli When you beat me at pool I yell out Sohai And your reply...