Kj52 – We Rock The Mic

Verse One:

Yo it’s the K to the J, what, J to the five, who

five to the two, it’s time to get live

party people in the house if you’re feeling all right

throw your hands in the air wave them side to side

you can dip dip dive you can socialize

you can lime to the lemon, you can lemon to the lime

but nine years ago a friend of mine

hit me up and just to ask the time

I’m looking at my watch it said a quarter to twelve, ok

he shook his head, he had something to tell, what

he said “Check it my brother now it’s plain to see

I’m gonna make it plain just as plain can be”

’cause you here and you there

but a life without Christ ain’t going nowhere

and I was just like you I was jamming on it

then he sang a little song a little something like this hit it…

Chorus x 2

We rock the mic in a different way

just two turntables and a fresh DJ

party people in the house are you feeling OK

then let the record play all night all day

Verse Two:

Stop a second I need to hear more

he said “I came through the door and I said it before”

but you didn’t listen to me this first time

so open your mind and let me open your eyes

’cause the blind lead the blind can’t you see that my brother

it’s like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder

you going under and you blind to the facts

it ain’t where you from and it ain’t where you at

it ain’t the radio, Cazals or Kangol hat

now you be illin’ and it’s like that

your life’s wack just broken pieces

you got Adidas but you ain’t got Jesus

and a hotel, a motel or a holiday inn

now it don’t mean nothing ’cause your life keeps fronting

and you still lost in sin

I said a hotel, a motel, or a holiday inn

now it don’t mean nothing ’cause your life keeps fronting

and you still lost in sin help me say it like…

Chorus x 4

Verse Three:

It ain’t no joke coz your life’s broke

now I’m glad that we spoke coz pretty soon you’ll choke

and everything you see is going up in smoke

so what’s the hope, you gonna sink or float

so one day you’ll croak and one thing I’ll tell you

you gonna rock the bells all the way to the hell

and all the ballers
shot collars making paper

all the play as you gonna catch vapas

lodi dodi, who likes to party, I do

you think you are the man but you really ain’t nobody, what

there was the man who was led to the slaughter

rose and made the planet rock like bambada

the one who molds the clay, just like the potter

the one who spits the spirits, Son and the Father

the one who devides lands, sea and water

God’s son, we welcome back like Carter

Chorus x 4

这是KJ52的一首歌，我将要在公司歌唱比赛上表演。

在国内这种类型的音乐统统被叫做说唱，饶舌或者嬉哈，英文是Rap或Hiphop。你也许会奇怪我怎么突然会去表演这种东西。

前两个月俺们部门来了一个ABC，确切的说应该是ABH(American Born Hongkonese:)，比我大不了几岁，之前在GM北美工作,现在来国内发展。非常干净非常可爱的小伙子，而且available，应该是男人女人都爱的那种:P，(OK，不开玩笑，他喜欢女孩子，如果你想和他交往可以联系我:)。和他聊到音乐的时候，他说他最喜欢Christian(大概是因为他信基督吧)，然后是R&B；其实这个和我是不擦的，因为我很久以来是完全欧化，不怎么听美国的东西，Christian在我印象里面就是完全的唱诗班音乐，顶多就像Whoopi Goldberg的那班一样，而R&B自己觉得不错，还凑或听过一些。

前几天，我们公司艺术节歌唱比赛开始报名了，King突然神神秘秘的问我愿不愿意表演一个特别的节目，还要让我保密，接着他塞给我一张CD，让我回家去听里面的第7首。然后我就听到了上面这首We Rock The Mic，一首标准的说唱。如果是之前一天让我表演说唱，而且还是用英文，我肯定不答应，因为我从来就没有听懂过哪怕一首歌；不过既然有一位美国人邀请我和他合作说唱，表演风险就大大下降了，我也不会拒绝咯。

第一次到king家里排练，算是见识了他的专业水准，全套的DJ器材，一共能塞满四个皮箱，可以随时带到一个场地上插电演出。king把所有器材堆在桌子上，线材密密麻麻的到处蔓延；他插上电，从一个大CD箱里面挑出CD(注意：这里面的几百张CD都是Z版的哦)，操起mic，俨然就是一个标准DJ的模样。我也被训练如何像一个真正的hiphopper那样拿Mic，做手势，舞动身体。

当你深入了解到包括hiphop,christian,R&B等等的典型美国音乐种类的时候，他们之间本来看似明晰的界限就逐渐混沌起来，这些音乐类型都是在时代演进中，互相影响又互相交融，产生了各种不同的很边缘的音乐形式，这个也可以叫做fusion吧。就拿christian来说，它应该是属于Gospel音乐的类型，但是现在的这种古老的福音歌曲早就被送入博物馆了，现在的基督音乐又称为CCM（Contemporary Christian Music），旗下分支如：Christian Metal，Christian Rap，Alternative CCM，Latin CCM等等，按照我的理解应该是宗教的歌词套上了不同种类的音乐的外衣。那么也许KJ52和Eminem会用同一个节奏和采样来演绎一首内容完全天壤的歌曲，在中国人听来那就是一首歌，虽然他们分别是Christian Rap和Gangsta Rap，分别高喊Jesus和F**k。

King说他希望在公司里面表演一首关于神(God)的歌曲，诚如他所言，如果你细看这首歌的歌词，你会发现他在循循善诱的劝导你改邪归正，浪子回头，来到基督的怀抱。问题是在国内，提到Rap，你会联想到的就是Eminem或者MC Hotdog，联想到的是发泄和逞口舌之快。一首歌无法改变一切，因为基本上没什么人能听懂我们在唱什么，所以我们的表演存在很大的被误读的可能性。当然这一切King不知道，也许也无法理解，他很沉浸在自己的表演里面。但无论如何，呈现的意义远大于可能被误读的风险，所以当我知道我在做什么的时候，我不会放弃或者试图改变原始的状态。

其实最困难的并非我上面提到的那些问题，或者将要遇到的什么麻烦；现在我的最大挑战就是如何能跟上king的节奏把这么大段的英文用比中文绕口令还快的速度念出来。