With some advice from a Virtual Headteacher and In the advent of releasing new music very soon, I have been inspired to rap genius my solo project (2013) which started this music journey.
Each day I will be going deeper into the influence of each track to help other young people reflect on their journey.
Lyrics:
(At Waterloo station SFX)
A new place to lace my future, traveling on the train of thought, can I move ya.
I contemplated on the concept
bearing all of myself, naked to the content,
But the truth will be told, this adaptation of a kid who lived in a foster home, home
From soul to soul, I’m trying to connect like a magnet to a pole
A new journey - London to the coast
A new family - how well will they handle me
Is this only temporary,
is this place gona make the bad me a better me, I don’t know
I’m just doing what my mum request
Hope my life is bless
Hope, I can settle in the tree of my new nest,
Yet, fly and be free
whatever that means, I’m just tryna find me
I’m just tryna find me
I’m just tryna find me
If you asked me how I feel I would say I’m okay
Didnt wanna leave what I know but my mum I obey
She said it had to be this way don't worry its just a phase
there’s been a bit of trouble, I just need to get straight
She was vague but not being a brave kid
I wouldn’t do a Q & A
I know that she would slap me and put me in my place
Now I’m leaving hackney with my little suitcase
Destination Bournemouth, boarding a Waterloo train
Watching my reflection, in the glass
I know this is not a game, watching the city fly past
I know I’m heading for change
This place seems to be along way a way
I wonder if I will see my friends again? No pain
I never had many, my main friends
was my shadow and my mothers tele
A recluse that was told to read books
but never did it because I’d rather draw pictures
and fantasies over a better living
The kid in-between two worlds tryna understand it
In the groove, theres a person
Sounds like his hurting, head wrapped up in thoughts like a turban
but music is the sunshine, so he opens up his curtain
lets the light in cause he knows that its worth it,
because he knows that his life is not worthless,
because he knows God gave him a purpose
So what he does, you know he’s got to murk it
We all have problems, its just how we exert it
Turn a negative into a positive thats how it circuits
because we all have the key its just how we turn it
so when we open doors things are never perfect
but with imagination change can surface
so he brings his fire to the furnace
some will get burnt but the truth is what he worships
so either flow with him or abandon ship
this is a story of a boy called Ric
(Arrival in Bournemouth SFX)
The Prologue is a retrospective journey about moving from London to Bournemouth.
First verse is about thoughts and hope
Second verse is how I felt at the time
Third verse is from third person perspective giving you my intention and purpose of the project.
Music Video was shot on my phone and I literally took the train journey to get the sound fx!
Another fun fact: Keep It Movin from Jungle Brown, my first bar is ‘a new place to lace my future…’ bridging the connection of Bournemouth/London and group music to solo music.