Advice to the Youth - Twista Trip Feat. LaLa Brown

So, I performed my S.O.R. rap today. It was a contemporisation of the Biblical story 'Advice to a Young Man' in Ecclesiastes 11:8-12:9.

Here are the lyrics:

Uh, that’s right,
Twista Trip here with Miss LaLa Brown,
Take it away LaLa,

Apathetic on the sidelines we’re Generation Y,
Not caring about change and too messed up to try,
Gossiping about celebs when they join the Mile High,
‘Steada enjoying our lives, we try to look fly,

We feel so entitled but we’re still unhappy,
No one takes the time to sit and think and just be,
Texting friends and chatting with a computer screen,
With our office jobs and our friends on T.V.,

Looking at the world, we always flowing the hate,
No one now can see that our lives are pretty great,
We spend our time scrutinising LiLo’s best mate,
‘Steada chilling with homies before it’s too late,

Chorus x 2
While you’re young, you gotta help when you can do,
Don’t waste time thinking about Britney’s new tan fool,
You don’t wanna die and wanna do it again cool,
Love every moment has gotta be your new life’s rule,

Gotta stop starving, ‘steada Celebrity Slim,
Or spending 20 hundred on flashy new rims,
Can’t stop global warming without changing a thing,
When you got apathy and hate, nobody wins,

Get outta your cubicle and into the world,
Take a walk in the park, maybe meet a new girl,
Why don’t you seize the day, go on, give it a whirl,
Live every second and rejoice in them all,

[Singer Insert]
Live your life the way God asked you,
Respect all men, don’t matter who,
Lives are short, there’s lots to get through,
You’ve really got nothing to lose,

Why don’t you banish anxiety from your mind,
Leave all of your old regrets behind,
Know for all your actions, you’re gonna be repaid in kind,
Think of the love and happiness that you will find,

If all you believe in the Lord put your hands up,
You eat the bread and drink the wine from the cup,
Follow the ways of God, give him his due worship,
At the gates of Heaven, God’s gonna ask wassup?

Chorus x 2
While you’re young, you gotta help when you can do,
Don’t waste time thinking about Britney’s new tan fool,
You don’t wanna die and wanna do it again cool,
Love every moment has gotta be your new life’s rule

That’s right

I think it went okay. People applauded after I did it and I had several people come up to me afterwards and tell me that my oral was really good. Fingers crossed, it went well.

xoxo,
Megan

P.S. I went online to a rapper name generator and my male rapper name was Twista Trip and my female rapper name was LaLa Brown haha, that's where I got them from :P

Kg's to Goal: Undefined
Guitar Hero Plays this Year: 32
Mental Slaps Today: 9

EPIC FAIL

I just completely forgot to post yesterday. Like, it did not even cross my mind. Oopsie, I'll post twice today though, to make up for it haha :)

My formal is actually on the second of May, so it will miss BEDA!! I'm still going to be posting though, because I didn't start BEDA until like the fifteenth of April. I will post lots of pictures though hehe.

I actually just spent like the ENTIRE weekend writing, recording and editing my S.O.R. assignment. I didn't do any of my homework or anything haha. I still haven't done it tonight but that's because I'm lazy.

Um, nothing particularly exciting happened today, so I am going to end this post here. Check out my other post today! :P

xoxo,
Megan

Kg's to Goal: I still don't know *facepalm*
Guitar Hero Plays this Year: 32
Mental Slaps Today: 9

Epic Fail

I completely fail at life. I missed the beginning week of BEDA and, for some reason, decided that Maureen Johnson would have a personal vendetta against me beginning it a week late. I then decided to wait another week before discovering that people were, in fact, allowed to join this late. *facekeyboard*

As has already been hinted, I am going to begin BEDA now. I might (no, I *will*) blog every day until the fifteenth of May, to make up for my notsome-ness. I have exciting things coming up in May (my birthday, my formal [prom]) so it could make for interesting reading. I've also signed up for a BEDA buddy, 'cause I'm cool like that.

This is going to have to be a fairly short blog post because I have to go and get ready for work in about eight minutes. I spent the majority of today googling 'how to compose a rap'. I am a bit astonished by how this came to be, to be honest. In my Study of Religion class, we have an assignment to 'contemporise a Bible story', right? Well...me, being the beacon of inherent wit that I am, decided to tell my teacher that I was going to do a rap as a joke. I did not expect to hear, "Oh, what a wonderful idea! That's so clever! I'm really looking forward to this!"

I was like, "Oh...sh-ivers." When I tried to tell her that it was a joke she said, "nonsense, it's a brilliant idea" and with a hidden menace in her voice added, "and you'll do it!" In my head I was saying, "Ooookay, back away slowly, lady." But anyway, now I have been roped into doing a rap when I am the least gangsta person you're likely to meet. Hence my rather nerdy approach of reasearching just how one makes a good rap.

I'm doing the passage 'Advice to a Young Man' if anyone's interested. It basically goes, "Enjoy your life while you're young. Do what you want but remember that Big Brother (I mean, God), is watching, always watching. But be happy while you're young because one day you will be old and your life will suck and you'll have weak and withered bones and you'll be useless and miserable etc. etc."

Help??

My friend is doing the story "David's Adultery with Bathsheba". She's going to do a soap *opera*. As in, not only will it be a complete take-off of Bold and the Beautiful but there will be singing...opera singing. It will basically be like business mogul sleeps with secretary (shocker) but she's already married so he arranges to have her husband killed. He marries her because she is pregnant, however, as punishment for his wrongdoing, the baby dies. Guess who your lovely Bathsheba is? Moi. Luckily, my friend is going to sing both David and Bathsheba's parts and I just have to mouth it. We're filming that tomorrow, so I'll let you know how it goes.

It's two minutes past when I said I had to go, so I'll leave it there.

xoxo,
Megan