initially when i was first approached to do this contest i agreed to it pretty quickly.  in retrospect i think my gung ho-ness came out of insecurity. you know..like when you don't want someone to see how you might really feel about a certain sitch. Instead of showing vulnerablity in the moment a person might pretend to be unaffected, laugh matters off, or just react in a overly dramtic joyful way.   Point is, it took a while for me to understand what was really going on here! To overstand that there are amazing musicians all over the world in basements and studio shrines alike!. Which i think most people with record deals know but to stay true to a quote from A-plus of Souls of Mischeif "if you really dope why ain't you signed yet'? i think that line stuck with me over the years.  i must confess then that  i too have bought into the idea that only certain people matter musically- commercially?.  To some extent the cream will rise to the top. Nature is not exactly fair, and some people get dished out gifts in very large amounts.

i guess what i am trying to say from an ego perspective is. I am happy i did this. Mostly to observe the battle that occured inside me, which obviously came from seeing 'the music' as 'my music'.  Don't get me wrong, I do believe i am the channeler of these songs and ideas. However, for now- i see music as a LANGUAGE. A vocabulary that  people can take apart and re-asemble them to form sentances of their own, which is exactly what is happening here! HEY! Imagine the dude who first created the Alphabet? I doubt it was one dude..  ha ha.. but you understand where i am going with this ....right? i am sure there was a very specific purpose for the learly lexicon but i highly doubt they could have prophesied the metaphore..  and it the letters being put together like this;

"you fold like Japan fu tons of fan while i design a plan

to make a rapper step like a pedes trian'

- Black THought

So yeah..  this has been a life changing experienc and i thank everyone for expressing themselves

did peoplesteal my voice, sounds and spirit to concoct music of their own?
maybe?

but...

'Good artist plagiarize

Great artists steal'

khv.