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once when i was fifteen i was at my friend carlos's house with all these older mc type dudes who had rhyme books. rhyme! books! i wasn't really in awe of them but they had better clothes and impress-me brithop attitudes which i found very intimidating! there was probably a couple of hours of dourly boring weedtalk before we all bonded spitting "brooklyn zoo" at each other, gunclapping at the "ch-ch bloaw!" parts, authentically stutter-wobbling our voices for "my hip hop drops on your head like ra-a-ain". i still can't think of a song which better communicates love of rap language, or convinces me more that there is a valuable and important understanding between worldwide rap dudes.