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Ridik Emcee-Stand Tall
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Anything you are passionate about. Anything you set out to do in your life. Do it with pride and dignity. Follow your heart and let those who oppose you struggle with your decisions, not you. Stand tall and stand proud.
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Hip Hop, Blues, Rock and soul vocals laced with graphic, candid, over the top subjects, technical lyricism and crunching melodies.
Oregonian pioneer based in the UK with whiskey on my breath and rhymes in my head. I blend Hip Hop, Blues, Soul, and Rock vocal styles over many genres of music, doing most of the production myself from start to finish. Most of my beats are composed and built from scratch, although I do enjoy using other people's work. I rap about many topics, whatever inspires me, but a lot of the time I focus on politics, life's hardships, and personal issues. The "Ridik" in Ridik Emcee is a play on ridicule. I'm the class clown and basically look at music through the lens of a satirist. I take the villainous and evil and make it minuscule. I take the piss out of life's struggles as a way of getting through them and laughing things off. My hope is that through my music I will help some people be happy and get through hard times. I am candid and over the top, and at times deliberately shocking. I am the kind of man that grows a five o clock shadow by twelve. I am obnoxious and loutish, thick headed and vulgar. I swear, drink, and shout at people in the pub. I often say the one thing that everyone is thinking but too ashamed to say, and I have no shame. I have a beer belly and tired, wrinkled eyes from years of smiling and having a good time. I have ADHD and a tic disorder which makes me scratch my hands at times until they bleed. I was ridiculed in youth and rejected by most. I was the poor kid in the rich town that lived by the train tracks and walked alone to and from school. I have had a hard life, but not as hard as many. We all go through it and we all struggle and that is why music and comedy, as well as uplifting words are sometimes needed. That's what I go for every time. Please enjoy my music, and moreover, please send me money for it so I can buy Gin and Bourbon.
Song Info
Charts
Peak #115
Peak in subgenre #61
Author
Ridik Emcee
Rights
2019
Uploaded
March 16, 2019
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MP3
MP3 4.8 MB 160 kbps 4:11
Story behind the song
A blues and hip hop mash up I dreamt up when I was sitting at work and heard some old Rolling Stones track come on from outside on a summer day. I thought about how any job I do, any song I make, and anything I sign my name to has meaning to me. I felt like pride was an important thing. More so than I had before. I realised that my ambitions are more than hobbies or dreams. They are part of who I am. They are my passions and started jotting the lyrics down then and there.
Lyrics
© Stephan Anthony Harris 2019, All Rights Reserved. Stand Tall: Intro Brothers and Sisters- Verse 1 They tell me not to rap-a bible length testament my comeback-won’t follow suit like funeral hats. The lone wolf and sheep, they could never relate. Both follow sheep, yo, the wolf never graze. Rocking like its opposite day, in the third grade, contradict every policy like contras invade. Do me, like wanking off constantly face, fairer facts, I'm phallic, lay back, embrace. A dickhead- on stakeout’s when vegans speak out Like OJ- juice on the loose, I am no slave. Slay crowds, Jim Jones villain-Jim crow killer One bold kid, one stoned Ridik. Flip the script, leave em twitching like a stripper hit with Novichoke, kid its over. Ridik told ya. I never hold a grudge though, mans all come together, a pillar of power that stand tall. Chorus Stand Tall- Anything I want to achieve. Believe it so It can be. Stand tall stand tall. Anything that I can perceive, Keep it in my sights, aint no stopping me. I got my head in the clouds I stand tall I aint gon ever come down, I stand tall Got my head in the clouds I stand tall making leaps and bounds. Verse 2 And have you ever been told? Your dream was a hobby, by those you keep close... Have you ever been sold, the dreams of another and watched em unfold? You are here now, your worth, lets be clear, how it works, you appeared out of near nought A birth, Wow- Now you peer out, hear out at clear sounds, fear nothing, cheer out for the here now. We are blessed, our very mechanism for breath, the greatest treasure weight for measure we are compressed. Within the fabric of the galaxy, Masterful, a masterpiece literally celestial magic, all fantastic beasts. Put your fists up and roar! First in the mirror, then out the front door. Take charge now, ball out till you fall out, Show em how you ball, on this hate trodden ball. Chorus-variation Stand Tall- If you wanna achieve. Believe it, so It will be. Stand tall stand tall. Anything that you can perceive, keep it in your sights, be stubborn like me.. I got my head in the clouds I stand tall I aint gon ever come down, I stand tall got my head in the clouds I stand tall making leaps and bounds. Bridge: Stand tall, taller than trees. Billowing free in the summer breeze. Stand tall, Pick up ya feet. Snakes in the grass, coming round to feast. stand tall, stand proud, stand up, stand for love, make the haters back up. Stand tall, stand proud, stand up shut that punk ass down. Hums/Break-4 Bars Check the ridi rhythm baby! Ridik emcee Yeah. Stand tall stand tall. Enable yourself, enable someone else while you can uh. Walk with me. Verse 3 My youth was a testament to gods will, my jaw cracked, it still clicks, I was apt for the raw deal. He was Working in mysterious ways, When I prayed upon high? Rain from dark skies Acidic tears not cried, a pisstake. Called a mistake, waved my daddy goodbye. Dissed by the rich kids, my split lip stitched no one there to teach me how to resist, but I still fought back, fight for the glory of The fight to the death, fight for my story Till my epitaph etched, out in memoriam, My very last breath, my very last protest. I'm here to let em know they didn't win, I still stand tall , human statue my grin withstands all. Pigeons pecking at this eagle laughed off. Skin like a croc, Mick Dundee is soft. From the empire state, to the shard. Brush Shoulders with god, crush boulders in palms. Obelisk an ogre rock, Clubs not your local its, A rock, heads roll when its tossed, Mountains knocked over If anybody tries to bring you down, It should be clear that they fear you, the reason they jeer you. It nothing to adhere too, pay em no mind, pay no respect, never pay em no time. Time is money, life is for the living and all who stand tall, speak out in love, and sing songs. Time is money, life is for the living and all who stand tall, beating their chests like King Kong.
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