by shadygeneral » Sep 4th, '08, 03:11
I tried to type what it said on the page from the book since its kinda blurry:
If you listen to the words to
"Rain Man," they don't make
any sense. "Rain Man" was the
first song I did when I went to
Orlando with Dre for Encore.
We went to Orlando so the
kids-Dre's and mine-would
have things to do because it
was summer vacation. We
used Lou Pearlman's studio,
which was funny because he
had been the king of all those
boy bands like Backstreet
Boys and 'N Sync. It had been
a few years since I made a
punch line using Chris Kirk-
patrick-I was removed from
all that-but will. When I got to Orlando, though, I was
feeling whipped. Some of my new songs for the record
had been leaked because my little brother had borrowed
my ex-Mrs.'s car recently. My CD had been in there,
and a whole pile of stuff ended up on the Internet, including
"Bully", "Love You More," and "We As Americans". I
had to start over,basically. So when I went to see Dre, I
didn't even have a concept.
I wrote the first things that
came to mind and ended up
writing seventeen songs. I
had one line in my head to
begin with, "You find me
offensive, I find you offensive."
That's all I had, and I
had no idea where it was
going to go from there. I
was in the booth. The song
was not making any sense
and I was like, "Rain Man". I
just said it in the booth. It
wasn't even written on the paper--"Rain Man".
The chorus goes, "I ain't got no legs, or no brain."
What I meant was, "This is the only thing I know how
to do." I have a terrible sense of direction. I get in the
car and I drive, I don't know, north, south, east, west. I
don't even know what direction I'm going. I don't know
how to get places. I'm absent-minded, always losing...(this is where it goes to the other half of the page)
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my keys, my driver's license. When I need to spend
time in New York, I would get off the subway and end
up ???? blocks in the wrong direction.
Another line in the song goes, " I don't know how
to put it, this is the
only thing that I'm good
at." That's what I meant by
the whole message of "Rain
Man"-rap is the only thing
I know how to do. Back
when rap was a dream
for me, it was all I had. Our
house was getting shot up
or robbed. I was getting
evicted. Kim and Hailie and
I must have moved at least
four times. What was I
going to do with my life?
Because I had nothing. I had nothing. Rap was the
only thing I was good at. It still is.
During the first album, in the studio with Dre, I
was like a sponge, learning the tricks of the trade. I
wanted just anything I could get out of Dre. "Dre, can
I have an old drum ?? that you don't use anymore?"
Just anything I could get from him. It took me a long time
for me to realize I was producing.
This is what it says in the caption next to the picture:
I've been told that I was the first person who put words
together that weren't supposed to rhyme. I flipped the way
I associated them. (I cant read the rest)
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shadygeneral on Oct 2nd, '08, 02:19, edited 5 times in total.
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