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Johannes Rebane and Die-Verse — Lightning Strike feat. Snow Patrol
This one goes out to all my millennium peeps. This past September I attended an unforgettable conference in Markham, Ontario as a part of the Canadian Millennium Scholarships program. The people I met at the conference were such an incredible inspiration to pursue my creative side more and to be comfortable doing and loving that. After a number of years of solitary confinement in the rigid definition of the “pursuit of success”, it was amazing to be at a conference where everyone was just so passionate about life, finding out one’s true path, and helping each other do the same.
Notable memories include beatboxing and freestyle rapping with brand new friends until 3 AM and wandering around hip-hop serenading random people around downtown Toronto during Nuit-Blanche (hearts out to M-Crew!).
In any case, how this song relates to this experience is that during one of the sessions, we had a group of young slam poets from an organization called Slam High come out perform some of their work. Needless to say all the performers were truly awesome and, inspired, I hung out with them and practiced beats and poeticizing with them over the next few days. One of the performers was a poet/rapper from Rochester, NY by the name of Elliott Powless (stage name Die-verse), and before the conference ended, I told him about some beats I was putting together, and he said that he’d be interested in trying to rap over some of them.
To make the rest of this short, this is the end result of one of those beat/poetry collaborations. The main sample used in the beat is the beginning piano riff from Snow Patrol’s “The Lightning Strike”, but the rest is original.
And this sample was chosen after having a friend forcing me to freestyle over random Snow Patrol songs in his car over a period of about a month. Oh, the wonderful things friends are =).
