Peace! 7/1/09 or Gods Knowledgeable Cipher Born (Funny the Math never Lies)

My pen name, as well as righteous name is Lifewhyz. I’m 23 degrees in this cypher. I’ve been writing since I can remember. Whether it was my name on walls, or poems and stories about the shit I was going through, I wrote.

I bounced around the commonewealth of Mass with a lot of family from Lynn to Chicopee to Springfield to Gloucester to Boston. A large portion was wpent at my Nana’s small trailer where everybody got away from their legal troubles, got some food and a guaranteed refuge from any pigs. However, it wasn’t a household where everybody exactly accepted Hip-Hop or the culture that surrounded it.

Needless to say I was unwittingly raised in a savagery that was likely never even aware of itself. Yet, I got nothing but love and respect for my fam. They all meant well, but they were tricked, lied to, mis-educated and deceived by the same powers attempting to soil us and our seeds. But the endless lessons they did teach me have held me strong in and out of this matrix for years.

Anyway, I remember hiding in the back of the crib with Naughty By Nature, Eazy-E and Onyx tapes. I remember memorizing a million lyrics and rewriting classics, (back into garbage I’m sure) but I’ll never forget when I started to lay my own lyrics down when I was about 11.

I sucked.

From about 12 to 17 I bounced in and out of D.Y.S. for a variety of violent crimes and I eventually found myself doing my first County bid at 17 for an Attempted Murder for stabbing a kid over a petty fight I never should have been involved in. But I never stopped writing when I was locked up or during the seldom times I was out on the streets. Only, all the writing now was strictly Rap Lyrics. No more stories, and very little poems. I really don’t think I ever stopped writing except for when I was in police custody and that’s no pun intended. I told you I was taught valuable lessons…

Now, quickly as I filled notebooks, it was and still is an endless journey to becoming as artistic and as skillful as I can be at any moment, today or tomorrow. (Then again there is, was and only ever will be The Now.)

But anyway, I knew my talent, calling, gift or whatever you choose to call it in life was with my power in Words. But I never really figured i was gonna rap. Up until the age of about 21 I hadn’t spent much time seriously recording anything, let alone getting an album and a buzz out there.

But I got locked up again in January of 2007 for an A+B with a dangerous weapon, a probation violation and a few other minor charges and was sentenced to 2 years County. It might have saved my life.

I found Knowledge of Self dealing with the true nature and history of Man. I learned the secrets of the Gods which are the the self-evident truths which apply to all men in the pure essence. But, most of all I was made aware of the misalignment with reality that we sometimes very well choose to exist in, however I due to knowledge the vast majority have been rendered dumb, deaf and blind to universal truth.

It wasn’t long after that when I realized I needed to re-evaluate everything I ever intended to do with my life regarding my raps. Would they become music or a half-time hobby in an old shoe-box. By this time, I had already crafted my art so much I definitely no longer resembled the mainstream formula, but I still wasn’t on my square at 100%. I still wasn’t saying what I needed to. I still wasn’t recording.)

Then over a year and a half later I was released..

In a short span of time, I managed to discipline myself to make this happen. I’ve hastily put together The American Dream Demo Tape, but that will be my last shortcoming in that respect. The Megapoetic CD is on the way, and I’m just starting.

My first born seed is on the way, and I’m blessed to have the Queen I do. I’ve learned the survival of my family depends strictly on what we do and do not know in this Universe.

I know that Love, through Hell or Righteousness combined with Freedom, Justice and Equality will spread peace among the civilized, and any devil which stands in the way of that will either be sought out and taught the error of his ways he will surely die in his lack culture and self-refinement.

Needless to say I think this is where my our journeys part ways till the next time we connect. Then again, He is I and I am Him.

All this and more i out into my words. I hope you can feel me. If not, I still wish nothing but Peace upon you and yours. But, I BEG you to wake up the sleeping masses. Our babies depend on us.

-Lifewhyz