[Inside The Lines] – ‘What You Worth?’
It would be genius to say I thought of the parallel between this scene and rhyme before I wrote it, but honestly I’d be lying. That’s in a perfect world.
But this world ain’t perfect. Sit down and watch television with your children for an hour and you’ll see what I mean. But anyway, back to Bishop and Q’s dramatization of ‘What You Worth.’ This scene almost perfectly embodies the duality in man that I attempted to express in this freestyle. They both wanted respect. They both wanted Juice. But at what cost? Cost never matters if you don’t understand your value. Did Blitz know his value? Or how about old-man-Quiles-wit-his-bullshit-gun? Love it or hate it but we all respect violence because the visible results are instantaneous. The Destruction is obvious. But the flip side of the coin is that it takes time to Build, and people simply don’t appreciate appreciation. Read that last sentence twice. Read that last sentence twice…
Bishop was steady running his mouth about how their crew “ain’t shit” because everybody is constantly raising up on them. Raheem and Stillz even chuckled because they saw the truth in that. But Bishop ain’t respect Q’s heart. After all, Q ain’t want no piece of what Blitz literally had poppin at the bar just moments before. And for obvious reasons.
They wanna hear that murda, murda…how the wrong move got made, got dome split. BLAOW!!
But did that make Q a sucka? I mean, when it came down to it, he was the one who laid hands on Bishop first…and he knuckled up for more while Stillz momma’s fine china smashed to the floor. What does that say?
We all starving, before we eat the clique say grace…
Crew love is real like that. Brothers will bang heads at times, but that’s all a part of being your brother’s keeper. We have a duty to each other, as we are both descendants of something great, and proprietors of something even greater. In order to Build, you must Destroy first. Carter G. Woodson can explain that in a bit more detail if you’d like to take it to the further extent.
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