Psycho!
I am one that can be described as a true hip-hop head. I love underground hip-hop music and independent artists because I feel that they have more of a focus on lyricism. So with that said, I have recently found a new music group to watch in 2010 and it’s Gallery Drive coming straight from the West Coast. This is their recent single and the topic of this blog…check out the video before you continue:
The word psycho makes me think of two different categories, the first one is someone who is weird and I say that has it’s own category by itself because that means that you are not like everyone else. In other words the things that the world is doing, we as Christ followers are not doing that. Proverbs 14:12 says “There is a way that seems right to a man,
but in the end it leads to death,” so to be honest I don’t plan on compromising anything I believe in to please anybody because in the words of the great Bible-scholar, DJ Khaled, “I don’t care what nobody say, IMA BE ME (BE ME)” and if that makes me weird then so be it.
The other word that I think of is the word, freak, and whenever I think of that, the thought of something just being off the charts comes to mind. For instance, expressions like: crazy good, sneaker freak, insanely delicious would fall into this category. Essentially, it’s like saying to do too much or have too much of one thing that people find that strange.
The lyrics in the chorus start by saying: “Yo I’m psycho, verses that you heard this is psycho, Gallery Drive got the right flow…” as if they’re saying that yes, we have God in our lyrics so some people may say that these lyrics are psycho. In fact, I feel that this song has a similar theme to that of the DC Talk throwback, Jesus Freak.
So I say all of that to say this, 2010 is coming up and I plan to raise my level of passion in everything from my play on the basketball court to my daily walk in faith as well, in ways that could rub some people the wrong way and just for the record, I’m ok with that (my intention is not to offend ANYBODY for sheer blatent ignorance.) However, I know exactly who I’m living for and what fuels me so at this point allow me to quote Gallery Drive and say “TELL ME I’M A PSYCHO!”
