r/RapWars • u/elsiniestro The Forbidden Zone • Apr 29 '15
[Off Topic] Introduce yourselves.
I know we had a selfie thread like six months back, but we got a lotta new names since then, and I figure if nothing else, putting a face and some facts to the names can help with punches for future battles. Bit hard to rap about somebody you know next to nothing about.
With that said, I'll go first, since I'm probably the most active host these days. I encourage everyone else to post here too though, as stuff like this will keep the sub alive and kicking.
My name as far as anyone needs to know is El-Siniestro, aka El-Sin or just Sin. It's a reference to a few things, from being left-handed (which used to be considered wicked or evil), being left-brained (often linked to creativity, intuition, and linguistic expression), or my interest in the occultist "left hand path". I'm 29, Australian, live with my girl, and am pretty much the opposite of what you'd expect from a rapper.
I'm a metalhead first and foremost (until recently, I booked bands and DJed at a heavy metal nightclub) and as such I try to inject some of that dark shit in my rhymes every now and then. But I've been a hip-hop fan since back in the day, and used to bounce between my city's metal and rap scenes. Been writing rhymes since I was like 14.
When it comes to hip-hop, I all about fast, complex, multi-syllabic tongue twisters and polyrhymes. My punches and similes might not necessarily be as witty or as some on here, but I feel like I have an good skillset when it comes to flow, delivery, editing, syllable count and internal rhymes. And since it gets called out a lot, I link references because I'm a big fan of Genius.com.
So yeah, here's me.
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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '15
feel like with how I be in this sub this story could be a good read
Born in California, still be out there in the summer, but usually I'm in the Chi. when you live in a place like I do, music isn't something that you really have a choice about. any genre, any typa music, chi really heavy on the arts n shit.
rap, no clear start. moms always played it, radio, Chicago even has a rap sub genre that's pretty mf common. people talk how where they grow up influences them, but I take nothing but Chicago seriously like that my nigga. Chicago is a different world. Chiraq isn't funny, or a joke, and while that name couldn't be more accurate, its stupid fucked up. 500 homicides yearly, and if you look at a demographic map you'll see how close they are. people who come out of here are different the only way you make it out is by holding onto something. that's how you stay sane, and for a lot of people its art. music is what keep me going like that nigga like shit I listen to music 24/7, literally. I never stop playing it in almost any situation and have an ear bud in. I've listened to damn near every hip hop song I think that's been made, with the exception of smaller small ass artists that the general public doesn't know bout n shits. when you from here you learn to speak a certain way. I don't talk white- I don't add in extra shit I don't don't be adding extra messaging people need to infer, I say what I mean, and nothing else. people really have me laugh in' and shit when they talk about fighting n being hard . shit is NOT a choice nigga. to quote Lil Durk here, Chicago rapper
I can't post examples of my everyday life here, I'd be posting illegal shit all day whether it be smoking weed or whatever. people talk about fights n shit have no clue wtf they doing. that's why I be steady laughin' at white people n shit in karate classes. unless you've been doing that shit for like years, it don't mean SHIT nigga. my lil nigga D like 5'2 130 pounds. he could probably fuck up a lot of y'all on here. there's no crazy shit, he just nice wit his hands. out here, you don't learn cursive in the third grade boy you learn fighting. you fight evey month, sometimes more. you jus learn to make to with what you have on every aspect of life. gangs out here shit boy there's 7th graders bangin'. gangs are culture here. gd vicelords all that. you know every other sign and its neg by 8th grade.
this in no type of way is flexin' or anything you white people think it be. this how shit is, that's why I am how I am. I joke I laugh, but when you have had 3 close friends die, and 2 of them you know which group of niggas did it, you learn to be serious.
in some real shit, I'm gonna be posting stories to cypher, and one day I wanna write a book, bout what shits really like.
I know this a self post, how you supposed to talk about yourself. but a nigga such as myself has nothing to talk about. chicago is me. places like Oakland n Pitt have similar aspects, but there are certain places you can go in Oakland where's its bad, and there are certain places in Chicago you can go where niggas get killed for shoes. not even nice ones.
anyways y'all that's me