February 24th, 2017, we’d all finished our last exam and were ready to paaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar-taaaaaay.
Whoever picked the club we went to did a good job, because for the first two hours straight, nothing but good old early 2000s music was on.
Then, out of the blue, a piano starts playing. It sounds like a record played on an old gramophone. An electric guitar sets in.
Me and my roommate know what’s up.
In perfect sync, we launch into song like rockets, making a SpaceX event look like a kids’ birthday party firework:
Look…
If you had…one shot…or one opportunity…
To seize everything you ever wanted…in one moment…
Would you capture it…or just let it slip?
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Yo, his palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy
There’s vomit on his sweater already: Mom’s spaghetti
He’s nervous, but on the surface he looks calm and ready
To drop bombs, but he keeps on forgetting
What he wrote down, the whole crowd goes so loud
He opens his mouth, but the words won’t come out
He’s choking, how? Everybody’s joking now
The clock’s run out, time’s up, over—blaow!Snap back to reality, oh, there goes gravity, oh
There goes Rabbit, he choked, he’s so mad, but he won’t
Give up that easy, no, he won’t have it, he knows
His whole back’s to these ropes, it don’t matter, he’s dope
He knows that, but he’s broke, he’s so stagnant, he knows
When he goes back to this mobile home, that’s when it’s
Back to the lab again, yo! This whole rhapsody
Better go capture this moment and hope it don’t pass himYou better lose yourself in the music
The moment, you own it, you better never let it go
You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow
This opportunity comes once in a lifetime, yo
You better lose yourself in the music
The moment, you own it, you better never let it go
You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow
This opportunity comes once in a lifetime, yo
*scratch*
God dammit DJ, we were getting along so well, why’d you have to cut the song short?
As our friend still rubs her eyes in shock at our performance, not sure whether this is an occasion to laugh or cry, we high five.
In retrospect, I may have been slightly drunk and thus our rendition of Lose Yourself by Eminem might not have been as spot on. We definitely wouldn’t have pulled off Rabbit’s second verse.
Luckily, I’ve had a backup plan ready to go for 4+ years: Believe Me by Fort Minor.
I even recorded a cover of it for fun a few years ago. I’ve got a long way to go, but mark my words, you’ll see me rap one day.
Until then, I’ll brush up my lyrics on these, I used to be able to rap all of them at one point or the other in my life:
- Eminem: My Dad’s Gone Crazy, Without Me, The Way I Am, Mockingbird, I Need A Doctor
- Fort Minor: Remember The Name, Kenji
- Macklemore: Thrift Shop, Gold, Wings, White Walls, Ten Thousand Hours
