REKLEZ-[SFC]-[OWNER]-[RIP NB]-

Writing a song is the best way to ease your mind and to get out things that have happened to you in the past or just recently. I prefer to write rap and hip-hop lyrics opposed to lyrics for a rock or blues song. Something about the rhyming and the deep, hard hitting beat makes it a relaxing thing for me to do. I've written songs about my past and called them My Life and My Life Two, about the things I enjoy to do, who I represent, and what I stand for and named some of those tracks Rapaholic, DGAF, and Stay Free, and sometime I just vent on the microphone, and whatever comes out, comes out, and I put it to a beat that track is called Enough.
I've been writing lyrics for about six years. I first started writing about the same stuff other underground artists did. Take the Kottonmouth Kings for example, I would talk about weed in every song, dirt biking, and even getting girls when, at that time, I had never ridden a dirt bike or even knew what girls were all about. Eventually I grew away from all of that and started writing about things I did. Even though I wrote about my life and the things I did, I still talked about things I didn't have, simply because I wanted them. I viewed the music game as a way to get money, when now I do it not even caring if I go platinum. "I continue to push on, like a plow through the snow, they say it's time to go, but I continue with my show" (Found Something by Reklez feat. ABiCA), I continued to push on through all the hard times and all the shit I've been given by all the haters out there and people who didn't believe in me and gave me shit about what I do only because I'm white and not black like the "gangster rappers" out there. That's a stupid ass stereotype and it needs to be pushed out of the minds of the people in America. They look at you and judge you by your race and then if you made a song to top the charts. They don't look at your skills and the story and meaning behind the lyrics. Those people that judge you by that piss me off because they don't know the truth. All they do is judge the book by its cover, and that is the wrong way to get by in life.
"Rap is what we do, hip-hop is how we live" (KRS One). I live by this daily, and I always will. To me it's the truth behind everything. The lifestyle I live has to be the most enjoyable one. Even though it has its ups, it has its downs like everything else in life. It comes with bad habits which I try to avoid, but hey, shit happens. A few years ago, between my eighth and ninth grade year, me and a friend decided we should break into a house. Dumbly, we did. We got into the house and started rummaging through all the things there and then the alarm went of and all we could say was "Great. Now we're fucked." After all the court processes and fun stuff, we both got it deferred and ended up with nine months of probation which was nine months of hell. I had no contact with my best friend, the only person that I trust. During that time, I opened my eyes and starting writing about the experience and the whole process of it. It turned out as some great lyrics, but made for a painful story.
Through all the hard times and events in my life, I still continue to do what I do and enjoy it. From writing lyrics to running a clothing company, it's all an amazing experience and one I will never forget. It has tought me lessons in life, new skills, new talents, and has introduced me to a new community full of people I enjoy to talk to and be around. The biggest lesson I have learned is to keep my friend close and my enemies closer. As well as learning things from other people and artists, I have in return tought them new things as well. I brought a new style of recording and writing lyrics to the table as well as new designs and new concepts of designs. This journey through life and its phases are the best they could be and have been very rewarding. Nothing has stopped me so far and nothing ever will. I'm going to end this with a line that I live by every day and night and it's what keeps my eyes open as to what I'm doing and where I'm going, I almost gaurentee that you guys have heard this before, "life ain't what it seems, it ain't no fuckin dream, so get a grip up on your shit, and make sure your pipe's clean" (Saint Dog).
Stay Up, Stay True, and Stay Free,
~Reklez~ ..