Last night, i attended our monthly slam. this was the second to last slam to qualify fr the Grand Slam. i wasnt gonna do it but my teammate from last year, Surreal Sista, talked me into doing it. i hadnt slammed since Nationals...not because i didnt want to but because of transportation issues.
Now, its suppose to be a qualifier the for Grand Slam, right? so why those who have ALREADY qualified slamming? i know that giving the people a good show is a must but damn. ok, so the 2 round slam starts...off top, the judges suck. i do my first piece "drowned in the sound" and fuck it up. no problem. still go to the second round, freestyle a piece about the rock group Kiss. the piece is dope...audience loves it, other poets like it but one of the judges, gives me a 0! WTF? im not saying the piece is perfect but its funny...yet this person gives me a 0, wow. on top of that, i had a time penalty (the piece was 4 minutes long). i can live with that.
Here is the kicker. i would have been in the top three, if, a poet who had ALREADY qualified hadnt slammed (he took second). to me, that was some bullshit. if we went off a points system....yea, i could have understood but we dont. so, why were they slamming?!
i might try again next month, not sure. right now, i have to get material together for a feature in Knoxville, Tn on the 16th of May. i need at least two new pieces to do...so far the pieces being performed will be:
Tell Him, Im Waiting
Drowned In The Sound
X Is The Unknown Variable
Mental Intercourse (first piece ever performed)
Hidden Secrets (Kiss Poem) *new*
Daddy's Little Girl
Thin Mint Cookies
so i gotta get on the ground to get to work on new stuff. have them done and down....for the 16th.
at least i have the creative juices flowing for a minute.
onelove
4 comments:
Baby, I'm sooooooo sooorrrryyyy. Wish there was more I could say without ranting. Keep growing, keep going, and slam nexty month.
uhhh if they had already qualified and still slammed, shouldn't they have taken the next in line who hadn't qualified yet??? what's up with that?
slam again brotha...
got to get the thin mints piece off...too funny
Hell yeah to the thin mints piece!
And YOU CAN DO IT!
GOOD LUCK with your feature homie!
Slam ur heart out for no one else but yourself. Shady stuff happens in the slam... Sometimes it worth fighting about sometimes it's not. But get yo spot. Even when they tried to put rules and regulations on me I still made. NOW WHAT!! In the words of Kanye West "uh uhh you can't tell me nothing"
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