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Zach Sherwin – Drop Bars Lyrics

[Verse 1]
I drop bars so fast you’ll be poppin’ your neck
As you whip your head, following the Doppler effect
Lemme stop for a sec
“Dropping bars” means “rapping”
You copy, correct?
OK, just a glossary check. All right then
Lemme switch gears and invite you to picture an item
Everybody envision a bicycle
With the handlebars that are the type that you’ll
See curvin’ around and down low-like
The kind you’ll find on most road bikes
And I won’t steer you false, no
Those are called “drop bars” also
So I wrote and I composed this
Ode devoted to the dopest components
Drop-bar handles are the topic and
I’m about to put it down like a kickstand

[Chorus]
Yo I had to drop bars about drop bars
Had to drop drop-bar bars
On the left and on the right
The front and the back
I want it hot tonight
I want hands to clap
When I rock the mike
With bike handle raps
And I drop bars, about drop bars

[Verse 2]
OK, stop. Wait. Please hold up
Deeply sorry to interrupt
I’m also Zach Sherwin
But not the one from the last verse, I’m a more mature version
And I wanna say to myself:
Okay, that drop bar thing is a cute wordplay
But I gotta take a critical dig at this drivel
It’s trivial and frivolous!
Why pick topics like these when
You could talk about the reasons you’re a vegan
Open up about your relationships or even
Opine with a dope rhyme about current events?
Choose to sink your teeth deep into
Chewy themes with true meaning you believe in!
Get inspired! When you drop bars, set the bar higher!

[Chorus]
And don’t drop bars about drop bars
Raise the bar when you drop bars!
When they drop the beat, don’t drop the ball
With some wacky rap that’s off the wall
Are bike handles important? Not at all!
Raise the bar above dropping drop-bar bars!

[Verse 3]
Haaaang on. Pause one second
I’m Zach 3 and I just gotta step in
And say to number 2, “You were on the right track
Until that chorus when you fell right back
On the same old crutch! You couldn’t resist!
You had a good point but you had to put a clever little
Twist on it. Lapse into absurdism;
You’re trapped in a word prison.”
Now at this point you’d make the joke
That if you were in word prison
You wouldn’t wanna drop, the bar, of soap
But am I gonna stoop that low? Um…nope

Guys? Zach number 4. Hi. Hey number 3? Nice try
But even YOU couldn’t restrain your brain from a pun –
So don’t front like you refrained
But look, I get it! I see where you’re at!
You want less whimsy in your act
Wanna get away from language games to be more relevant;
Well, it’s great to develop and change
But fella don’t trip
For life you’re equipped with a verbal-quip microchip
So it really doesn’t matter if you’d rather be discussing what “matters”
Because this is what your gray matter does automatically
So don’t detest yourself, man – accept yourself and
Express what’s there, even if you couldn’t care less
At least now you’ll be doing it with self-awareness
Double down on the drop-bar raps
Dedicate yourself to performing the task as well as it can be done
Here’s Zach 5, who’s also Zach number 1…

Whether you’re an amateur or in the Tour De France you will
Affirm that drop bars are for sure phenomenal
Superb equipment with a curve and dip that getcha
Sittin’ in a position that’s ergonomical
They’re so aerodynamic
Man you can exceed the speed at which an arrow flies, dammit
You can be a winner, eat anybody for dinner
But be careful if you ride ’em on the road and you’re a beginner
They’re a bit of an adjustment
But you’re gonna fly on ’em once you’re accustomed
You’ll be goin’ quick not slow like the hip-hop flow
In my jam about the handles with the grip dropped low

[Chorus]
Had to drop bars, about drop bars
Had to drop drop-bar bars
On the left and on the right
The front and the back
I want it hot tonight
I need hands to clap
When I rock the mike
With bike handle raps
And I drop, bars, about, drop, bars

Zach Sherwin – Ouncare Lyrics

[Hook]
ZS

[Verse 1]
No one raps anymore like they did in 1998, when a song went to number 24 on the billboard chart list
Still Not A Player was the title, and Big Punisher was the artist
I’m not sure if you remember it much or not
But if you know the chorus, show me what’cha got

[Singing the “Still Not A Player” Chorus]
“I don’t wanna be a player no more”
“I’m not a player I just crush a lot”

[Verse 2]
Now, half way through the song’s duration, Pun and a woman have a conversation, he says to her
“I can go downstairs, little brown hairs everywhere”
Ya know, grooming standards were different in the nineties
But she says, “you nasty”
And his reply you ask me?
Well, he says, “Ouncare,” not I don’t care, but a rhyme for downstairs and brown hairs
Ouncare
Which doesn’t really work
Ouncare
I mean, “oun” is not a word
Ouncare
It’s like you can’t take the words “I don’t” and rhyme them with brown and down
Ouncare
That defies all conventions
Ouncare
It’s downright unorthodox
Ouncare
Big Pun, you’re not afraid to break the rules, and frankly, I’m inspired

[Verse 3]
Galileo said we orbit the sun, not the reverse
David killed Goliath despite his height and girth
Columbus said the earth wasn’t flat, but round
And my man Big Pun wrote a rap with oun
See, they defied the conventional wisdom, each had a conviction many would say is dumb
But they didn’t care, and Pun showed he didn’t care by pronouncing
“I don’t care” uncaringly, ouncare
See, it’s a mini manifesto for saying “yes”
When the rest of the world says “no”
It’s like don’t let the bastards get you down
Believe in yourself and think on your oun
And, if you think the reason Pun fudged it is ’cause he couldn’t rhyme it, then you misjudged it
There’s a million easy ways to finish that couplet, and here’s just a few I came up with
He could’ve said, “I can go downstairs, little brown hairs everywhere, how ’bout oral sex, does that sound fair?”
Or, “downstairs, little brown hairs everywhere, I got my face up in your lounge wear!”
Or, “downstairs, little brown hairs everywhere, wet and fuzzy like a drowned bear!”
Or, “downstairs, little brown hairs everywhere, open in the middle like a town square”

[Verse 4]
The point is, shoot for the moon
Soar like you’re a balloon
Go ape, you baboon
Break the cocoon
I know Pun doesn’t care, now show me that youn
Everybody say “ouncare”
Your goals are unrealistic
Ouncare
There are lots of really good reasons why you can’t accomplish what you want
Ouncare
You won’t get that promotion
Ouncare
You won’t earn that degree
Ouncare
You’re not as young as you used to be
Ouncare
The person you like is outta your league
Ouncare
Albert Einstein, you didn’t talk ’till the age of four, man
You can’t be a scientist!
Ouncare
Michael Jordan, you were cut from your high school ball team, you can’t play NBA
Ouncare
Zach Sherwin, you can’t write a rap song about one obscure lyric from another rap song that wasn’t even that famous in the nineties, and expect it to become a number one hit record
Ouncaaaaaaaaaare!
Ouncare

Zach Sherwin – Grit & Grin Lyrics

[Intro]
I’m about to freeze my face in a smile
And spit for a while ventriloquist style
You’re about to see what hip-hop flowin’
Looks like when the mouth and the lips stop goin’
And it’s true that initially
It just seemed like a fun gimmick visually and superficially
But when I chose a title and I thought about it more
It became a metaphor that I wanted to explore…
Ready? (Two, three, four.)

[Chorus]
Grit and grin, grin and grit
Gonna hold it just like this, not gonna quit
Nor change anythin’ in the chin region
As I grin and grit, grit and grin
And don’t you go thinkin’
I recorded the track earlier and dropped it on in
Check out the throat – this is genuine and legit
Grit and grin, grin and grit

[Verse 1]
I got the skill to talk the ill talk
With the grill stock still, I can still rock
It’s a stunt no one has dared to try
Since Kanye did it in “Through The Wire.”
And even though it looks fancy-free, in here it’s utter insanity
Although you can’t see it underneath
You can hear the diligent agility
And get the touch of the tongue on the teeth
That’s right
The grin is a screen that conceals what’s goin’ on outta sight
I try hard to get it to look easy
So as not to decrease the crowd’s delight
You don’t need to know how the sausage gets ground
Just dig it and enjoy as I kick it and get down
It’s a cinch
As far as the audience can tell
That’s entertainment in a nutshell

[Chorus]
It goes grin and grit, grit and grin. Lotta action goin’ on within
On the outside though it’s just the show and that’s it
Grit and grin, grin and grit. Ready? Two, three, four

[Verse 2]
Check it out y’all and be amazed please
He’s making drum sounds with a say-cheese freeze
Droppin’ beats while beaming ear to ear
Now here’s another grit-and-grin meaning:
If grit is work, and grin joy
It means you gotta both grind AND enjoy
And to push it just a little further
Each one needs some measure of the other
Grit and grin means find some way to rejoice in the struggle
Flip it –
Grin and grit:
When you do stop to smell the roses
Do so with the same gusto you bring to the hustle;
In other words grin grittily, and when you grit, grit grinningly….
To VENT these thoughts while saying something REAL
And making party people go OH! That’s the QUEST
Vent, real, oh, quest
VENTRILOQUIST!

[Outro]
Grin and grit, grit and grin
The yang and the yin
Light on the side that’s shadowed
Shadow on the side that’s lit
Grit and grin, grin and grit
Dude’s killin’ it, keen as a guillotine
This right here is Joshua Silverstein…
And I’m Zach Sherwin for the win
Grit, and, grin
Peace

Zach Sherwin – Stage Name Lyrics

[Verse 1]
If a rocket tried to launch on its own, it couldn’t do it
It’s propelled into orbit by boosters attached to it
These are called “stages,” and when their fuel’s exhausted
The rocket keeps going, but the stage falls off it
Now I need your attention like a tourist attraction
‘Cause I’m making an announcement, like “folks, it’s the captain”
As of now it’s official, like a stage disattachin’
I am finished with the stage name “MC Mr. Napkins
Look, I needed that name to rock the stage
At an earlier stage of my career
But now it’s like a used-up stage on a rocket ship
And it’s time to let it fall away and disappear

[Chorus]
My stage name, my stage name
I’m saying goodbye to my stage name
I will keep writing rhymes hot enough to set the page aflame
But I’m saying goodbye to my stage name

[Verse 2]
When I began performing in my old Cambridge, Massachusetts haunts
I had all these gimmicks, bells and whistles, and accoutrements
A huge curly ponytail, voluminous locks
A special coat, a bandanna, and the old-school-est, boomin’-est box
With which I’d play my instrumentals and tracks
I would rap wearing batting gloves with N’s on the back
These props helped me stand out, and they got me in character
Would rapping have been scarier without all that there? For sure
But as time passed, and the stage fright receded
I dropped the props – they were no longer quite needed –
And that’s how the name feels now, I’m not mad that I had it
I’ve just outgrown it, and I’m ready to shed it and move past it
‘Cause at best it feels neutral, but at worst I feel it makes people dismiss me
As another wacky comedy rap goofball
And on the one hand, who cares?
But on the other, let’s be honest:
It’s provoked some negative responses
Like when a club booker said she “hated it”
Or when my friend asked me to open a show
But then the promoter said “no” when my friend told him about my alias
Or how I felt a painful, shameful twinge
When my uncle, who I love, said that when he heard the name it made him cringe
That sucked, It stung and troubled me
But I didn’t buckle or knuckle under, I stuck to my guns stubbornly
They couldn’t make me quit or fire me
I’m retiring the name and this decision’s mine entirely
So look up in the sky and see me flyin’ even higher
Desist from rappin’? That’s not a thing I wish to happen, it’s the passion
Don’t think the rocket ship’s a-crashin’
I’m just forging forward as Zach Sherwin, not MC Mr. Napkins

[Chorus]
My stage name, my stage name
I’m saying goodbye to my stage name
My stage name, my stage name
I’m saying goodbye to my stage name
My stage name, my stage name
I’m saying goodbye to my stage name
I will never stop the hip-hop
That will always stay the same
But I’m saying goodbye to my stage name

[Outro]
I had to Switchitup, of that fact I became certain
And I can feel my rocket’s crackly flame burnin’
I used to be the Mr. Napkins-renamed person
Now, I’m just Zachary James Sherwin