DeScribe

Hey De Scribe massive,

The name's Kieron (or MC Defron for those interested), and writing is my game. I read the hip-hop/rap style poem at the Open Mic night the other day, and this is a bit of info for those who liked my stuff, and for those who just want to know what my style is.

As far as style is concerned, writing wise, the main rule I go by is ... I hate spelling shit out (Hence why I didn't introduce or conclude myself the other night). So when it comes to both rapping and writing I leave it to the reader/listener to figure out what's going on. I do have stuff which is more straight forward, but either way, I'm not explaining it. What this comes down to, is that when I put pen to paper - it's for me, and myself only. I put my stuff into the public domain because yeah I want others to get something out of it, but take away your own message, what you want. Not this approach that I see where people are like "what's he trying to say? ... oh that's clever, yeah that's good." I don't want to pidgeonholed, and even though I did my first reading in a rap style, don't put me into that box. It may be hypocritical I know, but there are a lot of ways I do stuff.

When it comes to writing I am inspired by Raymond Carver, Stephen King and more recently by Franz Kafka (The Metamorphosis). Basically I suppose I write realistically, not so much imitating real life but if I'm writing within reality, I want it to appear that way. It's hard for me to say but a lot of the stuff I read, I find far fetched, even when it's realistic. Like Disgrace for example, I know writer's will draw parralels because the narrative is a way of explaining and exploring notions and themes, but I don't know, I just find it pretentious. So when I write, I try to be realistic, but not in a way that is boring or monotonous. This is where Raymond Carver influences me, I consider his stories to be fantastically realistic whilst also exploring themes and issues without being pretentious.

As far as my hip-hop/rap style is concerned, this is a huge part of me, it forms a part of my identity. I am Hip-Hop. My influences in Hip-Hop are Wu-Tang Clan, Anonymouz, Balboa, Aesop Rock, Ivens and MF Doom. (Ivens is from Melbs, so get into him!) I find these guys to be more poetic, following a stream of concsiousness in their raps, which is what I try and do. I originally started off with the battle rap/brag/bravado style, but found I can't pull it off. So these rappers introduced me to an alternative way to looking at lyrics; poetically abstract and stream of consciousness. Quite different to my writing style I know, but both come back to my one rule: Don't spell shit out.

I used to spell stuff out, hell it was all I do, but now I look at writing as a way of exploring my self and my ideals, so I leave a lot unsaid (this is where Kafka has inspired me, he seems to write in a way I am trying to.)

Now as for the other night, my poem. I wanted to give my reading a unique quality, so I can be identified as the rapper, that was my intention - just don't restrict me to this. Now it will go against what I have just said, but I will explain what I was saying. If this makes me a hypocrite etc. whatever.

I wrote the piece a year ago, when I was being influenced by Wu-Tang Clan; a group who follow that stream of consciousness style. I was, and still am, concerned with society, and the mainstream side of entertainment etc. a lot of it, nearly all of it, sickens me. So the poem is basically taking about how I am different to the mainstream etc. Oh and a little fact you should know, which a friend of mine on my table realised, was that I actually freestyled (made up on the spot) the last four lines of the poem after the line: "One pen, one pad and no pencil" it was made up. Which was me basically me saying that this industry etc. is concerned with money and its all planned and thought out, so I went against the grain and freestyled the last lines, showing how free and expressive writing, rapping is.

Ok well that was a marathon, undoubtedly I have contradicted myself and made numerous grammar and spelling errors. Just wanting to see if anybody was interested in my stuff.

Finito.

This just occured to me; I'll be more coherent on why when it comes to poetry, am I sticking to a hip-hop/rap style.

It's an outlet for me to explore my passion in a setting where it isn't tiring, it's fresh and I can spark an interest in people who don't listen to hip-hop/rap. It is done in that style, but look at the poetics in it. I've always wanted to be a rapper, and was introduced into writing a few years ago, but have been rapping since I was about 12. So that's why my poem was in that style, so to me poetry is rapping, that's why I did it in that style.

Oh and If me writing my life story gives off arrogance like :"It was a small reading dude, don't get ahead of yourself".