As one does in HipHop/hip-hop/Hip Hop, you create many personae, one more outrageous than the other or One that turns things on it's side.
I, as did my peers, felt that as an #Emcee #poet #writer #spokenwordsmith #lyricalmyrical #rapper that we had a #voice that could reach the masses and as I went naively into this, I did not initially figure that besides #knowledgeofself and #streetcred the guys wanted girls.
I wanted to craft things in a manner that would get my peers to sit-up and say goddamn or that is dope/fly/ill or that's jas. As things went along, I had the fun Emcee, the Black Power Emcee, the Random Emcee and the Storyteller with my "Public/Social announcements".
This new person I named Mr Trevrep 1ne The Brown Prismatic One, who came onto the scene in 1990/1. The 1ne/One is a reference to my home address number and the misunderstood reference to numbers that we had as Graf Writers in Cape Town. We initially believed that the suffix 1 is because you are the 1st, the #original which by then (1991) we had found out that it was related to their street number.
Mr Trevrep is a mirror turned on society and the perverted nature of it, Trevrep itself, is the word Pervert in reverse.
There's a ton for me to get out there and speak about. The #artwork is a #concept for an #album which I do have some lyrics for but I have to start pushing myself to record again.
I think the question is should I as an Emcee who is deep into my 40's record Rap, which came be #timeless or do the whole Adult Contemporary Rap scene?
