PbyCj

A Fictional Short Story – 2018

Good morning world, welcome to 82.8 YTG this is your girl DjCj. It’s Friday and we are continuing our spotlight series on young rap artists. If you are a young up-and-coming rap artist and would like an opportunity to tell your story please email us at 82.8YTG@gmail.com. 

Today, we have Young Whippersnapper on the show here to tell her story, please show her some love. 

Hello everyone, I am a rap artist/producer and I go by the name Young Whippersnapper, I am grateful for the opportunity to tell a small piece of my story and how it all began. 

It started when I was a younger whippersnapper, my grandpa would read me stories and play classic songs from his time. He would sit me on his lap and tell me “Darling, words in a book are stories for the mind, words in song are stories for the soul.” I didn’t understand what he meant by that but I knew what he said was true because of how his face would light up in delight when he read to me.

One day, Grandpa read me a Dr. Seuss story called “One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish” and said “Listen darling while I rap Dr. Seuss. He beat bopped a beat so charismatically and began to rap, “From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere.” As I bobbed my head in approval he continued. “One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish.” Then I picked up the beat as best as I could while Grandpa rapped the entire story. I was amazed by this and I could not get the rhyme out of my head after that.

At home, I would be like “beat, bop, beat beat, bop” “one fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish.” My mom overheard me once and she was like “Girl you’re rapping Dr. Seuss just like your Grandpa.” She said I didn’t sound half bad and that I would add on to it. So I tried it, I was like “give me one, give me two, let me get the red fish and you keep the blue.” Over and over I would try different beats to that one line in my head, out loud and on paper, I was beat bopping with the fishes. 

I visited Grandpa to express my new beat bop fishing desires and he said “Darling if you think that’s something wait until you hear this.” He put a song on and it started with a sick beat. Immediately, my head was bobbing, and my face went into the meanest mug. My body was moving to the beat, “this is my kind of music” words that felt like they came from my soul. “Grandpa, who IS THIS?” He said with a smile “This is LL COOL J.” “LL COOL J?”

“Don’t call it a comeback I’ve been here for years”…

“I’m gonna knock you out, Mama said knock you out”

Grandpa and I spent the evening jamming to classic rap/hip-hop music, which was the day I knew rhyming words on a beat telling a story was what I wanted to do. From that day on I began trying to write my raps and making my beats. I didn’t tell anyone about my growing passion for writing raps, not even Grandpa. I was really sensitive about my craft and I suppose I still am. 

An entire year went by before I dared to share one of the raps I had written. Grandpa was the only person I felt comfortable sharing it with. I remember being so nervous when I went to share my rap with him but I figured it was something I had to do. I said “Pa guess what?, I wrote a rap wanna hear?” “Of course!” He expressed with a very unexpected level of excitement. “Here it goes”

My humanity is over before me

Let me live and tell my story

I’m an eight-year-old girl

I have a bright future ahead of me

The words on the paper may not rhyme right now

But it will in time

In time I’ll be a lyrical assassin

Killing mad beats, clean but nasty

In time everyone is gonna know who I am

I’m not rapping for fame but you will put respect on my name

Grandpa read to me “One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish”

Little did I know that I’d write a flow so sick having em swimmin with the fishes.

Grandpa was like “ooooooooooooooh okay I see you baby girl” You young whippersnapper!!” I blushed so hard my face was in an unfamiliar pain. I wasn’t expecting him to like it. Then I tried to explain how I wanted the beat to sound for it. I wanted something slow but heavy, both relaxing and attention-grabbing. He said, “I’ll tell you what, you can come here and use my piano to make the sound you want to go with your raps.” I was like “whaaaaaaaaat?!” I didn’t know he had a piano and that he knew how to play it.

Almost every day I found myself either at Grandpa’s house learning to play the piano or writing songs. I even attempted to sing, which did not work out too well, I was told by Mama and Grandpa “to keep my day job.” Time went on, my skills were improving and I began to be more confident about sharing my music. I created a SoundCloud so my family and friends can listen to my music, and I also enjoy listening to my music. 

One day, as I was sharing my SoundCloud link on a popular tweet on Twitter (because that is what us Soundcloud rappers do) my tweet was retweeted by one of my favorite rappers KB! Not only did he retweet me but he dm’d me and said that I was talented!! I was beyond excited. I asked him if it would be possible to collaborate and he said YES! 

Fast forward, five years after my SoundCloud link was retweeted by KB, my first album LAYOUT dropped early this year. Two of my songs are on the top 100 charts, “Frequently Used” and “Time Limit”, I am overfilled with joy about the success I’ve experienced so far. I want to give a shoutout to my Grandpa and my family for all of the love and support. Thank you DjCj and 82.8YTG for having me on the show. Peace and love to all.

Ladies and Gents that was Young Whippersnapper telling her story. If you liked or loved it please let us and her know by commenting on our social media posts. Be sure to tune in next Friday for our next guest on the spotlight series Sis-Tay. 

Like always this is your girl DjCj please spread the love to all.