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What Matters III

from HipHop: Art Music of the Future by Rico Sisney

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The final track in the 5-part song cycle tells the beginning of the two characters, their backgrounds and why they were not meant to be. It concludes with their meeting and hints that history can repeat itself.

lyrics

He had to be,
Harder better faster stronger more efficient and fluid
He had the funds to do it.
From Lakeforest but he was raised in the Old Money way.
Cd's and IRA's make sure no money fades.
By the age of seventeen, his parents had made his self-esteem
So high that he believed he would achieve everything.
He was named a national scholar although he was caught with coke.
That file was never seen,
his parents had the juice to keep his records clean.
He kept it clean both in fashion and in manner.
He worked out and had a frame like Bruce Banner,
Dude was slammin.
Women said that he was witty and charming
and they found his game pretty disarming.
He moved from his home in the burbs
cuz the city was calling
and spent money so fast that it was alarming.
He needed to make his first million,
Then by a home in Lake Forest get a beautiful wife
maybe some children, etcetera, etcetera...


Now she had to be...
Thinner, cuter, smarter and work harder
than anyone around her just so she could get caught up.
She was raised on the southside Calumet class of '98
One of a few to graduate
She ingested, stories of princes and princesses
Naive, but her memory was quite impressive,
Nevertheless it didn't help her with life's daily stresses.
Friends said, "Get rid of the books. You sendin men the wrong message."
It's funny how girls without a man always try to give advice...
If they did it right, they'd have somebody in they life.
She wasn't gone compromise her self like her mom did.
You cannot give up what you want to feel wanted.
The boys from around the way called her bougie, seditty,
Girls said, "you think you pretty. "
Finally she moved to the city
and started chasin her dreams
the mistake that she made was to think
you had to just get what you want,
it's better to want what you need


They met on a summer day
The sun was shining but not as bright as the diamonds
beside him. She saw her lovely face.
With him she wanted to run away.
Her friends were shy the sight of him excited them
and she said, "Hi" to him in spite of them
He asked her out and invited them
She thought he had what she needed like a vitamin.
Sizzled like a fryin pan
Looked at Tony Stark envisioned Iron Man
While the lonely hearts club peeped his bony parts
Uh...
As far as marriage he met her requirements,
So before he popped the question she'd mostly decided it
Ceremony and reception, his parents provided it.
He could purchase or invest in whatever she'd try to get.
Life was bliss. His friends thought his wife was just...
So fine. Way cuter than them lipo chicks in magazines.
It seemed they were livin a fantasy.
Things were wonderful then, cuz they agreed what wonderful meant.

Way up on that hilltop...
She sees that castle from afar...
Way up on that hilltop
She sees that Castle from afar and
it looks so much better, better from afar

credits

from HipHop: Art Music of the Future, released September 12, 2010
Credits:

Composed by
Rico Sisney
Maggie Vagle

Emcee
Rico Sisney

Vocals
Maggie Vagle

Sax
Chris Beckstrom

Keys/Piano/Vibes
Charlie Coffeen

Drums
Rob Dicke

Bass
Garrett McGinn

Percusssion
Chris Paquette

Produced by
The Belmont Sessions

Executive Producers
Rico Sisney
Aunnoy Badruzzaman

Sound
Ben Gordon
Elliot Little
Dana Minetti
Brandon Vogel
Tom VanDerBeek

Mixed by
Elliott Little

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Rico Sisney Chicago, Illinois

I am the emcee for Chicago bands Sidewalk Chalk and Treehouse and the founder of Chicago Artist collective The Gala. Artistically, those are my main pursuits so please follow and support them.
I rarely release anything solo and even when I do I enlist an "Army of Geniuses*" to help make it happen. I make music that I love. If you dig it, let's get down.
*Quote from Lawrence Binkey Tolefre
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