Pop Music - Zach Sherwin: Song Lyrics, Music Videos & Concerts

Pop Music

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Hip-Hop/Rap

Pop Music was released on June 9, 2015 by Aspecialthing Records as a part of the album Rap!

Song Details

AlbumRap!

Release DateJune 9, 2015

LabelAspecialthing Records

Melodicness

Acousticness

Valence

Danceability

Energy

BPM71

OVERVIEW

LYRICS

Music Video

Music Video

Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS

Zach Sherwin

Performer

COMPOSITION & LYRICS

Zach Sherwin

Songwriter

PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING

soce, the elemental wizard

soce, the elemental wizard

Producer

Lyrics

I was a two-year-old toddler, still suckin' on my bottle

When my parents got divorced, which was the pits like avocados

Pops hopped in his auto, and he drove off full-throttle

Only child, single mom, not many male role models

Not a lot of father figures once my pop duke split

So I had to swap him out and adopt a new pick

And my surrogate pops was hip-hop music

So now I don't call it "rap," I call it "pop music"

Rap music was the father figure that raised me

So I say "pop music" because I feel as if I'm its son

My Uncle Alan set it off when he gave me

Two cassettes as Hanukkah gifts in 1991

Now one of those tapes was by Naughty By Nature

It's their self-titled debut album, Naughty By Nature

And there's a song on there called "Ghetto Bastard"

About the absent father of Treach, their lead rapper

Where he says, "I was one who never had and always mad

Never knew my dad, motherfuck the fag!"

And using the word "fag" is not my bag, no, but dag, yo

That sentiment was powerful and aggro

Treach also felt lost and alone

But unlike me, he was filled with testosterone

Like Sylvesta Stallone

And from then on, class was in session

I was baskin' in masculine rap lessons

From men like Method Man

And Redman

And Beenie Man and Birdman

R.A. the Rugged Man, La the Darkman

And the Sunz of Man and Paul Barman

And father figures like Big Poppa and Puff Daddy

And Snoop the Doggfather and Kane the Big Daddy

Not Kris Kross exactly, Daddy Mack and Mack Daddy

But Father MC and Trick Daddy

I learned about male bonding from the Wu-Tang Killa Bees

Eminem taught me craftsmanship and productivity

LL showed me how to be smooth with the ladies

And I learned Jews could be dope MCs from the Beasties

And I got exposed to anger, violence, and misogyny

'Cause your pops doesn't only impact you positively

But most importantly, I learned I wanted to be an MC

The rap apple didn't fall far from the tree

The rappel

I never had a daddy rockin' my cradle

I just had pop music to rock the stage and the microphone

Pop music raised me up like I was the roof

Not a boy from the hood, but these men from the hood

Brought me up from boyhood into manhood

So, here's the epilogue

I was a college kid in Boston

And my friend at Tufts called me up when class started that autumn

And she said there was a concert at her school for welcome back

And Naughty By Nature was the headlining act

So I go to the show, and two-thirds of the way through

Treach says, "Here's the deal, y'all

Every concert we do, we like to showcase local talent

So come on, Tufts, you know who your best MCs are

Send 'em on up!"

The next thing I know, I'm waiting on stage in a lineup

I stood there in a panic, cued my best line in my mind up

'Til KG, their DJ, looked at me and pointed

And he dropped the instrumental, and I totally destroyed it

Treach said, "You blew up the place!"

And put his arm around me in what I

Can only describe as a fatherly embrace

And I felt a joy that can't be expressed

As Treach pressed my Old Navy T-shirt against his bulletproof vest

Written by: Zach Sherwin

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