The Last Emperor - One Life
Here's the story behind one of my favorite songs ever. The rapper in the second verse, Poetic, had been fighting cancer for a while and had never been on a record so Last Emperor put him on this song to show his appreciation to a fellow emcee. Sadly, a few weeks after recording, Poetic died from his colon cancer, but I imagine it was a happy death because he finally got his break.
Quote:
A meaningless death
Made me question the meaning of life
Does my body remain at rest like when I'm sleeping at night?
Will I burn in eternal hell?
Or will I find paradise?
Be rejected or ressurected like the body of Christ
Is it like purgatory the story described by the Catholics?
Or nirvana that Buddha saw in both theory and practice
Like I studied in my college phillosophy classes
Or do my molecules and atoms travel back to the gases
I mean what I'd like to know
Is wheres my spirit go?
After the curtains close
On my final show
Is there a pain it brings?
Enjoy my favorite thing
Visit ancient kings
Hear the angel sing
Who'll answers these said the great mcs
My man Gremel's battling a debilitating disease
He said "You see a brother like me is willing to fight"
And everytime I question death my only answer is life
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