HACKINAWAY by NAHreally
H A C K I N A W A Y
beats, rhymes by NAHreally
Emerson quotes from Thoreau's manuscripts: "The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or perchance a palace or temple on the earth, and at length the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them." That is just about the relation of the world of action to that of dreams; but this after all is the most important point: It is better to build one honest woodshed that will keep the fuel for the fires of life dry than to go on dreaming forever of impossible castles in Spain; and the wonder is that when you have built the woodshed you own the castle. The ideal is vain and illusionary just so long as you dwell in the world of dreams; the whole ideal becomes real when, through your struggle, a mere fragment of it is realized.
Thus each of us is an artist, the world is our mountain of marble, and we own it all. We may choose our block, cast it aside, choose another and another. But, this is the significant point, unless you choose one block and work at it so faithfully that in the end you have chipped off all the superfluous marble and released the statue that Michelangelo believed God placed in every marble block, it means nothing that you own the mountain. Rather we only own the mountain when we have achieved the single statue, and not till then.
(Self-Culture Through the Vocation - Edward Howard Griggs, 1914)
Tracklist
| 1. | Lay Claim | 2:14 |
| 2. | Sick Days | 1:25 |
| 3. | Rap Practice | 1:51 |
| 4. | Hackin' Away | 2:21 |
| 5. | Simple Truth, Matter Of Fact | 2:22 |
| 6. | Already | 1:22 |
| 7. | Plain Cheerios | 1:03 |
| 8. | Like Minds | 2:08 |
| 9. | Brittle Brain | 1:17 |
| 10. | I Am Amazing | 2:32 |
Credits
Beats/Rhymes: NAHreally
Mixed: Chris Payne
Mastered: Staub Audio Engineering
Artwork: Michael Stone
