unsubcultured presents the ultimate spoken word battle: DEEPAK vs TUPAC!!!

WHO HAS THE BEST WORDS? FIND OUT IN THIS QUOTE-OFF!

CHOPRA, DEEPAK

SHAKUR, TUPAC

Every person is a God in embryo. Its only desire is to be born. Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted. If you and I are having a single thought of violence or hatred against anyone in the world at this moment, we are contributing to the wounding of the world. In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you. It is the nature of babies to be in bliss. Nothing is more important than reconnecting with your bliss. Nothing is as rich. Nothing is more real. Our thinking and our behaviour are always in anticipation of a response. It is therefore fear-based. The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers. The physical world, including our bodies, is a response of the observer. We create our bodies as we create the experience of our world. The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years. There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill, and every piece must fit itself into the big jigsaw puzzle. To think is to practice brain chemistry. We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being. We're living in a time when the world has suddenly discovered India because it's run out of raw material for its imagination. The raw materials for imagination are inexhaustible here. You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices. You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.

All I'm trying to do is survive and make good out of the dirty, nasty, unbelievable lifestyle that they gave me. America wants its respect. Don't change on me. Don't extort me unless you intend to do it forever. Dre was one of my heros in the music industry. If he's not down for his homeboys, I don't wanna be a part of him or around him. I don't have no fear of death. My only fear is coming back reincarnated. I don't have to talk about whether or not I got raped in jail. I don't see myself being special; I just see myself having more responsibilities than the next man. People look to me to do things for them, to have answers. I just don't know how to deal with so many people giving me that much affection. I never had that in my life. I just spent 11 and a half months in a maximum-security jail, got shot five times, and was wrongly convicted of a crime I didn't commit. I never killed anybody, I never raped anybody, I never committed no crimes that weren't honorable. I think I'm a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it's authority that I respect. I worked hard all my life as far as this music business. I dreamed of the day when I could go to New York and feel comfortable and they could come out here and be comfortable. I would rather have been shot straight-up in cold blood-but to be set up? By people who you trusted? That's bad. I'll probably be punished for hard living. I'm 23 years old. I might just be my mother's child, but in all reality, I'm everybody's child. Nobody raised me; I was raised in this society. I'm a reflection of the community. If I win and get the money, then the Oakland Police department is going to buy a boys' home, me a house, my family a house, and a Stop Police Brutality Center. If you believe in God, believe in Death Row East. In my mind I'm a blind man doin' time. Is it a crime, to fight, for what is mine?

rap battle sub cult

The worst rap battle I've ever seen. Mas magaling pa yung pinaka-bulok na Pinoy dito.

hip hop sub cult

Pinoy vs white boy in a rap battle. Boyoboy, everyone wants to be African-American nowadays.

pinoy hiphop/rap sub cult

Hung out with my nephews during Christmas eve. Young guys introduced me to a sub cult I never knew about... well because I'm old and unsubcultured and they are simply young . They showed me videos on youtube called Fliptop - a rap battle league.

So it happens in bars around the metro and two guys square off dissing each other by rap and rhyme. After a few rounds, people judge who the winner is. It's sort of a cooler debate. And since we're doing this in Manila, which is bilingual, rappers fight in tagalog and "trying hard to be nigga" english.

Totally made my Christmas eve... saw lots of talent out there... specially the guys who rapped in tagalog like Loonie. One more interesting fact - Fliptop battles on youtube have more hits than its foreign counterparts like Hawaii's angry locals and USA's Grindtime.

Here are two examples: one in tagalog and one in "trying hard to be nigga" english.