"Dirty Rotten (snippet)" genre: Rapcore
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	CD: A War To Restore   Label: Syntax Records
	Story Behind the Song Dirts favorite Line(s): ‘when you look at me, what do you see?’ This track started off as a big joke (and some think it ended that way). I was in the shower singin these ideas out, and when I got out my girl told me that I should try to bust that one off for real. I told her she was trippin. I am an emcee not in a band (this was before Rage and Limp Biskit were cool!). Every once inna while, after that, she would ask me if I was going to do the song or not. Even all the way up to the time I left to go record I kept telling her no. Once out in NY, after a lot of the album was tracked, Jesse asked me if I had any other ideas laying around. The only one that came to mind was my ‘shower song’. He laughed but said that we should try to do it. Then I laughed and said no we shouldn’t. The main thing that was keeping me from doing it was that I didn’t know how to sing and yell and all that. I am an emcee. But yet most of the stuff we had recorded was pretty emotional at times (including some yelling). So eventually I gave in and said we could try it and see how it comes out. So he had his band come in one day and check out the lyrics and we all started rockin ideas. We only had one day to come up with the tune and record (which is what I think is one of the major downfalls of the outcome, it needed more practice time). We tracked it and Jesse mixed it. Everybody thought it was pretty good (except for most of the hiphop fans that didn’t understand why in the middle of my album would I put a ‘band’ song). I just thought it would be funny to interrupt the flow all of a sudden with a totally different song and then get right back into things after that. But all the way up until the time that the masters got sent away to be pressed, I was debating taking the track off all together. So form your own opinion, but I still think the song isn’t bad at all. I got to record the scratches, which was half a disaster (read ‘Shanghai Burning’ memories) and half comedy! The record used was a Bill Cosby album. It was so hard to work with but since we only needed a texture scratch and Jesse only had 6 records in his whole studio, it had to do. I get an A for effort! The song means a lot to me just because it was concepted around an event that happened to me. In 1996 I was beaten up and arrested in a mall because the security guards thought I was a homeless person and started harassing me. No matter what I really was as a person, meant nothing to a group of people that were judging matters by the appearance only. For more song lyrics, stories, and interactive Dirt... check out www.intheholehegoes.com! Lyrics "Dirty Rotten " WHEN YOU LOOK AT ME WHAT DO YOU SEE? YOU DON’T SEE NOTHIN BUT A LOW DOWN, DIRTY, ROTEN SCOUNDREL DID YOU EVER THINK THAT I COULD EDIFY? DID YOU THINK THAT I COULD GLORIFY? OR DO YOU ONLY THINK THAT EVERYTHING IS A LIE? OR DO YOU ONLY THINK I AM HERE TO MAKE EM CRY!? WHAT DO YOU THINK!? DID YOU EVER REALIZE? OR SEE POTENTIAL? AND DID YOU EVER THINK THAT I WAS DEPENDABLE? AND DID YOU EVER THINK THAT I WAS DEFENDABLE? OR DO YOU ONLY THINK THAT I WAS EXPENDABLE? WHEN YOU LOOK AT ME DID YOU EVER SEE A LEADER? DID YOU EVER SEE A SERVANT? NO! YOU ONLY SAW A LOW DOWN, DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDREL? DID YOU EVER SEE A FATHER? DID YOU EVER SEE A HUSBAND? DID YOU EVER SEE THE SPIRIT? DID YOU EVER SEE THE SPIRIT? DID YOU EVER SEE JESUS? DID YOU EVER SEE ANYTHING!? DO NOT YOUR EYES TO SEE ME. For more song lyrics, stories, and interactive Dirt... check out www.intheholehegoes.com!

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