Coming up next to the stage, man, what can I say about Harold?
He is more than a poet, more than an emcee, more than a mentor, more than a teacher.
Man, he is just a real grown-ass man, real life.
I mean, he's like doing his first year.
I need to draw until I make it.
Give it up for Harold Green.
I try to talk about every subject I possibly can while giving it positive energy.
I think I'm very sound in talking about love.
I think I'm very sound in talking about hoodrat things.
I think I'm very sound in talking about spiritual things.
I think I'm very sound in talking about philosophical things.
Like gospel rappers or cocaine rappers, you know what I'm saying?
Yeah, I said them in the same sentence because I'd be getting the same feel.
I don't want to ever be in just one category of, you know, because there's so many things to talk about in life.
There's nothing new under the sun, but it's a million ways to say it, though, you know what I'm saying?
So I just try to switch it up every time I can because I just don't want to be putting aside no HOV.
Harold Green does not exist.
He is a mythical creature with godlike features, six-foot frames stuffed inside of some new age sneakers,
longs replaced with speakers, sound waves that travel like banshee screeching,
ripping through your soul like a Southern Baptist preacher.
Come on.
Come on, man.
Rip me through your spirit like a Southern Baptist preacher.
He is like old school FM receivers.
And they say to his hard-pump penzole, poor, sweat-out ether, mouth-made to eat fire and breathe it.
Hands, they made a stone. He's been known as slapbox with the reaper.
Underdog with the alpha dog approached one of your best known sleepers.
Titanium backbone. They said don't drink the Kool-Aid. He asked for two liters.
Dad to see if God was real came back and said, I need a little bit more sugar.
He aligns his movements with the constellations just to present perfect positioning,
like newlyweds examining the karma sutra.
Been known to hibernate, to rejuvenate just to get away from all the hoopla.
And while God was waiting to see what color he was going to paint him,
his rebel angels came by and tagged him with graffiti.
They say that his beard is made out of lion's fur. They say he's a myth, but I don't believe him.
They say that the best part about a myth is not its presence, but its meaning.
Which means that Harold Green's myths make him meaningful, worth the ear for.
Urban myth or legend.
Harold Green is a mythical creature. Let me know if you see him.
I know for a fact, I'm fighting for a peace of mind.
My own and for whoever believes in what I'm talking about.
But I'm also fighting to be memorable too.
In my personal opinion, I have a gladiator's mentality.
So it's like I just keep on banging away at the wall, banging away at the wall.
And I'm just steady, just fighting my way out.
And I feel like the harder you fight, the harder you go,
when everybody else is just like, well, that might be enough.
You just keep on taking it a little bit further.
You just keep on taking it a little bit further.
You just keep on taking it a little bit further.
These words were really resonating with him. These words were really making these people move.
And I started getting more and more shows.
You know, people reaching out from different areas, different regions.
And I'm starting to move around East Coast, in the South, Midwest.
It was like, oh, people need this a little bit.
So I was like, man, let's keep it going.
You know what I'm saying?
It's like eight years strong and I'm still doing it.
And I'm still evolving and still trying to be prolific and profound.
And we're in like a closed family. So like, if you get the murmur in and all that,
I can kind of hear you in my kind of jaw of my energy.
And like, I can feel the energy.
Embrace your evidence into these hugs hurting for what it's worth.
I'm just a modest mortal.
I just want to express my moral.
So I can tell lessons about bad necessities.
All I need is a Bible in your being.
And I got the recipe for tranquility.
And I respect your matter.
This part is pretty good, I think.
So just, you know what I'm saying?
Men and women, two things that make that go together.
Men and women, it's two words that don't even go together.
So I guess you can call me a walking ox and moron,
but I want my substance to get you high like heroin.
I'm not sexy.
No muscles, balls when I'm flexing.
No rich, no lava, no Jacob.
But I'll be there when you wake up.
I'll make you feel beautiful, baby.
And you ain't got to buy no makeup.
I'm not perfect.
We all got some work to do.
I can spend a lot of time with myself,
whereas, you know, others may need to party
and, you know, socialize, whatever.
I got a lot of time to spend with myself, my music.
And when you can do that, it helps you grow quicker.
I want to pass on zeal.
I think in order to be a Renaissance man, you have to have zeal.
It's just a relentless, just a relentless effort
to always be better, no matter how good they tell you you are.
You know what I'm saying?
Miles Davis to me, he had crazy zeal.
No matter how good they told me was,
he always went to try something different.
And they were like, well, I don't do that,
because that was working.
Like, that ain't really...
And he's like, no, no.
I want to see it with this, you know what I'm saying?
And I think one of the dopest Renaissance men
as far as, you know, modern time, whatever was,
Gordon Park, like, it was like, I'm going to try
and work from that ground level up again, you know what I'm saying?
Just so I stay on my toes.
And I think that's a great, like, showing of zeal.
