Last night the podcast recording went well, this morning I had to get the Queen’s car in for an oil change. The work took longer than I wanted, I had some other things done to it. The little princess was wonderful lasting over two hours without a nap, which is a lot when usually she goes down after one. My six peach trees were delivered today, I had to dig up the holes of the trees they’re replacing and tonight will spray for bugs. A lot of tree mulch mounds grow ants and I don’t want to be bitten by ants when planting new trees. There was also a carpenter bee on my steps so the whole house should be sprayed for bugs.
Rap: This weeks rap comes from Busta Rhymes(Busta Rhymes is in the building) his album Extinction Level Event 2: The Wrath of God and song with the same title.
line up the subjects
I’m tired of injustice from the popes, politicians and judges
When you witness the abuse of power, sometimes it’s seductive
Then I question God, why create a creature that is so destructive?
Hold all your grudges and focus while you create expenses
Every man is free of choice, but no man is free of consequences
Hold your suggestions and listen closely, I study lessons
Causing rain, hail, snow and earthquake and travel dimensions
The ground’ll rattle, the Earth will rumble like a stampede of cattle
Eleven hundred twenty feet per second, faster than sound travel
Time to break down the bars
This rap has an aggressive sound, I did my best to impersonate BussaBus and when practicing, the sound would instantly bring my baby to tears. As such it touches on some topics I won’t go into detail on for fear of censure.
“Line up the subjects I’m tired of injustice” rhymes and makes me think he’d like to see these people on a firing line.
“I question God, why create a creature that is so destructive?” That is a question, I suppose the answer would be that man wasn’t so bad at creation but took actions that led to a fall because we were giving free will and the devil is a mighty temptation.
While “every man is free of choice, no man is free of consequences.” which leads us to the situation we find ourselves in.
“The ground’ll rattle, the Earth will rumble like a stampede of cattle” ground’ll rattle, earth will rumble is a nice alliteration. Rattle and cattle start and end the line with a rhyme.
“Eleven hundred twenty feet per second, faster than sound travel” 1,120 feet per second is said to be the speed of sound, but we don’t travel at feet per second, lets convert it to miles per hour.
I should have an image on the screen now to walk through the conversion. On the left we start with 1,120 feet for 1 second. Since we want miles per hour, miles will be on the top of the equation because when we have like terms on top and bottom they cancel out. We know that 1 mile is equal to 5,280 feet. Easy to remember because 5 times 2 is 10, 0, and 2 plus 8 is 10, 5280. Multiplying by 1 over 5,280 is the same as saying divid by 5,280 then we need to turn seconds into hours, so times 60 seconds in a minute and times 60 minutes in an hour. Giving us about 760 mph for the speed of sound. End image.
The speed of 5.56 bullet coming out of an m-4 is 2,900 feet per second or almost 2,000 mph. Since the object is traveling faster than the speed of sound, that means the sound waves moving forward bunch up creating what is called a sonic boom, or as Guile says, “Sonic boom.” Busta Rhymes himself will tell you he only became who he is by doing his mathematics.
The reason I wanted to cover this song in the first place is because of this next line.
“it’s been part of the plan, fool
They messed around and made the demasculinization of man cool”
This has been going on for the last couple decades, maybe all time as a tyrant would like subjects that can’t fight back. Now it’s important for strong men to stand up and know what’s right.
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