Questions (Rough Draft)
1999 · MidWestSide MWS 6621 · Kansas City, Missouri
- Artist
- Tech N9ne
- Title
- Questions (Rough Draft)
- Release
- The Calm Before the Storm
- Year
- 1999
- Label
- MidWestSide # MWS 6621
- Format
- Album
- Language
- English
- Country
- Kansas City, Missouri, USA
- Genre
- Hip Hop · Hardcore Hip Hop
- Primary theme
- Post-War
Annotation — Rap / Hip Hop Songs
Hardcore Hip Hop artist, born Aaron Dontez Yates on 8 November 1971 in Kansas City, Missouri, USA, releasing a string of low-selling albums. He referenced Vietnam on several tracks throughout his career: "Questions (Rough Draft)" (1999), "Who You Came to See" (2001), "Breath" (2001), and "No See Umz" (2021).The song "Questions (Rough Draft)" (MidWestSide Records # MWS 6621) again used Vietnam as a metaphor for violence: "could you be the reason I'm a bomb, straight out of Vietnam, ready to explode on Satan?".
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Lyrics
English: Now do you know what the real is? / Does everybody think I'm twisted? Non-realistic / Or do you think that I'm gifted? I'ma lift it, yeah / Can you help me? Am I lookin' at you? / Could I be peepin' you from afar? Please, remain calm / Could you be the reason I'm a bomb / Straight out of Vietnam, ready to explode on Satan? / Tell me what the problem is, I'm alright where the bottom is / Do you know what a empty column is? / Am I your worst nightmare? I feel sick right there / Should I blow it out? Can I do without? Do I need help? / Am I living within a pen of demons? / I'm stressing, can I get a blessing? (From who?) / The one who cursed me with all these questions
About the artist
Hardcore Hip Hop artist, born Aaron Dontez Yates on 8 November 1971 in Kansas City, Missouri, USA, releasing a string of low-selling albums. He referenced Vietnam on several tracks throughout his career: "Questions (Rough Draft)" (1999), "Who You Came to See" (2001), "Breath" (2001), and "No See Umz" (2021).