Artist: Atherton Album: No Threat Song: Kid on a Corner Typed by: Atherton [Intro] Allllright then! You ready guys? My friends have some musical stories to tell Sweet and sad, love affairs gone bad Adventures, we've all had And scenes, we know so well {"Here's a little story I gots to tell, about..."} {"Now..."} [Atherton] I met a kid on the corner with sticky fingers from the poster paste promoted new ish, but liked hip-hop from the olden days the "yes yes y'all" right up until the golden age Said indie rap was a bunch of white kids who didn't know there place I said "I noticed eh? Sometimes I feel like that too" I mean myself, that new jack, with ill fitted shoes Never rocked shell toes or had a fresh Puma suit but in my defense my excuse is I was only two Didn't have global news on all the dopest of crews What I got was Kriss Kross and some MC Hammer tunes but it enamored my view, and though they may have faked funk It was enough for my teacher to name me, MC Devin in grade one And it stayed umm, I remember that halloween Brown face paint saying "ya can't touch this" trick or treat Yeah, this is me long before I ever wrote a verse My genesis of bending scripts I'll lend you for what its worth [CHORUS: repeat 2X] I'm telling you why you w-ould give the time you c-ould before I die you sh-ould listen to me ee ee [Atherton] Raised on the East of Canada's capital Orleans up the boulevard next to Chapel Hill Paxil pills are gladly filled so that composure is kept And middle class walk the line between disposal and debt Composed in the "Westside" by Tony and Maurene Second of three kids stuck in the middle with me When I reached 2, moved to that Ottawa suburb Upbringing was beautiful never ask for another but yep yes digress from the topic at hand I'm sure you wanna know how I began rocking the jam Well at age 12, I started to smoke L's Had a knack for the craft of freestyle I flowed well How I really attached to rap to break fates law I chalk it up to pure magic and "je ne c'est quoi" either way my friends fuckin loved it when I'd rhyme In retrospect - they were all very high [CHORUS] [Atherton] Age 20 ditched the spliff did 4 months of rehab where I wrote raps and learned not to make mother feel sad I'd peel back pages rampant rhymes from my head smudging ink with my fist over the lines that I'd pen stuff wouldn't dry quick enough before the next thought So if, I'm sort of a mess call it, part of the art by 2006 had an album I was proud of took it on the road, live show getting crowd love Took some college courses on the music business Graduated formed a band with classmates of shared interest Band broke up, I started on this solo record and just as everything was coming together computer crashed I lost it got a phone call quick Paul wants to make an album The Leathers dropped hot shit and we're still rocking but I had ta get this off my chest I am Atherton I am "No Threat" [CHORUS] [scratched repeated 3X] {"Listen up everybody"} {"listen to this stylo while I"} {"Let me finish this, remiscin and tellin"} {"I was sittin on the corner just a wastin my time"} {"Ah when I realized..."} [Atherton] Now going back to that kid on the corner with the posters who liked old ish yet was a new school promoter I couldn't help but laugh when I became conscious those posters he was putting up had my name on it HAHAHAHHA [Outro] Listen to the musn'ts, child Listen to the don'ts Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts Listen to the never-haves and, listen close to me Anything can happen child Anything can be