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The End of an Era: the Mit MJ Rips Story

Today marks the end of an era in my life. I decided to finally pull the plug on my rap career. I decided to make the jump from rapper to just a writer. I still love music dearly. I hope my words inspire the next generation of writers.

I wrote this update video years ago. Then, I got the music bug several more times. Now, I am officially putting this out with a more definite this is the end. I went on debating back and forth about whether I should quit. With the aid of prayer and reflection, I decided I am a poet not a rapper. I will share my poetry within my prose. I also made the decision to delete everything on YouTube.

The reason behind deleting everything, even the not music related videos, is that I want to add on to the stories I had published. I am going to be focusing on remaking my older work and finding a good platform to share my written works.

The transition of being a rapper to just focusing on the writing part has been on my mind lately. Thinking over if my words would mean more if I didn't have a beat. My rhythm was the biggest obstacle in making a good song. I had zero skill on the music front. I tried singing but I don't have the voice for that. I came to the realization that maybe music isn't my thing.

I decided today to drop the name Mit MJ Rips. The name I created in high school. I have been writing music ever since under the alter ego of a born-again Catholic. My music reflected my life. I wrote about heartbreak, religion, and other personal things.

Mit MJ Rips is going to be a character instead of a pseudonym. I am going to post under the name of Timothy Morgan from now on.

One of the first tracks I made under the name Mit would be "New Life." This is how it went.

New Life

Intro

I was only dreaming

Attempted murders…

Tim

This intro started on a beat I found online. I decided to remake the intro when I made my own beat for the song.

Had an inner struggle with my foe Dim

Enter muggle swift a poe named thou Rex

I had a battle with my past-self Tim

Left me confused rattled with a complex

Dim Tim was my first rap name. This song kicks off the change that came with ending Dim and beginning Mit.

So someone told me my new name

I’m done it’s a joke just a game

No, the voice whispered trust me lame

Saw myself broken at the knees

With the words spoken I grabbed beads

He told me to pray the Rosary

Now holding them it got less scary

I started with the Apostles Creed

As I prayed my old wounds did not bleed

The chains fell now I could succeed

No longer held down I will praise

Hoping that one day I would raise

The Rosary really did help me when deciding to change from Dim to Mit. I was stuck in a cycle of pessimism and hate. Finally saying no to that opened up a gallon of inspiration. I would write over a thousand songs under Mit. A number of which are going to inspire new short stories when I get to them.

The Chains of sin broke

The Son always here

With the Words he spoken

No reason to fear

Yeah I have no reason to fear

The Chains of sin were broken

The Son always here

With the Words he spoken

I have no reason to fear

I opened a Bible to Paul

I learn how I was a close call

From spiritual libel flip the table

The Holy Spirit’s why I am Abel

Inside I’m still Cain

Who would kill in vain?

Who is half insane?

Now that I’m over one little hiccup

Maybe I need a new name like Jacob

Maybe Mit MJ Rips

How it flows from the lips

I took much inspiration from the Bible. I thought that my new name should be connected like when Old Testament people and even a few New Testament figures got a name change. God showed me the light and I changed my whole personality at the time.

Cause my whole life was backwards

This line is a reference to how Mit is Tim backwards.

I admit through his new words

And broken from old goat herds

MJ'll live another day

All the way to Judgment Day

So now I struggled with seven demons

I have toggled being an even role model

With my odd past grievances deepens

With different lens no mask or bottle

I only get one chance in life

So why forget one dance in strife

I’ll be here playing with a fife

Rocking with the drummer boy

Knocking with my summer joy

So will anyone answer?

Fulfill what was done dancer

The Almighty Lord has reconcile

But they say go forth in your style

One mile no I will go two while

I proclaim His Name through my work

I will not be same its change clerk

Even though I die I will live

No eye for an eye please forgive

Sin held me back got me off track

Shout out to Kendrick

Because I love Myself

The name is attached to over a thousand songs I recorded in the past. Sometimes, I wish I still had all those different tracks. I deleted all my music from the internet and my hard drive. I still have the lyrics which I will feature in my writings in the forms of poems.

As an example, here is a poem I wrote called "I Quit Rap"

I feel I cannot ride a beat

I feel tired of being a cheat

I work the syllables but can't unite

My last two albums ended it

Diamond and Complete Honesty 5

That's it no more

I quit like Mankind

I didn't want to say it

But someone forced me

This is referencing the infamous I quit match between the Rock and Mankind. Basically, the match ended when The Rock took a sound bite of Mankind saying I Quit from an earlier promo.

All the negative reaction

I switched to focus on the words

That is why I am spoken word artist

Forget the beat just put the words right

I have more freedom

I like rap and hip hop

But this will be the last drop

Critics are the enemy to art

But I have played my part

The old albums will stay

But I will write to this day

Welcome to my therapy session

Obsession is my lesson

I had no rhythm but lots of poetry

One of many. Are critics the enemy

I listen to Tech N9ne

And that one line

Hoping you gobble a jimmy and die

Listening to it the first time I won't lie

I feel the same about my music

Never got around to make a classic

Tech N9ne was a great inspiration, and I love the song fragile, which I interpolated in this poem.

This song I wrote to be on a spoken word album called Therapy. Therapy was all about what I dealt with during therapy. That project never saw the light of day. Maybe, I will write something using the idea of therapy. This is confirmation of the fact that I quit rap.

I created this as a poem at first. The track got reworked into a rap, which appeared on "From a School Kid to Artist." This was a visual extended play that followed the story of me quitting rap. I returned to rap in freshman year.

This means a lot to me to quit music. I loved it for a long time. Writing was already my favorite part of the process. I think my work would be better if I didn't present it as a rap and rather poetry.

I am working on a ton of short stories, novels, novellas, and poetry. I may need some time to think over all these things in my head before posting.

With the new reinvention of my channel, I am going to work on older work and bring it up to my newer standards. I might add to existing stories.

It is going to be fun, which is all I really care about. Music hasn't been fun in a while. I have so many great ideas and am ready to make art out of art.

I don't know what I am going to post first, but I am happy to share as much as possible.

Timothy Morgan is the name of my channel now. Real name, no gimmicks.