This is Me Swallowing My Pride
Posted on October 30, 2009
Filed Under Daily, Family, Little Sabreen | 30 Comments
When I was 10 years old, my dad called the family together for a family meeting, and told us that we were moving to Germany for three years. After the meeting, I went to my room, and started scribbling diligently in my notebook — because even back then, the only way I knew how to express myself was through my writing.
Oh, did I mention, I didn’t write just anything.
I wrote a rap song.
Yes, you read that correctly.
I wrote a rap song.
About 30 minutes later, I preformed it for my family.
Or should I say, I “rapped” it while my sister cried. No, not because the song was that bad (although it was that bad) but because she had just started middle school, and her life, as she put it back then, was “totally ruined.”
(On a related side note: I didn’t have a stage name back then, but according to a random Web site I just found, if I were a rapper, my name would be “Busta Twist.”)
I would never have remembered that I wrote this song, had I not been home for my sister’s wedding, and found one of my old notebooks that my mom was now using for her grocery lists, and random note taking.
To say I was tremendously embarrassed reading this as an adult is beyond an understatement, and I had second, and third, and fourth thoughts about posting this. There are words spelled wrong, and at one point I say “sista,” which was probably for effect since it was a rap, and Oh My God! I actually just cringed.
But against all my better judgment, here it is, on the World Wide Web.
The only non-embarrassing memory I had after reading this was remembering the pen I used to write with, which every kid in elementary school had back then. It was one of those fat ball points with six different colors that you could call upon simply by sliding down a little plastic switch at the top of your pen.
Now that I have been exposed to the world, I’m going to crawl into a hole in hide.
I’m not sure when I can publicly show my face again.
Goodbye forever,
(Or at least until the Internet laughter dies down)
Busta Twist
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Awesome. I always consider sharing my childhood writing. I want to institute a stalker poem per week. LOL.
that was actually quite good..
yo that was legit, maaaaaaad good lol maybe you should spit some game again!
Actually i thought that was rather good Sabrina…have no shame and come back soon:P
woww for a 10 year old that was awesomee.got talentt from the start!
=)
This was the push I needed to start blogging again! If you can post that then what the hell do I have to cringe about?? Saying that I did love it, I read this bit ‘we’ll try to keep straight faces when its time to part’ as ‘we’ll try to keep straight faces when its time to fart’ which just made me laugh even more. Thank you for sharing!
Oh and I had that pen…I still wish I had it.
you had great handwriting for a 10 year old! btw ive been using the ecojot as a journal! b/c its such an awesome notebook, i ENJOY writing in it!
so thanks!
hahahaha! That was awesome!
Lol wow you’re really good at poetry… or should I say RAPPING! =P
dont see what you’re embarrassed about. I’d be proud to be able to write that now, at this age, LOL
Ok, you’re officially the coolest chick I’ve seen on the net. Period. Now come back!
This is not bad at all!? I actually had a good time reading this with a rap voice…lol no need to be embarrassed!!!
this…. by far… has been your best post ever. by the simple fact that you… back then knew to break out the chorus. priceless. <3
As’salam-u-Alaikum.
I loved it!
The most interesting read. And you could RHYME!
wow.
Anyway, i still have that pen.
That was hilarious! :p I got to give you credit though, those were some dope lines for a first time rapper.
no way. I use to rap too, man I wish I could find them.
If I ever do we’ll have to do a colab.
busta twist feat. killa cam
woah that’s really good for ten years old! I’m really impressed!
HAHAHAHAHA this reminds me of all the poetry crap I did when I was a kid! shameless kid, i was.
LMAO at *(chorus)* being clearly marked.
Ha! For some reason “Children’s story” by Slick Rick comes to mind.
I had a beat in my head while I read this
thats soo adorable and funny
and oh my gosh,i have ‘the’ pen!…
I love when you bust out with your old writing. I just told Tina that you need to post one of your old notes that you two use to pass around…but we came to the conclusion that it might be incriminating
hahaha
OMG…you are hilarious sabrina. brings back old memories….lol. the crazy thing is..the whole time i was reading your rap, i was saying to myself “i bet she was using one of those pens with the different colors.”….and you were lol.
I have to say that was pretty hilarious but totally awesome….at least you were rapping at 10….my writings at 10 years old were all about my sister stealing my dessert lol.
hahahha aww this cute
Hey that was actually pretty impressive!!!!! If only your parents had videotaped you rapping it!!
haha fubby, but really tho, for 10 years old, this was pretty great
busta twist !!! HAHAHAHA :p
p.s. it is actually good! now i am thinking of what i used to write and OMG! i wana die!you wrote such mature stuff as compared to mine at that age. wait , i think i cudnt even write that good let alone make it rhyme ! :s
p.s.s. and i still have that sort of a pen [ i'm 24!!]