| Artist: Young MC
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| Album: Brainstorm
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| Song: Inside My Head
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| Chours 1: (spoken)
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| This song will discuss four main parts of the brain, the cerebrum, the
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| Cerebellum, the limbic system and the brain stem and one individual’s use or
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| Misuse of these parts
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| Inside my head, or inside my brain
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| Is that part of me which keeps me sane
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| Which helps me discern between right and wrong
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| And other things I’m gonna talk about in this song
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| It’s time for the people to know, so now I tell 'em
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| What goes in my cerebrum and my cerebellum
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| The though process that helps me get dressed
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| Get up and go to school, sit down and take a test
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| It helps me determine if a girl is fine
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| And the steps necessary to make her mine
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| It tells me if something is cold or hot
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| And I don’t mess it up with crack, coke, or pot
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| It helps my hearing, taste, touch and sight
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| And smell so that I can tell that everything’s alright
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| It tells me when to get up and when to go to bed
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| This is some of what goes on inside my head
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| Inside my head, I wonder what might happen
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| If the day came and I stopped rappin'
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| Would I still have friends or be all alone
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| Do they like me for me or for the microphone
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| And also, when I go on a date
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| To a fancy resteraunt, a hundred dollars a plate
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| And people stare, is it because they recognize me
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| Or are they knee-jerk reacting to what they see
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| I’m sorry, let me make it somewhat clear
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| Do they look with joy or do they look with fear
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| Do they think 'oh wow, Young MC is near'
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| Or do they think, 'yo, get that nigga out of here'
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| I don’t know, it’s an unfortuante case
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| That I can’t read your mind when I see your face
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| But on the other hand, you can’t read mine
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| So I guess that the status quo’s just fine
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| For instance, say I’m in a tall building
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| Looking out the window, what if I illed and
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| Jumped out, would it really matter to some
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| And if they had my funeral, just who would come
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| Would they cry for me after I was gone
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| Well don’t worry, that’s not how I’m gonna move on
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| Cause I wanna go to heaven after I am dead
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| But this is what I goes on inside my head
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| Chours 2: (spoken)
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| The cerebrum is the part of the brain which is responsible for thinking
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| Reasoning, problem solving, and initiating resposes to external stimuli. |
| It
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| Is comprised of four lobes: the frontal, which is concerned with speach and
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| Voluntary muscle activity, the partietal, which is concerned with the
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| Interpetation of sensory stimuli, the temporal, which is concerned with
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| Auditory stimuli or hearing, and the occipital lobe, which is concerned with
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| The interpetation of visual stimuli. |
| It is the development of the cerebrum
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| In humans which distinguishes us from other living creatures. |
| Only whales
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| And dolphins have comparable cerveal development
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| Inside my head, pretty women reign supreme
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| Because they enter my live and dominate my dreams
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| I see one walking down the avenue freely
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| And I look her up and down hoping that she don’t see me
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| Then I wonder, what if the girl just stopped
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| Threw me on the ground and she got on top
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| And moved and grooved until our bodies were slick
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| Then I stop and say 'man, that’s sick'
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| But I’m not alone in this train of thought
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| Alot of people think it, but they don’t get caught
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| They just live their lives and keep it all inside
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| Another secret that the brain will hide
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| Right, I wonder what it’s like to live life wild
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| I wonder which women will have my child
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| Will I be a good parent, or will I be cold
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| Then I imagine I’m five years old
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| I’m running down the street without a care in the world
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| Puberty’s later, so I don’t think about girls
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| Mom and Dad will do whatever I say
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| They think it’s really cute to see their son play
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| Responsibility is like a four letter word
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| They say they told me something, I’ll say I never heard
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| Forget growing up, I’ll be a kid instead
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| Because this is what goes on inside my head
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| Chours 3: (spoken)
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| The cerebellum is located below the octipal lobe and behind the brain stem
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| It takes impulses from the rest of the brain and helps translate them into
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| Coordinated muscle movements. |
| Any msucualr acticity, from brute strenght to |
| A steady had, requires a high degree of cerebellur input. |
| The brain stem is
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| Located just above the base of the skull, and is the continuious connection
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| Between the brain and the spinal cord. |
| The lowest part of the brain stem or
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| The medullah oblongata actually becomes the spinal cord at the medullah’s
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| Lowest point and is concerned with the waking and sleeping states
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| Inside my head, there are so many questions to answer
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| And self-doubt grows in my mind like cancer
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| But I make sure that my thoughts are pure
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| And my self-confidence is like a cancer cure
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| So someone tell me why I think I’m fat
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| When none of my friends ever think like that
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| And could it be I’m not as ugly as I feel
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| Because alot of women think I’ve got sex appeal
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| And is it true, that I’m just too commercial
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| Not black enough cause I’m not controversial
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| Is it true what religious fanatics tell
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| If I don’t go to your church then I’m going to hell
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| And is it true, that I’m obliged to try
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| To please everyone with music I supply
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| And is it true, that it will make me strong
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| If I sleep with a women cause she likes my song
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| And is it true that I’m not a real black man
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| If I fall in love with somebody who needs a tan
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| And is it true that I have to try to be
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| Some type of superhero, cause I’m Young MC
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| And is it true, that I have to watch myself
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| Because I think about sex more than anyone else
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| And is it true, that every women is fake
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| 'cause she don’t like me for me but for the money I make
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| And is it true that I must be out of place
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| Since pop radio likes me, I’m ignoring my race
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| And is it true what some people will complain
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| That since I made this song I must be insane
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| Hell no, these are just negative thoughts
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| And I just ignore them so I won’t get caught
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| I let my heart lead and my brain be led
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| Because this is what goes on inside my head
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| Chours 4: (spoken)
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| The limbic system or the visceral brain is located in the area above the
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| Brain stem and below the cerebrum. |
| It is concerned with emotional tone
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| Habitual tendencies, sexual behaviour and desires, and is closely associated
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| With the cerebrum. |
| This association provides an inhibition for the raw
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| Emotional output of the limbic system. |
| It is the artist’s opinion that the
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| Concept of self-control rests upon the cerebrum’s ability to regulate the
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| Uninhibited emotional impulses of the limbic system. |
| And for me, the
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| Struggle continuies |