Too Long;Don't Feel Like Reading: this is my first single, remixed and remastered (kind of). It was originally released 4/20/2012 as "#TREEKA." I hope you enjoy it, and it has a lot of history to it.

This is going to be a long read, maybe you can read it while the song plays?

This is, well, it's the song that started it all. My first "real" single, from my first "real" album, One Year Later. I wanted to capture the essence of a revolutionary spirit that still didn't have all the answers. So, I started writing on some of the problems in the world at the time (the "bitch bad, woman good" debate, making memes out of racially-charged situations, the need for unity, empowerment of the black community, familial structures and familial losses).

It's both sobering and encouraging that these things are still being discussed today. Sobering because in the three years since I originally recorded this track, not too much has changed. However, it's encouraging since we can have discussions on these issues--and work together to prompt change (as change, unfortunately, isn't always as swift as you'd like).

I kind of got a bunch of mixed feedback the first time I dropped this song. First, it was (obviously) about the whole "no-fi" sound that started with this album and ended at the end of Death of the King. It was unlike most hip-hop tracks, so people were unsure as to how to take it. Should it be taken seriously (yes, since it was a style choice used to enhance the story behind the songs), or should it be discarded as "internet rapper #2813310 trying to run with the big dogs and failing miserably?"

The second point of mixed feedback was the title of the original track, "Truthful Revelations Encompassing Every Kaptivating Action," or "#TREEKA." Many people who knew me for years, they immediately thought it was a song about a young woman I had some sort of crush/romantic feelings/possible teenage thirst over named Treeka (I eventually played along with this, by incorporating a hand-drawn cover of this young woman on the original release).

Well, here's the thing. My albums originally were going to be named after women that played a part in my life. Heck, the last album I did prior to working on the Songs For trilogy was entitled #RAQUEL (or Reality Always Quenches, Universally, Every Longing) after my girlfriend (now fiancee), since it was the last album I released under my real name.

One Year Later (original title in the trilogy: RAQUEL RELOADED: The Devolution and Death of the Modern Male) was, at one point, going to be called "TREEKA" as it dealt with a great deal of past events. However, as time went on, the idea was squashed and I scrapped most of that album--which was later released here under the name "The Shit I Should've Dropped."

The song is not an ode to Treeka or anything of that nature. The young woman's voice you hear on here, who shall not be named, is NOT Treeka. I have no clue what happened to Treeka other than a brief conversation back in 2012 about our lives where I (probably drunkenly) tried to flirt with her, saying that pink looked good on her. The only thing she and this song share are the names (and a brief reference to her in the second verse).

Now, the title of the B'more Club tape I released in January 2014, "Searching for Raykel," is a play on this minor controversy/misinterpretation.

Geez, that was a long read