"Please allow me to introduce myself...My name is" Ok enough of that, I'm Nasya King and I am the pretty yellow monsta. Why would i choose such a title for myself you ask...the truth is I made this blog a year ago when i was into writing rap lyrics. The line was inspired by all of the rappers calling themselves beasts. Like being some sort of snarling vicious creature was in anyway attractive, or gave any insight into your true intellect. I guess the point is to intimidate, but I for one don't fine a beast very intimidating. Beasts are usually anamilistic creatures whom society has deemed are beneath us, and in some cases, even need our help. Usually they are killed by a gun, an arrow, or other commonly used (not very hard to retrieve) human mechanism. Like I said, not very intimidating. At least not when you think about how this is a human, which looks, sounds and acts much less intimidating than any true beast anyway. So the rap goes as such
"I am not a beast I'm a pretty yellow monsta
she thinks that she's fly but really nobody wants ha
I am the queen hail to me all of that
first you stepped up than you got knocked back
Now you talking trash but where is you at
I am not a kitty I will not chase a rat."
There is a lot more but we won't go into it, because as you can see my thinking level was not necessarily on a level with tupac back then. Cut me some slack though. I was only in junior high. However, maybe I was on to somethin then. I mean there's nothing wrong with being pretty, my skin color is what most would call a yellow bone (hence the yellow), and well monsters are associated with the creature under your bed. These are the ones that are associated with truly horrible...well pretty much anything.
So why would anyone want to represent the creature that hides under children's beds or lurks in closets, the ones who commit vile acts of crime, or the freak show that everyone is afraid of because of there differences? Well idk about others, but i believe everyone deserves a chance to be heard, to try and be understood, and to be defended by at least one person in the world. Those people who seem to be the lowest of the low were born just as cute as you, your siblings, your parents, and even your own sweet babies. Society makes monsters, they DO NOT just appear from even the thinnest of airs. So who better to defend them than the "pretty yellow" girl (not my words but I'll borrow them for this purpose) who battles with her own monsters everyday? Everyone is a monster in one form or another. Society has just put a label on certain things they deem "not of human nature." Let karma, God, Allah, the afterlife, or anything else that in your belief is the final justice do it's job. Because as human beings our job is not to cast judgment on others but to observe, learn, and act in ways that will mold us into a person that we could stand up and defend. And then plant the seeds in other people's minds that they should do the same. And sometimes that seed sprouts, but sometimes it doesn't. Don't chop it down and don't overfeed it, because that's what creates a true monster. Not in that seed, but in you.
Conversation With Self
Side Note: The "a" instead of the "er" on Monsta/Monster represents a more open, lighthearted version of the word.
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