The Word of Koolassjoe

The Word of Koolassjoe

by Joseph Anthony Torres

a Koolassjoe Publication

2019

Copyright ©2019 by Joseph Anthony Torres

All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the publisher except for the use of brief quotations in a book review or scholarly journal.

First Printing:2019

ISBN 978-1-79475-019-7

Koolassjoe Entertainment LLC / USZ United LLC

35 Highland Ave, Piermont New York, 10968

Koolassjoe@gmail.com

josephanthonytorres17@gmail.com

In loving memory of Hip Hop

Acknowledgements

I thank my mom for letting me play music when I was younger. For showing me what records were and for buying me the little yellow radio. I thank my Gran'ma for giving me my first record player and getting me the We Are The World single on vinyl and the Woman In Red album for Christmas and for playing good music every weekend. I thank the universe for making the early 90's my high school years. I thank the people on the block who rhymed and needed me to beatbox for hours on end before the day I stopped the beat and started rhyming. I thank those same guys again for totally losing their shit when I finished. It caused me to do it again. I thank catholic school for making us copy the same words and meanings over and over, for the proper use of spelling and grammar and for instilling in me the difference between a simile and a metaphor. I thank my friends for flowing with me and my family for believing in my craft. Finally I thank the rhymes. I thank them for choosing me to spit them. For always being there for me as my way of expression.

Sincerely

Joseph Anthony Torres

Koolassjoe

Contents

v.Dedication

vii..Acknowledgments

ix.Contents

xi.Preface

Chapter 1:The Start Button

Chapter 2:Dj Koolassjoe

Chapter 3:The Studio

Chapter 4:Rutherford

Chapter 5:The New Millenium

Chapter 6:Box of Hitz

Chapter 7:The Husband

Chapter 8:Angry old Man

Chapter 9:The Legend of Koolassjoe

Epilogue

Preface

This is a book of rhymes by a person named Koolassjoe. It contains a few notebooks worth of handwritten lyrics, poems and rhymes that have not been changed or altered but transcribed by the author. The first few pages of lyrics were yellowed and were primarily written in pencil. These pages varied in age and were from different types of paper as some were from loose leaf packs to pages that were torn from generic school notebooks. Some of these were dated with a few pages found from the late 80's all the way to 2019.. There is also a set of printed pages with a lot more work crammed into clean legible text. This format showed the writer had tried to compile a few notebooks worth of work beforehand.

The writer in question is a man by the name of Koolassjoe. A pen name that he has gone by for over 30yrs. This book is basically a compilation of his works and what follows is a loose account of where he was and what his life was about around the time of those said pieces. From his first attempts at wordplay that showcased his innocence all the way to the latter where wisdom is displayed, Koolassjoe used the terminology of his era and expressed it through his writings. As one would expect, terminology changes with time but can sometimes still carry a bit of significance beyond. His emotional state can be perceived by anyone at any age. Almost timeless. In other words his rhymes can carry weight with someone who is or is not in his own age group or generation.

Something he wrote in 1991 is still recognizable by someone in 2019. Those same words were from a kid who was a bit of an old soul and it seems as though living in his environment must have been hard to do. His works showcase the struggle, turmoil, sometimes joyous and other times unforgiving issues involved with whatever he was surrounded by. His flows were straight forward giving his listener exactly what he was trying to get at. It shows his progression from a kid to an adult in both his writing capability and ever increasing albeit grim intelligence. His way of thinking says it’s wisdom you purchase with innocence. Sometimes very heavy and thought provoking, telling Koolassjoe that his flows were deep is immediately brushed off. His answer is that he wasn’t. The base of his doubt being that he was just flowing with the music. He wasn’t trying to sound better than anyone else. Instead he was just trying to sound better.

Upon looking at these yellowed papers and deciphering the art, one would be intrigued to find out  who had written these. So... Who is Koolassjoe? What is a Koolassjoe? When was this Koolassjoe spitting these lyrics? Is he a famous rapper? A dud? Where in the history of Hip Hop was or is this person called  Koolassjoe? The Word of Koolassjoe is kinda conceited. Is this some kind of religion or positivity report? Is  he a poet? A wizard? A philosopher? A random quark in today's social binds? A mishap in time maybe? Why is any of this Koolassjoe stuff important? There's tons of rappers out there. Why put the words of Koolassjoe in book format? Is this just a book of rhymes?

Well for now it doesn't matter to anyone but Koolassjoe. To Koolassjoe, it's also just a book of rhymes. A set of notebooks and loose pages that lay loose in a binder just seemed incomplete. The idea just came up that it would be kool to press it all into a book and here we are. Mr. Koolassjoe lays out a case. In it is a black binder stuffed with folders.

●       There Lies da Secret

●       More than meets the I

●       Intellect n Respect

●       Ya Mind will Justify

It's a passage written on the binder. He states that this is a secret code. With a smirk he turns and states that if this book is written to his specifications, he’ll be kool with it. He states that there is knowledge he wishes to pass on and that there is code written into his works. Apparently this passage is a code and its specifically written for his son. What it actually means is supposedly only for his child to understand. His child at this present moment is 11 years old but it's said by Joe himself that his son will only get the passage as code at a later age. He isn’t ready to receive the key for the code yet.

I'm no code breaker but I immediately tried to figure out what this passage could mean beyond the words themselves. The only thing that comes to mind is the amount of letters in each line add up to 17. As I mumble the 17 letters thing, Joe grabs the binder. This also happens to be an important number to the writer as his birthdate is November 17, 1977. The man, upon hearing my mumblings, said Thank you for doing what I hope people will do and said the number 17 is very important to him as he smirked and cut off my focus on the passage. At least I was able to figure that out so intrigue stepped in for a bit but alas it wasn’t what we were here for.

Koolassjoe seems to have hidden stuff in his rhymes and this one was the only one he mentioned to me. With a smile he stated that he has done stuff like this for a long time in hopes of one day changing the world and required that I write this in this exact way and whatever else is written be scrutinized and copied verbatim. The guy is a mystery. He has little things scattered all over the net as well as the real physical world. He's a bit of a collector, a writer, a philosopher and poet. He seems to have a bit of air to him thats kind of annoying cause its a kool kinda thing. I actually get his name. He knows little things that actually would benefit mankind. Like how he pressed on a pressure point in my hand and stopped my migraine. I freaked out and he laughed it off saying it's just biology man. He taught me how to start a fire with my tears and pointed out how to make 5 dollars from 50 cents in change!

He has a tattoo on the palm of his right hand that's basically a swirl. I asked him if it was from an anime I used to watch called Naruto. Fibonacci he exclaimed. Flower of life, the shape of our solar system, the focal point of the hadoken which was highlighted by Jiraia's training for Naruto's Rasengen... This guy! He didn't answer my question but answered the next 2 questions I would have had to ask after. It’s the moment I realized what the koolassjoe thing was about. It was wild. The instant you realize you have something in common with a person, the easier it is to push negative thoughts away and bond as humans do.

He says he understands science and mysticism as yin and yang. The tattoo is the only one he has because there's an actual use for it. The same reasoning it was used in the Naruto show. To remember to focus the energy at one spot. It was something he used to draw on his palms as a kid to which he covered with his cut gloves. Then he read about these ideas in other places and then saw it in the anime as basically the same principles he always followed. He then just made the marks permanent. In a way he did not get the tat from the cartoon yet its the exact same marking and he is a fan so he says yes to those he thinks would get that reference and no to those he thinks would understand the Fibonacci sequence. This lead me to google and now I too understand the sequence. It ends up being a bigger thing