User:Stewpart/sandbox

“From a career criminal to a career as a rapper….50” From a cell to the booth, from prison to the studio, a real life 50 year old rapper rapping about the true elements of the inner city streets; drugs, crime, prison and death, to give realistic illustrations and hard lessons learnt to the inner city youths through real life experiences. Expressing a reality which they cannot see until it’s too late and the consequences becomes theirs. Stewart Partlow El Jr., was born at Providence Hospital in Washington, DC on November 16, 1968 and was raised in the Southeast section of Washington, DC, namely, the East Gate Dwellings and shall be known as OG LOW, the rap artist. I have spent the last 35 years of my life living the type of life that most other rappers, (including) but not limited to, the great late Tupac Shakur, rap about in their lyrical content.

OG LOW has now put down the gun and picked up the microphone to make a change in his life. Life is for the living and to “Still” be alive and “not” sitting in a federal super max institution is reason enough why, at nearly 50 years old, I have continued to pursue my aspirations in hip hop music and defy the odds by doing something that will surely “never” be repeated.

In introducing myself to the world through the vehicle of the “rap game” as OG LOW, I am attempting to fulfill my destiny. Something I had tried to do in the past but my addiction to the “street,” its elements and lifestyle kept me living the way I now “only” rap about.

It is my desire to represent the passion that captivated my heart over 30 years ago, a passion that was identified and christened “THUG LIFE” by the late great Tupac Shakur. Who I am and what I was, is everything that the THUG LIFE movement represented, which Tupac embodied as an artist; then in life. For those who have or can identify or even empathize with the “soul” of Tupac’s music, it is my belief that they will be able to relate to the soul of my music as well, for, I am the true personification of all that Tupac spoke about throughout his lyrical content.

OG LOW is not just another hip hop rap artist of street or gangsta rap… for I am the living embodiment of a thug and now, I am a rap artist whose lyrics will attest to the life I have lived as well as be reminiscent of the late great Tupac Shakur. It is my intention to resurrect and “reintroduce the persona…” of thug life through the lyrical personification of a real thug’s life. Although, in some ways, our lyrical styles may seem similar in their individual deliveries, there will be an essential elemental difference between the two styles. Tupac’s ideals came through his personal observation, while, my concepts, OG LOW ideals comes from personal experience. While Tupac didn’t necessarily live a “thug” life but lived a lifestyle in which his life imitated his art, OG LOW has lived his entire life as a thug.

Therefore, though the platform that was built and left by Tupac due to his untimely death, OG LOW desires to share within his lyrics, a grim reality firmly and loosely based on the experiences that he has endured and the experiences of those who have walked along the same path as he.

My story is a tell of the pain, shame, degradation, insanity, sorrow, joy, laughter, hope, and despair that is found in the inconstancy of the life that I have lived which is “THUG LIFE.” I am not trying to replace “A King” but, re-establish his throne…