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Before the Flood

2/9/2023

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by Jamie Willoughby



Jamie Willoughby is a high school senior at Geffen Academy.  His music appears in the current issue of Hare’s Paw, and his flash fiction has appeared in The Aurora Journa​l. He has studied piano and composition for 11 years.
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Picasso

9/26/2022

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By Alan Ward

Surging Tide Magazine · Picasso

​Better keep ya distance…
Thats 6 feet
Like I lost 2 inches
Drink. Water tall
And my fountain quenches
Give youth
Gap tooth
No yeezy dentures..
Just had to mentions
Like them pipe lines
Cuz maybe bops’ll listen……
Oh its that you missing??
Nice broad, dope cars
Yes, a massive interest
But write bars to stop wars
Cuz the cash is missing
Don’t turf more.
Drip poor, why you cats is hissing
Max Description: Kinda black & gifted 
Sorry I be actin different
No specs but I seen life through a pack of lenses
Grown Thugs, gold slugs to old slacks in benzes
I know enough from both sides so just smash the fences…
Go grease the chariot
To make it fair for who I gotta fare against
Stand and bare it like the ones preparing for the revenant
And still aint won no metal shit
But now Im tryna metal shit to make pennies quicks
Got my dogs jumping cuz the pen is lit
This penny thick
Took her out to Dennys 
Ate plenty, split
Mad I paid to simp
While she just,get to hang and hiss
Its cool you hate we kissed 
Like 5 percent and them atheist
Banging on my chest 
No Bapeiest
No need to Dave the kid 
Cuz he aint grow up round where them bangers live
Gets to be the token, butt of joking
He gone make it big
I Aint even 25, and stayed in over 80 cribs
No Mtv
Just hella greasy
Scrape to live
Grateful every play I get
And all the mates who hate I spit 
Picasso bravado 
How I wave my wrist 
No top jockey,
But I hate to diss
And if you take offense 
I told you what to do with it
Don’t know?
Then let it play again..
Let it play again

Alan Ward is a rap artist who was born and raised in Milwaukee, WI. After finishing school in Minnesota, Ward started his music career at the end of 2019 by dropping his first EP Joon. Following a solid response, Ward continued his passion releasing 2 more singles before the year end. These singles were included on his first mixtape along with 5 other tracks. 'Lyrical', 'bass heavy' and 'cool' were immediate descriptions of Ward's sound. Before closing out 2020, he dropped another single that was later part of his second mixtape Dolo. His first music video also came out that year to the lyrical b-cut track Studio Time. The consistent run proved to be a slight success after landing in several publications & getting both national & international radio placement. Now having a year and some change under his belt pursuing music, Ward showed extreme potential & promise. In 2021, he was efficient by droppin only an EP that was led by his single Picasso. He has now been solidified as one of the rising emcees who's tracks need to be replayed due to lyrical substance and infectious beat selection. By the end of 2021, Ward had now gained additional features in publications, more radio placements and a few podcasts interviews. By the midway point of 2022, Ward dropped a few more singles throughout the year and went on his first tour at the end of March. His newest effort was a 4 track EP Vintagious executively produced by Tedy Andread that dropped at the end of July. 

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