The Fantastic Four

 My first encounter with the fantastic four was on a cold November afternoon. Valeu, The Surgeon, Ms. Rasta and myself decided to venture into town and while there stop at coffee shop “The Act” to enjoy a nice toke. Upon making it to the city center, we entered a few shops, bought a bevy of random objects including, deodorant, caprisun, nestea, vitamin c pills, cough drops and cough syrup. Yes the dutch weather was starting to get to me and I had to try and counteract the cold with some medicinal remedies. After our random purchases we finally made it into the coffee shop. Valeu and Ms Rasta already in there about 15 mins before myself and Surgeon had almost finished rolling 2 J's. One was power punch and the other was...ah don’t remember. Upon arriving I picked up a gram of amnesia haze and right away I knew it was about to get interesting. We all nestled into the corner in a nice little lofted space dimly illuminated by some neon lights. At this moment Valeu was almost done rolling the power punch and whatever else the other one was. I then turned to surgeon and asked him to roll some amnesia haze. As the hands began working on getting the spaceships ready four interesting gentlemen walked into the coffee shop. As they came in they gave greetings to familiar people around the coffee shop. As they made their way around one of them extends his hands out and gives me a handshake. This was a bit random but it was a sign of respect and I embraced it. I had never met these guys before but needless to say, I was glad that the handshake passed my way and not anything else. These were street guys, real tough guys, guys that you knew just by looking in their eyes they had seen and done some things. They sat at a table facing the area we were lounging in. 10 mins after the first two simultaneous J's are lit, they matriculated towards where we were and asked us if they could join us in our area. It was one of those questions that only had one answer, and of course we obliged. Sitting there as they prepared their own spaceships, in a mist of mary jane, I begin to perceive what sounded like lyrics coming from one of the guys. He started off slow, spitting some rhymes and as I began to chime in, I realized that it was a brilliant mix of both dutch and english. At this point I am amazed. I listen deeper, and as the attention grows, so does his flow. He continues to rock it for about two minutes and then the song ends. Im impressed, actually thoroughly impressed. His mate then starts at it and he spits for about a minute, and he's good too. He later on tells me he's the “beat guy, the producer”. No prob I'm still tuned in. The third guy at the moment is sitting next to me. I lean over and ask, “Hey bro you spit too?” He replies, “Nah man, i'm more of a hands on kinda guy, I leave the rapping to the younger ones”. I nod, allowing the information to sink in, while making sure not to ask anymore questions to avoid clarification. The third song stops. As the next song comes on, I ask if I could kick a freestyle, they all oblige. So I go in, I start slow, nothing major then pick it up a bit, alternating tempo and delivery. They dig it. It was nothing hard but at least I impressed them a bit. At this moment the fourth guy, who had been going back and forth finally sits. The music stops. He takes his phone from his pocket puts it down. As the next song starts, so does this guy. He spits for about 15-20mins and he destroyed it. Although there was a lot I couldn't understand because he was also going in and out from english to dutch, it was still amazing to see the passion and energy that this guy brought to the table. In one word it was incredible!! I know, I know I am bad with names, and that is why I dubbed them the fantastic four. I only got ZwartBloed's contact, but hopefully this leads to an article real soon. The night ended shorty after that. I took my ass home, got in the bed and passed out. I then woke up at 5:45 am and remembered that I had to chronicle this before the amnesia got to me. Haha

BQ

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