Pro Con - Zach Sherwin

What I want to provide is a bit of context

Help you get with the program

Bring you on board with the concept

Positive versus negative like a proton-electron contest

I just hope that a verse this hot

Is not gonna make my palms sweat

Rap professional comin' atcha

From every angle like a protractor

Flavor like provolone and prosciutto

Written down or freestyled pro bono

Rarely profane, not fuelled by propane

I would rather eat rappers to get my protein

And I’d proclaim myself pretty proficient

At procuring my preferred provisions

Profoundly prolific, this MC is

Proprietor of fire like Prometheus

Ego’s as big as my nose is

Aka my prodigiously-proportioned proboscis

Props to producers spinnin' those records

And b-boys spinnin' like propellers

And all my graf writers with paint and propellant?

I love 'em man!

But on the other hand:

Sometimes I lack confidence

And as a consequence I can’t concentrate

My negative thoughts just congregate

As I contemplate with consternation

My constant content constipation

Writer’s block is like confirmation that

No concert connoisseur would consider me a star

In his consummate-MC constellation

And there’s no consolation for my contempt for me

Au contraire:

I’m convinced that congested and confounded

Is what I’m condemned to be

I’m the opposite of conceited

I should have stopped and quit and conceded long ago

I’m out of control and I need to confront these demons

Everybody has pros and cons

Happy and sad emoticons

Offs, ons, yesses, nos, yins, yangs, cons, pros

Each of us contains a proliferation of contradictions

That conspire to promote a profusion of confusion

And provoke conniption fits

That leave us twitchin' and twisted and with emotional bruisin'

Man I’m talking convulsions, also contortions, contusions

But I’ll proffer this proposal, and convey my conviction

That being prone to inner conflict and contention

Is just the proverbial human condition

There is no magic bullet

No projectile that can be conjured

All we can do is proceed and continue

Lace up our Pro-Keds and Converse

No procrastination, gotta go hard like concrete, get proactive

Concoct that projection, construct that prototype, make it happen

I’m pro-creation, like I was the consequences

Of promiscuous conjugal relations that are not protected

By condoms, prophylactics, and contraceptives

Wide-open palms protruding, proving I’m no con artist

I meant every word, prologue to conclusion

Title: «Pro/Con.»

Artist: Napkins