Nickelus F - "Not Like This" (Inspired by VA TECH Tragedy)

(RICHMOND, VA) Just over two weeks after the tragedy at Virginia Tech University, up and coming Richmond, VA rapper Nickelus F has made a chillingly graphic song ("Not Like This") from the perspective of a student trapped in one the classrooms Cho Seung-Hui fired upon.

His motivation for doing the song in this fashion was partially to pay homage to the students that were lost, but also to give people a vivid account of what may have been going on when the shooting occurred(through his eyes).

"Since the VA Tech tragedy people from all over were hitting me up to do a tribute, but I was reluctant to do it, even though it hit so close to home ... When I actually got to thinking about it and heard what other rappers had to say about the situation I decided to look at it from my own angle," says Nickelus F.

The song uses Raekwon's classic beat for the song "Heaven Or Hell" as a back drop and takes the listener through a whirlwind ride of a student who is contemplating his life as the gunfire rings out around him. The hook is a glaring cry of "NOT LIKE THIS! NOT LIKE THIS! I always wanted to be remembered, but not like this. I wanted to go down in history, but not like this..."

The picture he paints is a vivid, at times graphic and heart wrenching... His lyrics pull the listener into the world he's envisioning, as he describes lives being lost around him and flashes back on to things he wished he had done before his inevitable death by the hands of the shooter.

"I made the song as an artistic interpretation of what I read in the papers and saw on TV. I've experienced loss in my life and always have felt that making music was the best way to help me grieve," says Nickelus F.

It's a well known fact that art has always been a key element in how we channel emotion and "Not Like This" is just one of songs that will hopefully entertain, spark emotion and most of all teach us, so that history will not repeat itself...


YouTube.Com Nickelus F -- Not Like This Tribute In Pictures:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHd7Qh...




Download Link (Nickelus F -- Not Like This):
http://www.sendspace.com/file/qksysj

Alternative Link(Nickelus F -- Not Like This):
http://www.amgentertainment.net/nicke...

Download Link (Nickelus F -- Not Like This CLEAN MIX):
http://www.sendspace.com/file/snwuwt

Alternative Link(Nickelus F -- Not Like This CLEAN MIX):
http://www.amgentertainment.net/nicke...




Artist: Nickelus F (Richmond, VA)
www.nickelusf.com
www.myspace.com/nickelusf (more)

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• 16th
• 2007

[everlasting7]

Very Good Work Bro. V.A. Stand Up!+

[bluejay7up]

I love this song. I was 10 mins. Away when this happened those kids coulda been me. Its crazy I almost stopped rappen and enrolled that year but I never gave up rappin thank god

[ariainezhad]

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[ariainezhad]

nigga that shit was off da hook, not the video but how dem niggas got shot.

[abram730]

What was released publicly showed Cho as sane and quite lucid.

33 death = years Jesus was alive.

Date of the shooting = the popes birthday.

I noticed he described the way Jesus died in the Middle ages. Burned alive in the inquisitions.

The judgment was the black plague and the reason Europe and the church were shattered. I even know how. There is a message there.

RIP Cho Seung Hui

18th Jan 1984 - 16th April 2007

In a better place.

[racham1]

Excellent!

[shindogg]

cho wuz 1 crooked ass nigga man. ppl drove him over da edge but dat dont condone his actions tho. shits crazy as he wuz. donno if its cuz he didnt have no homies or needed therapy or wut, but it shouldnta went down like dat. i thot it wuz all over wit da columbine shit but apparently not. guess muthafuckas still aint learn. violence aint da answer, an shit ppl say on record aint life its jus a reflection converted ta entertainment.

[XxLUVINIT2xX]

Oh and I love this song Nick!

Great way to pay you respect!Xx

[XxLUVINIT2xX]

nkslinkvl,You would wanna cop the fuck on you gay bastard!Didn't your ma ever teach you how to respect!Those peoploe are fucking dead and you still goin on,calling them faggots and calling someone that is greiving over them a tool!That just shows what you are!CUNT!

[nkslnkvl]

fuck you justmejk come get me you pussy i'd love kick ur pussy ass too, dylan and eric were faggots, cho was a fucking loser, and you are even worse, fuckin tool