My left stroke just went viral
Right stroke put lil’ baby in a spiral
Soprano C, we like to keep it on a high note
It’s levels to it, you and I know
Tell ’em, be humble (hol’ up)
Sit down (hol’ up, hol’ up, lil’, hol’ up)
Be humble (hol’ up) -song “Be Humble” by Kendrick Lamar
Express yourself completely,
then keep quiet.
Be like the forces of nature:
when it blows, there is only wind;
when it rains, there is only rain;
when the clouds pass, the sun shines through. -“Tao Te Ching” by Lao-Tzu (Stephenn Mitchell translation)
The spotted hawk swoops by and accuses me, he complains of my gab and my loitering.
I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable,
I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.
The last scud of day holds back for me,
It flings my likeness after the rest and true as any on the shadow’d wilds,
It coaxes me to the vapor and the dusk.
I depart as air, I shake my white locks at the runaway sun,
I effuse my flesh in eddies, and drift it in lacy jags. -Walt Whitman, “Song Of Myself”
A humble brag is still a brag.
If you feel the need to brag, well then, just BRAG. Don’t hide. Don’t hold back. Don’t half ass it with a “humble brag.”
Go for it. Do it with style. Do it with some flair and panache. Give it all you got. Sound your barbaric YAWP!
P.S. – Bragging is a lot more fun when it’s not about you, but about the art you’ve made and the artists you’ve made it with.
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