Scribbling Idiots?!

As many of you may know, the name of my rap group is Scribbling Idiots. People seem to like the name, but they always ask why we call ourselves that. We have given many different answers as to how and why we came up with the name, but let me tell you what it really stands for.

I’m a big fan of Mark Twain. The man also known as Samuel Clemens wrote many of my favorite stories including The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and Journalism in Tennessee . Twain often referred to himself as “a scribbler of books”. The lyricists in SI are scribblers of rhymes, thus the “Scribbling” part of the name. Of course, that’s not the interesting part of the name, is it? Why in the braggadocio’s world of hip-hop, would a rap group call themselves idiots?!

Jesus once said "whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted." For this reason, I have become fairly self-deprecating, but that's only partly why we named the crew Scribbling Idiots. You see, as followers of Christ, our approach to hip-hop (and life for that matter) seems idiotic by the standards of this world. We're not in it for the money or the fame. If we were in it for those reasons, we would have quit a long time ago. We believe in love. Not the uncaring one night stand "love" that you hear about on every-other song on the radio. We believe in the the kind of love that causes a person to "lay down his life for his friends". We believe that Almighty God became a lowly servant to teach us how to live, and died to teach us how to love. If following that example makes me an idiot, then in the words of Redman, "I'll beeeee dat!"