Notes

Seorang gadis tampak sedang asyik bermain dengan ponselnya.
Jari-jarinya menari-nari dengan lincah di atas layar ponselnya.
Kemudian, ia mendekatkan ponselnya pada telinganya. Tampaknya ia sedang menelepon seseorang.

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Chimlin : "สวัสดี คุณแม่ ?" (Halo, Ibu?)
Chimlin's Mom : "ทำไม, Chimlin?" (Kenapa, Chimlin?)
Chimlin : "ตอนนี้คุณอยู่ที่ไหน? วันนี้ผม ออดิชั่น." (Ibu lagi dimana? Hari ini, aku mengikuti audisi.)
Chimlin's Mom : "แม่ ในสำนักงาน ยังคงทำงาน." (Ibu masih bekerja di kantor)
Chimlin : "แต่ วันนี้ฉันจะ ออดิชั่น !" (Tapi, hari ini aku akan audisi!)
Chimlin's Mom : "ฉันรู้แล้ว. แต่ ผม ยุ่งมาก ในขณะนี้ ฉันขอโทษ ที่รัก." (Ibu tahu. Tapi, Ibu sangat sibuk sekarang. Maaf, Sayang.)
Chimlin : "หือ." (Hm!)
Chimlin's Mom : "ฉัน ขอโทษ ที่รักของฉัน." (Aku minta maaf, Sayang.)
Chimlin : /menutup telepon/

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Chimlin menghela nafas.
Kedua orangtuanya selalu sibuk, tidak punya waktu untuknya.
Bahkan, disaat Chimlim sedang membutuhkan semangat dan dukungan dari mereka, mereka memilih tidak hadir dan mementingkan pekerjaannya.

Chimlin meremas ujung jaketnya.
Ia menatap peserta audisi lainnya yang sedang diberi dukungan oleh orangtua mereka masing-masing.
Chimlin tersenyum pahit.
Tetesan air mata turun dari mata birunya.
Ia buru-buru menghapusnya sebelum orang lain tahu bahwa ia menangis.

"Jangan menangis, Chimlin. Semangat! Kamu pasti bisa!" gumam Chimlin menyemangati dirinya sendiri.

"Chimlin Charoenrasamee!"

Chimlin buru-buru bangkit ketika mendengar namanya dipanggil.
Ia pun dipersilahkan masuk ke ruang audisi.

Begitu masuk, ia langsung disambut oleh juri-juri yang akan menilainya nanti.

"Halo! Namaku Chimlin Charoenrasamee, umurku 19 tahun. Aku orang Thailand asli. Saat berumur 10 tahun, aku mengikuti ibuku pindah kesini, Korea," Chimlin memperkenalkan dirinya di depan para juri.
Ia mengenali juri-juri tersebut. Mereka adalah Simon Dominic dan Qeiarre.

"Halo, Chimlin!" sapa para juri ramah.
"Halo!" Chimlin tersenyum lebar. Rasa gugupnya sedikit berkurang.

"Baiklah. Apa yang akan kamu tunjukkan pada kami?" tanya Qeiarre.

"Aku akan menunjukkan bakat rapku," jawab Chimlin.

"Oh ya? Lalu, lagu apa yang akan kamu bawakan nanti?" tanya Simon.

Chimlin terdiam sejenak. "Rap God dari Eminem," jawabnya mantap.

"Wow!" Para juri langsung terpukau.

"Ok. Good luck, Chimlin!" ujar Qeiarre.

Chimlin menarik nafas dalam-dalam, lalu menghembuskannya perlahan.
Perasaannya sedikit rileks sekarang.

Chimlin mulai menyanyikan chorus dari lagu "Rap God" ini.
"I'm beginning to feel like a Rap God, Rap God
All my people from the front to the back nod, back nod
Now who thinks their arms are long enough to slap box, slap box?
They said I rap like a robot, so call me rap-bot."

Sekarang, ia memasuki Verse 1. Di bagian ini, rap-nya sudah cepat.

"But for me to rap like a computer must be in my genes
I got a laptop in my back pocket
My pen'll go off when I half-cock it
Got a fat knot from that rap profit
Made a living and a killing off it
Ever since Bill Clinton was still in office
With Monica Lewinski feeling on his nutsack
I'm an MC still as honest
But as rude and as indecent as all hell
Syllables, skill-a-holic (Kill 'em all with)."

Chimlin mengambil nafas sebentar, kemudian melanjutkan rap-nya.

"This flippity, dippity-hippity hip-hop
You don't really wanna get into a pissing match
With this rappity-rap
Packing a mack in the back of the Ac
backpack rap, crap, yap-yap, yackety-yack
and at the exact same time."

Jujur, Chimlin suka dengan bagian ini karena nadanya yang sedikit lucu baginya, tetapi ia juga sedikit susah ketika menghafal bagian ini.

"I attempt these lyrical acrobat stunts while I'm practicing that
I'll still be able to break a motherfuckin' table
Over the back of a couple of faggots and crack it in half
Only realized it was ironic
I was signed to Aftermath after the fact
How could I not blow? All I do is drop "F" bombs
Feel my wrath of attack
Rappers are having a rough time period
Here's a Maxi-Pad
It's actually disastrously bad
For the wack while I'm masterfully constructing this masterpiece yeah."

Sekarang, Chimlin akan menyanyikan Chorus kedua.

"'Cause I'm beginning to feel like a Rap God, Rap God
All my people from the front to the back nod, back nod
Now who thinks their arms are long enough to slap box, slap box?
Let me show you maintaining this shit ain't that hard, that hard."

Chimlin bersiap menyanyikan Verse 2.

"Everybody want the key and the secret to rap
Immortality like I have got
Well, to be truthful the blueprint's
Simply rage and youthful exuberance
Everybody loves to root for a nuisance
Hit the earth like an asteroid
and did nothing but shoot for the moon since (PPEEYOOM)"

Chimlin membuat suara selucu mungkin saat bagian "PPEEYOOM"

"MC's get taken to school with this music
'Cause I use it as a vehicle to 'bus the rhyme'
Now I lead a New School full of students
Me? Me, I'm a product of Rakim
Lakim Shabazz, 2Pac, N-W-A., Cube, hey, Doc, Ren
Yella, Eazy, thank you, they got Slim
Inspired enough to one day grow up
Blow up and being in a position
To meet Run-D.M.C. and induct them
Into the motherfuckin' Rock n'
Roll Hall of Fame even though I walk in the church
And burst in a ball of flames
Only Hall of Fame I'll be inducted in is the alcohol of fame
On the wall of shame."

Chimlin mengambil nafas, kemudian melanjutkan.

"You fags think it's all a game
'Til I walk a flock of flames
Off a plank and
Tell me what in the fuck are you thinking?
Little gay looking boy
So gay I can barely say it with a 'straight' face looking boy
You're witnessing a mass-occur like you're watching a church gathering
And take place looking boy
Oy vey, that boy's gay
That's all they say looking boy
You get a thumbs up, pat on the back
And a "way to go" from your label every day looking boy
Hey, looking boy, what d'you say looking boy?
I get a "hell yeah" from Dre looking boy
I'mma work for everything I have
Never asked nobody for shit
Git out my face looking boy
Basically boy you're never gonna be capable
of keeping up with the same pace looking boy, 'cause."

Chimlin mulai menyanyikan Chorus ketiga, chorus terakhir.

"I'm beginning to feel like a Rap God, Rap God
All my people from the front to the back nod, back nod
The way I'm racing around the track, call me Nascar, Nascar
Dale Earnhardt of the trailer park, the White Trash God
Kneel before General Zod this planet's Krypton, no Asgard, Asgard."

Dan sampailah Chimlin pada Verse 3.
Bagian tersulit dalam lagu ini, baginya. Chimlin butuh waktu yang agak lama untuk menghafal Verse 3.

"So you'll be Thor and I'll be Odin
You rodent, I'm omnipotent
Let off then I'm reloading
Immediately with these bombs I'm totin'
And I should not be woken
I'm the walking dead
But I'm just a talking head, a zombie floating
But I got your mom deep throating
I'm out my Ramen Noodle
We have nothing in common, poodle
I'm a Doberman, pinch yourself
In the arm and pay homage, pupil
It's me
My honesty's brutal
But it's honestly futile if I don't utilize
What I do though for good
At least once in a while so I wanna make sure
Somewhere in this chicken scratch I scribble and doodle,"

Di lirik selanjutnya, Chimlin menaikkan nada suaranya menjadi sedikit lebih tinggi.

"Enough rhymes to
Maybe try to help get some people through tough times
But I gotta keep a few punchlines
Just in case 'cause even you unsigned
Rappers are hungry looking at me like it's lunchtime
I know there was a time where once I
Was king of the underground
But I still rap like I'm on my Pharoahe Monch grind
So I crunch rhymes
But sometimes when you combine
Appeal with the skin color of mine
You get too big and here they come trying to
Censor you like that one line I said
On "I'm Back" from the Mathers LP
One when I tried to say I'll take seven kids from Columbine
Put 'em all in a line
Add an AK-47, a revolver and a nine,"

Nada suara Chimlin kembali normal seperti semula.

"See if I get away with it now
That I ain't as big as I was, but I'm
Morphin' into an immortal coming through the portal
You're stuck in a time warp from two thousand four though
And I don't know what the fuck that you rhyme for
You're pointless as Rapunzel
With fucking cornrows
You write normal, fuck being normal,"

Chimlin mengambil nafas, kemudian melanjutkan rap-nya.

"And I just bought a new ray gun from the future
Just to come and shoot ya
Like when Fabulous made Ray J mad
'Cause Fab said he looked like a fag
At Mayweather's pad singin' to a man
While he play piano
Man, oh man, that was the 24/7 special
On the cable channel
So Ray J went straight to radio station the very next day
"Hey, Fab, I'mma kill you"
Lyrics coming at you at supersonic speed, (JJ Fad)"

Dan, Chimlin tiba di rap tercepat di lagu ini yang membuatnya sampai berminggu-minggu untuk menghafal rap ini.

"Uh, summa lumma dooma lumma you assuming I'm a human
What I gotta do to get it through to you I'm superhuman
Innovative and I'm made of rubber, so that anything you say is
Ricochet in off a me and it'll glue to you
And I'm devastating more than ever demonstrating
How to give a motherfuckin' audience a feeling like it's levitating
Never fading, and I know that haters are forever waiting
For the day that they can say I fell off, they'll be celebrating
'Cause I know the way to get 'em motivated
I make elevating music
You make elevator music,"

Chimlin berhasil membawakan rap ini dengan baik.
Senyum mengembang di bibirnya saat ia melihat wajah Simon dan Qeiarre yang tampak terkagum-kagum.

""Oh, he's too mainstream."
Well, that's what they do
When they get jealous, they confuse it
"It's not hip hop, it's pop."
'Cause I found a hella way to fuse it
With rock, shock rap with Doc
Throw on "Lose Yourself" and make 'em lose it
I don't know how to make songs like that
I don't know what words to use
Let me know when it occurs to you
While I'm ripping any one of these verses that versus you
It's curtains, I'm inadvertently hurtin' you
How many verses I gotta murder to
Prove that if you were half as nice,
your songs you could sacrifice virgins to
Unghh, school flunky, pill junky
But look at the accolades these skills brung me
Full of myself, but still hungry
I bully myself 'cause I make me do what I put my mind to
When I'm a million leagues above you
Ill when I speak in tongues
But it's still tongue-and-cheek, fuck you
I'm drunk so Satan take the fucking wheel
I'm asleep in the front seat
Bumping Heavy D and the Boys
"Still chunky, but funky"
But in my head there's something
I can feel tugging and struggling
Angels fight with devils and
Here's what they want from me
They're asking me to eliminate some of the women hate
But if you take into consideration the bitter hatred I had
Then you may be a little patient and more sympathetic to the situation
And understand the discrimination
But fuck it
Life's handing you lemons
Make lemonade then
But if I can't batter the women
How the fuck am I supposed to bake them a cake then?
Don't mistake him for Satan
It's a fatal mistake if you think I need to be overseas
And take a vacation to trip a broad
And make her fall on her face and
Don't be a retard, be a king?
Think not
Why be a king when you can be a God?"

'Prok.. prok.. prok!'

Juri-juri langsung bertepuk tangan meriah begitu Chimlin selesai membawakan lagu "Rap God".

"Terima kasih!" Chimlin tersenyum senang.

"Bagus sekali!"
"Jujur, sampai sekarang, aku tidak bisa menghafal lagu ini,"
"Kamu membawakannya dengan sangat baik! Hampir mirip seperti Eminem!"
"Aku benar-benar kagum denganmu, Chimlin,"

Chimlin tersenyum bahagia mendengar komentar-komentar dari para juri.

"Baik. Kamu tinggal menunggu pengumumannya saja, ya. Good job and good luck, Chimlin!" ujar Qeiarre.

Chimlin bersalaman dengan para juri, kemudian keluar dari ruang audisi.

"CHIMLIN!!"

Chimlin terkejut ketika melihat keluarganya.

"Chimlin, maafkan Mama dan Papa, ya? Sebenarnya, kami sengaja. Kami ingin memberi kejutan untukmu," ujar Mama sambil memeluk Chimlin.

"Kami tidak peduli apakah kamu lolos atau tidak. Yang penting, kamu sudah menampilkan yang terbaik," ujar Papa.

"Mama... Papa..." lirih Chimlin. Ia pun langsung memeluk kedua orangtuanya.