Mo Wigder - Bar Mitzvah Rap - First Lesson

From the author: "I performed this song at my brother's Bar Mitzvah. Sorry for reading off a paper, sorry for screwing up with the lyrics a couple of times, sorry for the bad video quality, sorry for the random weird fill-in clips throughout the video, sorry for everything...Just, just...try to enjoy it, if you can".


Here are the Lyrics:

This great hit is dedicated, to the boy who just upgraded
And is now elevated, as well as obligated
To all that the Torah dictated
Don't mean to make you feel intimidated or inundated
But from now on, all your actions will be evaluated
Life is complicated, but for now just celebrate it and appreciate it
I'm only here to exhilarate it
Now, if you find my rhymes outdated, or totally unrelated
Please don't hate it, 'cause it's for you that I made it
And I know you wouldn't trade it
For any other mussar that was ever created
'Cause I can't be imitated, emulated, or simulated
'Cause I'm educated, not a bit overrated or exaggerated
A'ight, I'll cut this rodomontade

For those of you who I got guessin', why I called this song First Lesson
Well, I'm not sure myself, so keep guessin'
Partially to teach you the difference between a child and adolescent
The way you'll be dressin', ain't goin' be no more messin'
Accounted for every transgression, rewarded for every mitzvah
When real life hits ya, don't let anything get to ya
The world was big and full of harmful things from the start of it
But somewhere there a fire's lit at the very heart of it
And you got to only choose the beneficial part of it
Life will be good, and no matter how hard it gets
And even if you're tired of it, if you ever desire it
Don't ever puff on that snuff or any of that stuff
That are said to make you happy, it's all bluff, it'll only make you cough
Even when times are rough, you got to be tough
Even when you've had enough, you got to fight
Against the influences come what might, only do what's right
Out of darkness comes light, there will be better days starting from tonight
So, hold on tight, 'cause once you're almost at the top
If you give up it's a big drop
So, don't stop, till you get down the whole bottle
Don't look at me, I ain't and shouldn't be your role model
Now that you got the key, I wanna see you go full throttle

A yeshiva boy to get up on the mic without a vort is a disgrace
So I'll say something that you might like, I'll make it short, stay in your place
We all know from the parshah the krias yam suf nes
After the Jews left Egypt, into the sea we were bein' chased
But as the Satmer Rov states, some misunderstood the case
They thought that the Egyptians would follow them in the dry space
So they started quickly movin', began to pick up the pace
But Al szos shibchu ahuvim, those who believed thanked G-d right away
Because they knew Hashem was with them, everything will turn out okay
Ezras avoseinu, the Bnei Yissoschar used to say
Ezra is the little things that happen every day
Which cause things to turn out a certain way, like the plot in a well-written play
Hashem has plans in store
And when you see things in retrospect from before
You don't wonder and complain anymore
When they all saw the Mitzreeim on the shore
Shira chadasha, this time everyone sang to the Lord
Now, that they saw everything in the end, they were sure
About the reason things happen for
And I know I'm bein' a bore to the core, but I got more
Ubacharta bachaim, you got to live your life, Chaim
Rather than spendin' your life cryin', flyin' high and pryin' with an eye in the sky
Like a sly spy, tryin' to figure out why, instead just rely on
Hashem, who will always stand by, if you just comply and listen to your Rabbi

I wanna thank you, everybody that came
Without each and every one of you this party would be lame
At least not at all the same
The BANneD [Banned Band] - that's who we are and that's the game.