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these aint mine found these on a myspace 1. "lord please have sympathy, and forgive michael young/my cool young history."
( michael young is the hustler kid that the entire concept album "the cool" is about. the one who dies and comes back to life from the track"the cool" from the "food and liquor" album. )
2. "i'm just trying do the opposite of left
as long as there's the opposite of death
you test, and i just might bring the opposite of life
until there's no one the opposite of right."
( i'm just trying to do right as long as there's life,
you test, and i just might bring death until there's no one left. )
3. "ruined everything he loved he just wanted to 'brush'
blamed it on the times being rough
doing 'dirt' with the 'devil' chasing after the 'dust.' "
( dirtdevil vacuum and dust. yeah. )
4. "and %%#$#$ trying to take me off my 'paper like erasers'
let me put you onto something
all i've got is the other end for them." ( in other words: lead. )
5. "truth is limitless in its range
if you drop a 'T' and look at it in reverse, it could hurt."
( drop the second 'T' and spell truth backwards: hurt. )
6. "so i return to the ring, like 'return of the king'
with the habit of a 'hobbit' it makes it hard to drop it."
( apparent parallel to "lord of the rings" plot, where the ring of power cannot be dropped. )
7. "never met H.E.R. before, but i think i like her like a metaphor, it's hard to get."
( common's track "i used to love H.E.R." is all in all a eulogy for hip hop, and a long metaphor for his description of "H.ip hop in itsE.ssence and R.eal" which is hard to get because you don't really realize what it's about until the end of the song. )
8. "silencers, my fifth pleads the fifth."
9. "don't give the black man food, give the red man liquor
red man fool, black man #+%*%
give yellow man tool, make him railroad builder
also give him pan make pull gold from river
give black man crack, glocks and things
give red man craps, and slot machines."
( the gold rush migration of the 1850's. there was a sudden boom of immigration from eastern asia, and native americans were moved off their originallands. )
10. "can you handle traction? push an abraham lincoln on andrew jacksons."
( haaa. this one took me a while, push a lincoln on 20's. )
11. "it's the drill, mr. chill gave me the green light like yoda knife,
so i'ma force my will like the force i will, of course you will."
( yoda's light saber and the whole star wars "force," thing. "green light" as in the cue to go ahead. i'm not a comic book head,but didn't green lantern's ring only work off will power?! )
12. you don't stand a chance, matter fact
you don't have half the stance to stand
if you stood half a chance, like C-H-A." ( half of c-h-a-n-c-e. )
13. "a jay-z boycott, 'cause he said he never prayed to god he prayed to gotti
i'm thinking godly, god guard me from the ungodly."
( reference to jay-z's song "d'evils" -- "life ills, poison my body, i used to say '!+%% mic skills,' and never prayed to god, iprayed to gotti. )
14. when i was 'po' i was 'lo' now me and my 'chaps' cop purple label,
it's ralph lauren on the rap laureate."
( polo, "chaps" as in reference to clothing, or "chaps" as in the term for buddies. )
15. "then 'brace' yourself like 'overbite'
for that quiet #+%*%, that relocated down south
coming back to 'floss' #+%*% get your 'molars' right
fix your 'grill' no 'plaque' but a whole lot of 'cheese.' "
( can you play up on the whole mouth thing any more? ha. plaque as in awards, and cheese as in money/or a smile. )
16. "nicknamed december, move birds like winter
mind on my tender, move words like verbs
drop lines like enter."
17. "i'm so committing lay my murder game, that's sweet
"speakeasy" like prohibition, no emission
if you ain't knocking like me to the underground bar, burying a toast
dodging the 'raid like roach' #+%*% please."
( the prohibition era of the early 19th century had tons of speakeasys which were underground businesses that would distribute alcohol when it was illegal.most of them got raided by police enforcement, and we all know, roaches scatter when sprayed with raid. )
18. "gangsta lean
hat's on tilt like your snickers ain't drop out the vending machine
you gotta put more money in
and i shake %%#$#$ up everytime i 'drop a bar' two for one."
( he's doing two things at once, getting the two snickers bars, as well as dropping a line. thus, "two for one." haha that's probably thebest feeling in the world, fighting with the vending machine then getting two snicker bars for the price of one. )
19. "jay don't mind me i'm just blowing my zone up
doing it about as 'fly as a maggot grown up'
and still got a life that's backing the 'palms' up
just give me a 'folding chair' i ain't after the throne but."
( the fly/maggot thing is ostensible. i was thinking the whole "folding chair" had to do with jay's song "beach chair" in addition tothe "palms" hotel or palm trees on a beach i guess? )
20. "no this ain't a pen, it's a paint brush
and i intend to rearrange how they paint us."
21. "my teacher's like, 'mr. jaco?' 'yes?'
with all that knowledge, you ain't trying to go to college?
be a lawyer or a doctor, get a whole lot of dollars?
rather degrade women, and glorify violence?
well the work that works for me, might not work for you
no homework, i got work to do."
22. "all, so we fall for the illusions of the beast
so instead of trying to teach, we show our teeth
same god, different beliefs
hijabs, sunday clothes, yamaka, kufi, same mission beneath."
23. "don't intervene chump, 'cause y'all far from the hood like limousine trunks."
24. "this is saran wrap and aluminum foil
some potpourri, a little machine oil
i stack my paper and throw off my 'scents/cents'
this is top 'floor/flow' better look out below
'pennies from heaven' is the same as the semi from the second
and i 'reign/rain' supreme
turn your 'umbrellas upside down'
did you even 'catch the change' in theme?"
( homonyms, and he talks about money raining from above, turn your umbrellas upside down to catch the change. )
25. "trying to take over the set, and television is on death row for killing bet and mtv over a dice game, and paralyzing cnn by knifing him in theneck."
26. "better believe most of us wanna leave
furthest we went was out of our minds but we still here."
27. "she said to him 'i want you to be a father, but you don't even bother like brother without the 'R.'"
28. "cool on food for thought, but for you, he's a starver."
29. "his flow is like the klu klux vs. the panthers."
30. "it's finna get heavy as heaven i am atlas at this managed to balance massive masses upon my back without tilting my glasses."
31. "well now joe, knowing is half the battle
fighting temptation, have an apple
shake the snakes, pimp the system, let's get into it, tabernacle."
31. "truthfully, i have trouble with second verses
'cause the first one be so intimidating
it be bullying and picking on it, instigating
pointing out all the second ones limitations
like 'you aint nothing but an imitation like bits of bacon'
then he gets the chorus and the beat to get together
then they all gang up on him and get to hating."
32. "MC squared, i don't fortell best
i am cornell west-side
chi-town guevera
malcolm x-ercised the demons
gangsta leaning."
34. "didnt have a clue that the rapper was helping the rapers
raiders of the villages pillages of the schools."
35. "the books that take you to heaven and let you meet the lord there
have become misinterpreted reasons for warfare."
36. "my greatest enemy is my inner me."
37. "i can't feel a field #+%*%'s chains
though i covet mine, so i covered mine in bling
then i bumped into a bum and covered mine in shame
then i bumped into a hun and uncovered mine again
diamonds didn't undermine it man
they'll give a #+%*% wit no mac another kind of game
see money talks in another kind of slang."
38. "momma raised a trooper
they're trying to hit me in my head like 'kooper'
but i move like 'super'
with the hood on my shoulder like bazookas
i'm waking up the roosters
until i'm late and they're waking up the future."
39. "i backflipped on the matress they slept on me on."
40. "on the low, now i'm sunken
look like i'm driving from the backseat
with a bird shotgun like im hunting
you see what happened
i made a call, and she got fly
i was pumping, hit her up
then i sent my 'dawg/dog' to go and pick her up."
( all i got from this was, the hunting vs. hollering themes? he shoots her/bird makes a bird call to try and talk to her, and sends his buddy to go and get herto come over or pick the dead bird up. i don't even know. ha. )
41. "it's nothing sweet, it's lupe, i am white peoples' kool-aid."
42. "just seen roc-a-wear rock sean john to sleep
with the same heat that baby phat carry
sprint is pimping nextel
she just gave head to a black berry
i heard she goes 'two-ways'
when he was skeeting in her face
it was beeping on my waist."
( playing on the whole phone/2-way thing. )
43. "he just sits, and watches the people in the boxes
everything he sees he absorbs and adopts it
he mimics and he mocks it
really hates the box but he can't remember how to stop it
so he continues to watch it
hoping that it'll give him somethin that he can box with
or how the locksmith, see the box as, locked in the box
ain't got the combination to unlock it
that's why he watches, scared to look away
cause at that moment, it might show him
what to take off the locks with
so he chained himself to the box
took a lock and then he locked it
swallowed the combination and then forgot it."
( intricate details about propaganda and the effect media may have on a child. he is literally chained to the television set. )
44. "i ain't trying to profit off the prophets so this one here's for free."
45. "the swans in the pond called my duck ugly
but now they hug me, because it's lovely"
46. "as doctors jotted all down with the pen and pencils, same ones that took away his voice and left instrumentals"
47. "i remember i ain't have sneakers, it was welfare
coming up for 'airs' like whales there
filas, but now i'm well here, i'm shamu with twelve pairs
and %%#$#$ wanna take me back to zero like 'tare,' fair?
well, 'my scale's clear,' you 'see/sea' world
it's "braille" here, i'm bumpy johnson i stick to the streets
keep my dogs out in front of me
you 'see' what i'm saying? and i push 'ki's/keys wonder'fully."
( coming up for airs. aaahaha. seaworld, shamu, yeah. oh and ellsworth johnson, the american gangster who had possible association with frank lucas. thus, thewhole dogs, and pushing "ki's." the "braille" and you "see" what i'm saying ties in with pushing "keyswonder"fully like stevie wonder. tare is defined as the weight of a vehicle without any cargo or passengers, "well, my scale's clear." )
48. "with the ease to speak no english
you can be as hard to sign language with no fingers."
49. "i warn y'all cornballs i hush puppies."
( by the way, hush puppies are balls of corn meal that are fried. i could really go for some hush puppies right now, though. )
50. "i'm back at ya and i 'pack like cap backwards'
like a hat's backwards, you know when the back's backwards yeah
like a bat catcher's, the law got a 'long arm like a backscratcher.' "
51. "i had to turn my back on what got you payed
i couldn't see, had the hood on me like abu ghraib
but i'd like to thank the streets that drove me crazy
and all the televisions out there that raised me."
( in reference to the abu ghraib line, it's a euphemism for that tragedy, there were prisoners held in captivity being tortured, abused and humiliated withhoods over their heads. the u.s. military "turned their back" on what got them paid, and there was much coverage and controversy all over the media"televisions out there that raised me." )
52. "to improve means to remove myself
from this pool of sharks dark as the mood i felt."
53. " 'hello my name' stickers on the stickers of the veins
in rehab remembering the feelings when they used to get mellow
when they was on back of a nickel like monticello
when the underworld had to be smarter than donatello
no honor amongst fellows
it's harder than sitting with a blind man and trying to describe yellow."
( i definitely like the rehab/"hello my name" stickers part. jefferson who is on the nickel, lived in monticello, and the whole underground/donatellothing is from teenage mutant ninja turtles. )
54. "catch me i'm balling, catch me i'm balling
catch me like spalding, catch me like rawlings
if he indeed the emcee, 'invite him in/vitamin' like GNC
i'm sick too if you aint catch me like coughing
back when i said you said catch me like rawlings
it's cool, 'cause most cats that i bump into
can't catch me that often."
55. "you see i'm a roller right? so it might be a rover right?
but everytime i drop an 'R' it's over aight?"
( you can roll on a range rover, rover - R = over. )
56. "but you can catch lu chilling in his one-offs
if you don't know what that means homie
then you don't understand, that's mean homie
that means homie, 'these jeans on me'
the only pair, ever 'sewing machine' homie
yea, i'm just 'showing you mean' homie
like a dictionary, listen clearly to the clean homie
and this ain't fair, i'm barely on my lean homie
or put my all into like a washing machine homie
double-loader, you just watching me clean homie."
57. "and the father who thinks taking you shopping is the answer
skipped out on parenthood classes, so she don't know how to handle it
and never learned from her grandmother
one day got hot, couldn't take it, dropped her in vacant lot
album of life now congested to a sampler."
58. "you're a dice game, i'm a 'casino' man
find me 'covered in ice like encino man'
the only one missing is 'pacino' man."
( reference to two movies, first is "encino man" where two guys find a caveman in their backyard, and he was covered in ice. the second is"casino" which stars robert de niro and joe pesci, only one missing is al pacino. )
59. "i'm fearless, now hear this
i'm earless, and i'm peerless
that means i'm eyeless
which means i'm tearless
which means my iris resides where my ears is
which means i'm blinded
but i'ma find it i can feel it's nearness."
60. "she says that 'i've been waiting for you'
and i know you've been chasing me too
since they kidnapped me from a castle i've been thinking of you.'
i told a fire-breathing dragon he better not harm me
or he'll be sorry when he meets my one-man army
and thou has come to rescue me
my 'knight in shining armor' yes you be
woken up by the horn of an SUV
i said 'see, too beautiful to let you sleep.' "
(sleeping beauty)
61. "twice the 'bread' like he had two buns
and he had a whole lotta 'seeds' even his kids had 'meals/mills' for reals
some rich 'small fries' wrapped in 'paper' since they were little
'catch up/ketchup' #+%*%."
62. "lovers call him 'king,' haters call him 'clown'
he would say 'bite me' that's the way it's goin down...
said he had 'beef' and people want him dead
he love the hungry ones only scared of the 'feds'...
night turn yourself in to the 'paddy/patty' wagon said no
bacon wouldn't take them had the pigs on the pay roll."
( burger king, ronald mcdonald, and one too many fast food references. also, "feds" is both the police enforcement, as well as those who aren'thungry. )
63. "i'm its gym, it's math and it's history
the gunshots in the class and you can't pass if you're 'missing G'
i taught them better than that
i taught them 'aim' for the head and hope they never come back."
( from the track "put you on the game. take 'G' out of "game" and of course you can't shoot someone if you don't have'ame' (aim.))
64. "i got what i got, and i'm at where i'm 'at,' like an 'A'/@ in a circle."
65. "and my return is more like a re-up
i hold a whole like a tea cup
world in one hand, while the other hand throw the peace up
my other hand throwing 'we' without the 'E' up
i got like 'five more' man, i'm something like 'shiva'
in that fall of rome number four deluxe
see i've 'been around the world' like the gnome
but i've come from a zone where the homes all beat up."
( 'we' without the 'E' up is obviously westside. then he makes a remark about shiva, the god who has six arms total, so using that one arm, hehas five more. and why would he mention the travelocity commercial gnome that's been around the world? aaahaaahaha. )
66. "could walk the walk couldn't really talk the talk
had to get my talk to properly explain my walk
'cause this lack in talk had my walk looking off."
67. "in other words, i reposition how i sit it
then make you 'feel it' like i mispronounced 'filet'
on second thought, i can't make you fill it
like you're 'digging your own grave,' unless you can 'kill bill' it."
68. "there's an 'arms' race like i'm running on my 'hands'
a dance marathon on my 'napalms' and."
(arms/palms and firearms/napalms. )
69. "she helped me bring FNF up
therefore she's forever the 'S' in the us
when i'm talking about we she's the 'E'
she's the one to kidnap when you want the rapper to plea."
70. "i went from MC to being MS, this microphone controller to motivational speaker."
71. "in your ear, like the maker of the vivrant
assalamualaikum to the maker of the vivrant."
( q-tip, maker of 'vivrant thing' and i guess a q-tip in your ear. haha. )
72. "my conception wasn't immaculate
i ain't mastering no calculus
a good addition to the rap audience."
73. "thou shall not sin, thou shall not steal
thou shall not kill, thou shall not turn your back on those in need...
i'm just a rows of weeds
and i 'rolls with reasons/rosary' to stay on this road i lead
till i leave with what i sow, my soul indeeds
leave me son with the sum of what i sold in deeds
i'm folding yo, probably headed for the 'pin' like bowling balls
kept it directed at the 'pen' and wrote it for y'all."
( maybe it's just me! but i heard "rosary" to go with the whole religion idea. then of course, the homonymic wordplay with pens and pins. )
74. "i was like, porsche puller, air force footer
'automatic wristed' therefore 'shooker'
causing a 'stir' every time i push up
'007' with a jester and a look-up."
( james bond always asked for his martinis "shaken not stirred" and he also had a nifty little wristwatch gadget. )
75. " 'frankensteins' of mine, i tighten you young 'screws'
send 'lighting to your mind' and make you move
car like cannonball, run!"
( mary shelley's novel "frankenstein" is about the scientist frankenstein who creates life within a monster with electricity and chemistry, andin popular culture, he's depicted to have "screws" in his head. and from what i can recall from reading, doesn't frankenstein run away tosouth america after realizing what the he's done? )
76. "they say the streets is a demon in a dress
with dollar signs in her eyes and semen on her breath
scantily clad, no panties, deep throating in an alley
aging badly in sunglasses she pretty
slain boyfriend names is tattooed on her *******
sprinkling greed, ignorance and envy inside of a philly
hennessey tears, %@!'ll bring your enemy's here
flirt with your flaws till you run up in her raw."
( extremely intricate and an extended metaphor for prostitution and the "street life." )
77. "i came back with words and stanzas, g
told ya, write back, like stan and i'ma stand till it answers me."
( implication of eminem's track "stan" where the obsessive fanatic writes to eminem every day and stands in line in the blistering cold to get aquick glimpse of eminem. )
78. "the good news my foot's loose, my hands are free
so i dance all footloose and fancy free
big ups to footloose and all the fans of me
my 'fanbase spans from vans to timberlands'
from 'mansions to section 8 campers,' b
i'm they're chamion and i ain't even sound standard, see
i've been lamping, whipping up an answer to these rappers
who got it backwards like they're 'zipping up their pants to pee'
like i'm just a rapper, and i ain't 'dapper'
i'm frequently 'fly' i can go to france for free."
( his fan base is a wide array of listeners, and connections to him peeing haha, frequently fly, and the "dapper" part is hilarious. not only is adapper someone who is neatly dressed or 'fly" which is why they feel he's not presentable because he's a rapper, but isn't it also a guycode to not dap anyone up anywhere near a restroom? HAA. )
79. "%%#$#$ brown-nosed they are like alf to him."
( alf was a self-titled show with a brown puppet alien from the 90's named alf. )
80. "there's snakes in the hood
gotta watch for that cobra bite
let me see, there's snakes in the hood
a bird or 'horse' behind the grill
some 'gator' on the seat, and a fox behind the wheel
no it's not 'noah's ark.' "
( all the animals he mentions can not only be a direct parallel to noah's ark, but it also relates to how a car can have "horse" power, and a"gator" interior. )
81. "riveting is 'rosie,' pockets full of 'posies,' given to the mother of the deceased. awaken at 'war' till i'm resting inpeace."
( rosie the riveter was a cultural and feminist icon during WWII, it was a name given to all the women who looked after the jobs of all the men who were awayat war. it also refers to "ring around the rosies," a popular nursery rhyme that is concerned with the black death of the middle ages. the posies areflowers that can be given to a war veteran when he's dead and "resting in peace." )
82. "i love the lord, but sometimes it's like that i love me more
i love the peace/piece and i love the war
i love the seas and i love the shore
no love for no beach/#*%#*, baby that's loyal
but she doesn't sea/see, therefore i spoil."
( michael young is the hustler kid that the entire concept album "the cool" is about. the one who dies and comes back to life from the track"the cool" from the "food and liquor" album. )
2. "i'm just trying do the opposite of left
as long as there's the opposite of death
you test, and i just might bring the opposite of life
until there's no one the opposite of right."
( i'm just trying to do right as long as there's life,
you test, and i just might bring death until there's no one left. )
3. "ruined everything he loved he just wanted to 'brush'
blamed it on the times being rough
doing 'dirt' with the 'devil' chasing after the 'dust.' "
( dirtdevil vacuum and dust. yeah. )
4. "and %%#$#$ trying to take me off my 'paper like erasers'
let me put you onto something
all i've got is the other end for them." ( in other words: lead. )
5. "truth is limitless in its range
if you drop a 'T' and look at it in reverse, it could hurt."
( drop the second 'T' and spell truth backwards: hurt. )
6. "so i return to the ring, like 'return of the king'
with the habit of a 'hobbit' it makes it hard to drop it."
( apparent parallel to "lord of the rings" plot, where the ring of power cannot be dropped. )
7. "never met H.E.R. before, but i think i like her like a metaphor, it's hard to get."
( common's track "i used to love H.E.R." is all in all a eulogy for hip hop, and a long metaphor for his description of "H.ip hop in itsE.ssence and R.eal" which is hard to get because you don't really realize what it's about until the end of the song. )
8. "silencers, my fifth pleads the fifth."
9. "don't give the black man food, give the red man liquor
red man fool, black man #+%*%
give yellow man tool, make him railroad builder
also give him pan make pull gold from river
give black man crack, glocks and things
give red man craps, and slot machines."
( the gold rush migration of the 1850's. there was a sudden boom of immigration from eastern asia, and native americans were moved off their originallands. )
10. "can you handle traction? push an abraham lincoln on andrew jacksons."
( haaa. this one took me a while, push a lincoln on 20's. )
11. "it's the drill, mr. chill gave me the green light like yoda knife,
so i'ma force my will like the force i will, of course you will."
( yoda's light saber and the whole star wars "force," thing. "green light" as in the cue to go ahead. i'm not a comic book head,but didn't green lantern's ring only work off will power?! )
12. you don't stand a chance, matter fact
you don't have half the stance to stand
if you stood half a chance, like C-H-A." ( half of c-h-a-n-c-e. )
13. "a jay-z boycott, 'cause he said he never prayed to god he prayed to gotti
i'm thinking godly, god guard me from the ungodly."
( reference to jay-z's song "d'evils" -- "life ills, poison my body, i used to say '!+%% mic skills,' and never prayed to god, iprayed to gotti. )
14. when i was 'po' i was 'lo' now me and my 'chaps' cop purple label,
it's ralph lauren on the rap laureate."
( polo, "chaps" as in reference to clothing, or "chaps" as in the term for buddies. )
15. "then 'brace' yourself like 'overbite'
for that quiet #+%*%, that relocated down south
coming back to 'floss' #+%*% get your 'molars' right
fix your 'grill' no 'plaque' but a whole lot of 'cheese.' "
( can you play up on the whole mouth thing any more? ha. plaque as in awards, and cheese as in money/or a smile. )
16. "nicknamed december, move birds like winter
mind on my tender, move words like verbs
drop lines like enter."
17. "i'm so committing lay my murder game, that's sweet
"speakeasy" like prohibition, no emission
if you ain't knocking like me to the underground bar, burying a toast
dodging the 'raid like roach' #+%*% please."
( the prohibition era of the early 19th century had tons of speakeasys which were underground businesses that would distribute alcohol when it was illegal.most of them got raided by police enforcement, and we all know, roaches scatter when sprayed with raid. )
18. "gangsta lean
hat's on tilt like your snickers ain't drop out the vending machine
you gotta put more money in
and i shake %%#$#$ up everytime i 'drop a bar' two for one."
( he's doing two things at once, getting the two snickers bars, as well as dropping a line. thus, "two for one." haha that's probably thebest feeling in the world, fighting with the vending machine then getting two snicker bars for the price of one. )
19. "jay don't mind me i'm just blowing my zone up
doing it about as 'fly as a maggot grown up'
and still got a life that's backing the 'palms' up
just give me a 'folding chair' i ain't after the throne but."
( the fly/maggot thing is ostensible. i was thinking the whole "folding chair" had to do with jay's song "beach chair" in addition tothe "palms" hotel or palm trees on a beach i guess? )
20. "no this ain't a pen, it's a paint brush
and i intend to rearrange how they paint us."
21. "my teacher's like, 'mr. jaco?' 'yes?'
with all that knowledge, you ain't trying to go to college?
be a lawyer or a doctor, get a whole lot of dollars?
rather degrade women, and glorify violence?
well the work that works for me, might not work for you
no homework, i got work to do."
22. "all, so we fall for the illusions of the beast
so instead of trying to teach, we show our teeth
same god, different beliefs
hijabs, sunday clothes, yamaka, kufi, same mission beneath."
23. "don't intervene chump, 'cause y'all far from the hood like limousine trunks."
24. "this is saran wrap and aluminum foil
some potpourri, a little machine oil
i stack my paper and throw off my 'scents/cents'
this is top 'floor/flow' better look out below
'pennies from heaven' is the same as the semi from the second
and i 'reign/rain' supreme
turn your 'umbrellas upside down'
did you even 'catch the change' in theme?"
( homonyms, and he talks about money raining from above, turn your umbrellas upside down to catch the change. )
25. "trying to take over the set, and television is on death row for killing bet and mtv over a dice game, and paralyzing cnn by knifing him in theneck."
26. "better believe most of us wanna leave
furthest we went was out of our minds but we still here."
27. "she said to him 'i want you to be a father, but you don't even bother like brother without the 'R.'"
28. "cool on food for thought, but for you, he's a starver."
29. "his flow is like the klu klux vs. the panthers."
30. "it's finna get heavy as heaven i am atlas at this managed to balance massive masses upon my back without tilting my glasses."
31. "well now joe, knowing is half the battle
fighting temptation, have an apple
shake the snakes, pimp the system, let's get into it, tabernacle."
31. "truthfully, i have trouble with second verses
'cause the first one be so intimidating
it be bullying and picking on it, instigating
pointing out all the second ones limitations
like 'you aint nothing but an imitation like bits of bacon'
then he gets the chorus and the beat to get together
then they all gang up on him and get to hating."
32. "MC squared, i don't fortell best
i am cornell west-side
chi-town guevera
malcolm x-ercised the demons
gangsta leaning."
34. "didnt have a clue that the rapper was helping the rapers
raiders of the villages pillages of the schools."
35. "the books that take you to heaven and let you meet the lord there
have become misinterpreted reasons for warfare."
36. "my greatest enemy is my inner me."
37. "i can't feel a field #+%*%'s chains
though i covet mine, so i covered mine in bling
then i bumped into a bum and covered mine in shame
then i bumped into a hun and uncovered mine again
diamonds didn't undermine it man
they'll give a #+%*% wit no mac another kind of game
see money talks in another kind of slang."
38. "momma raised a trooper
they're trying to hit me in my head like 'kooper'
but i move like 'super'
with the hood on my shoulder like bazookas
i'm waking up the roosters
until i'm late and they're waking up the future."
39. "i backflipped on the matress they slept on me on."
40. "on the low, now i'm sunken
look like i'm driving from the backseat
with a bird shotgun like im hunting
you see what happened
i made a call, and she got fly
i was pumping, hit her up
then i sent my 'dawg/dog' to go and pick her up."
( all i got from this was, the hunting vs. hollering themes? he shoots her/bird makes a bird call to try and talk to her, and sends his buddy to go and get herto come over or pick the dead bird up. i don't even know. ha. )
41. "it's nothing sweet, it's lupe, i am white peoples' kool-aid."
42. "just seen roc-a-wear rock sean john to sleep
with the same heat that baby phat carry
sprint is pimping nextel
she just gave head to a black berry
i heard she goes 'two-ways'
when he was skeeting in her face
it was beeping on my waist."
( playing on the whole phone/2-way thing. )
43. "he just sits, and watches the people in the boxes
everything he sees he absorbs and adopts it
he mimics and he mocks it
really hates the box but he can't remember how to stop it
so he continues to watch it
hoping that it'll give him somethin that he can box with
or how the locksmith, see the box as, locked in the box
ain't got the combination to unlock it
that's why he watches, scared to look away
cause at that moment, it might show him
what to take off the locks with
so he chained himself to the box
took a lock and then he locked it
swallowed the combination and then forgot it."
( intricate details about propaganda and the effect media may have on a child. he is literally chained to the television set. )
44. "i ain't trying to profit off the prophets so this one here's for free."
45. "the swans in the pond called my duck ugly
but now they hug me, because it's lovely"
46. "as doctors jotted all down with the pen and pencils, same ones that took away his voice and left instrumentals"
47. "i remember i ain't have sneakers, it was welfare
coming up for 'airs' like whales there
filas, but now i'm well here, i'm shamu with twelve pairs
and %%#$#$ wanna take me back to zero like 'tare,' fair?
well, 'my scale's clear,' you 'see/sea' world
it's "braille" here, i'm bumpy johnson i stick to the streets
keep my dogs out in front of me
you 'see' what i'm saying? and i push 'ki's/keys wonder'fully."
( coming up for airs. aaahaha. seaworld, shamu, yeah. oh and ellsworth johnson, the american gangster who had possible association with frank lucas. thus, thewhole dogs, and pushing "ki's." the "braille" and you "see" what i'm saying ties in with pushing "keyswonder"fully like stevie wonder. tare is defined as the weight of a vehicle without any cargo or passengers, "well, my scale's clear." )
48. "with the ease to speak no english
you can be as hard to sign language with no fingers."
49. "i warn y'all cornballs i hush puppies."
( by the way, hush puppies are balls of corn meal that are fried. i could really go for some hush puppies right now, though. )
50. "i'm back at ya and i 'pack like cap backwards'
like a hat's backwards, you know when the back's backwards yeah
like a bat catcher's, the law got a 'long arm like a backscratcher.' "
51. "i had to turn my back on what got you payed
i couldn't see, had the hood on me like abu ghraib
but i'd like to thank the streets that drove me crazy
and all the televisions out there that raised me."
( in reference to the abu ghraib line, it's a euphemism for that tragedy, there were prisoners held in captivity being tortured, abused and humiliated withhoods over their heads. the u.s. military "turned their back" on what got them paid, and there was much coverage and controversy all over the media"televisions out there that raised me." )
52. "to improve means to remove myself
from this pool of sharks dark as the mood i felt."
53. " 'hello my name' stickers on the stickers of the veins
in rehab remembering the feelings when they used to get mellow
when they was on back of a nickel like monticello
when the underworld had to be smarter than donatello
no honor amongst fellows
it's harder than sitting with a blind man and trying to describe yellow."
( i definitely like the rehab/"hello my name" stickers part. jefferson who is on the nickel, lived in monticello, and the whole underground/donatellothing is from teenage mutant ninja turtles. )
54. "catch me i'm balling, catch me i'm balling
catch me like spalding, catch me like rawlings
if he indeed the emcee, 'invite him in/vitamin' like GNC
i'm sick too if you aint catch me like coughing
back when i said you said catch me like rawlings
it's cool, 'cause most cats that i bump into
can't catch me that often."
55. "you see i'm a roller right? so it might be a rover right?
but everytime i drop an 'R' it's over aight?"
( you can roll on a range rover, rover - R = over. )
56. "but you can catch lu chilling in his one-offs
if you don't know what that means homie
then you don't understand, that's mean homie
that means homie, 'these jeans on me'
the only pair, ever 'sewing machine' homie
yea, i'm just 'showing you mean' homie
like a dictionary, listen clearly to the clean homie
and this ain't fair, i'm barely on my lean homie
or put my all into like a washing machine homie
double-loader, you just watching me clean homie."
57. "and the father who thinks taking you shopping is the answer
skipped out on parenthood classes, so she don't know how to handle it
and never learned from her grandmother
one day got hot, couldn't take it, dropped her in vacant lot
album of life now congested to a sampler."
58. "you're a dice game, i'm a 'casino' man
find me 'covered in ice like encino man'
the only one missing is 'pacino' man."
( reference to two movies, first is "encino man" where two guys find a caveman in their backyard, and he was covered in ice. the second is"casino" which stars robert de niro and joe pesci, only one missing is al pacino. )
59. "i'm fearless, now hear this
i'm earless, and i'm peerless
that means i'm eyeless
which means i'm tearless
which means my iris resides where my ears is
which means i'm blinded
but i'ma find it i can feel it's nearness."
60. "she says that 'i've been waiting for you'
and i know you've been chasing me too
since they kidnapped me from a castle i've been thinking of you.'
i told a fire-breathing dragon he better not harm me
or he'll be sorry when he meets my one-man army
and thou has come to rescue me
my 'knight in shining armor' yes you be
woken up by the horn of an SUV
i said 'see, too beautiful to let you sleep.' "
(sleeping beauty)
61. "twice the 'bread' like he had two buns
and he had a whole lotta 'seeds' even his kids had 'meals/mills' for reals
some rich 'small fries' wrapped in 'paper' since they were little
'catch up/ketchup' #+%*%."
62. "lovers call him 'king,' haters call him 'clown'
he would say 'bite me' that's the way it's goin down...
said he had 'beef' and people want him dead
he love the hungry ones only scared of the 'feds'...
night turn yourself in to the 'paddy/patty' wagon said no
bacon wouldn't take them had the pigs on the pay roll."
( burger king, ronald mcdonald, and one too many fast food references. also, "feds" is both the police enforcement, as well as those who aren'thungry. )
63. "i'm its gym, it's math and it's history
the gunshots in the class and you can't pass if you're 'missing G'
i taught them better than that
i taught them 'aim' for the head and hope they never come back."
( from the track "put you on the game. take 'G' out of "game" and of course you can't shoot someone if you don't have'ame' (aim.))
64. "i got what i got, and i'm at where i'm 'at,' like an 'A'/@ in a circle."
65. "and my return is more like a re-up
i hold a whole like a tea cup
world in one hand, while the other hand throw the peace up
my other hand throwing 'we' without the 'E' up
i got like 'five more' man, i'm something like 'shiva'
in that fall of rome number four deluxe
see i've 'been around the world' like the gnome
but i've come from a zone where the homes all beat up."
( 'we' without the 'E' up is obviously westside. then he makes a remark about shiva, the god who has six arms total, so using that one arm, hehas five more. and why would he mention the travelocity commercial gnome that's been around the world? aaahaaahaha. )
66. "could walk the walk couldn't really talk the talk
had to get my talk to properly explain my walk
'cause this lack in talk had my walk looking off."
67. "in other words, i reposition how i sit it
then make you 'feel it' like i mispronounced 'filet'
on second thought, i can't make you fill it
like you're 'digging your own grave,' unless you can 'kill bill' it."
68. "there's an 'arms' race like i'm running on my 'hands'
a dance marathon on my 'napalms' and."
(arms/palms and firearms/napalms. )
69. "she helped me bring FNF up
therefore she's forever the 'S' in the us
when i'm talking about we she's the 'E'
she's the one to kidnap when you want the rapper to plea."
70. "i went from MC to being MS, this microphone controller to motivational speaker."
71. "in your ear, like the maker of the vivrant
assalamualaikum to the maker of the vivrant."
( q-tip, maker of 'vivrant thing' and i guess a q-tip in your ear. haha. )
72. "my conception wasn't immaculate
i ain't mastering no calculus
a good addition to the rap audience."
73. "thou shall not sin, thou shall not steal
thou shall not kill, thou shall not turn your back on those in need...
i'm just a rows of weeds
and i 'rolls with reasons/rosary' to stay on this road i lead
till i leave with what i sow, my soul indeeds
leave me son with the sum of what i sold in deeds
i'm folding yo, probably headed for the 'pin' like bowling balls
kept it directed at the 'pen' and wrote it for y'all."
( maybe it's just me! but i heard "rosary" to go with the whole religion idea. then of course, the homonymic wordplay with pens and pins. )
74. "i was like, porsche puller, air force footer
'automatic wristed' therefore 'shooker'
causing a 'stir' every time i push up
'007' with a jester and a look-up."
( james bond always asked for his martinis "shaken not stirred" and he also had a nifty little wristwatch gadget. )
75. " 'frankensteins' of mine, i tighten you young 'screws'
send 'lighting to your mind' and make you move
car like cannonball, run!"
( mary shelley's novel "frankenstein" is about the scientist frankenstein who creates life within a monster with electricity and chemistry, andin popular culture, he's depicted to have "screws" in his head. and from what i can recall from reading, doesn't frankenstein run away tosouth america after realizing what the he's done? )
76. "they say the streets is a demon in a dress
with dollar signs in her eyes and semen on her breath
scantily clad, no panties, deep throating in an alley
aging badly in sunglasses she pretty
slain boyfriend names is tattooed on her *******
sprinkling greed, ignorance and envy inside of a philly
hennessey tears, %@!'ll bring your enemy's here
flirt with your flaws till you run up in her raw."
( extremely intricate and an extended metaphor for prostitution and the "street life." )
77. "i came back with words and stanzas, g
told ya, write back, like stan and i'ma stand till it answers me."
( implication of eminem's track "stan" where the obsessive fanatic writes to eminem every day and stands in line in the blistering cold to get aquick glimpse of eminem. )
78. "the good news my foot's loose, my hands are free
so i dance all footloose and fancy free
big ups to footloose and all the fans of me
my 'fanbase spans from vans to timberlands'
from 'mansions to section 8 campers,' b
i'm they're chamion and i ain't even sound standard, see
i've been lamping, whipping up an answer to these rappers
who got it backwards like they're 'zipping up their pants to pee'
like i'm just a rapper, and i ain't 'dapper'
i'm frequently 'fly' i can go to france for free."
( his fan base is a wide array of listeners, and connections to him peeing haha, frequently fly, and the "dapper" part is hilarious. not only is adapper someone who is neatly dressed or 'fly" which is why they feel he's not presentable because he's a rapper, but isn't it also a guycode to not dap anyone up anywhere near a restroom? HAA. )
79. "%%#$#$ brown-nosed they are like alf to him."
( alf was a self-titled show with a brown puppet alien from the 90's named alf. )
80. "there's snakes in the hood
gotta watch for that cobra bite
let me see, there's snakes in the hood
a bird or 'horse' behind the grill
some 'gator' on the seat, and a fox behind the wheel
no it's not 'noah's ark.' "
( all the animals he mentions can not only be a direct parallel to noah's ark, but it also relates to how a car can have "horse" power, and a"gator" interior. )
81. "riveting is 'rosie,' pockets full of 'posies,' given to the mother of the deceased. awaken at 'war' till i'm resting inpeace."
( rosie the riveter was a cultural and feminist icon during WWII, it was a name given to all the women who looked after the jobs of all the men who were awayat war. it also refers to "ring around the rosies," a popular nursery rhyme that is concerned with the black death of the middle ages. the posies areflowers that can be given to a war veteran when he's dead and "resting in peace." )
82. "i love the lord, but sometimes it's like that i love me more
i love the peace/piece and i love the war
i love the seas and i love the shore
no love for no beach/#*%#*, baby that's loyal
but she doesn't sea/see, therefore i spoil."
