I’m excited for J. Cole’s album. Looks like he really wants to make a classic debut and he has the tools to do so. I’m just scared that my expectations are just way to high and I’ll get disappointed. I hope I don’t. See ya at bumbershoot…
His performance on BET, which I heard was cut. His new verse is siiiicckkk.. The crowd as expected don’t really know who he is and you can see Cole just smiling like “these ninjas don’t care.”
Some people question why I think so highly of Lupe Fiasco. Well, this song right here is an example of his lyrical muscle. Text in bold are the lyrics and below is the breakdown of his lyrics. Some people say “why the fuck do I have to think really hard to know what he means”…well, its called being a lyricist….Anyways, if you still don’t like him because you don’t feel his style..i can respect that, but read this anyways because it is a good read. I just wonder how somebody can think of all this in one song. Another song where he shows off his wordplay skills is on ‘Failure’.
Unh! I bring you murder in the first
And even as we speak we gettin further in this verse
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Murder in the first degree, murder in the first verse. he references this again at the beginning of the 2nd verse with the “187 on my second”
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Mercy, he’s a mess! So immersed in his murk
He’s two thirds submerged below the surface where they surf
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- Obviously talking about water. 2/3 of the earth is covered by water
- Murk is also slang for murder
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This is where I lay it down like a bird givin birth
So call me Lu the Giant’s Goose or just, Faberge paint
Til I’m called back to the shore by the watchers of the Bay
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Besides the obvious bird wordplay (and extended water metaphor):
Lu= Sweet Lou = Lou Piniella
Goose = Goose Gossage
They were teammates on the New York Yankees. Goose was a pitcher
The Giants (baseball) also originated in New York. they moved to San Francisco. hence the line about the Bay
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I wait, till I come back like a tsunami
Never microwave like the watchers of the weight
I’m wrapped in aluminum foil, I do my dirt like Kwame
Until that same soil being pushed into my grave
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- Obviously continuing the water wordplay.
- Never microwave…Tsunami’s are large waves, not micro, as in small.
- “Never microwave like the watchers of the weight”
Weight Watchers make microwavable food plans.
- “Im wrapped in aluminum foil”
You can’t put aluminum foil in the microwave
- Watchers of the weight = Drug dealers
- “Never microwave” = his doesn’t get hot
- Kwame was Earth, the black dude on Captain Planet. meaning, he does his dirty work with his boys. When they came together, they were unstoppable (I’ll get back to this)
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Until that same soil being pushed into my grave
But I’m so ahead of my time, the next day
Might strike oil while I have layed, homie I’m so crude
Texas T, haters is so screwed
But I can’t feel it like a flathead in a Philips
Don’t get it twisted, I’m no tool
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- Obviously referencing the “dirt” he does like Kwame.
- Texas Tea is slang for oil. also slang for sizzurp
- “screwed” starting the hardware wordplay.
Screwed also means to make a drink alcoholic. Chopped and Screwed music also originated in Houston, TX
- Twisted as in the action you do to a screw. Also means to get drunk
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More cool than a pool in a blizzard
With ice cubes in it during Christmas
Meanin there’s no school, i’m a misfit
Like I’m throwin a fit
Or I just can’t fit it, tidbit too big
gotta hem it til it’s fresh to death
Dressed to kill it, like unh
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- No school during Christmas. misfit as in a bad kid who doesn’t go to school.
- Throwing a fit like a temper tantrum. fit also as in outfit
- “Or I just can’t fit it” as in clothing
- Tidbit too big, meaning it’s barely too big. Tidbits are also the things you put on a bit wrench (hardware wordplay again)
- Hes gotta hem his to fit. (i.e, dumb down his lyrics to cater to hip-hop heads)
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Unh! 187 on my second, I reckon
This is an assault with a deadly session
A soft peace and blessins to the sentence that be reppin
All across in every direction, locality, and section
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187 = Murder. Murder in the second degree, murder in the 2nd verse.
- Sentence as in the structure of speech. sentence as in a prison term
- Hes saying getting away with murder. Hes killing the track and nobody is even catching it
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Give it how I live it most niggaz won’t believe
Or achieve how I did it most niggaz won’t receive
Till I leave and I bereave the secrets of my sickness
How I, flooded the streets like Venice
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- Aside from the ridiculous multisyllabic schemes in there, he’s saying he won’t get the respect he deserves until he’s dead
- He’s also referencing his boys who move weight on the side to help support him (how him and his boys “Do dirt like Kwame”, which will come up again in the 3rd verse)
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I’m Colonel Mustard with the speech
They ain’t catchin me, no suspicions of stickin
No convictions on my rap sheet
I’m so committed, lay my murder game, that’s sweet
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People aren’t catching all the slick shit he’s saying in his lyrics (getting away with murder)
also using it as a metaphor to not getting caught by the law, hence the “no suspicions” or charges “stickin” or”convictions on his rap sheet” (referencing his slick lyrics again, as well as his clean legal record) He’s “committing” murder right in front of everyone but nobody’s catching him
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Speakeasy like Prohibition, no admission
If you ain’t knockin like me to the underground bar, buryin a toast
Dodgin the raid like roach, nigga please
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- Speakeasy’s were the illegal bars during prohibition. – Speakeasy also obviously meaning he spits like this easily
- You had to use a password or a special knock to get into most Speakeasy’s
- Most Speakeasy’s were underground, hence underground bar
- Underground bar-barian. Lupe is an underground MC and he’s a savage with his bars
- Speakeasy’s got raided like drug spots do today. referencing his boys once again
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Unh! I make it give up the ghost
On the trifecta, the third, I differ
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- Give up the ghost means to give up.
- Hes murdering/beating up the track into submission.
- The third as in the 3rd verse. To hit a Trifecta when betting on horse-racing means you got the first 3 places right. Meaning, he “got” (killed) all 3 verses.
- Ghost. TRIFEcta. Ghostface and Trife Da God. (remember this “Ghost” reference for later)
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Nigga, you ain’t heard? My lecture like Lector
Letcha in on a secret, but you can’t leak it
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- His “lecture” (teaching with his lyrics) is like Hannibal Lector. In the movie Hannibal, he opens up dudes skull and exposes his brain. Lupe’s opening dude’s minds.
- He’s about to let y’all in on the secret of 1st and 15th
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Lupe’s the killa, killa, killa, killa
Since my entrance, my niggaz had packs
They moved ‘em to a trap like Winston
Far from bustas, baby nah
All my homies henchmen
I was the rhymer, my talk went through the walls like Slimer
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- Since the beginning his boys had packs (Drug bundles) First and 15th was built on drug money (word to his boy/business partner getting busted with bricks of Heroin and Cocaine)
- Trap (The drug spot)
- “Like Winston” Winston cigarette packs.
- Winston Churchhill was said to have been in a “trap” when he joined the WW2 conflict.
- Busta’s = Ghostbusters
Winston was also one of the Ghostbusters. “Packs” the Ghostbusters always had those backpacks on.
“Far from bustas, baby nah, all my homies henchmen”
- His boys are far from lames (bustas). Henchmen are villains.
“Far from Bustas, my homies Henchmen… I was the Rhymer”
- Busta Rhymes. his bodyguard is Jimmy Henchmen.
His boys were never far away from him like Busta’s bodyguard (so don’t fuck with him)
“I was the rhymer, my talk went through the walls like Slimer… Or like, eating vagina ”
- “Rhymer” completing the whole Busta Rhymes wordplay.
- Lupe was the rhymer. He was the frontman of the whole
drug operation. His boys did the dirty work behind the scene and used it to front his legal hip-hop operation.
- “Talk went through the walls” the cops were listening. Slimer (from Ghostbusters) could go through walls.
- Eating vagina (vaginal walls)
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Or, a stray bullet, whichever ways I put it
Crooks was hooked like crooks through neighborhoods I pushed it
Little Caesar niggaz pizzas was like book it
Delivery mean like Leroy Green
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“Crooks was hooked like crux” …they had fiends hooked like crux (a constellation that looks like a fish-hook)
- Little Caesar obviously referencing the pies they “delivered”
“Delivery mean like Leroy Green”
- Lupe’s delivery in rhyming, and his boys delivery of the drugs… Leroy Green was an actor who played in the story of Bruce Lee’s biopic “The Last Dragon”…mean “punch” delivery, like Lupe’s punchlines… Leroy Green is also a Hollywood writer… He’s credited as a writer for what movie? Ghostbusters.
- “Little Caesar pizzas was like book it”
Book it as in police terms. (to put somebody on the books) rapper Lil Caese niggas helped put Lil Kim “on the books” when he testified against her
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SICCCKKKKK
I come around like what goes around
What goes up must come down, anyone who comes up must go down
Might aswell go for the gusto now
Better not let up, better not let them breathe
Last shot, give it all you got
Try to turn me down *****, get ****ed with a volume knob
**** all you snobs, !*%% now i hope all you rot
2 bottles of lupiderm and a box of condoms is that all you brought
And you want a Ménage à trois you twats
**** that i’d rather turn this club to a ballroom brawl
Get rowdy as roethlisberger in a bathroom stall
Like a leaf stuck in a vacuum ya’ll
ain’t nuttin but a whole lotta suckin’ going on in rap
Yeah but I’m home, back for the bone, back in the zone
leave him alone you don’t wanna go eggin him on
It’ll never be my chair that you own
crown so tight that it cuts all circulation
no air to the brain no oxygen other words it’s no air to the throne
When i die so does hip-hop
hitchcock did a **** ***** !%! doc got his zip locked in a bag
you +#+* ain’t been able to fade me since kid rock had a hi-top
keep bloggin while i’m mind boggling i zone like im in the twilight dog
get off my bone, this is my mic dog and i like hoggin it
flow so wet ima take this beat tabboggoning, im water loggin it, im soggin it
pull your verse out the beat and stomp on it
suplexing it on cement like im on some straight outta compton ****
take this **** and chomp on it, im so bad i could ***** slap a back handed compliment
%+$%@%%, eat a donkey ****, the game i just about conquered it
like donkey kong, im bonkers ***** im the king of this ****** ****
i reign supreme in this ****** ****
no screaming and arguing makes no difference whether a benz or a bentley or a beamer’s the car you in
you think you ball well i bomb it, i throw up bombs when i vomit
i throw down in the kitchen might hit your mum with my omlete
but you got egg on your face, now watch me drop it atomic
i should be strapped to the chest of a kamikaze *****
im as bat **** as ozzy it’s obvious you can tell right off the bat
no pun intended but come any closer i’ll bite off your head
trying to give me the finger’s like giving a spider the web
I’m just gonna spin it and use it to my advantage
i catch a fly in that *****, you think you fly, you just food
i give as much of a flying **** as that superman dude
Guess I just do what you can’t do, i make you look stupid and bamboozled
confused as usual and you can ripped she can open a can too
you better hope you can handle the heat or stay the **** outta hells kitchen
i came to !++* block like a square, ****ing male chicken?
Yeah, it’s shady %!!* the rest can suck on a big one
Im as despicable as daffy duck when im spittin’
Goosebumps….
Macklemore very underrated local emcee. I guess if you’re local and not signed to a major, you’re considered underrated, but really his first album was great. I don’t think I skipped a track. Until his next album drops you can listen to his new mixtape The Unplanned Mixtape.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XNTNZeMv44&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fnahright.com%2Fnews%2Fpage%2F3%2F&feature=player_embedded]
I ain’t going to lie..Asher Roth can freestyle..you know rap from the head as you go. The REAL way to freestyle…
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmRcGDWP46M&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sbpresents.com%2F&feature=player_embedded]
I really enjoyed this song and video. This was probably the first busta rhymes song I ever heard and with crazy ass ODB. WoohAAH!!
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isumZjs3dKA]
This is my joint right here..Straight up hip-hop period and with no hook!! Everyone brought it, but everyone still had their favorite verse. My favorite verses are U-God and of course Ghostface Killah..ish makes you hype..
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpmVl7zuzRY&feature=related]
Man..this was my jawn for awhile..When DMX was raw and hungry. He came out with this song and showed his other side. Who didn’t want to be a ruff ryder back then?
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtsKcHmceqY]
BTNH…they were my favorite group when I was growing.
Eazy-E’s verse is probably the most memorable for me. “STANDING IN THE CORNER STRAIGHT SLANGING ROCKS.oOOOH MAn HERE COMES THE CROOKED ASS COPS…”
That’s it for now..sorry I haven’t really blogged much, but I just wanted to post some few classics that were in my head today..hahah
one of the greatest beats ever in hip hop..
dope if you’re interested in how it was put together..
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RY8EIoMelFc&feature=related]
Saigon- Okay okay…This guy has been on the scene for awhile and still hasn’t put out an official album. His buzz is dying down now, but he is still somebody to watch out for. He should’ve put out an album after his appearances in Entourage.
Breathe Thru The Years
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OibCs-9qqs&feature=PlayList&p=2824AA01B446404F&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=29]
Come On Baby Remix Ft. Jay-Z
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUCxGANepAk]
Kid Cudi-I admit it…The first song I heard from him was Day N Nite and that’s from the tv show Entourage. Actually I just really liked the song when I heard it on the show and found out that it was a Kid Cudi track. I also found out after the TV show that Day N Nite was a old song. I’m still getting used to him because some of his stuff is just out there, but I have a feeling he is going to sell pretty well.
Download the mixtapes A Kid Named Cudi and The Man On The Moon.
Day N Nite
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKp5iscRBGk]
Man On The Moon
I love this song..haha
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKD2EWLKcNU&feature=related]
To Be Continued…Playoffs tomorrow. SEE RED!!!!
Let’s talk about music. I haven’t talked about music much lately and I heart music. I love listening to new and upcoming artists that haven’t put out an album yet because they are usually really hungry and make some really good music and mixtapes. Here are a few artists I am feeling right now.
WALE- Dudes from DC and his mixtapes are great. His style is fresh to me because his music is influenced by the DC style of music called ‘Go Go’. Didn’t like him at first because of the song NIKE BOOTS, but I gave him a chance when I downloaded his mixtape and it was history from there. Oh btw, I like Nike Boots now because I really listened to the song and it wasn’t really about Nike shoes..hahah.. Do yourself a favor and download 100 Miles & Running and A Mixtape About Nothing.
One of my favorite songs from him.
ARTISTIC INTEGRITY
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R64Zx2-CinU&feature=related]
If you want more of a commercial feel. His opening verse on this song was my ringtone for awhile.
WALEDANCE
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6b6MuwFqoo]
DRAKE- He is a Canadian rapper/singer/actor who’s usually collaborating with Trey Songz and Lil’ Wayne. Download the mixtapes Comeback Season and So Far Gone.
Replacement Girl
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bALk7WdD4e8]
The Best I Ever Had
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TjEIMv2MqM&feature=related]
It’s getting late! To Be Continued…
I skimmed through it..blahhh..Man, I am so disappointed with Kanye West for making an album filled with auto tune. Seriously..why waste something like A Good Ass Job for 808’s & Heartsucks…You will not get my money Kanye West. Coldest Winter is that piff though I must admit. Fuck a Kanye and Fuck a auto-tune…and Chino XL fuck you too..j/k..