Dissect it I'm on hi-tech shit computers want to bite
Your style is Pascal, mine is Basic and just instinct

from Common – Sum Shit I Wrote Lyrics on Rap Genius

Com shows himself to be on the very cutting edge of technology here — PASCAL and BASIC were competing programming languages in the 1980s and early 1990s. Com implies that BASIC was more “advanced” than PASCAL — if anyone wants to argue that feel free, I couldn’t figure it out from the Wikipedia page.

His rap is so cutting-edge that computers are checking for it, and of course the byte/bite wordplay here is just genius.

“Basic and just instinct” — references the movie Basic Instinct (1992).

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