In GZA’s own words : “Then I said, ‘His man who bought land from Tony Starks / while we were contracting brick laying jobs in city parks.’ It’s on a construction level but I’m still using bricks as a metaphor because most cats refer to bricks as kilos. ‘He’s a loan shark interest rates a grand to a finger.’ So for whatever grand over they took a finger but it was a run on sentence cuz I said he had a ‘finger in the garment district and got it sewn like singer’s.’ Singer is a well known sewing machine so it’s all in a metaphorical way. ”
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Raekwon is saying that his cousin who is sentenced to 14 in the previous line will be taken care of when he gets out of jail cause Rae will be a celebrity by that time
RZA can you explain ‘After The Smoke is Clear’ from the Ironman album
all good except the lyric is wrong, he say “sheesha smoker” , it’s a arabic way of smoking flavoured tobacco
Also Game 6 was the infamous 1986 Baseball World Series between the Boston Red Sox and the New York Mets, where the Mets pulled a crazy victory.
Two additions
-This line could also be a reference to the old Ghostface Killah line “you goddamm right i fuck fans, king me”.
-When he’s referring to your favourite rapper he’s talking about 50 cent.(watch the video)
The lyrics are wrong
“you take care of birds like an animal doctor”
-Most of you guys are out spending money on girls and shit, taking care of them like a vet does to birds. banks don’t play that shit
your switchin your hips like a women. Not very cool
This actually has a double meaning.
1.That due to the 10 percenters the world will collapse and jewels will be used for trade as society will regress.
2.Another is that in order to battle the 10 percenters on teh “airwaves” (radio), Guru must use Jewels (knowledge) as tools of the trade (rapping), to battle the ignorance played on the radio
RZA’s explains this in ‘The Wu-Tang Manual’, he says that at this time people were saying they saw RZA in their dreams, so he felt he was leading them (like a king). Also allah never came in dreams, but send down angels as messengers
When you get rolled, your stuck as in you cant get out of the robbery and have to either give up or shoot your way out.