Ober12

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About Ober12

What it do, son?

My name’s Ober12, I’m the resident pug in this shiz, and I’ve been an editor since 26/12/12. As you can tell by how I write the date, I’m not American. I’m Brazilian, living in Paris, soon headed off to Carnegie Mellon University.

I listen to most Hip-Hop I can get my hands on, not many things I don’t fuck with. I’m constantly trying to expand my musical horizon, so I spend a lot of my time, looking for, then downloading or buying new albums

My Own Favorite Explanations:

Mayflower — Psyonik
Guaranteed Raw — Notorious B.I.G.
Assassins — Pharoahe Monch
Shit I Ain’t Got — Paz
Love Ain’t — Cunninlynguists
A Valediction Forbidding Mourning — John Donne — Poetry

Peace!

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So you can call me Tesla, Nikola, impeccably dressed Nice Peter & EpicLLOYD (Ft. Dante Cimadamore) – Tesla vs Edison

In the biographical book Prodigal Genius: The Life Of Nikola Tesla he is portrayed as a meticulous dresser

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Cus hey I only see me and you
That’s why I’m all over you
While you still got your dress on
While you still got your dress on Justin Timberlake – Dress On

He only sees the two of them (meaning he doesn’t care at all if there are people around them. And so, he decides to act as if the privacy was real, in what can be described as an excessive amount of PDA

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But my train is on yo track now
So watch out Justin Timberlake (Ft. Timbaland) – Body Count

He is metaphorically saying he is having sex with your girl! The “train” imagery has been used many times before, notably in Hitchcock’s famous movie North By Northwest (1959).

You can see the brief, final scene HERE

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Together now we multiply Kumar – The Square Root of 3

Straight to business, it’s “multiplication” time!

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When hark! What is this I see,
Another square root of a three
Has quietly come waltzing by, Kumar – The Square Root of 3

Love is in the air… since finally another root 3 has been spotted! This is the romantic counterpart to our sad protagonist, we shall see how the plot thickens!

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I know I'll never see the sun, as 1.7321
Such is my reality, a sad irrationality Kumar – The Square Root of 3

The square root of 3 is an irrational number, meaning it cannot be properly expressed as a fraction (meaning it will go on forever)

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I wish instead I were a nine
For nine could thwart this evil trick,
With just some quick arithmetic Kumar – The Square Root of 3

As we all know, the square root of 9 is 3. He basically doesn’t want that square root operator looming over him, and so he wouldn’t have that problem if he was a square number (like 9)

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Why must my three keep out of sight Kumar – The Square Root of 3

The 3 is being hidden by the square root sign (which covers most of the 3)

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You fool, you think that you can touch me with this? Nice Peter & EpicLLOYD (Ft. Dante Cimadamore) – Tesla vs Edison

In the previous verse, Edison said that if he hadn’t invented the light bulb, the record, ect there would be no rap battle. In the video, we see Tesla turns the lights back on with Edisons light bulb, gesturing at it (“touch me with this?”), and then summons lightning to illuminate the battle.

What is meant by this is to show the insignificance of Edison and his inventions. If Edison hadn’t been there, someone else would’ve most likely invented everything he did, and when compared to Tesla’s dreams of global free energy, Edison’s inventions and contributions are quite insignificant.

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MistahFixIt
May 17th, 2013

In fact, Edison did not ‘invent’ any of the things he boasts about in the previous line. The light-bulb patent was bought from Canadian inventors Henry Woodward and Matthew Evans in 1879. Moreover, historians have discovered at least 22 different versions of the incandescent light-bulb prior to Edison ‘perfecting’ it. In regards to sound, Emile Berliner invented a working ‘carbon microphone’ within a month of Edison doing the same, and the patent was awarded to Edison only after a lengthy legal battle. As for film, the first working motion-picture camera was developed by Louis LePrince in 1888, even though the first patent in the United States was, yes, awarded to Edison in 1891.

Tesla is basically stating that Edison’s boast is empty, since if Edison did not perfect the light-bulb, the carbon microphone, or the motion picture camera, someone else would have done so eventually.

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ATL, NYC, AZ, MIA, LA Micahfonecheck (Ft. Kendrick Lamar) – Girls In America

Atlanta, New York, Arizona, Miami, Los Angeles, Kendrick is calling girls all over America

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"My uncle produced for poor, righteous teachers" (Honors English – Rap Genius: My Hip Hop Story) | accepted

Did your uncle actually produce for the Poor Righteous Teachers?

"Me? I'm a fuckin' walkin' paradox" (Capital STEEZ – Negus) | rejected

He is being successful when he was born into poverty. The paradox is that even though he was born into a negative situation he is doing something positive with his life (trying to succeed in life through music instead of crime)

"That nigga looked up and thought he saw 40 Pacs" (Game – Blood of Christ) | rejected

It could also be a reference to Tupac. As in, Game’s such a good rapper he’s like 40 Pacs (or 20 2Pacs)

"If life's a bitch, I'm wearing three condoms with too muc..." (Notatroll – Fuck Jabronis) | pending

Just make sure to correct the double “and”, but otherwise this explanation is golden lol

"Poetry is driven by emotion but nothing's pleasure, nothi..." (Notatroll – Fuck Jabronis) | accepted

I think it is important to mention in these lines that he doesn’t feel anything, which is a recurring message in this verse

"Don't try to fidget with it, err ribbit, ribbit" (Eminem – Swag Juice (Chonkyfire Freestyle)) | pending

Why is everyone here thinking about piss?

"My Fulton Street niggas" (The Notorious B.I.G. – Dangerous MC's) | accepted

Where biggie was born and raised

"Eat the Mami chochi and drive a low-ride" (Diddy – Been Around the World) | pending

Also, that’s another reference to cunnilingus in this song, there’s been quite a few already

"Hard like Shaquille, oh you better kneel" (The Notorious B.I.G. – Hot 95 Freestyle) | accepted

Scoob emphasizes the words Shaquille, oh, and kneel, which can be written differently to spell Shaquille O'Neal. He also say he is as hard as him, so you better kneel

"Find me a lighter" (Curren$y – Motion) | pending

He’s about to light up
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