Surgical Gloves Lyrics

[Intro: Raekwon]
Eight million stories, nigga
Take y'all niggas somewhere, man
Y'all niggas never heard niggas rhyme like this before, man
This ain't no Wizard of Oz shit neither, man
For real, man
Ayo

[Verse 1]
Surgical gloves, snubs in the grass with his blood
"Homie, hold that", the four black
We black down, Gold Jag'
Ol' laughing, yo, "Yo, what the fuck happened?"
"They clapped him in the scalp, it flew that way"
"Yo, why they capped him?" It went through his lap
Snatched his Audemars Pig-et, took his man gold, get at
He painted it, slayed blocks, aiming it, hit a child
This is foul, but he styled with his flamer, flaming shit
Teddy with the red Range, supercharged Kangols
Rae and Ghost CD in his change, yo
Angel, Spanish kid lingo, all I know is where he hang, though
Kept it sideways, angle
Good brush, tough talk, keep it real, daddy, got them thing-os
I respect on how the game goes
The same goes for get-fresh niggas, test niggas
Extra blessed niggas with them egos
We blow you out your peacoats
Haha, ah, dios míos, we get them twelve a ki, yo
Keep it moving, slide off in the G-Os
"Freeloaders, the D's over
Your shit won't sell no more, breeze over"
[Chorus: Raekwon]
Money, gear, drugs, guns, Goodyears
All my niggas sit, smelling the tears
Cooking snow white, it's just the poor life
Never living off fear, we all millionaires, now where my shares?
(Money) You know the code, drug money, gear money, baby
(Money) You know we fold the stash holders, cash blowers, yeah
(Money) So when the D's come, we float and grab the boats, yeah
(Money) Spend off, I got my win off, have a potent year

[Verse 2]
Yeah, X6 is red, up in Albany with the dreads
Bags of black, fuck the feds, papers in Arubas
Gold tuba from Bermuda in my living room spreads
Cameras, action, got the calico cranked
"Where the food at?", Hood jewelry on, I gots to do that
Long-chain hatchet flooded up, you knew that
Baby blue Mac, stones on the nozzle stick
Bulletproof Broccos with the Jew bitches, all I got is two cracks
Gazelle lenses, clear rude wraps, bagging every Ziploc
And my peoples sit around, cops split that
High potent white Kit-Kats, we sell up in the hood
Going door to door, every floor, every get back
My gangsta shit, get gats, for every man
"Here go a gram
Meet me by my drophead and drop your lid back"
Forty-seven quick claps (Spray off on something)
[Chorus: Raekwon]
Money, gear, drugs, guns, Goodyears
All my niggas sit, smelling the tears
Cooking snow white, it's just the poor life
Never living off fear, we all millionaires, now where my shares?
(Money) You know the code, drug money, gear money, baby
(Money) You know we fold the stash holders, cash blowers, yeah
(Money) So when the D's come, we float and grab the boats, yeah
(Money) Spend off, I got my win off, have a potent year

[Outro: Raekwon]
Spray on one of y'all, man
Streets is mine, nigga
You know what we do, for real
Straight up
It's how we playing right now, man
'Cause the streets, man
Streets is making y'all niggas see, man
But some of y'all is blind
For real

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Genius Annotation

On “Surgical Gloves,” Rae showcases his storytelling talent as he goes on to recount a tale of street-violence and drug-dealing.

Exactly 2 days after Only Built 4 Cuban Linx… Pt. II’s release, he disclosed the following information about the song in an interview with The Guardian on September 10, 2009:

That came from visionin' myself bein' back with some of the most ruthless animals in the streets. I’ve been around good dudes that had terrible reputations. My friends, they didn’t give a fuck: they would sell to pregnant crackheads, one-armed mo'fuckers with no eyes – whatever. And I felt like that beat made me go back to that ruthless side of us. I’m a storyteller – that’s my chamber, that’s my box. I’m always tryin' to give you the best story from our side of the table that you could really relate to quick. I understand where I wanna be at, but sometimes the production takes me where I need to go.

Q&A

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What did Raekwon say about "Surgical Gloves"?
Genius Answer

The Alchemist: “Raekwon is the man. I didn’t think anyone would see the science behind that beat. It’s like when producers come through, certain producers, they see the science behind the beats because that’s what we do.

“Or there are some beats that all producers know or some beats that you only play for other producers because I don’t know if a rapper is gonna get it but I know you’re gonna get this. This is what we do. That was one of those.

“I never really pushed it on anybody cause it was part of that style. I remember playing it for K-Slay. I remember he liked it a lot and he wanted to use it for something and I was like, ‘Word?’ I remember anytime I played that for someone on a whim and they liked it it was like, ‘Okay dope.’ I didn’t know if it was like too styled out or too choppy or whatever.

“Then Rae heard it, I played it for him one day and he was like, ‘That’s it.’ Really? He was like, ‘Yo I get it.’ And I was like, aww man beautiful. And he did the right thing to it.”

What has Raekwon said about the song?
Genius Answer

That one is mean right there. I didn’t even know how the fuck I was gonna rhyme on that shit at first. I was hangin’ with Alchemist one day and I was like, ‘Yo, I need you on the album.’ He was like, ‘Word, word?’ I was like, ‘You already know we been should a did this shit.’ So he like, ‘Yo, aight. I gotta a couple of beats I’ve been working on lately. You check ‘em out. You let me know which one.’

A lot of times I gotta do my own A&R work. So he played a couple, then he played this shit. I’m sayin, ‘This shit is crazy.’ I’m like, ‘Where do you come in at?’ I’m lookin’ at him and Alchemist pass the weed like, ‘I don’t know, just do you.’ So, I was like yeah, I’m a challenge this beat right here.

It was definitely an awkward beat, and I think that the stuff that I like is the challenge as an artist. Because sometimes we get tired of hearing an artist with the same fucking bounce. I knew that this was me going out the box and me trying something different again. I love to try different shit so people can’t be like, ‘Yo, I heard a song like that already from Rae.’ This one was jumping on the other side of the fence right here.

When I rhyme, sometimes I rhyme kinda like according to how the beat sounds and I just start coming up with wordplay. So, I didn’t really know in what direction I was gonna go. I just knew I was gonna set the rhyme up with ‘surgical gloves.’ I’m saying to myself, ‘Why the fuck you say ‘surgical gloves’?’ But it just sound hot. I’m just bar-in, everything out, like dart for dart. Line for line. Crazy rhyme though, and it definitely wound up being one of my favorites on the album.”

via Complex

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Release Date
September 8, 2009
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