Despite how life can at times seem bleak and miserable, the overall miracle that is life is an amazing journey. We just sometimes become distracted by the things that go wrong that we overlook this fact.

A similar line is stated in the lines of fellow underground rapper Aesop Rock on his song Daylight:

Life’s not a bitch, life is a beautiful woman
You only call her a bitch because she won’t let you get that pussy

Aesop released Daylight around the same time Southernunderground was released, so perhaps the Deacon was inspired by Aes’s bars.

It seems that in today’s Hip-Hop culture one of the primary topics is talking about how much one spends on clothes, cars, houses, and platinum football fields! When many of these rappers are making claims before they’ve even made some money from rapping. Natti realizes that the only gems that really matter are the ones you rap in your songs so he’s telling all those would-be braggers to worry about these,

before this,

The steering column in a car is what controls the steering wheel which directs the car. Without this, a car wouldn’t be going anywhere and would just sit around all day, and anyone who lives in the South knows how hot a car can get if it sits in the sun for a day, especially if it’s black.

Luckily for us, Natti’s rhymes are just as hot as these cars:

Before A Piece Of Strange was released in 2006, the Cunninlynguists had released two other albums prior to it, Will Rap For Food and Southernunderground; and even though their first two albums were both great, they did not gather all that much attention. So all the praise that the group received for A Piece Of Strange was well-deserved and overdue.

In the old Fairy-Tale Hansel and Gretel Hansel and Gretel were two children imprisoned by a witch who had plans to eat them, instead the children escape and burn the witches house and her to the ground.

The Deacon is looking to achieve the same results as Hansel and Gretel, however, he has guns, “heavy metal, with him!

Though Connor lives a great life now, it hasn’t always been that way. To get to where he is now he had to go through many struggles and turns in his path to become the successful rapper he is today.

Connor wants us to follow our dreams in life, just like he did. Choosing to pursue whatever you passion in life is will lead you to a life that you will love.

Connor knows that haters really don’t matter, he understands what is really acceptable to grieve about in life.

A shrink is a mental health professional that specializes in easing the problems of one’s mind. Connor wrote this song to act as a shrink for all of those people who encounter problems and hate for what they do. Just never give up and you’ll get through any problems you may be having.

Connor raps for the love of the music, he doesn’t do it just for the money and riches that it can bring you, and this is the reason knows that one day Connor will be praised for this love of the music while those that were just in it for the material possessions are forgotten.