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My whole crew's on some shit
Scuffing up your Nikes, spitting on your whip
Kicking out your DJ, rock it then we dip P.O.S. – Fuck Your Stuff
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This is essentially an anti-materialism song. In this chorus, he takes rather insignificant items that people idolize because they’re popular (shoes, cars etc.), and basically calls them out as worthless, by saying that he scuffs those expensive shoes, and spits on the glamorous whip because he doesn’t need those things to be happy.

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We don't watch the replay, we play P.O.S. – Fuck Your Stuff
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The replay is what you watch sitting in your couch at home after the shit has gone down. We play – we’re the ones making shit go down.

This may also be a way of saying we keep it original. “Watch the replay” may imply that some observe what’s happening and mimic “the replay” for the sake of having the same outcome as the ones it worked out for (Hearing Lil Wayne, and copying his style to get equally as rich, for example).

P.O.S is also notably anti-sports so he may mean “replay” literally.

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Need A Knot Brother Ali – Need A Knot
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This song is about getting money, fast and soon. Ali starts each misleading verse by making statements general enough so that you believe that he is talking about drugs/being a pimp, when he’s actually talking about something else (“chop green”, “move white”). It seems like the point here is that he really needs money, but he will not go as far as selling drugs and pimping. He’s gonna do it the “right” way.

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Struck twice in the same place by a moody Zeus fishliner Aesop Rock – The Yes and the Y'all
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If anyone can make lighting strike the same place twice its this guy

The idiom “lightning never strikes twice in the same place” is defined as something highly unlikely never happening to the same person twice, and in the verse, Aesop is saying that it is occurring to individuals. I think him saying this is a possible reference to the saying that history is condemned to repeat itself if we don’t know our history, and therefore saying that we don’t know our history because the same things keep happening.

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Combined with the previous lines, what he is saying is that people have always been “gathering their sheep” every time “the sun falls” (big problems arise). It’s something that has been witnessed time and time again, people are selfish.

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Fuck, dumbing it down, spit ice, skip jewelry P.O.S. – Fuck Your Stuff
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So many good Hip-Hop artists dumb down their content for the sake of being mainstream and having more money (cough cough Jigga cough cough). But P.O.S. is like “fuck that!” He’d rather spit a dope verse and disregard the fortune he could have if he had dumbed down verses, because he cares more for hip-hop as a whole, rather than just making a shit ton of money.

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Form Follows Function Lupe Fiasco – Form Follows Function
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“Form follows function” was the slogan of the great Chicago School architect Louis Sullivan, whose masterpieces (Flatiron, Carson Pirie Scott) inaugurated the modernist style in architecture

Lupe murders this track filled with top notch imagery, using concepts like religion or drugs (only one mentioned was weed) as metaphors in the verses. This is where Lupe really flexes hard.

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Flatiron was Burnham. Probably a more representative building would be: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wainwright_Building

Also, his extensive use of ornament contradicted what he wrote about form following function

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PipaKn
8 years

Elles sont a ce stade plus de 6 300 a l avoir fait. http://lenitsky.com/mtv-birthday-party-3-goda/ Trente-sept d entre elles sont mortes.

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One Eyedea & Abilities – One
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One is the very first track on First Born, the first album made by Eyedea and Abilities. Eyedea shows his strong lyrical ability as the song touches on things like mainstream rap, and underground MCs, all while being a brag track (to some extent).

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Paint teeth on my lips Aesop Rock – 1,000 O' Clock
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Aesop paints teeth on his lips because he’s fierce and ready for anything. Also a reference to the Mexican holiday, The Day of the Dead where surviving family members pray for fallen loved ones. He could be alluding to playing dead.

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10 years

painted teeth are a front. Dog bark > bite. ‘I don’t speak the language but my last laugh’s hell’.

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and lip that kissed me on the temple Aesop Rock – Gopher Guts
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I can see two meanings here, maybe I’m over-analyzing, but I’ll explain anyway:

  • Could be saying something about God, and how he was the one that kissed his temple, giving him the gift of being so unique and different as a rap artist. Aes maybe feels he doesn’t deserve it.

  • Could be referring to his parents, and how his mother or father are the ones that kissed his temple, and he is saying he doesn’t deserve the love and care he gets/got from them.

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4 years

Considering that on a previous line, calling himself “Godless”, the meaning is most likely in reference to parents, or specifically his mother, as she is a subject/theme in the song.

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JeanJacques z Frenchie
9 years

…a marriage ritual…he tries to apologize for breaking the connection that is supposed to be sacred regarding another human being – his former partner the “wife”…another idealism put up by society being destroyed, the step to breaking up with the current social order – one of many in his personal journey for creative freedom as he clearly hints by avoidance of metaphor…

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11 years

Multiple meanings but i would say it tilts more towards the relationship between him and his mother/ex-wife. A partner that listens to all his problems and then kisses him on the forehead to tell him that it’s all gonna be okay.

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Downer59k
11 years

I think the line and the one before it pertain to his ex-wife. it makes more sense. Why would he be talking about the affection his mother gave him, whne in the beginning of the song he’s questioning their relationship

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11 years

In context I would assume his Mother

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I have been acutely undeserving of the ear that listen up Aesop Rock – Gopher Guts
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This could refer to two things:

  • “The ear that listen up” may be referring to his fans, and how he feels he does not deserve all these fans and the love they give him.

  • May also be referring to the people he is close to that attempt to “deliver him from peril” by really listening to him. He is saying within these two lines therefore that because he is completely ungrateful for the help that people give him, he does not deserve any help in the first place.

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Aesop and his ex-wife, Alyson Baker, divorced in 2011. This line and the one that follows refer to that split and express empathy for his former partner and self-loathing for himself for his failure to get his shit together despite her best efforts to be loving and understanding during his ongoing mental health crisis (dur: 1976 – present).

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