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A couple nice plays on words:

  • “shoot the breeze” is a way to say “talk about whatever” but Sage is shooting the breeze by ending this pretentious conversation.
  • “long-winded” links to breeze-shooting thematically. His gun does all the talking he needs to do, and says briefly what the pretentious conversations take ages to explain.

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He’s saying that even though he’s speaking of a serious subject (guns, and holding one in his mouth), he’s satirizing the usage of guns in mainstream hip hop, so he’s smiling.

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Seeing as this was released in early 2005, this line is strikes to the Iraq War, War in Afghanistan, and War on Terror which were all on going at the time.

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This is a play on the phrase “gangster of love,” which has been the title of songs by everyone from Johnny Guitar Watson to the Geto Boyz.

A line of “emo-rap” here, speaking of Sage’s fear of (being rejected by) women and his inability to make eye contact with them. His gun here is a guard against any rejection by women: if he overcompensates his lack of confidence (his small penis) with a large gun and feels masculine, maybe he can look women in their face. Sage has taken a gender politics course or two.

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Further word play on gun/body parts. This is more absurd than literal–if it was literal, he’d be talking about a catheter.

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A sage line by Sage: “back issues” has a double meaning:

  • psychological issues in the rapper’s past
  • dated editions of the shooting magazine Guns & Ammo. Guns & Ammo has been published for 53 years, so there’re plenty of back issues there.

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Owning a gun has caused him to be more aggressive and to want more conflict and chaos in his life. The gun caused a psychological shift in his personality, which he alludes is the real threat of handgun ownership–guns create an expectation or even obligation of usage from their owners, making the owners more violent (people don’t own guns, guns own people).

He also contrasts the person he is when flaccid to the person he is while erect–contemplative and calm versus violent and animalistic.

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A gun is often seen as an easy way to gain instant manhood. Other methods include installing a car engine, getting an anchor tattoo, and popping a cherry. These lines set up the gun-as-penis lyrics just below.

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“biscuit” as slang for gun. He’s playing on the image of a “hard” rapper rapping, swagging, eating, or doing anything at all while carrying a gun. Sage is saying that his gun creates fear, not cockiness, so he presents the comical idea of him rapping while very anxiously holding the reason for his anxiety.

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He preempts his own suicide. If he sees himself while looking through the scope of the gun (as he “looks inward”), he’s aiming at his own head. He puts the safety on the protect himself from firing. This also indicates that since his private thoughts are so violent and self-destructive, it’s dangerous to give him a gun to make those thoughts actions.

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