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Rappers think their style is as monster as Godzilla, when really it’s about as monster (and annoying) as Godzilla’s extremely smaller cousin Godzooki.
Godzilla is much more menacing.
I approach and assemble my hopes into notes Black Star (Ft. Black Thought) – Respiration (Flying High Remix)
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They see with two eyes, you know I got three eLZhi (Ft. T3 of Slum Village) – Save Ya
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Just to make sure that I don't get caught Chance the Rapper – 22 Offs
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He’s putting the body in garbage bags and is hiding them as to not get caught. As a fun fact, the Dip Spot is also a place in Chicago that has spoken word and open mic nights.
Offs: 14 (18 including questionables “often”, “awful”, “officer”, “office”)
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Possibly a double entendre.
CB can refer to Citizen’s Band radio, commonly associated with truck drivers of the 70s and early 80s. So Com is referring to the approaching truck drivers, which you would usually avoid on a highway.
It also could refer to Cock Blockers, which are people, usually male, who try to interfere with you getting a girl by flirting with her at the same time you are.
Basically, something is coming that is getting in Common’s way.
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As if it´s all live primetime the Apollo Zion I (Ft. K.Flay) – Coastin'
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He’s being detained by police because his homies couldn’t “slip off” and they got caught. “Off of his square” here likely means not on his block, not in the part of Chicago he calls home. Should “square” be interpreted as cigarette, as it is used in the next line, “off of his square” could mean he is taking a smoke break.
Offs: 19 (23 including questionables “often”, “awful”, “officer”, “office”)
Off of his square, in this case, most likely means either A not in comfortable territory (as mentioned above) or B off of a tab of Acid, a drug chance has or had a well-documented love for and is commonly referred to as a tab or square.
This is evidenced by his lyric in the song Smoke Break where he says
“Lean all on the square, that’s a fucking Rhombus”
Really though that has to be one of the smartest double meanings ever in a song.
Off my square is a chicago term, meaning you’re not acting as you normally would. Or you put yoursel fin a bad situation.
I thought square in the second part he was talking about acid