Medusa is a mythological figure who instead of hairs wears living, poisonous snakes and turns onlookers to stone. Perseus, another mythological figure, after beading her utilizes her as a weapon and defeats various enemies such as a sea monster in order to secure a woman who is sacrificed and whom he later marries.

Kweli compares the effect that his rapping abilities have on listeners especially on inferior rapping colleagues to the transformation that persons who glanced at Medusa underwent.

It also is noteworthy that Medusa is used by the high-end fashion brand Versace as logo thus giving this bar possible intention of criticizing overly materialistic rappers, further indicating a critique seeing that a song titled “Versace” by Atlanta based trio got very popular last year.

Unprotected sex usually is the result of either carelessness, alcohol or a relationship which eventually includes the intention of conceiving a child.
The use of the word “passion” indicates that Kweli is speaking about a couple.

Here Lucier is referring to his own stutter and the physical phenomena of resonance that he utilizes for this album.

Over the course of this album the prominent source of sound transforms from a human being, that is Alvin Lucier who initially recites the premise of this piece, to a physical space, that is the room who reflects and absorbs sound waves.

Alvin Lucier used a Nagra tape recorder with an Electro-Voice 635 dynamic microphone and played back on one channel of a Revox A77 tape recorder, Dynaco amplifier and a KLH Model Six loudspeaker.
Over the course of 45 minutes the inital text was repeated about 32 times.
Here is an instruction to replicate I am Sitting… which is similar to the technique Lucier utilized.

Necessary Equipment: One microphone, two tape recorders, amplifier, and one loudspeaker.

• Choose a room

• Attach the microphone to the input of first tape recorder and the amp and speaker to the output of the second

• Recite any text you want

• Record your voice on tape through the microphone attached to tape recording 1.

• Rewind the tap and play it with tape recorder 2 into the room

• Record this with tape recorder 1

• Rewind the second generation to its beginning and splice it onto the end of the original recorder statement on tape recorder 2

• Continue this process through many generations.

Lucier starts this installation, as it might be called, with stating that he is situated in a room that differs from the space that the listener is located in. The room in question is the living room of Lucier’s apartment on High Street in Middletown, Connecticut which also is depicted on the cover.

This line further continues the train of thought that Cyhi started in the two opening bars. He concludes that rappers who brag about pursuing a criminal career in the field of drug trafficking and trade have to lie about their illicit lifestyle or else they would have to face conviction and criminal prosecution.

An example of a rap artists who devotes a majority of his lyrical content to brag about drug trade is Rick Ross, who ironically was employed as correctional facility officer.

Here CyHi the Prynce compares his rapping abilities to a rapper crossover consisting of two of the most popular rappers from each coast of the USA, 2Pac and Nas.

As in the first verse, he pays homage to other rappers who used imaginary similar to this prior to him. This time it is Eminem and Schoolboy Q.

As earlier mentioned in the song, Atlanta and the South in general has the reputation of lacking skilled lyricists. Cyhi refutes this thought by comparing himself to Nas, who often is regarded to be among the most lyrically talented rappers.

The song title B.D.K. refers to the rapper Big Daddy Kane. “Ain’t No Half Steppin” was Big Daddy Kane’s biggest hit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2l2O-JOXG_I