The entire first half of the this last verse goes “without rhymes”. And here the formal logic of the couplet, which dominates not just this album but the art form in the mid 80s, is suddenly and dramatically stripped away. The resulting off-kilter “lecture” demands that the listener “understand my rhythm”, rather than the rhyme. These moments, and a few others on the album, showcase the group’s virtuosity and forecast future greatness — but, like the album as a whole, the second half of the verse is rhymed couplets, privileging the expected over innovation.

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Namor The Submariner — a Marvel comics character

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Reference to Kurtis Blow’s song Super Sperm from 1985
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y18bPfFI4oc

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He speaks with his hands

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S.1 = Security of the 1st World: Public Enemy’s choreographed militant security detail

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Chuck’s uzi is his mind, it’s a dangerous weapon full of deep and heavy ideas

Hold it — a double entendre as in:

  1. Stop; and

  2. Chuck invites you to feel how heavy his mind is

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Chuck explains how he is a threat to the status quo without resorting to violence. His ideas are on point, and shot from his uzi (his mind) they hit their target (hence no blanks)

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