Swab test; you failed, can't spit it how I spit it Oddisee – That Real
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Ain’t nobody else in Oddisee’s pedigree of MCing.
He’s playing on the dual meaning of “spit.”
- The regular degular mouth spit and “spit” used as a synonym for aggresively rapping.
The swab test dashed their hopes against the rocks.
And tell Uncle Sam I forgot the receipts
He gon' call me a liar and I'ma call him a thief
The jury looking like him and enjoying looking at me Oddisee – Way In Way Out
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Oddisee is destroying his income records (“cooking up the books”) to not be taxed so much by the IRS. However, Oddisee just sees this as his recouping money that the federal government took in a shady manner.
In Soviet Russia, there were, indeed, book burnings initiated by the Communist Party.
Oddisee is taken to trial, judged by a jury (most likely of racist white men) that enjoy watching a black man suffer.
All us blacks got is sports and entertainment, and a belief in
Religion as the answer to the grieving
Believing that the blessed get test and the less get even Oddisee – Way In Way Out
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So we broke, crack was the answer to cash Oddisee – Way In Way Out
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Oddisee plays on an old adage, used to describe the cycle in which the poor try to get out of poverty at the expense of other impoverished people; crack peddling is viewed as one means of poverty (the barrel). Rather than ascend to the barrel’s top, just bust a hole in the side. This shortcut emphasizes the easy money that crack brought to some people.
Cracking the glass barrel got the crabs out of poverty and into the “vast ocean of material prosperity” that surrounded them. Oddisee might also be alluding to the “island of poverty” metaphor (where’s the cash?).
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When Ka writes his rhymes, the page is set ablaze.
He is probably alluding to the burning bush through which God ordered Moses to petition Pharaoh for the Israelites' release from slavery.
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Notice, come through the crowd, my staff parts the sea Ka (Ft. Roc Marciano) – Iron Age
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Between you and me, stupidity amends bravado Ka (Ft. Roc Marciano) – Iron Age
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