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I'm just sitting here wondering who's gonna be tonights ass
Spent tonights cash, smoked tonights grass
And i'll never slow down, I'm livin' tonight fast Young Fade – My Life(Fades Verse)
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Due to the many weed anthems Danimal Lector has given us (Such as I Only Burn Headies and I Stay High), he is often accused of being just another weed rapper.
This couldn’t be farther from the truth. The topics in his songs range from dealing with failed friendships and brotherhood, struggling with religion, and one of my personal favorites of his, being a victim of bullying.
If you wanna make it rain
'Make It Rain' a better jam Yelawolf (Ft. Juelz Santana) – Mixin' Up The Medicine (Remix)
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We could have ourselves a possible (but completely ignored) diss to popular rappers Lil Wayne and Fat Joe, the artists on the track “Make It Rain”, a song in which Fat Joe proclaims is the anthem of the south with these lines:
Now why’s everybody so mad at the South for
Change your style up, switch to southpaw
Jada I was listenin' listenin'
So I made him an anthem to make some dividends
Lil Wayne has also referred to himself as the Weatherman before.
Yelawolf is saying if you’re gonna make a Southern song to be the anthem for the South, which Yelawolf is from… at least make it a good song.
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Frank Lucas is an infamous and widely successful (in the ‘60s and '70s, at least) American heroin dealer, aka “dope”.
His antics were Hollywood-ized in the Ridley Scott directed movie American Gangster (sound familiar?), staring Russel Crowe and Denzel Washington
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When Chris Webby grabs a mic, other MC’s begin to shake in fear – similar to how Michael J. Fox never stops shaking/shivering due to suffering from Parkinsons Disease, an illness that causes the person to shake constantly…. making them “jittery”.
And why I don't sell out and I stay hardcore
And why I never did a video for TVs
And never bought a beat for more than 3 G's R.A. The Rugged Man – Dumb
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Wherever Vinnie Paz decides to strike – the ground around him will crack.
He’ll lee' dat bitch lookin' liike a muhfuckin' crata', gahdamn.
A ride or die bitch, said she'd never turn her back
Take these bullets with you to Hell, you dirty rat Jedi Mind Tricks – Suicide
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The girl that Vinnie Paz mentions is the girl he trusted everything with…. even his more illegal activities.
Despite giving her all his trust though, she betrayed him and went to the law, being the “dirty rat” he mentions here, which is slang for being a snitch.
She tattled on him, basically.
He learned how to deal with heartbreak without turning to Christianity for the support that the deity (Jesus Christ) supposedly gives to his followers- and he learned how to deal with the law and get away with it after she snitched on him.
So why the fuck should he be scared if either of those things are on your side now?
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Yelawolf delivers some clever wordplay to us here.
“In ‘n out like I’m punchin’ in”
Yelawolf begins these next four bars with comparing his razor sharp, quick flow (in ‘n out) to a worker punching in to work and punching out to go home, along with referring to the line two bars up – the one where it says “Like it’s a fight that I’m just jumpin’ in”. His fists are as fast as his flow in a fight.
“Bitch, better go take lunch again”
Continuing the job-related theme, he’s demanding that the other whack rappers just go back on their break, cause they aren’t needed with Yelawolf around.
“I’m working with a-bomb-of/obama confidence”
He’s gotta have a LOT of confidence in his skills to be able to tell all the other rappers to just quit cause he can handle this shit.
This is where it gets really clever. President Obama is a black president, the first one. All the other Presidents of America have been white. Throughout his campaigning, he displayed confidence in his ability to run the country (coughcoughrightintothegroundcoughcough).
Yelawolf is comparing his situation to President Barrack Obama’s – a black man running in a predominantly white system for power, while Yelawolf is a white rapper participating in a predominantly black genre of music for success. He has the same amount of confidence in his ability to make it in hip hop as Obama had in his ability to become President.
“Politician and flippin' the system”
This further strengthens the Obama comparison – just like politicians fuck up the system (flip it), Yelawolf is gonna fuck up the system of hip hop (aka “the game”, which it’s commonly called) with his deeply rooted Southern style.
The Obama reference also ties in nicely with the “thinkin' about the government” from the introduction.
Your analogy is correct but he says ‘…workin with Obama confidence…’