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The Battle for Bunker Hill was fought during the American Revolutionary War, and it was a huge battle between armies that consisted of 2,400 redcoats and 1,500 colonists
This is also the battle where the saying “Don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes!” has first been documented being said – although who it was said by remains a mystery.
With a flow that be colder than the Nagano Olympics Chris Webby (Ft. Daniel Zavaro) – And The Beat Goes On
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The underlying (and slightly darker) theme of this song is that no matter the bad shit that goes on, and trust us folks here at RapGenius… there’s definitely some bad shit going on, life (in this case, “the beat”) will still keep going on, and of course, Webby will keep rocking it!
The Nagano Olympics (or, more accurately, the XVIII Olympic Winter Games) occured in 1998, in Nagano, Japan.
Venue after venue, showin' 'em that I flow with no regard Chris Webby (Ft. Daniel Zavaro) – And The Beat Goes On
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Chris Webby is currently on the last leg of his Bars On Me Release Tour… a mixtape that came out in September of last year, and the tour started briefly after it’s release, with it’s last day being May 21st.
Fun fact: I was at the Elon, NC show, and holy fuck it was amazing.
Considerin' two years ago I was makin' minimum wage Chris Webby – Skyline
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Check out this song of Chris' to see a very impressive listing of his accomplishments at the time of this project – and trust me, the list is only getting longer!
This EP dropped in 2011 – two years prior was his mixtape The White Noise LP, which contains songs like I’m So Broke, which (hilariously) details his struggle as a broke rapper!
Like a fucking ball on a soccer field
‘Cause everybody seems so not for real Yelawolf – Box Chevy Pt. 4
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He’s doing the drugs to escape from the pains of reality (a super maega ultra talked about topic in music – for instance, El-P does a fantastic job talking about it in this song).
Obviously, a ball on a soccer field would be a soccer ball (dat lyricism), and what happens to soccer balls? They get kicked around – which is what Yelawolf is tired of feeling like, being kicked around (dat lyricism), so he’s on the pills to forget about it, and to forget about how rappers he views as “not real” are more successful than him.
Cheer up, Yela! It’s about quality… not quantity!
And there is plenty of quality on Trunk Muzik Returns!
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This is quite the clever triple entendre:
Comparing other rappers songs to the blaring, annoying sound of a siren, which can be heard on police cars, fire trucks, ambulances, etc.
When you delve deeper into different societies mythologies, you’ll learn of a race of creatures called Sirens. They are a race of beautiful women who lead sailors astray into wrecks by singing quite melodiously – similarly, the ignorant music that most rappers today make lead away the kids from good lives full of education and success and make them strive for lives filled with violence, drugs, etc, effectively leading them into a “ship wreck” of a life.
A siren is a pretty popular sound sample to use in hip hop today. Here, Kendrick implies that the rappers he are referring to didn’t get successful off of their rapping… they were just lucky enough to find a hot beat.
See Big Daddy Kane go into more detail on this by watching Ice T’s hip hop documentary Something From Nothing: The Art of Rap
Big Daddy Kane isn’t the only one who agrees with Kendrick…
Known to the whole world for what? my style of rhyme Slick Rick – Teacher, Teacher
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Slick Rick was once a huge star, quite literally being known by the whole world.
His “style of rhyme” poplarized the storytelling aspect of rap that we all cherish today. That’s right, he’s the father of it!
Your mother was a crackhead, you a crack baby fresh out of the dumpster R.A. The Rugged Man (Ft. Rampage) – The People's Champ
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Most new rappers these days were born in the 80’s (Kendrick Lamar and Chris Webby are two rappers that come to mind that flaunt it the most as a symbol of pride), which is commonly known as the “crack baby” era, as cocaine had become a heavy problem during that decade, with many parents being heavy crackaddicts (crackheads), and that habit would go on to affect their newborns, giving them the title “crack babies”. Kendrick Lamar goes into great detail on this on his album Section.80.
While the new generation rappers proudly display their youth in their songs to use it as their advantage, R.A’s old-ass self just laughs and mocks them for it. Compared to what he’s been through, these new rappers are “wet behind the ears”.
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Wordplay with the literal and the figurative meanings of the phrases “thinking outside of the box” and “putting one inside of a box”:
Always thought the box 📦 he was putting them in was a coffin. I.e. He thinks of creative ways of killing his enemies.