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Wax takes on a Jamaican accent to reassure the listener’s beliefs that he’s the illest. He’s also saying he drops heavy like the late great Heavy D, tossing in a rest in peace at the end of the line. He uses the nickname Big Pun gave Heavy in their and 8Ball’s track On Point
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Wax moves on from dissing rappers to saying a little something to the people who actually appreciate his music.

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Wax has got connections, one of them being a nerd who can hack into a rapper’s website and ruin their life.

Perhaps he’s referring to his friend Gokub the Mathematical, a rapper that has been featured on Wax and Hrbal T’s album Grizzly Season and in this video where Wax passes the Ramzo Cypher to him.

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It’s tradition in graduation ceremonies for the soon-to-be graduates to have the tassel (little rope) on their cap on the right at the start of the event and shift it to the left when they get their diplomas. Wax is saying to move that tassel back to the right, so it’s like you didn’t graduate. This leads into the next line, “You fail at rap.”

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Connected to the next line, OneBeLo rolls with it all and keeps it cool while all these crap rappers aren’t rolling like him. Which in this case means they’re waking, not like paraplegics in wheelchairs.

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They say money talks. OneBeLo thinks it doesn’t say anything truly meaningful. He doesn’t care though, he lets money do its own stupid thing and focuses on himself and his music.

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OneBeLo thinks that’s how the game should work. You work hard, you innovate and make good music, and you get paid for it in return.

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Continuing with the image of a circus, Binary Star doesn’t act all silly and clown-like when it comes to hip hop.

Pictured: Not Binary Star

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Every verse that OneBeLo writes and raps is taken seriously and every detail is taken into consideration, aspects that aren’t really included in a crazy and disorganized circus.

And if you’ve never been to one, they’re usually outside in big tents that look like this:

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Meth establishes a setting at the very beginning. It’s raining outside, and if movies, TV and books have taught anything, it’s that rain is usually related to bad times. And Meth doesn’t like that kind of weather. Perhaps his dislike of the rain outside gets him into a less than great mood, which gets him thinking about the shiesty critics that the song’s about.

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