The whole kilt shit aint for me, it’s cool Kanye did it… but then it just got ridiculous when fashionista hypebeasts and rappers jumped on it too.. just cuz Kanye did it:

Smh… Cmon son.

Before Kendrick called himself the King, the scene in New York has been opiated, relaxed, and were happy with just bumping French Montana’s beats. No one gave two shits about rapping anymore.

A reference to “The Watchmen” I did with Cambatta, Styles P, and Crooked I:

http://rapgenius.com/Nino-bless-the-watchmen-lyrics

“Look, ya wanna hear Bless so bad that you’ll fake sneeze”

Actually, what I was referring to here is what follows the previous line

“Fake featuring Fake” because these days all you see is a bunch of wanna be Drakes featuring wannabe Drakes. It’s just a bunch of people that want to be in Drake’s limelight so they do the exact same shit as him, but they can never be him, therefore they are “Fake.”

That’s one sense of the meaning, the other sense is that the rap game is a facade, all you see nowadays is for a song to pop you need one rapper to act fake, basically, talk about the cash they don’t have, the whip that was rented for their videos, featuring another rapper who has a buzz, and who has a buzz for being fake as well.

You can look at it in multiple ways.

The “Shake featuring Shake” is a reference to 2DOPEBOYZ blogger Shake, who’s been my dude since day 1. Shake is also a graphics designer and has been making artwork forever. Rare fact is Shake actually took classes to pefect his craft. Nowadays, the type of art Shake’s BEEN doing, these rappers have their own graphics designers doing the same shit.

Finally, the last line, is in reference to any beat that I get on, it’s me being great, and it brings hate along with me. Check all my tracks, anything that’s been blogged about me, it’s always filled with hate. But, that’s what comes with being great, you’re at a spot where you can receive a tremendous amount of hate, you just have to deal with it and keep it moving.

Peep:
http://artbyshake.com/

Look through his shit and you’ll see the amount of biters he’s had… He’s kind of like the Drake of this artwork shit.

A memento mori is usually a skull of a dead person that would get passed down from generation to generation as a reminder of the tales of that person, to keep their legacy or memory alive. Depending on the culture, some of them would drink from the skull as a ritual where they’d reincarnate the legend’s soul in themselves.

What I’m saying is, New York has been dead silent over the years, our King has been dead, there’s been no royalty in NY ever since. The new generation hears tales of BIG, but they don’t believe in a King of New York, they don’t even know what it’s about. All they have are these stories from the media to keep his memory alive. Biggie was king for a reason, he was fucking RAW. Rappers in NY nowadays can’t rap like Biggie, they aint about the lyricism, the bars, the flow, the delivery, the cadence, all shit Biggie had. Except for me, I base my shit like how Biggie would spit, that’s the memento mori, I’m showing y'all this Biggie shit, but NY still does not believe.

Iron Sheik was a WWF wrestler, and one of his finishers was called the Camel Clutch. This finisher is a submission move, so it’s either you tap out or give up, or you keep your chin up by staying locked in the position… Cuz there’s no way my grip on this game will loosen up.

On “Control,” Kendrick said

“I’m important like the Pope”

So the following bars coming right after are a message to him

He likes to feel, but the only way he feels if through pain, which is why he likes this pain, because were it for not this pain, he’d feel nothing at all

The only thing Nino has to show out of this relationship is loss of time. He still has the receipt since he’s paid the price of all the time he’s wasted.

Nino has the ‘right away’ in the dark road, so he passes before others. Bad things happen to him immediately, and more so often for him than others, and he also takes the bad for others.