Eggshell is referring to the recent local hip-hop craze where everybody believes they are rappers.

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TRIPLE-MEANING: A virgin on a ship sees a lot of sea-men, as in sailors, but being a virgin, doesn’t see any semen. One eyed sailors (Seymore is a generic seadog name) can only see out of one eye so they don’t see much of anything. But when you’re on a ship for months on end with other lusty men, things can get freaky.

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Another tongue twister. He makes more money than Shelly selling seashells.

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DOUBLE-MEANINGS: He means dimes in the monetary sense but also, the phrase “dropping dimes” means to talk trash. So if he’s making dimes, he’s attracting trash talk for his good rhymes.

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The black keys on a piano keyboard are sharp/flat keys and sharp is a synonym for clever. So he is as clever as keys are sharp.

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Eggshell expresses his disdain for the trivial politics that get into hip-hop.

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Do the math: √-1 + 3 — 3 = An unreal number
Eggshell has no platinum records; they don’t exist.

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As stated in earlier lines, he hates when people don’t understand his literary references.

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People tend to piss Eggshell off, like the Whinny the Pooh character Eeyore, a paradox to his earlier lines stating he is optimistic.

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More wordplay: Possible reference to cooking techniques of whipping egg whites to make a meringue. Opponents can’t beat Eggshell therefore they are no eggbeaters.

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