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He’s referencing the old D12 song “Words Are Weapons”

He is also saying that his words are like weapons or a sword, which he brandishes to keep sharp.

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#Quadruple Entendre!!!

  1. Going off the previous line, the word “L’s” is a common slang term for a license (in this case, a driver’s license). Royce has multiple DUI’s, so he doesn’t have a driver’s license… but he’s still “ridin”.
  2. James Todd Smith is LL Cool J’s birth name. Before or “without” the L’s, he’s just James Todd.
  3. An “L” is another word for drugs, so he is playing off the DUI lines, he is making it say that he is now sober.
  4. Also no L’s means no losses, so Royce never loses, especially with these quadruple entendres!

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“FUBAR” is an acronym, that was originated in the military that stands for:
F: Fucked
U: Up
B: Beyond
A: All
R: Recognition

Meaning he’ll fuck you up until you’re unrecognizable if you decide to pick a fight with him which references back to the boxing lines. He also had a similar line in another song that further connects with his Kanye lines in the Find Your Love Freestyle he says:

I play a little game called make your face look like the front of Kanye’s Porsche

So he’s going to make your face look something like this:

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When it comes time to go down on (orally pleasure) your woman, you don’t want all those pesky pubes in the way, just like Royce’s haters don’t want to see him on their way metaphorically down.

Royce has also set the record straight on his distaste for hair down there. In the famous Shady 2.0 Cypher, where he says:

I tell you like I tell my Spanish chick
You fly, but I ain’t going down on no landing strip
So get your wax on like Daniel San

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Using wordplay around the word kicks to talk about his shoes, to say they are crazy/good just like in the movie “You Don’t Mess With the Zohan” has absurd kicks(literally,) like one scene in the movie where he kicked a guy with both feet at the same time

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Both Superhead and Kat Stacks have penned “controversial” books about the life of a hip hop groupie that were somewhat exposing. So Royce is going to write books about what it’s like to sleep with groupies in order to expose them.

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Making fun at Kuniva by saying that he doesn’t know his name and that when he’s out of a job he can clear up Royce’s roadway of his house.

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Clip = Ammunition.

Cuticle = End of a finger.

Clip a Cuticle = Pull the trigger.

Follicles = Hair.

Hollows = Ammunition.

Hollows Will Hit Your Follicles = You are going to get shot.

Crooked I is saying as soon as you can fire off your lyrics, you’ll already be hit by theirs.

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Royce is using wordplay to create a metaphor here saying that he is the teacher(the head of the class) and he is starting this class (or style.) In his Aston Martin is all black and is missing its roof(marked absent.)

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Ether”, was the diss song towards Jay-Z that came out in 2001, that inevitably revived Nas‘ career. At this time Jay-Z had shut out Nas with the diss song Takeover and Nas was on the down slope of career, people would stop talking to him because they didn’t want to be on Jay-Z’s bad side ideally. After Ether though, he was getting respect from everywhere and everyone because it felt like Nas was the power.

That is all important because this is the exact situation Royce was in at the time, he fell out with D12 and Eminem, and at that time Eminem was the titan of the game. Which Royce admitted himself that it then became popular to hate on Royce, just because Eminem and him weren’t speaking.

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