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Referencing the game Red Light, Green Light.

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The main meaning behind this is that usually when you’re doing “basement” raps they’re just freestyles with your friends for fun and they usually come out lame.

Another reference he could be pulling here is from the popular show back in the day, Rap City on BET, which were also “freestyles”.

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Double meaning:

  1. Since his name is Royce da 5'9 he’s saying you’re going to be enlightened by his music, if you keep it with you on your mp3 player.

  2. Referring to the nine as a gun, nine millimeter pistol and your mind will be lifted in terms of feeling safe.

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Depends is a brand of adult diapers.

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Lebron James' is a basketball player, who is nicknames “King James,” which Royce often refers to himself as the king of Detroit.

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Even though the road less traveled in this situation rap, has been done over and over, and he’s watched it grow from being just able to sell albums to achieve gold plaques (500k) to platinum (1 mil.) to diamond (10 mil.).

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Normally when rap is represented as cold, it represents the grimy, tough guy, street life type of rap that remains to the streets. As opposed to hot being just about whatever is popular is what you’ll do and it’s openly exposed to people around the world.

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A metaphor representing that you are selling your values, not your actual soul, just so that you can remain relevant by following the gimmicks and chasing the money.

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This means that he’s shooting quick rhymes like an automatic gun.

He actually made a song called Gun Harmonizing where the hook actually is just a series of vocalized gunshot noises.

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Double Meaning:

This means that most people now a days are just the same, and the future isn’t looking good like if you we’re sterile you wouldn’t be useful for reproducing (or inspiring other artists.)

Also by sterile he means you can’t produce a your own style, so the future is bleak.

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