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“‘Puting” is short for “computing”. Many rappers might be content to claim that their lyrics are so clever that they “get you thinking”, but Cam’s are on a whole 'nother level: they get COMPUTERS thinking! And that’s, like, their job.
This line is actually mad prophetic because Cam’s lyrics sparked the creation of the number one hip-hop lyric explanation site a computer can possibly take you to, rapgenius.com. Before Cam, computers didn’t “‘pute” nearly this much about the meaning of rap lyrics (first song up on the site was “Killa Cam”.
Need I say more?
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First official video for the single “Check One” off of City Flow’s debut EP The First Taste
City Flow is Jake Eckhaus: a college rapper from New Jersey currently at Ithaca College.
And yo nobody in my hood got one Mr. Muthafuckin eXquire – The Maltese Falcon Pt. 1 and Pt. 2
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eXquire is interpolating a couple of lines from Nas' classic Illmatic track, “The Message”:
All he seen speed by was a brown Datsun
And yo, nobody in my hood got one
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[*clink*], [*clink*], [*clink*], [*clink*]
Breastmilk, you made my day
You know we had to do a remix, right?
Take that, take that
Hahahaha
Ugh, ugh
Ugh, ugh, ugh, ugh, ugh Mr. Muthafuckin eXquire (Ft. Danny Brown, Das Racist, Despot & El-P) – The Last Huzzah (Remix)
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There has been much discussion on this page over who and what this line is referencing, but hopefully this will clear things up:
eXquire is quoting a skit from Season 2 of Chappelle’s Show in which Dave Chappelle plays P. Diddy on an episode of Making the Band. Chappelle depicts Diddy as a demanding boss who likes to drink breast milk.
Chappelle’s “breast milk, you made my day” is a mocking variation of Diddy’s hype at the beginning of the famous Flava In Ya Ear Remix by Craig Mack, a posse cut known for helping launch the career of the Notorious B.I.G. In this, Diddy says, “Bad Boy, come out and play”, inviting the members of his record label Bad Boy Entertainment to come out and show off their lyrical skills.
#BUT HOL' UP
Diddy is also biting! “Bad Boy, come out and play” is an adaptation of the well-known line and sing-song voice associated with the 1979 Hollywood movie Warriors. In the movie, all of New York’s gangs have united against one: The Warriors. While driving around looking for the Warriors, a rival gang member calls out, in the same melody, “Warriors, come out and play”: an invitation for a fight.
Also worth mentioning is the obvious tribute to Craig Mack’s “Flava In Ya Ear” remix intro, which opts for the same line of “You know we had to do a remix, right?”
And there’s a thin line between love and hate
And God forbid I cross that line
Cause I’m not gon’ give a fuck The Notorious B.I.G. – Long Kiss Goodnight
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You know what I’m saying
It’s just in my nature to love you
I can’t hate you
‘Cause its not in my nature to hate you
You know, I don’t know
Maybe I’m a different type of individual The Notorious B.I.G. – Long Kiss Goodnight
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There are a number of possible interpretations of this line:
A lot of science fiction takes place in outer space, so he could be literally over our heads in this way.
When something is “over your head” you don’t understand it. Steez is so complex and profound that all the shit he writes “goes over your head”
“Heads” could also be interpreted as “people” (ex: ‘There were mad heads at my homie’s house for his birthday’). When taken with the previous line, he used to struggle with writing rap but his rhymes have improved and he is now “above them” lyrically
-The setting of science fiction is often a dystopian future of some sort, Steez believed that he would be reincarnated in 2047 as a demigod, thus being elevated above all-(‘way over heads’)
STEEZ says “over head” and in the video makes an action with his hand as if he was projected over himself. STEEZ used to practice astral projection, which is mental state of meditation in which your soul leaves your body and can explore on the astral plane.
The entire verse is telling the listener he plans to jump to his death from a rooftop and this is another piece of the puzzle. He says once his lyrics to hard to write but now he is so cold he can have triple meaning in each line, like The Beatles, and have most of it be lost on the audience. Way over your head is also where he will be when he jumps. The following line confirms the hypothesis with “You can try and get it” (decipher his code) “I’m the flyest with it” (he is the best at this ability as well as flying alluding to the state he will be in as he falls). Further with “wouldn’t mind a fee or interest for your finer interest” as the line is misstated on the site and he spoke often on his dismissal by the record company’s execs financially despite having created Pro Era as the leading creative due to the exploitative intentions on the companies part wanting to capitalize off Joey for looks not Steez for skill. The entire line sums up the difficulty in deciphering his verse which required finer analysis and interest in order to even pursue the task. Brilliant.
I think it’s more of an financial term. As science fiction tends to have high overheads. Making the bar a double entendre or
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I took it as in his lyrics are out of this world. yours is a better interpretation though.